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Creative writer and communications professional in Austin, Texas. Former editor of Austin Towers. [email protected]
A small six-unit condo project planned in a quiet corner of downtown's west end could represent a subtle, but significant design milestone for Austin. Known as Ashram, the building now a...
This morning, the Texas Facilities Commission celebrated the groundbreaking for Phase II of its Capitol Complex Project, the next step of a planning effort by the State of Texas to reshape its cons...
Every day in Austin, an invisible exchange takes place beneath your feet - the ceding of valuable land to vast amounts of free parking, which you pay for all the time even if you never use it...
Last week, the City of Austin marked the triumphant return of what must be one of the oldest public restrooms in town at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, located inside an elegant six-sided stone tower ...
Growing up in Austin, the bulletin board at our neighborhood park was sort of like the early days of social media - you'd find dog-walking gigs, garage sale flyers, and considerably wei...
It's a remarkable work of 1980s postmodern architecture, and it's also full of rats. Cobble those two truths together and you've got a nearly complete understanding of the William...
The Waller Creek Conservancy has been around town since 2010, but the way CEO Peter Mullan tells it, the organization's had some trouble getting Austinites to notice. "People tell me al...
If you were a native-born white male Anglo-Saxon Protestant Austinite interested in joining the hooded ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the summer of 1922 was a fabulous time to be alive - after all, you...
Let's make one thing clear from the get-go: "Sex Party Tree House" is an extremely funny combination of words, regardless of the context. Since coming across this phrase in a 1963...