Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...revealed that self-reported alcohol use has remained steady across grade levels (71% report having tried alcohol at some point),..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...12 years old, which makes total sense given the seventh-grade wit and hubris of this beloved Austin concoctor. True..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

AISD Previews New Sex Ed Lessons

Updated curriculum addresses sexual orientation, gender identity, and consent

"...AISD has opted to write its own lessons for grades 3-5, while purchasing "Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That..."

May 24, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Building a Path to Literacy

Educators and nonprofits work to close the achievement gap in Dove Springs

"...Kealing Junior High's magnet program when I entered seventh grade), many others have not had that advantage, in which..."

April 8, 2016 News Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal

Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29

"...spoke of her son Elliot, himself in attendance, a first-grader reading at a fifth-grade level. "No, no," Elliot insisted...."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Point Austin: Webb Games

Webb Middle School is a test case for bad public policy vs. community resolve

"...that the AISD board of trustees close Webb's sixth grade this fall and then phase out seventh and eighth..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the net for capital punishment

"...death penalty in these circumstances is inconsistent with the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments." The court concluded that in order..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Coach's Corner

Dennis Miller on MNF? Who cares? In other news: The Spurs and Heat are the NBA's big winners in the free-agent sweepstakes, and the Cowboys -- despite what you may be reading elsewhere -- will continue to slide.

"...of that, I won't watch that crap just to grade Miller. I know Dan Fouts, who's also new, better..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...Since the Fifties, Pennsylvania-based Alcoa has mined lignite, a low-grade, brown coal, in southwestern Milam County. The lignite is..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Under New TEA Requirements, Austin ISD Meetings Are Flying By

50% of meeting time must be focused on student outcomes

"...to special education students and students in sixth through eighth grades, leaving only the state-mandated goals concerning third-grade literacy..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...semi-stone room on the corner of Red River and Eighth. Not much of a room size-wise, but it created..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

More Money, More Options for I-35

The decades-long plan to rebuild Interstate 35 through the heart of Austin is picking up speed

"...new I-35 – already slated to be lowered below grade through Downtown – less of a scar and barrier..."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...when the real fun began ... with pure, uncut, Colombian-grade hype...."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Headlines

"...found many of the exam's reading passages were above grade level for third- through eighth-graders...."

April 12, 2019 News Feature

If It Ain't Bruch, Don't Fix It

Just a drummer from Iowa? Just a culinary badass? Hold his beer.

"...like, ZZ Top’s “Under Pressure.” Trying to play consistent eighth notes that fast? Impossible. Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon”? Im-possible! So..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place

Gathering Tribes

"...DJ HerShe Chelsea's been spinning since grade school, when she first heard "My Humps." 11pm-12:15am. Cheer..."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: One Queered Up Year

This way a gay, that way a gay: Steer here, queers

"...DESSA Elegant spit. 10:05pm. Karma Lounge, 119 W. Eighth. www.doomtree.net/dessa...."

March 20, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Always Be Chloe-sing

Mary Lynn Rajskub on moving from 24 to stand-up

"...O'Brien – but in the years between the series' eighth season and this year's revival, Rajskub returned to her..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Magnificent Oak Tree Is Magnificent!

Pelóns Tex-Mex less so

"...Village building at the corner of Red River and Eighth. Right in the heart of Downtown, it is a..."

June 13, 2014 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

His Name Was Gary Poulter

Meet the homeless man who became a movie star

"...the Poulters opted to have their son skip a grade in school. He started hanging out with older classmates...."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Executing Youthful Offenders: The Doyle Case

Death Watch

"...crimes happened before they turned 18, would offend the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Juveniles are..."

March 21, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

An Excerpt From Michael Brick's 'Saving the School'

Peeking inside a science classroom at Reagan High School

"...opposite. They'd been occupied filling in bubbles since third grade, starting with spring reading and math tests and then..."

Aug. 17, 2012 News Feature

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...he told me – said it was like his eighth fan letter or whatever...."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: The Cloudy Crystal Ball

If you're wondering what the new Lege will do, look to its predecessors

"...will mean in practice, by Elizabeth Hudson, who teaches eighth graders at O. Henry Middle School. The current district..."

Dec. 24, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...– was just re-released by Random House, and an eighth book is in progress.) Lansdale, who briefly attended the..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

From Burnt Orange to Gold

Eighteen current or former Longhorns will represent the United States in the Beijing Olympics

"..."This was in sixth or seventh grade. I don't really blame them, but at first they..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Sports Feature by Lee Nichols

Film News

Last thoughts on Altman, courtesy of collaborator Stephen Harrigan; plus, incentives and local interest

"...in Schools program aimed at putting the film in eighth- and ninth-grade classrooms across the nation. Meanwhile, film shooter..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Homemade History

Las Manitas, the Pérez sisters, and a usable past

"...The seventh and eighth of nine children born to immigrants from northern Mexico,..."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

After a Fashion

Stephen trips the bright lights (big titties) fantastic!

"...As a longtime judge for these senior projects, I grade them based on construction, innovation, marketability, and cohesiveness of..."

April 28, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...Chingo Bling questions whether you want some of his grade-A product. Before there's a chance to look for cops,..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

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