Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...an unfair rap for being neighbors with the worst restaurant on a lake ever, while also being a very,..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Unionization: Everyone’s Doing It

Sept. 30: More than 70% of nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Central Austin, part of Texas’ largest private hospital network, vote to form a union.

"...setting off a wave of efforts across different sectors. Workers at Via 313, the popular Detroit-style pizza chain, saw..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Vote Because Workers Matter: Via 313's North Campus restaurant is set to..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature

Via 313 Union Effort Stymied by Busting Tactics

Via 313 has hired an HR consultant to stop unionization

"...In the months since Via 313 workers at all three Austin locations announced their intent to..."

Oct. 7, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...city’s underbelly to investigate a serial killer stalking sex workers to cleanse the streets of sinners...."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Via 313 Workers Unionized and the Whole Service Industry's Invited

A slice of the pie

"...On Thursday, Aug. 4, over 75% of workers at three Via 313 locations – Oak Hill, East­side,..."

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Virtual Brands and Pop-Ups Are Making Southeast Asian Street Food Accessible to Austin

Downloading hawker culture

"...stalls are the ultimate democratizer: Young urban professionals, government workers, schoolchildren, and apron-clad grandmas alike can be found shouting..."

June 3, 2022 Food Feature by Clara Wang

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's a Wage Shortage – Not a Labor Shortage – and It Disproportionately Affects Women and Persons of Color

It's a complicated economic situation, but one easy solution is increasing pay for restaurant workers

"...If you type "restaurant workers" into any search engine, the revved up reckoning..."

May 28, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Out of Work and Stretched Thin, Hospitality Workers Share What Resources They Can

In a national day of action, Austin's Restaurant Organizing Project and other activist groups highlight the service industry's unique plight

"...to raise awareness of the struggle of unemployed hospitality workers – especially after the CARES Act $600 unemployment benefit..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by David Evan Rodriguez

Roots Chicken Shak to Open at Revamped H-E-B Mueller Food Hall

Chef Tiffany Derry proves that working moms should run the world

"...Texas public affairs team. And Kristin Irvin, director of restaurants for H-E-B, heads up the teams in charge of..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

L’Oca d’Oro Co-Owner on the Future of the Restaurant

Right now, they can’t do what they do – so what’s next?

"...of five, and their oldest child struts around the restaurant, from the box of crayons at the host stand..."

April 27, 2020 Food Post by Adam Orman

Does Your Boss Pay You to Miss Work?

They may have to soon

"...missed for health reasons began this month, and a united front has already mounted in opposition. The same groups..."

Dec. 1, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...Rangers, to break a strike of the Cesar Chavez-affiliated United Farm Work­ers Organizing Committee. Rangers were later accused of..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Undocumented, Unafraid

Balancing fear and power in the wake of ICE arrests

"...February. Her mind went to her mother, an undocumented restaurant line cook, and father, who works construction, and felt..."

March 10, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...Wednesday at 8:15am and hadn't answered any calls from co-workers. Barz, who worked with Fulwiler at the Gardner-Betts Juvenile..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Tipping Point

By raising menu prices and eliminating gratuity, restaurateurs hope they've found the recipe for a better quality of life for staff

"...Meyer's recent decision to remove tipping from all his restaurants. Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit, interviewed Meyer about..."

March 25, 2016 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

New Name, Same Game

S-Comm's end hasn't lessened the fear of deportation for Travis County's immigrants

"...legal options," she writes. "After she illegally entered the United States Dec. 8, 2009, a federal immigration judge on..."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'

"...having difficulties expanding business in town, opening a new restaurant, expanding their existing restaurant. Like I said the other..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

They'll Knock Your Sakes Off

Austin restaurants pour passion into their sake programs

"...story. Austin has seen a rapid increase in Japanese restaurants in the last few years, but those are not..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Food Feature by Margaret Shugart

When Bad Movies Attack

James Nguyen's underground oddity Birdemic cries fowl

"...environmental issues and even global warming. Even in the restaurant scene, where the woman bird expert mentions that birds..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Feet on the Ground

If May Day has a meaning, it's one we build together

"...immigrants. It remains impossible to understand how forcing undocumented workers even further into the shadows will have any effect..."

May 7, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Mr. Nice (United Kingdom) Director and Screenwriter: Bernard Rose The true story..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Restaurant Recyclers

From earth to table and back again

"...in this popular program. This is particularly frustrating for restaurants; estimates hold that 79% of what ends up in..."

June 5, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Letters @ 3AM

As much fun as it is to blame speculators and oil companies, and as certain as it is that some reforms would help, the real culprit is global demand

"...by 2027. Drilling in broader swaths off the continental United States wouldn't affect prices until 2030" (The New York..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...hundred million dollar investment because of a small little restaurant?" – J. Willard Marriott, CEO of Marriott International Inc.,..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...whose family owns the stands, invites them into their restaurant (also named Al Pastor) to talk. Rodriguez says that..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in, I fear employees will lose all the benefits workers ever fought for and won. There will be no..."

July 7, 2006 Column

Letters @ 3AM

Apart from the boycott, and separate from it, the theme of May 1 was, over and over: Register and vote.

"...and historical contexts of Hispanics (especially Mexicans) in the United States...."

May 12, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Immigrants Flex Muscle

Day Without an Immigrant work stoppage and boycott draws more than a million people into the streets nationally; thousands turn out locally

"...the saying as founder and longtime president of the United Farm Workers union. "César would be proud," remarked local..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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