James Rodriguez

Bertha Delgado watched the landscape of her East Austin community slowly shift as new, sleeker homes replaced the ones she had known all her life. Entire families vanished, and soon, murals and businesses followed suit. 

Midway through the opening night party for the Indie Meme Film Festival, founder and co-organizer Alka Bhanot attempts to make her way through the crowd. Swarmed by congratulatory friends, family and festival-goers, she takes over ten minutes to reach the microphone.

Nathan Felix, a punk rocker who spent his first three post-grad years touring with his band, could feel himself getting antsy. 

The north Austin offices of George P. Johnson marketing firm are nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the drab, gray buildings that dot the area. But inside, employees work amid expansive murals that depict Austin culture in dazzling color. 

Richard Linklater films are known for generating countless enduring images, from a mustachioed Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused” to a young bohemian peddling Madonna’s alleged pap smear in “Slacker.” On March 12, a slate of artists will reimagine those scenes in the form of movie posters for Mondo Gallery’s “No Longer/Not Yet” show, a tribute to Linklater’s work.

Nathan Nordstrom remembers peering over the shoulders of fellow middle school students, anxious to see the graffiti writing etched into their sketchbooks. 

Nicole Whiteside often wonders what it would be like to dance atop the buildings she sees on a daily basis.

In the early days of managing her prepackaged meal company, Gourmet By Numbers, Heather Amalaha’s life was a series of transitions from one kitchen to another. 

Pulsing synth beats, sleek animations and black and white aerial shots of Austin provide the backdrop for the opening sequence of “The Texas Edge,” a new online video series produced by UT business students and twin brothers Andrew and Christian Córdova. 

Editor's Note: This week, the Life&Arts department will cover prevalent issues on campus — today's package addresses diversity of campus.

Penny Hunt arrived in Austin in 2004 with a mountain bike, two backpacks and what little remained of her salary from a job at a failed circus. Her surroundings were unfamiliar, but her situation was not. 

Failed artwork, sketches and used tools are most often found in the dusty corners of art studios.

UT alumna Lynn Osgood had an idea that she could not shake. 

Business honors senior Samuel Garcia fell in love with goats at the age of eight when his father, a prominent lawyer in the Rio Grande Valley, accepted a small herd as payment for his legal services. 

Before Upright Citizens Brigade takes the stage Thursday, Gigglepants, UT’s only short-form improv comedy group, will perform an improv comedy set of their own.

Every day for the past year, undergraduate studies sophomore Joshua Sherden has sported a bucket hat.

When New Zealand Governor-General Jerry Mateparae announced architecture senior Jessica Glennie as one of the recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, Glennie almost didn’t realize what had happened.

This weekend, Texas will take to the water in Bloomington, Indiana, to compete in the Dale England Cup.

Latin American studies freshman Rachel Fleming knew she wanted to attend the University of Texas and study in UT’s top-notch Latin American studies program. However, there was one part of her college experience she never anticipated — becoming a Division I athlete.

When the Longhorns hit the water for the San Diego Crew Classic this weekend, they will have two new boats.

Check out what happened to UT sports over the weekend.

When the women’s rowing team takes to Lady Bird Lake on Saturday to compete in the Head of the Colorado regatta, it will mark the first race in the program’s history without former head coach Carie Graves, who helped start the program in 1998 and announced her retirement in May.