Second Helpings: American Cafes, Part I
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Aug. 29, 2003 Food Column
A Piece of Work
Denise Prince Martin's photographs featuring lone female subjects in unusual settings are nothing if not lush, capturing the color, luster, and texture of every element with uncanny crispness, but they also reveal in the expressions of their subjects women with stories to tell, women worth getting to know.
"...is so arresting, you might miss the hundreds of magnolia petals heaped at her bare feet. In Pink Umbrella,..."
Aug. 15, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...Lake Austin Boulevard and Veterans Drive (across from the Magnolia Cafe), a point already overrun by pedestrians, cars, strollers,..."
June 27, 2003 News Feature
Vaguely Purposed Zombies
Maybe astral projection is the best way to survive one of those nutty First Thursday thingies after all …
"...Lambert's, El Sol y la Luna, Texas French Bread, Magnolia Cafe, etc. No problem, right?..."
May 30, 2003 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Fast, Fresh, Portable, Affordable
Hello, hungry traveler. Welcome to the land of the breakfast taco!
"...visit complete without a pilgrimage to Cisco's, Kerbey Lane, Magnolia, or Las Manitas? More and more these days, however,..."
March 14, 2003 Food Feature
Southern Destroyer
Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute
"...Oxford, and by magnetic extension the Magnolia State itself, has a heavy, brilliant air about it...."
Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley
Second Helpings: For 24-hour Party People
Up all night? Hungry? Literate? Then read on.
Jan. 17, 2003 Food Column
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Luv Video, Texadelphia, Kerbey Lane, Room Service, Jo's Coffee, Magnolia (my list includes over 150 locations)? I can go..."
Nov. 29, 2002 Column
Guy Clark
Texas Platters
"...leg and becomes a fiddler. Then there's "Mud" and "Magnolia Wind," songs as breezy and filled with crackling sentiment..."
Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Highest Stakes
Groobee gal Susan Gibson steps out on her own, chin up.
"...of fresh water and wide-open windows before bouncing into Magnolia Cafe for a salad and some talk...."
Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Good Show
It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.
"...switches gears here slightly; instead of his epically proportioned Magnolia and Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love is a 91-minute dramedy..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
On the Stratus Party Line
"...insiders. The reported soirée sightings have ranged from the Magnolia Cafe to Jeffrey's -- the latter most recently on..."
Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Postmarks
"...spring the Chronicle reported rumors of exhibitors like Landmark, Magnolia, and Madstone duking it out for the rights to..."
July 19, 2002 Column
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...spring the Chronicle reported rumors of exhibitors like Landmark, Magnolia, and Madstone duking it out for the rights to..."
July 12, 2002 Column
The 2002 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll
Index
"...Magnolia Cafe, 1920 S. Congress, 445-0000Readers Breakfast, Readers Late Night..."
May 24, 2002 Food Feature
Coach's Corner
Tiger Woods is a column-killer; what more is there to say about The Glory of Tiger?
"...better about their own sorry-ass games, what with lovely magnolia trees clunked, a myriad of $8 golf balls littering..."
April 19, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Clandestino Destino (A Clandestine Destiny)
"...by: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Starring: Alfonso Téllez, Rafael Monroy, Magnolia Rivas, Denis Montiel and Arturo Villaseñor. Hermosillo tackles futurism..."
March 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Food-o-File
For all of Austin's March visitors -- SXSW participants, rodeo fans, basketball parents, relative newcomers, or just plain curious foodies -- Food Editor Virginia B. Wood gives the lowdown on local dining.
"...favorite joints like Las Manitas (211 Congress, 472-9357), the Magnolia Cafes (2304 Lake Austin Blvd., 478-8645; 1920 S. Congress,..."
March 8, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Second Helpings: 24-Hour Joints
Twenty-four hour joints in this week's "Second Helpings"
Jan. 11, 2002 Food Column
Naked City
"...budget) from foundations, including the Alliance for Better Campaigns, Magnolia Charitable Trust, the Open Society Institute, the Margaret Cullinan..."
Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
Charley Patton Reviewed
"...the enthusiasm. Songs like "Rattlesnake Blues," "Prayer of Death," "Magnolia Blues," and "High Water Everywhere" hold their own with..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord
Second Helpings: American Cafes
The Chronicle's roundup of diners and cafes in this week's "Second Helpings."
June 8, 2001 Food Column
A Life on Wheels
"...jobs already: Terra Toys at Christmas, baking cookies for Magnolia [Cafe], substitute teaching, child care ... and this postering..."
May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Shadrock Roberts
The Holmes Brothers, Antone's, Wednesday, March 15, Bobby Rush, Antone's, Thursday, March 16, Ike Turner Revue, Antone's, Friday March 17
Live Shots: South by Southwest 2001
"...I caught the last few minutes of his fellow Magnolia statesmen, the North Mississippi Allstars at La Zona Rosa...."
March 23, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...do, make sure you don't forget the Record Convention, Magnolia, and especially not the Broken Spoke. Go see a..."
March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Dancing About Architecture
Mardi Gras Rioting on Sixth Street brands Austin "The Mace, Pepper Spray, and Rubber Bullet Capital of the World"
"...released as a promo EP, the new LP excludes "Magnolia" in favor of the unissued material. Don't ask me..."
March 2, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Naked City
Texans for Public Justice criticizes a longstanding recruitment practice of big law firms -- paying hiring bonuses and other benefits to Supreme Court clerks who agree to join the firms after their clerkships.
"...Better Campaigns (Pew Charitable Trusts), the Arca Foundation, the Magnolia Charitable Trust, the National Association for Public Interest Law,..."
Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Michael King
A Question of Beauty
The function of beauty is to connect our innermost being to the world.
"...glowed all on its own. "A single tree, a magnolia, in a shower of reddish blossoms. It was as..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura
A Man of Character
State and Main star William H. Macy talks about his iconic position as America's indie darling, the state of indie filmmaking today, and what on earth Gus Van Sant was thinking.
"...bracing character roles in P.T. Anderson's Boogie Nights and Magnolia. (Of Anderson, Macy says with a chuckle, "Oh, man...."
Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Best Bites
The Cuisines Staff Noshes Through 2000
"...9. Love Veggies at Magnolia Cafe: Granted, there are dozens of items that kids..."
