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Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup
Full author roster revealed for November fest
"...Don't Change Our Ways) Juana Medina (Elena Rides) Jasminne Mendez (Aniana Del Mar Jumps In) Matt Mendez (The Broke..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

AISD Picks a Search Team for New Superintendent
Picking the pickers
"...morale (increasing pay being "top of the list"), and Mendez Middle School...."

Feb. 3, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

East Austin Residents Need Resilience Hubs Sooner Rather Than Later
City looks to fill in some of the gaps of inequity during times of crisis
"...last year during Winter Storm Uri, people sheltered at Mendez Middle School struggled with addiction withdrawal, waited hours for..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Heather Stewart

An End to Pot Prosecutions?
Council considers resolution to effectively decriminalize low-level possession
"...The property served as the home to Consuelo Herrera Mendez, Mary Grace Herrera, and their niece, Diana Herrera Castañeda..."

Jan. 24, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Council Gets a Breather Before LDC Frenzy
The dais faces a marathon of meetings covering everything from the land use code to APD racism
"...to rename Metz Rec­re­a­tion Center to the Rodolfo "Rudy" Mendez Recrea­tion Center. Metz was a captain in the Con­fed­er­ate..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Beloved anime franchise adds new phrasing to its familiar tune
"...Yet at the center of everything is Kumiko Oumae (Mendez in the American dub, Tomoyo Kurosawa in the original..."

July 11, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Vortex's Performance Park
Whatever you want to call this play/scavenger hunt/immersive live roleplay, it’s a one-of-a-kind, wonderful theatrical experience
"...journey. I was then directed to the Lovers (Marliza Mendez and Traci Laird), who bade me choose a mask,..."

May 4, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet
Last year's unseen genre gems to add to your must-see list
"...help our beleaguered heroes. Don't Kill It by Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider!) turns the conceit gleefully on its..."

Jan. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Don't Kill It
Dolph Lundgren goes for laughs in demon comedy
"...belly laughs in the latest from horror-comedy director Mike Mendez. It's Lundgren as demon-hunter Jebediah Woodley, knowing that whenever..."

Sept. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three
Multiple monsters, sequels, and regulars (and RZA)
"...a FF feature creator for the first time. Mike Mendez (SXSW's Big Ass Spider) brings demons to the Bayou..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Common Purpose
Insights from Common House arts space
"...Autumn Spadaro started the arts locale, along with Adam Mendez, who has since moved on to a career in..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

SXSW Conjures Up 'Lords of Salem' and 'S-VHS'
Midnighters lineup loaded with premieres and a surprise return
"...into darkness with Kiss of the Vampire; And Mike Mendez, whose The Gravedancers has become a late night Chiller..."

Feb. 6, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Med School Solution
A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?
"...and Leonor Vargas, a social worker attached to the Mendez Middle School's Family Resource Center, met me at the..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Voices
In this mixed-dance program weighted with angst, skill and innovation were lacking
"...color often grace its stage, and founder/Artistic Director Rodolfo Mendez leads what is probably the largest dance outreach effort..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

A Closer Look at AISD's Ratings
Many schools improved over the last year – but not all
"...was classified as "academically unacceptable." Seven (Garcia, Lamar, Martin, Mendez, and Pearce middle schools, as well as LBJ and..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Culture Flash!
Speed talking at AMOA, Correa in as ASO ED, and Ballet East needs your toys
"...For more information, call Ballet East Artistic Director Rodolfo Mendez at 385-2838 or e-mail [email protected]...."

Dec. 18, 2009 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Naked City
"...(Akins, Lanier, Crockett, LBJ, and Reagan high schools, plus Mendez Middle), down from 14 in 2008. Yet because the..."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Feature

Pushing Boundaries
Eight new dances that spoke engagingly to the place individuals have in groups
"...it. Seeing Ballet East founder and guiding light Rodolfo Mendez speak after this dance served to remind us of..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

No Child Left Behind
Schools do improve – just not all of them at the same time
"...Elementary and Pearce Middle got on. Burnet, Dobie, and Mendez middle schools made Adequate Year­ly Progress status this year,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ballet East: An expression of Hope
Ballet East hasn't changed its name to Alvin Ailey West, but with a fourth choreographer from the prominent dance troupe having set work on the Austin company, it could
"...… Peggy Lee on commission from Artistic Director Rodolfo Mendez and set it on the company in October. As..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paths
The many paths we walk can shape the people we become in life. Ballet East united old and new troupe dancers and choreographers to present multiple works in Paths.
"...into Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Artistic Director Rodolfo Mendez choreographed this path that used grand gestures and jumps..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

On the Road Again
Ballet East's Paths traces some of the many passages through life.
"...choreographers, the journey is internal. Company Artistic Director Rodolfo Mendez uses Nathaniel Hawthorne's description of egoism as the "Bosom..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations
Owing to budget woes in the College of Fine Arts, the UT PAC Prop Shop is closed for business, and local choreographers and dance companies earn national awards and international gigs.
"...Coming Up Taller Award. For more information, contact Rodolfo Mendez at 385-2838...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations
A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.
"...Sharp, father Cecil, brother Curtis, and sister Geraldine Sharp Mendez. Memorial contributions can be made to Hospice Austin, 4107..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks
"...dance panel has not appreciated the tireless work Mr. Mendez and his company does, for many years, in the..."

July 19, 2002 Column

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...dance panel has not appreciated the tireless work Mr. Mendez and his company does, for many years, in the..."

July 12, 2002 Column

Intergalactic Nemesis Redux
Salvage Vanguard Theater has remounted The Intergalactic Nemesis and Return of the Intergalactic Nemesis, its pair of homages to the golden days of radio, with a double-bill of light-hearted, clever spins on those old serialized mysteries.
"...retro-futuristic world of ace reporter Molly Sloan, sidekick Timmy Mendez, and lots of weird humans and weirder outer-space creatures...."

June 21, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Outside the Box
Opening Closed Doors, an organization founded by artist Benné Rockett to give artists opportunities to address social conditions through their artwork, presents photographs, sculpture, assemblage, and paintings created by young adult offenders in the state Criminal Justice Division's Project Spotlight program in the exhibition "Self-Contained."
"...(their idea was to clean the park across from Mendez Middle School, to create temporary sculpture for the area..."

April 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert
With Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert, the collaboration between the ever-energetic, always searching, always stretching herself Andrea Ariel and composers Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski and operatic soprano Cheryl Parrish generated the heat and light of a pure flame that was bright and intense and exhilarating to see.
"...girl. In "The Patriot Priest," choreographed by Ariel, Angel Mendez, and Jim Chappeleaux, and danced by Chappeleaux, the rigid..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.
"...6. From Labor to Letters by Miguel Mendez..."

June 23, 2000 Books Column

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