May 28 Annie Leibovitz: American Music
Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress
(512) 495-9224, amoa.org

She's one of the most sensitive portrait photographers in the world, and the Austin Museum of Art has assembled a magnificent multi-media exhibit of Annie Leibovitz's best work.

American Music provides intimate glimpses of musical icons as they live, work and play. You'll peer through her lens at the most influential performers of America's traditional and popular music. She has captured her subjects in their homes, cars and churches to tell revealing stories about more than seventy American music legends.

American Music will be accompanied by an audio tour of the exhibition narrated by Annie Leibovitz, as well as iPod listening stations with recordings of the featured musicians. Waterloo Records and Video has assembled these audio portraits.

Admission for adults is $5; seniors/students - $4; children under 12 and Museum members - Free. Tuesday tours are only $1 and First Saturday, you pay what you wish.

Make this a summer vacation activity to give your kids a rich exposure to and experience of American Music. The exhibit runs through August 7.

May 26 Summer Classic Film Series!
Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress
(512) 472-5470, austintheatre.org

Celebrating a 30-year tradition, the Paramount brings you more than 60 classic films as they were meant to be seen - in a classic theatre setting! Featuring many new prints, director's cuts, 70mm spectaculars, the original Batman: The Serial, Warner Brothers cartoons and more!

And this year's celebration features some very cool features:

Double Features: When two movies are grouped under the same thematic heading , one ticket is good for both features, when viewed back-to-back on the same day, except as noted.

Flix-Tix: gives you a book of 10 admissions for only $45, good in any combination to the Paramount's Summer Classic Film Series. Flix-tix are goog for one year.

Batman: The Serial: plays before all feature films.

Film Fan Discounts: Go to austintheatre.org (early and often) to join the club that gets you ticket discounts, free popcorn and more.

Here's what's playing this week:

May 26

Top Hat - the unsurpassed Astaire/Rogers musical with the unforgettable score by Irving Berlin.

May 27-29

Casablanca - How many times have you seen this legend of cinema. Now you can see it again.

Treasure of Sierra Madre - shows what gold and greed do to human nature. Considered one of Bogie's best performances.

May 31-June 1

Sunset Boulevard - You remember Gloria Swanson's desperate attempt at a come-back. Relive it.

All About Eve - Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe star in what's been dubbed "the most intelligently scripted, perfectly acted comedy ever made."

Still On Stage Downtown:

To 5/28: James and the Giant Peach, Scottish Rite, scottishritechildrenstheatre.org
To 5/29: The Producers, Bass Concert Hall, utpac.com
To 6/19: Aida, Zach Scott Theatre, zachscott.com
To 6/19: Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Zach Scott's Kleberg Stage, zachscott.com
Ongoing: Texas the Big Picture, Forces of Nature, Fighter Pilot, IMAX® Theatre, thestoryoftexas.com

May 26 Chaski
Central Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Eighth Street
(512) 472-2445, centralpresbyterian.org

At this week's Thursday Noontime Concert, Chaski performs Latin American folk music that features traditional instruments, colorful costumes, cultural insight, Andean dances, and audience participation.

May 27 Alfonso Ramos y su Orquesta
City Hall Plaza, 301 W. 2nd Street

The City of Austin & the Austin Latino Music Association present Tejano Hall of Fame Legend, Alfonso Ramos during its noon-concert series. Free parking at the City Hall garage entering from Lavaca Street.

May 27-28 Pink Martini
Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road
(512) 476-6064, austinsymphony.org

This fun, eclectic pop band packs houses wherever it performs. Pink Martini joins the Austin Symphony Orchestra to bring refreshing nuances to its pop renditions of classical, jazz and Latin music. This group is hypnotic, cinematic and above all else - beautiful. It's the concert everyone will be talking about!

May 28-29 Z Cabaret with Mady Kaye
ZACH's Arena Stage, Riverside Dr. & S. Lamar
(512) 476-0541, zachscott.com

Mady Kaye pays tribute to the great Johnny Mercer, with such classics as "Moon River," "Blues in the Night," "That Old Black Magic" and many more! She'll be accompanied by Winton Reynolds on Piano and Paul Spikes on bass.

May 29 Hartman Foundation Concerts in the Park
Wooldridge Square Park, 9th & Guadalupe
(512) 476-6064, austinsymphony.org

Beginning its third summer season, the sound of music returns to Wooldridge Square Park on Sundays, starting this week. These free, early evening ensemble concerts bring together ardent enthusiasts and unwitting attendees alike, just as similar events did in town centers years ago. Music begins at 7:30 p.m. The Hartman Foundation Concerts in the Park are presented by the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

June 1 Don't Mess with Texas Music Project
Scholz Bier Garten, 1607 San Jacinto
kgsr.com

Doyle Bramhall headlines the 107.1 KGSR concert series - "Texas Music Project's Don't Mess with Texas Music." Enjoy terrific free outdoor music Wednesday nights at Scholz Bier Garten. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Calling All Artists
firstnightaustin.org

On December 31, 2005, a new tradition will be born in Downtown Austin, an annual New Year's Eve Celebration of the Arts called First Night Austin. Be a part of this creative movement. Proposals are now being accepted for visual and performing artists. Everything welcome - art, music, movement theater, dance, puppetry, storytelling, literary arts, film and video. Let your mind go crazy!!! Visit www.firstnightaustin.org for more details on the type of art being sought and start creating!

May 28 Explore the Story in Landmark Maps of Texas
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 1800 N. Congress
(512) 936-4649, thestoryoftexas.com

"X" marks the spot to "Explore the Story" for loads of interactive fun with the Landmark Maps of Texas Exhibit.

