Sept | Oct 2014 | The Alcalde

Lights, Camera, Football: “My All American” Films at UT

September 9, 2014 12:12 pm | 16 comments

Vintage cars, cheerleaders twirling in long skirts, and co-eds walking to class in letter jackets and dresses: If you visited campus this summer, you might have...

The Way Back: Austin’s Changing Skyline

August 29, 2014 2:58 pm | 35 comments

The hottest topic in town—one practically impossible to avoid at a cocktail party—is how fast Austin has grown in the past decade. The hometown of the Longhorns...

Good Reads: September | October 2014

August 29, 2014 2:42 pm | no comments

New Books of Interest to the Longhorn Universe Above the East China Sea By Sarah Bird, MA ’76 The 82-day Battle of Okinawa claimed the lives of at least 12,000...

September|October Alumni Authors

August 29, 2014 2:39 pm | no comments

Recently Published Adventures with a Historian: The Life & Times of John R. “Jack” Hubbard by John R. Hubbard, BA ’38, MA ’39, PhD ’50, Life...

Five Under 40

August 29, 2014 2:37 pm | 14 comments

This year’s Outstanding Young Texas Exes have two things in common—a long list of accomplishments and service to the university. The Outstanding Young Texas...

Viva el Mariachi

August 29, 2014 2:35 pm | no comments

The UT campus is quiet in the summer, but not at the Butler School of Music—where the second-annual Longhorn Mariachi Camp filled the halls with joyful noise. Ten...

The Authentication of George Covington

August 29, 2014 2:34 pm | 3 comments

In which we discover a blind man who sees the world better than everyone else. Last November, I drove way out West to see about a blind photographer. Actually,...

Return to Normandy

August 29, 2014 2:32 pm | 2 comments

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Flying Longhorns paid tribute. Omaha Beach,” Frank Denius says. “That’s where I crawled up.” Holding court on the...

Punching the Clock

August 29, 2014 12:21 pm | 3 comments

Jon Schorle is an internationally renowned boxing referee, a former correctional officer in one of the nation’s toughest prisons, a family man—and the guy giving...

The Devil’s Backbone

August 29, 2014 10:14 am | no comments

Bill Wittliff’s inventive first novel is the story of a boy’s quest to find his missing mother in the anything-can-happen frontier of the 1880s. In this exclusive...