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Ah, here it comes again – the final weekend of the annual competition that brings all the ATX funny to one stage, at least sequentially, in order to determine who's gonna wear the cape and crown. Oh! Who's gonna be the winnah? Who's gonna be the champeen? This is the last weekend of semifinals, followed by Monday night's ultimate battle for stand-up supremacy. We've been ranting at you for the last several issues to make your reservations, citizen! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

The Cohen New Works Festival is a biennial, weeklong showcase of new work created by students at UT Austin, held in various locations in and around campus. Featuring more than 30 new works across multiple disciplines, the festival represents the spirit of creativity, innovation, and community – especially as embodied by the university's Department of Theatre and Dance. See our latest report on the festival right here.

This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.

Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.

Here's a free Monday night diversion from that San Marco-based non-illusory theatre troupe, (Re)Appropriate.

Here's a new and detailed look at the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America, showing how it transformed the homes and lives of ordinary people and how it continues to influence modern design.

Participate in an immersive experience from the mind of filmmaker Cyrus Sutton. This virtual reality production, co-written by Sutton and astrophysicist Jon Swift, combines nature footage and practical effects to bring patterns in the universe into sharp relief.

Here's an original exhibition featuring aerial images captured by photographer Jay B. Sauceda during a six-day flying journey around the state. This show highlights the beauty of Texas borderlands and explores the process of capturing the images.

Here's the 15th annual exhibition at Austin City Hall, presenting a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by 113 local artists. This year, the exhibition includes a special selection of photographs: The Bold Beauty Project of Texas, featuring images of Texas women with disabilities taken by photographers from across the state.

Local artists including Brad Ellis, Hayley Mitchell, John Maisano, Kevin Greer, Maxine Price, and Ash Almonte offer a group show to benefit Hopefully Sow.

Bumin Kim's thread and string become the media to explore many of the same questions usually investigated with paint, examining the nature of line beyond the two-dimensional surface into three-dimensional space.