Jordan Madrigal entered UT hoping to continue his father’s legacy in the McCombs School of Business. Instead, he found his passion on the dance floor, moving in tune with the rhythm of salsa music.
In...
Raised in a conservative Christian household, Amanda Caroline was out of touch with her Afro-Brazilian roots. But after studying abroad in Salvador Bahia, Brazil, Caroline found her passion in martial...
For their six-month anniversary, Josh Frank and his girlfriend wanted to create their own personal movie theater. Using a building on Cesar Chavez Street as the screen, they projected “Grease”...
If you run out of outdoor activities and want to check out Austin’s art scene instead, take a self-guided tour around the city’s galleries and museums. Austin’s vibrant culture sets a...
During the Islamic holy month, Nida Madni wakes up before dawn for a morning prayer and meal with her Pakistani family to prepare for their 15-hour fast. While the sun shines, they will abstain from...
Walking from class to class in the 95-degree Texas heat will have you craving something to cool you down. Reward yourself for those grueling summer classes with one of The Daily Texan's tasty suggestions...
Dawn Mann traveled across the world to teach English to Vietnamese students. But it was in a dance studio, not a classroom, where their English began to flow.
During the evenings, Mann taught ballet...
In this compilation of stories, the Life & Arts department explores homelessness. Click on our interactive to learn about two initiatives to change negative perceptions about the homeless community, or...
When he wakes up in his sleeping bag on a side walk between 21st and 26th Streets on Guadalupe, Bobby’s first thought is where he’ll get coffee. While he waits for outreach programs to open...
Missionary Terry Cole worked with impoverished tribes in Latin America and Africa learning about the struggles of prostitutes and playing with children from villages. But eventually, Cole realized there...
Each day this week, the Life & Arts department will focus on a different topic. Today's page covers gentrification in East Austin and some of the communities and businesses it has affected....
To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here.
During the 1950s, Carmen and Moses Vasquez wanted to fill Austin’s Mexican food void with the flavor from their...
To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here.
Growing up in the ’80s, Juan Guerra and his cousins walked from their houses to their family-owned East Austin...
To read more stories about the history of gentrification in East Austin, click here.
When the Cisneros family founded Sunny Veil, East Austin’s first bakery, they rode their horses from East Seventh...
East Austin artist Daniel Llanes walked around 24 acres of land full of fallen elm and pecan tree trunks. They were about to be burned by land developers, but Llanes wanted to transform the giant, old...
When graduate student Amalia Diaz moved from Colombia to Austin, she used her outsider’s perspective to capture the changing landscape of the East Side through her camera lens.
“When you’re...
Raised in a small, west Texas trailer, Kelsey Shipman struggled in a working class family with a history of physical abuse and suicide attempts. Some of her uncles went to jail, exposing her to the incarceration...
Each day, UT alumnus Drew Gressett’s burgers help improve the lives of 100 members of Austin’s homeless community.
In 2009, Gressett’s Hat Creek Burger Co. partnered with the Austin...
South By Southwest connects Austinites to almost every continent in the world from Niger to Sweden. International musicians will travel thousands of miles to play at the festival, offering a wide range...
With a mission to connect North America, Central America and South America with the Live Music Capital of the World, SXAméricas will spotlight the international creative community. It offers...
Cousins Briana Barsalou and Blair Hanner grew up playing hide-and-seek together in the Hill Country of New Braunfels, Texas. Years later, when Hanner, designated female at birth, admitted he had been hiding...
Austin’s art scene is known to be a home for emerging creatives, but many Latinos often don’t feel represented in these “white-centric” art spaces. To combat this, local artists...
On a mid-October evening in 1961, 18-year-old sophomore Sherryl Griffin walked beside two other female African-American students to stage a sit-in at UT’s Kinsolving dorm. The words “white...
At her mostly Latino-populated school, teacher Roxanne Schroeder-Arce found it problematic that her students’ theater productions only focused on stories about white people.
“Rarely...
From his group home in South Austin, Toby, diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, dreamed of singing in front of an audience. After joining the Austin Harmony Project, he left behind the CD player he...
