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17th Anniversary Celebration & Annual Rosé Garden Party
Join the celebration & enjoy an afternoon of pink sips, floral vibes & sunshine in every glass. Crisp, dry, sparkling & everything in between. Tickets include tastings of a curated selection of 15 Rosé wines from around the globe, refreshing gourmet bites & lively entertainment amidst a stunning garden setting inside & out!Sat. May 31, 3pm-7pmHouse Wine -
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Dripping Springs Rodeo
Come to the 14th Annual Dripping Springs Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend! This year they will be bringing all the rodeo style fun on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Bring your family and friends for a weekend of mutton bustin', bull riding, vendor shopping, great food, and all things rodeo!May 23-25Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center
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Austin Blues Festival Day 2 w/ Antone's 50th anniversary allstar jam feat. Jimmie Vaughan, Gary Clark Jr. & Friends; Mavis Staples, Jackie Venson, Jalen Ngonda, Monsieur Periné, Sir Woman, more
Presented by Antone’s Nightclub, this year’s roots music festival doubles as a 50th anniversary tribute to Austin’s premier blues venue. Antone’s regulars Jackie Venson and Sue Foley, plus soul songstress Sir Woman and funk collective Grandmaster, lead the local contingent for the 2025 event, while guitar prodigy Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and legendary R&B/soul/gospel singer Mavis Staples headline Saturday and Sunday, respectively. In honor of the tenacious club’s golden jubilee, a slew of Antone’s All-Stars – Ian Moore and Kam Franklin on Day 1, Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr. on Day 2 – lead special jam sessions to highlight the blues’ ever-evolving, collaborative spirit. – Carys AndersonSun., April 27, 11am -
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Austin Opera Presents Madame Butterfly
An eerily everlasting warning about U.S. imperialism, Madame Butterfly shares the story of naval Lieutenant Pinkerton brokering a Japanese bride before leaving her pregnant and alone. It can easily stand for global politics as a whole, while still hitting as a romantic tragedy. It’s exactly the kind of haunting art that inspires a million homages. Puccini’s own music rises and falls like leaves on the wind, from soft chorals to aerobatic arias. Join Austin Opera and prepare to fall in love all over again while listening to the titular Cio-Cio-San. It’ll be a knife right to your heart. – Cat McCarreyApril 25-27 -
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Austin Psych Fest Day 3 w/ Dinosaur Jr., Bôa, Yo La Tengo, Holy Wave, La Luz, Mystery Lights, Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, King Hannah, Los Mirlos, Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country
Like Levitation 2024 before it, the Black Angels’ annual celebration of psychedelic music has expanded its genre constraints to spotlight the best of all things alternative, from indie rock legends (Kim Gordon plays solo on Saturday, while Yo La Tengo and Dinosaur Jr. wrap Sunday) to post-punk contemporaries (Day 2 act Wombo) to post-rock torchbearers (Godspeed You! Black Emperor and locals Explosions in the Sky both top Friday’s bill). Of course, the festival’s hazy origins remain thanks to consciousness-raising, generation-spanning acts like Blackwater Holylight, Holy Wave, and Angels singer Alex Maas. More affordable than most fests with such stacked lineups, day tickets go for $75 while weekend passes request $200. – Carys AndersonSun., April 27, 1:30pm -
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Body Politics
Poet, comedian, multi-hyphenate powerhouse Shasparay has been out here, highlighting social injustice with their poignant mix of wry humor and clearcut boundaries. They know what’s right, what’s wrong, and who they are. Expect that level of clarity with Body Politics, their solo show treatise on the “fat experience.” Having a body is inherently political. Especially when female-presenting. Especially when Black. Especially when fat. And Shasparay? They’ve been through it all. Belittlement, shame, fetishization, all within the presentation of curves and skin and outward expression. It’s a show about the thin line between love and hate, about self-acceptance, about reconciling identity. And with Shasparay’s dynamic delivery, it will be difficult to look away. – Cat McCarreyApril 23-27 -
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Special Screenings
CAMP Film Festival
