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🤔 How Travis Co is spending your money
January 6, 2025 · Kelsey Bradshaw
🤠 Happy Monday! Anyone else still thinking about Beyoncé’s Christmas Day halftime performance?
What's CITY Talking About?
🚓 NOLA Attack Won’t Stop APD From Reopening Sixth Street to Traffic
Austin police will move forward with a plan to reopen Sixth Street to vehicular traffic on the weekends, even after a man killed 15 people by driving through a downtown crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. [KUT]
🤔 How Travis County Plans To Spend Your Higher Taxes
Travis County Judge Andy Brown is on the City Cast Austin podcast today sharing what exactly officials plan to do with money made from increased property taxes. [City Cast Austin]
🥶 Temperatures To Drop
Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing, and possibly into the 20s, tonight and through Wednesday. [National Weather Service]
- Check on your neighbors, and make sure you’re prepared at home! [City Cast Austin]
🫨 Cotton Bowl Tickets Will Cost You Hundreds
Football tickets to the Jan. 10 Cotton Bowl in Arlington, featuring the Texas Longhorns versus Ohio State University, will cost you anywhere from roughly $377 for a nosebleed seat to at least $4,000 for a spot on the 50-yard-line. [CBS Austin]
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Where Is This?
It’s the first “Where Is This?” of the year! I spent New Year’s Eve at this spot somewhere downtown. If you know where this photo was taken, respond to this email with your best guess to be featured in next Monday’s newsletter!
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What To Do
Monday, Jan. 6
- 🤸 Toddler Yoga Storytime with ATX Yoga Girl at Austin Public Library Central Library | 10 a.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 💗 Community Volunteering: Quilting Fabric at Austin Creative Reuse | 10 a.m. | Free | Windsor Park
- 💪 Yoga with UT FIT Mini Series at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center | 10:30 a.m. | $12 | Circle C Ranch
- 📚 The New Romantics Book Club at BookPeople | 7 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🎻 Pink Martini at Paramount Theatre | 8 p.m. | $35 and up | Downtown Austin
- 🎤 Camp Karaoke at Rain on 4th | 10 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 🎶 Little Elmore Reed Blues Band at Sam’s Townpoint | 10 p.m. | Free | Tanglewood Forest
Tuesday, Jan. 7
- 🎨 Free Day at Blanton Museum of Art | 10 a.m. | Free | UT Campus
- 🍿 Odd World Presents: “Carnosaur” at We Luv Video | 7 p.m. | Free | North Loop
- 🎭 “Hamlet” at Sterling Stage Austin | 7:30 p.m. | $10 | St. Johns
- 🎸 JD Clark & Torin Franklin Song Swap at Hole in the Wall | 8 p.m. | $5 | UT Campus
- 🎵 D-Madness at C-Boy’s Heart & Soul | 9:30 p.m. | $12 | South River City
- 🪩 Tuesgayz at Barbarella | 10 p.m. | $5 | Downtown
👋 Bye! I’m off to explore Austin’s Holly neighborhood for an upcoming guide!
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