\u003Cbr/> The show, appropriately dubbed \u003Ca href=\"http://www.antones.net/event/231125-antones-farewell-5th-street-austin/\">“Farewell to Fifth Street”\u003C/a> will be an evening celebrating Austin’s home to the blues with performances by a host of seasoned players. Friends, musicians and supporters will gather for a night of music featuring the likes of Marcia Ball, Malford Milligan, Eve Monsees, Bob Schneider, Jimmie Vaughan and Carolyn Wonderland, among many others.\u003C/p> \u003Cp> Doors open at 7 p.m., with music beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m. tickets are available for only $10.\u003C/p> \u003Cp> The Antone’s legacy continues later in March, when the blues bar takes up residency at 2015 East Riverside (the former home of Beauty Ballroom), adjacent to the second iteration of Emo’s.\u003C/p> \u003Cp> The next generation of Antone's music kicks off at the new location on March 28 with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.antones.net/event/231125-antones-farewell-5th-street-austin/\">Mad Dogs & Englishmen\u003C/a>, a tribute to Joe Cocker featuring members of T-Bird & The Breaks, The Band of Heathens and more.\u003C/p> \u003Clisticle id=\"listicle-2656299594\">\u003C/listicle> \u003Cdiv class=\"listicle\">\u003C/div>","headline":"Antone's bids \"Farewell to Fifth Street\" with final show on Monday, March 18","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":600,"url":"https://austin.culturemap.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTczMjk1NC9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4MjA4MTg5MX0.Om86iyUWTB3mdbRD-FOYgmIiUOkaBqQTTxnYGuDNVJU/image.png?width=210","width":1200},"keywords":["unspecified"],"mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/03-17-13-antones-bids-farewell-to-fifth-street-with-final-show-on-march-18","@type":"WebPage"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://austin.culturemap.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTczMjk1NC9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4MjA4MTg5MX0.Om86iyUWTB3mdbRD-FOYgmIiUOkaBqQTTxnYGuDNVJU/image.png?width=210"},"name":"CultureMap Austin"},"url":"https://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/03-17-13-antones-bids-farewell-to-fifth-street-with-final-show-on-march-18"}
Antone's bids "Farewell to Fifth Street" with final show on Monday, March 18 - CultureMap Austin
New Home for Antone's
Antone's bids "Farewell to Fifth Street" with final show on Monday, March 18
News broke in mid-January that famed blues club Antone’s would be leaving its current Fifth Street location after SXSW, with buzz immediately following on where the club would find its new home.
After a week of SXSW shows that included performances by such greats as Emmylou Harris, The Mavericks and Jim Lauderdale, Antone’s will play host to one final show on Monday, March 18 before moving to East Riverside.
The show, appropriately dubbed “Farewell to Fifth Street” will be an evening celebrating Austin’s home to the blues with performances by a host of seasoned players. Friends, musicians and supporters will gather for a night of music featuring the likes of Marcia Ball, Malford Milligan, Eve Monsees, Bob Schneider, Jimmie Vaughan and Carolyn Wonderland, among many others.
Doors open at 7 p.m., with music beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m. tickets are available for only $10.
The Antone’s legacy continues later in March, when the blues bar takes up residency at 2015 East Riverside (the former home of Beauty Ballroom), adjacent to the second iteration of Emo’s.
The next generation of Antone's music kicks off at the new location on March 28 with Mad Dogs & Englishmen, a tribute to Joe Cocker featuring members of T-Bird & The Breaks, The Band of Heathens and more.
Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World.
If it feels like it’s been a long time since the last Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, that’s because it has. Deadpool & Wolverine technically counts, but it was really its own thing that was mostly disconnected from the larger story the MCU is trying to tell. And two out of the three MCU movies in 2023 were underwhelming, so Marvel remains far from the highs of its Avengers days.
They’re trying to get things going again with Captain America: Brave New World, the first glimpse of Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) — formerly known as the Falcon — as the new Captain America. The film thrusts the audience right into the action, with Wilson on a mission to retrieve a MacGuffin stolen package for the U.S. government at the behest of President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford). The two men continue to have a symbiotic relationship for the majority of the movie, with each needing the other and hating the fact that they do.
The main story of the film improbably (unwisely?) brings together two of the MCU’s least well-received films, 2008’s The Incredible Hulk and 2021’s The Eternals. Dr. Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), apparently holding a longtime grudge since the events of The Incredible Hulk, plays a big part, as does the Celestial Island, which was last seen at the end of The Eternals and not mentioned in any property since that time.
Directed by Julius Onah and written by Onah and four other screenwriters, the best that can be said for this return of the MCU is that Mackie makes for a compelling presence. The combining of the Captain America elements with his Falcon persona makes for some pretty good action, with the character showing off some unique moves. On the downside, though, he’s mostly facing off against anonymous henchmen, so most of his fight scenes feel repetitive and uninspired.
The story itself is a mishmash of characters that only hardcore Marvel/MCU fans will know, with barely any attempt at reintroducing them to a broad audience. Sidekick Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) and wronged super soldier Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly) return from the Disney+ show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, providing some levity and gravity, respectively. Having Sterns back in the mix is never explained properly, nor is how he is able to wield influence over a large number of people.
If there’s to be any lasting memory from this film, it’s the introduction of the (fictional) indestructible material adamantium into the MCU. Previously known from the X-Men universe as what was used to strengthen Wolverine’s skeleton and give him his claws, adamantium is now a prized discovery found in the Celestial Island that, like any valuable material, causes normally level-headed people to get into fights over it.
Mackie brings enough charm to his acting that he can ably act as the lead, something he hadn’t previously been asked to do in the MCU. Ford is fine; his years of experience make him a natural for playing another president, although the transformation his character undergoes is goofier than it needed to be. Nelson has to act from behind some truly hideous makeup and he feels one-note most of the time.
For the MCU to make it back to their previous standing atop the blockbuster landscape, they’re going to have to deliver much more interesting characters and stories than are present in Captain America: Brave New World. It might be time to consider stand-alone stories instead of ones that rely on information that many moviegoers have long since forgotten.
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Captain America: Brave New World opens in theaters on February 14.