The IST List: Week of July 11

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Here's to your livers and wallets making it through this week.

MONDAY

[books] Will Clarke talks crazy with his latest novel, Lord Vishnu's Love Handles @ Bookpeople, 7pm

[film] Starchaser in 3-D! @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7pm, $1 + $1 Glasses Rental

[music] 54 Seconds @ Lucky Lounge

[music] Paris 49 @ Continental Club

TUESDAY

[music] Cafe Tacvba with Grupo Fantasmo @ Stubb's BBQ, Doors at 7 pm

[music] Alkaline Trio with Rise Against and Death by Stereo @ La Zona Rosa, Show at 8pm

[film] AFS screens Alain Tanner's La Salamandre at the Drafthouse, 7pm

[music] Keiser Cartel, Early Tapes, 1986 @ Hole in the Wall

[books] UTTER Reading Series @ Bookpeople, 7pm

[film] An American in Paris and Singing in the Rain @ The Paramount Theatre, 7pm and 9:15pm

WEDNESDAY

[music] Ted Nugent @ La Zona Rosa

[music] Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes with For Those Who Know, Animals of the Bible, Tran Tram @ Emo's

[fitness] 9th Summer Stampede 5k @ Brushy Creek, 7pm

THURSDAY

[music] Ghostland Observatory @ Karma Lounge!

[film] Subversive Christian filmmaking (!) at the HopeArtsFest2005's Ragamuffin Film Festival @ Galaxy Highland 10, 7pm and 9pm

[film] AFS screens Miranda July's Sundance 2005 Jury Prize and Cannes Camera d'Or Prize Winner, Me and You and Everyone We Know @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7pm

[music] Bobby Bare, Jr and Will Johnson @ Continental Club

[music] A Flock of Seagulls @ Elysium (not confirmed)

[film] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with FREE Wonka Bars, prize giveaways, Violet Beauregard Chewing Gum Feast and Chocolate Feast! Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, midnight (all weekend)

[theatre] The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley @ Austin Playhouse at Penn Field

[lecture] UT Professor Ricardo Ainslie presents "Healing Traumatized Communities: Media and Art" at the Harry Ransom Center, 7pm

FRIDAY

[music] Mission of Burma, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves @ Emo's 13th Anniversary!

[music] Jeff Klein CD Release Show with Zykos, Glass Family, Chris Simpson @ The Parish

[books] Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Release Party at Bookpeople! "Fire dancers, a magician, trivia games and contests, a costume competition and much more!" 9pm-midnight, Bookpeople parking lot.

[film] Dr. Strangelove and The Manchurian Candidate @ The Paramount Theatre, 7:15pm and 9:20pm