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Community Events Mario Kart Tournament Double Trouble is a North Loop hang zone with some of the best dang tacos you’ll ever shove in your piehole, along with an all-day, all-night happy hour on Wednesdays and enormous outdoor patio to enjoy the falling temps. They also happen to offer a biweekly tournament in the best racing video game of all time, Mario Kart

Sponsored Listing The 2024 Liz Carpenter Lecture: A Screening of Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter premiered at SXSW in 2024 and has been featured in 5 more film festivals nationwide. It explores Carpenter's career as a journalist, Chief of Staff to the First Lady, and women's rights activist through those who worked closest with her. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring filmmaker Christy Carpenter.

Nightlife & Parties Divina: Noche Drag Latinx At the start of her drag career, Divina host Tatiana Cholula told Qmmunity she’d be critiqued for not assimilating enough “American” culture into her acts. “Before I started Divina,” she said, “the scene was rich in amazing Latinx drag performers and artists, but there weren’t any spaces focused on them or they didn’t feel comfortable performing certain songs at certain spaces.” Thankfully, Tatiana did start Divina, and now every other Wednesday you’ll see Oilcan Harry’s stage taken over by the spirits of Latina legends like Gloria Estefan and Paulina Rubio – courtesy of local Latinx drag talent. – James Scott

Arts Books Joey Fauerso: You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make San Antonio artist and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow Joey Fauerso joins fellow poet Jenny Browne for a talk at First Light Books releasing Joey Fauerso: You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make, a collection spanning nearly a decade of her career as a multidisciplinary artist. The collection presents a series of essays by Jenny Browne, Veronica Roberts, Betsy Huete, Neil Fauerso, Aurvi Sharma, Hilary Leichter, and Claire Hoffman recontextualizing and commenting on Fauerso’s “ongoing commitment to addressing themes of family, gender, and humor in her artwork,” writes First Light. – Lina Fisher

1984, Rated R, 90 min. Directed by Lawrence Dane. Starring Cynthia Dale, Richard Rebiere, Laura Henry and Walter George Alton.

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