The Weekly IST List: August 22-27

WEDNESDAY [23]

books/party • Happy Hour with the Writers' League of Texas at Tambaleo (6pm) ®

books • Ben Barnes, former Lt. Governor of Texas, presents Barn Burning, Barn Burning at BookPeople (7pm) ®

music • Tuna Helpers, Baby Dee, Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) at Emo's ®

music • Beerfest Week! Gorch Fock, The F and the C, Fire vs Extinguisher at Beerland

music • Wax Wednesdays - BYO vinyl at Ruta Maya (Free, 8pm)

music/outdoors • Blues on the Green with Double Trouble featuring Joe Ely at Rock Island at Zilker Park (7:30pm) ®

art • Art Fix presents Tom Spencer, host of KLRU's Central Texas Gardener at Blanton Museum of Art (Noon-12:45pm)

music • Abigail and Hansel, The Devil Bat, Quata, DJ Jaunty at Chain Drive (Free) ®

film • AFS 20th Anniversary screening of "The Mirror" at Drafthouse Downtown ®

film • "Strange Brew" with Canadian beer flight at Drafthouse Downtown (9:45pm)

film • Weird Wednesdays presents "Pinball Summer" at Drafthouse Downtown (Midnight)

THURSDAY [24]

food • Austin Farmers Market at Plaza Saltillo (5th and Comal) (4-7pm)

books • Dao Strom presents The Gentle Order of Boys and Girls at BookPeople (7pm) ®

books • Diane Fanning presents Gone Forever: A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, and Murder at Hampton Library, 5125 Convict Hill (7pm)

books • Robert Smallwood presents The Five People You Meet in Hell: Surviving Katrina at Borders, 4477 S. Lamar (7.30pm)

music • Pompeii, Pistolita, Hanalei, Paperwork, 8 Bit at Emo's (9pm)

music • Birdmonster w/ Division Day & The Paper South at Stubb's ®

music • Beerfest Week! Til We're Blue or Destroy, Rescue Mission, Ivory Class at Beerland ®

music • Tim Reynolds at Antone's

music • Ruby Dee and the Snake Handlers at Continental Club

music • Outformation, The Greyhounds at Ruta Maya ($10, 9pm)

music • Lazlo Hollyfeld at Flamingo Cantina

music • Transmography, Rubber vs. Robot, Tangle at Trophys ($5, 10pm)

art opening • Gladys Poorte & Naomi Schlinke: New Work at d berman Gallery (6-8pm) ®

art reception • Kevin Greer: At the Edge of Everything at Gallery Soco (6-9pm)

art • Artistic License: Annette Lawrence discusses her works at Blanton Museum of Art (7pm) ®

art/benefit • Artists for Austin Charity Art Show at Tambaleo ($7, 7-10pm) ®

art/party • Exhibit featuring local artists at Bel Air (South Congress) (6-8pm)

film • Flicker Film Festival at Drafthouse Downtown (7pm) ®

music • Medical Metal benefit with Fuck Work, Hit By a Car, Maestrom, and Halo Rings Her Head at Lovejoy's (8pm-2am)

music • Fiction, Gulf of Mexico, Bello Ragazzo at 912 Red River (10pm) ®

FRIDAY [25]

food • Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market North Lamar (8am-9pm)

books • Robin Meyers presents Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future at BookPeople (7pm)

music • Gorilla Biscuits, Terror, Comeback Kid, Warwulf, Iron Age (outside) Cue, Ume, The Snake Trap, Red X Red M (inside) at Emo's

music • Backspin Records presents Cold Blockin It with Starsign, Yppa, Dr. Knuckstable, Bird Peterson at Emo's Lounge (Free)

music • Luna Halo w/ The Elms at Stubb's

music • Dawn Over Zero w. South FM and Nothing More at The Parish Room

music • What Made Milwaukee Famous at Waterloo Records (5pm) ®

music • Beerfest Week! Born to Lose, The Ends, Apeshits CD Release, Pumpers, Teeners at Beerland

