Austin, TX
Fall events happening in Austin
Although sweater weather hasn’t arrived quite yet, autumn is here. For Austinites, that means there’s a lot to look forward to, including fall festivities, holiday happenings, live performances, and sports games.
Without further ado, it’s time to pull out your calendar and plan your favorite fall yet.
Festivals
Get your book shopping done in between panels at the Texas Book Festival.
Photo courtesy Texas Book Festival
Oktoberfest 2024 | Now-Sunday, Oct. 6 | Times vary | Multiple locations | Prices vary | Let our guide to Oktoberfest in Austin lead you to seasonal brews, stein hoisting, and German fare.
Austin Coffee Festival | Saturday, Sept. 28-Sunday, Sept. 29 | Times vary | Palmer Events Center | $24-$58 | Sip brews from some of Austin’s best roasters at this event, which also features tea and food.
ACL Music Festival | Friday, Oct. 4-Sunday, Oct. 13 | Times vary | Zilker Park | $320+ | Austin’s signature music festival returns. Here’s everything you need to know before you go.
Austin Film Festival | Thursday, Oct. 24-Thursday, Oct. 31 | Times vary | Multiple locations | $50+ | Film buffs won’t want to miss this event for all things cinema, TV, screenwriting, and podcasting.
Levitation | Thursday, Oct. 31-Sunday, Nov. 3 | Times vary | Multiple locations | $20+ | This music festival for electronic and dreamy tunes has been running for more than a decade in Austin.
Austin Food & Wine Festival | Friday, Nov. 1-Sunday, Nov. 3 | Times vary | Auditorium Shores | $195+ | Try foods, wines, cocktails, and brews from some of the top culinary experts in Texas and beyond.
Fossil Fest | Saturday, Nov. 2-Sunday, Nov. 3 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Old Settler’s Heritage Association, Round Rock | $3 | Learn about prehistoric life, identify fossils, and engage in kid-friendly activities.
Texas Craft Brewers Festival | Saturday, Nov. 16 | 2-6:30 p.m. | Fiesta Gardens | $50+ | Sample beer from across the Lone Star State at this annual celebration of small and independent craft breweries in Texas.
Texas Book Festival | Saturday, Nov. 16-Sunday, Nov. 17 | Times vary | Multiple locations | Free | Book lovers will rejoice at this downtown festival featuring live panels with authors, book signings, shopping, kids activities, and demos.
Holiday celebrations
The House of Torment offers three terrifying attractions.
Photo via House of Torment
Halloween
Pumpkin Nights | Now-Thursday, Oct. 31 | 7-11 p.m. | Pioneer Farms | $16+ | Walk through a Halloween wonderland with art made with over 7,500 hand-carved pumpkins.
Boo at the Zoo | Friday + Saturday nights in October | 5:45-9 p.m. | Austin Zoo | $22+ | Wear your costume to see animal shows, explore a haunted mansion, and ride a haunted train.
House of Torment | Now-Saturday, Nov. 9 | Times vary | 2632 Ridgepoint Drive, Austin | $20+ | This year’s scary experiences include “Torment ’99,” “The Arrival,” and “The Abandoned.”
Austin Ghost Tours | Multiple dates | Times vary | Multiple locations | $27+ | Learn about Austin’s history through ghost stories on guided tours, including a new addition called “Real Ghosts: A Halloween Adventure.”
Día de Muertos
Viva la Vida Festival + Parade | Saturday, Oct. 26 | 4th Street and Congress Avenue | 12-6 p.m. | Cost of purchase | At Austin’s longest-running Day of the Dead event, festivalgoers can enjoy the parade, try a variety of foods, shop goods from local artists, and listen to live music.
Día de los Muertos | Friday, Nov. 1 | Moody Amphitheater | 6-10 p.m. | Cost of purchase | Celebrate with live performances, face painting, community altars, themed cocktails, and local Latinx artisan vendors.