May 28-Aug 7 Scanning the Grand Canyon
Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress
(512) 495-9224, amoa.org

Painter Charles Mary Kubricht distills time and nature into monumental visions of one of the planet's most spectacular environments. While rafting through the Grand Canyon, she captured the changing light and geology of the journey by using her digital camera as an "electronic sketchbook." Balancing representation with abstraction, these richly patterend colored fields carry the viewer down the river, through a day, and past epochs of geologic time.

Still on Display Downtown...

To 5/26: Frido y Yo/Frida and Me, Las Manitas Avenue Cafe, lapena-austin.org
To 5/29: Bats in My World, Austin Children's Museum, austinkids.org
To 6/4: Landmark Maps of Texas, Bob Bullock Museum, thestoryoftexas.com
To 6/15: Linda Broadfoot/Aline Smithson, Oswald Gallery, oswaldgallery.com
To 6/26: Grandeza Mexicana: Siglos XVI-XIX, Mexic-Arte Museum, mexic-artemuseum.org
To 6/26: Revealing Capitol Treasures, Capitol Visitors Center, texascapitolvisitorscenter.com
To 7/17: The Muse in Motion, Harry Ransom Center, hrc.utexas.edu
To 7/17: Place, Harry Ransom Center, hrc.utexas.edu
To 7/17: Images of the World, Harry Ransom Center, hrc.utexas.edu
To 8/27: Signs of the Times, LBJ Library & Museum, lbjlib.utexas.edu
To 10/15: Ready, Set, Roll, Austin Children's Museum, austinkids.org

May 26 Movies in the Park Dynamite Bash
Republic Square Park, 5th & Guadalupe
austinparks.org

Enjoy the last of the Spring series of Movies in the Park and End of School Year Bash with club-style dancing lessons and a Sweet Dance Moves Contest before a dynamite movie! A flippin? awesome pair of moonboots, mad nun chuck skills, and tots galore...Napoleon Dynamite has it all. Rockin' and rollin' starts at 7:00 p.m. This series has been presented by Milago Condominiums and Urbanspace Realtors, sponsored by Austin's WB, KXAN, and Mix 94.7 and hosted by Austin Parks Foundation in Partnership with the Downtown Austin Alliance, City Parks & Recreation Department, and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

May 28 Austin Farmers' Market
Republic Square Park, 5th & Guadalupe
(512) 236-0074, austinfarmersmarket.org

Pick from the freshest of fresh picks...Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Visit austinfarmersmarket.org for this week's special line up.

May 28 Women's Safety Workshop
Sun Dragon Martial Arts, 203 E. Riverside
(512) 416-9735, everywomans-selfdefense.org

Everywoman's Self Defense invites all women to a personal safety workshop. You'll learn strategies to handle harassment, acquaintance assault, physical threats and sexual assault with everything from verbal skills for avoiding a violent encounter to fighting back effectively against a larger attacker. This is emergency information all women should have. The cost for this 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. workshop is $50 per person, and bring a friend for free. Scholarships are available for anyone who needs one. Please feel free to email info@everywomans-selfdefense.org for more information.

June 1 Austin Farmer's Pocket Market
Plaza Saltillo, 5th Street & Comal
austinfarmersmarket.org

On your way home, stop by this "Pocket Market" on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Farmers are offering everything from fresh tomatoes to summer vegetables like squash, onions, green beans, and more. There are also delicious strawberries, blackberries and peaches are soon to follow.

Jun 1-Jul 27 Children's Day Art Park
Symphony Square, 1101 Red River
(512) 476-6064, austinsymphony.org

Children experience the magic of the arts at Children's Day Art Park, an exciting free summer program featuring local musicians, dancers, storytellers, magicians, mimes and crafts people. Youngsters can visit the Instrumental Petting Zoo where they can see, touch and try to play the instruments, talk to symphony musicians and hear them play their instruments, see a Ballet Folklorico, hear a country western band, follow a real pied piper along the Lemonade Trail to the Magic Oak Tree and try their hands at different art projects under the Art Tent. This week showcases the beauty of Roy Lozano's Ballet Folklorico. Cost is a mere $.50 per Child, and adults are free when accompanied by child.

May 29-30 Capital of Texas Triathlon
Auditorium Shores, Town Lake
americastriathlon.com

For all you triathletes, this is your event! Multiple events are happening, so visit americastriathlon.com for the details.

May 28 Austin Farmers' Market
Republic Square Park, 5th & Guadalupe
(512) 236-0075, austinfarmersmarket.org

W. 4th St. between Guadalupe and San Antonio will be closed from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

May 30 Capital of Texas Triathlon
Auditorium Shores, Town Lake
americastriathlon.com

The Capital of Texas Triathlon will take place on Memorial Day, Monday, June 30. The event will start at Auditorium Shores and end at the Capitol. The affected streets will be:

May 26 Streetscapes & Transportation Committee
8:30 a.m.
Southwest Tower, 211 E. 7th Street, 7th Floor Conference Room
Chair: Steve Simpson; DAA Contact: Thomas Butler
(512) 469-1766, downtownaustin.com

DOWNTOWN
Don't miss the new hit show - DOWNTOWN - Thursdays at 8:00 and Fridays at 9:00 p.m. on KLRU (Channel 18/Cable Channel 9) and next Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. on KLRU 2 (Cable Channel 20).

This week's episode: "Don't laugh...You'll be wearing it next year!"
A look at Austin's independent fashion scene. Main & Main--Sixth & Congress where commerce began in Austin. Laugh through Downtown's unique comedy club scene.

Here's some good news. You can catch previously aired episodes on Time Warner Cable's Free Video-on-demand, Channel 1301.

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