For this Q&A, The Daily Texan met separately with male and female students to discuss sexual assault and how campus culture and gender play a role. The names of the students have been changed to protect...
The names in this story have been changed to protect the sources’ identities.
UT seniors Alice and Matthew had been best friends since they met in their freshman year interest group. For three...
The locker room of UT freshman Jake’s high school was filled with talk about porn sites, the latest sex videos and who recently got laid. If someone didn’t have a story to share, they were...
Few people know how much the Texan saved me.
Before I became a daily fixture by the basement door, I didn’t really belong anywhere. I was a journalism sophomore who had never written a journalistic...
Editor's note: This article is part of a package about diversity on campus. Click here to read the other stories.
During bilingual education sophomore Pamela Morales Castro’s seventh...
Editor’s Note: This article appears in a package focused on LGBT issues on campus. Click here to read about issues transgender students face and LGBT professors' perspectives on the...
People know “Alright, alright, alright” as the catch phrase of beloved stoner David Wooderson from “Dazed and Confused.” But to Matthew McConaughey, they’re the first...
Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features students around campus and their tattoos.
Photos by Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff
Marion Rocco
Literature professor Marion...
On Saturday, Lemony Snicket will present his latest book “Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights?” at the Paramount Theatre as part of the annual Texas Book Festival. The book is...
Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features students around campus and their tattoos. This week's Tat-Tuesday features festivalgoers from the ACL Music Festival.
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Update (12:32 a.m.): Right before the Strokes ended their set, lead singer Julian Casablancas turned to guitarist Nick Valensi and asked a question.
“You got anything to say to the...
Update (12:35): When Drake closed out Day Two, he made sure audience members knew that Texas is his second home. The Canadian-born rapper continuously told the audience it was the best he’d...
Update (12:20 p.m.): The Foo Fighters concluded Day 1 of ACL’s first weekend with an invigorating set.
The band’s two hour performance began with an energetic rendition of “Everlong,”...
Families, students and their panting pups strolled through campus Sunday morning for the first Landmarks Dog Walk, a free tour hosted by the University’s public art program. Landmarks partnered with...
As Austin’s Pride Week comes to an end, the city plans to end it with a bang. While the main events this weekend are the Austin Pride Festival and Pride Parade, here are some places that plan to...
As students soak in their last days of freedom at Barton Springs and Zilker Park, the Life&Arts staff has made The Texan’s dark, scurvy-inducing basement its home. Although we incessantly inhabit...
Since the Paramount Theatre welcomed its first audience in 1915, Austin has become home to many blockbuster movies, major production studios and award-winning filmmakers. A century later, though, the city’s...
With their recent film “Meet Me In Montenegro,” UT alumnus Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen have done what most couples can only dream of — they’ve recreated their love story.
Five...
Editor’s Note: As we learn about additional celebrations around Austin, we will update this list throughout the day.
Updated (6:30 p.m.): Added Central Presbyterian Church, Cheer Up Charlie's,...
On a typical night in the “Live Music Capital of the World,” crowds drink cider, swing their hips to salsa music, stomp their feet at a folk concert or get thrown around a mosh pit —...
Inspired by the Greek muse of eloquence and epic poetry, Austin-based singer Carrie Fussell decided in 2009 to name her six-piece band Calliope Musicals.
“The other lead singer and I started out...
About 10 years ago, singer-songwriter Dana Falconberry left her hometown in Michigan and moved to Austin to focus on her music career.
Since her start in 2006, Falconberry has become part of a six-piece...
At 18 years old, singer-songwriter Gina Chavez decided to make music her future as she watched country-blues artist Toni Price perform on an Austin stage.
“I think it was one of the first times...
When folk singer Jess Williamson was a student at UT, she went to New York City for a photojournalism graduate program and didn’t return for over a year.
She spent that time bartending and performing...
When Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear walked underneath the spotlight and took their seats on stage, we had no idea they’d be magic.
On Friday, at the South By Southwest Radio Day Stage, Ruth and...
As SXSW's music events take over the festival, we'll be reviewing some of the top acts. Here are our takes on Laura Marling and Milky Chance, who both performed Wednesday:
Laura Marling
Folk...
In the middle of South By Southwest Trade Show’s business suits, out-of-this-world technology and bundles of free swag, custom vinyl maker Wesley Wolfe blasted a classic ‘60s soul record.
Wolfe...
A brain, an athlete, a basket-case, a princess and a criminal.
In honor of “The Breakfast Club’s” 30th anniversary, Universal Studios premiered the digitally remastered film at the...
Saturday night, the world premiere of Sally Field’s most recent film, “Hello, My Name Is Doris,” impressed the majority its South By Southwest audience. Read our review here.
On...
