Weekend Tip: Queens of Cattle

Capitol Visitors Center honors women who rocked the Texas cattle boom

"...broke gender norms way back during the 19th century cattle boom...."

July 18, 2014 Arts Post by Carmen Rising

Easy Tiger Roars on Seventh, Simona's Coffee Supercharges the Colton House Hotel, Tiff's Got a Brand New Treat, You Could Win A Herd of Cattle, FFS, and More

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Like, you want to have your own herd of cattle, citizen? Surprise: It may be possible. Listen: “Now in..."

April 14, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Australian Cattle God

Who Let the Gods Out?

"...The Australian cattle dog is a breed known for its intellect, independence,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Cattle Is Forever

The Austin Film Society presents 'Return to Giant'

"...decades of Texas history through three generations of the cattle-baron Benedicts, during whose reign the source of Texas wealth..."

June 3, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'Ghost Cattle in the Sky'

"...Hill Country Guide]! "Just look out for the ghost cattle in the sky." After reading a recent novel, Be..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Postmarks

Texas Land and Cattle Company

Aug. 13, 1999 Food Feature

Easy Tiger Roars on Seventh, Simona's Coffee Supercharges the Colton House Hotel, Tiff's Got a Brand New Treat, You Could Win A Herd of Cattle, FFS, and More

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

April 16, 2021 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Is Perry All Hat, No Cattle?

Perry swaggers and stumbles in national spotlight

Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Prime Considerations

Chronicle Food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry on why 1,000 head of Japenese Wagyu cattle are thriving in Central Texas.

"...has come to Austin. Nearly 1,000 head of Wagyu cattle, the Japanese bovine breed to which the Kobe belong,..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...unique foreigner, admittedly -- to work on a Texas cattle drive in the 1870s. In fact, Frank Harris is..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Pure Beef

Some years ago, Barbara Chisholm writes, hipsters clearly informed us that Thai, Indian, Italian even -- anything but a steak house -- was cool. Not a slave to fashion, Austin Land and Cattle Company proudly flew its steak house flag. It was beefy when beefy wasn't cool.

"...Austin Land and Cattle Company1205 N. Lamar, 472-1813..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Australia

Baz Luhrmann teams with fellow Aussies Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for this romantic action-adventure epic.

"...a straying husband from the money pit of a cattle ranch he owns in northern Australia, called Faraway Downs..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Documentary Cowboys Shows That Some Are Still Out on the Range

If you thought cross-country cattle drives were the stuff of legend, this Austin Film Festival showing will make you think again

"...from any Western – shots of cowboys and their cattle riding along dusty trails and snowy valleys – but..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Texas Vegan May Fest Celebrates Animal Advocacy

Cattle ranch turned animal sanctuary, Rowdy Girl, is on a mission

"...many meat-free lifestyle stories, this one includes a Texas cattle ranch that one woman transformed into a one-of-a-kind animal..."

May 18, 2018 Food Post by Alisha McDarris

Harmonic Convergence

Old and new Austin make sweet music at Austin Land & Cattle Company

"...Cheerfully and unabashedly anachronistic, Austin Land & Cattle Company boasts no foams or fermented potatoes or dehydrated..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Cowboys & Aliens

Jon Favreau and company kick up some good Western dust until the film's alien twist comes off like the newest variation on outmoded cowboys-and-Indians stereotypes.

"...attack Absolution, lashing and abducting citizens like so much cattle. His wrist shackle suggesting a past brush with the..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trollhunter

Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.

"...of film students investigating a series of apparently random cattle killings near their picturesque hometown of Volda, Norway. After..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Appaloosa

Ed Harris takes a turn behind the camera again in this Western in which he co-stars with Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons.

"...come at the town council's request: A scheming, would-be cattle baron by the name of Bragg (Irons, resplendent in..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Benji: Off the Leash!

New dog. Old tricks.

"...D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Kurosawa, Hitchcock. All actors are cattle, Hitchcock supposedly snorted. Camp proves his case, with a..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Dallas Doll

"...ending involving poor Sandra surrounded by a herd of cattle. (Don't even ask....) Some critics have found Dallas Doll..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Herdsmen of the Sun and Les Maitres Fou

"...receive a dowry taken from the tribe's herd of cattle and thus enjoy economic independence from their husbands. Therefore,..."

Jan. 17, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

City Slickers

"...in Pamplona and now, they're cowboys on a real cattle drive. Increasingly, these adventures have helped fend off the..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Smart Cookies

Austin foodies prove their Grub Trivia mettle

"...moment came from a question about the smallest European cattle breed...."

Aug. 18, 2014 Food Post by Brandon Watson

The Ending Was Only the Beginning

Harry Knowles and others dissect No Country for Old Men's ending.

"..."No Country succeeds in the way Javier Bardem's pneumatic cattle-gun succeeds in annihilating his victims: It blows a hole..."

Jan. 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

Let the games begin

"...that the state agriculture commissioner would sound the first cattle call of the 2006 election season. In announcing her..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Day Trips

Livestock brands tell many stories of an industry and of families in the language of the plains

"...the county clerk's office in the county where the cattle are located. The same brand can be, and is,..."

April 22, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...After the Civil War, great herds of unbranded cattle wandered the uninhabited lands of South Texas. Returning veterans..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Certified Shame

The Sad State of the American Steak

"...by a national hysteria for low-fat food forced the cattle industry to reevaluate their standards of quality. In 1987,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Food Feature by Robb Walsh

The Race Is to the Swift

In Texas, livestock are better vaccinated than children.

"...regulates. Created decades ago to watch for brucellosis in cattle, TAHC inspectors rove the state -- still looking for..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Day Trips

The XIT Ranch was to Texas ranches what Dell Inc. is to computer manufacturers

"...From the beginning, the business plan was to run cattle on the land until it could be divided and..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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