Arro may have just closed, but 2016 is looking to be a big year for ELM Restaurant Group. Both their American concept, Irene’s, and the second Easy Tiger are slated to open later in the year. And now they have been tapped by Parkway Properties to manage the group of restaurants at Fareground at One Eleven Congress, the One Congress Plaza redux.

Booking a film festival is about whittling. This year, the SXSW Film Festival staff received about 1,500 narrative features and 1,000 documentaries, and narrowed that down to about 150 titles. Now the Fest has announced 10 of the most eagerly awaited movies: the gory, gross, and engrossing list of Midnighters.

Geoffrey Freeman is the APD officer who shot and killed a teenager in Northeast Austin yesterday.

“Hip-hop sucks nowadays” – you’ve seen it on various local Facebook groups and blogs. Whether that’s true or not, it lacks specificity. The proclamation suggests an inferred knowledge of hip-hop’s anthropology, but we never remember things quite as they were before – even if we were around to experience them.

Who’s James Prince? Hero? Villain? Community pillar? Bios begin at a 5th Ward-raised car salesman turned founder and CEO of Houston’s Rap-A-Lot Records, one of the most influential labels in hip-hop. To the C.V., South by Southwest now adds keynote speaker, scheduled for conversation with label star Bun B on Thursday, March 17, at the Convention Center.

No disrespect, Disney, but there's not a princess in your entire army of royal heroines that could get us as jazzed as the one that the 2016 Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival will have. That would be Princess, the Prince tribute band created by SNL alumna Maya Rudolph and singer-songwriter Gretchen Lieberum.

Because wouldn’t it be great if there was some way to go back in time and catch that one legendary show you missed by the band whose music pretty much saved your miserable life when you were young?

Mayor Steve Adler and his aides are doing damage control over the city’s Pilot Knob PUD deal, initially declared “a landmark affordable housing deal” by the mayor and District 2 Council Member Delia Garza. Adler is now responding to criticism of the deal with elaboration, while reiterating, “This is a valuable tool to create affordability.”

It's a sad day in Texas journalism, and especially among the state's small cadre of education reporters. Austinite Michael Brick, a Houston Chronicle reporter and the author of the definitive story of the saving of East Austin's Reagan High School, has died this morning of colon cancer at the age of 41.