At 2pm today, the three-day Outhouse reunion kicks off at Giddy Ups. The Austin club inhabited the Drag back in the day, hosting outsiders and outcasts like Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley. Check the website for full lineup and times.

Fish or cut bait: TDH casts off below the fold.

If you're a pack rat, I mean archivist, then you already know. When you need that pair of black pants, The Uniform, that you'll snatch up on nights that premium denim is a fail, and that your black jacket will tolerate, you have two choices. You can haul yourself around in vain to every clothing store in town,

If it’s April, it’s time for Sonidos del Barrio, the Austin Latino Music Association’s annual awards program and signature event at the H&H Ballroom tonight, April 9, 8pm.

To call Fantastic Fest attendees "rabid genre fans" is an understatement if anything. Well, prepare yourself for a whole new subset of mouth-foaming fanboys to descend on us for this year's fest because it's been announced that there will be a Fantastic Arcade this year.

Travis County needs more help with Tuesday's run-off elections. And it pays! Press release below:

Some days it takes a few reads to parse a campaign press release, especially when a campaign has gone negative. But in his latest attack piece, Republican House District 47 contender Paul Workman seems to be savaging opponent Holly Turner for having student loans.

… This afternoon at City Council, they just took up Items 20 and 32, the former pertaining to a $280,000 contract for minority recruitment outreach assistance at the Austin Fire Department, the latter covering medical exceptions to the homeless “sit/lie” ordinance.

Following in the tradition of Denton's Rock Lottery, Austin's new Lottery League holds its inaugural drawing Friday at Red 7.