Erin is an Austin native with over a decade of journalism experience, including six years as the associate editor of Eater Austin. Find her writing at www.erinrussellwrites.com.
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Amaya Savoy-Easton, a single 26-year-old social media coordinator, is clear on what she wants. Her near-term goals include visiting 30 countries before she turns 30, investing in a rental property in San Marcos, and getting an LLC for her freelance business. So when she asked a
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The Austin restaurant scene was rocked by a recent announcement that sent chefs panicking while most diners obliviously continued their meals. The couple behind Steelbow Farms, a five-acre urban farm near Manor, announced that they would be moving to upstate New York. The organic, sustainable farm, run by Finegan
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Five minutes after my first date with Alex, my phone lit up. He was a tall Massachusetts transplant with blue-green eyes and a mop of brown Lyle Lovett curls, and he wanted a second date. Our IRL date banter had lived up to our hilarious texting courtship. Unfortunately, I
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When I boarded a plane to Bentonville, I was going into the trip pretty much blind. I hadn’t even consulted Google Images, much less a guidebook. But Bentonville surprised me. I had heard it was a nice place to visit, but I didn’t know much more than that
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I do not mean to brag, but my toddler is a children’s museum connoisseur. We have been to children’s museums large and small, from Philadelphia to Johnson City. While he always enjoys himself, after two hours he is usually over the whole experience and ready to move on.
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When The Barbed Wire’s publisher asked if I wanted to go to Bentonville on an assignment I responded with such a resounding yes that he thought I didn’t hear him correctly. I’d been wanting to go to Bentonville since 2020, when I started researching areas within reasonable
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The day after the healthiest relationship of my life ended, I went online and bought some sperm. I haven’t had a lifelong desire to be a mother. But when I hit 36, I realized that once my parents pass, my already small family will shrink to nothing. There was
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Moving to Texas is one of the hottest things you can do, literally. If you ask U-Haul, it’s been the most popular state to move to six years in a row. Celebrities from Glen Powell to Shaq to *sigh* Elon have established home bases in the Lone Star