Hot Luck closes tonight, Memorial Day Monday goes quiet, and we pivot to June.

Memorial Day weekend is almost in the books, and the city did its job. Floatopia was the float, Hot Luck Saturday at Wild Onion Ranch held up its end of the brisket-and-bands promise, and the Greek Festival sold out of spanakopita by 2 PM Saturday like it does every year. Tonight closes the festival at Stubb's, Monday is a holiday breather (CapTex Triathlon for the early risers, Echo and the Bunnymen at the Moody Theater for the late ones), and then we pivot. May 25 through May 31 is the calmest stretch of the calendar before June, which gives us room to open pool season properly and queue up the next month. We promised you a June preview, so the headlines are below, and the pool-and-patio guide lands here Wednesday.

The marquee

• Tonight, doors 4 PM · From $135
  Hot Luck Fest Sunday closing party
  Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
  Year seven closes where it always does, in the Waller Creek pit behind Stubb's, with Aaron Franklin's last cooks, a back-to-back acoustic-then-electric lineup, and the kind of soft-light, soft-knees energy that only happens on a closing Sunday. Doors at 4, food walks at 5, headliner around 9. Single-night tickets are still live on the festival site, and the will-call line moves faster than the walk-up.
• Mon May 25, doors 7 PM · From $65
  Echo and the Bunnymen, holiday Monday at the Moody
  ACL Live at the Moody Theater
  The post-punk royals built for a long holiday Monday: seated room, deep catalog, Will Sergeant guitar at the right volume. ACL Live's general admission floor is the play if you want to move, and the loge is the play if you spent Saturday at Wild Onion Ranch. Cap Metro Red Line drops you four blocks away if you do not feel like driving on a Monday night.
• Fri May 29, doors 7 PM · From $75
  String Cheese Incident kicks off the new month
  ACL Live at the Moody Theater
  The Cheese play one night only at ACL Live, and Friday is the only Austin date on the spring leg. Two sets, big floor, the usual Colorado-jam-band-finds-its-Texas-room energy. If you bought the cheap loge seats, you will not regret moving down to the GA floor twenty minutes into set one.

Sunday · Tonight

• Doors 4 PM · From $135
  Hot Luck Fest Sunday closing party
  Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
• 1 PM · Free
  Floatopia day two on Lady Bird Lake
  Barton Creek mouth, Zilker
• 8:00 PM · $10
  Continental Club Sunday residency
  South Congress
• 6:30 PM · Free
  Sundown Sundays at Mueller Lake
  Mueller

Memorial Day Monday

• Dawn start, finish line through noon · Free to spectate
  Ascension Seton CapTex Triathlon and Finish Line Festival
  Auditorium Shores
• Doors 7 PM · From $65
  Echo and the Bunnymen
  ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• 8:00 PM · $25
  Bob Schneider's Lonelyland Monday
  Saxon Pub
• 11 AM to 6 PM · $$
  Holiday BBQ walk-up at LeRoy and Lewis
  South Lamar
• After 6 PM · Free
  Long Center lawn for the early evening cool-off
  Town Lake

Tuesday to Thursday

• Tue, 9:00 PM · $15
  Junior Brown residency
  Continental Club
• Tue late, 9 PM on · $$
  Suerte walk-in window (post-Hot Luck breather)
  East Austin
• Wed, 9:30 PM · No cover
  Two-Step at the White Horse
  East Austin
• Wed, 8:00 PM · $15
  South Austin Song Circles
  04 Center
• Thu, 3 to 6 PM · $4 drafts
  Hold Out Brewing happy hour
  West 6th

Next Friday and Saturday

• Fri, doors 7 PM · From $75
  String Cheese Incident
  ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• Sat, 9 AM to 1 PM · Free
  SFC Farmers' Market
  Republic Square
• Sat, doors 7 PM · From $65
  Pat Green
  ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• Sat, 8:00 PM · $25
  Racing Mount Pleasant w/ Isobel
  Antone's
• Sat, 9 PM on · $$
  Late seats at Birdie's
  East Cesar Chavez

Next Sunday

• Sun May 31 · Free read
  June dispatch lands here at 10 AM
  ATX Weekly
• 11:00 AM · $20
  Rock and Roll Playhouse: Music of Phish for kids
  3TEN ACL Live
• All day · $9 entry
  Barton Springs in full pool-season swing
  Zilker
• 8:00 PM · $10
  Continental Club Sunday residency
  South Congress

What we're drinking this week

• Anytime warm · $4
  Pool-day Topo and lime at the Deep Eddy snack bar
  Deep Eddy Pool
• Anytime · $9
  Frozen ranch water at Cuantos Tacos
  East Austin
• Tue evening · $14
  Mint julep at the Driskill Bar (a quiet Tuesday play)
  Downtown
• Late afternoon · $13
  Cold-brew negroni at Better Half
  Clarksville

Free this week

• Sun, 1 PM · Free
  Floatopia day two
  Lady Bird Lake, Barton Creek mouth
• Mon, morning · Free to spectate
  CapTex Triathlon Finish Line Festival
  Auditorium Shores
• Sun 6:30 PM · Free
  Sundown Sundays at Mueller Lake
  Mueller

From the archive

Memorial Day Monday is the unofficial open of pool season, and our swim guide ranks the four city pools by line length, water clarity, and walk-up parking odds. Deep Eddy is the no-brainer; the cooler play tomorrow is Bartholomew on the east side, where the lap lanes stay open and the Monday-morning lot rarely fills before noon. Bookmark the guide for the next four months.

Looking ahead

• Wed May 27 · 10 AM · Free read
  June pool-and-patio guide drops here
  ATX Weekly
• Tue and Wed, June 9 and 10 · Free
  Blues on the Green returns to Zilker
  Zilker Park
• June 1 onward · Varies
  Pride month kickoff (parade route published)
  Citywide

ATX Weekly tip

Two tactical notes for the holiday Monday. First, BBQ lines: Franklin will run four hours by 9 AM, and LeRoy and Lewis is usually the smarter walk-up at lunch (under an hour by 11 if you preorder online). Second, lake parking: Auditorium Shores closes its main lot for the CapTex Triathlon finish until early afternoon, so put a pin on the Mexican American Cultural Center lot instead. It is a five-minute walk to the finish line and almost always open by 10 AM.

That is the bridge week. We close the festival tonight, give Monday a breather, and start pointing at June. The pool-and-patio guide hits Wednesday, and the June dispatch lands here next Sunday. Yours, The ATX Weekly Editors.