The Texas Education Agency has released its school accountability ratings, and Austin ISD has managed to pull all but one campus out of the "Academically Unacceptable" range, while increasing the number of "Recognized" and "Exemplary" campuses.

While the MLB regular season still has more than two months left, the AAA season only has a handful of games remaining in August until September call-ups begin (and people forget about baseball and focus on the NFL). So let’s embrace the final month and see what we have to look forward to.

Check out music from Agent Ribbons, Ariel Pink, and more.

The City Council rejected any settlement with the family of Nathaniel Sanders II yesterday.

Sure, bringing a knife into a bar is usually frowned upon, but this Saturday, July 31 at Hole in the Wall, a few locals test the limits of drinking and brandishing.

Later update: Says it all. Update: City Council chambers were packed this morning, crammed with staff to address council’s lengthy return agenda, and dozens of allies of the Workers Defense Project, there to congratulate council on inserting a provision requiring rest breaks at construction sites into city code.

David Kimbrough, Jr. cut his Fat Possum debut I Got the Dog in Me under the alias of David Malone to avoid confusion with his father, Junior Kimbrough. Since the passing of the great Mississippi bluesman in 1998, however, Kimbrough has proudly carried on the family legacy, and on Saturday the juke-jointer headlines an 80th birthday tribute at T.C.'s Lounge.

It's rare that a truly unique style of gameplay comes around. Like hearing music that doesn't sound like anything else, it makes you sit up and listen, or in this case, play. The first post in this blog series, Cursor*10 is a good example. And now there is the time/space warping of Fault Line.

The Wire, that is, as the Totescast discusses this week's interview with Ed Burns, co-creator of the esteemed series, on the eve of Burns' address to the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas' annual convention.