Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...in the background. "I would go up to the counter and say, 'Hey, uh, what should I listen to?'..."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...created their own non-Aryan superman to defend the dime-store candy-counter imaginations of the kids who would grow up to..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Navasky & Barsamian

Former editor of The Nation discusses the role of the alternative press

"...press as one of the few sources of dissent countering the one-note message rut of the mainstream media. He..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...based on your limited knowledge of their role is counter productive. I also hope all of this bad press..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Complex World

"...Roomful of Blues, and canny takes on music club culture -- as a rock 'n' roll movie. Yet Complex..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Top 10 Biscuit Breakfasts of 2008

From Austin, Texas, Benedict to migas and biscuits, Austin's Bs & G scene rules

"...breakfast cooks still smile when you light on a counter stool. Biscuits come with several breakfast combinations; my favorite..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Food Feature by MM Pack

Day Trips

Charles Kincaid's Grocery Market in Fort Worth consistently gets listed as one of the best burger joints in the U.S.

"...the very back of the store, the old butcher counter is where you place your order...."

March 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...early Nineties, with the birth of Austin's electronica/dance, music/rave culture, the little love drug that could has become a..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...lays each piece side by side on the marble counter top, like a dissection project...."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

The World on a Shelf

"...his followers, it was almost a disaster. Unlike his counterparts in Mexico and other parts of Latin America, Pizarro..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...cultural packaging of film, music, and art. Interestingly, new culture usually spreads from its source city outward at its..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...cultural life marker that's echoed in, among many other culture-specific rituals, the Jewish bar and bat mitzvah and the..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...America's "immoral lifestyle," with its global stranglehold over other cultures, threatens to destroy the morality of their people. They..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...commercial entities. I suspect that the elements in our culture most disturbing to Middle Eastern regressionists are precisely those..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Austin At Risk

Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems

"...changes -- the pavement, the traffic, the scary vanishing culture. And even the busiest people see all this change..."

May 12, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tacos of Texas Takes Cultural Exploration to the Screen

Episodes feature one taco and one Texas city

"...chefs to discuss the intersection of food, art, and culture in the region. "The conversation around this culture and..."

July 27, 2018 Food Feature by Nina Hernandez

On the Record: Sexism and the City

Council should get serious about gender equality

"...for a system that is failing so many women? Counter-ing Culture..."

Jan. 29, 2016 News by Mary Tuma

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...Izod polo shirt, the very symbol of privileged frat culture. The booing started quietly at first, but it quickly..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

In a Global Crisis, Luck Presents Writes a New Concert Promotions Standard

With a little luck, Ellee Fletcher Durniak and Matt Bizer thrive at improvising impossible situations

"...laughs Durniak. "It was just so representative of the culture that we are lucky enough to be a part..."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Rise of the Valkyrie

Kate Leth talks women in comics and fake geek girl phobia

"...It's her experiences behind the counter that lead her to found the Valkyries, an international..."

May 26, 2014 Books Post

Postmarks

Rider Replies

"...reflective of Dr. Fox's passion to "build a corporate culture." The goal is to ensure that an intensive, multi-detailed..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Column

Popcult Disconnect

The Gyre of Hack-centrism

"...cachet. "1976-1996: Beyond the Bicentennial: 20 years of Pop Culture" was fascinating -- well, interesting, anyway -- for what..."

July 19, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

Another End of an Era: Nau's Enfield Drug Is Closing

The soda shop and pharmacy has been struggling for years

"...was dedicated to the drugstore operation, including a pharmacy counter and a shop dedicated to various sundries, the back..."

Sept. 28, 2022 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Luv Doc: A Taste for Ballin'

20-inch blades on the Impala

"...you knowingly entered into a relationship with a bean counter. It's literally his job to keep track of money...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

First Look: Tio Pepe Chicken

There’s a lucky rooster, and more flavor combinations than days in the year

"...website explains Pepe's motivation for starting this cozy, fast-casual counter-service space: "One thing he took with him on his..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Food Column by Jessi Cape

I, Fieri

The FieriCon pub crawl made me realize I’m not such a Normal Guy after all

"...success has come at the cost of becoming food culture’s biggest meme. Amazon sells a $9 “Celebrity Chef Wig..."

Oct. 25, 2018 Food Post by Dan Gentile

Big Games, Big Money

DreamHack Austin puts competitive e-sports center stage

"...has expanded to encompass many more facets of gaming culture and general nerdom, featuring a cosplay competition, tabletop gaming..."

June 1, 2018 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

Point Austin: It Ain’t Just About Trump

This week's marches begin a long and difficult resistance

"...traditions, and to try our best to establish a counterweight to the reactionary wave now being solidified on Capitol..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: What’s Past and What’s Present

Capitol events provide a snapshot of current predicaments

"...with long guns, were soon surrounded by hundreds of counter-protesters who made it abundantly clear that the racist demo..."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Column by Michael King

The Year in Food

The 2014 tastes we just couldn't stop thinking about

"...fancy. Places like Sawyer & Co. and the new Counter Cafe served up diner classics with elevated ingredients and..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

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