r/Austin • • 6d ago

Weekly Stuff To Do In Austin thread - Week of 11/09

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What's going on in our great city?

List cool events, concerts, parties, or secret beach orgies.

Include description, time, cost, location and website if applicable.

If you submit a band's show, please include their genre and one or two examples of their songs.

Event Sites:


Please comment below with the event you'd like to highlight this week! Want something to be considered for the recurring list? Message the moderators


r/Austin • • 15h ago

Weekly Stupid Question Sunday

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Welcome to our weekly stupid question day.

Have a question too trivial or dumb for its own post? Unload it here. Questions need to have some relevance to Austin.


r/Austin • • 4h ago

Pics Went to Zilker Botanical Garden yesterday

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r/Austin • • 1h ago

Ask Austin So what’s everyone doing on this chilly rainy Sunday??

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I laid in bed until 10 with the window open, just listening to the rain and burritoing under my blankets; then coffee and eggs; a rain walk with the dogs and some football; gonna make a soup and chuckle while the cowboys lose…


r/Austin • • 2h ago

Pics So pretty on a rainy night

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r/Austin • • 3h ago

ACL Remember the mud from ACL? This is them now, feel old yet?

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r/Austin • • 7h ago Regret

Missing nursing female dog in Austin, Texas

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Anyone jn the North Loop neighborhood. Living Along Ave F or 45th. There were to ladies who were actively chasing my dog. A nieghbor saw two ladies trying to catch her on 43rd but missed her. Knowing she was heading north. They went up ahead and intercepted her on 51st. That about 5 mins after they missed on 43rd and the last time she was seen on 51st. Please I need your help to identify these ladys. I know they took my dog. It has been a 5 days and they still have not done anything to try and find the owner. They just hunted her down and took her when she was trying to get back to her pups. I know they read that they were doing ok, thats why they haven't returned her. Thats just cold-blooded!

Contact Hector Parra if you have any information 512-554-3409

This dog has puppies at home in the North Star neighborhood


r/Austin • • 3h ago

Pics Street photography around Austin

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r/Austin • • 42m ago

Finally turned on the heat today.

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Since it's going to be colder for the next few days, figured I'd better test it now. Anyone else still not running their heat yet?


r/Austin • • 4h ago

Yes, there is water in the greenbelt

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r/Austin • • 8h ago Heartwarming

Was anyone at the Switchfoot show last night…

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And happen to have a picture/video of Jon Foreman in the crowd, holding hands and singing to a girl with pink hair? That’s my daughter and it was “the best moment of her life” and of course it was not caught on our cameras.
Kind of a long shot I know but here’s hoping!


r/Austin • • 1d ago

Austin teacher Will Goree secures 4th win on Jeopardy

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1.6k Upvotes

Will is a math teacher at Crockett High School in Austin. He won his debut episode on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 and won his fourth consecutive game on Friday, November 13, 2026. Total 4-day winnings: $97,500. He is set to compete for his fifth consecutive win on the upcoming Monday episode.


r/Austin • • 3h ago

Austin faces another public art preservation battle. This time at the airport.

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r/Austin • • 18h ago Mindblown

Ask Austin Another bit of cronyism putting part of Austin at risk - where are the news articles?

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Tldr: UT Austin, via its Board of Regents who have mainly been appointed by Abbott et al., is trying to cut a quick deal to sell an irreplaceable piece of UT Austin to make a quick buck. This isn't about culture or politics. This is about something that, if it is bulldozed, will never come back.

I don't do political posts, but there's an issue that comes up occasionally about a piece of Austin most people don't even think about that is at risk of completely being deleted from the map.

Brackenridge Field Laboratory is a part of the UT Austin system and one of the largest preserved wild areas in Austin. Unfortunately, it's not accessible to the public, but it still serves an immensely important part of Austin's natural ecosystem and part of UT Austin's ability to provide exceptional natural science courses.

Here's the problem:

UT is trying to cut a quick deal to sell Muny to the City, with no protections for BFL, and a map that shows BFL as a development zone for high rise and high density development.

Some donor (no doubt the prospective developer) has offered to pay for the sale, but only if it is rushed through in a matter of weeks, bypassing a any reasonable public review. Because the Muny golf course has been such a big concern with lots of local support, UT Regents are trying to make the possible development of BFL a prerequisite.

I honestly don't know who or how to keep anyone accountable at this point in time with the government changes going on, but I have a strong feeling that the developers know that with Gina coming into office, their chances of ever getting their hands on this diminish rapidly.


r/Austin • • 30m ago

Seeking Stories of Paranormal and Unexplained Experiences in Austin

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Hey r/austin,

I help run the ATX Paranormal Hotline — a local, free phone line where you can share paranormal or otherwise unexplained experiences from the Austin area. As many of you know, Austin has long been a hotbed of Bigfoot, ghost, UFO and paranormal encounters. If you or anyone you know has experienced something that can't be explained we'd love to hear about it.

