Art Beat

Tucked away on an unassuming residential street in East Austin, you’ll find one of the best television studios in the city.

Austin has an arts scene that continues to grow and get better and more adventurous and inspired.

Whether your Halloween costume is a decaying zombie, a post-apocalyptic plague victim, or the Baron Harkonnen from David Lynch’s "Dune," it’s easy to make realistic pus filled boils.

Everything about Medieval Macabre is otherworldly. To get to the spooky halloween production (running Thurs. - Sat. this week and next), you drive down a dark, winding private road, lit only by torchlight.

In the last couple months, short story writers suddenly realized Kickstarter was a great way to finance an anthology.  Heck, there are 192 anthology projects on Kickstarter alone, and those don’t include the ones on IndieGoGo, RocketHub or any other crowdfunding platforms.

The Austinist turned us on to the sad news that two cheerful message-murals painted on the railroad bridge between Lamar and South 1st Street have been painted over, redacted in rust red.