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Best case scenario: You attend this drag show hosted by Riotgirl. The drag is H-O-T hot, with performances by Louisianna Purchase, Ryan, Embry Officially, Iggy Bank, and the Queen Fantasia Wood. Behind the DJ booth, Salem Purchase spins all the best of electronica/indie/blue-light-removing queen Grimes. Then, as you look across the squirming Chups crowd, you see the long stringy hair and casual chainmail of the woman herself. Grimes catches your eye, too, and she invites you closer with one nickel-scented hand. Together you dance all night and through queer magic, you convince her to delete X from her phone. This is the happy ending I believe we all deserve. Let’s hope Grimes can get a babysitter. – James Scott

No longer are they showing weeknight films at Hotel Vegas, where the door always swings open and the chairs creak. Hyperreal Film Club reveals their new Eastside clubhouse with a full-ish week of secret movie screenings. Pick a day that works for you and nab your ticket: Whatever you catch is sure to be a real classic, total headspinner, or new weird favorite you stump for whenever your friends call the movie’s honor into question. The new space has cushy seats, a front door that stays closed, and a bathroom that will definitely not have drywall holes by opening night. Definitely! – James Scott

Not only did “Do They Know It’s Christmas” raise millions of pounds for hunger in Africa and world awareness to boot, the Midge Ure/Bob Geldof charitable composition dominoed into “We Are the World” and then Live Aid, Live 8, and more. As the No. 1 hit in 13 countries (though not this one) turns 40 these holidays, the Scottish OBE on the marquee here rides a larger legacy than George Michael, Boy George, and Bono singing his Christmas standard. First call singer and guitarist for Sex Pistols (Steve Jones) and Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy), the now 70-year-old journeyman also led seminal New Wave synth-pop pioneers Ultravox. – Raoul Hernandez

People are still discovering lost silent films? Guess so – in 2016, while working at the George Eastman Museum in upstate New York, scholar Denise Khor located The Oath of the Sword, a 1914 film made by an independent Japanese film company in Los Angeles, before the city was known as Hollywood. Be one of the first in a hundred years to see what is considered the earliest known Asian American film. – Brant Bingamon

Something of a spiritual sequel to 1982 classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1984’s The Wild Life never saw the same level of recognition but offers plenty of summer’s-end fun. Penned by Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous), the Southern California-set coming-of-age comedy/drama follows suburban teens played by Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Lea Thompson, and others as they celebrate the freedom of a young summer. Bananarama provided the title song for a soundtrack that included Van Halen, Prince, Madonna, Billy Idol, and even our own Austin Music Hall-of-Famer Charlie Sexton, for a perfect back-to-school film at the very cool single-screen cinema. – Kat McNevins