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In Tortilla Soup (based on Ang Lee's wonderful Chinese film Eat Drink Man Woman), Hector Elizondo plays the family patriarch, a retired master chef and a longtime widower, who lives with his three grown daughters.

Get your kicks on -- that's right -- Route 66.

The Vortex Summer Youth Theatre production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac plays up the comic elements of the story, mostly to good effect, without ever losing touch with its romantic theatricality and verve.

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

For most of the past 200 years, there was one path to becoming a chef, Chronicle Cuisines writer Mick Vann observes. Young European men apprenticed themselves as teenagers and learned the culinary arts from the ground up. But with the advent of cooking schools, the role of chef has been legitimized into a respected profession, and a chef today can make a very handsome salary. Chefs can now attain the status of a rock star.

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

Why U2 is the best band ever

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

The Avenue That Existed Before That Big Parking Lot in the Sky, I-35, Was Built

Austin native Starla Benford brings The Vagina Monologues to town, Kerthy Fix takes Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show to Chicago, and where does rm 120 theatre go?

Politics & music & the politics of music.

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

The Mexico of now, David Garza writes, is not held only within the borders of Mexico itself. It has spread northward, re-entered its old space, in a sense. For so many of the Mexicans, displaced but still infatuated with the idea of spirit and ghost, the nation itself is a ghost in the back of the head.

Dueling Macbeths on the stages of Austin prove once again this Shakespearean killer's undying popularity.

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.

Follow the yellow brick road to Wounded Knee in this account of L. Frank Baum's effort to tame the untamable.