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(Community Matters) The 22nd Broadway Bares, Winter Burlesque,” raising money for Dancers Responding to AIDS – Boy Culture pics, and Boy Culture NSFW pics

(Community Matters) Send messages in favor of nondiscrimination. The Boy Scouts of America board is scheduled to discuss the matter of ending the gay discrimination ban next Wednesday. Right wing groups are voicing their loud opposition.

Their National Service Desk at 972-580-2330. A representative will answer and ask if you are for or against the policy change. Emails to nationsupportcenter@scouting.org. GLADD also suggests posting support on their Facebook page

HT: Towelroad

(Community Matters) Vanity Fair’s Italian Cover this month – Italian Dancer Roberto Bolle, currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre

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(Community Matters) Congrats to this year’s Austin Under 40 finalists:

Arts and Entertainment

• Shawn Cirkiel, Heather Ladage, James Moody, Lauren Smith Ford, Joah Spearman

Business & Entrepreneurship

• Allison Davidson, Jesse Herman, Kendra Scott, Ellis Winstanley, Yuen Yung

Community Service

• Amber Fogarty, Chelsea McCullough, Michael Nellis, Hannah Nokes, Leo Ramirez Continue reading →

(Community Matters) In Culture Map, Nerdwallet.com:

With the highest percent growth in population and the lowest unemployment rate, Austin is a clear winner as the best choice for job-seekers. The median income is moderately high, and the cost of living is low.

(Community Matters) Dave Steakley’s directing threads 33 Variations’ three distinct stories in staging as Kaufman did in the script. A satisfying academic mystery with clues for how to heal a relationship is sharpened, enlivened by Beth Broderick’s Zach Scott debut. Anton Nel’s live performance also a coup for Zach Scott and adds a fourth dimension to the evening. Dave’s direction, Beth Broderick, Anton Nel and stellar cast members – including Barbara Chisholm – Zach’s presentation of 33 Variations is a powerful & deeply satisfying performance, providing the audience with a full tour of our emotions. I’m glad we laugh and smile at the end.

(Community Matters) “I thought the speech was something Americans ought to embrace, which was equal rights for all Americans,” Howard Dean defending the President’s speech against Republicans criticizing it as too partisan.

and Senator Rand Paul really does travel on the same space ship as his father

“you have 49% crackpots in your party and we only have about 10[%]”

(Community Matters) If the Huffington Post’s analysis is correct . . . if Mitt Romney really would have won the 2012 election if electoral votes were allocated by congressional district, then I suppose there is a way for Rs to win the presidency again in my lifetime. I don’t see a way otherwise.

(Community Matters) WSJ: “Losing the Crown: Apple was unseated Friday by Exxon Mobil as the world’s largest company after losing $245 billion in market value since September.”

HT: Playbook

(Community Matters)  Move Your Startup to Austin for Free at SXSW

In conjunction with Capital Factory‘s Demo Day at SXSWi 2013, one company will receive a relocation package worth over $50,000 to move their startup to Austin.

Here’s the package:

• Three months rent in a 3 bedroom house (courtesy of HomeAway)
• Six months of co-working at Capital Factory
• Six months of server hosting (courtesy of Rackspace)
• Moving expenses (courtesy of uShip)
• Six months of a storage unit (courtesy of SpareFoot)
• Six months of local groceries (courtesy of Greenling)
• Six months of Ramen noodles
• Feature story on AustinStartup

(Community Matters) If there were ever a poster child for Christopher Hayes’ Twilight of the Elite, Paul Ryan is it – the Congressman from a small town whose neighbors don’t even vote for him (seriously, he doesn’t even win the election support of his town, though markets well outside to the broader congressional district); someone who lived & went to school on his father’s social security death benefits but who begrudges others as takers vs makers.

While I’ve never met him, I don’t trust the guy. Jonathan Chait names the misgivings in this New Yorker article.

(Community Matters) I’m always citing the fact that while Henry Ford was not a nice man (anti-Semitic & racist) he seized the enlightened self interest of growing America’s middle class – stumbled upon this NYTimes column.

The context of these citations today (vs previously with my UT business students) is in the debate about increasing marginal tax rates. A thriving middle class will actually lift all ships.