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The Juilliard String Quartet with pianist Anna Petrova
With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.Sat. May 17, 7:30pmRiverbend Centre -
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Affordable Art Fair Austin
After a hugely successful first edition, Affordable Art Fair Austin returns May 15-18, 2025 at the Palmer Events Center, showcasing thousands of original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming 55 local, national and international exhibitors, the second edition will be unmissable.May 15-18, 2025Palmer Events Center
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Body Rock ATX 15th anniversary benefiting DAWA w/ Riders Against the Storm & DJ Chorizo Funk, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Kay Cali, Cortez, Kick It, Jamie Dred
Back in 2010, DJ Chorizo Funk and husband-wife hip-hop duo Riders Against the Storm launched BodyRock, an old-school monthly dance party meant to take you back to the block parties hip-hop originated from in the Seventies. In the decade and a half since, these throwdowns have outgrown original host venue Plush (now Chess Club), tried out events at Sahara Lounge and Empire, and even won a Best of Austin Award. Hosted Saturday at Menchaca space Regal Rooms, this anniversary party taps DJs Kay Cali, Cortez, Kick It, and Jamie Dred to warm up the stage for Grammy Award-winning DJ Jazzy Jeff. – Carys AndersonSat., Feb. 22, 9pm -
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A Peculiar Miscellany
E is for Edward, the Goreyest artist, whose dourly Gothic comedic tendencies and Edwardian sensibilities remain as arch as the line of the bat wings he drew. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creator, writer, and illustrator of The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, and The Doubtful Guest with a new group art show at Taylor’s literary refuge for the wistful, mournful, and darkly inclined. As an extra-special tribute to the author and animal lover who once wrote “A book in my hand and a dog by my side … we belong together,” a portion of all sales will go to Texas Critter Crusaders. – Richard WhittakerSat., Feb. 22Curio Mrvosa, 114 N. Main St., Taylor -
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Classical Music
American Splendor
Though a night at the symphony may call to mind mostly long-dead German or French names, the (comparatively young) good ol’ U.S. of A. has its fair share of legendary composers as well. The Austin Symphony pays tribute to those greats of jazz, classical, and the musical with American Splendor, a showcase that begins with Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings, followed by the world premiere of a new American soon-to-be classic, Sam Lipman’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town: Three Dance Episodes follows, and the evening culminates with George Gershwin’s beloved An American in Paris. As a bonus, the latter will feature 112 bars that have never been heard before. – Lina FisherFeb. 21-22 -
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Austin Hip-Hop Awards w/ Voultron, Anastasia Hera, LilJayFromDaO, Yoso, CHHK, Fashion Rebel, Automatikk, Zoe Gabriel
Come suited and booted for the 11th annual Austin Hip-Hop Awards, hosted by Papi Cannon and featuring performances by several local acts. Among them, Voultron will reform, and multi-AHHA winner Anastasia Hera promotes her 2024 release, Way Outside. LiljayFromDaO’s “Blessed,” featuring Chingo Bling and Bunz, arranges an interpolation of “La Bamba” with a mix of Texas trap and Jersey club. YOSO and College of Hip Hop Knowledge, celebrating 10 years of existence, stack the deck. Fashion Rebel isn’t here for playtime, and Zoe Gabriel is a soulful vocalist on the rise. – Kahron SpearmanSat., Feb. 22, 6pm. $45 plated ticket (comes with food). $30 general admission. 21+ age requirement for entry. -
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Austin Rubber Roundup
Find your new and old friends among these enjoyers of all things rubber, with many events planned over the whole weekend like markets & swaps, demos, educational workshops, and parties.Feb. 21-23Multiple locations -
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Austin Stands With Ukraine Rally
The Ukrainian National Women's League of American, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, Liberty Ukraine, and others will gather in front of the Texas State Capitol to mark three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and 11 years of war. If you're appalled by recent presidential efforts to revise history, joining the rally is one way to show solidarity.Sat., Feb. 22, 11am -
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Carnaval Brasileiro
