Zombie Hunters Save Austin so You Can Sleep at Night
Events Tomorrow, post-Apocalyptic Austin could be overrun by the shambling corpses of your coworkers, many of whom are still bent over their desks at Dell, while former drug cartels raid the few...
View ArticleAustin Tech Job Roundup July 16-20
Tech We’ve trolled Facebook, LinkedIn and odd corners of the Internet looking for the tech jobs you won’t find on Craigslist. Most of these come from people at the company in question hoping a friend...
View ArticleBeware the Monsters of Austin
HumorIllustration by Tim Carroll "A pack of hairless critters that has taken to a patch of woods just north of U.S. 183 and RM 1431 in Cedar Park has people in the area wondering if the creatures could...
View ArticleMy First Triathlon: A Guide for the Tri-Curious
Health & Fitness I’m not an athlete, let alone three athletes. At some point less than a year ago I started running, encouraged by friends and other runners, and found that one can progress from...
View ArticleTurning Girls Into Gamers: A Game Reviewer's Expert Advice
Tech At Austin's recent RTX conference, Jorge Guerra, video game reviewer and writer for the gaming site Ganimanga, sat down with the Austin Post to discuss how guys can turn their girlfriends into...
View ArticleCosplay didn’t kill people. James Holmes did.
Community Voice As we reel in shock from the senseless, tragic murders in Colorado, there’s a lot of blame going around. Sure, police have the killer in custody, but somehow that isn’t enough. Watching...
View ArticleAustin Tech Job Roundup July 23-27
Tech We’ve trolled Facebook, LinkedIn, and odd corners of the internet looking for the tech jobs you won’t find on Craigslist. Most of these come from people at the company in question hoping a friend...
View ArticleTech Events Roundup July 24-30
Tech Once a week the Austin Post rounds up all the networking, social, and just plain nifty technology related events taking place in the greater Austin metro area.After last week’s big networking...
View ArticleGetting from Here to There: Where Will Accelerating Development Drive South...
Austin News This three-part series looks at the reinvention of South Lamar. In part one, Rob Patterson looks at the boulevard's car-culture history and changes that are being felt today; part two...
View ArticleA Boon for Business? Where Will Development Drive South Lamar (Part Two)
Austin News This three-part series looks at the reinvention of South Lamar. In part one, Rob Patterson looks at the boulevard's car-culture history and changes that are being felt today; part two below...
View ArticleWhich Way Will Accelerating Development Drive South Lamar? (Part One)
Austin News This three-part series looks at the reinvention of South Lamar. In part one below, Rob Patterson looks at the boulevard's car-culture history and changes that are being felt today; part two...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Help Instrumental Band My Education Get to Europe
Music Fans have never heard the voices behind the soulful, melancholy instrumental band My Education. In their Kickstarter, they introduce themselves as they ask you to help them finance their European...
View ArticleThis Week in Geek July 26 - August 1
Events Life isn’t all about networking events and making business connections. Sometimes you need to find like minded geeks for some relaxing fun. Once a week, we round up the best geek social events...
View ArticleSoCo? SoHuh? A Top 13 List of Tags for Austin’s Changing Streets
Boom Townhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/fainspawn/ I’ll be blunt: I hate the cutesy new nicknames that keep getting assigned to Austin thoroughfares as they get beautiqueified and gentrefiddled by...
View ArticlePrank Your Boss, Geocitize Your Website. It's Friday!
Tech The Geocitiesizer can make Austin’s best websites look like they were made by the same folks who made Hamster Dance. It's not a new website, if you haven't checked it out yet it has "waste some...
View ArticleAustin Co-Ops Thriving as City Grows
Austin NewsStephanie Myers Wheatsville Food Co-op was started in a garage near the University of Texas in 1976. Now, more than three decades later, the member-owned grocer has announced plans for a...
View ArticleAustin Post Ask 10: What’s A Hipster?
Lives Much like former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and obscenity, most people can’t define a hipster but they know one when they see one. Austin has been called ground zero for the hipster...
View ArticleGarriott's Ultimate Gamer's Mansion On the Block for $4.1 Million
Austin News It’s one thing to plop down a bundle on a multimillion dollar Austin home. It’s yet another to own a true Austin landmark (albeit one of fairly recent vintage) -- an abode featured on...
View ArticleTalking Hipsters and Austin with American Hipster Director David Fine
Boom Town David Fine is the director of a YouTube series called American Hipster Presents. Over the course of the year, Fine and Co. are traveling to 10 cities, creating five videos from each city that...
View ArticleWe Are Austin Tech: Richard Garriott
Tech Once a week, We Are Austin Tech presents a short video interview with the people who help put Austin on the national map. Their love for Austin and its culture shines through. This week, enjoy...
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