Liquid Assets

Wine expert Wes Marshall explains why the zins are still in, and recommends his favorites.

"...is as American as jazz and baseball. Back in the 1940s, when California wine was cheap and disrespected, Italian..."

July 25, 2003 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Friends of Dean Martinez

Seven and Seven Is

"...One of the best kept instrumental secrets of 2001 has been the..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Gold Diggers of 1933

On the surface, Gold Diggers is fluffy musical fare with Busby Berkeley's delightfully surreal production numbers, but the Great Depression left its mark on the film.

"...Things were about as bad in 1933 as they'd ever get during the Great Depression. FDR's New Deal..."

June 1, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Seagull

Guy Roberts and a talented cast stage Anton Chekhov's The Seagull as a rehearsal, rather than performance, and in doing so allow the audience to watch the nuts and bolts of how a show is put together, the process of exploration, the sometimes messy, personal world of the rehearsal.

"...Anton Chekhov's The Seagull: Where Theatre Gets Messy ... And Joyful..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Pride and Prejudice

"...Anglophile? Me too. The more corsetted, tea-sipping, class-conscious Brits I absorb, the more..."

July 19, 1996 Screens Feature

Texas’ Hemp Industry Wants Smarter Regulation. Dan Patrick Wants to Nuke It.

Lieutenant governor pushes to ban all THC

"...THC-P, CB9-A. Disgustedly, I mutter something like, “Jesus, I’d rather smoke embalming fluid.”..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Solar-Powered Suds

Texas breweries reducing beer's carbon footprint

"...in recent decades, are enjoying a second renaissance during the COVID-19 pandemic as social life has moved outside. "I..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Discovering (and Creating) Austin’s Best Self-Guided Beer Tours

Crawl before you ball

"...Initially we set off to write the quintessential New York Times-style 36-hour beer crawl of Austin,..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Local Married Couple Flaunts Public Comedy Habit

Chloe and Lane Ingram are ... Chlane

"...So, there’s that married comedy duo in town, Chloe and Lane..."

June 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fizzy Logic

Drink local soft drinks – from Dublin to Maine

"...When Dublin Bottling Works lost its contract to bottle the cane-sugar-sweetened Dublin Dr Pepper, Texans emitted a collective howl..."

March 2, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Microbrew Renaissance

It's a good time to drink beer in Texas

"...I believe that this is the golden age of Texas brewing...."

July 4, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

A Disaster Brewing

Hops shortage squeezes local-beer makers and drinkers

"...There's nothing like a shortage to send people into a..."

March 21, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Food-o-File

Can I interest you in some rum, frozen margaritas, gelato, and/or Butter Beer?

"...microdistillery venture that is producing Treaty Oak Platinum Rum. The rum can claim the distinction of being the first..."

July 20, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Letters at 3AM

People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.

"...U.S. 62 in the Texas Panhandle is a two-lane road with no shoulders,..."

March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Day Trips

Good Records in Dallas is what happens when music lovers take over the record store

"...Dallas is what happens when music lovers take over the record store. The little shop on the east side..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Goya

Robert Hughes' description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.

"...This spring, a Spanish expert in 18th-century furniture made the headlines by claiming that Goya's so-called "Black Paintings" were..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Books Review by Roger Gathman

"Pertaining to Painting"

Paola Morsiani, curator of the Austin Museum Of Art's exhibition "Pertaining to Painting," fit in the show's four rooms so many -isms and nationalities that he could have called this exhibition "Now That's What I Call Painting, 2002!"

"...The Austin Museum Of Art could have called this exhibition..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Honor Among Thieves

James Carlos Blake demystifies A World of Thieves and the world of writing.

"...James Carlos Blake puts the roar back into the Roaring Twenties with A World..."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dancing About Architecture

Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.

"...Here it is. The last issue before next week's big Austin Music Awards..."

March 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

An ode to Waylon Jennings, even as SXSW O2 builds to a boil.

"...Outside the Castle Walls..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Awards lineup is announced, as are new ratings points for KUT.

"...once again Austin Music Awards ballots are being counted, the once-mellow South by Southwest staff have transformed into blurs..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

More clubs closing: Will the Hole in the Wall be one of them?

"...up since a recent Dangerous Toys performance wiped out their sound system, will be reopened by the time you..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

More letters about music, art, and urban planning

"...dust, we turn into butterflies and float away with the wind. And in turning back for one last glimpse,..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Column

Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!

Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel

"...industry cranny, chances are you're hearing about it for the first time. And unless you were a pre-teen weaned..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...Paramount Theatre, June 4/Antone's, June 5 & Backyard, June 6..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

All Done Up

"...Elton John in The Naked and the Dressed: 20 Years of Versace by..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Postmarks

Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...Twice now the Chron has had articles decrying "The Death of Poster..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Crap by Any Other Name --..."

July 25, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Flowers [Sept. 27]. This has nothing to do with the flowers they arranged for Courtney Love, which were lovely,..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...From the ACC President..."

March 22, 2002 Column

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