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Emancipet Summer Photo Contest
Emancipet is looking for dogs and cats with purrfect summer style to enter the Emancipet Summer Photo Contest for a chance to win awesome prizes! Enter your pet with a $10 donation to Emancipet and cast your votes online. All funds raised help Emancipet provide affordable, accessible veterinary care. There are three categories to enter: Dapper Dogs, Cool Cats, and Playful Pack! Prizes include amazing products from YETI, Healthy Pet, and Emancipet.July 20-Aug. 7Emancipet
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Comedy
ColdTowne TV: Fridays & Saturdays Live
The stage on Airport might be dark, citizen, but the stars of that laugh factory near Mrs. Johnson's Doughnuts are shining bright every Friday and Saturday night on ColdTowne TV! Tune in for this variety show format and drop a few bucks in the virtual tip jar to keep local comedy alive.Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm. Donations accepted. -
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Early Voting for July 14 Election
Early voting for the July 14 primary run-off and Senate District 14 election concludes July 10. Get a sample ballot and polling place locations via the county clerk's website, and find out more about what's on the ballot at austinchronicle.com/elections. -
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Food Events
Andiamo Ristorante: Private Dining Rooms Available
Reckon, if you're going to dine out, this private room deal (10 people minimum, 18 maximum) is among the safer options in town. It's $50 per person ($25 more gets you wine pairings), and the food'll be great, because – well, Andiamo, right? Listen: fried ravioli; tropical salad; fettucine with saffron, shrimp, scallions, and asparagus; a trio of beef, duck, and lamb with balsamic mint sauce; and, for dessert, panna cotta. Need we add, mmmmmmmmm? -
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Austin ISD Meals During Closures
All Austin ISD meal sites are closed July 6-10. If you or someone you know has an AISD student in need of emergency food while meal sites are closed, please visit bit.ly/KeepAISDKidsFed to find community resources, including locations and hours for meals at temporary food distribution locations. For additional food resources in Austin, families are encouraged to contact the Central Texas Food Bank, visit ConnectATX.org or dial 2-1-1 for assistance. Austin ISD meal sites will resume service on Monday, July 13.Mon.-Fri., July 6-10Citywide -
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Classical Music
Austin Opera: Live From Indy Terrace
This weekly series features livestreamed performances from local stars of the vocal stage – they've already showcased Elena Villalon, Mela Sarajane Dailey, Claudia Chapa, Will Liverman, Kyle Albertson, and more.Fridays, 3pm. Free. -
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Austin Theatre Alliance Summer Auction
The nonprofit organization that manages the Paramount and Stateside theatres has launched an online auction to help protect and ensure the eventual reopening of the historic Austin venues. Up for bidding are a bevy of beverage kits, a private house concert with Austin's own Guy Forsyth, a chance to see your own message on the legendary Paramount marquee, and lots more. View the items and bid online, or just make a donation.Through July 17, 4pmOnline -
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Food Events
Austin's Pizza x Easy Tiger: Time for Dessert
Be aware that new Easy Tiger desserts are now available at four Austin’s Pizza locations including Westlake, Four Points, William Cannon, and Cuernavaca, with plans to expand to more locations soon. We're talking specifically about the big chocolate chip cookie, the turtle cookie, and those scrumptious brownies and blondies. And you already know how good the Tiger's bready wares are, so, ah, what are you waiting for? A better pandemic? -
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BakingForGood.org: Black Art Matters
The Austin-based baking nonprofit BakingForGood.org has joined forces with the Austin Creative Alliance to present an auction-style bake sale (with 45 volunteer bakers!) as a fundraiser for Black Art Matters ATX. With Barton Springs Mill and Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches among the sponsors of this community-forward, palate-pleasing gig, we reckon it'll send shivers of joy through your favorite breadbox.July 6-11. Citizen, place your bid. -
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Visual Arts
Camiba Art: Signs
