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Mario World Decor, SXSurvival, and Goat Loving
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Aiming to bring Dirty 6th to the former Rooftop space, Love Goat (a reference to it eating all the owner's money... but he loves it) is a dude-ish party spot rocking vandalism-welcome chalkboard paint on the walls & tables, giant Jenga blocks (also deface-able), and wallet-friendly drinks: $1 wells (every damn day!), $1 jello shots on Mondays ("cheap date night"), and nothing costing over a fiver, except the shame of going home with a three-er.
From a small-town Montana designer just moved to Austin, Backpack is peddling NES-centric homewares like a rectangular lamp shade with a Super Mario question mark block between two bricks, wooden-framed light boxes that shine with green slits and a golden Legend of Zelda tri-force, and a Tetris refrigerator magnet set, symbolizing the difficulty of wedging one more irregularly shaped foodstuff into... a big empty space save for that box of Arm & Hammer that was there when you moved in.
Inspired by a mystical search for the perfect Hawaiian beach, the latest collection from the Bros Burkman (now at Stag) includes wide tropical pastel plaid shirts that make sense on the sand or in a reasonably lenient office, collarless half-placket short-sleevers sporting wave-like loops, and trunks ranging from understated blue/gray stripers to bold tribal patterns -- so finally, those guys are breaking out of "hunt, gather, hunt, gather…".
The ad wizards at GSD&M have thumbtacked a Southby roadmap to a Pinterest site, including everything from no-brainers like where to gear up, must-know venues (French Legation!), the location of the coldest beer in town (Deep Eddy), and day-trip escapes like BBQ HQ Lockhart, ironic, since the key to your hart is also BBQ.
