Happy, happy May! Live music, good food, fun festivals, and an election are all on the docket this month. Let’s get to it:
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month With Good Food
Austin Asian Community Health Initiative’s Family Style Passport is back. Once you buy the passport, you can bring it to a number of Asian restaurants across the city to unlock deals through July 31. Passports are $70 and proceeds go to connecting Asian Austinites with health care and other basic needs. Participating restaurants include Bar Peached, Komé Sushi Kitchen, Lau Lau, and Oseyo.
Set Your Alarm for the 2026 Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup Announcement
The lineup for this year’s ACL Fest will be announced on May 5. Tickets for the festival, which returns to Zilker Park Oct. 2-4 and 9-11, go on sale the same day.
You Can Still Get Tickets to Austin Psych Fest
Austin Psych Fest runs May 8-10 at The Far Out Lounge & Stage in South Austin. The lineup includes The Flaming Lips, The Black Angels, and Thee Sacred Souls. Tickets are still available and start at $93.32.
Pecan Street Festival Is Back
Pecan Street Festival runs May 9-10 at Hill Country Galleria. The biannual event, which used to be held on Sixth Street downtown, is free to attend and includes live music, shopping, activities for kids, food, and more.
It’s Movie Season
Temperatures are rising and you have a couple fun ways to find solace in air conditioning this month.
- Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is May 13-17. Features, documentaries, shorts, and music videos rooted in Latine/x, Indigenous, Latin American, and Ibero-American communities will be shown at theaters throughout the city. Tickets start at $13 for individual screenings and $60 for badges.
- Paramount Theatre’s Summer Classic Film Series starts May 22 with a screening of “Casablanca.” Movies will be shown at the theater throughout the summer and tickets are $15.
We’ve Got a Primary Runoff Election This Month
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are facing off May 26 in the state’s runoff election. The pair are competing for the Republican nomination for Cornyn’s Senate seat. Whoever wins will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November.
Other runoff races include the Democratic nomination for Texas Lieutenant Governor, both party nominations for Texas Attorney General, and some local races.
You can use The Texas Tribune’s election guide to find out what else will be on your ballot this month.
