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Chef Colicchio: Out of the Kitchen and into Food Policy

Q&A with Samuel Fromartz • Photography by Mark Noble Tom Colicchio, best known for his role as head judge on Bravo’s “Top Chef,” is sitting at a table at the Ritz-Carlton ...

In the Service of Royals

by Layne Lynch Nearly 20 years after Princess Diana’s death, the world is still captivated by her, the “People’s Princess.” During her short life, fans across the globe fell ...

The Quesadas

by Claire Cella • Photography by Kate LeSueur The Quesada family is prismatic. Not because of the rainbow-striped skirt that greets me at their front door, worn by galloping younger daughter ...

Jim Spencer

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur “I never cook,” says KXAN weather forecaster Jim Spencer. “It’s embarrassing. I like to blame it on the fact that ...

Kathie Sever

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur On a hot evening in early June, Kathie Lebeck Sever starts dinner by making a fire in a circle of rocks in her Austin backyard. Backpacking ...

Chief Art Acevedo

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo arrives home with his 8-year-old son Jake and a load of groceries, slaps the bags on the counter, cranks up the ...

Barbara Chisholm

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur At 3 p.m. on the afternoon of a 7 p.m. dinner party, actress Barbara Chisholm is as relaxed and informal as her dining table appears not to be. ...

Danny Palumbo

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Kate LeSueur “I had to drunk-dial my mom for the ratio of shell to filling on these things,” says Austin comic Danny Palumbo as he sips wine from a ...

Robert Earl Keen

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Kate LeSueur Robert Earl Keen has a technique for getting a cowboy hat to look just right. “Go in the shower, stick it under the water and just soak it to ...

Suzanna Choffel

By Claire CellaPhotography by Kate LeSueur In a city that lays claim to having it all, Suzanna Choffel has discovered something it doesn’t have. Breakfast ...