Sam Houston & Blk Odyssy Adds Chicken and Waffles to Their Message

Serving up some neo-soul food

"...Family Plans (that feed 4-6), and their specialty is chicken and waffles seasoned "with a blend of six different..."

June 12, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Labor Intensive

John Fiege on 'Mississippi Chicken' and Anne Lewis on 'Morristown'

"...the cinema verité mode also distinguishes the superficially similar Mississippi Chicken – both films concern immigration and poultry processing..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Yardbird's Blues

How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus

"..."By my reckoning, fried chicken must have a bone ... the presence of a..."

June 29, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Just Can't Get Enough

DVD year-end box sets

"...Mississippi Chicken (Watchmaker Films, $17.98)..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Screens Feature

Congratulations, Kudos, and Free Bar Tabs

'Dear Pillow' does it again

"...John Fiege, whose long-form doc and MFA thesis film, Mississippi Chicken, has won the film category of the New..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Search of a Well-Set Table? Bring Back the Bling

Set formal holiday tables this year with thrift store finds

"...of linen and padding. Though my family in rural Mississippi rarely socialized outside their closed ring of siblings and..."

Nov. 30, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Inauguration Day

Moving past Rick Warren.

"...of the Capitol's west all the way to the Mississippi, or maybe the Pacific Coast, it seems...."

Jan. 20, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Dreams, Journeys, Disasters, and Joy

Previewing the 14th annual Austin Film Festival

Oct. 5, 2007 Screens Feature

Anthrax in Texas (The Good Kind)

Will San Antonio be the new home to Homeland Security's new bioterrorism research facility?

"...people, or indirect threats like, say, wiping out every chicken through a genetically modified virus...."

July 12, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

TFPF Grant Recipients

$70,000 to 26 projects

"...(documentary); "Letters From the Other Side," Heather Courtney (documentary); "Mississippi Chicken," John Fiege (documentary); Two Days, Paige Griggs (narrative);..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Screens Feature

Eating Between the Lines

Books for Cooks

"...years ago, somewhere on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi, I chanced upon a migratory carnivore's holy grail --..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...Memphis Bound James Cotton grew up in Hard Times, Mississippi, otherwise known as the town of Tunica, the youngest..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

More Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

OSMF preview

"...did squeeze in one quick trip to Lucy's Fried Chicken," admits Hearst. "That's all we got to see."..."

April 11, 2014 Music Feature

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood finds the perfect tamale and much more at the Southern Foodways Symposium in Oxford, Mississippi.

"...Hushpuppies, Fried Chicken, and Delta Tamales..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Matthew McConaughey: Lone Star Rising

The Luck of the Drawl

"...suspense writer John Grisham. It's about a young white Mississippi lawyer named Jake Briggant who must defend a black..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Screens Feature by Matt Zoller Seitz

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

Dim Sum Under the Rainbow

"...our soup choice, the Velvet Corn Soup with Shredded Chicken ($2.95 for two). The silken texture and subtle flavor..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Learn to Make Tamales From Tamale House East’s Diane Valera

Plus, places to order tamales if that’s more your speed

"...to Texas and California. Valera told me about the Mississippi Delta tamale trail, of which there is a map..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by A. Richmond

Cheap Eats for Austin Students

From Huston-Tillotson to St. Ed's to UT and even Texas State

"...the usual fast-food suspects like Short Stop and Flyrite Chicken nearby, and a solid Tex-Mex breakfast plate is just..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...after-hours joint called Cheryl Ann's and renamed it Ernie's Chicken Shack and would often continue the night's music from..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Further Reflections

"...about heart and soul. In a second-half journey into Mississippi, Mugge finds his most compelling subject in a childhood..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Search & Destroy

Pages That Rock

"...the Gospel Life by Alan Young (University Press of Mississippi, $18 paper) to exist. Telling the stories of black..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature

Food Events

I've been locked inside your heart-shaped pie for weeks

"...new grocery line of ready-to-reheat barbecue ribs, brisket, smoked chicken, pulled pork, and chopped beef at Costco (4301 W...."

Feb. 3, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

On The Banality of Evil…

In the Rainbow Lounge incident, unlike so many, there are clear winners and losers. The winners get to walk away.

"...made in the interim. Remember that Nina Simone song, "Mississippi Goddamn"? I've been singing the chorus all day –..."

July 2, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Papa's Brand-New Bag

Jazzers and jam bands alike just wanna funk, Austin style

"...with vocals. Think along the lines of the North Mississippi Allstars. To accomplish this, he let his band go..."

July 27, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Eberly, Red Ash Open This Weekend

Daily Austin food news

"...Oct. 9, but from its ashes, a phoenix, err chicken, err phoenix-chicken hybrid will arise. Construction is already on..."

Oct. 12, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Liberty Kitchen

Houston restaurant group makes waves in Austin

"...in everything from meat gravy with macaroni and fried chicken to prime rib and pork-belly carbonara. There's no real..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Page Two: Feels Like the First Time

On onion rings, barbecue, and the never-ending "Best of Austin" debate

"...as the Deep South, I have always regarded Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia as the Southern hat trick – a..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Sxsw

"...Dayton's roadhouse rhythms stick to your ribs like good chicken-fried steak. (Brazos Street Stage, 7pm) -- Christopher Gray..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Old Gray Mule

"...Gray Mule hosted an 80th birthday tribute to North Mississippi's Junior Kimbrough at TC's Lounge recently, a perfect pairing..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

InterStellar BBQ Shoots for the Stars

The team behind Noble Sandwich brings traditional barbecue to Northwest Austin

"...here at the restaurant and ended up in Jack­son, Mississippi, doing a pop-up out there as well. It was..."

June 14, 2019 Food Feature by Rod Machen

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