Austin360.com e-Lert!: November 16 - November 19 Turkeys Trotting and Longhorns Hopping No, it's not a new dance. It's Thanksgiving weekend in Austin. We've got the best guide to make this Thanksgiving holiday one to remember. There's the traditional Texas vs. A&M brawl starting in the wee hours of Friday morning. And for those of you anxiously awaiting holiday shopping, check out our links to some of the best steals and deals in town. � Austin Thanksgiving Guide � Store sales in Austin NEED WEEKEND PLANS? Saturday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Nov. 26 -- Hear ye, hear ye! Pray assemble for ye olde worlde looke at a Victorian Christmas, Austin style. Dust off your Christmas spirit Wednesday, Nov 22 - Sunday, Dec. 3 -- Enjoy one of life's most romantic fairy tales as 'Beauty and the Beast' graces the Bass Concert Hall. Start your magical journey Saturday, Nov. 25 -- Transport the wee ones and some toys to Congress Avenue for Chuy's annual 'Children Giving to Children' parade. Give a little Christmas cheer NEED MORE IDEAS? Here are our Austin weekend entertainment highlights. For details and even more, see our Movie Guide, Best Bets and the complete calendar at: Entertainment � Arts: Let this photo exhibit transport you to the tranquil world of fly-fishing � Community: Join in tax-free day at Umlauf Sculpture Gardens � Movies: A Grinch, angels and clones fill Austin screens. Get show times � Music: Love The Pogues? Well, Shane MacGowan's in town. Get the skinny � Recreation: Fill your day with color as you seek out Central Texas' fall foliage � Restaurants: Enjoy a meal at one of Austin's Top 10 high-end eateries � Sports: Prepare yourself for Friday's big UT game � Travel: Map your route before setting off for the holidays

Is This true??? Rules for Living in Austin 1. First you must learn to pronounce the city name. It is AWS-TUN and it does not matter how people pronounce it in other places. 2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Austin has its own version of traffic rules. There's no book about them. You've just got to get in your car and hope you survive to learn them. 3. All directions start with, "Go down Mopac...cause you don't want to get on 35." 4. Burnet, Braker, and Lamar have no beginning and no end. 5. It's impossible to go around a block and wind up on the street you started on. The Chamber of Commerce calls this a "scenic drive." 6. The 8:00am rush hour is from 6:30am to 9:30am. The 5:00pm rush hour is from 3:30pm to 7:15pm. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning. 7. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you cannot be from Austin.You may only apply your brakes when the end of the yellow light and the beginning of the red light create a "burnt-orange" hue. 8. If you like being an individual, don't even think of working for Dell. You'll be branded like cattle and made to walk all over town with your "Dell tag" around your neck or clipped on your belt loop. 98% of the people within a 200 mile radius work for Dell. When someone says, "Michael Dell", Dell employees are trained to face Round Rock, hit their knees, put their face to the ground, weep, and rock back and forth. 9. Just remember that Mopac IS Loop 1 and Research IS 183. 2222 is Northland or Allendale or Koenig. Don't try to figure it out. Just accept it. If you question the intelligence behind this naming convention, people will simply tilt their heads to the right and stare at you. 10. If moisture is determined to be rain, not sweat, all traffic must immediately cease; ditto for daylight savings time, girl applying eyeshadow across the street, or a flat tire three lanes over. Do not attempt to access any road after an apocalyptic event like snow or South X Southwest. 11. Construction on I-35 is a way of life, and a permanent form of entertainment. Get used to it! 12. Keep in mind that the sloppily dressed "hippie" in sandals and earrings is probably the latest IPO millionaire around here. 13.Stay away from the Congress bridge at sundown if you do not like the thought of being in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. 14. And yes we all know that's a man in a teddy and tiara on Congress.It's Leslie and he probably makes more money than you do.

Hey, Will Kreth is beaming out of page 52 in this weeks Chronicle (March 2, 2001). Way to go, Will, "idea guy and marketing pioneer". Says Will feels it's 1991 all over again. It says Kreth feels "online business culture is ripe for reinvention" It talks about Lifeset.com and Wills effort to do the media legwork for CD labels, concerts and booksignings and deliver news of new releases, etc to customers. This is all in the context of SXSW Interactive, where he's a panelist.

Need to call Will about happy hour tonight, why it's Friday!

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=78 Good article no the new Bob Bullock Museum.

