Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...own project was buoyed by extensive corporate sponsorship from Ford, Freescale, other corporations, and a pair of local hipster..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Media Clips

The Latino USA radio program is building a national name for itself out of its KUT headquarters in Austin.

"..."That's when the Ford Foundation gave the center some seed money to start..."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

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Pride for Poder

"...a "Leadership for a Changing World" award from the Ford Foundation. The award, which comes with a $130,000 cash..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

I Love You, I Love You Not

"...inherent emotional punch. Unfortunately, screenwriter Wendy Kesselman, on whose Ford Foundation-commissioned play this film is based, appears to have..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Women & Their Work Purchases Permanent Home

Austin gallery will reopen on the Eastside in January 2021

"...major donors like Katelena Hernandez Cowles and Jay Cowles, Ford Foundation, Still Water Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, and..."

July 17, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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Beyond City Limits

"...administered by the nonprofit Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation. In 2001, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals..."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...scene, essentially supported itself with one megagrant from the Ford Foundation. When the foundation decided not to renew funding..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Students frustrated by delayed aid

"...Is the New Black took first place at the Ford Foundation HBCU Community Challenge in 2013, winning $75,000, with..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Tashanna Turner

Punk Rock Patron of Austin Music Richard Lynn

Super Secret founder and Sonic Transmissions Festival underwriter expands operations

"...benefited from patronage. Where would PBS be without the Ford Foundation or Sesame Street without Michael and Susan Dell?..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

DVDanger: Elstree 1976

On set for Star Wars, plus Creepshow and Harryhausen

"...Film wisdom says that the only reason that Harrison Ford became a megastar was that Indiana Jones stopped him..."

July 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Name Here

Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...doesn't seem real," admits Kerr, who was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for his collegiate work. "I always liked..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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Headlines

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Who Is Jesus?

It's Judgment Day for Austin's City Manager

"...He came to the University of Texas on a Ford Foundation scholarship, but before graduating, he took time off..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Man on a Mission

Professor, Collector, Leader Gil Cárdenas

"...Cárdenas's projects. Until Christina Cuevas recently moved from the Ford Foundation in New York to serve as executive director,..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature

Projecting the 21st Century

"...like that. Experiments have been conducted by the Kellogg Foundation using scientific and technological subjects to investigate whether or..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Craddick Under Siege

Speaker's race gets curiouser and curiouser

"...On Feb. 13, right-wing groups the Free Mar­ket Foundation (and President Kelly Shackel­ford), the Texas Eagle Forum PAC,..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...All ticket proceeds will be donated to the Shoah Foundation. Wings of Desire..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...experience ensures a genuine blues convergence. – Kevin Curtin Elijah Ford..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...in music developed through your Rock & Roll Forever Foundation, is that right?..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...LBJ High by instituting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation program "First Things First" – but it will also..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...for tripling the $25 million so far proposed for affordable housing programs, and said they would collect 30,000 signatures..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature

You Can Leave Your Hat On

The ballad of Mambo John Treanor

"...of trouble but stay in school because they couldn't afford to lose the game. I was the quarterback of..."

July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Public Notice

Public Notice is noticing a lot of public service types getting into the holiday spirit. Events big and small are happening all over town, as are opportunities to give, give, give.

"...Fri, Dec 3, 10pm, at another of the SIMS Foundation's Day in the Life Concert Series. There will also..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

School for Scripts

Why Get an MFA in Playwriting? Here's Why

"...script is the engine that drives the production, the foundation for the art that evolves...."

Nov. 22, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Hightower Report

Corporate-media symbiosis

"...conference for journalists put on by the National Press Foundation. NPF bills its meeting as an in-depth, all-day, all-expenses-paid..."

June 26, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Mike Ford..."

April 12, 2002 Column

TPPF Conference

Conservative conference points toward next Legislature

"...candidates. That was the message South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford brought to the Texas Public Policy Foundation's sixth annual..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Banks of the Blanco

Environmentalists and Hays County clash over river-clearing project

"...the cleanup. Dianne Wassenich of the San Marcos River Foundation says she's heard complaints all year. From her own..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION: More a consortium of activists than a band, ADF..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Penfold Theatre's Ghost Quartet

Among the threads of this darkling tapestry are spirits of malice and mayhem and longing and love

"...stone-cold fox of yesteryear, but if the Princess Grace Foundation saw fit to give Liz Fisher, the director of..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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