This intriguing new indie festival is a bit of a mystery, but offers a few numbers to wet your whistle: 2 days, 10 shorts, 1 feature, 8 workshops, 5 music performances, and 1,000 creatives in the heart of Austin. Filmmaker Natalie Lynn (travel doc Borderless), short-form creators Gawx and Jake Frew, and Patreon CEO Jack Conte are a few of those 1,000 creatives, and if that strikes you, grab a $65 weekend pass to get access to all the films and four panels (Studio Passes are sold out). – Kat McNevinsApril 26-27 -
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Clothing Swap
Find your new look for spring – or even summer – by swapping duds with your fellow queers. Local Queer ATX asks that all donated clothes be clean and dropped off pre-event at either Thursday’s happy hour or at least 15 minutes prior to the swap start time. Items left over will be donated to Queertopia.Sun., April 27, 1pmRSVP for location -
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Special Screenings
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Either you grew up with parents who despised the Sandman and all his buffoonery, or you’re me and Happy Gilmore was background noise to half your childhood. (The other half being scored by, of course, Billy Madison.) Since Adam Sandler’s continued and quite lucrative streaming deal with Netflix farts out a sequel to the golf goof this coming July, theatres all over the country – including here in ATX – are screening the off-kilter original. Typical Sandler protag Happy has proven himself too hot for the hockey ice, and in an effort to help his grandmother pay off IRS back taxes, he utilizes his slapshot skills to get into golf. While Sandman obviously shines, this movie’s greatest legend is in the late Carl Weathers as mentor figure Chubbs Peterson, whose golf career – and two-handedness – were cut short by an alligator attack. It’s also the first instance of Julie Bowen as a Sandler love interest, a role she repeats in Hubie Halloween. – James ScottApril 25 - 26 & 29, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Lakeline & Mueller; April 27 & 30, Violet Crown Cinema -
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Haute Seat
Self-described as the OFFICIAL drag brunch and vendor market, this Embry Officially hosted event hits every last Sunday. Of course there’s fabo drag, provided by cast members Sir Beau Elliot and Harlot, and special guest Louisianna Purchase at their April kickoff, but what else makes this party so dang haute? Take a seat – if you can handle the heat – because there’ll be a vendor market featuring vintage, handmade, and more from local makers like Age of Aqueerius, Purple Moss Vintage, Mary Jae, Peg Bunny, and Add Daddy. What more could send off this springy little month? Maybe a DJ set by Lavender Thug? Well, wouldn’t you know it … – James ScottSun., April 27 -
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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII (1972)
The worst myth that concert films can possibly try to sell the cinema audience is that it’s just like being there. Well, apart from paying $15 for a soda, it’s not. There’s no one treading on your feet, no eight-foot point guard suddenly standing in front of you, and no one tunelessly screaming the wrong lyrics. So Pink Floyd’s legendary performance at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii doesn’t even try. It’s just the band, performing tracks from Meddle and Saucerful of Secrets, in a completely empty space that once held 20,000 screaming fans before being buried for nearly 1,700 years by ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. – Richard WhittakerApril 24 & 27 -
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Preservation Austin Homes Tour
Do you like peeping into other people’s cute abodes, but know society frowns on it? Lucky for you, Preservation Austin gives you a pass this weekend to tour 10 houses (five each day) without any of the shame. Take a look back at the various styles and eras of local architecture while you internally judge some folks’ design choices. There is an admission fee, but Saturday promises a special free walking tour that looks at the work of pioneering Black architect John S. Chase. – James RenovitchApril 26-27Various locations -
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Pup Crawl ATX
Some people call Austin the Live Music Capital, and others call it the blueberry in Texas tomato soup. But Austin’s real claim is being Dog City, where everyone and everywhere’s got a pup running around. Closing out their monthlong fundraising tour is the Austin Dog Park & Bar Alliance with the second annual Pup Crawl. For $39, you get a Pup Pass – which nets you and your pooch entry and a drink at each participating park. Full disclosure, the Chronicle will be popping up this Sunday at the Watering Bowl to participate in the paw-some event. Sunday is also the last day that Central Texas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be on-site, so come wolf down a few pints while helping support a good cause. – James ScottThrough April 30Dog House Drinkery, 3800 Co. Rd. 175, Leander; MUTTS, 9825 N. Lake Creek Pkwy.; Yard Bar, 6700 Burnet Rd.; The Watering Bowl, 820 W. FM 1626 -
