Towering over sedans and minivans, high-bikers shock drivers as they weave through downtown traffic. Composed of two bike frames, one welded on top of the other, their popularity is growing. This increase...

Coming out of nowhere with “Duncan the Wonder Dog,” a postmodern epic about talking and reasoning animals, Adam Hines has taken the comics world by storm with his richly dense art. The first...

Every week, it appears as though there’s a new food trailer popping up somewhere around town, offering the city a creative twist on street food. While several have been hit-or-miss in the ways...

Super Meat Boy - Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Mac If “Super Meat Boy” doesn’t give you an aneurysm, at the very least it will give you post-traumatic stress disorder. In what has to be one...

An outrageously dark comedy, “Four Lions” makes light of one of today’s most prominent and pervasive cultural phobias: Islamic suicide bombers. However, the film’s smart, restrained...

Last night at 12:01 a.m., more than 200,000 people all over the globe booted up their computers and typed the first of 50,000 words of their novels into a blank document. After 10 long months of...

Austin entrepreneur Sarah Vela has established a way for social media to do good through her online company HelpAttack! by combining the use of platforms such as Twitter with the act of making charitable...

Every few years, there’s a sudden glut of films in a very specific genre. Twelve years ago, it was the asteroid flick, with “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact,” and this summer...

Brooklyn-based duo Matt and Kim do not know what restraint is; stuffing drumbeats, major chords, piano melodies, synths, lyrical hooks and shouting vocals into a blender and sticking whatever comes...

Burnt out on your favorite sports team? Can’t bear to watch the Longhorns or Cowboys anymore? While you may have to wait for another run to a championship next season, this season there are still...

In a Nintendo press bus, with Donkey Kong’s and Mario’s faces painted on the sides, Warren Spector waits patiently. You may have had him as a professor for a radio-television-film class,...

The day after Halloween brings many discoveries: It can reveal the start of a cavity because of the limitless amount of candy from one’s Halloween pumpkin, or it can mark the passing of this year’s...