Letters to Texas

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The life and times of celebrated author Shelby Hearon. You can practically smell the kolaches in Shelby Hearon’s 1991 book Hug Dancing, when her heroine visits...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Well hello.

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You don’t know me, but I know you. I’ve been the managing editor of the Alcalde for the past four years, and now I have come out from behind my cubicle to address...

 
 

March|April 2017 Good Reads

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New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department  by Carol Dawson, BA ’75, and Roger Allen Polson,...

 
 
Another Place and Time

Another Place and Time

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Two UT professors document the untold history of Hollywood’s greatest scenic artists.  In one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history, Cary Grant and...

 
 
Movers and Shakers

Movers and Shakers

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Meet six students who are leading the way on campus. Pulling all-nighters at the PCL, sweating it out at Gregory Gym, and meeting study groups for dinner at Jester...

 
 
Giving Waste the Boot

Giving Waste the Boot

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A Longhorn is making Fort Hood a near-perfect picture of sustainability. Jennifer Rawlings got her start at Fort Hood by digging through people’s trash. Hired...

 
 

True Story

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Journalism professor Mary Angela Bock weighs in on the rise of “fake news.” These days, the media landscape is like the Wild Wild West. If you don’t have a...

 
 

Duck Dynasty

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New research tells us to forget everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs. If a time machine dropped modern day humans onto Antarctica’s Vega Island around...

 
 
 
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