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Zombie Relay Day, this Saturday the 13th at 1PM

What will you do when the zombies come? Do you have a plan? If not...you're woefully under-prepared for the coming zombie apocalypse; good luck avoiding those grunting, feet-shuffling, brain-hungry masses. In order to properly prepare for the coming of the undead, join us this Saturday, March 13th at 1PM for the first annual Zombie Relays. We'll have some backyard Olympic style events (like three-legged zombie races, jello-brain eating, simulated zombie head smashing) and a zombie make-over station provided by Scare for a Cure.

Chainsaws, Slackers and Spy Kids; inside the Austin Film Industry

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Slacker, Red Headed Stranger, Dazed and Confused, El Mariachi, Office Space...There's a long, long list of classic movies made in Austin by Austinites. Something about this city's culture has convinced a growing number of film-making mavericks to work at home. In her new book Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas, Alison Macor, former film critic for the Chronicle, uses her pain-staking research and interviews with Richard Linklater, Tobe Hooper, Robert Rodriguez (and many others) to retrace Austin's cinematic history and remember the people that made it happen.

Dave Eggers: Homework is the key

Supply and demand is an important concept for any business, and it is especially important to independent businesses. Local, smaller scale companies must be different from their mega size competition while still keeping in touch with larger trends. It’s hard, but almost forty years into this bookstore experiment, BookPeople is doing well. Thus far we’ve supplied what Austin has demanded from us, but we haven’t done it alone. We’ve received a lot of help, and no individual in the past ten years has been better for independent bookstores than Dave Eggers.

Craig McDonald, Print the Legend, on Feb. 21

Craig McDonald is one of those writers like Megan Abbott and Eddie Mueller, who use their knowledge of crime fiction and its history to create great books of their own. He has two published sets of interviews, Art In The Blood and Rogue Males, with the likes of Ellroy, Crumley, and Leonard, and funneled his accumulated study into series character Hector “Lasso” Lassiter; a gun toting, WW1 vet, lost generation member, and pulp crime writer from Texas.