music • ELO tribute with K-Tel Hit Machine & Tosca Strings at Antone's

music/outdoors • The French Legation presents Austin Family Jewels -- BYO a picnic dinner and wine at French Legation Museum ($2/person, 8:30pm-9:30pm) ®

lecture/open mic/spoken word • Project Life celebrates Black August 2006 with a lecture by Robert King Wilkerson (Angola Three), an open mic, and spoken word performances at Café Mundi (7pm) ®

film • Videoke at Drafthouse Village (Midnight)

film • Sinus Show skewers "Point Break" at Drafthouse Downtown (7pm, 10pm)

SATURDAY [26]

food • Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market North Lamar (8am-9pm)

food • Austin Farmers Market at Republic Square Park (4th and Guadalupe) (9am-1pm)

food • Market Day at Boggy Creek Farm at 3414 Lyons Road (9am-2pm, USDA-Certified-Organic Market Farm)

food • Annual Fall Creek Vineyards Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival at 1820 County Road 222 (11am-5pm, $22)

food • 2nd Annual Big Chill Event at Texas Culinary Academy at 11400 Burnet Road, Suite 2100 (Noon-3pm)

books • Karen MacInerney presents Murder on the Rocks at Borders Arboretum (2pm)

books • Against the Current celebrates 23 years of Red Salmon Arts and Resistencia Bookstore with a dinner, silent auction, and awards presentation at Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Bergman (7pm, $50, $25 kids)

music • Those Peabodies, One Mississippi, & Fivehead at Stubb's

music • The Hairy Apes BMX w. Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle and Exit Clov at The Parish Room

music • Jason Poe, Paper South, Magnet School, Daryl at Hole in the Wall (8pm)

music • Beerfest Week! Brothers and Sisters, Moonlight Towers, John Schooley's One Man Band, John Wesley Coleman at Beerland ®

music • The Heartbreak Kid, The Deadly Companions & Something Fierce at The Parlor (8pm, Free)

music • Austin Rock 'n Romp #2 with Golden Bear! at Ruta Maya (2:30pm, $3 Adults/$2 Kids) ®

music • Ian Moore at Cactus Café ($15, 9pm) ®

party/GLBT • Divine Drag with DJ POW, drag contest at Karma Lounge (10pm, $7) ®

art/lecture • Austin Art in Public Places (AIPP) presents a workshop entitled "Going Digital" at Austin Public Library, Carver Branch (11am-1pm)

art opening • Austin Graffiti Art: From Birth To Present at Gallery Lombardi (6-11pm) ®

art opening • "Oliver Boberg / 1997 - 2005" at Lora Reynolds Gallery (6-8pm) ®

art opening • Photography by Stephanie Friedman & John Dunne: Fine Art Photography & Rock Portraiture at Diaz Gallery (7-9pm) ®

film • "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at Drafthouse Village (Midnight)

film • "Escape to Witch Mountain" -- this movie changed our lives at Drafthouse South Lamar (Noon, FREE!) ®

film • Sinus Show skewers "Point Break" at Drafthouse Downtown (7pm, 10pm)

SUNDAY [27]

food • Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market North Lamar (8am-9pm)

books • Mary James presents The Destiny of LaGrimas Creek at BookPeople (3pm)

music • Casper & the Cookies (ex Of Montreal members) at Flamingo Cantina ($7, 8:30pm) ®

film • Hecklers Paradise: Prayer of the Rollerboys at Drafthouse Downtown (9:45pm)

film • Lasting Images at Drafthouse Downtown (4:30pm)

film • "Take A Chance on Me": The ABBA Singalong at Drafthouse Downtown (7pm)

food/music/outdoors • Austin Chronicle's annual Hot Sauce Festival 2006 at Waterloo Park (Bring two food items, 11am-5pm) ®

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