More Culture, South Austin style.
The South Austin Culture Club's May 29th luncheon event, hosted by the Miller Crockett Bed and Breakfast on Academy Drive, and catered by Changos taqueria, celebrated 133 1/3 years of South Austin's lively and unique commerce, and all the funk that goes with it.
Talk about your culture!
City Councilmember Jackie Goodman, the keynote speaker, addressed the crowd from behind the culture club's brand new "hub cap podium." Fashionably illustrating her points through the lenses of an eclectic array of stylish sunglasses she must have collected over the past 20 years, the mayor pro tem told all, "the way I see it."
The diverse crowd, guestimated at nearly 100, sat beneath the shade of Miller Crockett's magnificent oak trees on its sprawling yard, serenaded with music from the ever-popular Pop Tart, and mingled with dignitaries including State Representative Elliot Naishat. Prefatory to the council member's engaging oratory was a lively debate between South River City Citizens and Bouldin Creek neigborhood association presidents Clarke Hammond and Sean Kelly on "Keeping South Austin Weird."
With kudos to South Austin Culture Club visionary, organizer and Bubba-in-Chief Jack Speer, the event lived up to its billing as the best free $10 lunch and entertainment in town.