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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-10pm  
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    Lockhart, Texas

  • 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 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center
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  • Arts

    Theatre

    420 Easter Oddity

    Here's the new live musical from Austin's irrepressible Wild Bill Ogden, debuting with two shows on Easter Sunday. Watch, agog, as the ever-wholesome Dandy family frantically attempts to make it to church on time for Easter Sunday.
    Sun., April 17, 2 & 7pm  
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    Sagebrush

  • Music

    Drain Gang

    Existing outwardly only as ethereal sprites coursing through the deep web, Sweden’s mysterious, post-human boy band seemed for the longest time to confound the very notion of live performance. Should one have eardrums barricaded against contracting aural epilepsy from blindingly bright trance beats and Bladee’s, Ecco2K’s, and Thaiboy Digital’s piercingly high registers (that is to say, should one be younger than 25), their first world tour is not to be missed – if only for sheer improbability. Recent albums have seen the collective guide their alien aesthetic away from numbed-out, cloud-rap hedonism and toward a curiously earthen art-pop zen, perfect for digital springtime.
    Sun., April 17, 8pm
    Emo's

  • Food

    Food Events

    Fierce Whiskers: Songkran + Pi Mai

    Fierce Whiskers Distillery, besides boasting a fine line of spirits, is a wonderful venue of dining and fresh-air relaxation on the southeast side of this city. And now, matching the season to the succulence, the newest installment of their Chef Series is a Songkran / Pi Mai festival with chef Thai Changthong and chef Mia Li from Thai Kun and chef Bob Somsith from SXSE Food Co. Experience the Songkran and Pi Mai festivals and amazing live-fire dishes including whole roasted pig, Thai-style octopus, and more. Tickets bring access to the festival, all food stations, and two cocktails from the night's special drinks menu.
    Sun., April 17, 3 & 5:30pm. $125.  
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    Fierce Whiskers Distillery

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Lifted

    "In a dystopian near-future, birds have returned from their recent extinction to carry a teenage boy off into the sky, leaving his father, girlfriend and twin brother searching for answers." This Charlie Thurston play is directed by Elizabeth V. Newman and features James Lindsley, Madison Palomo, and J. Kevin Smith for Filigree Theatre.
    Through April 17. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $32.  
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    906 Koerner

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Mandy (2018)

    Red (Cage) goes on a bloody rampage of revenge in this instant cult classic.
    Sun., April 17, 7:30pm  
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    Alamo Drafthouse Village

  • Arts

    Comedy

    Moontower Comedy Festival

    If the proverbial 800-pound gorilla were weaponized, this would be its manifestation as living embodiment of the nation's comedy-industrial complex – now smack in the center of your own Downtown. Reigning supreme in the scene with more laughter than the King in Yellow has lack of masks, this annual conflagration brings the biggest and best names from all over, adds a happy helping of equally wise locals, and sets 'em onstage all over town (with the venerable Paramount as the epicenter) for your giggling diversion from humanity's headlong plummet toward the grave. More than 150 comics in more than ten venues for more than ten days – and who the hell's gonna survive the afterparties with less than a Krakatoa in their morning-after skull? We've got a plethora of solid coverage for you right here, but – do check the festival website for details.
    April 13-24. $99 and up.  
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    Paramount Theatre

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Rear Window (1954)

    Flashback Cinema: One of the best from the master of suspense.
    Sun., April 17, 2:15pm  
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    iPic Theaters Austin

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Selfie! The Musical

    This new musical by Rembert Block is equally whimsical and profound as its iconic characters – Ugly Selfie Girl, Dude Face, Chasing Sunsets – grapple with identity, image, and narcissism in our hyped-up times. Directed by Bonnie Cullum for the Vortex and Ethos, the show features live music by Brooklyn-based band Rembert and the Basic Goodness.
    Through April 17. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-35.  
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    The Vortex

  • Community

    Out of Town

    Sherwood Forest Faire

    Come to the country and be prepared to be wowed by the shows, jousting, artisans, and music.
    Weekends, March 5-April 24  
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    McDade

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    testsite: Flotsam and Jetsam

    The two pieces in "Flotsam and Jetsam" are just that: a castaway – a recreation of John Risley's Three Panel Screen, 1960 – and a newly salvaged version, Imposter Screen, 2022, made sixty years later by the artist's son Jack Risley. This exhibition considers the question of how much an artist recognizes and gives attribution to their sources.
    Through May 1. Sundays, 3-5pm
    Testsite

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

    Scorsese's masterpiece explores Jesus' human side and was controversial upon its release.
    Sun., April 17, 6:20pm  
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    Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    The Plastic Bag Store

    Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)
    Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25.  
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    Blue Genie Art Bazaar

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Edward Albee’s masterwork has been shocking audiences since it premiered on Broadway in 1962. Produced here by City Theatre, with direction by Karen Sneed and featuring Cal Kraines, Chiara McCarty, Meredith O’Brien, and Rick Smith.
    Through May 1. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25.  
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    Trinity Street Theatre
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