Area Humor Publication Is World’s Greatest
Er, something like that. How the scrappy Texas Travesty—now in its 15th year—takes the edge off campus life, rivals the Harvard Lampoon, and lands its alumni...
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Performance Artist James Luna Surprises, Mystifies at the Blanton
When I sat down to watch performance and visual artist James Luna in the Blanton Museum of Art amphitheater, I had to do one of my regular did-I-accidentally-ingest-mescaline...
Cowboy Poet Joel Nelson Charms the Blanton
As cowboy poet Joel Nelson began to read in that deep gravelly voice of his, I jotted down a few notes: “Looks like a slim Wilford Brimley.” At the time,...
Eva Longoria Talks Up the Power of Latinos, Latinas
Gently teasing UT administrators who were testing out their Spanish, Eva Longoria brought warmth and humor to the scholarly stage when she visited UT over the weekend. The...
A Mess of Greens: The Story Behind Southern Cuisine
Combining food and gender studies, UT professor Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt’s new book, A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food, lies at the intersection...
Innovative Liberal Arts Master’s Program Coming to UT in 2013
When you hear talk of continuing education programs, it doesn’t typically cover coursework on medieval management techniques or Japanese philosophy. That’s...
New Course Collaboration Preps UT Students For Gaming Careers
Recently, PricewaterhouseCoopers priced the video game industry at a cool $56 billion, estimating that it would reach $82 billion by 2015. In entertainment terms,...
Why Women Live Longer—It’s Complicated
In Sweden—that backwater—women have outlived men every year since 1751. And it gets worse (or better): in nearly every human society, in every cultural context,...
Southwest Leader: Highest Duty Not to Customers, But Employees
“I thought as my career went on, things would get easier,” said Gary Kelly, president and board chairman of Southwest Airlines. “But as time wore on I realized...
Students Get Advice—and Great Meal—From Alumna
Though I can’t say whether the historical record will back me up on this, I have a strong feeling that Plato’s Academy was catered. Yes, it was a great...
