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Effectually this time of yr, you unremarkably can find me making a banquet out of Oreos in the newsroom, keeping my shoulders hunched to high heaven and muttering to anyone unlucky enough to know me: "It'southward just too much."
Well, I haven't been in the newsroom in a while, and no one would ever say at that place's been "besides much" going on in the live entertainment scene lately.
The pandemic stopped fourth dimension for our amusement scene, and a long time has passed since we've had a truly proper festival season in Austin. All of a sudden now, even if things still don't experience similar they used to, and the better of u.s.a. are trying to figure out how to keep each other rubber, it'south come racing back. A pretty spectacular whiplash, if you enquire me.
And I know we similar to complain — it's an Austinite's favorite leisure activity. In a city that can't finish giving itself population transfusions, traffic quagmires and skyline facelifts, though?
The festivals are good.
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Past the time you lot read this, Austin City Limits Music Festival will have returned, Oct. 1-three and 8-10, sandwiched between a cannonball run of the city's resurgent cultural events. Nosotros ever joke about in that location being too many festivals in Austin. Hardy har har to yous, said the fall when a year and a one-half of pandemic-delayed parties rushed to return.
AGLIFF, the annual queer moving picture festival, kinda kicked united states off in August. With vaccines in arms, organizers had planned a grand return to gay parties and in-person movie house. Then the delta variant of the coronavirus — coupled with cocky-sabotaging public wellness restrictions from the state and the sins of misinformation, to say it plain — acquired a surge, and aGLIFF scaled dorsum once again.
But they however brought elevate queens to a drive-in moving picture, and then, all things are relative.
Moontower Comedy Festival — normally in the jump — squeezed into September. Every bit has become the norm, the fest required attendees show either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-nineteen test effect. I won't prevarication: Squeezing side by side to other one-act fans in the tight (but celebrated!) Paramount Theatre fabricated me a trivial nervous, if but from being out of practise.
Still, there's just something about the laughter of hundreds echoing off the walls in the same room where Harry Houdini once performed that beats watching stand up-upwards on Zoom.
On Sept. 24, one-act icon Margaret Cho had us folded over in our seats at the Paramount. Cho's surprise invitee, Jonathan Van Ness (her longtime hair stylist and electric current Austin resident, while the new season of Netflix's "Queer Eye" films here), really fabricated the room pulse. Nothing like a adept ol' fashioned glory surprise to make yous glad you live in this city.
Bob the Elevate Queen followed upwardly Cho with a gratis-wheeling midnight prepare, and Jacqueline Novak's kinetic, poetic "Go On Your Knees" testify made united states all scream at the Stateside Theatre the next night.
Moontower overlapped with Alamo Drafthouse's commemoration of genre flicks, Fantastic Fest. Virtual motion picture festivals are neat, but y'all usually don't get Palme d'Or winners from Cannes that style, like "Titane," which made its U.South. premiere opening the fest on Sept. 23.
Filmmaker Julia Ducournau told the Austin festival crowd how glad she was to prove "Titane" in theaters, proverb it was "good to start this machine again, together." Then, she proceeded to evidence us a twisted slasher-thriller where a lady has sexual relations with a car. Truly, at that place is nil like that festival.
I had to jet from a Sept. 25 screening of A24 fantasy "Lamb" before the Q&A in order to get to Novak's Moontower show. I squeezed past actress Noomi Rapace, on her way to the mic, as I snuck through the night, dim hallway of the Drafthouse theater. You lot didn't find yourself in many confined spaces with international pic stars in 2020, unless you were married to one.
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At present, the 2 weekends of ACL Fest are taking up their usual get-go half of October, unless something has gone amiss since this writing. As information technology approaches, I've been thinking most the big memories that living in Austin, the festival capital of the world, has blessed me with.
There was the i time that I was walking with my friend and colleague, Sharon Chapman, and we were talking well-nigh how hot the Irish singer-songwriter Hozier is, when we looked up and realized we were actually walking adjacent to all 6 anxiety, 5 inches of Hozier.
There was the twelvemonth that Zilker Park became the People'southward Republic of Lizzo, and I saw Swedish icon Robyn perform what I remember as feeling more like church building than church e'er had.
And how could I forget when I used a urinal next to indie-pop singer Borns.
We go to breathe for a hot autumn minute earlier Austin Motion-picture show Festival and Texas Book Festival do their usual one-ii stride later in the month. Sprinkled here and there: Austin Food + Wine Festival, rock clamber Levitation, and sure, the Formula One U.S. 1000 Prix out at the racetrack, if yous want to count it. (Billy Joel will be there, so why non.)
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We're all holding our jiff for next yr, I think. Due south by Southwest, whose proper name will unfortunately always be tied to the Beginning of All This, plans to make a physical return adjacent year, after two years of more muted digital programming. And Moontower simply appear it's back on for April, this time partnering with international one-act forcefulness Just For Laughs and rebranding as Moontower Just For Laughs Austin.
I promise that you don't get the impression that these festivals, and their return, are only as special equally a star sighting or two. It's no hush-hush that I identify an unholy amount of importance on pop culture; only look at how I get my W2 every twelvemonth.
I practice truly believe that all manner of arts and cultural expression help me get a better person, and more of myself – movies on the big screen, songs streaming out of speakers, anyone performing a niggling piece of themselves on a stage while people shut up for a minute and have honest reactions to what they witness, perhaps lubricated by an expensive plastic loving cup of wine.
And these big, huge, sprawling, money-bloated festivals are, whether you similar the idea or not, just signposts of living in Austin. There are large parties thrown around the city every twelvemonth, inviting some of the most heady artists in the world, and they happen in our home. How could you not marker your life past the wild, the weird and the wonderful times that allows y'all to feel?
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To be certain, they're also signs of immense privilege. The more than accessible their programming is to the city's residents, the better. Especially for a monolith like ACL Fest, which takes over public park land, it would exist overnice to see more than ways for the public to tap into the magic without shelling out exorbitant sums.
Life is brusk, and it'southward difficult, and it'due south often quite distressing. 2 hours in front of your favorite musician, screaming the words in sweaty stereo, is nothing short of the divine in the globe. And to remember, you alive in the precise moment in human history, and in the precise place, where that's infinitely possible. This is all merely a call for appreciation.
Of course information technology's too much. Merely what, you wanted not enough?
Source: https://www.austin360.com/story/entertainment/2021/10/01/acl-fest-2021-austin-city-limits-lineup-live-music-festivals/5901255001/
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