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Hydro Thunder: Design-A-Skin Contest

Want to make your mark on video games? Now's your chance! Enter the Hydro Thunder Hurricane Design-A-Skin Video Contest and win a chance to design...
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest names worst sentence of the year

This year's Bulwer-Lytton contest winner took home the gold Tuesday with a simile comparing a passionate kiss to a gerbil drinking water--and...
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Putting the "adult" in "Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee"

The Austin Chronicle's Adult Spelling Bee, which takes place this Thursday,is strictly limited to legal drinkers andis taking place in a...
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Get your orthography on at the Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee

The Austin Chronicle will be hosting its eighth annual Adult Spelling Bee Thursday, May 20. While it doesn't seem contestants will be spelling ...
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Golden Grahams to feed, animate its cleverest job-seeking writers

Golden Grahams is giving away 12 boxes of their cereal to 75 people a week for three months (which is...10,800 boxes of cereal. I think). To win...
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Passports with Purpose - Help build a school in Cambodia & win great prizes!

Here is your chance to win some great travel prizes and contribute to building a school in Cambodia - through the Passports with Purpose contest!...
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Ride a lawn chair to work

Austin is not only famous for its city slogan of "Keep Austin Weird", but also its tried and true environmentally conscious mentality....
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Sculpture Challenge 2009

The 2009 Dripping Springs Sculpture Challenge is under way! On Saturday, March 7, 2009. Sculpture artists from across Texas will compete for the...
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January 5 application deadline for the SA Symphony Future Stars Competition

The deadline for the Future Stars concerto competition from the San Antonio Symphony is on Jan. 5, 2012. Two rounds of competition will be required...
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Short film contest focuses on select San Antonio neighborhoods

Four distinct San Antonio neighborhoods will be featured in a short film contest sponsored by The San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs.The 2nd...
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