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AUSTIN, TX - Looking for something to do this week? As more local businesses and venues reopen and it becomes safer to meet in small groups, don't miss the news on your Austin Patch community calendar. Here are some of the events…

AUSTIN, TX — This summer, Long Center will keep the music going with The Drop-In, a free series of concerts presented in partnership with ACL Radio. The socially distant series with 16 shows takes place from May 27 to September 9, 2021…

AUSTIN (KXAN) - On Sunday afternoon, visitors to Jester King Brewery "took a paw" to meet some potential new furry friends. PAWS Shelter of Central Texas celebrated its return to personal community events - and its upcoming…

Visitors enjoy the view from the top of the Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen on Saturday, May 29, 2021. The Summit Express lift opened for summer operation on Saturday, with the Cliffhouse…

Politics and Pop Culture ● The Texas Lege only meets every two years. It should be every 10.● 9-1-1: Lone Star is the best Austin firefighter show filmed in LA, starring Rob Lowe. It's the worst too.● Dirty Sixth is a downtown…

It's 1953, a week after Thanksgiving. Panic has set in at the Swanson Food Company. This is no small matter, because two hundred and sixty tons of leftover, unsold holiday turkeys are tightly packed in ten…

AUSTIN (KXAN) - This year the city of Austin announced a robust plan to house 3,000 people in three years. That would mean creating more than 750 new housing units of permanent support housing. However, KXAN noted that the…

Saru Jayaraman, president and co-founder of One Fair Wage (Photo by Sekou Luke) If you type…

Just 15 metal steps was all it took to descend into the unknown. For nearly two hours, a crowd of hundreds mopped sweat from their brows as they waited to make the passage over a steel boardwalk that crossed the water and led down…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Rain and a pandemic - recent reasons for canceling parts or all of the annual downtown art fair - couldn't dampen excitement for Round the Fountain, which is slated to begin on Saturday morning.Round the Fountain was…