One spin around the web for every week of the school year
by Jennifer Binford
This week: The perfect find date
Two great calendars to tell you about this week—one virtual and the other ink and paper.
The first is TodayInAustin, calendar heaven for the digerati among us (you know who you are). They aggregate and republish links to over 100 Austin sites so that you can know what’s happening today in art, music, food, dance, film, sports, kid stuff, and more. And this site has left you no excuse for not being up-to-date on local events, because you can get a daily email, subscribe to the RSS feed, read the blog, visit them on Flickr, add events to your Google calendar, import data into iCal, and have events beamed directly to a chip in your head. Kidding about that last one. I think.
For the rest of us, there’s the Austin Events 2010 calendar, printed on paper (yes! they still make those!) with some gorgeous photos of our fair city. It has dates and information for local events, including the Texas Book Festival, SXSW, the Capitol 10K, the Pecan Street Festival, peach season in Fredericksburg, and so much more. You’ll find the calendars in stores around town, or you can order from the web site. I gave some as gifts last year, and people love ‘em. Which just goes to show that sometimes the only “platform” a good calendar needs is some wall space and a thumbtack.
See you next link!
