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Recipe|
October 31, 2009

Bourbon-Pumpkin Cheesecake

Recipe from Chef Brand a featured chef at the 10th Anniversary New World Wine & Food Festival in San Antonio November 10 through 15.

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October 31, 2009

Finding Texas at the Film Festival

Texas doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time. But at this year’s Austin Film Festival, two smaller films seemed to capture the spirit of the Lone Star State.

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Web Exclusive|
October 31, 2009

Getting Lost

Reviews of two films, The Messenger and How I Got Lost, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival.

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October 31, 2009

Warning Shot

Texas parents have the choice to opt their children out of school vaccination requirements based on “reasons of conscience.” But what about the other kids around them?

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Sports|
October 31, 2009

The Real McCoys

Following in his brother’s footsteps, Case McCoy is looking to become the next quarterback for the Texas Longhorns.

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Pat's Pick|
October 31, 2009

Bailey’s Prime Plus

To paraphrase H. L. Mencken, no one ever went broke overestimating the appetite of Texans for red meat. It doesn’t seem to matter how many steakhouses there are in our fair state, there’s always room for one more. And so it was that a month ago I found myself

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September 30, 2009

Oh, the Horror!

Christian Sosa, the producer of a new horror flick called The Eves, talks about the film, the cast, and shooting in southeast Texas.

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Sports|
September 30, 2009

The Champs

How mixed martial arts went from what one senator called “human cockfighting” to an event that draws record crowds and millions of pay-per-view buyers.

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September 30, 2009

High Society

The Houston Chronicle’s loss is CultureMap’s gain—Shelby Hodge.

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Sports|
September 30, 2009

Texas Tailgate

For some University of Texas football fans, getting together with friends to eat, drink, and rally before a game is a ritual that they wouldn’t miss for the world. Photographs by Kristin Ellertson

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September 30, 2009

Family Portraits

Austin-based and independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski talks about Beeswax, relationships, working with friends, and the allure of documentaries.

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September 30, 2009

Parent Trap

I’ve read more articles on overscheduled children than I care to count, and I like to think that I’m very in tune with trying to balance school, free play, and scheduled activities. But am I?

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September 30, 2009

Excerpt from A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

1. ELLIS ISLAND AND A TRAGEDY IN TEXASThe men in the Schriever family were venturesome types who immigrated to America to better themselves or took to the sea. Schriever’s paternal grandfather, Bernhard, after whom he was named, had jumped ship as a young German sailor in the port of Norfolk,

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Books|
August 31, 2009

High Society

Colum McCann’s new novel revolves around Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974.

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Health|
August 31, 2009

Being a Super Model

I avoid saying the word “diet” like the plague. I try to be careful about what I eat and what I do because I know my six-year-old daughter is watching me. She’s listening.

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August 31, 2009

An Excerpt from Just Food by James McWilliams

Chapter 1Food Miles or Friendly Miles?: Beyond the “Farm to Fork” Paradigm of ProductionWho gets to define “the local”?—Melanie DepuisNo single concept unites the locavore movement more powerfully than food miles—the distance our food travels before we eat it. It’s an elegantly simple measure of environmental consciousness, has the benefit

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The Filter: Dining|
August 31, 2009

New and Noteworthy

Fig TreeSan Antonio The recession has had many negative side effects, one being that notable new restaurants are not rolling off the assembly line with the regularity they used to. A positive side effect of the production slowdown is that we get a chance to recognize an old friend

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