Exit Pole

Jason McMaster reflects on the passing of the Back Room

"...time with the pole. I'd like to have a brick though, to set next to my Liberty Lunch brick...."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dandelion Cafe

Nice and wholesome never tasted so good

"...Now, as you go east, you pass though a brick archway that crowns the road in a manner both..."

April 14, 2006 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

Letters at 3AM

Bob Dylan says he doesn't know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He's been saying things like that for 40 years and I don't know a rock critic who doesn't take him at his word. But I also don't know a rock critic who's been to Hibbing. I wanted to see for myself.

"...once-fancy Audroy Hotel announced in all-but-faded paint on its brick wall, "Hibbing's FINEST Supper Club" – now long defunct...."

March 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Jon Langford

"...Gold Brick (Reach Out International)..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

Four Brothers

A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.

"...cudgel them with pool cues and bits of blasted-off brick. Certainly you don’t need me to tell you this..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Head-On

The marriage of two Turks who meet while in a German psychiatric hospital grows from a relationship of convenience into a genuine love affair.

"...opens with Cahit driving his car head-on into a brick wall, the first and most transparent realization of the..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Insider

Brief conversations with very important people

"...will never forget watching Los Lonely Boys dismantle Steamboat brick by brick. They tore it up. Our friends in..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

ACC South Austin: Plain, Weird, or Just Plain Weird?

Board spends $1.1 million on architecture fees and gets a Kleenex box

"...What remains is a simple brick box with all the utilitarian glamour of a Soviet-bloc..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Austin @ Large: Painting by Numbers

Design standards turn out to be (maybe) more than just skin-deep

"...a long way beyond dictating the color of the brick...."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Will Ferrell's Anchorman needs more work behind the scenes.

"...never fails to bring it. As the IQ-deficient weatherman Brick Tamland, Carell motormouths non-sequiturs, jams mayonnaise into toasters, and..."

July 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Second Helpings

A little Italy, part III

June 11, 2004 Food Column

Saving Darma

A UT linguist travels to northern India in a quest to preserve the local language of the Darma Valley

"...Our shared house is made of brick and cement, a thoroughly modern dwelling by Dharchula standards..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Feature by Dan Oko

Iggy Pop / Gimme Skelter

Record Review

"...rock & roll, Iggy Pop's best album since 1990's Brick by Brick rules them all on twin glimmers: Iggy..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Food-o-File

The 2003 Beaujolais Nouveau debuts, Austin's Pizza makes some changes, and several Austin restaurants were hot spots during the Texas Book Festival.

"...and the company also retrofitted all their locations with brick pizza ovens to improve the quality of their pies...."

Nov. 21, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Doubt and Caution at All Times

An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together

"...Atwood's Oryx and Crake, as well as Monica Ali's Brick Lane) are as close to instant myth -- not..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Second Helpings: Slices of Life, Part 1

It's not delivery, it's "Second Helpings"!

July 25, 2003 Food Column

Day Trips

"...electricity. Three years ago it looked like the seven-story, brick building might be converted into a boutique hotel, but..."

April 11, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Rock Your Eyes Out

"The Musikshow" and "The Rawkshow," a pair of linked exhibitions at Gallery Lombardi, explore the connection between rock music and art, one from the angle of musicians who also make art, the other from the angle of artists who also make music.

"...artist Kimberly Sexton, of NYC, says of her band Brick Victim, "We don't necessarily see the band as 'art,'..."

March 14, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Culinary Evolution

Vespaio has always been good -- now, it's better.

"...Vespaio's best dishes spend some time in the oak-fired brick oven: meats, seafood, and pizzas all emerge with distinctive..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

Austin cannot live on Bread Alone, alone, in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...of this week's column. A longtime fan of the brick-oven-baked artisan breads at Schlotzsky's Bread Alone Bakery (218 S...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Day Trips

"...block buildings that disguise the true character within the brick walls. The oldest restaurant in the Panhandle city, and..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood breaks out.

"...huge New Year's Eve bash and open a new Brick Oven Pizzeria in far South Austin, near Slaughter and..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Boom Town

The Company's production of Boom Town, a stage thriller by film actor Jeff Daniels concerning economic development and marital infidelity, may hit the audience over the head with themes familiar from Hollywood potboilers, but unlike most movies of that kind it leaves its audience with a memorable bang.

"...park plan. The set-up is as subtle as a brick from Hollywood...."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Second Helpings: Slices of Life, Part 2

Erin Mosow throws a pizza party in this week's "Second Helpings."

July 26, 2002 Food Column

Second Helpings: Slices of Life

Erin Mosow throws a pizza party in this week's "Second Helpings."

July 19, 2002 Food Column

Second Helpings

Erin Mosow again investigates Austin's Italian offerings in this week's "Second Helpings."

June 14, 2002 Food Column

Day Trips

Fort Griffin once served as a lonely military outpost on the Texas frontier.

"...wind whips around the last remaining chimneys and collapsing brick walls of a frontier army fort long abandoned, but..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...up in this city. One was in the beautiful brick neighborhood. The sheriff's department wasn't interested in catching the..."

July 13, 2001 Column

Sexy Beast

"...tough, scary, and shocking, yes, but it lacks the brick-wall smashup of the Tarantino film. As near as I..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Zinophiles

The Zinfandel Advocates and Producers Come to Austin

"...Vins), Crutch Crutchfield, and restaurateur Stan Adams (Sienna, Gilligan's, Brick Oven) -- cajoled, pleaded, and wheedled ZAP into bypassing..."

April 20, 2001 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

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