The HOPE Farmers Market presents the 2nd Annual East Side County Fair on September 9, 2012. The Market hosts this annual event to celebrate the end of summer and beginning of the Fall Harvest season. Family-friendly games and activities help kick off back-to-school and all proceeds from the festivities go to support the upcoming launch [...]
Continental Club Gallery opens their doors at 7 pm for a gallery exhibit by Stephanie Pratt. Tameca Jones closes the show with a live performance at 10:30 pm. “I strive for a heavy aesthetic with an emphasis on color and transparency—pulling from the sublime in nature; bringing an elemental and ethereal, but playful energy into [...]
Austin-based startup, Cooking Planit, invites you for an evening of food, drink and festivities. Cooking Planit is launching a revolutionary new way to make great meals! Cooking Planit’s founders will kick off the evening with an introduction of the new website and mobile app, followed by a panel of distinguished food experts who will discuss the future of cooking. Guests [...]
Kenichi will be hosting its 3rd Annual Beer Festival from 5:00 to 7:30 pm this Wednesday, August 29. This event is always a blast and is a great deal at only $30. Kenichi will have over 15 microbrews available for sampling, as well as a special station devoted just to Japanese beers. Chef Shane will [...]
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®will bring a surge of circus excitement and megawatts of thrills to the Frank Erwin Center on August 22-26 with their all new show -Fully ChargedSM! The most electrifying edition ever of Ringling Bros. celebrates all kinds of power, including performance power, horsepower, manpower, the power of beauty and grace [...]
Presented by MyCreativeDrug.com and Food Is Free, “Picture Perfect” is a different kind of art show. Local artists of all mediums are coming together to raise money for a local cause. Giesel Widmer of MyCreativeDrug.com has joined forces with with the founders of Food Is Free to present this night about art, music and giving back to [...]
West Sixth Street’s Dogwood celebrates its two-year anniversary in proper style with a huge party, festive food, and free gifts for the first 100 attendees. Delight in Deep Eddy snow cones, cotton candy, cake, and champagne besides plenty of other surprises throughout the night. Enjoy live music by The Dirty River Boys and a surprise [...]
During the next three Wednesdays, the Hilton Austin will be doing a special summer series at Finn & Porter’s Loft Bar, featuring signature cocktails from their mixologist, along with premium liquors. Representatives from each brand will come in and educate attendees on what they’re having to drink. July 25 ~ Ciroc Vodka & the Red Berry Cosmo Aug [...]
This weekend, enjoy the music of Ustad Nizami at Music From the Heart, a benefit concert for the 6th Annual Global Youth Peace Summit. With a $20 suggested donation, all proceeds for the evening will go to fund Naveed Ali, a Pakistani youth, who hopes to travel to the United States for the first time to participate in [...]
If you’re not doing anything Tuesday night, check out eleven plates & wine’s Spanish wine dinner from their new Chef Joe Anguiano of New York City’s famed Le Cirque. Chef Anguinao has teamed up with Walter Sanchez from Lerin wines to give you an opulent, four-course dinner that showcases wines from all over Spain. Limited [...]
RED HOT returns hotter than ever in its 21st year to benefit Project Transitions, an organization dedicated to serving people with HIV and AIDS. The Warehouse District’s Oil Can Harry’s will host this dazzling event on July 20th from 6 to 10 pm. As the summer party, last year Oil Can Harry’s raised an amazing $17,000 for Project Transitions, all of which went directly [...]
Hyde Park’s Asti Trattoria celebrates their 12th Annual Lobsterfest with lobsters flown in from Maine from this Thursday, July 12 to Saturday, July 14. Only 350 total are shipped, so make your reservations now! Enjoy a family style, three-course dinner for two featuring a caprese salad, spaghetti fra diavolo with lobster or a summer corn risotto [...]
SUITE 709 PLAY ALBUM RELEASE AT ANTONE’S (7/7) Blues/Soul outlet Suite 709 will celebrate the release of their first full length album, Night & Day, by bringing their energetic stage performance to Antone’s on Saturday, July 7th. Doors open at 8PM, and the band will be joined by the soulful sounds of Ben Baxter, Tje Austin, and Deep [...]
Looking at the painting above, it might be hard to judge the artist’s actual age. Amazingly, the artist, Isabella Rose Taylor, is only eleven. In addition to calling Austin her home, Taylor has accumulated many titles; artist, fashion designer, and poet. She even has her own blog and fashion line for tweens, IsabellaRose Fashion. Her posts include sourcing [...]
Author Robyn Jasko and illustrator Jenn Biggs of DIY food book, Homesweet Homegrown, which empowers people everywhere to grow and preserve their own organic, non-gmo food, will make a stop at Austin’s own Springdale Farm. Springdale Farm will host this event which includes homesweet cocktails, homegrown tomato tastings, and great local fare from Pate Letelier & [...]
If you haven’t heard about Generous Art, they provide the perfect combination of fine art shopping and supporting non-profits. Each time you make a purchase with Generous Art, 40% of the purchase price goes to your favorite charity. This week, Generous Art makes their rounds with three different events giving shoppers and art lovers several [...]
Join the Austin Classical Guitar Society on Saturday, June 23rd at 7 pm for an enchanted evening under the stars in the historical setting of the Commodore Perry Estate. In 1928, Edgar and Lutie Perry moved into their elegant new home and immediately set a higher standard of gracious entertaining in Austin. Enclosed within a walled [...]
For one night only, Cirque Du Soleil’s Michael Jackson – the IMMORTAL tour will be gracing the stage at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center. With over 30 songs from the Jackson 5 and Michael, twelve musicians including Michael Jackson’s former drummer and saxophonist, half a dozen back-up singers plus ten choreographers cement this show as truly [...]
Austin loves working out, staying fit, and keeping up an active lifestyle. In fact, the American Fitness Index ranks Austin as the 10th most fit city in America. The index surmises that the large number of physically active people, high percentage of parkland and the prevalence of farmer’s markets, dog parks, and swimming pools keep our city [...]
Sip on wine and listen to the lovely music from Vivo Trio all while raising money for Hospice Austin. Viva Trio will perform at the beautiful, natural setting of Austin Museum of Art’s Laguna Gloria from 6:30 to 9:30 pm to help raise funds for Hospice Austin. In addition to the finest food and music [...]
The 2ND Street District joins forces with nonprofits Whole Planet Foundation and Comfort the Children International to host free day of music, shopping, food, fun and philanthropy – Presented by Stonyfield Organic The 2ND Street District and nonprofits Whole Planet Foundation and Comfort The Children International (CTC), invite Austinites to attend 2ND Street Soundcheck, a [...]
Tito’s celebrating his 15th anniversary of selling his very first case of Tito’s Handmade Vodka! Join Tito Beveridge and Amy Simmons of Amy’s Ice Cream, in this celebration at her Burnet location (also Phil’s Ice House) for a meet and greet, smilebooths, and get a first taste of Amy’s newest ice cream flavor: “THE DUDE.” Amy’s [...]
The year’s hottest and most anticipated party kicks off this Memorial Day weekend, as The White Party is back again with even more thunder than in preceding years. With the past four years resulting in sellout crowds, expect this party, presented by LifeWorks, to be white hot. Since debuting at the Long Center, record crowds [...]
Following the success of their first-ever bake sale last week, neighborhood eatery Foreign & Domestic will continue hosting a bake sale most Saturdays. The weekly bake sales begin at 10am, and will last until the last of the goods has been sold. And, psst, a word to the wise: be sure to get there early, [...]