🔑 Which Austin hotels got Michelin keys?

🔑 8 Austin Hotels Receive Michelin Keys

The Michelin Guide announced last week that seven Austin hotels received a Michelin Key, meaning the hotels are "a very special stay.” An eighth hotel, Commodore Perry Estate, received two keys, meaning the hotel is “an exceptional stay.” [Austin American-Statesman]

🎙️Austin’s Decade of Construction Begins Now

KXAN transportation reporter Kelsey Thompson is on the City Cast Austin podcast today talking about big construction projects in Austin that will affect how we get around in planes, trains, and automobiles. [City Cast Austin]

🎶 New Volume Rules Approved

Austin City Council members approved an ordinance last week that requires developers close to outdoor music or performance venues to perform a sound assessment so folks can better understand the sound levels of a particular area. [KVUE]

🥵 As Heat Persists, Schools Provide Student Cooling Zones

For the first time, schools this year are required to provide “rapid cooling zones” for any outdoor sport or marching band contest, practice, workout, or conditioning session when temperatures are 80 degrees or higher. The zones include ice and water-filled tubs or tarps. [KUT]

Congratulations to Kim F. for guessing last week’s “Where Is This?” correctly! This photo was taken from the patch of grass on the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail outside the old Austin American-Statesman building. The area is where people from all over the world, and us Austinites, congregate during summer nights to watch 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from under the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge.

This week’s photo(s) may be too easy! But here we go:

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