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Downtown Austin
Posts about downtown Austin parking, venues, branded chaos, and the strange transformation of the city center into a monetized obstacle course.
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Posts About Downtown Austin
Every relevant gripe, memory, and local complaint gathered onto one page.
The SXSW Corporate Takeover Tracker: Block by Block, Brand by Brand
We mapped every corporate activation zone in downtown Austin during SXSW. It took three days and most of our will to live.
Rainey Street Remembers
Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.
Parking Downtown: A $3 Meter, a $30 Garage, and the Death of Spontaneity
Parking used to be an afterthought. Now it's a second mortgage.
Liberty Lunch: A Ghost Story in Three Chords
They tore it down in 1999 and put up an office building. The bass notes are still in the soil.
Series That Touch This Topic
Move from subject matter into the recurring editorial formats that talk about it most.
Condos of Shame
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Documenting the luxury boxes replacing everything you loved.
"Where your favorite taco truck used to be."
Lost Venues & Dive Bars
1 post
Remembering the sticky-floored sanctuaries that defined a city.
"Gone but not forgotten. Unlike your bar tab."
SXSW Ruin Counter
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Tracking the annual corporate colonization of Austin's weirdest week.
"It used to be about the music. Now it's about the lanyard."
Things That Used to Cost $3
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A eulogy for affordable Austin, one price tag at a time.
"Adjusting for inflation and broken dreams."
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Comedic Austin nostalgia satire. We remember when this town was weird for free.
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