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[Tech House]

Originally Posted by lzppjb

Remember that story about a year ago about the area on Manchaca Road south of Slaughter Lane being light-heartedly referred to as the new Rainey? Calling it Way South Austin or some other dumb name (Awesome, TX I think).

Another interesting bar opened a couple months ago, and it has a Frank's hot dog trailer out back.

http://www.indianrolleraustin.com/


Now, I'm not saying it's on the level of Rainey, and most patrons wouldn't want it to be, but it's becoming a happening little area for the southerners.

I'm intrigued. I've been following the stories about what's happening down there, and I have a friend who lives in the area who has talked about it, but I can't even picture what that area looks like or anything about it. Will have to take a road trip soon. Is it your impression that they're creating a real enclave of old South Austin, complete with alcoholic grey-ponytailed hippie/cowboy hybrids? Or is it yet another hipster mecca? Either way, it sounds worthy of some casual ethnographic research.

[austlar1]

I suspect it is just youngish (under 40 mostly) people who live in South Austin and want a place to drink and hang out without all the hassle and hoopla associated with going downtown. South of Ben White has become an area that has caught on with people priced out of closer to downtown neighborhoods.

[lzppjb]

I know people of all ages and backgrounds that go to Moontower. Rich people, middle class, black, hispanic, white. All kinds. It's not really a hipster enclave...yet. Hopefully it remains eclectic.

I've been there a few times, and I saw as many 40+ folks as younger people.

[austlar1]

I guess I just assume that most folks who goes out to a bar regularly are under 40, but truthfully I used to go out a lot to bars up into my fifties. I am big time on the wagon these days, so bars are not part of my current reality. I do know a few thirty somethings who regularly socialize at Moontower. I get most of my info from them.

[lzppjb]

Perhaps I was there on a night when 50 year olds' drinks were half price or something. haha

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm not really a bar guy anyway. I'm not really into sports at all, and the idea of getting drunk or even a buzz in public and then having to plan a strategy to get home is off putting.

I'm more "at home" at a place where I can chill around a fire and think and talk about things. Where you're just on the edge of being cold, but the fire keeps you happy and nature keeps you entertained. Or better yet, do that at home or at my brother's or sister's houses, and then totally fall asleep later with a movie.

[smith_atx]

Seems like these would do awesome around campus and downtown:

Target Shrinks the Big Box to Woo City Dwellers
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos...-city-dwellers

[PartyLine]

Looks like the PGA Tour is coming to Austin next year

http://kxan.com/2015/02/27/report-pg...ing-to-austin/

[_Matt]

Sadly, Austin is not on the list for Target Express.

[cvalkan]

Originally Posted by _Matt

Sadly, Austin is not on the list for Target Express.

Kind of weird the way that map has Minneapolis and St Paul in Wisconsin.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by cvalkan

Kind of weird the way that map has Minneapolis and St Paul in Wisconsin.

That is really surprising since Target is headquartered in Minneapolis.

[jngreenlee]

Originally Posted by cvalkan

Kind of weird the way that map has Minneapolis and St Paul in Wisconsin.

It's a Bloomberg graphic, not Target-provided

[urbancore]

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...nds-venue.html


Great News.....Clifford would be proud.....RIP my friend.

[lzppjb]

I drove up Lamar the other day with my dad, and as always, we lamented the money wasted by the city on that "art" on the walls as you go under 3rd Street. I'm always entertained by the art on the wall just before you go under, and it's constantly changing. This trip I thought they should allow the walls of the underpass be painted by local artists. Funky and fun. Maybe even make it like the art scene at Castle Hill.

[Tech House]

Fabulous street art! This is what is presently visible on Lamar? I'm very impressed, I had no idea it had evolved into something like this. I agree, let artists who want to work for free create fun things to look at rather than spending a lot of money on some dreary, serious, official "artwork" that eludes all but the inner circles of the cognoscenti. The city should announce open-season on those stupid blue metal rectangles that look like organized litter. Let them be turned into colorful creatures or recycled into a small fleet of impractically heavy bicycles.

[lzppjb]

The blue metal things are the worst, but a close second are the random squares on the wall painted light green.

[drummer]

Originally Posted by lzppjb

The blue metal things are the worst, but a close second are the random squares on the wall painted light green.

Haha, it actually took me a minute to realize which "art" you were talking about. Those blue signs don't really qualify for anything other than ugly reflectors marking the walls...

[lzppjb]

Exactly. We paid for an artist to put those up. Such a waste of money.

[KevinFromTexas]

Until someone mentioned it here a while back that those were art, I had automatically assumed those blue metal panels on the underpass were something goofy like sound dampening devices or something. They look like some transportation sign or something. It's funny, I have never thought of them as being art. The sterile feeling of them (to me) always excluded the possibility that they could be art. Art should feel more random than that, and those have never felt that way. I always assumed they were some kind of sign or something. lol

[lzppjb]

I only know they're art because my dad has complained about them since they were announced and installed.