Not all dads grill and play golf. Check out these Father’s Day gift ideas.

Consider these gifts for a father in your life:

100% Man Purse

1. If you hurry, local handbag artist Andrea Couch will custom make the dad in your life a handsome man purse. Visit BottleUpAndExplode.com …get yourself a bag while you’re there!

2. Real men drink beer. Austin Home Brew has beer-making kits starting below $85. If  that’s too big of a leap, they also have books on beer-making, so he can feel it out.

2. A framed photo of the great Colt McCoy, the all-time winningest quarterback in college football history. Available at the Texas Photo Store. Other Longhorn photos also available.

Colt McCoy, one of the best ever

3. Manscaping. He may not admit he’d like a spa day, but we bet he would. Here’s a list of Austin-based places where he can get a trim, a massage or even a little laser work: I BuyAustin Spas.

4. Watch a World Cup soccer game with him. Bars all over town will be showing games, so pick a country and root, whether you like soccer or not. It will be fun. The team shirts are great gifts, too.

5. Let him win at Cityism. Fast delivery. Order now.

Play Cityism with Dad

You can tell a lot about a city’s culture by where they have their class reunions.

My friends from Houston/The Woodlands will enjoy their reunion at a lovely suburban version of the chain wine bar, Cru.

My significant other, from Dallas, is stressing over what to wear to a ritzy Dallas hotel gala.

Scholz, Austin's most iconic bar

I’ll be with my buddies from Austin LBJ, at Scholz Beer Garden, throwing back Shiner and waxing poetic about growing up with Waylon, Willie and the boys. Is it so wrong to be proud? It’s this disease called cityism.

Cityism takes 2nd in GirlStart Ping Pong. See our ringers…

Keely, Dannah, Avery and Kyler

It’s not every day you get to play ping pong for a cause. But that’s what we did on Sunday. Raised money for GirlStart and won us some trophies, too!

Congratulations Cityism ping pongers.

Dr. Kyler Brown reaches for a low one.

Top five Mother’s Day things to do in Austin…

1. Get Mom a copy of  Cityism, and play it with the whole family. She’ll enjoy it, and so will you — no matter how long you’ve lived in Austin. Order by midnight Friday, May 7th, for guaranteed delivery on Saturday — in Austin only.

2. Take her to gospel brunch at Threadgill’s (south) or Stubb’s. These are hand-clapping fun, and the food’s great.

3. Do the the Garden’s Tour (Saturday only) — Visit the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center for more information, or just visit there to celebrate National Wildflower Week.

4. Enjoy free coffee for all moms at Whole Foods, then shop with her there. But if she’s like my mom, go early before it’s a madhouse.

5. Take her to the University Co-op and get her a new Longhorn tee, or skirt or ANYTHING. They have a huge women’s department with anything Longhorn you can imagine. And even if she’s not a Longhorn, she secretly wants one.

Which new edition of Austin board game would you like most? Click here for quick poll.

When you play Cityism, you currently get a wide variety of Austin trivia, from the latest bands and current events to older Austin staples like Willie Nelson and Mount Bonnell.  Now we want to bring you a special edition.

Help us decide which new edition to launch this summer by taking our  poll:

Where the Butts Were. Not your father’s bluebonnet shots, check out these photos…

I’ve noticed something about the bluebonnets. There are dents about the size of a toilet seat every couple of feet.

The twins must have sat here.

Some dents are doublewide. Newlyweds? The twins? Or maybe a kid and a dog. Some dents are huge, like dining tables — where entire families squatted, as Junior set the timer and ran back into the picture.

Every dent has its story. Click here to see where more butts sat beneath smiling faces.

Austin women’s pro football team is ten years tuff. Yes, it’s tackle…

The Austin Outlaws won their season opener 7-6 on Sunday in a defensive battle against Houston.

The Outlaws are tackling their 10th year in the league, more than any of the 40 other teams in the nation.

Outlaws win defensive battle

You can support the Outlaws at their next game this Sunday at the Westlake football stadium, at noon.

Learn more about the Outlaws at www.austinoutlaws.com.

Ultimate irony — Oklahoma City skyline appears on Austin postcard.

When you buy a postcard of the Austin skyline, you expect to see the state capitol and maybe the UT Tower. That’s not what an Austin man found when he purchased one at Walgreen’s on South Lamar.

Statesman icon John Kelso reports today that a slew of postcards showing the Oklahoma City skyline were printed, and sold, with the word “AUSTIN” slapped across the photo. 

It’s not hard to understand why a town would want to pose as Austin, but it’s just not right.  Actually, we’re pretty sure this was an honest mistake — that is, if honesty is something that happens in a state founded by “sooners,” a term used to described settlers who cheated to get land. 

OK City poses as Austin

If AUSTIN were slapped across a beautiful city like San Francisco or Paris, we might just keep our mouths shut. But OK City? Someone’s head’s gotta roll.

You can be sure this little incident will appear in the next version of Cityism.  And be prepared, because the next time you see a photo of a longhorn standing in a field of bluebonnets, it just might have HONALULU stamped across it.

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It’s not all about the bats. Vote for Austin’s official animal (bat, armadillo, salamander…)

The mayor wants the bat to be Austin’s official animal. The choice may not be as obvious as you think.

Before bats became so popular, there was the armadillo. Newcomers may be surprised, but the armadillo was HUGE, mostly due to the Armadillo World Headquarters, the music venue that kick-started Austin as the Live Music Capital of the World.

Then there’s our Barton Springs salamander, endangered for years and now flourishing thanks to citizen efforts. But what about the longhorn? Or grackles, the species with the most sexual dimorphism (read the Leslie bird)? Any of these could represent Austin. Take our poll and we’ll let the City Council know.

Cityism, the Austin board game, is crawling with these animals and more.