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Netflix Instant Pick: The Infidel
By Shelby I’ve loved Aaron Sorkin‘s short-lived TV series Sports Night for more than a decade, but I’ve only just now started watching...

Chickster
Apr 12, 20111 min read
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Shakespeare on the Farm
By Shelby Tonight is your last chance to catch the wonderful Shakespeare on the Farm out at beautiful Rain Lily Farm in East Austin. The...

Chickster
Apr 9, 20111 min read
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My Top 4 Favorite Austin Veggie Burgers
By Shelby Just because I don’t eat cows doesn’t mean I don’t love burgers. In fact, even though I’m not a fan of traditional hamburgers,...

Chickster
Apr 6, 20112 min read
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Netflix Instant Pick of the Week: Downton Abbey
By Shelby Last week, we unveiled our new Netflix Instant Pick of the Week feature. I’m an unabashed Anglophile and period-piece nut, so...

Chickster
Mar 29, 20111 min read
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Skip Town: Happy Yogurt in College Station
By Shelby We Chicksters are all Longhorn ladies, but every once in a while, life requires us to leave our favorite city for an eastern...

Chickster
Mar 28, 20111 min read
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Netflix Instant Pick: Timer
By Kelly Want something new to watch without the drive to the red box or the wait for the DVD to come in the mail? Well, that’s why...

Chickster
Mar 21, 20112 min read
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My Heroes: Foo Fighters at SXSW
By Shelby OK, SXSW. You win. I know we’ve had a contentious relationship in the past. You’re cost-prohibitive and complicated. You play...

Chickster
Mar 16, 20114 min read
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Inner Space Caverns for Valentine’s Day?
By Kelly How deep is your love? Valentine’s Day doesn’t always have to be an overpriced restaurant special that’s basically $150 for two...

Chickster
Feb 13, 20112 min read
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Practice Makes Perfect at Pure Barre
By Shelby My Groupon fitness series concludes with what is absolutely the hardest workout I’ve ever done in my entire life—Pure Barre. As...

Chickster
Feb 2, 20112 min read
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Dancing On My Own at The Dance Zone
By Shelby My Groupon series of workouts continues with some booty shaking. As we Chicksters have confessed before, we’re all suckers for...

Chickster
Jan 31, 20112 min read
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Austin Adventure Boot Camp
By Shelby After the sweaty asanas, my Groupon fitness adventure took me in an entirely different direction, one that relied less on...

Chickster
Jan 20, 20112 min read
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Sweating it Out at Bodhi Yoga
By Shelby Twelve days into 2011, I’m sure many of us have already broken at least one of our New Year’s Resolutions—or if not broken, at...

Chickster
Jan 12, 20113 min read
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Sims 3 and New Year’s Resolutions
By Kelly Kelly working on her novel in the Sims 3. Game copyrighted, EA Games Two years ago I tried something different to inspire my New...

Chickster
Jan 1, 20113 min read
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He Sees You When You’re Sleeping
By Shelby There are some Christmas movies I watch every year without fail (like Love Actually, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bad Santa, A...

Chickster
Dec 24, 20101 min read
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The King’s Speech Will Leave You Speechless
By Shelby It’s been 15 years since Colin Firth famously dove into that pond in Pride & Prejudice, and, to some extent, he will probably...

Chickster
Dec 8, 20102 min read
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Battle of the Butterbeers
By Shelby Now that we’ve all had time to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and cry over Dobby and ponder how improbably...

Chickster
Dec 2, 20103 min read
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It’s AFF Time, y’all!
By Shelby The month of many festivals concludes with the best screenwriting-focused film festival around, the Austin Film Festival. The...

Chickster
Oct 21, 20102 min read
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Laura Bush Kicks-off 2010 Texas Book Festival
By Kelly This past Saturday, the Chicksters visited the Texas Book Festival, an annual event involving panels, booths, book signings and...

Chickster
Oct 17, 20102 min read
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Thank you, ACL 2010!
By Shelby Photos by Brian O’Neill After attending the festival for the past five years, I feel like ACL signals the end of summer. Now...

Chickster
Oct 11, 20102 min read
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Saffire T. Stone’s Trashy Trivia
By Shelby I am an unabashed pop culture trivia nerd, so I was pretty thrilled to discover when I walked in the door at Jo’s Coffee on...

Chickster
Oct 11, 20101 min read
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