Some novels transport readers far away from their everyday lives. Others, like those in the campus novel subgenre, offer readers a chance to look more closely at the world around them. The Daily Texan...

“American Spirit” made its debut at this year’s Austin Film Festival helmed by two UT alumni, director Christopher Yates and cinematographer Eric Johnsen, who were both radio-television-film students...

Eric San, known on stage as Kid Koala, mixed a mellow track in the E. William Doty Fine Arts Building while students quietly spread across the room, some sketching or writing while others simply listened....

Every year, the Austin Film Festival showcases a wide range of projects from all kinds of filmmakers. This year features “There’s a Klansman in the trunk,” a short film directed by recent radio-television-film...

Energy emanated off the stage where rotating artists performed. Joy surged through the audience as they discovered new things about themselves. Young Asians Represent opened the gates of the first...

Director Robert Zemeckis took former “Forrest Gump” stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright off the high shelf, dusted them off and stuck them right back in some Gump parallel universe. He accomplished everything...

Attendees proceed with caution into the eerie woods of the Ventana ballet to witness Dracula’s tragic obsession with the Huntress and a new twist — the audience decides if she dies. Gruesome ghouls...

Eighties Cure is back. The Cure’s long awaited album Songs of a Lost World brings the best sounds of Disintegration and Wish back to life. Though the band released live and greatest hit albums in the...

After one week of cryptic, alien-themed promotional content, rapper and singer-songwriter Lil Uzi Vert released his fourth full-length album, Eternal Atake 2. The album serves as a sequel to Eternal Atake,...

In 2022, Austin-based writer, comedian and actor Yola Jean Lu partook in an Austin Film Festival (AFF) writing retreat where screenwriters hunkered down and dedicated time to their craft. Little did Lu...

In 2023, Hugo Ortiz Clemens’ short film “Brenda” won first place at the Texas Union Film Festival. This year, he showcased his undergraduate thesis film “Do Not Disturb” at Austin Film Festival...

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, “Audrey’s Children” tells the untold, true story of legendary oncologist and co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities, Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer).  “Audrey’s...