my neighborhood...

...got a lovely mention in this week's Metro Pulse, in their annual "Best Of" awards.

It reads:

Impossible-to-Categorize Block - The 1200 Block of North Central

Maybe it’s the karma left from the days half a century ago, when thirsty millworkers would convene here in Happy Holler (where, as the adage went, you can get anything you want for half a dollar). The gentrification of nearby Old North and Fourth and Gill has had unpredicted consequences to the block, which is now home to a unique business district that includes the Taoist Tai Chi Center, the cross-dresser’s venue known as the XYZ Club, and the Time Warp Tea Room, the combination vintage-motorcycle and pinball museum, Victorian-saloon recreation, and folk-music coffee shop. And, if we’ll permit crossing a side street, the Original Freezo, where you can walk up to the window and order some tamales and chili, cornbread and pintos, or a chocolate sundae? In fact, in the space of one block, you can fetch two different versions of the tamale-and-chili dish known as the Full House. Where else in the world? (J.N.)

And Jack doesn't even mention The Corner Lounge or Toot's Little Honky Tonk.