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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 16-19Palmer Events Center -
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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 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Barton Hill Farms Backyard Bash
Family activities, face-painting, and backyard games, all set to the tune of live country & bluegrass music.Saturdays & Sundays in May. $9.95 presale; $14.95 at the gate. -
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Food Events
Hot Luck
The brainchild of barbecue maestro Aaron Franklin, Mohawk owner James Moody, and Feast Portland's Mike Thelin, this Austintatious gatherum of glory blends world-class culinary talent and live music into an extra-long, chef-driven weekend that celebrates fire, food, music, and camaraderie. "Come hungry, thirsty, and bring your dancin' boots." Boy howdy – they ain't kidding: See here for more!May 24-27. Prices and locations vary. -
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Killer Girls
Whoa, that American Berserk Theatre company, first bringing the world their dystopian blockbuster Subject to Control, then following it with For Time and Eternity (about that whole Joseph-Smith-and-the-Mormons thing), now presenting this pop horror revenge comedy – written and directed by Kaci Beeler – in which five female students on the Fruit Ninja Team of John Wilkes Booth University are invited to a tournament in #grabherbythepussy, Florida, and, ah, well, listen: Payback's a bitch. (A rabid, extremely bloodthirsty bitch, we might add.) Warning note: Gore effects, strobe lights, loud music, themes of high violence and sexual assault, possibly the lamentation of any MRA in the audience. Recommended? See what that Robert Faires has to say about it.Through May 27. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $20-25.Hideout Studios, 2505 E. Sixth Ste. 3-C -
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Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse Wow!
This bright spectacle from Glass Half Full Theatre bangs into existence with Indigo Rael as her alter ego Polly Mermaid, princess of the Pacific Garbage Patch, and Katy Taylor as Deborah Déguderè, the particle physicist who builds a tunnel through space and time. The show – a hero's journey with a feminine twist, a parable for the rights of all creatures big and small, a campy romp through particle theory – is replete with not-for-kiddies puppetry and an original score by Mother Falcon. Intrigued? Here's our full review of the show.Through June 9. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35. -
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Red Baraat, Jai Malano
A thundering storm of percussion and brass, Red Baraat approximates an Indian wedding crashing into a New Orleans second line parade. Led by Sunny Jain banging the two-headed Indian dhol drum, this Brooklyn eightpiece of Bhangra Pirates puts on a thrilling live show. The show previews this summer’s Sound the People, the group’s fifth studio album, which adds more layers to an already massive sound.Sat., May 26, 8:30pm -
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Shakespeare in the Park: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Austin Shakespeare transforms the Zilker Hillside Theater into the world of a classic Fifties sitcom to embody this production of the Bard's Falstaff-festooned comedy, featuring a fine cast directed by Ann Ciccolella and Gwendolyn Kelso. Pro tip: Bring you a blanket and pick-a-nick, citizen!Through May 27. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Free. -
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Arts & Culture
//sub.rosa With Disasterina From Dragula S2
A surreal drag show to make you lose your cool. Austin's most majestic queens take the stage to blow yer mind with special guests Miss Taint from San Antonio and Disasterina of the Boulet Brothers' Dragula season 2.Sat., May 26, 11pm-1am. $10. -
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Special Screenings
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Essential Cinema: World Animation: Spanish coming-of-age film tracks a misfit's heroic adventure in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.Sat., May 26, 3:30pm -
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Christeene: Basura Album Release Yard Partaay
She's back with a second album and more unstable than before. Are you ready for it? Toxic Water, and Hey Jellie open the night. Christeene will set it all right.Sat., May 26, 6-11:30pm -
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Cupcakke
Cupcakke – born Elizabeth Harris in Chicago – reiterates her YouTube popularity with sex-positive rap and the Khia-inspired “Vagina” and a guest spot on Charli XCX’s “Lipgloss.”Sat., May 26, 9pm -
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Deadbolt, Hickoids, Loco Gringos, The Me-Thinks, Harvey McLaughlin
San Diego and San Antone psychobilly.Sat., May 26, 9pm -
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Visual Arts
Dimension Gallery: Residual Utterances
Here's a presentation of new sculptural work from Austin sculptor Colin McIntyre, in conjunction with a soundscape inside his celebrated pipe organ sound chamber, The Resonant Lung. These newest pieces marry his mastery of metalworking with his more recent interest in hot tar as a medium. And this exhibition? Is highly recommended.Through June 16 -