We might be in the middle of a cold snap, but that won’t stop Carnaval-goers from shedding a few layers and inhibitions in solidarity with the traditional Brazilian celebration with a dash of Mardi Gras for spice. The first floor features dancing all night, while upstairs Gisele Duque plays in between performances from the local samba school. Group costumes are encouraged, but a general sense of abandon is pretty much required to make the most of this 47-year-old tradition. – James RenovitchSat., Feb. 22, 8pm -
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Special Screenings
Cry-Baby (1990)
You never forget your first Waters. This throwback Fifties feature was mine, shown to me by my self-proclaimed “weird mom.” A spoof – as John Waters loves to do – of juvenile delinquent tales and Elvis film vehicles, I remember being mesmerized specifically by Traci Lords’ tough-talking Wanda; her red-lips in a perpetual sneer triggered a lifelong love for mean girls. Obviously, there’s a lead-character-shaped elephant in the film whose more recent legal troubles make his bad-boy performance feel … odd, but your mileage may vary vis-à-vis Depp perception. Alamo Drafthouse screens the cult classic through the weekend with an extra drop on Tuesday. – James ScottFeb. 21-23 & 25 -
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Nightlife & Parties
Drag Me to the Tavern
Enjoy a drag fantasy fit for fae royalty with the Sirs Travis Randy Travis and Beau Elliot as well as their star-studded cast.Sat., Feb. 22 -
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Special Screenings
Hyperreal Short Film Fest
Who doesn’t love to watch a movie that’s below the runtime for feature-length? I’m certainly a fan of the quick cinematic bite – although I prefer mine horizontal rather than vertical, sorry Mr. Katzenberg – and HFC has collected quite the spread in their several years of screening local short films ahead of repertory classics. This weekend you’re invited to enjoy 90 whole minutes of jury-selected narrative shorts, each one a special gift from someone’s brain to your eyes. Need to express how cool you find these filmmaker’s works? Hit up the Club on Friday for their opening night party, where you can toast these creators face-to-face while also partaking in a hot dog or two. – James ScottFeb. 21-22 -
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Jugglefest
Texas Juggling Society’s annual celebration of tossing and catching brings together object manipulators of all kinds, including some unique props like diabolos and kendamas. Open to all skill levels, the three-day festival includes workshops, competitions, and a silent auction on a variety of equipment. Just want to see some high-grade performances? Friday night at Brewtorium includes a free, open stage to show off the local skills. Saturday’s big showcase features renowned jugglers from all over the world. – Maryam AhmedFeb. 21-23 -
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Los Lonely Boys, Del Castillo
After a 23-year run catapulted by Grammy-winning single “Heaven” and decorated with a Willie Nelson collaboration, CMT spotlight, and World Series National Anthem performance, the self-defined “Texican Rock & Roll” trio took five. The pandemic-extended bench break broke with an invite to open for the Who in 2022. Now, dusting ashes with Resurrection, Henry (guitar), Jojo (bass), and Ringo (drums) reunite with a 10-track melt of Tejano rhythms, country-blues grooves, Spanglish wordsmithery, and brotherhood bonds fortified over time. The band plays Antone’s Friday, the Paramount Saturday, and an acoustic 04 Center set Sunday. – Amber WilliamsSat., Feb. 22, 8pm -
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Special Screenings
Murdering the Devil (1970)
Ester Krumbachová was a cinematic powerhouse of the Sixties, a Czech New Wave multihyphenate writer, art director, costume designer, and eventual director of her own film, 1970’s Murdering the Devil. She was banned from working during the Eighties by the Czech communist party because of her involvement in A Report on the Party and the Guests, a 1966 political satire directed by Jan Němec, who was ultimately ousted from Czechoslovakia altogether. Krumbachová’s only film, co-written by Němec, is a farcical take on a date from hell, wherein a fortysomething woman decides to romance an old childhood friend who turns out to be (perhaps literally) the devil. – Lina FisherFeb. 21-22 -
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Nosferatu Festival
If you’re still thinking about Robert Eggers’ recent hit Nosferatu, or perhaps Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre, or maybe even F. W. Murnau’s 1922 original, look no further than Austin’s seventh annual Nosferatu Festival. In celebrating the menacing Count Orlok and all things horror, there will be vendors selling an array of spooky items, a vampire short film contest, a vampire look-alike contest, and live music from bands like Zombeast and Ghoultown. No need to wait until October to start lurking in the shadows with like-minded friends. – Mattea GallawayFeb. 21-23 -
