The Pre-K Push

Legislation intended to expand pre-k opportunities, increase child care reimbursement rates, and improve support and training for early childhood professionals is in the works.

"...ton of money for that from places like the Gates Foundation," Del Valle said. "Early childhood development is such..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Chartering Middle School

Hoping to reach middle-schoolers who could go off track in a regular school setting, district moves forward with charter school plans

"...praise for giving students a second chance – the Gates Foundation just named it one of the 10 best..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Flawed Thinking Based on Flawed Methods

"...acknowledges this fact when he accepts funds from the Gates Foundation: "to create smaller, high-quality schools and to convert..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Postmarks

Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis

Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies

"...in Southeast Austin, now operated by The Other Ones Foundation as Camp Esperanza. Staff rejected the concept in 2019..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Chris Gates & Gatesville

"...Chris Gates & GatesvilleWelcome to Gatesville (Anodyne Music)..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel

"...mythic and exhaustively anatomized story in his novel, The Gates of the Alamo. So Harrigan dove back into the..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to a sit-down together in the offices..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Reefer Madness: Seeds vs. Suds

Marijuana: A safer alternative to America's favorite social lubricant?

"...of July's controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Barack Obama sought to take the rhetoric..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith

Day Trips

The Old Settler's Music Festival has a new Dripping Springs home.

"...Built as an equestrian center by a foundation for persons recovering from head injuries, Stone Mountain was..."

April 7, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Sxsw

"...REBECCA GATES: As one-half of the Spinanes, Gates brought the songs..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Environmental Groups Warn Congress to Slow Down on Texas Coastal Barrier

It should block storm surges, but it might also kill native species off

"...migration. Haragan and environmental groups including the National Wildlife Foundation, Galves­ton Bay Foundation, Bayou City Water­keep­er, Turtle Island Restoration..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Isabel Maney

Rehabilitation or Torture?

Texas prison inmates say their 'therapy' has taken a dark turn

"...Corrections officers and personnel employed by nonprofit operator Gateway Foundation of Chicago, the SAFPFs (referred to colloquially as "Safe-Ps")..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Deep Eddy Rising

Citizens and city come together to restore an Austin landmark

"...funders came through – the Houston Endowment, Austin Community Foundation, Moody Foundation, and so on. Money seeded money, recalls..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...and a powerful pop aesthetic to their contemporary folk foundation. Jackopierce who? (Fat Tuesday, 9pm) -Andy Langer..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...Flood­gates of grief, regret, and longing opened, and in getting..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...“We’re playing under relative protest,” announces bassist Chris Gates at the outset, “because they know what we do,..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Your Name Here

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

"...Even the Big Boys – Turner, Kerr, bassist Chris Gates, and a rotating cast of drummers – were an..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Welcome to the Jungle

Metal and alt-rock collide and flourish during the Back Room's glory years

"...South First and Barton Springs, built on the very foundation of the Armadillo. This loose-knit group included promoter legends..."

July 28, 2006 Music Feature by Ray Seggern

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...for more funding. A prospective major donor, the MacArthur Foundation, which would subsequently come in with some big bucks,..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Far Out Is Having a Moment

Scrappy South Austin venue is building a major presence in the city’s live music ecosystem

"...thing. But close to 1,500 people passed through the gates, and the crowd – populated with the expected number..."

May 13, 2022 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic

Statewide updates since Gov. Abbott's "Open Texas" order

"...The Galveston Historical Foundation has reopened the 1892 Bishop’s Palace, 1877 Tall Ship..."

May 5, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...Tom Gimbel, who founded the Hi, How Are You Foundation with partner Courtney Blanton...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin

X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies

"...messes up his guitar, so he walked offstage. Chris Gates, the Big Boys' bass player, got up, grabbed the..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

You're a Mean One, Mister Governor

Bah, humbug! Abbott kicks Founding Fathers out of Capitol.

"...question was placed there by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which had been approved to place a depiction of..."

Dec. 24, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Getting to Zero

Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?

"...consumers cuts down on the tonnage coming through TDS' gates, and could theoretically reduce the company's earnings from gate..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Playback: Teatro Negro

Reunions, fundraisers, performance videos – trying to rein in local music as 2012 draws to a close

"...opera house untouched by time, and proceeds fund SIMS (www.simsfoundation.org), the local foundation that supports musicians and their families..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"..."Albrecht Dürer: Prints From the Foundation of Lower Saxony and the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Germany,"..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Luv Doc Recommends: The Miracle Bash

Sky Lounge, Saturday, June 9, 2007

"...out all you did to get in the pearly gates was to buy a massage wand at a charity..."

June 8, 2007 Column by The Luv Doc

Naked City

"...Wednesday from his post as secretary of defense. Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, is slated to replace..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature

Tentatively Titled

Austin's Class of 1997

"...AAA base to both an AOR and alternative radio foundation with an album so rock-rooted that even he and..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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