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Feel Good Friday 102811

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! The gate agent in DC who after I tweeted that I supermanned made the same reference and called me superwoman. And then gave me…

Whoops, here are the Falling Skies Winners!

These lucky five winners get VIP, guaranteed tix to the Falling Skies premiere tomorrow! 7:30PM at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar—don’t forget popcorn and sodas are on the house! Dianne: 30 Rock is the bee’s knees! Have you read Tina Fey’s Bossypants?? Funny stuff  Kevin: How I Met Your Mother Babs: My favorite TV shows are Saturday…

Austin: SHAPE Magazine Diva Dash!

SHAPE magazine, the #1 women’s active lifestyle magazine and place where I got my start in journalism, is bringing a women’s-only obstacle adventure race to Austin! I am so excited, these big magazine-sponsored events never happen in Austin! SHAPE will hit Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park (6614 Blue Bluff Rd, Austin) on April 9 with an…

Holy Mud

A new mud race event challenge thing I just heard about seems pretty similar to CrossFit … the TOUGH MUDDER race series just launched this year and is a 7-mile obstacle course with 17 obstacles designed by British Special Forces to test all around toughness, strength, stamina, fitness, camaraderie, and mental grit. Yikes! The website says,…

Free Live Music at Jo’s on Second

Jo’s Coffee is hosting its first-ever summer music series at the Second Street location–which we all know is home to the best veggie sandwich in the entire world. Every Tuesday and Thursday all summer long, live music will rock from the patio, while inside there’ll be deals like burger slider specials and $2 tallboys on…

101X Summer Film Series

Summer in Austin features tons of free concerts, movies, and other events in the great outdoors. Really, this doesn’t quite make sense since it’s hot, hot, hot in the summer, but hey, I guess we give balmy summer nights a chance to work their magic. First stop on the balmy summer night tour? 101x &…

Deep Eddy Dive In Movie Series

One of the greatest Austin institutions not that many people know about: the Deep Eddy Dive-In Movie. Hit it up this Saturday. So the City of Austin officially calls it a Splash Party movie night, but really it’s a Dive-In Movie! Float in spring-fed Deep Eddy pool, picnic on the lawn, enjoy refreshments from our…

Paramount Summer Movie Series (or, ahhhh Casablanca)

The Summer Classic Film Series at the Paramount starts this Thursday with their classic opener, Casablanca. The Paramount is one of the few theatres still open today which screened Casablanca when it was originally released in 1942–wow! Wikipedia says that the film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial run … and then…

Man v. Food: Austin Edition

Man v. Food is Travel Channel’s new series where the host travels the country in search of big, bad food challenges, and it comes to Austin tonight at 10pm on ET. From the channel: In this week’s episode host Adam Richman is about to find out just how “big” food can be in Austin. His…