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Theophilus London - Rock the Vote ACL 2011 Afterparty East Side’s newest concert venue, Beauty Ballroom, celebrates its grand opening this weekend with a full line up of high energy shows. Kick off ...

Tree Talk Winter Walk - Saturday, January 28, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. At this free event you can enjoy guided walks in the Wildflower Center and talks by local forestry experts. There will b ...

6:00pm: French Legation Museum. An Enchanted Evening Under the Oaks: A Magical Evening in a Magical SpaceThe French Legation Museum invites visitors...

5:00pm: Austin Childrens Museum. Drop off the kids at ACM and go out on the town! ACM will open its doors once a month from 6pm to 10pm for children...

7:00pm: One World Theatre.

9:30pm: One World Theatre.

8:00pm: Hyde Park Theater. The nineteenth season of this renowned five-week, city-wide, unjuried fringe festival featuring over 800 local and...

The French Legation Museum is honored to welcome internationally renowned performers Arsene Dupin, Bertil Fredstron, Kelsey Strauch, Magical Mystical Michael, and Owl Morrison in The Magikhana S ...

Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events. As always, if there is an event you know about that ...

Central Market North Lamar offers free live music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.  Grab a bite to eat from Central Market Cafe, let the kids play on the neighboring playscape, and enj ...

Bathtub gin and other delights

12:00am: One World Theatre. Christopher Cross on 01/27/12 at One World Theater in Austin, TX on JamBase

Jan 25 - Jan 31 Events

Looking for a good time, free of slow ballads about tearful goodbyes that usually exemplify the country music genre? Look no further, because Austin Texas’ The Gourds are rolling back into town, an ...

Friday, January 27th6:30 PM | $30 After narrowing down our top contenders from Whole Foods Market’s Flagship store, we will have three chefs presenting their own appetizer, entrée and dessert for ...

New Orleans based rockers Mutemath will be rocking your faces off Jan. 27 at Stubb’s for the second stop of their 2-month-long tour. Mutemath is touring to promote their second studio album, Odd ...

K-NACK @ 20:  KNNC 107.7 FM REUNION! Friday, December 27:  Sixteen Deluxe / Sincola / bo bud greene / Seed Saturday, December 28:  Wannabes / bug – Splinter / Gomez TX Plus appearances by KNACK ...

Update: The current slots appear to be full, but according to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum website, "an additional set of appointments will become available on Jan. 6 at 10 ...

This fourth entry in the Tom Cruise film franchise is the best of the bunch; it's wacky and keen to please.

Texas is shown to be a land capable of producing everything from grapefruit to microchips in this IMAX movie.

In love and on the lam - David Lynch style.

Friday, Jan. 27, midnight, Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 426. The vice president for research is soliciting nominations for the 2012 Professor Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Awards, sponsored by the U ...

Friday, Jan. 27, noon, Burdine Hall (BUR) 214. Dr. Richard Miech of the University of Colorado gives a talk titled "Age-Period-Cohort Analyses of U.S. Illegal Drug Use from 1985 to 2009: Prescri ...

Friday, Jan. 27, noon, Garrison Hall (GAR) 1.102. The Graduate Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality is honored to host a multi-media presentation by Professor Karl Hagstrom Miller, associate ...

Friday, Jan. 27, 2 p.m., Bass Concert Hall (PAC). Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. "Wicked" tells the story of the Wicked Witch of ...

Friday, Jan. 27, 3 p.m., Jones Communication Building A (CMA) 5.160. Author Dana Cloud discusses her new book, "We Are the Union," an extraordinary tale of union democracy that reveals how o ...

Friday, Jan. 27, 3:45 p.m., Harry Ransom Center (HRC), Tom Lea Rooms 3.206. Brian Cowan of McGill University presents a seminar titled "Henry Sacheverell and the Cult of Eighteen-Century Persona ...

Friday, Jan. 27, 4 p.m., Mezes Hall (MEZ) 1.306.

