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Food Editor Virginia B. Wood gets ready to attend the Southern Foodways Symposium.
"...one recent Saturday evening and then informed them the restaurant was closing that night! The closing puts plenty of..."
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Oct. 26, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
"...first time, the Fire Department took to the streets closing down clubs, leaving people waiting in long lines. This..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Food-o-File
A prominent local restaurateur has taken to the radio, complaining about all the gloom and doom being reported in the newspapers and then a reader e-mailed last week to say he was tired of reading about "dot-com failures" and their impact on Austin's restaurant scene. Well, boys, all I can say in my defense is … the news is just the news.
"...reading about "dot-com failures" and their impact on Austin's restaurant scene. Well, boys, all I can say in my..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Tomato Season
My relationship with tomatoes is a passionate one.
"...the real fruit. Or when I walk into a restaurant and accidentally order something with tomatoes, only to be..."
July 13, 2001 Food Feature by Wes Marshall
Dancing About Architecture
South by Southwest draws closer -- lots of news from SXSW 2001
"...SXSW: Closing In..."
Feb. 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck
After a Fashion
One of the family passed on this week. The Style Avatar's sister remembers the Houston Chronicle's Maxine Mesinger.
"...died last week at age 71, it was like closing a book on another era. Mesinger came to the..."
Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Bygone Buildings
Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.
"...for several decades, and eventually became a series of restaurants, culminating in its long stint as the Pit Barbecue...."
Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney
The Flight of the Night Bird
Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.
"...of how he'd founded the very successful Night Hawk restaurant chain had passed into local legend. In the nearly..."
Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Identity Crisis
Looking back at the highlights of Austin's music scene in 2000.
"...ill-advised but unavoidable change of venue to a crowded restaurant (Threadgill's was the only place that offered safe harbor),..."
Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on the year that was in Austin's culinary life.
"...leaving in its wake a host of new Austin restaurants, well-deserved and long in coming national recognition for our..."
Jan. 5, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Nourishment for the Soul
Correo Aereo Deepens, Ripens, and Grows
"...opportunities came last year, when, while performing at Curra's Restaurant on the south side, they happened upon a group..."
Dec. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta
Good Taste
You spontaneously slow down and breathe easier when you enter
Basil's, Barbara Chisholm writes. This is not a hipster hot spot that is
peopled with folks checking the door to see if someone more interesting
than their current partner has entered. People come here to concentrate
on each other without distraction.
"...mean shortly after the Armadillo World Headquarters closed. The closing was in recent memory, and the wounds were still..."
Nov. 10, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm
The New Nuevo Leon
The new Nuevo Leon more than doubles the previous Nuevo Leon's space at 8,000 square feet. But it took quite a bit of work for the Davila family, the Nuevo Leon owners, to get there.
"...When Rachel and Dan Davila went into the restaurant business 18 years ago, they had little more than..."
Oct. 20, 2000 Food Feature by Belinda Acosta
Down & Out in Atlanta
The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics
"...be a causeway of strip malls and familiar chain restaurants. The edifice standing at 2221 was just another accumulation..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jonathan Hennessey
Total Entertainment Package
Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings
"...pragmatic dreamer; he was ambitious enough to own two restaurants and a Victorian party house in Wharton, Texas, where..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer
Lust for Life
Ahhh … the good old daze
"...Jerry said nothing and walked back in, closing the door. Carol and I shrugged and sat down...."
Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Dancing About Architecture
The war betwixt Dynamite Hack and Vallejo escalates, in truth and in fiction; Watchtower gears up to rock Germany's ass off; Hank's Roadside Cafe bites the dust.
"...goodbye to Hank Sinatra's latest attempt at a freeform restaurant/music venue. Hank's Roadside Cafe, on the Eastside on Airport..."
June 23, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood remembers Robert Paprota, who
owned Chez Nous before his untimely recent death
and updates readers on changes in the local
restaurant scene.
"...partners Pascal and Sybil Regimbeau founded the popular French restaurant Chez Nous (510 Neches, 473-2413) in a historic downtown..."
June 9, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Will Travel for Food
Texas Restaurants Worth Visiting on the Road This Summer
"...The Big Fisherman Seafood RestaurantIn Rockport..."
May 26, 2000 Food Feature by Mick Vann
Where the Shadows Are Deepest
The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand
"...meeting hall. A pause for dinner at Prida's Czech-American Restaurant across from the depot brings a stroke of luck:..."
May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Postmarks
The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.
"...copy of the Festival's voting procedures, master list of restaurants, and a sample ballot. I specifically designed these rules..."
March 24, 2000 Column
Postmarks
Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."
"...the demolition of the original Liberty Lunch and the closing of Quakenbush's is disgraceful. Why Americans can't seem to..."
March 17, 2000 Column
Dancing About Architecture
Jeff Cole Leaves Doolittle Records, Marc Katz Leaves Top of the Marc, Hank Sinatra Returns and so does Ray Benson (again!). Plus all the news that pitches a fit.
"...Barry Katz, and that focus will be on the restaurant, both in improving the long-established Sixth Street location and..."
March 3, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Wide Open Heart
Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.
"...I got in the back door of every Japanese restaurant in the Bay Area, knew everybody," he chuckles. "I..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Journey Into Clarity #83
For years he'd blamed his sister for destroying his comic book, a book worth over two grand today. Looking back at a painful memory brings Wayne Alan Brenner that much closer to understanding why losing that darned comic book at age seven meant so much.
"...in it but him. Then, after stopping at Diana's Restaurant for onion soup and hamburgers, after checking out the..."
Dec. 24, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Day Trips
Eat barbecue for breakfast at Zimmerhanzel's BBQ in Smithville.
"...Dana Bunte. She and her husband Bert opened the restaurant with the help of her parents, who own the..."
Dec. 3, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Page Two
The history of the intermittent Halloween mask covers and of burgeoning
staff dinners.
"...Go into a club and enjoy it, rather than closing it. This is Austin, after all!..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Louis Black
Eve of Destruction?
The City plans for a big New Year's Eve party downtown while East Sixth Street merchants complain of threat of competition
"...the street closures and parking snafus mean to downtown restaurants, hotels, and bars?..."
Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Andy Langer
The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks
A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks
"...Above," and "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time," which won the CMA Song of the Year..."
Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Exile on 48th Street
Attorney General John Cornyn files a lawsuit against the Rio Motel, a bane to the neighbors of this North Central Austin establishment.
"...stopped the majority of problems at the motel by closing down the Rio Club, a bar that adjoined the..."
