The kiss was bad. Oh god, it was terrible. It was sloppy, all teeth, as if he’d never kissed anyone before and had no idea ...

Native Austinite Matthew Odam has served as the Austin American-Statesman’s restaurant critic and reporter since 2011. He also writes travel and feature stories for the newspaper, where he has worked ...

The following column was originally published Nov. 25, 2023. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...