Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

"...all financial levels, across geographic area, age, economic status, ethnicity, and race, among them educational programs and networking mechanisms..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...scores between student groups (based on socioeconomic class and ethnicity), there's still much work to be done. The high..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature

Letters @ 3AM

Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"

"...L.A., it's not rare to see people of indeterminate ethnicity: Asian-Hispanic, Middle Eastern-Celt, Euro-Asian, African-Middle Eastern, etc. On my..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Rubber Repertory: Cashing in

Rubber Repertory applies for its first-ever grant and scores $15,000

"...of cultural difference, be that in class, gender, generation, ethnicity, or tradition." Where Rubber Rep is concerned, the grant..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Density, Diversity, and Especially Design

The Domain as TOD

"...the culture of a TOD. "It's incomes, housing types, ethnicity, everything you can find," she added, "because the full..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Beside the Point

Something's gotta give with city's at-large voting system

"...As a purely geographic division, it doesn't account for ethnicity, but it's a model that interests Martinez. "The first..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

More Developing Stories

A calendar of upcoming urban planning events

"...the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in Columbus, Ohio. The report and intriguing, colorful maps..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Happenings

March 29 - April 5

"...professor Charles Hale discusses his work on race and ethnicity in Guatemala and Nicaragua, and UT assistant professor João..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...roles on television shows into occupation, age, gender, and ethnicity. Garcia-Crow was then a working actor, sent out for..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Bridging the Online Cultural Divide

"...that despite the topic that is being discussed, the ethnicity of a commenter is used as a way to..."

March 11, 2007 SXSW Post by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Am I Having a Laugh?

"...series. Maybe that's the good thing – that her ethnicity is merely accepted, not doted upon. This occurred to..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

It's hard to state exactly what makes the photos so captivating. Editor Linda Gordon suggests that Lange's work is "saturated with conviction."

"...Okihiro, director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, provides a history of..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Affordable Housing in NOLA

New report on housing conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans offers immediate and long-term recommendations for fixing the city's decimated fair and affordable housing market

"...the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity on housing conditions in the city. What's notable about..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Point Austin: Gentlemen's Disagreement

Martinez says community needs to look at council districting once again

"...added that by "diversity" he means not just in ethnicity but diversity in neighborhoods, value systems, issues, and points..."

July 28, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Summer Reading

"...populated by Jewish suburbanites living in New Jersey, but ethnicity doesn't play too large a role here. Rather, it..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

TV Eye

Sweeping and surfing

"...potential homeowners from discrimination based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, sexual preference, national origin, or family status...."

May 5, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Oh, Sister

Adelaide, South Australia, sibling city and state of Austin, Texas, is a delicious destination for food and wine lovers

"...pound; stalls filled to the brim to serve every ethnicity living in Adelaide. I could have spent two days..."

April 21, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

After the Crash

'AMERICANese'

"...of his characters' humanity trumps the question of their ethnicity. But there is something quietly revolutionary in the film's..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.

"...United States seemed really united (give or take someone's ethnicity or race), the average person felt no need to..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...being American is a state of mind, not an ethnicity. Plus, integration certainly does not mean losing your native..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column

Levin Comes out for Integration Rather Than Condemnation

"...being American is a state of mind, not an ethnicity. Plus, integration certainly does not mean losing your native..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Postmarks

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the voting rights of everyone, regardless of race or ethnicity, in order to achieve political gain." For U.S. Rep...."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature

The Hightower Report

No Child Left Alone, er Behind, 'opt out' provision lets parents keep kids' names out of military recruiters' hands; and Big Oil rolling in the hurricane dough

"...The information includes such sensitive data as grades, ethnicity, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, and cell phone numbers...."

Oct. 14, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters at 3AM

Are the Panhandle's many roadside monuments to Christ testaments of faith or unadmitted doubt, or some of both?

"...this Jesus bears a peasant's face of no specific ethnicity, but universally peasant, with dark reddish-brown hair, light eyes,..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

The Hightower Report

The dark art of science twisting; and if you're in your fightin' prime, Uncle Sam is watching

"...your height and weight, your grades in school, your ethnicity ... and so much more...."

July 29, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Next Diegos

Mexic-Arte's 'YLA No. 10' showcases the work of tomorrow's great Latino artists

"...look at the artwork reveals a minute subtext of ethnicity, origin, and culture from some artists, while others give..."

July 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Burundi: History and Tragedy

An African nation's brutal past ... and present

"...Rwandans) were required to carry identity cards designating tribal ethnicity. When Burundi gained independence in 1962, a Tutsi was..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Page Two

Our 'rights' can be lost in many ways, one of which is to chip away at them because of health, community, decency, moral, and/or ethical standards

"...not businesses turning away people because of their race, ethnicity, or sexual preference; this is about people deciding not..."

May 6, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Ribbon on the Highway

Here comes Jimmy LaFave

"...form a kind of gospel. Rather than allegiance to ethnicity, religion, or class, Jimmy LaFave is a patriot of..."

May 6, 2005 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Taking the TAKS Is Hard … Understanding the Results Is Harder

Austin ISD scores better -- we think

"...NCLB also divides schools into separate subgroups according to ethnicity, limited English proficiency, and special education. Each subgroup within..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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