Austin

Lance Armstrong Sends Out a Taunting Photo

As part of his Twitter feed this weekend, Lance Armstrong sent out a photo of himself reclining in front of the seven Tour de France jerseys he won. He captioned the photo, "Back in Austin and just layin' around." The image seems to be a defiant, perhaps downright bratty statement that's basically ... More >>

Gary Clark Jr.+Kat Edmonson

Our Restaurant Fantasies, Revealed

After reading this fun restaurant wish-list over on Diner's Journal, the Fork team started wishing and hoping for some of our own fantasy places to open. I'd love for a truck to drive around in the winter serving cups of really good, hot cassoulet. If there's a line, there will be nips of brandy w ... More >>

For Homesick Angelenos: The 5 Best Things To Eat at Florencia 13

The burrito mechado (your choice of fillings) is lightly baked and smothered in sauce. This week, Counter Culture crawls into Florencia 13, one of New York's only Cal-Mex gastronomic resources and a haven for Californians. (I would link to the piece, except it's not going up for a few hours, and I ... More >>

The Wise Kids

Getting the Drop on the Hammerstein with the Cosmic Opera

Turntables are nice, but aerialists are even nicer

My 5 Favorite NYC Breakfast Spots

The doubly buttered almond croissant at Tartine This is an admittedly quirky and idiosyncratic list of the places I wish I were eating breakfast right now, and the things I'd be eating.

SPAM and Egg Ramen: Worst Soup Ever?

This happened. ​In 1937, canned, gelatinous meat became as much an American cultural institution as a culinary one, when the Hormel Food Corporation spawned SPAM in an Austin, Minn. food lab.

LEATHERWOMEN

A controversial film returns

'Big Apple BBQ Presents Dale Watson+Guitar Shorty'

Karaoke Underground's No. 1 Hit Songs

Giving indie-rock fans a chance to sing along with their favorites

7 Walkers

With the Holiday Food Experiment, the Brooklyn Food Experiments Return Dec. 5 - And Will Go National Next Year

Festive, but can it be divided into 300 tasting portions?​Aside from an appearance at the Farm City Fair in September, the Brooklyn Food Experiments have been simmering at a low burn for awhile. But on Sunday, Dec. 5, they'll come to a boil once more with the Holiday Food Experiment, which wil ... More >>

Jet Blue Contest Winner Tells All

​ Surely you remember my contest where the best travel essay won a free month on JetBlue. Well, Courtney Sampsell nabbed the prize, and though she never sent me a postcard, she did come home with a lovely new essay about the experiences she enjoyed around the country, and that's good enough ... More >>

Another Day, Another Tiger Woods Mistress (This Time With Child)

​Some days we almost feel a little bit sorry for Tiger Woods. Almost. Like when we hear that yet another mistress (a dime a dozen, these) has come forward and blah, blah, blah. But this time the story has a twist! "Adult film actress" Devon James has announced that he is the father of her 9-ye ... More >>

Todd P's MtyMx in Photos

MtyMx's Autocinema Las Torres, at night. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​NYC promoter Todd Patrick's MtyMx festival wrapped late yesterday morning in Monterrey, Mexico's Yo Garage, the erstwhile after-party spot for three days of Brooklyn madness in another country entirely. Our report can be fo ... More >>

Here Is A Video Of Todd P Calling Bands That Didn't Make the MtyMx Trip "Pussies"

So, uh. To recap: Todd's MytMx fest in Monterrey, Mexico, rages on today, despite some transportation issues and several prominent band cancellations. Great to see things are rolling along, though here he is onstage with the always-jovial Dan Deacon ("Who wants to live forever?"), discussing those ... More >>

AOL Is Walking Back This Whole "We're Gonna Interview All 2,000 Bands At SXSW" Thing Just As Fast As They Can

​So apparently this is a thing AOL said they would do, pay amateur writer types $50 a pop for interviews with every band prancing the streets of Austin right now, an undertaking both ridiculous and pretty much impossible, which is what the folks at AOL are now insisting they knew all along. (A ... More >>

The Ghost of Spoon Lingers

On the defiantly skeletal Transference, which only a recession could love

Stream Todd P Goes to Austin

​Todd P Goes to Austin, the Brooklyn promoter doc whose premiere our own Rob Harvilla braved--sparking much debate over whether or not Todd P can change a tire--is now screening in full over at Pitchfork TV. "I'm sure it's pretty obvious to anyone watching that movie that, through a lot of it, ... More >>

