Deep Eddy Cabaret at 2315 Lake Austin Boulevard offers beer even colder than its namesake spring-fed swimming pool one block south. According to historic nonprofit Preservation Austin, at 72 years old and counting the dive is the city’s oldest neighborhood bar, and these days its presence is a comforting counterargument to the increasingly posh reputation…
State Bar Adaptation of Historic Downtown Austin Building Approved
After 140 years, the Bartholomew-Robinson Building at 1415 Lavaca Street is bound for its biggest change since the ’90s. A successful vote this week from the City of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission approved the Certificate of Appropriateness for an adaptation to the historic structure planned by the 0.14-acre property’s new owners at the State Bar of Texas, a…
A New Hotel Tower’s in the Works on Congress Avenue, But Don’t Tell Anyone
The internet’s crazy, right? You can find all sorts of stuff on here. More importantly, people put all sorts of stuff on here, and sometimes they don’t even seem to realize that other people can see the stuff. Pretend you didn’t read the preceding sentences and let’s dig into the mysterious plans for a 36-story…
Meet the Graduate Austin Hotel, Bringing 200 Feet of Bricks Downtown
Austin’s own location of the Graduate Hotel is not anticipated to be a particularly subtle building. This collegiate-minded boutique lodging brand is set to develop a new outpost only a few blocks removed from the University of Texas campus in the far northwest corner of downtown at 1800 Guadalupe . . . Become a patron to get the full…
The Summit Condo Project Heads for East Riverside’s Doorstep
A mixed-use project bound for East Riverside Drive could bring six floors of new residences alongside 3,500 square feet of retail space to an unusually narrow tract on one of the city’s fastest-growing corridors. The project, described in city site plan filings as a 72-unit condo community known as The Summit at Riverside, would replace two vacant retail…
An Austin Holiday Tradition Goes Car-Free at the 37th Street Lights
The elaborate and offbeat displays of Christmas lights fashioned yearly by residents along West 37th Street in the city’s North University neighborhood are one of those “Keep Austin Weird” situations that actually lives up to our eclectic reputation. Though participation dipped in the 2000s after a group of neighbors first started the tradition in the mid-1980s,