To those fans of tragic, unfulfilled love out there, you might have another tale to add to your repertoire. “La Bohème,” Giacomo Puccini’s classic starving-artist opera, is making its way to Austin’s Long Center for the Perf...

The Austin-made, limited-release film “Love & Tambourines” opens with a girl humming a tune in soft, cutesy “bum-bum-bums” against a black-and-white, slow-motion, backward footage of a girl in a black New York City tee banging ...

Walking out of “The Fourth Kind,” whispers could be heard across the theater: “Do you think it’s real?”...

Textiles and apparel senior Alex King steps over dark-colored scraps of fabric strewn about the floor to cinch a jacket tighter on her model....

Growing up in rural Michigan, Ivy League schools weren’t the norm for kids in Ashley Hartley’s neighborhood. But, following the advice of teachers and coaches, she applied to and was accepted by Harvard University to play softball....

Faith Schexnayder’s house is always inundated with oversized chickens, fish and hamburgers, but she’s not a gluttonous eater — she just enjoys sculpting foam....

Through MSNBC.com gossip columnist Jeannette Walls’ wildly successful and riveting 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” readers were introduced to a cast of vibrant, eccentric characters from the author’s own life....

Makeshift signs crafted from old cardboard boxes donned slogans including “You CAN help!” pointed in the direction of can mountain, a pile of goods collected for Wednesday’s third annual Harvest Mandala Food Drive....

In ancient Greece, Euripides wrote “The Trojan Women,” one of the first plays to show the impact of war from the victim’s perspective. Thousands of years and quite a few wars later, the UT Theatre and Dance department has given a modern ...

The tragedy that has befallen “Trojan Women” is a difficult one....

This is not an Oscar prediction. Many of the heaviest contenders have yet to enter the ring....

Anyone who has ever browsed the magazine racks at the grocery store has noticed, women’s magazines give a lot of advice about how to please men in bed. Although they are meant to give guidance about what turns men on, most of these articles are actu...

Try walking anywhere near 21st Street on campus, and you’ll experience something that students along that route have noticed since the start of the semester — the robust smell of smoked meat on the fire pit....

The smokey aroma of barbecue wafts up from the small wooden Texas Picnic Company next to Dobie Center, clinging to clothes and spurring memories of passionate football games with close friends and family. In many ways, it’s that same smell that serv...

I blame Cinderella for brainwashing the world into believing that pumpkins can do just about anything....

Whether you prefer crispy iceberg lettuce or spinach leaves, salads are a favorite choice for meals due to their easy assembly and versatility....

Brütal Legend (Xbox360, PS3); Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)...

The Mary Onettes: Islands; Think About Life: Family; Pelican: What We All Come to Need...

The Blanton Museum of Art’s new exhibits, “Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape” and the complementary “Drawn Toward Light,” are enchanting, if flawed....

Eerie music blared from a bulky boom box rigged to a bike as hundreds of cycling enthusiasts gathered under the flawless autumn sky Friday for Critical Mass....