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CONTENTS Adam Young turns wood into art at his Austin workshop.

AUGUST / MAKERS

DEPARTMENTS

Social Hour p. 18 Kristin’s Column p. 24 Community Profile p. 26 Community Pick p. 41 Tribeza Talk p. 30 Arts & Entertainment Calendars p. 32 Music Pick p. 33 Art Pick p. 34 Event Pick p. 36 Style Profile p. 72 Style Pick p. 76 Travel Pick p. 78 Karen’s Pick p. 82 Dining Guide p. 84 FEATURES

Work in Progress p. 44 Made in America p. 56

64 Good directions for a loop of five local libations.

78 Round out your summer with our picks for a weekend in Chicago.

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A Loop of Local Libations p. 64 ON THE COVER Lindsey Wohlgemuth of Era Ceramics photographed at her home studio by Matt Rainwaters.

EDITOR'S LETTER

HAT MAKES AUSTIN DISTINCTLY AUSTIN? INCREDIBLE PARKS AND SWIMMING HOLES?

Absolutely. Never-ending live music? For sure. A fierce adherence to all things local? Yep. But it runs deeper than those individual and undeniable distinctions. There is an entrepreneurial spirit and freedom of expression that pervade so much of our city. On their own, each can bring about great things, but when the two combine, the results are not to be missed.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the maker. Those among us who are deeply committed to a process that is usually time-consuming, sometimes messy, and often a gamble. Makers come in all forms — makers of hats, furniture, apps, and even ice cream — and I am so excited to be sharing some of their stories with you. No group symbolizes this potent combo more than the artists, creatives, and, yes, business owners featured in “Work in Progress.” Era Ceramics and the hardworking, talented, and easygoing duo, Lindsay and Dimitar, behind the pottery have been a favorite since I first stumbled across their studio a year ago. Getting a peek into their creative process was a highlight for both me and Matt Rainwaters, who so thoughtfully photographed the story. From there things just kept getting better. We got to make hats with Aimee of Covet Hats! Correction, she sanded and sweated over a custom piece and we gleefully watched. Adam of Old Crow Custom Works gamely let us poke around his studio and workshop while he welded. A space intentionally littered with his art, tools, and in-process furniture. As we combed Austin for the best makers among us, I couldn’t help but take note of all those making beer, spirits, and cider. A different type of maker, no doubt, but no less dedicated to his craft. That perfectly dry beverage made by Texas Keeper Craft Cider doesn’t just happen (Nick, Lindsey, and Brandon make it all on-site) but rather, it’s a process that took years of research to get just right. Anne Bruno had the enviable job of investigating all this and more and turned up five delicious, and close-in, booze-making destinations (“A Loop of Libations”).

These are just some of the folks who have put it all on the line for an idea or a process. Makers who need and want to create something that will be used (or drunk or worn) and loved.

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Classic Childhood has the same aim as so many others before it, creating heirloom quality clothes loved by both the mothers who buy their pieces and the children whom they are made for. This in and of itself would be enough of a challenge for most, but Pamela and Marta gave the old model a new, sustainable twist. Their beautiful pieces are made almost entirely from repurposed men’s dress shirts. Materials that might otherwise end up in a landfill are given new life thanks to a lightbulb moment Pamela had as a new mother.

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Come experience contemporary painting and sculpture by Australian Aboriginal artists in an exhibition that celebrates a renaissance in the world’s oldest continuous artistic tradition. Indigenous Australian artists have translated traditional art forms such as rock and body painting to large, colorful canvases, intricately patterned bark strips, and sculptures bearing symbols that communicate beliefs and histories, laws and rituals, and a profound connection to the land.

This exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Seattle Art Museum. It was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Donald M. Cox, the Wolfensohn Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

Support for this exhibition at the Blanton is provided in part by Ellen and David Berman.

Image: Spinifex Men’s Collaborative, Wati Kutjarra (Two Men Story), Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 82 11/16 x 74 13/16 in., Promised gift of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, © Spinifex Men’s Collaborative, photo by Susan Cole, Courtesy American Federation of Arts

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SOCIAL HOUR

LAMAR UNION SUNDAY FUNDAY & ADOPTION PARTY

Lamar Union celebrated the arrival of summer with a fun bash and opportunity to take home a furry friend from Austin Pets Alive! on June 3. Guests were treated to live music, GOGA yoga classes, a Grocery Pup booth, and exclusive specials from Lamar Union vendors.

TRIBEZA JUNE ISSUE RELEASE PARTY

On June 5, Tribeza commemorated the launch of the June Neighborhoods Issue with a party at Spider House. Friends enjoyed a live set by Austin’s The Wild Now, a unique pop-up by Wildsam, and snacks and drinks courtesy of local favorites Spread & Co., The Squeezery, Rambler Sparkling Water, Treaty Oak, and High Brew Coffee.

This year’s Southern Living Idea House hosted a VIP reception on June 7 before officially opening up tours to the public, where a portion of the proceeds were donated to Dell Children’s Medical Center. Visitors got a look at the stunning Northwest Hills home, transformed by designer Meredith Ellis and building team Catherine and David Wilkes.

LAMAR UNION SUNDAY FUNDAY & ADOPTION PARTY 1. Anthony & Rachael Bellus 2. Cate Davis, Alexandra Davis & Grace Albritton

TRIBEZA JUNE ISSUE RELEASE PARTY 3. Katie & David Deolloz 4. Elizabeth Arnold, Alta Y. Alexander & Lauren Halpern 5. Taylor Baker of The Wild Now SOUTHERN LIVING IDEA HOUSE VIP RECEPTION 6. Christina Garcia, Andres Garcia, Nadine Timpa & Sandy Pace 7. Julie Blakeslee, Meredith Ellis, David Wilkes, Catherine Wilkes & Chris Sanders 8. Lisa Womack & Jennifer Greer Hartmann

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SOCIAL HOUR

REFUGEE IS NOT MY NAME OPENING RECEPTION

Alongside the artists, The Library Foundation and STAV Creative presented Refugee Is Not My Name as part of the Mayor’s Book Club at the Central Library Gallery on June 21. This traveling exhibition highlights photographic portraits, film, and stories featuring refugees who have resettled in Austin.

ST ELMO BREWING 2ND ANNUAL LUAU

To kick off summer, St Elmo Brewing and Soursop hosted their second annual Luau on June 24. Guests gathered in the beer garden for a day of live music by The Nematoads, fun games, and cold beer. Soursop served up a special Hawaiian-inspired menu featuring dishes like the Loco Moco and Spam & Pineapple Fried Rice served in a cored-out pineapple.

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ST ELMO BREWING 2ND ANNUAL LUAU 5. Trey Ramirez & Bryan Winslow 6. Sheila Carrero, Avay Rosado, Cecil Silver & Christian Nunez 7. Caitlyn Perdue & Trevor Nearburg TYLER’S DAM THAT CANCER 8. Ben Kogut, Stephanie Bunch, Arlo Bush & Taylor Prinsen 9. Lolly Thompson & Scott Webster 10. Mark Garza & Chelsea Hardee 11. Kellen O’Connor & Mac Evans

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On June 25, 185 paddlers traveled a 21-mile course from Mansfield Dam on Lake Austin to Tom Miller Dam on stand-up paddleboards for the ninth annual TYLER’S Dam That Cancer, which raised more than $779,000 for the Flatwater Foundation. The paddle culminated in an after-party that included a DJ, raffles, and delicious local food and drinks.

SOCIAL HOUR

DESERT DOOR COCKTAIL COMPETITION

The Desert Door Distillery held a cocktail-crafting competition at Native Hostel on June 27, where 13 mixologists from Austin’s top establishments attempted to make the top spirits. After three rounds, the judges announced The Hightower’s Olivia Schnell as the night’s winner. Schnell was awarded $1,000 and her cocktail will be featured on the Desert Door + Native hostel menu.

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SARA REICHARDT DESIGN LAUNCH PARTY

On June 28, local designer Sara Reichardt invited friends to her gorgeous Westlake home for an exclusive get-together celebrating the release of her latest collection of unique furniture pieces made entirely of Legos. One lucky guest won a custom table to take home created in the color of his choice.

DESERT DOOR COCKTAIL COMPETITION 1. Amaan Elahi & Ahmed Zaidi 2. Courtney Read & Dara Johnson 3. Alex Alfonso, Lauren Liles & Gabriela Torres 4. Didi & Sam Loy SARA REICHARDT DESIGN LAUNCH PARTY 5. Pamela Reichardt & Cord Shiflet 6. Lisa Lozano & Sara Reichardt 7. Kayla Park, Ashley Walker & Mary Hsu

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Home MAKER By Kristin Armstrong Illustration by Chris Nickels

I make lots of things. I make my grandmother’s cinnamon bread. I make memories. I make mistakes. Then I make repairs. I can make shit happen. Other times I make false starts and lame excuses. I make changes when necessary. I can make my mom’s cannelloni. I make a respectable roasted chicken. I make birthdays into national holidays. I can make it work. I can make a difference, especially when I’m paying attention. I make lemonade out of life’s lemons, and can even make a pretty good margarita when life gives me limes and throws a little salt in my wounds. But maybe one of the most important or meaningful things I’ve managed to make is a home. “Homemaker” feels like an antiquated term. It reminds me of the old articles that tell wives to have the children clean and quiet, dinner on the table, a sexy dress on, and a drink in your hand when your husband walks through the door after work. Homemaker is a word that doesn’t really match with all the things that women do, the hats we wear, and all the balls we juggle and keep (mostly) in the air. And yet, whether we work in an office or stay at home, whether we have kids or stepkids or no kids at all, many of us are expert homemakers. With my oldest son leaving for college this

month, I have been thinking a lot about the home I’ve created, the nest I’ve feathered that in a mere two years will be labeled empty. I have to say that I dislike the term “empty nest,” as though your life’s work is rendered vacant simply because you have met the objective of having children in the first place. They are designed to leave you; that’s how it works, most of the time anyway. Empty seems too minimizing a term for a time and space filled with everything that’s ever been real. So what does it really mean to make a home today? How would I describe the modern version of homemaker to a young bride or mother? Looking back from the vantage point of middle age, I wonder what I would want to say to my younger self. I would probably tell myself to listen to the sweet old lady pushing her cart very slowly through the grocery store, who looks longingly at my cart exploding with sticky, noisy toddlers and preservative-laden snacks and tells me to enjoy every minute, because it all goes too fast. I wasn’t too open to her in my frustrated, tired haze of trying to make it happen, but oh how I hear her now. It goes too damn fast. I would tell myself it’s fine to watch cartoons in the middle of the afternoon, piled on a sofa on top of piles of unfolded laundry. It’s also a very good idea to eat pancakes on paper plates under the dining room table, in a fort constructed by sleeping bags and a bedsheet. It’s also good to pretend my bed is a raft and fall asleep with three small children and a white dog curled around me, because one day that won’t happen anymore and you never know it’s the last time when it’s the last time. I would tell myself to spend the bulk of my money at the grocery store and let the kids have friends over all the time. Cook and bake and have a house that smells like food and love when you walk in, and people will

keep walking in. This will matter very much to you when they are teenagers, but you can’t wait until then to create it. Fresh flowers in a vase mean more than you think, little reminders of beauty in the midst of ordinary. The laundry room cabinets and Scotch tape make a perfect art gallery. Alone time with each kid cannot be overemphasized. Make it happen — it is the field that yields the harvest. Make traditions and keep them, even in the eye-rolling seasons. No one forgets going to Mozart’s in pajamas, drinking hot chocolate under a blanket, watching the light show, and reading our pile of Christmas books. Or the trail of construction paper numbers from the bedroom door of the birthday child to the kitchen filled with balloons, baby books, and presents. Or white chicken chili on the day we have our first fire in the fireplace, marking the cozy start of winter. These seem like little things, or even sometimes unnoticed effort, but they end up being everything in the end. Get in the pool and swim with them, chlorine on highlighted hair be damned. Go to every game and play and Thanksgiving class feast you can, because as it turns out, there aren’t very many. Read to them, even if you’re tired and have emails to return. Take a long, deep inhale when your little kids are bathed and in pajamas and smell like childhood. I will never regret the investment of my heart over these years. I won’t regret the money I didn’t make, the career path that got detoured, the graduate degree I haven’t completed yet, the girls’ trips I passed up because it was a kid weekend, the second marriage I haven’t found yet, or the step-family I never got a chance to try to blend. I will not regret the time and money I spent making a home. Because in making our home, I ended up making our life. And coming back home means so much more than pulling in the driveway.

