The Challenges of Going Back to School

Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant

"...a teacher in Texas public schools for 35 years. Staying Virtual for Now..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

Austin Struggles to Adjust as SB 4 Takes Its Toll on Immigrants

"We are not safer as a community when victims are running away from us rather than coming to us."

"...that carried SB 4 into law. For instance, the SAFE Alliance, which provides shelter, services, and resources to survivors..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...in the building behind us, are committed to your safety and your family's."..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

What Now? What Next?

With clinics already closing, Texas' extreme abortion restrictions head to the courts

"...Radical is the notion that women shouldn't be afforded "safety standards commensurate with every other surgical procedure done in..."

July 26, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors

How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin

"...then the next call is for mandatory evacuation. We stay prepared for both of those calls, and by that..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...take the meds in order to be able to stay awake, they were also written up for the same..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...it. You never know. That's why I keep really safe with the Pill, even though I don't support it..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they’ll try to move on..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Restaurateurs Discuss Plans to Reopen (or Not)

Local restaurants on how they made the tough decision

"...This first phase of Texas’ ongoing plan to “safely and strategically open Texas while minimizing the spread of..."

May 6, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

"...patrols, to cross their way into Jordan. The Al-Hallaqs stayed for four years, with no real support or infrastructure...."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Nowhere to Go

The struggles of homeless teenagers and young adults often go overlooked in Austin

"...But Tardy didn't feel safe or comfortable at the shelter. So she left –..."

Nov. 6, 2015 News Feature by Makeda Easter

(Gasp!) Watson Was Right

The Former Chief, the Audit, the Research All Say: We Need Community Policing

"...residents on their own turf to talk about public safety (or the lack of it). The crowded public meeting,..."

March 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

(Gasp!) Watson Was Right

The Former Chief, the Audit, the Research All Say: We Need Community Policing

"...residents on their own turf to talk about public safety (or the lack of it). The crowded public meeting,..."

March 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Checking In: Worm Suicide Blacks Out

Punks put out a 23-years-in-the-making LP in a pandemic

"...Scott Free: I stay locked indoors with my cat, and yes, I stay..."

July 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Summer Fun: No Pressure; No Diamonds

Learning the facets of the AAA hotel inspector's trade

"...you do inspections for one- through four-Diamond properties, but stay overnight at five-Diamond properties?..."

July 17, 2015 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Gun Crazy!

Barack Obama may not be coming to get your weapons – but he's sure doing wonders for gun & ammo sales

"...deals on ammo before it disappears. The longer I stay, wandering the crowded aisles, the harder I find it..."

May 22, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Grand Dame

Galveston's Grand Opera House survived Ike. Here's a dispatch from one of the staff.

"...boarded up and they kept the building’s upper levels safe and dry. All of our lobby areas are free..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Carrying the Burden

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

"...and minimally includes the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods and a guaranteed ability to acquire acceptable foods..."

April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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Letter to Isaac

"...reverence that so many people have for Austin's musical mainstays as a whole, of which Liberty Lunch is such..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

Regular Folk

"...Once people move into South Austin, they're there to stay. Some of those interviewed were the third generation to..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...FAIL-SAFE (1964)..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Bed, Bathhouse, & Beyond

Men's Health Spa Goes Unregulated, but Who Cares?

"...the council's vote last month, José Orta - a safe sex activist and former director of Informe-SIDA, an AIDS..."

May 1, 1998 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...both Ah Via Musicom and Venus Isle. It's a safe bet as well that every show Johnson's ever played..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Believe

Moving Panoramas flicker to life in the aftermath of a home invasion

"...from an I-35 access road motel where they were staying. Sisson points to the front room window that once..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

Reissues

"...days of amnesia, so that U.N.C.L.E. secrets would remain safe -- even under the spell of some busty enemy..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Stay The Night (Canada) Director/Screenwriter: Renuka Jeyapalan, Producers: Brian Robertson,..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: We Need to Prioritize Our Service Workers

Olamaie Executive Chef Michael Fojtasek: "The way to ensure the health and livelihoods of service industry people is through vaccination"

"...proximity by refusing to properly wear a mask or stay distanced. The desire to return to normalcy has become..."

March 5, 2021 Column by Michael Fojtasek

The Forces Drawing ACC Students Back to Campus Despite Pandemic Uncertainty

“We’re trying to juggle it all”

"...I guess you could, but I don't know how safe that would be."..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

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Our readers talk back.

"...dump may indeed be acceptable under Texas Health & Safety Codes or under Texas Administrative Codes. However, they both..."

July 7, 2006 Column

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"...systematically manipulated mainstream culture to believe smoking is cool, safe, fun, and easy. The easy part is true if..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column

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