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Looking adorable, Demi Lovato arrivedA for the first day of auditions as a judge for ' The X Factor ' on Thursday held at the Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

KUD International has agreed to build Austin's first planetarium at the corner of North Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr.

As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months.

The Dandy Warhols traveled to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, May 22 and performed at Emo's East with opening act 1776.

The Rev. Randy Phillips prays Wednesday at the construction site where nondenominational church Promiseland West is building a huge complex of structures called Dream City.

John Egerton nearly got waylaid during a 1975 lunch at the Driskill Hotel downtown when a representative of the hospital that hired him got to drinking Black Russians and playing piano on their way to a meeting.

At Lake Austin Marina, just up from Tom Miller Dam, boaters stop for fuel and refreshments as they enjoy a hot day of fun on lake Austin.

'Red vs. Blue' uses graphics engines from Microsoft's 'Halo' games to create episodes of the show.

Summer's begun, so that means Chaos in Tejas. Now in its eighth year, next weekend's local commotion is still widely considered a punk/hardcore festival, but don't pigeonhole it that way.

After more than four hours of testimony from a cross-section of constituencies, the City Council voted 7-0 early Friday to sell the last piece of highly coveted city-owned Downtown property to Trammell Crow .

AUSTIN Employees at Austin's U.S. Postal Services are sounding the alarm about a growing number of mail carriers bitten by dogs this year.

This May 24, 2012 photo released by Fox shows judges, from left, L.A. Reid, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears and Simon Cowell from the singing competition series, "The X Factor," in Austin, Texas.

A new flight is on its way from Austin to Cancun. The non-stop flight launched Friday morning out of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Gary Dinges covers TV and radio - plus bars/restaurants, movies, music and a bunch of other fun stuff - for the Austin American-Statesman, austin360.com and statesman.com . Eric Lassberg, president and general manager of KXAN, did not respond to a request for comment on the two cases.

Gino Angulo was arrested in November after an undercover officer delivered a package to the house.

Police in California are on the hunt for two people they say strapped a stick of dynamite to a dog and set it loose in a Sacramento neighborhood.

Four contestants had to try-out without the benefit of looking at Spears or hearing her critique of their performances.

The Austin Police Department will enforce a "no-refusal" drinking while driving or boating initiative over the Memorial Day weekend, the department said Thursday.

When Slackerwood listed all the Texas-connected features that would screen at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, we forgot one aspect of the festival.