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East Austin Unique:

  • Independence Brewing Company
    Locally Brewed Beer, monthly brewery tour and free beer tasting
    3913 Todd Lane #607, Austin, TX 78744
    Phone: 512-707-0099



East Austin Music Stores:

  • Snake Eyes Vinyl
    1101 Navasota St, Ste 3, Austin, TX78798
    Phone: (512) 220-7019
  • Trailer Space Record Shop
    1401 A Rosewood Ave, Austin, TX78702
    Phone: (512) 542-9001
  • Musicmania
    3909 N I H 35 # D1, Austin, TX 78722
    Phone: (512) 451-3361

 


Theater

  • Austin Circle of Theaters: East Austin
    701 Tillery St
    Austin, TX 78702
    (512) 247-2531

  • The Blue Theater, East Austin
    916 Springdale Rd
    Austin, TX 78702
    (512) 927-111

  • Boyd Vance Theater
    1165 Angelina Street
    Austin, TX 78702
    Phone: (512) 974-4926

  • Center Stage Texas
    2826 Real St., Austin, TX  78702
    Center Stage Texas is a non-profit theater for kids
    Phone: 512-836-5437

  • City Theatre
    3823 Airport Blvd. – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street
    Phone: 512-524-2870

  • Monarch Event Center
    6406 North IH-35, Suite 3100
    Austin, TX 78752
    Phone: 512.371.1711

  • The New Movement
    1819 Rosewood Ave, Austin, Tx 78702
    A comedy theater and training center with shows 4 nights a week.
    Phone: 512-788-2669

  • Paramount TheatreThe Paramount Theatre
    713 Congress Avenue 
    Phone : (512) 472.2901

  • play! Theatre Group
    1204 Cedar Ave, Austin, TX  78702
    Phone: 512-891-7100

  • Salvage Vanguard Theater, East Austin
    2803 Manor Road, Austin, Texas 78722
    Phone: (512) 474-7886

  • State Theater CompanyState Theatre Company
    719 Congress Avenue
    Phone : (512) 472.2901

  • The Vortex, East Austin
    2307 Manor Road, Austin, TX, 78722
    Phone:

    Yard at The VORTEX
    2307 Manor Road, Austin, TX, 78722

  • The Zach Theater
    ZACH's Arena Stage and Business Office
    1510 Toomey Road

    ZACH's Kleberg Stage
    1421 W. Riverside Drive
    (512) 476-0541 ext. 1


East Austin Entertainment Venues:

  • Fiesta Gardens
    Fiesta Gardens features a large open-plan room of approximately 4000 square feet, with a generous outdoor patio, fountain, and accommodating bandstand all overlooking the quiet lagoon of Lady Bird Lake.

  • Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex
    1156 Hargrave St., Austin, TX 78702
    Phone: 512.472.6932

  • Rude Mechs
    The Off Center
    a performance warehouse
    2211-A Hidalgo St., Austin, TX  78702
    Phone: 512-476-7833

  • EAST END ARENA
    1156 HARGRAVE
    512-472-6932


Entertainment Programs/Bands/Resources

  • AZTLAN Dance Company
    @ Santa Cruz Theater Center
    1805 East Seventh Street
    Austin, Texas 78702

  • JazzEvents & Entertainment
    Complete event design, planning and destination management paired with entertainment
    Phone: 512-686-0438

  • The Jeff Lofton Group (jazz)
    2200 S. Pleasant Valley Rd. #209
    Austin, TX 78731
    Phone: 512.906.2360

  • Lyons Entertainment
    12321 Innes View, Manor, TX  78653
    Entertainment Company
    Phone: 512-964-2423

  • Margarita Planet
    420A W. Palm Valley Blvd. #211, Round Rock, TX 78664
    Margarita Planet offers margarita machine rentals for your party, wedding, or corporate event.
    Phone: 512-541-2535

  • Mooreasys
    11O4 E 11TH ST, Austin, TX  78702
    The link between the recording artist/act and the record label, generally to help with the artistic and commercial development of the label's artists.
    Phone: 512-584-3834

