The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is now offering a “high-touch, personalized drive-thru experience” at its South Lamar location. Anyone who has been to the S. Lamar locale will immediately wonder, as I did, where the eff did they put that?! Never fear, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is better than that. Here’s how…
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Austin: MooJesus! Summer Camp
I ADORE MooJesus! Y’all should know that by now, and I just found out that V and O’Dea went WITHOUT me today. So jealous!! I also ADORE summer camp. I went to Camp Olympia for five years as a kid, winning all the awards and “dating” boys for the three weeks I was there, and…
Austin: Crystal Nails
Mama and I have long experimented with finding a good nails place — a place that was cheap but not dirty, easy to get in to but not scarily empty, and produced a decent mani & pedi. When we found Embellish (a post from before I’d even had a mani there), we were pretty much…
Austin: Sailor Jerry’s and Hori Smoku
There’s a girl, who I’ve never met, who sent me the info on this event. She grew up in CO and TX, where I now split time, and get this–she grew up in the tiny town of Sugar Land, outside of Houston, where I was actually born! It’s crazy. And, it’s crazy how much synchronicity…
Blondes vs. Brunettes is THIS weekend!
I am SO excited. We have practice, even in the rain (hey, worked out for us last year), and then Saturday at 2pm it’s game time! Enter to win a 4-pack of tickets here, paint your chests, and come see the game! Recap of Blondes v Brunettes Powderpuff Football game
Austin: Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka
The better-than-Firefly Texas-only Sweet Tea Vodka has been mentioned on this blog for months, as you could snag some at the EndlessBeauty.com launch party, The Blondes vs. Brunettes 4th & Goal Gala, or any number of other events since SXSW in March, apparently it’s OFFICIALLY launching this month. Because, naturally, June is National Iced Tea…
Austin: TICKET GIVEAWAY: BLONDES V BRUNETTES
Saturday, June 5 at 2 pm at House Park, 1301 Shoal Creek Boulevard. Charlie Hodge, radio personality from KLBJ 93.7 FM, as this year’s announcer. Blondes vs. Brunettes is just five days away! And YOU can WIN tickets–not a pair, but a freakin’ FOUR PACK–by entering a sweet little comment below. Tell me your natural…
Austin: Memorial Day Weekend’s What to Do
FareCompare had me write a Guest Post on what to do for Memorial Day Weekend. Part of it is excerpted below, and I’ve got two more shindigs added to the bottom of the list: Memorial Day weekend in Austin means one thing: the lake. Austin’s hot summers call for long days spent in and on…
Austin/Aspen: Car2Go/CarToGo
Yep, both of these fair cities have car-sharing programs, called Car2(to)Go! Austin Car2Go is launching their program Friday May 21 with a party from 4pm-10pm at Republic Square Park with live music from The Lemurs, The Black and White Years, and more, food vendors, and test drives. Austin city employees have been using the SmartCars…
Who loves mud?
Mud + Racing is apparently all the rage these days. Muddy Buddy was this past weekend, and this INSANE Mudder race has been announced. Check it out: The newly announced TOUGH MUDDER is pretty epic. It says on its website that it’s being launched because there is not a race in America that tests toughness,…