Two area high schools will trade the Friday night lights for the Saturday spotlight when they play for state football championships this weekend. The Pflugerville Panthers play the Katy Tigers at 7 pm Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio for the Class 5A Division II championship, while the Lake Travis Cavaliers take on the Highland Park Scots for the Class 4A Division II title at 1:30 pm Saturday at Baylor's Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco....

Photo by Felicia Graham courtesy of MySpaceTIL WE'RE BLUE OR DESTROY What’s the Deal: One thing that Austin has plenty of is indie bands. There are multitudes of poppy, lo-fi folky or staggering, swaggering rock groups swelling with intrigue and buzzing around the local scene destined to either shoot straight and swift to national cult favorites standing or be just another weekend bar band. However, Til We’re Blue Or Destroy are one of the groups......

The label and house that bear the name Natrix Natrix are the result of a fruitful and creative partnership between couple Rhonda Turnbough and Seth Whaland. To date, the label has put out eleven releases, most of which are very limited edition cassettes that feature personalized art and music from a nationwide staple of folk musicians including Viking Moses, John Rose, and compilation featuring Jana Hunter, Real Live Tigers, The Lovely Sparrows, and more. When......

The Houston Astros showed their appreciation for Round Rock Express manager Jackie Moore, calling the 50-year veteran up to the major leagues to serve as bench coach for the rest of the 2007 season. The 68-year-old Moore has been in professional baseball for half a century, starting as a catcher and outfielder in the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox organizations. He played one season in the majors, spending the majority of the 1965......

Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers: Over a decade removed from their masterpiece Everything Must Go, the Manics seem to finally return to the stadium-rock sounds of that album on Send Away The Tigers. While not as strong as Everything, the new album has several bright spots, most notably the so-cheesy-it's-awesome duet "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" with The Cardigans' Nina Persson. While there are some awfully clunky lyrics ("I'm just......

Transplanted Tigers and Katrina escapees hosted a "berle" this past weekend in preparation for Jazzfest. Included in the celebrations were 200+ pounds of crawfish and several rounds of ultimate frisbee. In case you were wondering, Austinist did not suck the heads of any mudbugs.......

FRIDAY [13] fashion • RARE Magazine Spring Fling Fashion Show at The Belmont Hi-Lo (Moved due to rain) art/music • Take That!, a show of new images by Lance McMahan, plus music by Amanda Jones, Connie Ball, & Teddy and Marge at The Opera House (7-10pm) art • Hot and Cold: The Best of Canadian Contemporary Art at Art on 5th, 1501 W 5th (10am-6pm) art • Opening Reception for abstract paintings and encaustics......

Tonight, Phil Elverum brings his shape-shifting gang of noisemakers (formerly known as The Microphones, but currently known as Mount Eerie) to Ruta Maya for an evening of...well, we're not sure, exactly. In 2004 (after releasing two consecutive near-perfect albums of gorgeously fractured pop, The Glow Pt.2 and Mount Eerie), Elverum declared The Microphones officially dead and changed the group's name to Mount Eerie. Ever since, his performances and recorded output have been a tad unpredictable.......

WEDNESDAY [29] discussion • Patton Oswalt and Writers Present The Onion at Alamo Downtown (9:30pm, $15) music • Indian Jewelry, Cry Blood Apache, Wiggins at Emo's music • Real Live Tigers, Fourth War Boys Choir, David Israel, Pink Nasty at Beerland music • The Distant Seconds,The Late Fees & The Unbearables at The Parlor film • Third Coast Night: La Sierra at Alamo Downtown (7pm) film • The Devil's Backbone at Beerland (7pm, Free)......

Ed Note: Corrections below. Whether to make way for the latest loft development or for personal reasons, two of Austin's more interesting art galleries will bid adieu this weekend. Gallery Lombardi, after being voted Best Art Gallery (alongside Women & Their Work) in this year's AusChron Readers Poll, is being forced to vacate their premises as construction begins on the $70 million Spring condominium project. They're hosting an "End of the World" Party that......

MONDAY [10][karaoke] Monday Karaoke at Beerland (Free, 9pm) (link) [film] Monday Movies al fresco, with 'Heavenly Creatures" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse" at Sidebar (link) [comedy/books] David Sedaris at Bass Concert Hall (8pm) (link) [music] Elizabeth McQueen at Theadgill's (Free, 8pm) (link) [film/drinking] FUSEBOX Happy Hour at Blue Theater (6pm, $5, screening of short films by Austin's Zellner Brothers as part of the ongoing FUSEBOX Festival) (link) [theatre] "Durang/Durang" at Mary Mood Northern Theatre (8pm,......

