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Extra Extra: You Can Take That to the Bank
b o d o/flickr Perry names two (including his former chief of staff) to the Texas Transportation Commission. Authorities say some boys from the FLDS compound may have been sexually abused there. Four people died in a head-on collision near Bastrop last night. Some residents on West Johanna and…
Galindo Plan Not So Green
As Cid Galindo tries to sell himself to Austin voters as an environmentalist with a plan, it's important to take... (via Burnt Orange Report)
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University News Roundup
Normally the news surrounding the University of Texas is little to none, but I found a relatively large number of... (via Burnt Orange Report)
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Overheard in Austin: These May Make You Sick
Overheard is back! This edition comes courtesy of Sarah Jones, Hunter Warren, John Bacon, Robert F, "BlahHaha," and Henri Mazza. Did you hear something hilarious or just plain weird this week? Send 'em to overheard@austinist.com and we'll publish the best... eventually. Drunk Girl at…
Austin Boot Store Selling Lucchese Anniversary Boots for $12,500
Allens Boots is proud to help Lucchese celebrate it's 125th anniversary with these one of a kind hand made boots. (via Boot Blog)
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Can you trust your Austin Realtor's CMA Report?
I have have been critical of our new Austin MLS System called MLXChange since it was first placed into production... (via Austin Real Estate Blog)
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Eeyore Statue Missing from Eastwoods Park
Please contact Austin Parks Foundation at apf@austinparks.org or 477-1566 with any information regarding the theft of this one-of-a-kind statue from... (via Austin Parks Blog)
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Le Diamant Brut: A Hawk and a Hacksaw & Dans La Lune
Photo from MySpaceDANS LA LUNE What’s the Deal: This Austin group of gritty and dance-inducing rock and rollers with one foot in the past have a fun and uncluttered sound that gets folks all gooey in the hips. They’re a five-man team who play energetic 60s rock with the occasional dance…
Get a Taste of Fantastic Fest Tonight!
Exte: Hair ExtensionsWednesday, April 30Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)9:30pm & Midnight, FREE for current Fantastic Fest badgeholders / $5 General public[info] | [tickets]Though Fantastic Fest '08 is nearly five months away (why won't you work, time machine!?), devotees and…
Wordless Wednesday in Austin's Eastwood Park
Not just another tree stump. (via About Austin, TX)
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Another monarch rescue
Were they swept in on these fronts? Are they home-grown butterflies? For the second time within a week, we've ushered a butterfly back outdoors. Once back in the great outdoors, the first one hung around on a four o'clock plant for hours and hours, but finally was no more to be seen. The second…
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Marvelous seasonal first
As always, the four o'clocks have appeared in all the usual places and a few more. They shoot up suddenly, and the first blooms have appeared, on a plant in the shade on the fig-tree side of the compost bin. Another common name for these sturdy returners is marvel of Peru, but, oddly, the scientic…
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UT Austin Student in Hot Water for Terroristic Threats
As briefly mentioned in yesterday's Extra Extra, a student at UT now faces a third-degree felony charge after making terroristic threats. 20-year-old Justin Levi McCelvey, a self-described Spurs fan (based off a now-deleted Myspace account), was overheard bemoaning that he "wished he could go…
Austinist After Party Alert: DJ Craze @ Beauty Bar
Kanye After-Party w/ DJ CrazeWednesday, April 30Beauty Bar (7th St. at Red River)$10 with flyer/$15 without[info]In the late nineties, buddies Craze and A-Trak were the best DJs in the world (or at least they beat everyone else who competed). Ten years later, A-Trak is Kanye’s tour DJ and,…
Color revealed
It's shell pink, a hollyhock again after many, many years. This seedling persisted and began shooting upward and forming single buds in the axils and a large cluster of them atop the stalk. The blossoms are single (I see no use for double hollyhocks). Nearby is a pot that contains sweet peas now…
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From a new angle
I don't much care for the new Long Center so far. We'll see. Our seats have the same number as they did at Bass Hall, but everything's configured differently and so we're quite a bit off to the side. The good part is that they're aisle seats. The pitch of the seating makes it tougher to see over…
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Rain is better
Many types of seeds show a much better germination rate if they are moistened by rainwater and not by water from the tap. This is somehow not surprising, but I'd never seen such a statement in writing before. I found it in How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest (by Jill Nokes; an…
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Austinist on the Road: Indieroke visits Coachella for Sony PS3's SingStar launch!
Image provided by Sony Computer Entertainment AmericaAs you know by now we have a passing interest in karaoke and when Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. was kind enough to invite Austinist to the launch events for the latest edition of PlayStation 3's SingStar, we had to take them up on the…
News Bits: Get Thee Behind Me, Reverend
Obama "outraged" by ex-pastor's "ridiculous propositions" US troop deaths hit 7-month high in Iraq What recession? Economy grows slightly in first quarter Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland Happy 75th birthday, Willie Nelson Paula Abdul gets confused on "American Idol"…
Kanye West afterparty tonight at Beauty Bar
Just in case you’ve been under a rock and haven’t heard, Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour is coming... (via Austin Soundcheck)
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