MASTER PANCAKE XMAS!

THE MASTER PANCAKE CHRISTMAS SHOW
Sat, 11/29 at the Ritz

After a 2-year absence, it's the return of the famous Alamo Christmas Clip Show featuring Master Pancake Theater! Join us as we channel surf A.D.D.-style through a blizzard of clips from your favorite holiday TV specials and some weird holiday programs you never dreamed existed. We're especially excited about the return of diminutive Santa-fanatic Owen Egerton, who teams up with regulars John Erler and Joe Parsons for all the fun, including some improvised holiday carols during intermission. We'll also have an audience sing-along, some holiday snacks, and who knows, maybe even a little pudding and butter! Come join us at the Alamo this December as THE HOLIDAYS GET SLEIGHED!!

Rap: Nerdy and Old School

We've got a bizarre sort of double feature going on tonight at the Ritz.

Okay, it's technically not a double feature at all, but it's still a happy accident from the programming department: at 7pm, MC Frontalot will be at the theater live in person to introduce a screening of the SXSW fave NERDCORE RISING, a documentary that follows Frontalot on his first ever nerdcore hip hop national tour.

Then at 10:15pm, it's another night of the JIGGY CRUNK POP RAP OF THE 90s SING-ALONG, featuring all the artists who made rap accessible for the whiteys from the suburbs for the first time, inadvertently laying the groundwork for the nerdcore artists of today. Sing and dance along to MC Hammer, Kris Kross, Milli Vanilli (we put some pop R&B in this show, too), and so many others. Come up to the stage and show the fly girls how to do it up right.

Tickets for NERDCORE RISING are available right here.

Tickets for JIGGY CRUNK are here.

Orphaned on Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving at the Alamo!

What's better than spending Thanksgiving Day cooped up with the Family, stuffing your face just to keep from having to carry on a bitter conversation spiked with decades of repressed resentment after you just spent 9 hours in a car with no heater driving to Houston- Houston!- of all the miserable son of a bi... alright Mom, alright, I heard you the first time, Mom, don't, Mom, I can't believe you just, I can't, I'm not wasting my... Dad stay of out of this...

Lots of things are better! But the best way to spend the holiday this year is with us at the Alamo! We've got all the traditional fixin's prepared by our chefs to perfection so you have a real Thanksgiving Feast without all the work, boredom and relentless judgment!

Every movie playing at the Ritz and Village on Thanksgiving Day will offer you an optional Thanksgiving Dinner that includes:

Turkey and gravy
Stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Green bean casserole
Sweet potatoes (yes, the kind with the marshmallows on top!)
Yeast roll
Then finish it all off with a nice big slice of pumpkin pie!

Ummm-um! And you can take home the leftovers!

Plus, at the Ritz, we're showing the UT vs A&M Game, so you can really do Turkey Day the way it was meant to- in a warm room full of friends, being served, eatin' well, drinking beer and watching football on an enormous screen. It's enough to make a Pilgrim cry tears of joy.

And if it's just the big game you're after, head down Alamo South Lamar where we're setting up the giant Roadshow screen outdoors, puttin' on the game, drinking some beer and hot coco, and gorging ourselves on a special menu prepared by Alamo Chef John Bullington!

Stuck in town alone this Thanksgiving- we'll adopt you! Got eight generations in town from all over the world- bring 'em. We've got big open arms and a hot meal waiting.

Now give us hug and let's have a look at you!

Check out all the options and get your ticket now at the Thanksgiving at the Alamo Signature Page. Note: there is limited availability at each location, please check location of your choice or make an advance purchase before arriving hungry for turkey!

VAMPIRE PROM!

In honor of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and TWILIGHT, the Alamo presents our first ever
VAMPIRE PROM
Saturday, Nov 22
in the ABANDONED SALVATION ARMY in the ALAMO SOUTH LAMAR parking lot

Vampires come in all different types, but whether they live in small town Louisiana and drink their blood out of bottles or walk around in the sunlight with a diamond sparkle to their skin, one thing remains constant - they are, by far, the sexiest of all monsters. Something about their eternal life as the undead gives each and every vampire the most amazing smoldering stare possible, and ultimately even the slayer can't resist them.

With LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and TWILIGHT both opening at the Alamo South Lamar this November, we wanted to do something to really celebrate the romance inherent in all vampire stories, and after being inspired by the high school swooniness of TWILIGHT we realized that a prom would be the perfect event. But while the prom in TWILIGHT is more of your average style of teenage glamor, our prom will go above and beyond that, because this is going to be a full on Vampire Prom.

So whether you prefer Lestat, Edward, Spike, Dracula or Bill Compton, start gathering your fangs, capes, and hair product, and meet us after dark on Saturday, November 22 for the most magical night of your eternal life. We're working with our friends from MANSION OF TERROR haunted house and We Say So Media to change the abandoned Salvation Army storefront in the South Lamar shopping center into a one night only gothic paradise.

There will be drinking, dancing, the crowning of the king and queen vampire, multiple DJs, live music from The Fatal Attractions, vampiric video projection installations, and your ticket will also include a free bloody spaghetti feast (because even though vampires don't eat, what's a prom without Italian food?).

No one will be allowed entry without being decked out in some sort of vampiric wear, but we're open to all sorts of interpretation of that theme. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS EVENT IS 18 AND UP ONLY, SORRY, NO KIDDOS ALLOWED.

