Image from MySpaceMICE AND RIFLES What’s the Deal: It’s impossible to hear a band name like this one from this Austin sextet and not be curious enough to give it a listen. If you do, you’ll find an alt. country group making the most of pedal steel, acoustic guitar and a singer with a unique and brawny voice. The group may have a classic country sound found in between the twang and Great Depression subject......

The Paramount's awesome Summer Classic Film Series continues this week with some pre-code sexiness, a JAMES BOND DOUBLE FEATURE (can you tell we're excited about that?), a classic superhero flick and a Newman / Redford double-shot. And again we've got some tickets to give away! If you'd like to win tickets to Thursday's James Bond double-bill, follow the jump and fill out the form. Baby Face Tuesday, July 10 @ 7:15 pm Wednesday, July 11......

The spur collection once belonging to a W.F. "Bill" Reynolds, late of Wichita Falls, TX, is to be auctioned off this weekend in Waco, in what's being billed as one of the biggest such auctions ever held. We're all but clueless about most things wild west, but according to one O. Hibler, a board member of the NBSSCA (National Bit, Spur and Saddle Collectors Association -- "preserve and protect our Western Heritage!"), "Reynolds' broad knowledge......

*Odam doing "Candy and Flowers?" Neh. Carly broke the internet at her house, so I am just posting it for her. As always, the views expressed in this column are those of the author's and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -The Editors Valentine’s Day — it’s the holiday we (and by “we,” I mean “my single friends and I”) all love to hate. But, not everything about the bonanza of paper hearts......