Liquid Assets

Texas wines with a little something extra

"...The other white that we make magic with is Viognier. At its best, and it's hard..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Food Column

Day Trips

Robert Cave's Albert Icehouse in Albert, Texas, is a great place to stop between Austin and Luckenbach for a cool beverage and live music on Saturdays

"...blacktop winds through the hills toward Stonewall like a magic carpet. The farm-to-market road is lined with the reds..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

An 'Our Town' for Our Town

With 100 Austin stories, Zach builds a city on a stage

"...Ginger by campus (Inner Sanctum Records, the Cadeau, the Magic Mushroom) and see live music (Zappa at the Armadillo!),..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The American Folk Blues Festival Series

Gift guide

"...Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim, T-Bone Walker, Otis Rush, Lonnie Johnson, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and John Lee Hooker...."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...The magic of radio roamed the flat, sweeping plains of the..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

HCC Celebrates Five Years

Hill Country land trust looks for further harmony in the future

"...That war is still raging, but the peace treaty's "magic bullet" – the creation of a visionary land trust..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Food-o-File

If you weren't at Eat, Drink, Watch Movies on Sunday night, you missed quite a party. Time to thank the people who made it possible.

"...prepared the food sacrificed their Sunday off to work magic (there's no better way to put it). Erickson and..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Scott Johnson..."

July 30, 2004 Column

The Six Parts Seven

"...this song into gold. The same goes for Will Johnson's "re.alization" of "Song of Impossible Things." The project starts..."

March 12, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Trail Mix

Paul Stekler on 'Last Man Standing' and the 10 essential ingredients of political documentary

"...film, you've got a state that produced a Lyndon Johnson, where Ann Richards was still governor just a decade..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Liquid Assets

The 'Chronicle' food and wine update: spring, 2003

"...2001, they planted a grape that Parker should make magic with: shiraz...."

May 9, 2003 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Liquid Assets

World-class white wine -- from Texas!

"...The grape that gives those wines some magic is Viognier (vee-on-yay). It's a tough little grape to..."

April 25, 2003 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Capitol Chronicle

In the battle of the budget, the weakest go to the wall.

"...the biggest increases since the wartime budgets of the Johnson administration: He called it a "guns and caviar" budget,..."

May 10, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Curt Kirkwood

Live Shot

"...The Brothers Johnson notwithstanding, Curt Kirkwood is all about stomp. Bounding onto..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

"...Scott Johnson..."

June 8, 2001 Column

His Girl Friday

One of the finest examples of screwball comedy and an excellent adaptation of a story that has been told many times

"...The Front Page), it is the kind of studio magic that occurred when the powers-that-be assigned the best work..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...first jazz record ever cut; stride pianist James P. Johnson's "Charleston"; Louis Armstrong leading his own groups and with..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...reminder of how finely modulated his 1993 collection The Magic of Blood is...."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The Privateers

Texas Platters

"...their gliding guitars and glistening rhythm cast a similarly magic aura. Like sundown coming through the stained yellow glass..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Little City Hall

Architectural Team Picked to Design Scaled-Down Building

"...with its evil twin, the Convention Center) had become magic bullets in the downtown six-gun, and with the subsequent..."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tocai

"...has little or no input. At Tocai, chef Betsy Johnson and Garcia work in tandem to create a menu..."

March 24, 2000 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Alcina: Mystery Pageant

Local Arts Reviews

"...passages, the rush of notes ascending upward gloriously. Daniel Johnson and the Texas Early Music Project Baroque Orchestra imbue..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

String Theory

Do-It-Yourself Symphony

"..."There was magic made that night," recalls Stopschinski. "Those Tosca girls played..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...stage entertainment consisting of unrelated songs, dances, acrobatic and magic acts, humorous skits and sketches. Its dominance in stateside..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Infectious Love of Good Wine

"...making. We would look up the wines in Hugh Johnson's Wine Encyclopedia, read about the history of the grape,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Hard Water

Second Place

"...Once I held it ten seconds longer than Terry Johnson at the Thorne Street pool. And for my prize..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Sharon L. Dutton

Live Shots

Brian Setzer Orchestra, Br5-49

"...and laid into the microtonal Delta slide of Robert Johnson's "Walking Blues," singing with a babble and moan that..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Feature

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...chose to film here. The site retains an ineffable magic, partly from its ensconced position where the mountains open..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Mexican Food 101

Salvation in a Glass: An Ode to the Frozen Margarita

"...haul or gulp 'em with gusto. Just remember the magic words when you're close to running dry: "Una más,..."

March 12, 1999 Food Feature

The Inspiration of Necessity

"...Jim Hall, and Pearcy Heath on bass continues making magic. "Freddie," he says with a wide smile as the..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

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