Currently open by reservation only, yes, but you should have no reservations about seeing this stunning exhibition by Dallas native Lee Albert Hill. You want an eyeful of big, bright abstractions via acrylics on canvas over board, handwrought yet almost machinelike in their meticulous design and execution? You probably do, especially in this case. Because it's like … um … like if someone hired Mike Hinge and Bill Sienkewicz to show how well tangrams could be used to illustrate subatomic events from CERN's bubble chamber – and then threw a fistful of chaos shards at the collaboration's results. The accompanying image here is one miniaturized example; imagine seeing a roomful of such intricacies at full size. Hell, imagine scheduling a private viewing of this show with gallerist Troy Campa: That's some solid pandemic diversion right there, tell you what. (And your man Brenner rhapsodizes a bit further about it in this review.)Through July 11 -
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Comedy
Cap City Comedy Club: Chris Tellez
Yes, Cap City's open again – but with restrictions in place, of course. You know the drill, right? Not the Black & Decker, but the masks, the social distancing, and so on? As if to slow the continuing corona-roll to a manageable level? And of course the bar remains closed. But Cap City's big room is hosting its second live show since the pandemic kibosh came down, and this show is headlined by Austin's own Chris Tellez. Note: Reserved tables of 2-4 only.July 8-11. Wed.-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $30 and up. -
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Family Eldercare's Fan Drop-Off Parade
Decorate your cars, vans, trucks, dogs, and kids to deliver donations of fans and funds for Central Texans who can’t afford or don’t have A/C. Join KXAN and Central Texas Honda dealers for this unique no-contact Summer Fan Drive event.Fri., July 10, 7am-1pm & 4-6pmCentral Texas Honda dealerships; see list online -
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Flatbed Press: Over My Head
That Austin epicenter of the printing arts presents a new exhibition of woodcuts by Ben Muñoz, featuring his series called The Endless Endeavor. These stunning woodcuts are 100-by-52-inches, the massive pieces communicating both in scale and content the idea of life being larger and much more than ourselves. Flatbed and Muñoz "are eager for the artist and individuals to talk about the content of his work one-on-one;" reserve your meeting with the artist for July 24 or July 25; other appointments for multigenerational groups of four or fewer can be scheduled here.Through July 29. Wed.-Fri., 10am-5pm. Free. -
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Classical Music
Invoke in Pieces
The mighty men of this eclectic quartet may be sheltering in place, but that's not keeping them from making music together on the interwebs. Listen to each member of Invoke play solo sets for each other, livestreamed on Twitch and YouTube.Fridays, 7pm. Donations accepted. -
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Visual Arts
Northern-Southern: Fuzzy Forces
That meticulous creator Laura Lit is working now, producing fast and focused bursts of drawing with colored pencils, pieces that are reminiscent of her paintings for the "After Images" show at this excellent gallery. The new compositions "seem sentient, astral manifestations of spirit visitors," we're told. But we're too earthbound to cotton to such descriptors and are instead merely like, "Daaaaamn, these drawings are gorgeous!" Which is why this news is exciting: The Northern-Southern website and Instagram will feature one new drawing every Friday until Lit completes the series. -
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Online Classes With Esquina Tango
Nonprofit Esquina Tango has taken their programming online via Zoom and Facebook Live. There's something going on every day, so check out the full list of donation-based classes and choose from conversational Spanish or Portuguese, salsa aerobics, and, of course, tango.Daily; times varyOnline -
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Tattoo Storyteller Time
This popular YouTube channel interviews MLB players, porn stars, Emmy/ Oscar winners, and everyday folk about their tattoos. Now they'll be in Austin for one day only (Sat., July 11) and could maybe interview you, citizen. Contact John Wagner via email with a picture of your ink ASAP!Tue., July 7 -
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Food Events
Texas Monthly's Happy Hour Series
This seven-week series from one of the country's favorite magazines features summer cocktail creations from an array of Texas’ finest bartenders (in Austin, DFW, Houston, and San Antonio). But this isn’t just any drinking series, it’s also an opportunity for these mixologists to shed light on the causes that matter most to them. (Most recently: Austin’s Robert Bjorn Taylor, an African-American bartender at ARRIVE Hotels & Restaurants, kicked off the series with a scotch-based drink – the Robert Royale – and encouraged donations to Black Lives Matter.) You want a virtual date with the best and brightest and most whistle-wetting the Lone Star State has to offer? Each Friday debuts a new video and recipe for you to imbibe along at home with – and we heartily recommend it.Fridays, through Aug. 14. Free.www.texasmonthly.com
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Arts & Culture
"We'll Just Rock For Ourselves" Virtual Exhibit
The Austin History Center's phenomenal 2018 exhibit on the late photographer Lisa Davis is now available online for your viewing pleasure. Davis' photos and videos capture the grrrls grrrls grrrls of Austin's lezzie rock scene in the Nineties. Revisit our review of the exhibit here, and don't forget to check out our interview with former Chronicle senior editor and "Gay Place" founder Kate X Messer, who was a key figure in curating her collection.Free.Online -
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Out of Town
60th Anniversary Summer Celebration
All summer long, Natural Bridge Caverns is celebrating six decades of discovery. There are several tours and attractions, including the new Twisted Trails adventure course and a chance to pan for treasures just like gold miners.Through Aug. 23. $10-30. -
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Out of Town
A New History of Old Texas
Brandon Steele begins his third season of the popular history podcast with the story of Cabeza de Vaca’s journey in the wilderness of Texas.New episodes air Mondays and ThursdaysOnline -
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
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A Spacious Place
A variety of programming including Young Artists and Young Writers clubs, activity pack delivery, and accessible art activities for seniors is all available online.OngoingOnline -
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Special Screenings
AFS Cinema Virtual Screenings
The quality programming you've come to expect from AFS Cinema is available virtually, and online ticket purchases will help ensure it can reopen so you can visit again in person.OngoingOnline via www.austinfilm.org -
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Akirash Online
Sure, Austin's Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya aka AKIRASH has an exhibition at the Carver Museum right now – and the place is closed, of course. But this Lagos-born artist also happens to have one of the most robust websites around, though you'll need a mighty big screen to get the best effect of his huge and colorful mixed-media creations and performance pieces. -
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Kids
Alamo Kids Club Fun at Home
For the junior cineastes who are missing Alamo Drafthouse's Kids Club, they've got an online treasure trove of family-film-centric activity sheets and booklets you can print at home. Children can learn about all the animals from The Lion King, play the Frozen II memory card game, make their own thaumatrope, and so much more. And if the kiddos want to share their work, snap a photo and tag it #AlamoAtHome on Instagram and Twitter.At home -
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Alamo on Demand
Make any Tuesday terror-iffic, any Wednesday weird, and the rest of the week fantastic with Alamo Drafthouse curated picks via Alamo on Demand. If a film is there, it's because an Alamo programmer loves it. It's kinda like going to your favorite video store when you could do that, mixed with going to your favorite theatre, when you could do that too. Staff picks, cult classics, Found Footage Fest and Master Pancake, Weird Wednesday and Terror Tuesday, Fantastic Fest faves, they're all there for rental or purchase.OngoingOnline via ondemand.drafthouse.com -
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ARR Suspends Bulk Collection
After resuming for three weeks, bulk and brush collection through Austin Resource Recovery is once again suspended. However, if you've already received notice of collection in your area from July 6-24, it will still be provided. Get updates via the website or ARR's mobile app.As of Mon., July 6Citywide -
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Kids
Art Garage Online Art Lessons
The Art Garage is offering online art classes for little ones, and they've got kits you can order to work on at home. Learn to make homemade play dough, explore art from around the world, and more. Follow them on Facebook for details.Online
