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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar

Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.

Apr. 19-May 5
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Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Affordable Art Fair Austin

Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!

May 16-19
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Palmer Events Center

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Arts

Visual Arts

Butridge Gallery: The Art of Peace

Paintings and drawings by five award-winning Austin figurative artists: J.C. Amorrortu, Lawrence Jolly, Meena Matocha, Rhea Pettit, and Linda Wandt.

Through Jan. 8
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Dougherty Arts Center
Community

Events

Cirque Italia

Fun for the whole family at this gorgeous, magical dream adventure under the big top with performers from all over the world.

Jan. 6-17. $10-50.
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Barton Creek Square
Arts

Comedy

Duncan Trussell: Live In Austin

The co-creator and star of Netflix's The Midnight Gospel brings his standup stuff to the ATX.

Jan. 7-8. Fri., 7:30 & 10pm; Sat., 7 & 9:30pm. $25.
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Vulcan Gas Company
Music

Free Week David Bowie tributes w/ members of Buffalo Hunt, the Clouds are Ghosts, Como Las Movies, conman, Dancing Days, Dream to Dream, Hamerzya, Hooka Hey, Joe With the Notes, Lauren Lakis, Mad Whit, Midcentury, Modern Medicine, My Education

Birthday brothers, born 12 years apart, Elvis Presley and David Bowie both matured into musical royalty: Presley reigning loftily as “King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” while Bowie actually deferred a royal honorarium when he waved off an opportunity at British knighthood in 2003.: Every year around their Jan. 8 DOB, Austin music celebrates Presley and Bowie – together and separately. The annual Bowie Birthday Bash at Drinks Lounge has been preemptively canceled over surging COVID numbers (they advise “Stay home, crank your speakers to 10 and listen to Bowie all night”) and the same is true with Austin’s glorious Elvis tribute, Ted Roddy & the King Conjure Orchestra, at Continental Club. Still, Hotel Vegas is doing it up big on Saturday with a Elvis impersonator available to marry five lucky couples (must pay for marriage license in advance) plus a hoot night of artists doing Bowie covers.: The two legends who employed a lightning bolt as iconography are also being fêted the previous night, Friday, down south at the Far Out Lounge with the BowiElvis Festival featuring tribute performances from Graveltooth, Brian Scartocci, and Electric Gold plus the promise of serving each of the icon’s favorite sandwiches – ostensibly a peanut butter, banana, and bacon monstrosity and a croque monsieur, respectively – both fried!

Sat., Jan. 8, 9pm

Hotel Vegas
Music

Free Week w/ Bleed, On Being an Angel, Hotmom, Deep Cross

While NYC legends Unsane occupy outside, Mohawk’s scoops various exposures of heavy music indoors. I’ll save you a Google headache and reveal that Bleed (@bleed.214 on social media) is a new Dallas group incorporating members of Narrow Head and Garden of Mary. Announced as reworking early 2000s hard rock, September EP Somebody’s Closer placed vocalist Ryan Hughes in a fitting setting of bullheaded, precisely crunchy metal and grunge. From here in town, On Being an Angel finds a breezy proprietary blend of Nineties alternative haze. Find Hotmom’s pleasantly piercing punk on latest EP Stupid Vegan Band and Deep Cross’ industrial split album with Khost.

Sat., Jan. 8, 9pm

Mohawk
Music

Free Week w/ Unsane, Glassing

Though the most recent and longest-lasting lineup of noise rock pioneers Unsane broke up for logistical reasons (three dudes, three different countries), singer/guitarist Chris Spencer still plays gigs highlighting the band’s early, pre-Total Destruction days. Billed as Early Cuts shows, the concerts also promote the re-release of the original group’s demos and first singles on Bandcamp – the beginning, hopefully, of a deluge of the trio’s long out-of-print initial work. The band blasts the Mohawk accompanied by fellow travelers: Today is the Day acolytes BLK OPS, blackened art metal wizards Glassing, and political post hardcore fanatics Easy Prey.

Sat., Jan. 8, 9pm

Mohawk
Arts

Comedy

Mike Cannon

This NYC-based comedian, perhaps best known for his 2020 YouTube special "Life Begins," takes the C&C stage in Downtown Austin this weekend.

Jan. 6-8. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7 & 9pm. $25.
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The Creek and the Cave
Arts

Visual Arts

Northern-Southern: Festo Fest

Northern-Southern begins 2022 with a festival of manifestos – a 'festo fest, yes – from a plethora of local artists whose written declarations (of intent, of observation, of instruction) will deck the venue's Downtown walls. Open for two days only (and culminating in a live, off-site reading of the 'festos at JJ Seabrook Park off Pershing & MLK, east of Airport, on Sun., Jan. 9. 3pm), this is a brief but richly creative charge for jumpstarting your new year with.

Fri.-Sat., Jan. 7-8, 2-6pm

Northern-Southern
Community

Events

Ready, Set, Plant!

Join TreeFolks for a tree planting event to help transform degraded creek sides into grow zones brimming with diversity and life.

Sat., Jan. 8, 9am
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Longhorn Shores
Film

Special Screenings

Satan War and Spectre

Bat City Cinema presents a double feature on the theme "Satan in the Seventies." Only two prints of Satan War exist, so this is a special treat, and Spectre is one of the weirdest TV movies ever. Screenings accompanied by strange 16mm trailers, shorts, and random weirdness.

Sat., Jan. 8, 1-5pm. Free.
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The Ballroom
Arts

Dance

Shen Yun

This show features classical Chinese dance, along with dynamic animated backdrops and all-original orchestral works, "opening a portal to a civilization of enchanting beauty and enlightening wisdom." You've at least seen video clips, right? You know what a complex, engaging spectacle this is. Is this the year in which you finally get tickets and experience the show live and in-person?

Jan. 7-9. Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2 & 7pm; Sun., 1pm. $80-180.
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Long Center for the Performing Arts
Community

Sports

Texas Stars

Vs. Manitoba Moose.

Fri.-Sat., Jan. 7-8, 7pm
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H-E-B Center at Cedar Park
Community

Events

We Are Blood Franklin BBQ Raffle

To celebrate National Blood Donor Month, We Are Blood partnered with Franklin BBQ to reward 20 lucky donors with a special dinner for two including Franklin's famous brisket, ribs, sides, desserts, and more. Donate by Jan. 17 to enter the raffle, which will be held Jan. 20. Make appointments online or call 512/206-1266.

Through Jan. 17
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We Are Blood donor centers