First, in case you don’t know better already, don’t be thinking of it as “comedy improv,” get it?

Zadie Smith was in Austin Thursday for a talk sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers. She brought with her a new short story, much good humor, and interesting thoughts about the link between her teaching and writing.

Having finally cleared South by Southwest’s monthlong gravitational pull, Chronolog Radio returns this week with its four eyes fixed firmly on the future and Austin music.

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 29, Salvation Pizza will celebrate its eighth year in business with a "Glimmer-versary," a benefit for Glimmer of Hope Austin.

We always have fun playing the "where are they now" game with films that premiere at area film festivals, and this week, two more South by Southwest features leveled up.

After two successful summers, the ATX Television Fest appears poised to go for the hat trick in 2014.

It’s that time of the week again that makes getting out of bed every Friday morning worth it. And if you’re not as excited for it as I am, then these three suggestions should get you there. Well, that and the forecasted 80+ degree weather. It’s a homo heat wave – or maybe it’s just Texas, and summer’s starting nowish.

Obamacare gets a final burst of attention, Maryland makes trans rights a reality, and Linda Harvey packs her bags for Treblinka, as your AggreGAYtor gazes upon hir angry inch.

Jake Langley of Toronto may be a relative newcomer to Austin, having moved here in 2010, but he’s impressed huge swaths of the local music scene. Jazz heads upstairs at the Continental Club for Church on Monday, Tex-Mex two-steppers at raucous Los Texmaniacs gigs, and even Dupree fan Mike Judge can attest to Langley’s guitar prowess.