Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...but we wanted to turn the tables. To celebrate summer reading, we asked some of our favorite bartenders to..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

No-Cost Travel

Cookbook Heaven II

"...Everyone's summer reading list is different. If you check out five..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Postscripts

The kind of ghosts the first writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House hopes to encounter and details on how to sign up for the Austin Public Library's Summer Reading Program.

"...This summer, she'll teach creative writing at the house to summer..."

June 2, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Everybody's Talking at You

Austin's reading series scene is booking good

"...over some unemployed bass player; now, the situation with reading series seems intent on reaching similar proportions...."

July 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

To Build a Home

Four Austin writers discuss how they create their fantastic worlds

"...control over the life of the individual. Catmull's debut, Summer and Bird, followed two young girls on a journey..."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Recommended Events for the Week

Just because it's a workday doesn't mean you can't get out

"...Ah, Texas, the land where summer is definitely not camping season. Nothing sounds worse than..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Breath

Australian surfer dudes come of age in this literary adaptation.

"...As odd as it may initially seem, The Endless Summer becomes Summer of ‘42, and Breath reveals itself to..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Good Week For Michener Alums

Raves for Kevin Powers, Alix Ohlin closer to Giller Prize

"...Times (“brilliantly observed and deeply affecting”), The Guardian (“essential reading”), and NPR (“moody, petulant, often darkly beautiful”), among others...."

Sept. 6, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

I Scream Social: A Cool Feminist Treat

Host Publications’ Annar Veröld and Claire Bowman talk about the feminist reading series origins

"...In her early career, I Scream Social feminist reading series organizer Annar Veröld experienced her fair share of..."

Nov. 22, 2024 Arts Feature by Amaya Austin

Words and Music

This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit

"...explain why Austin Classical Guitar has built its current summer series, quite by coincidence, around the fusion of music..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

The libraries hit the books, and environmentalists speak out.

"...sports each year. About 135,000 kids participate in youth reading programs each year...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column

Public Notice: Fun Is Where You Find It

Some things to look forward to(?) this summer

"...mention the national scene ... but if you're still reading this, I'll presume you find those sorts of things,..."

May 19, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Balls Out

College intramural football comedy features several SNL players

"...relative newcomer Andrew Disney. Filmed in Austin during the summer of 2013 on a wing and a prayer, this..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Page Two: Field of Dreams

Summer in Vermont singing Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel

"...During the summer of 1974, my friend Fred and I moved from..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...When summer rolls its lazy days this way, it's difficult to..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Fast Five

Those renegade street racers reassemble for the fifth installment in the franchise, this time in scenic Rio de Janeiro.

"...bottom. Fascinating, no? Of course, that's just one (obvious) reading of Fast Five. You could also say it's a..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild America

"...(played here by Devon Sawa), Wild America chronicles a summer in the late Sixties when he and brothers Marshall..."

July 4, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Pastime

"...Willingham, Jeffrey Tambor, Dierdre O'Connell and Scott Plank. Stop reading here if you don't want the ending revealed.How do..."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Straight Out of Brooklyn

"...begun two years ago after Rich had completed a summer semester of flmmaking coursework at NYU. He withdrew after..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

AISD'S dropout prevention task force releases its final recommendations.

"...Integrate summer jobs offered through local government and Austin Interfaith into..."

March 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

How Mr. Denton Spent His Summer Vacation

"...to take about three years on a novel." The summer's scorching and oppressive heat may drive him indoors -..."

July 31, 1998 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Food for Thought

Books on Cuisine Make the Perfect Summer Treat

"...a set of rose-colored highball glasses is good, but reading is a cheaper, more soul-soothing way to feel sated...."

June 12, 1998 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

Read It Local, Pump Up Your Volumes

Local bookmongers offer curbside pick-up & delivery

"...Got a lot of reading time, lately, when you’re not struggling to survive this..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson's latest is a kaleidoscopic mess

"...half-assed. Here, he reaches back to childhood memories of reading the popular French comic book series Valérian and Laureline,..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bedside Manner: In Memoriam

A few mournful words for books discarded

"...college, I had high hopes for the amount of reading that I was finally going to get done post-grad;..."

April 30, 2012 Books Post by Lindsey Flatt

The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...Gore might've cooked up during a mescaline-fueled all-nighter spent reading Whitman's Leaves of Grass: "Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mrs. Santa's Book Bag

"...Bullock-Prado's Pie It Forward that I reviewed in the summer reading issue (June 1), and Baked Elements (reviewed Sept...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

What EVOO Can Do for You

Texas olive oil companies strive to educate consumers

"...Scandalous World of Olive Oil (see "Food for Thought: Summer Reading," June 1), and has since been traveling the..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Bedside Manner: Chasing the 'Infinite' Dragon

What do you read next when you really, really loved what you last read?

"...have some marginal opinion about them before you begin reading. I first encountered it during a writerly vetting process..."

Oct. 17, 2011 Books Post by Sarah Smith

The Road

Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.

"...sure which was more of a downer: my first reading of Texan Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel; Oprah Winfrey's..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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