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Art

COMMUNITY: Will Johnson's Baseball Paintings | Austin Chronicle Recommended

Sina Najafi and Arthouse's Free Visiting Lecturer Series
Arthouse Arthouse Visiting Lecturer Series: Sina Najafi Thursday, March 11 George Washington Carver Museum (1165 Angelina Street) 7pm, free [info]On Thursday, New York based Sina Najafi, the editor-in-chief of Cabinet Magazine, will be in town as part of the on-going Visiting Lecturer Series ...

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Dance

Swing Dance - Thursday - March 11
Austin Swing Syndicate Weekly Swing Dance, Ballroom DeeJays: David Kaplan 8 - 10 pm, Keith Shapiro 10 - 11 pm, Matt Jones 11 pm - Midnight; No Side Room Tonight, but there will be an 8:15 pm Balboa Class with Laura and Matt; ALL AT TEXAS FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Jitterbug Vipers, 8 - 10 pm, J ...

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Film Special Screenings

Pickaxe (Special Screening) | Austin Chronicle Film Listings

PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Quote-Along! (Alamo Downtown)
PEEEEE WEEEEEEEEE!!!! There is only one truth in this life: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is the FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER MADE. If anyone tells you different, they're just trying to start trouble. Watch the most entertaining man who has ever roamed the earth embark on a cross-country quest to reclaim ...

"A Crude Awakening": Film documents our addiction to oil
Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m., GOL 3.120. This week's Sustainable Development Film Series installation is "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," which explores the uncomfortable realities of a world that is addicted to a nonrenewable resource, and at the same time, unaware of the looming & ...

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Green Ideas

Water Conservation Task Force meeting
Share ideas about water conservation 6 p.m. March 9.

Pecan Street Project looking for a leader
Austin's ambitious smart-grid developer Pecan Street Project Inc. is hiring a project director to lead the Mueller neighborhood demonstration.

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Kid and Teen

COMMUNITY: Boys Basketball State Championships | Austin Chronicle Recommended

Event: 'The Flaming Idiots' at Zach's Kleberg Stage, Thu, Mar 11 8:00p
"An experience bubbling with humor...footloose, fanciful and free-spirited!!" -The New York Times Just when you thought The Flaming Idiots days of jugglin', jokin', throwin', swallowin', leapin' and conquerin' Broadway were over, Austin brings them back! The Flamin ...

Theater

Event: 'The Flaming Idiots' at Zach's Kleberg Stage, Thu, Mar 11 8:00p
"An experience bubbling with humor...footloose, fanciful and free-spirited!!" -The New York Times Just when you thought The Flaming Idiots days of jugglin', jokin', throwin', swallowin', leapin' and conquerin' Broadway were over, Austin brings them back! The Flamin ...

Upcoming: Desire Caught By The Tail by Pablo Picasso, staged reading by Listrunk at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, March 11
Found on-line: LISTRUNK, a brand spankin' new collective of visual and performing artists, invites you to digest our first public offering: a salon reading of Pablo Picasso's stage play Desire Caught by the Tail complete with Picasso-inspired illustrations, a talk about Picasso's life in ...

Upcoming: Toxic Assets by Steve Tomlinson at the Off Center, March 11-13
Received directly: Fusebox Festival presents Toxic Assets by Austin's acclaimed monologist Steven Tomlinson directed by Christina J. Moore March 11-13, 8 p.m. at the Off Center, 2211 Hidalgo (Mapquest map) Thursday pay what you can Friday sliding scale $15-50 Saturday reserved f ...

So Percussion performs music by Steve Reich
Thursday, March 11, 8 p.m., McCullough Theatre. So Percussion will present a new piece for two vibraphones and two marimbas written by composer Steve Reich, promising a melodic and totally unique musical experience.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chaotic Theatre Company, February 26 - March 7
This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream was not chaotic at all, despite the name of presenting company. It was a straight-up, by-the-rules staging of Shakespeare's most popular piece. That doesn't mean that it was tidy or even, though. Director Michael Floyd and the Chaotic Theatre b ...

UT Public Lectures

Q&A with actor and alumnus Bruce McGill announced
Thursday, March 11, 12:30 p.m., Winship Atrium (WIN). Theatre & Dance alum actor Bruce McGill will meet with students to discuss his extensive career in film and television, with a Q&A session. When an actor makes as indelible a comic impression as McGill did driving his motorcycle ...

Artist Anna Craycroft discusses her work with psychology professor
Thursday, March 11, 12:30 p.m., Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). Sam Gosling, associate professor in the department of psychology at UT, in conversation with Workspace artist, Anna Craycroft.

The College of Education presents Ann & Rud Turnbull
Thursday, March 11, 1 p.m., Recreational Sports Center 2.104. The Mollie Villeret Davis Distinguished Lecture presents Drs. Rud and Ann Turnbull, Ross and Marianna Beach distinguished professors, co-founders and co-directors of the Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas. Ann Turnbull i ...

Landmarks talk rethinks sculpture in the 1960s and beyond
Thursday, March 11, 5 p.m., ECJ 1.202. Professor Linda Henderson focuses on three artists whose works are presented by Landmarks: Mark di Suvero, Friedrich Kiesler and Tony Smith. Her discussion will explore connections between their sculptures, each created in the United States at different momen ...