THURSDAY [21] books • Chuck Klosterman presents Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas at BookPeople (7pm) ® books • David Oshinsky presents Polio: An American Story at Barnes & Noble, 701 Capital of TX Hwy (7pm) ® books • Ayun Halliday presents Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste at BookWoman (7pm) music • French Kicks, The Little Ones, The Lemurs at Emo's ® music • The Yellow Umbrella... more ›

Don't have cable so you can't watch the Ian McShane define cool on the new Deadwood tonight? That's ok, Austinist has a Tivo, so you can come over and watch later on this week. We like company. Instead, we recommend you head on down to the Spider House around 8:30 tonight to catch the Austin Premiere of filmmaker and native Texan Patrick Phillips' new documentary The Cost of War, an outline of the conditions, emotional... more ›