Dame Edna had to cancel her entire North American tour due to complications from appendix surgery. Said the Dame in a letter to her loyal Austin fans, "Texas is no country for sick Megastars, so I will see you in November 7-9, 2008 [at the Paramount], possums."...

Monday night, pop culture nerds swarmed Book People to see Chuck Klosterman, author of "Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story." As we are pop culture nerds, we were sitting on the front row. Klosterman is a senior writer for Spin and a contributor for Esquire. "Killing Yourself to Live" is his third book, and it follows Klosterman on a trip across the country in the summer of 2003, visiting several sites......