Apr 13th, 2012 at 2:30PM: When I was living in New York, I regularly read Gothamist. When I moved to Austin, I began reading Austinist. Covering a good mix of national and local news, I try to check in when I can. Blogger Michael Corcoran recently penned what appears to be a hate letter to the city of Austin on his blog. Unfortunately, any valid points lurking within the post were discounted, if not negated, by a slew of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Blogger Rants About Austin In Post And Austinist Strikes Back
Apr 13th, 2012 at 2:30PM: When I was living in New York, I regularly read Gothamist. When I moved to Austin, I began reading Austinist. Covering a good mix of national and local news, I try to check in when I can. Blogger Michael Corcoran recently penned what appears to be a hate letter to the city of Austin on his blog. Unfortunately, any valid points lurking within the post were discounted, if not negated, by a slew of ...Spotsi App Helps Travelers Find Local Spots
Apr 8th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
Maybe you're in Brooklyn and you want to find a great local bar. Or perhaps you've landed in Portland and are in desperate need of a cup of coffee but want to mingle with the locals (and try a locally-made roast while you're at it). Let Spotsi, a new user-generated mobile app, help
There are lots of apps that help you explore like a local, but Spotsi is a little different. Locals use ...Budget Travel Zen: 10 Free/Donation-Based Yoga Studios In The US
Apr 4th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
Knotted shoulders... stiff necks... flight delay anxiety... pent-up aggression toward the armrest-hogger seated next to you on the plane. Travel certainly has its ways of winding you up, and there's nothing like a great yoga class to wind back down. But with trendy studios charging upwards of $25 per class, it can be difficult to find a practice that doesn't exceed your daily travel budget. ...Journey To Secret Beach in Austin, Texas
Apr 3rd, 2012 at 11:00AM:
I walk through the open gate and into a dusty backyard BBQ party. I offer the contents of a grocery bag to the men manning the grill. The afternoon sun on July 4 in Texas isn't subtle. Dozens of friends are gathered here and sweating in unison. I find a place to relax in the shade -- a slice of watermelon in one hand and a cold beer in the other. I think of my puppy, Fiona, at home. I've just ...SXSW: from NYC to Austin, a local musician's perspective and photo gallery
Mar 21st, 2012 at 10:00AM:
When I initially began weighing my options for relocation, I was still living in New York. Austin, a purported 'oasis' in Texas, had only entered my mind during this process because of clamoring friends eager to direct me as I prepared for and soon voyaged away from New York. It was not easy to leave the city that had shaped me. Immediately following high school graduation, I had set off for ...Photo of the Day: Austin's Zilker Park Kite Festival
Mar 14th, 2012 at 6:30PM:
On March 4, Austin's Zilker Park held the Zilker Park Kite Festival. It was a beautiful day -- the sort that made lounging folks enjoying their Saturday want to go fly a kite. Preceding SXSW isn't an easy task for an event, but the Zilker Park Kite Festival is a staple engrained in Austin culture. The kite festival is the oldest one in the US. It's a free event that, on top of producing fun, ...A record exec's guide to South by Southwest (SXSW)
Mar 8th, 2012 at 10:00AM: Tens of thousands of hipsters and wannabe hipsters from around the world will be converging on Austin this week for the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and technology festival, now in its 26th year. What started as a music showcase for some 172, mostly regional, bands in 1987 has gradually expanded into the global colossus that SXSW has become. Last year the festival featured more ...How to find a last-minute room in Austin for SXSW
Mar 4th, 2012 at 10:00AM: Over the past several years, the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and Interactive Conference & Festival in Austin, Texas, has topped the event calendar for industry insiders, along with anyone eager to discover the Next Big Thing. This year's festival, which runs from March 9 to 18, promises to be the most intense yet, with hundreds of panels, workshops, concerts and events on the ...Austin Marathon: why run a marathon?
Feb 22nd, 2012 at 3:00PM:
The Austin Marathon from The Daily Texan on Vimeo.
The Austin Marathon took over the streets of Austin, Texas this past weekend. Established in 1992, the Austin Marathon began just a few blocks north of the Texas State Capitol. The marathon's course took runners through several other Austin landmarks, as well. The Colorado River, the downtown area, Hyde Park, UT, and Memorial Stadium were all ...
