How to Get Your Kids Through College

Once students enter the 'pipeline,' can educational plumbers stop the leaks?

"...new collegegoers. It's a daunting task, but has the support of both education wonks and business pragmatists, who worry..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Gotta Get Up

Harry Nilsson, the Pussy Cat who roared

"...find everything he did. Nilsson Schmilsson from 1971 sums up the appeal: On the cover he's wearing a bathrobe..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Locking Up Kids Not Okay

"...Residential Center situation is not that we are locking up children there, but that some of us think locking..."

March 6, 2007 Postmarks

AISD’s Special Education System Struggles to Keep Up

School system tries to keep up with its workload and comply with legal mandates

"...Pecan Springs Ele­­ment­­ary, who concurred. But diagnoses change as kids grow and develop, and sometimes that growth highlights new..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide

Listings

"...JORDAN BACHMAN PIONEER FARM For over 60 years, kids have spent their time reading and daydreaming of Laura..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

2005 Kids Summer Camps

An annotated list of several places where kids could be going this summer to enjoy physically and mentally invigorating activities

"...Summer is a-comin' in, and the kids are a-goin' out. Here, corralled and updated by our..."

April 29, 2005 Features Feature

The Debate Over How and Whether to Jail Kids in Austin Is Just Getting Started

Travis County proposes a new facility to hold kids accused of crimes

"...Bill Wallace was involved in a dispute between two groups of men near Rundberg Lane in North Austin. Both..."

Jan. 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens

The director of the teen-friendly horror discusses his influences

"...Venn diagram: the circles say, "weird gore," "wrestling," and "kids," and at the center is Jason Eisener. "I love..."

Sept. 22, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks

Canada's transgressive comedy kings reunite

"...Watching Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks, in between recognizable characters..."

March 17, 2022 SXSW Post by Sheryl Lawrence

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...even a pool to provide respite for those who get a bit horsed out. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm, beginning May 14...."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

11 Ongoing Events and Activities for Austin Kids

Local orgs and museums offer virtual and IRL options

"...for ways to entertain the kiddos as we gear up for summer? Local orgs and museums have so much..."

April 5, 2021 Events Post by Katherine McNevins

Making 'Bad Kids' Even Badder

Local-shot horror makes jump from comic to indie screens

"...with straight faces they were filming graphic novel Bad Kids Go To Hell. Against all odds, now it's on..."

Dec. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Light It Up

"...circus to match the angst roiling within the five kids trapped in the Queens, New York, high school they've,..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Family & Kids' Activities in the Time of Coronavirus

Get creative and cure cabin fever

"...and you’re probably looking for ways to keep the kids occupied. Most of the places they could usually go..."

March 16, 2020 Events Post by Katherine McNevins

Getting Kids Into the Act

Curtain up on GRRL Action and Vortex Summer Youth Theatre

"...parents a unique challenge: what to do with the kids during all that off-time normally taken up by school?..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Get Over It

"...Sisqó, Swoosie Kurtz, Ed Begley Jr. and Coolio. Hey, get this! It's another broken hearts & bubblegum teen flick!..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kids Summer Fun Guide

Introduction

"...me more than working on this year's Austin Chronicle Kids' Summer Fun Guide, as monumental as the task of..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

Are Kids These Days Bringing OOB the Laughter for Love’s Sake?

What dire agenda, we wonder, lurks beneath their odd & infectious joy?

"...from all over the country this year. So many troupes – improv and sketch – along with a wealth..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Strange Kids Doing Strange Things

Eighties retro-spoofers Strange Kids Club has real mutant turtles

"...you're already a fully paid member of the Strange Kids Club...."

July 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kids Summer Fun Guide

Kids Flicks

"...SPLASH PARTY MOVIE NIGHTS Load up the swimsuits and floaties, but leave the SPF at..."

May 5, 2000 Features Feature

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...& crafts, and storytelling during this perennial summer activity. Kids get up close and personal with symphony musicians and..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Opinion: Electric School Buses Are a Win for Kids’ Health, the Environment, and Our Community

There's no safe level of exposure to diesel fumes for children, and yet our kids spend hours each week breathing fumes on diesel buses

"...decrease lung function even in healthy children. For all kids with asthma, even those with mild to moderate asthma,..."

March 12, 2021 Column by Mary Beth Bennett

The Kids Are Alright

American Youthworks is for the children

"...stuff of late but, really, I am not a “kids” kind of person nor do I mewl about doing..."

Nov. 10, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Austin Kids First Throws Money into AISD Races

New pro-reform PAC drops $30,000 behind candidates

"...Austin Kids First, the new PAC on the education block, has..."

Oct. 31, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Get Your Stank On

Spy Kids 4 to open in Aromascope

"...less than John Waters' exploitation film handbook for Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4-D. No,..."

June 27, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Keeping Up With the Steins

This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A., should, by all rights, be very funny, but, sadly, it is not.

"...film, a Los Angelean battle of misplaced bar mitzvah one-upmanship, should, by all rights, be very funny and certainly..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Your Shovels Out

How a local crew of diggers built the baddest Downtown dirt jumps in the country at the Ninth Street BMX Trails

"...aerials. Long jumps, low jumps, the type you pedal up and fly through. A BMX racer since the early..."

June 6, 2014 Sports Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Beware of Kids With Headphones

Digital dosing the new gateway drug?

"...ditty published on the web site for the Oklahoman: Kids are now downloading drugs. For reals...."

July 16, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

It Doesn't Always Get Better

James Ponsoldt lets kids be kids in 'The Spectacular Now'

"...to either rescue Sutter from his self-destructive ways or get dragged down with him. While anxious viewers wonder with..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Smartest Kids in the Room

Hint: It may not be the AISD board of trustees

"...Between budget cuts and the unrelenting anti-intellectualism of standardized testing, there..."

April 29, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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