the hardest working cupcake in austin
Yesterday, the delightful Rosental Alves, who directs the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, invited me to talk to his journalism class preceding one of the Knight News Challenge meetups I am in town to convene.
At breakfast before class, he explained his surprise at his ‘migaddiction’–he especially likes the migas at Kerbey Lane near campus:
This morning I discovered more Austin surprises when I followed a sign to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden.
Striking sculptures, mostly from a decade I also like vintage from,
were positioned near pink waterlilies rising from the pond that centers this peaceful park.
To keep things interesting (and appropriately Austin), there is a warthog across from…
Eve.
A likelier (and auspicious) combination followed at the South Congress Cafe, an establishment that has perfected the art of brunch: crab cakes and tomato-stilton soup.
Across the street from the cafe is the Hey Cupcake truck, home of the Michael Jackson cupcake, and I considered it.
And then, I decided to get on up and explore other vintage neighborhood scenes, happening upon Sugar Mama’s cupcake shop:
Sugar Mama’s has a James Brown cupcake. That easily trounced that other one.
If you need a refresher course on funk moves, the Godfather of Funk illustrates:
As I watched the darkening skyline at the Uncorked wine bar on 7th Street tonight, I thought about sunsets, swan songs, flights, and one of my favorite James Brown dance moves, the robot (it’s in the video above).
Tomorrow and Sunday, I will be surrounded by robots and inventors and creative energy at Maker Faire; here’s to the sexy machines of the immediate future—
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- the mighty cone, solar pumps, and a shiny knife in austin
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- cupcake love, birthday wishes, and morning mimosas
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Friday, October 17th, 2008, 11:24 pm * Filed in Art, Design, Food, Photography, Travel, Tribute, Video. * Tags: alves, austin, brown, cafe, congress, cupcake, garden, james, kthread, mama's, migas, rosental, sculpture, south, sugar, texas, umlauf. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