Veterans Day
Austin Veterans Day Parade + Memorial Ceremony | Monday, Nov. 11 | 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Texas State Capitol | Free | Watch the parade go down Congress Avenue before seeing a commemoration program honoring our fallen soldiers.
Thanksgiving
H-E-B Feast of Sharing | Tuesday, Nov. 26 | 4-8 p.m. | Palmer Events Center | TBD | Help prevent hunger during the holidays by volunteering to serve meals.
ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot | Thursday, Nov. 28 | 9:30 a.m. | The Long Center | $22+ | Join ~20,000 trotters on the largest 5-mile run in Texas.
Sports
Ready your engines for a weekend full of speed and live music at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix.
Austin FC | Now-Saturday, Oct. 19 | Times vary | Multiple locations | Prices vary | Grab tickets to a game at Q2 Stadium, or wear your verde and black to watch at a local brewery.
Texas Longhorn football | Now-Saturday, Nov. 30 | Times vary | Multiple locations | Prices vary | Don’t miss your chance to cheer on the Longhorns this season — or our guide on where to score the best deals in town when Texas takes the field.
Formula 1 Pirelli US Grand Prix | Thursday, Oct. 17-Sunday, Oct. 20 | Times vary | Circuit of the Americas | $1,299+ | Don’t miss the action-packed weekend, complete with racing and live music.
Concerts
Whether you’re at the Moody Amphitheater, Moody Center, or Moody Theater, you’re in for a show.
Two Door Cinema Club | Thursday, Sept. 26 | Moody Amphitheater | Known for: “What You Know”
Weezer | Friday, Sept. 27 | Moody Center | Known for: “Island In The Sun”
Kygo | Saturday, Sept. 28 | Germania Insurance Amphitheater | Known for: “Whatever”
USHER | Monday, Oct. 7 + Tuesday, Oct. 8 | Moody Center | Known for: “Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon + Ludacris)”
Maggie Rogers | Wednesday, Oct. 9 | Moody Center | Known for: “Alaska”
Heart | Thursday, Oct. 10 | Moody Center | Known for: “Barracuda”
Vampire Weekend | Thursday, Oct. 17 | Moody Center | Known for: “A-Punk”
Suki Waterhouse | Friday, Oct. 18 | ACL Live | Known for: “Good Looking”
Judas Priest | Thursday, Oct. 24 | Germania Insurance Amphitheater | Known for: “Breaking the Law”
Thee Sacred Souls | Friday, Oct. 25 | Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater | Known for: “Can I Call You Rose?”
Sabrina Carpenter | Monday, Oct. 28 | Moody Center | Known for: “Espresso”
G-Eazy | Wednesday, Oct. 30 | Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater | Known for: “Me, Myself & I”
Tori Kelly | Wednesday, Oct. 30 | Emo’s Austin | Known for: “I Was Made For Loving You”
P!nk | Sunday, Nov. 3 | Moody Center | Known for: “Just Give Me a Reason”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | Friday, Nov. 15 | Germania Insurance Amphitheater | Known for: “Work This Time”
Interpol | Thursday, Nov. 21 | Moody Amphitheater | Known for: “Evil”
AUSTIN, Texas — Police have identified a 23-year-old man who was fatally shot Sunday night in North Austin. Authorities continue to search for a suspect who fled the scene.
Cam Ron Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:15 p.m. after officers responded to reports of multiple gunshots at 9616 North Lamar Boulevard, the Austin Police Department said.
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Officers arrived around 8 p.m. and found Perkins with fatal injuries, according to police.
Homicide detectives and crime scene specialists processed the scene and interviewed witnesses. The preliminary investigation indicates the suspect left in either a black Dodge Charger or black Dodge Challenger, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS or submit tips anonymously through Capital Area Crime Stoppers at austincrimestoppers.org or 512-472-8477. A reward of up to $1,000 may be available for information leading to an arrest.
