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2 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
Kerrville Folk Festival Sun’s out and live music’s in the air: Must be summer festival season! Austin’s known for collecting all the best bands, musicians, and party people even during our hotter-than-heck months. Throw a dart at your May, June, July, and August calendar and you’re sure to hit a fest featuring a loaded lineup – but that ain’t the smart consumer’s way.
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2 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
Editor James reflects on what being on the computer used to mean Gettin’ on the ’puter Do you remember your first experience on the computer? I don’t, but I remember being excited by it. All sorts of possibilities lived inside the gray box that first lived in my dad’s office before ending up on my tweenage desktop.
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3 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Katherine McNevins |Kimberley Jones |Richard Whittaker
Monday 19, Hampton Branch Library at Oak HillCraft your way to a prettier home through this lesson from mindful art teacher Sari Fujimaru, who’ll instruct interested adults in “the philosophy and basic structure of Japanese flower arrangement art.” Ikebana traces its roots back to sixth-century Buddhist cultural exchanges between China and Japan, with the modern art form focused on empty space as much as asymmetry.
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3 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Katherine McNevins |Richard Whittaker |James Renovitch
Recommended happenings for your calendar's enjoyment Thursday 15 - Sunday 18, Palmer Events CenterCouldn’t fuel your private jet for Art Basel this year? Can’t afford even a painting of a private jet? That’s where you may be wrong, as the Affordable Art Fair may be the way to get an original work on your walls.
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3 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
How do you heal from the headache of our current hellish world? Visual proof that I know how to read Girl: I’m in a bad mood. Texas House passed their dog-water ass House Bill 229, student loan debt threatens to wreck people’s wages, and I had to kill a roach in Qmmunity HQ (my room). Obviously the only way to un-bad my mood is to touch grass – or books, more like.
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3 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
Kaiju Cut and Sew’s Chris Gomez at Meanwhile Brewing In the 1970s, the idea was first proposed to designate May as a celebration of Asian American culture and history. Fast-forward some years – and federal administrations – later, and we’re here in Austin 2025, where half-Taiwanese, half-Hispanic Texan Chris Gomez continues that celebratory work through a love of beer, markets, and mahjong.
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4 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Cat McCarrey |Carys Anderson |Kimberley Jones
Monday 12 - Sunday 18, ICOSA Collective GalleryFor the 45th in their ongoing Window Dressing series, ICOSA pretties up their outward facing exhibition space with the work of Austin-based artist Sev Coursen. Viewable from this coming Monday until next Sunday are Coursen’s many foldable objects, created by him to be “self-contained sculptures” which may collapse, travel, and expand at the whims of their presenting environment.
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4 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott |Katherine McNevins |Carys Anderson |Tim Stegall
Arts and culture to fill your days Thursday 8 - Saturday 10, The DomainAustin isn’t known as an especially fashionable city. We’re too attached to our flip-flops, tank-tops, and other hyphenated items that are really more about summer survival than looking fierce. This weekend, however, there’s a slate of stylish events to remind us how good we can look when we put our best people to the task.
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4 weeks ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
Bang the gavel, girlies, because court is in session, and you’re guilty – of being a slay queen! Just kidding, just kidding: I get ahead of myself here in Qmmunity headquarters (my bedroom/office). No, what’s in session for real is “thee” newest variety show/improvised play from queer art weirdos Thee Gay Agenda. Premiering this Thursday and running through Saturday is TGA’s Justice Is Served at CrashBox.
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1 month ago | 
austinchronicle.com | James Scott
Sunday, May 11, is Mother’s Day, and no matter who you call Mom, you’ll want to celebrate in a unique, thoughtful way. To that end, we’ve rounded up a variety of local fun from handmade crafting to a lakeside tea service.
