First, Larry McGuire tackled barbecue (Lamberts), then seafood (Perla's), then Vietnamese (Elizabeth Street Café) and now, grab-and-go chicken at Fresa's Chicken Al Carbon. (In the middle of all that, his restaurant group bought a majority stake in Jef... »
Broderick James owns this intersection, dancing, jogging, gyrating and burning up a gushing firehose of calories in a demonstration of cardio fitness that'll leave you breathless."We're just getting started," he hollers from his post at the corner of R... »
Reality TV has fallen hard for Austin.This week alone, producers from three separate reality shows are in Central Texas in search of picture-perfect contestants."The X Factor" drew an estimated 5,000 hopefuls to auditions Thursday at the Erwin Center, ... »
The celebrity quotient at South by Southwest soared Saturday as Rainn Wilson, Joss Whedon, Matthew McConaughey, Gina Gershon, Johnny Knoxville and Minnie Driver showed up for various interactive and film festival events.Wilson, who plays Dwight on NBC'... »
The orders spilled out from the ticket printer onto the sushi bar, where Uchiko guests waited noisily for six precious words. Then, just before 10 p.m. on Feb. 29, "Top Chef Texas" host Padma Lakshmi said, following a requisite pause: "Paul ... you are... »
Welcome, visitors, to South by Southwest. Please join us locals in a wailing rendition of the Austin Traffic Mess Blues. The first verse moans about the lack of parking downtown. The second verse howls the terror of backing into a parking space on Sout... »
She'd never admit it, but my sister likes to lick the inside of a bag of buttery popcorn. Shelley Lucas is a food blogger in town who confesses that as a kid, she loved to eat banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. "Seems gross now but sometimes I just have... »
Full disclosure: I've been out of the dating scene for more than 20 years. But much of the rest of Austin hasn't. A recent study by Sperling's BestPlaces (bestplaces.net) and Axe Deodorant Body spray (Full disclosure: I've never intentionally used a "b... »
Openings, closings & coming soon • Open: Maoz Vegetarian, the first Austin location of the international restaurant chain based in Amsterdam. The restaurant, in the Triangle (4601 N. Lamar Blvd.), is known for serving Belgian-style fries and pita pocke... »
Thanksgiving dinner is just a few clicks away.For folks not in the mood to cook, a number of grocers and restaurants across Central Texas are serving up premade, heat-and-eat dinners this holiday season.Central Market is, for the first time, offering o... »
