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This fourth evening-length work from BLiPSWiTCH is an examination of urban sprawl throughout Austin and the world, exploring the changes in our spatial and cultural landscapes and how these thresholds of time affect our own personal transformations. Featuring choreography by Taryn Lavery and Alex Miller.

Inspired by evening street markets common in East and Southeast Asia, the GAACC looks to introduce the variety of Asian cuisine while inspiring entrepreneurs to bring lesser-known Asian dishes to the market.

The Austin Symphony celebrates treasures composed by women throughout the ages, with works by Fanny Mendelssohn Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and award-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon. Bonus: Performances by Time for Three and Michelle Schumann.

Doc Nights: Guy-Blache was an early filmmaking pioneer, beginning her body of work in the 1890s and producing films throughout the silent era, many of which were lost or forgotten.

Performed in 90 minutes with only three actors, this award-winning adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece "compresses all the tension and pathos of the novel into a powerful evening of theatre." Ryan Crowder, Ben Wolfe, and Chelsea Manasseri are directed by Jeremy Lee Cudd for Penfold Theatre. And – hey!Raskolnikov! – here's our review of the show.

Award-winning bartenders Caer Ferguson and Sharon Yeung of the Roosevelt Room host this Asian cocktail pop-up, showcasing cocktails inspired by their cultural heritage and upbringing by using Asian flavors and culinary techniques.

Jesús I. Valles and Bonica Ayala have teamed up as director/producer duo to bring you a "powerhouse" comedy show: starring Linzy Beltran (of Jazz Kween and 2017 B. Iden Payne: award-winning Latinauts) and Kim Tran (of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and 2018 B. Iden Payne award-winning Y'all, We Asian). Expect a mix of multimedia and live performances digging into and digging on race, sexuality, body positivity, motherhood, and pop culture.

The Q is launching La Q Austin – a stronger and greater commitment to reach Latinas, Latinos, and the Latinx Community – and they wanna celebrate the milestone with a party. Catch Kelly Kline, Tatiana Cholula, Jacob Rene, Grandma Steven, and more! 18 and up welcome.

Other grunge-era Seattle bands break up, reunite, do lucrative nostalgia tours, but Mudhoney endures as the standard bearers for Northwest garage rock. Last year’s Digital Garbage, the quartet’s 10th album, keeps the faith as well as anything in their three-decade catalog. Recent Relapse Records signees Cherubs stage test new material they’ll record this year, and fellow Austinites Xetas open with dirty post-punk.

These drag stars are putting a whole new spin on the Greek gods with siren sounds from Le VitaKiss accompanied by minotaur dancers. Featuring Jodie Fosterchild as Zeus, Cheeki Kahnt as Hera, Chique Fil-Atio as Artemis, Mary Jane Styles as Athena, and more. 18 and up to play.

Here's one final exhibition for Recspec's current digs, before the whole Flatbed complex is shut down and everyone scatters to, like, the four winds. So they're having several of the best local artists who've shown at the gallery return to cover every wall in the place with their connecting artwork. Featuring work by Tim Kerr, Annie Alonzi, Thor Harris, Alanna Loosen, Lance McMahan, Lindsay Eyth, Mike Combs, Polly Morwood, Annalise Gratovich, Katie Cowden, and many more.

This is the comedy fusion of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with one drunk-off-their-ass cast member. It's been called "side-splitting, raucous, and completely unpredictable," and we ain't about to argue, because it's been months since we saw this crazy thing and we're still laughing.

Lates: Loosely inspired by the Grimms' fairy tale of the same name, two sisters wander the Icelandic landscape after their mother is sentenced to death for witchcraft.

World Famous *BOB* hosts this hotter-than-hell burlesque (drag, pole, and comedy too) fundraiser for SAFE! Lana Del Gay, Ginger Snaps, Wicked Leigh Devine, Kitty Von Quim, and more perform with comedy sets from Roxy Castillo, Melody Shifflet, and Samantha Rae López!

Elizabeth Chapin’s work references her Southern upbringing and the conflicted nostalgia surrounding the gentility and graciousness of the South. "Chapin views much of this culture as made possible largely by graceless and dark systems. This obfuscation of ugliness and the worship of appearance is the theme that runs throughout her new body of work." Ayup. Now, how about a large array of exemplary fauvist portraits, sometimes embellished by frames of tulle or active neon twisted like wild yarn? This fierce combo sizzles like angel spit on a griddle, makes eyes take wing. Recommended.

The Velv comes roaring back (like, "RARRRRR," approximately) after its brief SXSW shuttering, ready to rock your world with this righteous road warrior (you hear his Skunkman album on Sirius/XM all the damn time, right?) and his dark and perforce bearded take on our mad, mad world. Bonus: Ashley Overton opens.