Been thinking about adopting a feline friend? This weekend is the purrrfect time to do it.

August 27 marks 20 years since Stevie Ray Vaughan took that fateful helicopter ride after a show at Alpine Valley in Michigan. To commemorate, Legacy Records reissued Couldn’t Stand the Weather, Vaughan’s second record with Double Trouble and their first platinum seller.

Here’s one from Halldor Orri and his teammates on Icelandic club Stjarnan.

“I'm smiling, because I'm really pleased to be able to say that to you this morning.” – City Manager Marc Ott, announcing his proposed 2011 budget won't increase property taxes to the rollback rate (the highest increase without a special election), for the first time since 2006.

Los Premios, you ask?

Hosted by local Univision affiliate KAKW, Los Premios Texas is the music awards show that originates in Austin, but is transmitted to Univision carriers across the nation, making Premios Texas the only nationally televised awards show to originate from Austin.

There's a lot to recommend Britain – this, this, and this, to barely scratch the surface. Also: Its continuing commitment to the languishing tradition of radio plays. And now BBC Radio 4 has tapped Austin author Wena Poon's new bullfighting novel Alex y Robert to make the transition to radio.

While sports entertain many, behind the scenes the games are a mess akin to making sausage where you have a carefully packaged and attractive product constructed in an ugly and battered fashion. David Zirin leaves no stone unturned in his book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports.

Federal lawmakers on Tuesday took another step forward toward creating a commission to review the nation's criminal justice system – the first such review in more than 40 years.

The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced today... and readers everywhere hang their heads sheepishly for spending the summer cramming Stieg Larsson.