weekday warrior

Weekday Warrior: A variety-filled week

The Paramount Theater presents: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Moulin Rouge.
The Love We Make at The Ritz
ZACH Theater Presents: Next to Normal

You may still be signing checks with the 2011 date, but now that January has come and gone, 2012 is more than underway. We’re here to make you feel like you take full advantage of the workweek, with a handful of activities that’ll keep you entertained. Which of the calendar’s eclectic offerings are worth your time? Here’s our weekly guide to keep you busy during the days that don’t start with S.

Monday, January 30th

Music Monday:The Love We Make@ The Ritz

This documentary from Grey Gardens director Albert Maysles follows former Beatle Paul McCartney as he strolls through New York City in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and organizes an all-star benefit concert, The Concert for New York City.

SXSW Interactive ATX Community Meet Up @ Swan Dive

Get a jump on your SXSW Interactive planning, while you network and sip cocktails with your fellow tech nerds.

Tuesday, January 31st

ZACH Theater Presents:Next to Normal

Take a break from your own family drama and settle in to watch this powerhouse production that chronicles a family facing the music. With a contemporary spin on a time-old tale, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play is well worth your time.

Alejandro Escovedo @ The Continental Club

The odds are high that Alejandro Escovedo will take the stage with one (or many) of the SXSW big names that will soon roll through town, so enjoy this quiet show while you can.

Wednesday, February 1st

NerdNite 31: Sex Nite Confessions @ ND Studios

Nerd Nite Austin offers the nerd elite of the ATX a chance to laugh with and learn lessons from their esteemed peers. In keeping with tradition, they entertain guests with three speakers, this month versed in the arts of Multi-Loving, Sexucating and Cyber-Seduction, courtesy of the good ladies of Bedpost Confessions.

FronteraFest Long Fringe: Southern Fried Chickie @ Salvage Vanguard Theater

Christy McBrayer presents this autobiographical one-woman show about a struggling actress who returns home after abandoning the Los Angeles dream. The Tupelo, Mississippi native waxes poetic about her attempts at comedy stardom, her family, and even her Penitentiary-based fans.

Thursday, February 2nd

The Action Pack Presents:Moulin RougeSing-Along @ Alamo Ritz

Get trippy with this Baz Luhrman tale of a romantic poet who falls head-over-heels in love with a troubled performer at the Moulin Rouge Theater. If you’re feeling saucy, indulge in a pre-show can-can contest.

The Paramount Theater presents: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’sMoulin Rouge

If you prefer a more highbrow route, indulge in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s performance of the razzle-dazzle spectacle. No Ewan McGregor, though, so it’s a pretty tough call.

Friday, February 3rd

Master Pancake:The Notebook

Before Ryan Gosling assumed his role as instant meme-factory, he was bearded and dramatic in this Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation with then-girlfriend Rachel McAdams. The Master Pancake guys have surely been working on this material for months, so there’s no doubt that the ribbing reserved for this weeper will be top-notch.

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There you have it. With a Nicholas Sparks mockery, a double-dose of Moulin Rouge and an evening of well-intentioned nerdery, this week’s picks are sure to please pretty much any crowd.

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millennial magnet cities

Austin has fallen out of favor with millennials for 2025, report shows

Downtown Austin, state capital, Congress Avenue

Photo by Justin Wallace on Unsplash

Don't worry, you'll still find plenty of millennials on scooters downtown.

Millennial Austinites may be growing tired of the city's consistently changing landscape: Austin has once again fallen out from the coveted No. 1 spot in SmartAsset's annual report of "Cities Attracting the Most Millennials" in 2025.

In fact, Austin barely scraped into the top 10 and ranked No. 9 this year, just like it did in SmartAsset's 2023 report.

The 2025 study dug into data from the U.S. Census Bureau 1-Year American Community Survey to determine the number of millennials who moved to 271 U.S. cities in 2023 (where the most recent data is available). Rankings were determined by the percentage of the total population of millennials who moved into each city in 2023.

A total of 103,738 millennial transplants landed in the capital of Texas in 2023, according to the study's findings, bringing the city's total millennial-age population to 395,776. That means about 41 percent of the city's entire population is made up of people aged between 25 and 44.

Breaking that down further, the report found that the number of millennials who moved to Austin from elsewhere in Travis County was more than double those who moved from other Texas counties: 55,591 and 21,403, respectively. In addition, 19,890 millennials moved in from a different state, and 6,854 moved in from abroad.

SmartAsset also unveiled that the average household income of a millennial Austinite is $91,501 annually, and their total median housing costs add up to $1,828 per month.

While the report doesn't give a reason why millennials favored other cities over Austin, the city's housing prices, job market, and family planning prospects can all have an influence.

"Millennials are often in their prime earning years, and many have young families, which may significantly impact the communities they join and leave," the study said.

In a separate 2024 report by commercial real estate platform CommercialCafe, Austin was crowned the No. 1 city for millennials.

Alexandria, Virginia, is the No. 1 millennial magnet for 2025 with the highest proportional influx of millennial transplants in 2023, at 12.67 percent. For context, Austin's share of new millennials was only 10.69 percent.

Austin was the highest ranked Texas city in the report, with Houston ranking second statewide but 51st overall. Houston had a far higher influx of millennial newcomers in 2023, at nearly 177,000 transplants, but the share of new millennials that moved in as a percentage of the total population was lower than Austin's, at just 7.7 percent.

The top 10 magnet cities for millennials in 2025 are:

No. 1 – Alexandria, Virginia
No. 2 – Cambridge, Massachusetts
No. 3 – Denver, Colorado
No. 4 – Sandy Springs, Georgia
No. 5 – Seattle, Washington
No. 6 – Sunnyvale, California
No. 7 – Santa Clara, California
No. 8 – Arlington, Virginia
No. 9 – Austin, Texas
No. 10 – Orlando, Florida

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