The Good Life: A Monthly Journal of Austin Stories

This It’s Ok To Be Healthy monthly serves a demographic better than Tribeza or Rare, and even Austin Monthly in its COMPREHENSIVE calendar!
They cover events ranging (alphabetically) from Art Spaces to Writers and everything in between, and you can literally plan your month from its pages.
The design is nothing to write home about, really, and they should make better use of their color scheme to keep the reader organized, but it’s big, it’s free and it’s fine.
I like best that they enlist an architect every month to ruminate on design or specific topics (the most recent being the need to densify instead of sprawl) that are really, really good.
There’s something for everyone in this monthly rag, great for getting your butt in motion.

With local heroes like the Austin Chronicle and Texas Monthly, the little guys are often overshadowed. I stumbled upon The Good Life one weekend when I noticed their newstand outside a retail location on South First. I initially though it was a mass-​produced, low-​budget publication that personalizes according to city. Not so.
The Good Life: A Monthly Journal of Austin Stories is a homebred collection of articles that are informative, anecdotal, and mostly specific to the current interests of our local community. While GL will not blow you away with its content, the stories can be interesting, helpful and relevant. In one issue, they interviewed a group of parents of adopted children. I couldn’t help but think how insightful the article was for anyone who was planning on adopting. Good Life is easy to read and has an unusually minimal amount of advertising. The mag is distributed at 350 Austin locales and is 100% gratis.
Good Life might be worth a glance.