Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...This spring, the University of Texas at Austin made national headlines for a..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

The Facts Were Immaterial

The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin

"...anti-war and anti-draft sentiment on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin at the height of Sixties..."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield

Peace Through Pie

A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King

"...vision? Soul food because he was a black man? Southern to acknowledge his home and the focus of his..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

License to Shrill, Uncensored

A conversation with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

"...in advance of his Nov. 13 appearance at the University of Texas. What follows is an unabridged transcript of..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Finding Hope ... in Bed!

Tim Miller's latest trip to Austin finds the noted performance artist optimistic about being gay

"...U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision on Lawrence v. Texas, declaring Texas' sodomy law unconstitutional. It was a rare..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...ratified by an 80% majority of the voters in southern Travis and northern Hays counties, where 40,000 people depend..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Sharon Bridgforth's works aren't meant to be read silently," Suzy Spencer writes. "Some folks would say that's like eating barbecue without the sauce. But if it's good barbecue, you can do without the sauce because it has plenty of flavor on its own."

"...white women who'd like to date them. But during Texas Writers Month 1997, as part of the Austin Writers'..."

July 28, 2000 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer

Naked City

News and happening from Austin and beyond

"...• "Southern segment of MoPac to be free," read the Statesman..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Amid New Immigration Policies, Local Attorneys and Immigrants Navigate a Broken System

Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"

"...up if they're released – a claim echoed by Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, during a Capitol hearing..."

July 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Alternate Universes

"...achievements in the world of letters (he directs Brown University's creative writing program, for one) make it seem all..."

March 12, 1999 Books Feature

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...respite is sandwiched between her Lilith Fair dates in Texas and an upcoming three-week jaunt that will take her..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...a somewhat sickly early childhood for a full-on, sunshine-and-sports Southern California adolescence. When the Beach Boys and the Beatles..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Book Burn ...

"Happily, the University of North Carolina Press saw fit to reprint this little classic in 1999, and it remains readily available to anyone interested in the history of American hot sauce, as well as in a thoughtful portrait of a rapidly changing segment of American Southern culture," writes MM Pack. Find out why.

"...University of North Carolina Press, 171 pp., $16.95, (revised; paper)..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...believed, to violence that saturated the campus of the University of Mississippi when the school was integrated by Mr...."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

The Road to Damascus

The story behind Paul Stekler and Daniel McCabe's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

"...the Board of Trustees of Alabama's most prestigious black university, Tuskegee University. In a 1958 TV ad, Wallace actually..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Clay Smith

Foul Pay

Football Is Golden

"...who, incidentally, had a better winning percentage (.731) at Texas than any coach in recent history except Darrell Royal,..."

Sept. 18, 1998 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Hero Returns

Vince Young carves out a second career at UT-Austin

"...If you need to find Vince Young on the University of Texas campus these days, don't go to Darrell..."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Feature by Jessica Luther

Born to be Reviled

Interstate 35's worst stretch is also its most politically organized -- and that's a problem for TxDOT.

"...the Bat Cave. Instead, they're found in a squat Texas Dept. of Transportation office building, stacked with dozens of..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

Iron Writer

"...only tourist attractions in the area, namely the Central Texas Museum of Automotive History and the Noah's Land wildlife..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...the pasture stretching goat wire" in a small East Texas town, as unmoved by the Holy Spirit as the..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...crowd to gather. Until the mid-Eighties, the capital of Texas hadn't much use for improvisation, preferring its humor from..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...want learned discourse? Try this bit from one of Texas' greatest statesmen, Sam Houston, characterizing an opponent in his..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Amplifying Little Voices

The Alan Lomax Collection

"...and is being released as The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, a 13-volume set from Rounder Records. At present,..."

June 27, 1997 Music Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Spiritual Healing

God on Their Side: Open Doors for Austin's Gay and Lesbian Faithful

"...plant virulent dissent, agrees Rev. Larry Bethune, pastor of University Baptist Church, across Guadalupe Street from the University of..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

The Wrong Kind of Rebel Rock

Why bands are lowering the Confederate battle flag

"...house to a Jefferson Davis statue locally at the University of Texas (revisit "The End of the Confederacy at..."

July 22, 2015 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

The Waco Mammoth Site tells an amazing story of the prehistoric elephant's natural parenting instincts

"...the Brazos and Bosque rivers. The city and Baylor University have purchased 50 acres around the bones to protect..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

The venerable, towering National Forests of Texas.

"...Texas forests cover more than 10% of the state, yet..."

June 1, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Steel Magnolia

"...lady bird.'" Jan Jarboe Russell, a contributing editor at Texas Monthly who has recently published Lady Bird: A Biography..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

UT Distances from Regnerus

Michigan marriage equality testimony at issue

"...of his widely criticized "New Family Structures Study," the University of Texas sociologist has had quite a run chatting..."

March 4, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...grand for-profit experiment aimed at teaching students at the University of Texas – Poyser and filmmaking partner Jacob Vaughan's..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

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