Women In Numbers: March 2016
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Articles | March 2016
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The Taste of Texas Independence
Austin Woman savors the new Texas-themed menu at The Carillon. Read on »
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Ladies, Meet the Redbox of the Clothing World
Garment Exchange, a concept derived from startup mastermind Kaleigh Wiese, is a website that allows women to effortlessly rent out their closets and curate fashion collections. Read on »
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Behind the Scenes With the Leading Ladies of Austin’s Music Industry
Social-media guru Bianca Flores, event designer Lisa Hickey and concert photographer Pooneh Ghana reveal their plans for South By Southwest and discuss the keys to their success as women working off-stage and out of the spotlight in Austin’s music scene. Read on »
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From The Editor: March 2016
Keep Austin Weird. The live Music Capital of the World. Silicon Hills. The Capital of Texas: These monikers and mottos for the little blue dot on the map of the lone... Read on »
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Kristy’s Top 10: March 2016
March’s to-do list from 365 Things To Do In Austin, Texas. Read on »
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Musically Inclined
Girl Guitar Owner Mandy Rowden turns her passion into a business. Read on »
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Let’s Taco ‘Bout It: The Small Business Engines that Could
Listen in on a candid conversation with Austin Woman Publisher Melinda Garvey and Patti Greene of the 10,000 Small Businesses program. Read on »
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Entrepreneurial Essentials
Start your business venture off right with advice from women who know. Read on »
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Out on the Range
Chill out and channel your inner cowgirl with a trip to the North Texas plains. Read on »
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Austin Gives With South Texas Money Management
Jeanie Wyatt makes giving back a Texas-wide office tradition. Read on »
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Please, Don’t Stop the Music
Here are the festivals, tour dates and highly anticipated performances you need on your listening radar this year. Read on »
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Vintage Vixen
Revamped retro meets the modern age. Read on »
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Smoky Siren
Sound the alarm for these seductive shades. Read on »
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South By Southwestern
Amplify your home décor with help from Austin’s hippest stores. Read on »
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Mellie Price
Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, trust us, you know Mellie Price. If you’ve ever bought a ticket to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, you have her to thank. If you’ve found yourself surfing the South By Southwest website, or pretty much any website, for that matter, you’ve seen the legacy of her labors. Have you launched a successful Austin-based startup within the last few years? Her fingerprints are likely imprinted there. She’s helped create and refine the template of entrepreneurship and e-commerce as we know it, changing the face of Austin and, by extension, the world. And she’s far from finished. Read on »
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Shay Boom!
Shayna Brown is a woman in the man’s world of audio engineering. But that hasn’t stopped her company, Chez Boom Audio, from quickly becoming the preferred audio studio for some of film and television’s biggest names. Read on »
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Being A Chef Is As Easy As One, Two, Three
Meal-kit delivery service Gourmet By Numbers is out to show food lovers that if you can read, you can cook. Read on »
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Get in the Groove
Meet Backbeat, the newest cocktail bar to hit South Lamar. Read on »
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Girl Walks Into A Bar: Secret Hideaways
In a city where it’s becoming less simple to find a crevice to call your own, there’s an ongoing quest to discover a sense of place, preferably one that serves alcohol. Out there, lining the streets of Austin’s burgeoning downtown, somewhere in the midst of pedicab drivers, stumbling Sixth Street dwellers and late-night dog walkers are bars that feel undiscovered. The characteristics of these tucked away spots sound a lot like old friends: humble and unpresuming on the outside yet brimming with subtle beauty, brilliance and purpose on the inside. Read on »
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Game Changer
Although colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths that affect both women and men, according to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 60 percent of colon-cancer deaths could be avoided if... Read on »
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Mediocrity No More
Thirty years after the University of Texas women’s basketball program won its first National Championship, Head Coach Karen Aston and her team are shooting for a second. In 1986, when the team... Read on »
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Memo from JB: Battle of the Bands
March is my absolute favorite month in Austin. The weather is perfect, the NCAA basketball tournament gets underway and then there’s St. Patrick’s Day. But my absolute... Read on »
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Southern Roots
SXSW: four letters that signify make it or break it for musicians throughout the world. But for those of us born and raised in Austin, those four letters mean spring-break getaway, time for... Read on »
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