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Yes, you can breathe again, Austin. The Villa Muse saga has, at long last, come to its fiery end. Which is fine by us, since we're kind of tired of writing about it. Ha-Ha. Um, but seriously.

While the city denied their request for jurisdictional release last week, city officials have made offers to continue negotiations and "work out some sort of deal," but it looks like Villa Muse is playing hardball and refusing to go a step further with Austin unless the release issue is revisited by a new City Council vote. Which is something the City has stated it will not do.

Remember that January overnight oil spill on Sixth Street and into Waller Creek? Turns out the Littlefield Building owners are responsible. Little did they know it. . . Austin pilot who went missing over the weekend found dead in the wreckage of his plane east of Giddings. Rep. Dawnna Dukes wants Villa Muse near Austin. Republican capitol staffer resigns after being accused of impersonating a Democratic lawmaker and a newspaper reporter.

It's supposed to freeze tonight . . . but isn't it March? Villa Muse may not set shop in the outskirts of Austin after all. Huston-Tillotson is growing. Police have released a sketch of the woman abducted at a Bastrop Whataburger yesterday morning. "I'm so sorry. I left a lot of girls pregnant. Can you tell me more about you?": Texas man had at least 4 illegitimate children by various teenage girls during his 28 years as a priest.

Like the disaffected grunge movement. Nobody could really find a way to bank off it, at least not until Ethan Hawke and Eddy Vedder came along. Then the music and film execs got a hard-on so big, it bumped into Kurt Cobain’s elbow while he was cleaning his shotgun.

This project is a direct response to Austin’s lack of world-class entertainment infrastructure, and it’s a bold attempt to bridge the gap between a mid-level entertainment industry with huge potential (which Austin is) and a mature industry with world-class production facilities and creative professionals (which Austin, says Villa Muse, could be).

Presidential Primaries: Hillary and Mitt Romney take Nevada, McCain takes South Carolina.

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. Police Chief: "Missing Student Ignored Due to Race." A drunken man broke into a central London park and attempted to have sex with a fence: Daniel French, 24, made "sexual motions" towards metal railings in Leicester Square Gardens...

As we mentioned Monday, a new development is launching near Webberville 15 minutes east of Austin that could put our city on the worldwide film, television and music production map at long last. A designer's sketch of Villa Muse Studios, the production zone that forms the core of Villa Muse and constitutes Phase One of the Villa Muse project. It’s called Villa Muse, a sort of self-sufficient creative-industry village that’ll consist of some of the...

So much urban development is happening in Austin, we barely have time to hit the highlights. We'd love to offer more fulsome coverage, but we need help. If you are interested in writing urban development posts for Austinist.com, email urban(@)austinist.com (remove the parenthesis) with a few sample posts and some information about yourself and why you want to write for Austinist.com. Villa Muse Development: Villa Muse (shown right) is a proposed 681-acre mixed-used development...