Some students toss out an empty cereal box and old magazines, but others consider adding some tarp, creating an outfit and winning $500.
Browsing: Arts and Life
The official Twitter feed for Diadeloso 2014 announced Friday that Christian alternative rock band Needtobreathe would be headlining the festivities on April 10.
Robert Duvall first came to Texas when he was 10, a San Diego military brat on a visit to his mother’s family. It would be his first time on a horse, and his first encounter with the people he would later come to know so well.
Sony is getting into the virtual reality business. The Japanese electronics and gaming giant unveiled a prototype virtual reality headset to be used in conjunction with its PlayStation 4 video game console during a Tuesday talk at the Game Developers Conference.
Could this be a mah-velous comedic union? FX announced it has given a series order to the Billy Crystal-fronted half-hour titled “The Comedians.”
The single-camera comedy, produced by Fox Television Studios, features the 66-year-old multi-hyphenate as an established comic vet who gets paired with a younger, edgier newcomer, played by Broadway and TV actor Josh Gad, for a late-night sketch show — giving an insiders look at the late-night scene in the process.
“The Voice” is getting yet another dose of pop star power. NBC’s hit singing competition show has recruited Coldplay’s Chris Martin to serve as a mentor.
It all started with a $10 purchase of a domain name – paizlee.com. From there, Baylor alumnae Katie Henry and Emily Rawls built their online fashion site, Paizlee, and at 6 p.m. today in 403 Cashion Academic Center, they will be giving entrepreneurial advice on how they did it.
Everything else is going 3-D and computer generated. Why not Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang? At least, that’s what those behind a November 2015 release starring Charlie Brown and his beloved canine are hoping.
Tina Fey is working on a “Mean Girls” reunion of sorts, but sadly it won’t be in the form of another movie.
A third person struck by a suspected drunken driver in Austin last week during the South By Southwest festival died Monday, police said.
Sandy Thuy Le, 26, died from the injuries she sustained when she was run over outside The Mohawk music club early Thursday, Austin police spokeswoman Veneza Bremner said. Police say the driver, Rashad Owens, was fleeing police when he crashed through a barricade and accelerated his car into a crowd in Austin’s Red River Entertainment District, killing two people at the scene and injuring 21 others.
In this week’s podcast, Taylor Rexrode and Taylor Griffin discuss John Travolta’s name slip at the Academy Awards and the recent deal struck between Dish Network and Disney to stream Disney-owned channels online. The new Jesse Eisenberg film “The Double” coming out May 9 is the subject for a new “Trailer Trash.”
Shanty houses. Dusty roads. Toddlers with swollen bellies. Many Americans often associate these images with poverty, and they are not always incorrect in doing so. But Victor Boutros, a ’94 Baylor alumnus and federal prosecutor, thinks they are missing a huge piece of what the impoverished world faces on a daily basis — systemized violence.
Pop music provocateur Lady Gaga will headline snack brand Doritos’ lineup at the music conference and festival in Austin.
The Baylor School of Music creates a unique garden once a week where the youngest in the community can grow. It is a garden of music.
LOS ANGELES _ E! has greenlighted its first original scripted series, the network announced Thursday.
ORLANDO, Fla. — “Frozen” is such a hot commodity that parents already wait in line at Epcot for hours so their kids can meet the film’s two princesses, and Disneyphiles speculate that the movie could eventually play a major role at the theme parks.
Spring breakers staying in Waco can travel not across the state, but through time and experience rituals of a past time at the Mayborn Museum.
The Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village is holding daily activities from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday for their Spring in the Village event. The village, which is based on a 1890s community on the Brazos River, will hold activities that mirror early Texas settler life.
NEW YORK — Ever feel like you’re on a big hamster wheel and you can’t get off? Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder know that feeling all too well. The two performance artists are spending 10 days living, eating and sleeping on a giant hamster wheel to make a larger point: We all have to work together to get through the daily grind.
With curiosity and excitement on the rise, it seems that Baylor students are salivating for the opening of Torchy’s Tacos in Waco.
LOS ANGELES — With a string of recent deals, cable and satellite providers are beginning to acknowledge a brutal truth that companies like Hulu and Netflix have known all along: Many TV viewers, especially young ones, want shows and movies on their own terms — wherever, whenever and on whatever devices they choose.
Instead of the routine approach of writing letters to family and friends asking for financial support for missions, a soon-to-be Baylor student decided to raise the money by releasing an original song.
NAIROBI, Kenya — “You are the pride of Africa,” Kenya’s president exclaimed on Twitter as he celebrated Kenya’s first major Oscar win by actress Lupita Nyong’o.
After months of preparation and two weeks of performances, this year’s All-University Sing wrapped up Saturday night and declared Kappa Omega Tau’s “The Battle Within” the top act of the night. This honor moves the group on to Pigskin in the fall.
After months of preparation and two weeks of performances, this year’s All-University Sing wrapped up Saturday night and declared Kappa Omega Tau’s “The Battle Within” the top act of the night. This honor moves the group on to Pigskin in the fall.
In this week’s podcast, Taylor Rexrode and Taylor Griffin discuss their final predictions for Sunday’s Academy Awards in comparison with the trending top picks. The new “Godzilla” reboot starring Bryan Cranston is the subject for a new “Trailer Trash.”
He’s a three-time champion of All-University Sing. He’s a seven-time veteran of emceeing and, yes, he’s the guy who always shows Halloween pictures of his kids at Pigskin Revue.
This year’s Academy Awards nominees reflect a Hollywood truism: The margin between the dustbin and the Oscar red carpet is often razor thin.
Uproar Records’ singer-songwriter artist Trannie Stevens, a McGregor junior, has a lot of musical experience. She’s performed with big names like Toby Keith and Jack Ingram. She has been a headlining performer, recorded in Nashville and has big hopes for her musical future. However, performing with Sigma Alpha Epsilon during this year’s All-University Sing is a first for Stevens and an experience she calls incomparable.
This morning, more than 300 high school choir students will arrive at Baylor without any music. By 5 p.m. they will perform together for the first time, singing pieces they have been taught in one day.
This combination of intensity, teamwork and talent is the core of the 10th annual Women’s Choir Festival.
As the music arranger for all the acts involved in All-University Sing for 23 years, alumnus Jason Young has put in countless hours into more than 450 acts to ensure that each group has every opportunity to qualify for Pigskin Revue each year.