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Generosity Sparked GIVING A ME ANINGFUL GIF T IS ONLY A CLICK AWAY, THANKS TO ONE AUSTIN ENTREPRENEUR By Caroline Page Photographs by Warren Chang

ATHY TERRY WELCOMES A CHALLENGE, BUT THE P. TERRY’S

Burger Stand and Taco Ranch co-founder was in uncharted waters when she set out to create an app that would change the way we all think about giving. While Terry and her husband, Patrick, are beloved for keeping Austinites happy with great burgers and tacos, you may not know that they are also committed philanthropists. They are active nonprofit board members and have even hosted international families as part of HeartGift’s congenital heart surgery program. With her latest endeavor, inLieu, Terry combines her experience in both the business and nonprofit world to create a way for charitable giving to be not only easy but social and fun. Out for a run a few years ago, Terry remembered that she had not purchased a hostess gift for that night’s Christmas party. She was short on time but knew that the last thing her friend needed was another candle or bottle of wine; she also knew that a much more meaningful gift, like a donation to The SAFE Alliance, would be appreciated, since the two friends first met as fellow board members of that organization. But worry set in as Terry wondered how she could let the party hostess know, on the day of, that she had made the donation in her honor. Would her friend think she had simply shown up empty-handed? Frustrated and in a pinch, Terry resorted to grabbing a scented candle she had at home. Several years passed after that scented-candle-debacle but Terry could not stop thinking about her idea. In fact, Terry says she was “honestly blown away” that a simple way to make a donation in lieu of purchasing a gift for someone and have them notified immediately did not already exist. She initially reached out with her idea for an app to the organization Girls Who Code. “I thought it would be so awesome if [the students] could build it,” she says. “Here I am thinking this is something you could do on a weeklong camp.” As Terry soon came to realize, she was in deeper than she’d planned. Her naiveté in the ways of technology would serve her well; the fact that she had no idea what obstacles and sleepless nights would lie ahead likely kept her dream alive. In March 2017 Terry kept the idea moving forward by experimenting. She made donations, though traditional channels, in honor of her friends and then waited to see if and how long it would take the donations to be acknowledged. “Every time I made the donation, I felt good … it was a way of saying, ‘I love you and support you. I know this cause is important to you.” Terry knew that if the app also had a social aspect it would be even more powerful, like the “Venmo for donating,” she says. Having no idea how to build an app, Terry started calling friends who might be able to connect her to someone who did. Just like Terry, everyone she spoke with also assumed that something like inLieu already existed. “There was nothing out there with a social feed; there was no way of carrying someone along with

Terry describes inLieu as “Venmo for donating.”

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Kathy and Patrick Terry at the inLieu launch party.

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M Y CH A LLENGE IS R E A LLY MOR E A BOU T SHIFT ING BEH AV IOR . I WA N T TO M A K E IT E A SY FOR E V ERYON E TO T U R N M AT ER I A L GIFTS IN TO DONAT IONS .

me on the donation process.” One introduction led to another, and, as she describes it, the right people kept showing up at the exact right time. With each connection, she was able to get a little closer to the best tech experts to help give birth to her idea. “If I didn’t have the experience of working with nonprofits, chairing development boards, and trying to raise money, I wouldn’t have even known how to do this,” Terry says. “That’s probably why I stuck to my vision — I just knew it could work.” After utilizing a focus group to test the inLieu prototype, Terry fleshed out the basics of the app by choosing color palettes and button types and hand-drawing the design for the three features her ideal app would encompass: the ability to give a gift, to make a direct donation, and to create an event. The next steps were more technical in nature, so she put together a request for proposal, sent it out to local businesses, and waited for a response.

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When she got the RFPs back, she remembers thinking to herself, “I can’t do this anymore. The app development is just too expensive.” Self-funding the project meant that Terry was “kind of bootstrapping everything together.” Finally she found a developer who could build an iOS and Android version of the app at a reasonable cost. “He saved the day!” At the same time she was keeping inLieu moving forward, the Terrys happened to be opening their latest restaurant concept, Taco Ranch. “I’d be in the commissary kitchen trying to make tortillas, covered in flour,” she says, “then I’d run to a meeting to try and figure out the design of the buttons for the app.” With the developer in action, Terry’s next step was to create a nonprofit in order to accept donations. Unlike many online donation sites, inLieu charges a flat $1 transaction fee, instead of a percentage of the donation. As more people use the app, she hopes to decrease that amount. “People have a strong emotional connection and are conditioned to giving material gifts,” Terry says, “and I get that. So my challenge is really more about shifting behavior. I want to make it easy for everyone to turn material gifts into donations.” She’s ready, she says, for inLieu to “become a verb” and for all of us to get used to living in a community where everybody is giving. In March of this year, the app launched with two of its three features, the third one being added only a month later. Since then, inLieu users have donated more than $50,000 to more than 350 nonprofits (users are able to donate to any verified 501(c)(3). Terry said the response has been positive but not as “crazy” as she wanted. “We’re doing what we set out to do,” she says. “Now we have to scale it. My goal now is for enough people to use it so inLieu can sustain itself.” Terry remains steadfast to her mission of igniting change through giving. And to think, it all started with a scented candle.

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DESIGN THINKING

What’s Spinning It’s only fitting that the “Live Music Capital of the World” now has a major vinyl-pressing plant. Opened earlier this year, Gold Rush Vinyl uses automated WarmTone presses to quickly turn around 12-inch and seven-inch records in four to six weeks. Founded by Caren Kelleher, who formerly led music partnerships at Google Play, Gold Rush can accommodate small batches, appealing to more-indie artists. The company has already turned out records for Austin artists, including Mobley, Nakia and the Blues Grifters, and Shakey Graves. GOLDRUSHVINYL.COM

Medal-Worthy Leave it to a metalsmith to elevate the beauty of an everyday object. For her elegantly crafted silver chai spice box, designer and architect Ellen Hunt received an award from the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, with the item displayed during the American Institute of Architects’ convention in New York in June. A jewelry designer as well, Hunt utilizes shapes drawn from nature in her earrings and necklaces. HUNTDESIGNJEWELRY.COM

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How do you shape the creative minds of the future? For Luz Cristal Glangchai, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Vent u reL ab a nd for mer d i re c t or of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Trinity University, among other accomplishments, it starts w ith adopting an entrepreneur ia l way of thinking. “ The thing w ith entrepreneurship is it’s not like two plus two equals four, there’s not necessarily a right answer,” Glangchai explains. “So I wanted to have hands-on activities that really taught these different mindsets in a fun and safe way, so that whenever someone came up with an idea they weren’t as intimidated to turn it into a product or service or even a company.” I n M a y, G l a n g c h a i r e l e a s e d VentureGirls, a book aimed at inspiring teachers and parents to encourage entrepreneurial activities, especially for girls. “I am hoping that through this book I’m able to help reduce the gender gap and create a future where an equal amount of women and men are innovating and creating and becoming CEOs,” Glangchai says. VENTURELAB.ORG

Design inspiration can strike at any time. For Sara Reichardt it struck during a visit to the national Lego convention. “I took my nephew for his birthday to the convention, and when we were there, they had all these large-scale sculptures,” Reichardt says. “There was the Lego Ninjago character, and it was holding a giant chain; that’s what gave me the original idea for the first Links design.” At the time, in 2012, Reichardt was studying

furniture design at the Art Institute of Austin, and she ultimately used the inspiration to create the Links table, a bold piece of furniture built entirely from the tiny bricks. In June Reichardt launched a table collection that includes six designs and 18 colors, each built from hundreds of Lego pieces. “I like my designs to be practical and aesthetically pleasing and basically be usable art,” Reichardt says. SARAREICHARDTDESIGN.COM

“This whole journey literally started about 40 years ago in seventh-grade shop class,” Christopher Harman explains. “This chair is basically my wood project.” While life and work and family filled the intervening decades, Harman never forgot about his design and, at the urging of a friend, decided to fully realize the project, which officially launched in May. Harman patented his Chair 7 design and works to hand-build the chairs in East Austin. “I want to bring the same level of attention to detail that I made of the original chair into every one that we produce,” Harman says. HARMAN.STUDIO

Leather Looks Form meets function with a rugged cool factor for Revival Cycles’ Revival Limited line, a collection of leather goods designed and crafted by hand in East Austin. Launched in October 2017, the line features durable bags like the Palo Duro Pannier Briefcase and accessories like the Bandera Belt with removable buckle. Sling the line’s Dope Tote over your shoulder, hop on your bike, and hit the road. REVIVALLIMITED.COM

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Entertainment MUSIC SOUND & CINEMA

August 1 & 15 Long Center

BOB SCHNEIDER

August 23 Shady Grove

LOST 80’S LIVE

August 23 H-E-B Center at Cedar Park

IMAGINE DRAGONS

August 2 Austin360 Amphitheater

THE QUEBE SISTERS

August 23 Paramount Theatre

COHEED & CAMBRIA W/ TAKING BACK SUNDAY

TERRY BOZZIO

KABAH + JNS

BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS

August 3 Austin360 Amphitheater August 3 ACL Live at The Moody Theater August 4 Austin360 Amphitheater

BLUES ON THE GREEN

August 8 Zilker Park G-EAZY

August 9 Austin360 Amphitheater DISPATCH

KANSAS

August 24 Nutty Brown Cafe & Amphitheatre LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND

August 24 ACL Live at The Moody Theater

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT

August 24 – 26 Bass Concert Hall

August 11 & 12 Stubb’s BBQ

WIZ KHALIFA & RAE SREMMURD

TOTO

August 15 Stubb’s BBQ

August 25 Austin360 Amphitheater

ROB ZOMBIE & MARILYN MANSON

August 17 Austin360 Amphitheater WALKER LUKENS

August 18 Antone’s Nightclub

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August 24 Antone’s Nightclub

311 & THE OFFSPRING

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FILM

WOMEN WHO ROCK

August 30 Stubb’s BBQ

MACEO PARKER

August 31 & September 1 Antone’s Nightclub

SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES

Through September 1 Paramount Theatre

THE MASK YOU LIVE IN

August 10 George Washington Carver Museum

MOVIES IN THE PARK: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

August 16 Martin Multipurpose Fields

SPORTS DETECTIVE: 100-POINT GAME BALL

August 18 George Washington Carver Museum

CAPITAL CITY BLACK FILM FESTIVAL

August 30 – September 2 Various Locations

THEATER THE MUSIC MAN

Through August 11 Long Center ROB1N

Through August 11 Long Center ALL SHOOK UP

Through August 18 Zilker Hillside Theatre DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST

Through September 2 ZACH Theatre

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

August 1 – 11 Long Center

THEATRE-FOR-ALL DAY CAMP

August 2 – 8 Long Center WIT

August 10 – 25 Austin Scottish Rite Theater THE GRAPES OF WRATH

August 10 – September 2 The City Theatre THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

August 17 – September 1 TexARTS Kam & James Morris Theatre

COMEDY

BRAD WILLIAMS

August 15 – 18 Cap City Comedy Club APARNA NANCHERLA

August 18 Paramount Theatre

KATHY GRIFFIN

August 19 Bass Concert Hall

OUT OF BOUNDS COMEDY FESTIVAL

August 28 – September 3 Various Locations CHRIS GETHARD

August 30 – September 1 Cap City Comedy Club

CHILDREN FAMILY BOARD GAME NIGHT

Through August 14 Austin Central Library

BRENDAN SCHAUB

HEROED

August 2 – 4 Cap City Comedy Club

August 1 Domain NORTHSIDE Lawn

CHINGO BLING

PARENTS’ NIGHT OUT

August 4 Stateside at the Paramount

August 3 Thinkery

BETH STELLING

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

August 8 – 11 Cap City Comedy Club I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S COMEDY!

August 12 Beerland, Texas

August 10 & 11 ZACH Theatre

SUMMER FAMILY FILM SERIES: TOY STORY

August 11 Bullock Texas State History Museum

FAMILY DAY

WHITE LINEN NIGHT

TUMBLE’S BACK-TOSCHOOL SCIENCE SPLASH JAM

RHYTHM ON STAGE

August 12 UMLAUF Sculpture Garden

August 19 Austin Scottish Rite Theater MARVEL UNIVERSE LIVE! AGE OF HEROES

August 23 – 26 Frank Erwin Center

THE LEGENDS OF ROBINHOOD

August 25 – September 2 Austin Scottish Rite Theater

OTHER

August 4 West 2nd Street

August 9 Long Center

AUSTIN PRIDE FESTIVAL & PARADE

August 11 Fiesta Gardens

TEACHERS’ SUMMER HAPPY HOUR W/ DJ MIXER ROGERS

August 17 St. Elmo Brewing

CEDAR PARK RODEO

August 17 & 18 H-E-B Center at Cedar Park BAT FEST

TRAILER FOOD TUESDAYS

Through August 7 Long Center

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

August 18 Congress Avenue Bridge MOVEMENTS & MIMOSAS

August 18 UMLAUF Sculpture Garden

Through August 23 Texas Rowing Center

SNAP JUDGEMENT LIVE!

AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERTS IN THE PARK

ENDLESS SUMMER (CAMP)

August 22 Paramount Theatre

Through August 26 Long Center

August 24 Revelry

SOUTHERN LIVING IDEA HOUSE

QUESOFF

Through November 15 Northwest Hills RTX AUSTIN 2018

August 3 – 5 Austin Convention Center

August 25 The Mohawk POP CATS CONVENTION

August 25 & 26 Palmer Events Center

MUSIC PICK

Blues on the Green By Neal Baker

ZILKER PARK, AUGUST 8

The arrival of the last Blues on the Green show indicates that, yes, once again, the greater part of the summer has slipped by almost entirely too quickly. Lest the last month disappears too soon into the whirl of punch and pool water, take a moment on August 8 with KGSR to gather in the warm evening breeze and savor the season. The night will begin at 8 p.m. with Bidi Bidi Banda, the faithful Selena tribute band from here in Austin. Holding onto the feelings that many of the members had listening to Selena growing up, the group has made an art of remembering the magic of the queen of Tejano music. Afterward, San Marcos natives The Oh Hellos are scheduled to put the sun to sleep with their gently crescendoing folk balladry. They have already made themselves known in installations of the beloved Audiotree Live and NPR Tiny Desk Series, but a sound as big as theirs tends to have smaller studios like these coming apart at the seams. The same factor makes them a perfect pick for the open air of Zilker Park, where no amount of orchestration could prove too big for the Texas summer night. Leave it to Austin’s most beloved community concert series to say goodbye with so great a set. Oh, and don’t forget to bring your dog.

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ARTS C ALENDAR

Arts Through August 11 CAMIBAart Gallery

RANDALL TAYLOR: INFINITY X LOOP

Through August 14 Dimension Gallery

DIMITRI GUDGENOV & WALKER WINN

Through August 18 Dougherty Arts Center HYPER SCHOOL

Through August 18 Big Medium Gallery NEW EDITIONS 2018

ART PICK

Through August 25 FLatbed Press & Gallery

Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance By Neal Baker HARRY R ANSOM CENTER, AUGUST 11 - JANUARY 6

“What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare. California-based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha might respond, “A number of possibilities.” Ruscha’s portfolio is full of names for things, but the words he works with are hardly ever connected to the things themselves. Separated from their subjects, they bring attention to the way you hear their enunciated sound and the particular impact of the script or typeface. Much of this brand of pop art is, at its core, simply observational. It forces the viewer to recognize ways in which we use words (information, idioms, brands, culture) while also suggesting new uses. Placed in new settings these empty sounds and shapes are juxtaposed with colors and images like strange conceptual pairings of cheese and wine. Ruscha hasn’t limited himself to words, processing his Californian surroundings through his distinct artistic lens just the same. Many of his works of all kinds find their home now at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, where starting August 11 they will be exhibited alongside a collection of largely unseen materials, sketches, and notebooks once belonging to the artist. Together they will be presented under the title “Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance” and will remain on display until January 6. Given Ruscha’s apt proclamation that “art has to be something that makes you scratch your head,” it’s special to have a chance to encounter clues that make the artist’s work that much more transparent and perhaps a little less puzzling.

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RODNEY MCMILLIAN: AGAINST A CIVIC DEATH

Through August 26 The Contemporary Austin Jones Center YOUNG LATINX ARTISTS 23

Through August 26 Mexic-Arte Museum XAVIER SCHIPANI

Through September 1 Lora Reynolds Gallery

LANDMARKS VIDEO PRESENTS BODY MUSIC I/BODY MUSIC II

August 1 – 31 UT ART Building Atrium JOYCE HOWELL SOLO SHOW

August 4 – September 1 Wally Workman Gallery

MEG AUBREY: SURFACE

August 4 – September 9 Women & Their Work MEET HER HANDS: CINDY POPP

August 9 Elisabet Ney Museum

PAUL STANKIEWICZ

August 11 – September 9 ART On 5th ED RUSCHA: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ROMANCE

August 11 – January 6 Harry Ransom Center VISIONARY VOICES: THOUGHTBARN

August 14 Texas Society of Architects TEXAS ARTIST SERIES: MIKE JOHNSTON

August 15 Bullock Texas State History Museum CRAFT

August 16 UMLAUF Sculpture Garden UP AROUND THE SUN FEAT. TIM KERR & JERRY HAGINS

August 18 Long Center

STUDIO SCENE 2: 2ND ANNUAL CAMIBA ART TOUR EXHIBIT

August 18 – September 8 CAMIBAart Gallery

P H OTO G R A P H CO U R T E S Y O F T H E H A R R Y R A N S O M C E N T E R

WILLIAM T. CARSON & REBECCA ROTHFUS HARRELL: SOURCE MATERIAL

Joyce Howell Original. Authentic. Local.

Wally Workman Gallery 1202 w. sixth st. austin, texas 78703 wallyworkman.com 512.472.7428 image: Peony, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in.

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Art SPACES MUSEUMS BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART 200 E. MLK Jr. Blvd. (512) 471 7324 Hours: Tu– F 10–5, Sa 11–5, Su 1–5 blantonmuseum.org THE BULLOCK TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM 1800 Congress Ave. (512) 936 8746 Hours: M–Sa 9–5, Su 12–5 thestoryoftexas.com THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN –JONES CENTER

EVENT PICK

Austin Pride Parade and Festival By Neal Baker FIESTA GARDENS, AUGUST 11

Nationally, LGBTQ Pride Month is a time for the remembrance of history and the recognition of progress. Pride Month in Austin culminates with the annual Pride Parade and Festival, organized by the Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation. Barring any unexpected atmospheric hostility (last year’s event was rain-checked for Hurricane Harvey), the two-part celebration will go down August 11 and last all day. Fiesta Gardens hosts the festival, which features food and performances that last until sundown. Tickets for the event can be found on the Austin Pride website. Afterward, the free-to-attend parade will fill the streets of downtown. The revelry brings together hundreds of thousands, ushering in a ROYGBIV influx of color to Instagram feeds everywhere. Clothes, hair, cars, and sometimes dogs decorated with the pride flag are expected to abound. But rainbows aside, the festival is in itself both the cause for celebration and the celebration itself. Several city blocks filled with an optimistic and unafraid LGBTQ community is not something that has always been possible. Come to dance, come to shout, but most importantly, come to love.

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700 Congress Ave. (512) 453 5312 Hours: W 12-11, Th-Sa 12-9, Su 12-5 thecontemporaryaustin.org THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN–LAGUNA GLORIA 3809 W. 35th St. (512) 458 8191 Driscoll Villa hours: Tu–W 12-4, Th-Su 10–4 Grounds hours: M–Sa 9–5, Su 10–5 thecontemporaryaustin.org ELISABET NEY MUSEUM 304 E. 44th St. (512) 458 2255 Hours: W–Sa 10–5, Su 12–5 ci.austin.tx.us/elisabetney FRENCH LEGATION MUSEUM 802 San Marcos St. (512) 472 8180 Hours: Tu–Su 1–5 frenchlegationmuseum.org

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MUSEUM 1165 Angelina St. (512) 974 4926 Hours: M–Th 10–9, F 10–5:30, Sa 10–4 ci.austin.tx.us/carver HARRY RANSOM CENTER 300 E. 21st St. (512) 471 8944 Hours: Tu–W 10–5, Th 10–7, F 10–5, Sa–Su 12–5 hrc.utexas.edu LBJ LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 2313 Red River St. (512) 721 0200 Hours: M–Su 9–5 lbjlibrary.org MEXIC–ARTE MUSEUM 419 Congress Ave. (512) 480 9373 Hours: M–Th 10–6,  F–Sat 10–5, Su 12–5 mexic–artemuseum.org O. HENRY MUSEUM 409 E. 5th St. (512) 472 1903 Hours: W–Su 12–5 THINKERY AUSTIN 1830 Simond Ave. Hours: Tu-F 10-5, Sa-Su 10-6 thinkeryaustin.org UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM 605 Azie Morton Rd. (512) 445 5582 Hours: Tu-F 10-4, Sat-Su 12-4 umlaufsculpture.org

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Art SPACES GALLERIES 78704 GALLERY 1400 South Congress Ave. (512) 708 4678 Hours: M–F 8-5 78704.gallery ADAMS GALLERIES OF AUSTIN 1310 RR 620 S. Ste C4 (512) 243 7429 Hours: Tu–Sa 10–6 adamsgalleriesaustin.com ART ON 5TH 3005 S. Lamar Blvd. (512) 481 1111 Hours: M–Sa 10–6 arton5th.com ARTWORKS GALLERY 1214 W. 6th St. (512) 472 1550 Hours: M–Sa 10–5 artworksaustin.com AUSTIN ART GARAGE 2200 S. Lamar Blvd., Ste. J (512) 351-5934 Hours: Tu–Sa 11–6, Su 12–5 austinartgarage.com AUSTIN ART SPACE GALLERY AND STUDIOS 7739 North Cross Dr., Ste. Q (512) 771 2868 Hours: F–Sa 11–6 austinartspace.com AUSTIN GALLERIES 5804 Lookout Mountain Dr. (512) 495 9363 By appointment only austingalleries.com BIG MEDIUM GALLERY AT BOLM 5305 Bolm Rd., #12 (512) 939 6665 Hours: Tu-Sa 12-6 bigmedium.org

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CAMIBAart 2832 E. MLK. Jr. Blvd., Ste. 111 (512) 937 5921 Hours: Tu–F 10–5, Sa 12-5 camibaart.com CO-LAB PROJECTS: PROJECT SPACE 721 Congress Ave. (512) 300 8217 By event and appointment only co-labprojects.org DAVIS GALLERY 837 W. 12th St. (512) 477 4929 Hours: M–F 10–6, Sa 10–4 davisgalleryaustin.com DIMENSION GALLERY SCULPTURE AND 3D ART 979 Springdale, Ste. 99 (512) 479 9941 Hours: S 12–5 dimensiongallery.org DOUGHERTY ARTS CENTER 1110 Barton Springs Rd. (512) 974 4000 Hours: M-Th 10-9, F 10-5:30, Sa 10-2 austintexas.gov/department/ dougherty-arts-center FAREWELL BOOKS 913 E. Cesar Chavez St. (512) 473 2665 Hours: M-Sa 12–8, Su 12–7 farewellbookstore.com FIRST ACCESS GALLERY 2324 S. Lamar Blvd (512) 428 4782 Hours: Tu-Sa 10-7, Su 12-5 firstaccess.co/gallery FLATBED PRESS 2830 E. MLK Jr. Blvd. (512) 477 9328 Hours: M–F 10-5, Sa 10-3 flatbedpress.com

FLUENT COLLABORATIVE 502 W. 33rd St. (512) 453 3199 By appointment only fluentcollab.org

MASS GALLERY 507 Calles St. (512) 535 4946 Hours: F 5-8, Sa & Su 12-5 massgallery.org

STUDIO 10 1011 West Lynn St. (512) 236 1333 Hours: Tu–Sa 11–5 studiotenarts.com

GALLERY 702 702 San Antonio St. (737) 703 5632 Hours: Tu–Su 10-6 gallery702austin.com

MODERN ROCKS GALLERY 916 Springdale Rd., #103 (512) 524 1488 Hours: Tu–Sa 11- 6 modernrocksgallery.com

THE TWYLA GALLERY 1011 West Lynn (512) 236 1333 Hours: Tu–Sa 11–5 studiotenarts.com

