Ready for a party, Austin? Make plans to meet Honey Made at Radio East! Bring your friends to experience the diverse sounds of the band and get ready to jam the night away!
Slayer and Austin thrashed supreme this last decade. The SoCal metal pioneers (b. 1981) upended Auditorium Shores twice for Fun Fun Fun Fest, 2011 and 2013, then picked up at the Moody in 2014 and 2016 – all without founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman. For their swan song, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament, and Behemoth form a salutary circle of respect, gratitude, and extremity. – Raoul Hernandez
GKIDS Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2018: Shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from urban development in this Japanese animation.
Join director Rebecca Adler and local film subjects for a screening of the award-winning doc on trans lives and Q&A. Co-presented by PFLAG and Out Youth. And you can read our interview with Adler here.
The elegant carved wood sculptures of Caprice Pierucci. The photographs of delicate cheesecloth drapings by Charles Heppner. Together they make for a compelling dialog of harmony, form, and composition – complicating the walls of this excellent gallery. (See our full review right here.) Recommendation: See the art, then grab some great food at the Soup Peddler location just a few blocks away.
Named for an Ornette Coleman composition, Broken Shadows salutes the father of free jazz, as well as fellow Texan saxophonist-composers Dewey Redman and Julius Hemphill. Bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King ground indie rock jazz trio the Bad Plus, while saxists Tim Berne and Chris Speed drove the former’s outfit Bloodcount. Though trumpetless, the band evokes Eighties Coleman tribute “Old & New Dreams.” – Michael Toland
Every male jazz vocalist must reckon the legacy of Nat “King” Cole, but Bakersfield native Gregory Porter does so gladly. The love demonstrated on the two-time Grammy winner’s fifth album Nat King Cole and Me summons his childhood. Porter’s voice injects depth into even the most cheesy material, so expect an evening as soulful as it is smooth. – Michael Toland:
Guided By Voices remains a paragon of a certain school of indie: loose-unto-anarchic, booze-fueled, yet driven by arena-sized ambition and possessed of exemplary songcraft that makes a virtue of low-rent recording technology. It’s as if someone stripped the Replacements’ bar-band/New York Dolls raunch and left nothing but a broken four-track recorder and a love of the Who and Styx. That endeared GBV to legions. – Tim Stegall
Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.
You know we love this place, right? Now we can't help but love it a little more, because, for every burger sold during June, the Jacoby’s team will donate a burger to the Central Texas Food Bank. Now that's some tasty community spirit!
This summer series features two stages of live music and a game zone for family-friendly fun, plus an adult zone (hint: That's where the booze is at). For more, see "Playback," June 15.
Wednesdays, June 20-Aug. 18 (except July 4). Free before 6:30pm; $5-10 after.
If you're looking for satire and criminal mischief, you'll find it in Smith's new novel about a hilarious case of offshore banking gone awry. The acclaimed author presents his latest tonight, in conversation with Jill Alexander Essbaum.
Take it nice and slow with slow, (vinyl) jams by with the queerest DJ sets this side of the Colorado River: Jenny Hoyston, Double Trouble, Pinche Juan of Bodega Visual, and Si Mon' from Chulita Vinyl Club. Date night beats. Single life eye candy.
Cynda Valle creates luminous portraits using an antiquated technique of oil glazing and tempera paints, building up the surface of the canvas with more than 30 translucent layers, working at it as if she were possessed by the ghost of Hannes Bok. And the results are often astonishingly beautiful.
This show features Austin artists Carl Smith and Donna Starnes, and Starnes will be demonstrating her alcohol ink painting technique at the closing reception.
Do you know someone who is still rockin' it at or after 60? Connected Senior Care Advantage is searching for a dozen inspirational adults ages 60-69 that are "healthy in mind and body and are contributing to Austin in some way." The winners will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges and included in a calendar photo shoot.
Seventy years after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic more than 150 items from the wreck were brought up from the ocean floor and brought together for this fascinating show. Timed tickets are required.
Better balance for better health: This workshop will focus on promoting and maintaining balance, coordination, and posture through a series of simple and repetitive brain and muscle exercises.
Wednesdays & Thursdays through July 19. Free for first-timers; $25 for returning participants.
Jieun Beth, represented here in a solo show curated by the Ney Museum's Oliver Franklin, examines the influence of the body, memory, and transience of life on the understanding of one’s identity.