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Popular Pizza Truck Is Opening an Austin Proper Restaurant
Nadia Chaudhury is the editor of Eater Austin covering food and pop culture, as well as a photographer, writer, and frequent panel moderator and podcast guest. A popular New York-style pizza truck is opening its first Austin proper physical restaurant this summer. Pedroso’s Pizza will be opening at 2207 Justin Lane within Brentwood bar Lala’s Little Nugget on Saturday, June 1.
Easy Tiger Closed in East Austin in the Spring
Nadia Chaudhury is the editor of Eater Austin covering food and pop culture, as well as a photographer, writer, and frequent panel moderator and podcast guest. Austin beer garden-slash-restaurant-slash-bakery mini-chain Easy Tiger is closing its East Austin location in 2024. The last day of service for Easy Tiger on 1501 East Seventh Street happened quietly sometime in late April.
Clyde's at The Ground Floor Theatre
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage serves up a delicious comedy to The Groundfloor Theatre centering around laughs, redemption, and restorative justice with the performance of Clyde's. Directed by Lacey Cannon Gonzales & Carl Gonzales, this Austin Premiere offers up a menu featuring loveable characters, big dreams, and a heartwarming story that's good to the last bite!
Singer promqueen infuses music with Vietnamese family, culture
Vietnamese American artist promqueen is making her mark as a rising star by infusing her songs with personal anecdotes of her family and Vietnamese traditions. Born and raised in Texas, promqueen, or Casie Luong, said she grew up with an expectation to assimilate into her hometown community which was mostly white, Texas Standard noted. Explaining that she was never popular at her school and never got the chance to be the prom queen, she reclaimed this title when she made it her stage name.
Review: CLYDE'S at Ground Floor Theatre
Ground Floor Theatre has cooked up another hit with their current production of Lynn Nottage’s CLYDE’S. Forgive the pun. One of Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage’s recent plays, CLYDE’S premiered at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 2021 before moving to Broadway later that year. The play is set in a truck-stop sandwich shop and centers around the lives of its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff, who are trying to rebuild their lives while contending with the tough-love, no-nonsense (I’m being kind here) owner, Clyde. The play skillfully combines humor and pathos, exploring themes of redemption, hope, and the struggle for a second chance in life. CLYDE’S is full of sharp dialogue, vivid characterizations, a blend of realism and some heartful magic. The play has been praised for its empathy and its nuanced exploration of the human condition, reinforcing Nottage's reputation as one of the most important and compassionate voices in contemporary American theater. What’s not to love about this successful recipe? Well… Clyde, maybe, and for all the right reasons… but we’ll get to that later.
Glen Powell Inducted into Texas Film Hall of Fame in Star-Studded Ceremony
The Austin Film Society (AFS) rolled out the red carpet for actor, producer, and screenwriter Glen Powell, who was inducted into the prestigious Texas Film Hall of Fame on May 16 at Troublemaker Studios. This star-studded ceremony coincided with the Netflix premiere of Powell’s latest project Hit Man at Austin’s historic Paramount Theatre.
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