Solvent 2
Solvent, the artist collective formed by past and present University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) students, is participating in McKinney’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Their show, entitled Solvent 2, happens 6:30-10:00 p.m., Sept. 10 at the Second Floor Gallery located at 221 E. Louisiana St in downtown McKinney, TX. Here is what a few of...
UTD Slaps Additional Fees on Disabled Parking
If you visited the UTD Parking page recently you noticed an interesting message: “Beginning Sept. 1, 2011, if you utilize handicap parking at UT Dallas, you will need to obtain a UT Dallas handicap decal in addition to your state of Texas placard/license plates. Visit the Bursar’s office (SSB 2.300) with a copy of TxDOT...
University response to ‘No Parking’
The Overture requested an interview with Paul Smith, Parking Enforcement supervisor at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), to discuss issues brought up in ‘No Parking.’ Smith, via email, directed us to email a list of questions he could respond to ‘via the university’s Office of Communication,’ which he said was a requirement for...
No Parking
Our writers share their no-parking lot. Welcome to UTD: Home of the “No Student Parking Zone” Glenn Averoigne Today was the last straw between me and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Parking; but let us begin our tale with the birth of the newest UTD student parking lot by the Conference Center...
Ana Tomie: Queen of the Corset
“It’s pronounced ‘TOE-may,’” Glenn Averoigne, Miss Drag Queen UTD 2011. Geoscience graduate student Allison Pace nibbles biology senior Averoigne’s funny bone. The Overture is proud to have backed the winner of the University of Texas at Dallas’s fifth annual Drag Show and would like to acknowledge the support of everyone who made our dude...
Botany of Desire
Vernon Fimple’s quatrefoil-shaped painting ‘Corona’ was the signature inspiration for ‘Botany of Desire,’ a show curated by Greg Metz in the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Visual Arts Building. ‘Corona’ is stunning in person. The contrast between central figures in white with vivid shades of violet, fuchsia, teal and orange lights ‘Corona’ with a...
How Does SG Affect Me?
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Student Government (SG) elections for all offices begin online Mar 28 at 12:00 p.m. and end Mar 30 at 9:00 p.m. Arts & Humanities junior Brittany Sharkey and political science sophomore Cody Willming are the unopposed candidates for president and vice president, respectively. The Overture sat down with...
Drag-mothering for a Cause
The Overture would like to introduce Ana Tomie (né Glenn Averoigne), a queen we are proud to drag-mother for the March 31 University of Texas at Dallas Drag Show. The show is Thursday, March 31st from 8:00-10:00 p.m. in the Galaxy Rooms. It benefits Resource Center Dallas, one of the the primary gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
Spencer Brown-Pearn
Due to popular demand by our readers, The Overture followed up with an artist we briefly featured in January; Spencer Brown-Pearn. Pearn takes paintings and transforms them through photography, Photoshop and screen-printing. He is an Arts & Humanities senior at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Fast Paintings I sketch and write notes so...
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