A Big Word With a Small "A"

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.

"...SG: Absolut Vodka was the sponsor and we had a party here..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

After a Fashion

Touching a nerve at Todd Oldham central.

"...designers clamor for absolute power -- and sometimes Absolut vodka -- as subservient scribes dictate fashion law and shower..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Feasts That Define the Millennium

Food, the Original Commodity

"...winner -- if you don't mind mixing a Swedish vodka-cured salmon with small vegetables, Italian pasta, and a French..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Wild, Wild Webcasts

Why party in line when you can party online?

"...must be sober. Go nail a Red Bull and vodka and then maybe if you're lucky, they'll have a..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Walking Contradiction

Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley

"...a couple of guys out on the side drinking vodka and Coke. This was about, I don't know, 12:30,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...charged, I've downed most of the half gallon of vodka tonic that I always keep in the refrigerator. Lying..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

Simply Sensational Desserts / Room for Dessert

"...preserving his favorite fruits in jams and marmalades plus vodka-based formulas for making liqueurs at home. He offers these..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Neal and Joe Show: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

"...(Freezer Burn, Bad Chili) and Neal Barrett Jr. (Pink Vodka Blues, Interstate Dreams) kept the Sunday matinee crowd in..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Mike Shea

No-Show Jones

"...his sport utility vehicle, and a half-empty pint of vodka within crashed into a concrete bridge abutment near his..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

Tongue-in-Cheek Terror

"...roster of additional members, performed under various names like "Vodka Family Winstons" and "Ashtray Babyheads" before settling on "Butthole..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

G-L-O-R-I-Aftermath

"...was the nonperforming patron, known to the participants as "vodka man," who took time out from cheering on the..."

July 30, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...girls in eastern Finland have started soaking tampons in vodka and then inserting them to try to get drunk...."

June 4, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Coach's Corner

"...cut, I quaff the first of many glasses of vodka. Then a Valium. Dick and Meg arrive, thank Jesus,..."

March 26, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coach's Corner

"...of crooked thing can and does happen. Now, sipping vodka, I didn't believe it myself...."

March 19, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Ida Lupino, Actress

"...be lit by the "gentleman" at the bar, guzzled vodka or scotch without ever getting drunk ("I'm sorry I..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Screens Feature by Charles Nafus

Postmarks

Short Shrift

"...at The Electric Lounge (If you could get the vodka-swilling bartender's attention long enough for him/her to get you..."

April 3, 1998 Column

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...friends are no help. Jennifer also seems to have vodka for blood and can't resist a gay guy. Elaine..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Only the Beginning

Wednesday Night SXSW "Sleepers"

"...VODKA FAMILY WINSTONS: Best drummer in Austin? Easy. Rey Washam...."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature

Chow Downtown

Dining in the Heart of Austin

"...martinis -- we ordered one with coffee beans, vanilla vodka, chocolate, and tuaca, but we got a maraschino instead..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Food Feature

Bad Eye Blues

"...bar high for himself with quirky gems like Pink Vodka Blues and the brilliantly twisted Dead Dog Blues. And..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Neal Barrett Jr

Flip the Switch

"...class ($1,450 each roundtrip), and pretty happy about it. Vodka, I think, was the first word uttered on that..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...I like good wine, cocktails, whiskey on ice. Vodka martinis, straight up and cold. Cigars, on the other..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Coach's Corner

Odds'n'Ends:

"...crushing Dallas "win," I quaffed two stiff glasses of vodka, such was my state of internal agitation, just to..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Scanlines

Invasion USA

"...but remember that in '53 buying a bottle of vodka was enough to get you hauled in front of..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Exhibitionism

Deviant Craft: False Fabric

"...grin, pop their eyes. In the Chekhovian spoof Uncle Vodka, they douse each other with cup after cup of..."

June 13, 1997 Arts Review

Literary Guisado

An Interview with Francisco Goldman

"...erudition of a high school dropout. Then just add vodka!..."

June 6, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Slouching Towards Gomorrah

At the Intersection of Jazz and Lounge

"...Monk, but a Thelonious Monk. It's a drink -- vodka, butterscotch schnapps, and frangelico -- one of about a..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Food-O-File

"...the Austin market. Look for Tito's Texas Handmade Texas Vodka at Twin Liquors, Centennial, Dan's, Fielding's, Rueben's and Austin..."

May 2, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Return to Chicago House

"...tonight. The album is named after a mix of vodka, tabasco sauce and grapefruit soda. No, wait, that would..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Column

The Censure of Attention

Coyote Cafe's High Profile Cuisine

"...chile-pepper connection, though, as evidenced by the habanero infusion vodka martini ($5.75) and the habanero-peach glazed quail salad ($7.95)...."

Jan. 12, 1996 Food Feature

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