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Duck Season
Despite being a movie about youthful inertia among some Mexico City adolescents stuck at home by themselves, Duck Season is squirmy, restless and avidly visual.
"...phone still works, so Flama (Miranda) and Moko (Elizondo) order pizza, then torment the deliveryman (Arreola), who's having an..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Day Trips
In Corsicana, "excellent fruitcake" is not an oxymoron.
"...an old German recipe for Christmas cake. Now the mail-order business ships the boxed, round tins protecting the cakes..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine
Support local business while maintaining your social distance
"...we are still able to support local businesses by ordering via phone and online. It’s worth noting that purchasing..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Bartleby
"...Though it's been updated to include awkward references to e-mail and body glitter, the script more or less retains..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Great Texas Holiday Pie Migration
Bud Royer's plan to deliver pies from the heart of Texas to people displaced by Superstorm Sandy
"...the first day, however, he realized that with a mail-order pie operation already in place, it made much better..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.
"...bloodied knights and soldiers and clanging swords and chain mail. Kingdom of Heaven is a historical spectacle on the..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth
Taylor
"...Louis Mueller Barbecue photograph by Gerald E. Mcleod..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Ben Snakepit Releases His Manor Threat
New collection of diary comics debuts at Beerland this Saturday
"...Rocknroll and other zines, and people would write in, mail-order them, and it snowballed from there. A guy in..."

June 8, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin-Based Awesome Merch Goes Under, Blindsiding Clients Like Topshelf Records
Mismanagement behind fulfillment warehouse hurts music clients
"..."The mailman here is like, not psyched on me right now,"..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Consistently Consider
"...Dear Editor, News of the Chronicle’s sponsored content about mail-order brides recently came to my attention. You rightly pulled..."

July 6, 2022 Postmarks

Vinyl Saved My Life Tonight: Record Stores Deliver in a Crisis
Local media emporiums maintain online shipping during C-19 lockdown
"...an online presence (which is something I loathe) in order to keep SOME funds coming in to pay my..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

West of Memphis
Eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment and four documentaries still don't put to rest the trials of the West Memphis Three.
"...presiding Judge David Burnett. Providing testimony from “experts” with mail-order diplomas and no direct evidence, the prosecution scared jurors..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Sister Bobbie
'Sister Bobbie' puts the 'Family' in Willie Nelson and Family
"...in Arkansas. She and my grandfather studied from a mail-order course, and we always remember them sitting at the..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Cowboy del Amor
Ivan Thompson, the "Cowboy Cupid" who brokers marriages between American men and Mexican women, is a truly fascinating documentary character that is expertly revealed through rock-solid storytelling.
"...of two weddings, one on each side of the border. The result is a lyrical contrast of two contiguous..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Junebug
With this film built on a host of remarkably nuanced Southern characters, first-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.
"...the banquet hall of a church potluck, in Peg’s mail-order-pretty living room overstuffed with tchotchkes. Morrison likes to film..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood introduces you to the new folks in town and updates you on all of the news around town
"...the Royers raised a family, built a nationally known mail-order pie business, and fed thousands of hungry Houstonians and..."

April 16, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

SXSW Film Reviews
"...Mail Order BrideD: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland; with Andrew Gurland,..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood serves up some serious restaurant news in this week's "Food-o-File."
"...name (Ann), husband (Larry), former profession (landscape painter), and mail-order product (smoke-dried tomatoes). Once Pack set him straight, Kass..."

May 30, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Prime Considerations
Chronicle Food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry on why 1,000 head of Japenese Wagyu cattle are thriving in Central Texas.
"...Ranch. And Omaha Steaks, one of the nation's leading mail-order beef purveyors, exports Harrell Ranch beef to Europe because..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

E-tail This!
La Frontera is proof that e-commerce has not destroyed traditional retail commerce.
"...done anything, he's redeemed the image of the words "mail order." Or e-mail order. It was the Internet that..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Panic
"...zero saccharine by David Dorfman). Professionally, he runs a mail-order business from his house, but also works with his..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eight Days a Week
"...more realistic self-help strategies involving everything from watermelons to mail-order “love pumps.” (Fun research project for female viewers: Survey..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Into the Groove
Cutting Vinyl With Fat Tracks
"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Last month, unbeknownst to..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Full Monty
"...his nickname suggests and resorts in desperation to a mail-order enlargement device. Lomper (Huison) and Guy (Speer) both have..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Daytrips
"...Tubb had found a style of his own. In order to be heard over the din of the honky-tonks,..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

In Search of Suzy's Peppermint
The Resurrection of a Recipe
"...the phone to Bob's Candies of Albany, Georgia. The mail order division sent enough little sacks of candy for..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Many Mouths to Feed
"...Sauce impresario J.P. Hayes is expanding his wholesale and mail-order hot sauce empire to include a retail outlet. The..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Food Column

food-o-file
"...at Burg's Corners on US290 at Stonewall, or by mail order from 210/644-2604 or 800/694-2772...."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List
Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot
"...boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores
From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves
"...essentially a hard reset. (Tornatore also has a separate mail-order business called Tornbooks – a pun on her name,..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

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