2026 PRO SWIM SERIES – AUSTIN
A revised version of the heat sheets for this weekend’s Pro Swim Series opener in Austin, Texas is absent a number of big names, with a handful of other significant scratches revealed by the Wednesday morning heat sheets.
Out of the Meet
The biggest names to have fully withdrawn from the meet include US National Team members Hunter Armstrong and Grant House.
The two-time Olympian and three-time Olympic relay medalist Armstrong has raced sparingly since the Paris Olympics, citing financial hardship behind the hiatus. That included skipping the World Championship Trials in 2025.
He did race at the U.S. Open in December, but only briefly: he finished 14th in the 50 free final (22.35) and 14th in the 50 back prelims (25.65) before scratching the B-Final.
In Austin this week, he was scheduled to race the 50 free (#8 seed), 100 back (#2 seed), 50 fly (#8 seed), 50 back (#2 seed), and 100 free (#6 seed).
Fellow U.S. National Team member Grant House has also pulled out of the meet. He had 5 entries in the meet including 5th in the 200 IM and 6th in the 100 fly.
House recently posted a video of a “speed practice” at Arizona State, so the reason behind his withdrawal is not obvious.
Other full-meet withdrawals include:
- 17-year-old Addison Bitel from Laker Swim in Florida, who was the #5 seed in the thin women’s 50 and 100 meter breaststroke fields, plus 6th in the 200 breast. Her teammate Brynn Lavigueur, the #6 seed in the 50 back and #7 seed in the 100 back, also scratched the meet.
- 16-year-old Natalie Bradac from the University of Denver Hilltoppers club team, the #9 seed in the 100 breast
Last-Minute Additions
In addition to the scratches, there were some last minute additions to the meet entries. That includes breaststrokers Luke Barr and Mitch Mason, who are both training with Coley Stickels‘ pro group at Texas Ford Aquatics.
They are the #7 and #8 seeds in the 100 breaststroke, with the versatile Barr also holding high seeds in the 50 fly (#9), 100 fly (#7), and 50 back (#6).
Wednesday Scratches
The most significant scratch from the final psych sheet to Wednesday’s heat sheet is French international Pauline Mahieu. Part of a large contingent of French swimmers at the meet, Mahieu was the #2 seed in the 100 back.
That is her only entry of the meet, so in essence she has scratched the meet.
While one recent Instagram post from last week said that she planned to leave for Los Angeles for a camp with the French team on January 5, her Instagram story on Tuesday shows her dragging a sled with groceries across the snow with the caption “change of scenery.”
The women’s 1500 free also saw scratches from the #2, #3, and #4 entries behind the event’s most dominant swimmer ever Katie Ledecky.
The #2 seed Claire Weinstein, the #3 seed Ashley Twichell, and the #4 seed Caroline Pennington are all absent from the heat sheets in a field that has been reduced to only its 8 swimmer ‘fastest heat.’
Weinstein, a freshman at Cal, is still entered in the 50 free as the #11 seed, while Twichell and Pennington won’t race on Wednesday at all.
The other big scratch from Wednesday’s heat sheets is Kato Trinquesse, another Denver Hilltopper drop from the women’s 100 breaststroke field. She was promoted to the #7 seed after her teammate withdrew from the meet.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Central Texas Food Bank is expanding its partnership with Austin Independent School District by opening six new school-based food pantries at elementary schools across the district.
The Feeding Futures School Pantry locations provide families with convenient access to food on their child’s campus, according to the food bank.
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“This is a wonderful way for us to provide easy access to food – nutritious, healthy food – that’s culturally relevant to families,” Anurita Mittra, Vice President of Network Programs and Services with the Central Texas Food Bank, said.
By placing food resources where families already gather, the pantries help remove transportation barriers and reduce stigma associated with seeking food assistance. The pantries are designed to feel welcoming and supportive for families.
“Schools are trusted spaces, and these pantries are designed to feel welcoming, familiar, and supportive for families,” the food bank said.
A complete listing of participating school districts and on-campus pantries is available here.
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