Anyone who tells you the impact of a smoking ban will
be negligible doesn’t appreciate that it’s the very
number of Austin music clubs, including the swarm of
the more marginal ones, that enables the scene’s
vitality
The anti-smoking ordinance is an unconscionable social experiment in an already sketchy economic environment; the Place 5 run-off boasts two good candidates, so no need to get ugly; and we report the news, not slurs.
