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Terrence McNally Knows About Lasting Impact
About to open a new play at Zach Theatre, the Tony Award-winning playwright talks about what endures
"...the play is just about Maria Callas. And art. Teaching. I'm a terrible teacher, I think. I think she's..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vanessa Gonzalez Is Real, Funny, and Real Funny
The former Austin comic lets the audience into her life
"...Her sketch series, Ms. Vanessa, draws on her time teaching, and anecdotes have popped up in several sets over..."

April 19, 2019 Arts Feature by Ashley Moreno

Qmmunity: An Ode to Erica Nix & Transform
Plus queerish comedy and drag deities to tide you over
"..."when we didn't have a place," Nix, who's been teaching queer and trans workouts for years, told me via..."

March 22, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Coexisting With the Coyotes of Travis County
Austin’s wildlife management program goes countywide
"...area – sometimes called a yard audit – and teaching citizens to haze, or scare, coyotes by making a..."

Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight
We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles
"...with a young family to support, Polk embarked on teaching, one of the few white-collar jobs an educated African-American..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Shoplifters
The meaning of family on Japan's social fringes compassionately explored
"...They're on the outermost fringes of society: Osamu is teaching Shota to shoplift, Aki's working as a hostess in..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
YA novel adaptation gently lampoons "pray the gay away" thinking
"...only condition an individual’s behavior in classical Pavlovian fashion, teaching him or her not to salivate (metaphorically speaking) at..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018
Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes
"...or created opportunities for others to create art by teaching, mentoring, or providing support, their generosity and constancy have..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Update: Fate of UT's Fine Arts Library
Provost OKs recommendations to preserve, upgrade fifth floor
"...indicating that she sees the FAL debate as a teaching moment for UT. "Academic libraries are an absolutely critical..."

April 11, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Peach Fuzz: A Nudie Mag Stripped
In their magazine, Kelly Dugan and Laura McNairy deliver all of the skin and none of the grossness
"...in a fraught sexual culture. "I feel like not teaching youth about pleasure is really detrimental to this conversation..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

The State of Austin Wine
Somms Under Fire lights up Austin's wine scene this month
"...these groups and teams grow, we're all moving from teaching ourselves to now teaching others how to teach...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Food Feature by Tom Thornton

Ex Libris: New York Public Library
An intimate look inside the venerable institution
"...a man recording Nabokov for the blind, a woman teaching someone to read Braille, a talk by Richard Dawkins,..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

AISD’s Teacher Retention Troubles Continue
Numbers down for third year in a row
"...Austin ISD's teaching staff numbers reached a new low this year, with..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session
Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed
"...Associations of Texas. Exposed as just an attack on teaching as the last major profession with serious organized labor..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

On Consent: AISD Employees See Increased Wages
A 1.5% increase will go to district employees
"...As with all teaching employees, AISD staff have learned that pay raises are..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Difficulties of Dining With Kids
Is the restaurant industry making a bad situation worse?
"...on cooking; we're training their palates (ideally), and we're teaching them how to be in the world, including interacting..."

March 3, 2017 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Landmarks' Public Art at UT
"...Berm between Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Bldg. and Engineering Teaching Center II, 200 E. Dean Keeton..."

Jan. 26, 2017 Photo Gallery

UT Faculty Finds Itself on Conservative Watch List
Watch what you say
"...Adair (Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction), for advocating the teaching of racial tolerance among schoolchildren; Prof. Joan Neuberger (Dept...."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Rejecting the Text
Finally, some good news from the State Board of Education
"..."lazy" and Chicano activists as a "threat to society" ("Teaching Truthiness," Sept. 16). A new report shows more than..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Queen of Katwe
This Disney film rises above the usual underdog sports cliches
"...to come through, Robert is finding his true calling. Teaching the kids to play on hand-painted chessboards, he tells..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Transpecos
Border-patrol officers get in way over their heads
"...Border-patrol agent Flores (Luna) is teaching youngblood Davis (Simmons) the more subtle methods of tracking..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Texas State Board of Education
"...while Judy Jennings, an education policy expert and former teaching assistant at UT-Austin, is looking to beat the executive..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Sunset Song
A woman comes of age in this rugged Scottish saga set in the early 1900s
"...son, Chris subsumes her own desires to pursue a teaching career (an early scene reveals that she was the..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Building a Path to Literacy
Educators and nonprofits work to close the achievement gap in Dove Springs
"...STAAR scores as demographic indicators, rather than measures of teaching success or failure, much less student potential. In this..."

April 8, 2016 News Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Education Is the Next Punk Rock
Hands-on learning for those interested in the music business
"...They said, 'No, no, no, when can you start teaching the business of touring?'"..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Makes You Think That You Think?
Austin-based cerebraphile Ms. RAZ shows us – graphically, gorgeously
"...who, because, what, she doesn’t have enough of a studying-and-teaching load taking up her time? figured she’d just go..."

Feb. 10, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Don't Be Getting Publicly Intoxicated"
APD chief clarifies comments about sexual assault
"...orders a drink or an Uber. Prevention begins with teaching our children about safe and healthy relationships, helping families..."

Dec. 15, 2015 News Post by Sarah Marloff

A Lesson in Bilingual Education
Middle East biliginual education group breaks new ground
"...of Israeli educators, representing one of the few groups teaching Arabs and Jews in the same classrooms, visited to..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Safe Place?
Parties, alcohol, and attitudes are contributing to a high number of sexual assaults in Austin
"...a place where we do a decent job of teaching girls they don't have to be princesses, but we..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The End of the Tour
Fictional but satisfying portrayal of a David Foster Wallace interview by a Rolling Stone reporter
"...Lipsky was off to southern Illinois, where Wallace was teaching, to join the celebrated author for five days of..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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