The Weekend IST List: April 28-30

SATURDAY 29

[DJs/Austinist!] Austinist sponsors We Explode!'s weekly dance party at Beauty Bar, with special The Streets Listening Party (Free, 10pm-2am) (info)

[art/music] 24-hour Extremely Grand Opening! with Voxtrot and TONS more at Blanton Museum of Art (9pm-9pm Sat-Sunday) (review) (info)

[music] SUPER!ALRIGHT! presents the 2006 Plug Awards Appreciation Show w/ Fashion Show by Tina Sparkles and Team Fabrication at The Parish Room (info)

[music] Southern Culture on the Skids at Continental Club (Through Sunday!, 11:30pm) (info)

[music] Gris Gris, Brothers & Sisters, and Brian Glaze (ex-Jonestown Massacre) plus Strange Attractors at Emo's (info)

[music] Drive By Truckers and The Drams at Emo's (info)

[music] The Clutters at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm) (info)

[music] Maneja Beto with The Lemurs, DJ e be lo at Flamingo Cantina (info)

[music] Closing night bash with Waxploitation at Blue Theatre ($6) (info)

[music] The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players at Cactus Café (info)

[outdoors] Hill Country Ride for AIDS at Hill Country (donate)

[outdoors] Eeyore's 43rd Annual Birthday Party at Pease Park (info)

[outdoors] Eeyore's AfterParty at Garden of the Ancients (info)

[art] Opening Reception for Susan Davidoff: The Sky Suite, Etchings and Drawings at Flatbed Press (6-9pm) (info)

[music] Clay Hands #2, benefit for Austin IndyMedia, with Fiction, Golden Bear, The Early Tapes and Zookeeper at Rhizome Collective (8pm) (info)

[outdoors/music] Dog Park block party fundraiser at West 9 1/2 and Shelley (10am-5pm) (info)

[comedy] Whirled News Tonight at Hideout (10:30pm, $5) (info)

[theatre] FuseBox Site-Specific Performance at Outdoors (all day, $15, narrated by Lisa D'Amour) (info)

[books] Literacy Austin Book Fest at Ballet Austin (8am-3pm, FREE) (info)

[film] QT Fest: All-Nite Horror Marathon at Alamo Downtown (8pm, $30 Nightly Pass/$10 Single Ticket) (info)

[opera] Austin Lyric Opera at Bass Concert Hall ($19-$104, 8pm) (info)

[theatre] Austin Shakespeare Festival at Sheffield Hillside Theatre in Zilker Park (free, 8pm) (info)

[dance] PROOF at Oscar Brockett Theatre ($10-$16, 8pm) (info)

[theatre] Three Feminine Instincts to Master � and Two You Should Ditch: A Meditation on Communism, Feminism, Sodomy, and Pedicures at Blue Theatre ($12, 8pm) (info)

[theatre] I Love My Dead Gay Son:The Musical! at Blue Theater ($12, 9pm) (info)

[theatre] Decameron Day 7: REVENGE at Off Center ($12-$25, 8pm) (info)

[theatre] Static at Woodward Hotel ($20-$50, 8pm) (info)

[theatre] The Empty Bowl at Arts on Real ($10, 8pm) (info)

SUNDAY 30

[music] Rainer Maria, Ambulette, Old Time Relijun, Bring Back The Guns at Emo's (info)

[music] Southern Culture on the Skids at Continental Club (Through Sunday!, 11:30pm) (info)

[music] Anthony Romero at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm) (info)

[dance] Nrityagram Dance Ensemble at One World Theatre (5pm, call 512.32.WORLD for tickets, info) (info)

[film] QT Fest: All Pretty Maids in a Row at Alamo Downtown (7pm, $20 Nightly Pass/$10 Single Ticket) (info)

[film] QT Fest: Girl from Starship Venus at Alamo Downtown (9:45pm, $20 Nightly Pass/$10 Single Ticket) (info)

[dance] NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE at One World Theatre (5pm) (info)