GALLERY SHOAL CREEK 2832 MLK Jr. Blvd. #3 (512) 454 6671 Hours: Tu–F 10–5, Sa 12–5 galleryshoalcreek.com GRAYDUCK GALLERY 2213 E. Cesar Chavez Austin, TX 78702 (512) 826 5334 Hours: Th -Sa 11-6, Su 12–5 grayduckgallery.com JULIA C. BUTRIDGE GALLERY 1110 Barton Springs Rd. (512) 974 4025 Hours: M–Th 10–9, F 10–5:30, Sa 10–2 austintexas.gov/department/ doughertygallery LA PEÑA 227 Congress Ave., #300 (512) 477 6007 Hours: M–F 8-5, Sa 8-3 lapena–austin.org LINK & PIN 2235 E. 6th, Ste. 102 (512) 900 8952 Hours: Sa & Su 11-4 linkpinart.com LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY 360 Nueces St., #50 (512) 215 4965 Hours: W–Sa 11-6 lorareynolds.com LOTUS GALLERY 1009 W. 6th St., #101 (512) 474 1700 Hours: M–Sa 10-6 lotusasianart.com

MONDO GALLERY 4115 Guadalupe St. Hours: Tu–Sa 12-6 mondotees.com OLD BAKERY & EMPORIUM 1006 Congress Ave. (512) 912 1613 Hours: Tu–Sa 9–4 austintexas.gov/obemporium PUMP PROJECT ART COMPLEX 1600 S. Pleasant Valley Rd. (512) 351 8571 Hours: Sa 12–5 pumpproject.org ROI JAMES 3620 Bee Cave Rd., Ste. C (512) 970 3471 By appointment only roijames.com RUSSELL COLLECTION FINE ART 1009 W. 6th St. (512) 478 4440 Hours: M–Sa 10-6 russell–collection.com SPACE 12 3121 E. 12th St. (512) 524 7128 Hours: Tu-F 10-5 space12.org STEPHEN L. CLARK GALLERY 1101 W. 6th St. (512) 477 0828 Hours: Tu–Sa 10–4 stephenlclarkgallery.com

VISUAL ARTS CENTER 209 W. 9th St. (800) 928 9997 Hours: M-F 10-6 twyla.com/austingallery WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY 1202 W. 6th St. (512) 472 7428 Hours: Tu–Sa 10–5 wallyworkman.com WOMEN & THEIR WORK 1710 Lavaca St. (512) 477 1064 Hours: M–F 10–6, Sa 12-6 womenandtheirwork.org YARD DOG 1510 S. Congress Ave. (512) 912 1613 Hours: M–F 11–5, Sa 11–6, Su 12–5 yarddog.com

FREDERICKSBURG ARTISANS — A TEXAS GALLERY 234 W. Main St. (830) 990-8160 artisanstexas.com CATE ZANE GALLERY 107 N. Llano St. (830) 992-2044 catezane.com

FREDERICKSBURG ART GALLERY 405 E. Main St. (830) 990-2707 fbgartgallery.com FREDERICKSBURG ART GUILD 308 E. Austin St. (830) 997-4949 fredericksburgartguild.org INSIGHT GALLERY 214 W. Main St. (830) 997-9920 insightgallery.com KOCH GALLERY 406 W. Main St. (830) 992-3124 bertkoch.com LARRY JACKSON ART & ANTIQUES 201 E. San Antonio St. (830) 997-0073 larryjacksonantiques.com RIVER RUSTIC GALLERY 222 W. Main St. (830) 997-6585 riverrustic.com RS HANNA GALLERY 244 W. Main St. and 208 S. Llano St. (830) 307-3071 rshannagallery.com URBANHERBAL ART GALLERY 407 Whitney St. (830) 456-9667 urbanherbal.com

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In Austin, Coworking is More Than an Office: It’s a Partnership By Liz Feezor As the gig economy continues to boom locally and around the world, an increasing number of workers are leaving the corporate world in favor of creating new roles and professional lives for themselves. According to Intuit’s 2020 Research Series, 40% of Americans will work for themselves by the year 2020, either out of desire or necessity*. Through its continuing economic expansion, Austin has become a mecca for creative entrepreneurship, and

coworking spaces are leading the charge in connecting freelance creatives, contract workers, and small business owners with the resources they need to thrive. Many locals have experienced the value of a positive, inviting work environment, as well as access to topnotch resources and staff to help get it all done. For freelancing entrepreneurs and remote workers in Austin, coworking means much more than a list of amenities: it’s a community to thrive, grow a business, and make an impact on the world. Notable Austinites Samantha Snabes, founder of large-scale 3D printer start-

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COMMUNITY PICK

In the Bag FORGET THE COVER LET TER. TO SCOOP AT THIS ICONIC ICE CRE AM SHOP, JOB SEEKERS TELL THEIR STORIES THROUGH A PL AIN PAPER BAG

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institution. Over the past 34 years, Amy’s has grown along with Austin itself, expanding from one shop on Guadalupe Street to 12 locations across the city. Ice cream scoopers juggle, toss, and serve up classic and unique flavors, but the scoopers themselves are probably the most unique part about Amy’s. And that’s no accident. The application process for a job at Amy’s is simple — take a plain paper bag and make it into something original. There are no limits. Take a bag and let your mind run wild. Founder Amy Simmons (yes, Amy is a real person) says, “We don’t look for the most creative. Instead, we look for bags that tell a story.” The tradition began when Simmons ran out of applications and handed an applicant a white paper bag for her to write down her number so Simmons could call back to schedule an interview. Instead, the applicant took the bag and returned to the shop three days later, having turned the bag into a something that looked like a hot air balloon. The bag was the basket, filled with items that showcased the applicant’s personality. Amy’s scoopers make the institution what it is, and the bags are meant to tell Simmons a bit about who they are. One of her favorite bags is a replica of a vintage photo booth like the ones located in their stores; she even displays it in her office. So the next time you pop into Amy’s for a sundae, don’t forget to ask your scooper what they made with their paper bag. There’s no predicting their answer.

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Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craftspeople elevate everyday objects to works of art. Purchasing their work is an investment in both a distinctive product and in the livelihood of local families. Three local makers invited us to witness their creative process. By Robyn Ross and Margaret Williams Photographs by Matt Rainwaters

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ERA CERAMICS Lindsey Wohlgemuth and Dimitar Karaytchev serve up local flavor in their custom dinnerware.

LINDSEY: A few years ago we connected with our first restaurant client at the Feliz craft fair. Natalie Davis from Salt & Time asked us to make some bowls, and then, because chefs in Austin know one another so well, Shawn Cirkiel had us make some dinnerware for Bullfight, Olive & June, and Parkside. DIMITAR: There was an explosion of restaurants opening up. A lot of them wanted to elevate not just their food but their interior design and their dinnerware. LW: I think people have realized they don’t have to keep using the same white plates they’ve always used. If they try something different, it will stand out, and it will make the food look a little more special. Some food looks really beautiful on a black plate, or a more-rustic-looking plate. If you’re serving amazing food, the presentation should match. We made all the dinnerware for Elle’s Café and Pitchfork Pretty, and we’ve done work for Uchi and Uchiko. These

pendant lights are for Kemuri Tatsu-ya. Because they do smoked barbecue and smoked fish, we decided to do smoked pottery for them. We built the kiln we used to pit-fire these pendant lights in the backyard. I saved all my clay shavings for months, and then I re-wet that clay and recycled it to make the kiln. For fuel, we use sawdust from HATCH Workshop. The sawdust is so dense, and there’s not much oxygen in a pit kiln like this, so you get a lot of smoke that puts this marbled black on the pottery. When we make dinnerware, each piece gets fired twice in the electric kiln, for about 24 hours each time. With decorative pieces like these lights, we fire everything in the electric kiln first, to make sure it’s durable, and then we just smoke it for a couple of hours for the decorative element. DK: A lot of our work with restaurants is making an order of, say, 50 bowls that will take us three or four weeks. Then we want to stop and do some fun, arty stuff, like custom work. And some of the things we learn from our

experiments might eventually make their way into the dinnerware. LW: For instance, this light is a little bit jagged on top because we wedged bamboo into the clay before I threw it. The leaves and other materials add obstacles, so I wasn’t able to get it perfectly centered. Then, when we fired the pieces, the leaves burned out and left their marks. We couldn’t pit-fire dinnerware, because it needs to be foodsafe, but we could apply some things we learned from this project to dinnerware later on. These projects are not just fun but necessary — for finding out new things, and learning about the materials, and just feeling happy. They serve the same purpose as travel, when you get out of your routine and do something new. You have to try different things to remind yourself that you’re not just a business owner, you’re an artist. -R.R. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Wohlgemuth and Karaytchev use a pit kiln in their backyard to fire pendant lights for Kemuri Tatsu-ya.

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OLD CROW CUSTOM WORKS

Adam Young uses wood and steel to build furniture and shape spaces.

I grew up skateboarding in southwestern Louisiana, and my Papaw Young was a master carpenter. When I was about nine years old, my brothers and I asked our grandpa to help us build a ramp for skateboarding in our driveway, and he agreed to it on the condition that we help him build some things like mailboxes and picnic tables. In hindsight I understand that he was trying to get us accustomed to being around tools — to develop respect for them and not be afraid of them. I got into welding because, years ago, I worked for a company that built concrete skate parks. One of the guys on the crew would weld the rebar that goes into the concrete, along with the steel pipes that people do tricks on. He taught me some welding, and then when I got to Austin I worked for a landscape architecture company, where I taught myself a lot more. I never went to art school, and I’m not trained in design. But I’m eager to learn, and I’m not afraid to make mistakes, because those are ultimately the best teachers.

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Ninety percent of the projects I’m involved in have both wood and steel in the design — I like the marriage of the two. My favorite type of wood is longleaf pine salvaged from dismantled schools, churches, and homes that were built in Central Texas in the early part of the last century. When I get wood for a project, I’ll first mill it so it has a new surface with a crisp face. The milling reveals this beauty that was hidden within walls, like the 2x6’s that were used as the structural parts of these old homes. I love the transformation of this wood that came from a tree that could have started growing 300 or more years ago, and then was harvested and put into a building that lasted 100 years. And now it has a new life, but the material still contains that history. I do residential commissions, like decks and gates and furniture, as well as commercial work. Recently I did the design and visual aesthetic for Sweet Chive, a restaurant on Cesar Chavez. My team and I did the woodwork and metalwork for the bartop and all the furniture. We also did

the buildout for a brewer on Hamilton Pool Road called Family Business Beer Company — the whole bar area and seating area and all the furniture. When I’m asked to do design work, I like to start by choosing the material palette. I let that dictate some of the form and function and how those elements will integrate with the existing space. That develops through drawings and site visits and conversations with the client. Often when we’re working on a buildout, we realize there are details that would be nice touches to add at the end but that were hard to foresee at the outset. I try to be open to letting those things reveal themselves. It makes it fun to go into work every day, because those bits of excitement are just beneath the surface. -R.R. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Young is a self-taught woodworker, metalworker, and visual artist who paints on the same longleaf pine he uses in furniture.

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Aimee Speer is reshaping the traditionally male word of hat-making, one brim at a time. I have been working since I was 16, and for the first time, after closing my business Hem Jeans in 2014, I was a stayat-home mom. It was wonderful having three beautiful, healthy daughters, but I had to do some soul searching. What was next? I have always been an artist and a hat collector, but I also have an engineer’s mind, and I want to know how things work. One day I put on a hat and thought, “How do you make this?” There aren’t a lot of resources for aspiring hat makers, and it’s a very male-dominated industry, but I found a master hatter in Salt Lake City who was willing to share his knowledge. I went to Utah not knowing anyone and ended up spending a summer there learning all these turn-ofthe-century hatting techniques. James Whittington, but everyone called him J.W., was in his late 70s at the time, and many hat makers owe him a great debt. Things started slowly at first because I had to have all my equipment made. As a hat maker you’re really only as

good as your tools. I didn’t start producing hats for other people until a year later. Then, in 2016, Maureen, who owns Redbird, asked me to do a trunk show. It really all started from there. Clients come to my studio, and we talk about them for a while. I try and find out what they really want out of their hat. Is this an everyday piece or something more specific? What is their sense of style? What shape will flatter their face: cattleman crown or bolero? Brim down or up? It’s a very personal thing to make for someone. Some people are very involved in the design, and others tell me, “Aimee, you decide.” I start by custom-making a band block. Once the block is made, I place the material on it, rope it off, and then begin ironing out the moisture. Pouncing, which is hat-maker speak for sanding, comes next. I work out the rough barbs in the beaver fur to create a velvety texture, starting with a 220-grit sandpaper and working my way up to a 400-grit. Then I plate and pounce the brim so it will be flat and have

a smooth finish. Once the extra fabric on the brim gets cut off, I sand down the raw edge and sew in a leather sweatband, like a traditional cowboy hat would have. Each hat starts in the shape of a bowler dome. I apply steam to the open crown, and the whole thing becomes soft again. It’s almost like working with clay, because I mold each hat with my own two hands, and then it dries in the shape I have created. Once the shape is there, you add personality; it’s really incredible how the finishing changes each piece. I have a huge collection of exotic skins, leather, and feathers that I draw from. The whole process takes about two to three days, but of course that depends on the finishing. When I’m working, it’s very physical and hot, but also meditative. I am very present when I am making a hat. I hope to do this as long as I can. -M.W. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Speer, who uses a variety of skins, materials, and accents for her hats, is releasing a wholesale collection this fall.

