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That excellent Hyde Park bastion of artistry celebrates the wealth of energy and spirit Austin women bring to both sides of the camera, through works by Ave Bonar, Amalia Diaz, Christa Blackwood, Hannah Neal, and Erica Wilkins that illuminate another section of the city's FotoATX festival.

Come see the best market swine, lambs, goats, rabbits, poultry, and steer that area 4-H and FFA clubs have to offer, visit the Youth Fair Country Store, or check out Saturday's Livestock Auction.

Mark our words: You want to see what this talented man can do with oils on big swaths of canvas. Realism? Yes, but magical realism. Understated, quotidian, almost melancholy – except maybe there's been a quiet little rupture between this universe and another slightly different one, hasn't there?

These folks need help making pathways, tending chicken coops, and all sorts of things that make society better. Lend a hand.

Vs. Houston United Rugby Team (the acronym is HURT if you didn't pick that up).

We're saying "yes" to this particular "No," 2018's first show at the acclaimed Dimension space, as it's new work by Dana Younger, Blue Genie co-founder and one of the city's finest figurative sculptors. Suggestion: Face the new year head-on with the man's most recent body of work.

Advancing the Backwoods Barbie’s 72nd birthday, two dozen local Dolly fanatics – including Brennen Leigh, Teri Joyce, and Ted Roddy – sing the country queen’s songs in a venue as down-home as the night’s tributee. Bust out your blond wig and stuffed bra for a look-alike contest extending to Porter Wagoner and Burt Reynolds for gentlemen. The annual event fundraises for the Imagination Library, Parton’s charity, which mails a new book monthly to kids up to 5.

These prints – woodcut, intaglio – and drawings by New Mexico artist Karina Noel Hean explore her responses to the landscape, all containing "a layering of time, memory, and mark," and composing just one vivid part of this year's PrintAustin program.

Bring on the glitter, the glitz, the glam! A gay gala completed by a "Beards With Bling" contest at the stroke of midnight, sponsored by Tapelenders.

A rooftop yoga session with the help of some baby goats walking all over you and fighting with each other as you contemplate your existence in this world. Ages 15 and up.

A surreal drag show with a gaggle of dreamlike performers including Mandy Quinn, Rhonda Jewels, and Zane Zena. 18 and up welcome as are tips.

Indie punk risers Lung Letters prep Queen and ELO tributes.

Essential Cinema: Tonal Shift - The Films of Bong Joon-Ho: This Korean cop film is based on the country's first real serial-killer case in 1986, a case that flummoxed the police along with everyone else.

Hideout Studios inaugurates its new performance space with this immersive, wordless, improvised tale inspired by Shakespearean tragedies. Audiences will bear witness to the ghosts of a family of unfortunate souls and their doomed acquaintances as they play out their misfortunes over and over again. And was our reviewer impressed? Well, this is what he had to say about the show.

Last January 14, Terry Allen staged a show as singular as the Band’s Last Waltz, performing his first two albums, Juarez and the breathtaking Lubbock (on Everything), in their entirety. Back by popular demand, his Panhandle Mystery Band – starring Lloyd Maines, Richard Bowden, Charlie Sexton, and more – this time samples the maestro’s entire catalog. As noted last year, Allen’s “timeless Texan monographs synthesize Southwestern folklore, casting a deep spell on one and all.”

Not sure where to send your wee one for preschool? Head down for this one-stop shopping event that focuses on various educational institutions. Sponsored in part by the Moms Club of Cedar Park, there will also be plenty of activities for the kids, including face painting, a magic show, bingo, and more.

A joint birthday celebration for the darkest of hearts. Expect a macabre celebration with performances by Alexander the Great, Louisianna Purchase, the birthday priestesses, and more. Plus DJ Dren Pasht and "all-star goth cover band" Unhand the Dead.

The 17th annual series of informative gustatory events, which runs from January 13 to February 24 this year, starts off with Blair House executive chef Chris Huffman preparing a five-course gourmet dinner for pairing with wines from this vineyard in Johnson City.

As six voices fill the air, a lone female dancer beats staccato rhythms with her feet. Brilliant, determined, defiant: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 17th-century Mexican nun, scholar, writer, and advocate for women’s education. Bonus: the Texas Early Music Project performs Baroque choral works from the era.