• localiter finally launches!
    Thursday 8-10pm at Kung Fu Saloon, my friend’s company will launch! It’s like Groupon or Living Social BUT totally Austin-centric. “Austin is so much more than weird and wired; we are also well-connected as a city and we tap into this by incorporating local businesses into every aspect of our promotions,” says Localiter founder Kristina Garza. “The website, for example, will have flip video interviews for each daily promotion so that users can catch a glimpse of the actual ins and ou ...
  • "A Crude Awakening": Film documents our addiction to oil
    Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m., GOL 3.120. This week's Sustainable Development Film Series installation is "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," which explores the uncomfortable realities of a world that is addicted to a nonrenewable resource, and at the same time, unaware of the looming "peak oil" crisis. Come for the film and stay for a brief discussion afterward to learn more about the pressing issue of our dependence on dwindling fossil fuel resources and what this mea ...
  • Sina Najafi and Arthouse's Free Visiting Lecturer Series
    Arthouse Arthouse Visiting Lecturer Series: Sina Najafi Thursday, March 11 George Washington Carver Museum (1165 Angelina Street) 7pm, free [info]On Thursday, New York based Sina Najafi, the editor-in-chief of Cabinet Magazine, will be in town as part of the on-going Visiting Lecturer Series presented by Arthouse. The series began last fall as a way to bring world renowned figures in contemporary art to Austin to benefit our visuals artists and art community. In conjunction with the fr ...
  • Q&A with actor and alumnus Bruce McGill announced
    Thursday, March 11, 12:30 p.m., Winship Atrium (WIN). Theatre & Dance alum actor Bruce McGill will meet with students to discuss his extensive career in film and television, with a Q&A session. When an actor makes as indelible a comic impression as McGill did driving his motorcycle up his fraternity's staircase in "Animal House," it can be tough to follow your own act. Yet the San Antonio-born UT graduate took his lucky break as a challenge, building a decades-lon ...
  • The College of Education presents Ann & Rud Turnbull
    Thursday, March 11, 1 p.m., Recreational Sports Center 2.104. The Mollie Villeret Davis Distinguished Lecture presents Drs. Rud and Ann Turnbull, Ross and Marianna Beach distinguished professors, co-founders and co-directors of the Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas. Ann Turnbull is the author of "Beyond Evidence-based Practice: Wisdom-based Action as a Process of Facilitating IDEA Outcomes for Students and Quality of Life Outcomes for Families." And Rud Turnbull is t ...
  • Landmarks talk rethinks sculpture in the 1960s and beyond
    Thursday, March 11, 5 p.m., ECJ 1.202. Professor Linda Henderson focuses on three artists whose works are presented by Landmarks: Mark di Suvero, Friedrich Kiesler and Tony Smith. Her discussion will explore connections between their sculptures, each created in the United States at different moments in recent American history. Henderson proposes geometry and science as meaningful ways to understand these sculptures, both in relation to each other and beyond their traditional categorizations. ...