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Courthouse Nights in Lockhart, Texas!
Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!Fri. Apr. 19, 7pm-10pmLockhart, Texas
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Amyl & the Sniffers, Mujeres Podridas, Hotmom
“We thought, ‘Why don’t we start a band? We’re housemates!’” shrugs guitarist Dec Martens, of ascendant young Australian thug-punks Amyl & the Sniffers, about the group’s spontaneous 2016 formation in their native Melbourne. He’s calling from the huge Roskilde Festival at 8pm on Thursday. They play at 2:30am, then shuttle off to a flight from Denmark to California, where they begin their U.S. tour at Burger Boogaloo in Oakland the next day.: “If a friend has a house party, we’ll play it, but it never turned out that way – we got booked for all these gigs and never played a house party!” he laughs.: The quartet (Martens, drummer Bryce Wilson, bassist Gus Romer, and singer Amy Taylor – the band’s titular “Amyl”) has seen their schedule get increasingly hectic. They formed one afternoon, wrote and recorded four songs in four hours – mixing and mastering that night – and delivered the finished masters the following morning. Their self-titled debut album just dropped: 11 sticks of intensified sonic dynamite, recorded by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, the Kills, Jarvis Cocker) and resembling a carload of 45s by Slade, AC/DC, and the Ramones that survived a bad wreck, the pieces haphazardly reassembled. Press and punters alike have fallen for the band’s granite-hard locomotion and Taylor’s messy charisma, showcased in their blitz of SXSW appearances this past March.: Tunes like “Gacked on Anger” also display her budding proletarian lyrical rage: “I wanna help out the people on the street/ But how can I help them when I can’t afford to eat?”: The LP was cut across three weeks in Sheffield, one song per day. This suits Martens: “It’s immediate, like the live show – that rawness. You don’t get to do a song three or four times onstage. I think that chemistry, that adrenaline you get from playing onstage – you try to capture that.”Fri., July 12, 9pm -
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Theatre
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen's classic drama about the unravelling of a family is directed by Norman Blumensaadt for Different Stages, featuring Catherine Williams as Nora and Nate Dunaway as her husband.Through July 13. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. $15-30. -
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Visual Arts
Co-Lab Projects: Sarah.Canright / Kaveri.Raina
An ongoing exploration of self manifests in the paintings of these two artists. Both creators are attentive to the memory of figurative forms, a landscape rooted in personal history, and a lifelong, almost diaristic dedication to similar subject matter (including four-legged creatures, shadowy silhouettes, and irregular patterns).Through July 27 -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Creative Currents
Leslie Kell, Chalda Maloff, and Paul McGuire share a long friendship and partnership. With “Creative Currents,” these three artists apply contemporary media to the topic of water, rendering depictions of the life-giving substance in so many of its glorious forms and functions.Through July 18. free. -
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Annie
Leapin' lizards! Could it be true that the Chronicle's own Robert Faires plays the part of Daddy Warbucks in this ridiculously popular musical classic based on Harold Gray's old-school comic strip about a plucky young orphan in the Depression Era? Yes, he does – among an exuberant cast of TexARTS professionals directed by Joey Banks.Through Aug. 4. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $43-53. -
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Classical Music
Austin Chamber Music Festival
The Austin Chamber Music Center presents the final weekend of this 23rd annual summer music festival that features world-class ensembles and musicians. See performances by Aeolus Quartet (Fri., July 19, 7:30pm); Beijing Guitar Duo (Sat., July 20, 7:30pm); and ACMC's team-up with Austin Shakespeare for a unique presentation of The Tempest (Sun., July 21, 3pm). -
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Chaparral (12mid), Roger Wallace, the Golden Roses (8:00)
Former Heartless Bastard Jesse Ebaugh takes a two-stepping, hippie honky-tonk turn with the Tender Things. As they work up their official debut platter for later this year, the quartet packs a plush send-off ticket, prepping for a Northwest trek and Pickathon appearance. Carson McHone, fresh off a momentous European tour, wields her stellar twanged songwriting at her first local showing since selling out the Cactus Cafe in November. Warm Sugar melts with Jenny Carson and Evan Joyce’s impeccable harmonies after Dave Insley’s Careless Smokers fire up the dance floor.Fri., July 12 -
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Books
Chuck Wendig: Wanderers
No, it's not a novelization of that movie about Brooklyn gangs in the 1950s or whatever; it's the new – and eerily compelling – thriller from the bestselling author of Double Dead.Fri., July 12, 7pm -
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Death Tax
Lucas Hnath's new and exceedingly dark comedy is directed by Ken Webster for Hyde Park Theatre and stars Chase Brewer, Lana Dieterich, Sarah Chong Harmer, and Web Jerome. (And the Chronicle's Elizabeth Cobbe reviewed the show right here.)Through July 27. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $24-28 (pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Erika Wennerstrom, Elsa Cross
Heartless Bastard emerges from the Sweet Unknown.Fri., July 12, 8:30pm -
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Theatre
For Colored Boyz
This is a series of poems and monologues accompanied by dance and music – a form, originated by Ntozake Shange, who coined the term choreopoem. Written, directed, and choreographed by Bryan-Keyth Wilson, this choreopoem tells the stories of four men who have suffered oppression in a racist and marginalizing society.July 12-14. Fri., 2pm; Sat., 2 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $25.The Mosaic Theatre, 11530 Manchaca Rd -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Expanded Nomenclature
