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giving back
Kids can help, too: How Little Helping Hands encourages community service in children
By Shelley Seale
05.07.12 | 2:05 pm
When Marissa Vogel's young daughter started coming home from preschool and showing her schoolwork, it dawned on her that she wasn’t giving the four-year-old enough credit. The work ...
future of rock 'n roll
One way to have a no-bummer summer: Austin girls find their beat (and power) at Girls Rock Camp
By Shelley Seale
05.03.12 | 11:00 am
Austin musician Kathy Valentine, of The Go-Go’s fame but also a successful musician in her own right, only lasted half a semester at Reagan High School. She felt different ...
blogging beauty
Style talk: An inside look at Austin's top fashion and style bloggers
By Shelley Seale
04.26.12 | 11:15 am
Next on my monthly installment of Austin's top bloggers are five stylish women who dish on all things beauty and fashion. After covering music, relationships and food, this month ...
go green
Give more than you take: Ecotourism is about the authentic experience
By Shelley Seale
04.19.12 | 11:00 am
There is an old saying when it comes to travel: “Take only pictures and leave only footprints.” While many of us subscribe to this philosophy, it isn’t always obvious ...
grand opening
Fresa's Chicken al Carbon brings a giant chicken mascot and fresh take-away food to Austin at a decent price
By Shelley Seale
04.16.12 | 3:30 pm
You can't miss the brand new Fresa's at Lamar and 9th; there is a huge, colorful chicken sign spinning just above it. Fresa's Chicken al Carbon, open ...
finding inspiration
The International Women's Day Awards have spoken: These Austin women are creating positive change in the world
By Shelley Seale
04.12.12 | 2:15 pm
It’s a tough world out there. But three Austin women have dedicated their lives to making it a better place, and were recently recognized for their amazing work. In ...
at the opera
Austin Lyric Opera closes its season with Turandot, the last opera of Puccini
By Shelley Seale
04.10.12 | 10:50 am
Can love melt the ice princess? That is the central question of Turandot, Puccini's famed opera that will close the 25th season of Austin Lyric Opera this month. Puccini ...
#withoutshoes
One Day Without Shoes: TOMS founder Blake Myocoskie on understanding your impact in a world of plenty
By Shelley Seale
04.09.12 | 11:30 am
Could you get through an entire day without wearing shoes? I don't mean while on vacation at the beach, but in your regular everyday life. That is what Blake ...
central texas tradition
Spring brings wildflower season: Escape to the Hill Country for a truly Texan getaway
By Shelley Seale
04.06.12 | 3:30 pm
It’s a Central Texas tradition; somewhere between the winter dormancy of our landscape and when the heat turns unbearable for months on end — a brief span of time otherwise ...
travel tips
Guided getaway: Explore old colonial towns or remote islands in Nicaragua
By Shelley Seale
04.02.12 | 10:05 am
Nicaragua is beginning to appear on the radar of travelers, with its natural beauty and old-fashioned charm that neither tourism nor internal strife has ruined. It’s an easy and ...
new growth
The ever-changing East Side: Restaurants, shops and bars just opened and coming soon
By Shelley Seale
04.01.12 | 11:00 am
The east side of Austin is one of the most ever-changing, high-growth areas of the city. It seems that almost every week some new food truck, bar or shop is ...
American music
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Jeff Lofton at the Cactus Cafe
By Shelley Seale
03.31.12 | 9:00 am
On September 11, 1945, Frank Sinatra took a bold stand for human rights using a film and a song to promote respect for others as an ideal of American freedom ...
art and history
Ballet Austin sheds light on the Holocaust in new full-length piece 'Light'
By Shelley Seale
03.21.12 | 1:54 pm
On March 23, a powerful new performance piece is coming to Austin. Ballet Austin is presenting Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project, a full-length contemporary ballet with a human rights agenda ...
growing and learning
The Passport Party Project opens the world to 10 young Austin women
By Shelley Seale
03.18.12 | 11:00 am
Did you know that only 30% of Americans have a passport? And that abysmally low number is an increase from previous years, what with a passport recently required for Mexico ...
Spring into Art
AMOA-Arthouse Laguna Gloria is the perfect place to enjoy art in the Austin springtime
By Shelley Seale
03.17.12 | 11:00 am
Spring is officially arriving in Austin; it seems like beginning with the SXSW Festival everyone takes to the streets, relishing outdoors venues and events. And with our lovely, mild spring ...
a parent's worst nightmare
Texas filmmaker Ya'Ke Smith premieres the disturbing but brilliant WOLF at SXSW
By Shelley Seale
03.13.12 | 5:07 pm
WOLF, the first full-length feature film from Texas filmmaker Ya'Ke Smith, is a heavy movie. It chronicles one of a parent's worst nightmares — the molestation of a child ...
act out
Are you mad as hell yet? Support women's reproductive rights with the Lilith Fund
By Shelley Seale
03.10.12 | 10:25 am
The fight for reproductive rights is all over the news these days; CultureMap's own Jeffrey Kreisberg denounced this state's war on women as the "Texas vagina intruders." I ...
sxsw 2012
Get your SXSW music groove on with Austin's top music bloggers
By Shelley Seale
03.09.12 | 10:05 am
It's here: That time of year when it seems anyone who's anyone in the music, film and interactive business — and the wannabes — are descending on our fair city ...
The war on women
Fighting back: Seeing Red at the Texas State Capitol on behalf of women's health
By Shelley Seale
03.07.12 | 8:00 am
Hundreds of people. dressed in red, converged on the Capitol Tuesday, waving banners and signs and demanding that Rick Perry and the GOP stop their war on women. The "Seeing ...
drugstore turned bistro
Opening day at Hillside Farmacy: Humming with activity, looking understatedly gorgeous
By Shelley Seale
03.05.12 | 3:30 pm
I am sitting in East Austin's newest eatery, Hillside Farmacy, hours after it officially opened on Monday. The interior meets expectations and is smartly done; it's reminiscent of ...
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WHOLE FOODS MARKET - HILL COUNTRY GALLERIA:
Join Whole Foods Market for the grand opening of its Bee Cave location on May 16! Bread Breaking Ceremony begins at 7:30am, store opens at 8am.
Join Whole Foods Market for the grand opening of its Bee Cave location on May 16! Bread Breaking Ceremony begins at 7:30am, store opens at 8am.
ACL LIVE AT THE MOODY THEATER:
Tickets still available for Flogging Molly this Friday, May 18 at ACL LIve. Click here to purchase.
Tickets still available for Flogging Molly this Friday, May 18 at ACL LIve. Click here to purchase.
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Ann Markusen: "Creative Spaces" Talk |
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ACL Live presents: The Wine Down |
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One World Theatre presents: Paul Thorn |
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16 | may at 7:00 pm
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Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz |
| The Highball |
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