In bittersweet news that leaves her Chronicle colleagues in a very contradictory mood, staff writer Jordan Smith will be moving on, effective May 1.

Oklahoma dukes it out, trans soldiers prove battle-worthy, and tight undies make everyone just go gay all of a sudden, as your AggreGAYtor buries a time capsule.

It speaks to the ubiquity and specificity of World Wrestling Entertainment that on the final day of South by Southwest, when damn near everybody around Austin preoccupied themselves with scoring the final free drinks of a week gone haywire, it could roll into the Frank Erwin Center with little in the way of awareness for whatever it might be interrupting.

At South by Southwest 2011, for a “Death Match” day party put on by Thrasher Magazine, juvenile punk rappers Odd Future opened their show with such a commotion that a herd of fans who were barred entry broke down the fence barricading the Scoot Inn from Waller Street and overthrew the show.

In a Tuesday work session that highlighted City Council fault lines over procedures and priorities, Council members voted to postpone action on certain "mid-year" budget items posted for action today. Votes turned less on precise expenditures than the "appropriate" way to address them.

Remember the "Writer's Block" short with Bryan Cranston we wrote about last fall?

Ugandans lead the way, Boston gets a rainbow cannon, and Wendy Williams handles a delicate situation, as your AggreGAYtor mops up green beer.

Thursday’s City Council agenda includes consideration of increasing the property tax exemption for homeowners aged 65 or older, or disabled – currently $51,000 and unchanged since 1986. And a potential move to consider spending some of a $14.2 million budget surplus is gathering backlash from anti-taxers.

Roy Choi wastes no time establishing the mission of his memoir, spelling it out on page one of the intro: “I had to…tell the story of my journey from immigrant to latchkey kid to lowrider to misfit to gambler to a chef answering his calling.”