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Weekend Event Guide

Here are the top 5 things to do in Austin this weekend

Paige Turner
Jun 21, 2018 | 6:00 am

Foodie fests, live music, and hilarious entertainment top the best things to do in Austin this weekend. Enjoy a backyard cookout with the family at Fareground or keep cool at the 2018 Austin Ice Cream Festival. For a full list of events, visit our calendar.

Thursday, June 21

Michael Che in concert
Comedian and Saturday Night Live star Michael Che makes a stop in Austin during his stand-up comedy tour. Best known for his role as the co-anchor on SNL’s “Weekend Update,” Che delivers social commentary with wit (and trademark nonchalance), making this is a can't-miss for comedy fans. Select tickets for the Paramount Theatre show are available.

Friday, June 22

Fareground presents Summer Backyard Cookout
Hungry Austinites are invited to downtown's Fareground Plaza for a variety of grilled specials for all ages and appetites. For a $5 ticket, guests can buy plates from Fareground vendors including Easy Tiger, Contigo, Dai Due Taquería, and more. Adults can sip beverages at happy hour prices while all guests of all ages can try their luck in a corhole tournament and groove to a live DJ set by Mixer Rogers. Get there early to be one of the first 50 guests to receive a free hot dog and sides plate.

Kesha and Macklemore in concert
P
op music queen Kesha and rapper Macklemore hit the Austin360 Amphitheater for a co-headlining concert. Both Kesha and Macklemore will be performing hit songs from their respective albums, Gemini and Rainbow, live for their fans in the 512. Doors open at 7 pm. Tickets still available.

Saturday, June 23

2018 Austin Ice Cream Festival
Treat your sweet tooth to the 2018 Austin Ice Cream Festival. Families are invited to spend the day at Fiesta Gardens enjoying all the ice cream and frozen treats imaginable along with contests, live entertainment, kids activities, and more. When night falls, the festival transforms into a cool Austin party featuring live musical performances, food trucks, and boozy frozen drinks that don’t skimp on the buzz. Admission is free for children 6 and under.

Roy Lozano’s Ballet Folklorico de Texas presents Fiesta 2018!
Austin’s premier Mexican folk dance company, founded by famed dancer Roy Lozano, performs Fiesta 2018! for an evening of electric excitement. Witness the elaborate choreography of dances from regions across Mexico. Musical guest Juan Diaz joins the company on stage for the performance.

Satisfy your sweet tooth at the 2018 Austin Ice Cream Festival this Saturday.

11th annual Austin Ice Cream Festival
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Satisfy your sweet tooth at the 2018 Austin Ice Cream Festival this Saturday.
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Ever-popular East Austin Lit Crawl sets the scene for Texas Book Festival

Brianna Caleri
Nov 1, 2022 | 1:33 pm
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Lit Crawl Austin is a free spinoff event of the Texas Book Festival on November 5.

Austinites crawling through that last book they picked up (you had such high hopes, and yet…) have a chance to renew their vigor for reading on Saturday, November 5.

Lit Crawl Austin, a free spinoff event of the Texas Book Festival, will take participants through a series of locations where they’ll enjoy the literary equivalent of a session IPA: a short story, a conversation, perhaps even an actual beer with a new bookish friend.

The crawl calls this its “12th year of irreverent literary programming,” which ranges from straight-up silliness to political activism, culminating in a closing celebration dedicated to banned books. Four locations — Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar, Easy Tiger on East 7th Street, Hillside Farmacy, and Saddle Up — host at least two events each across the series, lasting four-and-a-half hours from start to finish.

The adventure begins at 5:30 pm at Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar, with a happy hour and a recording of Hopeton Hay’s Diverse Voices Book Review podcast by KAZI 88.7 FM. The crawl closes at Saddle Up, where Tony Diaz, author of The Tip of The Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital and leader of Librotraficantes (members of a movement of “book traffickers”), has curated a collection of words from banned books and the readers they informed and inspired.

There’s no shortage of readings at the Texas Book Festival, so the Lit Crawl offers some more improvisational events. A live episode of the podcast Literary Death Match, at Easy Tiger, pits four authors against each other in a twist on a traditional reading event interrupted by critiques and comedy. Hillside Farmacy hosts a large-scale, live version of a common writing exercise, passing a paper between participants writing one line at a time. At Saddle Up, a storytelling event inspired by The Moth asks authors at the festival to speak extemporaneously on the theme “On the Edge of Dreams.”

