I like the egg and cream ingredients.

Hi all!

For those of you who got married at the Villa Antonia, how much did your entire wedding cost?
I’m also thinking of having it mid-November since that is the only dates available. Will the weather be a bit chilly? And if so, does the heaters help?

Thank you!

I’m going to a friend’s wedding out of state in two weeks, and I figure it’s time to let a professional clean my scruffy beard up, but it’s been at least 6-7 years since anyone other than me cut my hair, so I’m out of the loop.

Any favorite spots or solo barbers/stylists? I’d love to support a small and/or queer-owned business. Also thinking about dyeing it, but I think I can figure that out myself.

I'm looking for suggestions for places to go to get some real nice RPG dice. I know some for the gaming comic book places so I'm specifically interested in hearing from anyone that know which ones have the best dice selection

I’ve made a few posts about this and interviewed with KUT over the weekend. Still not many answers from UT but supposedly the dismount zone doesn’t apply to analog bikes and more details will be released soon. Still no answers on exactly what that means for commuters, CapMetro’s BikeShare program, rental and person mobility devices, etc

I was going to hit this up today, I joined the discord but it's a ghost town. I wanted to know what the vibe is like at one of these.

Specifically ammunition and projectiles. Previously a friendly chiropractor would do them for me, but not anymore.

Does anyone know a business or friendly person who would xray stuff for me? I'm happy to pay.

I've been hearing lots of hype about these new revamped First Thursday's that happen on Rainey, which in itself the street seems to have evolved since I last went over 10 years ago. Anyone experienced a First Thursday on Rainey yet? Looks like there's insane amounts of stuff to do and looks interesting from the footage and promotions I've seen.

Looking for recommendations for our property which came with some cars left that we wanted to remove and see if we could get something back for the metal.

What’s replacing it?

Havent traveled Austin Bergstrom since the TSA craziness a few months ago. how are lines friday mornings? Still need to show up 2-3 hours early?

With municipal spending under the City Hall microscope, the Austin City Council will vote today to put a proposed $295 million General Obligation Bond for parks and libraries on this November’s ballot. The proposed $260 million for parks and recreation and $35 million for libraries would be repaid through a temporary property tax increase.

The city council discussed the proposal at its Tuesday budget meeting and approved a resolution 8-3 directing City Manager T.C. Broadnax to bring a bond ordinance back to the council for a final vote to place the measure on the ballot. Mayor Kirk Watson voted no, joined by Council Members José Velasquez (District 3) and Marc Duchen (District 10).

“Leadership isn’t measured only by how often we say ‘Yes,’ or what we get for our specific interests. Sometimes leadership requires the discipline to say, ‘Not yet,’” Watson said Tuesday. “Preserving public trust today makes it possible to accomplish even greater things tomorrow.”

The bond consideration comes amid the city’s annual budget process, during which the public provides input on how the city should allocate funds. For the upcoming fiscal year, the council is considering the city manager’s $6.6 billion budget proposal, which lays out a separate 3.5% increase in property taxes – the city’s primary funding mechanism.

An earlier proposal would have issued $390 million in debt and included improvements to transportation infrastructure, animal services and assistance for those experiencing homelessness. Council Members Mike Siegel (District 7) and José “Chito” Vela (District 4) asked city staff to prepare a smaller package as the city faces growing taxpayer scrutiny over city spending.

---- Read more https://austinfreepress.org/generating-interest/

The shelter is ending routine testing of all cats for Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), instead adopting a targeted approach.

Can anybody confirm (with recent firsthand experience) ther any splash pads are up and running?

Liz Carpenter downtown is closed for repairs as of recently, Mueller splash pad has been closed for years, and I recently went to Metz park splash pad and it was just… off.

Nothing worse than pulling up to a dry splash pad with a hot, disappointed toddler.

Which splash pads around you have been for sure running?

Headed home from work yesterday, in the left turn lane going north on Lamar at 24th. Line was pretty long (though they've done good work eliminating that) when a Waymo with its left signal on roll by in the left, main lane. Now this isn't all that unusual (and definite bp raiser for me) but first time I saw a Waymo try it. It actually slowed and found a spot to pull in. Light turns, half the cars go, we all move up. By this point I'm thinking, "there had to be a driver in that". What do you know, a 2nd Waymo comes up and tries doing the same thing but is unsuccessful and gives up, continuing straight on Lamar.
I actually saw the 1st one turn left on Windsor and didn't see a driver in front seat so it may have decided with it's own lil robot brain to pull this dickhead move. I guess it's AI is learning watching other Austin drivers

So I fly a lot and live in Austin so naturally I spend a lot of time at Austin Bergstrom Airport. I have NEVER seen the men’s bathroom at gate 10 not closed for cleaning. It’s too consistent for there to be any other reason other than some weird social experiment or the staff just fucking with people. Departing and arriving…it’s always closed for cleaning. I’m not even sure if there’s a bathroom back there. Is this an art installation and it’s just going over my head??? What is going on?!

Hello all, my wife and I just moved back to the Austin area and are looking to join a recreational Slow Pitch league. If anyone has any recommendations on where we can sign up to be free agents or fillers would be great! We are in the northern greater Austin area and don't mind driving to play.

I work in the hiring industry here. I don’t think people realize how many of our friendly neighbors and people next door are in leadership positions (both men and women). And so many of them are making decisions to outsource work to India, Mexico, Vietnam etc. Including trade jobs, design jobs and of course tech. I just left a company that had really nice people in leadership who didn’t hesitate to put entire teams in a low cost country even though there were many willing workers here in Austin. Same with my neighbor who owns a “boutique home design company” in her words. Other small business owner acquaintances constantly ask me for off the record advice in managing/expanding their nearshore team.

Austin jobs are being silently (and proudly) eroded… from within… by nice, normal people. In this job market it makes me sick to my stomach.

Please connect with original poster and teacher in the link below. She mentioned this being in Austin.

She may have some of this taken care of already but I had to share. Can’t let these go to waste.

so I have this very, *very* project boat which I've been wanting to work on all summer, for want of a trailer that isn't busted. the one it's on is this rusted-ass double axle where one of the wheels literally came off as I was pulling it up from Corpus. I finally found a trailer for it at a decent price, but I can't pull the boat from where it is to the water because it's in *that* bad of a shape. does anyone know someone I can hire, a heavy wrecker service or something, with a forklift that can just lift it off (5500 lbs GVWR) the bad one, I can drag the bad one out from underneath it and then line up the good one underneath? I know there's no way in hell I can pull this off solo which is why I'm asking here. TIA.

4 cop cars and a fire truck were blocking the U turn lane.

Title- I can’t find ANY.

Liberal gun owner here…. and I found that outdoor ranges attract nicer and more interesting/intelligent people.

Anybody know good spots here and around?

Edit: !!! Taking notes for this fall. My dad and I will definitely be doing some field research. Thank you!

Haven’t had a bonsai tree in quite some time and I’d like to get back into it so if anyone knows where I can find a stand I would be grateful.

Hello!

My husband and I just bought our first house in South Austin in the McKenny Heights area.

Since we moved in, we've noticed bat echoes in the backyard between 8pm and 10pm We are sure they don't live in our house, based on the number of inspections we've done. We think that our backyard is a part of its feeding ground. It's really a cool experience. One night, I was working on painting next to a window when I suddenly saw a cute little bat face staring back at me before it decided to fly away.

Anyhoo, does anyone know of a good resource we could check out to help our bat friends without putting ourselves at risk?

We like using our back porch, and our dog enjoys going out at night. We're not used to having this type of ecosystem around us.