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Tumble 22 Brings the Chickens and the Heat to Lake Austin Boulevard
Former Magnolia Cafe waiter noms his way through meat and memories
"...They’re tumbling chickens, now, in the place where I worked as a..."

Nov. 9, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bicycle Tour de Funky Chickens
A day for chickenists and cyclists
"...few stressful moments, but the fact that there were chickens and people on bikes – those are two of..."

April 2, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

So You’re Thinking of Keeping Chickens
Tips for finding the perfect flock
"...Chickens make wonderful pets. They're fluffy, they're adorable, and they're..."

June 30, 2017 Food Feature by Ashley Moreno

The Hightower Report: Wild About Chickens
Bastrop citizens fight for their right to chicken
"...the dogs, but Bastrop, Texas, has gone to the chickens – and Bastropians are proud of it...."

May 25, 2012 News Column

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
"...School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. The chickens have come home to roost. Prohibition doesn't work when..."

March 13, 2009 Postmarks

Transit Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
"...Downtown 'Dillo routes for lack of riders. Unfortunately, the chickens have come home to roost on the efforts to..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Postmarks

Shake Shack Chickens Out
Daily Austin food news

Jan. 14, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Just a Li'l Tease, My Chickens
A wee tease to get you to check back for our full SXSW and GBGG recap...

March 22, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Christian Champions the Chickens
Legislator from Center files bill to bust cockfighting rings

Feb. 17, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Straus Won't Count his 114 Chickens
He's not speaker yet, and he wants you to know it

Jan. 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't Count Your Chickens, Dems
Keep voting all the way down the ballot, folks

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Chickens or the Regs?

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Do the Funky Chicken
Getting egg-cited for the Funky Chicken Coop Tour this Saturday
"...you know that there is a hobbit home for chickens in town? That there is a breed of chicken..."

March 26, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

Book Review: Barn 8
Deb Olin Unferth reveals humor and humanity inside a hen heist
"...– as a story about the industry that exploits chickens for their eggs. And imagine a quartet of Ahabs..."

March 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Common Law
Chickens, Goats, & Urban Ranches?
"...lot in Austin city limits. I'm thinking about buying chickens or possibly even a goat or minicow. Can I..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Column by Luke Ellis

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
This live-action group is unified by a general desire to tug at the heartstrings.
"...sentimental coming-of-age yarn concerning two Belfast boys and the chickens they raise as pets amid the Troubles of 1978...."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Town
Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in this gripping action-drama about bank robbers.
"...stretch of land notorious for hatching bank robbers like chickens do eggs. Ingrained violence and OxyContin addiction are casual..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist is a campy zombie comedy that's full of jokes, chicken suits, spewing geysers of various bodily fluids, and barbs flung in the direction of the fast-food industry.
"...off to college and turns into a lesbian. The chickens become possessed by the souls of the dead Native..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gadjo Dilo
"...lest he skip town with a sackful of stolen chickens. Plot happens, in a fitful, harum-scarum way, but it..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Don Juan Demarco
"...Brando nor Dunaway (who's wonderfully unaffected here) are spring chickens, but the depth of their commitment and their understanding..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Brief History of Time
"...set. Sure, there are images of free-floating clocks and chickens and eggs dangling in space (all the better to..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Farm Debuts at Travaasa with BBQ Bash
Guests enjoy beer and barbecue in pastoral setting
"...to supply the restaurant and spa, a flock of chickens for eggs, a stable for the horses, and a..."

June 20, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

A Tour for the Chicken-Curious
Backyard chicken coops as a path to zero waste
"...considering its location just off busy Manchaca Road. Twenty chickens scratch in a carpet of fallen oak leaves, snacking..."

March 25, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Not Clucking Around
East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.
"...will include a slaughterhouse capable of processing two million chickens per week, a prepared foods factory, and a rendering..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Communication Breakdown
Does the closure of HausBar Farms spell trouble for the urban farming movement?
"...farm. Previously a fallow lot, the farm now boasts chickens, donkeys, rabbits, geese, and a bounty of vegetables. However,..."

April 12, 2013 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Literary Guisado
An Interview with Francisco Goldman
"...the intriguing, half-absurd title, The Long Night of White Chickens. I accepted it, little knowing I was about to..."

June 6, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Chick Flick
Who amongst ye could have conjured Mainer Janet Bonney's true chicken story? Mark Lewis' documentary The Natural History of Chickens, playing on Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, features real-life stories of fowl play so strange they must be true.
"...out there are some out there who take their chickens very seriously. We might have guessed that somewhere in..."

April 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Supporting Local Farmers and Ranchers Helps Everyone
Back to the soil
"...to pass the milk. Chovanec said, "I have backyard chickens in Central Austin. It was so cold that we..."

March 5, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

What Happens When Two Academics Fall in Love and Start a Farm?
TerraPurezza Farm studies regenerative agriculture just outside Austin
"...they raise pigs and conduct their study. They raise chickens on Orion's father's land, and sheep and more pigs..."

April 3, 2020 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

Vision 2020: Austin Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year
Some local writers' books due out in 2020 we're eager to read
"...Dance with a novel about a heist of … chickens. (Maybe not so unusual for this particular author; Unferth..."

Jan. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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