No judgment, and no experience too strange. We're simply hoping to give Austinites a place to share their stories and help preserve a little piece of our city's weird history.

We're listening.


r/Austin • • 16h ago

Stuck in Austin due to FAA stoppage

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Originally had flight from NYC to LAX. Stoppage cancelled that. Was re-booked: NYC to Austin, then Austin to LAX. The latter leg of that flight was cancelled so I am stuck in Austin tonight and for tmw (Sunday). It’s raining.

Please suggest some things for me to do tomorrow. On a standby flight slated for late Sunday night, but with the way things have been going, not holding my breath.

Help a gal out. I have no idea about this town other than Joe Rogan and SXSW.


r/Austin • • 12h ago

Medical and PTSD crisis

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Edit: I am a 41 year old female professional. I have small fiber neuropathy/CRPS and had to leave work in september. I had a lumbar nerve block that was supposed to help and it went wrong. I had a bad reaction, my bladder went numb, and I have a painful infection that won’t clear and chronic pain. I must sound like a basket case but I need medical care But also SLEEP. is a psych ward the only answer? I need CBT or something too I know. But the lack of sleep despite sleeping pills is destroying me.

edit 2: I literally called some of the psych places and they said I wasn’t a good fit because I need medical care and have mobility issues. No one would be able to assist me. do I need a home care aide?

it’s 3:00 am and another night without sleep despite a sleeping pill.

I am in critical medical danger, but not critical enough for the ERs to help me.

I was traumatized in October. Following a horrific neurological diagnosis (CRPS), i had a spinal nerve block that went wrong. I woke up that night paralyzed with pain, sutured to my bed like I was being electrocuted.

The pain went away but starting the next day I lost feeling in my bladder. I developed multiple UTIs and then interstitial cystitis. I am in pain 24/7 and have not slept more than a couple hours a night since September. I have had multiple completely sleepless nights from PTSD, depression, and Medical trauma as it sinks in that I develoepd two disabling neurological diseases since September, one trying to help the other. I have no money, no work, no motivation, severe pain. I get hypnic jerks at night and my brain won’t let my body sleep, even with pills. Dozens of times as I drift off my body jerks awake violently, jumping off the bed. Even awake my legs spasm and cramp, my body contorts. I have been to the ER every other day this week and the last time they tried to bring me to a psych ward.

I have severe medical issues, autoimmune diesease, food anllergies, am underweight, and a psych ward wouldn’t work for me. I’m at a loss. I want to feel safe in a hospital bed with medical care and I so scared. It seems like there are no good mental health resources that are not traumatizing.

I live alone and I feel I cannot take care of myself anymore. I will fall in the shower, I’m not eating. But the hospitals consider this a mental health problem, not medical.

I‘m reaching out in desperation. My body and brain are rebelling and I honestly don’t know how I’m still alive (not suicidal, just how can my body go on).

Who can help me in Austin? On a Sunday? online resources? Individuals that can help? I need care, medical care, sleep, I can barely move. I need help surviving.


r/Austin • • 18h ago

My favorite Austin festival

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r/Austin • • 16h ago

Pics Austin skyline Wed morning

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118 Upvotes

Took this early Wednesday morning heading north on mopac and totally forgot about it. The skyline was looking particularly majestic


r/Austin • • 21h ago

H-Mart Burnet is getting closer

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240 Upvotes

No details on the building about opening times. Shelving is empty. Soon...er

Wanna bet they will have Scheels and Micro Center long lines when they open?


r/Austin • • 5h ago

Ask Austin ATX Studio Tour -- Best stop for ceramics?

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Looking forward to hitting ATX Studio stops on this cold rainy Sunday!

I love complex, high end ceramics. Does anyone have recommendations? I am looking for something beyond kitchenwares.

Thanks!


r/Austin • • 20h ago

Stuck at DFW airport Saturday evening - Austin connection cancelled

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EDIT2: Home! Six hours and $200 after we should have been but home!

Hopefully we’ll get a refund from American that will offset the bus and the ride shares from DFW to bus and from bus to ABIA where our car was. And the $14 extra parking.

Thanks for the suggestions and good wishes, everyone!

EDIT: Thanks for the FlixBus reminder. Taking a Lyft there now because DART was going to cut it close (because of stupid terminal busses, don’t get me started)

Thanks everyone and 🤞 that this works!
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Don’t suppose anyone reading this happened to snag a rental car before they all sold out and wanna split the ride to Austin?

Or anyone heading back to Austin this evening?

American Airlines cancelled the flight to Austin (which because the flight from NYC was so delayed we would have missed anyway :facepalm: )


r/Austin • • 16h ago

Austin skyline this morning

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r/Austin • • 1d ago Heartwarming

History "How y'all can talk right" - November 14, 1976

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