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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, 7:30pmRiverbend Centre -
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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, 2025Palmer Events Center
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Classical Music
Root Beerthoven
Forget polished symphony halls with gilded staircases and velvet chairs. Experience classical music and more the way it was meant to be heard – outdoors, with a pint of something dark and delicious in hand. This November, string quartet Invoke explores the intersection of classical and folk music. They’ve arranged a presentation riffing on the idea of “roots music,” with selections ranging from Haydn to Copland to Florence Price, the first African American woman whose music was performed by an American symphony orchestra. Partake of musical history while snacking on pastries and beer. It’s the right thing to do. – Cat McCarreyNov. 22-24Location Provided With Ticket -
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The Front Market
For the next five weeks, everyone is on shopping duty – although if you’re a real deals-head like me, you’ve been doing the pop-up market rounds for months. Hitting a pre-Thanksgiving sweet spot for thoughtful gifters is the Front Market, autumn edition. Creative organizers Future Front TX curate over 150 vendors to take over Waterloo with homemade, vintage, edible, sustainable, etc. products you’ll just love. Not only are there day-specific sellers as well as full-weekender vendors, but FFTX goes the extra mile in providing activities to keep even the stubborn anti-shoppers engaged, like a Queer Vinyl Collective platter swap, Drag N Draw and Silly Still-Lifes art classes from Sketchers Drawing Club, clay creations and demos by Anga Haus, and multiple local menus slinging their delicious wares. – James ScottNov. 23-24 -
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Austin Empty Bowl
Let the live music inspire you as you choose a custom bowl to take home and a soup to fill it. Don’t stress, though: Whatever your choice, the proceeds go to local charities fighting hunger.Sun., Nov. 24 -
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Dirty Dynasty Bingo: One-Year Anniversary
Cupcake and Lady Grackle celebrate a full year hosting this boisterous bright light of a bingo night, with huge prizes that include a new flat-screen TV. Of course, you’re also encouraged to come for the laughs and love but the fabo prizes on offer never hurt.Sun., Nov. 24 -
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Felidae
It seems that in nearly every country the animated-cat-film canon goes irrationally hard. The U.S. kicked off with silent film star Felix the Cat in the 1920s and led to the family classic Aristocats; France gave us a cat burglar in A Cat in Paris; and even Hayao Miyazaki blessed the world with Animorph-esque adventure The Cat Returns – and those are just off the dome. This weekend, AFS serves up a hidden feline classic from Germany in Felidae, a neo-noir animated feature that shares its title with the scientific name for cats. With a theme song by Boy George, this adaptation of Turkish author Akif Pirinçci’s 1989 novel follows Francis, the pet of a romance writer who discovers a cat death cult living in his owner’s attic, leading him down a sordid path riddled with cat sex, murder, and mad scientists. Imagine the classic Nineties 2D animation style of Don Bluth (Anastasia, Thumbelina) set to a Cronenberg plot. Purr! – Lina FisherNov. 22-24 -
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Leslie Sisson benefit w/ Matthew Logan Vasquez, Moving Panoramas, BOOHER
Over the summer, Moving Panoramas singer Leslie Sisson announced she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer. Understandably, her long-running dream rock band has been more or less dormant since then, but a worthy cause brings the group back to the stage: a joint birthday-benefit show for their fearless leader, who needs help with mounting medical bills. The gig starts early at 5pm, and also features rugged singer-songwriter Matthew Logan Vasquez and sevenpiece rock & roll collective Booher – whose titular lead singer celebrates another year around the sun himself. – Carys AndersonSun., Nov. 24, 5:45pm -
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Night Reads
A friend and I spoke recently about always being the presenter who goes too dark on an open mic reading night. Look: I’m never going to not be writing weird stuff, but I can appreciate that while everyone else brought an anecdote about seeing a ghost once, my zombie erotica appears out of place. As if listening to us bemoan this very occurrence, Austin Independent Book Fair brings back their horror story reading series, Night Reads, with a November edition. This time the theme is Knives, so come enjoy pieces from local horror writers centering on those shiny stabby icons. No zombie erotica, as far as I know, but maybe in the future. A boy can always dream. – James ScottSun., Nov. 24 -
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Queer Four Square
Get your ball on with fellow queers at this four square event. They’ll be out there rain or shine – because the squares are covered, babe!Sun., Nov. 24Alamo Pocket Park, 2100 Alamo St. -
