Thursday, January 17, 2008

Mohawk - Austin, TX Which Bar Made The Top Spot in Esquire?. We don't consider ourselves an Austin-centric site, but when this bit of news popped up, we felt it was worth bragging just a bit. Of course, coming from Esquire it is to be taken with a grain of salt, but the top rated bar in the US just happens to be Austin's Mohawk. The news popped up this morning thanks to our friends at Austinist, who have been following the growth of Mohawk over the past year or so. They've been consistently booking rad shows over there, so they earned the title. For those of you coming here for SXSW, make it a point to pop in to check it out. On the bar's blog, James Moody said: "Esquire thinks we are cool, but I think we are so far from cool we can't even Google map it. We let people write on the walls and we only have 3 martini glasses in the entire joint. Regardless, we are just happy to be recognized as both a bar and a live music venue, because we are both. We have killer shows, but we also have bitchin' Camaro happy hours. I think that was one of the reasons they chose our club." Congrats Mohawk! Click here to see the entire list. Mohawk [The Tripwire] 7:22:56 PM

Sarah and Brooke Go to Dunkin Donuts Sarah and Brooke at Dunkin Donuts, http://www.yobeat.com/features/dunkinds.htm 7:16:51 PM

Will RSS Live Up to Our Great Expectations? Blog Cover Revision: Did RSS Live Up to Expectations?. I was looking over the blog cover this morning and this passage jumped out at me. Did RSS live up to the expectations we wrote about here? "The innovation that sends blogs zinging into the mainstream is RSS, or Really... [BusinessWeek Online -- Blogspotting] 7:13:27 PM

Star Club, Hamburg Lost Live Beatles Recordings To Be Released. Bosses at a little-known Miami, Florida record label plan to make history by releasing 15 lost Beatles tunes the Fab Four recorded live in Germany. Read more! [Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News] 6:41:08 PM

From paidContent.org NBA and Turner To Make Digital Management Deal Official Tomorrow As we have been covering for the last few months, NBA has been in talks to hand over its digital operations to Turner, and the two will make it official at an announcement tomorrow, reports THR. Turner Sports will manage the 24-hour cable channel NBA TV, as well NBA.com....NBA will still own the properties, of course. We will have more from the announcement tomorrow. Turner Sports New Media group also handles PGA and Nascar's digital properties, and there have been reports about it being in talks with Major League Soccer to run its online operations. - Rafat Ali [paidContent.org] 7:31:51 AM