A New Documentary Meditates on Texan Electronic Composer Pauline Oliveros

Celebrate the queer theorist behind Deep Listening this Sunday at AFS

"...practice guided the queer Texan's career in electronic music, teaching, and far beyond. Alongside Oliveros' wealth of ambient recordings,..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Prisoner With Cancer Received Delayed Treatment, Little Family Visitation, Then Died, Family Says

Tony Sendejo’s last days were painful, chaotic

"...the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a teaching facility with a working hospital that serves 80% of..."

Nov. 10, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Radical

True story of a miracle-working teacher busts misery porn cliches

"...part of the landscape. Sergio has brought some unconventional teaching methods with him, such as eschewing the required curriculum..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Should Texas Science Textbooks Cover Climate Change?

Kids are affected by it but can't learn about it

"...change a reality for some of his students, so teaching them about it seemed necessary...."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Emily Engelbart

Austin-Made Comedy Home Free Is Taking Homelessness Seriously

How a chance encounter in 1997 keeps changing lives

"...vest," said Brown, "but he was very good at teaching, and you could tell he had been in the..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces More Speakers for 2024 Digging Deeper Into AI and the Future of Work

Dylan Mulvaney, Chuck D, and Uber CEO all added as speakers

"...way futurists do. Based on his own successful work teaching tens of thousands of professionals how to be non-obvious..."

Oct. 24, 2023 SXSW Post

999 Eyes Freakshow & Surreal Sideshow Invites You to Step Inside an American Tradition

The beauty of the bizarre

"...if you don't climb Mount Kilimanjaro first' – and teaching it in a way that doesn't take the seriousness..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The State Education Agency Has Selected Austin’s Babysitters

The monitors are coming. Let’s pay them $125 an hour.

"...assigned at birth. The new rules also prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (something that isn't taught at..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Inmate Preaches to Prisoners Daily. Now the State Plans to Kill Him.

Saving body and soul

"...As inmate coordinator, Speer is currently teaching classes and mentoring the next wave of students, even..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 6-12

"...woo-woo' I have spent my adult life studying and teaching!" But here's my polite answer: I love and revere..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

We Sorted Through 150 TribFest Events. These Five Stood Out.

Free events Saturday

"...immigration, maternal health, and even barbecue. Recording of the Teaching Texas Podcast..."

Sept. 22, 2023 News Feature by Maya Wright

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Texas) Anne Wynter (Nell Plants a Tree) Donald Yacovone (Teaching White Supremacy) Monica Youn (From From: Poems) Emilio Zamora..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Catch up on news from around Texas and travel destinations for fall

"...Once a month, artist Elizabeth Burnham leads a workshop teaching how to make replicas of the original garlands...."

Sept. 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

City Opens Arts Education Grant Application Window

Nineteen $25,000 grants being offered to nonprofits

"...at least 50% of the grant must go to teaching artists providing direct services to students...."

Aug. 23, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Ahead of Pride, EMS Train LGBTQ Businesses on Active Shooter Response

Community members asked for training after Club Q shooting

"...EMS and the fire department began teaching Stop the Bleed classes in January, but training has..."

Aug. 11, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Saint Teresa: Richard Linklater and John Pierson on the Icon of Slacker

The director of Slacker and the film's sales agent discuss the creative importance of actor and musician Teresa Taylor

"...Department founder] Chale Nafus had gotten George a job teaching film history, and Teresa was in one of his..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature

Blue Jean

The closeted life of a lesbian in 1980s Britain resonates with modern homophobia

"...in which Margaret Thatcher’s government is trying to ban teaching acceptance of LGBTQ people in school curriculums. In fuzzy..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Texas GOP's Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade

Banning books (for Jesus!)

"...their previous crusades against mask mandates and the accurate teaching of race. They are characterized by loud, lurid, and..."

June 30, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Qmmunity: Come Sail Away

Queer Black Women Alliance sets sail for a Juneteenth boat party, plus Pride-themed provisions

"...help of groomers, stylists, theatre techs, and artists all teaching you. But unforch, no pets at this particular party...."

June 16, 2023 Column by James Scott

Silver Linings at the Lege: Texas Moms to Get 12 Months of Free Health Care

And other good news from this legislative session

"...the state, the Ten Commandments will not be required teaching in our allegedly secular public schools, and more. But..."

June 2, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Opinion: Teachers Can No Longer Afford to Live in Texas

Senate Bill 9 is an insult to teachers

"...leave the profession. Needless to say, morale in the teaching profession is lower than ever...."

May 19, 2023 Column by Cary Beshel

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...including the line, "We've noticed an intentional attempt at teaching your students about their legal and constitutional rights." Teacher..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature

Austin Tries to Address Wage Theft, Texas Tries to Make It Harder

Is your boss stealing from you?

"...Proactively teaching workers how to file a claim is made more..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

How One Cottage Food Purveyor Helps Launch Careers

Kimchi Rók and the Clifton Career Development School bring young chefs to the table

"...Beth started working with Clifton students, spending Tuesday mornings teaching them the basics of making kimchi and developing a..."

April 14, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Paint

Delightful throwback comedy with Owen Wilson as a Bob Ross-esque figure

"...Bob Ross, the prolific painter who spent a decade teaching Americans life lessons through art. But it isn’t that..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Five Devils

Scents unlock memories and secrets in this French drama

"...it's Joanne (Exarchopoulos), a high school gymnastics star now teaching aqua aerobics to retirees in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Vicky's unusual..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What State Police Patrolling Austin Means

Send in the troopers

"...academy was found to use a "paramilitary" approach to teaching cadets that did not "align well with the principles..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Long-Awaited Reforms at Austin Police Academy Just Aren’t Happening. Why?

How the fish rots

"...at the Austin Police Academy by revising curriculum and teaching methods. After a few stalled curriculum review efforts involving..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Observer Journalists Won’t Go Down Without a Fight

They're rallying all the support they can get

"...Josephine Lee, the magazine's investigative reporting fellow, left her teaching job to join the Observer for the year. Then..."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

Mayor OK's Deal to Have State Troopers Patrol Austin Streets

And they don’t have to play by our city’s rules

"...Academy was found to use a “paramilitary approach” to teaching cadets that did not “align well with the principles..."

March 27, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

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