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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 16-19Palmer Events Center -
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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Dry Land
Ruby Rae Spiegel's intense drama, set almost entirely in the girls' locker room of a Florida high school, explores "the complexities of female friendship, abortion, adolescents in crisis, and the terrifying process of becoming yourself." Directed by Marian Kansas for Permanent Record. Note: Nudity and graphic content. And here's what our reviewer thought of the show.Through Dec. 2. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $12-25.Mastrogeorge Theatre, 130 Pedernales Ste. 318-B. -
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House of Torment
Named the No. 1 haunted house in America by Hauntworld Magazine (a trusted publication in haunting circles). HoT celebrates their 15th year of scaring the bejesus out of you with a dark carnival theme, fire shows, “Escape the Room” games, and more gore. Friday night is Blackout night. Do it in the dark!Fri.-Sat., Nov. 10-11, 7-11pm. $20-33. -
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Lora Reynolds gallery: Kay Rosen + Hubbard/Birchler
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.Through Nov. 11 -
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Meredith Lee and Monica Shaw: Shrouded and The Rainwater Secret
Two names, two books, three writers. Mysteries! Crimes! Meet them here.Fri., Nov. 10, 7pm -
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Sound on Sound presents Grizzly Bear, Molly Burch
Beginning as singer Ed Droste’s solo project, Grizzly Bear grew into a critically acclaimed art-rock act with 2006’s Yellow House, the album featuring all four current members. 2009’s Veckatimest, containing iconic singles “While You Wait for the Others” and “Two Weeks,” catapulted the Brooklynites to indie heights. August’s Painted Ruins take the band back to the future on folk and Steely Dan soul.Fri., Nov. 10, 9:10pm -
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Texas Stars
At press time the Stars are on a three-game road losing streak. Some home cooking might help with that.Vs. San Antonio: Wed., Nov. 15, 7:30pm.. $13-58. -
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UT Men's Basketball
Time to get a look at Mo Bamba and the other new recruits as the new season begins.Vs. Northwestern State: Fri., Nov. 10, 7pm. Vs. New Hampshire: Tue., Nov. 14, 7pm.. $3-35. -
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2017 Austin International Drag Festival
Austin International Drag Fest returns for four days of nonstop drag! Spend the daylight hours at Drag Village complete with a drag market, glamour lounge, showcases, a market, workshops, podcasts, and more. Head to Red River when night falls for showcases of the world's greatest drag stars. All ages welcome, night shows are 18 and up. (See the website for schedule)Thu.-Sun., Nov. 9-12. $0-99.Various locations -
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Austin Design Week
Design? You know: Interior, exterior. The place, perhaps even abstractly, where the utilitarian and/or promotional is infused with beauty, with whatever it takes to please or thrill the eye and mind. Functional art, in other words: More often redolent of technical skill than what's created when some schmuck with too much free time spews their feelings onto a canvas or whatever. Design, you savvy? The sort of visual and physical arrangements that Philippe Starck and Paula Scher and Zaha Hadid and Norman Bel Geddes and Jennymarie Jemison and Karim Rashid, say, have brought the world? Yes, and here's an entire week full of opportunities to explore the best of design in the ATX. [Note: The explorations include Pentagram, so you know it's legit.] See website for details.Through Nov. 10 -
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Austin Jewish Film Festival
The 15th annual festival offers a selection of international films, many of which will screen with the directors in attendance. For a complete schedule and film descriptions, see www.austinjff.org.Sat., Nov. 5 -
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Christmas at the Caswell House
It's never too early to transform this historic Victorian home in an X-mas extravaganza filled with ornaments, décor, jewelry, clothing, gourmet food items, and other giftable items. Go online for a complete schedule of daily events.Nov. 3-11. $15-35, depending on the event. -
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Co-Lab Projects: Good Mourning Tis of Thee
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."Through Nov. 25721 Congress. -
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POP Austin International Art Show
Now witness this year's vibrant iteration of the much-gabbed-about extravaganza, featuring artists from around the world who've come together to create four days of dynamic programming, eye candy, and brain fodder, right here in the ATX. Note: The price of admission varies; but, if you can afford it, those fancy VIP tickets are a worthwhile option. Addendum: Terri Thomas is part of this whole shebang, and that alone is reason enough to attend and celebrate. See website for details.Nov. 9-12. Thu., 6pm-12mid; Fri.-Sun., 10am-6pm. $20-150. -
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Sound on Sound presents Cannibal Corpse, Power Trip, Gatecreeper, Blanck Mass
