The Weekend IST List: August 25-27

FRIDAY [25]

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

shopping Flipnotics Clothespad celebrates its 14th anniversary by hosting a big sidewalk sale, with $10 "Stuff a Bag" vintage threads for the ladies and 20% everything else (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 Listening party for What Made Milwaukee Famous' Barsuk re-release at Beauty Bar (10pm, Free, Complimentary Tito'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)

party/skates GRITS: Rollerboogie at Skate World (11pm, $8) ®

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 (4:30pm, $3 Adults/$2 Kids) ®

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

music The Ugly Beats, The Dolly Partners, Nagel at Carousel Lounge (10pm)

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]

outdoors Pétanque with the Alliance Française d’Austin at French Legation Museum (2-5pm)

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

food Hyde Park Bar & Grill opens its newest location at Westgate (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)

film "Grease" with the Allen Oldies Band at Republic Square Park (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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