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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 area.

Slate had a talk recently with our homeboy Alejandro Es

Last week I took my first ride on the Capital MetroRail, which opened in March of 2010.

“Do you know how much longer it’s going to be open?” I asked Hickoids singer Jeff Smith as he stood at the merch table after his band’s set last Wednesday night at Trophy’s.

“Probably right up until the day before they get the construction permits,” he answered, his familiar sly grin and the twinkle in his eye both glistening with their also frequent hint of danger and evil. Turned out that it was, in fact, the final night for Trophy’s

Ruh roh, Austin has now made a Top Ten list it may not want to be on: the Men's Health tabulation of the Smuttiest Cities in America.

Sometime in the late 1980’s, as I imagine it, a boy wonder in City Hall returned from a jog around the lake, having independently discovered the incredibly foul-smelling roost of the Mexican free-t

One’s favorite restaurants are often like our circles of family, lovers, friends and acquaintances. Some are the swanky joints you get spiffed up to dine out at on date night, others the lunch spots you frequent with co-workers and friends, and then there are the family favorites.

The food at Cebuana Filipino Store (2400 East Oltorf) is like Mom and her home cooking: tasty, filling and so satisfying that I can eat its fare a couple of times a week and in fact do just that (much as I may love to cook my own meals). There’s good reasons why. The major one is that it’s a helluva food bargain:

Are you a do-it-yourselfer grown bored with the tools at hand?  Maybe your electronics tinkering box isn’t doing it for you anymore? Your new project won’t fit in the shed?

It's not unusual for me to get lost in London. I got lost less than four blocks from home yesterday.

Since good vegan ice cream is hard to find – even in Austin – Amelia Raley opened a little ice cream stop where vegans can indulge in a ritual as American as apple pie.

“You can buy ice cream at the store, but if you go to some place like Amy’s or Marble Slab, it’s the treat of going out after a softball game or on a date or something like that, so I really wanted to make a place for (vegan) people to go,” she said. Sweet Ritual opened in December on Duval and 45th Street (in the same building as Daily Juice).