Category: Life & Arts
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User experience org fuses tech, design, interactivity
Behind every electronic screen, there’s a team of designers, architects and engineers perfecting a seamless experience for consumers. Students have taken notice and are working to gain traction in the field of user experience. The User Experience Club, or UX Club, became an official organization in February and is working to connect emerging media and…
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Decoding Religion: Sikhism
Followers of Sikhism practice philanthropy, community service, advocate for increased exposure for South Asian religion Editor’s Note In an effort to further understand UTD’s diverse population, what follows is the final part in a four-part series exploring lesser-known religious communities, their traditions and their presence on campus. Every Friday, Prabhmanmeet Singh goes to the Gurdwara…
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Decoding Religion: Bahá’í students flee religious persecution in Iran
Student starts UTD Baha’i Club to provide open atmosphere for growing faith community Editor’s Note: In an effort to further understand UTD’s diverse population, what follows is part three in a four-part series exploring lesser-known religious communities, their traditions and their presence on campus. Nader Arzani left his home country two years ago, fleeing religious…
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Contemporary exhibit explores vulnerability
The artwork currently lining the walls of the Visual Arts Building looks nothing like usual art museum fare. Instead, five co-curators have collaborated to organize a contemporary statement whose pieces lie outside the realm of preconceived notions of art. Greg Metz is one of the curators of “Code Yellow” along with five other art professionals.…
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Forced ‘Rio’ sequel lacks vision
Musical comedy film features pleasant animation but pushes unnecessary subplots, weak characters The experience of watching the animated family film “Rio 2” is like eating a second candy bar. The taste is ephemerally sweet and gratifying, but after it’s over, there’s a gradual realization that it didn’t taste quite as good as the first one.…
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Slideshow: Spring Blowout Bash with Anamanaguchi & Nite
On Thursday, April 17, the Visual Arts Building, or Art Barn, was host to Denton-based Nite and New York-based Anamanaguchi for Radio UTD’s Spring Blowout Bash. The event was also sponsored by The Mercury, AMP and UTD TV.
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‘The Unknown Known’ unentertaining with evasive subject
Donald Rumsfeld is a true politician — charming, witty and incredibly smart. Probably best known for being both the youngest and oldest person to be Secretary of Defense with a Machiavellian rise, he is also narcissistic, evasive and opinionated. Acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line”) sat down to discuss Rumsfeld’s life in Morris’ new…
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‘Enemy’ confuses with sex, spiders
In a dimly lit room in front of an audience of stern men, a woman disrobes and walks down a black, slick runway placing her high heel on top of a crawling tarantula. So begins “Enemy,” an erotic thriller that manages to feel terrible and enthralling all at once. The indie film stars Jake Gyllenhaal…
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African org brings together community, culture
Juliette Ugirumurera left Rwanda with nine other people to a country far from home. She came to the United States six years ago with a scholarship to attend Oklahoma Christian University. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in computer science at UTD. Although the first year in the United States was hard, Ugirumurera said she began…
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‘Universe’ exhibit debuts at gallery
MFA student uses rust, recycled materials to make asteroid-like installations Visitors to the McKinney Avenue Contemporary were led through a small hallway into a white room that flowed with rust-colored asteroids suspended from the ceiling to lacquered waste objects reaching up to the sky in universal spirals. Val Curry stood behind one of the asteroids…