Stay warm and prepare yourself for the shopping season by treating yourself to some new records. Here's what's new on the shelves at Waterloo and End of an Ear today: Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape (Interscope) Somewhere in between her modern day interpretation of Elvira Hancock and her shoulder-groping self-adoration is Gwen Stefani's music, though it might rightly be as glossy and desirable as it is because of co-writers (Neptunes, Rice-Oxley of Keane). Commercial......

Standing before thousands of screaming geeks at this weekend's 2006 San Diego Comic Con International, Quentin Tarantino announced the cast "Death Proof," one-half of a double-feature collaborative project entitled "Grindhouse" that he'll be working on with Austin director Robert Rodriquez. From wiki: A "grindhouse" is an American term for a theater that showed exploitation films; it is also used as an adjective to describe the genre of films that played in such theatres. While just......

Yes, there's a theme here in our favorite posts of the week: Miss Adventure's tale of mis-colored bangs and the reason her pal couldn't make it down for SxSW shouldn't be as funny as it is. Ben of The Life Unwired talks about his friend's SxSW film showing. Prentiss posts his wish for SxSW. The Armadillo Podcast is somewhat jaded about SxSW. Fergie's Tech Blog mentions the article in C|Net about the 6th Street......

Please let us know if we are missing your favorite blogs. We try to find new blogs each week, but we are going to have to go with our tried-and-true favorites also. Our favorite posts for the week: Lone Star Democracy Association reviews Bob Gammage (if you don’t know already, he's running for Governor). Rachel at A Day in the Life is planning her trip to Canada. The Sound of Crickets Chirping has two major......