Editor’s note: Pastiche is a bi-weekly column exploring the diversity within the Austin music community. The views expressed in Pastiche are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network....

Everybody knows how hard goodbyes are, but this Sunday’s Opera House Store Closing Party promises a celebration of everything we love about the arts in Austin. The Opera House Collective enjoyed a vibrant three years of providing local artists with gallery and performance space, as well as an inspiring outlet for handmade retail. Their longtime support of the local noise and experimental music scene renders a fitting live soundtrack from Night Viking, Nano Bang Bang, Teddy and Marge, and Ich Ni San Chi. Lori16mm will screen experimental/collage films on handmade analog projectors....

The Opera House, on South 1st, is a venue, retail store, and has hopes of soon becoming a non-profit organization. On Sunday the 22nd they’re proving their mettle with a 3D movie release party by Jeanne Stern and Erich Ragsdale, followed by a performance by the San Marcos group Teddy and Marge. Visual artists Stern and Ragsdale have collaborated on a “stereoscopic puppet film” entitled The Isle of Cattywampus that they’ll be presenting at the event. To clarify, the film is 3D because it was “shot with two lenses, one for each eye.” Following the film, the duo will also present a 3D slide show and a few animated shorts. Teddy and Marge will perform their old-time, Tom Waits meets a drum machine tunes after the Stern and Ragsdale portion of the evening. ...

Hungry for a little optical stimuli? Stereopticon, with its futuristic 3D stereograms, kinetic art and optical sounds, promises to weave together sound and light in ways that will fascinate (and possibly trigger a seizure or two). ...

Friday, July 6artB Scene - Too Darn Hot! at Blanton Museum of Art, MLK at Congress ($5-$10) booksAlan Porter presents Before They Were Beatles, with Beatles cover band Daytripper at BookPeople (7:00pm) comedyJohn O’Connell with Jesse Pangelinian at Cap City Comedy Club comedyPunchline, open mic stand up comedy at ColdTowne Theater (10pm) comedyLovey and Lovey at ColdTowne Theater (8pm) comedyWeekly Improv Cage Match! at ColdTowne Theater (11:30) film"Bonnie & Clyde" and "White Heat" at The......

The word "twitter", mostly employed by delicate English septuagenarians, has been reclaimed by local artist and cinematographer Jeanne Stern. She presents her work at The Opera House this Friday with the show Twitter Box: Spatial Illusions Of All Kinds. "A 'twitter box' is a moving microcosm," Stern explained to us. "It could be a film, performance, or diorama, or a drawing that is suggestive of motion." The boxes will accompany mechanical ballets and hanging gardens.......

The folks at The Opera House are casting their net wide for tiny art to grace the 3rd Annual Tiny Brigade Art Show celebrating, well, tiny art. The show opens 7pm, May 11 and runs through May 25. Participation (and interpretation) is open. The deadline for entries is Friday, May 11, so act quick and think small. We also hear rumors of prizes. Interested? Email for more info. The Opera House 2209-K South 1st......

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......

THURSDAY [29] theatre •Yellow Tape Construction Company presents I Am Not Tartuffe at play! Theatre (8pm) theatre •The City Theatre Company presents The Boys Next Door at The City Theatre (8pm) theatre •Ohio Trip, a "slide show adventure" by Elizabeth Cobbe at Women & Their Work Gallery (7:30pm) theatre •The Vortex presents Hamlet at The Vortex (8pm) theatre •Hyde Park Theatre presents Zell Miller III's My Child, My Child, My Alien Child at Hyde......

This weekend, December 9th through the 12th, sixteen shops on South First Street are participating in a Holiday Bazaar. During normal business hours, customers can enjoy special artist's booths, music, and holiday snack and beverages. Notable SoFi businesses participating in the event are: Sinsations, Secret Oktober, Unbridaled, Happiness, Phlox, End of an Ear, Vanilla Girl Designs, Bella Blue, The Opera House, The Stash, I C Gallery, Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse, Vintage Glamour, DJ Dojo, Southside......