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Austin News Has Gone To The Darkside

...every day there's some other horrific piece of information that the local news stations broadcast...Luckily, there's an answer (via Mahargdom)

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Extra Extra: Not Just Polls and Lists

bdwaydiva1/FlickrTexans want better roads but don't want to pay higher gas taxes or tolls for them, a recent poll shows (and we already assumed). Men's Health says Austin is the #7 best city for men to live. Georgetown makes This Old House's top-12 list of best cities to buy an old house.…

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AFF Presents Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake

AFF Website Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights AwakeThursday, June 26, 2008Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek (17329 Research Blvd)7:30 pm; AFF Members Free; $4 everyone else[info] | [tickets]Sonic Youth has been getting a lot of attention lately, to the point where they're appearing in really weird…

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Holding an Austin Contractor's Feet to the Fire

I had to hold accountable a sheetrock contractor the other day because he spent money advanced for a job on... (via Austin Real Estate Blog)

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Tiff's Treats to Open a North Location

Tiff’s Treats is a local legend among college students, famous for their deliveries of hot, fresh cookies. I had a... (via This is Life in Austin)

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Stores opening in Austin Commons

There's a new Freebirds World Burrito and Dunkin Donuts shop coming to Austin Commons on Burnet at Kramer. (via Steve's Weblog)

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Tribute to Our Dearly Departed Ice Bats from NYT

Photo by Lex in the City on flickrThe Austin Ice Bats, who entertained hockey fans in these parts for more than a decade, receive a well-deserved tribute in today's New York Times. It may have seemed incongruous for a hockey team to take to the ice in the Travis County Expo Center, the same…

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Don't Mess With Dusty

Photo courtesy of APDCorsha Beasley might want to look into signing up for some anger management courses real soon. And maybe visit a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. On Monday, a drunken Corsha thought it was a good idea to start throwing ‘bows with two of Austin’s finest – a…

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Pick It Up: First Annual Bootstrap Film Festival

image from http://bootstrap.bside.com Bootstrap Film FestivalThursday, June 26Regal Arbor Cinema (9828 Great Hills Trail)$10, 6pm; $15, 8:45pm[info] | [tickets] It’s too late to submit an entry to the first annual Bootstrap Film Festival, but sensitive entrepreneurs, aspiring Linklaters and…

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Austinist Midweek Show Jumpstart: Frightened Rabbit, Alejandro Escovedo, Cruiserweight, Boris

clockwise: escovedo, cruiserweight, frightened rabbit, borisOn this day in music history in 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) disclosed its "plans to fight Internet piracy." The plan was to sue hundreds of individual computer users "who illegally share music files…

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Frightened Rabbit - The Mohawk - Thursday, June 26 - 8 p.m. - FREE SHOW!

Frightened Rabbit will be playing a headlining free gig tomorrow night at the Mohawk on Red River. The show starts... (via On Deaf Ears)

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Alamo Organic Feast Menu Posted

There are still a few seats available for tonight's organic vegetarian feast at the Alamo Ritz. Trish, the Ritz's executive... (via Veg Out! Austin)

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Truesday: Words And The Frisbeetarian

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors You can’t deny- The other side- Don’t want to die- Any more than we do. What I’m trying to say, Is don’t they pray- To the same God that we do? Tell me…

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News Bits: Paying Off Clinton's Debt

Obama asks donors to help pay Clinton campaign debt Florida buying out the sugar business to help save the Everglades Six dead in shooting spree at Kentucky factory Supreme Court rules the death penalty cannot be imposed for child rape Security scare for French president Sarkozy as policeman…

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VMU on South Lamar.

I've written about VMU in other people's neighborhoods. Here's what happened in mine. (via Austin Contrarian)

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Trail of Dead launches Richter Scale Records, working on new album

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead announced a new partnership with Universal Music Group today, forming... (via Austin Soundcheck)

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The Steps at Parish: 6-21-08

The Steps played this weekend with Scorpion Child. Photos and review at Sounds Like Austin... (via Sounds Like Austin)

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