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Watch two stoners get their minds blown by Buc-ee's in upcoming film 'Ripped'

Watch two stoners get their minds blown by Buc-ee's in upcoming film 'Ripped'

austin360.com — Buc-ee's is pretty amazing. It's massive, it's got great food and it has the best bathrooms anywhere in Texas. Well, it's now featured in an upcoming movie. In "Ripped," comedians Russell Peters and Faizon Love smoke some top-secret pot from the CIA and are transported 30 years into the future.
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Watch this dog play fetch with herself in the Barton Springs Spillway

Watch this dog play fetch with herself in the Barton Springs Spillway

austin360.com — Any dog owner can attest that having a high-energy pup can get a little exhausting. The endless walking, running and throwing can be taxing on a dog parent, and chances are you've probably asked your dog, "Why can't you just figure out how to entertain yourself?" Enter this Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
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Quidditch is a real sport - and the major leagues are coming to Austin next weekend

Quidditch is a real sport - and the major leagues are coming to Austin next weekend

austin360.com — Any good Harry Potter fan knows that the world's best fictional sport has actually become reality and it's gained popularity over the last decade. The sport, played on brooms in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series, was adapted to a real-life full contact sport in 2005 and is particularly popular on college campuses.
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'Bachelorette' Week 2: Dallas' Rachel Lindsay hangs with celebs and kicks a liar to the curb

'Bachelorette' Week 2: Dallas' Rachel Lindsay hangs with celebs and kicks a liar to the curb

austin360.com — First of all, full disclosure: I watched this week's episode late because Memorial Day, so this recap is a little late. SORRY, FRIENDS. The good news is, the show's nonsense continues regardless of which day you watch it. Also, I messed up and I thought "Tickle Monster" guy went home last week, but he didn't.
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Follow the adventures of Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay

Follow the adventures of Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay

mystatesman.com — Welcome to another season of the beautiful disaster known as the "Bachelor" franchise. This "Bachelorette" season's star, Dallas native and University of Texas graduate Rachel Lindsay, met her 31 suitors last week in an episode that was filled with - you guessed it - drama.
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Texas couple catches record-size largemouth bass, credits chicken nugget as bait

Texas couple catches record-size largemouth bass, credits chicken nugget as bait

austin360.com — A Texas couple set a record for catching a giant largemouth bass earlier this month, but they're giving credit to an unlikely source: McDonald's. Highview Marina, which is located on Lake Bardwell in Ennis, a town in North Texas, posted about the record catch on Facebook in early May.
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East Austin bar hosting fundraiser for one-year anniversary of Harambe's death

East Austin bar hosting fundraiser for one-year anniversary of Harambe's death

austin360.com — Just when you thought you were done hearing about Harambe, the gorilla-turned-meme that took over social media in 2016, an East Austin bar is making sure you never forget the slain gorilla. Rhino Room, a bar on Sixth Street just east of Interstate 35, is hosting Harambe: A Day of Remembrance on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the day the gorilla was killed.
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Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay makes her debut

Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay makes her debut

austin360.com — Welcome to another season of the beautiful disaster known as the "Bachelor" franchise. Let me just start by saying that Rachel is a badass boss lady.
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Texas man takes a tumble off Topgolf second-floor ledge

Texas man takes a tumble off Topgolf second-floor ledge

austin360.com — If you've ever been to Topgolf, you've probably been afraid of falling off the second- or third-floor ledge after a particularly overzealous swing. A Fort Worth man had his fears realized when he took a swing from the second floor and found himself in a net at the Topgolf in Fort Worth.
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Set sail on Lady Bird Lake with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Fitzcarraldo' Memorial Day weeken...

Set sail on Lady Bird Lake with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Fitzcarraldo' Memorial Day weeken...

austin360.com — Ahoy! Alamo Drafthouse is hosting two boat parties over Memorial Day weekend, giving Austinites the chance to take a cruise over the long weekend and enjoy a movie. On Saturday, May 27, the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Boat Party Adventure features a screening of the film at 11 a.m.
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Four Texans competing to win the heart of Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay

Four Texans competing to win the heart of Dallas 'Bachelorette' Rachel Lindsay

austin360.com — Two months ago, Dallas native, University of Texas graduate and all around badass lawyer Rachel Lindsay was named this season's "Bachelorette," making her the first black lead on either "The Bachelorette" or "The Bachelor," which have run for 15 years and a combined 33 seasons.
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This Texas house sold at auction despite the fact that it's almost definitely haunted

This Texas house sold at auction despite the fact that it's almost definitely haunted

austin360.com — Look at this house. It's a "fixer upper," according to a Longview, Texas real estate company (and not the cute Chip-and-Joanna kind). It's definitely the kind of house you'd see featured in a horror film, where a family moves in unexpectedly and before they realize what they've done, their kids are making friends with ghost children and doors slam shut on their own.
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This $3.3 million Austin home has a theater that looks like an airplane cabin

