For the next three Fridays, we will be interviewing Baylor alumni about how they found their passion in the film industry.
Author: Kristina Valdez
Family Weekend means dragging your parents around to all your favorite coffee shops, study hideouts and hole-in-the-wall restaurants.
Tuesday, Sept. 12 Café Castellaw Location: Castellaw Communications Center | Cost: Free | Time: 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. A steaming hot cup of coffee and a free breakfast that is waiting for you to start your Tuesdays off right. Café Castellaw is every Tuesday starting Sept.12 until Nov. 24. Wednesday, Sept. 13 Jennifer Knapp Concert Location: Waco Hippodrome | Cost: $15 | Time: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Openly gay Christian contemporary artist Jennifer Knapp will be performing her newest album, “Love Comes Back Around,” that was released in June 2017. See this Grammy-nominated artist perform. Thursday, Sept.…
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Tuesday, Aug. 29 LatinX Night Location: Barfield Drawing Room | Cost: Free | Time: 6 p.m. Within the last semester, the LatinX Coalition at Baylor has hosted forums on immigration and protested the Baylor Kappa Sigma chapter, that was suspended for a racially insensitive party. LatinX Coalition at Baylor will share their goals for the semester and how to become a member. Smash Mouth w/ Honest Men Location: The Backyard Bar Stage and Grill | Cost: GA $20 | Time: Doors: 6 p.m. Show: 8:30 p.m. The Backyard will open their rustic outdoor stage to Smash Mouth w/ Honest…
By Kristina Valdez | A&L EditorThe 22nd Annual Margarita and Salsa Festival filled the Extraco Events Center on Saturday with salsa and country music by artists such as Randy Rogers Band, Cody Jinks and Jon Wolfe. All the proceeds for the event benefited the Heart O’Texas Fair and Rodeo Scholarship fund. Plaid shirts and cowboy boots stormed the Extraco Events Center. Starting at 5 p.m., event-goers could sample the 17 restaurant salsa entries in the Extraco Coliseum. Native Wacoans Jim and Lynnette Jones were working on their first sample of salsa right as the concert began at 7 p.m. in…
By Kristina Valdez | Arts and Life EditorBaylor alumna Erin Gaddis and her partner Mecca Amoni Michele Lewis won the NAACP criminal short documentary competition with “JustUs: Living with a Criminal Record” during the 108th NAACP Annual Convention July 21-26 in Baltimore. “I have friends and family who have seen the hardships of how our criminal justice system works—or doesn’t work,” Gaddis said. “Living with a criminal record is something that really spoke to me and that goes back to basic human rights. As a black woman, when we talk about slavery and slavery by another name that is incarceration.”…
By Kristina Valdez | Arts and Life Editor Friday, Aug. 25 Late Night at Baylor University Location: Bill Daniel Student Center, Moody Library, Russell Gym, McLane Student Life Center and Bobo Baptist Student Center | Cost: Free | Time: 9 p.m.- 12 a.m. New and returning students will have the opportunity to meet-and-greet over 225 student organizations. There will be games, food and prizes at various locations. Need we say more? ‘What About Waco’ Documentary Screening Location: Mayborn Musuem | Cost: Free | Time: 6- 8 p.m., Fri.- Sun. While you are avoiding Hurricane Harvey, spend the evening inside…
Monday, Aug. 21 (Partial) Solar Eclipse Location: Anywhere outside | Cost: Free | Time: 11:40 a.m. to 2:39 p.m. Waco will be experiencing a partial solar eclipse with 70% of the sun being covered from 11:40 a.m. to 2:39 p.m. The maximum coverage will be at 1:10 p.m., but you will need special eyewear to view this event that won’t happen again until April 20, 2024. Dr. Trey Cade, assistant research professor and director of the Baylor Institute for Air Science, gives advice for the best way to view the solar eclipse in Waco. Click here for more…
Kristina Valdez | Arts and Life EditorGrab a seat on the lawn of the SUB Bowl this Wednesday with a Steel City Pop in hand and start the 2017 fall semester off with Mosaic Week.“For freshmen, especially [minority] freshman, it can be overwhelming trying to decide where they will fit in at [Baylor] as a predominantly white institution that it is,” said Kristen Williams, Cedar Hill junior and President of NAACP. “Mosaic Mixer gives freshmen the opportunity to find a place here at Baylor and join a lot of organizations that they are interested in.”Mosaic Mixer begins at 6 p.m.…
