Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...There's a new trend in the Texas adult-beverage business: liquor. Locally produced vodka, rum, limoncello, and..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Texas Craft Brewers Festival's Rotating Beer List

27 Texas craft brewers showcase their suds

"...room with his curried salmon-stuffed century egg, someone in Texas is making beer. Delicious beer. Special beer, even...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Food Post by Eric Puga

Get Ready for Texas Tiki Week

Cocktail umbrellas up

"...no-goodnik if you don’t go to one of the Texas Tiki Week events next week. Remember Natalie Sands, the..."

July 31, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...The Texas State Capitol is currently playing host to an impeachment..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Dr Pepper, Texas

What makes the Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas, so much better than that made anywhere else?

"...arise? Dr Pepper was invented in 1891 in Waco, Texas, but the real genesis of Dr Pepper is the..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Features Feature by David Lynch

The Spirits of Texas

Texas spirits to keep your spirits up

"...Bert Butler "Tito" Beveridge II started the modern Texas liquor business with Tito's Handmade Vodka ($19), and folks..."

July 29, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Drink Texas This New Year

A guide to holiday boozing for the locavore

"...over the U.S. (including at The Austin Chronicle; see "Texas Gets Spirited Away," Dec. 28, 2007), Tito's wins or..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Austin’s Anastasia Hera Makes Her Own Music and Tropical Rum

Inspired by nights at Flamingo Cantina, the rapper-singer finds her spirit

"...filmed her first commercial for the to-be-released HERA Tropical Rum – backed by, yes, her own tropical backing jingle...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Food Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Musk Opening Austin Bistro in 2024; Dish Society Arriving Even Sooner; Churro Co. Is Open Now; Tiki Tatsu-ya Debuts Rum Flights; Fiore’s Regional Pasta Club Can Be Delivered; the Texas Veg Fest Draws Nigh; and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...past your gums, it’s time to travel the global rums! Aikawa Tropical Tours, the fictional travel agency behind Tiki..."

April 5, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Texas Liquors

"...below, are made elsewhere and bottled and/or blended in Texas. I care mostly about how good something tastes, but..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Texas Independence Day: Crawl the Capital on March 2

Have a spirited Texas Independence Day with fellow Texans

"...big party featuring five other bars and some of Texas' best liquors, including Dripping Springs Texas Vodka, Paula's Texas..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

A Cowboy in the Kitchen: Recipes from Reata and Texas West of the Pecos

"...The aura of Edna Ferber's epic Texas novel Giant loomed large over West Texas in the..."

April 9, 1999 Food Feature

Breaking Ground: What Three New Studios Mean for the Texas Film Industry

Three new studios in the Austin area could mean space for the film industry to expand

"...over the Hill Country (although, he confides, having a rum distillery as a neighbor doesn't hurt, either). "It's what..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Tiki Week Returns With an All-Star Cast and Tropical Spirit

The annual event is back with the best bits of tiki craft and history

"...or Polynesia, the truth is more amusing: Hollywood, via Texas. East Texas native and former bootlegger Ernest R.B. Gantt's..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Food Feature by Tom Thornton

Komé Is Reopening, Enoteca Vespaio Has Closed, Texas Keeper Leverages the Triple-Digit Heat, Desert Door Is Searching for the Best New Margarita, and Hopdoddy Is Putting Peanut Butter and Jelly Where, Exactly?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...to Perry’s Steakhouse – especially since, through July, that Texas-born chain is celebrating their own 40th anniversary with the..."

July 20, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Made in Texas

Lighting fires for creativity and community

"...the festival kicked off Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas, a program of six Austin shorts first shown at..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Girlie Action

Girlie action

"...the pop trio Fabu while attending the University of Texas in the 1990s and has since put her pure..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Luv Doc Recommends: Central Texas Parrot Head Club’s Pirate’s Ball

Johnny Fins, Saturday, April 10, 2004

"...Now matter how you spin it, Texas is not a pastel state. Leave the muted watercolor..."

April 9, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Rokkatone

"...reggae's romantic precursor with groovy panache. Aaron Lack's steel drum, Laura Phelan's toy piano, and Myers' backbone trombone and..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Musk Opening Austin Bistro in 2024; Dish Society Arriving Even Sooner; Churro Co. Is Open Now; Tiki Tatsu-ya Debuts Rum Flights; Fiore’s Regional Pasta Club Can Be Delivered; the Texas Veg Fest Draws Nigh; and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

April 7, 2023 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Liquid Assets

Fabulous Texas rum on the cheap

"...Railean Rum..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Margaritas vs. Mojitos

It's Mexico vs. Cuba, tequila vs. rum, mix vs. muddle, in this battle for lime-infused-libation-sensation supremacy in the Lone Star State

"...The unofficial libation of Texas is debatable: For decades, one could confidently claim that..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

'Possession Arrow': Barnes<->Huggins

"...perfectly nice Saturday afternoon while watching Kansas State visit Texas, they of the 22-game home winning streak. John Razook..."

Feb. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Stuffed Locally

Give thanks for the local harvest with these market-fresh recipes

"...harvest is to be found. Unlike other regions, Central Texas never has a time when food isn't growing, and..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

The Luckiest Girl in the World

An interview with Sissy Spacek, inducted into the first annual Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9.

"..."Sissy" Spacek, the journey from her birthplace of Quitman, Texas, to her ranch in the foothills of the Blue..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

This Weekend's Can't Miss Food Events

Daily Austin food news

"...Kudos to Balcones Distilling of Waco for being named Texas Distillery of the Year at the 2015 New York..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Cactus Lee, Nemegata, Font, Grace Sorensen Set for the Chronicle’s Hair of the 3-Legged Dog Party

Freebie springtime standby returns to Hotel Vegas March 15

"...Changing venues, delayed set times, notoriously erratic Texas weather: Almost nothing about South by Southwest is predictable...."

Feb. 29, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Chef Karey B. Johnson Brings Coastal Glow to Whole Foods Culinary Center

Rockport chef shares Gulf Coast flavors

"...Glow restaurant in Rockport is in love with the Texas Gulf Coast and its food offerings. A Houston native,..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Food Post by MM Pack

Wine & Swine Delivers a Squealing Good Time

Sunday afternoon on the farm with plenty of pigs

"...history museum that depicts 1880's farm life in Central Texas fit the event like a vintage pig-skin glove...."

Nov. 7, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Jimmie D Is Keepin' It Queered

Brand-spankin' new baby blogger comin' atcha

"...house special. Yes, that is an Emergen-C with spiced rum and ginger ale, I don't know what you thought..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Jimmie D

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