Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...judging from her pitch last week to about 200 students and parents at a holiday dinner in Reagan's cafeteria...."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Feature

Coach's Corner

"...three hours late. The 12 UT students aboard are, by now, quite drunk. Two hours ago,..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

How the BTS ARMY Superpowered the Megapopular Boy Band

This fandom moves mountains

"...Ahn, a professor of K-pop, was introduced by a student to BTS song “Spring Day,” which has been connected..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

The House That Built DJ Shani Hébert

Decades in the making, The Groove Temple arrives on KUTX

"...manager at Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, Mati Johnson led Loyola's student-run radio station, WLUW 88.7FM, and gave Hébert her first..."

March 3, 2023 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Di$count $inema Series Revs Up at Blue Starlite

Jon Moritsugu heads to Terminal USA

"...morphine, a cheerleader daughter pregnant with her school's star athlete's baby, about to be sold into sexual slavery by..."

July 23, 2021 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Local Writer Makes Black History Month Accessible to All

Autumn Arnett knows there are stories to be told

"...in Pflugerville was relatively diverse, with one in five students being Black. The Arnetts had just moved to Texas..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Brian Frager Ellery Scott's world unravels when her star athlete brother is murdered on campus amidst a brewing scandal,..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe

Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up

"...his own self. Above all, an artist and an athlete whose body time and time again – sometimes against..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Shorts Program 10 – Everything’s Shorter in Texas

Series highlights strong range of local filmmakers

"...a ruminant night in the life of a failed athlete; and Lizette Barrera, who with writer Renier Murrillo portrays..."

Oct. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

Page Two: "I Got Vision, and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals"

A conversation with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black: excerpts

"...into winning a pingpong match against this hotshot Rice athlete two weeks ago than I did any of that..."

March 4, 2016 Column by Louis Black

The Universal High School Experience

Sarah Dessen's latest novel is 'The Moon and More'

"...honest. I wasn't anything exemplary. I wasn't a good student, I wasn't an athlete, I wasn't a joiner. I..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

War and Pieces

Mayor's Book Club takes on Kevin Powers' 'The Yellow Birds'

"...something that people did. I was not a good student in high school. I was a daydreamer; I didn't..."

April 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

The AggreGAYtor: September 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• Cornell study ties LGBTQ unhappiness to gender nonconformity...."

Sept. 7, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

FronteraFest Schedule

"...the Czars'" by Sue Bilich. The world's oldest living athlete is back to make the audience fall in love..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

'When I Was Your Age'

The full text to the Obama back-to-school speech

"...where he's setting the bar. The president compares current students to those "75 years ago who overcame a Depression..."

Sept. 7, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Mayor of Washington Boulevard

The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades

"...California dream. As a youngster, he was a natural athlete, and once he discovered surfing, Wilson found his groove...."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Anarchist Soccer Rules

Local anarcho-athletes to travel overseas for Anti-Racist World Cup

"...they weren't aware of any such list, though UT student Elizabeth Waggoner wrote a detailed recounting of Special Agent..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Power, Forward

Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'

"...view of the current situation is that there are athletes who are speaking out and who are trying to..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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Our readers talk back.

"...should also be said that, as with elite able-bodied athletes as compared to maybe you or me, Zupan, as..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Column

Hearts and Violins

Jennifer Bourianoff has found happiness playing chamber music and living in Austin.

"...the local chamber music scene, will be welcoming back students from all parts, but there is one particular ACMC..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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Duke Still Had It

"...an overweight, middle-aged woman who has never been an athlete and until last summer avoided sweat like the plague...."

May 14, 1999 Column

Coach's Corner

"...all lawyers, too who make a living stealing from athletes. No, no, that's not right. There's one of those..."

April 23, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"...but that didn't stop this team from inspiring its student cast to new heights of performance. The energy and..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

"...most amusing anecdotes, including one in which he spied athlete's foot powder on Hopper's pants and lectured the younger..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

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Capital Metro Responds

"...is to put fear into the hearts of the students riding the UT shuttle...."

Aug. 29, 1997 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the bill deals head on with race, education for athletes, and perhaps most importantly, football...."

May 30, 1997 News Feature

Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies

New and Noteworthy

"...Ma-Chan laments to her other brother, a busy university student, "A pain in the neck, don't you think... that..."

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

Brothers and Keepers

"...the school of "If I can't be a good student and a good athlete like `Big Bruh,' I'll skip..."

July 19, 1996 Books Feature

Brothers and Keepers

"...the school of "If I can't be a good student and a good athlete like `Big Bruh,' I'll skip..."

July 19, 1996 Books Feature

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