Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...to the 72-year-old East Austin dweller. Full of traveling, teaching, breakdancing ......."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Holmes

Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes at 93, as his memory begins to fail

"...with the promise of a memory-enhancing plant. Holmes is teaching the fatherless Roger to care for the apiary and..."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Charlie Pierce Burns It Down

Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return

"..."When I was getting into teaching, I told my professors I wanted to do something..."

May 29, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Shout OUT: Jo Eckler

These are the people in our gayborhood: Queer yogi

"...Working part-time as a contractor for nursery homes and teaching her own therapeutic class at Yoga Yoga, Eckler explains..."

May 1, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

The Outskirts of Hope

Jo Ivester launches civil rights-era memoir

"...of what she accomplished through her 20 years of teaching and of understanding how her experience in the classroom..."

April 14, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

Seymour: An Introduction

Ethan Hawke directs this doc about pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein

"...and his dislike of artistic commercialism, and took up teaching full-time – the better to spread his ideas about..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Good Day, Ramón

This Mexican hit tells a heartwarming story about a teen who's forced to rely on the kindness of strangers when he travels to Germany to find work.

"...taking out the garbage for the other residents and teaching them salsa dancing. Except for one ornery retiree who..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

McFarland, USA

Despite heavy sports-underdog cliches, this film with Kevin Costner as the coach of an all-Latino high school track team taps into a lot of modern realities.

"...his hot temper gets him canned from his previous teaching position in Anytown, USA. Anytown apparently didn’t have Mexican..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teacher Remembered

"...he was thoroughly trained in Russian ballet. His own teaching was technically sound and deep, and I always recommended..."

Jan. 7, 2015 Postmarks

Re-Forming AI$D

What's behind the national involvment in local school board races?

"...young people, doing a couple of years of energetic teaching, simultaneously becoming more rounded citizens. But, according to Ken..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Eco Wrap

“Nature doesn’t need people, People need nature”

"...“understand sustainability by experiencing sustainability.” Providing environmental education and teaching practical skills – from coding to weatherizing houses –..."

Oct. 9, 2014 News Post by Jessi Cape

Mother Mary Montano

The influential performance artist and onetime teacher at UT revisits Austin in the guise of a saint

"...our curriculum," Martin says. "I give her kudos for teaching generations of art students to think more conceptually about..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

This Time It’s Personal

Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS

"...helping launch the Chronicle, Ed left Austin for a teaching job at the University of Illinois at Carbondale. In..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rich Hill

The turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town are observed through the camera's gentle lens.

"...his mom, and smoking heavily. Dreaming of one day teaching art classes in China, Appachey seems mostly ignored by..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

ACC Faculty Pitches Staff Stability Plan

Two-part plan proposes creating 100 new full-time positions

"...like the Learning Labs; second, hire 50 full-time lecturers, teaching four courses a semester and providing a course-worth of..."

April 25, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

UT's 'Shared Services' Begins Sharing ... Layoffs

Powers endorses controversial plan

"...was co-written by decorated faculty members Mia Carter, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English; Julius Getman, law professor and..."

April 18, 2014 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

Running to Daylight

Blind runner and teacher determined to see what he can do

"...Baylon's gotten himself further reacclimated to daily life by teaching Spanish and volunteering at the Volunteer Healthcare Clinic on..."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

ACC Throws Book at Affordable Care Act

Administrators trim adjunct faculty hours to avoid providing health coverage

"...adjuncts at St. Edward's University will be limited to teaching six credit hours per semester. However, this is a..."

Dec. 13, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...the main work I was doing. If you take teaching as seriously as I do, it’s all-consuming. I was..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

'Arise' Screens Tonight at Alamo Slaughter

Award-winning film documents women working for social change

"...Bunker Roy. Enrolling predominantly women, the school focuses on teaching skills, such as solar training, to women of rural..."

Sept. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Quote of the Week

"...Thomas Ratliff, offering his opinion of the debate over teaching creationism instead of, or alongside, evolution during science textbook..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Column

Back to 'School of Rock'

Get schooled on the film by Mike White, Jack Black, and Richard Linklater in time for its 10th anniversary

"...ProTools. He says that the most important component of teaching kids to embrace music is to connect them with..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Sara Hickman and Darden Smith

A new-album roundtable for two

"...Oddly enough, I got interested in teaching, using my experience as a musician, an unschooled musician..."

July 24, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Range War at the Dobie Ranch

A bulldozer's intrusion onto 'enchanted' property uncovers the struggles of UT's historic retreat for writers

"...James A. Michener Center for Writers, has won multiple teaching awards in his 30-plus years teaching undergraduates. Growing up..."

June 21, 2013 News Feature by Amy Gentry

Be Fair to Teachers

"...that retired at age 58, after 36 years of teaching [“New System Shortchanges Teachers,” Postmarks, May 3]. I found..."

May 2, 2013 Postmarks

Eastside Community Hears National Partner Proposals

Major ed groups pitch plans to work with, not take over, high school

"...they pass, but they don't distract and disrupt the teaching process, dragging the rest of the class down...."

April 22, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Bill of the Week: Just Say No

Bill would keep Planned Parenthood out of sex ed

"...ed in Texas: a majority of Texas schools were teaching abstinence-only sex education, if they were teaching sex education..."

Feb. 17, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Little Galaxy

Ramona Beattie and Grace London's infinite happiness

"..."I was student teaching in the 7-to-11-year-old classes. It was really fun and..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...his grandfather, legendary oceanographer and ecologist Jacques Cousteau, with teaching him that lesson. He said, "I went to have..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Calling All Sportsmen – It’s Rugby Time

Austin Rugby Club open tryouts loom

"...Teaching correct body positions for different drills is key. With..."

Sept. 17, 2012 Sports Post by Carly Yansak

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