ProShow Web is a new app that lets users easily mix photos, videos, text, and music together into professional-quality video slideshows. I full-on planned to show you a demo of the app with my own slideshow … but then, as I revealed on my radio show, I was playing by the Roaring Fork River and my…
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Rent a Moving Box: BungoBox
I can’t remember the last time I used cardboard boxes to move—I have enough duffles, storage bins, and assorted containers to move my small amount of stuff from Austin to Aspen to place to place. Moving into my house for the first time, however, was a different story. I wish BungoBox had existed then! Founded in…
Celebrities Go to Paris
… but I have not been. Austin-based travel company Andrew Harper is still kind of a hidden gem in the travel industry, with stunning photography and smart editorial focused on luxury travelers. The company produces The Hideaway Report, a private monthly publication for sophisticated travelers. Andrew Harper and his editors pay full price and travel incognito to write candid…
Austin: Fun Fun Fun Fest Aqua Olympics
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012’s Aqua Olympics is Sunday, August 19th at Fiesta Gardens and includes competitions in Stand Up Paddle Jousting, a “Revenge of the Nerds”-style belching contest, and much more. Register at funfunfunfest.com/2012_water_olympics. The festivities will also include pro riders soaring into the drink on the BMX Lagoon Launch and pro skaters ripping it up…
Austin: Roll On Sushi Diner
Roll On Sushi Diner celebrates its one year anniversary next week, complete with three days of merry-making AND donation-making! Roll On Sushi Diner celebrates counter culture with casual sushi priced from $4.50 to $7.50. Recently named one of Travel + Leisure’s Coolest New Diners—kind of a big deal—the anniversary will also launch 15 new items including The Leslie,…
The Friends-As-Family Generation
Subhead: Making Friends in Anywhere. I’m constantly amazed at the number of thoughtful comments a post I wrote three years ago still receives. The topic: Making Friends in Austin. Turns out, while it can vary by location and number of young professionals, young singles, so on, making friends anywhere is a challenge. I’ve written in countless…
Austin: Breaking News, H&M is coming!!
But not ’til this fall so you don’t actually get to purchase the teeny bikini shown here. Hennes & Mauritz, or H&M, or “achay y emmeh” as it will always be known to me as my first H&M visit was in Madrid where I was living, will open its 24,000-square-foot outpost in the Domain in the fall, offering women’s, men’s,…
Feel Good Friday 072012
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Happy wedding to Scott & Rhianna! Got to do almost everything on my ambitious Austin list, including some things not on the list: rock…
Summer Fashion Updates
I just updated the sidebar (yes, I realize we’re already halfway into summer) with summer fashion nays and yays. Fashion Sticky Notes … actual hideous things I see people wearing, and how to remedy the problems they present + Why are people STILL doing this?! Despite my warnings, people are still slapping skinny belts onto…
Feel Good Friday 071312
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Sunday TAD (Typical Aspen Day): King Yoga Flow + Ute Hike with 2 pups + Sunbathing at the Sky Pool Serendipitously booking the same…