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Courthouse Nights in Lockhart, Texas!
Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!Fri. Apr. 19, 7pm-10pmLockhart, Texas -
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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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BDYHAX 2018
Specialists in fields such as life extension, body modification, open-source health care, and biohacking ethics will be giving talks and seminars throughout the weekend, with excursions into sex-tech, and a cyberpunk party that promises to be very razor. See website for schedule.Fri.-Sun., Feb 2-4. Various prices. -
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Jose Gonzalez, Bedouine
Syrian singer-songwriter Bedouine opens: Swedish-Argentine troubadour José González transcends charm and tranquility even trans-Atlantically as he speaks from his home in Gothenburg. Like his instrumentation, composed of simple guitar melodies carried by hushed, plainspoken vocals emoting human struggles, the man on the phone betrays zero angst.: “At first, it was a punk band, then I started playing in a hardcore band,” he chuckles. “When I released my first album, that was the thing that people liked the most.”: Inviting and calm, his 2005 debut Veneer set a precedent for his following works of pure guitar and vocals, wherein the bare bones of a song normally made to be less are elevated by his personal odes and empathetic lyrics.: “I’m just trying to find the riffs and chord progressions that I like, then I write the lyrics for that demo,” he explains. “At the very last minute, I try to tie up the different songs into a theme. So, in general, I think all my albums are pretty similar.”: In Our Nature followed in 2007, then eight years later his most recent album, Vestiges & Claws, dropped. The gap wasn’t spent idly, either. González released music with Swedish indie rock outfit Junip and soundtracked 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.: “I get tired if I do too much of the same,” he pauses. “Especially touring-wise, it’s good to vary the people you’re traveling with and also where I’m traveling.”: For now, he’ll occupy stages across the U.S alone with a guitar in hand.: “I like to play when there’s a good-sounding P.A. and don’t really mind what people are doing at the time – laying down, sitting, dancing,” he laughs. “That’s what I enjoy the most, when I feel like there’s power behind the music.”Sat., Feb. 3, 8pm -
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Mardi Gras Dog Parade
It's like the puppy bowl with a New Orleans flare, and yes, there will be beads.Sat., Feb. 3, 3-7pm. Free. -
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AHS Puppy Bowl
Bring out the whole family to see lovable, adoptable puppies in uniforms as well as kid’s activities, local vendors, and more. The Austin Humane Society makes it super easy to find your furrever friend. Check out our photo gallery from last year's festivities.Sat., Feb. 3, noon-3pm. Free. -
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Burlesque to the Future!
Black Widow Burlesque and Boiz of Austin unite for a Back to the Future-themed show of burlesque, boylesque, drag kings, and queens.Sat., Feb. 3, 8:30pm. $15-80. -
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Day of Voter Registration
NARAL Pro-Choice Texas is hosting a voter registration drive throughout the city to register residents for the March 6 primaries. Other locations include Spider House Cafe and Radio Coffee & Beer.Sat., Feb. 3, 10am-2pm -
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Dimension Gallery: No
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.Through Feb. 17 -
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FronteraFest 2018: The Short Fringe
What's on the schedule this final week? Brilliant monologues? Comedy improv? Cabaret singers? Avant-garde dance? Bizarre performance art? Multimedia? The 25th annual FronteraFest's "Best of the Fest" gathers the diverse goodness of this year's crop and forms it into the tastiest schedule of short theatre 2018 is likely to see. Check the website for details!Through Feb. 17. Tue.-Sat., 8pm. $18. -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Strata
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.Through Feb. 17 -
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Dine out in private homes across town for Project Transitions' 21st annual dinner party fundraiser. This meal (and dessert and bubbly afterparty at the Thinkery starting at 9:30pm) helps the org do what they do so well: serve Austinites living with HIV/AIDS. Expect fine wine, good eats, and a sweet end to the evening.Sat., Feb. 3, 7:30-11:30pm. $125 for dinner and reception.Various locations; reception at the Thinkery, 1830 Simond -
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Jay Farrar Duo (Son Volt)
Among the first to christen the Moody’s sister club with a secret show two years ago, Jay Farrar returns with multi-instrumentalist Gary Hunt to dish last year’s Notes of Blue. The eighth Son Volt LP works notably bluesier, rocking territory from previous outing Honky Tonk, but still rides the forlorn drawl that pioneered alt.country since Farrar’s days in Uncle Tupelo. Son Volt touring bassist Andrew Duplantis opens.Sat., Feb. 3, 8:30pm -
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John Maus, Lukdlx
