Entries from Austinist tagged with 'inauguration'
September 10, 2007
One last go-round for Zeppelin seems to be in the works. We sort of thought they were all dead. "Why, Britney...why?" Hey, don't ask us. We stopped watching MTV a long, long time ago. Interesting article about doctors that gave an elephant LSD for reasons that aren't exactly clear. If you go swimming in Lake LBJ, you might want to...not do that. Another medical study suggesting that political leanings might actually be attributable to......
Continue Reading "News Bits, Anyone?"July 16, 2006
This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-averse"June 14, 2006
Anthony Nak, the uber-chic jewelers whose flagship store opened in Austin back in 2003, were carjacked this past weekend. The thieves made off with thirteen pieces of Tanzanite -- a nearly extinct stone from Tanzania, Africa -- set in platinum and gold jewelry. Ten of the pieces were recovered earlier this week from a local pawn shop. Tanzanite, for the majority of us who can't even afford to google it, is a precious blue-violet gemstone......
Continue Reading "Austin Jewel Thieves Run Off With Major Bling"