Please Try This at Home

Local Cookbooks Bring Ethnic Food Traditions to You

"...childhood and times spent in the kitchen with his grandmother, Guadalupe Velasquez, and his mother, Amelia Galbraith. Both excellent..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Beyond the Closet Door

Gay/Lesbian Filmmakers Find New Inspiration

"...were based on real people are Katie's mother and grandmother, the grandmother being the reincarnation of my own grandmother...."

Aug. 30, 1996 Screens Feature

The Wedding Banquet

Remake is a sweet, if restrained, ode to found families

"...seasoned cast: Minari Oscar winner Youn Yuh-Jung, charting Min’s grandmother’s evolving attitudes with elegant minimalism; Dìdi’s Joan Chen, goosing..."

April 18, 2025 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Feeding the Soul With Immersive Theatre at Boggy Creek Farm

Co-creator Jade Fusco talks about Fables From the Farm

"...years.” The half-Italian artist describes childhood dinners with her grandmother being a big inspiration for Fables’ emphasis on locally..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Short and Sweet: “Neuro”

Austin-made psychotropic short explores the mutability of memory

"...how "Neuro" was in part inspired by your own grandmother's Alzheimer's diagnosis. How did that affect how you approached..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Las Tres Sisters

Three sisters reunite for a pilgrimage through rural Mexico

"...reunite after years of estrangement to complete their beloved grandmother’s pilgrimage through rural Mexico to Talpa de Allende. Heads..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Movie Review

International Musicians Keep Austin’s Scene Alive, but They Struggle to Stay

Putting the “world” in Live Music Capital of the World

"...just months after he’d arrived. Tragedy struck when his grandmother passed away in 2020. “I had to say goodbye..."

Nov. 29, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

A Real Pain

Cousins reconnect with their heritage in endearing dramedy

"...after a long time apart to visit their late grandmother’s birthplace in Poland, Eisenberg is David, the responsible one,..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

White Bird

A grandmother recounts to her grandson the trauma of growing up in Nazi-occupied France

"...screen in 2017), this dual timeline story follows a grandmother (Mirren) recounting to her grandson the trauma of growing..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Movie Review

Fantastic Fest Review: What Happened to Dorothy Bell?

Found footage horror is a chill burn, not a run through the woods

"...she’s connected to it. The witch librarian was her grandmother (Arlene Arnone Bibbs), the sweet old lady that used..."

Sept. 22, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Off Beat: promqueen’s Dark Fairytale

Women and queer creative showcase the Front Festival returns Labor Day weekend

"...Vietnam, which she learned through her mother that her great-grandmother experienced firsthand...."

Aug. 30, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

“A Trajectory of Grief” Traverses Tragedy

Monica Martinez-Diaz deals with death through digital collage

"...One section has a series of pictures of Martinez-Diaz’s grandmother in her Juarez home, framed by heirloom doilies. Every..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Murray's Tavern Takes Over Gourmands Space

New York-style neighborhood tavern opens in early December

"...Murray's is named after Tober's grandmother, who helped him kickstart his restaurant career. The cocktails,..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Food Post by Haris Qureshi

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Adaptation of Judy Blume's classic is just as perfectly poignant as the book

"...essentially moving away from Margaret’s entire childhood, including her grandmother Sylvia (Bates)...."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Masa y Más Brings Central Mexico to South Lamar

New taqueria from the Moonshine and Hopdoddy team debuts this weekend

"...made in-house using methods passed down from chef Campos’ grandmother...."

Jan. 4, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cuando Sea Joven

Age-swap antics as a 70-year-old woman becomes her younger self

"...Cuando Sea Joven sees Malena (Castro), a 70-year old grandmother, get a second chance at becoming a successful singer..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Ali Juell

Listen to This: David Beck Breaks Down Bloom & Fade

Family ties and looking at life, track-by-track

"...“I sat next to my grandmother (MaMaw) as she held the hand of her husband...."

Sept. 22, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Qmmunity: The Gay Outdoors

Get out and touch grass at Tawa Threads’ outdoorsy art exhibit. Plus: Austin drag takes a bite outta the Big Apple!

"...name of the exhibit stems from ideas my Guyanese grandmother instilled in me at an early age while gardening,"..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Column by James Scott

Gigi & Nate

Saccharine story of a man and his assistance monkey

"...hosed off the property by Diane Ladd as Southern grandmother stereotype Mama Blanche, who pops up to deliver folksy..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 2-8

"...people in Jamaica. In one passage, she writes, "My grandmother used to tell stories about women that change into..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...100 min. Left in the care of their eccentric grandmother, Nala discovers that the tough old lady has sinister..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

MezzeMe Teaches Austin About Turkish Food

Scratch-made kitchen builds on family recipes handed down

"...on the recipes he learned from his mother and grandmother in his hometown just south of Istanbul, he was..."

July 8, 2022 Food Feature by Yasmin Diallo Turk

Chef Nikki Is the Cannabis Alchemist

Celeb chef mixes science and flavor to create cannabis comfort food

"...Steward learned to cook spending time with her grandmother in the kitchen. “Everything tasted so good, and that..."

March 14, 2022 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

A daughter recalls growing up with a punk icon mum

"...herself at a young age to live with her grandmother, as Styrene often neglected her child while attempting to..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Clean

Adrien Brody gets dirty in this suitably scummy revenge drama

"...of his young neighbor, Diandra (DuPont), and why her grandmother, Ethel (Tony nominee Wilson), is begrudgingly OK with it..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Cranky Granny's Sweet Rolls Went From a Teenager's Dream to a Must-Stop Destination

Sianni Dean wants to see her cinnamon rolls across the country

"...Dean launched Cranky Granny's, named in tribute to her grandmother, from her apartment, where she operated for a couple..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Humans

A family quietly implodes at Thanksgiving in this merciless Broadway adaptation

"...hallways are such a tight squeeze that dementia-suffering, wheelchair-bound grandmother Momo (Squibb) can hardly get through the place; god..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Austin Film Festival Review: Petite Maman

Whimsical French coming-of-age drama evokes Miyazaki

"...her mother’s childhood home after the death of her grandmother, Pettie Maman is kin to Sciamma’s Tomboy, a perfect..."

Oct. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Stop and Go

Laughs are short and old in this COVID-era road trip comedy

"...mail alert that there’s been an outbreak at their grandmother’s nursing home sends them on an unexpected rescue mission...."

Oct. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

CODA

Bawdy, touching and exhilarating fishing family drama takes a different look at deafness

"...and growing into acceptance. Much as Youn Yuh-jung’s mischievous grandmother injected a sly comedy into Minari, so Kotsur’s impeccable..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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