Two months before transferring out of community college, I had my mind set on Boston University. Then, I got my UT acceptance, and part of me wanted to pretend I hadn’t — I had already paid BU’s...

Music Looking back: Austin City Limits Festival headliners, including Sabrina Carpenter and The Strokes, drew massive crowds, and reporters interviewed artists King Princess and Alex Amen. On campus,...

“After the Hunt” follows Alma (Julia Roberts), an ethics professor who grapples between her personal and professional worlds when her mentee (Ayo Edebiri) confesses that Alma’s colleague and friend...

Aziz Ansari from “Parks and Recreation” is debuting his first directional feature film, “GOOD FORTUNE,” releasing exclusively in theaters on Friday. The theatrical comedy follows Arj (Ansari),...

The Killers took the American Express stage Sunday night of the Austin City Limits Festival. Throughout a charged hour-and-a-half set, the group played 15 songs across six albums and two Willie Nelson...

Over the course of an hour, Mica Tenenbaum metamorphosed on stage. First cloaked in blue, then blooming into a sunflower, mutating into a monster, finally, she emerged an angel. Duo Magdalena Bay delivered...

After a jam-packed and blazing first weekend at the 2025 Austin City Limits Festival, The Daily Texan rounded up a list of the top seven moments. Hilary Duff as Role Model’s “Sally”  Role...

The Strokes invaded Austin City Limits Festival Saturday night, opening their set with strobing extraterrestrial frequencies before appearing on stage. The five-member band performed a 16-song supercluster...

Hozier encouraged the audience to look out for their neighbors in the festival’s heat, then later asked everyone to extend neighborly compassion to struggling groups around the world, including the Middle...

While many Austin City Limits attendees are excited to hear their favorite music live, several performers also offer recently released albums. To help festivalgoers familiarize with artists’ new work,...

On any given afternoon during October’s first two weekends, Zilker Park becomes a living portrait that encompasses Austin’s past and present. ACL draws a crowd as varied as its lineups, offering more...

On July 27, 1990, an article titled “Local activists laud signing of federal disabled rights legislation,” referring to the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act, ran across The Daily Texan’s...

Summertime in Austin constitutes its own rhythm. From tucked-away food truck gigs to sold-out Moody Amphitheater concerts, each set feeds into the season’s vibrance. The Daily Texan curated a list of...

In a masterful concoction of synthetic hooks and vocal layering, Addison Rae’s debut album, Addison, positions her in a niche that threads generational definitions of high-quality pop, but leaves room...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian W. Caleb McDaniel visited the University of Texas on Wednesday to discuss his book, “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” which...

Paul Simon’s  first Austin performance since his retirement in 2018 proved not only a celebration of his life’s work, but also a confrontation. The renowned singer-songwriter played at Bass Concert...

For Kyra Timberlake, K-pop began as a quiet obsession in middle school that she only shared with her older sister. Now as a dancer for UT’s Korean Music Association dance group, KM8, she finds herself...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 7 de marzo de 2025 por Layla Dajani y fue traducido al español por Lori Alvarez. South by Southwest atrae a cientos de bandas de todo...

South by Southwest draws hundreds of bands from across the globe to Austin each year, offering a unique opportunity to experience music that might otherwise remain out of reach. With over 240 bands...

Feeling like an outsider as an international student from Shanghai four years ago, Rinka Ko found her place at UT through singing. She found a welcoming community with the Polymathic Scholars and will...

When an antique dealer bought an ancient Roman bust for $35 from a Goodwill on Far West Boulevard in 2018, UT’s Antiquities Action was one of the first groups to see it up close. The group of students,...

Greeted by Islamic poetry pamphlets, attendees stepped into the Union Building’s Quadrangle room, its perimeter lined with tables displaying Islamic art on Saturday. About 15 artists filled the room...

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 10 de febrero por Layla Dajani y fue traducido al español por Estefania De La Rosa.  El exalumno de historia del arte e ilustrador...

Art history alumnus and Xicano illustrator Zeke Peña presented his comic-style narrative series, “The River Remix,” on campus on Feb. 3. The series chronicles the Rio Grande’s transformation...

Cigarette smoke curls once decorated the Cactus Cafe, wrapping around audiences listening intently to late-night sets. Over four decades later, similar scenes persist as the listening room continues hosting...

David Garza lived at Taos Co-op on 27th and Guadalupe street during his freshman year at UT. At 18-years-old, he walked down The Drag with his guitar and cassettes, where he often bumped into up-and-coming...

After watching the demolition of precious historic sites, such as the Palmyra in Syria, during ISIS attacks in 2015, Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor of Islamic art and architecture, felt she...

Daymé Arocena’s explosive vocals echoed off the walls and reverberated through the bodies of audience members sitting in the recording studio-turned-intimate concert space. On Tuesday, the Afro-Cuban...

Audible from around the corner of Marie Watt’s solo installation, fingers run through a coat of hanging tin cones in the room Watt transformed into an immersive sensory space. On display at the Blanton...

As students trickle back to campus from spring break, many seniors get lost in familiar academic routines that distract from the array of resources available on the Forty Acres, such as the Blanton Museum...

Tucked away on the top floor of the Visual Arts Center, a display of letters unique in color and size flows across two adjacent walls, inviting viewers to follow. The characters spell “ENSEMBLE,” the...

Amidst the steady hum of study groups with a view of pedestrians walking along The Drag, Farah Narejo researched her culture’s history from a corner table in Cafe Medici, half a world away from where...

For Adrian Fernandez, geocaching and history go hand-in-hand. His journey began with his first cache at a museum 10 years ago and extends to the present with his adventure lab that guides cachers to locations...