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.
Editor’s note: Some of the names in this story have been changed to protect the sources’ identities.
Bertha...
Local high school senior CJ Noonsab flips through the pages of the journals he kept as a sophomore and feels as if he is reading someone else’s words. Back then, his life was defined by depression...
Midway through the opening night party for the Indie Meme Film Festival, founder and co-organizer Alka Bhanot attempts to make her way through the crowd. Swarmed by congratulatory friends, family and festival-goers,...
Surrounded by feather boas, pasties and walls lined with sex toys, UT alumna Lynn Raridon reclines in her chair, as if to signal that she is at home. Forbidden Fruit, the sex shop she owns and runs, is...
Nathan Felix, a punk rocker who spent his first three post-grad years touring with his band, could feel himself getting antsy. So he did what any other person in his position would do: He decided to compose...
When local musician Steve Parker first witnessed 1.5 million bats emerge from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge, he listened intently. What he heard led him on a journey to investigate bat calls and...
The north Austin offices of George P. Johnson marketing firm are nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the drab, gray buildings that dot the area. But inside, employees work amid expansive murals that...
Local playwright Mick D’Arcy spent the past 15 years living with a Greek goddess.
He has written and rewritten countless pages about her, crafted song lyrics and sought out musical collaborators,...
Richard Linklater films are known for generating countless enduring images, from a mustachioed Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused” to a young bohemian peddling Madonna’s alleged...
When it comes to the hip-hop industry, Houston rapper JAPAN is accustomed to being the elephant in the room.
As a queer hip-hop artist, JAPAN, aka Pierre Hill, is part of a burgeoning scene...
Nathan Nordstrom remembers peering over the shoulders of fellow middle school students, anxious to see the graffiti writing etched into their sketchbooks. He was an outsider, a skateboarder from Austin’s...
On a spring night last year, Ignaz Schick, a turntablist from Berlin, and Michael Zerang, a percussionist from Chicago, took to the stage in one of the hippest boroughs of Germany’s capital. Before...
Nicole Whiteside often wonders what it would be like to dance atop the buildings she sees on a daily basis.
More often than not, she has a good guess.
Whiteside, a UT alumna and aerial dancer, is...
Albert Sanchez is restless.
A relative newcomer to Austin’s comedy scene — he began performing at open-mics just over a year ago — Sanchez had spent nearly every night perfecting...
In the early days of managing her prepackaged meal company, Gourmet By Numbers, Heather Amalaha’s life was a series of transitions from one kitchen to another. After dropping her kids off at school...
A churning river of turquoise and indigo flows along the far wall of UT alumna Deanna Miesch’s office, linking together an elaborate scene of trees and wild animals. The felt tapestry, which Miesch...
Pulsing synth beats, sleek animations and black and white aerial shots of Austin provide the backdrop for the opening sequence of “The Texas Edge,” a new online video series produced by UT...
The first time Daniel Berger-Jones performed in a Shakespeare play while drunk, he initiated a yoga competition onstage and managed to pull his leg behind his head in a whiskey-fueled feat of athleticism.
Such...
Editor's note: This article is part of a package about diversity on campus. Click here to read the other stories.
When mechanical engineering senior Emeka Ugwu first stepped foot on campus in 2011,...
Penny Hunt arrived in Austin in 2004 with a mountain bike, two backpacks and what little remained of her salary from a job at a failed circus. Her surroundings were unfamiliar, but her situation was not....
Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features people around campus and their tattoos.
Photos by Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff
Frank Mann
The molecular bonds tattooed...
Failed artwork, sketches and used tools are most often found in the dusty corners of art studios. But this weekend, customers at the Mobile Artists’ Yard Sale will have the opportunity to purchase...
Just days after the burial of her husband, UT alumna Mica Mosbacher stood in the pits at the racetrack in Daytona wondering what was next. The loss of Robert “Bob” Mosbacher, a former U.S....
UT alumna Lynn Osgood had an idea that she could not shake. Austin was in the midst of a political shift, as the city prepared to abandon its system of electing city council members at-large. Instead,...
In the spring of 2009, a sordid tale emerged from the small East Texas town of Mineola. Seven adults were sentenced to life in prison for allegedly running a “sex kindergarten” for children...
Business honors senior Samuel Garcia fell in love with goats at the age of eight when his father, a prominent lawyer in the Rio Grande Valley, accepted a small herd as payment for his legal services. Over...
Throughout her career, Australian-born artist Elizabeth Corkery has found inspiration in the streets of Madrid, the ornate walls of the Palace of Versailles and the countryside of Glasgow, Scotland. But...
After spending the past four years plucking ideas from thin air onstage, theater senior and improviser Hope Carew has learned to thrive on the unexpected.
As captain of Gigglepants, UT’s only...
Brought together by a mix of tragedy and serendipity, Rodney Connell and Brandon Duhon blend sci-fi elements with catchy synth beats in their electro-pop band, Night Drive. The two first met when a girl...
Every day for the past year, undergraduate studies sophomore Joshua Sherden has sported a bucket hat. He picks from his collection of more than 70 that surround his dorm room in stacks of plaid, camouflage...
Rowing
Texas rowing completed its regular season in dominant fashion Saturday, winning all three of its dual races against the University of San Diego.
A crowd of fans lined up along the footbridge...
When New Zealand Governor-General Jerry Mateparae announced architecture senior Jessica Glennie as one of the recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship last November, Glennie almost didn’t...
Men's tennis
No. 10 Texas fell just short of taking down No. 1 Oklahoma in the semifinals of the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship on Saturday, ultimately losing to the Sooners, 4–3.
In...
This weekend, Texas will take to the water in Bloomington, Indiana, to compete in the Dale England Cup.
The Longhorns will race against Indiana, Notre Dame and Columbia in a series of dual races, in...
Men's golf
The No. 2 men’s golf team earned a split Saturday at the Red Raider Shootout in Lubbock.
The Longhorns first faced No. 23 New Mexico, which they defeated in a tiebreaker. Redshirt...
From an early age, Latin American studies freshman Rachel Fleming knew she would be attending the The University of Texas. The daughter of two Texas graduates, she applied to only one school her senior...
Seven years after she began rowing in high school, Texas rowing senior captain Casey Redman still wrestles with the self-doubt that creeps into her mind before each race.
Although 2000m races...
When the Longhorns hit the water for the San Diego Crew Classic this weekend, they will have two new boats.
This week, before the start of its first regatta, Texas rowing dedicated two of its new boats...
Men's cross country
The Longhorns will make their way to Lawrence, Kansas, this weekend for the Big 12 Cross Country Championships.
The Texas men took third at the race last year, falling behind...
Men's swimming and diving
In a quad meet characterized by electric times and tight finishes — including one touch separated by one one-hundredth of a second — the men’s swimming...
Women’s swimming and diving preview
This weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team will fly to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to swim at the Canham Natatorium in its first intercollegiate competition...
When the women’s rowing team takes to Lady Bird Lake on Saturday to compete in the Head of the Colorado regatta, it will mark the first race in the program’s history without former head coach...
In the latest edition of the Texas Monthly Talks interview series, Texas Men’s Athletic Director Steve Patterson sat down with Texas Monthly Editor-in-Chief Brian Sweany at the AT&T Executive...
