Results tagged “centralaustin”

• So, I guess I just got kicked out of another My Little Pony forum. :(
• Here are the results of the University Democrats (UT-Austin) & Central Austin Democrats (CAD) endorsements for Travis County and statewide elections.
• A Travis County election judge claims he's discovered 1,800 active registered voters who were inadvertently deleted from county voter rolls since 2004.

The Planning Commission approved a proposal by the Organization of Central East Austin Neighborhoods to tighten the McMansion restrictions applicable to the smallest lots in Central East Austin. The proposal would remove the current McMansion rule allowing a house up to 2,300 square feet on any size lot. Instead, these lots would only be allowed to build floor area equal to 40% of lot size (e.g. a 1,500 square foot house on a 3,750 square foot lot). City Council may take up the issue tomorrow, but will probably wait until next month.

Original menu image courtesy the Frisco Shop With the Brentwood Tavern and the Travis County Farmer's Market both closing last month, the Allandale culinary scene is certainly undergoing some transition. The Austin Business Journal and the Statesman's Dale Rice report that the Frisco Shop (North Central Austin's haven of pie and artery-clogging comfort food) has found a new home and will not close its doors after learning last year that its location would soon house...

A 17-year-old kid dies after smashing his car into a tree in Central Austin Round Rock police, fed up with pesky juvenile delinquents, close down a popular skate park for a week Tropical Storm Erin was just a warm-up; Hurricane Dean might be on its way The Texas Attorney General closes a local illegal nursing home operation; one resident was found locked in a room with boarded-up windows UT students and others looking to...

Same thing, another week. As you move on to the next line on the calendar, you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the...

Several East Austin groups are asking the city to wait to implement the VMU ordinance until October 1. Their primary concern is that "East Austin is experiencing rampant gentrification ... and that the application of vertical mixed-use zoning will further speed the loss of affordable housing and locally-owned businesses." East Austin is certainly experiencing rampant gentrification. Property values (particularly in 78702) have risen faster than almost anywhere else in the city. However, VMU zoning...

The marathon that has been renamed more times than Austin has been called the “Live Music Capital of the World” will kick off with a 7AM start time. Founded in 1992, the Austin Marathon and Half Marathon (this year called the AT&T Marathon) is expected to draw 11,000 runners, 30,000 spectators and is the 15th largest marathon in the U.S. One of the more well-known runners (no, it isn't Lance) will be our own mayor...

Anyone who's recently purchased a vehicle from Central Austin's Century Motor Car might want to give those folks a call: your personal information is probably strewn along Burnet Road for all to see. Employees at the car lot were relocating to an adjacent building when they, in their haste, decided to toss their clients' paperwork in the trash without first shredding it. The dumpster used turned out to be busted, and winds scattered the...

Riding north on Lamar, under the Union Pacific bridge, there are some annoying blue panels that people often mistake for traffic signs. Well, believe it or not, that's art, and someone has decided to supplement deface that art by adding stickers informing people "you are now leaving South Austin."

We're having a yard sale today so I can raise a little extra spending money before I head down to Austin next week (I'm already doing well, and I've been calculating how many crunchy chicken cones I can now buy at the festival). But I thought I should run inside between customers to give you your daily dose of ACL previews. Remember you can check out the full list of previews on my ACL...

It's getting downright trendy to stage productions in people's houses these days. Not the sort to be left behind, the Vestige Group (who we've mentioned before) is producing a very intriguing new work, The Muses: Memories of a House.

The bloated government agency known as FEMA recently issued a new set of preliminary floodplain maps for Travis County, moving some previously untouched properties into the new floodplain area and others out. If you're now in one of these sections of town, take heed: purchase flood insurance before the new maps are made official next year and you'll save a bit on rates. This applies to homeowners, renters and businessess. Tonight and tomorrow night, the...

They way Prince sings, you know he's a good decorator. His landlord, Carlos Boozer (yes the NBA star) isn't going to hire him anytime soon, though. Boozer is suing Prince for bad taste...or something. Austinite Anna Ginsberg won the Pilsbury cookoff bringing home the $1 million bacon. The scene in Baghdad sounds worse than an exaggerated movie about crime in Detroit. Violence including bombings, drive-by shootings and murders are out of control, having killed...

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Austin isn't anything if not full of great places to hang out, be with friends, and enjoy the famous Austin vibe. The Work*Shop is a place in Central Austin (6th Street West of Lamar) where you can hang, drink some wine, and make something special. Get crafty. Find your inner necklace maker or decorate your own plate set. You go in, choose your passion, and get to it. You buy the materials, but you...

A few month's ago we sold our tiny house in North Loop and leaped across Lamar to rent an even tinier house in Brentwood. The official parameters of Brentwood are North Lamar and Burnet to the East and West, and Justin Lane and 45th Street to the North and South, but much like Hyde Park and other neighborhoods the lines tend to get stretched and muddled. We were fond of the North Loop area....

Austin police arrested former UC Berkeley and UT engineering professor Gary Wise yesterday, on charges of deadly conduct and stalking. It seems like the once-tenured professor [allegedly] spent the past six years harassing his former colleagues, beginning with a few relatively innocuous obscene phone calls and escalating all the way to last Friday, when he went off on a wild shooting rampage in North and Central Austin. Luckily, no one was hurt, but Wise did...

American Youthworks, a "dropout recovery" charter school in downtown Austin is having a benefit event on Thursday, May 12th. From 5:00-9:00 PM, young artists from the charter school will team up with local university and professional artists for an art show and sale. From 7:00 - 10:00 PM, there will be live music at the event.

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