Summer Fun for Kiddos - Kyle/Austin area

A friend of mine (Thanks Larissa B.) sent me this list of things to do with kids over Summer 2010. 

I found it to be a pretty solid list of cheap and free things. Cheap and free are two of my favorite things...  

Credit for this list goes to someone in the Hometown Kyle Neighborhood. I believe it was sent out to the neighborhood...

Movies (free and discounted):

Alamo Drafthouse FREE Alamo Kids Club 

 
Cinemark (Tinseltown Austin) Summer Movie Clubhouse (10 shows for $5 or $1 Each)

Regal Cinema Free Family Film Festival (This link shows all of Texas)

AMC Summer MovieCamp - $1 Summer Movies 

 
CIty of Kyle movies in the park Gregg Clarke Park - Free

City of San Marcos -  Movies in YOUR Park - FREE

 

Reading Programs:

Kyle Library Brochure w/ June & July Calendar (PDF) - (Main Website here)

Buda Library Summer Brochure (PDF) - free  (Main Website here)
San Marcos Library Summer Calendar (June/July) - (Main Website here)

Austin libraries http://austinsummerreading.org/ and Austin Public Libraries Youth Services - Summer (PDF)

Half Price Books Feed Your Brain Summer Reading Program - great reading program with weekly gift card rewards

Fazoli's Restaurant -  Friendly Reader Program - get a free meal. They've also got kid's nights on Tuesday's from 5-8 w/ crafts.

Austin American Statesman/Round Rock Express - reading program

HEB - Summer Reading Club - It's under the "Clubs and Contests" area.

Borders - '10 Summer Reading Double-Dog Dare

Other fun things:

Austin's Symphony's Children's Day Art Park - 50 cents/child

Austin's Symphony's Concerts in the Park / - free

Cabela's Kids Day - June 19 - 2010 Kid's Fest

City of San Marcos Activities and Events 

 
Tons of fun ideas for around the Austin area http://austinfamilyfun.wordpress.com/

Free crafts for kids (Lakeshore Learning) - every Saturday - free

Home Depot - free building activities for kids  - free

Lowe's - free building activities for kids

ZIlker Summer Musical - Annie - July 9 - August 14, 2010 Thursdays-Sundays approx. 8:30pm - free

McKenna Children's Museum (New Braunfels) - summer activities & camps (PDF)

Austin Parks and Rec - Summer Playground Program

Free breakfast and lunch at certain Hays CISD schools (children do not need to qualify--available to everyone) http://www.hayscisd.net/food/summer.htm

April INsite Special - FREE COOKIES

April INsite Special - FREE COOKIES
Originally uploaded by seanclaes

In the April 2009 issue of INsite Magazine (http://www.insiteaustin.com). Pick up 6 free cookies w/no strings attached, just by walking into Kevin's Cookies and asking for the INsite 6-Pack.

Directions to Kevin's (1501 S. MoPac @ One Barton Springs Skyway) - www.kevinscookies.com

Texas Rockfest -Wednesday, March 18th Schedule

Texas Rockfest -

March 18 Schedule

Remember... it's all free..because your music shouldn't cost you a dime to hear live.... thanks to INsite and Texas Rockfest.

Addresses of all Rockfest Venues:

Stage	Venue	Address
TRF Outdoor 1	Texas Rock Fest	7th & Neches, Austin, TX
TRF Outdoor 2	Texas Rock Fest	7th & Neches, Austin, TX
Treasure Island	RockFest Club Stage 1	413 E 6th St, Austin, TX
Mugshots	RockFest Club Stage 2	407 E 7th St., Austin, TX
Pure - Songwriter Stage	Singer / Songwriter Stage	409 E 6th St, Austin, TX
Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	Hip-Hop/R&B Stage	607 Trinity St, Austin, TX
HML Outdoor	Texas Rock Fest	7th & Trinity, Austin, TX
Malaia	Malaia	300 E 6th st, Austin, TX

Wednesday's Line-up:

Club Stages:

