Life & Arts

Violet Beauregarde sits in the audience with her mother, clutching her golden ticket and waiting for her chance to see Willy Wonka and his famous candy factory. […]

Running is about the art of do. That is the philosophy of marathon runner and geology teacher Shizuko “Zu” Watanabe. […]

Finding your “center” can calm the crazy stress of the college classroom. […]

Timylle Adams has loved acting for as long as she can remember. She made her stage debut at the age of 2 when she recited Psalm 23 in front of her local church congregation. […]

Compiled by Caitlin Piper Weddings, dating, child pageants and makeovers — when it comes to reality TV, no stone goes unturned. But even the craziest of these shows seem ordinary when compared to what we’ve […]

People take their seats as the performers shuffle their papers and tune their instruments. The director taps his baton on his music stand to call the group to attention.
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Avocado green, bright tomato red and soft, earthy brown peanuts. Adding color to dishes is important to any chef and foodie. […]

Half of African-American and Latino males never finish high school.
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Fairies, love potions, royalty and young lovers can all be found in the Theater Department’s unique adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” But they are not as you remember them from your ninth-grade English class. […]

Marty Ruiz, the college’s featured artist for Hispanic Heritage Month, asked the students who came to hear him speak on Oct. 8 what “showing up” meant to them.
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Many students would willingly admit that they cringe at the mere mention of William Shakespeare’s name. […]

Originally dreamed up by somethingawful.com user Victor Surge for a paranormal Photoshop contest on June 8, 2009, the Slender Man quickly caught on among the userbase, spreading across the Internet like wildfire.
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It’s 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and the Texas State Fair is offering $2 admission when you donate three cans of food at the front gate. My friend Brendyn and I are leaving Kroger with two plastic bags filled with canned beans and corn. It’s going to be a good day. […]

Beating timbales, beautiful voices and saxophone notes rang through the performance hall as last week’s Wednesday Recital Series took on the spice of Latin music. […]

To be or not to be?
That is not the question the Drama Department is asking itself this semester. It’s asking how to be even bigger. […]

Rik Post has been fascinated with fish since he got his first fish tank at the age of 10. Three years after his father bought him his first tank, Post had a dozen in his bedroom. […]

By Braulio A. Tellez The Art Department has added a second gallery, which is opening the door for new possibilities. Before, most art shows took place inside Gallery F-219, a small room in the F […]

Walking into the lobby of the Sheraton hotel in Dallas for AnimeFest was like walking through the set of a sci-fi fantasy movie. Big eyes, magical girls, wildly colored hair and high-pitched kawaii-desu voices are all staples among the Japanimation anime genre. […]

An epidemic has readily spread all over our country, like butter on toast. […]

Wendy Balderas would not take no for an answer.
During the summer after her high school graduation, while attending a Dreamers summit, she became determined to begin a League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) chapter at Eastfield. For two years, she was met with resistance. […]