Video: England in 1819 at the Limelight
(Video by Enrique Lopetegui; photo by Michael Barajas)
LGBT orgs part ways over gay festivities
PrideFest drew thousands of revelers, a diverse line-up of performers, and an undeniably impressive roster of drag queens to HemisFair Park on Saturday. Conspicuously absent from the first of the city’s two main Pride Month events were four of the city’s biggest GLBT community organizations. The withdrawal of Human Rights Campaign, Metropolitan Community Church, the…
Natasha Tretheway named U.S. Poet Laureate
On Thursday the U.S. Library of Congress announced one of the freshest voices in contemporary poetry, Natasha Trethewey, as the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. Tretheway hails from Mississippi (of which she is concurrently state poet laureate) and at 46 years old is one of the youngest to hold the position. Trethewey is currently a professor…
June 14: ‘American Idol’ auditions in SA
This is what it looked like in L.A. on June 7. Our advice for SA: get there early. San Antonio has been chosen to host American Idol auditions. Everyone looking to audition for the show’s 12th season must pre-register on June 12 or 13 at the Alamodome. Two forms of photo ID are required to…
Librotraficantes back in town at SW Workers Union
Stop by the Southwest Workers Union this Saturday, June 9, for a special pre-screening of the documentary “Banned.” The film recounts the Librotraficantes’ journey from Houston to Tucson (via SA) to deliver books from the TUSD Mexican American Studies program, banned from being taught in public school classrooms in Tucson by the notorious neo-Know Nothing…
Summer Sparks New Works Festival, June 8-9
Where’s a new performing arts festival to go when the summer temps begin to hit the triple digits? Inside, out of the heat’s a good bet. Enjoy the cool climes of Jump-Start’s Sterling Houston Theater when the first edition of the Summer Sparks New Works Festival runs Friday and Saturday, June 8-9, with drama,…
As more SA residents have access to recycling – here are some tips
Better late than never, the City of San Antonio approved an ordinance in 2010 which requires ‘residential multi-family properties to provide or contract on-site recycling collection services.’ Set for implementation within a time frame beginning in 2011, apartment, condo and townhome communities will now have access to recycling programs along with the rest of the…
DREAMers target Romney fundraiser
Mitt Romney reportedly made local GOP fundraising history on his Wednesday swing through San Antonio, bagging some $3 million from eager South Texas donors at closed-door campaign stops. But outside his Marriott Rivercenter appearance (minimum $2,500 donation entry fee), the GOP presidential candidate met shouts of “Veto Romney, not the DREAM Act.” About 10 protestors,…
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
Celebrated science fiction author Ray Bradbury died last night at the age of 91. Born and raised in the northern Illinois town of Waukegan to a family that could trace its ancestry back to the colonial period, Bradbury moved to Los Angeles when still a teenager; he was already in the habit of writing poetry…
Edwards Aquifer Authority general manager put on leave
Sometime after the Edwards Aquifer Authority board’s executive committee met around midday Monday, board chair Luana Buckner chose to put the EAA’s general manager on paid administrative leave, surprising some board members and angering others. Karl Dreher directed water resources for the State of Idaho before the EAA board appointed him to the general manager…
The Wicked Stage accidentally witnesses Godspell
It’s been exciting lately at the Wicked Stage; first, this blog was announced as a finalist for an AltWeekly Award for best blog, with the winner to be announced on June 8th. (And in the finest tradition of the Academy Awards, I’d like to mention what an honor it is just to be nominated. And…
Travel + Leisure Magazine names San Antonio among America’s worst dressed
Shame on Travel +Leisure magazine. For a publication that considers itself the authority on the subject of travel, its supposed survey of “America’s Worst Dressed People” (June 2012), which cites San Antonio in the five slot among other supposed fashion offenders like Anchorage, Dallas, Phoenix, and Atlanta, demonstrates only that it subscribes to stereotypes and…
