Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...spotted Dan Solomon’s Texas Monthly blog post, “Why Professor Dumpster’s Gimmicks Are a Bunch of Trash.” Seeing the title,..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Professor Dumpster Moves Out ... And On

He's leaving the Dumpster to a new, rotating cast of residents

"...winter's cold spell, the biology professor moved into a Dumpster on the west side of HT's campus with little..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Prof. Dumpster: Fighting for the 1%

Jeff Wilson sets out to prove 'less is more'

"...best pondered, it seems, from the inside of a Dumpster – which is why Jeff Wilson, a dean and..."

June 20, 2014 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Austin's Sustainable Secret

Student-founded Green Is the New Black makes renewable energy at Huston-Tillotson

"...its cause: environmental awareness. However, GITNB has tackled these projects with the energy of 10 such organizations. Within just..."

Oct. 24, 2014 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

'Charlie Ferguson: Wasted Expressions'

Austin photographer finds painterly strokes in trash bins' rust and scratches

"...the Chronicle about how he discovered abstract art on Dumpsters. Robert Faires..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Who's Responsible for Financial Aid Woes at H-T?

Students frustrated by delayed aid

"...program with the nearby Blackshear Elementary School, and the Dumpster Project." (See "Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue - He..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Tashanna Turner

“Love in Action”

Florence’s Comfort House is the Best of “Weird Austin”

"...Montopolis neighborhood wonderland dedicated to Ponziano’s myriad, multi-form art projects and her lifelong devotion to nurturing Montopolis children and..."

May 22, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Climbing Mount Compost

Austin's next big zero-waste project is feeding nature's recycling program

"...expense associated with it, that makes tremendous sense." Gedert's projections show that if curbside organics collection is adopted, 79,000..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

The Banks of the Blanco

Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project

"...the water. The county just as firmly defends its project, which is funded with a $750,000 grant from the..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Top 10 Environmental Stories

Local environmental news wasn't all bad this year

"...agenda, with political changes at Commissioners Court reactivating the project, and Council and environmental advocates looking for new ways..."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...and found most of the papers in the frat's dumpster. They'd been stolen for a paper recycling drive. The..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Live Shots

"...for Ozzy is obvious (I cannot recall a Wickware project where she didn't whip out the intro to "Crazy..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature

Welcome to the Real World

Rhizome Collective brings activist ideals down to earth

"...books for prisoners as part of the Inside Books Project. Squatting on the floor, a group of bikers prepares..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

When It's Time to Turn the Rules Inside Out

The Boarding House on Seventh

"...one morning early in the planning stages of their project with Simon Atkinson, a principal in Urban Design Associates..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

"...reliable," says Adina Levin, director of the Cyber Liberties Project of the ACLU-Texas and chair of the E-Voting Project..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Austin’s Sexual Assault Controversies Roil the District Attorney’s Race

Margaret Moore's controversial handling of rape cases brings opponents to the race

"...Martinson's fellow challenger José Garza agrees that a root..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is a scientific analysis of how the proposed T-I project can capture the runoff from an adjacent 19 acres...."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column

Public Notice: Happy New Year?

Hoping for new starts at each level of government

"...the CodeNEXT fiasco knows that all the problems that project had – the lack of policy direction, of project..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Interactive Just Got Nerdier – and More Fashionable

Meet the new names picked up by the Conference

"...#Girlboss – has a past as a teenage thief, Dumpster diver, and vagabond. But eight years ago, when she..."

Jan. 29, 2014 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

Playback

Octopus Project returns – with vocals! Plus, inside the foliage at Austin City Limits.

"...Years ago, someone described the Octopus Project to me as "musical mad scientists who make masks..."

July 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...putting them in bags and tossing them in a Dumpster. And, she said, she'd come to the conclusion that..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...to build the residential component of the controversial Triangle project at 45th and Lamar, pulled out of the deal..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...thrown the murder weapon, a letter opener, into a dumpster. In a Sept. 25 press release issued after the..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature

A Redhead, Pink Pony, and Kaleidoscope in This Weekend’s Events

Arts and culture to keep you entertained

"...ATX nonprofit Spaceflight Records: Sword bassist Bryan Richie’s solo project Galactic Protector, MC extraordinaire Anastasia Hera, indie pop phenom..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Anime, Activism, and Aerodynamics in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture abound!

"...The wrong director and the wrong project will often produce nothing more than a disaster. If..."

April 4, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

The News Biz Is In Deep Shiz

Local newsroom leaders see growth potential despite tough climate

"...source most of the year and then became a dumpster fire in election season,” Buckley said...."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Abe Asher

The 2021-22 Austin Music Industry Awards Winners

"...The Concourse Project..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature

Public Notice: Zilker Park Vision Still Cloudy

It’s hard planning for the future, when humans insist on living in the present

"...shuttle buses, but said they were relying on the Project Connect planning process to carry that ball.)..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Hit Brewery Row to Choose Your Own Austin FC Home Match Beer Adventure

How to get a little matchy-matchy with the city's first top-tier sports club and its many superb beer options

"...hometown represented on the small screen in distant luxury dumpster Los Angeles, or in the junior-barbecue whistle-stop of Kansas..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Puga

Austin at Large: City Hall’s Game of Threes

Spencer Cronk quizzes the Council to win a new land use code!

"...options for determining the scope of the then-nascent CodeNEXT project, presented in reverse order from Cronk's: a "brisk sweep"..."

March 22, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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