Not one to let politicians bogart the limelight, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is coming to UT Austin next Wednesday, February 20, for a special student- and faculty-only lecture....

Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye & Youssou N’Dour at the Maison des Esclaves AFS Presents Return to GoréeTuesday, November 6thAlamo Drafthouse South Lamar (1120 S. Lamar)$4 / Free for AFS members, 7pm[info]The place where my fathers died, return to the land of Gorée, the place where my mothers cried, return to the land of Gorée. – Harmony Harmoneers We'll admit it: our jazz knowledge consists of a couple of Miles Davis and John Coltrane albums mixed with......

(Via AICN) Just a few short weeks after Janis Burklund of the Dallas Film Commission commented that everyone could "chill on [a Dallas movie] a little longer", Variety is reporting that the project is once again moving forward--only this time, it's being rewritten as a comedy, with Betty Thomas attached to direct (you probably know her best as the director of Doctor Dolittle, Private Parts and The Brady Bunch Movie... so, um, yeah). Maybe we're......

Conspiracy or coincidence? You hash it out. Sure to be already spreading across the blogosphere like wildfire, a reader sent us this image of evangelical powerhouse Billy Graham on the cover of this week's TIME Magazine, standing in praying position, head slightly downward, with the two peaks of the precariously placed letter M protruding from his skull like a pair of Beelzebub's horns. Now, we understand if this were Jerry Falwell then it would......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings in......

Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are named Time Magazine's "Persons of the Year" Britney files a $20 milllion lawsuit against US Weekly for some story involving a secret sex tape. Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, the Mafia don who pretended to be insane for ages to avoid imprisonment, is dead. Like, really dead. Austin classic rock radio station KPEZ-FM finds salvation. Rather, Clear Channel decides it's high time for a contemporary Christian channel. A......

Nelson Mandela. The Dalai Lama. Mother Theresa. Mother Nature? Scuttlebutt around the internet and news services is that Mother Nature will be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. After a year of tsunamis, earthquakes and a record-breaking hurricane season, editors at Time seem prepared to name Mother Nature the POY. Some sites are even placing odds on who/what will win. And, Time wants to hear from you on whom you think it should......

In The News Today: State Legislature Goes To Special Session Governor Rick “Drive Gays Out Of Texas” Perry vetoed the education budget and called a special session giving legislators 30 days to figure out a new plan.[Source] This is not the first time the state lege has tried to resolve the education budget [Source], and with their track record on this one, it probably won't be the last. And In National News CIA Has......

Every now and then a local band gets some big-time national publicity: Fastball, Los Lonely Boys, Bob Schneider, to name a few from the past decade. You can now add Spoon to that list. The minimalist rock band from the River City has its latest release, "Gimme Fiction," covered in next week's issue of Time Magazine (5/16). The magazine admits that while the songwriting and sound are not wholly unique, the band does what......