  • Onyx Casino, Authentic Las Vegas Style legal casino parties
    Phone: 836-5533

  • Positivity for Purpose (P4P)
    1600 Wickersham Lane Suite 2067, Austin, TX 78741
    1071 Clayton Lane #1406, Austin, TX  78723
    Positivity for Purpose is a hip-hop activity involved preventive program geared towards teens and young adults.
    Phone: 512-437-1564
    www.PositivityforPurpose.org

  • ProArts Collective
    1009 E. 11th Street, Austin, TX  78702

    Phone: 512-236-0644

  • The Simplifiers Event Planning
    Phone: 512-695-7744

  • Women in Jazz Association
    P.O. Box 200576, Austin, TX  78720
    Concert production and singer workshops
    Phone: 512-258-6947


East Austin Dance Classes/

  • Dancin' Jazzi Dance Studio
    7901 Cameron Rd. Bldg. 3 Suite 140, Austin, TX 78754
    Children's Dance Studio, We teach ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical and contemporary
    512/799-2807

  • EsquinaTango Cultural Society of Austin
    209 Pedernales St.
    Health, Dance and Cultural activities: yoga, tango, Spanish conversational group, salsa aerobics, salsa, folk and more!
    Phone: 512-524-2772


Austin TX Museums


East Austin Nightlife

  • The Studio, Home of Michael Ward
    IH-35 @ 2222nd St
    210-650-5858

  • Historic Victory Grill
    Austin's Premier Blues Club
    Nourishing the Soul Since 1945
    1104 East 11th Street
    Austin, Texas 78702-1909
    (512) 474-7440

  • Café Mundi
    1704 East 5th St
    512-236-8634

  • Big Red Sun
    1102 E Cesar Chavez
    Austin, Tx 78702

  • SCOOT INN
    1308 East 4th @ Navasota, Austin, TX  78702
    Phone: 512-478-6200

  • The Peacock Lounge
    515 Pedernales St, Austin, TX  78702
    Phone: 512-276-8979

  • Uncorked Tasting Room and Wine Bar, LLC
    900 East 7th Street, Austin, TX, USA 78702
    Phone: 512.524.2809
     


Movie Rentals in East Austin

  • Blockbuster
    6307 Cameron Road,
    Austin, TX 78723
    (512) 302-1222

 


Groups and Clubs:

Are you looking to join a book club? The Austin Public Library has the story for you:

Most of our branches have active book clubs, and the books are in our library! Please join us for a lively discussion of some fascinating books!

The Austin Public Library’s Pleasant Hill Branch Mystery Book Club meets at 7:00 PM at 211 E. William Cannon Dr. on the third Tuesday of the month. New members welcome. Call (512) 974-3940 for more information.

 

The Austin Public Library’s Graphic Novels Book Club meets at 7:00 PM at the Halcyon Coffeehouse - 800 Guadalupe Street on the third Wednesdays of the month. New members welcome.

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Mexican Cinema:
The Mexico of Emilio Fernandez and Gabriel Figueroa

Feb 10, 2010 - Mar 10, 2010
Mexican American Cultural Center


Cine Las Americas, Consulate General of Mexico in Austin, Austin Parks and Recreation and the Mexican American Cultural Center Present: Mexican Cinema The Mexico of Emilio Fernandez and Gabriel Figueroa

As part of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of the beginning of Mexico’s fight for independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, Cine Las Americas, the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin, Austin Parks and Recreation and the Mexican American Cultural Center Present the series “The Mexico of Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa” which includes five of the most important films of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, and offers a sample of the important contributions of these two icons to Mexico’s film industry.


All screenings at the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC, 600 River Street, Austin, Texas 78701)


All films in Spanish with English Subtitles – FREE
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Wednesday, March 10, 8PM
PUEBLERINA
Mexico, 1948, 106 min

Cast: Columba Domínguez, Roberto Cañedo, Guillermo Cramer, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Ismael Pérez

Aurelio returns to his hometown after serving a sentence for having avenged the rape of his beloved Paloma by Julio. Upon his return he finds his mother dead, and is told that Paloma and her newborn son are living in exile. Aurelio tries to marry Paloma and leave the past behind but the evil Julio and his brother Ramiro are not willing to leave them alone.


