cornering the bagel market

Austin's Hole-y War

"...obnoxious locating strategies are hardly unusual in the rough-and-tumble world of entrepreneurship. If bagel shops are to the Nineties..."

Aug. 16, 1996 News Feature by Chris Walters

The "Yuppie Chow" Market

Austin's Grocery Stores Duke It Out

"...writer calls "Yuppie Chow" were a few Whole Foods Markets and Wheatsville Co-op. The larger, corporate chains were satisfied..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature by Amy Smith

Cissi's Market

The new wine bar offers a superb wine list for the connoisseur and the neophyte alike

"...225-0521 Tuesday-Thursday, 8am-11pm; Friday-Saturday, 8am-12mid; Sunday, 10am-6pm; closed Monday www.cissismarket.com..."

April 10, 2009 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

No-Cost Travel

Cookbook Heaven II

"...of this country and the far corners of the world, introducing me to various peoples and cultures through their..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Big Money, But Who Pays? The Cost of Emerging TV Studios

TV budgets get bigger, but so do network and streamer demands

"...ATX Television Festival showed, not everyone is in that market. According to Blumhouse television co-president Marci Wiseman, those big..."

June 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Time To Pull Out the Big Red Wines

Check out these big-bodied reds

"...bad news. Bad first: Most of the Mollydooker wines cost more than the rest of your dinner combined. The..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Wine of the Week

A little bubbly for poolside?

"...in the $10-12 range, and acquiring one of each plus a POP allows you an inexpensive way to taste..."

July 21, 2006 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Wine of the Week

(oops) they did it again

"...The wineries are also intent on crashing the U.S. market by trying to get enough shelf space, then displaying..."

June 15, 2007 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Wine of the Week

Alamos

"...Alamos wines are available at Central Market, Whole Foods, Cost Plus/World Market, Cedar Valley Liquor, and..."

May 12, 2006 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Making a Living in Virtual Reality

Local developers brave the uncharted world of the VR marketplace

"...been one of the hottest stories in the tech world in recent years, with Austin emerging as an epicenter..."

May 31, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Waste Wars

City Tries to Seal Best Deal for Trash and Recycling

"...contracts for recycling and waste disposal that could eventually cost twice as much as the trash burner. And the..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Five Can’t-Miss Austin Food & Drink Events This Week

You know you love a good local deal

"...with a new breakfast menu and reverse happy hour. Plus other news bites about wine, puppies, and live music...."

Jan. 29, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival. I had seen..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

A Candid Conversation With a Weed Plug

A black-market business owner talks pricing and how underground cannabis retail has evolved in Austin

"...about cannabis legality, we often hear the term “black market” used as a pejorative, but I still hold it..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

Sipping From the Spigot, Vol. 2

The second Great Boxed-Wine Challenge, plus a very important lesson

"...is as it should be. The bottles ranged in cost to as much as $43 a bottle, while the..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Like a Rose

The LCRA and Mark Rose: It's a Beautiful World

"...corporation which will trade electric power on the open market...."

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...year's hybrid event. The stellar lineupreally ignites with the world premiere of Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Apocalypse February!

When digital TV arrives next year, you may not notice

"...coupons worth $40 each to buy converter boxes, which cost anywhere from $40 to $70...."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

SXSW Conference Taps Issa Rae, Signal and Colossal Leads for Keynotes

Lineup drop also adds Kevin Bacon, Hideo Kojima, Last of Us cast & crew

"...and Heard, about the history of Black television, will world premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival...."

Feb. 11, 2025 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

The Hightower Report

Public schools sell their soul, and Lockheed sells us flying lemons

"...facility to be branded is the gym at Alice Costello Elementary School. Now it's the ShopRite of Brooklawn Center...."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Public Notice: Housekeeping News

Plus trying to slow the Convention Center expansion, code changes

"...under the largest pink granite circus tent in the world, there is plenty of other news going on, and..."

June 2, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Justice Center is now estimated to have a final cost of $110 million dollars, $87 million over budget...."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Public Notice: The 30% Solution

Capital Metro slow-rolls out the next draft of the rail plan

"...eastern tip of the former Statesman property and Thom's Market on Riverside. It's a bike and pedestrian crossing as..."

April 29, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...Rudy Mikeska's offers the standard round of barbecue fare, plus a few extras, such as smoked mutton, roast beef,..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Pondering Downtown Condos

Frequently Asked Questions

"...Isn't the Austin condo market overbuilt?..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What I Learned at the Dot-Bomb Revolution

Robert Bryce recounts his short, happy career in the Internet wave

"...oldest and most respected trade magazines in the sector. Plus, they said, it was the most profitable magazine in..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

"If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st century global position."

"...light rail is not approved, then it may indeed cost too much when, in the future, we decide we..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column

Controlling Their Own Destiny

So many questions for the gaming industry, so many Austin game developers to answer them

"...case of backing the wrong horse, and one that cost some 120 Austin employees their jobs. That said, there's..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Twisting in the Wind

Austin Energy is trying to find the right price for renewable energy – but that's much easier said than done

"...– but that the GreenChoice program itself hides the costs not of green power but of brown. The argument..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

There Goes the Sun

Austin's clean-energy industry appears poised to take off -- but city leaders seem surprisingly unenthusiastic.

"...in Austin's future as "the clean-energy capital of the world." They weren't just talking about social goals, but about..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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