Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full The problem with rock legends, assuming they live past 30, is that they are held to such high standards. But for Sir Paul McCartney, age 65, such standards exist nowhere if not in his own driven psyche. In the past two years, he has released a politely (read: coolly) received acoustic album, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, performed an extravagantly surreal rendition of "Yesterday" with Jay-Z at the......

Massachusetts Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry is coming to town in two weeks to speak at Austin High School about his new book, This Moment on Earth. Co-written by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the book celebrates so-called environmental pioneers -- "people and communities deploying ingenuity, technology, and sheer willpower to save the world they live in." The event is co-sponsored by the Save Our Springs Alliance and BookPeople, and the latter is now......

The Horrors – The Horrors EP Coming straight outta the swampy backwaters of, erm, London art school…hm, let’s start over. Not to be confused with the US Horrors, who play the same excessively raw neo-proto-punk but don’t get any press because they live in Iowa, these London delinquents split the difference, both visually and aurally, between Edward Gorey’s Victorian grotesques and Elvis in Jailhouse Rock. There’s no doubt that The Horrors are well-connected—how else do......

A few things we didn’t know: • The Mexican free-tailed bat colony living underneath Congress Avenue Bridge is    visited by over 100,000 ecotourists per year. • The bat colony brings in over $10 million in ecotourism revenue annually for our     city. This is beside the point here, but we nevertheless have to ask: Who are these people? What makes them tick? Where do they come from? Are they like us? Is there some......

University of Texas' Dr. Chandra Bhat apparently gets paid to do some pretty obvious studies. We could be wrong; we're no scientists, socially or otherwise, but we figure some things don't require hours and hours research and thousands of dollars in funding. For instance, Dr. Bhat recently released a study that came to the conclusion that children are more physically active when parents encourage it. Hmmm. Astounding. To be fair, however, the results did......