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Texas French Bread opens at same site after fire
The Austin staple has rebuilt and reopened on the same spot where its original building stood before it was destroyed by a fire. Tierra Neubaum gets more details on their menu, what's going on for the holidays and more.
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Hamburgers Have Come Off The Same Flat-Top At Hut’s Hamburgers In Houston For Decades
Airport meals have a reputation, and most of it is not flattering. Travelers usually grab something quick, eat it at the gate, and forget it before boarding. One burger counter in Texas keeps breaking that habit. It is often the busiest spot in its whole terminal, with lines forming for a name that has deep roots in the Lone Star State.
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Bat City Scaregrounds Wraps Final Buda Nights With Makeup Artists' Spooky Magic
Bat City Scaregrounds — Approximate Site of Final Halloween Weekend. Bat City Scaregrounds, the 15-acre Halloween complex just outside Buda, closes its 2026 season Friday and Saturday. The weekend is the final chance to visit this year, whether guests want to explore the haunted attractions or take in the midway; the park also offers a look at the artists who help create its roaming characters.
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Austin City Limits music festival
Austin, Texas, held the Austin City Limits music festival’s weekend two, celebrating 25 years and counting. Rather than a mud fest, this weekend was full of dust and astonishing energy. Bringing back the nostalgia again for weekend two from live performances from the Chainsmokers, Lorde, Blood Orange, Natasha Bedingfield, and Twenty-One Pilots. While also having current artists who are doing well in the music industry, including Charlie XCX, Young Miko, Suki Waterhouse, It’s Murph, Audrey Hobert, Sofi Tucker, Kings of Leon, Rüfüs Du Sol, and Levity. These artists’ genres range from rave, indie, and hip hop to Latino music. The setlist for this year’s ACL was elite. The enthusiasm every artist brought to that stage was breathtaking.
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6 Types of Lizards in Austin, Texas (and How to Tell Them Apart)
Explore amazing animal stories – visit Animal of Things Now and follow us! Photo by Linus Mimietz / unsplash Step onto almost any patio in Austin during the warmer months and there’s a good chance a lizard is watching from a nearby fence post or porch light. Central Texas sits at the crossroads of several ecological zones, which means the types of lizards in Austin, Texas range from tiny native skinks darting through leaf … This article, 6 Types of Lizards in Austin, Texas (and How to Tell Them Apart) , appeared first on Animal of Things . Discover more animal wonders – VISIT Animal of Things NOW AND FOLLOW US FOR FRESH UPDATES! Related Posts: • Types of Lizards in Maui: Geckos, Skinks, Anoles, and Chameleons Explained • 14 Largest Reptiles in the World, Ranked by Size and Weight • 36 Types of Snakes in the Philippines: From Harmless Ratsnakes to Deadly Cobras
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5 Best Restaurants in Austin, Texas You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Austin, Texas—where the sun bakes the limestone and the air hums with music, where murals bloom on every block and the scent of barbecue, chiles, and fresh tortillas drifts through neighborhoods stitched together by dreamers, old-timers, and newcomers alike. This is a city where the skyline is a patchwork—glass towers and painted bungalows, taco trucks and porch swings, each a testament to the city’s restless creativity and laid-back soul. Austin pulses with the energy of students, artists, techies, musicians, families, and old souls who remember when South Congress was just a sleepy street.
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This Classic Texas Burger Joint Has Been Serving Up The Same Delicious Recipe Since 1926
Nobody sets out to become a legend, but Dirty Martin’s Place in Austin, Texas, has managed it anyway, one burger at a time, for nearly a hundred years. If you’ve never been, that’s a situation worth correcting as soon as your schedule allows. The building on Guadalupe...
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Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen Expanding Into Central Texas
Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen is expanding into the Austin area with planned restaurants in Kyle and Leander, marking a larger move beyond its Houston-area base. The Austin Business Journal reported that the 33-year-old Tex-Mex chain selected sites along Interstate 35 as it continues growing outside its home market. The Kyle...
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Grass Carp Take on Hydrilla Battle in Lake Austin
For many visitors, Lake Austin’s underwater vegetation is out of sight and out of mind. But beneath the surface, city officials are engaged in an ongoing effort to manage hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant that can spread rapidly and interfere with recreation, water flow and the lake’s ecological balance.
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Clint Harp’s 100-Mile Mission: Supporting Immigrant Families from Waco to Austin
Former “Fixer Upper” and “Restoration Road” star Clint Harp is taking on a new kind of project: a nearly 100-mile run and ride from Waco to the Texas State Capitol to support local immigrant families. In this interview, Harp and Dr. Mary Landon Darden from HOTNIR—the Heart of Texas Network for Immigrant Rights—and its partner organization Refugia explain the challenges immigrant families are facing, how their groups provide support, and why Harp chose this effort now. They also share what Sunday’s run and ride will look like, how viewers can follow his journey, and how to donate to help fund their work.
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Mercer Restaurant Planned Inside Downtown Austin’s Thompson Hotel
A new restaurant called Mercer is on the way to Thompson Austin, the Hyatt-run hotel at 500 San Jacinto Blvd. in downtown Austin. Work on the 4,269-square-foot space is scheduled to begin in December 2026, with completion targeted for August 2027. The project will turn an existing restaurant space inside...
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Austin Area Halloween Events 2026
This is list is all about the Halloween gatherings in and around Austin. 5 Stones Brewery | Toby G’s annual release party, live music + Trunk or Treat. Vacancy Brewing | Scaryoke | 4th Annual Costume Karaoke contest if finally back!. The Brewtorium | Flights of Fright | 5...
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Dan Rather turns 95 this week: 'Here is my message to every eligible voter'
AUSTIN — As he turns 95 this week, Texas native Dan Rather is urging eligible voters to cast ballots in the midterm election in a Facebook post, regardless of their political affiliation. Here is my message to every eligible voter, whatever your political affiliation: If this worn and battered...
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Intero chefs launch new Austin steakhouse in abandoned restaurant space
Two highly regarded Austin Italian restaurants have a sister concept on the way. Emery, a new concept by chefs Ian Thurwachter and Krystal Craig of Intero and Poeta, is a new steakhouse opening Thursday, November 5. Emery is the odd one out as it's not an Italian restaurant, but it...
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Some Of The Most Unforgettable Meals In Texas Begin With These 10 Local Traditions
A three-quarter-pound chicken fried steak in Texas gets cooked on a grill instead of dunked in a deep fryer. That one detail made me stop and read the whole menu twice. Then the stories kept getting better, including a taco shell that puffs into a golden pocket and a trademarked name to protect it. Another kitchen helped make fajitas famous after starting in a little building in front of a struggling tortilla factory.