Lenoir

Lenoir dazzles with a French spin on 'hot-weather cuisine'

"...lined the windows with white linen curtains decorated with antique crocheted doilies and created a centerpiece chandelier out of..."

April 13, 2012 Food Review by Claudia Alarcón

Wine of the Week: Riondo Rosso

A stunning wine at one-seventh the price

"...a bit skeptical. The bottle looks like an expensive antique crock and just screams to have a ribbon and..."

April 13, 2012 Food Column by Wes Marshall

The Carper Family

Imagine the Carter Family writing songs about texting

"...as its love for music that's close to being antique...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Messenger No. 4 (Or... How to Survive a Greek Tragedy)

This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm

"...but few can name. Ia Ensterä's set of mismatched antique wooden doors and shutters, though a marvel to behold,..."

March 2, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...Books) Bruce Lee Webb's painstakingly curated show of the antique art and arcane props from various of this nation's..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

DeCola & Eusebi Studio

Something in the season just makes leaded panes of glass apropos

"...the sight of the studio's large, stunning panels incorporating antique and machine-rolled glass, bevels, prisms, and jewels will stick,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The PDT Cocktail Book: The Complete Bartender's Guide From the Celebrated Speakeasy

The best cookbook gift ideas for 2011

"...an ideal accompaniment to a wild night of imbibing antique absinthe. The illustrations are bold and filled with primary..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Damned

"...tall, cadaverously made-up gentleman sporting a powder-puff-gray complexion and antique cheaters wandering hither and yon throughout the festival grounds..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

Brilliant Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb gets due respect in Navasota

"...heritage. Downtown, Blues Alley is part museum and part antique shop. The annual Blues Fest held in August raises..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Steam Versus Cyber at ArmadilloCon

Bruce Sterling joins this weekend's sci-fi/fantasy literary event

"...in attendance. Vincent Villafranca creates monstrous rat beasts and antique astronauts in bronze. Campbell said, "For the first many..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Pizzitola's BBQ is an East Texas-style barbecue joint with a funny name in the heart of Houston

"...there are a dozen or so tables and an antique bar at the far end that looks out of..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

What's Old Is New

On Margaret Moser's bedside books, older is better

"...National Velvet. I bought this copy recently at an antique store in Winnie, hence its place on top...."

July 28, 2011 Books Post by Margaret Moser

Some Parts of the World Pt. 3

BettySoo, live from the Netherlands

"...full of chandeliers and knickknacks (the property owners are antique dealers), and a couple flags in the street acknowledging..."

June 5, 2011 Music Post by BettySoo

Of Family Heirlooms and Industrial Films

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image preserves the state's cinematic roads less traveled

"...other thousands of home movies, instructional videos, industrial films, antique documentaries, and TV commercials TAMI has accumulated and archived..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Last Laugh

Guy Forsyth signs off on God's Favorite Band

"..."My mom had an antique store in Clear Lake, just outside of Houston, and..."

April 21, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Your Name Here

Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...bathroom, JFK iconography surrounds Kerr's massive record collection and antique piano in the dining area, and Halloween accessories have..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Day Trips

Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park in Dallas takes visitors on a journey through 100 years of heavy metal

"...van Grinsven, general manager of the museum. "We have antique cars, muscle cars, race cars, sports cars, and celebrity..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

'New Work by David Everett, David Hefner, Caprice Pierucci'

Three artists show what small miracles of creation can be worked with wood

"...board; sometimes he's specific, printing the back of an antique telephone box to excellent effect. At other times, the..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...— Aided by a young and mysterious apprentice, an antique furniture restorer struggles to keep his workshop alive, while..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Cookbook Collector: A Novel

This isn't a story about amusing misadventures of a hapless but lovable forager for forgotten recipes

"...redwoods, and works in an antiquarian bookstore cataloging valuable antique cookbooks while speculating about their enigmatic, dead collector. The..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

Inside Kate Heyhoe's Skull

"...decorated on the inside with tiny handcrafted dioramas using antique papers, feathers, bones, hand-tinted parchment, and found objects. These..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

ACL Aftershows

"...Beats Antique, Lance Herbstrong, Momo's..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...finish, on every instrument. Taking the name from an antique accordion, Johnson took the same approach for the recording..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...more than 130 years, more than 200 pieces of antique photographic equipment, and approximately 3,600 books, journals, and articles..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Joseph Phillips & Shawn Smith'

Two artists make dazzling use of artifice to explore and explode the artificial

"...perched all baldly crimson and obsidian-feathered upon an exploded antique typewriter, at the many-fingered burst of flame caught mid-blaze..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Underground'

Exploring of what goes on beneath the surface – of our bodies, of society, of the cities in which we live, of the very planet itself

"...enjoying the splendors of a Russian salt mine, the antique headlamps (from candle to gas to minifluorescent) used by..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

Good vibrations courtesy of the Roots, Distant Lights, and the Sword

"...7) and Momo's, which hosts Ryan Bingham and Beats Antique (Oct. 8-9) and celebrates its 10-year anniversary this week..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Day Trips

Las Vegas, N.M., is a nice little town on the Gallinas River surrounded by a scenic landscape and full of unique attractions

"...a soda fountain have moved into the buildings with antique storefronts along National Avenue between the plaza and the..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Real Ale brewery tour in Blanco is a beer lover's dream come true

"...began 14 years ago in the basement of an antique shop on the town square in Blanco. A little..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Marfa Bites

Take a break from Austin's humidity in Marfa's cool oases

"...Texas, but here they be, purveyed from a funky antique gas station. At $12 (plus $2 per topping), they're..."

July 2, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

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