One of UT's more infamous fraternities is in hot water again, this time as the defendant in a civil lawsuit over assault charges. 21-year-old Michael Austin Presley was allegedly assaulted at a Phi Gamma Delta party on July 7, during which he claims he was beaten and kicked by fraternity member Bryan Kniepp. Presley was left with broken bones in his right eye socket and nose. Not much else is known about the case; the......

Oh, the humanity! Welcome to the one weekend a year where you can see a biker mama on every block sporting a midriff baring halter top and leather chaps; however, this woman will bear a striking resemblance to the woman who birthed you . Pair that with inhaling noxious greenhouse-effect-inducing fumes and having your eardrums wailed on like a red-headed step-child and suddenly paying $8.25 to sit in a cold, dark box doesn't seem......

THURSDAY [31] music • Scion Live Metro presents GZA, Fyre Department at The Parish Room (FREE, RSVP before 5pm!) art • Opening Reception: George Krause: The Elizabeth Portraits & Other Works at d berman gallery, 1701 Guadalupe St (6-8pm) books • Douglas Brinkley presents The Reagan Diaries at BookPeople (7:00pm) comedy • Russ Nagel, "America's Funniest Biker," with Trey Galyon at Cap City Comedy Club film • "Notorious" at The Paramount Theatre film •......

WEDNESDAY [30] booze • "Sir Chris" and "Lord Gates" from Car Stereo Wars and Learning Secrets guest bartend at The Mohawk (5-8pm) music • Locals @ La Zona Showcase Two wih AM Syndicate, The Drawing Board, Jets Under Fire at La Zona Rosa music • Hawnay Troof, Best Fwends, The Carrots at Emo's music • Pompeii, Ryan Lindsey, Gazelles, The Heirs at Emo's music • Tribute to Sublime with Badfish, Indofin, Under the Gun at......

FRIDAY [13] fashion • RARE Magazine Spring Fling Fashion Show at The Belmont Hi-Lo (Moved due to rain) art/music • Take That!, a show of new images by Lance McMahan, plus music by Amanda Jones, Connie Ball, & Teddy and Marge at The Opera House (7-10pm) art • Hot and Cold: The Best of Canadian Contemporary Art at Art on 5th, 1501 W 5th (10am-6pm) art • Opening Reception for abstract paintings and encaustics......

THURSDAY [12] music • The Carrots, The Interest Kills (LAST SHOW) at The Mohawk music • ME TV's monthly Austin Music Foundation benefit series, "Emerging Artists," with The Dedringers, Nakia and His at Antone's (8pm, $5) music • Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, Jeff Klein, The Normans at Emo's music • Twilight Broadcast CD Release Show with Loss Rayne, Goldcure at Stubb's music • DJ Omari's Soul Party, with the Rock and Roll......

We love pretty much every type of pirate, from the "Avast Me Hearties!" variety to the "selling one-dollar copies of The Departed on the streets of Shanghai" kind. Sure they "steal" things, but they also provide hours of entertainment - either through their rousing sea shanty sing-alongs or their reasonably priced new releases. Tomorrow night, the Austin Film Festival presents a documentary about a lesser-known, but equally awesome class of pirates: Radio Pirates. Pirate......

One would think that this would be the week to make connections, with people trying to find quick a hookup, even if just for that one evening. But there aren't many Valentine's Day desperate connections to be had--just a lot of normal desperate connections. So get out there and take a peek, as we bring you the best of last week's Missed Connections... Stupid Cad Girl Seeks Missing Purse. Lost During Debauchery Although Jim......

WEDNESDAY [6] film • Amélie at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm,Free) city • Austin Community Cultural Planning Project Arts & Culture Round Table discussion at One Texas Center (505 Barton Springs Rd, RSVP, 7-9pm) music • Pirates vs. Ninjas, Jolly Garogers at Beerland (dress as a pirate or ninja and get in free) music • 101X Homegrown w/ Visitors, Driver F at Flamingo Cantina -1 music • Cut Club with free Mickey's at The Mohawk (10pm)......

Ah, the sweet smell of college freshmen. School's back in session, summer is almost over (in theory), and it's a few weeks before the holiday movie rush begins (Exhibit A: this week's slim pickin's). *Trust the Man We’ve got one word for the entire cast of this movie: yum. The Wicker Man God bless Nic Cage. He tries, ya know? What a trooper. The Quiet This film is receiving fairly poor reviews, which is......

SNAKES ON A MUTHAF*CKIN’ PLAAAAAAANE! Because it just hasn’t been said enough. *Snakes on a Plane We debated about whether or not we should recommend this one, and we only do so out of sheer, morbid curiosity (plus, we really like jumping on bandwagons. A lot!). There aren’t words to express how ridiculous/awesome this movie must be. It’s like a whole new genre of film. We’re witnessing history here, folks. History determined by an......

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......

We all know which movie you're going to see this weekend, so let's just cut the chit-chat and get down to it. *Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Hotly anticipated, highly hilarious, and rife with corporate logos, this flick is about as "All-American" as you can get without draping yourself in Old Glory, stuffing your face with apple pie, and using insider trade information to pad your personal bank account while denying health......

Cue movie-preview voice:...In a world where Pirates of The Caribbean 2 can break box office records, it’s almost a given that smaller independent films are going to slip through the cracks. Given the state of the world these days, there really is no contest between a finely crafted intimate drama and watching Johnny Depp swordfight an octopus. Which brings us to The Night Listener, a film that begins promisingly, has its moments of inspiration,......