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Shop Small Sunday
Get your holiday shopping done early, or find a little treat for yourself at Eastside Pop Up’s artisan, maker, and vintage market. This time they’ve also brought along Final Frontier Rescue Project, who’ll have precious pups available for adoption.Sun., Nov. 24 -
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Soft Serve
Gothess Jasmine and BabiBoi bring the sweet slow jams of hip-hop and R&B, with special performances this Sunday from Nicotine, Daminia Divine, and Guy Peña.Sun., Nov. 24 -
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Something Wild (1986)
The most dangerous car in 1980s movies was Christine’s 1957 Plymouth Fury, but the second most dangerous was the green 1967 Pontiac GTO driven by Lulu (Melanie Griffith) that barrels into the life of yuppie Charlie (Jeff Daniels) to kidnap him for a weekend of life-wrecking fun. In a decade of rebellious cinema where every hip movie kid was trying to be John Waters, David Lynch, or Alex Cox, Jonathan Demme flipped the script in this crazy East Coast road movie by having the normies try to navigate rebellion in a corporate world. Is it actually hip to be square? Find out in this delirious screwball rom-com. – Richard WhittakerNov. 23-24 -
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Somos Gnomos
According to the mythology wiki – yes, the general concept of myths has a Fandom Wiki – common gnome tropes include crafting and night vision. While you, as a non-gnome, cannot see at night, perhaps the skill of crafting remains in your ability. Somos Gnomos builds up in Slaughter Creek Acres with artisans, farmers, and other vendors a market that’ll allow even non-magic folk to craft a more festive fall. Now, if only my feeble human body could master the gnome trope of “semi-immortality.” – James ScottSun., Nov. 241009 Penion Dr. -
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"Native America: In Translation"
One thing I’ve loved about newer theatre or museums is the space given for land acknowledgement – statements about the ancestral roots of the space being used. Space that was not always ours, but taken. The Blanton’s latest exhibit tackles that question, but pushes the boundaries. It’s not just about what Native America was, but what it can be. Curator and lauded artist Wendy Red Star has assembled nine other Native artists to create a rich exploration of what life in America is today. Shown through a variety of mediums, something is guaranteed to resonate with the audience. Whether it’s the photos, paintings, videos, or multimedia works is up to you. – Cat McCarreyAug. 4-Jan.5 -
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A Christmas Affair
Junior League of Austin helps you get holiday shopping started early at its market featuring hundreds of vendors and benefiting its community-serving mission.Nov. 20-24 -
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A Christmas Carol
It’s a timeless story, but revisiting A Christmas Carol now seems especially timely, what with billionaires running roughshod as income inequality rises with no sign of relief. Dickens wrote the story while under financial pressure, and the story was intended to touch the hearts of the rich and powerful. It was a nice idea, and the fact it’s been adapted countless times is testament to its broad appeal, but some of the real Scrooges may just be beyond its reach. We’ll keep trying though! Zach brings its production back for a 10th year, with fresh songs and special extras like commemorative tickets and experiences. – Kat McNevinsNov. 20-Jan. 1 -
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Armadillo Road, Silo Road
Sundays, 8pm, Sun., Oct. 20, 8pm, Sun., Oct. 27, 8pm, Sun., Nov. 3, 8pm, Sun., Nov. 17, 8pm, Sun., Nov. 24, 8pm, Sun., Dec. 1, 8pm, Sun., Dec. 8, 8pm and Sun., Dec. 15, 8pm -
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Ashley Swarts: “Waiting for a Sign”
Ashley Swarts’ “Waiting for a Sign” debuted at Do Right Hall during Chinati Weekend in Marfa and will now have a more permanent showing at McLennon Pen Co.’s space next to Nixta Taqueria. It’s a fitting journey, seeing as Swarts lived in Marfa for seven years before moving to Austin to open Slowpoke, a hand-poke tattoo studio that she owns and works out of in East Austin. Swarts grew up in Las Vegas, and all three locales figure heavily in her show, which focuses on commercial signage in each city. Southwestern street art found in vintage light box and neon signs to painstakingly hand-painted typography is an aesthetic that fascinates Swarts, whose process involved collecting magazines and fitting cutouts into sign stencils layered into clear resin and suspended “like rare bugs under glass,” she writes. The opening reception is Thursday, November 21, from 6-9pm. – Lina FisherThrough Dec. 7 -
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“And the valley froze over”
