A large metal bowl, filled with water once again, stood on Wednesday as all that remains of Pease Park’s beloved troll, Malin.  Around 300 Austinites filled the park in “An Evening For Malin,”...

In an effort to put production back in the hands of cinema owners, pioneer of Austin’s Blue Starlite Drive-in, Josh Frank, sparked the idea for labels to revive older bands’ catalogs by rescoring silent...

Red carpets, global movie premieres, bands from around the world and innovative creators took over Austin this past week for the 40th South by Southwest festival. Running from March 12 through March...

“Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” directed by Nick Sweeney, follows Kahan’s success following his album Stick Season. More significantly, the documentary film highlights Kahan’s struggles with mental...

Noah Kahan rose to heights of fame he never imagined after the release of his 2022 album, Stick Season. Through his lyrics, he lays bare his mental health and family trauma. Outside of his music, Kahan...

“Sender” premiered at South by Southwest on Saturday, opening with a woman, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, chopping onions, before opening a mysterious package she receives filled with used shin guards...

Spotify celebrated its 20th anniversary this year and rang it in early at SXSW.  While the company was founded in April 2006, “SXSW holds special significance for Spotify.” Co-founder Daniel Ek...

“Chili Finger,” co-directed by Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad, premiered Saturday at the Zach Theater during South by Southwest. The film’s real-life inspiration came from a 2005 incident where...

Cold Cycle Coffee, a cold brew company founded by three ‘25 master of business administration alumni, began as a project at UT. Inspired by founder Samuel Stein’s trip to Italy and a desire to speed...

Monika Rao said when she moved from Los Angeles to Austin for her M.B.A. in 2023, she felt a “dance-shaped hole in her heart.” Struggling to fill it, Rao realized Austin could use more of a Bollywood...

A revolutionary in modern dance, the late Alvin Ailey came from humble beginnings in Rogers, Texas. His “blood memories” growing up African American in the segregated South and the Black church shaped...

From a young age, Australian singer-songwriter Ruel Vincent van Dijk, known as Ruel, seemed  destined for pop stardom. At 14 years old, he released his first single in 2017. Just a few months later,...

The Austin community came together on Monday to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.  Starting from the Texas Capitol’s south steps, the march changed from the previous location,...

The Austin film scene continues to excel on the national stage, with South by Southwest and Austin Film Festival providing a taste of Hollywood to Austin each year and directors like Austin local Richard...

“The horse is back in the hospital,” Noah Hawley asked, referencing John Mulaney’s 2018 skit comparing Donald Trump’s first presidential term to watching a horse run loose in a hospital. “This...

Franz Schubert (1797–1828) routinely gathered with friends to perform his compositions, engaging in lively discussion and dancing, creating a community of music lovers. Today, festivals and small concerts...

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, sits in the center of the room. Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots sits in the middle row, looking up at NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Al Davis, former...

Following the Longhorns' win on Saturday, fans draped in burnt orange headed just a short walk from the stadium over to the LBJ Lawn to feel “The Warmth of The Sun,” radiating from The Beach Boys.   “Here...

The four acts of motherhood, according to Mexico City and London-based artist Adeline de Monseignat, follow the Earth’s elements. “Earth,” the seed of pregnancy, “fire,” the consuming nature...

“American Baby” follows the story of Oli, who becomes pregnant at age 15 in a small Texas town, and the judgment she faces as she navigates looking for the absent teen father, Toby (Elisha Henig)....

Many festivalgoers look up to the sky to find their friends in the crowd, scanning for a particular meme, artist reference, sports team or anything else that fits on a pole. Festival totem poles and...

Nota del editor: Este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 6 de octubre de 2025 por Charlotte Karner y fue traducido al español por Dania Lopez-Gomez el 7 de octubre de 2025. “Solo eres tan exitosa...

Boots go back into closets, makeup counters are finally cleaned and outfits are put on their hangers as the festival season comes to an end. The Daily Texan selected seven standout moments from Weekend...

