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  Halloween is becoming steadily bigger business, it's second only to Christmas among consumers — and that's largely credited to adults.According to a study by the National Retail Federation on Halloween spending, 47 percent of people ages 45 to 54 said they would participate in Halloween this ye...
10/25/2006
Last September I purchased a new Dell computer. It came in a cool box, sleek and gunmetal gray. Everything on it was wireless and worked seamlessly with this little box in my office with the blinking lights. I was happy as a clam for almost a year, and that is when the computer developed a mind o...
10/21/2006
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond exhibit celebrates the women artists of Gee's Bend, a small African American community in rural Alabama where, even today, only a single road leads in and out. Accordingly, the region's quilts reflect the passing of time slowed to a trickle; local c...
10/17/2006
Our own Austin Energy will snip the ribbon to their newest, most greenest power plant on Tuesday. Christened the Mueller Energy Center, part of the gigantic Mueller redevelopment project, the design and function of the building sports some pretty radical new fuel-saving developments. Utilizing th...
10/17/2006
 Sandra McKee is such a huge fan of the '60s-vintage TV horror sendup The Munsters that she decided to build a new house that looks just like the one on the show. And now she's living in it with her husband Charles. Remember the Munsters? The main characters were a collection of horror-movie reje...
10/15/2006
The Austin History Center Association exhibit “The Avenue, Austin’s Main Street since 1839” is now open and runs through January 10, 2007. Congress Avenue is the heart of Austin. It has served as the city’s center of commerce and staged our city’s most soulful demonstrations – from street parties...
10/13/2006
Austin might not have any theme parks or large zoos, but America's largest urban bat colony has become the city's best-known (and ecologically correct) tourist attraction. It all started in 1980, when the team of engineers designing the Congress Avenue bridge unknowinlgly created the crevices tha...
10/12/2006
Every once in a while I stumble across something that makes my life so much easier! Today I found "Hello Austin". This is an online site that has all of the info you could possibly want to know about Austin, Texas. (Restaurants, weather, music, art, where to shop etc.) This is the absolute best t...
10/10/2006
Single professionals relocating to Central Texas are in luck. According to relocation industry groups, Austin is among the best cities for relocating singles. For a third year, the two industry groups have paired to identify the cities with the most to offer relocating singles. The groups used st...
10/10/2006
Some of the smoke surrounding the vagaries of the smoking ban has cleared. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled today that some of the enforcement provisions were "unconstitutionally vague."The ruling did not overturn the existing ban, but it did state that bars must take greater measures to make...
10/08/2006
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Real Estate info and misc. ramblings from an Austin, Texas Realtor / Computer Nerd.