Special Guest	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	4:30:00 PM
Rize	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	5:30:00 PM
PMT Clik	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	6:30:00 PM
Slimm-ez	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	7:00:00 PM
Fokiss	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	7:30:00 PM
Mike	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	8:00:00 PM
Tre Dubb	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	8:30:00 PM
Skrappy	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	9:00:00 PM
Adykted Sol	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	9:30:00 PM
Evan Chambers	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	10:00:00 PM
Kokomoe	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	10:30:00 PM
Reign	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	11:00:00 PM
Mr Midas	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	11:30:00 PM
Sticthy	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	12:00:00 AM
UG Kings Showcase	Fuel - Hip Hop Stage	12:30:00 AM

Event Date 3/18/2009
Asphalt Valentine	Treasure Island	5:00:00 PM
Syztem7	Treasure Island	5:45:00 PM
Critical Assembly	Treasure Island	6:30:00 PM
Hazard of the Industry	Treasure Island	7:15:00 PM
Fracture Point	Treasure Island	8:00:00 PM
Squid Bucket	Treasure Island	8:45:00 PM
Strike The Sun	Treasure Island	9:30:00 PM
YAYO	Treasure Island	10:15:00 PM
Clinched Fist	Treasure Island	11:00:00 PM
Street Light Suzie	Treasure Island	11:45:00 PM
Stage of Existence	Treasure Island	12:30:00 AM
Curbcheck	Treasure Island	1:15:00 AM

Outdoor Stages

Event Date 3/18/2009
Special Guest	HML Outdoor	5:00:00 PM
Super Pancho	HML Outdoor	5:45:00 PM
The Brimmers	HML Outdoor	6:30:00 PM
The Culprit	HML Outdoor	7:15:00 PM
Moxxy	HML Outdoor	8:00:00 PM
Rap Rock	HML Outdoor	8:45:00 PM
Arc Attack	HML Outdoor	9:30:00 PM
Arc Attack	HML Outdoor	10:15:00 PM
Arc Attack	HML Outdoor	11:15:00 PM
Panjoma	HML Outdoor	12:00:00 AM
Arc Attack	HML Outdoor	12:45:00 AM
Arc Attack	HML Outdoor	1:30:00 AM

Dead Earth Politics	TRF Outdoor 1	4:00:00 PM
Clinched Fist	TRF Outdoor 1	5:00:00 PM
The Spines	TRF Outdoor 1	6:00:00 PM
Snake Skin Prison	TRF Outdoor 1	7:00:00 PM
Quartershackle	TRF Outdoor 1	8:00:00 PM
Kritickill	TRF Outdoor 1	9:00:00 PM
The Luchagors	TRF Outdoor 1	10:00:00 PM
Powderburn	TRF Outdoor 1	11:00:00 PM
Pimpadelic	TRF Outdoor 1	12:00:00 AM
Krash Karma	TRF Outdoor 1	1:00:00 AM

Dead Earth Politics	TRF Outdoor 2	4:30:00 PM
Five Dollar Friend	TRF Outdoor 2	5:30:00 PM
The Noise FM	TRF Outdoor 2	6:30:00 PM
Dawn Over Zero	TRF Outdoor 2	7:30:00 PM
Seventh From Adam	TRF Outdoor 2	8:30:00 PM
Carbide	TRF Outdoor 2	9:30:00 PM
Mike Truth and the Replacement Killers	TRF Outdoor 2	10:30:00 PM
One Seed	TRF Outdoor 2	11:30:00 PM
Ignitor	TRF Outdoor 2	12:30:00 AM
The New Professionals	TRF Outdoor 2	1:30:00 AM

Schedule provided by TexasRockfest.com, visit us for updated information.

NO BADGE? NO WRISTBAND? NO WORRIES... The Free List!

Thanks to New Music Tipsheet... who ALWAYS comes through with the free, INsite is happy to pass along the link to a PDF that includes over 30 pages of free stuff happening in Austin from March 13 - 23, 2009.

