Sweat, Equity

How vegan doughnuts can help fix the economy

"...or not eat, then you're already thinking about other things in the world and how the system of production..."

June 8, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...not the only people in line. Sparks is no stranger to the Yassines because he's also hearing a class..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tamales or Not, It's a Family Affair

Robert Vasquez's breakfast taco empire expands

"...other siblings (there are five all together), she's no stranger to the restaurant business. At one time, she ran..."

May 18, 2012 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

They Won't Leave You Hanging

The High Five triumvirate? Prints among men!

"...Good things come in threes...."

May 17, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New, Not Improved

A familiar cover in an unfamiliar place

"...– recently enough that I'm still needlessly excited by things like furniture, but also so recently that unpacking is..."

May 14, 2012 Books Post by Monica Riese

Pressing the Flesh

The world's leading adult toy manufacturer for men wants to take the stigma out of sex

"...the options are infidelity, divorce, disease – all the things that go on when those things happen – I..."

May 11, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Bernie

Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey star in Richard Linklater's latest film – an East Texas true-crime story with a comic touch.

"...Lansdale's East Texas gothics. As ever, truth proves itself stranger than fiction and the human heart (which is stranger..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Kid With a Bike

This latest film from Belgium's Dardenne brothers is a towering achievement, perhaps all the more so because of its deceptive simplicity.

"...say what prompts the boy to spontaneously ask this stranger if she will take him in; also unknown is..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marvel Makes the Ultimate Television

The House of Ideas launches new Spider-Man this weekend

"...production for Marvel, but he was not exactly a stranger. "Eric and I had worked on the short-lived but..."

March 31, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday blurbs are down from Thursday's, but how are you holding up at this point?

"...Phanie Maria, our own personal, sultry guitar saviors. Good things come in threes, yo, and 2011's superfine Exits &..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...and an endless supply of cryptic footage, each video stranger than the last... Cast: Joe Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Kate..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...of misogyny and homophobia when a tall, white, industrialist stranger appears, challenging their place in the exploitative food chain...."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Excited About Life

Friends keenly mourn the death of Esme Barrera

"...was an indefatigable music lover – supportive of all things Austin music – and regularly presented friends with personally..."

Jan. 13, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

From Rick Perry to Don Rickles: A Hot Cup of Talk With Kathy Griffin

Lez get real with the D-Lister about that Law & Order kiss

"...Bruce Jenner's face at this point. I am no stranger to the face-lift myself, although I haven't done it..."

Jan. 11, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Smith

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve), which did great things for my vocabulary but plinked another unavoidable prejudice of..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Down These Mean, Ink-Stained Streets

Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick brings his 'Nickel History' to Slugfest Gallery

"...fellow with the bright tattoos and gettin'-old spectacles, no stranger to dive bars the world over but now several..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Heart and Soul

Lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...‘bout going deeper in the catalog and finding some things that maybe people heard but maybe some people hadn’t..."

Oct. 25, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

FF2011: Kevin Sorbo Picks 'Julia X'

The former Hercules slashes up 3D

"...There are certain things you expect in life. Birds fly, water flows, and..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Arcade Interview: Robin Hunicke

Designing games for the heart instead of the adrenal gland

"...them and then as we get feedback we drop things and add things. Sometimes it will take us a..."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Bedside Manner: Finishing What You Start

Words to fall asleep by

"...The Stranger, by Albert Camus: Another read of this tattered 1958..."

Sept. 18, 2011 Books Post by Amy Smith

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...As he tells me later, he's opted to keep things light, with shots that mirror those in the original..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Darkness, Then Light

Amanda Eyre Ward on the story she always knew she would tell

"...that] people you love could die – those dark things – I just have to put them out of..."

July 15, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: SXSW: Let Me Guess

Rio eyed Shreveport. Shreveport eyed Rio.

"...of our days and hours are highly selective. For things we don't know, we fill in the blanks –..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Gay Place

South by So Gay. That's what we like to call it.

"...there, desperate in the back "guest room" of some stranger's house on some floppy air bed, having scoured the..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Rango

Watch out, cartoon critters: There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Rango.

"...or poop jokes, Rango does contain references to such things as “fecal matter” and “prostates.” Rango is a lizard..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Larger Than Life

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...airing on NBC starting in mid-April – stands for things dear to most Texas hearts: family, friends, and football...."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Powers of Tenn

Talking Tennessee Williams' genius with critic John Lahr

"...a little self-defeating; sometimes he would work on these things and work them to death. Sometimes he would find..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye: Sample Wisdom

Austin Film Festival now accepting pilot submissions; returning shows; and TCM talks Oscar

"...a new writer move on to bigger and better things? Their own series, perhaps? Stranger things have happened...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Houston Kid

Rodney Crowell reminisces on '˜Chinaberry Sidewalks'

"...OTR: You're no stranger to the studio, obviously. How much different was this..."

Jan. 27, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Page Two: Quotation Nation

Taking issue with citations

"...abstract or cut to suit anyone's sense of those things but their own. Whereas the people can become focused..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by Louis Black

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