The Average Student

Rising workloads, rising costs pressuring UT students

"...Have students and administration at UT Austin ever been more disconnected? Management tried to steamroll..."

March 7, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cactus Showdown at ACES

UT president Bill Powers to discuss university budget cuts today

"...While it was intended to be a discussion about the entire university, it now seems that UT President..."

Feb. 2, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Max Payne

Film version of the popular video game stars Mark Wahlberg … unfortunately.

"...Max Payne has been adapted for the screen by UT-Austin alum Beau Thorne. He does a fine job of..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Driving Strikewards?

Transit union to vote today on latest Capmetro contract offer.

"...for wages lost for working under the old contract. But the union argues the new plan guts health care..."

Aug. 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

How Do You Say 'Ouch' in Caveman Speak?

Cavemen crash, but there's a new hope

"...of Homo Erectus, the long-delayed lowbrow comedy from the now-shuttered UT production arm Burnt Orange Productions. In a Variety..."

June 16, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Guess Who's Coming to Terrorize Your Night

UT alum Bryan Bertino's nerve-shattering debut, 'The Strangers'

"...Hooper did it with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but Terrence Malick did it, too, with Kit and Holly..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Attorney General, or Witchfinder General?

Can’t get a straight answer from Attorney General Michael Mukasey as to whether waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty!

"...whether waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty! In case you’re currently dwelling under a..."

Feb. 4, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Chris Mihm, Remember Him?

"...Quick little UT flashback: You surely remember the great white hype, one..."

Jan. 5, 2008 Sports Post by Andy Denham

College Students Drink More on Game Days?!

"...Eve and Halloween. Kim Fromme, psychologist and director of UT's Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky Activities Lab, co-wrote..."

Nov. 27, 2007 Sports Post by Kristine Tofte

Horns Squeak by CFU, but Should Pass on the Purple Drank

"...night one of the local stations had on former UT coach Fred Akers, resembling as usual a Hanna-Barbara cartoon,..."

Sept. 17, 2007 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

80th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays Opens Wednesday

The Texas Relays at UT is one of top track & field events in the nation and the center of a big party scene

"...Texas Longhorns will provide some of the biggest highlights: UT's men – led by 2008 Beijing Olympics U.S. team..."

April 3, 2007 Sports Post by Lee Nichols

Strange Cases on the 40 Acres

"Best of 2006", worst of frat hazing

"...Today, Metroblogging Austin prints UT Campus Watch's "Best of 2006" roundup, apparently available to..."

Jan. 4, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Horns Having Success in the NFL

"...train wreck from which it’s hard to look away, but do look. Look to the future. All the way..."

Dec. 4, 2006 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

It's All Over for the Lady Longhorns

"...goal-of-the-year from big sister Rachel Rapinoe to knock the UT Lady Longhorns out of the NCAA tourney. Rapinoe nailed..."

Nov. 21, 2006 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Next-to-Last Chance to See Your 2006 Lady Longhorns!

"...The UT Lady Longhorns ran their record to 12-3-1 with a..."

Oct. 19, 2006 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

'Pig Skinny': Oklahoma vs. Texas

"...The Red River Shootout is this weekend, and as the Longhorns and Sooners..."

Oct. 3, 2006 Sports Post by Taylor Holland

The Big Pitch

A horror film starring UT students aiming for the big screen

"...Just hear me out. What's the scariest thing ever? No, no, no. Worse..."

May 19, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Three Days of Rain

A drama by debut filmmaker Michael Meredith is a Chekhov-inspired collection of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland, and features an impressive cast.

"...Three Days of Rain, a drama of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland,..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

"...its first production anywhere. So it is with the UT Department of Theatre and Dance, which is over the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Witness says student was in love with Pitonyak

"...Austin Police have charged 21-year-old UT student Laura Ashley Hall with a third-degree felony for..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Suspect caught in Mexico; allegedly mutilated victim with hacksaw

"...U.S. marshals have arrested 22-year-old UT student Colton Pitonyak, whom Austin police have charged with..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

State AG tries to shut down the nation's biggest mass e-mailers

"...America's most notorious spammers – a 22-year-old junior at UT – under two Texas laws – the Electronic Mail..."

Jan. 21, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Character Development

UT's Video Game Design Boot Camp

"...a game whose narrative value rivals film or television. But in the fast-growing gaming world, cutting-edge designers aren't just..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Our Man in Cannes

UT filmmakers and mo(o)re

"...the whole experience. "The festival was impenetrable," the 35-year-old UT student filmmaker says. "I had full accreditation but couldn't..."

June 4, 2004 Screens Feature by Russell Cobb

Saving Darma

A UT linguist travels to northern India in a quest to preserve the local language of the Darma Valley

"...and supplely laden donkeys. The Darma have followed this route for generations. If modern life in the form of..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Feature by Dan Oko

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...shot of Elizabeth Taylor; a sleek car of the future imagined by designer Norman Bel Geddes; a Depression-era woman..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Person

During his appearance at UT's Union Ballroom, New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell wanted to talk about "social power," a subject at the heart of his bestselling Tipping Point. Sarah Hepola reports.

"..."No one finds this story that I'm about to tell you funny," says Malcolm Gladwell. "I'm only..."

April 11, 2003 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Shanghai Noon

"...his match, and wouldn't you know, it's Owen Wilson (UT acting alum and Wes Anderson's writing partner). With his..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

"...his Eighties smash live-action film of the same name, but don't let that deter you from seeking it out..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Mask

"...through a wad of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Simon's voiceover quickly reveals that both he and the..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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