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The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Life and Arts

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Local Art

Rachel Perlmutter September 9, 2011

After Dark Wally Workman Gallery | Dec. 3-23 In this group show, 30 artists were challenged to create works inspired by the exhibition title. Although each artist is sure to interpret the task in a...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Books

Katie Stroh September 9, 2011

"1Q84" Haruki Murakami | Oct. 25 "1Q84" is already a hit in Murakami’s native Japan, where it was released in three volumes to wild success. In October, the complex, surreal...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Music

Ali Breland September 9, 2011

Blakroc 2 | Fall TBD Blakroc is a collaborative effort between The Black Keys and various rappers they enlist on each record. A teaser for the new album popped up in August and featured a tiny portion...

Fall Forms of Entertainment: Television

Aleksander Chan September 9, 2011

“American Horror Story” Premieres Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. on FX Recovering from an affair, a psychotherapist moves with his wife and teenage kids to a new town and into an old house imbued with...

‘Contagion’: Infectious horror story done right

Alex Williams September 9, 2011

“Contagion” may be the most unexpectedly terrifying movie of the year. It’s not exactly a horror movie in the traditional sense of the word, since there are no axe murderers, ghosts or...

‘Contagion’ depicts realistic viral chaos

Robert Starr September 9, 2011

[Corrected Sept. 11: Changed Lauren Meyers title] Monster movies are scary, but they aren’t that scary. Sharks, snakes, spiders, mutant beasts — sure, they can kill you, but that’s about...

“Bucky Larson” is as dumb as raunchy comedies can get

Alex Williams September 9, 2011

There is no reason for “Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star” to exist. It has one good joke in its entire run time and this is it: There’s a throwaway gag at the end of the second act about...

Despite attempts at multiculturalism, Barbie ‘falling short’

Megan Booth September 8, 2011

Barbara Millicent Roberts, the original queen of the plastics, has only been around for 52 years. She has succeeded in more than 108 professions ranging from a surgeon, gold medal gymnast, astronaut, UNICEF...

Filmmaking project connects teens, GLBT community

Sarah-Grace Sweeney September 8, 2011

Having a gay or lesbian young person share their struggles of acceptance with their community can be one of the most rewarding experiences, if they are brave enough to do it, said John Livingston, the...

20th Austin Pride Celebration will feature local, national artists

Elizabeth Hinojos September 8, 2011

With an established and growing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, this year will mark Austin’s 20th Pride Celebration. The Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation, whose purpose...

UTPD uses social media websites to gather evidence

Aaron West September 8, 2011

The Internet connects all sorts of people — friends with friends, strangers with strangers, employers with employees and, to the chagrin of culprits worldwide, law enforcement with criminals. It’s...

Fitness tips to help runners, bikers beat the heat

Sarah-Grace Sweeney September 7, 2011

Staying fit is one of the challenges students face upon entering college. Sometimes it is because of a busy schedule, other times because watching “Project Runway” just sounds like more fun...

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