Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.

"...Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) then imagines Snape with his grandmother’s fur-collared suit and handbag...."

June 4, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Yvonne Johnson: Pride From Pain

"..."'Grandmother, grandmother, send your prayers to me, protect me and..."

April 30, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...told him that she'd heard the story from her grandmother. Newlin said he interviewed the grandmother – a friend..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...In Houston the Old Man met and seduced my grandmother, a very correct schoolteacher recently graduated from Fisk University...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Day Trips

In Corsicana, "excellent fruitcake" is not an oxymoron.

"...of," Crawford admits, "but we do them like your grandmother would make -- with lots of nuts and fresh..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bad Santa

Billy Bob Thornton plays a thieving, degenerate Santa.

"...home to the mansion he shares with his dotty grandmother. There are lessons to be imparted here, from Bad..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Taste of Summer

The perfect meal, searching for seafood tamales, eating wild strawberries stoned, and more memories of heat and hunger

"...a deviled egg in each hand, recalled her infirm grandmother sitting in the kitchen, gesticulating imperiously with her cane..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Jimmie and Georgia

At their Southern Dinette, family-style soul food took on a whole new meaning.

"...One bite could instantly transport me back to my grandmother's kitchen in East Texas. It was the absolute best..."

July 4, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Sea

"...And there’s something to be said for the crotchety grandmother, who hates Coke so much that she proclaims it..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Day Trips

"...grandparents watched the American style of traveling evolve. "My grandmother used to fix breakfast for the guests," Joan says...."

May 16, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

It Runs in the Family

"...a workmanlike collection of predictably heartwarming situations. The kindly grandmother (Diana Douglas) puzzles over her e-mail, the goofy collegiate..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Gael Force

Austin's Celtic tributaries feed into Austin Celtic Festival -- and the larger whole.

"...on the floor; heavy, wooden display cases and her grandmother's antiques dumped over like dollhouse furniture. Scottish swords, Celtic..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Book Reviews

The bad news: Melanie Haupt isn't satisfied with Sandra Cisneros' eagerly awaited epic. The good? Read on.

"...to Mexico, recounts the endless machinations of her Awful Grandmother, Soledad, and, after her discovery of the unfinished, handmade..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Heart Attack & Fine

Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas

"...great-uncle Glen -- my grandfather's brother -- and my grandmother, a woman that was like a grandmother to us,..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...reclaim her children, who had been placed in their grandmother's custody by Child Protective Services. The incident report dryly..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Family Fundamentals

"...coming to terms with the hurtful effects of his grandmother's disapproval. Another subject of the film is Brett Matthews,..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Academy Award-Nominated Shorts 2002

"...aspiring inventor schemes up ways to give his ailing grandmother new legs. The inky, itchy “Copy Shop” is a..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips

"...Bend region and gave it a voice. The sweet grandmother lived a hard life, and had lived to laugh..."

June 21, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...La Fay was the last name of her maternal grandmother -- apparently a crucial figure in Griffin's life. "Poor..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Drag Nirvana

A new world-class restaurant on Guadalupe

"...up learning to cook at the side of her grandmother (known far and wide in Thailand as an incredible..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Adventures of Felix

"...comes with a subhead – "the little brother," "the grandmother," "the cousin" – strangers who fill some void in..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Heat

"...and held it there, pledging to write from her grandmother's in Ponca City. I imagined our pink, strawberry-scented stationery..."

July 13, 2001 Features Feature by Robin Bradford

The Circle

"...said differently, the new arrival is a girl. The grandmother is horrified. She knows that in Tehran's male-dominated society..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day I Became a Woman

"...best friend (who is a boy) inexplicably off-limits. Her grandmother (Passand) calculates that an hour remains before the girl..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Afrodisiac

Femi Kuti carries on his father's legacy

"...and fractured the skulls of both Femi's uncle and grandmother. His grandmother died from the injuries. A government "inquiry"..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Looking to the Future

"...Sisnett: The Reluctant Heroine Ana Sisnett remembers how her grandmother was with telephones. "She wouldn't ever put them up..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

"...Tennessee, from the aesthetic influence of his vintage Southern grandmother to the budding nascence of his loneliness...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Review by David Garza

Rockin' the Roadshow

Forget Pokémon and Britney Spears, Rosalind digs the Antiques Roadshow and got to meet her heroes in person when the show rolled through town.

"...clutched the necklace that had once belonged to her great-grandmother. She gaped at the appraisers who appear in her..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Features Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Eating the New Economy

22 is elegant in that minimalist, California sort of way, Barbara Chisholm writes. The walls are gently curved and unadorned except for their warm, soothing colors of ocher and gray. At least she thinks those are the colors; the lighting is kept very low and intimate, so it's hard to be certain.

"...liver pté reputed to be based on the chef's grandmother's recipe ($10). Both were outstanding and beautifully presented. The..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Map of Love: A Novel

"...of Love, begins. The trunk had belonged to Isabel's great-grandmother, Anna Winterbourne, and while Isabel sifts through its contents,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward

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