Best Mural

TIE: Tower Records, Renaissance Market

Two local murals have caught our readers' eyes – again. The Renaissance Market mural, at 23rd and the Drag, has been an Austin institution since 1974, when it was first created by Kerry Awn and company. The painting has just received its second makeover, the first occurring in 1982 after extensive vandalization. Just down the Drag at 24th resides our readers' other favorite mural. The Varsity Theatre Mural, created by Carlos Lowry in 1980 for the arthouse cinema that held Tower Record's spot from 1936 to 1990, was also renovated in the mid-Nineties after public outcries stopped the record store from covering the artwork.

Renaissance Market
23rd & Guadalupe