Results tagged “toyjoy”

Local artist Stephen Reidmiller took his camera to The Drag to compile The Type Project. The letters and numbers above were made using light trails from The Villas on Guadalupe, Kerbey Lane, Toy Joy, Spider House and I Luv Video. We recommend it for your desktop background!...

Dhaba Joy, the new vegan coffee shop adjoined to the presumably vegan Toy Joy (at the corner of 29th and Guadalupe), soft-opened last week. A piously-decorated interior — read: nuns amok — is a perfect complement to its neighbor, as are the truly odd menu offerings. The coffee-shop staples are all there, of course, but these sisters also make one hot cup of coffee. As in spicy. Their "fire mocha" ain't joking: it'll leave your tongue slightly burning. We can't say we've ever had anything like it. Only a Michelada comes close, but there's a distinct difference between cold and carbonated versus hot and sweet.

The singing nuns on the roof of Toy Joy on Guadalupe and 29th St.

Ushering in this season's South By Southwest reveleries is a party celebrating the launch of Marshall Escamilla and Emily Summerfield's label, Stem and Leaf Records. In a short letter to Austinist, Summerfield described her label as seeking a musical partnership in which "the songwriting is earnest, and that is consistently true, whether the songs are about girls, zombies, historical figures or whatever." The production of each album will reflect aesthetic values from the vinyl era,...