“Princess of Power,” the screen read as Marina Diamandis took the stage. The name refers to her sixth studio album, released in June, and its subsequent tour. In a black corset top, a bejeweled fringe...

After an electrifying, intimate performance at Mohawk Austin on Thursday night, and following their Weekend One performance, Australian indie-rock band Spacey Jane came back Saturday ready for their...

Following her Weekend One Austin City Limits Festival performance and ahead of her Weekend Two show, Mikaela Straus, known as King Princess, sat down with The Daily Texan to talk about her third studio...

Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the Watergate scandal in 1972, following tips from the anonymous “Deep Throat.” Their investigation led to President Richard Nixon’s...

The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California, one of California’s deadliest, started when a Pacific Gas and Electric Company transmission line in the Feather River Canyon fell during strong winds. The fire...

“You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby,” Taylor Swift sings in “Elizabeth Taylor.” The Life of a Showgirl, Swift’s 12th studio album, released on Friday. Following last year’s...

A year before the Huston-Tillotson Jazz Collective first performed at Austin City Limits, the small ensemble played every Friday on the music building’s balcony, letting their music ring across East...

“Pumpkins scream(ed) in the dead of night” as fans of Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” walked into the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for its preview on Wednesday.  Joining...

“Motherfucking Austin, Texas!” the band HAIM screamed on stage at the Moody Center. Blasting their music, HAIM led a group of fans on a hot girl walk from East Cesar Chavez Street down South...

A figurine and child stand in a miniature pool with milky white liquid dripping into it. Zooming out, a breast pump sits above. In a separate scene, the mother figure plays with her child in a picket-fenced,...

Dreaming of ways to engage the Austin community during the pandemic, UT alumna Juliet Whitsett, and her friend, Marianne Newsom, devised a plan for an interactive creativity hub. Building the first two...

“She’s back in town.” Before Fleetwood Mac, there was Buckingham Nicks — the only studio album recorded solely by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The record, initially released in 1973, was...

“It's the first day of my period,” Lorde said, walking on stage. “Now it's time to go full transparency.” New Zealand singer-songwriter, Ella O’Connor, known professionally as Lorde, swung...

When in high school, Emily Mae Smith gained an interest in René Magritte, the influential Belgian artist. Known for “The Treachery of Images,” colloquially “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” and “The...

The term “main melody,” or zhu xuanlü, from contemporary Chinese Communist Party discourse, describes cultural activity, including media and journalism, that abides by the main politics of the CCP,...

Transforming Bass Concert Hall into his personal jazz club, actor and musician Jeff Goldblum brought The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra to Austin on Tuesday night. Shaking hands and greeting audience members...

When the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down and people resumed going to live events, Stories on the Lawn emerged at the Neill-Cochran House Museum. The series, located only a short walk away from campus, invites...

Every year, Austin Pride selects LGBTQ+ community members to honor as grand marshals. Jeaux Anderson Jr., who attended UT from 2005 to 2010 and serves as director of community engagement at the Kind Clinic,...

Music surrounded Chelsey Green growing up. Her father, Craig Green, played as the drummer in the highly-regarded high school jazz-funk band, Kashmere Stage Band. Her parents met during fundraising for...

From backpacking in the Swiss Alps and ice diving under a frozen lake, to leading simulated space missions for students in Europe, aerospace engineering alumna Katie Mulry found her path when studying...

Austin staple Waterloo Records announced in January it would be relocating, with John Kunz, owner for 42 years, stepping back, holding a smaller role in the company. New co-owners, Gold Rush Vinyl founder...

Dream-like smoke fills the air, moss hangs from tree boughs and a pulpit with the crucifix stands ready for Ethel Cain to preach her life story.  Following the release of her concept album, “Willoughby...

Amidst the height of the AIDS crisis in 1987, a six-person collective in New York City founded the SILENCE=DEATH Project and created a poster featuring a pink triangle that references Nazi persecution...

When radio-television-film senior Kyla Simmons came to UT, she said she found it hard to be at a predominantly white institution as a Black student and a creative. She said she wanted to get involved on...

