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Austin Tuesday, September 12 Events
Hairspray
Broadway’s Tony® Award-winning musical-comedy phenomenon takes you back to 1962
Baltimore, as 16 year old Tracy Turnblad sets out to dance her way onto TV’s
most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams—and even bigger hair!—change
the world…and still have time to win the boy she loves? Location: Bass Concert
Hall. Call 512-471-1444 for more info. Event ID:9/17
Black and White and Read All Over: Austin Chronicle Photographers
Celebrate 25 Years
Join The Austin Chronicle as they celebrate 25 years. In celebration of their
anniversary and in salute to Austin, the Chronicle will host a photography
exhibit BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: Austin Chronicle Photographers
Celebrate 25 Years spotlighting photographs that have run in the weekly over the
past 2 1/2 decades. Location: Austin Museum of Art: Downtown. Call 512-495-9224
for more info. Event ID: 9/24
Norman Mailer Takes On America
Drawing on the recently acquired Norman Mailer archive, the exhibition sets the
career of Norman Mailer in this cultural context and trace the central role he
has played in our awareness and understanding of what Morris Dickstein calls the
"shocks of history, politics, and contemporary life" that reshaped the last half
of the twentieth century and continue to unsettle the twenty-first. Location:
Harry Ransom Center. Call 512-471-8944 for more info. Event ID:9-12/06.
Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas
Walk into a world before television, computers, the i-pod, even refrigerators
and running water. The exhibit, Power to the People: The Electrification of
Rural Texas, is a unique story of one of the most dramatic events in Texas
history. Rural Texas in the 1930s was still in the dark as electric lines hadn’t
penetrated the beautiful, but rugged Texas Hill Country. Location: LBJ Library
and Museum. Open Daily 9-5 (except Christmas) Free Admission. id:5.2.07
Big Bugs
David Rogers’ Big Bugs exhibit includes eight enormous sculptures of insects—a
1,200-pound praying mantis, a 7-foot assassin bug and the biggest spider you
will ever see. Location: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Call 512-292-4200
for more info.
Bat Watching
The 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats that live beneath the Congress Avenue
Bridge take flight in a mass exodus each night at dusk. Located at Congress Ave.
& Cesar Chavez St. Austin, TX 78704.