Axis of evil - now with less Korea. W, meet F. F, W. Tight trouser crackdown. I'm not Iron Man, nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh, Sherlock Holmes. More childhood memories being exploited for profit. Cross your reptilian fingers. La la la la la. This woman takes the fun out of everything....

Photo by Steve Hopson for Austinist.com “And among the people whom I got to know, who became not only friends, but heroes, were Barbara Jordan, who taught me a lot about courage, and today would actually be her birthday. I remember all the time about how she got up every single morning, facing almost insurmountable odds, to do what she did. And another was my great friend Ann Richards, who taught me so much about......

You’ve probably seen Carlos Alazraqui as Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia on Reno 911!—but you’ve probably heard him, too. Alazraqui is a prolific voice-over actor, having performed as Néstor in Happy Feet, the Taco Bell Chihuahua, Rocko in Rocko’s Modern Life, Winslow T. Oddfellow in CatDog, and Goofy Goober in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. But in addition to acting, Carlos is also an accomplished stand-up comic. We spoke with Carlos before his run of shows......

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” ...(but) F. Scott never met our president....

[This review courtesy of new Austinist contributor Anna Hanks! -Ed.] As much as we'd like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing, slick incarnation of the Rude Mechanicals' Get Your War On also wasn't our first time. (We reviewed the show last January as well.) Directed by Shawn Sides, Get Your War......

The latest project by the Super!Alright! guys is a viral video for Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), which will attempt to answer that nagging question in the back of everyone's mind: What if, instead of going into politics, George W. Bush had pursued his love of Arena Rock? In order to make this work, they need extras for the "backstage" segment of the video, to be shot in a certain parking lot in South Austin. People are......

The war in Iraq is an unqualified mess, confidence in elected officials seems to be at a low and Republican leaders are scrambling trying to get some cover. Enter John Kerry. The former presidential candidate made a “botched joke” (his words, not ours) involving college students, the Iraqi quagmire and George Bush, and Republicans are taking the opportunity to turn the tables on the Democrats in hopes of generating some traction before next week’s mid-term......

As you may remember, Doofus in Chief George Bush has referred in the past to the “internets,” and yesterday he added another Bushism to the vernacular: “The Google.” Now if he could just figure a way to get out of the quagmire, cut the deficit and tell the truth. While we sit here not holding the breath, we can at least have a little laugh at his expense.......

Fantastic Fest kicks off tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. The big events lined up for opening night include: an advance screening of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning attended by the director and cast-members, including R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) The Full Moon Travelling Roadshow hosted by Puppetmaster creator Charles Band, who promises a “live” decapitation a 3-D screening of Parasite 3-D, one of the worst movies ever made about an......

The year was 1992: America Smelled Like Teen Spirit, although Dr. Dre was sending heavy wafts of the Chronic across the cultural landscape. Jack Nicholson was telling that punk bitch Tom Cruise that he could not handle the truth. Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the U.N. Secretary General and David Letterman could not stop making jokes using the Egyptian's name. The first George Bush was booting all over the Japanese. The FA Premiership was in its inaugural......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on......

With this being National Bike Month and next week being Bike To Work Week, some of our friends have decided to organize a huge progressive bike party next Saturday, May 20th on the eastside. Participants in "Chain Gang Bang-a-Lang" will be biking from house to house (three houses total, all within a mile of one another) and participating in mock gang-related activities, which might or might not include: going to the Alamo Drafthouse Bike-In......

[The following is an editorial column by contributor Alison Coffey and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Austinist staff. --The Editors] This week has been a little uninspiring. I caught up on my Mediums, but other than my growing crush on Joe DuBois (the super husband and daddy he is), there is nothing juicy to report. Lost wasn't on. Everwood isn't returning till March (and I'm a little peeved, thank you). Gilmore......

As mentioned yesterday here on Austinist, Rude Mechanicals has mounted an upgraded version of last year's workshopped production, Get Your War On!. ( In case you haven't been reading Austinist, or didn't see the cover of this week's Austin Chronicle, we'll give you the lowdown on this unique work. Basically, shortly after 9/11/2001, a New Yorker named David Rees started writing, and publishing online, an acerbic, satirical comic strip called Get Your War On!.......

Spending Turkey Alone? Don’t like watching football all day while recovering from your turkey coma? Want, in a very peaceful way of course, George Bush to know what an asshole you think he is? Then drive to his ranch in Crawford and celebrate Thanksgiving with Cindy Sheehan and other military families and veterans, as they keep a peaceful vigil outside of Bush’s ranch letting him know that the time to bring troops back from......

Two weeks ago, we sat down for a chat with Lillian Berlin, frontman of Living Things, a rock band whose emphatic liberal leanings all but scorn the conservative suburbs of St. Louis from where they came. Touring for the past two years with the likes of The Libertines, Velvet Revolver, and The Vines, the quartet - brothers Lillian, Eve and Bosh Berlin and guitarist Cory Becker - earned the respect of music critics, the......

Tom DeLay succeeded yesterday in having Judge Bob Perkins removed from his money-laundering and conspiracy case, complaining that the Democrat had donated over $5,000 to "liberal" causes since 2001. While a new judge has yet to be named, The Hammer's already working on his next weaselly tactic: having the trial moved out of Austin. Ridiculously, his indictment hearings have become something of a farce - it's hard to remember that the whole thing stems......

Reader Josh writes: what exactly happens when you go to one of those Adult Modeling Studios that advertise in the back of the Chronicle? also, what's going on in that strange pink house with turquoise trim that can be seen on northbound ih-35? From these questions we can clearly deduce several things about Josh. First: he's bored at his day job. Aren't we all? Second: His night job is running an adult modeling studio......