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TV Head's Art Under $100 Show
Austin's cultural powerhouse known to mortals as Almost Real Things teams up again with graphic provocateur TVHeadATX to offer a night of stunning art that (omg) you can actually afford. And it features more than 50 of Austin's fiercest artists, like ANGRY CLOUD, Asia Renée, Beautifully Chaotic Art, CRAYONXBLOOD, Shannon Purcell, SMACK, Snuk One, and many, many more.Sat., Feb. 25, 6-10pm. $10.820 Shelby #103 -
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A Reading to Celebrate the Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood
Here's a reading that features contributors to the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, with 2019 Texas poet laureate Carrie Fountain, 2020 Texas poet laureate Emmy Pérez, Sasha West, Jasminne Mendez, and Faylita Hicks.Sat., Feb. 25, 6pm. Free. -
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An Evening with Jaston Williams
Jaston Williams is the author and co-actor of the two-person Greater Tuna plays: Greater Tuna; A Tuna Christmas; Red, White, and Tuna; and Tuna Does Vegas.Feb. 25-26. Sat., 2 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $37. -
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ASO: The Music of John Williams
Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, John Williams is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor. Come hear your favorite Williams film scores – The Patriot, The Witches of Eastwick, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and more – performed by the Austin Symphony.Sat., Feb. 25, 8pm. $19 and up. -
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Godspell
You know this beloved musical by Stephen Schwartz, of course, and here's an intimate production directed by Anna Skidis Vargas (with musical direction by Susan Finnigan), featuring an ensemble of St. Ed’s students and Actors’ Equity guest artists Mattie Buzonas and Grammy Award-winner Patrick Hartigan.Through Feb. 26. Thu.-Sat., 7:30-9pm; Sun., 2pm. $15-30. -
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ICOSA: Forever Soup (Perpetual Stew)
This is an exhibition in which UT showcases the work of Advanced Printmaking students – and hosts an (optional) food drive: Bring some canned goods, if you would, for delivery to the Central Texas Food Bank. (They'll feed you, too, during this show.)Sat., Feb. 25, 4-8pm -
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Masquerade of Night: The Red Death
In which the Tiger Den is transformed into a chapel of earthly delights of both divine and infernal proportions in the company of the shadow's most voluptuous, seductive, and dangerous creature: The vampire. Yes, helpless bloodthrall, you, too, are invited to attend this darkling burlesque "in your visions of traditional Venetian masquerade costumes or as creatures of the heavens and nether realms."Sat., Feb. 25, 6pm; 7:45pm; 9:30pm. $50. -
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Mentor Adventure
This concert from the Austin Chamber Music Center features violinist Ruxandra Marquardt, cellist Joel Becktell, and pianist Michelle Schumann performing compositions by Beethoven, Copland, Golijov, and Piazzolla.Sat., Feb. 25, 7:30pm. $12-45. -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: Take Me Home Tonight
Hallelujah, it's Prizer's annual fundraising sale and party, featuring free food and drink, chances to spin the wheel to win prizes, a portrait booth led by Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon, on-site screen printing, and much fun and camaraderie among a fantastic selection of art for sale.Sat., Feb. 25, 5-9pm -
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Serenata Gala: Springtime In Paris
Join Austin Opera’s annual fundraiser to celebrate longtime supporter Polly Barbaro with a four-course dinner by the Four Seasons' executive chef Elmar Prambs, French wines, live and silent auctions, and a performance by mezzo-soprano Claudia Chapa and classical guitarist Arnold Yzaguirre. Bonus: The evening ends with a dance party supercharged by Austin’s Copa Kings.Sat., Feb. 25, 5pm. $250-350. -
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Window Dressing XXV: Corolla Celica 2023
Corolla is a Latin word meaning “small crown,” while Celica is derived from the word coelica, also Latin, meaning “heavenly” or “celestial.” The Corolla and the Celica are two of the most popular cars ever manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota, although exporting of the Celica ceased in July 2005. This "Corolla Celica 2023" window dressing, a series of works by Goodluckhavefun's Timothy McCool, comprises wooden shapes collaged together to evoke suburban and exurban landscapes.Artist Reception: Friday, Feb. 24, 7-9pm
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Art for the People Gallery: Celebration
Experience the energy and beauty of featured wall artist Anne Shackelford’s geode resin art in this visual adventure of work by 38 Austin artists.Through March 24 -
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5. -
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Ballet Austin: Classes
Learn your way to physical grace with a dance class at Ballet Austin. There are so many varieties to choose among – ballet, barre, contemporary dance, hip-hop, tap, cardio dance fitness, Pilates, and more – and all taught by professional instructors. See website for details.$3-7 per class. -