West Virginia learned that the hard way Thursday night as Kenton Paulino nailed a buzzer-beating three-pointer, giving Texas a 74-71 victory and advancing them to the Elite 8 Saturday against LSU. Earlier in the evening the Tigers beat Duke by pounding the glass and playing tenacious defense against probable Naismith-winner J.J. Redick and the Blue Devils. The Mountaineers, who made only one two-point basket in the first half, relied on steady three-point shooting to keep......

Videos [mov] Cat Power - "Living Proof" [wmv] Goldfrapp - “Ooh La La” [mov] Willie Nile - “Streets of New York” [mov] Willie Nile - “Police on my Back” [mov] The Little Willies - "Roly Poly" [mov] The Little Willies - "I Gotta Get Drunk" [mov] The Presets - "Are You The One?" [wmv] What 80s Artist is Staging a Comeback? MP3s [mp3] Belle and Sebastian - "Another Sunny Day" [mp3] Voxtrot - ">mothers,......

SXSW.com released an updated lineup for this year's SXSW Music Festival earlier today, and it's one hell of a list. The SXSW committee hastens to note that "This is a partial list of performers confirmed to appear at the 2006 SXSW Music Festival. This list is current as of 1/13/06. All of this information is subject to change." International acts include: Masahiro Nitta, DMBQ, Ellegarden, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, PE'Z, The Emeralds (Japan)......

: : FRIDAY : : [music] Moretempo, 10pm-2am @ Copa - $5 [theatre] "Inside a Broken Clock: A Tom Waits Peepshow" @ Arts on Real (Through Saturday) [film] New Movies! @ your local theater [music] The Sad Accordions with Jim Yoshii Pileup, 10pm @ the Ritz [lecture] Gallery Tour of the Ansel Adams exhibit @ The Harry Ransom Center, 6pm - FREE! [art] Jerry Uelsmann and wife Maggie Taylor present their latest works, 6-9pm@......

F R I D A Y · World Leader Pretend are back in town, kicking the night off with an in-store appearance at Waterloo Records (3pm5pm) and following that with a show at Stubb's (9pm). Opening for them are none other than our new favorite English lads, Nic Armstrong and the Thieves, who'll be trying out all-new material for their forthcoming album. Those of you who were at the Parish this week know why we......

Seriously, is it time for First Thursday again? Highlights of this busy week include Neva Dinova at Emo's on Tuesday, Need New Body at The Parish on Wednesday, the Milago Moonlight Margarita Run on Thursday, and Dance Disaster Movement at The Parish on Friday. Did we forget anything? Let us know. M O N D A Y art · The "Texas Monkey Project" is currently on exhibit at Progress Coffee [pictured: Michael Sieben's "Pink Monkey"]......

Tonight, are you looking for a way to be enveloped with beauty, seduction and power in song? Antone’s will have the answer tonight as Neko Case takes the stage in an early show. Her latest album, The Tigers Have Spoken, is a live release that makes the constant rotation in the ole iPod. Having seen Neko nearly half a dozen times, we think it is safe to say that tonight will blow you away.......

If last night's rockin' and sweaty Old 97's show at Gruene Hall didn't satisfy your need for songs about west Texas, drinkin' and crazy women then lucky for you Lil Cap'n Travis will be at Room 710 tonight. Their 70s-Beach Boys-from-Amarillo-at-sunset sound can be found on their latest album, In All Their Splendor. Opening the show will be Richmond Fontaine and Baby Girl. Tucson band Friends of Dean Martinez treats us to their dessert......

Tomorrow, June 16th, Gallery Lombardi (910 West 3rd St) will be opening Mulligen Stew. The show runs until July 5th, with art from Paul Adam, Sterling Allen, Felix Berube (aka Labrona, aka BADDASS from Canada!), Jeremy Cook, Mark Fitzgerald, Dennis Hodges, Jeremy Journell, Chase Maclaskey, Derek Mehaffey, Nate Nordstrom, Mike Parsons, Hope Perkins, Dan Phillips, Matthew Rodriguez, Jason Schmidt, Tim Scott, Michael Sieben, Nick Turkette, and Adam Young. Paintings, stencil art, photography, illustrations, video......

There are certain inalienable truths on the Austin music scene. For instance, we know that when we want to shake our ass, we should go to a Canoe show and when we want to hear Austin’s best ambient new wave rock, we check to see when Dead Whale Tide is playing next. So, when we found out that the lead singer of both bands, Justin Preston, was starting a new project, we couldn’t wait......

If you're a Houston Astros fan, you're probably wallowing in depression right now over the team's miserable season thus far. But up to the north, just beyond the reaches of I-35, there waits a small glimmer of hope. Well, he's actually a rather large glimmer of hope when you get down to it. That's right, Houston's All-Star outfielder Lance Berkman , who has been sidelined all season with a knee injury, will make a rehab......