Liz Lambert’s Hotel Artistry
A Place to Get Your Hands Dirty and Play By Ashley M. Halligan | Photography by Allison Smith With an ever-expanding portfolio of art-project-hotels, Texas-bred (yet internationally admired) hotelier Liz Lambert has encompassed the soul of Austin-and sprinkled it all over the state. A West Texas native, Lambert has lived quite a colorful life. A […]
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
A Colorful, Cobblestone-Scored City in the Heart of Mexico By Ashley M. Halligan A cobblestone scored city, traversed by people the world over, San Miguel de Allende is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the very interior core of Mexico — the heart of Mexico, as many deem it. San Miguel is a colorful escape, […]
Lionel Richie on Life, Music and Austin
(THE “BEST TIME OF HIS LIFE”) By Ashley M. Halligan | Photography By Alan Silfen It was an ordinary Thursday afternoon in April. Well, ordinary, aside from the fact that I’d planned on spending the afternoon chatting with Lionel Richie. I spent the morning filled to the brim with butterflies, anticipating the coming conversation that […]
Musicians On The Rise
By Ashley M. Halligan It’s no secret that one of the (many) magical things about living in Austin, Texas is its ever-evolving music scene. With venues scattered along most of its downtown grid and in neighborhood hideaways throughout the city, Austin’s a city where music is sleepless, with Austinites thriving on the daily discovery of […]
Walter “Yukon” Yates
Austin’s Very Own Jack London with a Master’s Degree in Life By Ashley M. Halligan | Photography Courtesy of Yukon Yates An adventurer, pilot, gold prospector, trapper and avid fisher, inventor, documentarist, World War II veteran and a handful of things I’ve not yet mentioned, Walter “Yukon” Yates almost seems a fictional character imagined by […]
Montesino Ranch
More Than An Organic Farm
MusiCares
Offering Aid to Struggling Musicians, Launches Artist-Designed T-Shirts By Ashley M. Halligan Made For Good calls itself a “recurring model of giving and a catalyst of collaboration in its efforts of identifying like-minded consumer product goods created to augment their endowment efforts and assist them with fundraising in their mission of giving.” Essentially, Made For […]
Throwin’ High Fives to Austin’s Wheeler Brothers & Suzanna Choffel
By Ashley M. Halligan In the 2011 September/October issue of ALM, I wrote a feature titled “Musicians on the Rise,” where I took a gander and predicted who I thought would be makin’ great big musical strides in the very near future.Of the three folks and bands I had my eyes (err, ears) on, two […]
