Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Dec. 9-16

"...SCIENCE UNDER THE STARS Jesse Lasky of UT's Integrative Biology Department discusses biodiversity and conservation of..."

Dec. 10, 2010 News Feature

Postscripts

What's happening in Austin's literary life for the upcoming week

"...East Texas author Joe Lansdale, fresh from his success with The Bottoms,..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...I Feel Love I'm sitting in one of the myriad coffee shops on Congress Avenue -- slouching,..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Lone Star Sweden

"Lars Gustafsson has the air, somehow, of a sailor," Roger Gathman writes about this Austin author transplanted from Sweden. "It is as though he were some Swedish Sinbad come to rest here after a dozen ports. And in a way, that is true."

"...Critics have often remarked on the odd but fruitful relationship between exile..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

SWTSU's Top Twenty Triumph

Saving Literature... One Writer at a Time

"...According to a recent issue of Poets and Writers magazine, the number of graduate programs..."

May 22, 1998 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...What's good for business is good for...UT athletics? Maybe it was a slip of the tongue..."

May 23, 1997 News Feature

Postscripts

AWL Meeting

"...Vallie Fletcher Taylor, author of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, will speak on..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Books Column

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."

"...Contreras Ramos' older brother took him under his care. But when his brother was murdered after an altercation with..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

On Ondine on Film: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"..."We were in the middle of an orgy being run by a friend of mine,"..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

"...are as important to us as any other aspect of our work, which also includes developmental education, workforce education,..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Column

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...before facing voters again in the presidential election year of 2024 (as per a charter amendment approved in May..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Living Library

Grassroots historians team up with local agencies to bring past and future history to light

"...The humans whose lives were caught under a blanket of lava and ash were not posing. They were not..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

St. Michael's Passion

Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?

"...is, for the moment, Austin's only Catholic high school. But it's not your parents' Catholic school. The students wear..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rerun at the D.A. Corral

Republican Shane Phelps challenges Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for a second time, and seems to be trailing.

"...November ballot, were featured speakers at the monthly meeting of the Metropolitan Breakfast Club. Phelps had notified the TV..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...The four members of AVATACO, a newly formed association of Austin taco stand..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week"Let me be perfectly clear: I oppose HJR..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...or are Tarot cards and Miss Cleo the order of the day?..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...Dance CampsKIDS ACTING For 20 years, KidsActing has been puttin' on shows chock-full of young folks, sometimes perfoming original..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Sterling Morrison: The Velvet Underdog Panel, Austin Convention Center

Thursday Day

"...with no shoes," recalled Cale. "That was Sterling." The South by Southwest panel examining Morrison's life from the Velvets'..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Postscripts

Mixed Notes

"...Zapatista Youth is organizing a benefit to help pay for Raul..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...truck loaded with golf carts slammed into the back of his Toyota, spun it around, and smacked it again...."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Christopher Middleton: Translating a German Genius

Translator and former UT professor Christopher Middleton has shed some literary light on 20th-century German writer Robert Walser, a favorite of few and forgotten by most.

"...was approaching fifty, and suffered from a high degree of anxiety about what would become of him. He had..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

With Style

"As corny as it sounds, I have to say that my life changed 14 years ago," Anne S. Lewis writes, "the day my bike tire blew out -- the second time in one week -- right in front of John Trimble's house. I'd never heard of the author of the venerable Writing With Style book or his legendary UT writing classes."

"...14 years ago, the day my bike tire blew out -- the second time in one week -- right..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...close kin to Galloway -- close creative kin, born of the same love of art, with the same restless..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Letter to Isaac

"...We've been thinking about you. We loved your dad too. He was unique...."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

True Hollywood Stories

Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all

"..."I try to pick clients whose work sweeps me off my feet," explains Mike Simpson from his William Morris..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the Seaholm District Master Plan and Pfluger Bridge completion permutations. The following thoughts clarify what may have been taken..."

June 21, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.

"...It reduced a complex situation to an elementary assessment of our city's economic and library system challenges. Several points..."

May 4, 2001 Column

Sxsw

"...if there are over 700 bands playing this year's South by Southwest conference? You are only one person, with..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...was my attempt at meeting – in the parlance of the black-and-white classics we screened – a better class..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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