The Puerto Rico Islanders got two late headed goals from former Austin Aztex defender David Horst to beat Mexican giants Toluca, 3-2, Wednesday night in the CONCACAF Champions League, and move to the top of the Group D standings.

If it isn't obvious by the very nature of this blog column, I love free stuff. "Stuff" refers to the furniture in my apartment to the shirt on my back, but it also extends to video games. Today's Waste of Time, is another free browser game that you can buy for the iPhone or wait until November to download to your PS3 or Xbox. But why pay?

A week or so ago, Justin Townes Earle was arrested on assault and battery charges after an incident at a venue in Indianapolis. Soon after, it was announced the 28-year-old son of Steve Earle was canceling his tour and entering rehab.

The Austin Film Festival just announced this year’s recipient of the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award – a pretty familiar troublemaker in these environs.

When posed with the quandry of what sort of recurring column to create, I decided I would focus on local GLBTQIA Austinites that enrich our community directly – through whose tireless effort, our rainbow world is made brighter.

So what’s the big news out of the City Council meeting at the Carver Center? The Carver Center. The change of scenery, dramatic as it is, can’t cover up a light agenda. We’ll get to that below the fold ...

The team behind Fantastic Fest smash Bedevilled almost didn't make it to Austin. Producer Han Man Taeg said, "We were supposed to go to all the cities [in South Korea] where our film is screening, but we thought, this festival is so important, we'd drop everything and come over here." Good choice: They walked away with the Audience Award for best film.

It's hard to think of a major genre franchise that Karl Urban hasn't been part of: Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Riddick, the Bourne movies. And now he gets to have his ass handed to him by Bruce Willis in espionage comedy Red.

He's hot, he's hunky, and he's Gloria Vanderbilt's kid. But that's not why we adore CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. We love him because he PONY PONI POWND that creepy Andrew Shirvell.