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Queer Skate Austin
All wheels welcome for this low-key LGBTQ meetup of skaterz. Bring yourself, your wheels, a snack or two, and an openness to making new friends.Sun., April 27, 7pm -
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Rancho Alegre Conjunto Music Festival Day 3 w/ Bobby Salinas y Los Mas Bravos Del Valle, Gilberto Perez Jr. y Sus Compadres, Cindy Ramos y Su Conjunto, more
Since 2015, Rancho Alegre has thrown a free, all-ages festival aimed to preserve Conjunto music, the accordion-driven Tejano creation that fuses German polka rhythms with Mexican folk songs. The event’s 10th anniversary touches down at two decidedly East Austin venues: On Friday, Belen Escobedo y Panfilo’s Güera, Conjunto Baraja de Oro, and Los Enmascarados perform at East Cesar Chavez beer hall Central Machine Works, while Rodney Rodriguez, Bobby Salinas, and more perform Saturday and Sunday at the Doris Miller Auditorium, the undervalued Rosewood event center that hosted Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and more Black icons back in the day. – Carys AndersonSun., April 27, 1:15pm. Free (all ages). -
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Red Poppy Festival
Henry Purl Compton, then stationed in Europe, sent seeds home to his mother after World War I, which is how the red poppy first arrived in Georgetown. Decades later, the flower proliferated enough to designate our northern neighbor the Red Poppy Capital of Texas in 1990, a fact which is annually celebrated at this family festival in Georgetown’s charming town square. This year’s festivities include a parade and classic car show, food vendors, an artisan market, a kids’ fun zone, and live performances from Cory Morrow, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Dysfunkshun Junkshun. – Kimberley JonesApril 25-27 -
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Oh, so now you realize George Lucas was right all along. It’s alright, you’re forgiven for your heresy. Twenty years after its original release, the closing chapter of the Prequel Trilogy returns to screen, and its warning from mystical history seems more timely than ever. Who knew that a simple trade war could result in the rise of a twisted dictator who had a secret plan – with a number for a name – to wipe out his opponents and the last traces of freedom? Hey, what’s that sound, is that democracy dying to thunderous applause? Let Lucas’ epic tale of betrayal and space battles remind you that, no matter how dark the day, there is always the promise of a new hope. – Richard WhittakerApril 24-27Multiple Austin moviehouses -
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Classical Music
The Beerthoven Concert Series Presents: Rags to Riches
Beerthoven returns not just with their signature warm pastries/cold beer refreshments via Easy Tiger and Lazarus Brewing, but with a new show spotlighitng the works of German Texan immigrants as well as Scott Joplin and Johannes Brahms. What do they have in common? "They all went from Rags to Riches!" says Beerthoven, who'll feature performances by executive director Daniel Swayze, pianist Austin Haller, and vocalists Trevor Shaw, Shari Wilson, Laura Mercado-Wright, and Gregory Hilliard.April 25-27 -
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The Cartoons of Max Fleischer
In the early history of American animation, the only name that came close to the legendary status of Walt Disney was Max Fleischer. But while Disney looked to European fairy tales for inspiration, Fleischer was pure Americana with a subversive twist. His shorts were sinister, chaotic, creative, and sexy, the jazz era given cartoon vibrancy. Without a studio like Disney to archive his work, much of it has been lost or degraded. However, thanks to the efforts of his granddaughter Jane Fleischer Reid and the team at Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored!, his massive back catalog is finally being restored to their lost glory in gorgeous 4K. Catch classics featuring Fleischer originals like Betty Boop and Popeye – and some of the very first onscreen appearances by Superman – in this beautiful and wild trip through Fleischer’s crazy world. – Richard WhittakerApril 26-27 -
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The Comedy Film Festival