Unfortunately, since there is some overlap, crawlers will have to make a choice between some of the scheduled events. However, there are only 10 events, and since some are recordings, they will still be available after the festival ends. As any crawl would imply, the venues are also fairly close to each other; three of the venues are lined up within a third of a mile, with Easy Tiger about half a mile south.

More information about the Lit Crawl, including a full schedule and event descriptions, is available at texasbookfestival.org. The Texas Book Festival is also free to attend.

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Winter Travel

Austin cozies up as No. 2 best winter travel destination for warm-weather lovers

Hannah J. Frías
Nov 1, 2022 | 12:26 pm
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Three Texas metro areas landed in the top 5, including Austin at No. 2.

For Texans, winter in the Lone Star State brings a long-awaited respite from six months of unbearable heat. We're pretty content to finally leave the house without a double (or triple) layer of SPF. But for tourists, winter in Texas brings respite from the opposite problem: colder climates where locals actually experience things like rain and snow. A recent WalletHub study shows Texas taking three of the top 10 "best winter vacation destinations for warm-weather lovers," with Austin landing at No. 2.

Comparing around 70 of the largest U.S. metro areas, the study groups cities by warm and cold weather. Rather than a subjective survey of each locale's scenic beauty (in which Texas cities would also sweep the top 10, of course), WalletHub focused on the cost and convenience of traveling to each city, as well as the number of attractions and variety of activities in each destination.

As a result, the two lists rank "the cheapest U.S. destinations that are also the easiest to reach," according to the study's landing page. To compile the data, WalletHub measured 37 key metrics, including two weeks of flight data, safety indicators, and weather predictions.

In the warm weather category, Nevada's Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise metro area nabbed the No. 1 spot with an overall score of 67.18 and high marks in the number-of-attractions category (No. 2) and number of warm-weather activities (No. 1).

Austin came in a close second with an overall score of 64.76 and high marks for lowest travel costs and fewest hassles (No. 2), as well as best weather (No. 6) and number of warm-weather activities (No. 12).

In total, Texas took nine of the 37 spots in the warm weather category, with three cities in the top 5. Here's how other Texas metros fared on the list:

  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington —No. 4. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 3) and best weather (No. 2).
  • San Antonio-New Braunfels — No. 5. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 6) and lowest local costs (No. 3).
  • Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land — No. 7. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 1) and number of attractions (No. 9).
  • Killeen-Temple — No. 21. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 6).
  • McAllen-Edinburg-Mission— No. 27. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 1).
  • Corpus Christi— No. 32. Top marks for lowest travel costs (No. 7).
  • Brownsville-Harlingen — No. 33.
  • Beaumont-Port Arthur— No. 35.
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Concert news

Taylor Swift dawns a new era with world tour coming to 2 Texas cities

Alex Bentley
Nov 1, 2022 | 10:43 am
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Taylor Swift is coming to Texas, but you'll have to travel to Houston or Arlington.

Texas Swifties who are willing to travel should keep their eye on November 18, when tickets go on sale for pop superstar Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour. The U.S. leg of her world tour will come first to AT&T Stadium in Arlington for back-to-back shows on April 1 and 2, 2023, followed by a Houston stop on April 22.

The Arlington dates are two of 27 shows Swift will play in the U.S. over the course of five months, starting in Glendale, Arizona on March 18. At both the Arlington and Houston dates, Swift will be joined by special guests beabadoobee and Gracie Abrams.

The Eras Tour is in support of Swift's new album, Midnights, which has become the fastest selling album of her career, debuting at No. 1 in 14 countries around the world.

She also notched a historic first in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as the top 10 songs this week are all from that album. She is the first artist to claim the survey's entire top 10 in a single frame.

To ensure tickets for the tour get into the hands of fans, Swift has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program. Registration for the presale is now open through Wednesday, November 9 at 10:59 pm. Registered fans who receive a code will have exclusive access to purchase tickets on Tuesday, November 15 starting at 10 am.

Only fans that have received a unique code will have the chance to purchase tickets, which will range from $49 to $449. In addition, VIP packages will start at $199 up to $899 on a first come, first served basis.

An exclusive premium allocation of tickets has been set aside for Capital One cardholders, who will have priority access to purchase tickets on November 15 at 2 pm through November 17 at 10 pm or until supplies last.

The public on-sale for tickets begins at 10 am Friday, November 18.

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