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FALL 2013

Ballantyne Magazine covers news, events, real estate, restaurants, shopping, health, schools and business in the upscale Ballantyne Area of Charlotte, NC.

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| going home Photo courtesy of Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau BALLANTYNE awesome AUSTIN pedicab driven by a singing LIVE MUSIC, QUIRKY CULTURE, SCENIC HILLS ENSURE GOOD-TIME GETAWAY driver? "The city's unofficial By Nan Bauroth WHERE ELSE BUT AUSTIN, TEXAS could you ride in a feel it when you're there." Lanz cites the Hula Hut, a waterfront hangout that styles itself "Tikki-Mex," or Saturday motto is 'Keep Austin Weird,'" street vendors who hawk funky says Glenda Lanz, a Ballantyne works fashioned of hubcaps. resident who resided in Austin Austin also boasts the world's MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Now a senior financial analyst with Compass Group in Charlotte, Lanz finds herself drawn back at least once a year. "The people who live in Austin cultivate this quirky culture," she says. "You just 84 BALLANTYNE MAGAZINE Photo courtesy of University of Texas at Austin several years while earning her Above: The Texas State Capitol, opened in 1888, is taller than the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. Left: Bevo, the mascot for the University of Texas Longhorns, has one eye on the football feld and one eye on the camera. FALL 20 1 3

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