Friday, Jan. 27, 6 p.m., Art Building (ART), Visual Arts Center. The Visual Arts Center hosts a reception celebrating the first four exhibitions of its spring 2012 season.

Friday, Jan. 27, 9 p.m., Art Building (ART), Visual Arts Center. For the first spring 2012 edition of Fade In, the Visual Arts Center presents Hans Richter's 1921 avant-garde film "Rhythm 21 ...

black, red & black playing at Central Market North on 2012-01-27 18:30:00.0

Donn & The Station Masters (Fri) playing at Donn's Depot on 2012-01-27 21:00:00.0

MaryAnn and the Revival Band playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 17:45:00.0

The RainDoggs playing at Lucky Lounge on 2012-01-27 18:00:00.0

Sarah Sharp playing at Elephant Room on 2012-01-27 18:00:00.0

Mike Flanigin's B-3 Trio playing at Continental Club on 2012-01-27 22:30:00.0

Jitterbug Vipers playing at Elephant Room on 2012-01-27 18:00:00.0

The Blues Specialists playing at Continental Club on 2012-01-27 18:30:00.0

Lemurs playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 20:00:00.0

Lucky Strikes playing at Applebee's South (290/Mopac) on 2012-01-27 22:00:00.0

Patrice Pike playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 21:00:00.0

Two Sisters playing at Waterloo Records on 2012-01-27 17:00:00.0

Preservation playing at Waterloo Records on 2012-01-27 17:00:00.0

Beto and The Fairlanes playing at Elephant Room on 2012-01-27 21:30:00.0

Robert Kraft Trio playing at Continental Club on 2012-01-27 20:30:00.0

Scott Buckin Trio playing at Eddie V's Edgewater Grille on 2012-01-27 20:00:00.0

Bradley Kopp w/Daivd Wedd playing at Central Market Cafe/Westgate on 2012-01-27 18:30:00.0

Enter the Dragon playing at Carousel Lounge on 2012-01-27 20:00:00.0

Lorrie Singer playing at Central Market Cafe/Westgate on 2012-01-27 18:30:00.0

Rainbow Dragon playing at Carousel Lounge on 2012-01-27 20:00:00.0

Adam Faucett playing at LAMBERTS on 2012-01-27 22:00:00.0

DJ Andrew Parsons playing at Phoenix, The 409 B Colorado St on 2012-01-27 22:00:00.0

Hello Wheels playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 16:15:00.0

LaRues playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 23:00:00.0

Les Rav playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 17:00:00.0

Mother Falcon playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 22:00:00.0

Nathan Hubble playing at Lucky Lounge on 2012-01-27 21:00:00.0

Naturals, The playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 18:30:00.0

Rain Doggs, The playing at Lucky Lounge on 2012-01-27 18:00:00.0

Silver Phantom Trio playing at Sullivan's Steakhouse on 2012-01-27 19:00:00.0

Wild Moccasins (Houston) playing at The Parish on 2012-01-27 19:15:00.0

The secret is out on Hyde Park’s newest hotspot, Hopfields. Despite opening only a few short months, Hopfields was bustling during a recent Friday night visit. It takes a minute to figure out how one is to go about getting situated at the entirely self-service pub. Upon entering, one is taken wit ...

Second Bar + Kitchen ‘s well priced and diverse menu and casual trendy atmosphere make it an ideal spot for a group dinner downtown. With visiting friends in town and a birthday to celebrate it was the perfect Saturday night dinner spot. We started with an order of chicken fried olives and a che ...

At long last, the highly anticipated line up and ticket prices have been announced for this April’s inaugural Austin Food and Wine Festival. The festival will take place April 27-29 and tickets will be on sale starting January 24 at 12:00 PM sharp. As mentioned here, C3 Presents partnered with F ...

Big flavors from the World's Smallest Food Truck

One of my favorite ways to cap off a long weekend or unwind on a cold, rainy day is a night at the movies. Most nights this means a trip to Alamo Drafthouse, but I recently cheated on my failsafe way to spend a Sunday night with downtown’s Violet Crown Theatre. As predicted by its 2nd Street Dist ...

