Hip-hop protocol pairs two individuals (and their posses) in a studio: the rapper and the producer. They go to work, a record gets made. Typically, it’s the MC you see performing, getting his or her face on the flyers and drawing attention. The producer goes back to the boards, burrowing in the studio, and starts working on new cuts.

Cooks from some of Austin's top restaurants showed up at the Central Market Cooking School early last Saturday morning to compete for a spot in the finals of this Food Network-style cooking competition.

In 2007, then Georgetown PD Sgt. Jimmy Fennell, Jr., kidnapped a 20-year-old woman he'd encountered while on duty and answering a call, telling her he was going to give her a ride to meet up with her boyfriend. Instead, he took her to a park, slammed her against the rear quarter-panel of his patrol vehicle, pulled out his gun, put it by her head, and raped her.

Austin Police have released the identity of the 13-year old girl killed in a South Austin train accident Friday as Jasmine Sanchez. The death has been ruled a suicide.

Ten years ago today, a little movie called Mean Girls came out – and it was awesome.

A Texas trans teacher gets continued mistreatment, Title IX gets a makeover, and Laverne Cox shows us how it's done, as your AggreGAYtor struggles with various attractions.

The streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, a quaint college town, explode the last weekend of every April for Festival International de Louisiane, a free celebration of the music, arts, and food of the French-speaking world – Africa, Caribbean, Quebec. Austin was represented by Black Joe Lewis, Hard Proof Afrobeat, Gina Chavez, and the Preservation.

Before Breaking Bad. Before The Wire. Before The Sopranos. Before NYPD Blue. On January 15, 1981, a cop drama called Hill Street Blues aired to low ratings on NBC. When it finally went off the air, seven seasons later, it had altered TV forever.

Mad Libs can't be much fun for open carry advocates. Instead of zany nouns, they just have one answer. Weekend plans are replaced by the Second Amendment. Rational thought is too. Why debate the wisdom of revealing a 911 caller’s identity? Just plug in the Second Amendment. There’s no time to worry about the “lib” part when you are so darned mad.