This is a weekly blog listing fun and interesting things to do during the week in Austin. Please, as always, feel free to comment and leave your ideas and suggestions! ***Denotes places that usually draw a lesbian crowd!
MONDAY, Dec. 28th:
Trivia:
Fado’s Trivia Night
WHEN – 7:30 pm
WHERE – Fado’s Irish Pub on 4th Street
Music:
Bob Schneider
WHEN – 9:30 pm
WHERE – Antone’s
TUESDAY, Dec. 29th:
Socializing & Networking:
***HRC – Tuesdays Together***
Tuesdays Together happens every month and allows members of the LGBT community to gather to catch up on HRC events (both local and national) while networking and having a good time. You can also find out about volunteer opportunities and buy your tickets to the 2010 HRC Gala! Happy hour specials and light appetizers are provided.
WHEN – 6 – 8 pm
WHERE – Hyatt Regency Hotel
Trivia:
***Mother Egan’s – Austin Gay & Lesbian Couples Meetup***
The Gay & Lesbian Couples Meetup group will have a team this week! Join this awesome Meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/austin-gay-lesbian-couples/
WHEN – 7:15 pm
WHERE – Mother Egan’s Irish Pub on West 6th Street
Opal Divine’s
WHEN – 8 pm
WHERE – Opal Divine’s South Congress
Sports & Rec:
***Capital City Front Runners’ Run***
Every Tues/Thurs. at 5:30 pm – Jog the Lady Bird Lake trail with the CCFR crew! Dinner and networking always follows after…this time it’s Central Market on S. Lamar (6:45 pm)!
WHEN – 5:30 pm
WHERE – Underneath Mopac bridge on Lady Bird Lake Trail, by the water coolers
UT Men’s Basketball vs. Gardner-Webb
WHEN - 5 pm
WHERE – Frank Erwin Center
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30th:
Music:
Spazmatics – Best 80s cover band ever!
WHEN – 6pm
WHERE – Cedar Street
THURSDAY, Dec. 31st:
New Years Eve Parties/Gatherings:
***Foodies: End of a Lesbian Decade New Year’s Eve Party***
Stay all night or swing by this central location and come back later for the fireworks DJ on the front porch and Grrl games in da house. $10.00 cover
WHEN – 8 pm
WHERE – House Wine
***God-Des and She New Year’s Eve Party in San Antonio***
Ring in new year with balloon drop, champagne, and musical performers featured on the L Word– God-des and She (part of their CD Release Tour). $10.00 cover. 18 and up.
WHEN – 11 pm
WHERE – Bar 11 in San Antonio (126 W. Rector St)
***Lazy J Paradise Campground New Year’s Eve Party***
Live Music Featuring Julie Nolen
WHEN - 8 pm
WHERE – Lazy J Paradise LGBT Campground in Lockhart
The Action Pack’s New Year’s Eve Sing-Along!
Join the Action Pack as the countdown through the best pop videos of the ’00s from 10pm to 11:50pm. Then they’ll be transferring over to an official atomic clock countdown to midnight in the central time zone so we can be GUARANTEED to have the single most official final ten seconds of 2009 in all of Austin, followed by an explosive welcoming of 2010 with another hour of celebrating the most recent hits of 2009. Then we’ll head out to Sixth Street en masse and show 2010 what’s what.
WHEN – 10 pm
WHERE - Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Ritz
Sports & Rec:
***Capital City Front Runners’ Run***
Every Tues/Thurs. at 5:30 pm – Jog the Lady Bird Lake trail with the CCFR crew! Dinner and networking always follows after…no dinner afterward because it’s New Year’s Eve!
WHEN – 5:30 pm
WHERE – Underneath Mopac bridge on Lady Bird Lake Trail, by the water coolers
FRIDAY, Jan. 1st:
Movies:
Midnight Movie Double Feature
Movie picks are a surprise…show up to find out. $2 beer specials. Movies are free!
WHEN: 9pm and Midnight
WHERE: Spider House Coffee on campus
SATURDAY, Jan. 2nd:
Socializing:
***Lesbian Coffee House Meetup: Happy New Year Coffee***
Let’s welcome the 1st Saturday of 2010 with morning coffee and share thoughts on what you’d like to see happen in this New Year. The Austin Lesbian Coffee House Meetup is a lesbian social group on Meetup.com. In order to participate in their events, you will need to become a part of the group by signing up here: http://www.meetup.com/AustinLesbianCoffeeHouse.
WHEN – 10 am
WHERE – Apothecary Cafe & Wine Bar, 4800 Burnet Rd. Suite 450
Austin, TX 78756 — PETS WELCOME!
Sports & Rec:
***Capital City Front Runners’ Run***
Every Saturday at 10 am – Jog the Lady Bird Lake trail with the CCFR crew! Lunch and networking always follows after.. this time it’s Whole Foods!
WHEN – 10 am
WHERE – Underneath Mopac bridge on Lady Bird Lake Trail, by the water coolers.
UT Women’s Basketball vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
WHEN – 11 am
WHERE – Frank Erwin Center
UT Men’s Basketball vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi
WHEN – 3:30 pm
WHERE – Frank Erwin Center
SUNDAY, Jan. 3rd:
Movies:
***aGLIFF’s Brunchtime Boo-yah***
Presenting “Auntie Mame!” Hosted by Rebecca Havemeyer. There was once a’ time in this country when it was alright to be a ragin’ alcoholic, cigarette smokin’, bed hoppin’, soiree throwin’, scene stealin’, money blowin’, hairpiece wearin’, super happy trend settin’ socialite.
WHEN: 1pm
WHERE: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Ritz