Author: Laurie Lyons-Makaimoku
With clear smiles and a full belly, President Barack Obama took the stage at The Long Center today to engage in a SXSW discussion with The Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith.
President Obama traded fist bumps at Franklin Barbecue for hand shakes as he made a lunch stop at Torchy’s Tacos on South First St today on his way to The Long Center.
If you’re looking to avoid downtown altogether over the next week and a half or just aren’t able to make it to Austin for all of the fun, SXSW has you covered with a variety of programming from the SXSW Interactive at SXSW Live.
In one of the most controversial moments in SXSW history, SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest and SXSWi cancelled two panels dealing with gaming and online harassment (specifically toward women and minorities) due to threats of onsite violence at the conference.
After a nearly month-long feud that fired up the Capital and Alamo cities, Austin Mayor Steve Adler and San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor set aside their differences this morning as they declared peace and solidified a taco truce by proclaiming March 10, 2016 as “Breakfast Taco Day,” reports The Texas Tribune.
It’s going to be time to get those bikinis and water wings out soon, kiddos! And this year, thanks to recent rains and flooding events in 2015, miserable as they may be, the Highland Lakes are at higher levels than they have been in years.
The controversy over Austin’s response to Uber and Lyft’s background search practices is growing, and this time a clarity issue has made its way to the Texas Supreme Court.
On the eve of SXSW kicking off its marathon of conference and festival activities, another service is throwing its hat into the already controversial ridesharing ring, reports Austin Business Journal.
Amplify Austin made the 24 hours between 6pm March 8 and 6pm March 9 really count for more than 600 Central Texas charities by raising $8.mil, reports Austin Business Journal.
The Hatfields vs The McCoys. Lincoln vs Douglas. Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman.Texas vs OU. These historical rivalries are nothing compared to the clash between Austin and San Antonio over who can call themselves the home of the breakfast taco.
If you’ve been fruitlessly trying to convince your boss to let you work from home, now is the time to ramp up that argument, because the leader of Austin has your back.
He’s got a resume a mile long, and now former U.S. senator (Dem-N.J.), NBA player, Olympic Gold Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, board member of Starbucks Corp, and one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bill Bradley, can add board member of Austin’s Snap Kitchen to that distinguished list, reports Austin Business Journal.
Austin Woman Magazine has kicked off their pre-SXSW coverage with a special feature devoted to three of Austin’s creative ladies in the music industry.
A study published last month by the New England Journal of Medicine found that fewer women accessed Texas’ family planning program after Planned Parenthood was removed from the program in 2013.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler may have some ideas about how to fix Austin traffic, but now hopefully after a $2 million study (and five years), the city will have some actionable data with which to work.
In the biggest SXSW news since pretty much ever, President Barack Obama will be part of a keynote conversation on Friday at SXSW Interactive, and SXSW badgeholders can now enter to win tickets to the event.
The outlook for Whole Foods’ future as a leader in the green corporate world has gotten a bit brighter with their recent move to install solar panels on nearly one quarter of their stores in the U.S.
Venture capitalists have already found a great home in Austin with companies like Austin Ventures and Silverton Partners supporting our growing startup industry, and the capital city seems to be the only Texas city growing in investments, according to a new report by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Silicon Hills can add another feather to its camp as publishing giant Conde Nast recently announced that it is adding Austin to its small list of digital offices, thanks to the amount of technology talent and tech companies in the area, reports Austin Business Journal.
Austin firefighters got to perform one of those sterotypically adorable duties of rescuing an animal from a tree yesterday, but this time the cat up the tree happened to be a raccoon up a pole.
Disenfranchisement seems to be the word of the season as Texas voters encounter more hurdles at their polling places, this time college students are having trouble due to new voter ID laws.
The City of Austin website calls Zilker Park “Austin’s most loved park,” and now we have the chance to make it the nation’s most loved park, as it’s recently been nominated for Best City Park in the Country by the USA Today 10 Best travel and lifestyle site, according to KXAN.
As throngs of visitors make their way to Austin for the annual SXSW marathon, the Austin Police Department is gearing up for more than two weeks of No Refusal during spring break and SXSW.
