National Poetry Slam returns with a full schedule of stuff happening all over town this week, culminating in Friday and Saturday's final matches at the Paramount HBMG Foundation presents the 2007 ArtSpark Festival Visual Art Showcase at the Off Center Mayor Will Wynn and director Turk Pipkin screen "Nobelity" and "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Paramount Willie Nelson headlines the Austin Freedom Fest 2007, joined by the likes of Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

Back in the late 80's a friend slipped Willie Nelson a copy of a song written by Texas songwriter Ned Sublette in the earl 80s. The song contained lyrics like "What did you think that all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out." Not quite, "Whiskey River," is it? Sublette said he always imagined Willie singing it, and this Valentine's Day he got......