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…
SXSW: The Trees That Made Glass and Steel Wave
As iconic as SXSW is as an incubator for innovation, it is only fitting that the organization’s new home would have a creative back story. The curved design introduced by project design architect, New York-based Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP , could stand on its own merits in terms of aesthetics. But the glass and steel does not undulate simply for…
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