Baylor Opera Theatre will present Henry Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas,” with veteran stage director Eric Gibson leading the student performers and assistant professor of voice Jeffrey Peterson conducting the Baylor Symphony Orchestra.
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Downtown shoppers at Spice Village have a new place to get food while on-the-go.
Pittsburgh, Pa. native Jennifer Luitweiler is a woman that’s always on the go. However, she still found time to write her first book, “Run With Me: An Accidental Runner and the Power of the Poo.”
Coming back after a successful year, the Cultural Foods & Dances Night is Saturday. Presented by Mission Waco, the program is designed to bring participants a smorgasbord of unique cultural foods and festivities for those desiring to participate in some culture surfing.
It’s a little place off Colcord Avenue that only a select few know about. It’s a venue. It’s a coffeehouse. It’s a restaurant known for its Texas burger and sweet potato fries.
“What I learned at Baylor is that you have to tell compelling stories,” says Will Bakke, a 2011 Baylor graduate.
Students will gather as a community to connect and build relationships in a creative and artistic way at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Bill Daniels Student Center Den.
For many artists trying to make a mark on the music industry, getting shows outside of your home area can be a challenge. For Uproar artist Layne Lynch, she’s already accepting her second opportunity to perform at the Prophet Bar in Dallas. After performing at the venue in May 2011, Lynch is performing again at the Prophet Bar.
This spring semester, Baylor’s film and digital media department will continue to host films from the Texas Independent Film Network.
How do you stay interested in the environment and conservation when spring semester and busy class schedules are knocking on your door? Uproar Records has the answer with its current endeavor: Project Greenway.
This March, Central Texas will play host to one of the largest music festivals in the country – South By Southwest.
Parking permits for Alamodome lots have been sold out, purchased by Alamodome season ticket holders and sponsors. Still, the Alamo Bowl and the city of San Antonio make it easy to reach the stadium from downtown.
The Baylor theater department has begun rehearsing for the spring production of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Master’s candidate Josiah Wallace, who is directing the production, gave the Lariat some insight into what the prospective audience can expect about this theatrical interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel.
After two successful plays this semester, Baylor’s theater department has three more productions for students and faculty to look forward to in the spring.
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.
If I could travel back in time, I would definitely go back to the ’90s. I miss wearing scrunchies, watching awesome Saturday morning cartoons, playing outside until the streetlights came on and hopping around with my Skip It for hours on end.
In the Baylor bubble of restaurants – where Chili’s Too and Pizza Hut reign supreme – it is easy to forget that there are alternatives in Waco.
Baylor students no longer have to fear venturing beyond the fast food block across Interstate 35 when searching for a place to eat.
Technology has generated a new era in the music industry. Today anyone with a computer can become a musician by using their computer as an instrument or simply as their recording studio. Chad Thomas Johnston is using the Internet and his personal website to spread the music he has created in his melodic journey thus far.
The Baylor and Waco communities combined at First Baptist Church of Waco on Thursday evening to hear author Wes Moore tell the story behind his bestselling book.
The band Black Bananas will release the LP album “Rad Times Express IV,” on Jan. 31.
A New York Times bestselling author will speak at a local church due to the combined efforts of The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, Baylor and its Academy for Leader Development, in addition to other local sponsors as part of an initiative to promote literacy.
In the age of convenience, with its 70-cent microwaveable Ramen and greasy drive-thru fast food, busy college students can have a hard time finding healthier meal options. But for Baylor students there is hope: Terry and Jo’s Food For Thought.
Willie Nelson is a famous musician in his own right, but the country star says his career wouldn’t be the same without the influence of old friend and western swing legend Tommy Duncan.
The producers of “300” have brought audiences a new bloody but unfortunately not nearly as awesome, battle story with “Immortals.”
Everyone has secrets, and most of us worry about what the consequences would be if they were ever discovered. In Clint Eastwood’s most recent film, “J. Edgar,” J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for almost 50 years, is portrayed as the keeper of secrets, both the government’s and his own.
The inaugural Cold War Film Festival began Monday with “One, Two, Three,” a comedy set in the 1960s that pokes fun at tensions between two powerful nations during their struggle for global dominance.
One Baylor alumnus will never forget the night of Oct. 15, 1979, when a tragic crime turned his world upside down. Now Brooks Douglass has moved on, enough to co-write and produce a movie, “Heaven’s Rain,” in which he chronicles the story in a series of flashbacks so that audiences can travel his personal journey toward healing and forgiveness.
Dr. James A. Roberts, professor of marketing at Baylor, has studied consumerism in America and has revealed some of the secrets of marketers in his recent book “Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have In Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy.” Barnes & Noble on Waco Drive will be hosting a book signing for Roberts today from 7 to 9 p.m., but we decided to get an early start on the questions.
Mostly everyone can agree that money doesn’t buy happiness, but few people would decide that they need to write a book to actually prove that claim.