A Son Comes Out, and a Family Comes Together

John Schwartz charts his gay son's journey in memoir ‘Oddly Normal’

"...His Sexuality (Gotham Books, Nov. 8), Schwartz, a University of Texas alum, recounts Joseph's painful ups-and-downs trying to feel..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

IDEA Still Hunting Enrollment

Students opting out of new charter school in favor of existing AISD schools

"...Whenever the Austin Independent School District talks about its alliance with IDEA..."

March 23, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Kealing: Equal but Separate Plans

Parents of magnet and comprehensive program students have differing visions for Eastside middle school

"...At a March meeting, Kealing Middle School students and parents gathered inside the offices of the nearby Booker T...."

April 6, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"Next time I tell you someone from Texas..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...We have heard Mr. Adler's intimations that constitutional guarantees of free speech end where discussions of nuclear energy begin,..."

April 30, 2004 Column

Forgione Says Follow the Blueprint

Forgione takes his Blueprint on the road, but is everyone buying?

"...elementary schools, and Dobie and Pearce middle schools, all of which have been designated as "low performing" or "borderline..."

May 10, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...the weather has hit 100 degrees before the beginning of June. It's a drier heat, to be sure, but..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Included here are more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

A Failure to Communicate

AISD's community outreach needs to go back to school

"...2011: If you're looking for a low-water mark in Austin ISD public relations, that was it. It was the..."

Feb. 8, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Couple Murdered in West Campus

Austin Police are looking for help finding person responsible for last night's double homicide

"...Austin Police are asking for help to track down who..."

July 22, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Katherine Anne Porter School | Wimberley | Larry McDowell | Grady Roper | Elizabeth Lee | Yana Bland | David Bland | Pat O'Bryan

"...The village of Wimberley, Texas, a small, recently incorporated community of ex-hippies,..."

Nov. 17, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

AISDSuperintendent Pat Forgione fields protests about the recently-mandated end to block scheduling, and teachers' groups present alternatives.

"...Austin schoolteachers, shocked and angry at superintendent Pat Forgione's recent..."

April 14, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

"...Elise Guillot, Bryan Mealer, Amy Smith, and Jordan Smith. Off the Desk:..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...yet another ambitious downtown plan. It includes the construction of a new City Hall facing Town Lake, the purchase..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Death Watch: Neville the Dog

Neville the dog's euthanization order appealed

"...the cheek by Neville, a 30-pound lab mix and Austin Pets Alive! shelter dog. The wound required 16 stitches..."

Oct. 30, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

City Council Should Not Be Allowed To Meet in Secret

"...members shouldn't be making decisions in secret meetings [“Point Austin,” News, Feb. 4]. One would think that the outrages..."

Feb. 7, 2011 Postmarks

Don't Forget the Children

AISD races and bond proposals

"...Pat Forgione retires next year, another longstanding figure in Austin Independent School District will step down: District 3 trustee..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

War by the (Text)book

The State Board of Education's first public hearing on social studies textbooks confirmed that, underneath the thin cloak of bureaucratic civility, an ideological battle is raging over whose story the textbooks should tell.

"...The State Board of Education's first public hearing on social studies textbooks, held..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Literary Guisado

An Interview with Francisco Goldman

"...Three years ago, the book editor of this paper handed me a thick paperback book to..."

June 6, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

AISD Notebook

"...lips tighten, the fists clench at the mere mention of Channel One, a 12-minute news program that's beamed via..."

Jan. 24, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

American Hasi takes comedy from L.A. to India and Back Again

Comedian Tushar Singh quests for connection in this new documentary

"...wit and words, try to get beyond the drudgery of quotidian existence, you’ll need to perform some powerful braining...."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

AISD Bond Hearing

School district struggles to narrow its needs before getting on the May ballot

"...Austin ISD is pushing to put a major bond package..."

Jan. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD's Next Step After Exigency?

If exigency doesn't mean cuts, what does it mean?

"...It's taken her a year, but on March 1, Austin ISD Superintendent Meria Carstarphen got what she wanted: a..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine is like a year-round summer camp and water park for the whole family

"...Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine was the site of 4-year-old Trey's first sleepover away from his parents. Pop..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Just Watch the Livestock

Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'

"...By 5pm on Oct. 31, 2007, Sid Pruitt, superintendent of the small Evant Independent School District (about 60 miles..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...the last 16 years, Alejandro Escovedo has been one of America's two or three greatest popular music artists, but..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome

"...Chair Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, has proposed a new version of school finance (SB 8) that's conservative enough to pass..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Column

Naked City

But scores show improvement

"...Austin Independent School District last Monday got its annual "report..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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Our readers talk back.

"...I was deeply offended upon viewing this week's cover[Dec. 7]. I hope I..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column

City Council Girds for a Second Trump Administration

Threats to undocumented immigrants are a major concern

"...stepped up to help undocumented people in every part of the nation who were facing deportation...."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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