Eight Ways to Celebrate Lunar New Year 2020 in Austin

Start over (again) with the Year of the Rat

"...Chinese New Year is almost here! Chinese New Year (aka Lunar..."

Jan. 23, 2020 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Austin Chefs Share Their Holiday Traditions

Try something completely different this year

"...around the corner, and once we've crossed that tinsel-frosted New Year's Eve finish line, we'll have survived yet another..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Express Reveal New Logo

Latest look for Round Rock baseball

"...coming for the Round Rock Express. They revealed their new logo today and I have to say I'm a..."

Dec. 2, 2010 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth

What we’re spending time with

"...impromptu jams, friendships, and moments shared that keep these traditions alive and well." – Raoul Hernandez SXSW Music Films..."

May 1, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin University Graduation Traditions

A rundown of local graduation traditions

"...end of the year and the beginning of a new life, students gather at Littlefield Quad and (politely) attack..."

May 17, 2019 Events Post by Kirby Collier

The New Traditional

Damian Mandola has the restaurant business in his blood

"...eyes to a world of Italian cuisine I never knew existed," he says. Since then, Damian has traveled extensively,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Chinese New Year in Austin: A Sort of Parallax View

Leng Wong and Cindy Soo tell it like it is

"...computer's screen, eyeing a press-release email for the Year-of-the-Snake New Year's Celebration at Austin's Chinatown Center...."

Feb. 18, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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 Waves at East Seventh Hangout Kinda Tropical

Reopening promises renewed inclusivity, curated menu

"...eatery Kinda Tropical quietly reopened during SXSW, with a brand-new menu, management team, and mission...."

April 5, 2019 Food Feature by Alex Detmar

On the Sidelines With New Documentary Fathers of Football

Bradley Beesley throws out the playbook for his high school doc

"...now: Last week, he and his family brought his new baby son home. "Future football player, potentially."..."

April 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lunar New Year Parties, OUTsider Fest, and More Recommended Community Events

Get out the vote and more this week

"...stuff! Music stuff! The LBJ Library is bringing a new traveling exhibition – “Music America: Iconic Objects From America’s..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Waco in the Sans Bar, Diwali in Thanksgiving, RedFarm in Downtown, Trona in the News, Graham Reynolds in Cahoots, and, OK, C’mon, Where Is Antonelli’s New Place?

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

"...Yes, citizen, it’s your “Food News Buffet” for the first week of November...."

Nov. 1, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...burned by slavers; the only oddity is that his new friend is a giraffe. With reincarnated cows, a Greek..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

This Crispy Taco Brought to You by 50 Years of Tradition

Tamale House East has the Midas touch

"...the Vasquez family, and all three continued the culinary traditions of Carmen Vasquez, the family matriarch, using unaltered recipes..."

April 18, 2014 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

New Atlantis: New Orleans Music Rebuilds

"...as dear to his heart as the city of New Orleans, where he's lived and worked since 1999...."

March 2, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

All Over Creation: Dispatch From the New Theatre Front

Four new UTNT dramas prove you can't go home again

"...all four productions in the current outing of UT New Theatre in the University of Texas Department of Theatre..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Toast to Tradition

The Foods of New Year's Around the World

"...or my lack of enthusiasm for black-eyed peas, but New Year's Eve never seemed much of a food-centered holiday...."

Dec. 27, 1996 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Please Try This at Home

Local Cookbooks Bring Ethnic Food Traditions to You

"...meals where we share and preserve our family food traditions. Food and cooking are ties that should bind us..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Holiday Productions

Five performing arts groups that revive holiday-themed shows every December share the traditions they've developed within these seasonal traditions

"...Every holiday has its traditions – New Year's Eve parties, Fourth of July fireworks..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...He would at best be a stock figure, the New York media type, a bantamweight package of spin and..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Chef Matt Jennings Collaborates with Olamaie’s Chef Michael Fojtasek

The Austin Food and Wine Alliance dinner series starts June 28

"...celebrity chef Matt Jennings about bringing a taste of New England to Austin...."

June 27, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...promoting my first cookbook, A Taste of Heritage: The New African-American Cuisine, and the way I saw it, African-American..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Beyond Black-Eyed Peas

Eating lucky for New Year's

"...as I can remember, I have never let a new year begin without consuming the traditional Southern good-luck triad..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Ten Canoes

Ten Canoes is as much a work of anthropology as it is a narrative, and its true strength lies in its exploration of ancient aboriginal hunting practices, death rituals, and legal traditions.

"...of ancient aboriginal hunting practices, death rituals, and legal traditions – a simple system of clearly drawn lines and..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

"...man known far and wide for his numerous perverse traditions... but I digress.) Scott moved on years ago but,..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Celebrate MLK Day With P.I.E.

“Peace Includes Everyone” and everyone could use a treat right now

"...was struck by the powerful link between annual holiday traditions and fundamental human values. So much more is folded..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

The Daily Hustle: 10/1/10

City takes over First Night Austin

"...Maybe some of the biggest news yesterday happened outside City Council's meeting...."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Farewell

Awkwafina is the heart of this loving story of families, belonging, and lies

"...to capture the unique combination of family and cultural traditions. What makes Lulu Wang’s The Farewell one of the..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Lucinda Hutson's Colorful Love Letter to Mexico

Two decades of additional research make her latest book shine

"...collection of Mexican folk art. I felt that the new book needed to reflect this better. I had to..."

July 5, 2013 Books Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The Order of Myths

This smart and subtle documentary looks at the ingrained traditions of racial segregation that still remain in the dual Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Ala.

"...de facto segregation in the present. In Brown’s excellent new documentary (which, in the interests of full disclosure, is..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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