When describing his six-film saga, director George Lucas described the multi-generational history of the Star Wars world as being “like poetry. They rhyme.” Much mocked, I actually find this a nice way to explain the repetition history tends to have – exemplified even better, TBH, in artist Enrique Figueredo’s woodcut pieces on view at Flatbed. These pieces utilize images of historical Spanish missions to convey timeless themes: economic struggles, religious turmoil, war. Figueredo also unveils three new altarpieces from his Federación Venezolana de Bobsleigh. series that takes inspiration from, as the show copy states, “the artist’s childhood fantasy of piloting a make-believe bobsleigh team at the Winter Olympics.” – James ScottThrough Nov. 30 -
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“Collective Tales in a Concrete Garden”
Presented in collaboration with Mexican contemporary art project guadalajara90210, Co-Lab presents a conglomeration of artists playing with ideas of urban nature. Walk amongst the organically industrial forms at the opening reception this Saturday. Expect unique uses of form and texture, metals and fibers used with a distinct viewpoint. As part of the “sculptural garden,” art rises from bases of industrial gravel, an ultimate symbol of growth from unexpected sources. Expand your ideas of structure. Expand your ideas of nature. Expand your ideas of what urban art can entail. – Cat McCarreyThrough Dec. 14 -
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“Ethica Naturalis”
A more thematically dedicated writer might have written this whole listing in wingdings or emojis as a way of conveying the connection between illustration-forward storytelling via this show’s subject – emblem books, aka a collection of allegorical images – but alas. Y’all got me instead. Local garage-based gallery GLHF hosts a collective art show featuring artists Eli Decker, Ario Elami, Christopher Miller, and Teppla taking inspiration from one particular emblem book: Ethica Naturalis, whose illustrations personify natural elements. Attend opening night this Friday, Nov. 8, and see these artists express the eternal power dynamic between man and nature. – James ScottThrough Dec. 14 -
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“First Impressions”
Flatbed Press has championed local printmakers for 35 years. Not to be outdone, Women & Their Work has been putting the work of Texas women on their walls for 45 years. For the next couple of months the two organizations will collaborate by gathering 30 artists (who not-coincidentally are women and printmakers) and showcasing the variety of the medium and the skills of the creators. Who doesn’t love a creative collab? – James RenovitchFridays-Sundays. Through Jan. 9 -
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“Soft Opening”
Out of the garage and into much fancier digs, community-minded art gallery DORF celebrates its new home at South Lamar’s Zilker Point with the cheekily named group show “Soft Opening.” Amble in before January 11 to see what insights participating artists Eepi Chaad, Michael Anthony Garciá, Nitashia Johnson, Bárbara Miñarro, Natalia Nakazawa, Rebeca Proctor, Libby Rosen, James Viscardi bring to the concept of softness, or get in on the ground floor at Friday’s opening reception, featuring a performance by Garciá and music by DJ Apanda. – Kimberley JonesThrough Jan. 11 -
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“We Shall Be Monsters” Art Show
Arise! You are summoned to Guzu’s latest gathering of the eerie and uncanny. It’s their biggest show to date, with new works highlighting ghastly ghouls and creepy creatures from 35 artists including Dan Brereton, Half-Human, Francisco Salinas, Holly Hansel, Robert Zavala, Mia Burwitz, and Cody Schibi. Terrors of all kinds will be available to adorn your walls, from classics like xenomorphs, Leatherface, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon to modern nightmares such as Longlegs and Art the Clown. Crawl your way to Friday’s opening night gala for nibbles from Chef Matt Zepeda, and a chance to pick up an exclusive cover edition of the new issue of Gore Noir. – Richard WhittakerThrough Nov. 25 -
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Barton Creek Farmers Market
A great selection of local farmers bringing fabulous pastured meats, eggs, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, plus prepared-food vendors, artisans, bakers, and of course, live music.Sundays, 9am-1pm. Free.4805 Hwy. 290 W., Sunset Valley (Kohl's parking lot) -
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Bear Beer Bust
Iron Bear's beer bust brings all the boys to the bar. Specials on select pints and pitchers.Sundays, 2-9pm -
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Comedy
BIPOC Improv Celebration
Yeah, okay, there’s the big ol’ comedy compost pile Downtown that keeps certain not-so-funny guys on retainer, but there’s better places to get your laughs. Consider, instead, homegrown venue the Hideout – which also has pretty good coffee! November marks a full month of shows highlighting Austin’s bench of all-star BIPOC improvisers at the coffeehouse/comedy stage, along with a sprinkling of out-of-town talent. From long-running & awarded showcases like Y’all We Asian to Hispanic Heritage Month horror hit My Killer Quinceañera, there’s plenty to fill up your comedy schedule. But wait! There’s more: special guests John Gebretatose and Stephanie Rae, BIPOC jams seshs, photo booths, and karaoke. – James ScottThroughout November
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