Happenings

April 5, 2007 - Wednesday, April 11

"...GOLD AND GREED: NORTH AMERICAN MINING IN CENTRAL AMERICA A..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

Sloth; I Love Led Zeppelin; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution; TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s

"...against Susan Sontag's claim in On Photography that the Spanish Civil War was the first one extensively documented by..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner

A Man for All Seasons

In Austin Playhouse's 'A Man for All Seasons,' David Stahl's immaculate Sir Thomas More stands his moral ground with humility, humor, and insight

"...King (Brian Coughlin), wearing his wealth in fur and gold, visits his friend More to coerce him into taking..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...introductory EPs with a similarly striking debut, I Sold Gold. It's cheeky in all the right places ("Growing Up..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice

AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras& #225;nchez Sr.

"...to the monolingual: All of the films are in Spanish and only Los Campeones Justicieros will be screened with..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Common Law

Explore UT

"...can serve as jurors in a mock trial where "Gold E. Locks" is the defendant and the Honorable Edward..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Luke Ellis

Summer Fun

The recent renovation of Galveston's Hotel Galvez brings the old girl back to her beginnings, as the island's crown jewel

"...sturdy mahogany beams and the ceiling's meticulous blue and gold-leaf complement a stunning and intricate symmetry created by the..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Liquid Assets

Favorites from the 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

"...of the United States winemakers by winning the Double Gold medal from the San Francisco Fair and Exhibition. Llano..."

April 16, 2004 Food Column by Wes Marshall

All You Can Read

The Chronicle Food staff samples a buffet of books for the culinarily curious.

"...cooking. Sure, the standards are there -- African, French, Spanish, and Mexican. Snow has included recipes for black-eyed-pea fritters,..."

June 6, 2003 Food Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...language still spoken in the state (bearing in mind Spanish is not a foreign language in Texas)?..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Never on Sunday

"...beautiful prostitute. She's a hooker with a heart of gold; when a British sailor hires her for the night,..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Review by Clay Smith

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Herzog's film is an impossible, epic vision of death and despair and hideous beauty in a faraway place, and one of the most visceral depictions of self-manufactured doom ever seen.

"...bizarre mythos spins. Set in 1560, the film follows Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro, his men, and a 100 or..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Jon Dee Graham

Record Review

"...of faith from True Believers days (and turned to gold by Patty Smyth). Graham's sly wit runs throughout the..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Changing of the Guard

"It's good food, well prepared, reasonably priced, straight up, no frills. I like it," Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals about young chef Shawn Cirkiel's cuisine at Jean-Luc's Bistro.

"...of frisee paired with thin slices of the assertive Spanish cheese. The proscuitto arrived wrapped around some tender young..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Si*Sé Reviewed

"...how the song would play in the stereo. Like gold; five years ago, "Slip Away" would've been a smash..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Tales

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

"...January, 1901. The ensuing boom was comparable to the gold rushes of Sutter's Mill and the Klondike. Geologists, entrepreneurs..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Mexico City's Ely Guerra asks the musical question, "What's Spanish for breathy ingenue?" while Picas o Platicas finds Monterrey's..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Atmosphere could go T-Wolves blue or Viking purple & gold, and Atlanta's Micranots have a Brave choice red, white,..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

The Commissioner Has Left the Building

Johnny Torrez was one of the first Austin comics to work on a professional level, and every local comic who ever made a living in the business credits the self-proclaimed "Commissioner of Comedy" as an early influence and inspiration. On Valentine's Day, the Commissioner died. Here's how he is remembered.

"...a damn good gambler. Not only would he have gold dice on his trademark cufflinks, he'd have a pair..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Down & Out in Atlanta

The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics

"...and sodas. Leo might as well have been a Spanish conquistador pursuing cities of gold in the countryside of..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jonathan Hennessey

The Others

"...Below average. Jaime's Spanish Village802 Red River..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Food Feature

What is Tequila?

"...(moonshiners) all over Mexico. In the late 1500s, the Spanish Conquistadors took the pulque and distilled it into tequila...."

Aug. 25, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...addicts at? Where the big houses? Where all the gold teeth?" Smith asked.A Legal 'Lynching' Much more cocaine passed..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

D'Angelo, Paramount Theater, Oakland, Calif., April 5

"...James Brown, Sly Stone, and the Gap Band rolled gold. "On the one," he'd command, like Maceo Parker sweating..."

April 21, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Gates of the Alamo Reviewed

Mark Busby reviews Stephen Harrigan's The Gates of the Alamo.

"...fields of lantana and expanses of shimmering wildflowers -- cloth-of-gold and dandelion and lovely blue dayflowers that grew along..."

March 24, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...pair of Sony releases, one in English, one in Spanish. The approach seems both ambitious and smart; the Latin..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...leading engineering university, A&M, which should have beat the Spanish to this solution to the shelter problem long ago...."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column

Heroes for Sale, Night Nurse, Ladies They Talk About

"...mind might be gangster movies (Little Caesar), escapist musicals (Gold Diggers of 1933), or lighthearted screwball comedies (It Happened..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Lipstick Traces

Pretenders

"...always had that great vibrato in her voice, her Spanish accent is dreadful. Fortunately, the woman can write a..."

July 16, 1999 Music Review

Forever in Chimayo

"...watching him. He stands in the aisle and speaks Spanish to several women who are even smaller than he..."

June 25, 1999 Column

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