THUNDER BAY - Representatives from two local teacher’s unions are refuting claims by Premier Doug Ford that a lack of consensus between medical experts and union officials are keeping students out of the classroom.
“That is super frustrating and deliberately misleading statement. We are really struggling with that and obviously public reaction to that would be challenging,” said Mike Judge, local president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario.
“We have said from the very start that Dr. DeMille and advice from Dr. Williams should be the ones making this decision. When she says we should be under regional reopening especially with schools, that’s what we should be doing.”
While many radio stations and media titles keep the podcast charts filled with podcast editions of popular radio show, the really big names in the medium understand that intimacy and vulnerability make for success. Glennon Doyle, the memoirist whose book Untamed dominated the charts throughout 2020, recently launched her first podcast, while the author Brene Brown did the same in 2020 before landing an exclusive deal with Spotify. Shepard, himself a recovering alcoholic and addict, describes his show as celebrating “the messiness of being human”, and uses his years of sobriety and recovery as a basis for exploring this with his guests.
Michael Barnes thinks the exchange should start with “The Trip to Bountiful.”
Although he isn’t a fan of horror movies, he agrees that “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is among the most influential movies about the state.
To salute Texas Independence Week in 2019, my former American-Statesman colleague Dave Thomas and I put out a list of the 53 best books about Texas.
It contained some beloved classics, such as John Graves’ “Goodbye to a River,” and some thrilling newcomers, like Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird and Monica Muñoz Martinez’s “The Injustice Never Leaves You.”
We encouraged readers to respond with their favorites. They did. On June 14, 2019, I published those provocative responses, including several from folks who wondered why we had left off James Michener’s doorstop novel, “Texas.”
It s (nearly) time for the show. AFS Cinema is getting ready to reopen, and Austin Film Society has launched a Kickstarter to get the two-screen theatre glowing again. (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
AFS Cinema, one of the gems of Austin s film scene, is coming back, and Austin Film Society has launched a special fundraiser to get the projector shining and the screen glowing once more.
The cinema closed at the beginning of the pandemic: in the interim AFS has launched its AFS at Home virtual cinema streaming platform, as well as running drive-in screenings for special events like the Sundance Film Festival. However, with vaccination rates rising and audiences coming back to the theatre, the plan is to reopen the physical two-screen cinema at 6406 N. I-35 later this summer.
Austin’s indie theater reels in community support ahead of reopening
Austin’s indie theater reels in community support ahead of reopening The “AFS Cinema’s Next Picture Show” crowdfunding campaign is underway.
Photo by Ellen Bruxvoort Austin’s only repertory art-house theater is nearly ready to raise the curtain on its next picture show and the nonprofit Austin Film Society is getting creative with its the-show-must-go-on approach, casting local film lovers in a supporting role. In an effort to reopen its beloved AFS Cinema, one of the few remaining spots in Austin where cinephiles check out indie, foreign, and classic films, AFS has announced it is launching a crowdfunding campaign to ensure the organization can meet its goal of reopening AFS Cinema this summer.