In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the famous “Le Nozze di Figaro,” or “The Marriage of Figaro.” The story, based on the play by Pierre de Beaumarchais, follows the wedding of Figaro and Susanna,...

The day after the United States presidential election results were announced in November, a cloud of gloom fell over the art building. A painting class that day held a routine discussion over what their...

“Swan Lake,” Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, and one of the most popular ballets of all time, tells the love story of Prince Siegfried and Odette — a princess put under a curse by the evil...

  Michelle Zhang always loved reading. After working at BookPeople post-college, she now works at Alienated Majesty Books, and last year, she co-founded the Austin Texas Book Trail.  This weekend,...

When Jeanette Horn started her degree at UT, she wanted to major in English. Encouraged by her family to pursue a business career, with writing on the side, she studied at the McCombs School of Business....

During his freshman and sophomore years, radio-television-film alumnus Aly Gomaa worked at KVRX and hosted a radio show called “Psych Out.” Now, he’s on the team organizing Austin Psych Fest as a...

A decade after its off-Broadway debut, “Hamilton” still blows us all away. Since its release, it has become a staple for Broadway fans, history students and pop culture in general. Who, other than...

UT announced the closure of the Division of Campus and Community Engagement (formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement) last April. The division included the DCCE Global Leadership and...

Born and raised in Amarillo, Darbi Donaldson, 2012 sociology alumna, didn’t leave the country until the summer between her sophomore and junior year, when she studied abroad in London. Donaldson loved...

  Claire Rosinkranz danced in the “backyard” of Stubb’s “boy” on March 12 for South by Southwest. The singer gained popularity with her TikTok-famous hit “Backyard Boy” in 2020. Following...

“Doing it for the girls and the gays,” said Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), before taping an audition tape in the opening scene for “Idiotka.” In West Hollywood’s Russian district, Margarita, an...

Late at night, a couple gets a call from their daughter Alice, who is distressed after hitting a pedestrian. The rest of the hour and 20 minutes of “Hallow Road” follows the two parents (Rosamund Pike...

In honor of its 40th anniversary, the Criterion Collection is coming to Austin in the form of an 18-foot delivery van — a mobile replica of the famous film closet. The collection includes more than 1,500...

LISA is a new woman. The BLACKPINK member claims her crown in her star-studded debut solo album, “Alter Ego.” Released shortly after the third season of “White Lotus” on Friday, her first-ever...

Texas’ Blackland Prairies’ fertile soil allowed the building of homes, schools and churches which established the historically Black and brown communities of East Austin. Featured in the Blackland...

Tate McRae is “So Close” to cementing herself as one of the main pop girls. While her singles “Sports car,” “It’s ok, I’m ok” and “2 hands” promised a show-stopping album, the album’s...

Students gathered in the G.B. Dealey Center for New Media on Monday to hear from Oscar nominees Adrian Quesada, a UT studio art alumnus, and Abraham Alexander in a conversation with radio-television-film...

Walking into the Visual Arts Center, visitors are faced with a large reproduction of a construction tarp. Cut into it, a Mayan poem, “Deep Cavern, Invisible Work,” highlights the barrier between the...

Takeshi Yamada flew from Japan to Austin last week to present on teamLab, an international art collective combining digital art, animation and engineering to create immersive art experiences for galleries...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 4 de febrero del 2025 por Charlotte Karner y fue traducido al español por Maria Gomez. El sábado en el Teatro McCullough, el público...

During the pandemic, Kevin Carroll, founder of an Austin ukulele orchestra, Austin Ukestra, recorded a ukulele part alone in his room. Later, the part appeared on Ruthie Foster’s 66th annual Grammy-nominated...

At the McCullough Theatre on Saturday, the audience erupted in laughter as UT alumna Suzanne Bocanegra read a script to actress Lili Taylor through an earpiece. Taylor, who performed as Bocanegra,...

