Rachael Ray, indie-rock superfan? Apparently — if the all-star lineup of her second-annual party at Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival is any indication. In 2008, the indefatigable TV personality, cookbook author, and professional fast-talking foodie made her hosting debut with an afternoon event featuring her own recipes (mostly hearty BBQ fare) and a handful of bands, including the Stills and the Raveonettes. This year, she’s upping the ante with a party officially called "Rose’s Mojito and Rachael Ray’s Feedback" — its subtitle is "A Smorgasbord of Hot Bands and Hot Food" — whose lineup EW can announce here, exclusively:
The highlights include legendary punk rockers the New York Dolls, Springsteen-esque indie faves the Hold Steady, Austin native son Bob Schneider, punchy Portland rockers the Thermals, L.A.’s angular pop outfit Airborne Toxic Event, and glammy Brooklynites Semi Precious Weapons. (Like last year, Ray’s husband, John Cusimano, will also appear with his band, the Cringe.)
Ray told us: "Some of the bands are new to me, like the Thermals andSemi Precious Weapons, but I sincerely love all of them. I’m a hugeHold Steady fan! Seriously. And I love Bob Schneider. Austin is myfavorite city outside of New York, I just love how they do things, andthe spirit of it."
There will be food again, of course (Ray promises "burgers on a biscuit with bacon, shredded lettuce and a toasted poblano tomatillo sauce, ancho mac and cheese for the vegetarians, black-bean chilaquilles, and ancho-chicken pulled soft tacos," among other heart-clogging creations) and, if you can get in the door, free booze from co-sponsor Rose’s. We’ve pictured the official party flyer here (it’s March 21st at Austin institution Maggie Mae’s, for those of you thwarted by the superimposed photo of Ray’s nuggety little head), and look out for the full interview with Ray in the March 13 issue of EW.
John Locke went tilting at windmills last night, and paid the price. The maybe delusional/maybe not/probably both knight errant of Lost screwed on his Don Quixote and went on his most important quest yet: Trying to convince a collection of world-weary, spiritually-defeated friends that they were special; that they were all meant for greater adventures and grander purposes; that they all belonged back on The Island. Alas, just as “the knight of the sad countenance” of Cervantes’ mock-heroic epic was met wherever he went with derision and much physical punishment, Locke, too, was greeted with heaps of scorn and physical battery. Still, it was Locke who got the last laugh. In the wake of a journey that tested his faith and left him for dead, the Holy Fool of Redemption Island found him born again on the sandy shores of his heavenly home—or at least, just across the water from it, over on Hydra Island, the Maui-esque Purgatory which orbits the Paradise-or-Inferno? riddle that is The (Big) Island. Continuing the season’s theme of figurative and literal time loop, John Locke celebrated by doing what he did when he crashed on The Island the first time around—by biting into a juicy piece of fruit and telling a complete stranger his big secret: I used to be dead. Now I am alive. Fancy that. 
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From the moment Carla started talking about her spirit animal, I knew I’d be rooting for her. Sort of. Not to win, really, because Stefan is pretty clearly a better chef, but to be on the show for as long as possible, which is exactly what has happened. Thanks, Bravo overlords! But you totally owe me one for cutting Fabio instead of Hosea, which is what should have happened because Fabio is about a billion times more interesting and entertaining than Hosea, and also, methinks, a better chef. Yes, tonight’s Top Chef finale pits Carla, who cooks with love, against Stefan, who cooks with arrogance, and Hosea, who cooks with being boring.
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