Warm leatherette, anyone? Join the car crash set – that is, the local devotees of J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash and the David Cronenberg film based on the sci-fi author’s unnerving erotic narrative – as they rev up one of Austin’s finest indie bookstores to reveal Auto-Erotics, their newly curated zine of fiction and art, and screen the 1996 James Spader-led shocker in an evening that’s sure to leave a stretch of burning rubber along one of your mind’s darker roads. – Wayne Alan Brenner
Sat., March 2