Summer Fun: You Think This Is Hot?
Summer Fun is back for seconds after a pause for floods and gay marriage
By Kate X Messer, 9:00AM, Wed. Jul. 15, 2015
OK, we cheated. We’re on Chronicle time; what can we tell you? We launched summer with our Summer Fun issue back in late-May – a full month before the Solstice, nature’s true, official kick-off to the season.
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Oh, honey. Summer's far from over. We're barely at the half-way mark. Lucky for you, our 2015 Summer Fun Calendar is stuffed (like that suitcase your mom used to make you sit on so she could close it before family vacation) with events through mid-September.
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The Austin Chronicle’s 2015 Summer Fun Issue hit the stands May 14. Read more Summer Fun stories at austinchronicle.com/summer-fun.
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Kate X Messer, July 17, 2015
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