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• Did you miss Big Boi at SXSW? Then you can catch him at the 40 Acres Fest this weekend!
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Plenty of Austin publications routinely print lists of the best and most popular (which aren’t always the same thing) Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants in town. When was the last time anyone bothered to ask vegans? Right, right – the words “vegan” and “enchilada” are mutually exclusive. After all, vegans don’t want enchiladas con carne, or with sour cream sauce, or even with cheese. But being vegan does not preclude being a hungry Texan, and for lucky Austinites, the options are perhaps shockingly numerous. more ›

FRIDAY [18] festival • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrations at Palmer Events Center (11:30am-1pm) party • Nightster Launch Party with Riverboat Gamblers at Scoot Inn (Free Bud 8-9pm, Show at 10pm, 21+) art • Closing Reception: The Puppet Show - Puppets and portraits of Mexican artists by fourth-grade students at Sanchez Elementary at Las Manitas Avenue Cafe, 211 Congress (4:30-6pm) books • Milton Burton presents The Sweet and the Dead at BookPeople (7:00pm)... more ›

John at Blue Star Cafeteria and Emily at Ranch 616 reminded us this week that, yeah, the food is the thing, but fantastic table service can make first-class food out of this world. more ›

FRIDAY [21] [food] Summer Social at the Whole Foods Culinary Center at Whole Foods Market, 525 N Lamar ($15, 5:30-7pm) (link) [music] Appleseed Cast, Criteria, Russian Circles, the Lovely Sparows at Emo's (link) [music] Los Lonely Boys, Shawn Sahm & the Tex Mex Experience at Stubb's (link) [music] Rainer Maria, the Format, Anathallo, Street to Nowhere at the Parish Room (link) (interview) [music] DJ Jester and Lederhosen Lucil at Waterloo Records (link) [music] The Gourds... more ›

Burgers, pizza, burritos and pheasant quail andouille gumbo, you can get it all at the ACL music fest this weekend. Yes, if you happen to have a hankering for some Pheasant Quail Andouille Gumbo, then all you'll have to do is head over to the Prejean's booth (Number 14). God, what could be more excellent than that? Except maybe seeing the Arcade Fire live (plus Rilo Kiley, The Decemberists, and Franz Ferdinand all in... more ›

Austinist has received an anonymous tip that Rachael Ray of 30 Minutes Meals with Rachael Ray and $40 a Day is coming back to Austin for some chow and she'll be dining at Santa Rita Tex Mex Cantina on Thursday around 2pm. Okay, the anonymous tipper is an Austinist contributor who works there. We've been inspired by the recent disclosure of Deep Throat's identity. more ›

We say to ourselves, we say, selves, time for some Brazilian food. Because we are hungry and we've seen way too much of Thundercloud Subs. Not to mention Italian, Chinese, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Selves, we say, let's go out to eat and eat well; let's go to Sao Paulo's. Plus, we hear they have good fancy drinks. São Paulo's used to be SamPaio's. So recently, in fact, that the old name... more ›