Elizabeth S.

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• Posted Morley Safer's Papers Donated to Briscoe Center [UT] to Austinist
  Image from CBS CBS journalists must appreciate the University of Texas; the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History already holds papers from the careers of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, and today it was announced that Morley Safer is donating his papers to the same Center. Safer says the Center's journalism archive "has no equal. It is a gateway to learning the eyewitness history of who we are, who we were and how we...
• Posted Austin Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Winner: Grown in Detroit to Austinist
  However hard it was for you to make it to your high school each morning, the teen moms at Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit likely have it harder. In Grown in Detroit, the principal says that it takes some girls 2 hours and multiple bus routes to get to school (especially since the auto lobby held back any progress on Detroit's mass transit system). Catherine Ferguson Academy is unique in that it is only one of a few schools in the nation geared exclusively towards pregnant teens/teen moms. Another factor that makes this school unique: they have their own urban, organic farm.
• Favorited Former AMD Chief Tied to Insider Trading Case on Austinist
• Commented on Fun Fest Comedian Profile: Todd Barry (Is Icky?)
  Todd Barry was on an episode of "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist", so he's alright in my book. =)...
• Posted Austin Film Festival: Monday Film Picks to Austinist
  The Screenwriter's Conference is over and done with, so now it's just down to the films. Here are our picks for Monday at the Austin Film Festival, including some you may have missed the first time around...