Public Notice: While the Cats Were Away

The stakeholders play

"...7201 Levander Loop. Or, see more volunteer opportunities at www.austin texas.gov/department/volunteer or www.austinanimalcenter.org...."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...admits.) Eventually, he landed a job at semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments...."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

News/Print

Book Fest shorts, upcoming readings, and more

"...by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Louis Lafair is a senior at St. Stephen's Episcopal..."

Oct. 3, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Harry Ransom Center

The papers of director Peter Masterson and actor Carlin Glynn land at the HRC

"...the archival material for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas than the best little humanities research library in Texas?..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lege: Give 'Em More Founding Fathers!

Testing our true American values with Western civilization

"...Do students at Texas universities need to think more like the most conservative..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Res Publica

"...2-9pm. Hanover's, 108 E. Main, Pflugerville, 512/670-9617. Donations appreciated. www.texasmusicforge.com/Afghan.html...."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature

Day Trips

Stonehenge? In Texas? Yup, yonder down in Odessa.

"...prehistoric structure on the campus of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa would attract more..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

News/Print

Austinites get on the same page with the Mayor's Book Club selection, Rockdale rocks some literature and music, novelist Amanda Eyre Ward gets crazy with the cheese (she's a whiz with the books, too), and Dobie Paisano turns 40, gets some work done

"...spirited discussion led by professors from the University of Texas Humanities Institute at various Austin Public Library branches. (See..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Column by Kimberley Jones

Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage

How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago

"...Eastside and opened to blacks in 1933, and is Texas' first African-American neighborhood museum, the Carver still had to..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...education, and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst proposed to put "Texas Children First" with a 25-year-minimum sentence for first-time sex..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

Film News

Ron Perryman, an Austin film pioneer, died last Saturday

"...of his early films, such as Eggshells and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He also made a widely seen environmental..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Council, Liveable City, Save Barton Creek Association, SOS Alliance, Texas Clean Water Action, and Zilker Neighborhood Association in asking..."

May 6, 2005 Column

A 'Culture of Excellence' at UT Inc.

The Commission of 125 report calls for a first-class (and blue-chip) university

"...of 125 described their vision for the University of Texas in a report released with great fanfare (courtesy of..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

News/Print

People in the news

"...item about Cyndi Hughes' departure as director of the Texas Book Festival in the "News/Print" of Jan. 23 ...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...failed, comes to AISD after 13 years with the Texas Department of Public Safety...."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Living Library

Grassroots historians team up with local agencies to bring past and future history to light

"...Dr. Martha Norkunas, director of Texas Folklife Resources, is a well-respected oral historian. "When I..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...meet him in the halls of the Ole Miss humanities building, Bondurant Hall. After he shuffles in with a..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Living in the Moment

MM Pack profiles legendary foodie Ann Clark.

"...coordinating a fundraising gala at the French Legation for Texas Folklife Resources. A diminutive dynamo with upstanding red hair,..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...After five years in limbo, a Central Texas regional commuter rail district is almost a reality. Commissioners..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

News/Print

"...33rd World Mystery Convention, which is taking place in Texas -- Austin, if you're going to insist on specificity..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Day Trips

Houston's bibliophiliac dream: The Detering Book Gallery.

"...The store specializes in the general literary humanities, Scoggins says. That means they carry books on just..."

April 6, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Daniel Stern

"...bouncing around between a post as the director of humanities at the 92nd Street Y, which put on a..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

A Joycean Riff of Race

Juneteenth

"...2,000 pages. John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, has..."

June 18, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Drafting a Career

"...wrote a series of literary adaptations for the legendary Texas director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line), but none..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Austin Community Television's First Quarter-Century

"...begins the 25-year-old story of access television in Austin, Texas - with Mick and Keith and a temporary expatriate..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin

Postscripts

Mixed Notes

"...UT prof and Texas Institute of Letters president Don Graham, whose new collection..."

May 1, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Not since the Civil War has Texas seen one of its female prisoners executed. But next..."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Feature

Kaplan Crunch

Will Private Firm Put the Squeeze on Public Education?

"...remedial reading and writing programs merged with the regular humanities programs. The changes created such feelings of betrayal among..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Postscripts

Noticias

"...Noticias de CMAS newsletter that they, along with the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Books Column

Postscripts

Professors... Aaaahh!

"...gain. She teaches at "Longhorn State University" in "Lamar," Texas. He'll be at Book People on Thu, June 19,..."

June 13, 1997 Books Column

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