One other important note - your ticket to the prom doesn't include admission to a movie, but if you wanted to start with a 7pm screening of TWILIGHT or LET THE RIGHT ONE IN to get you in the mood, you can grab a ticket to either of those shows by clicking on those links.

And if that's still not enough fang banging for you taste, join us at the Alamo Ritz as we continue our "vampire weekend" with special screenings of THE LOST BOYS and NEAR DARK on Sunday night!

QUANTUM OF SOLACE Casino Party

Get your ticket here

Includes entry to the casino party, chips to play with, a Martini and passed appetizers plus admission to the opening night screening of the film!

The city-wide game of assassin starts today- so start looking over your shoulder because contracts are out. Registration for the game has ended, but tickets are still available to the pre-screening Casino Soiree for all the Bond pacifists who still want to ring in QUANTUM OF SOLACE in true 007 style.

Suave attire and spy gear preferred, but all you really need to have a good time is a love of action, cars, gadgets, sex, gambling, explosions, martinis, boat chases, sophisticated weaponry, evil plots and fun.

Go here for more info and to get your ticket.

DANGER: DIABOLIK tonight at the Ritz

Big Screen Spy Classics: DANGER: DIABOLIK
Monday, November 10, 7:00pm
Wednesday, November 12, 9:30pm
Ritz

Rare 35mm Screening!!!

James Bond's got NOTHING on the world's most unstoppable (and outrageous) superthief! Another great visual piece by Italian genre film pioneer Mario Bava, this De Laurentiis-produced film is a faithful adaptation of the popular European comic about the anti-hero master criminal Diabolik. John Phillip Law (BARBARELLA) stars as the elusive criminal, and luscious euro-babe Marisa Mell as his sidekick Ava Kent who lives with Diabolik in an underground hideout overflowing with futuristic '60s gadgets. Iconic French actor Michel Piccoli plays the flustered police inspector and British comedian Terry Thomas stars as a bumbling government official. Almost overdosing on intense '60s color and style, the film moves through comic-style adventures with considerable European flair and perfectly captures the atmosphere of the original material and the time.

Get your ticker here.

JIGGY CRUNK: The 90s Pop Rap Sing-Along

THE JIGGY CRUNK SING-ALONG
Thursday, Nov 6, 10:30pm at the Ritz
Tickets available here

The old school rap was great, and the realism of Common and Mos Def can't be appreciated enough, but god damn it, the pop rap of the 1990s was just so incredibly catchy. It feels bad to admit how much we love it, but it feels good to go with it.

And so we're back this year with another edition of JIGGY CRUNK: THE 90's Pop-Rap Sing-Along. We're reprising a lot of our favorite songs from last year's show, so don't worry about missing out on your Will Smith, Neneh Cherry, or even Vanilla Ice. But we're expanding our repertoire for this new edition as well, moving beyond the Mace and Puffy aspects (they'll still be there too, though) and into some of the Pop R&B of the '90s as well.

So grow your facial hair out, then shave it to ridiculously thin lines, because there's a good chance Color Me Badd will make an appearance. And grow your dreadlocks out, then give them to someone else and let them pretend to be you, because I've been WAITING for a show to include Milli Vanilli in.

The pop rap of the 1990s is coming back to the Alamo Drafthouse, and this time around there ain't no future in your frontin'.

Just understand I'm the candyman, and I'll melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

So don't - you get fresh with me.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? only at the Alamo South Lamar

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
South Lamar

Barry Levinson, the director behind classics like THE NATURAL, RAIN MAN, AVALON & WAG THE DOG, has a new film out in theaters right now starring living legends like Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci & Sean Penn. If films were dogs, this one's pure bred. And it's only playing at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

Based on the memoire of Hollywood producer Art Linson, who also wrote the screenplay, the film follows De Niro as a producer along the outrageous trajectory to what it takes to get his film made- which, in this case, is a boldly 'visionary' work of art starring Sean Penn...which also fiercely looks like an audience-offending flop which draws the ire of iron-gloved studio chief Lou (CATHERINE KEENER), who forces him into tangling with the film's rebellious and drug-addled director Jeremy (MICHAEL WINCOTT). Meanwhile, he's confused and bewitched by his ex Kelly (ROBIN WRIGHT PENN) who can't make up her mind about him; shocked by his daughter Zoe (KRISTEN STEWART), who seems to have grown up overnight; infuriated by his screenwriter friend Scott (STANLEY TUCCI) who's trying to make a deal with him while making moves on his former wife, and horrified by a hirsute Bruce Willis (BRUCE WILLIS) and flummoxed by Willis' nebbishy agent Dick (JOHN TURTURRO), who's scared to death of his own clients.

A wonderful document of the sewage Hollywood dredges through to put magic on the screen.

See it.

GOSSIP GIRL on the big screen at the Village!

TV at the Alamo: GOSSIP GIRL
Monday, November 3, 7:00pm
Alamo Village

Alright, we've heard that there's a lot of you that haven't yet pledged allegiance to the greatest new show on TV, GOSSIP GIRL. Seriously, this show's adding more to the canon of American colloquialisms than CASABLANCA. Whether you're a dude or a dame, no one can resist the claws-out cat fights or the bitter, shallow plate this show dish dish dishes up.

And with the election coming tomorrow which may just body slam our brains and leave us all shaking in the street, GOSSIP GIRL on the big screen is the drug you need to turn on, tune in and drop out. Once you get your first taste...you'll be back for more next week.

It's a free show, but you can reserve a seat be getting a $5 Food & Beverage Voucher here.