At 4pm during Friday rush hour traffic, it took only 68 minutes to get from the midtown Chronicle offices to Dripping Springs for the second day of the Old Settler’s Music Festival. Five hours later, the trip back was swifter, but you gotta watch for deer on that dark stretch of highway. Our only regrets were that we can’t return today.

Most cult films become cult films. But once in a while film arrives, a film foretold with ill-augur, that has the dedication, fascination and weirdo subject matter that pushes it into cult status. And that film is Knights of Badassdom.

As the sixth season of Mad Men drew to a close last June, it appeared a new beginning was afoot. Sunkist was on board as a client, and a Los Angeles branch of the firm was set to be opened by none other than Don Draper himself.

Think back to 1996. Remember G-funk and East Coast gangsta rap, 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me and Ghostface’s Ironman? UGK’s Ridin’ Dirty, the debut from Xzibit (At the Speed of Life), and a third disc from Mobb Deep (Hell on Earth)?

“This is my favorite night of the festival,” confessed a stagehand in a tie-dye shirt and ball cap. He was working the campground stage, a small pavilion across the street from Old Settler’s main grounds where all of Thursday’s performances took place. “It’s so intimate and everyone is showing up with fresh smiles and fresh festival buzzes going.”

Austin's newest custom cocktail lounge, the Pleasant Storage Room (208 W. Fourth), opens Friday, April 11, in the former home of the Stacked Burger Bar, at the same street address as Peche and Cedar Street Courtyard.

As polarizing as Arcade Fire’s fifth album, last year’s Reflektor, remains, the Canadian outfit’s show Thursday night at the Circuit of the Americas proved they’re one of the most dynamic acts working today even as they scale to ever larger audiences and venues.

If there's one constant in Blumhouse films like Paranormal Activity and Sinister, it's this: Never move into a new house. "That's not true," barks distributor chief Jason Blum. "Insidious. I've broken my golden rule. It's my favorite thing. Rose says, 'let's get the hell out of this house,' and they move."

In a 12-2 vote today, the State Board of Education approved a proposal that will allow local school districts to develop courses in Mexican-American, African-American, Asian-American and Native American studies. The move was a compromise; advocates had asked for the addition of a Mexican-American elective to the official curriculum.