...Obama delineates his popularity, and receives the longest applause yet. Hillary shifts, the glow in her eyes flickers. Something has changed, and she can taste it. Maybe the phrase that crosses her mind is 'tipping point'....

Yesterday the EarthLab Foundation announced its annual list of the top 10 greenest cities in America. Austin ranked 9th in this year's list. The list is compiled by sampling the one million plus users of the website's carbon and lifestyle calculator that has been featured in Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary The Eleventh Hour, at the 2007 Emmy Awards, and by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection....

Austin's PBS affiliate KLRU-TV received a record 21 Emmy nominations from the Lone Star Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The awards dinner will take place in Dallas on Saturday, October 27th. The complete list of KLRU honors includes: KLRU producer Elena Ramirez (Public/Current/Community Affairs Feature Segment category), for her story "Getting By in Austin." This documentary, which aired on Austin Now, focused on the difficulty of families making minimum wage......

Consider Tuesday night another notch in Austin’s bedpost of filmmaking opportunity as the Austin Film Festival debuts its new year-round Conversations in Film series. This first installment “Script to Screen: Making the Short Film” will target the writers among us, but will also be useful to directors and filmmakers who need distribution tips for their shorts. Three Austin area award-winning filmmakers will lead the discussion, as well as screen their most recent/notable shorts:Steve Collins is......

Local children's show stars The Biscuit Brothers are celebrating the Fourth of July with a special concert at the Paramount Theatre. The performance is their biggest ever, and will be filmed for a DVD. All profits go towards funding the duo's third season of family-friendly, music-centric (not to mention Emmy Award-winning) programming on KLRU/PBS. If you'd like to win a free family pack to the show, fill out the form below! This contest is......

We're OK when television networks choose to curb the amount of gratuitous "adult" content in prime-time programming, but we've always figured that such stuff, within reason, was fair game on cable networks. After all, Comedy Central has a sketch comedy show starring a naked trucker, FX's Nip/Tuck once had one of its stars engaging in gross raunchy sex with a mother-daughter duo, and Fox News regularly gets away with putting Bill O'Reilly on the......

Tonight's eagerly anticipated launch party for KLRU-TV's Downtown has been rescheduled to tomorrow night, due to the heavy thunderstorms and flash floods that are expected to slam Central Texas. "Rain, hail and thunderstorms don't make for a good party when it's being held at a power plant," as someone our awesome friend aptly put it. The original lineup will remain intact, with featured guests from past episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series performing throughout the......

Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind the greatest cartoon TV series since The Simpsons (Family Guy and its not-so-funny counterpart, American Dad), will be coming to UT campus next Friday, April 13th to give a lecture on lord knows what. The Emmy Award-winner is not only the creator, director and executive producer of the above, he's also the voice of many animated characters--lending his voice to partners in the genre, Robot Chicken, Crank Yankers and......

Although Art From the Streets has had their show and sale benefitting the homeless for 14 years now, last year was the first time we visited the show (after reading about it here). We were stunned by the amount of great works available for purchase. We had already paid for two abstract paintings (one by John Monbelly and one by Stacy) when we realized there was a whole room full of art we had......

We're having a yard sale today so I can raise a little extra spending money before I head down to Austin next week (I'm already doing well, and I've been calculating how many crunchy chicken cones I can now buy at the festival). But I thought I should run inside between customers to give you your daily dose of ACL previews. Remember you can check out the full list of previews on my ACL......

In a city that’s home to bands like Gang Green, Slapshot, Mission of Burma and Converge, being labeled “loud” and “raw” is a compliment of the highest order. And perhaps no other Boston band deserves it as much as Unnatural Axe. Unnatural Axe were a hugely important part of first-wave Boston punk. Despite their small discography, the Axe became Boston’s favorite hard-rocking, beer-swilling, Ramones-inspired three chord punk band during the late 1970s, often sharing the......

As we were watching the Emmy nominations live on CNN this morning, we held just the slightest sliver of hope that with the new nomination system, our favorite would make the cut. Her show's been on for over five seasons, and although Lauren Graham continues to be one of the greatest comic actresses currently on TV, an Emmy nomination has passed her by yet again. What kind of world are we living in where......

"What's the deal with airline peanuts? My mother-in-law drives me crazy! Sure I drive a 1978 Celica, but chicks dig it? Why does sour cream have an expiration date? Why does my baby always know to take a stinky right when the game's starting? Just because (insert race of your choice here) are (insert stereotype here) doesn't mean my family is (repeat stereotype). My ex-girlfriend apparently used to be allergic to sex, but after......

For what it's worth, the Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. We like watching the Golden Globes; they are so laid-back and relaxed in comparison to the pretentious Academy Awards. Of course, they don't always choose the same winners . . . Babe won the Golden Globe for best musical/comedy the year it was nominated, after all. And while Jennifer Garner has won a Golden Globe, she has yet to win an Emmy......

We congratulate Ellen Spiro for her accomplishment. What follows is the press release from the School of Communication at UT. Ellen Spiro, associate professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Lone Star Emmy for her documentary, "Are the Kids Alright?" which explores the struggles facing Texas children with mental illness. Spiro, who has directed and produced an extensive body of award-winning documentary work, co-produced......

Serenity is a movie that never should have been made. After all, it is an extension of a cancelled television series. Firefly, an imaginative sci-fi space-Western, aired on FOX TV in the Fall of 2002. Critics completely snubbed it - only 11 of the 14 produced episodes were shown before it was shelved. And it should have ended there. It could have ended there. But it didn’t. Firefly creator Joss Whedon, who you might......

This is the first post from our new contributor, Elizabeth... Now that you've gone to all the free museums you can, surely you need something to do this evening. So here's where we remind you that the Emmys are on tonight (7pm, KEYE CBS42). We don't make as much of an effort to watch the Emmys as we do to watch the Oscars (and yes, even the Golden Globes). We still have opinions on......

Annyong! Get out your frozen bananas, put on your favorite pair of denim cut-offs, and be prepared to laugh your little hearts out because Fox is starting an Arrested Development summer marathon tonight. Call it a delayed (or dare we say: arrested?) marathon, since it will take place every Friday from Jul. 29 to Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. A total of four episodes from the second season of the series will air each......