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  1. texasdago

    2025 ACL

    Was looking at some of the early Friday acts. Saw a band named Amble. Don't know them. Google. First picture tells me its a hard pass:
  2. Whataboutism. They control Houston and the city just takes it to a new level. Always has. Ashby/Langley is a great example
  3. Not going to agree with you there. Austin food is better than it used to be. Leaps and bounds better than it used to be. But it has a long way to go to catch Houston. Now, I'm lazy and don't want to go too far so I know I'm missing out on places further north but I've had some damn good pho up north of 183 and great Persian closer to Anderson Lane and 183 but its not the same set up as Houston. Austin definitely kills it when it comes to food trucks but I will kill to find a truck like this close to me in Austin - https://share.google/7vmRMoUzFC4gbgkEo
  4. Yeah, Menil is awesome. I love that area - I saw they just closed down Bistro Menil which I really liked. Bummer. https://www.papercitymag.com/restaurants/bistro-menil-restaurant-closing-houston-chef-greg-martin/ Re: tourists visiting Houston... when I talk to people/clients who visit from out of the country they tend to do three things in Houston: 1. Eat 2. Shop 3. Go to JSC I don't think they ever tell me about visiting museums. If they go to Galveston, they certainly have opinions.
  5. THIS I have family there I have clients there Otherwise, I wouldn't go back. "Oh you live in Austin, you don't know" I lived in Houston for decades... and over time is slowly wore on me. The more I traveled, the more I realized that the parts of Houston I liked felt like other cities, not Houston. Yes, food scene is amazing... museums kick ass. I have a chub for the Mies Van Der Rohe MFAH and the museum district in general... I love Herman Park but that's not enough.
  6. F 99 and the sprawl it has caused... and the people that shaped policy to line their pockets. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2011/11/02/texas-sprawl-builders-funneled-taxpayer-to-highway-that-enriched-them Follow the money. In Houston, developers run the show.
  7. I'll see someone on IG post some restaurant in Round Rock or Cedar Park... shoot, anywhere near 183 and I'm like... Why my visits to the Domain are once a year and usually to meet a client. I lived on the west side of Houston and dated a girl in Spring back in college. That sucked sooooo badly. It was like the end of the world.
  8. Plenty on this board that live closer to town. People in Pearland, Katy, Pecan Grove, etc who would say they live in Houston. Nah man... you're in Katy or whatever, just like that guy in Leander saying he lives in Austin. Nope.
  9. Won't anyone think of the whales?
  10. Definitely worth going through her "work day"
  11. Did you go last night?
  12. https://www.threads.com/@douglewinenergy Also... https://www.threads.com/@douglewinenergy/post/DMvCrFYIYE4?xmt=AQF0fST6cSmPKPtur6NM7FcAIsOj1FG6ZmmovIrtVNdtHg
  13. Ditto... well, once. And when we lived in Houston, we would spend lots of time in the Heights, Museum District, Montrose area, other inside the loop areas... I always said that Houston had plenty of Austin-like weird in areas like The Heights and Montrose and closer to town. I go back at least every 3-4 weeks, mostly for business and mostly to visit my parents. Driving all over town is an absolute beating (ex: appointment in Westchase followed by an appointment east of the airport and then one in Tomball) but I do love going back to the Heights, Garden Oaks and into town to areas that probably feel more like Austin (ex: Sawyer Yards... that still a thing?)... but save for visiting a place like Truck Yard, there's just no draw to downtown. Sucks about midtown... I thought it would make it but I hear its gone really downhill. BTW last time I had a meeting downtown I also ran to Kefita Coffee which I thought was cool (https://maps.app.goo.gl/3sW6NooZDRRsRHND8)
  14. Is this thing still standing? Haven't looked lately...
  15. This is from 2023. Red is parking. Unless Houston solves this with density, residential, shopping, entertainment, etc. I don't know what to tell you. “This parking is often clustered around main streets, office districts, and historical cores, creating a dead zone around the city’s most valuable and walkable areas that limits residential and commercial growth. Cities with high parking have ample land that could be devoted to building walkable neighborhoods, vibrant parks, or office districts,” the group writes. https://cw39.com/traffic/paved-paradise-maps-show-how-much-of-us-cities-are-parking-lots/ Article has a pull-down menu that allows you to see other cities... I mean, y'all... this sucks. Dead zones. LOL Arlington
  16. Oh hai GFS Remember when NOLA was wiped out in June? Me either...
  17. One more note... I think I saw something like 26% of downtown Houston is parking where 15% of downtown Austin is parking. Surface lots are a blight.
  18. I hate to say this because I used to say the same exact thing when I lived in Houston. Houston will never have a downtown that is alive. If I think about Houston versus Austin, the roadblocks are a lack of real residential living, limited street level restaurants and bars, more humidity than Austin,the lack of something as simple as the Town Lake Trail to keep people coming and hanging out downtown, fewer young people, etc. Not to mention that Houston has a massive tunnel system and so people would rather stay underground than walk from building the building outside. It just feels like it has too much stacked against it. There's a couple of spots here and there but man, it's not going to happen. Even if you had a great trail system off of the bayou, it would basically take you out of downtown. The draw isn't there and I don't see how you can manufacture it.
  19. You should talk to Whitmire about it so he can remove a few bike lanes in response
  20. I need to listen to Shooks again. Only saw them briefly at ACL. Is it talent or Sexton?
  21. Nah, F that. I love it in Zilker, not next to the Cheesecake Factory.
  22. From the front... (but hey one more show tonight)
  23. Not to mention that current forecasts show seasonal blast furnace, not record-breaking blast furnace. I'll allow it.
  24. Yeah it does. We were up close on the right hand side, about even with the sound booth. Great show and once the sun went down, it was really nice.
  25. I will say, I like the barricade approach that they've taken. I'm not an "Old Austin" vs "New Austin" person in that I liked Austin then and I liked it now. That said, when I was at UT, 6th street had traffic flowing on it and it was fine... plenty of idiocy but not as bad as when they shut down the street to pedestrians. So, I don't mind this move to make it more permanent. Bars will adapt. Now, if we could only resurrect the King of 6th Street
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