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Noteworthy
Chinatown Center Opening Celebrates Diverse Austin―The newest attraction in Austin invites increased diversity as the city welcomes Chinatown Center. Locals, as well as tourists, may now enjoy cultural foods, traditional shops and the largest Asian marketplace in Central Texas. The center, located on 10901 N. Lamar Blvd., should create more than 300 new jobs. It is also expected to increase traffic at other Asian-owned businesses in the area and bolster Austin's reputation as an international hub. For more information, visit www.chinatownaustin.com
Girlfriends Get Away to Austin―Austin CVB has launched a unique "Girlfriend Getaway" package, available online at www.austintexas.org through Dec. 30. Packages include hotel accommodations at The Crossings, Hyatt Lost Pines Resort & Spa or Radisson Hotel & Suites, as well as spa treatments at Milk + Honey Day Spa and coupons for original artwork from the Women and Wine Series® available exclusively at Austin's chic Kathy Womack Gallery. The first 12 packages booked receive additional amenities, including an Austin shirt and a complimentary bottle of Mirassou wine. For more information, visit www.austintexas.org.
Requiem Returns to the Skies―Blue Lapis Light/Sally Jacques once again reprises last summer's popular Requiem with performances at the Intel Building, each Thurs.-Sun. through Nov. 5. The site-specific dance work is created by artistic director Sally Jacques, in collaboration with an ensemble of dancers, climbing experts, technical designers and rigging experts. This performance takes place on the concrete columns and over the edges of the floors of the five-story structure at 400 San Antonio St. Dancers and climbers ascend and descend through the use of ropes, cloth, bungee cords and other aerial techniques to reach heights of up to 80 feet.
Visitor Center Welcomes Ghost Tours―Austin CVB teams up with Haunted Texas to host Halloween ghost tours, departing from the Austin Visitor Center, Oct. 20-31. The Visitor Center, located at 209 E. Sixth St., will remain open during the tour times, 7-10:30 p.m., to accommodate people taking part in the walking tours. Local businesses near the State Capitol, Sixth Street and the Warehouse District can expect to benefit from the additional downtown foot traffic. For more information, call 512-478-0098.
Top Billing for Austin City Limits―Paste magazine's "The Best 24 Hours on Television" issue names Austin City Limits as "the best place for music on television." Austin City Limits is the only music show featured in the list. "For those first 25 years, Austin City Limits was the showcase for the best in live roots-rock, country, blues and Americana. Now - with the more open-minded approach of the last several years and coming 32nd season - it's simply the best place on TV for live music, period," the magazine asserts.
Austin City Limits was also included at number 44 in the Paste reader's poll of the top 50 television shows. The series' 32nd season begins with a rare television appearance by one of the leaders of the British invasion and former Kinks frontman Ray Davies on Saturday, October 7, on KLRU.
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Sandy Gets Serious
Vogue
(October 2006)
"As the great grandson of a cousin of Jesse James has taken to Sandra Bullock, so has he taken to Austin, where the two are frequently seen eating ice cream at Amy's...or shopping at the old antiques stores that run for miles and miles into the countryside...'And you've got great boutiques, and young designers are coming out of Austin,' says Bullock."
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Waking Up the West End
Nightclub & Bar
(August 2006)
"Austin's Sixth Street district- more than 30,000 guests visit on a single, high-traffic night. Saturated with a mix of tourists, trendsetters, college kids and music connoisseurs, the area is teeming with kinetic energy in the form of entertainment value...(now West Sixth) has filled the void of what many in Austin were craving- a sophisticated evening away."
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Going to Austin
The New York Times
(September 17, 2006)
"Wherever trend spotters eventually mark the date, the mantra now is indisputable: the eccentric, laid-back college town of Austin, Tex., has flourished into a Hollywood darling and a byword for cool."
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Chinatown Center Opening Celebrates Diverse Austin
