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  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - 3 Hour Marathon Show w/ King Stingray

    Join Resound and Levitation at Circuit of the Americas on November 15th for a 3-hour marathon show with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with direct support from King Stingray. Grab your tickets now before they're all sold out!
    Fri. Nov. 15, 7pm  
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    Germania Insurance Amphitheater

  • A Prayer for Peace

    A Prayer for Peace is a poem in movement: a site-specific aerial dance work dedicated to joining the global community and those working for peace. Blue Lapis Light's latest large scale public work comes to Austin and features aerialists soaring off buildings, live musicians, and critically acclaimed dancers bringing Sally Jacques' transcendent work to life.
    Sept. 18-22 & Sept. 26-29, 8:30pm  
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    5508 Parkcrest Dr.
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  • Community

    Events

    Coffee Talk Series With Desnudo

    Despite coffee fueling most of the working world’s waking hours, the farmers that make it are often paid a fraction of its global sales – 6-10% to be exact. This is mainly due to the intermediaries along the supply chain, but climate change is also playing a role in the volatility of the crop as rain patterns are disrupted in the particular regions where coffee is grown. Luckily, farmers are employing climate-resilient methods like regenerative agriculture that make the industry more sustainable, and local brands like Desnudo Coffee make that financially possible by working directly with coffee growers employing sustainable practices. And they’ll be discussing their mission and methods at the Southeast Branch Library this Tuesday! – Lina Fisher
    Tue., Sept. 17
    Southeast Branch Library

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Freaked (1993)

      Before he was a respected and respectable documentarian analyzing the intersection of politics and technology, and even before he made those fun Ben 10 live action movies, Alex Winter made a bonkers PG-13 romp about a scientist creating his own sideshow freaks. His original pitch was basically Beach Blanket Bingo meets The Evil Dead, with a family stopping at a circus that turns out to be a front for a cannibal butchery run by the Butthole Surfers. He’s said that version was going to be “very, very rock & roll, hard-R,” but it’s hard to imagine it would be any less crazy than his foam rubber monster underground masterpiece. – Richard Whittaker
      Tue., Sept. 17
      Hyperreal Film Club

    • Music

      Marika Hackman

      There’s a delicate strength to Marika Hackman’s fifth LP, Big Sigh, an understated confidence building in the rising percussion and electronic beats. The UK multi-instrumentalist’s songwriting on the album carries the weight of struggling through a creative drought but lifts with an almost miraculous clarity and unexpected harsh analogies buried within the gorgeously hushed tones and patient pacing. Although the more electronic and pop production of her earlier work takes a backseat, her feel for provocative pulses and emotional catharsis still drives across Big Sigh – though whether it’s ultimately a sigh of relief or resignation remains unclear. – Doug Freeman
      Tue., Sept. 17, 8pm  
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      The Ballroom

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition (1979)

      The slow-motion picture: That’s how the first cinematic voyage of the Starship Enterprise was mockingly described when first released in 1979. Audiences wanted the pulp action of Star Wars, and the insatiable appetite for space adventure was enough to get the franchise to the beloved Wrath of Khan and beyond. But what director Robert Wise created, and amplified with his 2001 remaster/re-edit, was to capture the original series’ sense of cosmic wonder. The torpor becomes spectacle and introduces all the themes of aging, friendship, and loss that would define the ongoing star trekking of Bones, Spock, Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura.: – Richard Whittaker
      Sept. 13-18
      Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)

      How can I, a cool Kat on Earth, not love A Punk Cat in Space? Way back in 2003 around when it came out, the Japanese animation was a hit with our own Marc Savlov, who opened a four-star review by saying, “I’m tempted to call this the best film of the year so far based on its sheer originality alone, but my dog would never speak to me again.” It’s delightfully weird, telling a story of a kittycat in Tokyo who goes to outer space against her human mom’s wishes and happens upon the mysterious Planet Q. Tamala’s mostly black-and-white animation evokes the silent film era’s Felix the Cat in look and the Seventies’ Fritz the Cat in tone, and a new restoration ensures a high-quality viewing. In Japanese with English subtitles. – Kat McNevins
      Sept. 13-18
      AFS Cinema

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      The Third Man (1949)

      Having bought tickets to a film noir, I wonder if audiences in 1949 laughed out loud when they first heard Anton Karas’ jaunty zither score. Sure, the Old World stringed instrument was geographically on point for a film set in post-World War II Vienna. (Director Carol Reed discovered Karas strumming away in a bar during the on-location shoot.) Still, it was a far cry from the moody, broody sound you’d expect to score a suspense about an American writer (Joseph Cotten) investigating the mysterious death of his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But if audiences laughed, they also clapped, and bought the bejesus out of the soundtrack. The perfect music for, yes, a perfect movie. – Kimberley Jones
      Sept. 13-19
      AFS Cinema

    • Qmmunity

      Nightlife & Parties

      TuezGayz: National Voter Registration Gay

      Come for the party; stay to get registered to vote! World Famous *BOB* and Democrasexy will be on-site to help you get your info up-to-date for what’s sure to be one of the most important elections of our lives! Altho TBH, all elections, local ones included, are important!
      Tue., Sept. 17
      Swan Dive
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