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for Thu., May 31
  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!
    May 16-19  
    Palmer Events Center
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  • Qmmunity

    Nightlife & Parties

    Fat Bottom Queer Mixer

    Party the night away with the babes of Fat Bottom Cabaret and DJ Chorizo Funk. Shop some shops, dance 'til ya drop, and help FBC raise some cold hard cash.
    Thu., May 31, 7-11pm  
  • Arts

    Theatre

    Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse Wow!

    This bright spectacle from Glass Half Full Theatre bangs into existence with Indigo Rael as her alter ego Polly Mermaid, princess of the Pacific Garbage Patch, and Katy Taylor as Deborah Déguderè, the particle physicist who builds a tunnel through space and time. The show – a hero's journey with a feminine twist, a parable for the rights of all creatures big and small, a campy romp through particle theory – is replete with not-for-kiddies puppetry and an original score by Mother Falcon. Intrigued? Here's our full review of the show.
    Through June 9. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35.  
  • Community

    Sports

    Round Rock Express

    Vs. Nashville: Wed.-Sat., May 30-June 2, 7:05pm; Sun., June 3, 1:05pm.
    $7-16.  
  • Arts

    Theatre

    Lucky Stiff

    Here's that musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, in which an unassuming English shoe salesman inherits $6 million from an American uncle. But there's a catch: He has to take a vacation to Monte Carlo with his uncle’s embalmed body and convince folks that the man’s still alive. Michael McKelvey directs, and the cast is scary good.
    Through June 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $17-40.  
  • Music

    Matisyahu, Stephen Marley

    Reggae spectrum.
    Thu., May 31, 6pm  
  • Community

    Civic Events

    Musician Compensation Sector Summit

    The Economic Development Department’s Music & Entertainment Division hosts a public summit promoting industry resource awareness and disseminating information on they city's public programs for musicians.
    Thu., May 31, 2-4pm. Free.  
  • Qmmunity

    Arts & Culture

    Rebecca Havemeyer in Winkie

    Rebecca's very first one-woman show is coming to a stage near you for a work-in-progress peek. A journey through her natural habitat of "age old parties, fantastical yarns, and a most peculiar pigeon named Winkie." Written by Paul Soileau and Kerri Atwood (also directing), and sponsored by the Kind Clinic. See this week's Arts feature for a more in depth look at the man behind the queen.
    Wed.-Thu., May 30-31, 8pm; Fri., June 1, 7 & 10pm.. $5-30 sliding scale.  
  • Music

    Richard Buckner

    Richard Buckner broils. Since recording gorgeously sparse and lyrically wrenching 1994 debut Bloomed in Lubbock with Lloyd Maines, the Bay Area troubadour has ranged musically and geographically. Constant through impressionistic distortion and evocative, acoustic songwriting is his somber, aching voice lowly intoning plaintive truths. Although 2013’s Surrounded marked his last studio output, Merge continues to reissue his stunning catalog.
    Thu., May 31, 8pm  
  • Arts

    Classical Music

    River City Pops: Guilty Pleasures

    "Songs you hate to love; songs you love to hate," is it? Oh, totally: From ABBA to boy bands, from Eighties glory to ridiculously sublime love songs, the exuberant Pops choir, backed by a live band, pays homage to the songs we can’t believe we loved and the ones that we still can’t get out of our heads.
    May 31-June 3. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 4 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $22 and up.  
  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Stop Making Sense (1984)

    Movie Party: With this film, Demme and the Talking Heads conceived and delivered one of the very best rock & roll films ever made. This is the one which features David Byrne in the big white suit and such keepers as "Psycho Killer," "Burnin' Down the House," and "Take Me to the River" – to name but a meager few.
    Thu., May 31, 9:45pm  
  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Stormy Weather (1943)

    Summer Classic Film Series: Considered groundbreaking at the time for featuring African-American performers, this musical is based on the life of its star, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
    Thu., May 31, 7pm  
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