Saturday, Christiane Swenson hosts a party at Maria’s Taco Xpress for debut EP Sleeping Aid, available now on Bandcamp. She and Nicole Bennett perform as the Tiny Bees, the forming revealing, “It was recorded at the Khabele school in a small room on an 8-track.”

If you've spent your life thinking of the Austin Film Festival as a weeklong event restricted to a chilly weekend in October, you're doing it wrong.

Primaries go gay, Priscilla turns 20, and Joan Rivers turns 37, as your AggreGAYtor excommunicates the Catholic League.

After five years, the Austin Center for Photography is closing up shop. Citing economic conditions and financial woes, the organization will cease to exist after finishing its final slate of events later this year.

Do the rules for Texas’ film production incentives violate the US constitution? That’s what one of the production companies behind 2013 action-comedy Machete Kills argue in their lawsuit against five current and former Texas Film Commissioners. However, director Robert Rodriguez is actively distancing himself from their claim.

In Hollywood, sequels may rarely live up to the original, but Austin has always followed its own script. Tomorrow marks the return of I Live Here, I Give Here's Amplify Austin, the 24-hour giving-palooza debuted last year.

I've never been able to muster much enthusiasm for the films of Wes Anderson. I didn't attend the recent local premiere of The Grand Budapest Hotel and I might not have seen it at all if it hadn't been for an invitation to the Alamo Drafthouse feast created to complement the movie. Turns out, I was totally charmed by both.

Morrison told the Chronicle Tuesday that she has decided against a run for mayor. Wednesday morning, Martinez released a statement saying he will formally declare a run April 5, and outlined his policy proposals.

In the hierarchy of scum and villainy, there's the Big Boss, there's the chief bad guy/henchman/ne'er-do-well assistant, and then there's … Bad Guy #2.