Carol of Lights Through the Years: A Tribute to Texas Tech’s Centennial Celebration

By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU This year’s Carol of Lights is the official closing ceremony of the Texas Tech Centennial Celebration. The 65th Annual Carol of Lights will take place on December 2. This is one of Tech’s oldest and most treasured traditions. It provides an opportunity for all of Texas Tech’s students, faculty/staff, […]

Lubbock’s costumed Halloween bike tour back from the dead

By Reece Nations For those on the lookout for Halloween-related shenanigans to be involved in, Lubbock’s informal house show bike tour sprouted as an unlikely bastion for the city’s unique brand of weirdness. For years, an annual event called “Skeletour” was organized very unofficially by hardcore house show enthusiasts and bicyclists as a do-it-yourself-affair. It was […]

Student Spotlight: Q&A with Iranian experimental music composer Ali Balighi

By Venus Bayat Ali Balighi is an international music composition student at Texas Tech from Tehran, Iran. He is an experimental music composer who, in most cases, composes works inspired by Iranian folklore and traditional music. Much of his work as a composer focuses on “micro-tonality,” novel instrumental approaches, electronic- and electroacoustic music. Balighi began […]

The Masked Rider Through the Years: A Tribute to Texas Tech’s Centennial Celebration

By Urvi Dalal, The Hub@TTU Established in 1923, Texas Tech University is celebrating its Centennial from Dec. 2, 2022, to Dec. 1, 2023. In honor of its many traditions, the photo essay below depicts The Masked Rider through the years. One of the oldest and most popular mascots, The Texas Tech Masked Rider started as […]

Meet Mesgen Gebremeskel, 2022 JCMI Fest Judge

Finding a career that aligns with one’s interests and passions is no easy task, but it is always rewarding, Mesgen Gebremeskel, Texas Tech alum, shares his journey to realizing his dream career as a colorist. “I was always interested in cinematography as a whole – but there was just always something about it that I […]

Meet Ricardo Cortez, 2022 JCMI Fest judge

By Melanie Escalante Ricardo Cortez came to Texas Tech to pursue a biology major and graduated in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in electronic media, two weeks before moving to New York to start his career in media production. Cortez, from San Antonio, Texas, said he met a lot of great people at Texas Tech […]

Meet Zackary Brames, 2022 JCMI Fest Judge

In search of a school with rich traditions and school spirit, Zackary Brames, Austin, Texas native, and Tech alum found inspiration and the career of his dreams after transferring from UTSA to Tech in 2013. Brames, a graduate of the College of Media and Communication, said it was at a Texas Tech football game that […]

Meet Liliana Huantes, 2022 JCMI Fest judge

By Melanie Escalante Liliana Huantes remembers sitting down with her family to watch home videos as a child and being mesmerized by the camera and what it created. The Texas Tech alum from San Antonio, Texas who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative media industries in May 2021, said when she would go to […]

TTU Presidential Lecture & Performance Series welcomes music group “Ranky Tanky”

On April 28, the Texas Tech Office of the President will host Grammy winners Ranky Tanky, as their final act to wrap up this semester’s Presidential Lecture & Performance Series. The series celebrates 15 years of providing the local community with educational and entertaining performances by distinguished speakers, authors, musicians, and dance companies. Notable performances […]

Lubbock Arts and the Cultural District During COVID-19

By Kristina Faulkner, Jackson Hanna, Mckenna Harmony, Elizabeth Herbert, Hannah Holtz Throughout the pandemic, the Lubbock Arts and Cultural District has had to adjust to a new normal. This required artists, musicians and performers to learn how to express themselves in new and different ways. The National Endowment of the Arts website states the arts […]