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

The Return of Hot Luck

Aaron Franklin's food and music fest is about more than just chilling with your homies

"...local post-punk darlings (see sidebar). And it all benefits Southern Smoke Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by Houston..."

May 20, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

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

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

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

Filmmaker and Film-Educator Paul Stekler Says Goodbye to UT

As he delivers his final class, the former head of UT-Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film gives a commencement speech looking back on a career without a plan

"...So as my time at the University of Texas' Radio-Television-Film Department comes to a close, I..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

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

St. Edward’s Students Protest After School Removes Pride Flag From Coffee Shop

“Bring back the flag,” they chanted

"...Tuesday from 10am to 6pm, before marching to the university’s Fine Arts building while chanting “bring the flag back.”..."

Feb. 28, 2024 News Post by Naina Srivastava

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

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

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

Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas; The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Cen-Texts

"...Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Lee Nichols

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...Lowry had just headed off to teach at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Louis Black was still..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"..."That was the time that the University of Texas kids was turning Austin into a mixed..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...poetry student and writing & composition teacher at the University of Massachusetts, Speedy Ortiz singer Sadie Dupuis once fronted..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

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

Aztex Roster Announced

"...Round Rock's Zack Pope, recently drafted out of Duke University by the Chicago Fire; and veteran defender Beto Papandrea,..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Yardbird's Blues

How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus

"...1984 until 1989. At the granddaddy of "American food, Southern style" cooking establishments, when someone ordered fried chicken, the..."

June 29, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...stop gays and lesbians from becoming foster parents in Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported last week. Talton, in..."

May 20, 2005 News Column

Page Two

Despite the Supreme Court's recent decision, affirmative action is alive and well -- for the dominating elite.

"...offered a tepid endorsement of race-based affirmative action in university admissions, is being condemned as a giant step backward...."

June 27, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Loyal Lieutenants

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

"...He got a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas in 1969. Four years later, he finished..."

March 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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