It is the first day of the spring semester. Everyone’s grades look promising as syllabuses make their way to the bottom of backpacks. Students fill agendas with attention to detail before the stress...
Divya Ramamoorthy — a connoisseur of hot chocolates, a greeting card crafter and a UT research assistant — can be found daily with a petri dish full of stem cells in hand. For the past three...
Frazzled students take refuge from the rain underneath the bus stop. The walk to class never seems as trial-ridden as it does on days like these. Coming around the corner, maneuvering the monstrous 40...
When UT alumna Hayley Swindell was still in college, she and her sorority sisters set up pop-up shops on South Congress Avenue, selling clothes they rarely used to whomever was willing to buy.
Once...
The first time anyone ever told UT alumna Jennifer Walden that she would be a surgeon, she was in junior high. Her teacher recognized her ability to quickly dissect a pig while the rest of the class struggled...
When Johanna and Klara Söderberg of the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit began planning their current tour, they told their manager they had to find a way to come back to one of their favorite cities...
A little northeast of Austin in the quiet town of Manor, kids, dogs and chickens run around the yard of a large country house as men with impressive beards build Fun Fun Fun Fest booths for the Austin...
When UT alumnus Kash Shaikh travels around the world, he asks people of all different backgrounds two questions: “What you do for a living? What do you love?” The answers to the two questions,...
There are 30 seconds left. A team of eight people frantically attempts to solve a collection of puzzles and codes while encased in a small, dark and decrepit house, hoping to unlock multiple padlocks...
Mary Lou Ralls Newman has mastered the art of having it all — two degrees, a husband for a business partner, two grown kids and a passport with stamps from Tanzania, Costa Rica, New Zealand and...
Twice a year, the sun crosses the earth’s equator, the seasons change, and day and night become equal in length — this is an equinox. Two UT students aim to give independent filmmakers a chance...
Roxanne McDanel picks up her blush brush and eye-shadow palette to makeover a smiling bride’s face. While this is a part of McDanel’s daily routine, what she really loves to do is make her...
On the last day of every school year, when the Blanton Museum was still on Speedway and 21st streets, Sunni Graham would visit Jerry Bywaters’ painting “Oil Field Girls.” Graham related...
Every morning, Korey Howell strolls down her block, past her neighborhood’s gate and arrives for work at the doors of her brightly lit studio, Korey Howell Photography.
When Howell graduated...
UT’s first student-created 3-D film is a three-dimensional world of gleaming knights, majestic woods and dangerous weapons.
This October, the first students to have completed...
Live music, drinks and friends aren't typically associated with voter registration. But United We Jam, Austin Music People’s second annual event, aims to give Austin’s music industry a...
After leaving her career at Google in San Francisco, UT alum Brit Morin’s is returning to Austin to host a variety of Texas’ small, do-it-yourself business vendors at “Re:Make.”
A...
Disillusion strikes hard when that highly anticipated Saturday night party runs out of alcohol, cutting every partygoer’s booze-filled dreams short. A team of three men believe they’ve solved...
With cameras and questions on hand, public relations sophomore Crysta Hernandez and advertising freshman Amy Tingle are always ready to capture snippets of the lives of people on campus. The duo shares...
In the secluded spaces of the CMB, surrounded by bright lights, vibrant green walls and a rolling camera, a solemn moment transpires between a man in black battle gear and a futuristic-looking woman with...
In the Quadrangle room of the Union Building, dancers wearing a mix of snapbacks and traditional Indian clothing move quickly around the space, yelling words of encouragement with each step. The performers,...
Two UT students have made translating thoughts into a display of lights, sounds and 3-D graphics possible in their latest artistic exhibition.
Yago de Quay and Joao Beira, both working toward dual doctoral...
Casa Marianella, a home for immigrant refugees in East Austin, receives hundreds of volunteers to assist in carrying out legal, medical and educational services for its residents. But one UT human rights...
Austin’s food trucks have found a new, permanent home and they’re taking West Campus’ Mighty Cone with them.
A permanent food court is set to open mid-March on Barton Springs...
For Evan Roberts, there’s nothing better than seeing a someone’s personal story embodied on the
big screen.
Roberts, a radio-television-film graduate student, explores the untold narratives...
UT alumnae Courtney and Brooke Calhoun never expected fashion to bring them back to Austin, but their recent success has them making plans to set up shop downtown permanently.
The Austin-native...
Inside the caverns of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium resides a private social club, which announced Monday that it had renewed its lease with the UT Athletic Department and will begin multi-million...
More than 700 people walked, ran or biked through the streets of Austin on Saturday while dressed in gorilla costumes. The gorilla-suited runners, many of whom decked their costumes out with creative accessories,...
