For movie buffs, the month of October means one thing: 31 days of horror movies. With tons of horror flicks to choose from, The Daily Texan is going to be providing a daily horror recommendation. Whether...
When I learned an In-N-Out Burger was coming to Austin, I should have been floored with excitement. Instead, my first feeling was disappointment.
I will never want an In-N-Out in Austin.
That...
Ah, the slow cooker. It was a part of every childhood nightmare, but will soon be everyone’s college kitchen savior.
There were countless “mystery meat stews” sluggishly brewed...
For movie buffs, the month of October means one thing: 31 days of horror movies. With tons of horror flicks to choose from, The Daily Texan is going to be providing a daily horror recommendation. Whether...
It is difficult to find a person without an appreciation for the art form that is the taco. But for four Austin men, their love for tacos transcends the average devotion and borders on insanity. By day,...
In the winter of 1986, Rae Lewis-Thornton decided to donate blood at a local hospital in Washington, D.C. She was young, successful and happy, with a boyfriend and a job working for Jesse Jackson’s...
There are two types of people on college campuses. The first frantically runs around campus picking up trash and ranting about the upcoming environmental apocalypse, clad in pants made out of recycled...
Keri Lawrence never really had a place to call home. She grew up with a mother in the Coast Guard and a father in the Navy. She had to say goodbye to new friends year after year and start fresh in a strange...
A young girl from El Paso, Texas, worships her mother and her enamel artwork. Each day, her mother fuses a thin coating of glass to various types of metal and creates a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
One...
The first two seasons of HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels included incestuous twins, pushing children out of windows, beheadings and terrifying ornithology....
Roundup has a bad reputation. It’s difficult to blur that clear-cut distinction because, in a way, this reputation comes with good reason. Thousands of young adults flood West Campus each spring,...
Cat people of Austin beware. Thousands of canines will take the city by storm this weekend. The 15th annual Mighty Texas Dog Walk is Saturday, March 23. A canine herd thousands strong and their human counterparts...
Green Day’s seventh album, American Idiot, was wildly popular, with its brutal messages of American political and social issues. So naturally, Green Day’s leading man, Billie Joe Armstrong,...
During South By Southwest, tourists crowd every restaurant in Austin in search of sustenance. Every bar, dive, diner and grill bursts at the seams.
As a result, a new kind of eating experience...
A much-needed cool breeze flows through the three open sides of a dilapidated German hay barn on a warm Texas night. The barn is miles from city life, far enough from streetlights that the Milky Way can...
Each Saturday evening a neon glow and rising roar buzzes from the fraternity houses in West Campus. As the sun rises on another Sunday, the once pristine party site leaves in its wake a mountain of red...
Perhaps there is no other baked good that inspires more passion than the cupcake. Cupcake lovers argue over the dominance of red velvet versus Funfetti, buttercream frosting versus chocolate ganache, and...
Austin’s Pizza, a University of Texas Italian dive and grungy hang-out spot on Guadalupe Street, has decided to reinvent the idea of a study destination. The dark wood and dim-lit stop for pizza...
