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Progress Coffee exterior on East Fifth Street
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Restaurant openings, Progress closing, Toy Joy's new locale: The week's top stories
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04.27.13 | 11:45 am
We know you're busy — especially on a weekend like this, when food, music and general Austin weirdness are all being celebrated in festival form. Between dashing from the Grand ...
Bush Presidential Center
Presidential Sneak Peek
A look inside the new George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU
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04.26.13 | 09:50 am
The George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU opens to the public May 1, but those wishing to get a sneak peek of the 43rd presidential library needn't wait ...
Hopdoddy Burger's Janis Joplin veggie burger
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Top 5 stories this week: Tragedy book-ends food on the move
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04.21.13 | 08:40 pm
What a trying, saddening, emotional week in both Texas and Massachusetts. We saw an inordinate amount of lot of death and destruction, but also a great deal of heroism. Naturally ...
Student and teacher read at Odyssey School
A Central Texas Novelty
Odyssey School encourages students and parents to take risks and embrace learning disabilities
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04.17.13 | 02:34 pm
Surprisingly, Austin's best kept secret isn't an out-of-the-way taco shack or hidden swimming hole; rather, it's something in plain sight. It's a place where kids — and ...
Lance Armstrong, Tour de France jerseys, November 2012
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Top 5 stories this week: Worst travel destinations, Google Fiber, breastaurant wars & more
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04.13.13 | 11:25 am
This was a buzz-worthy week for cultural news in Austin. From Huffington Post to Google and Lance Armstrong, the Capital City was in the national spotlight time after time. As ...
Whole Journeys food spread in the Dolomites
Eat, Drink, Hike, Repeat
Whole Foods embarks on Whole Journeys, an international, food-focused travel venture
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04.12.13 | 09:33 am
This spring marks a period of exceptional growth for Whole Foods, a company that's quickly becoming the Google of the food industry. On the heels of a wellness center ...
Komen Austin poster announcing its 2013 community partners
Health Watch
Komen Austin announces over $1 million in funds for breast cancer treatment, education & research
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04.09.13 | 03:46 pm
On Tuesday, Komen Austin, the local affiliate of Susan G. Komen, announced its community partner grant recipients for 2013-2014. Despite a decrease in available funds, Komen Austin will grant over ...
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New Age of Education
PelotonU provides Austin students with a debt-free pathway to a college degree
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04.09.13 | 01:35 pm
What if for your entire life higher education seemed like an unattainable dream, and one day the opportunity to attend college became a completely debt-free reality — would you take it ...
Governor Rick Perry speaks at the Google press conference for Google Fiber
The Race to Innovate
Goodbye, loading bars: City of Austin officials welcome Google to the Fiberhood
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04.09.13 | 11:27 am
Tuesday morning, Brazos Hall was abuzz with media, Google executives and City of Austin officials waiting with bated breath for the official (we all guessed as much) announcement of Google ...
Influentials Christin Breck founder and president at Texas Wall Street Women
Christine Breck
Financial wizard connects Texas Wall Street Women with tomorrow's female leaders
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04.08.13 | 05:03 pm
"It's amazing to put a group of these women in a room where they can talk to other women who also love the finance business," Christine Breck explains of ...
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Education and Inspiration
Move that bus: The Nobelity Project launches bookmobile initiative in Honduras
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04.08.13 | 03:00 pm
Austin-based nonprofit The Nobelity Project may be locally rooted, but its reach extends far beyond state and national borders. Founded in 2006 by Turk Pipkin, The Nobelity Project uses a ...
Google Fiber
Lightspeed Internet
Google Fiber is definitely maybe coming to Austin
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04.07.13 | 08:20 pm
Austin is definitely maybe getting Google Fiber. A big, fat "oopsies" coupled with a press release inviting media and city officials to a Tuesday morning press conference all but confirm ...
BeerGram, cell phone, hand
Drink Up
Buy a beer for a friend remotely: Yes, there's an app for that
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04.07.13 | 11:45 am
When Andrea Sanchez registered for her wedding in 2005, she was struck by both the ease and rarity of the occasion. "It's unfortunate that the only time you have ...
Austin Photo Set: Tastemakers 2013_brewery_thirsty planet
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The top 5 stories for the first week of April: It's food month in Austin
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04.07.13 | 10:30 am
April is food month in Austin, and our top five stories from the past week don't disagree. Here are the most read stories this week, a food-centric list — with ...
Austin Photo Set: News_caitlin_apa chiquita blaze_march 2013
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The week's top 5 stories: #WhyAustin makes waves, an unlikely dog duo & more
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03.30.13 | 11:17 am
Spring has sprung in Austin. Take a break from your spring cleaning and look back at our five most-read stories from the week. This week on CultureMap was all about ...
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