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  • Dripping Springs Rodeo

    Come to the 14th Annual Dripping Springs Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend! This year they will be bringing all the rodeo style fun on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Bring your family and friends for a weekend of mutton bustin', bull riding, vendor shopping, great food, and all things rodeo!
    May 23-25  
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    Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center
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  • Community

    Sports

    Lone Star Le Mans

    The FIA World Endurance Championship returns to COTA for the first time since 2020. This round, the lone stateside affair in 2024, runs for six hours on Sunday after qualifying takes place on Saturday. WEC races feature two distinct classes of cars, with sports prototypes making up the high-octane Hypercar class and souped-up vehicles closer resembling what you’d see on the road contesting LMGT3. Toyota has won the past three Hypercar manufacturers’ championships, but Porsche is slightly ahead in the current standings with only three rounds remaining. Three-day, general admission tickets are just $69. – Derek Udensi
    Aug. 30-Sept. 1
    Circuit of the Americas

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      Arts & Culture

      The Front Festival

      Helmed by women and queer creative collective Future Front, this Labor Day weekend festival celebrates the end-of-summer holiday with this Austinite’s favorite activities: appreciating local music, film, and art, and doing a lot of swimming. The main event launches Friday, when the Contemporary Austin-Laguna Gloria hosts over a dozen independent Texan filmmakers for a movie showcase; on Saturday, Cheer Up Charlies welcomes musical acts Pam Reyes, Never, promqueen, p1nkstar, and more. Thursday and Sunday bookend the event with, respectively, night and day parties at the LINE Hotel pool, featuring DJ sets and pop-up art exhibits to boot. – Carys Anderson
      Aug. 29-Sept. 1
      Various locations

    • Community

      Events

      Bat Babes of Austin Market

      If you’re a bit of a goth babe with an appreciation for weird and wild stuff, upcycled and recycled art and wearables, and of course, the bodacious bat, come on down to Buzz Mill for the Bat Babes market’s birthday party for August babies. Learn about bats and find unique handmade jewelry from Clown Couture, “cuddly toys for feral children” by Art From Hell, potions from Natural Magick Co-op, and tons more. Cool 24/7 hang zone Buzz Mill offers solid food trailer options as well as local beers, coffee drinks, and creative infused libations to keep you fueled up for shopping, 6-10pm. – Kat McNevins
      Fri., Aug. 30
      Buzz Mill

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      Nightlife & Parties

      End of Summer Rave

      DJ Boyfriend brings this scorching season to its fitting close with a Middle School Dance Party rave featuring sets by DJs Lavender Thug, Ruby Knight, and the host himself. Kiss Brat/Challengers/”Pink Pony Club” summer goodbye!
      Fri., Aug. 30
      Cheer Up Charlies

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      Events

      Fae Ball Austin

      There’s increasingly popular all the time fairy smut, and then there’s fairy strutting your stuff at a Fae Ball. For fellow fans of Sarah J. Maas’ massive Maasiverse and the like, this ball offers a taste of your bookish daydreams in the waking world. Attendees are to dress in their high fantasy best, and partake in High Tea and supper alongside romantasy authors including Amber V. Nicole (The Book of Azrael), Tracy Wolff (Crave), and Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant to the Villain). Over the weekend, there will be discussion of romance tropes, karaoke, fantasy trivia, and many hours of dancing. – Maggie Quinlan
      Aug. 30-Sept. 1
      Hilton Hotel Downtown

    • Music

      JPEGMAFIA, Jane Remover

      One of Brooklyn’s most fascinating purveyors of hip-hop makes his way to Austin to scare the hoes and cause a scene. Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, aka JPEGMafia, found the sweet spot between lyricism, comedy, shocking and jarring imagery, and good-old-fashioned flow. His work is something you’re gonna talk about to everyone the next day. It’s fitting for the genre-shattering lyricist to tour in support of the behemoth ILDMLFY, released at the top of August. More than just obvious promotion, the tour itself is apropos to who JPEGMafia is: an artist who lays his life down for every performance. You won’t want to miss a single sweaty, subversive moment. – Cy White
      Fri., Aug. 30, 8pm  
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      Stubb's

    • Music

      Locuust aka YoursTruuly (album release), CENSORED Dialogue, Kardinal Bloo, Chucky Blk, Khxnid!

      Not since Cakes da Killa (and probably more notably Tyler, the Creator) has an MC emerged from the sorely underrepresented queer and trans communities who can do damage on a beat. Trans lesbian rapper and producer Locuust (aka YoursTruuly) debuts what she calls a “coming-of-age project” – Apparent Incoherence. Locuust employs a flow that has shades of Kendrick, echoes of Queen Latifah, and a production style that shares oxygen with the likes of J Dilla and 9th Wonder to craft a thoughtful and honest exploration of gender dysphoria, finding love as a trans woman of color, and self-love. She’s joined by most of the album’s collaborators: Chucky Blk, CENSORED dialogue, Kardinal Bloo, and Khxnid. – Cy White
      Fri., Aug. 30, 9pm. $10 cover (21+).
      Hole in the Wall

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Quest for Camelot (1998)

      One of the many non-Disney animated features that gained traction in the Aughts due to it being, well, not Disney. Quest for Camelot takes Arthurian legend and certainly does Something to it. Here you won’t find the traditional young Arthur finding his way or Merlin casting spells. Instead, the viewpoint swings to the daughter of a round table knight, who vows to take his place once her pops dies in battle. Usual animated movie shenanigans ensue, including throwing big-name actors into the voice cast like Gary Oldman playing bad guy Lord Ruber, Eric Idle and Don Rickles as an occasionally funny two-headed dragon, and Cary Elwes in the love interest role. Special mention to the singing voice cast, which boasts Celine Dion and Journey’s Steve Perry. – James Scott
      Aug. 30 & Sept. 2
      Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

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      Nightlife & Parties

      Thee Gay Agenda: Best in Show

      Bark, bark; meow, meow; honk, honk: These are the sounds you can expect from the newest Thee Gay Agenda variety show. Running for two nights only – with night No. 1 being a masks-on performance – witness the animal-style antics of your favorite queer performers. Beau Elliot, Mase Kerwick, Kelsey Oliver, Sinful Purchase, Khattie Q, and Irielle Wesley bring their furry & fabulous selves, while Emmet Hunker MCs and Schi the God spins as the night’s DJ. Grab a ticket and see who’ll be crowned Best in Show! – James Scott
      Aug. 29-30
      Crashbox
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