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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

  • 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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  • Arts

    Books

    Yes She Can!

    The authors of that light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel book containing "10 Stories of Hope and Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House" present their optimistic volume here tonight.
    Mon., May 6, 7pm
    BookPeople

    • Music

      Eels, Robert Ellis

      “When you start doing any one thing too much in your life, it catches up to you,” says Mark Oliver Everett. “I just got so exhausted and needed to process everything that happened in my life without music.”: Ever since 1996 Eels debut Beautiful Freak, the Virginia-born Californian of disarming pessimism has laid bare his life in crystallized confessions, a constant form of catharsis to process the death of his immediate family, including his father from a heart attack (1982), his sister by her own hand (1996), and his mother via cancer (1998).: E’s first album in four years, last April’s The Deconstruction trades gloomy introspection for some newfound optimism. Even as his sandpaper voice juxtaposes against choral, stringed arrangements à la ninth album Tomorrow Morning (2010), the 56-year-old proves he’s a changed man. While standout Electro-Shock Blues (1998) stares death in the face, Eels’ 12th full-length deconstructs his misanthropy into carpe diem hope in “Today Is the Day,” the bittersweet reckoning of “Sweet Scorched Earth,” and the weathered musings on “In Our Cathedral.” Without prior knowledge of his trenchant past, one might minimize the disc as sanguine platitudes, but there’s a stalwart courage to The Deconstruction – and hopefulness.: “I started seeing everything through a different lens,” reflects Everett on becoming a father. “It makes you realize that despite the pain and struggle, life is worth living.”: This acceptance of both joy and pain refracts on “Be Hurt.” Amidst the mistakes and damage, its author’s trademark cynicism blossoms into compassionate humanity and universal empathy since “the world can take it/ so can you.”: “I remember visiting my mom, and being so depressed, but I stared up and saw a blue sky,” he recalls. “It reminded me there’s beauty in pain, and I hope in processing my own [pain], it helps others process theirs.”
      Mon., May 6, 7:30pm
      Emo's

    • Arts

      Comedy

      Funniest Person in Austin

      Ah, here it comes again – the final weekend of the annual competition that brings all the ATX funny to one stage, at least sequentially, in order to determine who's gonna wear the cape and crown. Oh! Who's gonna be the winnah? Who's gonna be the champeen? This is the last weekend of semifinals, followed by Monday night's ultimate battle for stand-up supremacy. We've been ranting at you for the last several issues to make your reservations, citizen! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
      Through May 13. $6 and up.  
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      Cap City Comedy Club

    • Arts

      Books

      ACC Literary Coffeehouse

      Austin Community College's literary series continues here with featured reader W. Joe Hoppe, as hosted by John Herndon, and including an open mic.
      Mon., May 6, 7pm
      Malvern Books

    • Music

      Ben Goldsmith

      “Rumble,” the only instrumental banned on radio, was born at a 1957 sock hop. Hating his amp sound, the Shawnee guitarist from North Carolina poked holes in it and introduced distorted power chords to rock & roll. Austin guitar slingers ranging from Danny B. Harvey to Kathy Valentine and Eve Monsees pay homage.
      Mon., May 6, 6:30pm
      Antone's Nightclub

    • Qmmunity

      Community

      Queerbomb Planning Meeting

      Help make Queerbomb 2019 a reality! Volunteer your time, your queerness, and your grand ideas, because they want you!
      Mondays through June 1 , 7-9pm  
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      The Q Austin

    • Arts

      Comedy

      Shit's Golden

      It's one of the longest running stand-up showcases in this old city and, tell you what, hosts Chris Tellez and Pat Dean have stacked the fuckin' deck with comedy cards like Bryson Brown, Denise O'Young, Aaron Brooks, Angelina Martin, Aaron Cheatam, Derek Kopswa, Adam Hrabik, and Jesse Mundy. Note: not cards, really, and those people precisely.
      Mon., May 6, 9pm. $7-10.  
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      Velveeta Room

    • Food

      Food Events

      Vigne Del Malina Wine Dinner

      This special wine dinner hosted with Italian wine producer Vigne del Malina features a six-course meal paired with five wines, highlighting such dishes as a cold plate with raw oysters, peel-and-eat rosemary shrimp, and stone crab claws with sambuca mignonette and fresh tomato salsa; peach ricotta gnocchi with mint marigold in rose beurre blanc and lemon; buckwheat tagliatelle with confit duck ragu, brandied cherries, sage and poppy seeds, and (shhhh, no spoilers!) dessert.
      Mon., May 6, 7:30pm. $98.  
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      Juniper
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