Category: Life & Arts
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Artists find creative haven in west Dallas warehouse
Building serves as hub for creatives to express themselves through aerosol art, freestyle rapping Nestled in a small West Dallas neighborhood lies a building that’s impossible to miss. Covered in graffiti, the makeshift art gallery serves as a gathering place for local artists, musicians and creatives. The Fabrication Yard, owned by Dallas-based investor Butch McGregor,…
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Faculty brings music into classrooms
Joseph Izen, a physics professor, enters the SLC with his class notes and banjo. Today he is sharing with his students not only his love for physics, but his love for music. He, along with many other professors at UTD, find their personal interests intersecting with their professional ones. Before the banjo, Izen played the…
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Community helps fellow Comet in time of need
After a UTD student left work the night of April 6 to find her car and all its contents, including her laptop and textbooks, stolen, her friend posted an online fundraiser to the UTD subreddit to help. Less than 24 hours later, the university community had donated nearly $200. Computer science senior Nika Darab ended…
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Movie review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’
Editor’s Note: This story includes spoilers for the movie. Speechless. I feel as if that is the only word that comes to mind when looking back at the movie. This movie did an amazing job at making me go through an emotional rollercoaster, but nonetheless, I had goosebumps the entire three hours. Although I did…
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Whatcha Eatin’? Honeycomb
Besides sugar, honey is perhaps the most familiar sweetener we know and love. And most of us also probably know that honeycomb (and the honey that comes with it) is produced by bees. But what are the details of the process, and how is UTD involved? To answer these questions, my friend and fellow editor…
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Artists use ‘experimental methods’ in exhibit
A large white rectangular block stands in the middle of a large white room in the SP/N Gallery at Synergy Park North 2. One side is adorned by detailed cutout black and white pictures of mushrooms, and the other side covered with small framed black and white photos of smiling people covered with paint splatters…
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Student play explores mental health
Since the summer of 2018, a group of UTD students — along with director Shelby-Allison Hibbs — have worked on creating and performing a self-devised play about mental illness. The play, “A Mirror Right Through You,” began taking shape when Hibbs surveyed students about what they wanted the play to focus on. The response, Hibbs…
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Whatcha Eatin’? Menudo
I’ve eaten a lot of pretty weird things in my life — cow feet, goat brains and jelly fish, just to name a few. As weird as they may sound, they’re commonplace for me now that I’ve eaten them many times. This time, I had the opportunity to add cow’s stomach to my list. This…
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Graduate rallies for immigrants at border
Last summer, one UTD alumna packed a bag and the six first-aid kits available at a nearby Walmart and drove more than 500 miles to the largest U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention center in McAllen, known colloquially as “Ursula.” Ashtyn Tayler graduated from UTD with her post-baccalaureate degree in biomedical sciences last fall. The…
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Junior spreads smiles through baked goods
A student combined his passions for people and creation to start his own baking business. Since he introduced it to his network at UTD, he has been growing its reach by collaborating with various student organizations on campus. Smiles Bakery is a pop-up bakery business started by entrepreneurship and marketing junior Andrew Blodgett. Since establishing…