You don’t have to be a child to be dazzled by the sight of shelves brimming with colorful candy. Walk off the sidewalk of South Congress into Big Top Candy Shop, and chocolate-covered happiness will whisk away any troubles you were carrying around outside the door. This isn’t your shopping-mall-style candy store. And it isn’t […]
Mitscoots Provides Socks and Employment to Austinites in Need
“I’d love to never give away socks again because no one needs them,” Tim Scott declared. As the co-founder of Mitscoots, Tim has built his business around giving away socks…or so it seems. In reality, Tim’s vision for community change is much more expansive. A successful Indiegogo campaign jolted Mitscoots into being in 2012. Six […]
Sideserf Cake Studio Transforms Cakes into Lifelike Art
“My whole life was art, art, art,” Natalie Sideserf told me recently during a happy hour meeting downtown. Not surprisingly, her interests led her to study art at Ohio State. But Natalie didn’t choose to apply her training to clay or plaster. Instead, in a turn of events that may have seemed odd to onlookers, […]
Capstone Comics: Treasure Trove of Comic Books in Austin
It was 1979 and we were visiting my mother’s friend. As a nine year old, I found their conversation lacking and decided to go exploring through the house. Okay, so not only was I bored, but I was also a bit of a snoop. I crept upstairs and found a fold-away ladder that led to […]
Spicy Mama Salsa Packs Punch with Non-Profit Twist
Austinite Rebecca Contreras created Spicy Mama Salsa because friends and family loved her homemade salsa and thought other people would love it too. If the story ended there, Spicy Mama Salsa wouldn’t be much different from the dozens of other new local products that spring into bottles and packages near you on a monthly basis. […]
Jose Luis Salon Cooks Up Haute Hair at Annual Fashion Show
This guest blog article is by Lizzy Newsome. Not to belittle the recent progress, but the Austin fashion “scene” is still newly emerging. Most of the local fashion energy seems to be directed at boutique trunk shows and the annual fashion week festivities. So the Jose Luis Salon 25th Anniversary Fashion Show glimmered in my […]
Made in Austin: Affordable Customization from Moniker Guitars
This guest article is by Kyle Bailey. Moniker Guitars is a boutique guitar maker in Austin, with a twist. With a name like Moniker, you kind of expect that there’s more than meets the eye, but I’ll get to that. If you play electric guitar, you probably have a favorite. Be it Les Paul, Strat, […]
Austin Aquarium: Innovative Plans for Interactive Technology Underway
Editor’s Note, August 26, 2013: We were originally excited about the new Austin Aquarium and looking forward to its opening this year. But as news about the Covinos’ questionable business practices continues to come to light, we feel the need to protect our community and our reputation by officially stating that we do not endorse the […]
Why All About Vapor Is Austin’s Best Vaporizer Shop
You’ve seen these gadgets all over Austin. They almost look like Dr. Who’s Sonic Screwdriver, only people are puffing on them and releasing a cloud of scented vapor, right? Well they’re called vaporizers (poorly referred to as e-cigarettes). And though they can’t pick locks, perform medical scans or track alien life, they are most certainly all […]
Longhorn Bikes Will Steer You Straight
We all know that Austin is a cycling city. We’ve all seen the pedicabs downtown, the fixed gear riders slicing through traffic and that one dude riding his daughter’s pink mountain bike back from the corner store in the wrong gear, with lotto tickets hanging out of his back pocket. So far, I’ve written two […]
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