What’s the Deal With Styrofoam Cups and Plastic Drinking Straws?

Zero Waste Advisory Commission encourages Austinites to take small steps to reduce pollution

"...state law bars the outright ban of Styrofoam and straws by municipalities, a combination of consumer demand and advocate..."

June 29, 2018 Food Feature by Nina Hernandez

Too Many Straws in the Well

Jacob's Well runs dry, leaving water experts wondering how to curb pumping limits

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Election 2014 Begins as Senate Draws Lots

Term lengths allocation starts to reshape plans for higher office

"...Campbell to start fundraising: After this mornings drawing of straws for Texas Senate term durations, both are running for..."

Jan. 23, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

#notallstraws

Pasta Life brings a single-use straw that our planet will love

"...ever before. And a lot of people are using straws...."

Sept. 14, 2020 Food Post by W. A. Brenner

A Political Guide to Gifting in 2019

Give the gift of hope!

"...Maybe reusable straws won't really save the world, but at this point..."

Dec. 6, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Opinion: Let’s Encourage Austin Restaurants to Switch to Reusables, Away From Single-Use Items

Austin Reuse Coalition and Plastic Reduction Project want your help rating Austin restaurants’ commitment to reducing plastic use

"...in close behind, with only minor things – like straws given automatically to customers without their request, or disposable..."

March 1, 2024 Column by Brandi Clark Burton

To Catch a Killer

Formulaic killer-with-a-gun drama has the guts to defetishise firearms

"...investigative team in the dark, grasping at paper thin straws of evidence. Shailene Woodley plays Eleanor Falco, a police..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Studio 666

The Foo Fighters make their own Evil Dead

"...before. The film itself is scattered, grasping at the straws of old music industry jabs, like explicit anti-Big Label..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

APD Serves Up Felonies in ACL Wristband Sting

Offenders leased wristband to undercover cop

"...Glass observed Nathan and Cameron using small, green, plastic straws to defeat the clip on the wristband, so they..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Five Ways YOU Can Fight Climate Change

Yes, you can do things to help the planet

"...dead in July 12's Planet Money podcast, while metal straws are marketed as the new hot commodity at local..."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Knowing

It's up to Nicolas Cage to save the world in this movie about a man who deciphers a cryptic artifact that predicts major disasters, past and future.

"...of course, think he’s a drunken paranoid, clutching at straws as a way to make sense of the senseless..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Drying on the Vine

Water shortage forces family farms into survival mode

"...the same volume of resource and more and more straws are going in, so you're going to see some..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Trouble in Paradise

Rebecca Chastenet de Gery explains why her visits to Pacifica Fine Dining have varied in quality.

"...field greens dominates the plate, and three fried pasta straws come soaring like antennae out of the middle. (Pacifica..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Day Trips: SandFest, Port Aransas

Gulf Coast sand sculpture competition is the place to see some sandy feats

"...trade range from shovels and buckets to trowels and straws to blow away excess sand. The moist sand is..."

April 25, 2025 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Film Society Honors Drafthouse Founders at Texas Film Awards

Tim and Karrie League join Michelle Rodriguez and Noah Hawley as this year’s Hall of Fame inductees

"...was just as important behind the scenes. “We drew straws early on,” he recalled, “and she went, 'You’re the..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

At Jive Turkey, Longhorn Wide Receiver DeAndre Moore Jr. Blazes His Own Trail From Pigskin to Poultry

Food trailer puts down new roots in West Campus

"...contains three flavors of Kool Aid with three separate straws. Taleea, who is diabetic, tells the story of some..."

Nov. 26, 2024 Food Post by Haris Qureshi

The New Benedict Arnold

"...and offer no parking? Not to mention put more straws in the drought stricken aquifer, and a failing water..."

July 31, 2023 Postmarks

Hearing the Imperceptible as Laraaji Collaborates With Plants in a Church

Welcome to the most curious performance of SXSW Music 2023

"...conjured thoughts of wet roots sucking up water like straws. Next, he produced a kalimba, plucking the tone-filled metal..."

March 19, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fancy New Foxtrot Opens, Jo’s Celebrates the Austin Marathon, Olamaie Offers a Southern Exposure, Austin Craft Beers Win a Mess o’ Medals, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...into the flat top, topped with sweet onion, onion straws, and horseradish? Oh, baby, yes, please…..."

Feb. 15, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

aGLIFF Honoree Madeleine Olnek Finds a Space in Cinema

A look through the queer lens

"...representation in independent film proved one of the last straws for Olnek. "I read this article where this guy..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Screens Feature by James Scott

The Luv Doc: Bachelorette Beach Party

Using a special occasion to even mildly guilt your friends into helping you fund your travel fantasies is a bit gauche

"...bachelorette party special anyway? That and those plastic penis straws?..."

July 9, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Home Slice Loves Selena, Jo’s Loves La Colombe, Nobody Doesn’t Love Churros, and Everybody’s Cooking Burgers

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...and rosewater), and two rose-gold disco-ball souvenir glasses (and straws decked with white roses). Yeah, if you’re doing a..."

Dec. 1, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Goes in Your Compost Bin in Austin

Pizza boxes? OK. Liquids? No thank you.

"...waste, metal, pet waste, plastic bags, plastic containers, plastic straws, rocks, Styrofoam, trash, treated or painted lumber, tree stumps,..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Feature

Co-Lab Projects' "Texas Toast" Dishes Up a Heapin’ Helping

This group exhibition looks at the food that means the most to us

"...liquids to the side in clear plastic bags with straws inserted, all set neatly on a TV tray as..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Local Supplement Brand Pledges to Clean Up Litter With Every Purchase

fitppl sees the link between healthy food and a healthy planet

"...space, the food and supplement space; it's bottles, it's straws, it's cans, it's wrappers. And no company in our..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

Public Notice: Total Garbage

Good news and bad news about your waste stream

"...machinery are bottle caps and plastic bags, wrap, and straws...."

July 12, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Joann's Fine Foods Has Us Wondering How Much Is Too Much to Pay for Chicken-Fried Steak

Top-notch service and attention to detail at SoCo's Austin Motel

"...dressing came out in a paper ramekin. The drinking straws were made from biodegradable wheat rather than plastic, and..."

May 24, 2019 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Mixing Race, Gender, and Improv Is a Heady Cocktail for Two

Shannon Stott and Quinn Buckner bid some basic boundaries bye-bye

"...of the show a little, we’re, like, grasping at straws, and –..."

Jan. 22, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Bao'd Up

Mueller's new steamed bun shop is hit and miss

"...satisfying about tapioca bubbles shooting through those neon-colored wide straws. There are quite a few tasty bubble tea shops..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Federal Judge (Temporarily) Blocks Texas From Denying Planned Parenthood Patients Medicaid

Medicaid removal will not take effect until at least Feb. 21

"...wrongdoing. The state, said attorneys, were merely “grasping at straws” to show any plausible basis for an argument...."

Jan. 19, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

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