The Last Word

The Harry Ransom Center opens Norman Mailer's archives

"...pulled out one artifact after another, including original printing plates from a canceled run of Mailer's third novel, The..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Life Changing!

"...was a H.M.R (Health Management Resource) I lost my first 60 pounds there a year and half ago there...."

Oct. 23, 2007 Promotions Post

week2wisdom

"...other metaphor, i'm talking about the actual cups and plates in the sink.) most of you probably live in..."

Oct. 6, 2007 Promotions Post

Hairy Bull Outcome

When is Bevo not Bevo? That's the thorny issue of spoof sports t-shirts.

"...So much for good-natured joshing – and, seemingly, for First Amendment, parody-as-protected speech defense. Some would say that it's..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters @ 3AM

Elation is complicated. It can be joy, but it can also be terror – and it can be both, and more

"...come by. I tried to communicate that in my first novel, Night Time, Losing Time, when Jesse, a rock..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

"...Foster's sentence to life in prison. It was the first time in seven years that Perry issued a death-sentence..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature

Shanghai Restaurant

If the name sounds familiar, it's because the Yim family helped introduce Austin to dim sum at the original location way back when

"...Service is refreshingly astute: glasses refilled promptly, empty plates whisked away unobtrusively, servers making eye contact but not..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Food Review by Mick Vann

Happenings

June 28-July 4

"...All-American's panel exclusively features journalists of color – the first such panel ever to air on prime-time TV. 7-10pm...."

June 29, 2007 News Feature

How Green Was My Alley

Local restaurants grown their own

"...An Italian restaurant requires considerable tomatoes, and as the first harvest should happen soon, devoted diners are already anticipating..."

May 25, 2007 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Day Trips

Simon Vega pays tribute to Elvis with his own Little Graceland

"...& roll began around 1955 when he purchased his first Elvis records. Three years later, as a draftee in..."

March 16, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Harrold's Model Train Museum in Tyler is the greatest collection of model trains in the state

"...collections of model trains, toy cars, foreign currency, license plates, retired railroad equipment, and an assortment of other odds..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dining Up and Down West Lynn

Venerable spaces and new faces

"...entrées. It manifests a heavy Italian influence in its plates of spaghetti and meatballs, frittatas, panini on house-made focaccia..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Samurai Sword

Austin Powell debuts “Into the Void” with the Sword's Trivett Wingo

"...really. We’ve got a lot of touring on our plates for the first half of the year. I think..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Iron Chef Alamo Round Two

What happened in the Black Orpheus battle?

"...After the great success of the first Iron Chef Alamo Drafthouse competition benefiting the Capital Area..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Cibo

Given his pedigree, when I heard that chef Will Packwood and new partners were opening an Italian restaurant Downtown, my expectations were high

"...I was so eager to try Cibo that our first visit was shortly after the restaurant opened. The interior..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Food Review by Claudia Alarcón

Kitsch Kringle

What we really want when we want Santa

"...common sense. Most of us don't buy Christmas paper plates with Ol' Saint Nick on them thinking that wish-fulfillment..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Little Shops of Wines

How a couple of ounces are redefining the experience

"...at a more attractive price, and they also get first crack at many interesting small labels. Again, since they..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Restaurant Jezebel

An ambitious menu, and it all works

"...The first I heard of Restaurant Jezebel was from other wine..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"...2006 will be the first time that the simultaneously explosive and laid-back Neo Soul..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Deadly doctors and dentists' drills

"...a switch. Each lens consists of two flat glass plates with a hair-thin layer of shape-shifting liquid crystal sandwiched..."

June 23, 2006 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Food-o-File

Winners and losers on Food TV and more

"...aired the hourlong feature about the competition for the first time April 23 and will rerun it periodically. Keep..."

May 5, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...Three gorgeous women who dance with daggers and break plates, Toronto's Magneta Lane is the younger generation's reaction to..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Girls Can Tell

Gadding about

"...of the Whigs while we waited for our taco plates. Where's Charlize Theron and her 24-person entourage? Hell, at..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Improvising Every Second

The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond

"...like that guy on The Ed Sullivan Show kept plates spinning. Given the grace and care that she brings..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Letters at 3AM

Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.

"...than any city anywhere.) The tin can had Texas plates, and any Texan knows that sticker won't be taken..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Mi Colombia

Go now, before the liquor license and the long lines to get in

"...rich and tasty (and Atkins friendly!). The potatoes are first-simmered tiny little new potatoes, crisped up in the fryer...."

Feb. 3, 2006 Food Review by Mick Vann

Revelatory Vegan

Marvelling at Nu Age Cafe's ambitious but uneven menu

"...available, but you can bring your own.) On my first visit, I had a Kiwi Sparkler ($3), a beverage..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Strong and Solid

Big Oak Bar-B-Que might be new, but it's quickly establishing its roots

"...slaw; or chunky red potato salad fill out the plates, along with pickles, onions, sliced bread, and a sweet/spicy..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune

Robert Schenkkan's 'The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune' eases us back into that long-ago world of screwball comedy and serves up some new fun

"...secure it. It's how our hero keeps these numerous plates spinning just a bit longer while he tries to..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

Are the Panhandle's many roadside monuments to Christ testaments of faith or unadmitted doubt, or some of both?

"...excludes the two Jesus insisted were most important. Plaques, plates, and T-shirts all over our country display the familiar..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

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