■ Open: Swift's Attic, the much-anticipated restaurant at 315 Congress Ave. from the powerhouse team of Mat Clouser (M2, Rabbit + Hat supper club), Zack Northcutt (Mulberry, Haddington's) and pastry chef Callie Speer (Parkside) is opening Monday, but a... »
Fitness buffs take to Austin's parks in force every day of the week, turning green spaces into outdoor yoga studios, weight rooms and boot camps.Crowds have grown so much in recent years that on Jan. 2, city officials began requiring commercial trainer... »
With some chirpy encouragement from a bird on a nearby branch, I bend just a little farther, until I feel like a flexible stalk of wheat.The water splashing in the background relaxes me. So does the misty, un-airconditioned air that's washing over my b... »
Before the advent of weather radar, when Barton Creek flooded, advance word came to Zilker Park from the Johnson trading post in Bee Cave."Mr. Johnson lived up there on Barton Creek," says former Zilker Park caretaker Jack Robinson, whose dad also serv... »
SXSW has arrived, and if your liver, lungs and just about every other body part could talk, they'd be screaming at you right now to please hold on to some semblance of a healthy lifestyle amid all the sleep-deprived revelry. As it turns out, that's rea... »
Sometimes a restaurant has a regularly occurring special so popular that the dish moves from weekly highlight to permanent menu fixture. The fried chicken at James Holmes' Olivia on South Lamar Boulevard has such a loyal following that it only seemed r... »
Full disclosure: I've been out of the dating scene for more than 20 years. But much of the rest of Austin hasn't. A recent study by Sperling's BestPlaces (bestplaces.net) and Axe Deodorant Body spray (Full disclosure: I've never intentionally used a "b... »
Tractors are rumbling through the oldest concrete swimming pool in Texas, and machines are slicing its cement bottom into 4-foot chunks and lifting them out like square slices of cake.But swimmers who peer over the fence at what now looks like a muddy ... »
Tractors are rumbling through the oldest concrete swimming pool in Texas, and machines are slicing its cement bottom into 4-foot chunks and lifting them out like square slices of cake. But swimmers who peer over the fence at what now looks like a muddy... »
Austin reinforced its reputation as a great city for filmmaking and an eclectic bounty for movie lovers in 2011. All the biggest names in Austin film Terrence Malick, Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez and Mike Judge completed or released new material... »
Fitness businesses will soon have to get a permit and pay fees to hold classes in city parks. The change could affect personal trainers, dog trainers, yoga instructors, boot camps and dozens of other businesses. Some have said the fees will conflict wi... »
