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Why Austin's most revered restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, is still in business against all odds.

For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

Photos by John Anderson

The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.

This isn't your mother's Mean Girls. Because it's really bad.

The Austin History Center-archived rappers and industry innovators share stories

Animated Haruki Murakami adaptation finds his fabulist tendencies

The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder

A strange mistake?

…with sympathy for the parking lot

With her exhibition, artist Jade Walker entwines viewers in the future of the planet

Want a bite close to the action? We've got you covered for any mood, group, or time of day.

Greg Geisler is an Old Master when it comes to custom pooch portraits

The clouds are angry in this solo installation, but the spirit of the show at DORF is doggedly hopeful, fresh, and invigorating

Avoids indictment over alleged sexual assault of minor in 2006

Crafty reality competition star on wood and Nick Offerman

Discussing the core values of Austin's forthcoming public house at SXSW

In his history of Esther's Follies, author Jesse Sublett follows the flow of four decades of frivolity

In this collection of jazzy geometric mixed-media works and sculptures, the artist conjures wild characters in a self-contained universe

A new law requires in-person visits for Texas jails, but it's not clear if Travis County is exempt

Austin's next big zero-waste project is feeding nature's recycling program

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.

But you can get 'em that way – and more – at Austin's STAG shop.

Ready, set, rummage!

It's only rock & roll, and we like it.

You could be swimming, but you'd rather be rummaging

County will study, not challenge, commercial appraisal roll