You know what your Valentine really wants? For you to have on good shoes. Luckily, STAG’s favorite sneaker for the spring and summer has arrived once again, now in more colorways than ever before. This will make your Valentine happy. (Wait. This is not true. At all. What they want is flowers and chocolates and fancy dinners and otherwise thoughtful gifts. And you should provide them with that. But while you’re doing all that, you may want to stop in to 1423 South Congress Ave and check out these new Golas in person. They’re really good.)
For a while now, we at STAG have been proud to feature the paintings of Texas artist Brian Salvi on the walls here at 1423 South Congress Avenue. His beautiful large-scale portraits feature figures from American History, be they Native Americans (like Pedro Pino of the Zuni People, above), presidents, or generals. We love them. It’s a rare thing to find an artist who consistently produces paintings this bold and iconic and who still progresses within his chosen theme. It is an honor for us to witness that progression.
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+ Do you have about fifty minutes to kill? Sure you do. It’s Sunday. Might as well enjoy the above footage from the record release party for the Beastie Boys’ masterpiece Paul’s Boutique.
We just got a shipment of new shirts from RRL in at 1423 South Congress Ave. They all serve as further proof that, as Mr. Williams at A Continuous Lean once said, “no one does it better.”
We can’t sell them online, so if you can’t stop by to check them out, feel free to give us a call at (512) 373-7824.
It’s over. The New York Football Giants are champions again. The jerseys and face paint and football shaped telephones are packed away in the back of a closet somewhere. Sundays are once again relegated to whatever the hell you’re supposed to do on Sundays when there’s no football on.
The true NFL fan never stops rooting for his team. The tasteful NFL fan will find comfort in these new shirts from Alternative Apparel. Not just because they’re extremely comfortable. They are. But they also keep you aligned with your team throughout the offseason without throwing it in everybody’s face. People will just think you’re wearing a great t-shirt. And you will be. You’ll wish you had had them all season.
The sixth installment of Men’s File magazine has arrived here at 1423 South Congress Ave. Men’s File is great at providing not only a modern take on vintage style, but also a vintage take on modern style. It’s a hard balance to strike, but Men’s File does it every time. Issue number six features interviews with George Barris, Hitoshi Tsujimoto of The Real McCoy’s, coverage of bodyboarding championships and tweed runs and speed trials. It’s every bit as awesome as it sounds.
It’s a rare matchup between two teams impossible to bet against, especially when they’re playing each other. Our best guess: a game eerily reminiscent of 2007, all coming down to a spectacular last-minute play from one side or the other. It has all the makings of high-stakes heartbreak.
If we were a gambling website, and not just a website staffed by folks who occasionally gamble, proposition-style, amongst ourselves, we’d tell you that the last time we checked, Vegas has New England by two-and-a-half points, which is as close to “pick ‘em” as they’re willing to be. (They were wrong about Tebow all year, and this whole season has flown in the face of conventional wisdom almost as a matter of course.)
Our best advice to is to have purchased ahead of time all the beers you and your buddies care to drink and enough buffalo wings to turn your shirts orange and to sit back and simply absorb four hours of a stunted shootout punctuated by fourteen million dollars worth of commercials at every TV time out, culminating in Matthew Broderick’s middle-aged reprisal of the Ferris Bueller role, which is another thing we just don’t know how we feel about.
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+ Today, obviously, is about football. But this week has been about watching a nonstop loop of Blake Griffin’s dunk over Kendrick Perkins. We’re having a tough time deciding — as Thunder fans, even — whether Perkins was merely “posterized,” or if he wasn’t in fact “Ehlo-ized.”
“Style is the opposite of fashion. The Oxford English Dictionary defines fashion as ‘conventional usage in dress, mode of life, etc., especially as observed in the upper circles of society; conformity to this.’Fashion is imitative. It’s about belonging, being in with the crowd. Style is what sets a man apart from the crowd or attracts a crowd. Real style comes from within; it’s the visible component of your character and personality that you place in the world outside you.”
That’s what Glenn O’Brien says, and he writes professionally as The Style Guy, so he ought to know.
We’ve just received his remarkable book here at 1423 South Congress Avenue, and we highly recommend it. Either the author spent a long enough time being the coolest man in the world that it’s afforded him a certain fearlessness, or it’s the other way around. However it happened, it’s refreshing to read a writer who’s as unafraid to be misunderstood as he is. We don’t always agree with O’Brien, but we always appreciate his point of view.
