Don't get us wrong, we're not knocking restaurants. We have our favorites. But sometimes you don't want the trouble — heck, when you live in a place like Austin, sometimes you just want to stay outside.

That's where food trucks come in. We have a lot of 'em, and each has its own cult; but can you decide between tacos and lobster rolls? And do you want to head across town to satisfy your craving?

Let Austin's Long Center help. The cultural titan near Lamar Union hosts Trailer Food Tuesdays all summer on the last Tuesday of each month. From 5 'til 9 p.m., a rotating cast of Austin's best food trucks will be waiting for you. Let the gorgeous skyline view stand in for a restaurant — there will even be live family-friendly tunes and entertainment.

Not bad, eh? And there's no catch — just show up and relax. Click here for more information.

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If you're, say, between 30 and 40, Counting Crows need no introduction.

They were the coffeehouse darlings in the mid-90s alternative boom, the jangly, sensitive bunch among the flannelled hordes. If Kurt was punk-meets-Pixies, Counting Crows' Adam Duritz was Dylan and Van Morrison, hungover and spiritually hungry on a sunny California afternoon.

'Mr. Jones' still sounds great when it comes on in a bar, and perhaps you canoodled — or cried — to their album track 'Colorblind,' featured on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack.

They're playing with fellow 90s rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket at ACL on July 30. Don't think of it as re-living your youth, Lamar Union — it's a great musical moment that hasn't ended.

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Johnny Cash is dead and Tom Waits doesn't record much anymore. Luckily we still have Nick Cave.

Yes: the Anglo-Australian Man in Black — if we're allowed to use the term — is still going strong, gaunt, whiskey-voiced, sexy, vaguely threatening, the poet of four o'clock in the morning. Would we have it any other way?

He's a novelist too, you know. (Reportedly pretty good, too.) To anyone who knows the records this is no surprise: Cave is as much storyteller as musician, your guide through the filthy and the forgotten parts of yourself, an adventure and nightmare, a dark barroom of the mind moments from Lamar Union.

He's at ACL in Austin on July 19.

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