Loving and Fighting

A history of struggle at Blackshear Elementary

"...Blackshear Elementary had already bred generations of East Austin youth when the school song was composed,..."

June 28, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

All Aboard for Middle Earth

Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien needn't wait until the December 12 opening of the film of Lord of the Rings to take a journey to Middle Earth. Second Youth Family Repertory Theatre, an Austin arts company acclaimed for its intelligent, highly theatrical stage shows for family audiences, will ferry you there this weekend via its production of The Hobbit.

"...if you experience an involuntary shudder at the mention of "my preciousssss," if you associate Sting more with magic..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Future's Still Bright

Barbara K, the woman who turned down $900,000

"...hear what she's done. She knows that a lot of people, even in a town as notoriously free-thinking as..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Everybody Has a Body

"...will stop going to the movies for the rest of my life. I know, it's a big step. This..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Living on the Air in Austin

Live Music Flourishes in the Studio

"...by Bruce Dye Six days a week, the business office of University of Texas student radio station KVRX bears..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Library Fails to Carry

Commission Votes for Local Over Regional

"...support for Garza's proposal. "If there is a mark of a great city, it's a great library system. More..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole

Voices from the Darkness

New and Noteworthy

"...haunted by society's dirty little secret -- sexual abuse of children. His books are strewn with the psychological casualties..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Books Feature

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...festival confirmed it will close with the new adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary...."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: Be a Champion

You have to silence the doubters, the boo birds and the armchair quarterbacks

"...had been having a sexual relationship with a man, off and on, in the past year-and-a-half up to a..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

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"...for $80 million in corporate welfare under the guise of Smart Growth. Jackie didn't listen to her friend, whistleblower..."

May 3, 2002 Column

Fonte's Inferno

ACC's New Pres Faces the Hot Issues in East Austin

"...badly cast in his new role as the savior of the perennially mixed-up Austin Community College. But if the..."

June 6, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Luv Doc: He Doesn’t Listen

The Luv Doc keeps a list to help him remember the things he will soon forget

"...My husband and I have a real communication problem. He doesn't listen to anything I say. Literally...."

March 22, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

KUT Should Be Given Back to Students

"...and I'm responding to the article about the future of KUT [“Getting on the KUTting Edge,” News, Nov. 25]...."

Nov. 29, 2005 Postmarks

Where's the Fire?

Communications Bond Proposal Is No Emergency

"...vote to fund the following bond proposition? "The issuance of $38,000,000 of tax supported general obligation bonds for purchasing,..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature

ACCESS News Trying to Fill Funding Void

Program for deaf and hard-of-hearing may not have third season

"...really, she says, to stimulate civic involvement and understanding of what it means to live in representative democracy. And..."

May 17, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

AISD Approves Its Big IDEA, 6-3

Board ignores overwhelming opposition to charter proposal

"...Carole Keeton Strayhorn has been a lot of things: Texas comptroller, Austin mayor, Austin Independent School District..."

Dec. 23, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

The college's response to its accreditation crisis leaves many without work

"...are getting ugly again between the faculty and administration of Austin Community College, as the administration announced on Friday..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

ACC Candidates

Profiles of the contestants

"...Jeffrey Richard: This first-generation college graduate says he personally understands higher education's role in..."

April 30, 2004 News Feature

Initiation

Updated campus slasher flick gets the tech right, but not much else

"...MF Doom mask, and a utility belt. Their weapon of choice is what appears to be a tactical power..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Shane Pfender

The Discovery Incubator

"...vendors, art displays, and street musicians at the opening of the new multi-media Discovery Incubator last weekend, it was..."

June 16, 1995 Music Feature

Luv Doc: Prohibition

God help the affable, chubby, slow kids with thick glasses

"...has been living with his girlfriend for a couple of years now, and he has basically become a prisoner..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Making the Energy Grid Smarter

New nonprofit pushes energy providers for efficiency via high tech

"...as well as the way we communicate. A new nonprofit organization, the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technology..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Palestinian Woman Finds a Friend in Austin and a Plan to Escape From Gaza

How a Snapchat message turned into an evacuation campaign

"...night with Abdullah at her breast, to a soundtrack of rumbling planes and successive explosions, an unlikely friendship formed..."

May 17, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

IDEA Partnership Can Work

"...they came away impressed with the spirit and focus of the students, teachers, and staff. The tour was intended..."

Nov. 16, 2011 Postmarks

Summer Camp Guide

"...same among most people I know, the crowning achievement of those I surveyed being that one dated the "hottest..."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

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"...Government" propositions ["Page Two," April 7]. This reminds me of the PATRIOT Act, where officials label horrible legislation with..."

April 21, 2006 Column

Sixth Street Blues

Downtown stakeholders raise questions about policing ... the police

"...for arts and entertainment, the self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World." During a two-week period, police made two..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...as an ugly tree. But the hideous structures made of them for human dwellings are unforgivable. The poorest nation..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column

Oh No, It's Mr. Bill!

Do Bill Bunch's Tactics Hurt the Springs He Loves?

"...for a man whose whole being is the preservation of paradise when the loss of it seems inevitable...."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

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