Results tagged “bigbrother”

So the time is ripe for the 2008 SXSW Music Festival and what better way to lead into that madness than with a host of quality bands at Emo’s to kick off this weekend. Friday marks the CD Release show for local outfit What Made Milwaukee Famous. Officially released on March 4th, What Doesn’t Kill Us will be available for purchase during the show; the album finds the band maturing into a polished rock act while maintaining their keen ear for pop melodies, their expert arrangements of well-crafted tracks, and their penchant for catchy guitar hooks. Check out the video for “Sultan” off the new album via YouTube here. more ›

Fantastic Fest '08 Badges are on sale now! VIP badges sold out while the '07 festival was still running, but there are some new ticket options for '08 including "2nd Half" and "Daytime Only" badges. UT Professor Ellen Spiro and Talkshow Host Phil Donahue's doc "Body of War" has made the Oscar shortlist. Check out Chris Garcia's interview with Spiro here. The Belgian government has honored four Austin filmmakers for their documentary work. We... more ›

Photo by hamron on flickr Austin City Council is pretty much ready to sign a contract setting up red-light cameras at 15 intersections (to start with). Big Brother - er, APD - is watching your energy usage. And Austin Energy is cool with that! Southeast Austin standoff this morning ends with cop shooting the suspect. Round Rock police on the lookout for a suspected stalker. Local company under Neil Bush (Dubya's bro) is being investigated... more ›

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked... more ›

Quick, get me the Pentagon. American superiority is waning in the human longevity department. Can't we just bomb somebody over this? A lengthy but entertaining goodbye to Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, recently deceased. Informative readers' Q&A; with Floyd Norris, chief financial guru at the New York Times, on the current state of the U.S. economy (not suggested for feel-good reading). Instead of simply fading away into the annals of big hair rock, Van... more ›

THURSDAY [1] party • Learning Secrets hosts Optimo's JD Twitch (Glasgow, UK) at Whisky Bar (10pm-2am, $5) art • Public Tour: The Geometry of Hope: Montevideo in the 1930s at The Blanton (7:00 - 8:00 PM) art • Curator's Tour: The Geometry of Hope at The Blanton (12:30-1pm) art • Texas Biennial Opening Reception at Dougherty Arts Center (7-10pm) art • Art Fix: Enjoy an introduction to Latin American wines with Seth Pollard, Central... more ›

MONDAY [26] film • Squeegee Your Third Eye: Remembering Bill Hicks at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown books • New and Noteworthy Book Club discusses Snow by Orhan Pamuk at BookPeople (7:00pm) film • Wonderwall at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown meeting • Austin Music Foundation's Music Industry Boot Camp at Gibson Guitar Showroom (3601 South Congress G400) music • Aloha, Pompeii, The Politics, Low Line Caller at Emo's Lounge music • Shoot for the Stars, iKiLLcaRs, Bones... more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into... more ›

It's the handsome downtown gallery owner with curly hair or the hot Astanga instructor at YogaYoga South. It's the pedicab driver with the cute southern accent or your favorite Lone Star Rollergirl. It's your local, secret crush. Austinist is pleased to kick off the new year with this edition's interview: Patrick, The Orange Hat Bike Messenger Guy. We'd just about given up on this request—after months of scoping out messengers downtown. However, Lady Serendipity threw... more ›

Alex Jones must be grinning from ear to ear, as most conspiracy theorists do when they think their ideas, brushed off by most, are finding more and more credence. Today, the White House released The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, a new security strategy that takes less emphasis on "extremist networks" like Al-Qaeda and more on the countries that back them, like Iran. No better timing for Jones, whose film, which premieres tonight, predicts steps... more ›

Big Brother really will be watching soon enough. In one of the more disgusting turn of Pentagon-related paranoia events, the Department of Defense (under the auspice of the US command in Baghdad) announced yesterday that it will be putting out a contract on the media. Well, to be more precise, it will be spending $20 million to hire a public relations firm to monitor the media's coverage on the quagmire in Iraq. The AP reports... more ›

On Wednesday night, The Austin Film Society hosted a little over one thousand friends to watch Austin's very own premiere of A Scanner Darkly at the Paramount Theatre, with a post-screen party down the street at The Austin Museum of Art. Originally written by Philip K. Dick in the late 1970’s and adapted to the screen by Austin's own Richard Linklater, A Scanner Darkly is an eerie, yet hilarious, film of drugs, paranoia and... more ›

You remember how when you were younger your older siblings (if you were lucky) told you about the cool new bands you hadn't heard of before? Or, if you grew up sibling-less, how your best friend's cool older brother would do the same? They'd turn you on to a tape or record, and you'd run out to the store, hoping to be the first of your friends to have it for yourself, then play... more ›

Saturday night, we struck out for the UT campus (in spite of the ricin scare) to take in an evening of theatre. Between PR and local coverage, our curiosity about UT's production of "Aisle 7" was adequately piqued. But first, some helpful information for those of you who, like us, didn't attend UT. "Aisle 7" is being performed at the B. Iden Payne Theatre, the location of which you won't find anywhere online. Go... more ›

Marijuana is a serious cash crop in Washington state, ranking as the state'ss 8th most economically-viable agricultural commodity. And you thought people in Austin liked weed. Hundreds feared dead in Phillipines following massive landslide. Senate Republicans block Democrats' attempts to formally investigate Big Brother's Bush's illegal wire tapping operation. Iraqi Interior Ministry may be operating a death squad. That joke about ocean-front property in Arizona may be true sooner than we thought: Greenland's glaciers... more ›

Austin Java regular and local starlet (though we've yet to spot him in town) Andy Roddick has reportedly split from his current coach, former Olympic team assistant coach Dean Goldfine, switching over to big brother Johnny. What would otherwise be a normal business maneuver is somewhat clouded by the fact this makes it the fourth coach that Andy's had in the last three years. more ›

Science magazine proclaims Evolution the Breakthrough of 2005 New York City's transit system is back on schedule The National Geographic reports that the Hubble telescope has discovered several new moons, rings around Uranus. Oh, stop giggling. Long-irrelevant fashion label Tommy Hilfiger is sold to Apax Partners, part owners of Calvin Klein Is Courtney Love selling her rights to Nirvana's catalogue to fund her drug habits? Brad Renfro is arrested in an undercover drug sting... more ›

"I'm on the pavement thinking about the government,The man in the trench coat, badge out, laid off, says he's got a bad cough wants to get paid off." Austin City Council tries to clean up downtown’s image by dealing with solicitors and the homeless. Soliciting during daytime? OK. Panhandling at night? That's a no-no. Couldn’t they get those Jesus-freaks off 6th and Congress? Everytime we look at them we think of that creepy old... more ›

Big Brother, the hit CBS show, will be holding a casting call from 12 noon to 6 pm tomorrow at Gillman Hyundai. Applicants must bring in a completed application form, two pictures of yourself, your driver’s license, and a passport/birth certificate/social security card. Preferably yours. Applicants are encouraged to have six packs and no morals, ‘cause that’s what makes quality television programming.... more ›