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So You Didn’t Get The Internship You Wanted. Now What?

Samantha Reimers, Austin Writer April 28, 2025

Finding an internship over the summer can be hard. Many students scroll through LinkedIn and Handshake for hours while looking for that coveted position. They rewrite resumes and craft cover letters for...

ABC Kite Fest - Reflections on an Old Austin Tradition

ABC Kite Fest – Reflections on an Old Austin Tradition

John Youngdale, Austin Writer April 28, 2025

From almost a mile away, I could make out the small, multicolored shapes poking out from behind the trees that surround Zilker Park. The number of them grew as I got closer. Some sat high above the others,...

Courtesy of Maria Tello

Community Members-Turned Leaders Continue Spreading Health Awareness Through Cooking Classes

Natalia Molina, Eats Writer April 25, 2025

Maria Tello considers helping others her mission. After each Happy Kitchen cooking class ends and participants start gathering to leave the People’s Community Clinic, Tello feels a sense of accomplishment....

One Year After Violent Arrests on Campus, UT and Austin Community Gather to Reflect on Pro-Palestine Movement

One Year After Violent Arrests on Campus, UT and Austin Community Gather to Reflect on Pro-Palestine Movement

Avery Silvas, Reporter April 25, 2025

The Palestine Solidarity Committee and Austin Students for a Democratic Society gathered with around 75 people on the UT South Lawn Thursday afternoon to commemorate one year since over 79 pro-Palestine...

Wendy Mitchell paints eagle claws made of clay for her web series starring her stuffed animals on April 8, 2025.

Wendy Mitchell: The Artist Behind the Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation

Lillian Vest, Managing Editor April 24, 2025

He’s a salesman — he was a salesman, now he sits unemployed surrounded by bottles of liquor next to his 1997 Salesman of the Year award. He’s also a stuffed penguin. In her art galleries and petting...

Shop Slow Shuttered, But Their Mission Will Never Go Out of Style

Shop Slow Shuttered, But Their Mission Will Never Go Out of Style

Clarissa Jasso, Austin Writer April 21, 2025

With corporations like Shein, Zara and Amazon dominating the market, how are smaller, ethical businesses supposed to compete? According to Austin Monthly and KXAN, over 12 small businesses across Austin...

Greater Austin Clay Studio Tour connects Community With Clay

Greater Austin Clay Studio Tour connects Community With Clay

Clarissa Jasso, Austin Writer April 21, 2025

Greater Austin Clay Tours serves as a blueprint of what local art’s future could look like as the closure of nonprofit art gallery, Big Medium, leaves the destiny of the Austin Studio Tour uncertain. The...

Attendees and organizers dance during a performance during PSC's "Cafe Resistance" showcase.

The Palestine Solidarity Committee Ends Palestine Resistance Week with Showcase Celebrating the Pro-Palestine Movement

Kassie Araque, Associate Austin Editor April 5, 2025

The Palestine Solidarity Committee hosted its final event in the Palestine Resistance Week Friday evening at the University Baptist Church. The event titled “Cafe Resistance” was a showcase featuring...

Dim the Lights and Silence Your Phones: Presenting RTF's Student Film Showcase

Dim the Lights and Silence Your Phones: Presenting RTF’s Student Film Showcase

Samantha Reimers, Austin Writer April 3, 2025

Hushed whispers filled the dark theater as crowds shuffled into their seats, popcorn in hand and eyes wide in anticipation for the UT RTF Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase. The projector started up,...

Finn Wolfhard’s New Comedy Horror ‘Hell of a Summer’ Has Heart

Finn Wolfhard’s New Comedy Horror ‘Hell of a Summer’ Has Heart

Kassie Araque, Associate Austin Editor April 3, 2025

Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and actors Billy Bryck and Fred Hechinger stopped by the Texas Union Theater at UT on March 26 to show their film “Hell of a Summer,” in theaters April 4.  The...

How A UT Student is Making Her Mark in Austin’s Folk Scene

How A UT Student is Making Her Mark in Austin’s Folk Scene

John Youngdale, Austin Writer March 24, 2025

In the dark concrete basement of the Taos Co-op, a crowd waits for the highly anticipated headliner. Against the backdrop of graffitied walls, the band finishes setting up and tuning their instruments....

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Traveling Chess Club: The Right Move for Locals Craving Connection

Christian DeBrady, Austin Writer March 13, 2025

When self-proclaimed “chess nerd” Rodolfo Rodriguez heard about the Traveling Chess Club from a Starbucks barista last year, he only had a month’s experience in the game. The 25-year-old software...