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The 34th annual All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) takes a hybrid form this year, with dozens of selections from the best in LGBTQ+ film presented online and in person. Opening night happens at Galaxy. Closing night film Sh*t & Champagne will be shown drive-in style at Pioneer Farms, complete with a live talkback with D’Arcy Drollinger and a grand drag show finale hosted by Austin drag icon Nadine Hughes. Get badges and all the nitty-gritty at agliff.org.

Two Lone Star State teams face off in this match vs. FC Dallas.

Benefiting Austin Sunshine Camps, this 5/10K offers virtual and in-person options, including a "fastest dog" race and an option for pooch portraits from Zilker Bark as well. Kids will enjoy the kids' K and youth-friendly expo area. Austin Sunshine Camps provides free life-changing summer camp experiences for historically underserved youth.

It's free to play bingo with Senator Colleen DeForest as you enjoy brunch and cocktails.

Typically held in February to kick off the Chinese New Year celebration, this year’s parade was postponed due to the pandemic. Ten illuminated boats will make two laps around the downtown section of the River Walk.

Celebrate classic cars and customs at this drive-in screening of 1974 car chase movie Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, starring Peter Fonda. Classic car slots are $20, and other guests can park in the garage for only $10 and walk in (BYO chair recommmended).

While you are enjoying your lunch or dinner at Z’Tejas, stop by the bar to purchase a cool custom dog bandanna to help raise funds for the Austin Humane Society. Each bandanna sold sends money to AHS, and kicks your furry friend's fashion up a notch!

Queer threads purveyor Lonestar Queer comes in like a wrecking ball with their party dedicated to all things Miley Cyrus. Drag show hosted by CupCake with tunes: from DJ BoyFriend.

This here is Sam Mayer's "live-streamed reality show/talk show/experimental memoir for the streaming platform Twitch," recorded live at Rude Mechs' Crashbox, coming to you with a reco from that ol' Kirk Lynn himself. Suggestion: Give it a click, see if it sticks.

"When it rains in Austin, Texas, the best place to stay dry through the night is behind the theatre. Weather and circumstance bring together Mikey, Snake, Miss Candace, Motor, Mac, and Julie - all on the street for different reasons – here now to navigate their relationships, dreams, and, often, their very survival." See this new Lane Michael Stanley play, directed by Patti Neff-Tiven for Ground Floor Theatre and featuring the talents of Stan McDowell, Steven Zapata, Meredith O’Brien, Jack Darling(!), Devin Finn, Juleeane Villarreal – and introducing Bruiser as Roscoe the dog. And – you can see it live onstage or virtually. Bonus: The theatre's lobby gallery features an exhibition of Art From the Streets.

It'd be a bold stance because he's not exactly a household name, but you could make the argument that guitarist Sterling Morrison was the most influential musician to ever call Austin home. His petri dish of musical production, four albums between 1967 and 1970, went on to fertilize generations of genres: punk, art-rock, experimental, indie, and alternative. Bands today wouldn't sound, look, or act the way they do if not for the Velvet Underground.: While on tour in 1971, Morrison brought an empty suitcase to the Austin airport and, one step away from the gate, revealed to the band he co-founded that he wasn't going back to New York. For the next decade-plus, he led a relatively anonymous life in Austin, working as a teaching assistant at UT while earning his Ph.D. in medieval literature and playing at the Hole in the Wall and Soap Creek Saloon with local garage band the Bizarros. He eventually went to work as a tugboat captain in Houston, then toured Europe with a reunited Velvet Underground before dying of lymphoma on August 30, 1995, one day after his 53rd birthday.: Hotel Vegas co-owner Jason McNeely reveres Morrison and sees his legacy in the music and aesthetic of the younger crowd populating his club. Every year, he celebrates the one-time local's birthday with a tribute concert. This iteration finds multi-instrumentalist Nolan Potter fronting the Velvet Coverband featuring members of Black Angels, Sailor Poon, Acid Carousel, Bad Markings, and Manifest Destiny's Child.

The international percussion sensation of STOMP returns to the ATX with its explosive, provocative, sophisticated, and sexy spectacle of nonstop kinesis. Such moves to make these sounds! Such sounds embodied by these performers! Suggestion: Don't try this at home, because you'll probably hurt yourself; instead, see these professionals do it onstage until the whole building is shaking with awe.

Up in Georgetown, the Palace Theatre presents this Off-Broadway musical hit that takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom and reveals the lives of four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts. It's an all-singing, all-dancing, and downright Wonderette-ful show.

Yes, it's opening weekend for this fancy doughnut shop outta Miami, and they'll be introducing Austinites to their tasty array of popular flavors – Maple & Bacon, Brown Butter & Salt, Prickly Pear Margarita, and many more – and giving away exclusive swag packs (in collaboration with Topo Chico) for the first 50 customers on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Uncommon Objects' big backyard is transformed into a dynamic marketplace for all things vintage, found and made. Come join the fun and feast on the bargains!

Black Swan Yoga presents an outdoor class and collects donations youth STEM education nonprofit Girlstart. Plus, enjoy JuneShine hard kombucha, Fowl Mouth brunch, and live music afterward.

Here's a showcase of work by more than 40 Austinites who’ve created art with an exuberance of color and energy over the past 15 pandemic months.

Provocative, monumental figurative paintings by Les Satinover, depicting the human form (mainly male figures) in vast, detailed landscapes that celebrate natural beauty.

CMW's massive beer hall and biergarten make it a great place to check out the game, projected in the beer hall and on the taproom TVs.

Over 25,000 square feet of railroading fun for the whole family, including vendors, model and Lego railroads, and more.

This traveling spectacle of art, a multimedia exhibition currently ensconced at the COTA, uses cutting-edge projection technology to create an engaging journey into the world of Vincent Van Gogh. Repurposing the artist's dreams, his thoughts, and his words to drive the experience as a narrative, this huge installation will move you along projection-swathed walls wrapped in light, colour, and shapes that swirl, dance and refocus into flowers, cafes and landscapes. As a certain Dude might comment, "This is extremely fuckin' trippy, man." Make your reservations now, citizen, and if the price seems a bit steep, hell, you can probably tap your brother Theo for a loaner, amirite?

In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career, reveals the story of this key figure of the second Harlem Renaissance – and the Chronicle's Robert Faires has a review of the show right here.