SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...MIDLAKE: One of the newer musical forces to emerge from the small North Texas..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...August of 1982, Sarah Whistler had moved out of Austin, Joe Dishner had left to go into film production,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...he is an aficionado, one for whom the beat and the noise and fury was All, punk rock has..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Pesto, Puccini, and the Omni Talented Singing With Your Supper

"...in the Montana Rockies, working as a hotel maid and singing waitress. While many of my generation were experiencing..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

17 Austin Patios for Your Al Fresco Dining & Drinking Enjoyment

Check out these al fresco spots, if you're comfortable

"...As we lurch into the second year of the pandemic, many bars and restaurants that didn't already boast great..."

March 12, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

"Strong-Mayor" Proposal Divides Austin's Progressives

Power to the people?

"...The upcoming May 1 special election provides Austinites with an opportunity to fundamentally change the structure of..."

March 5, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Fri. 16, Hotel Vegas Annex, 8:55pm Frank Smith and Grape St. alum Aaron Sinclair moved under his own..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...Laura's Bluebonnet Kitchen photograph by John Anderson I inherited an appreciation for going out to breakfast..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...a helicopter plucked them from the balcony of their New Orleans apartment, Lester Sampson and Irma Louis found themselves..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Chef

Jon Favreau and a bunch of ready collaborators find the heart in this story about a chef who rediscovers what's important when he turns to a food truck.

"...Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Amy Sedaris, Robert Downey Jr. and Jose C. "Perico" Hernández. Chef is filled to the..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Beignet Trail

It can take you to the most surprising places

"...Mardi Gras season gets me thinking about New Orleans. And New Orleans inevitably gets me thinking about..."

Feb. 11, 2013 Food Post by Rachel Feit

Papa Mali Extols Mark Rubin

Former locals gone New Orleans bond over Southern Discomfort

"...Mark Rubin arrived in Austin on August 28, 1987, and left for New Orleans..."

June 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Last Laugh

Guy Forsyth signs off on God's Favorite Band

"...honor of the Asylum Street Spankers' Farewell Tour of Austin, kicking off tonight at the Cactus Cafe, OTR reached..."

April 21, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Won't You Come In?

For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.

"...Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl aren't just theatre artists. They're hostesses of..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

News Ticker: May 8

All the news that's fit to blog

"...makes vacation plans, State Health Services smells something fishy, and Rick Perry threatens the Lege. Summer fun is on..."

May 8, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...Dawlin', sit down and let me tell you a love story. My mother..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat

Cyril Neville returns to the blues

"...his name as a musical chameleon, slithering between funk and R&B, rock and reggae. Brand New Blues is Neville’s..."

May 13, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Finding God in the Gumbo

Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment

"...life gives you Hurricane Katrina, decimating your entire community and way of life? The answer for one New Orleans..."

May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Punjabi Powerhouse: Red Baraat

Brooklynites connect Indian and New Orleans brass bands

"...through the French Quarter, a clanging cacophony of horns and percussion that’s part Bollywood, part Bayou brass...."

April 5, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Carnival Season Means King Cake Time

Traditional New Orleans treat growing in popularity here

"...In New Orleans, King Cakes are a regular feature of the..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

We Have an Issue: Ice Ice Baby

Beat the record-breaking heat with our cover story about Casey’s New Orleans Snowballs

"...where you can trace the origins of 51st Street stand Casey's New Orleans Snowballs back to. You can read..."

July 15, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Wendell Pierce's The Wind in the Reeds

In Wendell Pierce's memoir The Wind in the Reeds, Godot and Treme help transform post-Katrina New Orleans

"...a memoir penned by Pierce about his life in New Orleans. The actor, who played Baltimore detective Bunk Moreland..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Hail the King Cake

It's not Carnival until you find the hidden baby

"...In New Orleans, king cakes are a regular feature of the..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Now & Forever

New Orleans institution riles up the Paramount Friday

"...The mother of all New Orleans’ brass tacks, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, celebrated..."

Feb. 20, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Seedy

Werner Herzog talks about his eccentric tour de farce, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

"...from the Les Blank-helmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe and the Herzog/Klaus Kinski double-team of Fitzcarraldo, as well as..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Impressionable Fest Quest

Some special last-minute NOLA Jazz Fest accommodations deals just for our readers.

"...Pulling together an 11th hour trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, makes scoring the elusive..."

April 20, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

TCB

Austin steps up to help our New Orleans brothers and sisters the best way we know how: benefits, benefits, benefits

"...No two Southern locales have a stronger kinship than Austin and New Orleans. Besides an almost obsessive appreciation for..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Adds to 2018 Music Lineup

Andrew W.K., Tank & the Bangas, and 164 more

"...conference’s 2018 iteration, including rock & roll life coach Andrew W.K. and recent ACL Fest performers Tank & the..."

Nov. 7, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Day Trips

New Orleans traditions begin at the historic Columns Hotel

"...The Columns Hotel in New Orleans is well known around the world as the..."

May 23, 2014 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

New Orleans spring festival season is all about music and food

"...The Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans provides a luxurious base camp while visiting the..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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