Kristina Valdez | Arts and Life EditorFor the entire month of August, the Waco 52 pop-up gallery will be honoring the culture of Waco through the inspired work of talented Waco artists. This exhibition has found its home at 712 Austin Ave. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, you can admire 52 art pieces that were delicately curated by Creative Waco, a nonprofit organization.“Creative Waco’s goals are to make Waco the kind of place that is vibrant and bursting with life in those kinds of community building and participation-generating activities that help us all to thrive,” said…
Hulu is bringing Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” to the laptops, tablets and smartphones of any user with a Hulu account on Wednesday. The book and the soon-to-be TV show is a modern horror for women and democracy. Dystopian novels such as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984” and “Brave New World” shine a spotlight on society’s worst flaws. When we focus on this spotlight, we are awakened to the sides of human nature, in an attempt for the perfect society, try to extinguish the minorities and the weak. Dystopian novels and their TV shows remind of us of what can become…
By: Kristina Valdez | Copy Editor Several religious communities around Waco have had to figure out where they stand on recent controversial topics such as immigration and sanctuary church status. The Lariat reached out to the Islamic Center of Waco, First United Methodist Church of Waco, University Baptist Church, First Baptist Church Waco and St. Louis Catholic Church about these topics. Some revealed their approach on immigration, their views on recent travel bans and how their faith aligns with their views while others declined to comment. Jay Netherton, director of communication of First Baptist Church Waco, located at 500 Webster…
As women, we can no longer say our piece and move on. Injustice and inequality will continue whether we are paying attention to it or not. We shouldn’t hang up our signs and quiet our voices until women’s rights are no longer threatened.On Jan. 21, millions of people worldwide marched, protested and stood together for equality and for women’s rights. The mobilization and passion of so many was amazing after a bitter, whirlwind presidential election.Soon, the hashtag #shepersisted raced through social media after Elizabeth Warren was prevented from speaking on the Senate floor during the rest of Jeff Sessions’ nomination…
Former Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr intertwines the history of Baylor with his own time serving as the university’s president from 2009 to 2015 in his new book “Bear Country: The Baylor Story,” in thumb-twiddling monologue for three-fourths of the book that leaves you wondering how many pages are left until the “exploding” end.If you love Baylor or Starr, you can find an appreciation for this book. At times, it feels as if you are reading a well-written online description on a Baylor website about traditions and school history. You desperately want to flip to the end to get…
For Dr. Julio César Aguilar, writing poetry is a way to remain present and to understand the mysteries of life.“I think poetry is a great, wonderful resource to know yourself better and to be a better human being,” Aguilar, lecturer in Spanish, said. “All art any artistic expression-can help us understand the world better, to find yourself, to be feel better and to be happier.” Aguilar has written 18 poetry books in Spanish and “Perfil de niebla” is the most recent publication. The book combines two of Aguilar’s previously published works, “Rescoldos” in 1995 and “Brevesencias” in 1996, discussing night,…
I don’t know if I am signing my papers to be excommunicated from the Christian Church or if I am opening the floodgates for the letters of begrudged readers by saying that I, a Christian, admire qualities of Muslim women. If I am doing either, bring it on. I have unconsciously grown up with the ideology that Muslims are bad and Christians are good. Muslim women are oppressed, and Muslim men are extremists. Muslims are bad and Christians are good. But I am now throwing up all the force-fed media portrayals and one-sided narratives. Christians and Muslims have been ping-ponged…
A book written by an alcoholic about being an alcoholic is not for everyone. A book written about being a woman in the midst of double standards, all-night binge drinking, and endless self-discovery can be for everyone. Sarah Hepola’s brutally honest autobiography and New York Times bestseller, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget,” is not for the complacent, wavering reader. This novel draws out the darkest inner workings into a humorous light with tastefully placed swear words and outlandish stories about the drunk and disorderly. “Alcoholism is a self-diagnosis,” Hepola wrote. “Science offers no biopsy, no home kit…
