I’m headed out of town tomorrow for vacation in Park City, Utah, but if I were here this weekend, I’d definitely be doing:
Pub Dash benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: “Where Happy Hour Never Closes“
This is a fun sports-themed event from 7-11pm on Saturday, July 11. Enjoy happy hour prices all evening long with the [...]
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July 6, 2009
Breakfast with Lance Armstrong
Well, technically Lance is off in France competing, but Third Base Downtown will be showing the first Team Trials stage of the tour, scheduled to start at 7:30am and end by 11am tomorrow morning, July 7th. Third Base will serve breakfast and mimosas. All profits from the event will go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, [...]
July 1, 2009
SolarPump: an American icon in Denmark
Our beloved hometown festival, South by Southwest, is apparently sponsoring this crazy new solar-technology pump that charges electric scooters at the Roskilde Festival. Confused yet?
Here are the players:
SXSW – Duh. Our giant interactive/film/music festival.
Roskilde Festival – Held just outside of Copenhagen, Denmark (July 2 – 5, 2009), the annual Roskilde Festival is one of the [...]
June 25, 2009
Exclusive invite: Rebel Rebel Mojito Happy Hour
Loyal readers, we’re invited to a Rebel Rebel Mojito Happy Hour happening this afternoon on that little street next to GSD&M that people forget about (also sweet West Sixth parking when you’re going out at night). More precisely, 609 Wood Street, tucked away under the trees on Wood Street, on the right.
Free mojitos, appetizers, and [...]
June 22, 2009
A Few Things I Learned this Weekend
1) Champagne bubbles are not good for Monday morning 7am sprints. Not the 400M ones, not the 200M ones, and not even the 35M ones.
2) If champagne bubbles are still in your system 2 days later, you had too much champagne at the wedding.
3) True, deep forgiveness is really hard. But really worth it.
4) My [...]
June 15, 2009
Milano Cafe is a European Haven in Austin
Let’s work backwards: I don’t usually get dessert, but when they bring you a tiny plate with four bites of four different desserts, you don’t refuse. And when charming owner Sami Demi proceeds to tell you how Croatian tirimisu has 1/4 the calories of other tirimisus, and you don’t even like tirimisu, but you try [...]
June 10, 2009
Austin Post: What is it? and Come Join us Thursday
It’s time to unveil a project I’ve been working doggedly on for the past month or so. It’s called Austin Post and it’s really freakin’ cool.
The idea behind it is to fill the void left by the death of newspapers (dun dun dun) by creating a place for Austinites to post and submit news. Those [...]
June 8, 2009
Lights. Camera. Help. Film Festival
My friend David Neff has been bugging me for awhile to post on the new nonprofit film festival he helped start. At long last, here’s all the info, and you even still have 22 days to submit a film
Lights. Camera. Help. film festival is the premiere film festival dedicated to nonprofit and grassroots organizations. It [...]
June 5, 2009
Murph Day! + free doughnuts?
What is Murph Day? A ridiculously hard CrossFit workout / benefit for The Naval Special Warfare Foundation / chance to play with CrossFitters … more from CrossFit Austin:
Murph Day 2009
Please join CrossFit Austin, as we participate in “Murph” Day presented by Windy City CrossFit, U.S. CrossFit and SEALfit.com. June 6th will be spent honoring one of [...]
June 4, 2009
A Band on Tour: Achachay!
I’m excerpting (ok, stealing in its entirety), a blog post I love below. It’s from Achachay!, a band touring the US in support of lowering the drinking age and promoting their music. It happens to be my little bro’s band, but even if it wasn’t, these blog posts about mishaps and adventures on the tour [...]
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