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.

HALLLOOOWWWWEEEEEEENNN!!!

It’s the greatest holiday of the year, and we’re celebrating all through the weekend! If you try to celebrate Halloween without checking out at least one of these events, you’re missing the entire point of the holiday, and you may as well just dress up like a Sexy Mustard Bottle and call it a night. For those of you with a frightening amount of awesome, check out all of your options for Halloween Weekend Fun:

MASTER PANCAKE: FRIDAY THE 13TH
Thursday, Oct 30 through Saturday, Nov 1, at the Ritz, Village and South Lamar
Advance Tickets available here

The Pancake boys ambush the slasher classic! The dark entry in the summer-camp boomlet of the late '70s that included MEATBALLS and LITTLE DARLINGS, F13 tells the story of the murders at Camp Crystal Lake and one mother who really made a difference: Pamela Voorhes, founder of M.A.P.C.C. (Mothers against Promiscuous Camp Counselors). This low-budget gem boasts a cast of no-name actors and one future A-lister: everyone's favorite pug-nosed golden-boy and erstwhile horror star Kevin Bacon!

ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO
Opens Friday, Oct 31, at the Ritz and Village
Advance Tickets for the Ritz are here, Village Tickets are here

Porno doesn’t initially sound scary, but when Kevin Smith gets involved with Judd Apatow regulars like Seth Rogen, the end result is scary funny. Okay, that’s a bit of a reach, but there is a scene involving some poop going somewhere that poop is not supposed to go that will definitely send chills down your spine.

THRILL THE WORLD: On Sixth Street
Saturday, Nov 1 in front of the Ritz, 6pm

Last weekend, we set the world record for having the most people dance Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance at the same time by having 881 amazingly dedicated dancers show up at the Long Center to shuffle ha slide. This weekend, we’re joining in with Mexic-Arte’s Day of the Dead processional down Sixth Street and unleashing our dancing zombies again. Even if you haven’t learned the dance, come down to watch the parade go by and join us at the block party afterward!

UT FOOTBALL
Saturday, Nov 1, outside at South Lamar

Nothing to be afraid of for us this year, but Texas Tech should be TERRIFIED of the beating they’re about to receive. Join us as we watch the slaughter from the parking lot at the Alamo South Lamar, where we’ll have the Rolling Roadshow screen set up outside for a beautiful fall evening of football.

But seriously, even if you don’t come out to any of these events, please please please don’t go out dressed as Sexy Mustard. And if you’re planning on doing the Sarah Palin/McCain/Obama costume this year, you might want to rethink that one, too. Unless you literally combined all of the candidates into one crazy conglomerate costume that looked like Prince’s half-Batman/half-Joker outfit from the Batdance video. That would be pretty rad.

THE WIZ at the Ritz

Hey Homo! Halloween Presents
THE WIZ
Tuesday, October 28, 9:40pm
Ritz

Come one come all to a show unlike any other on earth. We are your sick and twisted, your strange and creepy. We will make you scream for mercy and pray for death.....No, wait, that was my last relationship! Anyway, HEY HOMO! is coming at you with a show that will start your Halloween week off right: the skull-popping WIZARD OF OZ-inpired disco breakdance magi-musical THE WIZ, starring Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow and the late, great Nell Carter as The Wicked Witch on her toilet throne! We cordially invite you to the first HEY HOMO HALLOWEEN, with hostess Rebecca Havemeyer waiting to suck the life out of all of you!!! (Rebecca Havemeyer)

Get your tickets here.

Tonight: TRICK OR TREAT and MC CHRIS!

Tonight at the Alamo Ritz, check out the deliciously absurd Heavy Metal Horror TRICK OR TREAT at 9:30 for only $2 and then at midnight MC CHRIS (the dean of nerdcore rap (and voice of MC Peepants) will be here to present HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS in his own inimitable, interactive way - kind of a cross between Master Pancake and a quotealong with a hyper-rapping nerd ticking your funnybone! It's like a magic carpet of Moranis!

Buy your tickets now for the $2 Music Monday Presentation of TRICK OR TREAT at 9:30 and the MC CHRIS Presents show of HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS at Midnight.

Austin Shatters Thriller Dance World Record!

On October 25, 881 people gathered at the Long Center in Austin, Texas to attempt to break the Guinness World record for the largest synchronized Thriller dance. The old record was 140 people. Consider that record to be... shattered.



The record was witnessed by Mayor Will Wynn and Austin City Council Member Sheryl Cole.

Thrill the World Austin was executed by Alamo Drafthouse, Rude Mechanicals, Flash Mob Austin and sponsored by Mosaic | 5619, Mexic-Arte Museum, Ballet Austin, 6th Street Austin, the Long Center and the Capital Area Food Bank.

Check out the encore performace of Austin's Thrill the World Team in the Day of the Dead procession down Sixth Street on November 1st. Complete details on Thrill the World can be found on the official website, www.thrilltheworld.com