Nobelity Project Hosts Book Drive

Design a bookmobile or donate books

"...can take you places you'd only dream. But somehow the books have to get to those places too, right?..."

April 2, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

10th Annual Nobelity Project Feed the Peace Awards

"...ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons performs during the 10th Annual Nobelity Project Feed the Peace Awards at..."

Feb. 16, 2015 Photo Gallery

The Art of Moving Books

The Nobelity Project taps Baylor Estes to put his art all over a bookmobile in Honduras

"...Baylor Estes gets to put his creative stamp on another part of the world – and maybe change lives..."

May 10, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Energy at the Movies, March 9

What do the movies have to do with energy policy? More than you may think.

"...From Giant to The China Syndrome, to Syriana, popular movies have been instrumental..."

March 3, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Turk Pipkin's Book of the Every Other Month Club

When you subscribe to this service, you get six volumes, Kenya gets three libraries

"...Turk Pipkin is not one for small projects – the actor-writer-philanthropist has taken on interviewing Nobel laureates..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The State We're In

Yep, it is broke, and Turk Pipkin wants us all to fix it

"...The new advocacy documentary One Peace at a Time opens..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Art of Moving Books

May 1, 2013. 13 photos.

"...The Nobelity Project's "The Art of Moving Books" design competition..."

May 1, 2013 Photo Gallery

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Abhi the Nomad, Marina, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Nick Cave + Warren Ellis, Sam Pankey, the Austin Music Awards, and more

"...Abhi the Nomad..."

March 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Friends and Family of the Original Owner of the Armadillo Sign Being Auctioned at Sotheby's Say Sign Was Purchased, Not Stolen, Despite Claims of Armadillo Associates 

Bidding underway for piece of Dillo history

"...Sotheby’s, the planet’s oldest and most prestigious art auction house,..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Blue Plate Special: The $10,000 Edition

Ten grand gets not just dinner, but dinner conversation

"...buys you not just dinner, but dinner conversation at the Nobelity Artists and Filmmakers Dinner on Sunday, Jan. 27..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Get Off Your Ass and Change the World

Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams speaks tomorrow at BookPeople

"...Despite the exhausting recent headlines from around the globe, there are..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Building Hope

Activist Turk Pipkin's documentary looks at the process of building of a secondary school in Mahiga, Kenya.

"...Directed by: Turk Pipkin. Building Hope deviates somewhat from the modus operandi of local filmmaker and activist Turk Pipkin's..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moving Mountains

Turk and Christy Pipkin are keeping busy changing the world

"..."'Hope' is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul/ And..."

June 12, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

If You Build It ...

Turk Pipkin's continuing adventures in making the world a better place

"...craving a medicine for melancholy – and what with the nonstop, 24-hour catastrophe party that current events have been..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Intelligent Briefing

In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future

"...ways from Sunday on any subject, any day of the week. Op-ed columnists, administration apologists, bloggers, PR flacks, chat-show..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Techno-Artistic

Katie Rose Pipkin and the new art

"...me obsolete well before I'm ready to pour out the inkwell...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Feature by Matthew Irwin

November Is Austin Art Month

With EAST, POP Austin, and the Creek Show, who's to argue?

"...you're hot to gorge on turkey this month, but there's something else you should feast on first: art. While..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSWedu: Lights, Camera, Learn

Film programming includes 'Bully', 'Brooklyn Castle'

"...announced its lineup of eight documentaries to screen during the 2013 conference and festival. And in case you think..."

Feb. 7, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Party with Kitsch and Kristofferson, 'Man From Orlando,' and more

"...To sidestep the regular disappointment that is New Year's Eve, one year..."

Dec. 27, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Conference Unleashes First-Wave Programming

Introducing the Startup Alley and Come & Capture Film Factory

"...but if you want to get a handle on the gajillion-strong programming choices at the 2013 SXSW Film Conference,..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Spotlight on Texas Book Festival Authors

Taking a look back at the 'Chronicle's coverage so far

"...Overwhelmed by the hundreds of authors coming to town for this October's..."

Sept. 13, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...The Texas Book Festival announced its 2012 slate today, featuring..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Questions, Prepares to Launch

Paramount screening, April 18

"...for writer/actor Turk Pipkin, who turned his concerns about the world his two daughters will inherit into the deep-thinking..."

April 14, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...a high school in poverty-stricken rural Kenya. Made under the auspices of the Nobelity Project, the Austin-based nonprofit led..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Film News

Last thoughts on Altman, courtesy of collaborator Stephen Harrigan; plus, incentives and local interest

"...Altman at the end A fictional take on S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Mr. Blonde and the Six Million Dollar Man, making a movie in Kyle

"...Mr. Blonde and the Six Million Dollar Man in 'Conflict'..."

June 20, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Solid reporting and decent rumors

"...War! Football! Snake Plissken? The hotter it gets this masochistic summer, the more they..."

July 28, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

"...Bennie Klain, Kristina Mann, and Ken Lewin) and beat the beast that is the Freescale Austin Marathon while raising..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Happenings

September 20-26

"...CHARTER REVISION COMMITTEE MEETING Discuss the feasibility of two different districting options for Austin: single-member..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature

Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...1) Save our film industry The biggest news for the Texas film industry in 2006..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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