Mathieu Grenier's work focuses on the modes of capture and presentation of the image, his elegantly sparse aesthetic reflecting an understanding of the photographic medium and its relevance in contemporary culture.Through July 14 -
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Nightlife & Parties
Hi, My Name Is
Join Tea Time With T Boys for a chillaxing trans/nonbinary social featuring local talents from our trans and nonbinary communities! Added bonus, drag queen extraordinaire Ruby Knight will be yer DJ for the night.Fri., July 12, 7-10pm. $5 suggested donation. -
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Ky-Mani Marley
As the second-youngest Marley offspring, Ky-Mani Marley, 43, remains relevant by plying his familial talent where it meets the world of pop and rap. Marley’s most recent album, a 2016 collab with German reggae artist Gentleman, is only his seventh since premiering at age 20, but he stays busy featuring on singles with Young Buck, Pitbull, and departed controversy magnet XXXTentacion.Fri., July 12, 8pm -
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Nightlife & Parties
L&B Ladies Night
Slip into something more danceable, cuz Lesbutante & the Boss are back for their gal pal party with DJ Eye Q.Second Fridays, 9pm. Free. -
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Old Firm Casuals, Concrete Elite, Liberty & Justice, Burn Ban
Working-class warhorse Lars Frederiksen, best known for co-fronting Rancid, hits town with his skin crew – whose name resembles a catalog description for penny loafers. Impressive sophomore LP Holger Danske spikes street punk with Oi! and hardcore. Concrete Elite, Liberty &: Justice, Burn Ban open.Fri., July 12, 7pm -
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Special Screenings
Paris Is Burning (1991)
Newly Restored: Digitally remastered and re-released for Pride Month, Paris Is Burning paints a portrait of New York City's ballroom culture in the Eighties and the queer and transgender people of color communities at its core.Fri., July 12, 10pm -
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Seton Cove: Mixed Mantra Prints
Of course the Spirituality Center part of Seton wants to adorn its walls with beauty that promotes meditation, but what's even better is the works here are prints of mandalas rendered by the acclaimed Virginia Fleck via creative upcycling of discarded plastic and logo-festooned shopping bags. "I take consumerism," says the artist, "and wrestle it through the sieve of formal beauty." Yes, she does.Through Aug. 28Seton Cove, 3708 Crawford -
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Food Events
Supper Friends: Family-Style Taco Dinner
You know these Supper Friends folks make the most memorable meals, and your taste buds won't soon forget this culinary elevation of the humble taco, with achiote shrimp, beef barbacoa, wild mushrooms, chicken pibil, and more among the night's excellent, salad-accompanied, dessert-finished offerings on homemade blue corn tortillas.Fri., July 12, 7pm. $50. -
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Dance
The AZTLAN Project II: Echoes of the Mind
This second installment of the AZTLAN Project Trilogy explores Borderlands myth and culture in all of its complexities. Narrated by the eccentric Coyotero truth-keeper, the work reveals the multiple spaces that vie to give the term AZTLAN its valued status in U.S. Southwestern cultural production.July 12-14. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $16-20. -
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The Chats, Big Bill, Playboy Manbaby
Those weaselly “Smoko” Aussies plus ATX strange-o’s.Fri., July 12, 9pm -
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Special Screenings
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Hyperdrive: Hyperreal Film Club and MoHA have joined forces this to create this summertime pop-up The Fast and the Furious-themed drive-in experience. In addition to screenings, expect tricked-out cars and photo-ops, free drinks, food vendors, and curated activities and installations by local artists.Fri., July 12, 8pm -
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Theatre
The Purple Party: A Tribute to Prince
That burlesque badass Coco Lectric and her Mistress of Musicality Productions present a show in homage to the late Mr. Nelson, featuring ensemble acts and solo performances by burlesque and aerial stars, much lascivious kinetics, people silkenly swingin' from the rafters, and – ooooh, baby, you're much too fast, y'know what we're saying?Thu.-Sat., July 11-13, 8pm. $15-45. -
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The Sun Machine (7-inch release), Heavy Pulp, Sam France, the Millbrook Estates
Surf-psych enchanters Sun Machine dish a bloodred “Body by the Water” 7-inch at their DIY playground. Low-key Austin resident and Foxygen frontman Sam France pops up for a rare solo performance. Doom juicers Heavy Pulp and pop hallucinators Millbrook Estates round it out.Fri., July 12, 9pm -
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Visual Arts
Wally Workman Gallery: Miscellanea
As good as this group show is – and it's damned good, to be sure, featuring gorgeous contemporary still lifes by MaryBeth Karaus, Scott Kiche, and James Andrew Smith – don't forget that there are two stories to this Westside gallery and you don't want to miss the treasures upstairs.Through July 27 -
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Community
6th Annual Hippie Hollow Otter Fest
Take everything you know about gay pool parties and make them dirtier – then put one at the local nude swimming hole. Have fun out there!Sat.-Sun., July 13-14, 9am-close. Pool party: Fri., July 12, 6-8pm (Hampton Inn Arboretum, 3908 W. Braker). $15 (cash only). -
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Special Screenings
A Snake of June (2003)
Lates: Noted for its monochrome blue cinematography, Tsukamoto's lurid drama follows Rinko (Kurosawa), a phone counselor at a psychiatric center stuck in a sexless marriage who's forced to explore sexual extremes when a former patient-turned-stalker (Tsukamoto) starts blackmailing her into performing increasingly erotic acts.Fri., July 12, 9:30pm -
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