This year, Black Friday is looking a bit more like its partner in crime, Cyber Monday. With new COVID-19 cases in Texas reaching record-breaking levels, it’s time to shift the annual shopping tradition...
As students prepare for the winter closure of on-campus resources, UT Outpost, the school’s food pantry, will offer double portions to students experiencing food insecurity.
UT Outpost coordinator...
Who really is David Bowie? “Stardust,” the latest biopic on the English entertainer, poses the question as the musician travels the road to stardom and defines himself as an artist.
Streaming...
“Farewell Amor,” a vulnerable film by Ekwa Msangi featured in the Austin Film Festival, sheds light on the hardships that accompany long-awaited hellos between a father, mother and daughter.
After...
Emma Lea Wall’s period pain makes her legs go numb. During her first year at UT, Wall stayed in her dorm, missing classes and career events because of the pain.
When she described her pain to...
Getting tangled up in someone else's hair proves to have deadly repercussions in Justin Simien’s “Bad Hair.”
The Hulu original film follows Anna Bludso (Elle Lorraine), an executive...
In the world of board game movies, “Murder Bury Win” makes “Jumanji” look like child’s play. The perils of escaping a jungle and the animals within it are nothing compared...
The end of Latinx Heritage Month shouldn’t stop audiences from watching Latinx stories.
When Oct. 15 rolls around and the world reverts to its regularly scheduled programming, it’s...
Dreamy ‘70s music makes a comeback Oct. 9 with a UT student’s new single, “Out of My Head.” The song, filled with fuzzy guitars and lyrics expressing modern-day problems, will be...
Fantastic Fest brought back its “Drawn and Quartered” animation showcase on Monday after a six-year hiatus, and it was worth the wait. The event featured 10 animated shorts from around the...
“How to Deter a Robber” brings a darker twist to a classic Christmas holiday nightmare.
Writer-director Maria Bissell’s first-ever feature film, which premiered at Fantastic...
While walking her dog, Pompeii, through West Campus, government senior Rachel Wolleben said she heard what sounded like a party on 26th Street.
“Just the kind of sheer audacity of the number...
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Season one of “Away,” Netflix’s latest original series on space, brings drama, emotion and Hilary Swank to the final frontier. Created by Andrew Hinderaker,...
High school seniors looking to join the class of 2025 are touring the Forty Acres without setting foot on Speedway or pausing to look up at the UT Tower. Instead, they’ll make their college decisions...
The Netflix original documentary “Rising Phoenix” makes a superhero narrative out of Paralympians. Intimate backstories and artistic shots highlight the competitors as superhumans in their...
Behind the University Co-Op is a food truck handing out more than just boxes of french fries paired with spicy mayo.
Don Japanese Kitchen is taking orders for care packages containing some of...
UT Campus Events + Entertainment spent Tuesday evening celebrating its first posada, a Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s journey before Jesus was born.
Nayeli Sanchez, Mexican...
Across the street from Mozart’s annual Christmas Light Show, prospective patrons sit in their cars and face the glaring red brake lights of the cars lined up in front of them.
Portions of the...
UT Senate’s academic policy committee hosted the Fair Admissions Policies Town Hall on Nov. 18 to hear student concerns about the University’s admissions process.
Isaac James, co-chair for...
Director James Mangold takes audiences to the race track with unprecedented finesse in his film “Ford v Ferrari.”
It’s not dark or gritty like other racing biopics. Rather, “Ford...
UT Senate of College Councils committees are tabling and hosting an open house event called Academics Week this week to promote higher education engagement on campus.
“It’s all about seeing...
Buckle up, “Last Christmas” viewers. This one is so bad, it’s good.
This romantic comedy is directed by Paul Feig and co-written by the great Emma Thompson. The story follows Kate...
Anyone interested in seeing Roland Emmerich’s “Midway” is probably better off learning about the fateful World War II battle from a textbook.
“Midway” is based on...
Engineering students do not have a cultural experience built into their college career.
Whether it’s the lack of a foreign language requirement or the barrier of entry for study abroad, mechanical...
A UT professor emerita became the second woman ever awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society last week.
Karen Uhlenbeck, who taught at UT for 27...
The future executive director of Texas Performing Arts made a guest appearance at Bass Concert Hall Monday to speak with students from Hook ‘em Arts, a performing arts student group, at their Halloween...
Iconic actor Eddie Murphy stars as Rudy Ray Moore in his vulgar, yet entertaining, return to the Hollywood spotlight in the Netflix biographical drama “Dolemite Is My Name.”
This crass,...
College students, tasked with weighing the costs of clinic visits and class absences in the midst of flu season, are the highest demographic of uninsured Americans with roughly 1.7 million students, according...
"Celia,” a popular telenovela about the esteemed salsa singer Celia Cruz, charmed audiences beyond Latin America. The telenovela made its way to biology junior Hallie Brown’s Spanish class.
Brown...
Textiles and apparel junior Emma Burke has one tattoo her parents do not know about.
They know about her other pieces: the script on her wrists, the heart and anarchy symbol on her leg, the text on...
UT’s African American Male Research Initiative recently renamed itself the Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males to honor the first black student admitted to the University’s School of Law.
Center...
Services for Students with Disabilities is planning a spring 2020 graduation celebration for disabled students.
The program’s assistant director Emily Shryock said the ceremony is still...
Local ‘power-pop-rock’ band Bottlecap Mountain released their fourth album Dismayland on Oct. 5, even though the album was made available on some platforms a few weeks earlier.
“When...
The calendar may say fall, but the thermometer definitely does not. With Austin City Limits Music Festival taking place over the next two weekends at Zilker Park, The Daily Texan has compiled a list...
Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) is hosting Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month with events throughout October to further the conversation surrounding disabilities, SSD assistant director...
Behind a stack of boxes, Leea Mechling packs away music posters and flyers.
Before putting the black portfolios away, she flips through the pages and reminisces.
As the South Austin Museum of Popular...
A UT assistant professor of statistics and data sciences and his team were awarded the 2018 Mitchell Prize by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in August.
The society recognized Abhra...
Erica Gionfriddo‘s work day doesn’t end when class is dismissed.
After spending the day on campus fulfilling her responsibilities as a dance lecturer, she changes hats. As the executive...
UT will take part in a pilot program to improve the doctoral student experience, starting with reforms in four different departments.
The Association of American Universities selected eight universities,...