You don't need to spend a dime... to have a great time.
http://www.newmusictipsheet.com/sxswpartylist2009.pdf

The list includes Texas Rockfest, which is sponsored by INsite and is our cover story for March. Download the March issue of INsite for over 100 bios of bands you can check out for Free @ Texas Rockfest.

Enjoy your March... I know we will.
Thanks for reading INsite.
We love you.

23 Pages of FREE Music in Austin... The SXSW FREE LIST

Every year I wait patiently for the New Music Tipsheet's FREE list. It's a gathering of many of the day parties and showcases that don't require a badge.
Here it is:
http://www.newmusictipsheet.com/sxswpartylist2008.pdf

Download your copy now. It doesn't include Texas Rockfest... so.. print this out and write that on the back of each page....or download the new issue of INsite (last blog) and take it with you too.

You know you want to.

http://www.newmusictipsheet.com/sxswpartylist2008.pdf

July 27 INsite Night @ Hanovers

 

 

Freebleeder:

Go to the corner store, buy the cheapest beer you can find, shake the Hell out of it, then pop the top. What comes out is Freebleeder from Austin Texas. One part punk, one part rock, and one part metal, and three parts drunk. Catchy songs and an energetic live set have begun to provide a buzz throughout the mighty State of Texas. Drink and Destroy. (From http://myspace.com/freebleeder)

 

 

 FULL SERVICE

Full Service refers to the fact that at any given show you go from soothing rhythm to hard rock to heavy funk to . . . well, a combination of all three. The brilliance is in how it is all woven together in a way that nobody has done before. . . The more I've listened to the band the more I've come to realize that the riveting guitars and the catchy baseline are strangely melodic in ways unlike any other band has mastered. Everything is upbeat without feeling forced. The music seems to echo Full Service's outlook on life with the integrity that is lacking in most of today's music. To listen is to appreciate their perspective on life. (From INsite Magazine)

 

BENT EYE BOLT

Allow me to introduce the band. I'm David Harrod from the band Bent Eye Bolt. Stephen Haas is the drummer/back up vocals/ producer/ owner of Addison Studio's. There is also two other guys in the band Todd Hiebert (bass), and Brian Carney (Hammond C3, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, synthesizer, piano samples) A side from the music we’re just regular dudes trying to have a good time.  (From: http://www.benteyeboltmusic.com

 

 

This is a CD Release show for this Compilation - $5 will get you this beauty:

 

 Featuring:

1. Dryland- Freebleeder
2. Beneath the Velvet Bridge- Freebleeder
3. Thorn- Bent Eye Bolt
4. 7 Come 11- Bent Eye Bolt
5. Oh Kill Me- Full Service
6. Hi-Ho- Full Service

 

 

PLUS a FREE INsite Compilation CD :

 

Featuring:

1. Move On- Vallejo (vallejomusic.com)
2. Propaganda - One Trick Monkey (onetrickmonkey.net)
3. Need Me - She Craves (shecraves.com)
4. Twilight - Dexter Freebish (dexterfreebish.com/)
5. Look Up, Look Down - This Life Electric (thislifeelectric.com/)
6. Rufus - Patrice Pike (patricepike.com/)
7. Goldmines - David Newbould (davidnewbould.com/)
8. Poetry and Prozac - Twilight Broadcast (twilightbroadcast.com/)
9. Easy - Wendy Colonna (wendycolonna.com/)
10. Photographs - Dave Madden (davemaddenmusic.com/)
11. Marcia Martian – Jabarvy (jabarvy.com/)
12. Useless Cause - Loss Rayne (lossrayne.com/)
13. Specialer - Escort Service (escortserviceband.com/)
14. ...And The Band Played On – DAX (dax.org/)
15. In Love With Your Sound - Acoustic Spoken Groove (spokengroove.com/)

 

Free Music - Live in Austin this week

Follow this link to a bunch of free shows this week (downloads a PDF).
Thanks New Music Tipsheet.

http://www.newmusictipsheet.com/sxswpartylist2007.pdf

AND here's Austin, TX Showlist's stuff:
http://www.showlistaustin.com/

AND Donewaiting.com's stuff:
http://www.donewaiting.com...

