Reporting Texas TV – March 27, 2025

Journalism students at the University of Texas at Austin produced their second newscast for the Spring 2025 semester. Our mission is to empower students with hands-on journalism experience while providing our audience with insightful coverage of campus events, local news, and issues that matter most. By fostering a collaborative environment, we cultivate the next generation […]

Austin’s Astronomical Sights: An Exhibition That Is Out of This World

byGabriella Vukman

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum is not typically somewhere that folks leave feeling starstruck… With the museum now home to a replica of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the largest land-based telescope in North America, it’s safe to say that the stars have officially gravitated to Austin. Commemorating the McDonald Observatory and its work with […]

Austin Rodeo Spurs Business for Local Artists and Vendors

bySantiago Ortiz

From March 14 to 29, the Austin Rodeo attracts thousands of visitors, giving a significant economic boost to local businesses and artists who depend on the event for exposure and sales. Many see the rodeo as a unique opportunity to connect with customers and grow their brands, from musicians to vendors. In 2024, the event […]

How Nonprofit Tango Charities Fights To Feed Families

byNia Armstrong

South Austin Beer Garden is a popular venue bustling at night, but it might surprise you to know that by morning, volunteers come together to fight food insecurity in Austin. Every fourth Saturday, hunger-based food organization Tango Charities hosts its Feed The City Austin event. Volunteers bring supplies including lunch meat, cheese, bread and tangerines, […]

Not Just for Boys: The Push to Make Girls’ Flag Football a Varsity Sport

byAriel Doss

Girls’ flag football is a sanctioned high school varsity sport in just 14 states, but advocates–from small high schools to the NFL–are pushing to expand it. The legitimization of girls’ flag football by a state is able to expand participation and provide more resources to female athletes, but it might open doors for girls beyond […]

A New Era at the Disch

byGrabiel Silva

Over 21,000 fans packed UFCU Disch-Falk Field for Texas baseball’s weekend series against the No. 2 LSU Tigers. After Texas moved to the SEC from the Big 12 last summer, the series against LSU marked the baseball team’s first SEC home series. The SEC is full of great baseball teams, with 10 teams ranked in […]

Forty Acres Musicians Compete in Battle of the Bands

byJoseph Sweeney

UT Musician Camille Stites sings at the William C. Powers Student Activity Center Auditorium as part of Campus Events + Entertainment’s Battle of the Bands on Tuesday, March 11. Stites and her band will open for rapper ASAP Ferg at E+E’s 40 Acres Fest this Saturday.  Campus Events + Entertainment’s Headliners Committee hosted a Battle […]

Science Museum Holds Sustainable Fashion Show

byAreebah Bharmal

Students dressed in designs featuring layered sequins and other embellishments walked a makeshift runway under dinosaur bones at the Texas Science & Natural History Museum on March 11. The students donned a variety of clothing, from dresses to tops and jackets — all made using sustainable techniques. “It’s a stunning location to combine with the […]

Students Forced Out of Crest at Pearl Over ‘Structural Issues’

byElijah Carll

On Valentine’s Day, tenants living at the Crest at Pearl apartment complex on West Campus were greeted by calls and emails from management, telling them to move out immediately. What most tenants didn’t know then was that over the past two years, four code complaints had been filed surrounding observed structural issues in the building. […]

Texas Poised to Become First State with Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

byMeredith McKelvey

In an all-or-nothing gamble, members of the Texas Legislature are looking to invest state money in highly volatile cryptocurrencies, with the hope that one day digital assets like Bitcoin will stabilize and exponentially increase in value.  

Fears Grow for Nonprofits That Rely on Federal Funding

byShunya Carroll

When the accordion came to Texas in the tail end of the 1800s, a new sound emerged that became so familiar that it became synonymous with Tejano music. Conjunto was born. “This is special. This is Texas music. You can’t find it anywhere else,” said Piper LeMoine, communications director for Austin nonprofit Rancho Alegre. “You […]

Reporting Texas TV – March 13, 2025

Journalism students at the University of Texas at Austin produced their first newscast for the Spring 2025 semester. Our mission is to empower students with hands-on journalism experience while providing our audience with insightful coverage of campus events, local news, and issues that matter most. By fostering a collaborative environment, we cultivate the next generation […]

Austin’s First Women’s Sports Bar Set to Open on Guadalupe Street

byGiorgy Ruiz

  1972 Pub remains under construction on Guadalupe Street in Austin as of March 13. Women’s sports are about to get a new kind of recognition in Austin. Set to open on March 19, 1972 Pub will be the city’s first sports bar dedicated exclusively to women’s collegiate and professional athletics.  The pub will take […]

Texas Rowing Begins Season with Eyes on Fourth National Title in Five Years

byLuke Lawhorn

The University of Texas rowing team is beginning its chase for the program’s fourth NCAA championship in five years as the Longhorns prepare to kick off the season later this month.  Texas’ schedule includes three regular-season meets before the Southeastern Conference Championship on May 11. The NCAA Championships will conclude on June 1.  The three […]

Students Showcase Their Unique Abilities at UT’s Oldest Talent Show

byHope Vanderburg

When thinking of University of Texas traditions, the iconic Tower, the Hook ‘Em hand sign or Smokey the Cannon may come to mind. However, Campus Events and Entertainment’s annual Texas Revue has been around even longer than these legendary UT symbols.  “To be part of something like this and still know that I have an […]

International Women’s Day Brings Pro-Choice Rallies to Austin

byEden Shamy

Austinites marked International Women’s Day on March 8 with pro-choice parties, and rallies at the Texas Capitol drew hundreds of protesters. “Women created this planet. We are the world,” said Minx Leal, an organizer with Women’s March. The afternoon rally protested discrimination against women and called for an end to the state’s near-total abortion ban. […]

A Coffee-Fueled Alternative to Nightlife DJ Sets

byVictoria Hayden

The aroma of espresso fills the air as music from outside drifts into a coffee shop in South Austin on March 8. Beats, Arts & Brews at Dear Austin Coffee Bar is one of many morning DJ events to happen at coffee shops. It offered live mixed music by DJ Cassidy, limited free espresso and […]

Home Sweet … Hotel? Students Uprooted from Faulty Student Housing Complex

byRebecca Butler

Stella Perez planned to have an at-home date with her boyfriend on Valentine’s Day. Instead, she got a call from her student housing complex, Crest at Pearl, that she would be evacuated and relocated to a hotel room for “routine inspections” in her unit.  She spent the rest of Valentine’s weekend in a hotel and the next month haggling with the apartments.
She’s since learned that Crest at Pearl, 706 W. Martin Luther King Blvd. just southwest of the University of Texas campus, has had four code complaints filed against it over two years for structural problems.
Crest at Pearl, built in 2014, is one of 14 student living complexes in Austin’s West Campus neighborhood owned and managed by the Austin-based property management company American Campus Communities. 

Texas’ Suicide Hotline, Overburdened and Underfunded, Could Get Support from a Proposed Bill.

byMadeline De Figueiredox

Each month, thousands of Texans reach out for support in difficult moments by dialing 988, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. But, for some, their calls are met with long wait times and multiple transfers to out-of-state centers. Texas faces a $7 million shortfall in funding for the 988 system.

Texans Rally in Defense of Science and Against Trump Administration Cuts

byMadeline De Figueiredo

Hundreds gathered in front of the Texas Capitol for a “Stand Up to Science” rally Friday, demanding the defense of scientific integrity, expanded funding and the protection of diversity in research. The rally, one of 32 in cities across the country, was organized in response to the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding, the removal […]