This $3.3 million Austin home has a theater that looks like an airplane cabin

austin360.com — Love movies? Love travel? Have several million dollars to spend on a new home? You're in luck. This 4,809-square-foot home for sale in West Austin features a home theater and entertainment room that will make you feel like you're 40,000 feet above the earth.
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Where to celebrate the 'Twin Peaks' premiere in Austin

Where to celebrate the 'Twin Peaks' premiere in Austin

austin360.com — If you've spent the last 25-plus years lamenting the loss of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks," a cult-favorite television show that unfortunately lasted only two seasons, you're probably feeling pretty pumped this week. The TV show is getting a reboot, and season three premieres on Showtime on Sunday night.
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'Stock tank pools' are apparently all the rage this summer, but Texans already knew that

'Stock tank pools' are apparently all the rage this summer, but Texans already knew that

austin360.com — If you grew up in Texas, chances are you have fond memories of beating the summer heat by running through the water sprinkler in your backyard. Because, let's face it, when the temperatures top 100 degrees, you've got to stay cool by any means necessary.
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No, Lance Armstrong isn't dead

No, Lance Armstrong isn't dead

austin360.com — Despite what you may have heard, Lance Armstrong isn't dead. A website called fox-news24.com, which has reported on such "news" as Nicki Minaj wanting to "win Kanye's heart" (um, OK), misspelled Michael Jackson's name and claimed Prince Harry is dating Jamaican Olympic medalist Elaine Thompson (the site misspelled her name, too), claimed Armstrong had passed.
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It's National Eat What You Want Day-so here are America's most-craved fast foods

It's National Eat What You Want Day-so here are America's most-craved fast foods

austin360.com — If you'd like to indulge your cravings on National Eat What You Want Day, we suggest one of these local Austin joints to enjoy some Korean barbecue, chilled ramen or hot chicken. But if you want to be ?really bad this unofficial holiday, you can give into that devil on your shoulder telling you to hit the drive thru.
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Here's where to celebrate 'National Eat What You Want Day' in Austin

Here's where to celebrate 'National Eat What You Want Day' in Austin

austin360.com — It's National Eat What You Want Day. So you should, you know, eat what you want. Here are some of the delicious (but maybe not all that healthy) foods and restaurants we've been buzzing about lately here at Austin360. ?Chi'lantro.
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This Austin school made an epic lip dub video to a Killers song -and the band noticed

This Austin school made an epic lip dub video to a Killers song -and the band noticed

austin360.com — Thinking lip dub videos are so 2000-and-late? Wrong. Austin's Liberal Arts and Science Academy, a magnet school at Lyndon B. Johnson High School in Austin ISD, made a lip dub video to The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done."
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You can now buy a poke burrito covered in Cheetos, because Austin

You can now buy a poke burrito covered in Cheetos, because Austin

austin360.com — The poke craze is expanding in Austin. It started last year with the opening of Poke Poke in South Austin ( a second location is opening soon), and according to Eater Austin, it's not showing any signs of slowing down. And some new restaurants are adding their own twist on traditional poke.
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Beloved Austin bar named among 'most authentic' dive bars in the country

Beloved Austin bar named among 'most authentic' dive bars in the country

austin360.com — Austin loves a good dive bar. Though it seems like a new bar is opening in town every week, despite what some Austinites say, there's a good bit of "old Austin" left in these classic bars. There's Lala's, where it's Christmas year-round.
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Oklahoma, California and the Dakotas are all more fun than Texas, according to new study

Oklahoma, California and the Dakotas are all more fun than Texas, according to new study

austin360.com — We Texans tend to think our state is a pretty fun place. We've got it all: Rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, forests, theme parks, Willie Nelson, Buc-ee's, houses shaped like boots, Willie Nelson, glass-bottomed pools, Matthew McConaughey in tiny jean shorts, the chance to "go Rambo" with an M60, did we mention Willie Nelson?
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15 Austinites having more fun than you at Eeyore's Birthday

15 Austinites having more fun than you at Eeyore's Birthday

austin360.com — Eeyore's Birthday Party, otherwise known as the yearly spring Saturday when Austinites gather in Pease Park to celebrate everyone's favorite downtrodden donkey (and raise money for local nonprofits), hosted its 54th annual celebration Saturday. It's an event that epitomizes "Keep Austin Weird," promising fun costumes, acroyoga, bubbles, maypoles, drum circles and other delightfully Austin sightings.
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Reports: Chip Gaines of 'Fixer Upper' accused of fraud

Reports: Chip Gaines of 'Fixer Upper' accused of fraud

austin360.com — According to reports, two of Chip Gaines' former business partners are accusing the "Fixer Upper" star of fraud. The Waco Tribune reports the two former partners in Magnolia Realty are accusing Gaines of defrauding them by "withholding information about his impending fame and forcing them to accept cheap buyouts to leave him sole owner of the company and Magnolia name."
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