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🚨 The Driskill is getting a makeover
May 21, 2025 · Kelsey Bradshaw
📸 Happy Hump Day! I highly recommend checking out these Jay Janner photos of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson filming near the Long Center!
What's CITY Talking About?
🥵 Austin’s Summer Is Going To Be Hot
While this summer won’t be as hot as the summer of 2023, which saw a record-breaking number of triple-digit days, National Weather Service forecasters say a hotter-than normal season for the Austin area is likely. It all depends on how much rain we can get in the next few weeks. [KUT]
🐂 A New Bull Riding Season Is Starting
The Austin Gamblers, the reigning champions of the 2024 Professional Bull Riding Team series, are about to start their next season and we’re getting up to speed. [City Cast Austin 🎧]
🚓 4 More Arrested in Juneteenth Shooting
U.S. Marshals arrested three adults and a 17-year-old in relation to a shooting at a Round Rock Juneteenth celebration that killed two women last summer. Three other people have already been indicted in the incident. [CBS Austin]
🧑🍳 New MML Chef Will Makeover Driskill Hotel
Famed New York City Chef April Bloomfield is moving to Austin in June for a job as executive chef of MML Hospitality, and one of her first projects will be making over and refreshing the Driskill Hotel’s restaurants and bars. [Texas Monthly]
What To Do
Wednesday, May 21
- 🎨 Experiential Community Mural at Austin Creative Reuse | 11 a.m. | Free | Windsor Park
- 🖌️ Sarah Doan’s Art Workshop at Austin Public Library University Hills Branch | 4 p.m. | Free | University Hills
- 👕 Clothing Swap at Nomadic Outpost | 6 p.m. | Free | Sunset Valley
- ❓ Taylor Swift Trivia at Tony C's Pizza and Beer Garden | 7 p.m. | Free | North Austin
- 🎤 The Watters 20th Anniversary Show at Antone’s | 7 p.m. | $14.45 | Downtown Austin
- 🦋 Pupa - A Storytelling Show at East Austin Comedy Club | 7 p.m. | $13.45 | East Austin
- 🎶 Hippo Campus at ACL Live at the Moody Theater | 8 p.m. | $41 and up | Downtown Austin
- 🧑🎤 80’s Karaoke at Volstead Lounge | 9 p.m. | Free | East Austin
Thursday, May 22
- 🌇 Golden Hour Tour at Laguna Gloria | 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. | Free | Tarrytown
- 🎶 Vibe Vault: A Celebration of Global Music & Heritage at Antone’s | 7:30 p.m. | $14.45 | Downtown Austin
- 😂 Anybody but Tony: A DEI Comedy Show at Double Trouble | 7:30 p.m. | Donation based | North Loop
- 🎷 The Drop-In at the Long Center | 8 p.m. | Free | Bouldin Creek
- 👑 Futch Fetish: An All Lesbian Drag Show at Cheer Up Charlie’s | 9 p.m. | Cover possible | Downtown Austin
🦥 Bye! I’m reading about how the Texas Department of Transportation found the tooth of a giant sloth while doing an environmental review in Lubbock. A giant sloth!
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