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Home Slice’s Carnival-o-Pizza

What a glorious Austin tradition in the making! …

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Brandie Boyd, Andrew Meyer and Mary Gamble

Home Slice’s Carnival-o-Pizza had barkers, booths, balloons, families, performers, pizzas, beer, ice tea and, of course, the brilliantly named Hands on an Eggplant contest …

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Jordan Huneryager and Michael Martinez

Most of the action was squeezed between the South Congress Avenue pizza parlour and the evolving commercial structure next door …

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Andi Davison and Sarah Wolf (with Clink Events)

But the excitement spilled onto the sidewalks and Home Slice’s inside and back patio spaces …

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Jessica Letteer and Gabe Bishop

The Eggplant competition — borrowed from Hands on a Hard Body — pitted pizza lovers gathered around an eggplant hoagie on a pedestal until the last person earned a year’s supply of New York-style slices …

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Tab and Laura Bedeian

On a cold, clear Saturday afternoon, it was only one of several events on ever-happening SoCo.

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