Update: Tomorrow’s Wine Down is CANCELLED. In its stead, check out the first-ever open-to-the-public (normally just VIPs are invited) Davis Cup Draw Ceremony with Asleep at the Wheel, at ACL Live on Thursday. Tickets are $5 and benefit the Joplin Tornado Relief Fund. Doors at 11am, program and performance at noon. The teams, including the…
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Aspen: July 4th Eco Music Festival
The Eco Music Festival takes over the entire Snowmass ski resort Fourth of July weekend (June 30-July 3) to showcase some of the most vibrant musical acts and corporate eco-trendsetters of this generation. Mountainside concerts, guided hiking tours, an Innovation Village, and poolside cocktails make up a festival designed for positive impact for both festival…
Austin: Yoga for Good … Blackshear Elementary School
Community Yoga Austin Presents: FIRST SUNDAY for Blackshear Elementary School How awesome is this? On Sunday, July 3rd Community Yoga will collaborate with Eastside Yoga, Blue Dahlia Bistro, and other East Austin businesses to raise money to bring a weekly Yoga class to ALL of the students of Blackshear Elementary School, starting in Fall 2011. Blackshear students…
Aspen: 4th of July
Aspen loves Fourth of July more than most cities. As always, there will be fireworks on Aspen mountain. Which I can see from my porch [brag]. AWESOME! For the other fun:
Barefoot
Since it’s summer, I’ve been walking around totally barefoot. No barefoot shoes. Just toes in the grass, on the dirt, whatever. I took an hour walk with the dawg barefoot. 30 minutes at the park. Being totally, completely, 100% barefoot is AWESOME.
Ben & Jerry’s
Last week, I got the incredible opportunity to join Ben & Jerry’s Millennial Advisory Board. We flew out to Vermont for three days of training, talking, and LOTS of eating ice cream. Here are a few photos: As if I didn’t already love Ben & Jerry’s, this experience cemented their awesomeness. The…
It’s tough to leave this …
++= AMRAP 20 mins 7 HSPU (sub decline pushups) & 12 L-Pullup (regular pullup). … but I’m in Austin for the week! YAY!
Rent the Runway Review (hint: I love it)
If you’re not a Gossip Girl watcher, you might not have seen Rent the Runway in action (Juliet uses it to look like she actually has money to buy designer clothes). Think Jennifer Hudson using Bag Borrow Steal from Sex & The City. No? Maybe I’ll just ‘splain myself: Rent the Runway is a dress-lending site where…
Lots of Travelin’
I fully intended to write a full post on the Chicago airport gym, but now it swirls around in my head with the other travelin’ gyms and workouts I did, so it will just be one of a list: Chicago: Hilton hotel gym at the airport (you DO have to leave security). Has an Olympic…
Austin & Aspen: Aspen Ideas Fest / Texas Tribune Festival
When I got the recent email from the Texas Tribune announcing the inaugural TEXAS TRIBUNE FESTIVAL, a “weekend of debate, discussion and dialogue, featuring some of the biggest names, and the biggest brains, in the world of politics and public policy,” I laughed out loud. I This special event will take place on September 24th…