Author name: Jamie Brady

If you find yourself sitting in traffic on 1-35 in South Austin, you might find your eye drawn to the vintage neon sign for the Whip In. For almost 40 years, this fusion eatery has been a touchstone of Austin’s craft beer scene. In 1986, Amrit and Chandan Topiwala bought a convenience store in the […]

In the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand stands a massive, high-density housing complex sometimes described as a “palace,” known for its postmodern architecture often associated with dystopian aesthetics. Named Espaces d’Abraxas after the Gnostic deity, it was designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, who sought to create an unusually palatial low-income housing complex, and completed in

In the early twentieth century, some prairie dog towns stretched for hundreds of miles. Cowboys and naturalists passing through described acres of sociable rodents, who would pop out of the ground and greet them with high-pitched chatter. Those visitors didn’t know it, but they were being described in turn. These squeaks and yips make up

Athens has had numerous fortification walls around the city since ancient times. These walls were mostly made with scavenged material, primarily spoila from the buildings and monuments destroyed by earlier invaders mixed with mudbrick. In the 5th century BCE, Athenian statesman Themistocles feared the Persians would re-invade Athens, so he urged the citizens to prioritize