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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, 7:30pm  
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    Riverbend Centre

  • 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, 2025  
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    Palmer Events Center
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  • Music

    Hippo Campus, Hotline TNT

    “Parietal lobe” and “cerebrum” just don’t have the same ring to them, now do they? Minnesotan indie group Hippo Campus made their way to Tokyo, China, and London on their Flood tour last year. In 2025, however, their North American expedition makes sure ATX isn’t forgotten. The last time the band was in town was back in 2023 at the Moody Amphitheater, so if you missed them, here’s your chance to catch them at ACL Live. Latest release Flood maintains a mellow mood with stripes of peppy tracks and acoustic flashes. – Catalina Perez
    Wed., May 21, 8pm  
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    ACL Live at the Moody Theater

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      A New Leaf (1971)

      The first of her four-film directorial career, Elaine May’s dark comedy about wealth, romance, and good taste was a critical if not commercial success. Audiences weren’t ready for Walter Matthau in a sports car, I guess, or maybe they rebuffed a tale of wealth in decline, as Matthau’s playboy Henry Graham has squandered his whole inheritance by the film’s start. In order to keep himself living in the mode he’s become accustomed to, Henry must wed back into wealth, and who might he stumble upon but Henrietta Lowell – a monied botanist (played by May) whose plant knowledge far exceeds her social intelligence. The odds are against them, but that doesn’t stop an unlikely romance from unveiling itself over the 102-minute runtime. – James Scott
      Wed., May 21
      Hyperreal Film Club

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Black Auteur Film Festival

      Founded by Black filmmakers to spotlight the work of their peers, the Black Auteur Film Festival returns – but at a new venue – for a short film showcase, networking mixer, pitch contest, and raffle where all festival attendees can win up to $3,000 in prizes, including free movie tickets and filmmaking workshops.
      Wed., May 21
      AFS Cinema

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

      The greatest question ever asked in an interview was during an episode of Inside the Actors Studio, when host James Lipton asked of Steven Spielberg about CE3K, “Your father was a computer scientist. Your mother was a musician. When the spaceship lands, how do they communicate?” It was at that moment that the director himself realized how much of his family life he had poured into this jaw-dropping science-fiction epic. If you’ve seen The Fabelmans (and, if you haven’t, correct your life now), you’ll know how long it took him to process those emotions of parental obsession, of bridging impossible distances through music. But if you’ve never seen arguably the greatest alien movie ever made, see how he handled it metaphorically, visually, and with a sense of awe. We are truly not alone. – Richard Whittaker
      May 21, 26 & 31
      AFS Cinema

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Crossroads (2002)

      Back in 2002, Britney Spears was on fire, having already sold over 37 million albums including …Baby One More Time and Oops!… I Did It Again. She was definitely overworked and overextended, but was trying her hand at everything and mostly succeeding, and her first and only starring film role was praised, although the film as a whole was critically panned. It’s a lovely little story about three high school grads (Spears, Taryn Manning, and Zoe Saldaña) who cross the country – on roads – as they rekindle their faded friendship and look toward the future. Travel along with them at the Tuesday movie party with props like a road trip map and globe keychain (Village and South Lamar locations only), or if you’re feeling less adventurous, non-MP screenings happen at all the Alamos Monday through Wednesday. – Kat McNevins
      May 19-21
      Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

      In 1973, director Sidney Lumet tapped Al Pacino to play an NYPD detective in Serpico. Two years later he cast Pacino on the other end of the law in Dog Day Afternoon. Groundbreaking in its time – how many Hollywood stars were playing a real-life guy who knocked over a bank in order to pay for his lover’s gender-affirming surgery? – Dog Day is a quintessential zeitgeist movie, expertly capturing the working-class agitation and angst of the 1970s. It’s also funny, thrilling, so very sweaty, and totally tragic. It paired Pacino with John Cazale again – Michael and Fredo reunited, a year after The Godfather Part II forcibly separated them – in Cazale’s next to last film role. They’re both dynamite in one of Lumet’s best. – Kimberley Jones
      May 16 - 21
      Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Mermaids (1990)

      Cher’s Eighties-Nineties film catalog is unmatched, with Moonstruck, The Witches of Eastwick, and, of course, Mermaids. Her brilliance as a free-spirited young mom is grounded by Winona Ryder as her plucky daughter, a Catholicism-obsessed little freak who’s fed up with her mother’s manic pixie philandering ways that land them in a new tiny East Coast town every time she breaks up with someone. Christina Ricci makes her film debut as the youngest daughter, a foil to Ryder’s coming-of-age misadventures who clashes with her family. It’s as heartwarming and zany as other cozy classics of the era like Practical Magic, but comparatively and criminally underseen. With its neurotically sex-obsessed camp, and of course, Cher, it’s ripe for some queer theorizing. [Editor’s Note: This screening’s a Queer Film Theory 101 presentation – but not THAT one. The other one.] – Lina Fisher
      May 18-19, 21
      Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline
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