Thursday Oct. 8th, Parkside is hosting it’s 1st annual pink party in honor of the Susan G. Komen foundation. Enjoy food, drinks, music, schwag bags, all in the name of finding a cure! Buy tickets ($50) here or call 474-9898.
www.parkside-austin.com
No, not alcohol this time, not after the San Antonio weekend I had! Today we have a 24oz Watermelon Juice and a 14oz Green Party from Daily Juice. $16 for these two, its not cheap being healthy! But with 3 locations around Austin, convenience is key. That, and I don’t have a juicer. Or produce.
www.dailyjuice.org
Today’s song of the day is ‘7/4 Shoreline’ by Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie rock band. Currently, this musical collective has nineteen members. Catch these guys Friday, Oct. 2nd at the Seaholm Power Plant. This is the first time the Seaholm has ever been used for an event and even better, this one is [...]
The Texas Cuban is South Austin’s newest trailer (I feel like I say this about a new place every week!) and maybe the only Cuban style trailer. Expect pressed sandwiches, and all the standard Cuban side dishes like croquettas, plantain chips, and black beans. The staff is super accomadating. Today they ran out of pork [...]
It’s that time of year again! October 15, Austin’s biggest and best party of the year, La Dolce Vita, is taking over the grounds at AMOA-Laguna Gloria, my favorite spot in Austin as I wrote about here. This food and wine festival is 20 years old and counting. This year’s theme is Fellini’s La Dolce [...]
Today’s song of the day is ‘Easy’ by Deer Tick, a Rhode Island rock n roll band. These guys wowed Austin at SXSW and have a southern rock sound kinda like Reckless Kelly. Catch these guys Friday at Emo’s for an official aftershow and Saturday at the ACL Festival Oct. 3rd on the Dell Stage [...]
Restaurant week is over this go-around but Green Pastures is one of Austin’s most affordable fine dining restaurants everyday. Green Pastures is a historic Victorian home housing a restaurant of the same name in south Austin, as I first wrote about lunch here and the last restaurant week here. Quick history lesson: Green Pastures restaurant opened in [...]
Today’s song of the day is ‘Can You Tell’ by Ra Ra Riot, an indie rock band from Syracuse, NY. See them tonight at Emo’s ($13) with Maps & Atlases, and Princeton. I saw these guys last year at The Parish and loved them. If i wasn’t headed to San Antonio today for Savage-Aycock wedding [...]
Today’s song of the day is ‘Shut The Club Down’ by Girltalk, Pittsburgh based DJ and mash-up artist Gregg Gillis. Can you believe this guy was a biomedical engineer before deciding to take his Djing hobby seriously?!! Catch Girltalk at the ACL festival Sunday, Oct. 4 on the Xbox 360 stage at 7pm. This show [...]
In this rainy cold fall weather, the only food that is sounding these good these days is soup. Namely, french onion soup in a bread bowl at Panera, the St. Louis based bakery and cafe with 3 locations around town. Alternately, you can order a cup of soup if you don’t want to eat the [...]