THURSDAY [24] music • Brother Will (Brothers & Sisters) and Friends, Lomita, and Sean Ohno (The Arm) at Beauty Bar (10pm, Free, Drink tickets to first 150 guests) ® music • Fiction, Gulf of Mexico, Bello Ragazzo at 912 Red River (10pm) ® party/fashion • DJ Ian Orth aka Learning Secrets spins at Bettysport's cocktail party celebrating the new silhouettes and colors of the Stella Mccartney fall/winter collection for Adidas at Bettysport (5-8pm, Free)... more ›

Well this could be the last time. This could be the last time. May be the last time. I dont know. [07.22 in Music] Last chance to see A Scanner Darkly with composer Graham Reynolds [07.22 in Movies] Celebrating Slackerdom...Again: This Week's New Movie Releases! [07.21 in Movies] World War III, IV, or V? [07.21 in News] Austin Duo Brave Sharks and Sea Monsters for Vets [07.21 in Fitness+Outdoors] Lock Up the Children and... more ›

The Bel Air, at 4801 South Congress, has made several more units available for sale. The units generally consist of a garage on the bottom, with an open living room/kitchen ("loft space") above it, with a bedroom or two above that, and a roof deck above that. This seems like a generally pleasant design, and walking up and down the stairs helps with the beer gut. The finishs are nice, in a DWR sort of way, and the materials - mainly recycled steel, flyash CMU and glass, are definitely greener than your average spec house. The development itself is a little too uber-industrial - some trees would go a long way to making the space between the units a little more inhabitable, but generally, the Bel-Air does more right than it does wrong. more ›