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The Mexico of Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa

As part of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of the beginning of Mexico’s fight for independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, Cine Las Americas presents the series “The Mexico of Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa” which includes five of the most important films of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, and offers a sample of the important contributions of these two icons to Mexico’s film industry.

After a problematic childhood in Mexico during the Revolution of 1910, Emilio Fernández left the country and headed to Chicago in 1923. He ultimately settled in Los Angeles in 1925, where he began his career in film as a double and an extra in Hollywood. During his stay in the mecca of filmmaking, Fernández met Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, who played an important role in Fernández’s development as an actor and director.

Fernández was impressed, not only by Eisenstein’s masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925), but also by the images captured by the Russian director during his trip to Mexico in 1930 – images that would eventually be used for his unfinished film ¡Que Viva México! The Mexico Eisenstein visited was a country where president Lázaro Cárdenas extolled the Revolution’s ideals, where the muralists and artists around the country were searching for the real meaning of Mexicanidad, and where the artists’ nationalism was reflected throughout the cultural activities around the country. This revolutionary spirit that had overcome the nation produced new aesthetics that reflected in Einsenstein’s images, which helped forge a uniquely Mexican cinematography.

Eisenstein’s images, capturing elements such as rural landscapes and cultural traditions of the indigenous populations while offering a critical analysis of Mexican society, compelled Fernández to recognize and celebrate Eisenstein’s effort to represent aspects of Mexican culture that were very often ignored by the film industry during those years. This particular experience marked the beginning of Fernández’s determination to include popular traditions and distinctly Mexican landscapes in his work, in order to capture a “true” vision of the Mexican experience for audiences around the world.

Upon his return to Mexico, Fernández began his career in the local film industry as an actor in popular films such as Fernando de Fuentes’ Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), and also as a writer and assistant director in numerous other projects. La Isla de la Pasión (Clipperton) in 1941 marked his debut as director, actor and writer and also established him as a main player in the industry.

Fernández’s best work, however, grew out of a creative and synergic relationship he established with the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Figueroa shared with Fernández a vision to forge a distinct Mexican cinema, one that would artistically convey the true essence of the country. As a student of the renowned American cinematographer Gregg Toland – the mastermind behind the cinematography of Citizen Kane – in Fernández’s films, Figueroa illuminates the beauty of Mexican landscapes using chiaroscuro (stark contrast between illuminated space and dark shadows), and masterfully stylizes the work of the actors.

Their artistic partnership began in 1943 with Flor Silvestre, a film that established both filmmakers, along with Mauricio Magdaleno as screenwriter, as key figures in the most important decade of Mexican film. The 1944 film Las Abandonadas, a romantic melodrama set in 1914 at the height of the Mexican Revolution, is more famously recognized for the memorable and highly expensive costumes Fernández ordered to be designed for the actress Dolores del Río, proof of the admiration the director always felt toward her. That same year Bugambilia captured audiences in the romantic alleys of Guanajuato, although the professional relationship between Fernández and Del Río eroded and she announced she would never again work with the director. In 1945 Fernández adapted John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl with the help of Steinbeck himself, and it is for this film [The Pearl (La Perla)] that Figueroa was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Cinematography. The series ends with Pueblerina (1948), the film that is considered his best work, even though it was made with the smallest budget of all of Fernández’s films due to an economic crisis affecting the Mexican film industry at the time.

The films also feature stellar performances by Mexican actors Dolores del Río, Columba Domínguez and Pedro Armendáriz who cemented themselves as icons of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Together, cast and crew brought to the big screen unforgettable love stories, and the films celebrate both the beauty and mystery of the Mexican woman as well as the sublime Mexican landscapes, while conveying the complicated process of defining a true Mexican identity.


Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin.