Production still courtesy of Troma Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead w/ Lloyd Kaufman Live! Friday, December 7thAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek (17329 Research Blvd)(7:30pm, $10)[info] | [tickets]Over the course of the last thirty-three years, Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Entertainment has produced hundreds of films, attracted legions of devoted fans, and influenced the likes of Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Trey Parker, Eli Roth and Takashi Miike. In fact, by Kaufman's estimation, the studio now owns more than......

FRIDAY [9] art • Joey "Jo E" Santori paints a 6'x3' piece live while DJ O'Cal spins at Canvas Bar and Gallery (10am-6pm) art • Contemporary Art Trunk Show thru Feb. 11 at Art on 5th (10am-6pm) comedy • Bog Saget at The Paramount Theatre film • Master Pancake Debuts with Titanic at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Weird Wednesday Reel One Viewing Party at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown film • Spike & Mike's Sick......

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure? The series of books that nearly tricked you into thinking reading was fun? Well, tonight the Alamo Drafthouse is giving you the chance to relive the CYOA experience, minus the boring reading. At tonight’s Choose Your Own Weird Wednesday, host Lars Nilsen will pull three bizarre, obscure, amazing films from the bowels of the Alamo library (no, that’s too booky…let’s say “film holding room”), and the audience will decide which......

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......

A few things we didn’t know: • The Mexican free-tailed bat colony living underneath Congress Avenue Bridge is    visited by over 100,000 ecotourists per year. • The bat colony brings in over $10 million in ecotourism revenue annually for our     city. This is beside the point here, but we nevertheless have to ask: Who are these people? What makes them tick? Where do they come from? Are they like us? Is there some......

We don’t know if anyone has noticed that we have something of a bat problem here in Austin. Apparently, the nasty little buggers have taken over the Congress bridge. Little hairy, winged terrorists. And people from all over the world come to ogle at them. “They’re so freaky!” Craziness. Like they’re the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. A big-ass music festival. Or the country’s largest urban......

Will Work Wave for Food Cash MoneyHomeless people all along I-35 put down their signs for a brief moment to do "The Wave" when a local judge ruled restrictions on panhandling unconstitutional. That's right, all the streets of Austin are now open for business. Grab your markers and the biggest piece of cardboard you can find! Look, we know some people need help. But we know some people are just out to make a......

Don't have cable so you can't watch the Ian McShane define cool on the new Deadwood tonight? That's ok, Austinist has a Tivo, so you can come over and watch later on this week. We like company. Instead, we recommend you head on down to the Spider House around 8:30 tonight to catch the Austin Premiere of filmmaker and native Texan Patrick Phillips' new documentary The Cost of War, an outline of the conditions, emotional......

Once upon a time, Hollywood television writer and producer Rob Thomas lived and worked in Austin. He was a high school teacher and rock star wannabe. Then he wrote young adult novels (we are big fans of Rats Saw God), followed by snarky dialogue for Dawson's Creek (never fans of that) before making a big splash with Cupid--the short lived, but ultra-lovable dramedy starring the short-statured, but ultra-lovable Jeremy Piven. Once upon a time when......