Austin Pride and Summer Guide

😎Your best Austin summer ever

Alright, alright, alright, summer has arrived. This weekend will hot. As will next weekend. And the one after that. And then, guess what? It's July, and we don't talk about what happens after July. 🫠
But what's that saying? Out of the furnace, into the ... frosty drink🍹? We Austinites are nothing if not, well-adapted, and your trusty Austin360 team pooled our expertise to create an ultimate summer bucket list that includes everything from air-conditioned hideaways in historic theaters to floating movies on the lake.

More summer fun!

• 🎸 Austin's top summer concerts include Lorde, Wu-Tang Clan and Phish
• 🤠 Reminder: Willie is bringing Bob Dylan to his Fourth of July picnic
• 💘 Dating on a Dime: Our dining and nightlife correspondent Ana Gutierrez found free concerts and movies for this month's installment of her budget dating series.
• 🎷We don't have a lineup yet, but Blues on the Green dropped a Save the Date for August.
• Mix up your ice cream routine with 🍧 Asian frozen treats like bingsu and Halo-halo!
• Sure, it's hot, but we're still about that patio life. Here are the best spots for brunch, happy hour and dog-friendly meet-ups.
• And here's our guide to 🍋‍🟩the best margaritas in Austin!

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride!🏳️‍⚧️

The country dons rainbows and glitter for LGBTQ+ Pride in June to commemorate the Stonewall Uprisings. On June 28, 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gritty LGBTQ bar in Greenwich, New York touched off two days of street riots and protests. "The uprising changed the power dynamics in the struggle for LGBTQ rights," our history and culture correspondent Michael Barnes, wrote in this fantastic 2019 piece about how the movement rippled into Austin: https://www.austin360.com
These days, Austin's largest celebration and parade is in August. But that doesn't mean there aren't ways to celebrate in and around the city this month. Many area festivities, including Pride events in Bastrop and Round Rock, take place this weekend.

7 new restaurants to try, and 5 we lost (plus more small bites)

From an Australian-inspired cafe (we are dubious, but intrigued by the "Vegemite flight") to a new coffee shop in one of Austin's oldest music venues, Ana has a roundup of seven new spots that opened in May (and five we lost.) https://www.austin360.com/news/

More small bites

• 📖 Best. Library. Ever: There's a new location of Café Crème, a French-Vietnamese coffee shop and bakery, at the Central Public Library. Right now, they are serving cold brew, tea and pastries, but an expanded menu with cocktail service is in the works.
• Need dining inspo? Here are the 🦐 best things our restaurant critic Matthew Odam ate last month: https://www.austin360.com/food
• 🍔The original P. Terry's location on Barton Springs Road is now open 24 hours.
• 🍩A new location of The Salty's opens at the Domain NORTHSIDE tomorrow in time for National Donut Day: https://www.austin360.com/news/

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