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Rare Magazine

Austin is rare. Rare is Austin.

About Me

Rare Magazine is a funky, cool local Austin rag focusing on fashion, shopping, food, bars, nightlife, music, film, and on and on and on. We're here to promote all things good about the local scene. Feel free to comment all you want about how much you love or hate us or if you want to promote something yourself. If you want us to help promote anything, feel free to email stuff to [email protected] and we promise we'll at least take a look!
Our real website is rareaustin.com . There, you can subscribe to the print version of the magazine for $30/year or download all the issues.
If you're interested in advertising in Rare Magazine, have an editorial idea, or just want to pitch something just email Matt Swinney at [email protected] ...

My Blog

Austin Restaurant Week 2008

Austin Restaurant Week is here! Austin Restaurant Week celebrates Austin's best restaurants. Here's how it works: Three courses for either $25 or $35 and you can pick a different restaurant for eight...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:25:00 PST

Rarest of Them All: The Event

Rare Magazine is celebrating it's first annual reader's poll, "Rarest of Them All", with a huge event on top of The Monarch garage (the new huge building at 5th and West Avenue). There will be live mu...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:16:00 PST

the cold makes a girly frisky!

LOVE IT!!!! i love the cold! i love the good hair days! love the sweaters and layering! love the cold nights and my down comforter! love the trail of lights! love to wear socks! love the fireplace sme...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:00:00 PST

costumes...not just for kiddies.

 these little smileys kind of represent the group of people i saw on saturday. in our crew: the geico caveman....the best costume i've seen to date. really. and he was only called 'teen wolf' on...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:42:00 PST

Nudity in the Steam Room . . .

 (. . . and other gym fashion tips!) I like talking about exercise almost as much as I like actually getting exercise, which I hate, because there isn't one specific machine or workout ...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:15:00 PST

Failure to Launch...

Being in your mid-twenties and living with your parents has both its perks and drawbacks.  Personally, I love not having to pay rent or utilities.  I love living in a house thats clean and h...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:06:00 PST

Hmmm...

Well, it's my turn to blog ,and as usual, I have writer's block. My creative juices just aren't flowing today for some reason. Perhaps it's the extreme lack of sleep or the...who am I kidding? It's th...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:48:00 PST

Happy Graduation and Memorial Day

I have to admit that I have no motivation today. Katie and I have been sitting here staring at each other trying to make ourselves busy (not that we're not busy -- we just don't want to do anything). ...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Fri, 26 May 2006 11:29:00 PST

Girls' Night

Since our college days are long gone (in addition, so is our alcohol tolerance) my girlfriends and I set aside one night a week to catch up and not think about the "burdens of life" -- if yo...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Thu, 25 May 2006 01:50:00 PST

Clifford Antone

Well, there's really nothing else to blog about today but Clifford Antone. As the publisher of a magazine that strives to promote and help people as much as possible, I believe Clifford and I had some...
Posted by Rare Magazine on Wed, 24 May 2006 02:15:00 PST