So... if you know of any other free shows... list them below.

Here's a few:





Of course... don't forget to check out the March issue of INsite... tons of free show information in there.

March 2007 Editor Letter

March 2007 Letter From The Editor

3/9/07

In the 27 months I’ve been the Managing Editor of INsite Magazine, I have never taken the Letter From The Editor spot to step on my soapbox. I always thought that was entirely self-serving and petty. So, please know that as you read on.

I have been one of SXSW’s biggest cheerleaders in the last few years. If there was someone saying something negative about the event, I always replied with something like “as soon as people stop lining up around the block to purchase a wristband, maybe they’ll consider a change” or “If I was running a festival that was THAT big I’d do the same thing.” I’m done being a supporter. Simply because, it seems to me they have forgotten where they came from.

After doing my best to showcase the best coming to town for the last two years, this year INsite has decided to largely ignore the event. Seems after all of the hard work and dedication we’ve put into promoting this event, we were treated like we weren’t allowed at the same water fountain. So, let the other magazines suck that teat. No offense.

In reality, this festival is working on borrowed time. Just like MySpace, YouTube and iTunes are hurting the music sales industry, technological advances like Flapdaddy.com and Culture Catch (which you can read about in this month’s issue) will make this label and publicist frat party an antique soon enough.

People can now see the next big thing from their home. They don’t have to wait until the band comes to their town… and definitely they won’t have to spend a lot of money in Austin, Texas to see a bunch of bands who are spending a lot of money in order to spend 30 minutes to an hour playing in front of a studio rep and 5 people who’d rather be somewhere else.

Now, as a music fan, I do recommend you go out and do all you can to have a good time. It doesn’t have to cost you much at all. There are plenty of free events. The 8th Annual Heart of Texas Quadruple Bypass Festival at Wave, Spill, Treasure Island and Fuel (texasrockfest.com), 7th Annual Invasion of the GoGirls at Trophy’s (gogirlsmusic.com), 4th Annual Austin Indie Alliance March Music Madness at Dizzy Rooster (austinindiealliance.com) are just three. Pop into any search engine and you’ll likely find more. Hell, just head to the party sans the bracelet and the only things you’re going to miss are the lines. Heck, even the MusicGorilla.com showcase at Nuno’s Upstairs is only $3.

Louis Black said in the interview we decided not to run in this issue (it’s on our MySpace and FlapDaddy as an INsite Extra – myspace/insiteaustin, flapdaddy.com/insiteaustinDOTcom):
“If you go to Park City the week after Sundance [Film Festival], it’s just a ski resort. You go the weeks before Sundance it’s just a ski resort. Being in Toronto at the Toronto Film Festival, it’s a great community and a great film community – but it’s not the same great community it is during the film festival. You come to Austin any week of the year, any day of the year, a lot of what makes SXSW work is going on just on a small proportion.”

That’s the thing. Austin is awesome the other 51 weeks out of the year. It’s not a city you should come in, transform into a blood-letting socialite scene for a week and leave and think that it will be the same. You’ve become the elephant in the room nobody wants to acknowledge. You became the problem and not the solution.

I applaud the bands who are playing this year. We included some mentions of bands playing in town during the third week… including some playing the “big one.” I included them to be fair to the artists and local club owners who are participating. At the end of the day it’s all about promoting good music and musicians who deserve to be heard in Austin. You just can’t put a price tag on that.

I know I haven’t. Thanks for reading.

Next month I’ll actually write a letter from the editor. Big things are happening in April… INsite will be putting out a Compilation CD at a live show at Stubb’s on April 21. Details next month.

As the Biscuit Brothers say... "Go Make Music."
- Sean

p.s. The New Music TipSheet has released their "Free List" of shows during that 3rd week in March.
http://www.newmusictipsheet.com/sxswpartylist2007.pdf