Weekend Roundup

Kickstart the weekend fun with choppers, comedy and barbecue

By Ryan Lakich

06.14.13 | 2:30 pm

The weekends are a lot like blockbuster Hollywood franchises: If you didn’t enjoy the previous installment in the series, just wait around for a reboot and hope that it’s more successfu ...

Travaasa BBQ Bash

Travaasa Austin

06.15.13

Hosted by Chef Ben Baker, the Travaasa BBQ Bash marks the official launch of the Farm at Travaasa Austin, which is a project that allows Travaasa to take the "farm-to-table" to heart

Barbecue As Religion

BBQ snob Daniel Vaughn's Prophets of Smoked Meat journeys through 200 Texas hotspots

By Teresa Gubbins

05.19.13 | 10:51 am

Score one for Texas, with the publication of The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue (Ecco, $29.99), a book about barbecue written by Dallas resident and blogger Daniel Vaughn ...

Holy Brisket

Texas Monthly names the top 50 barbecue joints in the state, Austin takes unofficial title

By Layne Lynch

05.17.13 | 9:52 am

In June, Texas Monthly's highly-anticipated, drool-inducing "Top 50 Best BBQ Joints" issue hits newsstands, and just before publication, the award-winning magazine gave readers a snea ...

Dark Side of the Moon - The Music of Pink Floyd

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

05.15.13

As part of the Long Center's Wednesday Rock-a-LONG series, classic rock and classical music combine for pops concert like no other. Internationally touring Jeans 'n' Classics collaborat

Best BBQ?

The Salt Lick listed as best BBQ in U.S. by Made Man, Franklin (and most of Texas) snubbed

By Jonathan Rienstra

05.08.13 | 10:32 am

Online men’s magazine Mademan.com has released a list of the “11 Best BBQ Joints in America” that has some, well, interesting results. The first thing any Texan is wondering i ...

Dining by Fire

16 top Texas chefs come together for a celebration of meat and flame at Live Fire!

By Kristi Willis

04.23.13 | 10:02 am

Ready for a meat hangover? On Thursday, April 25, the Austin Food and Wine Alliance will transform the Salt Lick Bar-B-Que Pavillion into a meat lover’s paradise at its 3rd annual Live Fire! ...

BBQ Benefit

A celebration of all-things-meat: Chef lineup announced for Austin Food & Wine Alliance's Live Fire!

By Arden Ward

03.28.13 | 12:46 pm

Serving as the unofficial start to a much anticipated food-centric weekend, Live Fire! returns to the Salt Lick Pavilion on Thursday, April 25 ahead of the Austin Food & Wine Festival. In ...

Pitmaster news

The rebirth of a Texas barbecue legend: John Mueller Meat Co. goes to Sixth and Pedernales

By Adam Sparks

02.25.13 | 11:32 am

Texas loves two things: barbecue and rebels. John Mueller has the market cornered on both. It's the second comeback saga for John Mueller, marked by the sell-out grand opening of John Mueller M ...

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Did BuzzFeed get it right? Our take on the "50 Sure Signs That Texas Is Actually Utopia"

By Staff

02.07.13 | 3:23 pm

BuzzFeed Weekend Editor Summer Anne Burton has scored some major points with the Lone Star State in the last 24 hours. On Wednesday afternoon, her post "50 Sure Signs That Texas Is Actually Ut ...