The Luv Doc: Testing Your Loyalty

Nobody's eating Pujols, not even if he parks a hundo this year.

"...Day donnybrook to shake off the stultifying effects of tryptophan...."

Dec. 9, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Trail of Dead, Opeth, Mykfresh, Big Laugh, Rattlesnake Milk, Deezie Brown, and more recommended shows

"...a post-Thanksgiving old-school Sunday hardcore matinee. Work off that L-tryptophan hangover by slamming your partner do-si-do to Saintpeeler, Mothman,..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Column by Julian Towers

Public Notice: The Week of Days

Giving Small Black Cyber Turkey Breweries – plus land use

"...your TV ads! It's that week again, as Thursday's tryptophan coma gives way to a whirlwind of special days,..."

Nov. 26, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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

"...still on speaking terms with certain members of your tryptophan-addled family? We feel ya, and here’s your Food News..."

Dec. 1, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Festival Review: Into the Dark: Pilgrim

Blumhouse/Hulu stage a historical home invasion holiday

"...be on a lower tier, defined by travel and tryptophan – plus it doesn't really have a great movie*...."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Oath

Promise you'll see this hilarious and timely political satire

"...the right movie to remedy your clan’s post-celebratory meal, tryptophan-induced food coma. That said and for safety’s sake, you..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1

Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares

"...enough thrills per segment to stave off that post-lunch tryptophan coma...."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...more than twice as much of the sleep-inducing chemical L-tryptophan as turkey breast (746mg per portion, vs. turkey's 333mg)...."

Dec. 4, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Good Eye: Books Are a Slanket for Your Brain

Read your way through those visits with the in-laws

"...hallucinatory fantasy moves as slow as your granddad on tryptophan. Total castle-porn...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Put the T and V in Thanksgiving

Holiday specials to ease you through the food coma and into the weekend

"...Meet the Sloths: You're coming down off a three-day tryptophan bender. I'd bet you can identify with these little..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

The AggreGAYtor: November 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...up moral pies, One Million Moms wake from their tryptophan highs to condemn a lesbian character on CBS’s “Person..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Gay Place: Thanks, Part 2

Tony Curtis in a dress, yes!

"...playing the Saxon this night, y'all. Go get all tryptophan-y. Thu., Nov. 22, 8pm. Saxon Pub, 1320 S. Lamar...."

Nov. 23, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

It's Thanksgiving

And Patrice Wilson has much to be thankful for

"...YouTube virus, 12-year old Nicole Westbrook extols everyone’s favorite tryptophan fete in “It’s Thanksgiving.” She's the latest would-be tween..."

Nov. 22, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Turkey Day Game for the Texans

Sneak by Jags in OT

"...at 11:30am so no excuses for falling asleep from tryptophan overdose on this one. Even if they come out..."

Nov. 21, 2012 Sports Post by Barrett Walton

What Are You Looking At?

Thanksgiving viewing guide

"...the awkward silences and provides soothing white noise for tryptophan comas, drowns out your racist great-aunt's polemics, and bridges..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Gay Place

Dinner and yard sale-ing with the fam. How ho(mo)liday-rific!

"...POST-TRYPTOPHAN BLOWOUT Sure, sure, the day after Turkey Day is..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

Hell Is Other Candidates

BTP's jaundiced eye peers into the next election cycle.

"...otherwise pimping/whoring their campaigns in advance of the forthcoming football-and-tryptophan-fueled short Thanksgiving week. Turkey table talk and all that,..."

Nov. 14, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...he understands neither Vietnam nor IraqHeadlines• Sleeping off a tryptophan hangover, all city of Austin offices will close Thursday..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature

Event Horizon

The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown

"...Times magazine just in time to help that lingering tryptophan in your bloodstream melt away into good old-fashioned trippiness...."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: All American Rejects, Rooney, The Action Is

La Zona Rosa, Friday, November 25, 2005

"...festive color scheme, better food … and the drugs? Tryptophan vs. Haitian zombie weed? Are you kidding? Still, even..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

To Your Health

I sometimes take 5-HTP to help me sleep and am surprised at how it seems to help me with irregularity. Why would it help the GI tract?

"...A. 5-Hydroxytryptophan is an amino acid, but not one of the..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

I very seldom remember my dreams; does this mean I'm missing some nutrients?

"...is a "calming" neurotransmitter made from the amino acid L-tryptophan using vitamin B6. The well-established effect of vitamin B6..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

Can boys become anorexic?

"...production of serotonin cannot proceed without an amino acid, L-tryptophan, which is necessarily supplied in the diet...."

Jan. 2, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Short Cuts

Movin' on up: MoveOn.org, Steve Bilich, Bennie Klain, and Kyle Henry.

"...a small, black, bug-eyed mammal wondering where all the l-tryptophan went this year, and why she's not allowed to..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Drag the River at Beerland

Beerland, Friday, November 21, 2003

"...weekend you’ll be glued to the sofa in a tryptophan coma watching "It’s a Wonderful Life."..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Column by The Luv Doc

To Your Health

I don't know how much vitamin C I should take. The government has one figure and books I have read have others. Who is right?

"...vitamin (niacin or vitamin B3) and an amino acid (L-tryptophan) deficiency. A good multivitamin/mineral, one that is rich in..."

June 1, 2001 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Dancing About Architecture

Jammin' To the Oldies

"...frequencies available," I thought, but I'd already consumed enough tryptophan-laced turkey so that the number 105.9 beaming from my..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck