Girl, Interrupted

Will she make it? Fiona Apple arrested in West Texas the day before her ACL Liveperformance

UPDATE: ACL Live has announced that the Fiona Apple concert has been postponed. Details for a rescheduled show will be announced soon; all tickets will be valid for the rescheduled date.

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Well, Fiona Apple fans, you might be in for a disappointing evening.

TMZ is reporting that the waifish chanteuse was arrested yesterday in West Texas in a little border city called Sierra Blanca after hash was found on her tour bus during a routine border check.

This is indeed terrible news for those of us with tickets to her ACL Live show this evening (like this guy!). Depending on paperwork and production, we may or may not get to see her on her triumphant sold-out tour across the country, singing the songs from her brilliant new album, The Idler Wheel...

Sierra Blanca has been described as "the nation's largest sewage dump" and is also the location of arrests for similar possession charges for fellow medicinal musicians Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg (or Snoop Lion, as he prefers to be called these days).

Apple is currently being held at Hudspeth County Jail while paperwork gets figured out. So even if she posted bail, she's still got a full day of travel to get to Austin. Will she make it?

ACL Live has posted on their Facebook page that they are still waiting to hear more information before they make a decision on whether or not to cancel the show.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that she can get here and sing "Criminal" for us. Because she will, undoubtedly, receive a standing ovation for that one...

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Salt Lick's new concept heats up Austin's most popular stories this week

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Roxie's will open in the spring.

Editor's note: The top Austin news of the week includes a new concept from barbecue favorite Salt Lick and three luxury fashion brands making their Austin debut. Plus, we've rounded up all the ways to meet new people this winter. Read the five hottest Austin headlines of the week below, and find fun things to do this weekend here.

1. Salt Lick BBQ branches out with new restaurant concept in Austin suburb. Storied barbecue restaurant Salt Lick will extend its legacy with a new concept coming to Buda. Roxie's, a homey Southern restaurant fit for families, will debut in the growing Austin suburb sometime this spring.

2. 3 major luxury fashion brands move into famous North Austin mall. Austin's hottest shopping district will add the first three standalone stores in the city for Christian Dior, Balenciaga, and Zimmerman.

3. Way more than 15 ways to meet new people in Austin this winter. The new year is here, and maybe that means you want to meet new people. We've rounded up great ways — from classes to volunteering and, yes, apps — to do just that.

Students in a wheel throwing class. Meet fellow creatives in a wheel throwing class at the Doherty Arts Center. Photo from Doherty Arts Center Facebook page

4. Austin faces highest rent prices in Texas for 2025, new report says. A new cost-of-living index underscores what many Austin renters are painfully aware of: Local rents rank among the costliest in the U.S.

5. 14 Austin coffee shops band together for day honoring Daniel Johnston. Hi, How Are You Day is back on January 22, encouraging Austinites to meet up in community spaces and check in on each other's mental health.