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‘Thor’ forgoes story for exciting action, likable protagonist

Alex Williams May 6, 2011

In the run-up to next summer’s “The Avengers,” Marvel Studios has overcome the obstacles of building audiences for a range of superheroes and casting actors entertaining enough to...

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Dressing the part

Priscilla Totiyapungprasert May 6, 2011

The lone, voluptuous figure of Bianca Fairchild saunters onto the dance floor wearing a tight, red, knee-length dress. Her blonde-brown hair is teased high and the silver ring on her finger scintillates...

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Aerial arts company offers classes, show to Austin residents

Henry Clayton Wickham May 6, 2011

During rehearsal, Celeste Myhre wraps her legs around two lengths of blue silk suspended from the roof of the practice warehouse used by the Sky Candy aerial arts collective. After carefully looping...

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Trailer serves Italian comfort food for Austin crowd

Lindsey Cherner May 6, 2011

On the corner of South First and West Live Oak streets stands an orange trailer complete with a mustache painted on the back and fresh flowers in pots on the windowsill. The Arancini trailer, reading...

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Tips allow summer travel on budget

Aleksander Chan May 6, 2011

With a typical shoestring student budget culled together by a part-time job, parental subsidies, financial aid and student loans, an exotic international summer vacation seems far beyond reach. Finding...

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“Hobo with a Shotgun” flips “Grindhouse” flop

Alex Williams May 5, 2011

In its original incarnation as a fake trailer that played alongside 2007’s box office flop “Grindhouse,” “Hobo With A Shotgun” seemed like the quintessential grind-house...

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Gallery exhibits art prints based around bike theme

Ali Breland May 5, 2011

Austin, in all its diverse glory, isn’t built on the traditional American apple pie and baseball paradigm, but instead on the bike and art one. It is only fitting that this Thursday, Austin’s...

Infused alcohol adds flavor to drinking

Gerald Rich May 5, 2011

While espresso-flavored vodka or jalapeno-flavored tequila may seem exotic, the process ofcreating infusions has been around for centuries and is simple enough to do at home. Basic infusion,...

Electropop pair makes Austin debut

Francisco Marin May 4, 2011

While most people are content to leave their past behind, childhood friends Holly Dodson and Cameron Findlay, the former drummer for Crystal Castles, might have known on some level they would eventually...

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Artist discusses themes of childhood in his work

Ao Meng May 4, 2011

Daily Texan: I was first exposed to your work with “Turtle Keep It Steady,” probably from that “Best American Comics” compilation. You mentioned in “I Will Bite You’s”...

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Minicomic collection highlights progress, growth of cartoonist

Ao Meng May 4, 2011

Vermont-based cartoonist Joseph Lambert’s “I Will Bite You!” collects eight stories, six of them previously published in minicomics or anthologies sometime between 2006 and 2010. Most...

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Secrets of the stage

Danielle Wallace May 4, 2011

A step onto the brightly lit stage of the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre is a step behind the scenes of the University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. This week, senior undergraduate and graduate...

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