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House Hunting
Underdog Stella Roland challenges incumbent Dawnna Dukes to represent East Austin in the Texas House of Representatives.
"...For Roland, those concerns include things like dropout prevention, quality child care, affordable health insurance, and equity..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Boiler Room
"...(Ribisi), a nice Jewish boy from Queens, recent college dropout, and sometime illegal casino runner, finds that the boiler..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City
Action Items
"...The Austin Independent School District's dropout prevention task force will hold the last of three..."

Jan. 21, 2000 News Feature

Postmarks
The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.
"...goal here is to generate accurate data, including the dropout reports, so the public confidence will be restored. Also,..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Second Chances
"...Vicki Baldwin, pricipal, Gonzalo Garza Independence High School photograph..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature

Hitting the Wall: Students Failing Ninth Grade
"...over twice as often as whites. Not surprisingly, the dropout rate for ninth-graders is also far higher than for..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks
Plan for People, Not Cars
"...Go?" ["Naked City," Vol. 18, No. 29] concerning the dropout rates in our AISD schools is sad and very..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Beautiful Thing
This is a sweet yet unsentimental coming-of-age film about two teenage boys in a working-class London suburb who fall in love.
"...inhabit their world is a neighbor, Leah (Empson), a dropout their same age who aspires to reincarnate herself as..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Off the Desk:
"...head start on raising student achievement and quelling the dropout rate; the subtle subtext behind that spirited claim is..."

July 5, 1996 News Feature

The Eugenic Circus Comes to Town
A Downtown hotel is hosting a natalist, eugenics-aligned conference in December. Why Austin?
"...a biological truth. Khan is a genetics Ph.D. program dropout. "Basically, he gave up a potential scientific career to..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One
For you to rewind this weekend at Zilker Park
"...After a few early switcheroos – namely, the last-minute dropout of Kali Uchis from both weekends and major delays..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A celebration of Bobbie Nelson, a big birthday for Carousel Lounge, and more recommended shows
"...diamond. The Feb. 2021 track details the jazz school dropout grappling with living in her mother's house as her..."

July 7, 2023 Music Column by Abby Johnston

Comic Creator Spotlight on Sean McKeever: "I Went Off and Found My Voice"
For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts
"...“I’m a college dropout, I’m living at home, I’m running a 250-foot comic..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Outlander Star Caitriona Balfe, Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Join ATX TV Festival Lineup
State of the industry panel also slated for June fest
"...the Casting Society, featuring casting directors Jeanie Bacharach (The Dropout, Station Eleven), Richard Hicks (The Last Thing He Told..."

April 27, 2023 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Public Notice: Drowning in Paperwork
City’s lifeguard hiring program may be leaking applicants
"...into that or opine on whether that's a normal dropout rate, but that too is something CMs may inquire..."

April 14, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Behind the Wheel With Deezie Brown
After five years of fine-tuning, the perfectionist producer and rapper rolls out 5th Wheel Fairytale
"...blamed for assuming he's talking about, y'know, The College Dropout...."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Black Pumas Inexplicably Cancel All 2022 Dates
Austin's biggest band will "press pause" for rest of year
"...in the past month, beginning with the July 14 dropout from Montana’s Under the Big Sky. The announcement said:..."

Aug. 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Jesse Sublett's Latest True-Crime Book Takes on the Last Gangster in Austin
The rise and fall of the Junkyard King
"...Aug. 16, 1976, Sublett, then a 22-year old college dropout, hipster, and aspiring bass player, returned from a gig..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Westworld Comes to ATX TV Fest
Season 4 preview closing this year's celebration of the small screen
"...supervisors Liza Richardson (Watchmen) and Maggie Phillips (Hulu's The Dropout), where she'll be discussing the importance of a great..."

May 11, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Restaurant Weeks Returns Oct. 1-10. Here's Where You Can Eat.
Get a dining deal, donate to Central Texas Food Bank
"...American Grille• The Cavalier• Chinatown North• Craft Pride• Culinary Dropout• Devil May Care• El Alma Restaurante Bar• El Chile..."

Sept. 21, 2021 Food Post by Kimberley Jones

Prohibition Creamery Closes, Sweet Ritual Ramps Up, and You Want Even More, What, Pizza?
All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...on Shoal Creek … and, tangentially, that gastropub Culinary Dropout in the Domain’s got a Take-out Tuesday deal featuring..."

Jan. 5, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Qmmunity: 2020's Biggest Queer and Trans Stories
Looking back on a rollercoaster of a year
"...gender affirmation care. Just last week 2020 Dem presidential dropout Rep. Tulsi Gabbard unveiled a bill targeting trans athletes...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Fantastic Fest Review: Teddy
French werewolf comedy has a tragic bite
"...cool, so subversive, but he's a 20-something high school dropout still living in an upstairs room in a nothing..."

Sept. 28, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shut Up and Drum: Thor Harris Talks Politics and Humanity
We spent election day with local percussive rebel
"...Abbott," he ticks off. "So how about a college dropout artist?"..."

July 31, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Live Flower Arranging Workshops Make Business Bloom for House of Margot Blair
Austin florist Carly Blair adapts her business to the era of social isolation and interest blooms
"...set up in 2009 when she was a college dropout. Not having any investors, she had juggled four $10-per-hour..."

May 8, 2020 Arts Feature by Sumaiya Malik

Austin Restaurant Take-Out and Other Food Delivery Options During Coronavirus Quarantine
Support local business while maintaining your social distance
"...Culinary Dropout Offering takeout and curbside at a 35% discount and..."

March 16, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW EDU Panels Tackle Stopping the School-to Prison Pipeline
Proposing policy solutions at SXSWedu
"...Out-of-school suspensions are the number one predictors of school dropout rates, probability of future unemployment, reliance on social welfare..."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by Francesca D'Annunzio

ACL Fest Interview: Dayglow
UT dropout Sloan Struble goes viral as Dayglow

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

11 Local Acts to See at ACL's Second Weekend
"...3pm, BMI stage The recordings of 20-year-old recent UT dropout Sloan Struble sound like MGMT for the 2019 bedroom..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Lizzo City Limits
“Truth Hurts” star’s historic audience, and other ACL Fest weekend one standouts
"...their own festival slot (Sat., 11:45am, Vrbo stage), UT dropout Sloan Struble stops by during his first tour as..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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