Died Young, Stayed Pretty Documents Poster Art Culture

News Roundup: Lupe Fiasco, Elliott Smith, Brooklyn Bowl, Late Night TV

-- Lupe Fiasco released the first single from his upcoming album, Lasers. The track is the spacey "Shining Down," which has Lupe taking a dig at autotune by using it. It leaked last month to the rapper's dismay. He plays Governors Island on Sept 11 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon) and SUNY's Dewa ... More >>

Sky Saxon, 1937-2009

Sky Saxon, bass player, lead singer, and auteur of of the 60s garage band The Seeds, has died in Austin. The Seeds were simple, enthusiastic, and fun, and their revival on Lenny Kaye's Nuggets compilations provided early punk rockers with inspiration and reaffirmation. Though after a few hits wide ... More >>

Tea Parties Are Go!

Image via NextRightNation New York's version is scheduled for 7 p.m. at City Hall Park -- Newt Gingrich is supposed to speak! There have already been some big ones in Cincinnati and Austin; others are smaller but have lots of signs and homebrewed coverage ("The atmosphere is upbeat - the people he ... More >>

Interview: Smog's Bill Callahan on His New Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Luisa CintaOver 20 years, Bill Callahan--who recorded as Smog from 1988 until 2007--has dabbled in hard rock, children's choirs, French horns, country, darkened synth-pop, and gospel. His throat holds a flat, wheaty baritone--as expressionless as plastic and as self-sufficient as a leather jacket; h ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Forget Not Those Buzz Bands of Yore

Hard to believe a record with this cover could be chaotic, right? Trail of Dead (Mohawk) SWXW Thursday Afternoon, March 18 Years from now, when someone writes a book called The Fucked-Up Music Biz, 2000-2010, Austin's (...And You Will Know Us by the) Trail of Dead will hopefully receive their own ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Vivian Girls and Wavves Mercifully Request More Reverb

Keep it comin'. Little more. Little more. OK, a lot more. Vivian Girls/Wavves (Mohawk) SXSW Thursday Afternoon, March 19 At last year's Rhapsody fete here, luxe condos were going up across the street, workers perched on all the balconies, regarding us shiftless, sunburnt, taco-snarfing revelers w ... More >>

The Best of Showpaper "I Saw You," Edition Two

Quick refresher: Showpaper is a list of all-ages shows in the Tri-State area, a biweekly newsprint one-sheet that harkens back to the days of punk flyers and Xeroxed fanzines. But the most unfailingly superb part of Showpaper is a regular sidebar called "I Saw You," a kind of Missed Connections for ... More >>

SXSW Tip Sheet 2009

For fans of the Beatles, Willie Nelson, non-cloying indie pop, and presidential pardons

Possibly 4th Street 27: Trail of Dead

Rob Trucks's "Possibly 4th Street" expositions, in which he invites musicians to perform live and impromptu somewhere in New York City, run intermittently here at Sound of the City. Trail of Dead headlines the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday, February 27 [tix] and Bowery Ballroom on Saturday, ... More >>

BIG KISS

A pretty fiddler with the elegance of Lucinda

Free Will Astrology: August 27 to September 2

Indian Jewelry Tonight and Next Tuesday

Tuesday

SXSW: Behold the Accursed Table of Discarded Promotional Materials

SXSW Tip Sheet 2008, NYC Edition: DJ Rekha

Possibly 4th Street: Michelle Shocked at Astor Place

The Octopus Project's Electro Mini-Symphonies

Separation Saturday Night

Deadpan humor and clever histrionics redeem Okkervil River's classic-rock bathos

Siren Call: A Conversation With Voxtrot's Ramesh Srivastava, Interrupted

Report: We're Doomed!

Texan Troubadour Turns Near-Death Into New Life

Five Different Takes on One Woman's Work

Austin and Brooklyn Songsters, Appreciated by the A-list

Later Baby

A little extra insurance: putting your oocytes on ice

Music

Jihad Fever: Catch It!

Film

Listings

Ohh, behave!: Shall we Shag now or Shag later, baby?

Who Died?