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Big Medium: There – Not There
Here's a collection of graphically powerful work by Marfa's Christina Moser that explores the in-between, a meditation on transition as a constant, exploring the shifting nature of the self and our various thresholds. "A multisensory experience designed to move us internally and physically through space, emotions, and environments," Big Medium tells us – and we concur.Through Feb. 25 -
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Camiba Gallery: Existencia
Be dazzled by recent work from artists Daniel Rodríguez Collazo and Edgardo Kerlegand in this exhibition that showcases both artists’ forms of expression as they relate to the human existence — one on the internal and physical forms of the human figure, the other on the forms that humans create and exist in. Bonus: The opening reception features videos of the artists discussing their practice and process.Through Feb. 25 -
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Cap City Comedy Club
That's right: Cap City Comedy Club, the longtime cornerstone of Austin's comedy scene for nearly four decades is at a new venue in the Domain. And here's Valerie Lopez with a closer look at what's in store for the scene via the venue. Click for details! -
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Cloud Tree: I.C.U.
Yes, Heyd Fontenot's back in town, however briefly after all these years. The artist's stylized nude portraits are prized for their beautiful draftsmanship and unexpected humor, his figurative artwork's been widely exhibited for more than two decades, ever combating religious dogma and conservative hypocrisy to celebrate humanity in all of its lovely imperfection. In this new exhibition, part of 2023's OutSiderFest, the paintings and drawings "present a political argument in favor of bodily autonomy as the artist lays claim to territory for queerness."Through Feb. 26 -
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Co-Lab Projects: To Have and To Hold
Here's an exhibition of new work by Virginia Colwell, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, investigating the ambiguity of truth and fiction in history and archives, using the romanization of the South to examine the deliberate obfuscation of the deep history of enslavement and racism.Through April 1 -
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ColdTowne Theater
ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold. -
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Davis Gallery: Bouff! The Big Tease
New work by B. Shawn Cox is always a delight for the eyes (and a few other senses), and here the masterful painter and arch wit brings a bounty of pop philosophy with a tinge of irony (and much big hair) – inspired by lore, social identity narratives, and childhood memories of his West Texas roots. This show includes the artist's most recent explorations, including oil on fabric, paper cuts, folded paper, and digitally created lenticular collages.Through Feb. 25 -
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East Austin Comedy Club
Founded by comedians Raza Jafri and Andre Ricks, this club that operates out of Tiger Den on the Eastside is the city's only BIPOC-owned comedy venue. -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: The Mother the Witch the Hysteric
Printmaker Annie May Johnston often uses new technologies alongside traditional practices. Here, in collaboration with Elisabet Ney's sculpture of Lady Macbeth, Johnston is considering gendered traits, the supernatural, and pseudoscience, reflecting agency (or the lack thereof) in the processes that generate the works in this show. -
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Fallout Comedy
This hotbed of local performance is carrying on even more than usual, with an eclectic mix of live, mind-rocking comedy from some of Austin's best, all week long. Hey! The place is our cover story, as reported by Valerie Lopez! And, srsly, who would ever disagree with the sentiment of Monday night's Fuck This Week show? Check the website for details. -
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Field Order 15: And Other Broken Promises
Carver Museum ATX presents an exhibit examining the paradox of American exceptionalism and the call for reparations, with film, sculpture, and two-dimensional work from 11 artists who were asked to consider what is required for America to atone for the continued denial of full citizenship to Black people, and what repair would feel like in the body.On view throughout Black History Month. Free. -
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Flatbed Press: Splintered Breath Between the Teeth
In this new solo show, the innovative prints of Kim Kei – the Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography – draw on interrelated biological and geological forms that are embedded in every scale of existence.Through Feb. 25 -
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Fusebox: Fusebash Cloud 9 Teen
Leave the Earth pretty much behind and dine with the Fusebox movers-and-shakers in the clouds for an evening that celebrates their 19th year of supporting artists and producing unforgettable live events. It's gonna be a mighty mighty night of mafficking, featuring remarkable performances from the fiercest artists, a live auction, mind-blowing and mouth-watering food, and otherworldly cocktails invented by Tiki Tatsu-Ya's fabulous Cory Starr. Bonus: 100% of the proceeds from FUSEBASH go directly to paying artists, designers, and technicians.Sat., Feb. 25, 6-10pm. $250. -
