Austinist Indieroke + Interpol Listening PartyThursday, September 9The Mohawk (912 Red River)9 p.m. | $3[info]Don’t let the murky weather get the best of you this week. Instead, embrace the…
Jools and Lynda Topp are not the kind of people you meet everyday. These twin sisters are cultural icons in their native New Zealand, and with this entertaining biographical documentary,…
Samantha PitchelThe Out of Bounds Comedy Festival started their second night off strong with local group Improv For Evil, who regularly perform at the Hideout Theater, and LA-based funny ladies…
Image from Ann Weisgarber Ann Weisgarber at BookPeopleTuesday, September 7BookPeople (603 N. Lamar)Free, 7pm[info]
Books aiming to describe and even mythologize the pioneer experience are hardly few and far between. …
Image from Simon and Schuster Texas Book FestivalOctober 16 – 17Texas State Capitol (1100 Congress Ave)Free[info]
With each new “abbriev” and addition to the lexicon of lolspeak, the collective literacy of…
The American Red Cross of Central Texas has opened three shelters in Williamson County for people whose homes were affected by the heavy rainfall.
People in Marble Falls are paying close attention to the weather. They don’t want a repeat of the floods that ripped through their part of the Hill Country more than…
Churches, parks and even grocery stores morphed into make-shift yoga studios to offer free classes to Austin residents on Monday.
Austin Free Day of Yoga started in 1999 to attract more…
Labor Day was the perfect backdrop for the buzz of a potential economic boom in the Southeast Travis County community of Elroy Monday, the site of the newest Formula 1 racetrack.
Talk…
Judges at the State Fair of Texas’ big Labor Day food competition favored the back-to-basics approach: beer and Frito pie. Fried, naturally.
The Texas fried Frito pie won the top award,…
The federal government is proposing to cut financial aid for some students in the fastest-growing sector of higher education — for-profit colleges and universities — saying they put students on…
Central Texas isn’t alone with the flooding troubles. North Texas is getting pounded by heavy rain as well.
The overwhelming rain sent Shoal Creek churning over its banks. See how businesses along the creek on North Lamar are coping with the threat of flooding.
Austin Firefighters rescued several people who were stranded inside a gazebo on the south side of Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin.
KVUE’s Shelton Green was out in the elements overnight as the extreme flooding took over parts of Central Texas.
