Posted on September 28th 2011 | No Comments »
Please click the artist’s names to find more information on the various shows:
9/25 – 10/29 DANA HOUSE
9/25 – 10/29 FELICE YOUNGER
10/30 – 12/10 ANNE DUCOTE
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Posted on September 28th 2011 | No Comments »
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The
37th Annual Fire Station Festival on Sunday, October 23 honors and celebrates the partnership between the fire station and the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, the effectiveness of citizen involvement, and those who provide great service within the neighborhood. Historically, Hyde Park’s fire station has been saved twice by neighborhood heroes!
Come together and celebrate with a parade beginning at Shipe Park! Hyde Park Bar & Grill will be providing light snacks for this event, alongside other great sponsors at Hyde Park Fire Station. Click here to visit the Fire Station Festival’s website for more information.
3:30 – 4:00 - Gather at Shipe Park
4:00 - Parade to Fire Station
4:30 - Festivities at the Fire Station. Prizes awarded for Adult, Child and Pet costume.
6:00 - Festival ends
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Felice House
“To portray women without objectifying them is an intentional, political act. The art historical tradition is to paint women to extol their sexual beauty and to encourage possessiveness. There is a new guard of women painters who provide a counterpoint to this tradition by depicting a more multifaceted version of the female psyche. I align myself as an artist with them by attempting to broaden the depiction of women as subjects in painting. My subjects are beautiful and observable, but not consumable. They are more public than private and more iconic than intimate. My paintings have a strong connection to traditional portraiture in both style and technique. However, my subjects are contemporized through the use of modern fashion, unexpected facial expressions, unique color relationships and photographic cropping.” ~FELICE HOUSE
Dana Younger
Dana Younger, VP of Blue Genie Art, is truly a man for all seasons. Besides being a painter, sculptor, mold maker, and computer artist, Dana is one of the chief innovators at Blue Genie Art. His Fascination with the creative process and all types of matreials keeps Blue Genie Art on the cutting edge. Essentially, he is a one man research and development team, and it was on his urging that [they] recently acquired [a] new 3D laser scanner and 3 axis CNC milling machine and our Polyurea spray equipment.
Dana also had an unusual childhood, including building and living in a log cabin without electricity (his stories of walking in the snow for miles to get to school are actually true!) and living on the Pacific Ocean in a sail boat.
September 25 – October 30, 2011 @ Duval
Posted on September 26th 2011 | 1 Comment »
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Our hearts go out to those devastated by Texas wildfires.
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Please give cash donations to the Red Cross of Central Texas or visit this site for longer term aid suggestions. Starting Friday, HPBnG at Westgate will have a portable storage unit ready for donations* of relief supplies:

Location: 4521 Westgate Blvd (south location)
Hours: 2-5pm Daily
- NO CLOTHES – NEARLY MAXED OUT!! Need: New packages of underwear & socks
- Gloves for men
- new pillows
- Visine/eye drops
- chapstick
- phone chargers
- air mattresses
- blankets
- towels
- toiletry items
- packets of Tylenol/Advil/pain relievers
- Benadryl
- bottled water
- mixes for teas/Gatorade/Powerade
- canned food
- baby foodsturdy totes & bags
- ice chests
- trash cans/trash bags
- quart and gallon-sized ziplock bags
- backpacks
- baby & adult diapers
- school supplies
- laundry detergent
- pet food
- pet crates
- cat litter
*If you require a receipt for your donations, please give directly to the Red Cross.
This donation station will be open until Friday, September 23.
Here is a list of alternative locations for donations.
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Posted on September 7th 2011 | No Comments »
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What is Austin’s oldest documented structure still on its original site? ~ French Legation Museum
In 1839, when Austin’s original 14 blocks were created, what were the streets named after? ~ Texas rivers, and Texas trees
In what year was the capitol building, once known as the “7th largest building in the world,” completed? ~ 1888
Who was the first woman to enroll at UT? ~ Jessie Andrews
What was the first name of Austin’s longest-running newspaper? ~ Democratic Statesman
Who built his home in 1902 at 39th and Avenue G, and developed Hyde Park? ~ Monroe M. Shipe
What was the name of Austin’s first Ice-cream establishment? ~ Ohrndorf’s Ice Cream Saloon
Posted on August 26th 2011 | No Comments »

Calling all dancers, prancers, and wild romancers! The Jitterbug Vipers will hit the patio at our Westgate location on Sunday, October 30, from 7-9pm. They promise to deliver an evening full of toe-tapping 1930′s rock melodies inspired by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday!
This award-winning combo landed “#2 Best Performing Jazz Band 2010-2011″ in March’s Austin Music Awards! To keep up-to-date with their band, follow the Jitterbug Vipers on Twitter. You’re gonna love this swingadelic ensemble!
Click the link below to share with friends on Facebook:
No cover, pay what you can to the band!
Posted on August 25th 2011 | No Comments »
Inspired by her crazy roller coaster ride through life spanning the past decade, NATALIE ZOE‘s latest music is filled with every imaginable range of emotion, infusing slinky blues with hopeful songs of personal heartbreak, and topped off by that undeniable soulful voice for which this Austin vocalist is loved. You don’t want to miss her!
September 4, 2011 – 7-9pm, Westgate
September 18, 2011 – 7-9pm, Westgate
No cover, pay what you can to the band!
Posted on August 25th 2011 | No Comments »
Our talented staff is proud to present their works in HPBnG Westgate’s latest gallery. It will be on display until October 1, 2011. View more artwork by clicking here.
- David Abel is a professional photographer, outdoorsman, an avid whitewater kayaker and rafter. In 1984 while studying Geology at the University of Texas in Austin, he was invited on a raft trip down Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. David was so enamored by the river environment that he has devoted most of his life traveling North America in search of remote river canyons, capturing their beauty with his camera.
- Chris Connor was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He has spent the majority of his life in Dallas and the last seven years in Austin. Connor began painting in oils fifteen years ago, starting off as a hobby that turned into an obsession. Striving in every attempt to capture something fresh and exciting but at the same time, based upon traditional values.
- Mackenzie Graham was an art history major at the University of Texas who focuses her artistic interest with an academic and professional lens. Her concern for art extends beyond paint and canvas, reaching into the sphere of creative exposure and engaging local audiences in physical art. With oil paint and crayon, Mackenzie displays texture and color while realizing the limitations of her medium. She uses her ability to put perception to page to heighten her audience’s view of the world.
- Anne Ducote has resided in Austin since 1976. Over the years, travel has been a large part of her life, and as a result, her work reflects some of the beautiful places and things she has seen. Her creative endeavors have included her original paintings in oils, watercolors and pastel drawing, several print series and assorted prints, commercial work, faux finishing, murals, commissioned painting used on movie sets, portraiture, and the like. Her subjects range from the ordinary to the sublime.
Posted on August 25th 2011 | 1 Comment »