The Austin Film Society has plenty of news to share this week. Here's what we know so far.

The Noble Sandwich Company (4805 Burnet Rd.) is finally here. This week's debut of the eagerly-anticipated sandwich shop, deli, and charcuterie is being met with enthusiasm by midtown neighbors.

Oregon gets ready to rumble, OKCupid sends us a woof (on Scruff because we wouldn't see it otherwise), and TransMedia gets a double whammy, as your AggreGAYtor scatters rose petals in anticipation of D'Angelo.

The campaign treasurer filings – the first official indication of an intention to run for City Council – have begun to accumulate, and this week former CM Jackie Goodman filed her papers, as did a newcomer mayoral candidate, web designer and AdBirds CEO Randall Stephens.

The largest assembly on Sixth Street Saturday evening wasn’t a drunken group of troublemakers – it was four squadrons of police officers standing within two-sided barricades arranged between the four intersections along “Dirty Sixth.”

The April Fools Day registration for the annual O. Henry Pun-Off was over almost as quickly as it began.

I first met Gary Floater at February’s International Folk Alliance in Kansas City. He performed “The River Flows,” out today on his new album Who Cares, a release party for which happens Sunday, April 6, at Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos.

Do you support marijuana decriminalization? How about legalizing medical marijuana? How do you feel about full-blown marijuana legalization and regulation, akin to laws passed in Colorado and Washington in 2012?

The question that kept recurring throughout the iHeartRadio Country Festival Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center was “Why Austin?” The show served as the inaugural event for what might be presumed an annual series easily replicated anywhere. Yet why did the organizers, with obvious means to pull off whatever they wanted, choose Austin to launch?