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Dining, drinking, and farming in Austin

"...Food Austin hosts a Farm Foraging Tour of Johnson's Backyard Garden (9515 Hergotz, 386-5273, www.johnsonsbackyardgarden.com). Tour guests will have..."

March 5, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

'People Celebrate a Celebration of Da' Bootay'

A Q&A with Christeene

"...Ritz. I've been to a homosexual festival in a backyard. I've been to a gay bar, the Chain Drive...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Gentlemen Broncos

With this new film, Jared Hess elicits none of the naive charm or flagrant silliness of his earlier movies, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

"...friends: flirtatious and ambitious Tabatha (Feiffer) and the local backyard auteur Lonnie (Jiménez), an effetely gay caricature. Rockwell, in..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ASF Celebrates Its Fall Issue With a Free and Cozy-Sounding Event

American Short Fiction will host a house party with reading and music Friday night

"...Tomorrow night's event held in the backyard of Kelty Christman, a setting that ASF editor Jill..."

Sept. 17, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

This and That

FunkyBatz, Elvis, and more...

"...Finally got out to the reconfigured Backyard over the weekend, now dubbed Tim’s Porch, for the..."

Aug. 26, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Ponyo

In this animated adventure by the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, a 5-year-old boy forms a friendship with a goldfish princess who longs to be human.

"...between the forces of good and evil in his backyard, probably involving fish tanks and the family cat and..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

If a Downtown venue closes down for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, does it make a sound?

"...• Tim's Porch at the Backyard, a scaled-down version of the amphitheatre modeled after its..."

April 10, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Monsters vs. Aliens

In this animated film, a misfit band of monsters unleashed from quarantine defend Earth from an alien invader.

"...to woo a plate of jiggling Jell-O at a backyard barbecue (he is, after all, technically brainless). The film..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIF! Friday night insight to SXSW 09.

"...8pm, Habana Bar Backyard Last SXSW, MTV declared, "Lo-fi is all the rage."..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

International Bands

Friday

"...Diva Gash (Colombia) (Wed., Habana Bar Backyard, 8pm) Soul Brothers No. 2...."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

One last night of band blurbs!

"...8:10pm, Beauty Bar Backyard The Texas-bred singer-songwriter had a truly haunting vision with..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

ZZ Top

Backyard, May 15

"...ZZ TopBackyard, May 15..."

May 23, 2008 Music Review by Greg Beets

When Is Tomorrow

This filmed-in-Austin movie about two former best friends moving in different directions is purposefully disheveled and expertly ramshackle.

"...only film this year to climax with a hallucinogen-fueled backyard-party sword fight. Shot in Austin on a tiny budget,..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Miss Understood

Carolyn Wonderland through the looking glass

"...the famous story, that I was out at the Backyard, hangin' with Dylan," booms Ray Benson jovially from his..."

May 2, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Thursday Sleepers

"...11:30pm, Beauty Bar Backyard With four basses, two drummers, and a shitload of..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Free Concert

Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, March 15, 2008

"...air on the SXSW schedule. Habana Calle 6 Annex Backyard? Creekside EMC @ Hilton Garden? Sure, we know where..."

March 14, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Wednesday Picks

"...11pm, Habana Annex Backyard Percee P has perseverance by the pound. What was..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature

The Garden of Good & Better

The Chronicle's Nod to LIVING SOUTHERN

"...draw from a Cuban cigar, as cozy as a backyard barbecue or as mannered as an afternoon tea: elaborate,..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Transformers

What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.

"...bother devolving into a Matchbox truck? Invariably, in my backyard universe, the Transformers always ended up on the wrong..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Norah Jones

Live Shot

"...The Backyard, June 15..."

June 22, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Gracie

Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late Seventies.

"...rough, Gracie is repeatedly shut out of her father’s backyard training sessions. Boys only. With its atmosphere of suburban..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Power of Three

With ZZ Top mowing down the Backyard this weekend, the power of three – trios – comes into play

"...on schedule in Austin for an appearance at the Backyard. All right!"..."

April 13, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Food-o-file

Young couples keeping CSA fresh; plus, openings around town

"...lifelong dream of farming his own land at Johnson's Backyard Garden (9515 Hergotz, 389-2515; [email protected]). He is busy planting..."

April 6, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

For the Love of Dolly

"...home to color-match at Home Depot for her own backyard replica, this movie will probably ruin the songstress' sleep..."

Sept. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Jeremy Martin

Quinceañera

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

"...it feels as cozy and welcoming as Tio Tomas' backyard shack. Of the cast, 16-year-old Rios, who makes her..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Ant Bully

Childhood's fascination with all things small and squirmy makes this story of a boy who becomes an ant a pleasant, if undernourished, tale.

"...explorers ant bullies if you must, but this interspecies backyard battleground is often also the birthplace of scientific wonder...."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File

Walgreens, what will you think of next? Plus, Hi.

"...anyone interested in learning about raising chickens to the Backyard Chicken Flock Seminar to be moderated by her humans..."

July 21, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Bloodthirsty Killers of Circle C

Victims take flight! ... Officials shrug! ... Stealthy predators stalk the suburban streets!

"...privacy fences that allow each resident to craft a backyard utopia. For some, that means a St. Augustine lawn..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

TCB

The gumbo's spilled over into the chili

"...the Austin Jazz & Arts Festival at Kenny Dorham's Backyard next to the Victory Grill. Fellow jazzer Elias Haslanger..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

"...bemused Englishman who delights in the pH of his backyard soil. Wife Tessa (Weisz) is the sort of shrieking..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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