Friday already??

Spring is in the air in the A-TX!  Lotsa choices on things to do this weekend!  Happy Easter or eatser if yer hungry and remember..."We're not made of sugar!" so don't be scared of the rain...it'll pass!

Today Friday 4/10... Free noon show at City Hall w/ Sahara Smith;

Vivian Girls at Mohawk, James McMurtry at Threadgill's, Split Lip Rayfield at Antones, Patricia Vonne and Charanga Cakewalk at the Continental Club, Grand Champeen at Creekside, Band of Heathens at Gruene Hall, Carolyn Wonderland at Nutty Brown, Ray Primm & Lisa Tingle at One2One, Broken Teeth at Room 710, and Soncache at El Sol y La Luna!

Saturday 4/11...I always like catching Redd Volkaert free at 3pm at the Continental Club, check it out and you will understand why!!  Also during the day...check out the funky chicken coop tour! (www.fccooptour.blogspot.com )  Later on...Kinks Hoot Night at Ruta Maya, Billy Harvey at the Amsterdam, Eric Tessmer at BD Riley's, Ray Benson at the Elephant Room!!? is he doing a new Texas swing jazz thing I don't know about?, Mau Mau Chaplains at Flamingo, Blue October at Stubbs for another sold out show, The Brew, The Eggmen at Jovitas, Seth Walker at Momo's, Pat Green at Nutty Brown, Afrofreque at Lambert's, Grady, Honky, Dixie Witch at Room 710 and of course...What a Saturday night...'cuz it's a Del Castillo CD release party at Antones, so look out, you have been warned!!

Sunday 4/12...Happy Easter!

Heads up...all the cool brunch spots will be packed!! Of course in the daytime I like Dale Watson at Ginny's, but you already know that by now, right??  There is a cool benefit for the Diabetes Association at the Continental Club so check out the "Hey, Loretta! Pie Social" with Rosie Flores, Brennan Leigh, Mike Barfield, Ted Roddy and many more, Mitch Watkins is at the Elephant Room, Mariachi Relamago at Nuevo Leon, The Durdens at Stubb's, DJ Kurupt at Red Fez, The Resentments at the Saxon Pub, Jane Bond at Roadhouse Rags and....

Morrissey will hit the stage at the Bass Concert Hall to help ya endure the cloudy, rainy weekend.       

Beyond the live music...be warned the Alamo Drafthouse might slip another World Premiere past you like they did with Star Trek last Monday!! 

Get ready...next week is the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, so get ready from Thursday the 16th thru Sunday the 19th!

Fo' Mo' info :  http://www.texaswineandfood.org/

  

Is the Alamo Drafthouse the coolest or what?

If you haven't heard the latest cool move pulled by the Alamo, sit down and prepare to be impressed.  The Alamo had listed a free screening of Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan and they had a full house awaiting this Sci-fi gem from over 20 years ago!  I still think it was the best of all the Star Trek movies with the original cast... Before the movie starts, the writers of the new Star Trek movie get announced and they make a short speech, then the movie begins.  Or does it!?

Before it can get going the projector appears to jam and everything looks like it is over.  So the house lights come on and then... Mr. Spock, aka Leonard Nimoy appears to give the audience a lil pep talk!!  Then the Alamo did show the new Star Trek movie...a whole month before it is to be released!  Not only did the Alamo have the world premiere of this hotly anticipated movie, but they did it in such a cool way.  True Star Trek fans who packed the house to see an old Star Trek movie deserved to be there and to have the Mr. Spock cherry on top...nice!  Way to go Mr. League...the Alamo does it again!  "Live Long and Prosper!"

For more info check out this link from the Chronicle:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Blogs/Screens