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A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender & Southern Food by Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt University of Georgia Press, 265 pp., $24.95 (paper) For most people the term “Southern foodways” evokes Sunday dinner tables piled high with fried chicken, flaky biscuits, buttered corn, and bacony greens. Southern food is hearty, homey, and fiercely allied with tradition. Yet…

by Rachel Feit

The Mighty Macs

This film tells the story of rookie basketball coach and future Hall of Famer Cathy Rush who led the women of Immaculata College to three consecutive national championships from 1972 to 1974.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Big Ranch, Big City: Recipes From Lambert’s Texas Kitchens by Louis Lambert with June Naylor Ten Speed Press, 272 pp., $40 Big Ranch, Big City is Lou Lambert’s first cookbook, but it’s more than just 100 fantastic recipes and brilliant, artistic food shots; it is a chronicle of Lambert’s West Texas ranch roots and the…

by Mick Vann

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Basic to Brillant, Y’all: 150 Refined Southern Recipes and Ways To Dress Them Up for Company by Virginia Willis Ten Speed Press, 288 pp., $35 I’ve admired Virginia Willis and followed her career since meeting her at the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers in 1995. The Georgia native is a proud descendant of great…

by Virginia B. Wood

Blackthorn

Sam Shepard stars in this film which imagines what might have happened if Butch Cassidy had survived and lived on in Bolivia.

by Marc Savlov

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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices Into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn Viking, 304 pp., $26.95 People cite dozens of reasons for why they don’t cook: cost, time, picky eaters, feelings of inadequacy, being overwhelmed, or often some combination of those. In The Kitchen Counter Cooking…

by Monica Riese

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The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Weekends: New Recipes, Stories & Opinions From Public Radio’s Award-Winning Food Show by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift Clarkson Potter, 352 pp., $35 Readers familiar with the popular radio show The Splendid Table will relish the publication of this second book by creators Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally…

by Claudia Alarcón

Texas Platters

Cornell Dupree I’m Alright (Dialtone) The word Alright barely contains this knockout disc, so timeless it could have been cut at any point during the last five decades. Brimming with instrumentals led by the late Cornell Dupree, I’m Alright carves a mighty epitaph for the Fort Worth-born guitarist, who started with fellow hometown landmark King…

by Margaret Moser

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The Homesick Texan Cookbook by Lisa Fain Hyperion, 357 pp., $29.99 Many cookbooks have tried to capture the cuisine of this immense and idiosyncratic state that we call home. Somehow, no one book has ever managed to truly define the ineffable characteristics that make certain dishes Texan – until now. The Homesick Texan Cookbook successfully…

by Kate Thornberry

Texas Platters

Bad Sports Kings of the Weekend (Dirtnap) Bad Sports has mastered the art of atomic delinquency. Produced by the Marked Men’s Mark Ryan, the Denton/Austin trio’s second LP, Kings of the Weekend, hot wires the starry-eyed bravado of 1960s teen bands with the cocksure stoner cool of punk’s original blank generation for 14 gems on…

by Austin Powell

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Stirring It Up With Molly Ivins: A Memoir With Recipes by Ellen Sweets University of Texas Press, 272 pp., $29.95 As an avid and loyal reader of Molly Ivins’ work, I sought her column out when I opened the morning paper. There are some columns I remember distinctly for their pointed political commentary, laser-sharp observation,…

by Barbara Chisholm

Texas Platters

Good Times Crisis Band Nine of Clubs (Australian Cattle God) Expanding on the aesthetic of its 2007 debut, Select a Gather Point, the Good Times Crisis Band finds its center squarely in the margins. “Enemy Eye” sets the local duo’s tone, coupling herky-jerk post-punk at ramming speed against references to an all-knowing surveillance state. An…

by Greg Beets

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The Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin’ in Your Oven With 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes by Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock Clarkson Potter, 208 pp., $17.99 (paper) Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock began Casserole Queens in 2006, delivering homemade casseroles to comfort-food-loving families in the Austin area. As the saying goes, you’ve gotta have a…

by Melanie Haupt

Texas Platters

Her Space Holiday (No More Good Ideas) At South by Southwest last spring, Marc Bianchi announced the end of Her Space Holiday, the project he’s helmed for more than a decade and which helped usher the rise of electro-pop. HSH arguably peaked mid-decade with 2003’s The Young Machines and 2005’s The Past Presents the Future,…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

The Tiny Adventurers Wild-Eyed in the Hinterlands Lakeland chimes of the Li’l Cap’n Travis variety, Austin’s answer to ’67 vintage Beach Boys and the Byrds, immediately bob to the surface of Wild-Eyed in the Hinterlands. Storybook opener “The Cobra and the Mongoose,” pristine Neverland pop, couldn’t be anyone else. That’s commensurate with the fact that…

by Raoul Hernandez

Food-o-File

Food, glorious food! We’re anxious to try it. Trailer food and Oktoberfests, brunches and barbecue. Our favorite diet!

by Virginia B. Wood

Luv Doc Recommends: Gypsy Picnic Trailer Food Festival

First of all, if you’re offended by the term “gypsy,” back off. It ain’t like that. Here in Austin we think of gypsies as freedom-loving people who can’t be tied down – sort of like the homeless people in the Kris Kristofferson song “Me and Bobby McGee.” You know, the kind of folks who aren’t…

by The Luv Doc

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