Two dozen dancers dressed in floor-length, drab skirts slam their plastic rifles to the ground. The song “La Adelita” blares in the background. These women are going to war.
The dancers...
“First down, drink.”
Among a sea of cheering tailgaters, dozens of fans raise a glass in the air and throw back their drinks in unison. First and 10.
Since the 2007 Thanksgiving game,...
They met in the flat planes of Botswana, sleeping in tents, cooking over a fire pit and living out of their suitcases.
Geography and the environment associate professor Kelley Crews and lecturer Thoralf...
Shanzyan Faraizi spent his childhood recording his *NSYNC performances with his dad’s video camera. Two decades later, he’s ramping up for the release of his debut rap album.
“My...
Before converting to Buddhism, Jue Ji was raised Catholic and graduated from a Catholic college, but felt an emptiness in her life. Now that Ji is a Venerable, or Buddhist nun, she feels that not only...
Supersleuth Sherlock Holmes is well known for his logic and precise attention to detail that help him solve any crime. But Holmes’ famed creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had little in common with...
Gary Lavergne was 10 years old in August 1966, but he remembers watching the news reports of the Tower shooting from his home in Church Point, Louisiana with his father.
As they watched, his father,...
When Artly Snuff caught sight of the UT Tower on his walk home the night of Aug. 1, 1966, he nearly collapsed.
“It took everything I had in me not to throw myself under the stone bench...
On an uneventful Monday morning at Brackenridge Hospital, nurse Norma White sent her staff home early. They had already finished the day’s work, and with many of the doctors out of town, there was...
In the elevator ride up to the UT Tower's observation deck, APD Officer Ramiro Martinez could still hear gunshots rattling the sky outside like thunder.
It took less than a minute to reach the top...
Jordan Madrigal entered UT hoping to continue his father’s legacy in the McCombs School of Business. Instead, he found his passion on the dance floor, moving in tune with the rhythm of salsa music.
In...
The Wright brothers flew planes. The Coen brothers direct movies. The Bargo brothers climb mountains.
Branndon and Greg Bargo have tackled expeditions in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Now they are...
