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**Updated**: 'Wettest County' Scribe Comes to Town

Matt Bondurant turned his family’s real-life bootlegger history into the hyperviolent 2008 novel The Wettest County in the World, which has itself been turned into the new film Lawless, starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf. Bondurant and Willie Nelson will be at a special rescheduled sneak on Aug. 25.

4:42PM Thu. Aug. 16, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Graham Franciose: Fables 2

You don't need to know about Graham Franciose in the context of the Austin Art Garage.

11:57AM Thu. Aug. 16, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

All the Literature That's Fit to Draw & Paint?

I'm not gonna do it.

12:31PM Tue. Aug. 14, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

AFS Cinema

Ramy Youssef: Love Beam 7000 at Paramount Theatre

Torch Wildfire Reading Series: Kendra Allen at BookWoman

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Joe Kubert, RIP

You can create a very long list of comics artists whose work is visually arresting, dramatic, or just plain gorgeous. But when you list the truly great storytellers of the medium, the numbers shrinks considerably. Among the latter, you'd have to include Joe Kubert, who died Sunday at the age of 85.

1:30PM Mon. Aug. 13, 2012, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

It's Like a Greatest Hits Collection at Wally Workman Gallery

But the simile kind of falls apart.

12:34PM Mon. Aug. 13, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Damselflies on the Ceiling of Your Mind

Who is John Abbott?

10:14AM Mon. Aug. 13, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

'The Intergalactic Nemesis' in Four Colors

The Intergalactic Nemesis has been called the world's first live action graphic novel. But what happens when you take out the live action, and just leave the graphic novel?

10:45PM Sat. Aug. 11, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Remembering David Rakoff

David Rakoff, a humorist and frequent This American Life contributor whose personal essays ran the gamut from blackly comic observations on life to rapturous accounts of arts & crafts projects, has died. He was 47.

11:46AM Fri. Aug. 10, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Stumbling Into a New Architecture of Music

In any city with a live music scene, it's always retreaded: The line about how it's impossible to turn around without tripping over a bass player.

1:05PM Wed. Aug. 8, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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