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Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Collegia Musikum
How music from the Medieval and Baroque eras impacts us today
"...early music fuels his passion for performing, directing, and teaching. Ask him why he favors a particular performer or..."
Jan. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Robi Polgar
Naked City
GED-ding Mighty Crowded
"..."We have to reflect what the high schools are teaching and testing."..."
Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle
Capitol Chronicle
Farewell to Phil Gramm, the journalist's best friend.
"...school in 1961, [Gramm] used five consecutive student and teaching deferments to escape the Vietnam draft. He explained that..."
Sept. 21, 2001 News Column by Michael King
Day Trips
The Central Texas Bonsai Exhibit at Wimberley's Jade Gardens
"...settled on Wimberley where Chuck spent a second career teaching fourth through seventh grades...."
Aug. 31, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Under the Sand
"...its actuality? Marie returns to Paris and her career teaching university-level English literature. She finds herself quoting a lot..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
You Can Leave Your Hat On
The ballad of Mambo John Treanor
"...his stepfather landed back in Central Texas with a teaching position at Seguin's Texas Lutheran College. By that time,..."
July 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer
Hearts and Violins
Jennifer Bourianoff has found happiness playing chamber music and living in Austin.
"...a rigorous schedule of performances, practice, and rehearsals and teaching young violinists and violists in her studio that often..."
June 29, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Songcatcher
"...McTeer plays Dr. Lily Penleric, a doctor of musicology teaching at a turn-of-the-century East Coast institute. Fed up with..."
June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy
UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.
"...as composer-in-residence for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He was teaching a symphony appreciation class for senior citizens, and had..."
April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires
Articulations
The "first lady of Austin theatre" -- actress and educator Nan Cameron Elkins, whose credits included more than 300 Austin theatre productions and teaching speech and stage skills to thousands of Central Texas students -- has taken her final bow.
"...credits included more than 300 Austin theatre productions and teaching speech and stage skills to thousands of Central Texas..."
April 6, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Putting Himself 'Out Here'
Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.
"...teacher, "Well, that's one of the hard things about teaching out here. It's an eyesore." Indeed, the theatre building..."
March 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Comrades
"...in the U.S. since the 1980s (and is presently teaching at the University of Texas at Austin), Panov returns..."
March 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Naked City
Education Austin, the union of AISD teachers, offers a budget counterproposal that includes increasing teacher pay, hiring full-time substitute teachers, and rewarding certified teachers.
"...Forgione "says he's the teaching and learning guy," Education Austin co-president Louis Malfaro said..."
March 2, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Panic
"...(an unforgettable scene shows a flashback of the father teaching his son to shoot a squirrel), and Alex finally..."
March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
See Spot Run
"...takes the kid in, feeding him Cap'n Crunch and teaching him to use texturizing gel. Meanwhile, savvy G-dog Agent..."
March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Articulations
Requiem for the founder of the St. Edward's University theatre program and co-founder of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, Edward Magnum
"...Zelda Fichandler, a student of his, during his first teaching job at George Washington University, and Thomas Fichandler, her..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
A Man of Character
State and Main star William H. Macy talks about his iconic position as America's indie darling, the state of indie filmmaking today, and what on earth Gus Van Sant was thinking.
"...Goddard College. And then he came back as a teaching fellow, and he was my teacher. And I credit..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Madadayo
"...of parallel to his own life. Uchida retired from teaching in 1943 to write, and stayed in Tokyo throughout..."
Dec. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Short, Quirky, and Totally in Control
Chicago documentarian discusses the inspiration behind four of his most popular short films, showing at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour on Wednesday, Dec. 6.
"...encompasses -- simultaneously -- painting, lithography, photography, film, and teaching all of the above is, well, art. "My religion..."
Dec. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Election 2000
Chronicle Election Coverage
"...Thornton said she supported prayer in schools and the teaching of creationism, and said she disapproved of providing family-planning..."
Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.
"...AC: You started teaching with Lionel Trilling in the Thirties. That was when..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman
Sometimes You Get What You Want
Ira Cohen was a bongo player, drummer type person who picked up gigs whenever he could, which wasn't often.
"...a little despondent because I'd been told to try teaching at a preschool, I stood near the gutter in..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Alana Cash
The Tao of Steve
Easygoing romantic comedy about an unlikely ladies' man.
"...a Stu. Dave's a Stu, and when Dex starts teaching him how to enter the realm of Steve-hood, his..."
Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Articulations
A tragic accident for a local dancer; the loss of a great state drama teacher.
"...extended far beyond Snyder, through 10 years he spent teaching at the annual UT Summer Theatre Workshop for high..."
June 9, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Dance of the Prodigal Son
Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.
"...freelance work I couldn't handle it all. I was teaching everywhere, and going into the second year I was..."
April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Carrying the Burden
During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.
"...a fish only feeds him for one day, but teaching him to fish feeds him forever," she explained with..."
April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Habits of Mind
Texas has a wealth of universities and colleges that offer creative writing classes, but four of them -- the University of Texas at Austin, Southwest Texas State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and the University of Houston -- offer Masters of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing. Here's all the information about each program you could hope to find.
"...University, had this to say about the efficacy of teaching people how to write: "1. It can be done...."
April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith
The Michener Center for Writers
"...try school, competing with 40 or 50 others for teaching assistant positions and a clerkship in a mall bookstore...."
April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Ric Williams
University of Texas at El Paso
"...number of options. Several of the M.F.A. students are teaching assistants and work closely with faculty mentors in a..."
