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Most people may not realize this, but RUMBLE IN THE BRONX helped turned Jackie Chan into one of the greatest cinematic legends of all time. When he released this U.S.-set action flick in Hong Kong in 1995, he was already the biggest movie star in the world and had little use for U.S. stardom prefering to stay at home to make the movies he wanted to make. But thanks to the bootleg video market his films were gaining notice with U.S. audiences and New Line Cinema, sensing an opportunity, bought ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m., Hogg Memorial Auditorium. "The chops of a musician, the genre-blending ear of a disc jockey and the conceptual vision of a performance artist." - Wired Melting. Moving. Cracking. Splashing. Without politics or preaching, the sounds of a dramatically changing world are at the core of this intense multi-media experience. DJ Spooky shares his vision of our future by weaving the sounds of ice he recorded in Antarctica. The performance features his trademark s ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m., Winship Drama Building. "Streeetch Marks," written and performed by Angela Kariotis, is a multi-disciplinary piece directed by Florinda Bryant, the multi-disciplinary artist and new facilitator of The Austin Project. "Streeetch Marks" is about being born, the circumstances of our birth, what we are born into and the legacies we inherit - ancestral lineage, familial ties, blood bonds and surpassing the summation of our factual information like name, ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m., B. Iden Payne Theatre. James Maxwell's "Pride and Prejudice" is a dramatization of Jane Austen's novel of the same title, published in 1813. The highly plot-driven comedy of manners, set in 1811 centers on the Bennet family, a comfortable, but not excessively wealthy family living in the countryside of England. As the Bennets have five daughters and no sons, Mrs. Bennet's main objective in life is to find (wealthy) husbands for her daughters and r ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., Lab Theatre (LTH). The UT Department of Theatre & Dance presents a festival of short plays. Five directors from the Theatre Studies program will showcase their semester-long projects in a festival of short plays. The plays feature young performers from McCallum, Westwood and LBJ High Schools. We invite you to join us at the Lab Theatre to support and celebrate the work of these artists. The second performance of the play festival will take place on Sun. ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., Gregory Gym Plaza. The Japanese Association presents its annual Fall Festival, known as Japanese as Akimatsuri. We will be serving Japanese food such as yakisoba (noodles), okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pancakes), yakitori (grilled chicken), fried rice and much more, as well as Japanese drinks. Along with the Japanese food, there will be performances of Japanese dances, music and various other arts. We will have Japanese games and raffle drawings for prizes throughout th ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., Jester West Gallery of Texas Cultures (2nd Floor). What makes some music so sexy? The residence halls will host a series of concerts and a discussion of this fascinating topic. Join us for live music performed by Inyoung Chung (violin), Namheui Kim (piano) and Abigail Mace (piano), along with and refreshments and conversation.

Blues Specialist (blues event), 6:30 - 8:30 pm, CONTINENTAL CLUB Chapparal DixieLanders (hot rhythm fun), 7 - 9 pm, CAROUSEL LOUNGE Austin Lindy Exchange Seth Walker (opening) & Ruthie Foster (blues event), 8 - 11 pm, ANTONE'S Mike Flannigan Trio w/ Jimmy Vaughn, 10 pm, $15, THE GALLERY (above the Continental Club)

If you've wondered why we promote swing dancing on www.TodayinAustin.com, here is your chance to find out. Austin, Texas actually has one of the best swing dance communities in the United States, and certainly the best ballroom available for both special events and the regular Thursday evening dance. If you've never been to the Texas Federation of Women's Club Ballroom, you're in for a treat. Beautiful hardwood floors, majestic ceiling, and olde fashioned elegance will great you. There is ...

Help plant 900 trees in South Congress Neighborhood Planning area.

"Kiss' face paint is now black metal's corpse paint. 3 1/2 Stars." Raoul Hernandez, The Austin Chronicle (Read the entire review here) A feature length documentary chronicling the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-'90s when a rash of suicides, murders and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stand ...

Amberlynn Fett was six weeks old when she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Now 20, she’s currently at Dell Children’s Hospital awaiting a double lung transplant. To raise money for medication and other costs not covered by insurance, the Randy Rogers Band will host “My Breath of Life Concert” Friday Nov. 6 at the Nutty Brown Cafe (12225 W. Hwy 290). “Amberlynn has never asked us to do a benefit,” said Rogers, who met Fett in August when Nutty Brown Cafe owner Mike Farr brought h ...

Inspired by a trip to Antarctica, DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid (aka Paul Miller)’s ‘Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” is a multimedia travelogue by the avant garde turntable master and intrepid re-mixer. The 70-minute piece — which plays Hogg Auditorium Friday night — is a visual and acoustic portrait of the ever-mysterious yet rapidly changing Antarctic continent. Read a feature story on the show here. DJ Spooky will participate in an online chat 1 p.m. Thursday. For the Austin ...

Friday, Nov. 20, 12:15 p.m., Bass Lecture Hall. This year's Perspectives series will be hosted by Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief of the "Texas Tribune." Join us for a conversation between Smith and Houston mayor Bill White. Now in his third term, Mayor White is accelerating work to revitalize Houston's most neglected neighborhoods, with foreclosure and hundreds of new housing starts on thousands of abandoned properties. He also initiated a program to weatherize thous ...

Guy Clark, who plays the Cactus Cafe on Nov. 20, will play Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin,” part of the hall’s American Music Masters series. Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, Carolyn Wonderland and Lucinda Williams are also scheduled to perform. Here, Clark talks about his involvement with the show: “I met Janis a couple times in Texas and San Francisco, and we had a lot of mutual friends. In later years, I met he ...

Paula Cole playing at One World Theatre on 2009-11-20 00:00:00.0

Conspirare Symphonic Choir /ASO playing at The Long Center on 2009-11-20 20:00:00.0