The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...expansion of services and the creation of a new teaching hospital and new medical school. All of these bring..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Food-O-File

A roundup of this week's food news

"...project, which will include offices, classrooms, and a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen, plus a teaching and community food garden. A..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Has Winning 'Top Chef' Changed Paul Qui?

MM Pack sits in on the media star's first local cooking class

"...necessary for perfect tempura, I asked if he'd considered teaching. He said, "Oh, no. I don't know enough yet..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Food Post by MM Pack

Summertime Blues

Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!

"...a hat. A native of Chicago, he's convinced that teaching kids to play the blues is American to the..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bully

The documentary Bully is devastatingly effective when it comes to putting faces on harassed children and giving them a voice.

"...he means for his film to serve as a teaching tool in schools, and its depiction alone of the..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Design for Living

Reality TV staple and (ahem) silver fox Tim Gunn opines about art, Alexander McQueen, and queer youth

"...got a BFA in sculpture and later transitioned to teaching design. Can you talk a little bit about that..."

April 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: The Kids Really Are Alright

In with the new, out with 'someone's scary grandmother'

"...This isn't a vanity project for Moyer; he's been teaching at the school for nearly a dozen years and..."

April 13, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Here Today ...

Choreographer Sharon Marroquín lets go through dance in order to live

"...son, Dalí, now 7 years old, not to mention teaching dance classes and maintaining her day job as a..."

March 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Robert Rudié

In memoriam

"...City Ballet, American Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Festival; teaching at the Harlem School of the Arts, Music Conservatory..."

March 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

IDEA Still Hunting Enrollment

Students opting out of new charter school in favor of existing AISD schools

"...discussion may be irrelevant after major changes in IDEA's teaching methods. Any measurable results it achieved in the past..."

March 23, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Model Citizens Bland and Keffer

Striking Poses in the Name of Art

"...happened to be for the last class she was teaching for a session. So she served margaritas to us!..."

March 21, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Winners

"...is a native Texan who spent this past fall teaching English in a sugarcane farming community just outside Chichigalpa,..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)

Remembering James Hillman

"...enough? Freud, Jung, Laing, and Hillman would agree that teaching people to cope with a crazy world roots them..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Bryan Poyser Leaving AFS

TX filmmakers are gonna miss their biggest supporter

"...now – it's two things: trying my hand at teaching, and a new movie I'm directing. This past fall,..."

Jan. 11, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Memoriam: Jennifer Bourianoff

ASO's longtime Assistant Concertmaster has passed away.

"...those hours when she was not playing, Bourianoff was teaching others to play. She provided musical instruction at St...."

Dec. 29, 2011 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fuller Versus IDEA

Charter school group attacks academic's work, he rebuts

"...our goal of raising expectations for students, and for teaching, across the Rio Grande Valley...."

Dec. 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Seizing the Day

Alvin Rangel's future may be uncertain, but for now he's making great dance

"...bachelor's degree in education, he was offered a job teaching middle school English as a second language and Spanish..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Not Strictly Abstinence Anymore

'Ignorance won't protect our kids'

"...Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, the number of schools teaching "abstinence-plus" sexual education – that is, a focus on..."

Nov. 25, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Not Everyone Keen on Charter IDEA

AISD considers partnership with charter school program

"...in Hidalgo County and two in Cameron County – teaching 9,500 students. And so far, its results have been..."

Nov. 11, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Benjamin and Byron's Long-Term Affair

An émigré author, a bad-boy poet, and an epic trilogy at its end

"...them also like getting out of the house. And teaching is basically a flattering occupation: You have smart students..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

Incendiary: The Willingham Case

The "junk science" used to make the case for the Texas execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson murders of his children is persuasively laid out in this locally made documentary.

"...Mims (a longtime fixture in the Austin filmmaking and teaching community) and Joe Bailey Jr. (a law school graduate..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Rick Perry, Boy Scientist

When it comes to science, the Inquisition's got nothing on the guv

"...Education have done their best to undermine the accurate teaching of biology in Texas, they've been somewhat stymied by..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Changing Course

AISD shifts to community-based model for prepping younger kids for college

"...this. Let's not get excited about a false positive." Teaching to the Tests..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...off the ground. Eventually, he settled into a position teaching filmmaking in the Seventies at the State University of..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Show Busy

Michael McKelvey's just a guy who cain't say no (to musicals)

"...like Austin Musical Theatre and the State Theatre and teaching at Zach Theatre that I realized musical theatre is..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

After a long absence, Your Style Avatar returns ... to SoCo

"...BLACKMAILING While Gail Chovan is gallivanting around Paris teaching fashion (not French as I said a few weeks..."

July 15, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Widget Theory of Higher Education

Right-wing coalition brings its own notion of 'productivity' to criticism of UT

"...student credit hours as the "best measure of faculty teaching loads." The authors note that while the busiest 20%..."

July 1, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

First Generation

The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...there for more than 30 years, earning awards for teaching excellence...."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Talking Sugar With Gesine Bullock-Prado

How to not sweat candymaking, sugar

"...I felt that the mistakes and successes I'd had teaching myself to prepare these recipes made it easier for..."

May 27, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Blanton Museum of Art

After two years heading UT's art museum, the director leaves it for the classroom

"...and Art History, which allowed him to return to teaching, and he'll continue to hold that position. In fact,..."

May 6, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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