It's a Rocket, It's a Hot Air Balloon, It's a ... Decorated Show Cake?

Cake decorators and sugar artists from around the country converge on Austin to compete and learn

"...2013 That Takes the Cake! Sugar Art Show & Competition North Austin Events Center,..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Bonnaroo (From the Pit)

"...wanted to go. Warner had paid for the tickets last minute, ponying up full fare so we had over..."

June 19, 2008 Music Post by Gary Miller

After a Fashion

The Texas Film Hall of Fame honors the legs that launched a thousand clips -- Texas legend Cyd Charisse, and your Style Avatar is off and running in the SXSW sweepstakes.

"...glittering than the Texas Film Hall of Fame awards. Last year was wonderful. This year was dazzling. There were..."

March 15, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Love Is All Around

Lucinda Williams gets married onstage in Minneapolis

"...over two years, Tom Overby, onstage at First Ave. last Saturday night. As the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme..."

Sept. 21, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Toros Tryouts: Day Two

"...a sports blogger was a warm slice of chocolate cake, and I’m willing to make sacrifices, so I beat..."

Nov. 4, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Home Field Advantage

Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.

"...currently shooting in and around Austin, will be the last for Friday Night Lights, other "not so fast" rumors..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

'Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz'

The debut novel from Chronicle staff writer Belinda Acosta: an excerpt

"...– cómo se dice? – a piece of the cake. Mira, take a look around. All these niñitas dressed..."

July 31, 2009 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Record Reviews

"...hair wet against your cheek, soothing you in your last moments of consciousness. Away the eerie siren's call would..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"...by tragedy, the music business, benefit concerts and CDs notwithstanding, is apparently exempt. Just try and talk to anyone..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The Big Crapshoot

Tracking South by Southwest

"...For the last 11 years, people have asked the same question on..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...direct hit from an atomic warhead and the arctic blast of the air-conditioner might shudder momentarily if at all...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...or not Terri Lord's crappily slopped-together cover art to last week's issue on arts funding [Feb. 7] was meant..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Column

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...band of that era, epitomize that spirit completely. Just last week for Sonic Youth, walking into that no-frills, steamy..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...perform up to the eighth month. One of the last things I did was sing the National Anthem at..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...also juggle beanbag chairs. They juggle blazing torches while standing on the shoulders of innocent strangers. They escape from..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Nobody Can't Beat Him

"...Place 6 on the Austin City Council ["Piece of Cake," Vol. 16, No. 23], there is one correction that..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Column

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...more or less explaining the eight-year gap from the last novel to this new one, is a list of..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...because I've noticed your desperate need to get the last word. I encourage you to step down from your..."

July 25, 2003 Column

Live Shots

"...Eastern heritage, with fans of good food and music. Last year, to accommodate burgeoning crowds, the fest moved to..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature

Postmarks

Illbient for Spooky

"...of press internationally. Two months ago his face was plastered all over the covers of several big magazines. He's..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Column

Spam, Spam, Spam

Who won this weekend's Spam Cram at the annual Spamarama?

"...skills. Brent Ricord retained his Spam speed-eating title from last year, beating out the father-and-son team of Dan and..."

April 9, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

An Austin Original

Celebrating the Life of Otto Hofmann,1918-2001

"...He despised this "fake green carpet," or Astroturf, we're standing on. I look ahead at the live oaks on..."

June 8, 2001 Features Feature by Robyn Turner

Record Reviews

"...THE SEA AND CAKE The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Music Review

Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...constellations paralyzed me like a trapped insect. I remember standing and gazing at the field of storybook blue and..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

Wilde Life

"...libretto and music by Richard Strauss, opened the festival last Friday. Salome's story is fairy tale gothiceven in the..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Between Round Rock and a Hard Place

Northridge Acres can't find water, water anywhere.

"...1998 because the community needed an entity with legal standing as it sought grant funding for a sewer project..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Walter Howerton Jr

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Our readers talk back.

"...good for the entire community. All three council members standing for election this spring fit that description. Two voted..."

April 12, 2002 Column

A Commitment to Playwrights

The Life and Legacy of David Mark Cohen

"...diabetic, but wants a nice big piece of chocolate cake, which I serve him. (Didn't my Uncle Buddy, also..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Feature

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...Cauthen turned to his country background for one of last year's best local albums and one of the finest..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

End of the Line

The Passing of Grey Ghost

"...gone, and with him an era. He was the last of the barrelhouse piano players, a first- generation Texas..."

July 26, 1996 Music Feature

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