How to Crack Pecans in Austin Texas For those of you who are inclined toward urban foraging, or if you’re lucky enough to have a pecan tree on your property, you’ve noticed that 2024 is the best pecan harvest that Austin has seen since at least 2020. This is no doubt due to the relatively…
KeepAustinWild.com’s Great Austin Red Line Bar Crawl: MLK Station You may have heard that Austin has a commuter rail system, but have never actually used it. It’s probable that you have never even seen it. This is because the rail line is a sad budgetary compromise. The initial bond proposal for a commuter line was…
I despise roaches. I despise them so much that I won’t even post a picture here, I don’t even like looking at the pictures. I want to share what I learned in my quest for a DIY answer to getting rid of roaches in my yard and house. This approach will also keep ants and…
Everyone knows about SXSW and ACL. You probably also know about the bats under the Ann Richards bridge. But you may not have heard about the wildest, most exciting summer spectacle in Austin: The yearly gathering of purple martins before they migrate down to Brazil. Just before sunset every night, from mid-July to mid-August, half…
The Greatness of the Texas Music Office Austin, Texas is known for so many things: Keep Austin weird, Moon tower city, Leslie Cochran in the thong, the Silicon Hills. The list goes on. Above all, I believe most people around the country and the world know Austin at best for the city’s official slogan, “The…
If you have visited Austin’s local toy store, Toy Joy, you might have had an unforgettable experience surrounded by a wide array of unique and exciting toys, trinkets, and collectibles. In late 2017. Toy Joy expanded its fun into a delicious new business, Yummi Joy, an equally unique candy and cafe shop in central Austin. Even…
Great March/April Tour: Marble Falls, Lake Buchanan & Llano Road Trip This Accidental Tour Yielded Abundant Wildlife, Beautiful Country Drives Festooned With WildFlowers, and the Best Mexican Food I’ve Ever Had in Texas I have been travelling up north a lot working on a rental house I have on Lake Buchanan. Sure, you can head…
Best Burger in Southwest Austin Ok…FINE, I’ll take the 16 dollar burger, fries and a drink, but I am NOT happy about it, Burger Fi I am angry…angry about 9 dollar hamburgers, and 5 dollar plates of fries. At BurgerFi in Southwest Austin (and judging from the expense and effort put into the interior design,…
Want to REALLY Get Your Freak On? Try the Austin Community Drum Circle. Free, and open to everyone, and we mean EVERYONE. There are a few groups in Austin that organize drum circles, but one of the largest and most well-organized is the Austin Community Drum Circle. The Circle is sponsored by the folks at…
Calton Cases of Austin: The Highest Quality Guitar Cases We’ve Ever Seen For over 40 years, Calton Cases has been making fine instrument cases–but these aren’t like any guitar case you’ll find for $109 at your big-box musical instrument store. Calton makes a fiberglass-shelled, hyper-protective, handmade masterpiece. And they do all this right here in…
Miata vs. Porsche 914 Club Racing Event at Harris Hill Raceway; Season Opener on 2/14/2015 Harris Hill Raceway, a private race track and club in San Marcos, TX, will hold the season opener of its Harris Hill Challenge series this coming Saturday, 2/14/2015. The Challenge series features early generation Mazda Miatas and Porsche 914 in two…
Texas as a whole has some of the best freshwater fishing in the industrial world. We have Lyndon B. Johnson to thank for that. His rural electrification programs have speckled this state with massive reservoirs, entirely artificial environments filled with whatever sport fish the state cares to stock. Within the Austin city limits, the fishing…
About Lily’s Sandwich (Or Lily’s Cafe, or Lily Sandwich, We Aren’t Sure) The first thing you’ll notice about Lily’s Sandwich is that a steady stream of locals come through for the french baguettes–Lily’s bakes their own and serves them up as sides to Bo Kho and soups, or for delicious sandwiches. Lily’s excels in other areas…
Best Place to Get a Donut Before You Go to The Bar, and After You’ve Passed The Exam This bakery only starts serving its donuts at 8:40PM, so this is an indicator of the niche market they attempt to attract. I have seen lines going around the building (unassuming) when driving past it around this…
Curra’s Grill in South Austin is the perfect dinner spot for someone looking to escape the standard Tex-Mex dishes in town and try something a little more authentic. The kitchen offers a welcoming selection of chicken, beef, pork, seafood and vegetarian dishes with a descriptive menu that even non-foodies can understand. All of their meals…
Harris Hill Road is a member-based race track in north San Marcos, about 24 miles south of downtown Austin, off of IH35. It’s not the finest race track in the area (think Circuit of the Americas), but for the do-it-yourselfer, it’s heaven on earth. Membership fees are about $190 per month, plus tax, and membership…
After celebrating its seventh year in business this past October, Feathers Boutique still remains one of the the premiere places to shop for ladies vintage clothing in Austin. Somehow, owners Masha Poloskova and Emily Hoover have managed to acquire some of the most chic vintage wear around town. I think it is because they value…
Have kids in Circle C? Are they driving you crazy indoors? We’ve put together a map of playgrounds in Circle C. View Circle C Playgrounds in a larger map
If you ask ten Austinites about their favorite taco in town, you will get ten different answers. Austin is awash in delicious taco options, ranging from dingy authentic carts to high quality sit-down taquerias. Torchy’s exists in both worlds, with well crafted tacos that riff on the best of Tex-Mex. The locations come in three…