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All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...from numerous PR releases, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdroppings...."

Jan. 19, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The G'Raj Is Closed, Micklethwait Does Tacos, Sazan Ramen Sizzles, and What's Cooking at 1417?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds tingling

"...Here’s some of what’s happening in Austin’s vast and multivalent culinary scene, as wrangled from numerous PR releases,..."

July 7, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Coming Up Lemons

The House Bill on public school finance goes to the floor, and it's all about tax cuts and slot machines

"..."Lame-Duck" Wilson against seven Democrats, to approve a massive and largely unread House Bill 1 that only a casino..."

May 7, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Austin Eats Is Now Bigger and Better Than Ever!

If these choices aren't enough for you, we don't know what is

"...– from longtime Austin favorites to award-winning fine-dining establishments and plenty in between – with more wraps, tacos, and..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Claudia Alarcón

ACL's Food Court Keeps the Crowds Nourished and the Good Times Rolling

Take an ACL break Austin-style with local eateries and portable fine dining

"...(never mind the heat) that goes into feeding the thousands of hungry and thirsty festivalgoers who line up all..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Mom and Apple Pie

Celebrating the new America

"...something intoxicating about the full color spreads in my grandmother's and mother's magazines. 35 holiday entertaining ideas. 10 patriotic..."

July 3, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Of Mercy and Mississippi

On the Bookshelf

"...their lives. In alternating chapters, Edmund, an elderly father and retired firefighter, and Anne, his grown daughter who is..."

July 18, 1997 Books Review

From Tweeting to Eating

How food and technology are changing Austin

"...industry about what they like to do for entertainment and a common response is "Eat." Tech industry people are..."

March 13, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Top 10 Austin Food Blogs

"...It takes a lot of talent, dedication, ability, and endurance to successfully keep a blog going, especially as,..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Top 10 Austin Food Blogs

"...noticed, which in turn spurs the creators to greater and greater effort, which makes for increased posting, more beautiful..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Winners Make Our Pulse Quicken

Six soon-to-be sated Gay Place readers win Trojan vibes

"...When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Or in this case, when..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Chasing Teen Coin

"...strong elements of church singing.” So writes R&B scholar and music purveyor Billy Vera in the liner notes to..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Food Is People

Look at Jody Horton's photographs of food, and you'll see the passionate folks who make it

"...off by the sun-bright yellow corn on the cob and lemons nestled among them. Their shells aren't shiny, but..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...wryly like he does. "I was born in Kansas and moved almost immediately to Amarillo, where I lived the..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Like the Rest of Us

Atmosphere's Slug isn't dead from tequila poisoning yet

"...A hell-bent touring schedule has put Atmosphere – Slug and DJ Anthony “Ant” Davis – in Austin on two..."

Nov. 5, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Maudie

A Canadian folk artist falls for a fishmonger

"...Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose and Billy MacLellan...."

July 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Year in Food

The 2014 tastes we just couldn't stop thinking about

"...1) LOVE & LEMONS Another year of hitting the ball out..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Italia With & Without

Week One: The Tour

"...Milano airport, I ate lunch twice -- prosciutto panini and salmon on white bread -- and a look at..."

May 28, 1999 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Limonade Tous les Jours

Some of the production elements in the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's staging of Limonade Tous les Jours may be sour, but with Charles Mee's adorably written script, adorably acted here, the show takes lemons and makes champagne: an effervescent, intoxicating evening.

"...Limonade Tous les Jours: From Lemons, Champagne..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Always Coming Back Home to You

Welcome to the big time, Slug. We’re glad you noticed.

"...back of the venue usually starts at that tree and runs straight across to that light over there,” Slug..."

Aug. 6, 2009 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...Kirk Franklin 7pm, PromiseLand Church Fort Worth vocal powerhouse Kirk Franklin hasn't abandoned..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Shalom, Y'all

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...include a special Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) service and screening of Assaf Bernstein's The Debt, with a discussion..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature

Hot August Nights Playlist

A hot/cold jukebox to jumpstart your Spotify wormholing

"...of the South Austin Popular Culture Center at work and home – CentPop – I hadn’t foreseen the pressing..."

Aug. 27, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Farmers' Market Report: Dec. 21-22, 2013

Heirloom tomatoes, Meyer lemons, and perhaps a Christmas ham

"...there will be lots of vendors at every market, and plenty of last minute gift items...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Chef Karey B. Johnson Brings Coastal Glow to Whole Foods Culinary Center

Rockport chef shares Gulf Coast flavors

"...B. Johnson of Glow restaurant in Rockport is in love with the Texas Gulf Coast and its food offerings...."

Oct. 1, 2012 Food Post by MM Pack

A Place of Her Own

In her two short story collections, Lasting Attachments and Crossing Shattuck Bridge, Annette Sanford can be laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and tragic, sometimes in the same breath. But she couldn't do it if she lived in the city. The country is indelibly her metier.

"...If Annette Sanford were as quaint and knowable as her short stories suggest she is, Hollywood,..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...stars have aligned for South by Southwest’s latest keynotes and featured speakers announcement – meaning a ton of celebrities,..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Finding God in the Gumbo

Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment

"...When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So easy to say. But what do..."

May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...braggadocious Texas oil man resonates from Odessa to London and from Australia to Japan. The world that spawned that..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Where the Shadows Are Deepest

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

"...But for someone who must have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail at least 100 times in his..."

May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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