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Smart people, dumb choices: It's true for both the characters and the filmmakers in this acerbic comedy that stars Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, and Ellen Page.

Austinites get on the same page with the Mayor's Book Club selection, Rockdale rocks some literature and music, novelist Amanda Eyre Ward gets crazy with the cheese (she's a whiz with the books, too), and Dobie Paisano turns 40, gets some work done

On renewal, 'Red Cavalry,' and the joys of creating, despite the hostile storms and vicious seas

Reprints the finest fiction, essays, poetry, and other oddities from the zine's first decade

No class can cultivate what a writer most needs, the gift I call the 'talent of the room'

Do you really need the Bible to be a constitutional lawyer? Sen. Estes thinks so.

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

A moody thriller that tries to thumb its nose at fatalism, First Snow features another great performance from Guy Pearce.

The winners, the judges, and the reasons why

Remembering Robert Solomon

It would be reasonable to imagine that all roads inside lead to Snoresville, but it would also be wrong

This year, four of the court's six seats are contested

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

The official Travis Co. autopsy doesn't tell the whole story

Texas academics and politicians discuss the how to revive progressivism

UT pianist Anton Nel, figuratively descended from a line of teachers beginning with Beethoven

'Consumer Reports' explores capitalistic idiocy; and libraries go begging while boondoggles get funding

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

Bella Italia substitutes for the Caribbean in this clunky but enjoyable version of How Frances Got Her Groove Back, starring Diane Lane.

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The Merchant Ivory team say "I do" to romantic comedy.

"At the heart of these encounters is the burning knowledge that nobody seems ready to recognize," David Garza writes of the largely self-made "literary superdude" who will read at the Yarborough Branch Library on Wednesday, July 30. "Gilb is a legitimate and undeniable talent."

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They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

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Now what kind of mother would take her kids to see a movie about juvenile delinquents serving time in a hard-labor prison camp? A smart one, if she's read Holes, Louis Sachar's wacky, wickedly funny children's book that makes the leap to the big screen this Friday.

"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is not for everyone," Rick Whitten-Klaw writes of Cory Doctorow's debut novel. "If you prefer your literature linear or your ideas staid, then give this one a pass."