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)
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 • 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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