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One of our favorite authors, and national treasure, Sarah Vowell returns to Austin Friday night for a performance at the Paramount Theatre. In addition to authoring several outstanding non-fiction books (Radio On, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Assassination Vacation), the dry-witted Planes Stater-by-birth, New Yorker-by-choice has applied her substantial intellect and rapier wit to work for This American Life, McSweeney’s, Believer Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin and The New York...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05100/485270.stm">The Los Angeles Times (the best place to get news about Austin) reports that a war is a'brewin' just a few miles North of our beautiful city. And it's all over a few little bugs. Fred Purcell, dentist turned land developer, has been prevented from developing his property by the discovery of several species of cave bug that may not exist anywhere else in the world. The bugs are protected by the Endangered Species...