Deluxe Downtown

Two established franchises bring their 'A' game to new ventures

April 8, 2011 Food Feature

Spinning Yarns

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

"...to Austin to play, we stayed at a little hotel over at Navasota and 11th, the Deluxe Hotel," recalls..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Long Story of East 11th and 12th Streets Takes a Turn

Austin’s historically black neighborhood continues to stand at the crossroads of growth

"...another. "A lot of those places, Charlie's Playhouse, the Deluxe Hotel, the Victory Grill, they were frequented by students,"..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Happy Together

Is there any contemporary American director who can so effortlessly invoke the essence of tragic love and endless loss as easily as Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai?

"...are around and around the riotously color-drenched Chungking House Deluxe Hotel...."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...with injuries suffered when a taxicab crashed into his hotel room earlier this month, Jonathan was one of the..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...producer of Spoon's A Series of Sneaks and Sixteen Deluxe's Emits Showers of Sparks (among many, many other local..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Expand Your Mind With These 13 Psychedelic Bands at SXSW

"...XixaWed. 13, Hotel Vegas Patio, 9:30pm; Thu. 14, Hotel Vegas Annex, 11pm;..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Showers of Sound

The Bubble, the only place to record for Austin's indie elite

"...Astroblast, Pocket Symphonies, and the long-ago alpha strain, Sixteen Deluxe. There ought to be a legend across the threshold:..."

March 29, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

In Corsicana, "excellent fruitcake" is not an oxymoron.

"...stops when you're talking about Collin Street Bakery's Original Deluxe Fruitcake. The cellophane-wrapped cake is heavy, but it comes..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...along with the Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, the book on the Athens, GA quartet is part..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

King Gizz, Jesus & Mary Chain, Osees, W.I.T.C.H., and L7 Emerge on Levitation 2022 Lineup

Halloween week concert curation comes into focus

"...of crowd surfers at their usual stomping grounds of Hotel Vegas’ backyard. Scottish Psychocandy makers The Jesus and Mary..."

June 29, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fruitcake

One light version, one dark

"...in Corsicana, Texas (www.collinstreet.com). What began as a small-town hotel restaurant and bakery has turned into a business selling..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Food-o-File

I hope you saved your appetite for all of the news Virginia B. Wood is plating up.

"...Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 7-10pm at the Driskill Hotel (604 Brazos). The party will feature food from 12..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Sxsw

"...Peltz is a legend-in-the-making. Combine her rawness with Sixteen Deluxe's Carrie Clark, back it all up with contrapuntal keyboards..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

10 Bands Under 25 That Make Me Feel Alive

A quintessential coming-of-age soundtrack to score the next spiral

"...Home venue: Hotel Vegas..."

June 10, 2022 Music Feature by Mars Salazar

Thursday SXSW Picks

"...Elephant Stone 9:15pm, Hotel Vegas PatioElephant Stone's luscious blend of Paisley Underground psych,..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Playback: Barracuda on the Block

"...new Seventh Street venue. "It's not going to be Hotel Vegas 2. Hotel Vegas is a little, good-time rock..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Superstar

In an excerpt from Bobby Whitlock: A Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends sow the seeds of Eric Clapton's Derek & the Dominos

"...Dominos' aborted second LP and now residing on March's deluxe Layla reissue. In his new memoir, A Rock 'n'..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Bobby Whitlock

Five Culinary Gifts to Supercharge This Giving Season

Giving the gifts you’d love to get is always a smart move

"...Antonelli’s offers a standard membership for $72 and a deluxe membership for $92, and “each month's selection varies, generally..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Reelin' in the New Years

Where you gonna be when the clock strikes 12?

"...NYE 1994 at Hotel Vegas..."

Dec. 31, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Last Laugh: Deluxe Restored Edition

Best known for his vampires, devils, and death-dealers, F.W. Murnau traffics here in the evils of capitalism and human cruelty

"...The Last Laugh: Deluxe Restored EditionKino International, $29.95..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Urban Heat's Darkwave Road Map for Uncertain Times

Spaceflight-deluxified Wellness pushes beyond post-punk pastiche

"...numbers, the immeasurable wins are plentiful: a rowdy, sold-out Hotel Vegas show after the release of the band's 2022..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

The Gravity of Sound

The Bubble's new studio stands as Mark Genfan's swan song

"...back to 1998, when Smith, along with his Sixteen Deluxe bandmate Steven Hall, began utilizing their practice warehouse on..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Five Degrees of Chinanine

Thirty years of the Austin Music Poll, five layers of Chinanine, and a fistful of Austin Music Awards confirmations

"...Jesse nods and smiles and walks me through the hotel crowd and to the curb where my car is..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Return to Sin City

Gram Parsons, back in a big way even if he never left

"...blueprint The Gilded Palace of Sin and follow-up Burrito Deluxe. In 1970, Parsons quit the Burritos and escalated his..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Superior Wine and Fine Food for a Great Charity

"...8, from 6:30-9:30pm, at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin hotel, the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Foundation will..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Food Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...the likes of Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel, the Apples' last release, the Her Wallpaper Reverie EP,..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Reissues

"...may just wind up setting a new standard for deluxe reissues in the process. A 2-CD set with 27..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Lollapalosers and Winners

"...home following their Friday Emo's gig opening for Sixteen Deluxe. Going with them will be their newest member, former..."

July 28, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love

Marfa’s desert spiritualism roughs it at El Cosmico

"...à la Burning Man. Lambert, proprietor of both the Hotel San Jose and Hotel Saint Cecilia here in Austin,..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

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