And in the spirit of slackerdom, today we’re just recommending every new release that doesn’t star a Wilson brother. *Clerks 2 Austinist review As is the case with most sequels, we’re not really sure why this one is necessary. But Joel Siegel walked out of a screening, so that’s just as good of a reason to see it as any. *Lady in the Water Judging by the past, there’s a really good chance this......

Okay, we must take a quick moment here to talk about Pirates of the Caribbean Part Deux, which we should have talked about sooner but didn’t because, well, quite frankly, we kinda forgot we’d seen it until two hours ago, when yet another preview came on TV and we said to ourselves, “Hey, didn’t that scene come after that other scene and hey, how do we know that? Oh right, we saw that movie......

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There was an early morning movie disaster at Regal Arbor’s Westgate Theater today when anxious moviegoers were turned away at the 10:00 a.m. screening for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest due to what was deemed an “oversell of tickets.” Interestingly, their minimal parking lot stood empty, and caused even more grumbling among the disappointed parents, kids and computer programmers playing hooky. Doubly annoying was the fact that they all felt like fish on......

More summer blockbusters are coming your way, friends. Don't forget your eyepatch! *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest It seems like forever ago that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl took the world by storm. Depp was nominated for a friggin’ OSCAR, for Jeebus’ sake. We’re almost positive that won’t happen again, but we’re not ashamed to admit we’ll pay full admission price for this fluffy bit of high......

SmileyWorld, a corporation based in London, is accusing Wal-Mart of stealing their- you guessed it, smiley-faced logo. Wal-Mart may unfortunately have the upper hand in this one. Willie Nelson: Musician, tax evader, potsmoker and...church owner? A true Rennaisance Man. Mosquitos are adapting to pollution. In the over-populated Greece, the annoying insects are mutating to even resist insect repellents. We don't need that raise to be happy. Despite the "jolly" associations with Santa Claus, being......

Now in its third instantiation, the multimedia arts showcase dubbed Everyone Knows Everyone brings together some of Austin's creative types, spanning artistic mediums from music to performance art. Drawing on the success of last December's pre-holiday event, the production quality of tonight's EKEIII, at Emo's, seems to have grown tremendously in the past six months: Throughout the evening, sets by Those Peabodys, Visitors, Mars Wars, Young Love, Rory + the Artificial Heart, and Pirates......

THURSDAY [29] [music] Loxsly at Whisky Bar (link) [books] Barbara Robles presents The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide at BookPeople (7pm) (link) [music] Everyone Knows Everyone Volume 3 with Those Peabodys, Visitors, Mars Wars Feat. Pure Filth, Young Love, Rory + The Artificial HeartS, Pirates Of Darkwater, DJ Shane and visual art a bunch of folks (including Austinist's own Justin "Juice" Cox and Jackie Young) at Emo's (link) [film]......

Mike Shea at BookPeople (7pm) (link) [music] Awesome Cool Dudes, Daniel Francis Doyle, Zom Zoms, Ralph White at Emo's (link) [music] Tristan Prettyman, Michael Tolcher at The Parish Room (link) [music] Pete Yorn instore at Waterloo Records (6:30pm) (link) [music] An Irish Sing-a-long with Brobdingnagian Bards and Campbell Wilson at Cactus Cafe (Free, 8pm) (link) [film] AFS 20th Anniversary Screening: Godard's Weekend at Alamo Downtown (7pm) (link) [film] Rolling Roadshow: The Goonies at Central Market......

MONDAY [22] [film] Letters from the Other Side at Congregational Church of Austin (7pm, Free) [link] [film] Hands on a Hard Body at Austin Java (8pm, Free) [link] [film] Jarhead at Cafe Mundi (8pm, Free) [link] [film] True Stories at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) [link] [film] Salt of the Earth at MonkeyWrench Books (8pm, $5) [link] [film] Anime Monday at Ventana del Sol (7:30pm) [link] [tv] 24 Season Finale at Alamo Downtown (7pm, Free) [link]......

-Chaos continues to reign supreme in Paris, where over 3,000 vehicles and dozens of businesses have been destroyed. All of this is over the accidental death of two teenage boys, who had been hiding from the police. -Harry Potter has the "potential to frighten some children" -They caught that death-row inmate who'd escaped from Houston outside a liquor store in Louisiana - trashed. -Cheney wants desperately to retain the power to torture terror suspects......

S A T U R D A Y music · Solomon & Tummler play their last show ever (members of Recover and Visitors), Mars Wars, Hockey Night, Pirates of Darkwater, LAX, plus DJ Shane at Emo's. 10pm [mp3s: Solomon & Tummler EP via MoreFizz] in-store · Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves at End of an Ear 6pm [mp3: Sally Crewe - Drive it Like You Stole It] party · Swerve Coffee Lounge celebrates its......

Last weekend the Zilker Hillside Theatre hosted Ballet Under the Stars, a free evening ballet performance by the Austin Dance Ensemble. This weekend they bring you yet another wonderful - and free - dose of culture, this time with the Austin Civic Orchestra's Zilker Park Summer Pops Concerts. The program's theme is "Film Scores Through the Decades", and as such they'll be performing themes from movies spanning over seven decades, including The Wizard of......