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⛔ Biden postpones Austin visit
July 15, 2024 · Kelsey Bradshaw
🤗 Welcome to Monday, y’all! I must start today’s newsletter with a warning that I have managed to write about Pitbull again two full weeks after his performance at the University of Texas. Oops!
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What's CITY Talking About?
🚨 Biden Postpones Austin Visit
President Joe Biden is no longer visiting Austin today after the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the weekend. Biden was expected to give a keynote address at LBJ Presidential Library’s 60th anniversary commemoration of the Civil Rights Act. A new date for the commemoration event will be announced this week. [LBJ Presidential Library]
🎙️ What Biden’s Rescheduled Austin Trip Means
City Cast Austin Podcast Host Nikki DaVaughn is joined by Quorum Report’s Scott Braddock and City Cast Austin Executive Producer Eva Ruth Moravec on today’s episode discussing the implications of Biden’s canceled trip, the Trump rally shooting, and what Texans’ role is in all of it. [City Cast Austin]
🏗️ Wishbone Bridge Trail Detour Starts Today
An 18-month-long detour on the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail near Longhorn Dam starts today as construction begins on the city’s wishbone bridge. Trail users will be rerouted northbound on the east side of South Pleasant Valley Road. [City of Austin]
- Give your input on a mosaic mural planned for the new underpass on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., at the Rudy Mendez Recreation Center. [Austin Monitor]
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Where Is This?
Congratulations to John Redford for correctly guessing where last week’s photo was taken: Beneath the tower at the University of Texas at Austin during rapper Pitbull’s iconic, amazing, stunning, incredible, beautiful, and life-altering performance on June 30.
OK, my coworkers think this week’s photo might be too hard but I have faith in us! Where was this taken?
Reply to this email with your best guess!
What To Do
Monday, July 15
- 🕺 Monday Night Dance Party at The Far Out Lounge | 7 p.m. | $5 | South Austin
- 📚 Nightmare Factory Book Club: “Silver Nitrate” at BookPeople | 7 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 👱 Taylor Swift Muzingo (Music + Bingo) at Mozart’s Coffee Roasters | 8 p.m. | Free | Tarrytown
Tuesday, July 16
- 🩸 Blood Drive at Austin Public Library Central Library | 11 a.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🌹 “A Court of Thorns and Roses” Trivia at Lulu’s | 7 p.m. | Free | South Austin
- 👑 The Drag Queen Game Show! at The Highball | 8 p.m. | Free | South Lamar
👋 Talk to you tomorrow! I’m reading this fascinating Austin American-Statesman interview with a photographer who was in the motorcade the day President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. He praised the photographer who captured photos of the attempted assassination on Trump, saying, "He did not flinch."
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