Thanks for all the great comments on my post of last week about the potential development of a number of lots on South 1st street for VMU. I know you'll find it hard to believe, but I really hadn't heard, been told, emailed or otherwise heard any (continue reading / 3 comments)

We heard the wind around midnight. No hail for us. A large cottonwood branch nearly took out the minivan, but only chipped a bit of paint on a side view mirror; its smaller brethren littered the yard and the tops of both cars. The loudest thing (continue reading / 3 comments)

So if you bother to move to the outskirts of Austin, you must be doing so to get a big house on a big lot on a quiet street, close to "good" schools, for much cheaper than Central Austin. If you do so, you have no right to complain that you can't (continue reading / 3 comments)

Only listeners to KVET seemed to be following this issue up until a day or so ago. Up until about that time, it was not under discussion on neighborhood listservs around town, which leads me to conclude that more people should be reading the local (continue reading / 2 comments)

This morning on KVET, Troy Kimmel said that the storm came "in the midnight hour," which was just about right: 12:05 am was how we called it. Before we closed the windows, we thought we could feel a pressure-drop. There was hail briefly, some of it (continue reading / 2 comments)

Long-time Austin resident and former game developer Paul Stankiewicz (whose paintings of Seaholm Powerplant, a Shady Grove trailer, and Sandy's are below) and Orange Mothers front man Ethan Azarian, along with other local artists, have an art (continue reading / 1 comments)

Or acordeonistica, with buttons, for a modest cover charge at Jovita's on Saturday and for free at the MACC on Sunday. Cerronato, the factor other than the presence of accordions that these events have in common, will take the stage on about 4:30 on (continue reading / 1 comments)

"I owe the city birthday cake, and thank you cards are due"(1) It's been nearly 18-months since I moved to Austin, and many things are making it seem like home, places, faces, events and more. Some events are more memorable than others, good and (continue reading / 1 comments)