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Refugee Arts & Crafts Bazaar hosts vendors selling homemade goods, art

Refugee Arts & Crafts Bazaar hosts vendors selling homemade goods, art

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 17, 2024

Amidst the scent of samosas and bolani and the colorful sight of Afghan embroidered dresses and Ukrainian flower crowns, different corners of the world met at the TownLake YMCA.  A nonprofit providing...

Singers Aden Botschway (left) and Nico Medel (right) of the band "Lady Monday" smile on 6th Street before their performance at the Pecan Street Festival on Sept. 15.

47th annual fall Pecan Street Festival showcases Austin’s heart, spirit

Katherine Jones, General Life&Arts Reporter September 17, 2024

Before earning its notorious nickname “Dirty Sixth,” Sixth Street was known by a different name: Pecan Street. The stretch of road, now synonymous with nightlife, transforms twice a year for the...

Singer and songwriter Caroline Hale performs at the Ballroom at Spider House on Sept. 12. She performed songs from her debut EP, which released Sept. 6.

UT alumna performs first headlining show at Ballroom, releases live EP

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter September 16, 2024

Alumna Caroline Hale, class of 2024, said she always knew she wanted to be a musician. At just 14 years old, Hale was discovered and mentored by Martin Strayer, an audio engineer who worked with Ariana...

Plan II Honors and Informatics Junior Sreeja Kuppam poses for a portrait with her first book, "Ancient Dynasty Chronicles: The Untold Truth" at the Waterloo Lobby in West Campus where she regularly works and writes on Sept. 10, 2024.

UT junior gears up to release final book in science fiction trilogy

Mehana Ondreyka, Senior Life&Arts reporter September 16, 2024

Picking up a pen to journal one day in sixth grade, Sreeja Kuppam never planned to publish a book. As she cranked out diary entries and short stories, Sreeja eventually began writing what would become...

Doctoral candidate publishes book on Latin American music made during COVID-19

Doctoral candidate publishes book on Latin American music made during COVID-19

Bailey Raymond, Life&Arts General Reporter September 16, 2024

Without live audiences to listen, thousands of Latin American musicians used social media to express their feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic. Authors J.A. Strub and Daniel Margolies worked tirelessly...

Suki Waterhouse’s Memoir of a Sparklemuffin feels nostalgic, new all in one

Suki Waterhouse’s Memoir of a Sparklemuffin feels nostalgic, new all in one

Analise Pickerrell, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 15, 2024

Suki Waterhouse — best known for her hit “Good Looking” — released her second studio album Memoir of a Sparklemuffin on Friday. With sounds alluding to ‘90s and early 2000s soft rock, the dream-pop...

Student builds nail art business, celebrates 19.3k Instagram followers sharing artistic process

Student builds nail art business, celebrates 19.3k Instagram followers sharing artistic process

Angelina Liu, General Life&Arts Reporter September 13, 2024

Hunched over a glossy white desk, advertising sophomore Grace Joh meticulously molds a cotton-candy blue lollipop on a pale yellow press-on nail. Despite the complexity of the design, she spends only an...

Freshman philosophy student William Bui studies in the newly renovated Classics Library pictured in Waggener Hall on Monday, Sep. 9, 2024.

Faculty, students enjoy remodeled UT Classics Library resources

Bailey Raymond, General Life&Arts Reporter September 12, 2024

Strolling through the newly remodeled UT Classics Library, scholars and professors approach the question “Bonus liber melior est quisque quo major” (The bigger a good book is, the better) or “μέγα...

Outstanding Young Texas Ex Céline Halioua talks veterinary medicine startup, expanding canine lifespan

Outstanding Young Texas Ex Céline Halioua talks veterinary medicine startup, expanding canine lifespan

Mehana Ondreyka, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 12, 2024

After sneaking into a Liberal Arts Honors event and discovering her passion for research during freshman year,  alumna Céline Halioua, class of 2017, switched her major from art to neuroscience. Now...

Flying Longhorns: Travel the world with Texas Exes

Flying Longhorns: Travel the world with Texas Exes

Mehana Ondreyka, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 11, 2024

Since 1961, Flying Longhorns, a program powered by Texas Exes, has taken UT alumni around the world. With dozens of fully planned excursions each year, the program only requires a Texas Exes membership...

‘Speak No Evil’ inspires laughter in otherwise psychologically disturbed audience

‘Speak No Evil’ inspires laughter in otherwise psychologically disturbed audience

Bailey Raymond, General Life&Arts Reporter September 11, 2024

Blumhouse Productions’ “Speak No Evil,” a remake of the 2022 Dutch film of the same title, invites an unassuming family to a beautiful English estate full of idyllic scenery and secretly psychotic...

Jay Sankaran, an assistant professor at UT, and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz discussing global nuclear threats and how to reduce them during a Texas Tribune Festival event at the Omni Hotel Sept. 6.

UT professor speaks at Texas Tribune Festival with Ernest Moniz, talks upcoming book

Charlotte Karner, General Life&Arts Reporter September 10, 2024

After listening in on Texas Tribune Festival panels for years, a UT professor found himself somewhere he never imagined his career would take him. In the Omni Hotel Ballroom at the festival this Friday,...

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