Saturdays are now significantly more delicious as Papi Tino’s has added an extra day of brunch. Nurse yourself back to feeling like a weekend warrior with $2 tacos and $5 drink specials from 11am- 4pm this Saturday, January 14. Naturally, Papi Tino’s doesn’t just serve an old plain Jane taco ...

You'll roux the day if you skip the crème brûlée

A recent trip to JMueller’s BBQ on South First proved the long anticipated return of John Mueller to Austin’s BBQ scene was well worth the wait. With my visiting Texan-turned-New Yorker younger brother Jerry in tow, I was given a tall order to provide him with a last taste of real Texas BBQ bef ...

Since opening in 2006, local favorite hamburger slinger P. Terry’s has served to reinvent the fast food model by proving quick and cheap doesn’t have to mean sacrificing quality. P. Terry’s burgers don’t rely on tricked out toppings and fancy ingredients to be special. Their straightforward ...

Openings South First’s transition to a foodie destination is well underway with the December opening of Elizabeth Street. The newly opened French Vietnamese bakery and café is the latest addition to co-owners Larry Maguire and Tommy Moorman’s portfolio which includes Perla’s and Lambert’s. ...

2011 through the eyes of a beer-loving Austinite

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National media attention and local heroes

These were just too sweet to pass up

These savory bites made a lasting impression on our Food editor

A new year has officially begun, which means one thing: resolutions. Today’s Dish of the Day is a perfect solution to abiding by all those promises to eat healthy, save money, and so on. As mentioned here, Taco Tuesdays at Quality Seafood are a college student’s dream, but after rediscovering t ...

Happy One Year Anniversary to Barley Swine!  Although Austin bid a fond farewell to the Odd Duck Farm to Trailer that started it all, there is much for Bryce Gilmore and crew to celebrate. From serving an almost nightly full house to Owner/Chef Bryce Gilmore being named a 2011 Best New Chefs in Am ...

When fate closes a Streat, it opens a Jalapeno

Kids 12 and under can eat free every Wednesday at Gatti’s Pizza (buffet locations), Gattitown and Gattiland.  One free kid's buffet per adult buffet purchased at regular price.  Drinks are not included.   This was posted on the Gatti's Pizza Facebook page on December 21, 201 ...

Today through Christmas Eve, you can get one free kid's meal per adult entrée purchased at Carino's, using this coupon.  The coupon is valid Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - Saturday, December 24, 2011.  You can get up to six free kid's meals, with the purchase of six adult ent ...

With holiday parties a plenty, chances are you will be feeling the residual after affects of last night’s eggnog one of these mornings. As any true Austinite knows, the best cure for a hang around is a breakfast taco with a side of Advil. Generally I am a Tacodeli kind of girl, but a recent foray ...

Today’s drink of the day is a Poinsettia Champagne cocktail as featured on the Four Season’s holiday drink menu.The Poinsettia cocktail is a blend of champagne, Paula’s Texas orange and cranberry juice. Other special holiday beverages on the menu include German Mulled Wine, the Peppermint Pat ...

Austin’s favorite coffee purveyor, Cuvee Coffee, is now the official coffee provider to Barley Swine, Home Slice, and La Condesa.  Olivia owner and Chef James Holmes new restaurant, Lucy’s Fried Chicken, opens Friday, December 16 in a space just off of South Congress. Buzz for the long awaited ...

Since opening in 2010, East End Wines has quickly garnered a reputation as one of the best wine retailers in Austin. Owned by Matt Miller and Sam Hovland, East End Wines houses a remarkable inventory of unique, hard to find wines, many at even more impressive price points. With this distinction in ...

                    A recent revisit to Foreign and Domestic only further demonstrated what a delightfully exceptional restaurant it is. After falling head over heels initially, subsequent visits to Foreign and Domestic have routinely and consistently left me hungry for more, but ...

Monday, December 5th - Friday, December 16th Looking to warm up with a few awesome deals? Check our Lamar store's 12 Days of Deals!

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