New Fortune's Kaput, There's an Otoko x Nixta, Bento Picnic's A-Grillin', Mudbugs are Back, and More

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

"...Here’s your weekly Food News Buffet with some of what’s happening in Austin’s culinary..."

March 23, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Fortune's Kaput, There's an Otoko x Nixta, Bento Picnic's A-Grillin', Mudbugs are Back, and More

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

March 26, 2021 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Essential Food for Chinese New Year in Austin

Top-notch dishes to ring in the Year of the Dog

"...During Chinese New Year – celebrated on Friday, Feb. 16 this year..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Food Post by Mae Hamilton

Six Places to Celebrate Chinese New Year in Austin

Feast your way through the Year of the Rooster

"...The Year of the Rooster begins with the Chinese New Year tomorrow and plenty of places around town are..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Food Post by Sierra Diaz

Solider of Fortune

Thin Lizzy's “Still Dangerous,” just ask its anchoring guitarist Scott Gorham.

"...for bottling the Lizzy lightning. Not bad for a newly discovered vault find “baked” into digital existence by Gorham..."

April 23, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Meet Your New City Council, Austin!

Recapping the run-offs

"...to concede just yet, it appears as though the new City Council is finally here, and it looks almost..."

Dec. 17, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Good Luck Eats for New Year's Day

Southern food traditions and recipes to ensure prosperity in 2013

"...the Deep South, three dishes are requisite fare on New Year’s Day, and the enduring popularity of all three..."

Dec. 29, 2012 Food Post by Mick Vann

New Albums for Octopus Project and Okkervil River

Popular indie hypnotists tease upcoming LPs

"...Electronic rock sprocket the Octopus Project has a new album due out this summer, set for release on..."

June 10, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Statham and Ritchie reunite for an oddly monotonous spy flick

"...up once again for jumbled retro-revival spy flick Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre...."

March 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Anne Rapp's Fortune

The screenwriter of Cookie’s Fortune talks about storytelling, working in the business, and the incredible collaborator she found in Robert Altman.

"...by cinema legend Robert Altman? Rapp's screenplay was Cookie's Fortune, the critically well-received movie that played in theatres earlier..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...police shootings in May, documented by local photographer Rahim Fortune in a great series for Rolling Stone. – Rachel Rascoe..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock and Mike D Talk Trap, Basketball, Bogus Conspiracies, SXSW, and Their New Book

"We realized that all we do have, before this started and after it ends, is the three of us.”

"...they're thinking about the past. The seminal rap trio's new scrapbook/autobiography, October's Beastie Boys Book, released six years after..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Chinese New Year 2013

Asian communities worldwide celebrate the year of the snake

"...simultaneously; both festivals celebrate the beginning of the lunar new year, and it is the major festival in Asia...."

Feb. 2, 2013 Food Post by Mick Vann

Top 8 Reasons to Vote for a New Main Library

"...6 provides "$90 million for constructing and equipping a new central library facility," as part of the city of..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Conversations With Two Former Austin Chefs in New York

"...Tien Ho: two successful young chefs now working in New York who recently lived and cooked in Austin. Both..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

New Territories

Austin Lyric Opera Ventures Into the Frontier Once More

"...a culture, America came to savor the challenge of new territory. We kept pushing west through one frontier after..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Brave New World

If Just for One Day...

"...gold and copper mine. Munninghoff has been in the news because of his report on human rights violations, and..."

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...It Up to You" and Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune" to Charlie Rich's "Lonely Weekends" got transformed into a..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

The Hightower Report: How Many Working-Class Populists Are in Trump’s New Government?

More than half of The Donald's Department of Defense transition team have worked as executives or lobbyists

"...Betsy DeVos, the billionaire heiress to the scandal-plagued Amway fortune. Her life's work has been trying to defund and..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: How Many Working-Class Populists are in Trump’s New Government?

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

"...Betsy DeVos, the billionaire heiress to the scandal-plagued Amway fortune. Her life's work has been trying to defund and..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

New Street Craft Book Features Local Yarnbomber Magda Sayeg

We’d recommend it anyway, because it’s just that good

"...Now it’s our good fortune, as readers and connoisseurs of art, that Thames &..."

March 3, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Also New in Graphic Novels

"...happiness, perhaps for the first time. Alas, all this fortune does not last, as the story veers off into..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Rocha Case: New Drug Evidence Raises Questions About County Lab

First test showed no drugs in suspect; second contradicted

"...retest after receiving a call from APD Detective Art Fortune, who told the ME that there "was considerable evidence..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria

"...you this with absolute sincerity: I've made a literal fortune from Hollywood. Are they ever going to make a..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Soldier of Fortune

Comic Steven Wright offers observations on his return to short film, "One Soldier," the pressure of following up an Academy Award, and this bad trick called life.

"...with audiences three times. Then it was in the New York comedy festival. Someone I know went and told..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Into the Blue

There's a crisp little thriller anchored in this movie about pretty people wearing skimpy swimwear in a beautiful locale.

"...wrinkly and toothsome like father James), on vacation from New York City with a skanky gal (Scott) and the..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

All Good Thoughts, All Good Food

The symbolism and celebration of Tet, the Vietnamese new year

"...recent review, I received an invite to a Vietnamese New Year's dinner at the home of Tâm Bui, co-owner..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Café Society

A lesser Woody Allen film, but not without its pleasures

"...spend more time honing his scripts before rushing each new one into production with every passing season, Allen might..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Operation Condor

"...(Armour of God II: Operation Condor), repackaged with a new score, better dubbing (Chan does Chan, natch), and some..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mambo Kings

"...story begins in 1952 as they leave Cuba for New York City to make their fame and fortune as..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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