By Carly Cummins and Ian Floyd Blue and orange tobacco-free signs populate lamp posts and building walls, ash cans have been removed from gathering areas, and faculty, staff and students are responsible...

By Sarah Pressley While other parts of the country are dealing with feet of snow, hurricanes and cloudy, grey skies, Austin is still in bloom. [slideshow] The Zilker Botanical Gardens, located near...

By Megan Smith It’s Tuesday night and you slowly drag yourself off the couch, change into your workout gear and start making the trek to the gym, dreading the grueling exercise to come. Working out...

By Ahsika Sanders In 1997, Austin welcomed a new and innovative theater idea that Entertainment Weekly would later name "the best theater in the world.” Alamo Drafthouse theaters are quaint and unconventional...

By Elizabeth Franey The month of October brought many things – cooler weather, autumn leaves, pumpkin patches – but more importantly, it was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and an opportunity...

By Sarah Pressley Despite having lived on 21st Street for four years and passing by the corner of Guadalupe and 21st mornings and afternoons five days a week, I didn't have any idea what the Harry...

Story and photos by Sylvia Medina [slideshow] Art on 5th, Austin’s largest contemporary gallery (the only commercial gallery ever voted “Best in Austin” by the Austin Chronicle), opened in 1998...

By Lara Grant With around 51,000 students enrolled at the University of Texas, it’s not too difficult to find peers who share similar interests. UT makes it easier to discover these people through...

[slideshow] Story and Photos by Mary K. Schaffer Planks of swirling blue glass panel the walls of the cool, bright atrium, transforming the once-empty space into a calming ocean. Light fills every corner...

By Ahsika Sanders More than 800 students filled the Student Activity Center on Nov. 6 to watch the election unfold. It was freshman Lilly Gomez’s first time voting, and she was celebrating it with...

By Rebekah Skelton Lily Hughes reviewed the items she would be taking with her to prison. She was allowed $10 in coins, her driver’s license and keys. She placed the items in a clear make-up bag,...

Story and Photos by Ayanna Estelle The University of Texas main campus has more than 150 buildings: there’s the Flawn Academic Center for studying and getting student IDs made; Battle Hall, a historical...