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Gilbert & Sullivan Society: Auditions for The McAdo
Yes, they're staging their popular Scottish adaptation of G&S's classic Mikado again, and they'd like to consider you for part of the action. Auditions by appointment only, so get thee to that website and get involved, citizen!Sign up by Fri., Feb. 24, noon -
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Harry Ransom Center: Drawing the Motion Picture
Explore the beauty and complexity of moviemaking through sketches, storyboards, and designs that illuminate the creation of motion pictures from the silent era to the present day in this new exhibition, featuring production art from iconic movies like Rebel Without a Cause, Raging Bull, Apollo 13, and Lawrence of Arabia, many connected with innovative directors Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Mike Nichols, Michael Powell, Nicholas Ray, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, King Vidor, and more.Through July 16 -
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I See You. You're Seen.
Told from the perspective of a former little Black girl, this solo work – written and performed by Oktavea LaToi, directed by Simone Raquel Alexander – is a fusion of art, poetry, music, and movement that investigates what it means "to see and be seen, to see and be forgotten" through the lens of healing, Blackness, and self-reflection, while also challenging others who "look the other way."Through March 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-37. -
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Inversion Ensemble: Planet Home
This concert honors the Earth and examines our place in its threatened ecosystem by featuring the soundscapes of Seylon Stills, works by in-house composers Carol Brown, Suzette Emberton, Adrienne Inglis, Robbie LaBanca, and Trevor Shaw. Inversion also performs Afternoon on a Hill by Jeffrey Derus, and pieces by Rich Campbell, Santiago Vero, Michael Conley, and Stephen Jackson.Feb. 25-26. Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $30. -
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Field of Light
Illuminating 16 acres in the Texas Arboretum at the Wildflower Center, Field of Light is Bruce Munro's stunning display of 28,000 subtly lit, solar-powered spheres that showcase the intersection of art, technology, and nature.Through May 1 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am. -
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Last Day of the Eureka Room!
Austin's most absurd and fun attraction will have its last day on September 24th, so visit while you still can! It's the Eureka Room, a participatory experience where visitors engage with curious and playful programming within a unique 100-square-foot room filled with light and sound.See website for reservations. $25. -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Neill-Cochran House: Signs and Symbols: The Trees are Talking
This exhibition features more than 40 works of glass and oil on canvas that explore artist Reji Thomas’ understanding of the way signs and symbols constantly surround us in both the natural and built environments.Through Aug. 13 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Walking In My Shoes
Starting out in February to highlight African-American art during Black History Month, closing in mid-March, this new exhibition features the art of Robert R. Jones and explores, yes, the notion of walking in someone else's shoes.Through March 18. Free. -
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PrintAustin: The Contemporary Print Exhibition
What's going on in the world of printmaking, like, in general? This year's survey of traditional printmaking techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary work was selected by the University of Michigan's Rashaun Rucker. Bonus: You'll get a good look at the galleries of ACC Highland, too.Through March 9. Free. -
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Prose & Puns: A War of the Words
It’s a war of the words with Prose & Puns, a doubleheader of Austin’s only literary comedy show, Worded Funny, with the world’s first hybrid pun and spoken-word competition, Punspoken. The two funny language forces are teaming up for a double bill tonight – with a before-show and after-show meet and greet for Austin creatives to meet new collaborators. Recommended: Be there as some of Austin's top talents – Wendi Aarons, Martha Louise, Alex Baia, Dina Gachman, Erica Lies, John Sizemore, Alison Tugwell, and Greg Marshall – do the wild thingo with our riled lingo in this evening of logophilic camaraderie.Sat., Feb. 25, 7:15pm. $25-30. -
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RichesArt Gallery: American History Vol. 2
RichesArt Gallery has partnered with Fansub for their annual show spotlighting Texas artists and their interpretation of Black people’s contributions to American history.Through March 26 -
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Soco Modern: Paintings from Pan-demon-ium
