Just as she promised during our conversation at the recent East Austin Urban Farm Tour, chef Kristine Kittrell is adding weekend brunches and a small, exclusive supper club at Weather Up a couple of times a month.

If Mondo artist Mike Mitchell has a superpower, it's the ability to create solo shows without sunlight or nutrition. All he needs is a good night's rest. "That's the one thing I do. I don't eat as much, I don't do as much, I just work and sleep."

In 2010, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Risk Management Division reminded employees in "heat awareness training" of the "common sense tips" that could prevent a "heat-related pet emergency," including that when left indoors one answer two questions: Is air conditioning available? And, will the house stay cool "through the heat of the day?"

American ex-pat David Lebovitz is on this side of the pond promoting his newest cookbook, My Paris Kitchen (Ten Speed Press, 346 pp., $35), with a sold-out class and two book signings at Central Market (4001 N. Lamar) this weekend.

Indonesia shows some Muslim empathy, Georgia brings us closer to justice, and the nation's judges, like Washington D.C., show us what discrimination looks like, as your AggreGAYtor miraculously limits political bribery.

HBO and Amazon announced this morning a multiyear partnership giving Amazon Prime Instant Video exclusive access to select HBO programming. So now you can stop stealing your parents’ HBO GO password, and start stealing their Amazon Prime password instead.

Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole is not yet a declared mayoral candidate. But she’s beginning to act like one – Tuesday evening, she announced a “10 District Spring House Party Tour Across Austin,” telling Newsdesk she wants to “listen” to Austinites and take a “hard look” at running for mayor. (And by the way, there’s yet another candidate …)

How would we even know that this planet is a planet, without we've been informed by the methods of science?

Questioned about the difference between the instrumental expanse of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and 19-year-old side project Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Montreal rock poet Efrim Menuck explains how Godspeed’s “always been more about laying breadcrumbs.”