Top 10 Local Fried Chicken Meals of 2020

Wear your masks and support Austin’s restaurants

"...Happy Chicks Rare is the find of legit fried chicken..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

35 of the City's Best Food Vendors Are Ready to Take Your Order at ACL Music Festival

"...Happy Chicks They're all about those chicken tenders – original,..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Food Feature

Deals for Austin Restaurant Weeks Continue

Dine at award-winning restaurants and help Central Texas Food Bank

"...Rosewood, which just launched an all-night happy hour on Thursdays, has a four-course dinner menu planned..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

The Bandera Way

Scenes from a marriage in four acts.

"...man who's written hits for George Strait, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, and dozens of others...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Redemption Song

Kelly Willis follows up her career best -- Easy.

"...priorities. It keeps coming up in interviews. I'm so happy and proud to have this little boy in my..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...either coming or going, formations of bikers, looking incredibly happy and terribly sunburned. At gas stations on the way,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

TCB

"...passable rendition of "Voodoo Chile" on guitar, while one happy staffer marveled, "These are the hottest women I've ever..."

March 21, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...will continue beyond that, be sure. These people aren't happy unless they have something to protest. The poll about..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Texas Platters

"...is so much more than just aural Seconal or pedal-happy feedback. Intimate melodies suddenly exploding into psychedelic euphoria have..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Highest Stakes

Groobee gal Susan Gibson steps out on her own, chin up.

"...the best-selling single in country music history, the Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces," Susan Gibson is concerned with the..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

Bob Schneider

"...down, because I still enjoyed it. It made me happy to go down and perform."..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Penguins

Chilly nature documentary has a cuddly heart that's perfect for young animal lovers

"...monogamous), lay their eggs, and hatch and raise the chicks with a more or less equal division of labor..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crackin' Up

The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'

"...fisticuffs with two other bands (first, New Zealand's Mint Chicks; and, last month at SXSW, Cleveland's This Moment in..."

April 14, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Simple Man, Simple Dream

Part of the Seventies Southern California songwriting cabal that produced Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles, J.D. Souther brings his craft to the Dripping Springs Songwriters' Festival

"...the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, and the Dixie Chicks. Souther helped map the Southern California soft-rock sound of..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Bernadette Nason

A local storytelling star gets a chance to spin a yarn on a national stage

"...That's the tale behind Chicks at the Church Quiz, a one-night-only evening of storytelling..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For Mature Audiences Only

How did Kevin Smith prep to make a movie about two kids making a porn? Years of research.

"...there – women – who don't want to watch chicks getting degraded or choked or spit on like some..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...in a dozen dimly lit lover's lanes, and more pogo-happy, Television-era punk rawk than prettyboy Julian Casablancas ever swiped...."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

New Year's New Clubs, New Arrangements for the Austin Music Network and, well, News.

"...further up the street, cops were letting cute college chicks pose for photos with them on their motorcycles (there's..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Gay Place: That's Where I Wanna Be: Lenny!

This week's week of nuts is kicked off with OUTsider's first outing: MayDayGayDay

"...CHICKS WITH STICKS Space Vampire and Barefoot on Bumblebees pound..."

May 2, 2014 Column

Taking Austin for a 'Spin'

TCBlog make the Austin rounds in the new Spin.

"...Austin tradition of taking credit for anything the Dixie Chicks do even though none of them live here anymore,..."

April 25, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...going to do with that?" And I'm always so happy when a designer says, "Oh, we're not touching that!"..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Lean, Mean, and Smoking!

Kris McKay

"...I've got an album that I finally feel really happy about... or as happy as any artists can be..."

July 12, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Faster Than Sound: Contextualizing Broken Spoke Owner James White

Honky-tonky lifer died of congestive heart failure at age 81

"...Acuff, and Ernest Tubb alongside countless locals – Dixie Chicks, Don Walser, Dale Watson – at his country music..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Meet Austin’s Funk Prodigy D-Madness

Blind purveyor of soul, hip-hop, and reggae takes us behind the curtain

"...he could put his hands on. It kept him happy...."

July 28, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Patty Griffin

"...The Dixie Chicks must be disappointed. They've borrowed often from Patty Griffin's..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Off the Record

OTR goes country with Mike & the Moonpies and Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

"...the feisty return of Austin's anti-Antebellum ladies, the Dixie Chicks, who proved still "Not Ready To Make Nice" with..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...in both French and English, bouncing out a glitzy, club-happy dance pop that's best "When the Night Falls."– Chase..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...is just a good-time outfit. Produced by the Dixie Chicks' Lloyd Maines, the album leads a gritty journey into..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...looking forward to the free concert. I was so happy to finally go back to Auditorium Shores for a..."

March 21, 2003 Column

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...His new Hearts of Oak is a wellspring of beat-happy intrigue. (Emo's Jr., 8pm-2am) -- Greg Beets..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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