Life & Arts

Life & Arts

Looking behind the mask

Greeting a stranger with a friendly smile is certainly a little harder than it used to be, but perhaps one of the more...

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Virtual art exhibition reflects pandemic

Naked, with Fur, running from Aug. 14 to Sept. 26,is the latest virtual exhibition to grace the SP/N Gallery, and the second virtual...

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Living in a twilight world

WARNING: minimal spoilers The best movies don’t just change the way we see the world after we leave the theatre – they change...

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Making a name from TikTok fame

Famous isn’t an inaccurate description of finance freshman Karthik Veduruparthi. College student by day and TikTok star by night, he boasts six hundred...

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Friendship through the screen

A year ago, students walked into class, chose a seat and made small talk with their classmates — a luxury we no longer...

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Students help asylum seekers get legal assistance

A group of UTD students recently took up a project to help increase legal representation for asylum seekers in the Dallas area. In...

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Boba-fide success

With most small businesses facing hard times due to the pandemic, boba shops have stood out from the crowd — surviving and thriving...

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Kicking off the Sunday shoes

Pushing furniture to the side of a room and training on concrete are a couple of accommodations the Power Dancers made for virtual...

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Ask Sophie

Take a look at the world around you. In such a chaotic and unprecedented time, who isn’t struggling to preserve their sanity? Nobody...

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