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Free food & beer!

Lyssa — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:00:55 +0000

AUSTIN SSC CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH FREE FOOD & BEER!

I almost forgot to post this! Hurry, go check out the SSC Christmas party! It’s 6-8pm TONIGHT. Celebrate a great year with the 3rd annual Christmas party to benefit the Austin Sunshine Camps. SSC is providing wings & beer, and only ask for a small gift in return (from the list on the website) so a disadvantaged child can have a merry Christmas. It’s all tonight at Doc’s on South Congress!
http://www.austinssc.com/register_hh.html

Sports Wednesday + Kanye!

Lyssa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Tonight is Kanye West’s Glow in The Dark Tour with Rhianna concert at the Erwin Center, and if I weren’t so committed to playing sand volleyball, I’d go. Ok, ok, if I had bought the $70 tickets right when they came out, I’d go, but since that’s not the case, I will be playing sand volleyball out at Zilker Park.

You could also go to Doc’s for another week of SoCo Run Club!

We can’t talk live music without mentioning that it’s Willie Nelson‘s birthday. The old man is 75 and still wears wifebeaters. I’m not so fond, but so many Austinites are that in the interest of keeping readers informed, I had to mention it. But is he even playing anywhere? I can’t find the info, and I don’t like him enough to keep searching. Fill me in if you know!

Monday March Madness

Lyssa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:43:00 +0000

Except that it’s actually April. Tonight is still the championship game in college basketball, and with a Big 12 team in the final–Kansas–against a southern team–Memphis–and the game being played locally–San Antonio–I’m guessing tonight will be a busy night in the sports bars.

Strangely enough, downtown/warehouse district sports bar Ringers abruptly closed its doors last month. Its website is still live, like an eery vestige to a life taken too soon (maybe I’m taking that too seriously). Rumors are swirling about how the owner didn’t even tell his employees he was closing shop, he just chained the doors shut and that was that. Classy, sports-loving Austinites still puzzle over how the only place to watch a game downtown and not feel like you’re still in college at Cain and Abel’s could possibly close.

In any case, it leaves just two downtown-ish venues for watching the game tonight: Third Base and The Tavern. I prefer the Tav, but it’s on 12th and Lamar, which isn’t quite downtown. And it looks like my north-dwelling friends are going to ask me to come up to Sam’s Boat for crawfish and sports, not a bad combo. Although I’d probably prefer the airy outdoors and people-watching at Doc’s, I can’t blame the northerners for not wanting to drive that far south.