March 4, 2007 at 1:45 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, cafe, meetups, movies, tv, video, contest
The Austin Chronicle is hosting a Borat look alike contest at Jo’s on South Congressl. It will be Tuesday, March 6 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Prizes include Borat DVD’s and you might even get your picture in the Chronicle!!! So break out your fake mustache and come on down. Sign up to win or just hang out and watch. Go to www.austinchronicle.com/contests for more info.Â
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February 10, 2007 at 10:05 pm
· Filed under austin, tv, video, blog, music
For all you South by Southwest (SXSW) fans out there, DirecTV just did a deal to bring the music-design-tech event to TV, airing live March 15-17th. Press release…
PRESS RELEASE — For two decades, the SXSW music
festival in Austin, Texas has been the industry’s best kept secret for
breaking new acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and James Blunt.
That’s all about to change as DIRECTV, the nation’s leading satellite
television service provider, teams up with music/entertainment guru Blaze
TV to bring the nation’s biggest music showcase to national television for
the first time in DIRECTV Presents SXSW Live. Exclusively on DIRECTV’s
Channel 101 (The 101), the special will be broadcast live March 15-17 and
feature unprecedented access with upfront performances and
behind-the-scenes footage from the three day musical extravaganza.
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February 8, 2007 at 3:30 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, espresso, cafe, movies, tv, video, barista, chocolate, roaster, tea, blog
Lisa and Tom take us on a video podcast walk through of Jo’s Coffee South.
Jo’s Coffee Video Podcast Windows Media Version - download now light and fast
Jo’s Coffee Video Podcast Mac Quicktime Version - download now (ipod ready) big and long download
and there’s an audio only podcast.
Tom, Jo’s Assistant Manager and fixit guy, shows us the equipment and processes that keep Jo’s running. He talks about the history of the place and gives us a tour around the outside on South Congress in Austin.
Lisa demos one of her favorite drinks. We also encounter Fritz, the Motorblade poster guy and one of the regulars who talks about the NASA astronaut space love triangle. It’s a fascinating look at the inner workings of South Congress epicenter of activity.
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February 6, 2007 at 8:07 am
· Filed under coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, espresso, cafe, movies, tv, video, barista, chocolate, roaster, blog
Disclaimer added after making the video:Â Rose now knows the difference between Portofino (a small fishing village in Italy located in the province of Genoa on the Italion Riviera) and a portafilter (the handle and basket thingy on an espresso machine that holds the ground espresso for extraction.)
Rose of Jo’s Coffee South, Austin, TX shows us how the pros make a mocha. It’s on an early Tuesday morning in Austin and it’s just before the big crowd shows up at Jo’s.
Makin’ Mocha – the Ipod Version
Makin’ Mocha with Rose – for Windows Media player
A Café Mocha is a variant of a cafe latte. It is simply a chocolate latte. Like a latte it is typically one third espresso and two thirds steamed milk, but a shot of chocolate is added. Typically the chocolate is in the form of an Italian syrup, although less sophisticated vending systems use instant chocolate powder. Whipped cream, dustings of cocoa and marshmallows may also be added on top for flavour and decoration.
This being an American invention, it is mostly unknown in Italy and other continental European countries. Mocha was originally a particular variety of coffee from Mocha, Yemen, made without cocoa, but which tasted as if it had cocoa in it, and modern usage usually refers to an imitation of it using other coffee varieties and cocoa.
A variant is white café mocha, instead made with a shot of white chocolate.
A term moccaccino is used in some regions of Europe and the Middle East to describe cappuccino with cocoa or chocolate.

pictured above – actual cup of mocha made at Jo’s South.
Photo by Tom Page.
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January 25, 2007 at 7:44 am
· Filed under austin, texas, tv
This youtube video was spotted on the D&D Austin update blog. From the D&D Blog “Eighty-eight year old Austin resident Gladys Hardy was on the phone with Ellen DeGeneres earlier this week. It was hilarious! Loved her commentary on the winter storm. Guess it shows that in Austin you can keep it weird at any age.”
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January 23, 2007 at 11:25 am
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, movies, tv, video, blog
Amy Cook’s new album, which will be officially released on February 16th, is featured on the Famecast “Show the World Your Talent” website. User comments on Famecast included “dreamy and beautiful”, “breathtaking video”, fabulous photography work, “marfa-lous song and video” and “good luck with the contest” Amy currently has 23 votes and, if you’re a fan, you may want to go there and cast your vote for Amy.
View the Contest Stage for the Artist, Amy Cook, on FameCast.com:
famecast.com/contest/stage50.php?stage_id=1&artist_id=1159

