Gallery by Raphael Fernandez After the final Rodeo competitions—including cattle wrangling introduced by UH’s own Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Eddie Nuñez—the lights went out in NRG Stadium, and the AJR logo appeared on the main screen as the star stage was rolled out onto the dirt. The logo...
Gallery by Shahd Ayesh On Feb. 21, beloved musician Faye Webster performed at 713 Music Hall for her Underdressed at the Symphony tour. The evening started with a soothing set by her opener Mei Ehara, setting a nice tone for the night. Ehara ended her performance with a duet with Faye Webster, leaving the...
Graphic by Sammy Bates From counting down the clock to a kiss at midnight–or eating grapes, New Year’s Eve is a holiday heavily populated by tradition and superstition surrounding good luck for the coming year. What were the grapes about? This year, many participated in a trend known as “Las Doce Uvas de la...
Photo by Alfred Rivera Over the last month, University of Houston students have been all over the place. It’s been interesting keeping up with them as the spring semester also marks the start of a new year. An Unexpected Snow Break During the second week of classes, Coogs made the most of an unexpected...
Photo by Zoe Crooks As students, studying takes up most of our time–or at least it should take up some. Either way, here is a list of some of the most popular student study spots inside the loop. Agora Agora is a very popular place, with difficult parking. However, people say the atmosphere is great for...
Patricia Duran and Luis Vega in Alley Theatre’sDecember: a love years in the making. Photo by Lynn Lane “December: a love years in the making” delivers a love story of missed connections and poetic longing between a college poetry professor Carolina and her pupil Benjamin. The play is shown in three acts,...
As we head back to campus to restart the new semester, various, mixed feelings loom over us–regrets from the past semester and desires to just get to the end of this one. Can’t help but wonder, though, what if we could go back to the past or to the future and change the trajectory of our college lives? In the...
Thirty-four years ago, Home Alone 1 and 2 dominated the market as the most successful Christmas franchise. The films feature an 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin). In the first movie, Kevin awakens to an empty house. In the second, he lands in a completely different city. In both, he had all the...
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is a short novella first published on December 19, 1843. The first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” during the Victorian era where social injustices were shown through the horrors of the poor and working class. These novels such as Oliver...
Alien: Romulus. We never got the chance to talk about it, but we need to talk about it. As the franchise continued various productions, the original Alien stayed a masterpiece. Though, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant came closest. Both consisting of striking visuals, filmmaking intelligence and appreciation for...
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