Pickling Peaches with the Big Bad Chef

Award-winning Southern chef John Currence shares pickling expertise

"...fan, having eaten in his City Grocery restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi back in the days when I used to..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes From My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some

"...have passed since I made the long trek to Oxford, Miss., for a Southern Foodways Symposium and was rewarded..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wineries of the United States

This book on American wine is accurate, insightful, and on target

"...wrote The Concise World Atlas of Wine and The Oxford Companion to Wine. Now she delivers another verifiable classic...."

March 29, 2013 Food Column by Wes Marshall

SXSW Film Reviews: 'Hawking'

Stephen Hawking himself narrates this extraordinary film about his life

"...with freethinking parents, through his desultory academic beginnings at Oxford, and finally to an assured place in the pantheon..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Michael King

The AggreGAYtor: July 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• Oxford University alters dress code for trans inclusivity...."

July 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Bill W.

Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the subject of this admiring yet enlightening documentary.

"...of its program, A.A. owes much to the Christian-based Oxford Group, which was a growing social movement of the..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anonymous

Normally a maker of big, explosive movies, Roland Emmerich directs this conspiracy-minded potboiler which questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.

"...is that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the lot and was himself relegated to history's..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What's Old Is New

On Margaret Moser's bedside books, older is better

"...Crofter & The Laird by John McPhee, 1969 The Oxford Companion to Irish History 1998 London by Edward Rutherford..."

July 28, 2011 Books Post by Margaret Moser

Hill Country Highlights

An afternoon at a vineyard uncovering what Texas wines have to offer

"...Texas wineries. She's just been assigned to write The Oxford Companion to Wine's American edition, and she was here..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Food Column by Wes Marshall

An Education

Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on.

"...with her bourgeois parents while studying to take her Oxford exams. She is a girl waiting for her life..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

16th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

The drama, the deliberations, and one winning story: Greg Koehler's 'Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch'

"..."Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?" –Vampire Weekend..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The History Boys

If you like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys, based on the stage play, is for you.

"...excellent board scores, they’re up for scholarships at either Oxford or Cambridge, the golden eggs of British education. As..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Mr. King: Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, USA...."

May 19, 2006 Column

Hopes He Dies Before He Becomes Michael King (But How Will He Know?)

"...eyesore – are already in East Austin. Mr. King: Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, USA 0198614373..."

May 9, 2006 Postmarks

Heaven up Here

27 reason to further investigate the UK roster of bands at SXSW 2006

"...Goldrush (Oxford) www.myspace.com/goldrushMusic; Nuno's Upstairs, Fri, 9pm..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Actors From the London Stage: Just the Essentials

With Actors From the London Stage in residence at UT, you can see five actors reduce theatre to its essential elements: actors, audience, story

"...the Royal Shakespeare Company director. When I started the Oxford Department at UT in 1984, Patrick came and worked..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Recent and Anticipated Texas

From 'Panic' to 'Andrew Jackson'

"...the Road to Civil War by Joel H. Silbey (Oxford, $28): The latest in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in American..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Friday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Destination Imagination will make your parents angry. – Audra SchroederOXFORD COLLAPSE1am, Blender Balcony @ the Ritz Brooklyn trio Oxford..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Enduring Love

This creepy tale of a stalker and the object of his affection is adapted from an Ian McEwan novel.

"...Nighy. It begins in an idyllic park setting outside Oxford. A man and a woman spread a picnic blanket..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

The Political Dr. Seuss

"...Though he graduated from Dartmouth and found himself at Oxford with the intention of becoming an English literature professor,..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Alex & Emma

"...news that "bling-bling" has made it into the New Oxford Dictionary, I’d like to propose another addition to our..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TCB

Austin mayoral candidates give new meaning to "Rock the Vote"

"...Frank Erwin Center June 13... Southern literary journal the Oxford American's 2003 music issue is out now, with features..."

May 2, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Iris

"...Iris and John's unlikely courtship during their days at Oxford (Winslet and Bonneville play the younger version of the..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sweet Caroline

New face on the old-timey music scene: Caroline Herring

"...by the literary giants of her former hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, yet are deceiving given her relative inexperience as..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Is Knowledge Power?

A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor

"...journalists, and editors from more than 195 countries) and Oxford Analytica, founded in 1975. Like Stratfor, those companies produce..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Deconstructing Downtown

The Economy Sneezes -- and Austin's Central Business District Catches a Cold

"...The latest number-crunchings of Colliers Oxford Commercial show the office vacancy rate more than doubling..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...study politics and philosophy on a Marshall scholarship at Oxford. Back then, his plan was to become a lawyer..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

29 Fisher Contributors Over $5,000

"...$7,000 Hubert Oxford, Beckenstein & Oxford (plaintiff)..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature

Teaching the Teacher

Rosemary Vines has been shaking her booty with her three-year-old students at St. George’s Episcopal for 30 years.

"...teaching was what she wanted to do. Originally from Oxford, England, Vines first moved to Austin in 1959 to..."

June 23, 2000 Features Feature by David Garza

Still Hazy After All These Years

The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.

"...going to Birmingham. She was going to go to Oxford, but you need some heavy juice to do that...."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature

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