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Arts & Culture
OUTsider Fest
OKAY, so the event actually started yesterday, Feb. 19, but there’s still four more days as of our distribution date for you to enjoy all the real weirdos making art over at Butterfly Bar and the Vortex. Last week’s issue featured a fantastic piece from writer Genny Wood on OUTsider’s 2025 Legacy Award winner Julie Tolentino, and that’s only ONE of MANY all-star outsider artists on the lineup. Try local hypno-hype woman Erica Nix’s fest-long hypnosis sessions performed alongside fellow THIS IS NOT A CULT creator Sawyer Stoltz, or this Thursday night’s mega multimedia performance from 2024’s Best Electronica artist p1nkstar – although tonight she goes by her true title Maria Rivera Felizardo. Maybe you wanna catch interdisciplinary artist Lu Coy in their lunar song cycle Becoming the Moon on Friday, or MoHA event programmer Jay Roff-Garcia’s audio-visual performance Revolca’o on Saturday, or even close out the weekend with Kaya Te for a Perreo Combativo Healing Party. Whatever weirdness you want, it’ll be on Manor this weekend. – James ScottFeb. 19-23 -
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Books
Ramadan Storytime with Madeeha Siddiqi
While Ramadan doesn’t fall until next Friday, Feb. 28, it’s never too early to get into the spirit brought on by this season of fasting, prayer, and reflection. Author and second-generation Muslim American Madeeha Siddiqi reads from her new children’s book Goat in a Coat, which follows a cute li’l goat as they spread “generosity, empathy, and community spirit.” Each book also comes with a special toy goat as well as a “Deed of the Day” card deck that gives kiddos ideas for good deeds they can accomplish each day. Siddiqi will also be signing copies of her book at the event. – James ScottSat., Feb. 22 -
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Comedy
Sarah Squirm
Okay, so every show current SNL star Sarah Sherman, aka Sarah Squirm, is performing in our little big town has sold out. No wonder, given her alt appeal as a gross-out artist comic whose clowning around involves bodily fluids and her strong Long Island accent saying the most goofy biz you’ve ever heard. My advice? Check the secondary market to see if anyone is hawkin’ Squirm tix at a 500% markup or arrive day-of at the C&C box office. You never know; you might get lucky! – James ScottFeb. 21-22 -
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Civic Events
Save Texas Schools Rally
Do you care about what happens in our state schools, or do you love kids’ education being underfunded? Because our Texas Lege has been cutting into public school funding for some time now, with an average of $1,300 per student lost since 2019 according to the Save Texas Schools coalition. This weekend, make a stand for public schools among other informed and politically active citizens at this indoor rally featuring speakers like AISD Board of Trustees President Lynn Boswell and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett. – James ScottSat., Feb. 22 -
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Soccer Mommy, Hana Vu
Though the dark electronic textures of 2022’s Oneohtrix Point Never-produced Sometimes, Forever offered a welcome detour, Sophie Allison’s latest album proves that Soccer Mommy’s indie rock bread and butter is truly Evergreen. There are threads connecting the 2024 LP to each release in the artist’s discography, but Evergreen’s pastoral acoustic guitar best recalls the youthful ballads of Clean, the 2018 debut that made Soccer Mommy an indie superstar. Sweet strings boost melancholy lead single “Lost,” an ode to the artist’s late mother, like a mature – but not hardened – follow-up to the lovelorn tracks she broke out with years ago now. Time passes, but earnest guitar music endures. – Carys AndersonSat., Feb. 22, 8pm -
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Nightlife & Parties
Stoplight Party
Third time’s the charm: LGBTQ event organizers Local Queer ATX pop up for their thrice be-thrown stoplight party over at Chups. “What’s a stoplight party?” you ask, my beloved yet clueless Reader. Color yourself with knowledge: A stoplight party is one where you dress in a color that acts as an intention signal to other attendees – you know, like a hanky code but less fetishistically specific. (Do NOT ask me what a hanky code is; just go watch Cruising!) Red means taken, yellow means poly, purple means one-night-stand seeking, and green means go – wait, sorry, it means single and ready to mingle. Obvi, LQ ATX also adds in fun like a Pitch Ur Bitch session, kissing booth, tooth gems, flash tattoos, and tunes spun by DJ Killgxrl. – James ScottSat., Feb. 22 -
