Longhorns, It's Time for Your Close-Up

It's all about attitude from here on out

"...lucky in that this hasn’t been a season of true blowouts. Colt McCoy has played like a really good..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Video: Tuesday Night Biodiesel Meet-up

"...biodiesel, and Dan Mottola's short video, "Tuesday Night Biodiesel Meet-up," introduces just a few them, including a Yellow Cab..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Mamas, Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Dannys

"...with us. My heart is broken to lose a true Austinite – and a true South Austinite at that...."

Aug. 20, 2008 Postmarks

True Hollywood Stories

Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all

"...landed a job on a production team for E! True Hollywood Story, a seemingly perfect mix for her talents...."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...about both deaths as part of her critically acclaimed, true crime-style study of Jasper in its own tragic and..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

True to Their (New) Roots

The Loiacono family, who own Bellagio Italian Bistro, apparently believe in two cornerstones of traditional cuisine -- fresh ingredients and sizable portions. They pride themselves in making upward of 30 different pastas on the premises : from bright spinach fettucine to rippled radiatore and ribbon-edged tagliatelle.

"...It's amazing how often the following topic comes up in casual conversation: "Why doesn't Austin have more good..."

April 21, 2000 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

"...who just wants to benefit mankind. When Szalinski comes up with a method to enlarge matter (and thereby Feed..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Showing Up

Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams reunite for this tale of middling artists

"...But observation is not always enough, and that seems true with the perfectly presented but oddly hollow Showing Up...."

April 14, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Enviro-thriller reinvents direct action as a commando mission

"...brought together in the appropriately titled How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a political screed disguised as a Dirty..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Look Up

Apocalyptic comedy is Adam McKay at his most Adam McKay-ish

"...Don’t Look Up is not as bad as writer/director Adam McKay’s previous..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Standing Up, Falling Down

Billy Crystal and a smart script add heart to this burnout dramedy

"...characters as they traverse their highs and lows. Standing Up, Falling Down may seem like a slight entry into..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Here, the Writer Gets the Close-Up

'On Story' season four opens with Vince Gilligan

"...Stotesbery said, maybe 12 PBS affiliates would pick it up for the following season. The show had no marketing..."

April 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

What's Up with Matt "Rubber Repertory" Hislope, Lately?

Esther's Follies, mostly, but let's not forget that other thing

"...Meyer has absconded to L.A. to be with his true love and to pursue an acting career (and, no..."

Sept. 11, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The (Re-)Rise of Start-Up Culture

Are we closing in on a sustainable model?

"...Nineties? That was when all you needed for a start-up was one smart innovator with one smart idea, and..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Strange but True

Jad Fair making art out in Manor with monsters, aliens, and dead dogs

"...lies in the tall grass under a street sign. Upon closer examination, its mottled orange and black fur makes..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Page Two: Tearing It Up

Tearing It Up: Smart, committed, and usually the funniest person in the room, Ann Richards kicked down doors and prepared us all for the future

"...she wanted it to be; she could turn it up past the known and lower it to almost quiet...."

Sept. 22, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Things Blow Up for No Reason

Still weekly, free, and a little stunned, we enter our 25th year

"...sense of destiny, no celestial visitation or moment of true clarity. The evolution was so mundane, so of a..."

July 21, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The True One

The Byrds' fifth dimension, Gene Clark, eight miles high and as wide as Americana

"...life and death are impossible not to mythologize. His group the International Submarine Band recorded one of the first..."

June 30, 2006 Music Feature by Louis Black

Taboo Topics, True Subjects

Reflections on Race in the NBA

"...large. Race, the league's taboo topic, is the league's true subject. Take the 1999 NBA Finals, for instance. People..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Books Feature by David Shields

All Done Up

"...not a pretty picture. But let's not beat ourselves up over it too much ó it's not our fault...."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Whisks Up

The Way To Cook

"...text and standard of American cookery. But for the true beginner, raised on microwave entrees and other convenience foods,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Food Feature

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...animation field with Anastasia. Then things will really heat up on Dec. 19 with the simultaneous release of the..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Refuse To Grow Up

"...Sharon Tate's Baby, and the lyrics came all too true for 34-year-old STB guitarist Alin Black who died of..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Column

KAZI's True Colors

The Reverend Frank Garrett Pushes KAZI to the Edge

"...Garrett, Jr., host of the morning talk show Wake Up Call. The Reverend has been accused of misusing KAZI's..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

AAPI Family Style Passports Debut, Soupleaf Opens, Sprinkles x Nguyen Coffee Supply Is Almost Too Good To Be True, National Pretzel Day Is Knot Happening, There’s Sotol and Bourbon and Cider, It’s Pasta Paisanos FTW, and More …

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

"...wonderful opportunity for dining, so we’ll shout a quick heads-up about how May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI)..."

April 19, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin’s New True Congressman

Former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar Wins

"...old TX-35 open as another solidly blue (Biden +46!) pickup opportunity, and after seven years on Council, Casar decided..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Verde Report: In Gut-Check Time, True Colors Shine Through

What’s the secret sauce in this turnaround squad?

"...a 14-match road winless streak. There were gut-check moments up and down the 2021 expansion year, but few instances..."

April 22, 2022 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Austin FC Supporters Groups Gear Up for the Club's First Home Match

"...Supporters groups Los Verdes and La Murga de Austin practice..."

June 15, 2021 Photo Gallery

Unlikely Allies Unite to Beat Up on "Strong Mayor" Plan

Democracy, now?

"...May 1 special election approaches, campaigning continues to heat up both for and against the package of "pro-democracy" charter..."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Dale Watson Lights Up the Screen in Yellow Rose

Starring the honky-tonk hero as himself

"...to another time, steeped in a roughened honky-tonk independence upon which he's built his music career and the Ameripolitan..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

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