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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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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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Austin RV Expo
All outdoor lovers are welcome to learn about the latest RVs and discover new trends, accessories, and much more.Thu.-Sun., Feb. 15-18. $8, $6 (seniors/kids 7-12), free (kids under 7). -
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UT Baseball
Texas opens its 2018 regular season at home against Louisiana-Lafayette: Sun., Feb 18, 1pm. Vs. Lamar:Wed., Feb. 21, 7:30pm. $7-25. -
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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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I Hate I Skate second anniversary
Whereas the polar opposite subgenres of liberty-spiked street punk (Lower Class Brats, Krum Bums) and nervy post-punk (Spray Paint, Institute) have largely defined the narrative of Austin’s youth rebellion this century, a new crop of DIY bands – markedly anti-commercial, anti-macho, and employing instrumentally unencumbered singers – have coalesced into one of the city’s most vibrant scenes. This weekend’s I Hate I Skate gathering showcases precisely that.: Packing 25 young heavies over three days – the first two at Barracuda and the third across the highway at Hotel Vegas – festivities kick off Friday afternoon with a renegade skateboard race down South Congress from Live Oak Street to just past Riverside Drive. Next, the toughs pile into Barracuda for a seven-act hometown bill highlighted by two groups imbuing strong female perspectives on the scene: razor-sharp hardcore endeavor Body Pressure, fronted by one-time Hatred Surge screamer Faiza Kracheni, and cathartic punks Sass, led by the raw and righteous Rachael Chaney. Other muscle on the bill: Breakout’s oi!/anarcho hybrid, anti-hardcore confrontation junkies Witewash, and punk/metal mutilators Skeleton, whose vocalist Victor Ziolkowski presents the fest.: Day two expands I Hate I Skate’s regional look with Integrity-style Missouri roarers Crusade, punishing Houston hardcore act Skourge, and Birmingham D-beat-influenced quartet Heavy User. Austin reps with Enemy One, a breakdown-heavy crew with all-star membership.Feb. 16-17, 6pm -
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Intocable
For more than two decades now, Intocable has revitalized the polka-based Norteño genre by incorporating country, pop, and all-out rock with the traditional, accordion, and bajo sexto-driven sounds of northern Mexico. 2016’s Highway cruised footloose cumbias, reggae vamps, and blues gambles. Meanwhile, nearly 40 years of Houston-born La Mafia lionizes South Texas sister genre Tejano, another East European-derived pachanga.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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Lights, Chase Atlantic, DCF
Lights rides the indie-pop wave like a Canadian Ellie Goulding, exhaling sugar-throated, emotive electronica veering variously through dubstep and hip-hop. Born Valerie Poxleitner, the singer explores her evolving sexuality and lifelong battle with depression on last year’s Skin & Earth and its accompanying comic book. Australia’s Chase Atlantic opens slinging R&B like the boy band love-child of Ed Sheeran and the Weeknd.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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Lure by Y&F Grand Opening
A ribbon-cutting ceremony kicks of this new location from this family business that caters to the chic side in all of us. Sips and bites will be offered, as well as hourly giveaways.Fri., Feb. 16, noonLure by Y&F, 3800 N. Lamar Blvd., Ste. 105 -
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Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
No artist has explored country music’s wide-ranging history and influences more than Marty Stuart. Through bluegrass, honky-tonk, rockabilly, and most recently the psychedelic desert sounds of last year’s Way out West – recorded with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ co-captain Mike Campbell – the guitarist’s musical reach with his quartet of Fabulous Superlatives slices through a broad, redefining swath of country genres. North Texas alt.country kickers Vandoliers open.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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OUTsider Festival
Austin's queer transmedia fest returns with head-spinning, mind-racing, jaw-dropping work by notable and up-and-coming queer visionaries. The 2018 Legacy Award goes to the 40th Anniversary of Born in Flames directed by Lizzie Borden, and the lineup includes work by Brontez Purnell, Yuliya Lanina, and Bethany Johnson. See full schedule online.Feb. 14-18 -
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Palehound, Weaves, Most Likely
Ellen Kempner’s yearning whispers strung out visceral, heart-wrenching rock on 2016 sophomore LP A Place I’ll Always Go. The Bostonian’s latest 7-inch, recorded with Alicia Bognanno of Bully, is half downtrodden diary, half drum-machine ditty. Celebratory pop from Toronto’s Weaves precedes, frontwoman Jasmyn Burke’s sneer leading the kicky, cathartic procession. As Most Likely, local musician Sam Houdek shapes bendy lo-fi into catchy confessionals.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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Sergio & Odair Assad, Avi Avital
Brazilian guitar breakout Badi Assad’s older brothers join their 12 strings with Israeli mandolinist.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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Shaboom! OUTsider Afterparty
It wouldn't be a festival without an afterparty (happening Friday and Saturday nights), but this isn't your typical cocktail lounge. The Shaboom clowns will make you laugh – and possibly cry if you hate clowns as much as I do –because the art doesn't end just cuz the sun's gone to bed. Instead, Lex Vaughn, Silky Shoemaker, and Paul Soileau light up the night.Fri., Feb. 16 & Sat., Feb. 17; 10pm-1am -
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Terri Hendrix Band w/ Lloyd Maines
Allow an email to me from Hall of Fame guitarist Lloyd Maines to sell San Marcos folk siren Terri Hendrix: “Yes, that’s correct, a half-century. Along with her birthday (Feb. 13), we’re celebrating 21 years of her running her own record label. She’s released 16 records on her own, toured coast to coast, toured Europe, and in 2004 created the ‘Life’s a Song’ music workshop. She also started a nonprofit called ‘Own Your Own Universe.’ I’ve been lucky enough to produce and play music with Terri for 21 years and I can truly say that she’s one of the hardest working humans I’ve ever met.”Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm -
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The Nude Vampire (1970)
Lates: A man stumbles on the titular clothe-less creature of the night and gets embroiled in a suicide cult. Just another day in the universe of cult director Jean Rollin.Fri., Feb. 16, 10pm -
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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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314 Action Hosts Dr. Michael Mann and Joseph Kopser
A lunchtime Q&A with climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann and congressional candidate Joseph Kopser.Fri., Feb. 16, 12:30-2:30pm -
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A Delicate Ship
This is the Austin premiere of Anna Ziegler’s poetic play about "one night in New York City that changes the lives of three people forever," directed by Elizabeth V. Newman for Filigree Theatre.Through Feb. 25. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $30. -
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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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Andrea Gibson With Chastity Brown
Queerly beloved poet Andrea Gibson arrives in Austin with her latest work and a yen to share it. Rumor has it, she and Chastity might even sign some books.Fri., Feb. 16, 8-11pm. $21. -
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