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FROM DRESS SHIRTS TO BABY WEAR, HOW THE FRIENDS BEHIND CLASSIC CHILDHOOD ARE GIVING CLOTHES NEW LIFE. By Margaret Williams Photographs by Kate Zimmerman Turpin

t’s hard to ignore that Pamela Torres and Marta Vizcarro are in sync. They just are. Upon arrival at Pamela’s Circle C home, and after being warmly greeted with hugs and some unnamed yet delicious green juice, I can’t help but notice that the women are dressed similarly. Without planning (they promise) Pamela and Marta are both wearing bright-white shirts distinguished by voluminous proportions. That, combined with their choice of a red lip and face-framing bangs, creates an uncanny and striking impression. Superficial similarities aside, the women’s pasts and presents intersect and overlap like a Venn diagram: Pamela and Marta are both from Spanish-speaking countries (Mexico and Spain, respectively), previously worked in finance, have husbands who work for the same international development firm, and are mothers to young sons. More importantly, both share a passion for sustainable and affordable kids’ clothing. This interest and the women’s vision of creating timeless European-inspired children’s clothing are the twin engines that propel their business, Classic Childhood. The idea for Classic Childhood sprang out of a life shift, a few actually. Born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, Pamela first moved to Austin from Dallas five-plus years ago after her husband, Paul’s, job brought them to town. The move allowed for a shift in thinking when it came to her work. “I had always wanted to be a fashion designer,” the former accountant admits. Around that same time, Marta, a Barcelona native who moved to Austin with her husband, Enrique, in 2010 for similar reasons, was about to become a mother. The tech industry business analyst had recently begun taking graphic-design courses. The courses started out as an extracurricular interest subsidized by Marta’s company, but soon enough, and after the birth of her son, Marcel, in 2014, she left her job and accelerated her studies. Marta underscores the point by saying, “Having our son changed our lives.”

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s both women stretched to find a career that aligned better with their interests and new life stages, they were introduced through their husbands. “Marta was my first friend when I got to Austin,” exclaims Pamela. This new friendship, combined with their collective love of design, led to an initial business partnership — ArTradition Purpose Market, an online marketplace for international artists and makers. Pamela led the sourcing and importing of one-of-a-kind pieces, while Marta handled all the branding and graphic design. The women had found a business model perfectly suited to their friendship and talents. While APM did well, and is still in business, Pamela and Marta were just off center when it came to finding their particular niche in fashion and design. Then in late 2016 Pamela joined Marta in becoming a mom, with the birth of her son, Pedro, and somehow it all seemed to click. Both women already had many European friends and knew they loved the classic designs favored by Spanish and French mothers and their children. For those of you who aren’t awash in examples of this look — which I can only assume was once limited to actual Europeans but can now be found all over chic Instagram feeds everywhere — the style is marked by clean lines, simple patterns, and detailed tailoring. Warm-weather pieces often have an open crisscross back, and in the cooler seasons collared blouses with tapered sleeves are paired with separates. Totally gorgeous but the style can be tricky to find in America, and when one does, it’s usually paired with an astronomical price tag.

Designs feature time-honored styles in an array of patterns and hues.

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Vizcarro and Torres partner with local seamstresses like Claudia Tol to bring their designs to life.

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amela refused to settle with this either-or scenario and decided to take a stab at sewing her own pieces. “I had my sewing machine that I got when I bought my vacuum cleaner,” she says. “I had fabric, since my husband was getting rid of some of his shirts, so I just started making things for my son. I dusted off the machine and just started sewing.” It wasn’t that she was necessarily an expert seamstress, but she knew she had to at least try. “My husband was very proud of my son wearing his shirt,” she explains. And it all grew organically from there. The following summer Pamela and her family traveled to Spain for a vacation, and while abroad the budding designer picked up clothes and patterns to take back home. Seeing this new concept — European designs made from unwanted dress shirts (which not coincidentally were typically cotton, usually wrinkle-free, and often designed with conservative patterns) — Marta quickly asked to once again work together. And just like that, Classic Childhood became official. Marta explains, “It’s more fun [to work together], and we balance each other.” What began slowly was kicked into high gear this past fall as the entrepreneurs applied to participate in two design competitions. The first was sponsored by Rent the Runway with a focus on empowering female-led businesses, and the second was part of the City of Austin’s zero-waste initiative. Honing her technique, Pamela could now produce two children’s “bubble rompers,” plus small accessories, from a single men’s shirt. Marta, meanwhile, was furiously working on the website.

Since that push, their clothing has been stocked at local boutiques Picket Fences and Alexa James, and last December the entrepreneurs participated in the local shopping event Mini Market. And while Pamela and Marta are incredibly grateful for the local support, they have big goals that stretch beyond our city limits: national and international wholesale representation to start (this summer Classic Childhood is participating in the New York based Children’s Club trade show), hopefully followed by a two-outfit-amonth subscription service in the model of Birchbox, Kiwi Crate, and so many others. Despite their expansion goals, Pamela and Marta are committed to keeping their clothing in a “good price range,” which translates to approximately $35 per outfit. Additionally and, maybe most important, the business owners are focused on growing so they can share their success with others. At the time of our interview, Pamela and Marta were working with two seamstresses and in the process of testing and training two more. They want to share the work-life flexibility they so coveted with working mothers in need of additional income. As I am walking out the door, Pamela confidently explains, “We think we are filling a gap in the market that is not here in the U.S. Why can’t we be the Gap Kids for these European-inspired pieces?” Her energy and drive is infectious, but even more endearing is their female-forward model stitched together with sustainable artistry.

HOW IT HAPPENS • The duo and South Austin residents collect 100% cotton men’s dress shirts (in mostly excellent condition) from their friends, friends of friends, and neighbors. They explain, “Usually a shirt has just a hole in the elbow or a small stain, little things we can work around.”

• Each shirt yields two bubble rompers; the size made depends on the size of the donated shirt.

• The shirts get washed and are delivered to Classic Childhood’s seamstresses, who remove the buttons (which are saved for future use) and cut patterns.

• The remaining scrap fabric, plus scrap fabric sourced from a partnership with Stitch Texas, is turned into decorative “month-by-month” pillows, which are popular with new parents, and other accessories like bonnets and hair bows.

• Pamela and Marta pay their seamstresses per piece, ensuring that the women they hire are always paid $12-$18 per hour.

• Each piece is lined with brand-new fabric (100% cotton) and finished with closures (snaps for ease and buttons when needed).

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Five close-in spots offering locally produced goods of the spirited variety.

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By Anne Bruno

Illustrations by Mackenzie Dunn

f, in your view, the phrase “local produce” refers strictly to fruits and veggies, try stretching your mind a bit and thinking outside the basket. Put a twist on the idea and move from food into the category of beverages, specifically those of the adult variety. If you can embrace such a concept and expand your thinking, dear reader, I promise you the reward of a whole new world of fermented and distilled taste experiences — all locally produced for your delight and enjoyment. On a recent weekend, I, along with several more-than-willing friends, undertook some taxing research. Mapping out a loop starting and ending in South Austin, we blazed a trail of some of the best locally produced beverage spots, perfect for spending an afternoon expanding your palate. Our criteria for the route were as follows: Each stop had to offer a distinct beverage, as well as something solid to keep us fortified for the day’s journey; destinations had to be appropriate for travelers of various ages and tastes; the Main Attraction (aka the adult beverage) had to be made on-site; and, perhaps of utmost importance, each had to satisfy the requirement of offering nonalcoholic options for our fearless leader, that glorious creature commonly known as the Designated Driver. Let’s begin, shall we?

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An everyman and everywoman’s brewery, St Elmo couldn’t be further from beer snobbery. And that’s not by accident. The two friends who started the popular South Side warehouse-cum-brewery claim they’re not “beer bigots” and prove it daily in the tastiest of ways: The rotating menu includes every style of beer one could hope for under a single roof. Four shiny metal vats labeled “Uno,” “Dos,” “Tres,” and “Cuatro” anchor the brewhouse, which is open directly to the bar, attesting to St Elmo’s philosophy of breaking down barriers between brewer and imbiber. There are no secrets between friends at St Elmo, and if you walk through the door looking for a great beer, you’re a friend.

THE EXPERIENCE

Start at the bar by perusing the beer menu overhead. Owing to the many choices, this might take a while, but rest assured, questions are not only welcomed but encouraged. Your next decision of where to hang out may be dictated by your companions. Solo? Take a stool at the bar. Sports fan? Stay inside and catch a game on the big screen at the back of the beer hall. Music fans, children, or four-legged friends in tow? Head outside to the beer garden, where you’ll find a stage for live music, plus a mix of red and white picnic tables set up for relaxation and lingering.

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On the day we hit St Elmo, over a dozen brews decorated the menu, with names that offered more than a clue as to the lively personalities of the brewery’s founders. From an almost overwhelming number of taps, we sampled an American pils aptly named Dad; Mahalo, a pineapple pale ale; Zapp!, a kettle sour; a French saison called Evangeline; and Norman, a roggenbier.

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What goes better with an ice-cold brew? The answer — in all its spicy Thaichile glory — can be found conveniently parked in St Elmo’s beer garden at Soursop, one of Austin’s favorite Pan-Asian food trucks.

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Leave the ferrets at home (see website. Do we really need to explain?). 440 E. St. Elmo Road in South Austin Open Tuesday through Sunday. Check the website for details. stelmobrewing.com

If sotol is something you’ve never tasted or even heard of, don’t fret. The friendly folks at Desert Door Texas Sotol are happy to school you with lessons that are easy to swallow. Just down the road in Driftwood is where you’ll find this relative newcomer to Central Texas’ burgeoning distillery scene. The evergreen plant, sometimes called a desert spoon, is unique to Texas and northern Mexico. While you might make the rookie mistake of confusing the sotol with an agave or century plant, a closer look at the heart of the sotol, from which the spirits are distilled, may bring to mind a shaved-down artichoke on steroids.

THE EXPERIENCE

“Modern meets hacienda” best describes the welcoming vibe of Desert Door’s tasting room and the hospitality of its knowledgeable staff. White plaster dominates the intimate indoor space with an oversize fireplace and a cozy seating nook softened by leather cushions and wool pillows. Warm woods fill out the room with multiple gathering areas, and a bar offers signature cocktails that highlight sotol’s complex flavor profile. A glass wall at the end of the room allows a peek into the distillery as you sip the smoky spirit from handmade tasting cups. Outside, on the covered patio decked out with sofas, lounge chairs, and picnic tables, the Southwestern feel continues

with a border of planter boxers filled with heat-loving specimens. Enjoy live music inside or on the patio, depending on weather.

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The Desert Door Original, comprised of wild sotol, organic yeast, and purified natural Texas water, and a 100-proof Desert Door Oak Aged version distilled from only the most mature sotol plants and aged in white oak barrels.

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Order a charcuterie board of artisan cheeses, meats, and sotol bread at the bar inside the tasting room. Nonalcoholic beverages include a locally made spring water.

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Don’t mention the t-word. Desert Door is intent on knocking tequila off its pedestal as Texans’ desert-derived liquor of choice. 211 Darden Hill Road in Driftwood Open Thursday through Sunday. Check the website for details. desertdoor.com tribeza.com

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Ever traveled in your mind to a quaint stone cottage nestled in an apple orchard in the country? Maybe it’s the home of your imaginary best friends, industrious types who take the apples and make their own cider, then invite all the neighbors over for a party every weekend to celebrate the fruits of their labor. Substitute the apple orchard for pecan, cedar, and oak trees and turn the cottage from a house into a taproom and you’ve got the real-life Manchaca headquarters of Texas Keeper Craft Cider.

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THE EXPERIENCE

Don’t miss the equally creative offerings of Deepa Shridhar’s food truck, Puli-Ra. Set up just outside the taproom, Puli-Ra serves up what Shridhar calls “Low-Country Indian food with Texan inspiration.”