Busted. Tish Hinojosa. For smuggling some pills from Mexico. It's in today's snakeskin: Musician Hinojosa faces drug charge Singer is accused of trying to smuggle 30 Rohypnol pills across Texas-Mexico border By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, August 9, 2002 Austin singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa was set to headline a show at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday night. She abruptly canceled her performance two days after her arrest on charges of trying to smuggle 30 pills of Rohypnol into Texas from Mexico. The 46-year-old singer, who has gained national attention for her children's books and her staunch support of bilingual education as well as her music, faces a federal misdemeanor charge that carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. . . . if the Feds have her, she's toast.

Kelso got all over this, as you can imagine. No further news. She accepted responsiblity at the scene, stating she thought they were "x"; ecstasy pills. They were in her 25 yr old companions shoe.

more from the above article Hinojosa, who has not faced previous criminal charges, told federal agents in Laredo that she thought the stash in her companion's boot was Ecstasy, police said. Drug experts said Ecstasy can resemble Rohypnol but has sharply different effects. Ecstasy is a psychotropic drug that heightens physical sensations. Rohypnol is a common sleep aid in other countries but is banned in the United States. It's often referred to as the date-rape drug because of its use in such crimes. Both drugs can resemble aspirin in appearance. Law officers said Hinojosa acknowledged the pills were hers and said she had asked her friend, Jason Miles Phillips, 25, of Woodland Park, Colo., to bring them across the border. Phillips and Hinojosa, who has served as spokeswoman for the National Women's Caucus and the National Association of Bilingual Education, were charged with possessing Rohypnol with the intent to distribute and were released on $25,000 bond Wednesday. "The alleged incident stands in contrast to Miss Hinojosa's decadelong tradition of community involvement," her publicist, Marsha Milam, said. "She is confident she will be able to address this in full." Hinojosa was back in Austin on Thursday, friends said. She could not be reached for comment. U.S. Customs Service spokesman Rick Pauza said Hinojosa and Phillips crossed the Gateway to Americas bridge -- one of Laredo's four border crossings -- at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Federal agents, he said, were suspicious of their behavior and decided to conduct a search. The pills were uncovered in a small box in her friend's left cowboy boot. Hinojosa could face a trial later this year. "It's so out of left field," said Hinojosa's agent, Val Denn. "I've worked closely with her for five years and have never seen or heard of her doing any drugs whatsoever. It's so out of character." Denn was one of dozens of Hinojosa's friends, fans and supporters who didn't learn of the allegations until Thursday. Others also were stunned and quickly denounced the charges. "It must definitely be a mistake," said Nilda De La Llata, owner of El Sol y La Luna, a restaurant on South Congress Avenue where Hinojosa was scheduled to perform this month. "She wouldn't be smuggling pills across the border." Hinojosa has spent the past decade building her music career and has recorded for major record labels such as Warner Brothers and A&M. Her most recent recording, "Taos to Tennessee," was released last year. Thursday's event at the Paramount would have given Hinojosa a chance to perform for dozens of booking agents from across the country. tplohetski@statesman.com; 445-3605

WOW! We didn't hear about this up 'north' or out 'west'... What ever happened to Tish??

I think the whole thing has blown over. It's sure been off the radar screen.

The biggest news in Austin these days is the Dixie Chicks and the Mayors race. And they've both been blown off the radar screen by the War.

Now, it's the coming boom. Especially out in Bastrop. Our place is rocking and rolling with the new place. We're up to about 8300 square feet not and we have a space for Nia, Yoga, T'ai Chi Chuan, exercise, sculpture classes, meetings, and seminars. It's woodsy, let luxurious. And the rates for a day up to a month our very reasonable. $1500 a month for 5,000 square feet of meeting and sleeping space, enough to hold up to 42 folks comfortable in one to four person perroom configurations. Four kitchens. Four baths. An efficiency room with mini kitchen and bath. Swimming pool. Overlooking Cedar Creek and big pecan trees. Basketball. Football. Baseball and softball. Roque court in planning stage.

Who says we're a bunch of slackers around here? AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Partygoers apparently hoping to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers crowded on one side of a floating barge, prompting the ship to capsize and dump all 60 people into Lake Travis. Two people were hospitalized with minor injuries Sunday after the rented double-decker barge sank near Hippie Hollow, a lakeside park and the only public nude beach in Texas. http://www.cnn.com/2004/

ooops, didn't didn't get the full url: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/05/03/party.barge.ap/index.html