By Samantha Paradiso AUSTIN, Tx. —Reusable straws and greenwashing may have swept sustainability into the mainstream, but South America, the continent south of the equator, has had the eco-friendly movement down way before it was cool. Regardless of the circles you run in, sustainability has become a buzzword consumers cannot seem to escape. The topic…
AUSTIN, Texas – We are onto week two of our at home activities and we are turning our chicas into journalists for the week! Earlier this semester, the girls learned the different types of journalism such as news, columns, reviews and investigative. Now, the chicas got to put their press hats on! While at home,…
SXSW is a lot of things; a film festival, a major conference, a great way to explore a big city, but perhaps the biggest aspect of SX is its exceptional live music. Being that I’d never attended, I was a little intimidated by the insane amount of artists available on their roster. I didn’t know…
By Martina Vásquez I have always wanted to write. Since I was a baby, I would grab any book from my parents’ library, open it in the middle, and start telling a story, never mind that the book itself was upside down, or that I hadn’t yet learned the art of reading. I would fill…
The Affordable Connectivity Program has offered financial support, allowing low-income households to receive internet at a discounted rate, since 2021. But all of that may be coming to a close due to a lack of funding. While the Program initially received $14.2 billion to get it off the ground, as it stands today, the ACP…
If you’re anything like me, you love a good Rom Com. A love story so perfect it transports you to a fictitious world where nothing bad could ever happen, and if it does, it’s merely a stumble on the road to happily ever after. I grew up on Rom Coms, and though my tastes have…
By Daniela Rangel LAREDO, Tx.—TikTok users entered a frenzy on Friday, July 31, as they heard the news of a possible ban on the social media platform. As stated in the New York Times, content creators broadcasted their disappointment at potentially losing the popular social media platform and thanked their fan bases one last time. …
By Samantha Paradiso AUSTIN, Tx. — Adam Rapaport and Stephen Gan and Anna Wintour, oh my! Magazine editor-in-chiefs seem to have edited out their diversity and inclusion a bit. Rolling off the backs of the Black Lives Matter movement, many Black and POC creatives such as Kevin Curry and Shelby Ivie Christie took to social…
By Dana Garibaldi MCALLEN, Tx.—Two years ago, a video of a man threatening two Spanish-speaking women went viral on the internet. I was 14-years-old, sitting in shock, as I watched the scene play out on my phone. In a political climate full of hatred and intolerance, I was made to feel my Hispanic heritage and…
