March | April 2018

 

Reid Ryan on Rebuilding the Once-Hapless Houston Astros

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In May 2013, when the Houston Astros hired Reid Ryan, ’91, as its newest president, the team was coming off consecutive 100-loss seasons, the worst stretch in...

 
 

The Way Back: Wells’ Wishes

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Unlocking the vault of UT history Do you have any opinion as to the duration of the current war? If England looses [sic], is America doomed? If a highway was built...

 
 

After Surviving the Holocaust, Adam Heller Works to Make the World a Better Place Through Engineering

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On a balmy March day last year around lunchtime, students squeezed into a standing-room-only lecture hall on the bottom floor of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering...

 
 

How the Pluckers Founders Built Themselves a Wing-Dom

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It’s 2 a.m. Saturday and the bars are closed. A group of rowdy students, home from their trek down Austin’s Sixth Street, bust into the Pluckers Wing Bar tucked...

 
 

Photographer Minta Maria Captures Spirit of Traditional Mexican Rodeos

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For two seasons, San Antonio-based photographer Minta Maria, BJ ’04, has documented the local charreada, a traditional Mexican rodeo that originated in the 16th...

 
 

Hair Lair: On the Harry Ransom Center’s Lot of Locks

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Ezra Pound’s hair, which would later grow as dark as his fascist views, is thick and blond, collected from his innocent, 4-year-old head. Percy Shelley’s lock...

 
 

KUT’s Art Markman on the Mandela Effect

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I grew up watching the original Star Wars trilogy. A central part of the drama of these films (spoiler alert!) comes from Darth Vader’s revelation at the end...

 
 

A New Student Record Label is Amplifying Longhorn Music

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The light turned red at the Guadalupe Street crosswalk and Maria Tangarova strolled alongside dozens of other students toward campus. She heard Julian Max before...

 
 

Small Wonder: Tiny Iceland’s Vast Majesty

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The Strokkur geyser erupts every four to eight minutes. In between, it’s a brooding, bubbling hot-pot surrounded by a ring of gray steam and a flimsy looking...

 
 

New Book by UT Journalism Professor Looks at Life of Counterculture Icon Timothy Leary

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In the early 1970s, an ex-Harvard professor named Timothy Leary, who had become the “High Priest of LSD,” became something else: President Nixon’s public...

 
 
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