Browsing: Arts and Life

Baylor football just played their first away game on Saturday and the NFL kicked off its first Sunday of the year — a huge weekend for football fans. Many students love watching their favorite teams in the comfort of their own homes, but for those looking for a place to enjoy both collegiate and professional football, this article may be just what you’re looking for.

This week’s schedule includes a whole lot of stage time for our talented Waco and Baylor performers. Join the crowd in supporting them, and take a parent along to show off the Waco scene while you’re at it. It’s Family Weekend, after all!

When Choudhury was brainstorming a theme and lineup for the show, she was looking at significant dates around the beginning of September and found that Sept. 6 was National Food Bank Day. Choudhury then pitched the idea of creating a “Show for a Cause” to Thomas, and they decided that attendees would be able to bring cans to donate to the show in exchange for a discounted ticket.

It appears that Sept. 6 was a great day in music history. Music fans got a new punk album and two alternative-indie albums from some pretty iconic artists, all within the span of 24 hours. So whether you want to listen to these select songs or binge the entire albums like I did, you’re in for a treat this Tunesday.

This week in Waco is anything but uneventful. Whether you’re into painting, gaming or getting crazy at concerts, there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy.

“It’s like there was a waterfall rushing down my throat and pushing down my words and music,” Bohling said. “I think it’s so ironic that God used music to deliver me from that because it’s like something you go on stage, and you have to be confident and do all those things, but I literally couldn’t speak to anyone.”

For now, though, Nair said he is working his way to the top. On Sept. 6, he will be DJing at the Backyard, where he has performed before. Nair said the last time he DJed there, he had one of his best DJing experiences yet. As the headliner with 1300 attendees, he’s eager to return.

The space, formerly an axe house, is a complete manifestation of Corkill’s vision. From the beginning, Corkill knew he wanted a place he could call home to multiple types of art, from theater to music to ASL; he has now accomplished that in less than two months.

‘New’ has been a theme for many of us students this week. New classes, schedules and friends— why not throw some new songs into the mix? I hope you enjoy these trending tunes as much as I did.

Although she graduated as a painting major, Olsen said she actually started off as a pre-med major and then switched to a math major before she circled back to her artistic abilities. She said the dissociation and isolation she experienced during COVID-19 in her freshman year paired with the influence of an art class she was taking at the time really allowed her to see she was meant to create.

I’m not going to lie — I walked into the Waco Cinemark with expectations for this movie that weren’t exactly positive. Based on comments from friends and on social media about themes of supposed glorification of domestic violence in the film and simply knowing Colleen Hoover’s reputation for raunchy romances, I wasn’t expecting “It Ends With Us” to be my cup of tea — and it really wasn’t.

“People want to die doing something they really enjoy,” Wilfong said. “If you’re going to go out, go out doing something you really enjoy. And I tell my students every semester, it’s like my way of going out; I want to be in front of a class lecturing and going on a rant about Dr Oz and his nutrition.”

Within the first week on campus, flyers promoting services and ministries will be scattered in the Student Union Building and various churches will table on Fountain Mall. With endless possibilities and opportunities, students may attend services and events at numerous churches. This routine is well known as ‘church shopping.’

“I think I would probably die in a corporate job where I’m working 9 to 5, and it’s just not who I am. So I love the aspect that everything’s different every day; no day is going to look the same. And, I don’t know, just seeing that growing up, I feel that totally inspired me and encouraged me to start something like this.”

“It’s more just like, for the joy of doing it, and a lot of my stuff shares the gospel with people,” Bowden said. “So I think that that’s a really big part of it is like, not only am I like selling fun, cute little stickers, but they also each one I make has a message behind it.”