AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Angela Mathews and Chris Barias opened the Keep Looking Shop a little over a year ago. The East 12th Street shop, situated right next to El Tigre Coffee, is Austin's only magazine shop and newsstand.

Mathews and Barias believe in the power of print media. When they met and started dating a few years ago, newsstands became places where they spent a lot of time together. Both being artists, they also appreciate the interaction of physically connecting with art and media.

"We spent time at newsstands together when we would travel, and it just evoked such conversation about both our own art and just the perspective that we gained from reading magazines; it also slowed us down," Mathews said.

Mathews has been in Austin for 16 years, and Barias for about three. With Austin be

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