A television show is pushing the right buttons if it distracts a presidential candidate from his campaign, as GCB--previously Good Christian Belles, and before that, Good Christian Bitches, based on the novel by Kim Gaitlin--has done with Newt Gingrich.

Whole Foods Market is wading into the publishing business and expanding its food-lifestyle empire to include a new digital monthly magazine called Dark Rye. 

If you'd only ever read about the SXSW "Homeless Hotspots" program when the news first broke on Twitter (via the New York Times' Tumblr) Sunday, you would have thought that it was dreamed up by a giant corporation, which sent its minions around Austin loading vagrants onto flatbed trucks, who were then surgically implanted with 4G Internet devices and forced to stand outside the Austin Convention Center wearing t-shirts that said, "I am a 4G hotspot." 

Only the t-shirt part was true.

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Texan actress Junie Hoang is making headlines after filing a lawsuit against IMDb for revealing her true age, a fact she believes could damage her career in an industry that favors the young.

When news broke in Austin last month that Leslie, the cross-dressing homeless man, mayoral candidate, and symbol of "weird" Austin, would be leaving town for Colorado, the metaphorical implications weren't hard to miss--the same sidewalks Leslie once roamed wearing a thong and falsies now sit in front of celebrated fancy restaurants, pricey retail shops

The Tyler newspaper published a story this morning about Kerry Max Cook and the two motions he filed in a local district court on Tuesday (I wrote about this yesterday). The story was mostly skeptical about Cook’s filings, drawing primarily on one source, one of the men who prosecuted him.

But the paper left a few things out.

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Historical markers of Texas now eligible for a historical marker
It's the 50th anniversary of the Texas Historical Commission's roadside markers, which means the markers themselves are now historic, according to Steve Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 

Austin-based Stratfor, which had its computers breached in December by the hacktivist collective Anonymous, is now having its internal emails leaked to the world. WikiLeaks began publishing Monday some of the global intelligence firm's five million stolen communications, which date from 2004 to 2011.

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