look was also defined by its unique covers – hand-crafted on some issues, individually silk-screened on black velvet on the finale.

columnists also held forth on subjects ranging from religion to science, international politics to local gossip.

The magazine also created the Instant Review, publishing critiques of local performances overnight with free distribution on the streets the very next day.

House became one of the centers of the exploding Austin scene and drew considerable local and national attention as a hotbed of musical and artistic action.

provided inspiration to other writers and entrepreneurs to found and publish their own fanzines including Xiphoid Process and Contempo Culture from Austin, and a myriad of others throughout Texas.

Its evolution from a modest home grown fanzine to a distinctively quirky journal with ambitions of a wider cultural window mirrors the peculiar growth of the Austin punk music and artistic scene, and its future development into the behemoth it is today.