Although Austin has experienced a mix of rain and mild temperatures this past week, summer can often seem like a never-ending season in central Texas. While many students opt for the ever-trusted Nike...
Under a scattering of white brush-stroke clouds on a blue canvas sky, we headed out west for a day trip to Krause Springs.
Krause is about a 40-minute drive through the Texas Hill Country, but that’s...
There is a phrase often used by script analysts called the “white moment.” It is the crest of the dramatic arc, that brief moment where everything appears to be going well for our hero before...
The beginning of the semester is always brutal for the college student’s wallet. The combination of stupidly expensive textbooks, typically abrasive Texas weather and slim pickings at the multiplex...
Emily Wolfe transcends the ranks of ordinary musicians. Already the charming innocence and genuineness that are all her own are apparent as she confesses that this is her very first time inside Caffe Medici....
“You here for Judo?” Peter Hoang asks chipperly. I am, in fact, here for judo — partly because I am interested in the sport and partly because my editors liked the idea of forcing me...
Norman Bel Geddes, a self-trained polymath turned architect, industrial designer and futurist is the subject of the Harry Ransom Center’s newest exhibition “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel...
In 2011, Steve Jobs’ death made news around the world. In the spring of 2012, his name was back in the headlines, this time in a theater production. Mike Daisey’s monologue “The Agony...
DNA Encyclopedia Rewrites Our Understanding of the Human Genome
The first results from the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) have been published this past week in 30 papers spread across three separate...
It is risen.
Technocrats everywhere burst into digital chants of joy Wednesday afternoon as Apple finally announced the long-awaited iPhone 5 in a keynote at their Silicon Valley headquarters. The new...
“Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’/Blowin’ like it’s gonna sweep my world away”
Opening with the innocuous, melodious chimes of “Duquesne Whistle,” Bob...
Students passionate about promoting welfare and seeking an opportunity to give back can stop by the UT Volunteer Fair Wednesday. More than 70 different agencies will convene at the biannual fair in hopes...
