Culture and Anarchy

"...they are being funded by the printing press (i.e., debt) and not tax dollars. My (and your) kids, grandkids,..."

May 9, 2025 Postmarks

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...which the state would provide $10,000 per child for students going to private schools. Though the money wouldn’t come..."

March 14, 2025 News Feature

Lawmakers Consider Restricting College Degrees Leading to Low-Paying Jobs

Proposed program cuts based on debt-to-income ratios

"...pushing to restrict degree programs based on how graduates’ debt stacks up against their income...."

Feb. 28, 2025 News Feature by Lucciana Choueiry

A Mardi Gras Pre-Party, Improvised Intimacy, and More Recommended Events

Allow us to help sort your weekend out

"...the template started in 1995’s Before Sunrise, when American student Jesse (Ethan Hawke) convinces a French woman named Celine..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Opinion: A Call for Unity to Fix a Broken Health Care System

A health care professional with chronic illness urges bipartisan action to address high costs, insurance barriers, and mental health gaps

"...poverty – middle-class families, too, are drowning in medical debt. A single unexpected bill can lead to impossible choices:..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Column by Sue Ram

The Right-Wingification of UT

Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools

"...years, called for the elimination of tenure, for restricting students’ free speech, and for mandating what professors can teach...."

Nov. 22, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Stacey Abrams TribFest Panel Gives Texans a Therapy Session on Voter Suppression

Voting is medicine, Abrams says

"...It was a question from an Austin Community College student that finally broke the conversation away from the practical..."

Sept. 13, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Remembering the Reasons for the Protests

Students call for UT to divest from weapons manufacturers

"...Student protesters nationwide, including those at UT-Austin, aren’t just calling..."

May 3, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Budget Cuts Are Coming to Austin ISD

And probably a tax increase too

"...Austin’s public schools next year, but will they impact students? Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura said his team is..."

April 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Students Tackled, 20 Arrested at Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protest at UT-Austin

State troopers, APD, and UT police violently disperse crowd

"...This morning at 11:40am, hundreds of peaceful UT student protesters were gathered in front of Gregory Gym, set..."

April 24, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

In the Worst Moments of Austinites’ Lives, APD Victim Services Shows Up

Inside one of APD’s most-celebrated divisions

"...assaults their partner. A parent abuses their child. A student sexually assaults a classmate. “Our job is to ensure..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Luv Doc: A Blinding Amount of Light

If Jeff Bezos can launch a $5.5 billion dollar penis rocket into suborbital space, he can surely put a dimmer switch on a floodlight

"...pricier option – an extra thirsty lawyer with crippling student loan debt. There's probably a couple thousand of those..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

The Common Law

The flood of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions

"...Biden's Student Debt Relief Shot Down. The court rejected President Biden's..."

July 7, 2023 Column by Luke Ellis

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Joe Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for some borrowers. The court's 6-3 decision..."

July 7, 2023 News Feature

Makoto Shinkai, the Other Anime Master, Comes to AFS

The early works of Makoto Shinkai, the genius behind Your Name

"...debut, Kumo no Mukô, Yakusoku no Basho, owes a debt to technodramas like Appleseed and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Yet..."

June 2, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fading Dreams

"...everywhere, is unaffordable, highly inflated and a joke to students like myself. I’ve always dreamt of college, a career,..."

March 15, 2023 Postmarks

Loans at the Lege

"...fact that Texas legislators like Ted Cruz are opposing student loan cancellation makes no sense. The state is crushed..."

Feb. 28, 2023 Postmarks

Lifelong Student Fennec Finds a Home in House Music

The multi-credentialed producer who wrote an admissions essay on Girl Talk

"...missed a day or two it was like a debt that built up … I gotta have something going..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Wipe Out (Your Debt): Since Friday, more than 8 million Americans have filled..."

Oct. 21, 2022 News Feature

Austin's Best Breweries of 2022, Power-Ranked

It's Top of the Hops VII!

"...is the progeny of Adelbert’s Brewery, proving that the student can become the master and that dreams of opening..."

Oct. 12, 2022 Food Post by Eric Puga

Why AISD Wants and Needs a $2.4 Billion Bond Program

Equity is not cheap

"...be barely noticeable (a 1-cent increase to the district's debt-service rate). Should be an easy sell, right?..."

Oct. 7, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Funny Pages

Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot

"...Katano, whose untimely death is what finally motivates his student to go off and embrace the whole "starving artist..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"..."The outrage over helping working people with student loans I think is just simply wrong – dead..."

Aug. 26, 2022 News Feature

Emily the Criminal

Aubrey Plaza goes from wage slave to free crook in a capitalist critique

"...Plaza’s Emily, a woman saddled with 70 grand in student debt for an art degree she never completed. Working..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Survivors' Suit Settled: The city of Austin has settled..."

Feb. 4, 2022 News Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...falsely accusing her of the murder of a missing student on social media. Cast List: Connor Kalopsis, Ramona Young,..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Black Pumas Backline Lauren Cervantes and Angela Miller Maintain 20 Feet From Stardom – On Purpose

Respect and admiration remains the key to their success as co-frontwomen and backup singers

"...Concordia, but ultimately reconsidered in the face of steep student debt...."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds

Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest

"...Gaurav Seth Canada, 90 min, Texas Premiere Four university students playing at time travel abandon their experiments when they..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Threadgill’s Old No. 1 Closes Permanently

Pandemic closes a part of Austin history

"...a move that will ideally wipe out all his debt and allow himself and wife Sandra Wilson to retire...."

April 20, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Opinion: Coronavirus Is Exposing the Threat the Texas GOP Poses to Public Health

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez explains why a government that takes care of its people builds a healthier and safer country

"...Luis Mireles, a 24-year-old college student studying business analytics, is like the one in six..."

March 27, 2020 Column by Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

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