WEDNESDAY [4] film • "Lost" Season 3 Premiere at Alamo South (7:30pm, $10 -food and bvg. voucher) ® film • The War Symphonies: Shastakovich Against Stalin at Alamo Drafthouse (7pm) ® film • Kill Bill Vol. I at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) ® film • Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers at Jovita's (8:30pm) film • Tom Waits: Big Time at Alamo Drafthouse (9:45pm) ® film • Weird Wednesday: Shark! at Alamo Drafthouse (11:30pm,......

FRIDAY [22] music • Rogue Wave, Jason Collett at The Parish Room ® music • The Gossip, Mika Miko, Swan Island at Emo's ® music • Rockland Eagles, The Colour, The Shys, The Fall Collection at Emo's music • Kissinger, Driver F, Seaflea at Stubb's music • Brent Fariss / Bill Thompson CD release at End of an Ear (6pm) music • Sybil, As the Phoenix Rises, Smokin' Gun, Wax Dart and Andice at......

Just weeks after giving birth to her first child, Adrienne Martini stood red-eyed and rain-soaked at a gas station in an unsavory part of town: I am enough of a sight that I unnerve even those who spend their nights dealing with drug-induced shootings and drive-by vomitings. . . . I look like a freak who scares all of the other freaks. Martini was on her way to check herself into the hospital's psychiatric ward.......

Here’s our dilemma: We really want to like Anthony Rapp's Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical “Rent.” In his memoir, Rapp, who originated the role of Mark Cohen in Rent, follows the parallel strands of his rising professional success and his personal struggles, particularly his mother's battle with and death from cancer. Along the way, Rapp touches on themes common to most 20-somethings: finding satisfying work and sometimes compromising to pay......

M O N D A Y [20] [art] Sex Workers' Art Show comes to UT-Austin at Texas Union Showroom (RM. 2.208) at UT-Austin (Free, 7pm) (link) [music] Tammany Hall Machine, Impossible Shapes, and Red Hunter at Stubb's (link) [film] "The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat and Beers" at Alamo South (Monday-Thursday, 10:05pm) (link) [film] "Penitentiary" at Alamo Downtown (7pm) (link) [film] "930 F" (a documentary about DC's 9:30 Club) at Alamo Downtown ($1, 9:45pm) (link) [film] "The......

F R I D A Y [17] [DJs/party] Caps and Jones at Barcelona (link) [music] Zykos, The Black, Evangelicals, and Michael Kingcaid at Emo's (link) [film] John S. Rad's "Dangerous Men" at Drafthouse Village (9:45pm) (link) [books] Anthropologist Jenny White presents her first novel, The Sultan's Seal at Bookpeople (Free, 7pm) (link) [party] Freescale Marathon kick off party at Runtex Riverside (Free, 5-7pm) (link) [music] Zookeeper, Sad Accordions, Alex Dupree & The Trapdoor Plan, Meryll......

Not every former hippie wants to bore you to death with self-important preachy tales of ‘what it used to be like and how badly we’ve gone astray.’ Many offer wonderfully told anecdotal tales of a simpler time where minds were expanded, consciousnesses raised and self-supported communities thrived. One of said acclaimed story-tellers is Roberta Price . In “Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture,” Price pens a masterfully-crafted tale that describes the hopes,......