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THURSDAY [7] music • Shoot For the Stars and Kill Them VS. Cry Blood Apache, and Coma in Algiers at The Parlor food • Austin Farmers Market at Plaza Saltillo, 5th and Comal (4-7pm) film • TerrorStorm with Alex Jones Live at Alamo South (7pm) film • The Wire Season 4 Sneak Preview at Alamo Downtown (7:30pm, $10 food voucher to reserve) film • Raiders of the Lost Ark at Paramount Theatre (7:30pm) film...

Just because you shellacked your mom and younger brother with a well-placed “quixotic” after dinner the other night doesn’t mean you’re a true Scrabble master. (Your mom told us she’d had three glasses of white wine at cocktail hour, anyway, which means the playing field was totally not level.) If you want to prove it for real, and clear your place beside the uber-nerds of Word Wars, all while raising money for a good cause,...

We spent last weekend wandering around the Austin Ballet administration building. No, we weren’t in an ether haze, nor were we trying to tap into our inner-Billy Elliot. We were shopping for books. Cheap books!

MONDAY 24[music] TV On the Radio, Celebration, The Cocker Spaniels at Emo's (info) [film] Save Our Springs Alliance presents "Driving Sprawl," A 20-minute documentary about Advanced Micro Devices planned move to the Barton Springs watershed. at Ruta Maya (8pm) (info) [music] Josh Rouse at Cactus Café ($22, Through Tuesday) (info) [film/drinking] FuseBox Happy Hour/Nerve.com Screening at Blue Theater (6pm, $5, FREE beer and wine) (info) [books] Anthony Horowitz presents Ark Angel : An Alex Rider...

FRIDAY [21] [music] Sons of Hercules and The Bad Rackets at Woody's South (link) [music] Those Peabodys, Grand Champeen, Birds of Avalon (ex-Cherry Valence), Man Eaters of Tsavo at Emo's (link) [music] The Radiators at The Parish (link) [music] Blue October w/ People In Planes and Bril at Stubb's (link) [music] The Shells CD Release at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm) (link) [lecture] The Texas Observer presents David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How...

There is a lot going on this weekend. And throughout the summer, for that matter. You will be exhausted and needing that loveliest of leisure activities to help you unwind. And soon enough it will be 1,000 degrees outside and you will need something to keep you occupied while you float around at the springs or rest in your pecan tree-shaded hammock. We don't know about you, but our favorite thing to do when...

It might be hard right now to think of charity beyond the needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but we have found something we think deserves a mention for its fun, creativity and community impact: Literacy Austin’s 2nd Annual Team Scrabble Tournament. Tonight's event promises to be a fun-filled evening at a most unusual fundraiser to support Literacy Austin’s programs for teaching basic literacy and English as a Second Language instruction for Austin-area...

Today is one of the last days of the Book Fest benefiting Literacy Austin, a non-profit organization that has been giving Austin-area adults the tools to read for over 20 years.