Basic Instincts

While one of the characteristics of umami is subtlety, Umami Mia Pizzeria is anything but

"...is bound to drop a ball or two every now and again, and Umami Mia is no exception to..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Food Review by Melanie Haupt

Toros Tryouts: Day One, Part Two

"...Austin to Houston (even going so far as to trace an impromptu map on the gym door), asking about..."

Oct. 22, 2006 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

All Over Creation: Here Today ...

Site-specific art that exists so briefly says a lot about Austin

"...with the creek and its banks, into a space not only more beautiful but also dynamic, the mobiles activating..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

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"...film. Made in 1992, Public Access i s just now receiving limited national distribution despite having won the top..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

'Miami Connection' Connects After 25 Years

Grandmaster Y.K. Kim reels as his 1987 flop becomes a 2012 cult

"...this was a film that should have disappeared without trace. A vanity project by Korean immigrant Y.K. Kim, the..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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Our readers talk back.

"...My Beliefs More Important Than Laws..."

April 2, 2004 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Last week Rep.Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, joined fellow Austinite and..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...had sex with before. This ending is a shame not so much because the viewer wants Stewart and Christopher..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...Time is a continuum that's sometimes hard to trace. Look too far back and things get hazy. Try..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

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Our readers talk back.

"...Antone's Record Store..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

How Much Mold?

AISD's notion of mold remediation might be too little money, too few schools.

"...been a lot of testing and they have found nothing." Well, not quite nothing. Fuentes admits that the consultant..."

April 19, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...Miami Steve Van Zandt, Silvio Dante, Frank Tagliano – a phone call with the E Street Band..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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Our readers talk back.

"...Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in 'Chron'..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...The morning starts normally for Lucinda. Well, maybe not normal, since she's in..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Film Reviews

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"...of his daughter to an irritatingly successful and singularly unobjectionable man, lives in a white, picket-fence dream house, truly..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Walk a Mile

The Texas Documentary Tour: Ramona Diaz's 'Imelda'

"...When, with unblinking earnestness and nary a trace of irony, Imelda Marcos tells the camera that "when..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

"...been out of print for 12 years. It took novelist Stuart O'Nan's eloquent appeal in the Boston Review in..."

June 29, 2001 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

Day Labors - Night Falls

Austin's Day Labor Site Attracts Drugs, Criminals

"...had closed its doors at 4pm; and there was no show scheduled that night at Liberty Lunch. So what..."

Aug. 30, 1996 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Lewis) were persuaded by Austin Energy's argument that if not approved now, the improvements could delay the reopening until..."

March 19, 1999 News Feature

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...The police were not looking for LaShandra Charles and her cousin Marcell Taylor,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...people. The bust put tiny Tulia (population 5,000), previously known primarily for its bustling livestock auction, on the map,..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

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Preserve Town Lake

"...Bloch cancer survivors' memorial ["Council Blocks Bloch," Vol. 16, No. 11] got the facts correct, but did not provide..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Column

Austin Mother Deported With U.S. Citizen Children

Looking for traces of the vanished Denisse Parra Vargas

"...was a quick and quiet affair. Undocumented immigrants don’t leave much of a paper trail. In America, deportations are..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Miyazaki, Hot Boys, Jane Austen Improv, and More Recommended Events

The weekend is looking ... a little weird

"...and star of the stage. Mary Frith – better known to her adoring fans and infuriated sheriffs as Moll..."

July 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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Our readers talk back.

"...It Is the Time for ReasonDear Editor,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...or, most vividly, CSI: Anywhere – Lari Burson would've known what killed her father last summer, within about 24..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...investigative books (and maybe a bodice ripper?), but by November, its grounds will be used for a more exalted..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...Stanwyck and MacMurray torched the screen in Billy Wilder's here's-how-you-do-noir Double Indemnity, the two did a slow-burn comic waltz..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Untiring Efforts

The investigation has just begun, but already one city employee has been put on administrative leave

"...has placed one Fleet Services Division employee on administrative leave pending further investigation, and Chief Financial Officer Leslie Browder..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...For more than 100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the household names,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

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