Food: Foreign & Domestic $40 3-Course Meal 30% of the proceeds from the three-course menu will be donated to Doctors Without Borders Chef/Owners Ned and Jodi Elliott of Foreign & Domestic, the North Loop restaurant that opened in May 2010 to rave reviews, have planned a special $40 for a Cause menu available from now through April…
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Where can you buy something as edgy as earrings that are chained to a cuff AND something as whimsical as a stack of zig-zag multicolored bracelets? Because I haven’t talked about JewelMint enough… (check out my Liberty Ring) NOW you can use the EXCLUSIVE thisislifeinaustin promo code to get 50% off your first order … that’s a…
Austin: Choose Your Documentary: Taxes or Music?
As I just paid an inconveniently large sum of money to the government in the form of taxes, I particularly advise you to drop by The Blanton tomorrow night for a showing of the documentary “An Inconvenient Tax.” The documentary sheds light on one of America’s messiest problems — a fundamentally broken tax code that…
I am Awesome. And Extreme.
Yes, these glasses are my mom’s mirrored aviators from her skiing days. In the ’70s. In Aspen, there are four mountains to ski. One of them, Aspen Highlands, is the locals mountain. It has a place called Highlands Bowl. You have to hike 1,000+ vertical feet to get to it. In ski boots. With your…
Austin: hopdoddy burger bar
All the way from Aspen, the buzz on hopdoddy burger bar is loud. So obviously it was one of my first stops as soon as I got back to town. In the old Cissi’s Market spot on South Congress, hopdoddy burger bar is serious about meat but whimsical without being cheeky everywhere else. Great vibe, and it…
My Weak Link
I recently read this article and it struck home: The Healthy Skeptic’s The Biggest Obstacle to Perfect Health is Your Mind. In it, Chris Kresser talks about identifying your weakness instead of tweaking your strengths. His example is food, and I think it resonates with me: why am I tweaking food when I already eat pretty…
My Final Thoughts on the HCG Diet, 2.5 Weeks After
This is a hard post to write, because I wanted the HCG Diet to work. I believed in it, I followed the rules to a T, and it did work. But 2 1/2 weeks later the pounds have snuck back on, and all the sudden I’m not as slim as I was and I’m back…
How Genius are RunPhones?
On a recent cool-ish April morning, I cruised Town Lake for a run. I had recently read about this awesome idea: a headband with headphones built in. I was super excited, because then you can jam out running without the need to adjust earbuds or wipe sweat! For someone with small earholes (weird, I know),…
NFL Stars Deliver 22,000 Hearing Aids
I already miss football season, so when I heard some good news from the NFL camp, I just had to share … here’s to ended lockout talks next! Adrian Peterson, PROS FOR AFRICA Throughout the month of March, the Starkey Hearing Foundation, dedicated to building better lives for the hearing impaired by providing hearing instruments…
Aspen: Spring Celebrations Announcing BlissFits Aspen Boot Camp!
As spring rolls around, there are lots of announcements: babies, graduation announcements, save-the-date cards, and so on. Since I have no news of that sort, I’m excited to celebrate a more Lyssa-like announcement: BlissFits Aspen Boot Camp! You guys know how much I love CrossFit, and sharing the word about fitness and how awesome it is. I’ve…