Day Trips: Green’s Sausage House, Zabcikville

Roadside eatery provides all the small town essentials

"...Green's Sausage House is the shopping mall of Zabcikville. The..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Free Comic Book Day

Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers

"...picture debut. The people who make and sell comic books had no way of knowing whether the public's interest..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...to get something for free. How about a comic book? How about several comic books? How about almost as..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Wrote the Book of Rock?

Nine Inch Nails

"...there is a secret to be found in this book, I never found it; I put it down long..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Fall Book Reviews

"...wants more than a bag of rice and some green tea? What do you do when Japhy Ryder trades..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Book Reviews

My Grandfather's Finger

"...As you read this, the severed finger of a..."

May 21, 1999 Books Review

Robert Rodriguez Opens The Book of Boba Fett

The Austin filmmaker takes the mask off Star Wars' enigmatic bounty hunter for new Disney+ show

"...Battle Angel is now the executive producer of The Book of Boba Fett, the new series about the mysterious..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Free Comic Book Day

There's a comic for everybody among the 40 titles available in the eighth annual giveaway

"...penciled by Jack Kirby or Peter Bagge, Free Comic Book Day is bound to brighten your day. The annual..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival

Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday

"...that includes inside-baseball tomes like George Sprott and Wimbledon Green and the long-running Palookaville floppy and his various talky..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post

2010 Texas Book Festival

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

"...at a roadblock. Betancourt, a presidential candidate for the Green Oxygen Party, was taken hostage along with others in..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Book Festival Recommended Daytime Eats

A guide to keeping the appetite sated while engaging the intellect

"...to the usual purveyors of carnival fare, the Texas Book Festival adds some high-quality local vendors to the on-site..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...Bookmarking 1965, Rubber Soul was the last in a string..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink

A collection of cookbook gift ideas for 2011

"...Born in Mobile, his fascinating life took him to Green­wich Village, Paris, and Rome, and he was the contemporary..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Book Fest Fare 2010

Find fine fair fare fast

"...of splendid local food available at this year's Texas Book Festival. "We've been working toward that goal for the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

2003 Texas Book Festival Preview

"...Texas Book Festival Schedule All events, which are free and open..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Books Feature

Book Reviews

Recent Titles Reviewed

"...That is indeed a question running through both these books about Al Gore, although Turque's is an encyclopedic and..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Books Feature by Michael King

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...the shiny, wet streets of the district (well, the book doesn't specify that they're shiny and wet, but you..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Fluoride Not Green

"...Bryson and asked the City Council to examine this book with more than 100 pages of footnotes. All members..."

May 4, 2009 Postmarks

Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica

This hefty tome is an unparalleled resource, but it's not for everyone

"...of Texas Maya meetings are present, including Judith Strupp Green's accessible and beautifully illustrated essay on cacao- and maize-based..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels

This paperback collects all seven of the sprawling, epically Southern gothic Sailor & Lula stories

"...got around to writing. After David Lynch adapted that book for film and it won the Palme d'Or at..."

June 18, 2010 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Pimp That Kindle, and Other Gift Ideas for Book Lovers

Gifting books and their accessories

"...model designed to look like a shelf lined with books, while Kate Spade's cover for Barnes & Noble new..."

Nov. 24, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Where the Line Bleeds: A Novel

A different voice tackles the Mississippi blues, with varying effect

"...men mimicking gut-rot Delta blues. However, well into the book the exciting potential of such friction remains exactly that:..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Books Review by Elizabeth Jackson

Pagan Babies: a Novel

"...even decades. There's no harm in missing their newest book because, heck, there's another one on the way next..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Mike Shea

The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America & the American South

A collection of cookbook gift ideas for 2011

"...fusion recipes ever work! Grits with roasted poblanos, collard green tamales in pimiento salsa, chile-cheese biscuits with avocado butter,..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

From the author of Cloud Atlas, a tale of tenuous East/West relations in turn of the 19th century Japan

"...of our generation, and his 2006 follow-up, Black Swan Green, ensured that no critic thought he needed narrative trickery..."

July 2, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

The Cheese Chronicles: A Journey Through the Making and Selling of Cheese in America, From Field to Farm to Table
Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge

Two authors wax poetic about the visceral joys of carefully crafted cheeses

"...Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedgeby Gordon Edgar Chelsea Green, 256 pp., $17.95 (paper)..."

March 26, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Book on Lance Letscher

What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist

"...poetic collages concocted from "found" papers – album covers, books, handwritten recipes, notes, and magazine clippings among them –..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Book Review

"Casares has been listening," Roger Gathman writes of the Brownsville native's Brownsville: Stories. "His dialogues seem to hang just outside the realm of literature, which is where real writing happens." The recent Dobie-Paisano fellow will kick off his book tour at BookPeople on Thursday, March 6, at 7pm.

"...couple of dozen times and was floating in the green water of the resaca." Etc. The world goes to..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Book Reviews

Winter's Tales

"..."Hamlet -- still green and fresh after eight weeks," Hugh writes in his..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Head of the Class

Brandi Clark's groundbreaking works of staggering green-ness

"...Foundation. She has launched an average of one new green venture per year (she has about 12 to date),..."

April 18, 2008 Features Feature by Kathryn O'Shields

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