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  • Kadampa Meditation Center Austin

    This evening talk offers a special visit with renowned Buddhist teacher and NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director Gen-la Kelsang Jampa. Gen-la will share Buddhist advice on developing our love as a way to protect our self from suffering and learn to become truly happy. Our life then becomes immensely meaningful in benefiting others with our mind of unconditional love.
    Fri. May 3, 7pm-8:30pm  
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    Vuka North

  • 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  
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    Palmer Events Center
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  • Community

    Halloween and Dia de los Muertos

    Bethany Lutheran Pumpkin Patch

    Purchase a pumpkin and then hang out for the storytelling, coloring area, food trucks, peddling tractor course, and more.
    Through Tue., Oct. 31. Free.
    Bethany Lutheran Church

  • Food

    Food Events

    Feeding the 5000

    Food that would have otherwise gone to the landfill will be used to make a communal feast for 5000 people. The event is designed to increase awareness of food waste: 40% of food produced is wasted and 1 in 6 people in the United States are food insecure.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 11am-2pm  
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    Texas State Capital, South Lawn

  • Music

    King Crimson

    “We have the burden of being called a prog band,” says King Crimson bassist/Chapman Stick player Tony Levin. “When I hear ‘prog rock,’ it means a band playing music like the late Sixties and early Seventies, when prog rock came to be. That’s fine, but King Crimson happens to be at least trying to progress ever since.”: The British collective, playing its first Austin gig since 1995 and only its second since 1981, could’ve stuck with variations on its pioneering 1969 debut In the Court of the Crimson King, but has refused to repeat itself throughout its near-50-year career. Led as ever by guitarist/conceptualizer Robert Fripp, this unusually configured incarnation of Crimson includes Levin, saxophonist Mel Collins, singer/guitarist Jakko Jakszyk, keyboardist Bill Rieflin, and a total of three drummers: Gavin Harrison, Jeremy Stacey, and Austin-based Pat Mastelotto.: “I expected to be in the background just thumping along on the downbeat,” jokes Levin about the percussion-heavy format. “But the drummers fashioned so many interesting approaches while never playing the same thing. It’s not as chaotic as you would think.”: For the virtuoso bassist, whose résumé includes sessions with David Bowie, Yes, and John Lennon, that kind of provocation is the reason he’s stayed with the band for so long.: “Crimson has, since 1980-’81, been my most challenging musical experience,” Levin says with obvious pride. “I have fun in it, but more importantly, it’s the time for me to improve my playing. It’s an interesting environment, where each player is pushing himself to not do what he did before, to be musically valid and to come up with some new ‘progressive music.’: “I won’t say that we always succeed, but that’s where we’re aiming. As you can tell by my talking about it, it’s a wonderful experience for me.”: Full Q&A at austinchronicle.com/daily/music.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 8pm  
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    Bass Concert Hall

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    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
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Much Ado About Nothing

    Something for Nothing Theater stages Shakespeare's comedy classic under starlight in Ramsey Park, with directors Allison Dillon and Rosalind Faires presenting a version in which Benedick and Beatrice are both played as women. Prithee bring a blanket or chair, pack a picnic, and invite some friends along to this out-of-doors romance.
    Through Nov. 5. Thu.-Sun., 7:30pm. Free – gratis – yours for a smile.  
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    Ramsey Park

  • Food

    Food Events

    7th Annual Wine & Swine

    Two dozen top Central Texas chefs will prepare New Orleans-inspired pork dishes. Enjoy live music, premium wine, beer and spirit tastings. The festive pork-centric event will raise funds for Austin Food & Wine Alliance culinary grants.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 1-4pm  
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    Camp Mabry

  • Arts

    Classical Music

    ACMC: A Moveable Feast

    Here's the inaugural event of the Austin Chamber Music Center's new concert series, presenting a collaboration with Gallery Shoal Creek and Gusto Italian Kitchen + Wine Bar, featuring that invoke quartet of acclaimed stringfellows getting all fiddle delicious among the night's hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and paintings by Tony Saladino. Bonus: DJ set by GirlFriend ATX.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 6:30pm. $25.  
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    Gallery Shoal Creek

  • Music

    Blackalicious, Lyrics Born

    Blackalicious remains the best of hip-hop’s two worlds. Gift of Gab’s dizzying wordplay and Chief Xcel’s hard-hitting romps coalesce into a singular Afrocentric message on Nia (1999), Blazing Arrow (2002), and The Craft (2005), all replete with uplifting credos from the Sacramento duo. Japan’s Lyrics Born adds party vibes with hits “I Like It, I Love It” and “Callin’ Out.”
    Thu., Oct. 19, 7pm  
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    Empire Control Room & Garage

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Davis Gallery: The Afterlife of Artifacts

    We could probably just mention that this exhibition (featuring a quintet of assemblage artists) contains work by Steve Brudniak and watch the smarter crowds gather for some deep gawking … but we wouldn't want to diss the talented likes of Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Larry Seaman, and Steve Wiman – whose complex three-dimensional creations are also well worthy of your time.
    Through Nov. 25
    Davis Gallery

  • Qmmunity

    Community

    Die Felicia Presents Universal Monsters

    The queens of scream are celebrating the most infamous ghouls: Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature From the Black Lagoon (not Brooke Shields), and more. Papi Churro and Estee Slaughter guest star. Plus, one epic costume contests.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 10pm. $6.  
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    Elysium

  • Music

    Joan Osborne

    Joan Osborne knows the curse of a megahit. Yet since the three-times platinum turn of her 1995 debut LP Relish, the Kentucky native has matured into a sophisticated songwriter and stylist, most notably on 2007’s soulful blues and R&B covers collection Breakfast in Bed, 2012’s Grammy-nominated Bring It on Home, and last month’s Songs of Bob Dylan.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 8pm  
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    One World Theatre

  • Music

    KUTX presents JD McPherson & Nikki Lane

    After two albums of Fifties R&B revivalism, Oklahoma roots thug JD McPherson just dropped Undivided Heart & Soul. He’s still living in the warm embrace of Link Wray and Little Richard, but new limbs are waving, too. Especially tasty is noir character study “Style (Is a Losing Game).” Neo-outlaw Nikki Lane, whose sound resembles Waylon Jennings trapped in Bobbie Gentry’s body, opens.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 7:30pm
    The Scoot Inn

  • Arts

    Classical Music

    LOLA at 4th Tap: A Pocketful of Purcell

    Here's the start of the second season of theat Local Artists Local Opera series at 4th Tap Brewing, which is, you'll be pleased to note, the perfect combo of golden throats (theirs) and wetted whistles (yours). Counter tenor Sean Lee, mezzo soprano Lisa Alexander, pianist David Utterback, cellist Nora Karakousoglou, and recorder players Victor Eijkahout and Susan Richter will perform John Blow's "Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell." And early-music hits by that same Purcell and his contemporaries.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 8pm. $10.  
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    4th Tap Brewing Co-op - Closed

  • Music

    Macklemore

    Enough with the Vanilla Ice jokes.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 7pm  
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    Emo's

  • Music

    Robert Cray Band

    Bay Area blues legacy.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 8pm  
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    Paramount Theatre

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Stephen L. Clark Gallery: Libros

    This new Lance Letscher exhibition celebrates the opening of Austin's new Central Library.
    Through Nov. 11
    Stephen L. Clark Gallery

  • Music

    Subdudes

    NOLA’s Grateful Dead.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 6:30pm  
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    3ten Austin City Limits Live

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    A man comes back from the dead in Haiti (of all places!). Consequences arise.
    Thu., Oct. 19, 8:30pm  
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    Violet Crown Cinema
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