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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, 2025  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • 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
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    AFS Doc Days

    Austin Film Society’s annual spotlight on new nonfiction films presents a real conundrum: Which of the 10 selected works are you going to prioritize? Because they all sound pretty terrific. How about opening night selection Middletown, about high schoolers investigating an environmental scandal, from the Boys State filmmakers? (Bonus: They’re doing a post-film Q&A with KUT’s Jerry Quijano.) Or Friday’s Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo’s documentary tracking a wild-sounding quadrangle: a husband, his mistress, his wife, and the woman she hires to go undercover and break up the affair? Or Sunday’s Architecton, an A24 art film about concrete? Excellent choices, all. Maybe go for the win and hit all 10. – Kimberley Jones
    May 1 - 4
    AFS Cinema

  • Music

    Almost Famous - A Soundtrack Party w/ Important Group (Guardians of the Galaxy tribute), Daphne Tunes & Friends (The Royal Tenenbaums tribute), SKATELAND (Top Gun tribute)

    It’s movie night at Hotel Vegas! Set up for a triple feature – or, really, three 30-minute sets – of local bands’ takes on film soundtracks. Skateland’s bedroom pop sensibilities set him up to tackle the Eighties glitz of the Top Gun (think Berlin, but also Kenny Loggins). Daphne Tunes has an embarrassment of riches with Royal Tenenbaums: Nico, Elliott Smith, and the Ramones make appearances, alongside earworm film originals from the GOAT Mark Mothersbaugh that they could apply their sunny, melodic guitar work to. Important Group, featuring some friends from Being Dead, take on the Seventies rock of Guardians of the Galaxy, with the chance to interpret both Redbone and David Bowie. Get your popcorn ready. – Abby Johnston
    Thu., May 1, 7:30pm. $15 cover (21+).
    Hotel Vegas

  • Qmmunity

    Nightlife & Parties

    Hard Rubber

    The returning techno and trance titan breaks in a new venue with a Berlin legend in MCMLXXV, aka “The Unpronounceable.” DJs Angel Doll and Thugbait play as local heroes. Advice from the organizers: “Leave your shirts at home.”
    Thu., May 1, 9pm
    Kingdom Nightclub

  • Arts

    Books

    Jorge Antonio Renaud: The Restlessness of Bound Wrists

    Jorge Antonio Renaud is a rather mythic figure among local criminal justice activists. The current editor of the Caldwell/Hays Examiner, Renaud spent 27 years in Texas prisons, winning numerous writing awards while incarcerated. Upon his release, he earned a master’s degree in social work from UT-Austin and worked for Grassroots Leadership, LatinoJustice, and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, authoring studies and legislation addressing our state’s prison addiction. He now introduces a poetry collection titled The Restlessness of Bound Wrists. The book launch – hosted at Red Salmon Arts Casa de Resistencia in Montopolis – will include music, tamales, face paintings, and a poetry reading from Adelie Donovan, the 2025 Hays County Youth Poet Laureate. – Brant Bingamon
    Thu., May 1
    Red Salmon Arts, 2000 Thrasher Ln.

  • Arts

    Dance

    Kaleidoscope

    Each turn of a kaleidoscope reveals a new world – new amalgamations of shape and color. It’s an appropriate description for Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerata’s annual spring showcase, a performance that changes in music and choreography without losing luster. The jewels of performance just shift into a new configuration: still bright, still entrancing. This electric world of dance and chamber music is made even more magnificent with free signature cocktails. Now in its third iteration, Kaleidoscope promises shifting artistic fancy, so close you can practically touch the performers (but you know, definitely don’t do that).: – Cat McCarrey
    May 1 - 3  
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    KMFA 89.5FM

  • Music

    May Day w/ Molly Ringworm, Tank Division, Leche

    Specializing in small, smaller, and teeny tiny presses, Alienated Majesty has proven itself to be one of Austin’s most vital bookstores. For May Day, look for 30% off in the Politics and History section and an evening of loud, fast music via Leche’s no-fi hardcore, Molly Ringworm’s throat-ripping d-beat, and Tank Division’s straight-edge rage, along with zine readings between sets. Doors at 6pm. A $10 suggested donation goes to the bands. – Joe Gross
    Thu., May 1, 7pm. $10 cover (all ages).
    Alienated Majesty Books

  • Arts

    Dance

    Texas Burlesque Festival

    When cultural reactionaries have entered the fray, can there be any greater act of rebellion than boobs, butts, and the sound of clothes hitting the ground to thunderous applause? As it enters its 18th year, the Texas Burlesque Festival is letting it all hang out for freedom. “It’s scary times out there for performers of our ilk,” said festival director Lynn Raridon. “Now more than ever you need to be coming and seeing and enjoying the fantastic release that burlesque brings.” With 90% of this year’s performers coming from outside Austin or Texas, it’s truly a national event. But there’ll always be space for Austinites, including familiar local faces like Ruby Lamb and Ryder Strong. Every year there’s even a local headliner, and this year that rumpshaking honor goes to Fat Bottom Cabaret, with founder and director Nikki DaVaughn serving as Friday night’s emcee. – Richard Whittaker
    May 1-3
    Kick Butt Coffee, Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center

  • Music

    Texas Dungeon Siege Day 1 w/ Crypt 3000, Emberwilde, Grim Father, Klokhet, Skullbasher

    Hark all ye rogues and wenches, the Texas Dungeon Siege is upon us! The finest medieval musicians from across the land gather for four nights of merriment. What makes this music medieval, you ask? Take a look at these names. Oregon’s Grim Father and New York’s Earthen Shield shall join local bands Thronos, Goblet Grotto, Skullbasher, and more for an audible feast. Delight in hypnotic synths to guide you through the enchanted forest, indie pop for practicing your tavern jig, and thrashing metal to soundtrack your duels. Escape our mortal coil for one of war and whimsy at Tiny Minotaur and Elysium. – Caroline Drew
    Thu., May 1, 8pm  
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    Elysium

  • Arts

    Comedy

    Yola Lu: Dumb Asian

    Yola Jean Lu is an old hand at what works on the Austin comedy stage. She co-founded the Best of Austin-winning Y’all We Asian improv; performs weekly with improv troupe Garage; and recently had the Austin debut of her one-woman Edinburgh Fringe Fest show Help! My Vagina Is Trying to Kill Me. Easy road would be to coast on all those glorious successes, but Lu wouldn’t have scored such accolades as 2022 BOA Best Actress by takin’ it easy. Instead, her upcoming hour features all new material, which after being workshopped by all y’all audience members will be recorded for Lu’s first-ever comedy album. Bring your feedback – and laughter – to the ColdTowne stage this Thursday. – James Scott
    Thu., May 1
    ColdTowne Theater
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