Weekend Events

This weekend (Sept. 21-23, 2012) there a number of events that you might want to check out.

Austin Museum Partnership is Sunday September 23, 2012. Every year many of the museums around Austin team together to offer a day when the public can visit their museums for free. However, parking is not included in that free offer, so in some cases you may have to pay a parking garage fee. We also wrote more about this event earlier this week.

Fantastic Fest begins today Thursday September 20, 2012 and runs through September 27. So what is Fantastic Fest?  According to their website:

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. In years past we have presented the world premieres of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCALYPTO, CITY OF EMBER, ZOMBIELAND, and GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, while our guest roster has included such talent as Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Dolph Lundgren, Jemaine Clement, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge. We also feature world, national and regional premieres of new, up-and-coming genre films.
Fantastic Fest is held each year in various venues, but primarily at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar in Austin, Texas. The Alamo Drafthouse was named the best cinema in America by Entertainment Weekly and features food and drink served to your seat without any disruption of the movie experience.

The Austin Pride Festival is this weekend also.The festival includes what has been dubbed the Rainbow Run 5k. The 21st annual event will be held Saturday September 22, 2012.

Finally beginning Sunday September 23 (through September 26 and September 30 through October 3rd) is Austin Restaurant Week. To celebrate this 5th Annual event, more then 50 Austin restaurants will be participating in this event. But

the best way to access the information for Austin Restaurant Week is to download the app that you can find in the Apple App Store (for iPhone) or in the Android Marketplace (for Android). In addition, you may download and print maps at home through this site.