Just wanted to introduce a new weekly addition to Shoestring Austin: Freebie Fridays! Every week we’ll be highlighting fun, free things to see and do, as well as contests and give-aways from Austin-area merchants and bloggers. Got something you’d like to add to our list? Get in touch through our contact page with all the details!
Win a copy of Henry & Glenn Forever!
First up, if you like Henry Rollins and/or Glenn Danzig, then you’ll want to snag a free copy of the hilarious spoof comic Henry & Glenn Forever being given away to one lucky reader by our affiliate, Black Heart Magazine. Henry & Glenn Forever features Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as gay lovers, along with neighbors (and Satanists) Hall & Oates. It’s a heady trip through a reimagined metal landscape where manly men and their mysteriously mustachioed neighbors get it on all night long. If you can go for that, all you have to do to be entered into the prize draw is comment on their review, which is online here.
Win tickets to Dripping With Taste
Via the Austin Chronicle‘s contest page, enter to win free tickets to Dripping With Taste Wine & Food Festival on September 11, 2010. As the second fastest growing wine destination in the U.S., you’ll experience the tastes of Hill Country with food from Dripping Springs vendors Creek Road Café, Rolling in Thyme & Dough, Thai Gourmet, and Verdes Mexican Parrilla.
Wineries in attendance include Driftwood Estate Winery, Duchman Family Winery, Becker Vineyards, Bell Mountain Vineyards, Fall Creek, Haak Vineyards & Winery, Messina Hof Winery & Resort, Piney Woods Country Winery, Texas Hills Vineyard, Sunset Winery, Landon Winery, Wines of Dotson, McReynolds Winery, and Cocktail Wine. You can buy tickets in advance for $25 each, or click here to enter the drawing for free.
Other Austin Chronicle contests on now include chances to win a $25 gift certificate to eco gift store Wanderland, a $10 gift certificate to the Old Pecan Street Fest, and tickets to 4 shows during the 2010-2011 season of Texas Performing Arts.
Austin AV Club giveaways
If you dig movies, you’ll want to check out these Austin AV Club giveaways, which are going, going, GONE! Ending September 5 is their contest to win the 6th season of The Office on DVD, and until September 28 you can still enter to win one of 10 copies of Get Him to the Greek on DVD. Sweet!
Free movie screenings
If you like free movie tickets, you’ll want to grab these free screeners for Ben Affleck’s second directorial outing, The Town, via Gofobo.
Free music
If you love free music, be sure to check out the “Daily Downloads” section for legal MP3 downloads at Largehearted Boy. Today’s selections include tunes from The Biters, Crocodiles, Delay Trees, The Drums, Grand Lake, Hudson Bell, The Intelligence, The Interns, Lavinia and The Mommyheads.
Free food
Central Market is currently offering a “foodie freebie” of Ito En Teas’ Tea, house brand all-natural tortillas (10 ct) and Cascade sour cream (16 oz.) with purchase of 2 pounds of marinated sirloin steak for fajitas. A total of $10.67 in groceries FREE with their in-store coupon. Click here for more weekly specials.
Free drinks (21+)
Via Keeping Austin Free, those of legal drinking age can enjoy a free Burgundy wine tasting today only, from 4 to 8 pm. Hit up East End Wines (1209 Rosewood Avenue) for your sample sips.
Let us know if there’s anything we’ve missed!
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