Austin Woman Magazine

Behind the Scenes With the Leading Ladies of Austin’s Music Industry

2016-03-08T19:03:00+00:00

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.

Ladies, Meet the Redbox of the Clothing World

2016-03-08T15:51:00+00:00

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.

The Taste of Texas Independence

2016-03-04T16:06:00+00:00

Austin Woman savors the new Texas-themed menu at The Carillon.

From The Editor: March 2016

2016-03-02T17:30:00+00:00

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...

Mellie Price

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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.

Shay Boom!

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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.

Kristy’s Top 10: March 2016

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

March’s to-do list from 365 Things To Do In Austin, Texas.

Women In Numbers: March 2016

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Facts and figures on females from throughout the world.

Musically Inclined

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Girl Guitar Owner Mandy Rowden turns her passion into a business.

Let’s Taco ‘Bout It: The Small Business Engines that Could

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Listen in on a candid conversation with Austin Woman Publisher Melinda Garvey and Patti Greene of the 10,000 Small Businesses program.

Entrepreneurial Essentials

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Start your business venture off right with advice from women who know.

Out on the Range

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Chill out and channel your inner cowgirl with a trip to the North Texas plains.

Austin Gives With South Texas Money Management

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Jeanie Wyatt makes giving back a Texas-wide office tradition.

Please, Don’t Stop the Music

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Here are the festivals, tour dates and highly anticipated performances you need on your listening radar this year.

Vintage Vixen

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Revamped retro meets the modern age.

Smoky Siren

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Sound the alarm for these seductive shades.

South By Southwestern

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Amplify your home décor with help from Austin’s hippest stores.

Being A Chef Is As Easy As One, Two, Three

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Meal-kit delivery service Gourmet By Numbers is out to show food lovers that if you can read, you can cook.

Get in the Groove

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

Meet Backbeat, the newest cocktail bar to hit South Lamar.

Girl Walks Into A Bar: Secret Hideaways

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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.

Game Changer

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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...

Mediocrity No More

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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...

Memo from JB: Battle of the Bands

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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...

Southern Roots

2016-03-01T06:01:00+00:00

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...

Why You Should Workout as a Couple

2016-02-25T20:02:00+00:00

Why you should workout with your significant other, what the best type of workout is for your relationship and some of the best places to get sweaty with your partner in Austin.