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• Posted Guest Columnist: Our Country Is No Corporation to Austinist
  Once, back in New York, my cancer-surviving-and-deep-in-medical-debt friend and I were sitting around, watching a Japanese movie. I don't remember which movie it was, but I do remember that, as the opening credits rolled, the word 'EMOTION' popped onto the screen and some happy little music played.
• Posted SXSW Interactive: Austinist Tech Editor on BlogTalkRadio to Austinist
  Austinist technology editor Jeff Beckham talked with BlogTalkRadio community manager Deborah Ng on Monday during a break in the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. In a 15-minute interview, the pair discussed how SXSW affects Austin each March, how the interactive festival has grown by leaps and bounds over the years, and where social media trends are headed....
• Posted UT Polar Bear Club Holiday T-Shirt Sale to Austinist
  Barton Springs hosts many time-honored traditions. While most Austinites take advantage of the summer days and nights, a handful of brave souls venture to the springs on the days when the air temperature drops below the water temperature. Most people are familiar with the Austin Polar Bear Club, which meets the morning of January 1st and performs a ritualistic dip to rejuvenate oneself at the onset of the new year. Their younger counterparts at the University of Texas Polar Bear Club have turned the ritual into a weekly meeting, commencing once the first cold front of the year sweeps through the capital city.
• Posted Jon Dee Graham Hospitalized After Car Crash to Austinist
  UPDATE: Austin 360 reports that Graham has been upgraded to "good" condition. Texas Music Matters is reporting that popular Austin-based singer/songwriter Jon Dee Graham is hospitalized at Brackenridge's trauma unit after a car accident early Saturday morning. The singer was returning from Dallas when he fell asleep at the wheel and collided with an embankment on I-35. Andy Uhler speaks with Graham's wife.
• Posted South Austin Coffee Trailer Embraces the Tacky & Absurd to Austinist
  "Barista Babe" From Unrelated Source, Found on Seattle MetblogsA new coffee trailer in South Austin is hoping to capitalize on the recent "sexpresso" fad that's taken over Seattle. Latte Dolls offers a selection of coffees and espresso drinks served by scantily-clad female baristas with stripper fascinating names like Kyana, Alysha, and Reyna. Touting itself as a "highly-personalized, memorable and convenient coffee alternative to morning commuters and the mobile labor force of Austin," the stand plans...