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That Austin Girl
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Reporting live from Hyde Park in Austin, Texas: a twenty-something-girl-about-town takes on the city.
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New AETV! How to choose wine on a date, featuring Rex Pickett: Author of Sideways

Pssst.  Are you reading the NEW Austin Eavesdropper yet?  If not, jump on it!  This blog URL, thataustingirl.blogspot.com, will spontaneously combust on April 15.  This video...

02 apr 12

INTRODUCING: The new Austin Eavesdropper!

Did you know that Austin Eavesdropper has a new home on the Internet?  Come check it out!Wondering where your delightful, witty comments went on this blog?  Theyre all over there.  (Mo...

08 mar 12

Matthew McConaughey and I give Austin visitors some recommendations

Hello, Reader!Im still kind of in blogger purgatory right now while the new Eavesdropper site finishes its build-out (any day now I promise), but couldnt wait to share this with you.Who knew that one...

05 mar 12

A Night at Downton ... plus some other stuff.

Well Reader, last Sunday we had our much-anticipated Downton Abbey Season Finale party, at the old Austin City Limit studios.  May I just say that watching Downton Abbey, in a room of similarly ...

23 feb 12

AETV2: How to Prepare for an Oscars Party.

Welcome to the second-ever installment of AETV!In this webisode, my friend Dabney Dwelle (frontman for My Golden Calf) assists me with a very important fashion matter: How to prepare for an Oscars pa...

21 feb 12

THIS SUNDAY: Downton Abbey with KLRU and Austin Eavesdropper!

This Sunday is the big event: The Downton Abbey Season Finale Screening and Party, co-hosted by KLRU and Austin Eavesdropper!SugaPlump Pastries is generously providing treats for the event (pictured ...

17 feb 12

AETV Sneak Peek: How to Prepare for an Oscars Party.

Do you know what next week is?  The Oscars.  And also?  The second ever AETV! We loved our Jaynie Buckingham / Cutie Pies segment so much, that we decided to partner with ano...

16 feb 12

Loves old and new.

NEW LOVE:Watermelon radishes, from Greenling.  A humble radish, so gorgeous on the inside -- who knew?  Its particularly tasty with olive oil, honey, and lime.  I ate three on Sunday.O...

14 feb 12

Rio Rita.

I think the best Saturday nights are the serendipitous ones.  So, remember that Wondercraft hot guy contest I was judging?  Three cheers for the organizers, because that place was capital-p...

13 feb 12

On film.

I was in a dreamy sort of mood yesterday, when I stumbled on this gorgeous blog: EvaForeva, by artist Jenya Kurtsman.  Those are all her photos above.Jenya, like me, shoots with a Canon Rebel XS...

09 feb 12

Samba Sister.

My friend Rendi, whom you may recognize from this post.  What a babe, huh?Heres a funny little fact about my life.  Of all the rich, beautiful global cultures out there, there are two that ...

08 feb 12

The Beefcake Party.

In other event-related news this week (see yesterdays Downton Abbey post), I am judging a contest right now for an extra special Austin business, The WonderCraft.Have you ever seen The WonderCraft tr...

07 feb 12

We did it: Downton Abbey screening!

Well friends, it is Mission Accomplished around here. Remember how we were discussing Downton Abbey a few weeks ago?  And how we wanted a public screening in Austin?  Like really badly...

06 feb 12

This weekend: Carnaval Brasileiro!

All above images by: Merrick Ales Photography.Right, so, remember when we were talking about our New Years Words?  And how in 2011 I chose the word "openness?"  I was so successful ...

02 feb 12

Just released: Wild Childs new music video.

Megan Renart reviewed the debut album of local indie faves Wild Child for Austin Eavesdropper back in December, and since then, we havent been able to get "Pillow Talk" out of our heads. ...

01 feb 12

The Couple Behind Blue Dahlia Bistro.

Last night, I had dinner with my friend Kim at our favorite restaurant, Blue Dahlia Bistro.  Do you all know the sweet love story behind it?About six years ago, an Austinite named Amy Quinn was ...

30 jan 12

No reason, just gorgeous.

Over the holidays, my sister-in-law gave me this delightful magazine - more than that, a journal really - called Anthology.  Its impossibly pretty, all French food and gauzy photographs and year...

27 jan 12

The creatures of this house.

Its quite domestic around here. Do you remember Claudia, Reader?  Its been a while since we really let her have her own post.  Here is a picture of the two of us from back in the day, ...

25 jan 12

Food is Free + 24 Diner.

Sanctuary at Amala FoundationOn Saturday night, Ross and I did exactly two things.  One having to do with vegetables, community gardens, virtue; the other, fritters, butter, gluttony.Our first s...

24 jan 12

Lover, You Shouldve Come Over.

One thing I definitely do not post about enough on this blog is aerial silks, a.k.a. the love of my life.Its hard to overstate how I feel about this hobby, a relatively new one.  I started one y...

23 jan 12

Thingsll be great when youre Downton!

Oh, Downton Abbey. Where to begin. Where to even begin?In the last few weeks, it seems as if the Internet has exploded with rapture over Downton Abbey. When I asked on Austin Eavesdroppers Facebook p...

19 jan 12

Just being.

I was telling Ross this morning that I think Claudia and I can really relate to each other.  Claudia, as you may or may not know, is our cat."Were both anxious, impatient, and only children!...

16 jan 12

Saturday.

My friends Mai, Rose and I had a food trailer lunch date on Saturday, and while we did, we read parts of Roses old diary.  A diary that she has kept - stunningly! - from age 8 to 18.Have you eve...

13 jan 12

Make Me Up Before You Go-Go

Well Reader, its happening.  Austin Eavesdropper is getting another makeover and, brace yourselves, graduating from Blogspot."Wait.  Do you mean to tell me --"  I do."Youre...

12 jan 12

Introducing: Austin Eavesdropper TV!

You may recall a little conversation we were having last summer, Reader, the one where we were discussing goals.  Remember?  There was kombucha involved ... and kale.  Come to think of...

09 jan 12

Let us go then, you and I.

 Comforting Mix by Tolly Moseley on GroovesharkPhotoIve been in the mood lately to listen to some of my favorite "comfort food" songs, old and new, on repeat. Otis, meet Kat; Stevie, mee...

05 jan 12

Happiness is a book-stacked bedside table.

For my day job Reader, I am a literary publicist, and one of my clients this past year was the witty, wonderful Ruth Pennebaker.  During a reading at BookPeople, she told the audience: "I ca...

03 jan 12

The New Years Dive.

We all had very vague notions of what was going to happen on New Years Eve.  "2012," we murmured.  "This.  Is.  Big."And yet, my friends and I were undecided on ho...

02 jan 12

My New Years Word 2012.

Every New Years, I do a little thing called the New Years Word.  Its a movement - my own personal movement - away from New Years Resolutions, which never really work for me (or I suspect, anyone...

31 dec 11

What we once were.

Ever since I spent Christmas with my three little nephews, Ive been thinking about this line from the Wordsworth poem, "Tintern Abbey:" May I behold in thee what I was once.In that poem, Word...

28 dec 11

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