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The Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards Goes Digital
The Long Center’s annual celebration of excellence in high school musical theatre moves center stage to center screen
"...The Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Award show is like a mash-up..."

May 29, 2020 Arts Feature by Nataleah Small

International Week Results; Champions League Action to Come; Bonus High School Playoff Coverage
"...It was international week around the globe, highlighted by two full days of qualifiers Saturday and Wednesday..."

March 29, 2007 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Johnston High School Gets Another Chance
Acting education commissioner says AISD can keep Johnston open another year
"...The state accountability results are out for last school year, and it looks like Austin Independent School District's..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by Michael May

High School Stakes
Austin ISD election could shape a new direction for the district
"...On Nov. 6, voters in the Austin Inde­pen­dent School District won't just be selecting new trustees. They will..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

High School Football
Friday night lights are back
"...The wait has ended. High school football is back. The lights will be shining..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

School of Hard Knocks
Number Discrepancies
"...But schools are under increasing pressure to prepare students for college,..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Where to Find Meal Services During Austin's School Closures
School districts distributing free meals for students, parents
"...As Texas schools prepare to shut down through April 3 – either..."

March 21, 2020 News Post by Beth Sullivan

National School Walkout
"...walkout coincided with the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. Photos by Jana Birchum. Text by Acacia..."

April 21, 2018 Photo Gallery

Honky-Tonk Soul Man Charley Crockett Makes His Move
The singer’s long road to Austin
"...Last week, Charley Crockett released his fifth album in four years. Come early..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Slow Dying of Johnston High
State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival
"...Eastside might have been a turning point for Johnston High School...."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times
The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival
"...everyone kind of had their own unique character ... old-school country with more rootsy seeds, Americana, swampy, a bit..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

A Shared Vision
MM Pack reports on the combination of generosity and hard work that built the Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School.
"...brand-new Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School will mark its grand opening and dedication with..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Austin ISD Needs You (to Find the Next Superintendent)
Three days of input meetings starts today
"...putting together a search process that will attract a high quality replacement and engage the community. That process starts..."

July 15, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

How Not to Fix TYC
The scandal-wracked Crockett State School gets a principal to match.
"...Brent Rumbo as the new principal of the scandal-wracked Crockett State School. Texas Civil Rights Project has described Rumbo's..."

Oct. 4, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD and Ike
Classes resume Monday as school district moves evacuees.
"...preparing for the complex job of being both a school system and temporary refugee agency...."

Sept. 14, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks
Losing Our Lunch
"...beyond page 8 or 10. The last issue certainly highlighted much of what is saddest about the Chronicle, our..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Postmarks
Letter to Isaac
"...That is how we remember him. It's also our highest wish for you. That you too will be a..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

The Thousand-String Guitar
Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar
"...the season to be in a classroom at Austin High, polishing their skills at making music...."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culinary Studies
Cooking Schools in Austin
"...the notion that I wanted to go to cooking school. Information wonk that I was (am), I scoured the..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Articulations
A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.
"...to the stage. Gil Sharp, the driving force behind Crockett High School's award-winning theatre department for two decades, died..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Then There's This: Southland
Seven neighborhoods take Imagine Austin on a test run
"...South Austin residents walked through the doors of the Crockett High School cafeteria to ponder the future of their..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Austin Improv Celebrates the Day of the Dead With La Vida de los Muertos
Hideout Theatre breathes life into una vida improvisada
"...at the Hideout Theatre's busy storefront coffeehouse. Riding the high of a sold-out performance of La Vida de los..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Articulations
Several hundred Austinites were led on a 100-minute tour of 600 years of European prints when eminent art historian Leo Steinberg came to town, and Crockett High School and Bastrop Opera House continue to chase top honors in state play competitions.
"...Congratulations to Crockett High School on advancing to state in this year's..."

April 18, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

After a Fashion
Your Cougar Avatar schools the young
"...HEEERE, KIDDIE, KIDDIE The sign said, "David Crockett High School: Welcome to Cougar Country." Apparently Cougar Country..."

April 30, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

AISD’s Therapy Provider Struggles to Meet Demand Amid Mental Health Crisis
Students and parents find help is out of reach
"...Margaret Bachicha, an assistant principal at Dobie Middle School, didn't know that the Austin Independent School District had..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

ACC Goes Back to the Drawing Board
Plans for new South Austin Campus bust the college's budget
"...suggested the Albertsons site based on its proximity to high schools and public transportation...."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

AISD Bond Hearing
School district struggles to narrow its needs before getting on the May ballot
"...In an hour-and-a-half meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 22, at Crockett High School, parents and students gave feedback on the..."

Jan. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Articulations
The voice of soprano and longtime UT voice teacher Martha Deatherage goes silent, and two Central Texas schools put on a show at the 2003 State UIL One-Act Play Contest.
"...she did her graduate voice work in the UT School of Music, then from 1961 on, when she taught..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Alamo
In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.
"...first comes from Billy Bob Thornton as David "Davy" Crockett, the Tennessean and former U.S. congressman who’s still best..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reverie Books Opens a New Chapter for the Community
Local queer-owned South Austin bookstore holds its grand opening
"...the same space. Fresh off running a pandemic pod school as well as working until 2019 for nonprofit TreeFolks,..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

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