Describing her as someone who “translated her memories and cultural heritage into installations and performances that speak to universal threads of humanity,” the Dallas Morning News selected Beili...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 29 de enero de 2025 por Charlotte Karner y fue traducido al español por Nicolas Siman. Kimberly Mata-Rubio, ex periodista y actual...

Kimberly Mata-Rubio, a former journalist and current advertising executive at the Uvalde Leader News, sat at her desk in the newsroom when she heard the police scanner report a shooting near Robb Elementary...

In 2019, UT alum Oscar Cásares and his friend, Joel Salcido, drove to the border along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville. Cásares wanted to tell his children the stories of the border he grew...

In the romantic light of the Cactus Cafe, an intimate audience gathered to spend their Wednesday night listening to poetry performances from UT students accompanied by smooth jazz from the Austin community. Rhythm...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of rape. Retired Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson holds the Guinness World Record for most criminals positively identified due to the...

From putting flyers under windshield wipers to winning a Grammy award, Austin-based Choir Conspirare has come a long way since its earliest years.  Conspirare Christmas began at the Carillon Chapel...

When professor Sarah Norris started teaching at the School of Information in 2020, she based one of the first classes she taught on her own challenges in the field. Norris said she found librarians often...

For five years, Brady Beal worked for Texas Student Media in advertising sales, client support services and providing data analytics to advertisers. He did the job part-time while simultaneously playing...

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...

As a former faculty member and adjunct professor in UT’s Department of Art and Art History, Clarke Curtis said he felt confident in his design and printmaking abilities. However, not knowing what academics...

As a Ph.D. student at the University, art historian Katie Anania developed curiosity for drawing as a medium in the 60s and 70s, when works on paper started to be shown as final products in exhibitions....

As the sun begins to set over Lake Austin, Austinites gather in Mozart’s Coffee Roasters’ “The Loft” to enjoy fresh brews and the sweet sound of the Butler School of Music’s jazz combos. What...

Austin-based alt-indie band DAIISTAR (pronounced ‘day star’) accomplishes a longtime dream this weekend — one they never believed would happen. After a two-month-long UK tour, DAIISTAR will take...

Inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in 2015, Austin-based band Asleep at the Wheel is no stranger to ACL. The band performed on ACL TV’s first official episode in 1976, following Willie...

Sally Rooney messes with readers’ psyches once again. Known for “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends,” the Irish author’s latest book is a philosophical, contemplative piece on the...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 26 de septiembre por Charlotte Karner y fue traducido al español por Daniela Capistran. El sonido de conversaciones y discos de vinilo...

The sound of conversation and vinyl records flowed from the Texas Union East Patio on Wednesday night. Headliners, an organization under Campus Events and Entertainment, hosted their first-ever...

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...

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,...

In the past few months, the internet has been buzzing with the phrase “Luckily I have purse,” which blew up online after a clip of “Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast” was posted on TikTok. Podcast...

Upon first listen, Taylor Swift’s new album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT appears rushed. Referring to her lover as a “tattooed golden retriever” after singing they declared, out of all people,...

Jelly Roll returns to the Country Music Television Awards in style. The rising star repeated his three-award win from last year, taking home CMT Performance of the Year, Male Video of the Year and Video...

Growing up hearing her family’s stories of living in Akkar, a border village between Lebanon and Syria, inspired artist Tania El Khoury to save these memories through interviews with her late grandmother...

As visitors walk into the Blanton Museum of Art’s “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper” exhibit, in front of them sits the eight-harness weaving loom used by German weaver and printmaker Anni Albers....

Kacey Musgraves found her shine again. Following the release of her 2021 album Star-crossed, inspired by a breakup, the Texas-born singer gets back on her feet with Deeper Well, unveiling her healing journey...

When The Daily Texan last talked to Dr. Kevin Foster, associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and producer of “Blackademics TV” in 2015, “Blackademics” was preparing to premiere...

Student creativity came to a head in UT’s Theatre and Dance department when M.F.A. students had the opportunity to put on productions that showcase their talent and passions.   UT Theatre and Dance’s...