Summer Reading

For those new to speculative fiction in general and African-American writers of the form in particular, the newest 'Dark Matter' anthology, edited by Sheree Thomas, is the perfect guide

"...Dark Matter, Reading the Bones: Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora..."

May 27, 2005 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Road to Recovery

A private health care consultant has improved efficiency at the county's primary health care clinics. Looming Medicaid cuts protenda new crisis.

"...the end of the child's appointment, doctors hand parents "reading prescriptions" -- a pile of books to share with..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell

Whoever thought that stringing a guitar would be tantamount to a comeback?

"...reader into the struggle and isolation of his plodding recovery. Triumphs are registered in the smallest of improvements, all..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Summer Reading 2003

Summer Reading 2003: Augusten Burroughs' follow-up memoir to his bestselling Running With Scissors

"...Minnesota, where he warms to the kooky patients and recovery-speak. But back in New York, he stumbles through the..."

June 6, 2003 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Is the Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door?

AISD's budget cuts could be deep and painful.

"...million); library books ($500,000); Account for Learning ($4.1 million); Reading Recovery ($2.1 million); and the total elimination of an..."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

AISD Notebook

"...will be spearheaded by a nationally recognized program called Reading Recovery. This program requires intensive (and expensive) teacher training;..."

June 27, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Monsieur Lazhar

In a Montreal classroom, adolescent students and their Algerian substitute teacher help one another cope with grief. The film was an Oscar nominee.

"...drama and its elegant study of grief, guilt, and recovery goes places that few films dare go. And it..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Budget Blackboard

Write 100 Times: AISD Needs More Money

"...including $1.3 million to expand the popular and successful Reading Recovery program and provide a literacy expert at every..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Naked City

AISD Bites the Budget Bullet

"...will also eliminate the popular Account for Learning and Reading Recovery programs. These cuts will save $21.5 million; the..."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

AISD Board's Budget Balance

"...education) and to replace the Account for Learning and Reading Recovery programs, which provide intensive help to at-risk students,..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

AISD Budget Cuts Roll Toward Trustees

The AISD budget task force closes its deliberations as the Board of Trustees gets ready to act.

"...magnet teachers first proposed for layoff. But the intensive Reading Recovery and Account for Learning programs would be replaced..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Urban Renewal, Sustainable Development, and ... Fluoride?

Preview Pt. One of a crowded Council agenda

"...water fluoridation, the Urban Renewal Board, the Austin Resource Recovery master plan, and more. Check out part one of..."

Dec. 12, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Leaving the Children Behind

"...Elimination of Texas Reading and Math Initiatives: $64 million*..."

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Only Austin Earned a Warmhearted Lucinda Williams In-Store at Waterloo Records

Celebrating her new memoir and LP, as well as shop owner John Kunz

"...Lucinda Williams lists Louisiana, Mississippi, and Mexico City among..."

July 6, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

What Are the Birds Telling Us About Climate Change?

Reading the signs from our friends up in the sky

"...get more and more frequent, you don't get the recovery time, and then the populations have a much higher..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Melany Jean

DVDanger: Ava's Possession

SXSW 2015 horror hits VOD

"...the ultimate lost weekend. When Jordan Galland starting writing possession-recovery horror-comedy Ava's Possession, he said, "The pitch to myself..."

March 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dear God, What Hath Monofonus Wrought Now?

The Austin indie media company gets all epistolary with Thor Harris

"...ago. But who’s to say that depression, or his recovery from it, has anything to do with how downright..."

May 25, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Redefining Beauty' party and signing tonight

Texas poet laureate Karla K. Morton reads tonight at BookWoman

"...treatment, as in "Eyelashes"; (after the jump) and then recovery...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Katrina Past, Katrina Present, Katrina's Future

UN scientists warn that Katrina-style weather disasters will become more common. Is Texas (or anyone) ready for more storms or the refugees that come with them?

"...New Orleans is failing. Walter Leger, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, told the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee this..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

The latest Texas Performance Review says AISD schools are operating under capacity, but AISD says their methodology masks school crowding.

"...rooms are also used for special programs such as reading recovery and health services...."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Just Can't Get Enough

More Summer Reading

"...unmitigated candor is the result. Writing about the long recovery process, Cartwright confesses that he "got patience and humility..."

June 12, 1998 Books Feature

City Hall Hustle: Last-Minute Shopping

No Silent Night here

"...of unfinished business from last meeting: third and final reading on a city park smoking ban. Council declined to..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Making Reuse Mainstream

Austin needs a combo of government leadership, corporate responsibility, and individual commitment to meet reuse benchmarks

"...offer residents a place to exchange their own unwanted reading material, the library opened Recycled Reads in 2009. The..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

A New Hope

Stroke survivor Robert Reyes gets another lease on life

"...Hospital, where he would begin the arduous journey of recovery. His whole left side was unresponsive, he had double..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Drive My Car

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s second masterpiece in a year finds the pain of love

"...a residency directing the very play Oto is line reading for, Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Per the rules of..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Ready for Solar and Recycling Too

Council approves solar roofs and textile recycling pilot

"...called Simple Recycling, contracted through the city’s Austin Resource Recovery Department. The intent is to keep tons of such..."

Feb. 6, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Council: ADUs Coming to Your Neighborhood?

Land-use advocates at AURA are calling on Council to approve the ADU ordinance

"...ADUs, with an ordinance that appears for its third reading (Item 80, via the Planning and Neighborhoods Com­mit­tee). Although..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Tyler Perry's latest feel-good drama about African-American family relationships scores its best casting with Angela Bassett in the lead, but otherwise falls prey to Perry's slipshod filmmaking technique.

"...tickets to rural Georgia to attend the funeral and reading of the will of the father she has never..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

"If you fail light rail again, you've sealed your fate to sucking a tailpipe and damned your city's 21st century global position."

"...Just got through reading your "Page Two" for the Oct. 6 issue, and..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...enough to intend that what I wrote would repay rereading down the line."..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

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