Improvements are on the horizon for Wooldridge Square park in the Civic District — but at present, the city can’t quite agree on what improvements it actually needs. For years, the issue has been the concern of the Downtown Austin Alliance and Friends of Wooldridge Square, but late last month, the Austin Design Commission voted…
10 Books About Austin Your Coffee Table Deserves
Whether you’re a native Austinite trying to learn every last bit of trivia about your hometown or a recent transplant hoping to impress the locals, these 10 books will serve you well. We hope you’ve got a seriously gigantic coffee table. Austin City Limits: A Monument to Music Austin City Limits made our town a household name, so it’s only fair to put this photographic history…
Cinco Mixed-Use Development Headed to East 5th
Another mixed-use project is on the horizon in East Austin, bringing three stories and 16,358 square feet of retail, office, and residential space to a former industrial site occupying .64 acres on 2709 E. 5th St. According to plans currently awaiting approval from the city, the development, which is currently known as Cinco, will consist of…
Second Kimber Modern Hotel Headed to South Congress
The boutique hotel boom on SoCo continues with the announcement of a second Kimber Modern development, a three-story, 34 room hotel spearheaded by Austinite Kimber Cavendish and designed by local firm Maker Architects. Currently known as the Kimber Modern SoCo, the development will join a small army of boutique hotels along South Congress, which includes the aptly-named South Congress Hotel, the…
Catching up with MTV’s ‘Austin Stories,’ Nearly 20 Years Later
America’s greatest cities all have their sitcoms. New York gets Seinfeld, Boston has Cheers, and so on. In a perfect world, Austin’s show would be Austin Stories, a 1997 MTV comedy about the Portlandia-esque exploits of our city’s famous slacker population. But this ain’t a perfect world, so Austin Stories was swiftly and unceremoniously canned by the fun-hating…
A Slightly Wet 2016 Holiday Stroll
Last Saturday night, Congress Avenue was the place to be for Austin’s most festive. The rain probably thinned out the crowds a bit for the lighting of the Capitol Christmas Tree and Holiday Stroll on Congress Avenue, but the folks who braved the weather were rewarded with carols, lights, and local eats. KUT & KUTX’s holiday sing-along…