Austinist was eager to get outside yesterday and take in an outdoor festival. We consulted the IST-list and found ourselves spoiled for choice: The Austin Fine Arts Festival, Spamarama, and the Lone Star Hot Rod Round Up were all happening downtown yesterday! We chose to hit both Spamarama and the Hot Rod show (which we'll refer to as HRRU for brevity), and found them to be about as different as one could imagine. Here's how it went down: more ›