Entries from Austinist tagged with 'johnkelso'
December 18, 2007
Austin Style Watch shot this footage from last Sunday's Silent Dance Party flash mob in the Capitol Rotunda. Related: DJ Orion's Civilized Disobedience Mix (mp3) John Kelso: iPod dance party lends something new to Capitol: actual fun Check out the original web flyer, after the jump.......
Continue Reading "YouTubeAustin: Silent Dance Party Flash Mob"November 28, 2007
"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......
Continue Reading "South Austin Coffee Trailer Embraces the Tacky & Absurd"August 3, 2007
Forklift Danceworks marks the upcoming anniversary of Elvis’ death with an homage to the King that includes singing, dancing, and guest Elvis cameos from Jim Swift, Sara Hickman, John Kelso, and Mayor Will Wynn Austinist sponsors a big bash at Beauty Bar with the Turbonego cover band Apocalypse Dudes, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, and Ernest Gonzales 1906 hosts the opening reception for "SeeSaw," their first-ever photography show, featuring landscapes, portraiture, digitally-manipulated images, and......
Continue Reading "This Weekend in the IST List"August 29, 2006
TUESDAY [29] music • The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Cactus CafĂ© (8:30pm, $10) music • Plastic Constellations, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Boxing Lesson, We'll Go Machete at Emo's music/DJ • The new weekly Tuesday Roots-Fi Soundsystem: A Sunny Summer Night of Jamaican Sounds at The Peacock (9pm, Free) ® music • Grupo Fantasma at Waterloo Records (5pm) ® music • Chalk Outlines, Dragline Bros. (Athens, OH), Mumpsie (NOLA) at Beerland workshop • Betty......
Continue Reading "The Daily IST"August 28, 2006
MONDAY [28] books • Jeff Abbott presents Fear at Barnes & Noble Westlake (7pm) ® film • The Ultimate Garlic Experience at Alamo Downtown (7pm, $25) ® film • This is Spinal Tap at Austin Java (8pm, Free) ® film • Bunny Lake is Missing at Alamo Downtown (9:45pm, $2) fashion • Huge 75% off sale at FactoryPeople TUESDAY [29] music • Plastic Constellations, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Boxing Lesson, We'll Go Machete at......
Continue Reading "The Weekly IST List: August 28-September 3"February 17, 2006
We have not seen Leslie around downtown in a couple of weeks. He will often disappear from time to time, but not one sighting in two weeks? That's odd. Well, not as odd as what he is up to, as it turns out. According to the Statesman's John Kelso, Leslie is on vacation, headed to Colorado. And he's taking quite the circuitous route. Proof: the cross-dressing downtown fixture was arrested two weeks ago in......
Continue Reading "Red (state) Scare: Just a Good Ol'January 6, 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon undergoes emergency surgery after doctors discover an increase in cranial pressure. Meanwhile, Pat Robertson has the audacity to suggest this is some sort of "divine retribution." The Canadian Medical Association Journal claims that supplying winos with booze might actually be good for them and everyone else. BBC lists the top 100 things we learned this year. Our favorites? "WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub......
Continue Reading "News Bits!"October 17, 2005
-Nearly two dozen of Austin's finest civic leaders gathered together today to declare their opposition to November 8th's Prop. 2 measure, which would effectively define marriage as solely between "one man and one woman." Among many others, Mayor Will Wynn let it be known that "a fundamental cultural characteristic of Texas is that we mind our own business" - something Great Hills Baptist Church pastor Michael Lewis was unaware of when he decried the......
Continue Reading "News Bits!"October 5, 2005
-Some organization called Safe Kids Worldwide voted us the safest metropolitan area for kids. And proving why we're probably not the hippest metropolitan area for kids, the entire student body of Oak Springs Elementary celebrated ... by making 300 children walk two blocks from ACC to their their school. Back in our day we called that exercise. And in unrelated news, that assistant principal from Bastrop High remains under investigation for possession of child......
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