Our regular 2GoNow3 ™ feature cuts through the online travelspatter by providing links to the only three travel resources you need to prepare for a trip.
This week’s 3fer: Everybody’s favorite, if increasingly overexposed, Red Star Edge City. In chronological order:
Austin: Keepin’ it Weird
By Beth D’Addono, The City Traveler
Friday, September 25, 2009
Full of pointers to a short list of good music venues and restaurants to check out. Tweet-size summary:
The only blue dot on the red map of Texas, Austin’s town slogan is “Keep Austin Weird.” Enough said. We were there.
Off-Beat Austin? Rock On
by Roy Furchgott, The Washington Post
Sept. 21, 2008
Solid high-points rundown for first-time weirdness pilgrims, with details. Money quote:
In just one weekend there, I was photographed with El Vez, the Mexican Elvis; had drinks next to a guy with an ostentatious mustache and the garb of a 1920s movie cowboy; was overcharged at not one but two fine establishments; and was befriended by people who cheerfully claimed to have done jail time.
The Austinist
Insider blog provides a deeper dive, with high-snark notes on events and news that suggests the texture of–and provides pointers to–life as it’s experienced by local hip-ners. It’s the most popular resource of the users of the social bookmarking site Delicious. Recent ripe observation:
The Mohawk offers up a hell of a future-look tonight, as even if the bands on this docket aren’t familiar to you yet, give it time: they will be. With a trifold bill featuring not one, but two bands whose debut albums garnered the much sought-after Best New Music designation from the loved or loathed pillar of tastemaking, Pitchfork Media, this is one of those lovely opportunities to go to a show and later brag about it to all the fools who were a step behind.
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Austin slideshow via Flickr: Irresistibly vivid visual overview
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