Abandoned Austin: photos of neglected structures in the city of Austin
Jan 26th, 2012 at 9:00AM:
Life might sway to a slower beat in the South, but, compared to other cities in the United States, Austin, Texas' growth over the span of the last decade or so hasn't been slow at all. Steady job growth and population growth have worked together in Austin to create a sort of surreal union between urbanity and rurality. A succinct but steadfast downtown area in Austin is only a couple of miles ...Orbitz "Insider Index" predicts London, Chicago and Austin will be popular in 2012, looks at 2011 and 2012 travel trends
Jan 8th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
According to Orbitz's annual survey, released this week, London, Chicago and Austin are primed to be top travel destinations in 2012. The "Insider Index" used both travel experts and the OTA's booking and consumer search data to predict what they think will happen in the 2012 travel market.
Hotspots for 2012
London: London will mark its place in history as the only city to host the ...10 days, 10 states: Keeping it weird in Austin, Texas
Nov 16th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
"We were headed down the road, hit the border, by the morning, to let Texas fill my soul..."
-Pat Green
I will admit that I eat some pretty strange things on occasion, because when you're on the road a lot, that's simply what you do. Snails in France, squid in Singapore, and what might have been cat in Vietnam. Never in my life, however, of all the culinary curiosities that have found ...Halloween on 6th Street in Austin: the sounds and lights
Nov 2nd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
If New Orleans' Bourbon Street has a little sister, it is, at least sometimes, 6th Street in Austin. Both streets are main attractions, teeming with boisterous activity. Both streets are usually embraced by tourists and, perhaps just as usually, eschewed by locals. And both streets are worth walking, no matter who you are or where you are from, on certain days of the year, namely, costumed days. ...Host and experience budget-friendly local tours all over the United States
Oct 20th, 2011 at 12:00PM: HipHost, a new "peer-to-peer marketplace for socially-hosted local tours", not only gives travelers a way to experience new cities from a local's point of view, but also gives people an opportunity to make extra cash.
Anyone who wants to share their local knowledge can be a HipHost and design a tour based on anything they find interesting. Some tour topics include art, culture, fitness, ...Austin City Limits 2011
Sep 28th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
"We should make sure we go to at least one music festival a year for the rest of our lives", I said to my fiance as TV on The Radio took the stage in front of me during Austin City Limits 2011. The sky in Texas is one of Texas' best qualities. It seems to canopy the entire sphere of Earth sometimes, looking elastic and bright enough to make you squint. At sunset, pastel colors are strewn from ...Video of the day: Austin City Limits recap
Sep 21st, 2011 at 3:00PM:
If you have never been to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, chances are you probably don't totally understand what all of the fuss is about. In fact, let's take that a step further. If you have never been to a music festival, chances are you probably don't totally understand what all of the fuss is about. Not only are music festivals an honest-to-god travel destination for tens of ...
Austin's wandering bison found, returned home
Aug 14th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Austin, Texas is no longer where the buffalo roam. The escaped bison that we first told you about last week, was found on Friday and returned safely to the ranch where she had escaped more than a week earlier.
On August 3rd, the bison was purchased by a local rancher, who returned home to introduce her into his existing herd. While unloading her on his property however, something spooked the ...A bison is on the loose in Austin, Texas
Aug 11th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Austin, Texas is a city that is use to large bovine creatures roaming around. After all, it is home to the University of Texas Longhorns and their mascot Bevo. But the city got an unexpected visitor earlier this week in the form of a North American Bison, who escaped from its owner on Saturday, and has been roaming free ever since.
Apparently, a rancher living not far from town purchased the ...Photo of the day: Whippet in Texas
Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:00PM:
I smile just about as big as the Whippet in this photo each time I see this photo. Stephanie Williams is the co-owner of Bennu--a coffee shop here in Austin wherein I spend many of my days typing away at the good ol' laptop, continually seduced by the iced teas and mate lattes. When my own travel site hosted a summer photo contest recently, Williams' photo of Elliot won our readers' approval ...Photo of the day: open road in Texas
Jun 8th, 2011 at 4:00PM:
There are plenty of motorcyclists in Texas and there's also plenty of open road. Texas: where summer never really fully ends. I haven't ever driven a motorcycle myself, but I have spent hours upon hours hitching rides as a motorcycle passenger--it's fun. But not only is it fun, it's also so... summer.
Whether you're navigating roads this summer on a bike, by car, or on foot, there is ...
