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Where to get great stuffed cabbage in the Austin area
On a trip to the Round Rock Ikea recently — who isn't always on the hunt for a good convertible sofa? — I stopped by Galambos Family Hungarian Food, a trailer tucked into the nearby outlet mall.The big picture: Turns out the best stuffed cabbage in Central Texas is by the parking lot of a Calvin Klein discount store.A hefty, tomato-y, piping hot helping of the fall-apart cabbage, stuffed with beef and rice, topped off with a dollop of sour cream, is the star at this authentic, unpretentious joint.Also terrific: The homemade, chorizo-like sausage, made of ground pork shoulder. Thick,...
Where to get great stuffed cabbage in the Austin area
On a trip to the Round Rock Ikea recently — who isn't always on the hunt for a good convertible sofa? — I stopped by Galambos Family Hungarian Food, a trailer tucked into the nearby outlet mall.The big picture: Turns out the best stuffed cabbage in Central Texas is by the parking lot of a Calvin Klein discount store.A hefty, tomato-y, piping hot helping of the fall-apart cabbage, stuffed with beef and rice, topped off with a dollop of sour cream, is the star at this authentic, unpretentious joint.Also terrific: The homemade, chorizo-like sausage, made of ground pork shoulder. Thick,...
New apartments in Austin are smaller than national average
Data: RentCafe analysis of Yardi Matrix data; Note: Analysis includes U.S. metro areas (defined by Yardi Matrix market boundaries) with the most apartments located in multi-family buildings of 50 units or more; Map: Kavya Beheraj/AxiosNew apartments in the Austin area are getting smaller as other Texas cities, like Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, see their average square footage increase.Why it matters: Apartment sizes are shrinking nationally, a reversal in the rental market that saw units get bigger during the early part of the work-from-home era.By the numbers: The average size of a newer Austin apartment is 884 square feet, 0.3%...
Q&A: ATX Women in Web3 founder Megan Murray
Artificial intelligence may be the new, shiny object of South by Southwest, but there's still plenty of buzz around the Web3 movement.Catch up quick: Web3 is an attempt by developers and investors to build the third generation of the internet, this time on a foundation of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech, Axios' Scott Rosenberg writes.Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and their venture-capitalist backers — all mostly men — have raised tens of billions of dollars to build it.By the numbers: A recent report from BCG X, the tech build and design unit of Boston Consulting Group, found that only 13% of Web3 founding teams...
Our SXSW day six picks
It's Wednesday at SXSW. Here are our picks:🎶 Start your morning at the first day of KUTX Live at Scholz Garten, with performances from Jane Leo, Baby Rose, The Heavy Heavy, Son Rompe Pera and XXX. It runs from 7-11am, and a $10 admission fee gets you into the show and unlimited coffee.🎨 Listen to a discussion about "The Decentralization of Art as We Know It" at 10am in the Austin Convention Center, room 10AB.🎬 Watch a screening of "I Used to be Funny" starring Rachel Sennott, who plays the role of an aspiring stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD as she decides whether to search for a missing teenage girl she used to babysit. Show begins at 11am in the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center.🎤 Catch a keynote by New Order, the band that formed after the 1980 death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Their conversation begins at 1pm at the Austin Convention Center, ballroom D, and is available to stream online.🎸 End your night at C-Boy's Heart & Soul's SoCo Stomp, a five-day music showcase that kicks off Wednesday.Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Austin.
SXSW's Silicon Valley Bank mass group therapy session
Despite SXSW's sunny, hot opening weekend, a Silicon Valley Bank-sized shadow hung over over the conference's tech and venture capital sessions. Why it matters: At times, after news of the bank's foundering broke, it felt like a mass group therapy session.What's happening: On stage, in the middle of their panels, startup executives and investors stared at their devices, and anxious questions about the bank's collapse cropped up in Q&As.Reign Ventures announced it was canceling its SXSW events because of the bank's failure. Executives dropped out of their scheduled in-person meetings to take private calls and manage the crisis. Catch up...
What to see and do on SXSW's Day 4
We've rounded up the panels, activations and parties we're eyeing for day four:⚕️ Nick Jonas — yes, that Nick Jonas — is talking about the burden of diabetes at 10am in the Austin Convention Center Ballroom D.🩺 Understand the concept of "weathering" and how it contributes to poor health outcomes for Black mothers, who are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white or Hispanic women, at 10am in the Austin Convention Center, room 6AB.💾 Explore how AI technology can be applied to music and may open the door to ethical and creative criticism at 11:30am in the...
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