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Professor’s bilingual, LGBTQ+ adaptation ‘Romeo y Juliet’ creates space for unique cast bonding, expression

Professor’s bilingual, LGBTQ+ adaptation ‘Romeo y Juliet’ creates space for unique cast bonding, expression

Flora Farr, Senior Life&Arts Reporter April 8, 2024

As a young Latina actress in the ‘90s, KJ Sanchez felt left out of casting in Eurocentric classic plays. It wasn’t until she landed the role as Juliet in a production of “Romeo and Juliet”...

RTF Senior and director Xavier Ingram answers questions with the cast and crew of “The Ultimate Spider-Man” after the student film’s premiere at the WCP Auditorium on Thursday, April 4th, 2024.

Student filmmaker dreams big, produces “The Ultimate Spider-Man”

Laura Baker, General Life&Arts Reporter April 8, 2024

Radio-television-film senior Xavier Ingram recalls the first time he tried on his Spider-Man suit, describing it as the moment he felt his hard work come to life. Ingram said it felt unreal seeing...

Student experiences working at CMT Awards

Student experiences working at CMT Awards

Tyler Pullum, Senior Life&Arts Reporter April 8, 2024

Last year, the Country Music Television Awards came to the live music capital of the world for the first time in its history. Due to the award show’s close relationship with the University, many students...

The Mantelito de sol/Sun Doily sculpture (left) by Julio Martinez and the Jupiter oil painting by Lauz Bechelli (right) pictured in the reflection of a mirror at the Visual Arts Center on April 6, 2024. The art pieces celebrating the solar eclipse are on display from March 5 to 9, 2024.

‘Soon Moon’: Upcoming eclipse-inspired gallery showcases art of UT creatives

Analise Pickerrell, General Life&Arts Reporter April 8, 2024

Eclipses make for rare and captivating phenomena, stimulating the creative imaginations of humans for millennia. As an ode to the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, UT’s Visual Arts Center hosted its...

Artist Tania El Khoury shares powerful family memoirs in ‘Cultural Exchange Rate’

Artist Tania El Khoury shares powerful family memoirs in ‘Cultural Exchange Rate’

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter April 5, 2024

Growing up hearing her family’s stories of living in Akkar, a border village between Lebanon and Syria, inspired artist Tania El Khoury to save these memories through interviews with her late grandmother...

Museum visitors interact with the new exhibit Sky Dances Light located on the second floor of the Blanton Art Museum on Wednesday.

Marie Watt brings interactive installation to Blanton Museum

Layla Dajani, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

Audible from around the corner of Marie Watt’s solo installation, fingers run through a coat of hanging tin cones in the room Watt transformed into an immersive sensory space. On display at the Blanton...

From left University Theatre Guild actors Macy Hempe, Madden Shoebotham and Cooper Madison rehearse for UTGs semesterly childrens show on March 29, 2024. This year, UTG is putting on Bluey.

University Theatre Guild spreads laughter in semesterly children’s charity show, ‘Bluey’

Trinity Orosco, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

A familiar  jingle echoes in room 100 of Calhoun Hall as the University Theatre Guild prepares for their semesterly children’s show, “Bluey.” University Theatre Guild, UT’s oldest independent...

From left, Ray Chang, Joel Setiawan Chong and Michael Ning pose for a portrait at the Caven Lacrosse and Sports Center at Clark Field on Monday, April 1, 2024.

Chess Run Club combines physical, mental strengths on campus

Chloe Ching, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

Two students sit around a chess table, focused on their next move as their running shoes tap underneath. Prior to the chess game, they raced each other around the Caven-Clark Field.  Computer science...

Linguistic major Hongli Zhang starts to strum a balalaika in preparation of a slavic dance performance at the Jester dormitories auditorium on April 1, 2024.

EurasiaVision brings popular European show Eurovision to UT

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

The Jester auditorium stage illuminated a group of students in colorful, sparkly clothes with a warm light. As a Slavic song echoed through the room, the students began jumping, kicking in kick-lines and...

UT’s Financial Literacy Club fills gaps in personal finance education

UT’s Financial Literacy Club fills gaps in personal finance education

Mehana Ondreyka, Life&Arts General Reporter April 1, 2024

As a sophomore in high school watching the COVID-19 pandemic unfold, finance sophomore Frankie Rose spent time watching the news with her parents, seeing stories about low financial literacy in the United...

UT professor Elizabeth McCracken sits outside the Harry Ransom Center on October 3, 2022. McCracken recently The Wingate Prize for her novel The Hero of this Book.

Q&A: UT professor Elizabeth McCracken talks about award-winning novel, ‘The Hero of This Book’

Joey Clark, General Life&Arts Reporter April 1, 2024

UT professor and author Elizabeth McCracken recently won the Wingate Prize, a literary award given to the best book exploring Jewish identity, for her novel, “The Hero of This Book.” The novel follows...

Members of the Dialogue Student Association prepare an assortment of salad for attendees who were fasting for Ramadan at the George I. Sánchez building on March 26, 2024. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins with abstraining from food since dawn, breaking the fast at sunset.

Iftars hosted by Dialogue Students Association bring Muslims and non-Muslims together during Ramadan

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter March 29, 2024

The walls of room 1.510 in the George I. Sánchez Building displayed gold balloons and banners reading “Ramadan Mubarak.” The tables, decorated with green and gold table runners and candles, seated...

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