From rejection is born success: This is the origin of Austin’s Comedy Film Festival, which started after founder Eric Alan Rousseau received rejections from over 50 film fests. Even after his movie, Lucky Doug, got into the festival circuit, Rousseau felt “comedy films were not a genre well represented in the festival circuit and were instead usually shoehorned into a film festival somewhere.” As you can imagine by the event’s title, comedy takes center screen here: Programming from Friday to Sunday focuses on not only showing submitted comedy flicks but also panels on the practical art of making funny films. Guffaws encouraged, but please: Cellphones should stay silent. That’s not the kind of clown you wanna be. – James ScottApril 23-27 -
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Through Her Lens
Recent festival throwers ConnectHER and Austin’s own Palestinian and intersectional discussion group Watermelon Film Club partner up with microcinema Hyperreal Film Club to show a series of Gaza-made short films. These are cinematic stories told from the perspective of Palestinian women and girls, several of which screened last month at ConnectHER’s film fest. Following these short films will be a discussion led by Dr. Aman Odeh, whose firsthand experience as a Palestinian doctor and pediatrician provides an up-close understanding of Gaza’s devastation. Tickets are free, but grab yours soon as space is limited. – James ScottSun., April 27 -
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True Stories (1986)
Dang it, David Byrne: You couldn’t stick to just being a musical genius. You had to go and make a Roger Ebert-approved picaresque cult classic too. True Stories is based on Byrne’s drawings of supermarket tabloid articles found on tour with the Talking Heads, and follows a cast of wacky characters as they navigate human drama in the fictional hamlet Virgil, Texas, set to a banging soundtrack featuring the likes of Meredith Monk, Terry Allen, and of course Talking Heads. John Goodman stars as Louis Fyne, a sad-sack romantic country singer/office worker looking for a wife, alongside a happily married couple who never speak to each other, one Miss Rollings who never leaves her bed, a manic conspiracist preacher, a Tejano singer who can hear people’s “tones” (as Byrne himself claimed to in college), and so many more. Byrne himself appears as a narrator in a red convertible, giving the film a kitschy storybook quality that lands thanks to its meticulous execution. Comforting in its absurdity, it’s a film that plants so many visual, auditory, and philosophical Easter eggs you can’t help but be inspired to make something afterwards. Austinite Anne Rapp, script supervisor on the film, joins AFS on April 24 to provide reminiscences of the shoot. – Lina FisherApril 24 & 27
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Austin Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble
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“Brave New Textiles”
Indeed a reference to Aldous Huxley’s renowned 1931 dystopian novel, Bolm Arts’ latest multi-artist exhibit tackles the ever-evolving questions of naturalism, commercialism, and personal and national identity reflected in the contemporary fiber world. Curated by textile artist Amanda Fay and painter Stephanie Mervine, this Eastside gallery showcases 10 Central Texas creatives, including sustainable yarn worker Bitter Hag, upcycled fashion and visual/performance Renaissance person Corinne Loperfido, and interdisciplinary artist Jonas Criscoe. Loperfido hosts a separate pop-up shop during Thursday’s opening reception, while author Nicole Josephine Kline presents an open mic poetry night the following day. Carys AndersonApirl 17-May 3Bolm Arts Gallery, 5305 Bolm Rd. Bay 9 -
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“Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024”
Across politics and pop culture, depictions of queer Black life most often emphasize pain, if not patronization. “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy,” a multimedia exhibition presented by UT-Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies, flips the script, offering a century’s worth of works that focus instead on Black joy. Organized around seven themes – Portraiture, Beyond Figuration, Dance and Movement, Spirituality, Sex and Sensuality, Black Queer Futures, and Altered States – the works of over four dozen artists remind us that even in the face of adversity, we can achieve transcendence. – Carys AndersonThrough May 9Christian-Green Gallery, 201 E. 21st St. & Idea Lab, 210 W. 24th St. -
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Barton Creek Farmers Market
A great selection of local farmers bringing fabulous pastured meats, eggs, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, plus prepared-food vendors, artisans, bakers, and of course, live music.Sundays, 9am-1pm. Free.4805 Hwy. 290 W., Sunset Valley (Kohl's parking lot)