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Lace, Total Abuse, Crooked Bangs, Missing Pages
Veteran ATX noise vets and Frenchcore punks.Sat., May 26, 8pm -
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Li'l Cap'n Travis, Militant Babies, Cool Hand Band
LCT’s shambling twang, weatherbeaten tropicana, and redemptive light beer thunder lays claim to Hole house act status. Their repertoire rings true with hangdown tragicomedies like “Natural Fool” and “Flattened by the Good Times.” Meanwhile, guitarist Geoff Lasch leads power trio Militant Babies on a rec room rampage, while Troy Nelson drives affable Wisconsin scruffs Coolhand Band back to life.Sat., May 26, 9pm -
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Lucky Stiff
Here's that musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, in which an unassuming English shoe salesman inherits $6 million from an American uncle. But there's a catch: He has to take a vacation to Monte Carlo with his uncle’s embalmed body and convince folks that the man’s still alive. Michael McKelvey directs, and the cast is scary good.Through June 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $17-40. -
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Recspec Gallery: Ex Libris
"New interpretations and old examples of the long-standing tradition of the bookplate," is it? With examples created by: Laura Thoms, Abi Daniel, Annalise Gratovich, Cheryl Finfrock, Eva Claycomb, and Tenebrous Kate, among many others from Austin and beyond? And here's our recent review of the show.Through June 9 -
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Special Screenings
Run Lola Run (1998)
Lates: After her small-time gangster boyfriend (Bleibtreu) loses a big bagful of money, Lola (Potente) begins a mad dash across town to save her doomed lover in the requisite 20 minutes. Lola poses the question of how characters' fates might differ if events were to occur in a slightly different sequence.Sat., May 26, 10pm
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Civic Events
2018 Campaign Bootcamp
A three-day, nonpartisan training to network and gain skills from some of the nation's top campaign professionals. Hands-on workshops cover campaign management, fundraising, digital communications, polling, and mock campaign teams give attendees firsthand experience.Fri.-Sun., May 25-May 27; noon-6pm daily. $75.Belo Center for New Media Auditorium, 300 W. Dean Keeton -
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Comedy
Ahmed Bharoocha
Half Irish Catholic, half Pakistani-Indian-Burmese-Muslim, and alllllll comedian, this comic-in-residence at Boston's Comedy Studio brings his Conan-honed style to Austin this weekend.May 23-26. Wed.-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $12-23. -
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All My Sons
This is Arthur Miller's award-winning family drama about one man's search for the American dream – and the ultimate destruction in his pursuit. Directed by Tracy Arnold for City Theatre.Through June 3. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25. -
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Books
Amanda Johnston: Another Way to Say Enter
The author's debut collection features poems that are "both visceral and spiritual, reminding the reader that entry, departure, and the inevitable return is a journey that must be felt, not just imagined."Sat., May 26, 7pm -
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Theatre
Auditions: There and Back
Ground Floor Theatre is casting a new play by Raul Garza, and they're looking for, among other roles, someone to portray a personification of a Virgen de Guadalupe candle(!) See website for details; email for appointment.Sat., May 26, 10am-2pm -
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Austin Flea at Austin Beerworks
Shop local handmade items and vintage wares.Sat., May 26, noon-6pm. Free. -
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Austin Naked Yoga for Gay Men
A hatha meeting flow yoga class for all levels. Despite the name, all are welcome. For a longer reader see our coverage.Saturdays, 10:30-11:45am and Tuesdays, 8-9:15pm. Through Nov. 21. $10 and up.ToddPilates & Barre, 9029 Research #200 -
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Sports
Austin Running Adventures
For daring runners seeking Austin landmark running experiences and secret single track trails.Saturdays & Sundays, 8am. $25.See facebook for routes -
Film
Special Screenings
Back to the Future (1985)
One of the most beloved movies of the Eighties (helmed by the future director of Forrest Gump), Back to the Future entertainingly deals with the child's eternal question: If my parents had never met, where would that leave me?Sat., May 26, 11:15pm -
Food
Food Events
Barks for Beers
This beery extravagance benefits Divine Canines. Buy a glass at Blue Owl Brewery and use it for free pints at 25 breweries all over town, for the entire month of May. We mean, like, Black Star Co-op, Celis, NXNW, Southern Heights, Real Ale, St. Elmo, Thirsty Planet, and a whole pantheon of others.Through May 31. $30.See website for locations of participating breweries -
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