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Courthouse Nights in Lockhart, Texas!
Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!Fri. Apr. 19, 7pm-10pmLockhart, Texas
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Visual Arts
Dimension Gallery: Infinity X Loop
Damn it, Dimension Gallery, can't you just let yourself be pigeonholed? But, no – and we blame Colin McIntyre's Resonant Lung for encouraging this sort of thing – you've got to offer up an intriguing wonderment that's partly a visual arts event and partly an experimental musical gig, as Portland's Randall "Amulets" Taylor surgically modifies cassettes to craft self-contained repeating units with configurations for longer loops, literally running the tape out of the housing and through the gallery space. "The loops surround the viewer with the magnetic tape itself in a ceaseless circuit, creating a sonic tapestry that stretches and degrades toward infinity." Recommended.Through Aug. 14 -
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Food Events
Five-8 Brew Tour
Join The Austin Chronicle and fellow craft beer lovers in tasting the Five-8 this summer! This self-guided tour offers one complimentary pour at each of the eight locations – 4th Tap! Adelbert's! Austin Beerworks! Austin Homebrew Supply! Celis! Circle Brewing! Fairweather Cider! Oskar Blues! – and a tour bandanna with purchase of a brew-pass. Spend a July weekend visiting them all, citizen, because your thirst deserves to be slaked in style.July 13-15. $25. -
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Northern-Southern: Deliriums
Now here's a compelling thing: That maker of musical machinery, Matthew "Octant" Steinke, has a new solo exhibition in this intimate gallery (curated by the John-Pauls' own Phillip Niemeyer). We mean, who wouldn't want to experience the odd marvel of "three acoustic robots singing to each other, round-robin style, mimicking a group therapy session," right? And, oh, look – that Brenner fellow reviews the show right here.Through July 30. Saturdays, 3:30-6pm -
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Round Rock Express
Vs. Oklahoma City. July 14 is 90s Nickelodeon Night featuring Double Dare (!) and the Zoodust Party Band. Jerseys will be auctioned off to benefit Trinity Oaks Austin.Thu.-Sun., July 12-15. $7-16. -
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Special Screenings
Acorazado (2010)
Viva Cinema: In this Mexican political satire, a man leaves Veracruz (along with unemployment and his nagging family) for the States, but winds up in an entirely different place.Sat., July 14, 7pm -
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Special Screenings
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Essential Cinema: The Bitter Tears of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Fassbinder consciously borrows the melodramatic storyline of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows to create one of his very best movies. Fassbinder brings his best Brechtian impulses to his story about the culturally doomed love affair between a washerwoman in her 60s and an Arab immigrant half her age.Sat., July 14, 2:45pm -
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Antone's 43rd Anniversary w/ Big Bill Morganfield, Paul Oscher
Muddy Waters’ scion Big Bill Morganfield teams up with Dad’s onetime harpcat and now veteran Austinite Paul Oscher to cover the king of the blues.Sat., July 14, 10pm -
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Art on 5th: Carrie Graber
This Southern California native is influenced by the hot summers and warm glowing colors of her home, her oil paintings featuring scenes of daily life, combining a 19th-century style of capturing light and illumination on canvas with her own fascination with American midcentury architecture. Some excellent work here, hell yes, and recommended.Reception: Sat., July 14, 7-9pm -
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Dance
ATX Summer Dance Film Festival
This one-night-only festival features an array of dance films from emerging and established artists from around the world, the U.S., and right here in Austin. And how do we know this is a Good True Thing? Because it's being produced by Chaddick Dance Theater.Sat., July 14, 8pm. $15. -
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Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis Show, Paula Russell (6:00)
More than a decade passed since either Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis released a solo album, but the past year brought both back in for an individual close-up. The former offered up 2017’s easy and freewheelin’ Bruce Robison & the Back Porch Band, while his spouse delivered this spring’s stellar Back Being Blue. Thankfully their individual projects haven’t quelled the couple’s impulse to fill the Broken Spoke dance floor.Sat., July 14 -
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Butridge Gallery: Stained SLABs
What streetstyle wonders has J Muzacz wrought on the walls of the DAC's Butridge Gallery? See our review right here for a look before you go.Through July 14 -
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Davis Gallery: Of Warp and Weft
The elegant carved wood sculptures of Caprice Pierucci. The photographs of delicate cheesecloth drapings by Charles Heppner. Together they make for a compelling dialog of harmony, form, and composition – complicating the walls of this excellent gallery. (See our full review right here.) Recommendation: See the art, then grab some great food at the Soup Peddler location just a few blocks away.Through July 21 -
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Deafheaven, Drab Majesty, Uniform [outside]
Controversial Calis just dropped their Radiohead record Ordinary Corrupt Human Love.Sat., July 14, 8pm -
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Espresso, Robby, Indoor Creature, Cosmic Chaos
