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for Wed., April 30

  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    After a hugely successful first edition, Affordable Art Fair Austin returns May 15-18, 2025 at the Palmer Events Center, showcasing thousands of original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming 55 local, national and international exhibitors, the second edition will be unmissable.
    May 15-18, 2025  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • The Juilliard String Quartet with pianist Anna Petrova

    With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.
    Sat. May 17, 7:30pm  
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    Riverbend Centre
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    On Trend/Off Balanced: A Panel on Fashion and Sustainability

    With tariffs increasing the costs of many fast fashionistas’ favorite sources of inexpensive pieces, this talk couldn’t be more timely. In conjunction with Contemporary exhibit “HOST: Tenant of Culture” and following a screening of doc Brandy Hellville and the Cult of Fast Fashion, panelists Miranda Bennett, Christa Marie Clark, Emily Fenves, and Jimmy Gallo speak with moderator Allison Miller about how fashion can be both trendy and environmentally sustainable. They’ll highlight local efforts to interrupt and reduce waste and give guests inspiration to be thoughtfully chic. – Kat McNevins
    Wed., April 30
    The Contemporary Austin at the Jones Center

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

      Holy best Batman movie ever, Batman! Long hailed as the ultimate caped crusader flick, and with good reason, Mask of the Phantasm holds some all-time greats in the Bat-verse. Kevin Conroy as Batman, the voice of a generation and maybe the only man who perfectly balances Bruce with his heroic alter ego. Mark Hamill’s gleefully unhinged Joker. A moody Gotham setting that aptly tackles the gangster roots of Batman’s detective origins. And a femme fatale whose steely edge and soft core will knock your socks off and rip your heart to shreds. From the team that elevated Saturday morning cartoons to high art, Phantasm is a crowning jewel in the animated superhero sphere. – Cat McCarrey
      Wed., April 30
      Hyperreal Film Club

    • Qmmunity

      Nightlife & Parties

      Boyz of Austin: Myths & Monsters

      The Boyz go to fantastical new places in this month’s mythology themed show. Unicorns? Sea beasts? The Minotaur? Who knows what hot creature celebs will show up, so bring $9 cash for the cover and find out!
      Wed., April 30, 9:30pm
      Elysium

    • Music

      Buzzcocks, Strawberry Fuzz [outside]

      First-generation Manchester punk outfit Buzzcocks wed perfect pop tunes to sawtooth-wave guitars and Gatling gun rhythms in their late-Seventies heyday. Singer/guitarist Pete Shelley’s songs – like the immortal “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” – reinvented the love song with bruised romanticism and a lack of gender specificity. Co-guitarist and sole original member Steve Diggle, who penned more prototypical Britpunk anthems like “Harmony in My Head,” continues stewarding the band following Shelley’s 2018 death. Expect a set packed with classics, plus highlights from 2022’s exceptional Sonics in the Soul. Venice Beach surf-punks Strawberry Fuzz open. – Tim Stegall
      Wed., April 30, 8pm  
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      Mohawk

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Happy Gilmore (1996)

      Either you grew up with parents who despised the Sandman and all his buffoonery, or you’re me and Happy Gilmore was background noise to half your childhood. (The other half being scored by, of course, Billy Madison.) Since Adam Sandler’s continued and quite lucrative streaming deal with Netflix farts out a sequel to the golf goof this coming July, theatres all over the country – including here in ATX – are screening the off-kilter original. Typical Sandler protag Happy has proven himself too hot for the hockey ice, and in an effort to help his grandmother pay off IRS back taxes, he utilizes his slapshot skills to get into golf. While Sandman obviously shines, this movie’s greatest legend is in the late Carl Weathers as mentor figure Chubbs Peterson, whose golf career – and two-handedness – were cut short by an alligator attack. It’s also the first instance of Julie Bowen as a Sandler love interest, a role she repeats in Hubie Halloween. – James Scott
      April 25 - 26 & 29, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Lakeline & Mueller; April 27 & 30, Violet Crown Cinema
      Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Violet Crown Cinema

    • Community

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      Pup Crawl ATX

      Some people call Austin the Live Music Capital, and others call it the blueberry in Texas tomato soup. But Austin’s real claim is being Dog City, where everyone and everywhere’s got a pup running around. Closing out their monthlong fundraising tour is the Austin Dog Park & Bar Alliance with the second annual Pup Crawl. For $39, you get a Pup Pass – which nets you and your pooch entry and a drink at each participating park. Full disclosure, the Chronicle will be popping up this Sunday at the Watering Bowl to participate in the paw-some event. Sunday is also the last day that Central Texas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be on-site, so come wolf down a few pints while helping support a good cause. – James Scott
      Through April 30
      Dog House Drinkery, 3800 Co. Rd. 175, Leander; MUTTS, 9825 N. Lake Creek Pkwy.; Yard Bar, 6700 Burnet Rd.; The Watering Bowl, 820 W. FM 1626

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      The Keep (1983)

      There’s an urban legend in film buff circles that, a few years ago, during a major retrospective of the films of Michael Mann, the great director turned up to tech check every movie from 1981’s Thief to 2015’s Blackhat. Every film, that is, except for one: 1983’s The Keep, his sophomore effort and his bitterest disappointment. Hampered by the death of visual effects supervisor Wally Veevers and then butchered by Paramount executives, it’s a fraction of the film that Mann envisioned. But that fraction is still a strange, dark monument: a horror that contends with the idea of picking the lesser evil as a German Wehrmacht Unit in occupied Romania finds itself caught between SS fanatics and an ancient spirit trapped within a castle’s stone walls. Those themes are given real depth by a heavy-hitter cast including Scott Glenn, Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne, and Ian McKellen. Rarely screened for the last four decades (outside of one memorable 35mm showing at the Alamo Drafthouse over a decade ago), now Mann’s flawed masterpiece returns in 4K courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome. – Richard Whittaker
      April 28 & 30
      Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Village

    • Community

      Events

      Walpurgisnacht

      Austin’s premier fantasy bar, the Tiny Minotaur, is perhaps the only place in town where you can celebrate the obscure ancient European holiday of Walpurgisnacht. Weren’t feeling the recent Easter spirit? Perhaps you’d instead like the “Halloween of springtime” with “seasonal treats and hexes” on offer, per Tiny Minotaur’s Instagram. Despite this witchy tenor, the legend of Saint Walpurga, a nun in 8th-century Germany, is quite the opposite. She was canonized as a saint for her conversion of early Germans to Christianity, and for battling pests, rabies, whooping cough, and witchcraft itself, according to Wikipedia. In parts of Europe, people commemorate Walpurgisnacht, also known as Saint Walpurga’s Eve, in her honor, lighting bonfires to ward off evil or making pilgrimages to her tomb. However, despite these Christian origins, Walpurgisnacht is also linked with the pagan May Day festivals of Northern Europe, which all involved bonfire lighting as well. Perhaps opt for non-flammable lighting here, though – a windy wildfire season is upon us. – Lina Fisher
      Wed., April 30
      Tiny Minotaur Tavern
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