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for Mon., Sept. 2
  • Meet Co-ops Transforming Austin's Food System

    The co-op model offers an alternative to low wages and high turnover. Taste food from new local co-ops free from 2-4 p.m. Learn what it means to be a values-focused restaurant, farm, bakery, or grocery store. Hear about cooperation across the food system, worker-consumer collaboration, and success stories.
    Sat. June 21, 2pm-4pm  
    Dell Jewish Community Center
  • Junkyard Nights w/ Tele Novella, Theo Lawrence, and Cazayoux

    Junkyard Nights is Junkyard's second annual Fundraising Event and this year features Tele Novella, Theo Lawrence, and Cazayoux. Come help them raise money for their JUNKPOD program, transformed city buses into FREE and accessible rehearsal and work spaces for Austin musicians and venue owners. Doors at 6pm.
    Thurs. June 26, 6pm-Midnight  
    Hole in the Wall
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Adieu Philippine (1963)

    If you had to guess the plot to a 1962 French New Wave film, what would it be? Right: a love triangle. In Adieu Philippine, the trio in question is made up of two best friends and a TV assistant looking for a good time before shipping off for mandatory military service in the hugely unpopular Algerian War. In 2022, when the film showed at MOMA as part of the series “Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave,” New Yorker film critic Richard Brody suggested that Jacques Rozier’s gem was forgotten because it was ahead of its time: “It’s a film that belongs to its historical moment but also reflects it from the outside like a magnifying mirror.” It employs the signature techniques of the era – blending documentary and fiction, utilizing first-time actors and improvised dialogue – but feels prescient at the same time. “With his reliance on spontaneity and improvisation, Rozier created something like the primordial version of mumblecore,” Brody wrote. Now that’s a comparison you don’t often hear when you think of the French New Wave. – Lina Fisher
    Mon., Sept. 2
  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979)

    No director has ever launched on so many fool’s errands as Francis Ford Coppola. Enraging the mafia to make The Godfather? Founding indie mega shingle Zoetrope Studios? Disappearing into the Philippines for months to make an abandoned George Lucas project? Okay, so they all mostly paid off, and that last one scored him three Oscar nominations for a little flick called Apocalypse Now. But he’s also had a long history of spectacular failures: Zoetrope going bust, The Cotton Club and Tucker: The Man and His Dream flopping, the beautiful stupidity of Bram Stoker’s Dracula … you catch the drift. So, while we all wait to see whether his latest and maybe last movie, Megalopolis, is masterpiece or disaster, catch his preferred version of his wild anti-war fever dream. – Richard Whittaker
    Sept. 1-2
  • Qmmunity

    Nightlife & Parties

    Joker’s Wild

    Get in your PJs for a show I definitely misread as “Joker’s Mild.” But there’s nothing mild about what the Monday Night Jammie Jam variety show has to offer, with local performers as well as out-of-town talent bringing the best burlesque and more.
    Mon., Sept. 2
  • Qmmunity

    Community

    Labor Gay

    Do you got that summertime sadness? Are you sizzling under the Austin sun? The cure, according to local legend, is dunking yourself in a big hole filled with chlorinated water. Austin Motel’s got you covered, as they play venue to Local Queer ATX and Lonestar Queer’s big Labor Day splash. Cast off capitalism’s shackles for one single day of fun. Enjoy exclusive Lonestar Queer merch benefiting sexual health clinic ASHwell, drag by Lawrie Bird and Owie, DJ sets by Boyfriend ATX and Lavender Thug, and NSFW pool games. Before you ask, I don’t know what will be not-safe-for-work about them. I’m literally at work right now, so I can’t look it up. All this, and it’s free with RSVP? What a way to beat the heat. – James Scott
    Mon., Sept. 2
  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Quest for Camelot (1998)

    One of the many non-Disney animated features that gained traction in the Aughts due to it being, well, not Disney. Quest for Camelot takes Arthurian legend and certainly does Something to it. Here you won’t find the traditional young Arthur finding his way or Merlin casting spells. Instead, the viewpoint swings to the daughter of a round table knight, who vows to take his place once her pops dies in battle. Usual animated movie shenanigans ensue, including throwing big-name actors into the voice cast like Gary Oldman playing bad guy Lord Ruber, Eric Idle and Don Rickles as an occasionally funny two-headed dragon, and Cary Elwes in the love interest role. Special mention to the singing voice cast, which boasts Celine Dion and Journey’s Steve Perry. – James Scott
    Aug. 30 & Sept. 2
  • Music

    YAWN x DSA: Labor Day benefit w/ Big Bill, Slomo Drags, Batty Jr.

    Despite modern perceptions of Labor Day as an end-of-summer free for all, the holiday, in fact, celebrates the work of activists who fought for the rights of the working class. It’s only right, then, that we take the day to help out the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America to the sounds of Austin’s finest weirdo rock. On the lineup: Slomo Drags, who skewer Elon Musk fanboys with glistening synth pop (“Rich Pervert”); Batty Jr., who deliver quirky anti-folk with a Southern twang (“Cocoons”); and Big Bill, whose new LP Strawberry Seed blends punk politics (“Poverty of Wires”) with polished new genre excursions. – Carys Anderson
    Mon., Sept. 2, 9pm
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