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Preview: Vodka for Dog People

“This has definitely been a marathon, not a sprint,” said Beth Bellanti, marketing, Tito’s Handmade Vodka. “Really, that’s the story of Tito’s in general.” Although the partnership between Tito’s Vodka and Emancipet, a low-cost spay/neuter clinic that started in Austin, officially began about a year ago, Bellanti said their relationship goes back more than a decade past […]

Preview: You Can't Sit With Us - Craft Beer Subculture

Let’s Talk About Beer: Beer. Beer isn’t a scary word. It’s happy, it’s casual—everybody loves beer. (OK, I’m sure plenty of people don’t love beer, but just go with it.) What about lager, though? Stout? Porter or IPA? Many people are intimidated by those words and the craft beer culture in general. But do they […]

SXSWesteros

Winter is coming. Okay, that isn’t very accurate, but Winter has come to the Austin Music Hall. Fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones can experience life in Westeros at Game of Thrones: The Exhibition. Featuring hundreds of props and replicas from all four seasons of the popular show, Game of Thrones: The Exhibition […]

A Texas Filibuster: How Streaming Politics Beat TV

On June 25 at midnight, nearly 200,000 people worldwide were watching the Wendy Davis filibuster. Zero of those viewers were watching on CNN or Fox News or MSNBC. Instead, anyone that wanted to watch the most interesting political story of the summer, and quite possibly the year, tuned in to the Texas Tribune livestream. Rodney […]

Taking Risks for Great Social Storytelling

Art and social media are not necessarily things that you would think compliment each other. One seems a thoughtful, deep and meaningful media while the other is often regarded as fleeting and meaningless. However, Dan Fletcher who is founder of Beacon, a startup that connects readers and writers to fund journalism and artist Tanja Hollander beg […]