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…
Fun Fun Fun Scavenger Hunt & Other Fun (Fun) (Fun)
Saturday is hoppin’ … Fun Fun Fun Fest Scavenger Hunt Kick off at Red 7 (611 7th Street, next to Beauty Bar), Ending location at Waterloo Park parking lot (12th and Red River). Signup at 6pm and the hunt begins at 7pm sharp. Free to enter, but five cans of food per person to benefit…
Get Your Weekend Mall On
Simon Trends & Friends Weekend Kick Off @ Barton Creek Square Barton Creek Mall is hosting a whole weekend of Trends & Friends that kicks off with a happy hour fashion show with Abuelo’s Mexican Food Embassy providing light bites and libations on the house (mall?)! Check out the latest beauty trends at the style…
Girly post: free makeover! Teddies for Bettys!!
In other words, welcome to the girliest post I may ever have posted. For all my tweeting about football and pullups, I present to you: makeovers and teddies. The Clinique Fresh Faces Tour with Teen Vogue (supported by Taylor Momsen aka Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl) hits Austin Thursday & Friday. Clinique’s one-of-a-kind “Mobile Beauty…
I Have Nothing to Say
Email I just received: Subj: thisislifeinaustin Body: Why didn’t you post yesterday? Because sometimes I have nothing to say. I already told you about the pay-for-it events going on this week, and there’s some cool stuff going on this weekend, but I’m not ready to reveal it yet–you(I)’ll forget by the weekend. I’ve already posted…
I Don’t Know Jack About Music
Remember that early ’90s computer game “You Don’t Know Jack About Sports!” where you had to answer trivia or the game yelled at you? And then it spiraled into other “You Don’t Know Jack About ____” bananas, coffee, snowballs. Whatever. I don’t claim to be a music critic, or even afficionado (except when it comes…
VERMONSTERS in danger!
1. I often use the term Vermonster for my favorite man from Vermont. 2. I just returned from Vermont, where I thoroughly enjoyed myself some Rock Art beer. More than Switchback, which my Vermonster says is his favorite. 3. I love people that stand on principle. 4. Little known fact: I effing hate YouTube videos.…
Blog Action Day: 100 Effects of Global Warming
Today blogs around the country are posting on Climate Change for Blog Action Day 2009–9,090 blogs in 150 countries with 12,602,296 readers. I found a stellar list of 100 ways climate change will affect us, and I’ve chosen my favorites. Is it really appropriate to choose favorites when we’re talking about the loss of some…
Sometimes, even you can’t charm your way in
OK, so we normally quest for the free: free swag, free food, free booze. But sometimes, even the craftiest and sneakiest and in-the-knowiest have to pay to play at the events with the best swag, food, booze … or maybe the feel-good feelings you get donating to a good cause give you the kind of…
Spiral Dynamics – Dr. Don Beck Tonight
There is a scientific theory called Spiral Dynamics integral which enumerates exactly how and why our perspectives about the world change as the circumstances and problems we face shift up and down in complexity. Dr. Don Beck, the champion of this theory, is coming to Austin this Wednesday (tonight) to tell us how we can…