Santos Taqueria

Santos Silerio learned her craft feeding eight hungry children

"...You can imagine our surprise to find something similar out in Mason, one of the Hill Country's..."

June 24, 2005 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Day Trips

The 'Baseball As America' exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a baseball lover's dream come true

"...showcases the national pastime with more than 500 objects borrowed from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

After a Fashion

Stephen is all about the holidays. Hide your peacock feathers!!!

"...he wanted to borrow those, as well. He also borrowed my snakeskin vinyl vest – the one I wore..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Austin @ Large: Painting by Numbers

Design standards turn out to be (maybe) more than just skin-deep

"...focused elsewhere, McCracken's task force has endeavored to do something that really needs doing: crafting a way to make..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Holy Ghost

Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'

"...the value of his musical statement that what he borrowed from Coleman and Coltrane was not a musical blueprint,..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Naked City

The state proposes rules to make it even harder for poor families to get health care

"...but can't afford private insurance. Under the proposed rules (borrowed directly from the food-stamps program, which is aimed at..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Glasgow's Punishment: A 90-Day Suspension

Family 'befuddled' by light discipline in Owens shooting case

"...was a "crack rental" – a car Owens had borrowed from its owner in exchange for a $20 rock..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...help themselves to new styles in painting, which were borrowed from music, and vice versa...."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Shipwreck

Louis Begley recently wrote a glowing preface to a reissue of The Other House, James' least known novel. Begley is one of the few fans of the book, and writes that "James makes manifest in this very remarkable novel the overpowering force and ignominy of the sexual drive." Obviously Begley is after something like that here. But if this was the inspiration, it was not a fortunate one.

"...ignominy of the sexual drive." Obviously Begley is after something like that here. He's even borrowed the theatricality of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Powersolo/Mopeds

Music Showcase

"...case, the prog-metal acrobatics of Rush are replaced with something they call "donkey punk." Two tremolo-loving chicken-scratch guitarists and..."

March 14, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

Long May You Run

Previewing the 2002-2003 Austin Music Awards.

"...Hole in the Wall closed, the Mercury is on borrowed time, Antone's changed hands, Steamboat relocated, the Metro was..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Minouli Steals a Kiss

First Place

"...There was something interesting to Minouli about the man who appeared in..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Wynn Parks

Holiday in San Antonio

The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.

"...amateur investigator Glenn Jones to be our driver and borrowed a friend's front-wheel drive Tornado for some extra traction...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Alex Coke

Texas Platters

"...in the traditional sense. The album's title is perhaps borrowed from NPR commentator Kevin Whitehead's book, New Dutch Swing,..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...years music styles such as conjunto and Tejano have borrowed different parts of our musical heritage. If not, then..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

A2K Meets 'ACL'

The rise of Charlie Jones, local promoter extraordinaire, ACL Fest main man.

"..."We needed something different," says Stapleton, who initially recognized CSE could leverage..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...neighbors noticed that she looked much older than her twentysomething years. Occasionally, perhaps defensively, she put on airs. "I..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Hightower Report

The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.

"...man who invented Muzak might be thinking of inventing something else."..."

June 14, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...for a legislator to file a bill to make something happen, which unfortunately won't be until at least next..."

May 10, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Capitol Chronicle

Just for the Kids' school rankings seem like just a lot of baloney.

"...Education Commission of the States and UT to establish something called the National Center for Educational Accountability -- instantly..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW ends. Thank the Lord …

"...speech (and brief performance on the acoustic guitar he borrowed from Steve Collier) and one of the songs the..."

March 23, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...member of Austin's 626 Soul collective, Specht has become something of a local legend thanks to his grindingly sexy..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

The Flight of the Night Bird

Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.

"...at home in his domain. An early handbill flier borrowed Hardcastle's line from She Stoops to Conquer, declaring, "This..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Southern Comfort

The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.

"...style muffaletta and the marvelous Creole pork roast. There's something for everyone on Hoover's menu. The servings are he-man-sized..."

March 3, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander 4. Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories by Rick DeMarinis 5...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW kicks into gear, Eric Johnson gets intense, and things keep falling apart

"...after which Montgomery promptly broke a string on the borrowed Strat. If he hadn't overstayed his welcome by that..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...states for two years without an album is not something they advise at SXSW seminars. Plus, Rubin is quick..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Black Elvis

"...at RZA's Bobby Digital, a persona Keith reportedly felt borrowed too liberally from his black-masked alias on 1997's Sex..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Youth in Crisis

"..."the preshow scramble to tune the 20 or so borrowed guitars was unbelievable," adding that the show was good,..."

July 9, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the governor's so-called wild youth, but the debut is something of an honor, however dubious. After all, you're not..."

July 9, 1999 News Feature

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