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The Screenwriter's Conference is over and done with, so now it's just down to the films. Here are our picks for Monday at the Austin Film Festival, including some you may have missed the first time around...

Michael Corcoran over at Austin360 managed to get his hands on the contract that C3 made with the city, revealing that the festival producers pay a little under an estimated $100k annually to rent out part of Zilker Park.

Photos of this year's Pride festival, which took place last weekend.

One Community, One Pride is a fitting theme for this year’s Austin Pride, which takes place this weekend. In previous years, Equality Texas handled the Pride Festival while the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce handled the Pride Parade. But in 2008 the two groups worked together to host the events on the same day. Further proving the efficiency of the gay community, this year’s combined event was organized by the community via the Pride Coalition, an AGLCC program that includes seven representative LGBT organizations.

Why is Austinist giving away tickets to Toronto's North by North East festival, you ask? Well, if you're paying close attention, you already know that the festival -- now in its 29th year -- has enough Austin in it to justify our excitement. Not only have they created a sustainable festival that covers music, film and conferences patterned after our own love-child SXSW, they also work hard each year to represent Texas well in their lineup.

Beautiful weather, lots of good music and an Austinite on the ground with her camera: how much better could it get? Pooneh Ghana documented her trip to Coachella, and here's what she brought home.

Austin 360 has confirmed (by cartoon) Pearl Jam as ACL '09 headliners. The band hasn't played in Austin since 1995, and will be supporting the release of their live album, Drop In the Park. We're also anticipating performances from the Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth, seeing as how their scheduled ACL tapings at KLRU are public knowledge, taking place between October 2-4. As for the rest of the lineup, we'll have to hang on until April 28.

This year's Old Settler's Music Festival featured Fred Eaglesmith, the Lovell Sisters, Cindy Cashdollar, Dave Alvin, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Lee Brothers and the Travelin McCoury's, Marc Broussard, Robert Earl Keen and many more. Austinist contributing photographer Steve Hopson was there to catch it all.

The 8th annual Austin City Limits music festival will take place October 2-4 at Zilker Park. Tickets will be available starting April 7, and the full lineup is due for release April 28.

2009's Lolapalooza Festival will take place at Chicago's Grant Park between August 7-9. The lineup (which looks a lot like recent ACL fests) includes Radiohead, Kanye West, Wilco, Cat Power, the National, and Bloc Party. Depeche Mode, the Beastie Boys and a reunited Jane’s Addiction are expected to headline. Tickets are on sale tomorrow, get them here. [Ed. Note: Despite the web site's '2009' label, it appears as though all the information is from 2008. We'll keep you posted as lineup information becomes available.]

The University of Texas' Music & Entertainment Committee's annual Forty Acres Fest is right around the corner, and campus is already buzzing with rumors about this year's headliner. We'll let you in on a secret: you'll know who it is tonight, when MEC posts information about the lineup and headliner on its Facebook page. This year's festival is Saturday, April 7 beginning at 7 p.m., and as always, will take place beneath the UT Tower.

All photos contributed by staff photographers Eric Uhlir, Nash Cook, Briana Purser, Phive, and Patrick Dentler.

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Fun Fun Fun Fest is fortunate this year, as with the last, to have some pretty important names in punk rock on the bill. Bad Brains, The Bouncing Souls and All are just a small part of a long list of groups who have put their stamp on punk over the last 20 or so years. Kevin Seconds, singer of the legendary punk band 7 Seconds, is another one of those important punk figures, and albums like 1985’s Walk Together Rock Together earned 7 Seconds a spot in the hearts of many rebellious, disenchanted youths.

Tim Fite is a singer/songwriter living in Brooklyn who blends hip hop and folk to create a very distinct and raw sound featuring Fite's slight drawl and a drawer full of samples. On his Anti Records debut Gone Ain't Gone, which garnered him considerable critical praise, Fite only used samples from records he bought for less than a dollar.

If you haven't already purchased tickets for this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, there's still time. Head over here and scoop up a pair, then rest up for what promises to be a jam-packed weekend full of independent music's most compelling artists.

Neil Hamburger, aka Gregg Turkington, will provide a much-needed comedic respite from the barrage of punk, indie, hip hop and local music of this weekend’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. He, along with others like the Tim and Eric Awesome Show and the locals of the Coldtowne Comedy Hour, will do their best to crack up the cold stares of the hipsters and get them to grab their gut for a chuckle.

This is a star-studded tour if you’re into gritty, gravely punk. It’s Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, Tim Barry of Avail and Ben Nichols of Lucero all playing solo sets, but it usually ends up with the guys all playing on the stage backing one another.

Today, Fun Fun Fun Fest announced the afterparties that will be sprinkling the Red River music district over the weekend of November 7-9.

The Spinto Band have garnered a fair amount of attention in the UK recently; and no wonder, considering the group's sprawling, heavily melodic sound, which recalls our favorite oldschool Britpop albums.

Now here’s something different: Graham Reynolds and his Golden Arm Trio will bring their progressive jazz fusion to what’s turning out to be the most diverse Fun Fun Fun Fest ever.

Fun Fest organizers announced the second most important line-up: the local vendors.

This Portland trio playing Fun Fun Fun Fest gets points for accuracy on the name for sure. They have an indie experimental noise sound that sometimes lands on the side of the sharp and jarring, not too much unlike a fist full of shiny metal picks and tools about to probe around your gum line.

Franki Chan is a busy guy. He is the owner of iheartcomix, which encompasses a record label, an event production company, a popular blog and a marketing/promotion company. Besides that monstrosity, Chan is a well known DJ in the swelling underground independent DJ movement. Somehow in the midst of these activities, he still brings his head back down to Earth.

Austin's own Fun Fun Fun Fest is where it's at, and all the cool kids know it. This year, we're trying to one-up the awesomeness that was last year's debauched hootenanny, which will be difficult but doable.

Started in 2004 by a couple of enterprising University of Texas students, the Austin Asian American Film Festival has, in a very short period of time, grown from humble roots into a full blown cultural event. In this, its fifth year of existence, AAAFF will be showcasing some very accomplished indie filmmaking, but will also be entertaining its participants with multiple parties and a panel discussion focusing on Asian American Television programing, specifically comedic representation of Asian culture.

The Kills photographed by Briana Purser.

Admittedly, we were among the cynics, and had a preconceived notion that this MTV-friendly band was going to leave a bad taste in our ears after three days of remarkable shows. To our (pleasant) surprise, Dave Grohl and his band put on an epic show worthy of the final slot at the festival.

Band of Horses have come a long way in a very short amount of time, and the enthusiastic crowd that gathered in front of the Dell stage at 7:30 was a good indicator of just how far. The group played plenty of songs from their latest record as well as a few from 2006’s Everything All the Time, and it seemed as if every track they played was a favorite of someone in the crowd and they sang along loudly.