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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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    Star Wars Trivia

    Star Wars Day has come and gone (May the 4th Be With You, now and forever), but Get It Games has found another reason to celebrate: George Lucas’ birthday. Prove just how much of your brain has been ceded to George’s iconic space opera franchise with a night of trivia hosted by Get It at Pinthouse Pizza’s South Lamar location. The questions will be mostly focused on the film properties, costumes are encouraged, and you’ll need to come with a fully charged phone for contactless mobile scoring. Also, you’re probably going to want to cram all of Tuesday’s Andor drop in one sitting; we’re betting the spoilers will be strong with this crowd. – Kimberley Jones
    Wed., May 14
    Pinthouse Pizza

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      Visual Arts

      Sev Coursen: “Portable Objects”

      For the 45th in their ongoing Window Dressing series, ICOSA pretties up their outward facing exhibition space with the work of Austin-based artist Sev Coursen. Viewable from this coming Monday until next Sunday are Coursen’s many foldable objects, created by him to be “self-contained sculptures” which may collapse, travel, and expand at the whims of their presenting environment. These expansion and collapsing points come from multiple features, including hand-milled wooden articulated hinges. Swing by to see these wonders through ICOSA’s front window, or pop in on May 16 to meet the artist at his reception, 7-9pm. – James Scott
      May 12-18
      ICOSA

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Cine Las Americas

      Newly in the news as one of many Austin arts organizations impacted by the National Endowment of the Arts’ slash-and-burn of arts funding, Cine Las Americas deserves our support now more than ever. But hey – we’re getting plenty in return: namely, a top-flight film festival celebrating Latine/x, Indigenous, and Latin American voices. But wait, there’s more!This year, Cine is launching its first ever concurrent conference, with fireside chats, workshops, and more taking place May 16-17. See some terrific movies, learn from industry vets like Elizabeth Avellán and David Blue Garcia, and feel good about supporting a community thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. Them’s wins all around. It all kicks off Wednesday with opening night film Take It Away, Adrian Alejandro Arredondo and Myrna Perez’s documentary about Johnny Canales, the Tejano singer and taste-making host of The Johnny Canales Show.
      Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18
      AFS Cinema, Austin PBS, and City of Austin PDC Center

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      Greetings From Queer Mountain: Show & Tell

      Ellie DeCaprio hosts another edition of queer storytelling, this time themed around whatever cool crap you’ve got lying around. Plus, ASL interpretation.
      Wed., May 14, 8pm
      Cheer Up Charlies

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      Special Screenings

      Hereditary (2018)

      Ari Aster’s directorial debut set off a reinvigoration of arthouse horror and catapulted A24 to fame as the most relevant production company of the last decade. It also gave me an entirely sleepless night upon first viewing. Toni Collette’s performance as both a terrifying and deeply sympathetic grieving mother steals the show, but Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff as her creepy children anchor the real horror of this family drama-turned-supernatural nightmare. The sharp, cacophonous saxophone score will linger in your ear, and one chilling scene will have you checking the corners of your ceiling long after the film ends. A true modern horror classic, it deserves to be seen in the theatre for the collective shock it elicits from first-time viewers. – Lina Fisher
      May 9-14
      Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane

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      Special Screenings

      One Crazy Summer (1986)

      In a special pre-summer session of Drafthouse’s midweek weird-out, local filmmaker Andrew Bujalski presents an Eighties oddball object known best perhaps by the talents it begets. There is, of course, John Cusack in the lead role – also playing as director Savage Steve Holland’s muse despite his claim that his first outing with Holland, Better Off Dead, was “the worst thing I have ever seen.” Granted, that’s a paraphrased quote from the director, but despite previous objections, Cusack still returned to him as high school grad Hoops McCann, whose lack of a b-ball scholarship fuels a balls-out summer. Hijinks, as you might imagine, ensue. – James Scott
      Wed., May 14
      Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

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      Nightlife & Parties

      Tales of the Stiletto Coast: Season Finale

      Drag D&D hits new heights at this epic ending of Stiletto Coast’s current seafaring storyline. Cast members Gemma Nye, Pumpking, and Tangelo are joined by special guests Anarch Kye, Karabiner, Senior Sissa Muerta, and Slaylem.
      Wed., May 14, 7pm
      Vigilante Gastropub & Games

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      Special Screenings

      The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

      True story: On first viewing, I watched the third act of director Elaine May’s dark rom-com with my fist in my mouth. A real seat squirmer, this one. Most attribute the cringe comedy power to lead actor Charles Grodin, whose feckless salesman groom leaves his new bride sunburnt in their honeymoon suite in order to pursue a young Cybill Shepherd. However, the magic here is all May: Her empathetic yet clear-eyed portrayal of her films’ boorish Peter Pans makes for great – if nerve shredding – cinema, as does her bold choice to cast her own daughter, Jeannie Berlin, as the shunned bride. – James Scott
      Wed., May 14
      Hyperreal Film Club

    • Music

      Tribulation, Early Moods, Final Gasp, Unreqvited

      A sadomasochist must’ve booked Tribulation’s North American razing: 21 gigs between May 1 and 25. Austin’s midpoint performance at least comes with a day off to get here from Phoenix. All the better, because a decade-plus of live sieges from the Swedish metallics – including a driving thunderstorm outside at Barracuda – needs prep for another local sundering. Sixth full-length in 21 years, Sub Rosa In Aeternum continues the “Melancholia” melodiousness begun on 2015’s The Children of the Night and peaking three years later on Down Below. Now, the Stockholm quartet goes full-on goth and naturally so, from Bauhaus batman Peter Murphy to Type O Negative martyr Peter Steele. Strap IN.: – Raoul Hernandez
      Wed., May 14, 7pm  
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      Come & Take It Live

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      Nightlife & Parties

      Twerking for Titties

      Owie hosts a fundraising function featuring raffles, drag, poetry, burlesque, and – obvi – a twerk contest. Plus, Dub Trub happy hour all day.
      Wed., May 14, 7pm
      Double Trouble
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