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…
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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…
Austin: My Ambitious Austin Weekend
Waaaaaay back in 2009, I wrote a post called Top Ten Things to Do in Austin … the list still stands as an excellent guide, but as I spend a wedding long weekend in town with locals and not, I thought I’d make a list of things I want to do this weekend. To be clear, this…
Six Secrets to Grilling the Gill
Executive Chef Chris Bauer of Eddie V’s Prime Seafood on 5th Street in Austin can grill a mean fish—and he’s sharing with us six secrets to grill the gill: Thickness of product to be grilled is important. Fish should not be any thicker than ¾” and no less than ½”. Thicker cuts of fish will result…
New Summer Drink Coco Breve
You know how when you’re floating the river, nothing tastes better than Keystone? But if you’re anywhere else, nothing tastes worse? Coco Brevé will likely taste better than Keystone on the river—although I did not test this assertion. This is no small feat. Because literally nothing tastes better. But the coconut water bevvie’s bubbles and alcohol…