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Event Spotlight
🌳 It’s My Park Day and I need it now
All over the city, thousands of Austinites will volunteer in unison to make the city beautiful
Photo courtesy Austin Parks Foundation
Austin Parks Foundation’s spring edition of It’s My Park Day is this Saturday, March 7.
The bi-annual initiative gathers volunteers to help beautify, restore, and clean up Austin’s green spaces. This includes mulching the Bartholomew Park disc golf course, restoring the trail at Roy G. Guerrero Park, caring for the butterfly garden at Cook School Park, and much more. You can use the Park Picker to help you find a project.
Every volunteer will receive a free T-shirt, which will act as a (same-day only) coupon for free goodies at participating businesses like Amy’s Ice Creams, Rosen’s Bagel Company, and Zilker Brewing.
After a top-to-bottom redesign in 2025, this immersive showcase combines interactive elements, games, digital displays, and beautifully designed fossil habitats (with period-accurate flora and fauna projections).
77% of the Museum’s fossils were uncovered right here in Texas
93% of fossils on display are the real thing: Not replicas (which we learned is extremely rare)
Epic Encounters isn’t the only eye-catching exhibit, either.
Two Texas Titans greeted us in the gorgeous main hall (including the toothy grin of a full tyrannosaur skeleton), while the nearby Texas Transformation Gallery sent us on a 600-million-year journey through the state’s ecological evolution.
Bonus: We got to touch a slice of meteorite older than the Earth itself.
The votes have been tallied for Texas’s primary election. View the results — the general election is on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Announced
SXSW released its final round of star-studded programming, including a live podcast with Keke Palmer, a keynote with Jane Fonda, a talk with comedian Chris Fleming, a live chat with Riz Ahmed, and a conversation between Matt Strauss and Andy Cohen.
Travel
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will close down the South Terminal, where Allegiant and Frontier live, at the end of March. Starting in April, those two airlines will operate out of the Barbara Jordan Terminal to make room for the New Midfield Taxiways project.
Number
$60,287-$180,860. If your household income falls in that range, you’re considered middle class for Austin, according to a report from SmartAsset. Austin’s range was the No. 28 highest and No. 3 highest in Texas behind Frisco and Plano.
Festival
Here’s another free SXSW event to add to your schedule: Austin Sounds. KUTX will host live music from performers, including Chief Cleopatra and Blakchyl, from Thursday, March 12 to Wednesday, March 18 at Lefty’s Brick Bar.
Award
Punk band Die Spitz is the Austin Music Award’s Band of the Year. Other winners include Next of Kin for Best New Act, Ben Kweller for Musician of the Year, and Charley Crockett for Songwriter of the Year. Check out the full list to add to your music rotation.
Health
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Finalists for the Austin Under 40 Awards are here, and though we’d like to share them all with you, there are simply too many to name in our newsletter.
The 90 finalists — for categories including music, nonprofit service, technology, medicine, and architecture — will be honored at a gala on Saturday, May 9. If you want to celebrate alongside them, you can grab tickets here.
Five viral products that are actually worth paying attention to:
🛍️ A popular swap for claw clips: these flat hair clips for better comfortability and all-day wear.
🛍️ Owala’s best-selling water bottles, now available in exclusive prints + patterns from Urban Outfitters. Or, you can never go wrong with one of the classic color combos.
🛍️ This practical long-handle wall cleaner easily goes from cleaning baseboards to high areas — no step ladder required.
🛍️ A pair of cloud slides with an ultra-cushioned sole and sleek, durable design.
🛍️ Kasa’s smart lightbulbs that have 16+ million color options + can be controlled from anywhere using a free app.
I’m a longtime fan of Die Spitz, so I’m very happy to see them take home a host of Austin Music Awards. If you’re looking to get into their music, I would recommend starting with “Hair of Dog.”
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