Naked City

"...AISD will be administering a make-up test for TAKS English Language Arts and TAAS Writing on Tuesday, April 17;..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

World Cup Finals!

International remainders, including Zolar X, from Plutonia, Pluto

"...band, Racoon, takes a mid-tempo acoustic approach. Their 2005 English-language Another Day (PIAS) recalls the ill-fated Gin Blossoms. Those..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Waterfalls and Sea Changes

The former and current artistic directors of Austin Script Works discuss new plays, local theatre, and the writer's voice

"...anyway, I went to Europe in 1996 and did English-language theatre. ... And while I was over there, I..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

Look Ma, No Hands!

How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.

"...Second World War when she edited and wrote the English-language page of L'Unita, a Communist weekly in Italian East..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

James Hynes Reviewed

"...for a return to the relatively staid study of English literature that first seduced him into academia...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Coach's Corner

On an ill-advised trip to Europe, Coach comes to a startling realization.

"...equal, I'd rather go to California, play golf, speak English, and order things off a menu where I don't..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9. Master Poems of the English Language edited by Oscar Williams 10. Alice in Wonderland..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.

"...the pairing of the two companies. "When recording in English, the band will have all the same benefits of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

Will a brown-out really change the way Latinos are portrayed on television? Also, only a few quibbles about the surprisingly promising premiere of Angel, starring Buffy's David Boreanaz.

"...Unlike Univision and Telemundo, Sí will be the first English-language cable network aimed at the much-sought-after 18-34-year-old audience. (Okay,..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Book for Bibliophiles

"...cites the printing of Shakespeare's first folio. This landmark English language book "boasted some six hundred different typefaces, along..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Books Feature

Republican Party Platform

"...Texans have a responsibility to be proficient in the English language but opposes the efforts of the extremist "English-Only"..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature

Postmarks

Good News, Bad News

"...se). "Homo" is not a prefix meaning homosexual (learn English, Einstein)...."

Feb. 6, 1998 Column

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Edward Titchener introduced "empathy" into the English language in 1909 as the translation of the German..."

March 24, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 7-13

"...do? Have you become skilled at using clear, elegant language to say what you mean? Do you work on..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

When Accessing Education Is an IT Problem

AISD plots how to get wi-fi to students

"...of students there are economically disadvantaged, while 83% are English-language learners. Most families in the Georgian Acres neighborhood, where..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Lawmakers Agree to Improve School Funding

Full-day pre-K, financial assistance, and more to support the state's public schools

"...dyslexia. Districts have new incentives to implement or expand dual-language programs, helping both English-language learners and those acquiring other..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD’s Transformative Schooling

Decoding Kendall Pace’s texts

"...Although the disparaging language in former Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees..."

June 1, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...confirms Austin for its U.S. premiere. Yorgos Lanthimos, whose English-language debut The Lobster opened the fest two years ago,..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Exploring the "Other"

Ben Wolfe on the risks of going native in The Explorers Club

"...In the script, the playwright … all of the non-English language that Luigi speaks, she’s written. She says specifically..."

April 20, 2016 Arts Post by Shanon Weaver

Noir City Film Festival Returns

This year's Noir City Film Festival highlights a forgotten master

"...Japan. Muller said, "His stories speak some universal noir language that every culture understands and empathizes with."..."

May 8, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Board: Place Six

Three run to replace Moya

"...in Casey Elementary, including one son in a dual language program. During her ACPTA tenure, she concentrated her efforts..."

Aug. 29, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Delving Deeper Into the Archive of a Dark Time

Doc Nights: Shoah: The Unseen Interviews

"...to American audiences. Besides that, we were restricted to English-language interviews because of the prohibitive costs of translating and..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Changing Course

AISD shifts to community-based model for prepping younger kids for college

"...with little to no tradition of higher education – English-language learners, kids from low-income households, and minorities. Yet those..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pushing the Borderline

AFS Essential Cinema highlights filmmakers far from home

"...metaphors (a literal tightrope, the Borg-McEnroe rivalry), and its English-language stretches are just plain buffoony, but when it limits..."

June 3, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Curable Romantic: A Novel

A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud

"...snags in the author's skilled yarn-spinning. Skibell bends the English language to his will as he examines the power..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

Don't Go Into the Light

It's time to lighten the load of light pollution

"...issue in their two nationally syndicated radio shows (the English-language StarDate and the Span­ish-language Universo). There's also a new..."

July 2, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Chaos of Eros

Isabel Coixet's 'Elegy' for a dying animal

"...Like the two previous English-language films from Coixet (pronounced coe-shay), 2003's My Life Without..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Hispanics Receive Preferential Treatment From the City

"...from our government, as is evident in the Spanish language dominance over the native English language. All of Austin's..."

May 12, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...tests, administered on March 5. Pass rates for the English-language version at third (87%), fifth (79%), and eighth (90%)..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...for Austin motorists. ... Did I use some rough language? You bet I did – and if I offended..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature

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