Lavaca Street Bar hosts the Second Annual Butter Ball event benefiting “Coats for Kids” with Junior League of Austin and Jack Brown Cleaners Coats for Kids is an annual community project that collects and distributes warm winter coats to eligible children and teenagers in Central Texas. Each year, The Junior League of Austin, Jack Brown…
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It’s in the Details
Got an email from RueLaLa.com offering anyone who signs up using my code (http://www.ruelala.com/invite/lifeinaustin) a $10 credit on their first purchase! It ain’t much, but every little bit counts. RueLaLa has quickly become my favorite of the members-only discount sale sites, surpassing HauteLook, who I still hang on to as my first sample-sale-love. But RueLaLa…
Monday Funday: La Vie De Bohème at Alamo Drafthouse
Austin Lyric Opera, the Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse are screening Aki Kaurismaki’s moden retelling of the 19th-cenetury story on which the opera La Bohème–which opens November 7 in Austin–is based. Adapted from the novel Scenes de la vie de Boheme by Henri Murger, this 1992 film is a beautiful comedy about down-and-out artists…
I’m Leavin’ on a Jet Plane
… to Vermont, land of Cabot cheese, Ben & Jerry’s (and newly legalized gay marriage), Magic Hat beer, maple syrup, and this mythical leaf-shedding known as FOLIAGE. Purple mountains majesty, anyone? Apparently my winter wardrobe is all purple, hot pink, and pom-poms … um, in other words, novelty winter clothes because here I just wear…
Man Shops Globe / You Hang Out in Your Neighborhood
Talk about a dream job … this dude travels around the world, picks out cool stuff for Anthropologie stores around the world, and now they’re filming him doing it. “Man Shops Globe” debuts October 7 on the Sundance Channel. October 6, Anthropologie at 601 North Lamar Blvd is hosting a preview party from 7-9pm with tons…
Highball Soft Opening Tonight – Everyone is Invited
Normally “Soft Openings” are for friends and family and other invited guests. But given that Highball, Tim & Karrie League’s new bowling-karaoke-diner venue next to its South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse, has created a flyer for the event, we’re pretty sure everyone is invited. And that they must have worked the kinks out weeks ago when…
Here’s the Winning Dancing Video
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWsqCYftLo] Thanks, Barenaked family, for letting us laugh with you! They won tix to the Srishti event: http://www.ashanet.org/austin/Srishti/
Free Kibble – Feed Homeless Dogs & Cats
Similar to www.freerice.com, which donates 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program to end hunger, www.freekibble.com donates 10 pieces of kibble to homeless dogs and cats everywhere at the click of your mouse. While you can play Free Rice (a word definition game) for as long as you like and donate as…
New 34th Street Cafe Happy Hour Starts Sept 8
In a city that surprisingly lacks GREAT happy hours (aside from TRIO and Imperia, of course), a new deal is a welcome addition. Especially in the “Midtown” area, where, exempting the Triangle, few restaurants mess with a happy hour. Enter Brykerwoods’ 34th Street Café’s new happy hour, starting next week. At less than a mile…
More Bachelor Madness at Ranch 616 Monday Night
Not sure who is behind this (or why?), but: Mingle with some favorite Bachelors from this season of The Bachelorette with Jillian Harris (whose love Ed/Bob/Bubba/whatever is already cheating on her with his 2 girlfriends…) at Ranch 616 on Monday, August 10 from 6-8pm. Bachelor Jesse Kovacs will present wine from Kovacs Brothers Winery, local…