Sept | Oct 2022

 
Letter From the Executive Director: Bang the Drum

Letter From the Executive Director: Bang the Drum

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Harris backstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2009. As a hardcore business major in the 1980s, I was focused on getting to class at the McCombs...

 
 

The Wildflower Center Is Planting a Field of Light

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There’s plenty to see sprawled across the fields of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center nearly year round: pollinators flitting about native wildflowers,...

 
 

From the Desk of Ellsworth Kelly

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Ellsworth Kelly, “Study for Blue and White Sculpture for Les Tuileries,” 1964, postcard collage. Ellsworth Kelly’s only freestanding building, Austin,...

 
 

Texas Athletics Brings Home the Directors’ Cup—Again

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Alongside the 2022 Directors’ Cup is Chris Plonsky, Texas Athletics chief of staff and executive senior associate athletics director. Led by a new class...

 
 

20 Years of Tailgating

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Friends Stavinoha, Burch, Holloway, and Smith purchased their burnt-orange Volkswagen in 2006; The tailgate across the pond in 2001. “Come early, be loud,...

 
 

A Wilder World

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Author Millie Kerr has had a love for nature and wildlife since she was a child spending time on her grandparents’ ranch, a home to scimitar-horned oryx,...

 
 
Way Out West

Way Out West

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Night begins to fall in Big Bend. We all know Texas is big. We often rumble around in the part we live in (if we’re lucky), and we kind of know that it’s...

 
 

This Longhorn Has Been Running for a Cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for Nearly 20 Years

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The Revells at the finish line of the 2019 Austin Marathon. Faced with his son’s incurable disease, Tim Revell, BS, BS ’99, got busy. Although not a runner,...

 
 
The Way Back: Aggie Armadillos

The Way Back: Aggie Armadillos

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An armadillo is removed from the field by a University of Texas Longhorn Band Member during halftime of the 1971 Texas vs. Texas A&M game. Few rivalries...

 
 

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The Famed Scottish Rite Dormitory Is Celebrating 100 Years This Fall

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For the past century, the Scottish Rite Dormitory, a stately, Georgian-inspired residential building, has sat on a picturesque plot of West 27th Street. Three...

 
 
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