Voting means a lot of different things to different people. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming and difficult to decipher between various candidates and policies; other times, it feels wholly pointless to vote, especially for communities whose voices are regularly ignored by the government.
What happened to pop music? In the streaming age, pop music has taken the backseat and faded into irrelevance. It’s turning into a dying effort. Pop icons have been changing their theme and sound through the years in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. It has stopped working.
With the release of a new Netflix original movie focused around Black women’s hair and conforming to society’s standards, Black, female UT students realize how the film speaks to their problems surrounding their hair choices.
Your grandma probably has a Facebook, tweeting about your day has become second nature, and your Instagram is probably a collection of your favorite memories selected especially for your closest 900 friends. With so much social media, you’d expect users to understand the do’s and don’ts of posting. But we all have those friends who use Twitter as a diary and Instagram like a mirror.
Owning every piece of clothing in one color might seem easy, but you shouldn’t underestimate the art of uniformity. Monochrome is more than black and white—it’s using multiple shades of a single hue.
One of the prerequisites for being a music writer is believing in your own impeccable taste. If we have the potential to influence the public’s perception and consumption of new music, we have to like stuff that doesn’t suck. Still, we’re only human, and we all deserve a few get-out-of-jail-free cards. We can hold on to our favorite guilty pleasures without owing anybody an explanation. It could be worse. It could be Nickelback.
In reports, the walk is usually described as a 2.5-mile trek.
However, UT journalism professor Gene Burd does not have a GPS, nor does he use an iPhone to calculate the shortest distance from his apartment on Barton Springs Road to the Belo Center for New Media. He knows the streets as avenues for communication, not transportation, and chooses to take the long way around — to look at the City, note its changes, check all of the parking meters for loose change and stop for a chat with a lot attendant by the Capitol.
"The Humbling" was everything I expected and more. Al Pacino (cast as the movie's protagonist, Simon Axler) has never been more captivating — or should I say, convincing (movie joke)? Originally written as a novel by Philip Roth, the screenplay was adapted by Buck Henry and Michal Zebede. Present at the screening of the film Thursday night at the Austin Film Festival at the Paramount Theater, Zebede told the audience that "The Humbling" had been a passion project for Pacino, so he had already been cast to play the part. She added that she took inspiration from Pacino’s life and wrote it into the character.
On Friday, September 12, the LBJ Presidential Library lit up with socialites, designers and fashion lovers from all over at "MOD: A Modern Take on ‘60s Fashion." Austin designers Daniel Esquivel, Ross Bennett, Crowned Bird, Gail Chovan, Boudoir Queen, Amber Perley and Rare Trends brought Lady Bird Johnson’s evening wear back to life with modern looks based on her time in the White House.
