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Music

New Year’s Eve

From the Original South Austin Jug Band at the Parish to Sly Stone’s Family at the new Zach Scott Theatre, blowouts dot Austin’s New Year’s Eve like a mine field. Everything’s in our club ads and listings, but here’s a fast and loose Top 10, in alphabetical order.

• Scott H. Biram, Frank
• The Gourds, Scottish Rite Theater
• Grand Champeen, Hole in the Wall
• Grupo Fantasma, Beauty Ballroom
• Black Joe Lewis, Emo’s East
• Willie Nelson, Iron & Wine, ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• New Year’s Eve 1984 (local punks as Eighties acts), Hotel Vegas
• Not in the Face, the Couch, ND at 501 Studios
• Seventies Dance Masquerade, with Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat, Amplified Heat, and more, Spider House 29th St. Ballroom
• Jimmie Vaughan, Continental Club Gallery – Raoul Hernandez

Austin Everywhere

 

Film

Food & Film: New Year's Eve Feast: The Apartment

6:30PM, Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth

Community

• New Year's Listings

  Wait, there's nothing going on this New Year's? Pish posh, of course there is; you're just in the wrong place. Check out our champagne riddled listings at austinchronicle.com/nye.

  austinchronicle.com/nye

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• Winter Break Camp

  Are the kids starving for activity in their school-deprived vacation? Let the Nature & Science Center give them a day of science learning, outdoor exploration, and playing. For kids ages 5-11. Dec. 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, Jan. 2, 3, & 4, 8am-5pm. $45 per day.

  Austin Nature & Science Center, 301 Nature Center Dr., 974-3888

  www.austintexas.gov/ansc

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• The Rules of Basketball

  Features an exhibition by artist Paul Pfeiffer and a display of James Naismith's 1891 document the Original Rules of Basketball. You won't want to miss this in-depth and historical look into the sport of basketball. Runs through Jan. 13, 2013.

  The Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr., 512/471-7324

  www.blantonmuseum.org

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• A*FAB and ASA New Year's Eve Party

  The Susan Arbuckle Band, special musical performer Tje Austin, host Rich Segal headline this schmancy evening of doing good and having a blast with friends and fam all at the same time. Ring in the new year with the requisite champagne toast, and welcome 2013 with a yummy midnight breakfast buffet. Proceeds go to embetter all the great work AIDS Services of Austin does all year long. 9pm. $125 and up.

  Hyatt Regency Austin, 208 Barton Springs Rd., 512/477-1234

  www.afabaustin.com

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