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Bystanders waiting for the bus watch a student imitate an Air Dancer in performance at the College of Fine Arts Visual Arts Center on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.

Initiative supporting Puerto Rican arts receives $1.2 million for third phase

Daniela Capistran, General News Reporter October 29, 2024

An organization supporting Puerto Rican artists received $1.2 million from the Mellon Foundation to move into its third phase to invest in contemporary art practices, according to an Oct. 15 press release. The...

Q&A: ‘Party People’ premiers at Austin Film Festival, celebrating local culture through the eyes of UT alumni

Q&A: ‘Party People’ premiers at Austin Film Festival, celebrating local culture through the eyes of UT alumni

Katherine Jones, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 29, 2024

The film “Party People” premiered on Oct. 24 and 28 at the 31st Austin Film Festival. Director Joey LePage (mathematics, theatre and dance, ‘10) and writer Lindsey Robertson (theatre, ‘13), also...

Tyler, The Creator shines light on the darkness with Chromakopia

Tyler, The Creator shines light on the darkness with Chromakopia

Behr Rinke, Life&Arts General Reporter October 29, 2024

Days after headlining the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Tyler, The Creator announced his seventh studio album, Chromakopia. The follow-up to 2021’s Call Me If You Get Lost, an album centered around...

Austin-based Black Books releases new album, member and former professor talks album design

Austin-based Black Books releases new album, member and former professor talks album design

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter October 29, 2024

As a former faculty member and adjunct professor in UT’s Department of Art and Art History, Clarke Curtis said he felt confident in his design and printmaking abilities. However, not knowing what academics...

Mexic-Arte Museum hosts 41st Viva la Vida parade, festival 

Mexic-Arte Museum hosts 41st Viva la Vida parade, festival 

Joe Ferrara, Life&Arts General Reporter October 28, 2024

As the sun beat down on Saturday, dancers wearing rattling beads, gleaming feathers and intricate face paint performed to thousands of people lining 6th Street. Neon skirts and massive butterfly wing capes...

Alfredo J. Velasquez and Sergio Morales discuss Dia de Los Muertos traditions, stereotypes, and history at a Latinx Graduate Student Association and Black Graduate Student Association gathering on Oct. 25, 2024. Velasquez is the executive director of LGSA and Morales is the director of communications.

Graduate students host educational Día de los Muertos event, teach students about the holiday’s significance

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 28, 2024

While growing up, during Día de los Muertos, Alfredo Velasquez watched his dad collect vibrant colored flowers and listened to stories about how people in Oaxaca, Mexico, danced, celebrated and shared...

Kate Angel performs at the Far Out Lounge on Oct. 24, 2024 as part of her Fall 2024 “Rock for a Cause” Halo Tour. Performing alongside artists Christine Renner and RoZY, her “Rock for a Cause” series of concerts hopes to raise money for cancer research for MD Anderson.

Q&A: Musician discusses benefit for UT cancer research

Brynn Dominguez, General Life&Arts Reporter October 27, 2024

After losing her grandmother to cancer, rock artist Kate Angel decided to host the “Kate Angel Rock For A Cause” fundraiser to raise money for the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Angel...

Finn Higginbotham (Demetrius) and Alexandra Greyson's (Helena) act during tech rehearsal of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Oct. 24, 2024.

Opening night of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” proves timeless nature of Shakespeare

Ana Taveira, General Life&Arts Reporter October 27, 2024

Some may believe Shakespeare's work is dated or out of touch, but students from the Texas Theater and Dance program seek to prove them wrong through their inspired performance of  “A Midsummer Night's...

Guadalupe Street on Oct. 23, 2024.

New businesses on The Drag face barriers to success

Behr Rinke, General Life&Arts Reporter October 24, 2024

Zack Smith grew up playing video games at Einstein’s Video Arcade on Guadalupe Street. Employees there wore white lab coats and the low lighting felt like stepping into a mad scientist’s laboratory....

Pizza & Politics event offers students candid insights into political discourse

Pizza & Politics event offers students candid insights into political discourse

Katherine Jones, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 24, 2024

Students gathered for a candid discussion with Paul Begala, former UT student body president, renowned political strategist and CNN commentator, at the Annette Strauss Institute’s Pizza & Politics...

UT alumna turns curiosity into productivity with first book “Out of Paper”

UT alumna turns curiosity into productivity with first book “Out of Paper”

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter October 23, 2024

As a Ph.D. student at the University, art historian Katie Anania developed curiosity for drawing as a medium in the 60s and 70s, when works on paper started to be shown as final products in exhibitions....

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