Covering the Limelight in ATX

There's a new venue in town, and it came on the scene with a ROAR. This roar can be contributed to several things. Welcome to Austin's newest event venue, know to locals as COTA. First, the engines of Formula 1 race cars zooming around the new Circuit of the Americas race track which opened last November in Elroy, just outside of Austin, Texas. COTA's 3.4 mile circuit track is home to the United States Grad Prix and will feature several other national and international races including V8 Supercars, Grand Am and Le Mans. The track also is in the running the an upcoming X-Games competition. V8 Supercars race around the track in May 2013. Participant in the V8 Supercars race at Austin's Circuit of the Americas. A shot of the race track from the observation tower at COTA. Second, the ecstatic crowds filling the 14,000 seat Austin360 Amphitheater attached to the venue which opened this spring. COTA has partnered with Live Nation to bring even more ma...

Recently, several big-name celebrities joined forces in Austin, Texas for two days of star-studded fun, all in the name of helping kids in need.  Mack and Sally Brown, Amy and Jack Ingram, Camila and Matthew McConaughey  University of Texas head football coach Mack Brown and is wife Sally, country singer Jack Ingram and his wife Amy, and actor Matthew McConaughey and his model/designer wife Camila Alves McConaughey created MJ&M: Empowering Kids as a way to "impact the lives of kids by supporting programs dedicated to empowering underserved children."  Matthew and Camila McConaughey  Each year the group plans to support different organizations working to empower kids around the world. This years benefactors included The Rise School of Austin, just keep living Foundation, HeartGift, CureDuchenne, and Grounded in Music. Through two days of fun events, children throughout Texas, California, Louisiana, and more than 23 countries around the wor...