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Photo by Sydney Rose The start of October brings cool mornings, hot afternoons, new tv shows and Austin City Limits Music Festival.  Since 2002, Zilker Park in Austin, Texas has hosted over 130 artists and 225,000 festival goers at ACL over two consecutive weekends in October. The festival grounds fill yearly...

Graphic by: Sydney Rose If there is one thing better than a new Taylor Swift album, it is book recommendations based on said album. On Oct. 27, Swift re-blessed us with ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ and there is no better feeling than to curl up and read a book based on the album this winter. The books might not...

Photo by: Sydney Rose Dia de los Muertos has been celebrated for years. There is more to the holiday than just the seasonal store decor sold at your local Target. Through the beautiful yellow and orange marigolds as well as the colorfully designed skulls, the history of the Day of the Dead runs deep. Widely...

All photos by: Sydney Rose Originally based in Las Vegas, Shaquille O’Neal’s restaurant Big Chicken made its Houston debut in 2023. With two locations in both West Houston and Richmond as well as a third in the Heights on the way, Texans are getting a taste of what the basketball Hall of Famer is putting...

All photos by: Sydney Rose Celebrating her debut album, superstar-in-the-making Reneé Rapp kicked off the Snow Hard Feelings tour at Bayou Music Center in Houston last Friday night. Rapp has been rising to fame since her Broadway debut in Mean Girls in 2019, and her successful debut album ‘Snow Angel’ has...

Photo by: Sydney Rose For the first time period products were tested using expired human-packed red blood cells this year. The study was published in the BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health journal. Despite the numerous ways the world shows women that it’s not designed to suit them, I remain surprised at how far...

Graphic by: Sydney Rose In order to get the Houston experience, you do not have to break the bank. Which, as a college student, is a very important thing to consider. There are so many fun things to do with your friends, your family or even by yourself around the city. Whether you venture outside or stick to...

A large part of Hollywood is taking a very popular novel or book series and showing it on-screen for readers and other audience members to enjoy. We see a lot of book-to-movie adaptions from all kinds of different genres and filmmakers, but now more stories from authors are being introduced to the small...

If you’re like me, you’ve heard all the hype surrounding the new Popeye’s chicken sandwich. If you’re also like me, then you haven’t had the chance to try it yet. As a person who pretty much only eats chicken sandwiches when they go out to eat, I might just be the most qualified person to judge where to get the best...

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