Now, no RBQ would be complete without some killer munchies, so the babes of PYT are going to be on the grill, cooking up some delish burgs (yes, there's a veggie option) and Little Baby's will be keeping you chill, with more ice cream than your face can handle. 

Let's make this night the start to the best sumer of our lives. #HereComesTheSun and we couldn't be more psyched about it! See you there, bitch. -Ally

Since graduating from college, and loosing touch with my good old friend Mary, I got a little bit better at cooking (or at least the guys I dated did).  With my new-found abilities, I thought I'd give her a call to try out a few new recipes.  With the help of this friendly little journal called My High Times, I can now say I know how to cook with Mary Jane—all you need is some TLC, 20+ hours and a meal involving lots of LOLs.  Check out the book for a step-by-step guide to cooking with your BFF with recipes including Cannabutter and peanut butter cookies!

Now, my friends, it's time for you to try it out on your own and incorporate your new knowledge with all the cookbooks you can find that use butter. Make it, cook it, eat it and then scribble away in your journal to remember how amazing this weekend was (even if it was all a haze). Now that's some food for thought.

No cookbooks in sight or too in a daze to find one? See our selection below, and run to your closest Urban to make some treats in time for Saturday! —Ally

Delicious fry recipes, from hand-cut to triple-fried. Complete with topping tips & dip tricks!

After that, our first 'official' Coachella stop was the Filter Yacht Club Kick-Off Party, which featured live sets from St. Lucia and Penguin Prison in a dreamy setting around a small lake (idea: next year guys, remote control boat races?) and some DJs who won us over by showing a fondness for Stevie Nicks. 

We also bonded with Filter's online editor, Bailey Pennick, who became our new BFF when she showed off her 'Bluth Company' iphone case. There's always money in the banana stand, right, Bailey?—Kate

PS- If you're not in Austin, but in LA, you can still get some Rookie love at the Hattie Stewart pop-up shop at Space 15 Twenty, where Rookie t-shirts are exclusively on sale. 

I've been to the South by Southwest Festival seven times. The first year I went, the days were for panels and the nights were for seeing up-and-coming bands. Since then, bloggers have turned into party promoters, bands play as many as a dozen shows in Austin, and a giant Doritos machine has been erected in the middle of downtown — a feat of branding that would have been unthinkable back in the day.

Can you survive the conference with your sanity and liver intact — and add a few great new bands to your mental iTunes library? Sure you can. This 12-step survival guide focuses primarily on the music portion of the conference, which runs from March 12-17, but lessons here can certainly be applied to the interactive (March 8-12) and film (March 8-16) portions.

BEFORE YOU GO
1. Buy a badge...
If you want to get into the official showcases and see some panels during the day, you'll need to buy a badge. Badges for the music conference are $795; a platinum badge, which allows you admittance to the exploding interactive conference as well as the film portion of SXSW, costs $1595. (The film portion often has excellent premieres and music documentaries.)

... or don't.
If you don't have a corporate benefactor or if shelling out $800-$1600 will knock out your budget for, say, a place to sleep, you can probably get around the badge requirement by hanging out at the many unofficial parties sponsored by magazines, blogs, labels, brands, countries, and wannabe music impresarios from around the world. This requires research in the pre-planning stages, which we'll get to shortly. (Pro tip: The more friends you make over the course of the week, the more laminates you'll be discreetly handed.)

2. Find a place to stay.
SXSW's housing stock sells out to those who register for the conference notoriously early, but there are many other ways to find lodging in Austin for the week you're there. The site SXSWBaby! started off as a way for people to find out about available rooms, and it still has room-share boards. AirBNB and Craigslist are handy ways to find people eager to make a little scratch on their apartments during the week.

If you want to give a little local flavor to your last-minute lodging search, the shared-lodging site Homeaway is based in Austin. And if you don't mind driving at the end of your night, you can stay in San Marcos, which is about half an hour south of downtown Austin. The Crystal River Inn is a 12-room complex that was built in 1883 and maintains its Hill Country charm to this day.

3. Give yourself a day to unwind.
Detoxing from all the free margaritas and micheladas will be a trick in itself. Most music attendees will be flying out on Sunday, but I've always found that giving yourself the Sunday to sleep in, wander around Austin, or trip around central Texas. The legendary smoked-meat emporium Kreuz Market in not-too-far-afield Lockhart, is closed on Sundays, but their formidable rival, Black's, is open. (Read more in Fathom's 72-Hour Food Tour of Austin.)

4. Pack right.
The weather in Austin can vary widely in March, although things have been heating up temperature-wise over the past few years. Still, spring won't officially spring until a couple of days after the conference ends, so it's probably best to bring sweaters and one really warm coat, as well as clothes that you don't mind getting wet. The promise of hot-tub parties also dictates that you throw a bathing suit into your suitcase; the promise of free margaritas and lots of cheese-based food products suggests that you also throw in hangover cures like Boost and Emergen-C, as well as portable, healthy foods like nuts and dried fruit. A portable phone charger is also essential, so you can access last-minute information on schedule changes and surprise events at any hour of the day or night.

5. Download apps and tunes.
Sched.org has a terrifyingly comprehensive look at all three subconference offerings, and you can customize what you see to the hilt. The official SXSW app, SXSW Go, will also be of assistance in case you're one of those people who has a badge and a hankering to see when registrant-only events are happening. The official SXSW music site has MP3s, but you can download the unofficial torrents if you're short on patience. If you really don't have time and want to give yourself over to the critics, just read music journalist Dave Greenwald's quick reactions to each band in the torrent.

For someone just beginning, working out can be totally overwhelming. Those machines look like torture device. Zumba sounds like something you'd use to vacuum the rug. Where do you start?OOoooOO this is a good one! Even though I may seem like a total city girl I’m a hippy at heart and love trying new healing modalities when I feel stuck, sore or sad. Acupuncture to me, seems like magic, but a magic to which I can totally subscribe. You can go in with the craziest of ailments and acupuncture always has a cure. My top 5 staples for healthy eating are greens, eggs, hummus, sweet potatoes and quinoa. If you can’t find quinoa you could also use brown rice, it just takes longer to cook. But both can be found in the bulk aisle of your grocery store for super cheap. You can mix and match these ingredients in so many ways! Quinoa is a great base to a meal because it’s full of protein and will keep you full…here’s how to make it.  Add in a handful of greens and top it off with a dollop of hummus and/or a fried egg and OMG get ready for some healthy mouth heaven. There are so many amazing healthy options, and I'm always posting recipes on my site and blog.