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✈️ The airport’s busiest day ever
October 24, 2024 · Kelsey Bradshaw
🐝 🐕 Goooood morning! Have y’all read about these bee-sniffing dogs yet? I’m so proud of them!
Thank you to Tecovas, our exclusive launch sponsor and Western wear favs, for their support!
What's CITY Talking About?
🎶 SIMS Foundation Pausing Care
The SIMS Foundation, which helps Austin musicians find mental healthcare, announced it will pause its services starting Nov. 1 for 90 days to develop a new fundraising strategy. [KXAN]
🎙️ What Austinites Can Do To Stop Wasting Food
Angela Baucom, the city’s Food and Climate Program Coordinator, is on the City Cast Austin podcast today talking about how much food Austinites waste and how we can address food insecurity. [City Cast Austin]
🛫 ABIA Just Logged Its Busiest Day Ever
A total of 44,043 passengers traveled through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Monday after Formula 1 and the Texas-Georgia game, marking the airport’s busiest day on record. [Austin-Bergstrom International Airport]
🤔 Presidential Candidates Headed to Texas
Former president Donald Trump will be in Austin on Friday to record an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast, and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally in Houston on Friday. [KVUE]
🤠 Two Step Inn Lineup Announced
Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Sturgill Simpson, and Lynyrd Skynyrd are headlining the Two Step Inn music festival in April. Other acts include: Nelly, Eli Young Band, and Flatland Cavalry. [Two Step Inn]
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Giveaway Alert!
You have one more day to win a pair of tickets to the Blanton Museum of Art’s Surrealism Soirée on Friday! The party features a live performance by The Octopus Project, surrealist art-making, a mirrored photo booth, and more!
What: Two tickets to the Blanton Museum of Art’s Surrealism Soirée
When: Friday, Oct. 25 at 6 p.m.
Where: The Blanton Museum of Art
How: Two names will be randomly selected from those who fill out the interest form. Click here to enter!
You must enter to win by the end of today. Ticket recipients will be notified tomorrow via email.
What To Do
Thursday, Oct. 24
- 🎬 Austin After Dark Film Festival at Central Machine Works | 5 p.m. | Free | Govalle
- 🍺 Long Live The Little Longhorn Saloon at the Little Longhorn Saloon | 6 p.m. | Free | Allandale
Friday, Oct. 25
- 👻 Spooktacular 2024 at Bullock Texas State History Museum | 5 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🎨 Surrealism Soirée at the Blanton Museum of Art | 6 p.m. | $10 and up | UT Campus
- 🤘 KUTX Rock The Park at Mueller Lake Park amphitheater | 6:30 p.m. | Free | Mueller
- 🎤 Conan Gray at the Moody Center | 8 p.m. | $59 and up | UT Campus
🧛 Bye! I’m off to watch the season premiere of “What We Do in the Shadows,” the best show ever, ever, ever.
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