Pit soars in ‘Kid Icarus: Uprising’… if you’re right-handed
***Author’s Note: I chose to keep the review separate from the left-handed issue, which I will address at the end of the article. If you are left-handed as I am, be sure to read that section closely before buying this game.*** How many of you remember Pit? I can say with complete honesty that before…
Searching for the Converse Werewolf
While to most, the full moon represents frantic driving and unpredictable behavior, to those in the business of ‘monsters’ it is significant for an entirely different reason — lycanthropy, i.e. werewolves. Now, before you place the butterfly net over my head, please be advised that, while generally perceived to be strictly, fictional creatures from literature…
OLLU Literary Festival, April 10-16
Our Lady of the Lake University 2012 Literary Festival, “exploring the influence of our past,” opens Tuesday with a noon faculty reading at Thiry Auditorium. OLLU faculty members Michael Lueker will read a personal essay; Hayan Charara will read poetry; Antoinette Winstead will read a monologue; and Nan Cuba will read a selection of fiction.…
Jennifer Love Hewitt talks ‘The Client List’
If getting a full body massage by actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is on your list of sexual fantasies that will never happen in your lifetime, live vicariously through the characters in The Client List, Hewitt’s new Lifetime TV series based on the 2010 made-for-TV movie she also starred in. We can’t promise its good, but…
2012’s Funniest in South Texas Winner Raul Sanchez
Comedy club competitions aren’t always the best indication of who’s funnier than someone else. On any given night someone’s best 6 minutes can kill or be killed by many different factors. Saying someone is the funniest is always subjective, but on some occasions it is highly accurate. On Thursday March 29th, at the Laugh Out…
The Wicked Stage checks out The Aliens
So I headed up to Austin to catch Annie Baker’s The Aliens at the Hyde Park Theater, a trip that surprised even me. From the reviews, I figured it’d be the sort of play I normally loathe: heavy on the talk, light on the dramatic action. And indeed, The Aliens turned out to be practically…
VIA Poetry on the Move reading at The Twig, Saturday April 7
Tom Keene is one of the readers at the VIA Poetry on the Move reading Saturday April 7, 2012 at The Twig Book Shop. In its third year, VIA’s Poetry on the Move contest places poems on VIA buses through the month of May. This year featuring 10 poems by adults, juried by a panel…
Nonprofit Spare Parts recycles for the sake of art
Mary Cantu’s fledgling nonprofit, Spare Parts, is poised to take flight. You know what I say…’behind every nonprofit are people with a passion for helping others.’ Cantu is a smart, talented young woman with a passion for art, education, environment, and collaboration. Those four elements are the definition of Spare Parts. Connect with various agencies/businesses…
Pasta by Guy de Truc
Being alone is not being lonely necessarily. Interesting here, with that in mind, that this is seen through the lens of the narrator — befuddled and gloomy. But we don’t really know anything at all about the old man. And we don’t need to. Send in your flash fiction of about 500 words (shorter is…
Gay discrimination at San Antonio Credit Union alleged in EEOC complaint, online petition
“I’m not really someone who wears my sexuality on my sleeve, but through the normal course of the workday coworkers might ask me about marital status, family, those things,” says Keith Crabtree, 47. “Having been closeted for the first 32 years of my life, I have for the last several years finally started to answer…
Poem by Carmen Tafolla, Inaugural Poet Laureate of San Antonio
Carmen Tafolla is the award-winning author of more than twenty books, for both children and adults, and has received numerous recognitions and literary awards, the most recent being named by Mayor Julián Castro as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of San Antonio. San Antonio is the first major city in Texas to name a Poet Laureate. A…
An interview with directors Mark & Jay Duplass
With two films out this year, directors Mark and Jay Duplass continue to add to their unique independent filmmaking repertoire. After breaking onto the scene in 2005 with The Puffy Chair, the Duplass brothers have since etched out a formidable place for themselves in the film industry and have proven to be directors to keep…
Nothing is Saakred
Even though the annual shadow cast by SXSW has receded, it often seems like San Antonio’s musicians labor in the perennial penumbra of Austin’s music scene. But it’s always darkest before the dawn, which is precisely why music lovers should now bask in the rays shone on our none-too-shabby homegrown scene during the third-annual Local…
State Rep. Lyle Larson wants Mexico to pay up
State Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, wants our neighbor to the south to pay up for undocumented Mexicans living in Texas. In a letter he sent to Mexican President Felipe Calderón last month, Larson asks the Mexican government to reimburse Texas for the cost of all services provided to undocumented Mexicans living in the state.…
NWS: state needs tropical storm, hurricane to quench Great Texas Drought
Even though a rainy winter helped quench record drought conditions across large parts of Texas, the National Weather Service warned state officials Monday that severe, state-wide drought could make a comeback when we move into the grueling summer months. Speaking to the state’s Emergency Management Convention in San Antonio this week, NWS meteorologist Barry Goldsmith…
