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Purchase a pumpkin and then hang out for the storytelling, coloring area, food trucks, peddling tractor course, and more.

Remember when F1 smashed into Austin in 2012, and all the maneuvering to put the U.S. Grand Prix at the end of the season, away from the hottest months? Pleasant temps and blue skies is hardly the bleak depths of winter, but it’s ideal conditions for possibly the most challenging race since the sport returned to American shores. It’s not a Grand Prix without music, and this time COTA is going with a one-two punch of Justin Timberlake and Stevie Wonder. So if fast cars or sexy backs are your thing, this weekend has got you covered.

Kay Rosen makes paintings, drawings, videos, prints, and collages of words. Small, monumental, whatever the scale, her compositions in Jumbo Mumbo can feature just a single word in unexpected ways. Video artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's Night Shift comprises four one-sided conversations between Sam (an older police officer) and four rookie cops.

Something for Nothing Theater stages Shakespeare's comedy classic under starlight in Ramsey Park, with directors Allison Dillon and Rosalind Faires presenting a version in which Benedick and Beatrice are both played as women. Prithee bring a blanket or chair, pack a picnic, and invite some friends along to this out-of-doors romance.

The “world’s first Iranian feminist vampire spaghetti Western” is a spooky doozy.

The International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame based in Austin (who knew?) invites the whole family to see the worlds best tossers of sharpened metal go face to face. Not literally; that would be dangerous.

The excellent company is set to wow the crowds at this three-day fest, along with performances by Ellen Bartel, Stacy Lizette & Tekatek, D'Lonte Lawson, Anuradha Naimpally, and Cameron Oefinger. Bonus: Film by Yelena Laningham.

Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Sean Gaulager have curated up a conceptual group show that addresses grief, loss, death, architecture, and urban development, wrangling more than 65 artists and performers from Texas, New York, Detroit, and Seattle. "The show is especially relevant as the building is slated for subsequent demolition to make room for a planned development on the site."

Gem and mineral show featuring more than 30 vendors, demos, a silent auction, prizes, and more. This year’s theme is geodes.

Joe Casey thrives on unease. The Protomartyr frontman delivers dystopian narratives with an air of cool as post-punk rages beneath him. That disinterested drawl/bark often sounds at odds with the tense unease of the instrumentation, like he’s already given up entirely. The Detroit quartet’s raging fourth album, Relatives in Descent, dropped two weeks ago and wades further into Protomartyr’s angular, industrial wasteland.

Buster Keaton's Golden Era: Keaton plays an accident-prone college student trying to prove his manhood to his dad. The climax has some of Keaton's best stuntwork – including the famous image of the house collapsing down around him.

The Stars are off to a solid 3-1 start as they host the San Antonio Rampage:

The life cycle of a monarch butterfly and its long-distance migration from Canada to Central Mexico is captured in this 3-D nature documentary that also focuses on the decades of fieldwork conducted by Canadian scientist Fred Urquhart.

In which the Instagram-famous writer presents his book of new and beloved poems.