Since You Didn’t Ask: Looking For Plumber – M4M
Looking for Plumber who fixed my Toilet – m4m Date: 2013-01-17, 7:01AM Hey… I’m looking for the Plumber who fixed my Toilet Monday morning at 8:30 -9am this past Monday (June 14th). I thought...
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How To Repair Your Broken New Year’s Resolutions
Photo: Jo Naylor/flickr It’s been three weeks since so many of us crawled slowly out of bed on New Year’s Day, and made lists of things to accomplish in 2013. Powered by ruthless ambition,...
Rags to Wags Fundraising Gala Report: Making Bank for Barks and Cash for Cats
The Austin Humane Society’s annual fundraising gala event Rags to Wags took place this past Saturday at the Four Seasons hotel on Lady Bird Lake.
The Buck Stops In Whitehouse, Texas…
Earlier this month there was an unusual “deer attacks man” encounter in the East Texas hamlet of Whitehouse,Texas. The incident described below is not a Saturday Night Live skit nor a report from one of the...
SXSW Eco Coverage: “Green is Good”
The second year of the SXSW Eco conference gathered people from all over the world to discuss the myriad ecological and energy problems facing our world. Panels spanned topics as diverse as sustainable food, green design and ecologically responsible fishery management.
Despite the disparate nature of these topics, one idea that emerged at panel after panel was the concept that certain things cost us far more than what we actually pay for them, otherwise known as Externalized Costs. [Read more…]
SXSW Eco Coverage: Fun With DJ Spooky and DIIV
While a lot of the panels at SXSW Eco were full of considered approaches about the future of the planet – and the need to make changes about how we live on...
The City of Austin has a Free Microchip and Tag Offer For Your Pets
There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to teach your furry family members how to clearly enunciate their own street address and phone number. Even if you do manage to teach your doggie your digits,...
It’s Your Last Week to Check Out “Portal to Bohemia”
The 1920’s are often seen as a golden age of literature and art. For example, Woody Allen’s Golden Globe winning art house blockbuster “Midnight in Paris” features Owen Wilson’s character Gil repeatedly rhapsodizing about...
“An Evening of Censorship” aka: The Dionysium at “Banned, Burned, Seized and Censored”
In this Internet age, censorship isn’t much of a going concern in America. Yet, things were different in this country back when cars had a rumble seat, a lady never went out without her...
We Are So Not Having a Heatwave [Extra Extra]
. .. . . . . . .. . If you haven’t seen the story about the two dudes arrested in downtown Austin for a DWI — on a horse and a mule —...