You’ll feel right at home inside the former farmhouse, complete with knotty pine-paneled walls, plenty of chairs and tables, and a big stone fireplace in what was once the living room. Friendly staff behind the bar can help you choose from a surprisingly wide variety of ciders and tell you how they’re made. Outside in the front and backyards, kids play among the neat rows of picnic tables under stringed lights that practically beg you to take a seat and get yourself out of being in a hurry to go anywhere. From a rotating lineup of local bands to the regular Friday-night happy hours to supper club special events, there’s plenty of ways to enjoy your cider adventures.

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The watchwords here are “small-batch,” “homemade,” and “creative.” That ethos even applies to the cidery itself — the owners describe their cellar as “ludicrously small,” with some equipment having been built by hand. Cider varieties include the Grafter Rosé, GoldRush, and Ciderweizen, to name just a few. Enjoy them in the taproom, then take home a few bottles for later.

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Go for the flight! Who knew there was such a thing as still cider with no bubbles? 12521 Twin Creeks Road in Manchaca Open Wednesday through Sunday. Check the website for details. texaskeeper.com

The numbers alone describing the Treaty Oak Ranch are impressive: 5,500-square-feet of brewing and distilling facilities, a 16-tap tasting room and cocktail bar that comfortably seats 100, and a new, 3,500-square-foot restaurant, all on 28 beautiful acres in Dripping Springs. Throw in the toomany-to-count oak trees, many of which surpass the century mark in age, and it’s easy to see why Treaty Oak Distillery has earned its place as a mustsee destination on Central Texas’ spirits trail.

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As you may have guessed, Treaty Oak Distillery has a little bit of everything, all in a genuine Hill Country setting. On any given weekend you’ll find people of all ages and groups of every persuasion escaping the city here. Family-friendly with lots of open space, a kids’ play area, and picnic tables strewn about the landscape, this spot lets you two-step in the grass to a live band, or simply sit and sip while your kids run around, free of confining concrete sidewalks.

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While people love to simply hang out at Treaty Oak Ranch, let’s be honest: It all starts with what’s in the bottle. Make that bottles, as Treaty Oak’s line

of spirits now includes multiple varieties of award-winning rums, vodkas, bourbons, and gins, plus beer. In the tasting room you can sample the goods straight and order craft cocktails that bring out the best of the distillery’s bounty.

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Food options abound with snacks like chips and queso, guacamole, and hummus, as well as something more substantial at Treaty Oak’s Ghost Hill Restaurant. A board features weekly specials, and regular menu items include traditional Texas smoked meats, salads, and kid-centric fare.

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Check out the fun swag inside the tasting room. After you’ve sipped on a few samples, find the perfect souvenir to prove that when it comes to Texas distilleries, you’ve been there, done that. 16604 Fitzhugh Road in Dripping Springs Open Thursday through Sunday. Check the website for details. treatyoakdistilling.com

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When you approach Still Austin Whiskey Co., three giant metal can stills and a 42-foot-tall tower rising from the roof of the warehouse building catch your eye. Cool architectural details? Well, yes and no. While the tower definitely lends modern style to the structure, what’s inside is all about substance. To create the first whiskey distillery located in the city of Austin since Prohibition, the three families who founded Still Austin dreamed big, building a first-class distillery from the ground up. The column still that’s located inside the tower comes from Scotland, but everything else about the distillery’s grain-to-glass method is local.

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The tasting room at Still Austin brings to mind a hybrid of bar and boutique. You can shop for bottles lining the beautifully lit display shelves, or step up to the bar and peruse the menu of flights and cocktails, all mixed with Still Austin’s whiskeys as well as the label’s rye gin. Outside, the spacious whiskey garden is the perfect spot to play games and enjoy happy hour with friends.

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Three varieties of whiskey entice at Still Austin. The New Make Whiskey

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comes straight from the still — think whiskey in its purest form — and is made simple and clean of corn, wheat, and malted barley. Two other varieties, Mother Pepper Whiskey (featuring chile pequin, smoked serrano, and aji amarillo peppers) and Daydreamer Whiskey (with a combination of Valencia, Tangelo, and Bergamot citrus) offer a twist on the traditional. Check out the Texas Rye Gin, handmade from a base spirit of Texas-grown rye grains.

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Hard work like sipping whiskey calls for a hearty snack, and Emojis Grilled Cheese Bar fills the bill. Melted goodness in multiple iterations is served from Emojis’ food truck, tucked into a corner of the whiskey garden.

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The cost of a flight (three whiskies, plus gin) can be applied to the purchase of any bottle. Way to do the math! 440 E. St. Elmo Road in South Austin Open Thursday through Sunday. Check the website for details. stillaustin.com

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STYLE PROFILE

Visions of HOME LIVING THE DRE AM IS A TOUGH GIG, BUT ADAM DUNN OF FOUR HANDS HOME HAS WHAT IT TAKES By Neal Baker Photographs by Mica McCook

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our Hands is the biggest name in home furnishings that you didn’t know you knew. Even if you’ve been to its storefront in South Austin, you may not have realized that your other favorite and second-favorite and maybe third-favorite furniture stores have been stocked with its designs all along. Overseeing the Austin-based company’s extensive creative output is creative director Adam Dunn, whom I’ve come to see in his office. Showing me to a soft, squaredoff armchair of his creation, he tells me about the uniquely modern and fashion-forward vision behind designs that regularly land in the catalogs of retailers like West Elm, Restoration Hardware, and Crate & Barrel, to name a few. In his position, Dunn must set the tone for the collections that will populate the lookbooks and showrooms each season, choosing themes to be communicated through shapes, materials, and colors. Simultaneously, he has to understand the business of it all, developing the company at the same time as its look. It’s a large responsibility, but Dunn welcomes it. “You have the opportunity to make really big, impactful change,” he says. “Whether it’s good or bad — you never know.” But something tells me that he does know. He’s clearly confident and passionate, and now he has 15 years of product development under his belt. His method is collaborative and has him constantly filtering information about concepts, feelings, and other people’s desires. “I’m a big Pinterest guy,” he tells me. “It’s like a brain dump.” To be sure, his brain must be packed to the brim.

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t’s full steam ahead for Dunn right now, but his personal path to where he is now was not a straight shot. He spent time in and out of school, and his first design-related endeavors didn’t involve interiors at all but had him doing wardrobes for photo shoots. Tugging on his shirt sleeve, he reveals to me a reminder of when things truly clicked into place. The numerals “XXVII” inked on his forearm mark the 27th year of his life, the number serving as a memento of several things — some beginnings and some endings — from what he described as one of the milestone years of his life. Most notably: his graduation from college, his first job in product development, and the passing of his beloved grandfather. It was the kind of year that sweeps you off your feet just a bit, but as he sees it, “it really catapulted my direction in life.” The next several years he spent at Arhaus developing the skills that would take him to where he is today at Four Hands. He’s been in his current position since 2013, but he still finds excitement in the possibilities it presents him with. “It’s the dream job … the thing about being a creative director is that you finally have the opportunity to build the brand the way you see it should be.” In all aspects of Dunn’s work, business and design end up being codependent. This relationship is visible even in the Four Hands office space, a tall room where the classic cubicle, stylish as it may be, is forgotten in favor of open and airy workspaces divided by glass set in grand frames of iron, all Dunn’s creation. The front wall of the room is covered in corkboards, upon which are pinned clippings and printouts full of moods, textures, colors, and other inspiration. It’s a manifestation of the ongoing collaboration and a hint at what’s to come. What ends up on that wall is not merely the result of inspiration, but also of careful study of what people want. As Dunn explains, it’s about finding “what the general mood and feel

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It’s the dream job... the thing about being a creative director is that you finally have the opportunity to build the brand the way you see it should be.

is of the consumer, and then making the material story around that.” Dunn is in good company in his efforts to bring these “stories” to life. He leads a team of designers plucked from places like Anthropologie, Arteriors, and American Leather. “They’re all incredibly creative and really smart merchants,” he says, with emphasis on the latter distinction as the magic ingredient in Four Hands’ formula for imagining products that push boundaries of style but that also reach a huge market. “That’s what we really look for,” Dunn continues, “not just designers, because that’s just half of our business … it says a lot that they can lead with the business strategy but still manage to [create] really beautiful pieces.” Indeed, the Four Hands collection stands out in all the right ways. While there’s a classic sensibility that runs through everything it creates, each piece possesses a distinctive charm owing to the care given to details. It’s hard to imagine what goes into finding the perfect wood grain or pairing hard and soft edges just so, but in talking with Dunn, the magic becomes easier to understand. For every decision, he makes clear the reason behind

that choice and what it means to the piece or the room, but more importantly to the brand as a whole. Today, the next vision of the brand sits before me on Dunn’s desk in a stack of papers. Essentially the definitive collection of visual ideas informing the next season, this new outgoing creative brief, he tells me, is full of fresh approaches and looks with more colors, more textures, and in some places more simplicity than we have come to expect from Four Hands. Plenty else is new for the company, which is growing fast as ever, but for Dunn, the next big step is parenthood. Having recently adopted two young boys, he calls the current year another “big milestone, even bigger than this,” pointing again to his tattoo. And truth be told, big can be difficult, especially when kids are involved, but Dunn is astoundingly put together for someone operating on zero hours of sleep. I guess by now he knows how to take the twists and turns. In business and in life, a lot can happen in just a year. And while it’s not always clear where it all leads, it’s exciting enough to be going somewhere. tribeza.com

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ROBYN MINER AL HE ALTH FOUNDER MAT THEW “MILLS” MILLER TELLS US ABOUT HIS SHINY NEW HEMP OIL By Anna Andersen Photographs by Holly Cowart and Cydney Holm

ATTHEW “MILLS” MILLER DISCOVERED THE BENEFITS

of cannabidiol, or CBD, after a near-death experience involving guinea-pig-and-alpaca stew. As Miller tells the story, he travelled to Peru to hike Pisco in hopes of experiencing an emotional renaissance after the devastating failure of his latest business venture back in 2016. Unfortunately, when he reached the summit, at 19,000 feet above sea level, nothing happened to lift his spirits. If that wasn’t bad enough, when he returned to the base of the mountain, he ate a rancid stew that made him violently ill. His lower intestine became inflamed and wrapped around his colon, which, as he puts it, turned into a ticking time bomb that threatened to blow fecal matter into his bloodstream at any moment. He checked into a health clinic and spent a few days drifting in and out of delirium. Fortunately, when the doctor suggested a colectomy, he managed to gather his wits, escape the clinic, and fly back to the United States. Slowly but surely, he made a full recovery, which he attributes to CBD oil and other plant-based medicines that help with inflammation. Or at least that’s the short, less graphic version of the story. Miller is not a scientist, or a health coach, or a nutritional specialist. He’s a storyteller, one with no shortage of tales to tell, and he’s adept at branding. After Peru, he finally had the epiphany that he was expecting. He became a disciple of the cannabis plant, and he began creating the

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Miller on his Onewheel is familiar sight around the Clarksville neighborhood.

visual identity for MINERAL, his new cannabinoid-focused wellness brand. Cannabinoids are chemical compounds found in cannabis that bind to cannabinoid receptors throughout the body, which are part of the endocannabinoid system, that help the body maintain homeostasis. The most well-known cannabinoid is tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is what makes marijuana a psychoactive drug. The rest of the cannabinoids, including CBD, have gotten a bad rap due to association, but they are non-psychoactive and can be legally extracted from hemp, a strain of cannabis that contains, by definition, less than .3 percent THC. As cannabis’ legal status in the United States continues to change, CBD is being discovered for its therapeutic effects on a variety of conditions, from psoriasis to seizures. Notably, in June, the Food and Drug Administration approved a CBD-based drug to treat two types of severe epilepsy, which marks the first FDA-approved drug derived from cannabis. If, as a result, cannabis is removed from the list of Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, CBD will only increasingly be put under the microscope. In the meantime, as CBD extracted from hemp floods the supplement space, Miller is eager to explain why his product, ROBYN, is superior to other products on the market, and not just because it is more beautifully designed and packaged. “CBD is the most studied and associated with health benefits, but there are more than 100 cannabinoids in the cannabis plant. They work most ef-

ficiently, or more naturally, when experienced together, as they produce an entourage effect of medical benefits to the mind and body,” Miller explains. “A lot of the CBD oil on the market contains CBD only. ROBYN is a full-spectrum hemp oil containing 12 cannabinoids and 26 terpenes, which is what give cannabis its flavor.” Working with a farmer in Colorado whose extraction process is pure, he says he’s created the perfect cannabinoid-to-terpene ratio for recovery, for restoring balance back to the body and mind. “Inflammation is at the root of all physical, emotional, and mental ailments. Cannabinoids work to reduce that inflammation and return the body to homeostasis,” Miller explains. “That’s why I say our product is about balance. Stress, anxiety, depression, it’s all about being out of balance. If you’re stressed, you’re out of balance. If you’re anxious, you’re out of balance. If you’re depressed, you’re out of balance.” He markets ROBYN for physical, emotional, and mental recovery. It’s taken sublingually, which, thanks to its terpenes, gives people the sense that they’re tasting the healing benefits. He calls it, confidently, a 10/10 product. “After Peru, I decided that I wanted to start living. I wanted to feel good at all times,” Miller says. “People are continuously looking for ways to feel better, and they deserve to feel good. I’m trying to do something that helps people.”

