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🎶 Lloyd Maines is here!!
January 23, 2025 · Kelsey Bradshaw
🎭 Alert, alert! Tickets for the five-day run of "Les Misérables" at Bass Concert Hall in February are nearly sold out. The show runs Feb. 4-9 and tickets can be purchased online.
What's CITY Talking About?
🧑🍳 Austin Recognized in 5 James Beard Award Categories
Austin chefs and restaurants are among the Texas semifinalists for James Beard awards. Award finalists will be announced on April 2, before winners are declared on June 16. [Eater Austin]
🥂 Should More Austinites Try Dry January? Doctors Think So.
Whether it’s January or not, taking a month off of alcohol is good for you — and could even reduce your chances of getting certain types of cancer. Austin Public Health Medical Director Dr. Desmar Walkes is on the City Cast Austin podcast today talking about what Dry January can do for Austinites. [City Cast Austin]
📈 AISD Special Education Evaluation Requests Are Up
Austin Independent School District needs to hire more specialists to handle an increase in special education evaluation requests. Such requests have increased by roughly 900 a year in the last three years. [Austin American-Statesman]
🏠 Austin Rents Falling
Austin is one of the only major U.S. cities where rental prices are going down. Housing experts say prices have been falling for nearly two years due to a rise in the number of new apartment buildings in the area. [The Texas Tribune]
What To Do
Thursday, Jan. 23
- 📗 Pajama Storytime at Austin Public Library Central Library | 6:30 p.m. | Free | Downtown Austin
- 💃 Shimmy, Shake, Support! at Kick Butt Coffee | 7 p.m. | $15 and up | Skyview
- 📚 Book Swap & Happy Hour at Captain Quack’s Bakery and Coffeehouse | 7 p.m. | Free | Westgate
- 🏀 Texas Women's Basketball vs. Tennessee at the Moody Center | 8 p.m. | $9 and up | UT Campus
Friday, Jan. 24
- 🤼 WWE Friday Night SmackDown at the Moody Center | 6:30 p.m. | $35 and up | UT Campus
- 📮 “Postcards From The Border” at McCullough Theatre | 7:30 p.m. | $29 and up | UT Campus
- 🎤 Hi, How Are You Day 2025 at Paramount Theatre | 8 p.m. | $44 and up | Downtown Austin
- 🥳 Party Girl: A Night Of Party Girl Anthems at Empire Garage | 9 p.m. | $10 | Downtown Austin
- 🪩 Anxious! At The Disco at The Highball | 9 p.m. | Free | South Lamar
- 🎶 CAZAYOUX and El Combo Oscuro Live Taping at Continental Club | 10 p.m. | $15 | Bouldin Creek
🐸 Bye! I’m revisiting this story about Austin artist Daniel Johnston after Hi, How Are You Day yesterday.
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