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for Tue., March 18

  • Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival

    Grab your friends and come to the Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival! Give your palate a treat, enjoy the tastes, textures and aromas- you will find a new favorite brewery! If you prefer a glass of wine or seltzer – they’ll have that too. Lively music, food, games, brewers panel and more. Come See What’s on Tap! Sponsored by the Fredericksburg Rotary Club.
    Sat. June 14, 11am-6pm  
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    Downtown Fredericksburg Market Square

  • Maudie's Moonlight Run by The Trail Conservancy

    Join The Trail Conservancy for Maudie's Moonlight 5K Run! The scenic route winds along Lady Bird Lake and the Butler Trail, leading to the ultimate post-run fiesta with legendary Tex-Mex, ice-cold margaritas, and live music! Complete details on the run route, registration, and volunteer info are available online.
    Thurs. June 5, 8pm-10pm  
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    Auditorium Shores
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  • Music

    Altin Sencalar Quintet

    Trombonist Altin Sencalar has done a lot since graduating from the Butler School of Music: He’s recorded several albums, earned a Master of Music from Michigan State, taught all over the country (most recently at the Brevard Jazz Institute and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music), and made music with Michael Bublé, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Rodney Whitaker, Christian McBride, and too many more to list. Sencalar may no longer reside in town, but he comes back as often as he can, this time in support of his upcoming record Unleashed. – Michael Toland
    Tue., March 18, 8pm
    Monks Jazz Club

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Catwoman (2004)

      Me-OW! Remember in 2004 when a comic-book adaptation starring a woman was still a novel concept? Oh wait: It still is, even in 2025, because we’re in a patriarchal nightmare world. Anyway, Oscar winner Halle Berry takes on the night – and shoots a few hoops – after she nearly drowns due to the evil overlords of a makeup company. A mysterious kitty saved her life, you see, and granted her feline abilities like übersharp reflexes. Although this prowler doesn’t write Selina Kyle on her government docs (they went instead with the alliterative Patience Phillips), Berry still brings the kicks, flips, and gray morality common to the Catwoman character. Is that enough to save a flaccid and vaguely misogynist script? I’m not paw-sitive. – James Scott
      Tue., March 18
      Carver Branch Library

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Game Night (2018)

      When discussing the best modern comedies, Game Night feels severely overlooked. What starts with a group of friends having a game night snowballs into a Clue-esque catastrophe as their role-playing game threatens their lives and puts them in increasingly absurd situations. Or perhaps the chaos was inevitable since game night hosts Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) have repeatedly kept their games a secret from their awkward police-officer neighbor Gary, played by a chilling Jesse Plemons. With all its twists, turns, and laughs, this comedy begs to be seen on the big screen. – Mattea Gallaway
      Tue., March 18
      Alamo Drafthouse Village

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Jumanji (1995)

      Nobody did it like Robin Williams, always matching his humor with a genuine heartbeat. One such example is Jumanji, a childhood classic that Nineties babies likely have fallen asleep to after a day at the pool while eating a ham sandwich with chips. When two kids discover a nefarious board game that, when played, summons giant mosquitoes, rabid monkeys, constricting vines, and more PG horrors, former kid, now adult player Alan (Williams) must help them defeat the game. Meanwhile, having been trapped in the game for decades, Alan tries to piece together the life he missed with help from his childhood crush Sarah (Bonnie Hunt). – Lina Fisher
      March 17-19
      Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller

    • Arts

      Books

      Nightmare Factory Book Club: Exquisite Corpse

      Have you ever wanted to read a book about serial killers getting it on? Few pieces get as down and dirty with the criminally cannibalistic than Poppy Z. Brite’s 1997 novel, which dessects its fetid foray into multiple POVs. One is a necrophiliac who slips free of British prison by faking his death; another is also a necrophiliac who enjoys savoring his victims in posthumous culinary tributes; and then there’s the abusive radio deejay and his ex-BF, who has his own ghosts haunting his attempts to escape the bayou’s oppressive swelter. Having in recent years dropped his pen name for the more fitting William J. Martin, the author’s New Orleans-set novel got the coveted description from YouTuber critic May Leitz of being “very, very, very gay” in three different ways: 1) it is textually about gay men; 2) it depicts gay sex; and 3) the prose is “capital G Gay.” What does that mean? I guess you’ll have to read it – and test your gore tolerance – to find out. – James Scott
      Tue., March 18
      BookPeople

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Thunderpants (2002)

      We Luv Video is one of the few theatres in town that shows stuff movie buffs have actually never heard of – not just indie classics but random gems. Thunderpants, for example: a movie co-starring Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), that follows Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), a boy afflicted with an uncontrollable talent for extreme flatulence. His farts are so bad they drive his father out of the home in fear and permanently scar his bully, and his only friend is Grint’s child prodigy that can’t smell. Scientific experiments regarding the gas ensue, with cameos by Stephen Fry, Keira Knightley, and Paul Giamatti, who once said in a 2010 Tonight Show appearance that this film was one of the high points of his career. – Lina Fisher
      Tue., March 18
      We Luv Video

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Vibrations (1996)

      So rare a flick that Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on it – although they do for its 1996 title twin that features James “James from Twin Peaks” Marshall. Hm. Anyway! Intro’d via video by programmer and archivist Elizabeth Purchell, this Joe Sarno joint follows the sexually frustrated Barbara as she attempts to change her life by moving to Manhattan. Her manuscript-typing day job plays second fiddle to a host of horny exploits including a masturbating neighbor playing “erotic games” and her “hot-to-trot” sister Julie with whom Barbara shares a sordid past. AFS’s description denies the film is “sterling Positive Representation” but who wants genre schlock that’s earned a GLAAD award? These are vibes pieces, you know – all feeling, all nerve, all freak. – James Scott
      Tue., March 18
      AFS Cinema
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