Alternative L.A. outfit Espresso fall somewhere between the diluted funk of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the indie punkadelia of Alt-J. “Space Ship, Space Dick” transfixes with Gil Scott-Heron sensibility. Leading support comes from Indoor Creature, local rock from a chance encounter at a Sushi restaurant on North Lamar. Their 2015 debut Present Thinking channels the provisional pleasures and concerns of young adults with forward thinking indie-pop.Sat., July 14, 8pm -
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Dance
Forklift Danceworks: Dove Springs Swims
Allison Orr and her talented team explore the creative possibilities of a second city pool in the "My Park, My Pool, My City" trilogy. This time Dove Springs gets the choreographed aquakinetic treatment, with live original music and underwater lighting design. But – will the Dove (and other municipal pools) ultimately survive? Nina Hernandez looks into that right here.July 12-15, Thu.-Sun., 8:30pm -
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Theatre
Hotter Than Hell Burlesque
Ruby Joule and Diamond Burlesque return with their most sizzling show of the year, with New York's Sydni Deveraux and that L.A. dynamo Nikita Bitch Project. It's a burley-cue spectacle that "combines high-glamour with rock & roll and, as always, a touch of whimsy."Sat., July 14, 8pm. $20-44. -
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Jamila Woods, Sarah Jaffe
Ivy League-educated soulstress Jamila Woods blessed fellow Chicagoan Chance the Rapper with vocals on the nostalgic “Sunday Candy” and heavenly “Blessings.” Texas native Sarah Jaffe evolved her precocious vocals from small-town folk acoustics and indie orchestrals to sci-fi electro-pop on last year’s Bad Baby. Together with a much-teased “special guest,” they mark five years for KUTX.Sat., July 14, 7:30pm -
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Events
Mundial Party Benefiting Casa Marianella
Indivisible Austin and the Cine Las Americas Film Festival are conducting a T-shirt campaign for Casa Marianella, the only homeless shelter in Austin dedicated solely to immigrants. You can purchase a shirt online for $20 or simply make a donation. On Saturday they're hosting a Mundial (World Cup)-themed party in celebration of the final.Sat., July 14, noon-4pm. Free-$20. -
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Sports
Sandlot Service: Austin Grackles vs. Texas Playboys
Sandlot baseball featuring two local teams. Bring the whole family for fun; bring cash for food and drinks.Sat., July 14, 3-7pm. $10 donation at the door. -
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SPiNbledon
Austin's Downtown pingpong bar is celebrating Wimbledon the week of July 9-15. They're offering food & drink specials, and there will be a tournament July 9, 8-11pm (entry fee is $50 for a team of three). On Friday the 13th they'll have a Wimbledon themed players' night at 10pm.July 9-15SPiN Austin, 213 W. Fifth -
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Kids
Sue's Tech Kitchen
This pop-up science exhibit, presented by Randi Zuckerberg and designed by a NASA scientist, combines STEM research and sweet eats. Visitors of all ages can enjoy 3D-printed s'mores, robots controlled by candy, edible chemistry experiments, treat-dropping drones, and more.Fri.-Sun., July 13-15. $25.1890 Ranch, 1431 E. Whitestone Blvd. Ste. T-160, Cedar Park -
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Summer Salt, Hot Flash Heat Wave, the Symposium
Closest we’ll get to a beach in July, Summer Salt reps Austin with its Southern take on surf rock. Breezy acoustics and howling vocals on 2017 EP So Polite join the bossanova, soul, and blues influences throughout the group’s growing catalog. San Francisco New Wave quartet Hot Flash Heat Wave supply coastal support, while Chicago indie rockers the Symposium open with a marine layer of an acid rock haze.Sat., July 14, 9pm -
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Sports
Texas Roller Derby
Last year's champs the Cherry Bombs take on the undefeated Las Putas Del Fuego. Live music by Dangercakes.Sat., July 14, 6-9pm. $20. -
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Theatre
The Antipodes
It's the newest work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker – the playwright of The Flick, The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and more – and, because Hyde Park Theatre's Ken Webster has, like, connections in the industry, this is only the second production of it in the country. This one's about professional fabulators in pursuit of the ultimate yarn, and the cast – oh my, the cast! – features Lowell Bartholomee, Tom Green, Anne Hulsman, Maria Latiolais, Saurabh Pradhan, Blake Robbins, Mical Trejo, Shanon Weaver, and Dave Yakubik, all directed by that same Webster. Note: Do yourself a big favor and see this one.Through Aug. 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-26 (Pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Special Screenings
The Piano (1993)
Afternoon Tea: A "beautifully strange" and "haunting" portrait of a mute woman (Hunter, who won an Oscar) in 19th-century New Zealand who is caught in a vicious love triangle.Sat., July 14, 4pm -
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Arts & Culture
ToyBOX: Free Your Mind
The Toybox crew is hopping into their new home, but the changing of digs wont change the quality. Catch these babes with special guests: Cvnty Wh0rn4y and Roxy Castillo. BYOB, too!Sat., July 14, 7-10pm. Free.Hive MIND Hair Co., 3011 N. I-35 -
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Nightlife & Parties
Violent Fem With Dahli of Dragula Season 2
A showdown of Austin's most dangerous queens: Bulimianne Rhapsody, Mandy Quinn, Rhonda Jewels, and more. Hosted by Ruby Knight and Hentaii.Sat., July 14, 10pm. $10.