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LEFT: Finds from the Randolph Street Market. RIGHT: A view from the Lakefront Trail.

Chicago

HE THING ABOUT CHIC AGO IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT

of things people will tell you all about Chicago: The public transportation is great, but keep your wits about you on the L’s Red Line. Check all the tourist boxes (Magnificent Mile! Italian beef! That shiny, shiny bean!) and wander outside the Downtown Loop. You can’t toss deep-dish pizza dough without hitting a world-class restaurant, but dirty martinis until closing time at 4 a.m. is called a Set-Up-To-Fail any day of the week. The winters are brutal, but the summers make up for it. I can vouch for all of these things. Due to an impending move, I spent my summer holiday exploring my new city and found these things to be true. But there are also many things for which I cannot vouch. A born-andraised-and-then-some Texan, more than one Chicagoan has gently, but correctly, guessed my state of origin. (What gave me away? That the martini was Tito’s, or that in drinking it, I immediately assumed my mom’s accent?) I don’t claim to know all there is to know about the Windy City, perhaps best articulated by the fact that I just used that tired epithet. But I have listened to the things people have told me about Chicago and checked them out for myself; now I’m humbly here to share them with you. Let’s start with the obvious: Visit before snow hits the ground. August through October is a sweet spot, with festival season still in swing and tem-

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By Hannah Morrow

ABOVE: Pizza from Piccolo Sogno. LEFT: The Ace Hotel in the West Loop.

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peratures easing up into fall. Lollapalooza will take over the city the first weekend of August (2-5) in Grant Park, trailed by local favorites like the Randolph Street Market (25 & 26) in the West Loop and the Chicago Jazz Festival (August 30 - September 2) at Millennium Park. If you visit on a weekend without festivities, you can enjoy the Lakefront Trail with a little less foot traffic. The paved path runs past 13 neighborhoods and along 18 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. (A thing people will tell you about the lake is that it’s huge and you won’t understand how huge it is until you see it. This is true.) While walking or biking (Divvy bikes can be rented throughout the city for $3-a-ride for up to 30 minutes) along the trail, good stops include the Field Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago toward the southern end, past Navy Pier near Streeterville, and up to the free Lincoln Park Zoo. Bonus: The trail just north of Oak Street Beach offers a picture-perfect view of sand-meets-land. From high up, the best view of the Third Coast is at the top of Hotel Lincoln. Its rooftop bar, The J. Parker, is ideal for a pre- or post-dinner cocktail with a sea-blue backdrop. For city views, the Up rooftop lounge at The Robey hotel boasts a 180-degree of the historic skyline from the west Chicago neighborhood Wicker Park. The art deco boutique hotel, which was originally designed in the ’20s as an office building, opened last year at the corner of Damen, Milwaukee, and North avenues. It’s definitely my pick for a stay a little outside of the well-traveled path, but head to the West Loop’s Ace Hotel if you want somewhere more central. Next up, the less obvious: where to eat. This is a topic people will tell you the most things about. The good news is that there’s an ever-growing number of restaurants in the city, from multiple Michelin-star spots to the new 6,000-square-foot McDonald’s inside the brand’s new West Loop global headquarters. Here are some picks in between for where to dine and drink. Piccolo Sogno follows through on its translation. Italian for “little dream,” the West Loop restaurant can be spotted by its tiny yellow “tent-rance” and navy façade. The menu is refined, rustic Italian and is complemented by a lovely wine list. I still think about its pappardelle con cinghiale (pasta with spiced wild-boar ragu). I’m unsure if Portillo’s, which has 35 locations around Chicagoland, is sit-down or fast food, but everyone has an opinion on it. For that reason alone, eat a hot dog there and don’t put ketchup on it. If you really want to make the effort, venture into the wild and eat a dog at a joint whose sign proudly displays the blue-and-red Vienna Beef logo. Continue to nix the ketchup. Depending on the time of day, get breakfast or dessert at Dinkel’s Bakery, a fourth-generation German spot in Roscoe Village. The same rule for food follows for where to grab drinks. River North’s Green Door Tavern, built the year after the Great Chicago Fire, is one of the few remaining wood-frame structures downtown. Beneath the pub is an actual speakeasy from Prohibition days, now called The Drifter. Great cocktails and quirky burlesque shows are worth the wait, so put your name on the list and grab a beer upstairs until your table is ready. Another hidden gem is Three Dots and a Dash, a tiki dreamscape whose entrance is marked by torches in a River North alleyway. I don’t really care what you do as long as you end up at Second City for its main-stage revue, “Dream Freaks Fall From Space.” I’ve made peace with the fact that one Chicagoan’s tourist trap may be a Texan’s treasure. I’ve snapped pictures from an Architecture Foundation River Cruise and been a bandwagoner at Wrigley Field. You should too.

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ABOVE: Craft cocktails at The Drifter. BELOW: A panoramic view from The Robey.

ABOVE: Inside The Robeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up Room cocktail lounge. BELOW: Millenium Park during the Chicago Jazz Festival.

P H OTO G R A P H S B Y A N T H O N Y FA R I N A S & A D R I A N G A U T

KAREN'S PICK

SUERTE 1800 E. 6TH ST. (512) 953-0092 SUERTEATX.COM

Suerte TR ADITIONAL MASA GETS THE STAR TRE ATMENT AT E AST AUSTIN’S SUERTE By Karen Spezia Photographs by Holly Cowart

DON’T SPEAK SPANISH, AND UNTIL RECENTLY I DIDN’T KNOW

what “suerte” meant. But after dining at this new East Side restaurant, I suspect it translates as “very popular.” Or, perhaps, “cool Mexican food”? Or maybe “obsessed with masa”? Actually, it means “good fortune” (I Googled it), which is exactly what Suerte is experiencing. The place is packed, night after night, and for great reason: It offers something unique, which is a menu built around masa. Yep, plain ol’ corn flour and water. But at Suerte, it’s elevated to a higher level. Founder Sam Hellman-Mass, formerly of Odd Duck and Barley Swine, and executive chef Fermín Núñez, of Launderette, are obsessed with masa. Before launching Suerte, they traveled Central Mexico extensively in search of the best variations. They returned with inspiration and recipes that helped define their restaurant’s cuisine. Suerte’s artisanal masa is made from local heirloom corn and is used in its homemade tortillas and distinctive dishes rarely found on Austin menus. Naturally, corn has a starring role in Suerte’s appetizers, including the playful and delicious sweet-corn esquites con fontina, a sophisticated riff on Mexican street corn in a cup. Assembled like a parfait, fresh kernels are seasoned with a zingy brine and layered with a light, savory foam. We ate every spoonful. No ordinary nachos, a platter of rustic blue-corn chips are bathed in salsa and smothered in pickled red onions, peppers, cilantro, and a generous grating of tangy Caldera cheddar cheese. Almost every table ordered the Suadero Tacos. Great for sharing and bursting with flavor, the four small tacos are served on tender yellow-corn

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Masa plays a starring role in the creations of Suerte’s executive chef, Fermín Núñez, and founder, Sam Hellman-Mass.

tortillas and topped with succulent confit brisket, avocado salsa cruda, diced onion, and a drizzle of smoky Black Magic Oil. Entrée specialties include a simple but perfectly grilled carne asada, served with beans and bright tomato salsa. Chicken roulade featured medallions of moist meat atop a pool of complex mole negro. Both dishes came with warm corn tortillas for creating DIY tacos. Other dishes that caught our eye included the snapper tostada, chicken tamal, goat shoulder barbacoa, and an entire oak-grilled fish. But Suerte’s seasonal menu changes frequently, so hopefully we’ll sample some variation of those when we return. Dessert was a surprising stunner. Panna cotta, normally an Italian dolce, was given a Texas twist with local figs and peaches. It was a light, creamy, delightful end to our meal.

You won’t go thirsty at Suerte, where the restaurant’s proprieters are almost as passionate about mezcal and tequila as masa. The list is long, and you can sample their spirits in one- or three-ounce pours or mixed into a tasty cocktail like the Desert Drifter. There’s also beer and wine, and our glass of Mexican Casa Madero Cabernet Sauvignon rosé was so good we ordered a second round. Its subtle hint of sweet strawberries paired beautifully with Suerte’s assertive flavors. Open since March, Suerte took over Dario’s on East Sixth Street and was stylishly remodeled by architects Matt Garcia and Bart Whatley. Its contemporary interior, assembled by Allison Burke Interior Design and the Suerte team, showcases items Hellman-Mass and Núñez discovered on their Mexican travels, like Oaxacan textiles, La Chicharra ceramic plates, handwoven palm tortilla warmers, and a whimsical mezcal bottle chandelier. Like most new Austin restaurants, Suerte is loud — perhaps intentionally or perhaps because its shotgun dining room is perpetually packed with people enjoying themselves. It’s a festive din that in any language translates into a fun and tasty night on the town.

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BARLEY SWINE

BLUE DAHLIA BISTRO

600 N. Lamar Blvd. | (512) 472 5400

6555 Burnet Road, Suite 400 | (512) 394 8150

1115 E. 11th St. | (512) 542 9542

Chef Andrew Curren’s casual eatery promises delicious plates

James Beard Award-nominated chef Bryce Gilmore encour-

3663 Bee Caves Rd. | (512) 306 1668

24/7 and a menu featuring nostalgic diner favorites. Order

ages sharing with small plates made from locally sourced

A cozy French bistro serving up breakfast, lunch, and

up the classics, including roasted chicken, burgers, all-day

ingredients, served at communal tables. Try the parsley

dinner in a casual setting. Pop in for the happy

breakfast, and decadent milkshakes.

croissants with bone marrow or Gilmore’s unique take on

hour to share a bottle of your favorite wine and a

fried chicken.

charcuterie board.

34TH STREET CAFE 1005 W. 34th St. | (512) 371 3400

THE BREWER’S TABLE

This cozy neighborhood spot in North Campus serves up

4715 E. 5 St. | (512) 520 8199

soups, salads, pizzas, and pastas — but don’t miss the

With an emphasis on quality and community, this

chicken piccata. The low-key setting makes it great for

East Austin restaurant leaves a seat for everyone at the

weeknight dinners and weekend indulgences.

brewer’s table. Local ranchers and farmers source the ingredients, which are utilized in both the kitchen and

ALCOMAR

the brewery to eliminate food waste. The seasonally

1816 S. 1st St. | (512) 401 3161

changing menu is unique, but provides options for even

Chefs Alma Alcocer and Jeff Martinez serve up some of

the pickiest of eaters (ask for the kids menu).

the city’s best Latin American-inspired seafood. Stop by for lunch, happy hour, dinner, or weekend brunch, and

BUENOS AIRES CAFÉ

start your visit with a blood-orange margarita and the

1201 E. 6th St. | (512) 382 1189

crab and guacamole.

13500 Galleria Circle | (512) 441 9000 Chef and Argentine native Reina Morris wraps the

ASTI TRATTORIA

f lavors of her culture into authentic and crispy

408 E. 43rd St. | (512) 451 1218

empanadas. Don’t forget the chimichurri sauce!

The chic little Hyde Park trattoria offers essential Italian dish-

Follow up your meal with Argentina’s famous dessert,

es along with a variety of wines to pair them with. Finish off

alfajores — shortbread cookies filled with dulce de leche

your meal with the honey-and-goat-cheese panna cotta.

BAR CHI SUSHI

FONDA SAN MIGUEL

206 Colorado St. | (512) 382 5557

2330 W. North Loop Blvd. | (512) 459 4121 fondasanmiguel.com

A great place to stop before or after a night on the town, this

Get your taste buds tingling with one of our most

sushi and bar hot spot stays open until 2 a.m. on the week-

popular appetizers — “Angels on Horseback”.

ends. Bar Chi’s happy hour menu features $2 sake bombs and

Fresh, jumbo shrimp wrapped in bacon and grilled,

a variety of sushi rolls under $10.

served with the pefect complement of house-made escabeche —mixed pickled vegetables. Delicioso!

and rolled in coconut f lakes.