John Maus is out of his two-year Minnesota farmhouse hideout. The political philosophy Ph.D. spent that time building and exploding his synthesizers in hopes of new musical insight, but decided the knowledge did squat for his art. Back on the scene following October’s Screen Memories, an album we might hear as an Eighties throwback but he’d describe as ecclesiastical.Sat., Feb. 3, 9pm -
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Mardi Gras Kickoff w/ CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Lousiana Band, Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe, Raa Raa & Da Zydeco Allstarz
Mighty big shoes C.J. Chenier filled when he took over the sizzling Red Hot Louisiana Band from his renowned father, Clifton Chenier, New Orleans’ undisputed King of Zydeco (1925-1987). In the ensuing decades, the scion, 60, has toured the globe in keeping the irresistible sound and party spirit of his accordion alive and flourishing. Ring in the Mardi Gras mayhem with this exuberant band.Sat., Feb. 3, 9pm -
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Natural Forces: Opening Party
This new installation from Hive features a series of explorable pods designed by Paloma Mayorga and Vera Claeys, Liza Fishbone, Rebecca Sanchez, Clare Drummond, Megan McAtee, Alex Morrison, and Julie Conquest. And tonight's opening party offers live music, cocktails, tarot readings, and other delights.Sat., Feb. 3, 7pm-12mid. $7-10. -
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Oh Snap … My Alien Children Are Trying to Kill Me!
"What better way to celebrate Black History Month than to take a journey with a black father?" A citizen might could argue the rhetoric – except that this one-man show by Zell Miller III will have you laughing so hard and experiencing such an array of feels that you won't want to argue anything except, like, "HBO, why isn't this phenom on your concert line-up? How dare you deprive a nation of this living treasure?" What are the joys and challenges of raising children of color in this turbulent American landscape? Miller will let you know, all right, and you'll walk out grinning and maybe in tears.Feb. 1-4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $10-30. -
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Sam Tallent
Tallent’s been called "the absurd voice of a surreal generation," and maybe that's why the comedian’s won Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and rocked the mic on Viceland’s Flophouse and the Chris Gethard Show and so on. He’d better be all that, because Carina Magyar is opening the show – and she'll leave you in howling stitches, friend.Feb. 2-3. Fri., 9pm; Sat., 9 & 11pm. $10. -
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She's All That (1999)
Master Pancake: Who would have thought that George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion would translate into a solid teen comedy? Well, probably everyone who saw Clueless. The movie mockers will no doubt get some mileage on that Sixpence None the Richer song.Sat., Feb. 3, 7pm, 10pm -
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The Departure (2017)
Doc Nights: A Buddhist monk dedicates his life to suicide intervention in Japan, which holds the record of one of the highest suicide rates per capita.Sat., Feb. 3, 5:30pm -
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The Mahogany Project presents: Love Jones, Vol. I
Love Jones – the Mahogany Project unveils its latest work combing music and prose to tell the story of black men loving black men. One night only.Sat., Feb. 3, 7-10pm. $13. -
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W. Stone Cotter: Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures
How can we not turn a jubilant cartwheel when one of our favorite writers unleashes his first kids' book? If not a cartwheel, precisely, perhaps we can at least grab a rideshare to BookPeople, where Cotter will be enchanting the audience with a reading from his middle-grade fantasy. Because it'll be a quirky and delightful time for all!Sat., Feb. 3, 2pm -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Malcolm Bucknall
A chameleon-like eclecticism has characterized his work to various distinct periods of art-historical influences and beyond, but the common thread in Bucknall's imagery is an animal-human mix. It's a vivid personal mythology that we've reveled in before and are excited to see the newest manifestations of here.Through March 3 -
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65 Roses Fashion Show
Benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, top designers will be showcasing the latest spring fashions with quality vendors on hand touting their wares.Sat., Feb. 3, 2-6pm. $25. -
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893 | Ya-ku-za
The Generic Ensemble Company presents Daria Miyeko Marinelli's new drama, set over the course of a business lunch in a Japanese restaurant somewhere in the U.S., in which a young woman seeks to become the first female member of the infamous Japanese crime syndicate. Directed by kt shorb and Jesus I. Valles.Through Feb. 10. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35. -
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AARC: Beyond Bollywood
"Indian-Americans Shape the Nation," a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution, makes an artifact-rich stop at the Asian American Resource Center – with a vibrant collection of photographs, art, and interactive learning stations.Through April 8 -
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