The Dream

This rock & roll take on the Bard aims for spectacle more than meaning or heart

"...the Bard's work set anywhere from modern-day India to colonial South America to Xanadu. But the point of setting..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Nneka

Thursday

"..."Come With Me." The message throughout is one of post-colonial unity, a strictly forward-looking stance reflected in an update..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Dan Oko

Thamnak Thai

Tastes of Thailand in Central Texas

"...casual-dining American: cushioned vinyl booths with honey-colored wood dividers, colonial-style chairs, and a little greenery here and there. Everything..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Into the Wild

Balmorhea might not be one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, but it scored the movement

"...setting the scene for the local sextet's take on colonial independence. Cinematic in breadth and temperament, the album charts..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

GOP Betrays Trust

"...his nation's majority poor, indigenous population. But the rich, colonial elite screams bloody murder. Having the peccary's share of..."

Aug. 6, 2009 Postmarks

Food-o-File

Sweet news from Panaderia Chuy, Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., and Treat

"...baker Jesus "Chuy" Guevara, a native of the Mexican colonial city of Puebla. Guevara began learning his trade in..."

July 24, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Think of England… No More

India decriminalizes homo sex… hooray?

"...because the law was brought into being by British colonial powers and not by a sovereign Indian government. Postcolonialism,..."

July 2, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The Jewels of Castle Hill

The Heritage Society of Austin's Spring 2009 historic home tour.

"...late 1800's to the present, such as Italianate, Eastlake, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Ranch, and Minimal Tradition...."

May 3, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Better Relations With Venezuela and Cuba Needed

"...ugly products of the most corrupt misleaders of the colonial powers. Chávez has taken a stand for the people..."

April 21, 2009 Postmarks

Film News

An Oscar, a zombie, and a film incentive walk into a bar ...

"...debutantes staging their border interpretation of the Mount Vernon colonial pageantry in Laredo" and to Sandra Guardada for Two..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Bigger-Than-Life Lives

A warts-and-all biography of a misogynist, a depressive, a Nobel Prize winner

"...Naipaul, his venomous misogyny and distinctly unsympathetic views on postcolonial nations already established, only a madman would want to..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Focus: The Collected Filmstrips of Brian Dewan, Vol. 1

Just the thing for the hyperactive adult on your Christmas list

"...Came," which teaches not the expected PC litany of Euro-colonial depredations but rather sketches an inchoate force of evil..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Bánh Mì

Sampling bánh mì all over Austin

"...were made famous in Vietnam, but we have the colonial French to thank...."

Oct. 10, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Booze for voters, reduction in semicolon usage, and more

"...commonly used to sway voters during election campaigns in colonial British America...."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Heavy Melody

Judas Priest's K.K. Downing Q&A

"...the rich kids that were probably swanning around in colonial times...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

Paleontologist author Richard Fortey comes across like an aging UK dreamboat with a twist of Indiana Jones' wry charisma

"...a generous, accessible guide. A model institution built on colonial aspirations, the BM assembles the collections of Darwin and..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Books Review by Dan Oko

Thomas Frank's 21st Century Corruption Theory

A Q&A with the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

"...neighborhoods. So we first showed the sorta New Deal, brick-colonial neighborhoods. No problem – we walk along the street, and..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Day Trips

Take the short trek south on I-35 to the San Antonio missions for a fun day trip

"...Park contains four of the best-preserved examples of Spanish colonial architecture in the country. Mission Nuestra Señora de la..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Happy 4th from the Chrontourage!

"...After you've celebrated you're independence from England and other colonial tyranny you should be ready to go America all..."

July 3, 2008 Events Post by Logan Youree

Point Austin: Heat Wave

From Philadelphia to Austin, the air is burning

"...Afterward, I found myself wondering if those 18th century colonial statesmen devotedly honored in the Philly landmarks would remotely..."

June 13, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Cafe 909

Cafe 909 can compete on a national level

"...a good deal of his youth in England. The colonial British came back from India with a taste for..."

May 23, 2008 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Papa Brasilia

Nelson Pereira dos Santos Retrospective

"...experimentations of the French New Wave to the chaotic anti-colonial films of the 1970s and on to the outright..."

April 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Developing Stories

City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District

"...Stratus, Catellus, Cherokee, Forest City (with Peter Calthorpe), and Colonial...."

March 7, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Day Trips

The Hill Country Regional Christmas Lighting Trail dresses 11 Central Texas communities in glowing finery

"...Historic Site at Goliad State Park. The more-than-250-year-old Spanish colonial mission is accented with soft light from dark to..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Maakies' Daddy in the House

Austin Books & Comics hosts Tony Millionaire

"...wainscoting and cornices and balustrades of many-roomed, multigabled Dutch Colonial Revivals and salt-sprayed bungalows...."

Nov. 30, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Patterns of Peru and Texas': Peruse Peruvian power

Showing the art connection between sister cities Lima and Austin

"...Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú, an esteemed Spanish colonial school in Lima that teaches the classical Western canon...."

Oct. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Carry On, My Wayward Tongue

Michael Erard on Um ...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders and What They Mean

"...family business for India in 1860 to became a colonial administrator and ended his life in a tea plantation..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Scott Blackwood

Viva Belize!

You may have to fly to Belize to see Jerry Jeff Walker perform these days; just don't call out any requests

"...south end of the island, near Victoria House, a colonial-style high-end resort. Designed by Austin architect Dick Clark, the..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Kevin Brass

ACL Fest Friday Reviews

"...Likewise, their language and culture blend African, Amerindian, and colonial elements, making this Palacio-driven music simultaneously fresh and familiar...."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...– and a voice thick with age. Ages of colonial romanticism. Cuba's Ibrahim Ferrer, who died August 2005 at..."

June 15, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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