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Special Screenings
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
What, like you were going to spend Saturday watching Jurassic Park? Puh-lease: Try watching a real dino movie, where Denise Richards kisses an animatronic theropod! Released the year following Spielberg’s prehistoric blockbuster, this rom-com sci-fi horror features the late Paul Walker for all of like five seconds before his character gets mind-swapped into a robo-Rex, who then attempts revenge on those who attacked him and his beloved. Enjoy the screening as well as Fangoria-hosted horror trivia, where killer prizes are waiting to be excavated. – James ScottSat., Feb. 22 -
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Special Screenings
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Despite none of my friends being able to pronounce her name, I maintain Isabelle Huppert is one of our most important onscreen freaks. Who else can play aggressive repression with just as much verve as unleashed arousal? In two-time Funny Games’ director Michael Haneke’s erotic drama, aptly named for its lead character’s profession, Huppert makes a meal of slow simmering lust and its horrific consequences: her ill-fated affair with a young student rotting the once buttoned-up woman to her basest elements. Perfect for AFS’ Love Month series! – James ScottFeb. 22-23 -
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Nightlife & Parties
Total DOMination: Burlesque
Get a ringside seat for the sixth smackdown hosted by Lucy Lonestar, blending wrestling and drag as the two art forms were always meant to be. With all that dance, drag, and live music, will you be able to smell what these performers have cookin’?Sat., Feb. 22 -
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Books
Who Killed Cupid? Sapphic Singles Murder Mystery
Who needs the usual mix and mingle to find a soulmate when you could solve a murder instead? Sapphic Singles sets up this crime-solving social where you’ll puzzle out who killed Cupid by finding clues and getting to know your fellow queer cuties. Complimentary drinks from Industrious Co-Working helpt to lubricate your deductive reasoning.Sat., Feb. 22Birdhouse Books and Gifts, 5925 Burnet Rd. -
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Food Events
Winter Walkabout 2025
Spending an entire Saturday hanging out and day drinking with your friends is a simple adult pleasure few realize they can experience. All you gotta do, see, is call or text these “friends” – which I’m sure you, handsome and charming Chronicle reader, have in spades – and tell them you want to hit up Southside spot the Yard, where a whole line of delicious drinkeries outweigh the noxious vibes wafting off the Tesla dealership next door. Then you and your compatriots wander the various brewhouses, wine dealers, sake sellers, and seltzer slingers to enjoy their wintry specials for this year’s walkabout theme: By the Fire. Did I mention the overabundance of really, really good food trucks? Yeah, they’re in on the special theme, too. God: Isn’t being alive just great? – James ScottSat., Feb. 22 -
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Theatre
Jersey Boys
When making a jukebox musical out of the memorable back catalog of American pop sensations the Four Seasons, the easy choice – the lazy choice – for Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice would have been to just concentrate on Frankie Valli. After all, he was the most famous member and voice of the Garden State quartet, their success spurred by the falsetto vocals on “Big Girls Don’t Cry” through a decade of hits like “What a Night” and “Sherry.” But what makes the Tony-winning Jersey Boys really stand out from its paper-thin stage biography peers is how all four of the seasons – Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, Nick DeVito, and Valli – get to tell their complicated and sometimes contradictory versions of the history of America’s riposte to the Beatles. – Richard WhittakerThrough March 2 -
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Tomás and the Library Lady
We love true-story stagecraft here at the Chron, such as this play based on Mexican American author Tomás Rivera. Based on the children’s book of the same name by El Paso’s Pat Mora, the play tells of Tomás’ storytelling love developed over years listening to his grandfather tell tales in the fields from Texas to Iowa. After encountering “the Library Lady” during a visit to the Carnegie Library, Tomás and she engage in mutual learning as she encourages him to read and he teaches her Spanish. – James ScottThrough March 2 -
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A. Sinclair, RP & the Royales (album release), Con Man
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