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For Hunger Games fans, on opening weekend: May the odds be ever in your favor

Looking forward to the opening weekend of everyone’s favorite young-adult post-apocalyptic survival tale, The Hunger Games?

You’re not alone.

A week before the film’s Austin release, tickets for opening weekend have already sold out at all four Alamo Drafthouse Theater locations, snapped up in pre-sales faster than a crossbow at the Cornucopia.

While it may be too late to avail yourself of the Alamo’s Panem-themed entrees (Katniss’s lamb and plum stew and the Mayor’s favorite strawberry upside down cake), you can still buy tickets early at Regal Westhouse Cinema, AMC Barton Creek Square Mall, Cinemark Tinseltown 17 and plenty of other Austin-area movie theaters.

Advice for opening night? If you’re coming in costume, remember that actual flames are not practical outerwear in a crowded movie theater.

And bring snacks. You’re going to get hungry.

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The Hunger Games opens in theaters March 23.

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Pecan Falls Far From The Tree

Pecan Street Festival moves from Sixth Street citing 'redevelopment'

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The Pecan Street Festival is moving and figuring out what's next.

After decades in Downtown Austin, one of the city's longest-running festivals has a new home and a muddled future.

The Pecan Street Festival will move to Bee Cave for its upcoming spring festival on May 3-4. The bi-annual festival is traditionally held in Austin on Sixth Street — historically known as Pecan Street.

Organizers of the festival cited that the recent installation of bollards and rubber skirting on Sixth Street would have forced them to significantly shrink the size of the event.

However, while the festival moves to Hill Country Galleria for the spring, the upcoming fall festival in September still doesn't have a home. In an email sent to vendors on Monday, organizers confirmed they were not sure if the relocation to Bee Cave would be permanent.

"We would enthusiastically return to Austin under the right conditions, but that will depend on future conversations with the city," the email said.

For vendors concerned about why the change was announced so close to the festival, organizers cited the "redevelopment" of Sixth Street "by private real estate groups" has strained the festival.

Read the full story and watch the video at KVUE.com.

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