“I find our songs deadly serious, so maybe that’s why there’s death-related topics,” posits Riley Gale, roaring frontman for Dallas thrash unit Power Trip. For all the archaic methods of capital punishment – beheadings, crucifixions, and firing squads – that spill blood on the quintet’s sophomore LP Nightmare Logic, another tortured time also rules: 2017.: “I studied some postmodern philosophy, which has a lot to do with deconstructing history and applying a broad political notion to it,” explains Gale, pointing to single “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe),” which won “Metal Song of the Year” honors at the 2017 Loudwire Music Awards. “Before the guillotine, they still had the axeman. If you were a criminal, a priest would come to you before you were executed and ask, ‘Do you want to repent?’ If you turned to God at your final hour, they’d give you a bag of silver or nickel and you were supposed to tip the executioner so he cuts your head off in one swing and it’s not painful.: “I took that idea and sort of applied it to our current political climate,” continues the screamer, whose band includes Austin extreme music linchpin Chris Ulsh (Mammoth Grinder, Impalers, Hatred Surge, Iron Age) on drums and eschews the pitfalls of crossover thrash by leaning heavily on raw hardcore punk influences. “The way I see a lot of capitalists in corporate America, they’d gladly pay for the privilege of a comfortable and numb way to die, whether it’s with prescription drugs or getting fat, watching TV, and eating junk food. I see it all as the same thing: We’re paying off the executioner.”Fri., Nov. 10, 8pm -
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Sound on Sound presents Citizen, Hotelier, Sorority Noise
Emo kids never say die. So proves the genre’s revival these last five years. Rust Belt born Citizen thrives on Mat Kerekes’ angsty croon and self-effacing lyricism about small town ennui that stretches over clashing, grungy rock. Central Massachusetts trio the Hotelier and Connecticut fourpiece Sorority Noise both rely on the same sonic and emotional punches. Austin/Brooklyn quartet Alex Napping opens with cerebral dream-pop.Fri., Nov. 10, 6:30pm -
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Sound on Sound presents Lindstrom, Juan Maclean (DJ set), Cap'n Tits
Synthesizers rule Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. Pioneer of his country’s cosmic space sound, the Norwegian DJ/producer’s expansive, dreamy incarnation of electronic music fuses influences from Italian and nü disco. Behind a decade of hits, Lindstrom, 44, touts last month’s fourth studio album, It’s Alright Between Us as It Is. Also on board is the Juan MacLean, electro dance-punk from the former Six Finger Satellite guitarist and LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang.Fri., Nov. 10, 9pm -
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Sound on Sound presents Washed Out, Capyac
Slushy beats and ambient waves lull you into chillwave that bops. Under the moniker Washed Out, Ernest Greene’s new album Mister Mellow creeps the same noisy dance-pop but scraps the bedroom-fi for a retro club sonics. Composer of the Portlandia theme, Greene now enters a new era as “Burn Out Blues” and “Zonked” level up dizzy samples prior to “Instant Calm” and “Million Miles Away” floating you back down to Earth. Local balloonwave pioneers Capyac open.Fri., Nov. 10 -
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Wafflefest! Oh My God, It's Wafflefest!
Once a year, the Hideout Theatre figures it's not enough to just present some terrific improv comedy at their venue on Congress in the heart of Downtown, they've also got to spend one weekend offering their audiences all the fresh hot waffles you can eat – also, syrup and whipped cream and chocolate sauce and other such toppings – all that food is included free during an expanded roster of entertainment, and it's just what you need after a day of traipsing around the EAST. And if you guessed that this weekend is the weekend for 2017, you're correct, you lucky urbanite, you! Grab a seat for some top-notch extemporaneous shenanigans of all flavors – Available Cupholders, Parallelogramophonograph, Known Wizards, Migas, Girls Girls Girls: Improvised Musicals, Movie Riot, The Amazon and the Milksop, Fuck This Week, Lover Boy, and many more – more than 25 troupes from all the improv camps in town, performing while you munch on plate after plate of golden waffley goodness at this 16th annual comedy spectacle.Nov. 9-11. Thu.-Sat., 7:30-10pm. $8-15 per bloc of shows.
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A Vibrant Heritage: Mexican Artisan Expo
A unique arts festival that features a wide range of disciplines from painting to cooking, music and dance, jewelry to photography.Fri.-Sun., Nov. 10-12. Free.McAllen -
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All the Good People
"A troubled young woman joins a group of do-gooders known as The Fellowship and discovers an unsavory secret that she’s unwilling (and unable) to leave behind" in this new drama written and directed by Justin M. West for Mercurial Theatre.Through Nov. 19. Fri.-Sun., 8pm. $16.50 and up. -
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Anon(ymous)
Naomi Iizuka’s play about a refugee and his travels across the American landscape, bringing him face-to-face with an array of strange and glorious characters, is directed by Michelle Polgar for St. Edward's Theatre Department. This fiercely relevant adaptation of Homer's Odyssey features guest performers Patrick Gathron, Carla Nickerson, and Josean Rodriguez among a fine St. Ed's cast. And here's what our reviewer thought of the show.Through Nov. 19. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $18-25. -
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Art Alliance Austin: ARTBASH
Art Alliance Austin has transformed Native Hostel into a unique art destination, featuring new site-specific works from eight local artists and exclusive performances exploring the idea of intersection through immersion and mobility. Good stuff indeed, albeit not quite as swanky as the VIP option mentioned elsewhere in these listings.Fri., Nov. 10, 9pm. $45. -
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Art.Science.Gallery.: TX*SCI
That excellent gallery in Canopy presents a group exhibit featuring work by Texas artists who are inspired by any of the natural sciences as a majority of their current artistic practice. Which, lucky for the viewer, means that the talents represented include Laurie Frick, Jules Buck Jones, Calder Kamin, Cathy Savage, David Martínez, and more. Quant suff! Recommended!Through Nov. 26
