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Rebecca Rather Closes the Pink Pig
Pastry Queen Rebecca Rather has actively promoted her Pink Pig Bakery & Cafe (6266 Hwy 290 East) outside Fredericksburg via all forms of social media. Today a notice on the company Facebook page announced they had lost their lease and the business was closed as of August 18.

2:30PM Tue. Aug. 20, 2013, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Discover a World of Wines at Tour de Vin
Where could wine lovers possibly sample wines from France, Spain, North and South America, Australia, Singapore, and Korea without a passport? The always popular Tour de Vin, of course.

1:15PM Tue. Aug. 20, 2013, Margaret Shugart Read More | Comment »

Whole Foods Market in the Domain Opens January 2014
The Whole Foods Market outlet near the Domain development in North Austin has been on the drawing board for several years. Postponed twice while the company built stores to serve the burgeoning population in the Southwest area of Travis County, Austin's fifth Whole Foods Market is finally set to come online in mid-January of 2014.

12:50PM Tue. Aug. 20, 2013, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows Announced
C3 Presents announced its cache of Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows this morning, and, like all things pertaining to October’s marque festival, the performances are spreading out.

12:40PM Tue. Aug. 20, 2013, Chase Hoffberger Read More | Comment »

Dazed But Not Confused: Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile gives us hope. He never had a big break, but rather became popular in the most elemental of ways – good music over a goodly period of time. His smoky voice and gently diffusing guitar now welcomes an audience far beyond any cultish origins. Tonight’s show – outdoors at Mohawk – prompted a call to the six-string virtuoso.

10:35AM Tue. Aug. 20, 2013, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

Delbert McClinton Oughta Know
Countless films, Rancho Deluxe to Road House, have courted the sheer euphoria of a perfect honky-tonk pairing. Soup to nuts – Songwriter to Honeydripper, locally – what Mssrs. Jimmy Buffett, Jeff Healey, Willie Nelson, and Gary Clark Jr. bottled (respectively), Delbert McClinton brewed Saturday at Gruene Hall.

6:37PM Mon. Aug. 19, 2013, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

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The AggreGAYtor: August 19
Revolution and counterrevolution escalate in Russia, Stephen Fry and David Cameron tête-à-tête in London, and California churches and schools agitate away, as your AggreGAYtor questions hir prejudices.

4:00PM Mon. Aug. 19, 2013 Read More | Comment »

Utopia Fest
When you attend some 20 music festivals a year, as I do, you come to understand the benefits and disadvantages of each one, with location, line-up, and size all playing major roles and vibe remaining the profound X factor. All that considered, Utopia Fest – now in its fifth year – stands out as one of my favorite festival experiences in central Texas.

3:00PM Mon. Aug. 19, 2013, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Drops and Gives Us 10
The Austin Film Festival’s full slate drops in mid-September, but the screenwriting-centric fest served up a 10-film teaser today, as well as a quartet of retrospective screenings.

2:56PM Mon. Aug. 19, 2013, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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