JJ Grey & Mofro churn out funky swamp rock of the breed that made Creedence Clearwater Revival famous, minus the whole, you know, Vietnam War protesting angle. The sound is southern rock full up of funk -- music for getting down, even when the steam's so thick you could cut it with a knife. JJ Grey & Mofro Jacksonville, FL Latest Release: Country Ghetto, 2007 Friday the 14th, 5:15 p.m., Austin Ventures Stage Like many......

"The cure for the common film fest," Austin Underground Film Fest is the way to go if you're beginning to tire of the latest blockbusters. Rest assured Delta Farce, The Ex, Knocked Up, and their ilk won't be on the program June 9, when you'll begin to feel what the weather is like underground. The 2007 lineup for the underground festival features several shorts, including Ghetto Big Mac, A Girl Like Me, Drawing Between the......

WEDNESDAY [23] film • The Onion A.V. Club Movie Night with "Network" at Rio Rita (9pm) music/film • Jo's Rock and Reel with Broke Beads and "Gleaming the Cube" at Jo's Coffee (Free, 7:30pm) music • Austin Discovery School Benefit with Quien es Boom, Foot Foot, The Lennings at Emo's music • Prom Nite, Boo and Boo Too, The Unbearables, Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk at Emo's music • Doo-Wah Riders, Merchants of Moonshine......

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......

UT Austin School of Law first-years ("1Ls") started off the term in rather poor fashion, earning the ire of law school dean Larry Sager and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society after several students took part in a "Ghetto Fabulous" costume party. According to the Daily Texan, photos from the event -- originally posted online but now since removed -- showed students "sporting Afro wigs, large necklaces with medallions and name-tags with fake historically black......

"The cameraman was on night duty as we headed to Baltimore. Night duty means you watch the sea for buoys while everyone else sleeps. At 4am he totally spaced out and we crashed into a buoy. I wish to god we got that on tape, because it was super chaotic. We thought we were goin' down, the boat spun around, and then everything was very quiet. After that moment, I think we all descended into sea madness over the next couple of days."...

WEDNESDAY [20] film • Cinematexas Fest at Various (Various) ® music • Acid King, Black Cobra, The High Divers, Ghetto Princess at Emo's music • Lebanon (ISRAEL), Snake Trap, UME, Something Fierce at Beerland music • Five Times August, Stephen Speaks at Cactus Café music • Jet at La Zona Rosa ® music • Secret Weapons, Til We're Blue or Destroy and The Quicks at The Chain Drive (9pm) food • Angel Valley Organic......

WEDNESDAY [9] [film] Weird Wednesday: Wild Pussycat at Alamo Downtown (11:55pm, Free) ® [film] By the People at Dobie (5pm) ® [film] Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia at Alamo Downtown (7pm) ® [film] Dirty Harry at Paramount Theatre (7pm) ® [film] Live and Let Die at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) [film] Rolling Roadshow: Monty Python & The Holy Grail at Central Market (8pm, Free) ® [film] Bullitt at Paramount Theatre (9:10pm) [film] Blanks......

So, Quentin is back. While he wades through pre-production on Grind House, Mr. Brown is showing seven nights of highlights from past QT festivals. The main event is sold out, but tomorrow night's outdoor double feature still has tickets available as of 3pm today. The Glenn's movie bill features the first films ever shown at QT Fest: The Savage Seven (1968) and Hollywood Man (1976). Both of these are biker movies, in case the......

When scanning the SXSW listings, the cast of Even Money jumped out at Austinist. Ray Liotta, Tim Roth, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Jay Mohr, and Kelsey Grammer in a gambling film? We were game, especially when we saw that perennial 70's and 80's drama director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond, The Rose) was also present. Man, did SXSW ambush us with this one. The actual film wasn't an ensemble drama on par with Crash......

Sunday at one of our favorite watering holes, Club Deville, there shall be an after Sx party. And it will be good. Yeah, we know, everyone’s going to be busy pooping and crying after all the errant boozing of the week, but whatever. If there’s a good time to be had, then you should show your ass up, still drunk if need be. Fuck it? Fuck it! In order of prescribed appearance: Friday After......

T U E S D A Y [31] » [music] Ghetto Princess, Secular End, The Total Foxes, Tomorrow's Too Late at Emo's » [comedy] Live Comedy Happy Hour at Beerland (8pm) » [karaoke] Karaoke Explosion at The Peacock » [books] Galt Niederhoffer presents Taxonomy of Barnacles at Bookpeople (7pm) » [politics] Austin League of Women Voters puts on the State of the City dinner with Mayor Will Wynn as the evening's speaker at the Austin......

Some say that we have a "hard-on" for Ghostland Observatory. And they're probably right. But that does little to change the fact that the GLO - Aaron Behrens (vocals/guitar) and Thomas Ross Turner (keys/beats/vocoder) - are one of Austin's most talented indie electronic duos. Austinist contributor J.G. summed it up rather well last month: GLO evokes the seventies underground art-beat of Georgio Moroder, Sparks, Metal Urbain while infusing it with the dirtier glitter of......

Reader Liz writes: I, too, am plotting a move to Austin, and I'm hoping you can help me direct my search a little. What neighborhoods would you recommend looking into for a single, artsy, creative professional in her late 20's? You know, the kind of area that has some cool stuff/conveniences within walking distance, although I'd have a car. Inexpensive but not ghetto. Young but not undergrad-young. Quiet but not dead. Architecture with character......