FRIDAY [13] fashion • RARE Magazine Spring Fling Fashion Show at The Belmont Hi-Lo (Moved due to rain) art/music • Take That!, a show of new images by Lance McMahan, plus music by Amanda Jones, Connie Ball, & Teddy and Marge at The Opera House (7-10pm) art • Hot and Cold: The Best of Canadian Contemporary Art at Art on 5th, 1501 W 5th (10am-6pm) art • Opening Reception for abstract paintings and encaustics......

WEDNESDAY [31] dj • fStar, a biweekly project about "living, breathing, moving graffiti" coupled with a live soundtrack at Jo's on 2nd Street (8-10pm, Free) dj • Cut Club at The Mohawk music • The Lymbyc Systym, This Will Destroy You, Loren Dent at Emo's music • Live Oak Decline, Sounds Under Radar at Stubb's music • Brother Will, Carley Wolf, Stoney's Spoken Word (featuring the Golden Boys) at Beerland music • Militant Babies,......

*The views expressed in The Laurie Show are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -ed. note Most of us can appreciate a few extra days off from work when there's inclement weather. But there are a few of us who get cabin fever. Severely. Make no mistake: I enjoyed it the first day or so, then things got a bit loopy for yours truly during what the media......

Tomorrow night Emo's Lounge will be hosting a massive jamboree to celebrate the release of Karrie Hopper's new CD An Unusual Move. Hopper's influences range from Rufus Wainwright to Suzanne Vega, though her musical roots in San Antonio involved a seven-piece instrumental group that she's described as "loud and powerful". Interesting to consider that the album was recorded at a lake house over the summer, with instrumentation and lyrics coming in between dips in......

Tonight, Phil Elverum brings his shape-shifting gang of noisemakers (formerly known as The Microphones, but currently known as Mount Eerie) to Ruta Maya for an evening of...well, we're not sure, exactly. In 2004 (after releasing two consecutive near-perfect albums of gorgeously fractured pop, The Glow Pt.2 and Mount Eerie), Elverum declared The Microphones officially dead and changed the group's name to Mount Eerie. Ever since, his performances and recorded output have been a tad unpredictable.......