Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. Police Chief: "Missing Student Ignored Due to Race." A drunken man broke into a central London park and attempted to have sex with a fence: Daniel French, 24, made "sexual motions" towards metal railings in Leicester Square Gardens......

[This review courtesy of new Austinist contributor Anna Hanks! -Ed.] As much as we'd like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing, slick incarnation of the Rude Mechanicals' Get Your War On also wasn't our first time. (We reviewed the show last January as well.) Directed by Shawn Sides, Get Your War......

Tickets for Former Vice President Al Gore's in-person performance presentation of An Inconvenient Truth will go on sale this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Prices for normal seats range from $29.50 to $99.50, with half-price discounts available for college students and university faculty/staff. Those wishing to get intimate with the fire and brimstone may opt for super-deluxe $250 VIP tickets, which guarantee you seats within the first two rows at the Theatre at Frank......

ME Television is looking for someone who can be themselves—they want someone who is confident, likes music, has a strong knowledge of Austin, and isn’t afraid to smile. At least that’s what the judges for The Next VeeJay told hundreds of hopefuls who turned out for yesterday's first round of open call auditions at Midnight Rodeo. "This is a cheap knockoff of American Idol,” said Kevin Connor, Vice President of Music and Artist Relations......

Former Vice President Al Gore is packing up his Powerpoint slides and taking 'em on the road—and he's coming to Austin on October 1st. Much like he did in the 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore will be here to discuss today's pressing environmental issues and their impact on our world. Tickets go on sale next Saturday, September 8th at 10 a.m. Former Vice President Al Gore October 1st The Theatre at......

Austin ticket broker TicketCity.com has published a list of the top 25 hottest college football games of 2007, based on the average price per ticket, and two University of Texas games are on the list. The Longhorns' game with Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on October 6 is currently #8 (average ticket price $555), while the November 23 game with Texas A&M in College Station is #18 ($402). The face value of......

Austin Mayor Will Wynn, long a proponent of green energy, has his sights set on an even bigger target: global warming. Back in February, Wynn unveiled the Austin Climate Protection Plan, whose ambitious goals are eliminating all carbon dioxide emissions from municipal activities by 2020 and running all City buildings and vehicles using renewable energy sources. "Austin has long been a national leader on energy efficiency, renewable power and innovative technologies," said Wynn earlier this......

Did Ghostland Observatory play a free show at Auditorium Shores? Nope, it was Illinois Senator and democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (photos coming soon). Vice President Dick will not back down from his smack down of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Senator Lieberman is almost a Republican. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would like everyone to quit harassing Senator Hillary Clinton. Vice President Dick would also like for everyone to fear China. Can you really picture......

"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc." - Kurt Cobain For those Austinites looking to escape a (warm) hip town full of rock and roll, coffee shops, tech geeks and weed for another (rainy) hip town full of rock and roll, coffee shops,......

Independent goober candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn Rylander Cougar Mellencamp is suing the Texas secretary of state over his refusal to let her use "Grandma" on the Nov. 7 ballot. We're pretty sure the filing of a frivolous lawsuit will do very little to help Carole Cougar gain new supporters. It seems Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is reluctant to release information about his investigation of Tom DeLay. In fact, he is suing the......

Ed. Note: The following is the first installment of a semi-regular column by Special Contributor Mark Hammer. The opinions and thoughts expressed by Mr. Hammer do not reflect those of Austinist or its staff. Or, for that matter, anyone else on this planet.* Dear marginally-employed Austinites sitting at cubicles thumbing through the glossy pages of the internet this afternoon, let me be the first (or, more likely, if your company has any damn decency,......

In honor of our nation’s Vice President, Dick “Whoops that was your face” Cheney, and the hullabaloo surrounding his little "accident", we bring you this week’s theatre listings in the style of a Scott “Funny as a heart attack” McClellan press conference! We were going to bring you these listings yesterday, but were too busy pretending that A) no one would notice B) global warming is “just a theory” and C) God created us......

We told you last week about a UT student who died tragically while boozng it up in a house that was being commandeered by a fraternity. Well, today the hammer dropped on those rowdy frat boys over at Lamba Phi Epsilon. The fraternity, which is not registered with the university's office of Greek Life, has been charged with hazing and lost its charter. Sounds like a slap on the wrist to lose frat status......

Rags-to-riches success stories are few and far between these days, particularly the sort punctuated with "dot com" and "latest buzz" - two phrases that cropped up seemingly everywhere you turned only a few years ago. Which is why we're thrilled to announce that our former editor, one-time publishing mogul, general tech impresario and self-proclaimed Internet Rock Star has accomplished what none of us dared to imagine. Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Brown sold out to......

Vice President Dick Cheney's right hand man, chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted today for "obstructing justice, perjury and lying" after a two year investigation into the CIA leaks of agent Valerie Plame's identty. The Washington Post explains why this is such a heinous crime: Lying about a crime, the accusation against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has itself been a crime since the time of Hammurabi. Then, it was punishable by death.......