Before you vote, you’ll need to register as a “Famecast Fanatic”
http://famecast.com/registerfan.php
When you register there’s an option to “invite your friends”.
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January 13, 2007 at 5:12 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized, coffee, austin, texas, soco, southcongress, espresso, cafe, meetups, movies, tv, video
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Every Tuesday, 9P at Downtown Jo’s (Austin, TX)Sat. Jan. 13 2007 8:00P The Red House (Austin, TX) 1917 Manor Road*behind El Gringo Dishola launch party! Fri. Jan. 19 2007 9:00P Hole in the Wall (Austin, TX)Sat. Jan. 28 2007 9:00P The Peacock (Austin, TX) Fri. Feb. 16 2007 9:00P The Mohawk (Austin, TX)

pictures and following text from amycook.com
Amy Cook is a singer songwriter living and working in Austin and Marfa, Texas. Her music has appeared in a variety of films and TV shows including Laguna Beach, The L Word, Veronica Mars, Felicity and Dawson’s Creek. She also wrote and performed original songs for the Emmy-award winning documentary Amargosa. Her fiercely loyal underground following and her budding fans will be mesmerized by The Bunkhouse Recordings, the sweet and spontaneous first release from the independent label, Marfa Records.
Recorded under the night sky at a ranch in Far West Texas, the The Bunkhouse Recordings is the perfect vehicle for her evocative voice, at once nostalgic and new, raw and polished, tender and full of force. Amy moved from Los Angeles to Austin last year, stopping through Marfa for a few months along the way, to paint and stir up some change in her music career. This stripped down, straight forward version of original material is the result.
more at amycook.com
Michael Corcoran’s review of The Bunkhouse Recordings from the Austin American-Statesman
Welcome to our fair burg this “West Coast Girl” whose willowy melodies, attractive voice and gently pinching lyrics of lust and wanderlust make this LP such a delightful calling card. Don’t adjust your stereo; those really are background crickets and cicadas providing the lo-fi touches that help make this more than just “fem folk” music, even as Cook sounds like she was raised on Joni Mitchell and never grew up. Think of an earlier, wispier Mindy Smith.
This record launches Marfa Records, started by Leisha Hailey (ex-Murmurs), and plants the flag for songs that explore expanded spaces of imagination, such as “Ballad of the Edge of the World,” which strides buoyantly to the darkness, ever moving, ever dreaming. The big sky of stars and fireflies is made for music like this.
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January 12, 2007 at 2:34 pm
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Alice Spencer & Her Monkey Butlers perform jazz and blues from the 1920’s and 1930’s, as well as original material. The band is led by singer Alice Spencer with Mark Rubin on the helicon (Bad Livers, Klezmer Brass All-Stars), Pops Bayless on “Chicago Style” tenor banjo (Shorty Long, Asylum Street Spankers), Joe Cordi on piano (Giant City Sextet), Ben Saffer on clarinet and C-melody saxophone (Rubinchik’s Yiddish Ensemble, Victrola), and Oliver Steck on trumpet.

The Monkey Butlers are proud to announce the release of their debut CD Joe’s Basement. Please see below for sample downloads. Design by Pops.
Schedule
   2007 schedule change:  Â
   Starting January 11th, we will be playing every Thursday, 8:00-9:30pm at
   JO’S COFFEE (downtown location)
 > Thursday, January 11th, 8:00-9:30pm
     Jo’s Coffee (downtown location)
       242 W. 2nd Street, Austin, TX, 512.469.9003, map
       Between Colorado & Lavaca
 > Thursday, January 18th, 8:00-9:30pm
     Jo’s Coffee (downtown location)
  > Friday, January 19th, 6:00-8:00pm
     Elephant RoomÂ
     315 Congress Ave., Austin TX, 512.477.5211, map
postscript � Alice Spencer & Her Monkey Butlers did a live performance on KUT on Saturday, Jan 28th and it was delightful! The 20s sound is awesome.
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