The Heartsick Poet

Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart

"...faculty members and students. At the time, Young was teaching in the Iowa Writers Workshop. Reeves credits Young with..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

UT Spending Squeeze: Departments Juggle Priorities

UT faculty attempt to do more with less

"...to have to make some hard decisions on lecturers, [teaching assistants, and assistant instructors]."..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A New Day

Life in Kat Candler's cinematic world

"...somebody in that respect, and I think that discovering teaching, for me, is really just a natural extension of..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Planting a Seed

Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too

"...of UT faculty, staff, and students, and they start teaching them about gardening at a very young age. It..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

From Austin to Neptune

Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite

"...a bachelor's degree in history in 1987. He begins teaching high school in 1988, first in San Marcos, and..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...just getting started), she's also sharing the wealth by teaching animation to kids and adults alike over at the..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Education an Inalienable Right

"...some bogus coursework, it is the actual practice of teaching that is very challenging. Many teachers do not actually..."

Aug. 18, 2005 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM

Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story, the story of an advanced technological society slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition

"...• One-third of our biology teachers support the teaching of creationism or "intelligent design" (NYT, Feb. 1). Creationism..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Meet the Fockers

You can Fockerize Meet the Parents all you want, but this new movie is a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000.

"...therapist for seniors. Jack Byrnes has now graduated from teaching his cat how to pee in a toilet to..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...tip of the Stetson to his paternal grandfather for teaching him fiddle at age 4. At 5, Crow landed..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Two Lives Lost

Danielle Martin and Jackson Ngai shared a close friendship, a passionate love for music, and mental illness. They cared for each other as best they could. And then he killed her.

"...as a brilliant performer, Martin's great passion was for teaching. Her reputation as a teacher spread by word of..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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Our readers talk back.

"...Benefits From Teaching Hospitals..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Below the budget storm clouds, plans form for UTMB campus at Mueller

"...to Austin, which would serve as a research and teaching arm of the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. A..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

As Theatre for Children Matures

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

"...half a century, he has been studying, creating, and teaching others to create theatre for children and youth. It's..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Our readers talk back.

"...them probably won't either! What the hell are they teaching kids in college anyway ... English literature? What good..."

July 18, 2003 Column

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...community.James Ayres Nearly 40 years ago, James Ayres began teaching Shakespeare at UT-Austin with what was then a revolutionary..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SBOE: A Green Challenge?

Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.

"...an educator pales in comparison to Thornton's 31 years teaching economics and government, Ramsey earned teaching time as a..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Accepting the Challenge

Meet the candidates for AISD Board of Trustees.

"...teacher for 12 years, five with AISD, before leaving teaching and becoming active in her two kids' middle- and..."

March 29, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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Rape saga redux and other local imbroglios.

"...as effective, dynamic, intelligent, clearly committed to learning and teaching, honest, approachable, and amazingly hard-working as Dr. Forgione. This..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Column

Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...The 15,000-square-foot teaching kitchen is composed of at least a dozen of..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Gotta Dance!

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

"...experience to choreographing musicals for St. Edward's University and teaching dance classes at Austin Musical Theatre, where he now..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Lindsey Schwartz

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The Chronicle endorsements (or lack thereof) under fire.

"...A teaching assistant within the district for three years, first at..."

May 5, 2000 Column

Passion Forward

The Chronicle's style avatar, Stephen M. Moser, explores the fashion program at the University of Texas.

"...native England to Milan and Hong Kong, with impressive teaching credentials garnered along the way. She thrived on teaching,..."

April 21, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Age of Innocence

Middle school teacher Mindy LaBernz teaches her students about "real life" and pop music magic.

"...surprise that, when the time came to choose a teaching job after graduate school, I was drawn to that..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Man of the Hour

Superintendent Pat Forgione discusses his goals for AISD in a Q&A interview with reporter Kevin Fullerton.

"...will become a pointy-headed data guy. I'm really about teaching and learning. I want Austin to have 100 schools..."

Oct. 29, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Feel-Good Generations

There's a reason scholar Rachel Maines, the author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction has survived the various assualts on her intellectual freedom: She's smart, she's funny, and she also "dances circles around reactionary clod-like thinking."

"...on the topic in 1986, Clarkson University terminated her teaching contract, stating that their alumni would probably not support..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Lindsey Lane

Inside the Spinning, Whirling World

"...good time. The down side, I think, to my teaching, is that I'm not nearly organized enough for some..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

A Cultural Hero

"...Since 1986, Coronado has been teaching in the Continuing Education Department at Austin Community College,..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Art Fights the Power

The Liberating Artwork of Malaquías Montoya

"...1974, Montoya left UC Berkeley, where he had been teaching Chicano studies and setting up the art department's silkscreen..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Viva Bilingual Ed

Texas Not Likely to Follow California's Lead

"...education advocates successfully argued that if schools were not teaching students in their native language, students were being cheated..."

June 12, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

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