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Six dead as gunmen open fire outside the US Consulate in Turkey Iran test-fires long-range missles capable of reaching Israel Barack Obama regrets allowing his daughters to be interviewed by "Access Hollywood" Doctors group recommends cholesterol drugs for children as young as eight Jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs taken to a Las Vegas hospital Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat/Bruno) pulls cage fighting prank on Arkansas crowd Matthew McConaughey names his son Levi. From the......

Image from Scion's websiteSo you’re all set for an afternoon with the family and/or friends, tons of food on the horizon, be it Turkey or Tofurkey. Still, you need to scratch that live music itch before heading home. Well, fear not oh lovely residents of Austin, the city has a solid night of gigs on the 21st in store for the common layperson. If you’re not already planning on hitting up the Benko and The......

Nearly 1 million people have been displaced by the California wildfires. Heckuva job: Former FEMA director Michael Brown is making himself available for interviews about the wildfires. Home sales went down 8% in September. Russia's "Chessboard killer" found guilty of 48 murders. Turkish planes attacked Kurdish positions in Turkey today, just outside the Iraq border. It may be more beneficial to the environment to be a carnivore who eats locally-made meat than to be......

Presidential candidates make campaign stops in New Orleans this week. The Taliban is saying they will free the remaining South Korean hostages. Turkey elects new President with Islamist past. Greek forest fires lead to conspiracy theories and anger at politicians. Part-time Austinite Owen Wilson is in hospital recovering from a reported suicide attempt. Texas prison officials scared of the power books may have over inmates? Professionals use social networking sites, too.......

It's the same old shit every year: eat too much turkey (or Tofurkey for all y'all vegetarians out there). Watch football with smelly misogynist Uncle Larry. Listen to Cousin Lou complain about his goiter. Stare at Aunty Pearl as she licks the cat. But this year, break the cycle. You can start by going to a rap show! Lady Sovereign, the British Powerpuff Girl of white rappers, is rolling into the Parish this Turkey......

Thanksgiving: a time for celebrating family, eating food, and of course, watching TV. Well, we're here to recommend some options: The given: "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade", 9am, NBC/KXAN. The random: Twelve hours of Doris Day films on TCM, starting at 5am. Pigs at Thanksgiving?: Babe on NBC/KXAN, 2pm. Katie pre-TomKat: One of our favorite Thanksgiving films, Pieces of April, is on IFC at 4:15pm. What Not to Wear on Thanksgiving: What Not to Wear......

Polish off your Thanksgiving weekend with an intimate evening of music from British crooner James Blunt. The former British Army member will be taping an episode of Austin City Limits on Sunday, November 26, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the taping will be distributed tomorrow night beginning at 5pm at KLRU. The studio is located on the University of Texas campus at the corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe. Tickets will be distributed on a......

BOY-O-RAMAShorts Screens: Wednesday, October 4th at 7pm Shorts include Seeing You in Circles (21 min), Intervention, The (15 min), Peking Turkey (13 min), nyc 2057ad (2 min), Available Men (15 min), Boy Wonder (12 min), Cabalerno (5 min), Davy and Stu (13 min) [info] [tickets] GypoDrama, Dir. Jan Dunn, 2005 Screens: Wednesday, October 4th at 7:15pm "Jan Dunn's emotionally charged debut feature Gypo, tells the story of Helen (well-known British actor Pauline McLynn) and......

Independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Cougar Keeton Strayhorn thinks Perry should stop taking money from lobbyists, but apparently it's okay to take money from tax consultants. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell has officially launched his ad campaign and we hope it is larger-then-life. Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman sees no reason to apologize for a racist remark made during a stand-up act he gave 26 years ago. Finally the Democrats are pissed; unfortunately it is......

Whole Foods is addressing their expensive reputation. If you're going to try backwards running, we suggest mastering it in an open, flat field before you head out for the trail and endanger our lives. Turkey is the only country more reluctant than America to accept evolution as fact. can you say Fundamentalist Christians...? Deliver some treats right here. Dealing with dogs might be a smart thing to teach in job-training procedures for Postal Workers,......

Turkey has said it was taking steps this week to prepare for a cross-border incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters holed up in the Qandil Mountain range. Israeli troops are massing on the Lebanese border as Lebanon's president warned his army is ready to defend the country should Israel launch a full-scale ground invasion. NATO's top commander said Friday the alliance will expand its Afghan mission to include......

Our friends over at Austin-based music blog Depraved Fangirls are throwing their first party ever this Sunday over at the Longbranch Inn. And, naturally, the devilishly delightful dynamos have come up with a theme that's both holiday-appropriate and downright fun: Love and a .45, it's called. And here, straight from the source, is the low-down: There was a time when the seven-inch was it: a standard, the medium of a scene at four minutes......

We don't know what culinary genius came up with the idea for an Austin Chocolate Show and Competition, but we think they might need a big, wet kiss from Austinist. Not only is it an event devoted to chocolate, but it's free! FREE CHOCOLATE! Well, free to get in and grab a bunch of samples, but you might have to buy a few "creations", as well. If you wish. The event takes place 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......

Concerned about those extra two thousand calories of tryptophan-laced, gravy-smothered goodness you'll be ingesting tomorrow night? We certainly are. That's why we're considering taking part in tomorrow morning's Thundercloud Turkey Trot, a multi-distance race happening near downtown. Choose from the 5-mile run, 1-mile walk, or - if you're a kid - the "Stepping Stone School Kids [1]K." The race benefits Caritas of Austin, a local nonprofit that provides rent, utilities, food and support to......

M O N D A Y [ 2 1 ] music · Elizabeth McQueen and Jason Robards at Threadgill's music · MC Chris (Adult Swim), Snmnmn, The Ergs, America is Waiting, Bring Back the Guns and Karaoke Underground at Emo's music · Redrum and Music Lab put on Battle of the Bands 3! holidays · Marble Falls' Walkway of Lights kicked off last weekend, but you can see it through December 2nd - "meander through......

Should you find yourself near the West 15th Street Overpass at North Lamar during lunchtime today, look out for the gigantic turkey walking around. Members of People's Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are planning on putting up a huge banner from 12-1pm with the message: Thanksgiving Is Murder on Turkeys! The activist group issued the following press release: The purpose of the eye-opening message is to protest the killing of 300 million turkeys each......

-The death toll in Pakistan and surrounding countries has exceeded 20,000, with countless more bodies yet to be recovered in what was the most devastating earthquake to hit South Asia in the last century. Aid agencies estimate that over 120,000 people are in "urgent need of shelter." The magnitude-7.6 quake struck on Saturday near the northeastern border of Kashmir and Pakistan. Austinist asks that you leave links to donation sites in the comments section. -Boy......

It is a Saturday at noon and we've got brunch on the brain. We thought we had made reseravtions for brunch. We said "brunch" but we know "brunch" sounds a lot like "lunch" and so brunch was in fact lunch as Moonshine Grill only does the brunch on Sundays. It was sooooo disappointing. We had perused the menu online before and the brunch buffet sounded so promising, so new, so yummy. We didn't want......