Unicorn Steaks, Mountains of Meat, and Turkey?

It's Texas BBQ Week in Austin, y'all!

"...participants include The Blue Ox BBQ and Pancake Cabin, Franklin Barbecue, La Barbecue Cuisine Texicana, Lamberts Downtown Barbecue, Micklethwait..."

July 18, 2013 Food Post by Kenny Pailes

Day Trips

The Franklin Mountains State Park

"...The Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso seems like it..."

March 2, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Wyler Aerial Tramway State Park in El Paso offers a breathtaking view of the Rio Grande Valley

"...bird's-eye view of humanity butting up against rugged desert mountains unfolds at your feet...."

Aug. 19, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bone Tomahawk

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

"...Russell plays Franklin Hunt, sheriff of the unaptly named Bright Hope, a..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips & Beyond: November Travel Roundup

Port A's Harvey recovery, Millican's pecan pie, and fall travel news

"...the series are Big Bend Ranch State Park and Franklin Mountains State Park. The pocket-sized books help hikers get..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Get your Mexican-food fix in El Paso

"...Four miles south of the hiking trails at the Franklin Mountains State Park off Transmountain Road, lunch awaits you..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bell Blasts Perry for Underfunded Parks

Crisis predates current administration, but Dem says guv could have prodded Lege

"...and the Wyler Aerial Tramway in El Paso's beloved Franklin Mountains...."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Day Trips

Captain Day Trips lists his Top 10 traveling tales of the year.

"...year was that the Wyler Aerial Tramway in the Franklin Mountains State Park reopened in March after being closed..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The Best of "Day Trips"

"...has reopened is the Wyler Aerial Tramway in the Franklin Mountains State Park on the edge of El Paso...."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Top 10s

The biggest Texas travel happenings of 2018

"...7) The Wyler Aerial Tramway, operated at Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso, closed on Sept...."

Dec. 28, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Kiki's Mexican Restaurant, El Paso

A little place with a big reputation

"...is near the entrance to Scenic Drive through the Franklin Mountains and Wyler Tramway State Park. They're open daily;..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Some 'Day Trips' highlights

"...of Houston to the Wyler Aerial Tramway in the Franklin Mountains outside of El Paso. But every Texan should..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

One of the Great Ones

"...a throwaway book. And I'm not talking about W. Franklin Sanders. Although the book's cover identifies Sanders as the..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Day Trips

Not all day trips should be within a day's drive of your couch

"...by centuries of runoff from high in the Green Mountains. Can't guess the location of this natural wonder? It's..."

July 30, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Music: Third Whopping List

Another 547 acts booked for the 2015 Music Conference

"...including surf pop duo Best Coast, gospel veteran Kirk Franklin, Jamaican roots reggae outfit Morgan Heritage, rock songsmiths Broncho,..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...straw hats and Nikons and corpses and blood and mountains of hair and teeth...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Day Trips: Texas State Parks

Celebrating 100 years of Texas parks and the contributions of Civilian Conservation Corps

"...1933, as the Great Depression gripped the nation, President Franklin Roosevelt created the CCC. The volunteer work relief program..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...Slayer at the Austin Music Hall), an early Jim Franklin sketch for Roky Erickson's Where the Pyramid Meets the..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...gender. Featuring Margaret Cho, Fortune Feimster, Rachel Feinstein, Marina Franklin, Nikki Glaser, Judy Gold, Kathy Griffin, Jessica Kirson, Sherri..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Food-o-File

Area hotels help fill your holiday season with gingerbread

"...group to help decorate a display that includes snow-covered mountains and a working electric train. Kids from the Childhood..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Big Chill

Wild Thing Chip Taylor waxes political on 'New Songs of Freedom'

"...Wait Until I See My Baby's Face" by Aretha Franklin. "Don't Say It Baby" by Dusty Springfield. "Papa Come..."

June 27, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...shorts, straw hats and Nikons and corpses, blood and mountains of hair and teeth. ......"

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...get out and get down. Good times returning, Kam Franklin's collective anchors a Memorial Day weekend takeover of both..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...perfect stout after a hard day of making dirt mountains. And this past spring, Hi Sign flexed as the..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Ray Wise, Johnny Pemberton, Keisha Castle-Hughes, AnnaLynne McCord, Nelson Franklin, Ronnie Gene-Blevins. (World Premiere) FESTIVAL FAVORITES..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gospel According to Kanye

Rapper levitates the Frank Erwin Center

"...same West from three years ago, he who split mountains and sent a Catholic procession through them – kicking..."

Sept. 22, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

What's Happening?

Ruta Maya toasts the Summer of Love

"...Keith Moon did to the drums, the validity Aretha Franklin brought to a woman's voice, Dylan's commentary on the..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Freight Train Outta Town

Jesse Hercules Taylor

"...to ride the trains to Nashville and marry Aretha Franklin. He was never not a guitar player. He'd just..."

March 31, 2006 Music Feature by Jo Carol Pierce

Day Trips

Abilene State Park is an oasis in the parched, red-dirt prairie

"...buffalo to funnel through the gap in the low mountains called the Callahan Divide. White settlers named the gap..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Recommended

"...Kate Wheeler, the author of When Mountains Walked (2000), and Not Where I Started From (1993),..."

April 5, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

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