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In the next presidential election, only the Democrats can be counted on to preserve the Bill of Rights

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

There's something infinitely comforting in knowing, finally, that British fantasist Terry Pratchett is just as big a geek in person as he is on the printed page. More so, actually: Monday night's booksigning at BookPeople attracted a floodtide of both hard-core sci-fi and fantasy fans.

The pint-sized media consumer in the family in need of some ungluing from the TV would do well to flip through this new picture book from satirist Brian Gage.

Austin from A to Z

The Austin Shakespeare Festival's timely production of Julius Caesar, deftly directed by Paul Norton, features an effective, almost all-female ensemble whose depiction of the play's bold, rule-breaking politicians and opportunity-grabbing power brokers who send their enemies into disarray summons up parallels to the state of American politics.

The story of a young blind woman who undergoes a corneal transplant and begins to see visions of the dead, The Eye may sound familiar to fans of The Sixth Sense, but the Pangs' film is a far more creepy affair than M. Night Shyamalan's crowd-pleaser.

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

Texas Platter

If you've got the money, you've got a great time in store.

Kathy Acker's "work cut a swath of influence through literary and pop culture so wide that she might have entered the strange, paradoxical state to which all cultural goliaths are prey: waning visibility by virtue of social penetration," writes Cindy Widner. "Two new publications could help keep that from happening."

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Ale, ale, ale, ale! The World Cup starts in two weeks! Plus a look at the basketball and hockey playoffs so far.

Our readers talk back.

Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.

Coffeetable book Great Women of Film touches upon the difficulties women face in Hollywood, but it's actually an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to work in film.

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reports from the 17th Annual Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival.

Permanent changes at Star Canyon and an update on the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

'The Oxford American' Southern Movie Issue

Conference Panel

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood has had correspondence from several of the most tasteful men in Austin's food scene in the past week and it's all good news.

Giving the gift of food this Christmas

Box Sets