A 14-year-old Dallas girl, distraught over her parents separation and grandfather's death, ran away from home in the fall of 2010. The teenager, Jakadrien Turner, eventually ended up in Houston where she was picked up by local police for theft. While in custody, she gave a fake name that ended up belonging to a 22-year-old Colombian immigrant with warrants out her her arrest. So then, despite being 14-years-old, African-American and not speaking any Spanish, Jakadrien was 'deported' to Colombia last April. more ›

In Austin, we’ve got so much weird that it needs in-depth classification. For example, you’ve got the guy-inexplicably-dressed-as-a-panda type of weird, and the guy-inexplicably-vomiting-blue-stuff-all-over-the-bus weird. We’ve got happy weird and sick/sad weird, epic weirdness and little sprigs of weird popping up all over the place. And musically, we have everything from the honestly odd Daniel Johnston to the bad-strange of Blue October – from the massive drum circle-cum-circle jerk held during Eeyore’s birthday to the more underground but even more visceral strangeness held each week by The Church of the Friendly Ghost at The Salvage Vanguard Theater. more ›

This just in: Naughtier-than-Nice News from the North Pole Police Blotter. Criminals filled with the spirit of Christmas have outdone themselves this week. We have only one question: what in the Ebenezer Scrooge is wrong with people? more ›