With his passing, members of the UT community have taken to the internet to share their thoughts, memories and photos.

When you’re a bartender you can never fully trust anyone who walks into the bar.

The question of the minimum legal drinking age being 21 is more than someone’s bluff to keep kids wholesome.

The only thing you need to play the game is a little bit of money to buy in — or a fake ID.

Aside from your usual cold Miller High Life or a Lonestar, a hefeweizen is also a traditional, iconic Texas summer beer with hints of banana and clove.

The Bloody Mary cocktail’s origins are about as murky as the drink itself.

There’s a certain imagery associated with tiki culture — that broad over-Americanization of all things tropical, resulting in color-me-sick frozen cocktails with plastic swords for miniature pirates poured into coconuts.

The 5-foot-6-inch outspoken director Spike Lee made his presence felt on the stage at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium on Sunday and focused on the ongoing corruption resulting from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to the more recent British Petroleum oil spill.

There are writers who drank, and there was Ernest Hemingway — an author who continues to influence countless writers. His stripped down, journalistic style is like cubism is to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; he owned it, and before he succumbed to extreme alcoholism, he managed to produce an extensive canon.

While some English scholars devote much of their time and research to author Ernest Hemingway’s writing, Hemingway also continues to garner attention for his influence on and history with cocktail culture, with drinks ranging from the popular Mojito to the more obscure Farewell to Hemingway.

After the small food-cart spot near The Castilian and Starbucks was left unoccupied for most of the summer, Kabob Yo has moved in with a low-key white trailer that serves up savory, robustly flavored pita wraps.

Judy Collins sat at a table on the third floor of BookPeople Friday afternoon, casually sipping a cold Diet Coke. Known for singing alongside some of the great folk artists of the ’60s like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, Collins, 71, prepared herself before going on stage to sing some of her classic songs and talk about her new children’s book, “Over the Rainbow.”

The second annual Austin Fashion Week wrapped up Saturday with the Austin Fashion Awards, as one UT alumnus took home an award for best designer.

It would be a big mistake to write 20 year-old Sabra Johnson off as a fashion designer and model who looks like a sweet and innocent Taylor Swift or Blake Lively. Her designs are a mash-up of flowing, free-spirited gowns and darker elements straight out of a Marilyn Manson concert.

Saturday marks the beginning of Austin Fashion Week, a celebration of all things chic, from couture fashion and designer pasties to hair and makeup styles.

With the final week of summer session hanging over campus like the oppressive summer heat, the onset of the fall semester also means we’re trudging toward some highly anticipated television seasons.

When it comes to wine bars, you’ve got to have three things to set yourself apart: service, selection and scene.

When it comes to their Thai restaurant of choice, UT students typically pick from Madam Mam’s, Thai Noodle House or Thai Kitchen. Now there’s a new player in the neighborhood.

August 29 will mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

A good pair of specs is hard to find. The most stylish ones are too expensive, and the dirt cheap ones are horrible.