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Monday, May 4 

Your Daily Guide

🦉 Morning! Athena’s owlet has gained a bunch of weight and opened his eyes!

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What Austin's Talking About

Willie Nelson Makes Best Songwriter List

Willie Nelson is included on the New York Times’ list of the 30 best living songwriters. The paper said Nelson has written some of country music’s “most beloved” songs. [The New York Times]

Camp Mystic Will Not Reopen This Summer

The summer camp near Kerrville where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in July flooding will not reopen this summer. Camp Mystic officials and victim families gave testimony in April about what happened last summer. [The Associated Press]

Smokeable Hemp Allowed for Now

A Travis County judge granted a temporary injunction on Friday that stopped part of the state’s new hemp rules from going into effect. For now, hemp businesses can keep selling cannabis flower and concentrates. [KUT]

3 Austin Breweries Win Medals at World Beer Cup

Pinthouse Brewing, Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co., and Zilker Brewing Co. medaled at this year’s World Beer Cup, an international beer competition. The three breweries brought home a total of four medals. [Austin American-Statesman]

Where Is This?

A green garden with a statue in the middle.

I love visiting the Umlauf. It’s so peaceful! (Kelsey Bradshaw/City Cast Austin)

Congratulations to Vanessa M. for guessing the last “Where Is This?” correctly! This photo was taken at Umlauf Sculpture Garden + Museum. I got lots of good guesses — Zilker Park, Laguna Gloria, Elisabet Ney Museum — for this one.

Can you guess where this week’s photo was taken?

A lit up marquee outside a theater.

Hint: 🎬 🍿 🎶 (Kelsey Bradshaw/City Cast Austin)

Do you know which theater this marquee belongs to? Click the button below to submit your guess and be featured in next Monday’s newsletter!

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👋 Bye! I’m off to see “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and I can’t wait!

Kelsey Bradshaw

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