Author: Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
The next generation of Austin musicians are pushing their way into the spotlight, thanks to a great local nonprofit organization and some high profile mentors.
Sketch, poetry, drama, stand up, burlesque, dance, or other (we’ve had plenty of other). All ideas welcome. Get creative.
This month we will be decorating birdhouses, with wood burning, paint, etching, and stain. The troop with the best design, wins a free party!
Our panel, “Recording Your Music: How, When, and Why?” features industry leaders from several major Austin recording studios who will help you answer these questions and more. You’re guaranteed to walk away with a better understanding of what it takes to record your music efficiently and effectively.
Curator Beverly Adams will moderate a discussion among three artists featured in Fixing Shadows: Luz María Bedoya (Lima), Fernando Castro (Houston), and Pablo Hare (Lima).
Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang! Bang! is a popular podcast and television show. This special LIVE performance features Scott and very special guests doing a totally improvised program, with plenty of character drop-ins.
Good job, Austin! Thanks to us banding together to vote for our city, Austin has won a $50,000 grant from JetBlue to build a green space.
Adam is coming back to Austin, May 13th-15th and he’s bringing new additions to his highly popular “Let The Music Play” series. He will be painting and hand-embellishing his work LIVE in the gallery throughout the day.
Hey who loves a free state-of-the-art museum experience? Every Thursday, the Blanton is free… check out some great art from all over the world! (from 10 am-5 pm)
Break out the orange ticker tape and pull Bevo XV from his pen, it’s time to throw a parade down Guadalupe. UT Austin has just gotten the props it deserves!
With the failure of Prop. 1 and the subsequent withdrawal of Lyft and Uber from the Austin market, we figured they could use some advice for future battles.
National Wildflower Week is May 2 – 8, 2016!
Across the nation, wildflowers growing beside highways, in gardens and elsewhere are valued for their natural beauty. As Lady Bird Johnson once said, they “give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours.”
Did your Facebook invite box just inexplicably become full of invitations to weird events that sound like secret SXSW parties planned by Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite?
Summer just got a whole lot sweeter -- and tipsier -- as some of the best in the Austin beverage business roll out Mighty Swell canned cocktails in Texas.
The Color Run®, one of the largest 5k event series in the world, will be in Austin on May 7th. The event will be held at Travis County Expo Center located 7311 Decker Ln, Austin, TX 78724, and the race will begin at 8:00am. Registration is open for individual runners and teams.
In honor of Kerbey Lane Cafe’s 36th anniversary on May 5, the beloved Austin restaurant will donate 100 percent of the net profits from all seven of its locations to United Way for Greater Austin beginning at 6 a.m. Thursday, May 5, and ending at 6 a.m. on May 6, 2016.
It would be easy to think that someone was filming a reboot of The Next Karate Kid in Austin, but nope, it’s just another day of keeping it weird.
Movies in the Park is a series of free films brought to you by Austin Parks Foundation in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse. Each year, APF and the Drafthouse bring you free movies in parks all over Austin. Residents and visitors bring their blanket or lawn chairs (and often a picnic dinner!) for a fun and relaxing evening under the beautiful Austin night sky.
It looks like local storage-finder company Sparefoot is jumping on the odd promo videos made in Austin train, and we’re pretty into it.
After opening 22 stores in the state of Texas and seven around the Austin area, it’s time for homegrown cookie-maker Tiff’s Treats to spread a little love outside of Texas’ borders.
We’ve partnered with MOD Fitness to bring a complimentary poolside barre session to you. Enjoy a barre class, then stay and enjoy a dip in the pool and SIPs from the WET Deck bar during our Sunset Sweat summer series.
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
Save the Dates! The 19th Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is scheduled for May 4 – 8, 2016 in Austin, TX. The festival will offer narrative and documentary feature and short films and videos, as well as experimental, animation, and music video selections, in competitive and non-competitive sections.
