It takes a whole lotta cranes to hoist up a new Marriott in downtown Austin, where change is changing faster than you can say change. Above, the upcoming architecture at 2nd Street and Congress Avenue demonstrates the pattern of change in a city where urban = growth. UPDATE: Today’s Austin American-Statesman reports Austin city staff have […]
Austin Speed Shop is bidding farewell to South Lamar, to make way for, yes, another luxury apartment development. Its new location near by is still under wraps, but it’s not likely to have the Keep Austin Weird charm of, say, the floor—where original owner Francis Reissig inscribed “1959” with his initials into the building’s wet concrete after it […]
Lamar Plaza is gone. It’s just a hole in the ground now. Since late 2012, dozens of local businesses vacated a shopping plaza that served as the heart of South Lamar, to make way for an upscale apartment complex and a revamped Alamo Drafthouse with new retailers and restaurants. As recently as January 2011, the […]
There’s a ghostly story they like to tell about Speakeasy, in Austin’s Warehouse District. Ghosts have haunted its historic home in the Kreisel building since July 1916, when a fire trapped a fireman and two women in its antique elevator (now suspended above the main music stage). Most patrons today take it easy on the rooftop terrace while […]
We are continually amazed (yet entertained) by Dumb Things Artists Do To Try to Get Into Galleries. Dumb, because they’ve given no thought to their target audience, and how to best reach its members. Instead, they’re wasting their valuable time and they’re damaging their art reputations in the process. Today’s favorite is dubbed The Half-Assed Approach. […]
Since 1931, Jaime’s Spanish Village served up plain Mexican and a healthy dose of local community spirit. Until it closed its doors in 2010.