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They've got tiaras and leopard print. I've got a book I desperately want the Pulpwood Queens to read. Welcome to Girlfriend Weekend!

Movies, theatre, classes, dancing, and more reasons to get out

Landmark documentary is a study of the subculture of New York City’s drag balls. Young, gay, and disenfranchised men find glamour, limelight, and family in the context of the annual ball.

The Summer Reading Menu

Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.

A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.

Miss California USA (ugh!) Carrie Prejean makes a patriotic plea.

Farewell to Phil Gramm, the journalist's best friend.

Sam Bass Theatre's Forever Plaid took top honors at the 30th anniversary B. Iden Payne Awards

Naughty Austin's production of the musical comedy Pageant reflects "real" beauty pageants in a funhouse mirror, with men cross-dressed as contestants, and the result is over-the-top, ridiculous, unbelievably corny, slipshod, and at times, genuinely funny.

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

The beauty of the music and stagecraft in this production teaches us something about love and art

Let's See a Boy Do That: Reflections on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

How I Spent...

Up-and-coming pizzeria shares the beauty of food being made

Elvis Presley's 700 madonna/whores

Winners and losers on Food TV and more

"Judging from the places he visited in Texas, he is clearly one New Yorker who believed, or at least wanted to document, the myths Texans tell themselves," writes Clay Smith of Garry Winogrand's photographs in Winogrand 1964.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo: Southern Discomfort

Books to Spend Your Summer With

Meet the Pulpwood Queens and Kathy L. Patrick, Texas' answer to Oprah and perhaps just as important a name in the word biz

Blurbing SXSW 2010

Human Growth Hormone comes outta where? Brenda Vaccaro did what? This week's AAF takes you where you never wanted to go…

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

Chile and Argentina

Can I Get a Witness?

Queer embarrassment artist Andie Flores brings her show about "a clown idiot" to Crashbox

Like community, but queerer

Like any indie comedy worth its weight in quirkiness, Little Miss Sunshine is packed with offbeat characters, all struggling to find meaning in life – in this case on a road trip to a children's beauty pageant. And the film is so much fun, it's almost impossible not to enjoy the journey.