BUFALINA & BUFALINA DUE 1519 E. Cesar Chavez St., 6555 Burnet Rd. | (512) 215 8662 These intimate restaurants serve up mouthwatering pizzas, consistently baked with crispy edges and soft centers. The famous Neapolitan technique is executed by their Stefano Ferrara wood-burning ovens which run at more than 900 degrees. Lactose intolerants beware, there is no shortage of cheese on this menu!

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CAFÉ JOSIE

EPICERIE

GERALDINE’S

1200 W. 6th St. | (512) 322 9226

2307 Hancock Dr. | (512) 371 6840

605 Davis St. | (512) 476 4755

Executive chef Todd Havers creates “The Experience” menu

A café and grocery with both Louisiana and French

Located inside Rainey Street’s Hotel Van Zandt,

every night at Café Josie, which offers guests a prix fixe all-you-

sensibilities by Thomas Keller–trained chef Sarah

Geraldine’s creates a unique, fun experience by

can-eat dining experience. The à la carte menu is also available,

McIntosh. Lovers of brunch are encouraged to stop in

combining creative cocktails, shareable plates, and scenic

featuring classics such as smoked meatloaf and redfish tacos.

here for a bite on Sundays.

views of Lady Bird Lake. Enjoy live bands

CAFÉ NO SÉ 1603 S. Congress Ave. | (512) 942 2061 South Congress Hotel’s Café No Sé balances rustic décor and a range of seasonal foods to make it the best place

every night of the week as you enjoy executive chef

THE FAREGROUND

Stephen Bonin’s dishes and cocktails from bar

111 Congress Ave.

manager Caitlyn Jackson.

The Fareground has a little something for everyone — with six Austin food vendors and a central bar in

GOODALL’S KITCHEN AND BAR

this unique downtown food hall. You can enjoy meals

1900 Rio Grande St. | (512) 495 1800

ranging from wild boar tacos at Dai Due Taqueria to

Housed in the beautiful Hotel Ella, Goodall’s provides

EASY TIGER

made-to-order ramen at Ni-Komé. Remember to grab a

modern spins on American classics. Dig into a fried-morta-

709 E. 6th St. | (512) 614 4972

monster cookie from Henbit on your way out to cap off

della egg sandwich and pair it a with

Easy Tiger lures in both drink and food enthusiasts

your culinary experience!

cranberry-thyme cocktail.

for weekend brunching. The restaurant’s spin on the classic avocado toast is a must-try.

with a delicious bakeshop upstairs and a casual beer garden downstairs. Sip on some local brew and grab a hot, fresh

FOREIGN & DOMESTIC

pretzel. Complete your snack with beer cheese and an array

306 E. 53rd St. | (512) 459 1010

of dipping sauces.

Small neighborhood restaurant in the North Loop area

This charming East Austin spot lies somewhere between

serving unique dishes. Chefs-owners Sarah Heard and

EL ALMA

traditional Tex-Mex and regional Mexican recipes, each fused

Nathan Lemley serve thoughtful, locally sourced food with

with a range of f lavors and styles. The attention to detail in

1025 Barton Springs Rd. | (512) 609 8923

an international twist at reasonable prices. Go early on

each dish shines, from dark mole served over chicken brined

This chef-driven, authentic Mexican restaurant with un-

Tuesdays for $1 oysters.

for 48 hours down to the tortillas made in-house daily.

dining gem. The chic yet relaxed setting is perfect for enjoying

FREEDMEN’S

GUSTO ITALIAN KITCHEN

delicious specialized drinks outside for the everyday

2402 San Gabriel St. | (512) 220 0953

4800 Burnet Rd. | (512) 458 1100

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. happy hour!

Housed in a historic Austin landmark, smoke imbues

This upscale-casual Italian spot in the heart of the

the f lavors of everything at Freedmen’s — from

Rosedale neighborhood serves fresh pastas, hand-tossed

the barbecue to the desserts and even the cocktail

pizzas, and incredible desserts (don’t miss the salted

1501 S. 1st St. | (512) 291 2881

offerings. Pitmaster and chef Evan LeRoy

caramel budino) alongside locally sourced and seasonally

Chef Larry McGuire creates a charming French-Vietnam-

plates some of the city’s best barbecue on a charming

inspired chalkboard specials. Gusto also offers a full

ese eatery with a colorful menu of pho, banh mi, and sweet

outdoor patio.

bar with craft cocktails, local beer on tap, and boutique

GRIZZELDA’S 105 Tillery St. | (512) 366 5908

matched outdoor patio dining stands out as an Austin

ELIZABETH STREET CAFÉ

treats. Both the indoor seating and outdoor patio bring com-

wines from around the world.

fort and vibrancy to this South Austin neighborhood favorite. Don’t forget to end your meal with the housemade macarons.

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JEFFREY’S

1209 E. 11th St. | (512) 628 0168

1204 W. Lynn St. | (512) 477 5584

Hillside Farmacy is located in a beautifully restored

Named one of Bon Appétit’s “10 Best New Restaurants in

1950s-style pharmacy with a lovely porch on the

America,” this historic Clarksville favorite

East Side. Oysters, cheese plates, and nightly dinner

has maintained the execution, top-notch service,

specials are whipped up by chef Sonya Cote.

and luxurious but welcoming atmosphere that

HOME SLICE PIZZA

makes it an Austin staple.

1415 S. Congress Ave. | (512) 444 7437

JOSEPHINE HOUSE

For pizza cravings south of the river, head to Home

1601 Waterston Ave. | (512) 477 5584

Slice Pizza. Open until 3 a.m. on weekends for your

Rustic Continental fare with an emphasis on fresh, local,

post-bar-hopping convenience and stocked with

and organic ingredients. Like its sister restaurant, Jeffrey’s,

classics like the Margherita as well as innovative pies

Josephine House is another one of Bon Appétit’s “10 Best New

like the White Clam, topped with chopped clams and

Restaurants in America.” Find a shady spot on the patio and

Pecorino Romano.

indulge in fresh baked pastries and a coffee.

LA BARBECUE

HOPFIELDS 3110 Guadalupe St. | (512) 537 0467 A gastropub with French inclinations, offering a beautiful patio and unique cocktails. The beer, wine, and cocktail options are plentiful and the perfect pairing for the restaurant’s famed steak frites and moules frites.

123 W. 6th St. | (512) 660 5390 Chef Andrew Curren of 24 Diner and Irene’s presents simple, rustic Italian plates. Don’t miss the sweet delicacies from pastry chef Mary Catherine Curren.

Executive chefs and co-owners Tatsu Aikawa and Takuya

joint, La Barbecue is arguably just as delicious. This trailer,

“Tako” Matsumoto have perfected the art of ramen, what

which is owned by the legendary Mueller family, serves up

they call “the soul food of Japan.” The restaurant serves

classic barbecue with free beer and live music.

savory broths with a variety of toppings and your choice of flavor, ranging from buttery to spicy. The authentic dish is

1807 S. 1st St. | (512) 215 9778 A gorgeous spot to enjoy a luxurious French-inspired prix fixe meal. Almost every ingredient served at Lenoir comes locally sourced from Central Texas, making the unique, seasonal specialties even more enjoyable. Sit in the wine producing regions in the world.

3235 E. Cesar Chavez St. | (512) 366 5808

MANUEL'S

East Austin to a rustic Southern home nestled in the

8557 Research Blvd. #126 1234 S. Lamar Blvd. (512) 893 5561

JACOBY’S RESTAURANT & MERCANTILE

Jacoby’s Restaurant & Mercantile transports you from

RAMEN TATSU-YA

Though it may not be as famous as that other Austin barbecue

garden for happy hour and enjoy bottles from the top wine-

Rooted in a ranch-to-table dining experience,

THE PEACHED TORTILLA 5520 Burnet Rd., #100 | (512) 330 4439 This cheerful spot is sure to clear your weekly blues with friendly staff, fun food, and a playful atmosphere. Affordably priced, you’ll find culinary influences from around the world with a healthy dose of Asian and Southern options.

1906 E. Cesar Chavez St. | (512) 605 9696

LENOIR

ITALIC

OLAMAIE 1610 San Antonio St. | (512) 474 2796 Food+Wine magazine’s best new chef Michael Fojtasek creates a menu that will leave any Southerner drooling with delight over the restaurant’s contemporary culinary concepts. The dessert menu offers a classic apple pie or a more trendy goat cheese-caramel ice cream. Also, do yourself a favor and order the biscuits.

310 Congress Ave. | (512) 472 7555 10201 Jollyville Road | (512) 345 1042

vastly different from your college ramen.

RED ASH ITALIA 303 Colorado St. | (512) 379 2906 Red Ash Italia strikes the perfect balance between high-quality food and enticing ambiance. Located in downtown’s sleek Colorado Tower, this Italian steakhouse is led by an all-star team, including executive chef John Carver. Sit back, relax, and enjoy an exceptional evening.

TINY BOXWOOD’S 1503 W 35 St. (512) 220 0698

A local Austin favorite with a reputation for high-quality

countryside. The menu features the best dishes Southern

This Houston-based brand now serves it’s simple and deli-

regional Mexican food, fresh-pressed cocktails, margaritas,

cooking has to offer, including beef from Adam

cious food in Austin’s Bryker Woods neighborhood. Favor-

and tequilas. Try the Chile Relleno del Mar with Texas Gulf

Jacoby’s own family brand based in Melvin.

ites include house-ground burgers and salmon provencal

shrimp, day boat scallops, and jumbo lump blue crab,

salad. Stop by for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but don’t

or Manuel’s famous mole. Located downtown at the corner

leave without one of their signature chocolate chip cookies!

of 3rd and Congress Avenue and in the Arboretum on

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TRUE FOOD KITCHEN 222 West Ave. | (512) 777 2430 Inspired by Dr. Andrew Weil’s anti-inflammatory diet, True Food Kitchen combines decadent favorites with health-conscious eating, striking the perfect balance. The restaurant, located in downtown’s chicest new entertainment district, offers a full range of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options.

VINAIGRETTE

WINEBELLY

2201 College Ave. | (512) 852 8791

519 W. Oltorf S. | (512) 487 1569

This salad-centric restaurant off South Congress has one of the

Named one of the top-20 wine bars in America by Wine

prettiest patios in town. Along with an inviting ambiance, the

Enthusiast, Winebelly boasts an international wine list and

salads are fresh, creative, bold, and most importantly deli-

Spanish-Mediterranean small plates.The bistro maintains a

cious, with nearly two dozen options to choose from.

local feel with its comfortable, laid-back interiors.

UCHIKO

WALTON’S FANCY AND STAPLE

WU CHOW 500 W. 5th St., #168 | (512) 476 2469 From the curators of Swift’s Attic, Wu Chow is expanding Austin’s cuisine offerings with traditional Chinese dishes sourced from local purveyors and farmers. Don’t miss the weekend dim sum menu.

4200 N. Lamar Blvd., Ste. 140 | (512) 916 4808 The sensational sister creation of Uchi and former home of Top Chef Paul Qui and renowned chefs Page Presley and Nicholas Yanes, Uchiko is an Austin icon that everyone should visit at least once. Try the bacon tataki.

609 W. 6 St. (512) 542 3380 Owned by actress and Austin resident Sandra Bullock, Walton’s is a dreamy brick-walled bakery, deli, and floral shop. Take some pastries home after indulging in gourmet sandwiches and fresh salads for lunch, or stay for the rotating dinner menu. Most importantly, make it before 2 p.m. to order the legendary biscuit sandwich served only during breakfast!

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SAVE YOUR SATURDAYS FOR SAM’S Opened in 1957, Sam’s Bar-B-Que has been a local favorite for decades. Despite being offered $3.5 million for the property, owner Brian Mays, Sr. refuses to let his beloved BBQ joint go. In this online piece, Marisa Charpentier writes about the community’s efforts to keep the historical business alive. TRIBEZA.COM/SATURDAYS-AT-SAMS-BBQ/

INSPIRING, BY DESIGN Interior designer Meredith Ellis, coowner of JAMES Showrooms and the artistic eye behind the Southern Living Idea House, shares eight sources of inspiration that drive her creativity. TRIBEZA.COM/MEREDITH-ELLIS-MUST-HAVES/

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Five families totaling eight adults and nine children spent one week in Port Aransas. Editor Margaret Williams recounts her recent visit to the coast and how, through storms and time passed, the resilient Texas beach town remains the same place she’s known and loved. TRIBEZA.COM/PORT-ARANSAS-TRAVEL-PICK/