Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood explains why Austin is home away from home for several French chefs and updates readers on local restaurant changes.

"...walk around the historic five-acre East Austin farm, identifying native and adapted herb species and explaining both their medicinal..."

April 21, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Why San Marcos?

Joe Hauer defends his town just south of Austin

"...cement slab early in the 20th century. According to Native American legend, this was the location of the fountain..."

March 24, 2000 Features Feature by Joe Hauer

Coffeetable Books

Remembrance of Things Past

"...Texas is the great bird state, with over 600 species, both native and migrating. Great Texas Birds has the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Day Trips

Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg sows the seeds for a colorful spring.

"...first-hand what the plants look like. Of the 30 species of plants on the tour, nearly half are planted..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Haranguing the Hugos

"...feeling rather than simply showing us. And Sawyer, a native Canadian, seems to be falling into the Canuck conundrum,..."

July 30, 1999 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...in a lawsuit that tried to overturn the Endangered Species Act protection for flora and fauna native only to..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Art That Speaks for Itself

"...Vechten, Greta Garbo, and Walt Whitman, but also a Native American, unidentified; tobacco workers, unidentified; garage mechanic, unidentified; and..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...convert to any new religion does not have the native tolerance and skepticism of a person exposed to it..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

Postmarks

Keep Off Barton Creek

"...recognize that some areas of the earth and some species demand no less than separation from all humans. This..."

July 18, 1997 Column

Day Trips

"...armadillo, rabbit, or one of the hundreds of different species of birds that visit the park on a regular..."

April 18, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Record Reviews

"...five creepy-cool songs (including U.K. hits "Female of the Species" and "Me and You Versus the World") are two..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...groove, relying more on traditional African tribal rhythms and native chants. Life and sometime-music partner Louisa Cretu is again..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Music Review

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

"...The weta is an insect native to New Zealand that can inflict painful bites. It..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Day Trips

"...their cages. The Cheetah is one of six endangered species being researched at the facility...."

Oct. 13, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...The zoo is about evenly divided between native and exotic animals. The barnyard area, which retains the..."

June 30, 1995 Column

RM 2222 at City Park Road Lost in Winkieland

"...Austinites, the sleepy cedar hills merely segregate two different species of Them...."

June 23, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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