A Foodie’s Guide to One of North Austin’s Strip Malls
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"...Strip malls rule. Where else can you spin laundry while sipping..."
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Nov. 24, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Holland
When Malls Attack
We sure are getting a lot of malls.
"...Central Texas that are not the sites of proposed malls. But they're going fast...."
July 19, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Wal-Marts Are Their Own Malls
"...Jan. 12 issue [“Postmarks”], Wal-Mart Supercenters are their own malls. A good example is the one north of Parmer..."
Jan. 15, 2007 Postmarks
“Julie Libersat: Paved Paradise” at W&TW
This interactive solo exhibition may have you looking at malls in a very different way
"...more to come (analysts project a quarter of U.S. malls to shutter over the next five years), and maybe..."
March 23, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires
La Leyenda del Chupacabras
Dark animated tale may be too frightening for children
"...Leo. One of them babbles about Facebook and shopping malls, making the time frame of the movie more confusing..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Under the Same Moon
The film's parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.
"...Mexican Carlitos (Alonso), that concrete jungle of endless strip malls and fast-food restaurants is a wonderland. Four years ago,..."
March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Ghost World
Brilliant portrait of teen anomie is based on the underground comic book by Daniel Clowes.
"...mediocrity that Clowes' comic book also decries: the strip malls and chain franchises and trendiness that increasingly dumb down..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
London
"...and terrorist warnings plastered to their smudgy windows, shopping malls, and the sooty grit that underlies everything about London..."
Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Far and Away
"...love but more often staring across classrooms or shopping malls with those same smoldering looks. There is a lot..."
May 29, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
Weird by Design
City's proposed design standards emphasize livability,
walkability, and flexibility
"...the development company Cencor Urban, there are 20 suburban malls going up at the same time. The proposed ordinance..."
April 1, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
The Hightower Report
Bush's tax cut creates jobs -- in China; and malls kill main street -- and replace it with a cheap knock-off.
"...now are replicating it with what they call "outdoor malls," with faux "main streets" and brightly painted stores that..."
Feb. 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Second Coolest Thing Online
"...at all -- to setting up stores and even malls in cyberspace where you can buy almost anything with..."
Dec. 4, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone
Consigned to History: The Last Days of the Austin Antique Mall
When two iconic Austin businesses share an address, someday one was going to lose out
"...both professionally and personally. Out of all those different malls, he said. “This has been by far my favorite..."
May 17, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker
Ghost Mall? Retail Bagpipes Sound a Dirge for Highland Mall
Retail bagpipes sound a dirge for Highland Mall
"...the city's competing shopping options. Aside from newer, traditional malls like Barton Creek Square or Lakeline, more urbanist, deluxe..."
March 20, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Y Not?
The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas
"...southwest from Austin, drivers pass some dismal, part-vacant strip malls and several hundred yards of bare concrete pads where..."
June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
The Wal-marts of Religion
"...attempted to design their spaces to look like shopping malls or some other space in which people would feel..."
Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Exploring the McNeil Crossing Strip Mall
Exceptional forays into Indian and Vietnamese cuisine, plus a short trip to Subway
"...Welcome to The Strip Club, highlighting Austin’s destination strip malls. Where else can you play virtual golf while singing..."
April 12, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland
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All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...a “Foodie’s Guide to One of North Austin’s Strip Malls.” Note: This is the first in a planned series..."
Nov. 29, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Carpet Cowboys
The American dream crumbles in the Carpet Capitol of the World
"...and office buildings, palaces and homes, and especially shopping malls, with all manner of eye straining designs and color...."
Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Austin Hunkers Down and Waits as the Pandemic Grows
It’s closing time
"...nation's largest operator of shopping centers, is closing its malls nationwide through March 29; this includes Barton Creek Square,..."
March 20, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
The Long Dumb Road
The road may be dumb, but at least it's fun
"...known as the road trip), snapping pictures of strip malls and locals in a Marfa bar (much to their..."
Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Pelican Dreams
The director of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is back with a personal doc about these "flying dinosaurs," which have always fascinated her.
"...where they are often found on urban streets, shopping malls, and bridges. In fact, it’s a dehydrated, undernourished pelican..."
Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Wadjda
In this first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman, much is revealed about the reality of life for women there via its story of a 10-year-old girl who wants a bicycle.
"...back and forth to work and to the shopping malls. Additionally, Wadjda’s mother is trying to convince her husband..."
Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Day Trips
Everything in Houston's Chinatown is centered around food
"...a long stretch of Bellaire is filled with shopping malls with names like Don Juan Mall and Sterling Plaza..."
June 3, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Reinventing Airport Boulevard
Can 'form-based zoning' transform a suburban drag into walkable neighborhoods?
"...selling used autos and used tires, and generic strip malls – the classic Anywhere, U.S.A...."
Jan. 8, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
The Unforeseen
Executive-produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, Dunn's award-winning documentary looks at the history of Barton Springs, Gary Bradley's role in development issues, and the relationship of Austin's environmental activism to the world at large.
"...mind to see the building of subdivisions and shopping malls as an act of creativity, and it’s to Dunn’s..."
March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Shouldn't a Wal-Mart Be at a Mall?
"...the next person. But I don't much care for malls, either, which leads me to my point: What better..."
Jan. 4, 2007 Postmarks
Election Notes
Prop. 2 will shape the way the area develops at a time when the community is trying to decide for itself what sort of neighborhood it wants to be
"...Austinites know only as the traffic-clogged tangle of strip malls standing between them and the Hill Country, it's not..."
May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Even in a Free Society Overbuilding Is a Problem
"...communities and real estate are covered in stores and malls and gas stations? Every day we see a new..."
Dec. 16, 2005 Postmarks
Endorsements
No on everything. Double no on Proposition 2.
"...All locations, except malls and mobile voting sites, are open Monday-Saturday, 7am-7pm, and..."
