To help ease college students into school while whittling at economic tension, Cat’s is putting on a free comedy show Saturday night.

If a bikini can possibly pass for the uniform, then it might be an Olympic sport.

Critics of the opening ceremonies for the Olympics forget that American audiences have been taken in by smoke and mirrors for years.

Despite the lead singer’s Christian conversion, the Smoking Popes are good without being goody-goody.

Always a lover of other people’s pets, a woman discovers why when she finally has a pet of her own.

The Texas State Strutters keep advancing through NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” competition, moving on to the semifinals.

A family exhibit at the Austin Museum of Art will make you a little less, or more, square.

Talking to yourself doesn’t make you crazy, so long as you talk to yourself the right way.

What’s happening this weekend in the San Marcos music clubs.

Ordinary vulgarisms are so over-used by now that they’ve lost their effectiveness. Maybe we should look back on older ways of expressing ourselves.

The Texas State Strutters dance team has advanced to the Las Vegas round of NBC’s summer talent show, “America’s Got Talent.”

The Thrillbillies are who they say they are, which means Wednesday’s show at the Triple Crown could be thrilling.

A trip to the public library can cure kids of the summer doldrums, but beware: the side effects could include literary addiction and all the maladies that entails.

Todd Rudgren has re-invented himself as often as David Bowie, if anyone can truly re-invent himself. Saturday, Rundgren will reappear at Antone’s.

Some things are so good that you don’t want to share them, but you still feel like you have to. Like Necco Wafers, They Live!! and the food in downtown Buda.