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Weekday Warrior: Some indoor activities to keep you cool this week

Film Foundations Series: Shadow of a Doubt at Alamo Ritz
Tennis at The Parish
This American Life Live at Various Locations
Ballet Austin Presents: Romeo and Juliet at The Long Center for the PerformingArts

With temperatures in the 90s all week, it’s probably not a great time to hang out in the sweltering heat. So this week, we’ve got a handful of movies, a dose of comedy, and even a live iteration of a popular radio show. How to choose which air conditioned venue with which to fill your time? Here’s our weekly guide to keep you busy during the days that don’t start with S.

Monday, May 7

Film Foundations Series: Shadow of a Doubt @ Alamo Ritz

Martin Scorcese’s The Film Foundation presents this Hitchcock classic, the film that the director often cited as his favorite of his own films. Hitchcock and his cast & crew pull off some of the finest work of Hollywood’s Golden Era here, and it’s best witnessed on the big screen.

27^th Annual Funniest Person in Austin Semi-Finals @ Cap City

Comedians have been competing for weeks, and the payoff is about to arrive. 36 comedians have survived the preliminary rounds, and now they’ll battle it out in front of TV executives and their hilarious comrades for a spot in the finals.

Tuesday, May 8

Yellow Submarine @ Alamo Slaughter Lane

In this animated classic, John, Paul and the rest of The Beatles wander around in a brightly colored world full of peace, love, and hope. Featuring the hits “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love” and “It’s All Too Much.”

Tennis @ The Parish

This darling Denver three-piece (including married couple Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley) put out some of the catchiest retro pop music around, so catch them as they headline a show at The Parish.

Wednesday, May 9

Mediabistro Party in Austin @ House Wine

Mediabistro is one of the leading services in staffing for freelance creative professionals. Join them (and fellow like-minded writers, editors and graphic designers) for an opportunity to mingle, share resources, and discuss job opportunities over a glass of vino.

Ladies are Funny Festival 2012

Texas’ largest and only all-female comedy festival returns to the Salvage Vanguard Theater for another hilarious year. Performers from Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Toronto will join the ladies of Austin's comedy scene for three nights of laughter and community.

Thursday, May 10

This American Life Live @ Various Locations

The popular anecdotal radio program will broadcast a very special live show, to be beamed into more than 500 theaters nationwide. The event will feature stories from Ira Glass, writers David Sedaris and David Rakoff and comic Tig Notaro, plus live music by OK Go. It'll also include a new short film by Mike Birbiglia, dance by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, original animation, projected illustration and more.

The Austin Chronicle’s 10^th Annual Adult Spelling Bee

The Austin Chronicle’s 10^th annual 21+ spelling bee pits champion spellers against champion spellers. All proceeds benefit the Austin Public Library, and its best to head there from 4-6 to register before things get super intense.

Friday, May 11

The Alamo Drafthouse Presents: Summer of 1982 – Conan The Barbarian @ Alamo Ritz

The Drafthouse is celebrating the greatest summer in cinema, and this is their inaugural screening. Catch The Governator before he hit politics, and bask in the glory of this rampaging epic of swords and squat thrusts was unleashed on audiences in this same weekend 20 years ago.

Ballet Austin Presents: Romeo and Juliet @ The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Ballet Austin’s take on the William Shakespeare tragedy is a beautiful spectacle, filled with costumes layered with Prokofiev's majestic score and a set illuminated by an Italianate tapestry of stained glass colors.

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There you have it, folks. You can mock Ahhhnold, laugh with Birbiglia, and even weep at a ballet staging of a Shakespearean classic. Just remember to stay hydrated.

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Defensive Driving

Austin-based Tesla faces new probe focused on remote driving feature

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 2.6 million Teslas.

Federal regulators have opened an investigation into 2.6 million Teslas after reports of crashes involving the use of company technology that allows drivers to remotely command their vehicle to return to them, or move to another location, using a phone app.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also said Tuesday, January 7 that Austin-based Tesla did not report any of the accidents. Tesla is under order to report crashes on “publicly accessible roads” involving vehicles being operated through its autonomous driving technology.

The new investigation follows another probe launched in October looking into the company's “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian. That investigation covers 2.4 million Teslas from the 2016 through 2024 model years.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

One driver filed a complaint after a crash while using Tesla's “Actually Smart Summon” technology and NHTSA is looking into another three similar incidents based on media reports, the NHTSA said. The agency is looking into 12 total incidents reported by users of the technology.

Each of the vehicles failed to detect posts and other parked vehicles, according to the NHTSA.

Regulators say the vehicles struck objects because the users had "too little reaction time to avoid a crash, either with the available line of sight or releasing the phone app button, which stops the vehicle’s movement.”

Shares of Tesla Inc. slid more than 4 percent in late afternoon trading Tuesday.

Musk has complained that U.S. regulations are too onerous and are holding back the development of self-driving cars. Ethics experts are worried that once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, Musk will push him to ease oversight of Tesla, which just suffered its first decline in annual sales in more than a decade.

Musk donated an estimated $250 million to Trump's presidential campaign and is a frequent guest at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, vetting cabinet nominees and meeting with foreign heads of state. Trump has put Musk in charge of an advisory group, the Department of Government Efficiency, that will recommend where to cut government expenses and staff at federal agencies and reduce regulation.

The NHTSA said it will look into the top speed that Teslas can reach when users deploy its “summons” technology, as well as restrictions on public roads and line of sights requirements. It also said it expects to check for any “connectivity delays" with the app that could result in increased stopping distance.

Tesla’s Model 3 owner’s manual says that its “summons” feature is designed for use only in parking lots and driveways on private property and is disabled on public roads.

The new probe covers 2016-2025 Model S and X vehicles, 2017-2025 Model 3, 2020-2025 Model Y equipped with Tesla's Full Self-Driving driver assistance system.

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