Ethan Woods' Soco Modern glorifies its already well-furnished walls with an exhibition by Jennifer Balkan, featuring a brilliant array of portraits created in inks and oils while most of us were baking bread or binge-watching something on Netflix during the height of COVID lockdown. "I’ve juxtaposed painterly voluminous figures and faces of real humanity with bits of narrative, flat two-dimensional and illustrative lines of comic, graphic contours that provide context," says the artist. "Some of the figures exist within the environs of nature and natural events – some cataclysmic, some threatening, and some predatory – yet rendered in carnivalesque color, leaving the viewer with feelings of comfort and hope."Through March 4 -
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Southwest Theatre: The Poetry Shift
In this new play by Daniel Born, co-workers at a 1990’s walkie-talkie factory make a pact to avoid HR when one of their own falls.Through March 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $28-32. -
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Story Circle Network
Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin. -
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The Blanton: Day Jobs
This first major exhibition to examine the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts is dedicated to demystifying artistic production and upending the stubborn myth of the artist sequestered in their studio, waiting for inspiration to strike.Through July 23 -
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The Blanton: Las Hermanas Iglesias
Sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias present related textiles, collages, and sculpture that explore caregiving as part of a complex network of social issues, melding melds cultural references to the Dominican Republic and Norway (their parents’: home countries) with personal experiences – most recently their navigations of fertility, pregnancy, loss, and birth.Through July 9. Free on Thursdays. -
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The Department of the People + Process
This interactive art exhibition examines questions of authority and the sovereignty of the human journey; it features works by Moyo Oyelola, an interdisciplinary artist known for his photography and large multimedia installations.Through Feb. 25 -
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The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard conjures a play within a play and uses issues of political anarchy in early 1980s London to supercharge this theatrical exploration of fidelity and infidelity, as directed by Ann Ciccolella for Austin Shakespeare.Through March 5, Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $18. -
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The What of Whom: Daniel & Marjory Johnston
This exhibition includes numerous artworks: from the collaborations of siblings Marjory and Daniel Johnston, and pieces from Marjory's collection of Daniel's early work that show the evolution in character development and unique images.Through March 19 -
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UTNT: Address the Body!
Half paranoid conspiracy thriller, half Kafkaesque ghost story, this new play – scripted by Zachariah Ezer and directed by Dominique Rider for the UT New Theatre program – takes a bracing look into the most banal of evils: the university bureaucracy.Feb. 22-25. Wed., Fri., Sat., 7:30pm. $15-26. -
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UTNT: Very Blue Light
This new play – scripted by Daphne Silbiger and directed by Kristen Osborn for the UT New Theatre program – is about a woman who, believing she was abducted by aliens, seeks out the fabled Marfa Lights hoping for answers, and discovers that the secrets of the cosmos are both monumentally far-reaching and disarmingly mundane.Thu., Feb. 23, 7:30pm; Sat., Feb. 25, 2pm. $15-26. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Seance
Will Klemm's glorious new exhibition of works is organized into two contrasting sections: the monochromatic and the brightly colorful. The painter's careful creations are either filled with allusions and quotations from 19th-century painters, or are subjects taken from his daily life.Through Feb. 26 -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: ICONS
This new show highlights works by renowned innovators, featuring works by Banksy, Josef Albers, Aboudia, Kenny Scharf, Salvador Dalí, and more.Through March 26 -
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Wyld Gallery
This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.Call for appointment -
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Yard Dog: Modern Embroidery
Jane Reichle is a 24-year-old fiber artist who specializes in hand embroidery. She's spent the past four months building an extensive series of hand-stitched and embellished suits on muslin cloth, inspired by Nudie Cohn's signature chain-stitched "nudie suits."Through March 30 -
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ZACH Theatre & Deaf Austin Theatre: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Language, this new production of Cinderella showcases favorite tunes including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible,” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” in "a funny and modern adaptation from the Broadway revival."Through March 5. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up.