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Austin, Texas – October 15, 2026 -- Electric motorbike brand Monday Motorbikes has relaunched with a new cruiser, the Shavano, which is available now through authorized dealers and the brand's website for an MSRP of $2,299.

A 90-day teardown produced a tougher identity

The relaunch is the first major milestone under Monday Mobility Group, a portfolio company of Volara Holdings. Over 90 days, the company rebuilt its logo, visual identity, product story, website, dealer program and retail experience. Monday is now headquartered in Eugene, Oregon.

The new pitch drops lightweight and eco messaging. Monday's bikes are larger, heavier and sturdier than much of what fills the e-bike aisle, and the brand now leads with that. Its tagline is "Built Tough. Every Day." Four pillars support it: ruggedness, reliability, an unpretentious attitude and the freedom of the open road.

Austin – October 14, 2026 -- Triquetra Health has launched Folura, a once-daily hair softgel for men and women with thinning hair, now sold on Amazon and at triquetrahealth.com. Each softgel contains 160 mg of Serevelle saw palmetto extract, the dose used in the trial the company cites.

Folura targets the follicle instead of the visible strand

Triquetra says most hair supplements rely on biotin, collagen and long vitamin lists aimed at hair already on the head. Its argument is that thinning starts deeper, at the follicle, where a shift in hormonal activity gradually shortens the growth cycle and produces finer hair that sheds sooner. Folura is built around a single active ingredient rather than a blend.

Irvine – October 13, 2026 -- HI-CHEW is taking a haunted-manor trunk-or-treat experience to five US cities this October, with free candy, games and a mystery flavor that will only be revealed on Halloween Day.

The Mystery Manor Tour is built around the returning HI-CHEW Halloween Mystery Mix. The assortment includes three familiar flavors, Green Apple, Orange Creamsicle and Cotton Candy, plus one new flavor the brand is keeping secret.

Visitors walk through a graveyard of candy-flavored props

Guests enter through a graveyard with Orange Creamsicle tombstones, wispy Cotton Candy trees and glowing Green Apple jack-o'-lanterns. At the door, the brand's mascot Chewbie appears as FrankenChewbie, dressed in a Frankenstein's Monster-inspired costume and handing out treats.

Austin – October 12, 2026 -- Later this fall, US users will be able to share their Function lab test results directly into the Google Health app, putting blood work and daily wearable data in one place.

Function and Google Health announced the partnership to connect what people do every day with what is happening inside their bodies. The experience combines everyday tracking with Function's lab testing and its Medical Intelligence (MI) system.

Wearable signals meet 160+ lab tests

Google wearables, including the Google Fitbit Air, Pixel Watch 5 and the new Google Fitbit Edge, track signals such as resting heart rate, sleep patterns, heart rate variability (HRV) and cardio load. Paired with Function's 160+ lab tests, those signals can show what is happening beneath the surface. Medical Intelligence then turns each result into insights people can understand and act on.

Dallas – October 12, 2026 -- Southwest Airlines will open its first-ever airport lounges in late 2027, starting at four U.S. airports, with access tied to a new premium credit card.

Four airports get lounges first, with seven more to follow

Construction has begun on the first four lounges. They are located at Austin-Bergstrom International, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall, Daniel K. Inouye (Honolulu) International, and Nashville International.

Southwest says at least seven more lounges are planned over the next several years. They will open in high-demand business and leisure markets, though the airline has not named those locations.

Austin, Texas – October 06, 2026 -- University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning and his mother, Ellen Manning, are fronting a new national campaign for Humann, maker of SuperBeets, the company's heart-health supplement brand built on nitric oxide research.

The campaign debuted ahead of the Allstate Red River Rivalry weekend and spans social, digital and community content featuring the mother-son duo alongside a cardiologist. A tailgate-themed video marks the launch, with additional social shorts rolling out through the college football season. Fans can get 20% off at Humann's microsite using the promo code MANNING20.

Austin – September 30, 2026 -- Tickets are now on sale for the 62nd Annual Austin Trail of Lights, powered by H-E-B, which will light up Zilker Park from December 10 through 23 with more than 2 million lights.

The holiday display features 96 illuminated trees and over 70 lighted tunnels and installations.

The event, which began in 1965 as a small gathering around a yule log, now draws visitors from across the country to Austin's capital city each winter.

General admission is free on seven nights starting at 7 p.m.

Free entry runs December 10–11 and 13–17. On December 12 and 18–23, general admission costs $8 per person, though children under 12 get in free every single night.

Austin – September 29, 2026 -- RVshare has announced the winners of its fifth annual Campers' Choice Awards, known as "The Campies," naming top campgrounds and RV content creators across 16 categories after a public voting process that closed September 22.

Nominations opened this summer and finalists were set by August 25

RVshare, the RV rental marketplace, opened nominations earlier this summer and closed them on August 25, when three finalists per category advanced to a final public vote. Thousands of voters then weighed in before the September 22 deadline. This year's ballot added a new category, the Fan Favorite Award, decided through social media voting.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- J.Crew is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Barn Jacket by photographing 160 people across five U.S. cities and launching a new 2026 collection priced from $98 to $898.

The brand shot 160 people in five cities for the campaign

Photographer Robert Nethery captured subjects in New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston and Chicago in intimate portraits. The cast mixes open-cast discoveries with athletes, artists, musicians and designers, including names like Spike Lee, Chance the Rapper, Scottie Pippen, Bowen Yang, Jenny Slate and Dave Franco.

Each portrait shows a different way of wearing the same jacket. Julia Collier, Chief Marketing Officer of J.Crew, said the 160 participants across five cities demonstrate how one design takes on a different life depending on who wears it, adding that the jacket has moved across wardrobes and generations for 40 years without being tied to one moment.

Frankfurt – – September 21, 2026 -- Creality has launched the SPARKX i8, a multi-color 3D printer, on Indiegogo at a super early-bird price of $289, well below its planned $399 MSRP.

A single toolhead replaces bulky multi-nozzle systems

The i8 uses Creality's QuarTeks Color Change System, which packs four independent filament channels into one compact toolhead instead of requiring multiple toolheads or external filament swapping. Filaments are pre-loaded directly into the quad-channel head.

Color switches happen in under one second

Near the nozzle tip, the shared filament path measures less than 1 mm, or roughly 2 mm3, which Creality says is at least 30 times shorter than shared paths common elsewhere in the market. That short path cuts retraction, feeding and purging time, letting the printer switch color channels in under a second.