Review: Welcome to Hans Zimmer’s Hard Rock Cafe

Composer amps up film scores at Moody Center live show

"...that title when Lebo M joined Zimmer onstage to lift spirits with a medley of songs from the 1994..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Music Feature by Cat McCarrey

Food-o-File

2009 ended in a flurry of culinary activity

"...(12233 RR 620 N., 331-4660, www.vivo-austin.com); the casual new Lift Cafe (215-A S. Lamar, 472-LIFT, www.liftaustin.com) is open just..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Pun de Deux

Kathy Dunn Hamrick gives the lowest form of humor a lift in The BarreTenders

"...Where Every Pun Is Intended, opening this weekend at Cafe Dance, takes that element common to so many ballet..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Executive Order Reopens Texas Businesses to 100% Capacity and Lifts Mask Mandate

Local restaurants respond on social media

"...Beginning next Wednesday, March 10, Texas will lift its statewide mask mandate and allow all businesses to..."

March 2, 2021 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...T. Pearson of Denton's favorite Old Testament-fixated space-rockin' cowboys Lift to Experience is playing a rare solo set, previewing..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Cafe Bleu

It's Not Just About Beer and Nachos Anymore

"...Cafe Bleu8714 Lime Creek Rd., 401-6660..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-O-File

"...a serious attraction in Manor, the 47-year-old Texas roadhouse Cafe 290. Longtime owner Andy Taylor recently sold the cafe..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Driskill 1886 Cafe & Bakery

Driskill 1886 Cafe & Bakery is home of impressive chefs and bad food service

"...Driskill 1886 Cafe & Bakery604 Brazos, 391-7121 Sunday-Thursday, 6:30am-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 6:30am-12mid; breakfast..."

May 23, 2008 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

2012 Restaurant Poll Results and Guide

And the winner is ... you, because you get to nom on all these treats

"...Pub and Brewery, East Side King, and Eliz­a­beth St. Cafe. In addition, several newer places garnered top honors in..."

May 18, 2012 Food Feature

Road Shows

"...FRI 20 Steeleye Span, Cactus Cafe..."

June 20, 1997 Music Feature

Smokey Joe's Cafe

Dave Steakley's version of Smokey Joe's Cafe at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center sets ablaze dozens of familiar hits from the musical catalog of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller by shifting the setting to a Playboy Club circa 1962 and rekindling the flames of desire that burn in the team's songs.

"...Smokey Joe's Cafe: Flame-KissedZachary Scott Theatre Center Kleberg Stage, through Jan. 5..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...ranks of Austin songwriters once and for all. (Cactus Cafe, 9pm) -- Christopher Hess..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Road Shows

"...FRI 27 Indigo Girls, Lift, Backyard..."

June 27, 1997 Music Feature

Mark Killian's "Future Planning"

Second Place winner

"...I wedge my hands in his armpits and lift him like a defensive lineman, his limp penis bouncing..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Mark Killian

The Way We Ate

'Historic Austin Restaurants': an excerpt

"...there was Captain Quackenbush's Intergalactic Dessert Company and Espresso Cafe...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Food Feature

Naked City

"...of operating an illegal gambling operation at the Internet Cafe in Pflugerville, according to the Travis County Sheriff's Office...."

April 27, 2007 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...showcase, another Grammy fest. Two Latin statuette vets here, Cafe Tacuba guitarist Joselo, who debuts his sweet, scratching Oso,..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

A Hell of a Year

Kathy McCarty presses Jon Dee Graham about the good and the bad old and new days

"...He was playing in a local band called the Lift that was in the process of breaking up, and..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Music Feature by Kathy McCarty

Proud Mary Is More Than Just a Pretty Face

Elite coffee with zero attitude

"...an undeniable Instagramminess to Proud Mary, the airy Australia-inspired cafe tucked right off of South Lamar Boulevard. Blond wood,..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...himself straps weights to his hands in order to lift them. It should also be said that, as with..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...and they are all women -- are rehearsing at Cafe Dance, a small (I mean intimate!) dance studio in..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

As You Like It

Welcome! The following is our comprehensive Austin guide to the American classic commonly known as the hamburger.

"...This 20-year-old neighborhood cafe is as comfortable as an old pair of shoes,..."

March 7, 2003 Food Feature

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood says goodbye to her beloved South Austin neighborhood.

"...eateries in the immediate area such as the Magnolia Cafe South and Dan's Hamburgers on South Congress, the legendary..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...from my new South Austin home to Little City Cafe on Congress Avenue left me bewildered and confused. Where..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

Postmarks

Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."

"...often my neck "hangs up" and I have to lift my head out of the new vertebrae that was..."

March 17, 2000 Column

A Saucy, Seven-Course Musical at Boggy Creek Farm

Jade Fusco’s activist interactive recruited members of Ley Line, BluMoon, and more

"...plague of racism" infected their brains. Thankfully, with a lift of their veils, local "pleasure priestexx" Gothess Jasmine stopped..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Nagavalli's East-and-West Fusing LP Reaches Beyond

The divine feminine of Numinosum

"...hired for a grand coming out at the Cactus Cafe, home to myriad guest appearances with Rajamani. Paying musicians..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Can Dirty Sixth Be Cleaned Up?

City Hall, the bars and clubs, and now a big developer say, “Maybe?”

"...representatives painted a picture of the district alive with cafes and fine dining restaurants, retail and live music, and..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...hold until they submitted the subsequent zoning case to lift the NCCD a year later. That led to a..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: Israel Nash Sets the Hill Country Reeling

Potent C&W psych alights despite global downturn

"...Love to all those who are suffering and please lift spirits wherever and whenever you can, even at these..."

May 5, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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