July | August 2016

Master of One

By Ramona Flume

After getting cut from SNL after just one season, Noël Wells takes control as director of her first feature film. Noël Wells is a live wire at a crowded house...

Lack and Presence

By Chris O'Connell

The One / Sixth exhibition unites UT’s few African-American MFA in studio art alums. On a sunny Sunday afternoon in May, a group of artists sat at a table for...

Boomerang Days: Barfly

By Owen Egerton

A Longhorn does college all over again. Dear Reader—oh, the things I do for you. I hurl my body into the fires of youthful celebration for you! Though safely...

Feature

Store Owners’ Daughter

By Mary K. Moore

I grew up behind a counter. In 1978, when I was 5 years old, my mother and stepfather, Kay and Charles Oates, bought a tiny, rundown gas station on the outskirts...