SXSW Record Reviews

"...clearly a codeword. Speak it to unlock the secrets of the dark soul. Walk this way with the man..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...In one year, two Austin theatres stage modern adaptations of Greek tragedies, and both provide drama of astonishing immediacy..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Recent roles: Nahimah, The Gypsy Chain, dirigo group, 2001; Nina, The Seagull, Guy Roberts, 2001;..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Postmarks

Book Smart

"...I very much enjoyed Karl Pallmeyer's article "Chain Reaction" (Vol. 16, No. 13) that dealt with the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Column

Our Favorite Spots to Eat and Drink at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

ABIA serves up live music, craft cocktails, and beloved local restaurant fare

"...Austin-Bergstrom International Airport echoes the city's desire to champion local businesses by featuring homegrown restaurants in..."

March 8, 2019 Food Feature by Jessika Roth

'Bash' in Your Head

Although best known for films such as In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, LaBute began as a playwright, and Austin is about to get its first look at one of his plays, the disturbing Bash, courtesy of the dirigo group.

"...to present stories and characters that are true representatives of a culture which seeks out and destroys all that..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Can Schlotzsky's Be Saved?

John Wooley and the battle to bring Schlotzsky's back to life

"...On the morning of June 17, John Wooley peered out the window of..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Point Austin: Tough Tacos

As tempers rise, the Las Manitas debate symbolizes the future of Austin

"...upsets an Austin liberal more than a Yankee carpetbagger's desire to bulldoze his enchiladas verdes...."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Slam, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am

Handicapping the Slam Team Poets

"...the culturati, but mention "the Slam" outside its circle of participants and you're likely to draw a question mark:..."

May 30, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Can Kitties, Weed, and Votes Save Blockchain?

As the cryptocurrency bubble looks ready to burst, developers and innovators at SXSW see new uses for the underlying tech

"...Depending on who you ask, blockchain technology is either the solution to many of the..."

March 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...Hollow, frat-boy streaking hijinks, clothing-optional apartment complexes, the abundance of strip clubs, or punk escapades down at Emo's (Ignorance..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Natural Selection

Responding to market demands and consumer pressure, Whole Foods decides to banish genetically modified ingredients from its store-brand product lines.

"..."natural" grocery store placed Central Texas in the middle of the ongoing debate over the evils of messing with..."

Jan. 28, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Do-It-Yourself Girl Revolution

For the last two years Miranda July's work in fanzines, performance art, music, and movies have allowed her to support herself off her art. "No day job" - how many performance artists can say that?

"...stories that don't usually get told, exposing the work of other girls through her video chain letter, "Big Miss..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Ada Calhoun

Needs More Color

Progressive Papers Grapple With Chronic Complaint

"...Peter Noel of The Village Voice photograph by Hiroyuki Ito It was..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...and very sparsely populated place. Little dusty towns, hundreds of miles apart from one another cling to the foothills..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Locavores Before It Was Cool

Kerbey Lane Cafe has been helping Austinites eat local 24 hours a day, seven days a week for more than two decades

"...that it isn't yet recognized by the spell-check mechanisms of most word-processing programs, but the trend itself is in..."

March 5, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

News Top Tens

"...the investigations dragged on -- over the 2002 death of Sophia King, the June fatal police shooting of Jessie..."

Jan. 2, 2004 News Feature

Kitchen Education

For most of the past 200 years, there was one path to becoming a chef, Chronicle Cuisines writer Mick Vann observes. Young European men apprenticed themselves as teenagers and learned the culinary arts from the ground up. But with the advent of cooking schools, the role of chef has been legitimized into a respected profession, and a chef today can make a very handsome salary. Chefs can now attain the status of a rock star.

"...For most of the past 200 years, there was one path to..."

June 22, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

In With the New

So Long, Seis Salsas and Green & White's Groceries

"...a time when Mexican restaurants only served one variety of hot sauce with tostada chips, and handmade tamales could..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

APD Infiltrates Occupy

Undercover cops revealed in Houston – Acevedo promises review

"...Did an undercover Austin Police detective induce members of Occupy Austin to commit felony obstruction of a roadway..."

Sept. 7, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

How Not to Pick a Police Chief

As the search reaches full speed, so do complaints about the process

"...In Austin, the strategy of self-imposed silence on anything involving the Police Department –..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Claus & Effect

The holiday how-to guide for the perpetually perplexed

"...us who does not participate in the annual fete of gifting – whether they are good at it or..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature by Meredith Barnhill

Ho-Ho-Homegrown Holidays

Austin's independent "iconic" businesses hope we'll all put them on our list

"...That's the motto of the Austin Independent Business Alliance, an especially timely message..."

Dec. 8, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Bay almost three years ago, in the editorial pages of the San Antonio Express-News...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...at the city-owned airport is "merely symbolic" and "smacks of downright dishonesty" ["Austin@Large," Nov. 14]...."

Nov. 21, 2003 Column

Postmarks

The Sweet Science

"...Coliseum. After that, I trained with Richard Lord, one of the first pupils in his then-newly opened "concentration camp"..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Column

Record Reviews

"...with complete impunity. Leaving behind the flashdance ass pants of Odelay (for now), he's investigating the outrageous musical concept,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

Our Murals, Ourselves

"...Detail of Genesis by S. Fogel, 1950 photograph by Sam Martin..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

The Genial General

ABA President Barbara Thomas Steps Down

"...photograph by John Anderson The two worlds of Barbara Bonds Thomas, by her own acknowledgment, would dizzy..."

May 29, 1998 Books Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...over the last few months with its intoxicating blend of visual fl air, internal wit, narrative complexity, and ingenious..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

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