Click the Play button on the podcast player above to listen to this week’s episode of the Austinot Podcast! Austin is a huge city for the sport of disc golf, and getting started is easier than you might think. In fact, this weekend is the perfect time to get involved because Austin’s Waterloo Disc Golf […]
Tom Gimbel of Austin City Limits: This Is What I Want to Do
This is the story of a man who got what he wanted. Mix one part passionate, one part competitive, one part positive, and you get Tom Gimbel. Throw in a few parts happenstance, and you get Tom’s life: An amazing journey from record company intern to General Manager of Austin City Limits. Where he ends […]
Celebrate Eeyore’s Birthday in the Austinot Podcast, Ep. #8
It’s time to celebrate Eeyore’s Birthday Party! This annual event at Pease Park is in its 49th year and getting bigger and better with age. Throw on a costume for the costume contest, bring your canine friends, and get the kids ready for sack races and face painting. Non-profit vendors will provide food and drink. […]
The Texas Rollergirls Skate Fast and Hit Hard in Austin
On Saturday night, I walked into the Austin Convention Center to see a flat roller derby track for the first time. It wasn’t long before groups of uniformed, geared-up women appeared on roller skates to take center stage. My senses were bombarded by the Texas Rollergirls experience. A fan on the sidelines waved a checkered […]
Texas Rollergirls Star in Austinot Podcast, Ep. #7
Flat track roller derby was invented in Austin, so you better believe that the Texas Rollergirls are experts. You know who else is an expert? Austinot Eric Highland. Well, at least that’s what he’d like you to believe. The reality is that Eric has never been to a bout before, but he’s going to get […]
Big Girls Don’t Cry: Texas Rollergirls This Saturday at ACC
I grew up on the straight-laced side of Texas, where getting my ears pierced for a second time was stretching the boundaries just a bit. So should it be all that surprising that when I first heard about Rollergirls, they scared me? I was living up in Seattle at the time, and all the tattoos […]
Lonestar Round Up – Austin’s Vintage Car Show & Music Fest
To say that the Lonestar Round Up is just another Austin car show is a crime, and this week’s Austinot podcast means to prove it to you. This weekend only, this vintage car show and music festival takes over the Travis County Expo Center, filling it with the best in amazing rides, toe-tapping tunes, food […]
Strolling the Sidewalk with Austin’s “Other” Artists
This guest blog post is by Amy Lynch. One of the most beautiful things about Austin is its ability to bring seemingly opposing forces together in perfect harmony. We do, after all, call ourselves “the live music capital of the world,” so it stands to reason that we should be able to pull off such […]
Reenacting the Battle of Goliad, Texas and Goliad Massacre
There are few Texans who don’t enjoy rubbing in the fact that Texas was once its own country. It’s one of the things that the rest of the country hates about us. But many people, especially in my generation, don’t consider or even know about the decisive battles in the Texas War for Independence that […]
Fair Trade Austin Coffee for Education at Dominican Joe
Editor’s Note: Dominican Joe closed at the end of April 2017. For a vast percentage of the Austin population, coffee is at least as important to life as water. Like water, the potability of coffee differs drastically. The goal of many a college student and working professional is to find an Austin coffee shop with: A) […]