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.
Browsing: Arts and Life
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.
Baylor students: the Lariat is giving away two tickets to the NBA celebrity all-star game on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Ferrell Center. Invited players include Kevin Durant, Josh Howard, John Wall and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry.
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.
On Feb. 10, 2012, the Bruise Cruise launches a unique three-day experience that combines the leisure of a cruise with the thrill of a rock concert.
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.
For decades, Wacoans have enjoyed down-home cooking from one of the last of a dying breed of Texas diners.
Nike shorts are everywhere. We get it. That fashion faux pas has been around for years and everyone has made their comment. Sperrys, V-necks and leggings under Nike shorts can even be dismissed as a part of Baylor fashion that has not run its trend out just yet. But can the XXL T-shirts, side pony tails and cankle-covering socks have their time in the limelight critique?
More than a decade of compiled research highlighting the lives and legacies of Baylor’s fallen soldiers has been published and released in book form.
What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw. Well, at least secrets buried for 40 years will be revealed if actor Daniel Craig has anything to do with it.
The list of Baylor alumni who have made a mark in the entertainment industry now includes Damon Crump, who released his film “Risen” in 2008.
Why is it that we encourage everyone to be artists when such a small percentage of Americans will actually make their living as artists?
What could stir the usually calm, laid-back Austin independent music crowd into an unexpected frenzy this weekend? The appearance of Ryan Gosling at Fun Fun Fun Fest, a three-day music festival held at Auditorium Shores.
Are you a big Public Enemy fan? What about Odd Future? If you are, you might have found something to love on Fun Fun Fun Fest’s Blue Stage this year.
Pigskin, one of Baylor’s most beloved traditions, presented four different opportunities for students and alumni to join in.
The opening act of Pigskin is always one way for crowds to generate excitement for the homecoming festivities ahead, and this year has participants and viewers alike looking forward to a weekend of talented musicians, colorful costumes and sleek choreography.
Kim Kardashian is famous for a lot of reasons that society would hate to admit, but on Aug. 20, the world had an American wedding that could challenge the Royal wedding in terms of importance to People Magazine.
Headling this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest is the rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (Odd Future for short) and their leader, Tyler, The Creator, is every bit as controversial as you would expect a leader of a group with that name to be.
I’ll admit it right up front — I originally found this picture online while looking for an absurd image I could use to mock my friends in Fantasy Football. It led me, however, to the Wikipedia article on “Der Struwwelpeter,” a German children’s book which features 10 stories intended to teach morals to the children who read the book.
