Texas redistricting appears far from settled, no matter what AG Abbott says
Minutes after the headlines started to puncture the innerwebs announcing Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Approves Interim Election Maps and AG agrees to map with Latino districts, the Texas Democratic Party chimed in with this communication: Just moments ago, Attorney General Abbott issued a statement outlining an agreement reached with some parties regarding the ongoing…
Indie film giant Ben Gazzara, dead at 81
Stage, TV, and film actor Ben Gazzara, a Lee Strasberg student who played Brick in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Tin Roof, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 81. His long, eclectic career earned him a reputation as an intense, visceral, intuitive, and natural actor. He won a supporting acting Emmy…
First Friday February preview
Here’s a preview of new First Friday shows for February: Gloria Trevino at Alba DeLeon Studio B, photographs of Erica Wilson-Perkins and the Erison Dancers. Installation view of photographs by Gloria Trevino at Alba DeLeon Studio 106B in the Blue Star Arts Complex in Southtown. Sculpture by Katy Heinlein at UTSA Satellite Space, “Movement into…
Mountain Air by Pete Ahlen
The pangs of death are so different in our youth. The thought of our demise enfolds itself in physicality when we are young. But as we get older death becomes painfully nostalgic. It forces us to see the life we’ve lived stretch out behind us and makes that life clearer, more poignant and therefore more…
Can’t Top the Tip: Friday marks one-year anniversary of ‘ice in his veins’ McDyess
The San Antonio Spurs notched their third straight victory and moved to fourth in the Western Conference standings following Thursday night’s 93 – 81 victory over the sting-less New Orleans Hornets. It’s hard to believe Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Antonio McDyess’s buzzer-beating tip-in against the vaunted Los Angeles Lakers. The final score read…
HBO’s World Championship Boxing, Saturday at the Alamodome
For former two-time world champion Jesse James Leija, this is the best fight night in San Antonio since Chávez-Whittaker in 1993. He’s right. This Saturday, the Alamodome will be a fight fan’s heaven. WBC middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr (44-0-1, 31 KOs), the son of Mexican legend Julio César Chávez, meets top ranked Marco…
Spurs’ average ticket price rises 3.7 percent, still boast “cheap” suds
Any hopes of the NBA lockout lowering ticket prices can be put to bed. For the first time in three years, the NBA’s average ticket price rose, experiencing a 1.7 percent increase relative to last year. This according to the recently-released 2012 Team Marketing Report, the go-to source for figures relating to the price of…
Electric Daisy Carnival Experience: The rave must go on
Kaskade at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, 2010 According to the movie’s press release, when Electric Daisy Carnival Experience premiered at Hollywood’s Chinese Theater last July 27, the turnout was so big that “LAPD’s Riot Squad shut down Hollywood Blvd with tear gas and rubber bullets,” but “there were no injuries reported, no personal or public…
Review: The Wicked Stage at “Cats”
Roll over, Beethoven—the real festival in town belongs to Trevor Nunn, whose productions of Les Misérables and Cats both landed at the Majestic in January. But while Les Miz arrived in a new’n’spiffy production—with redesigned sets and re-conceived direction—Cats looks exactly like Cats has always looked, complete with early-80’s leg warmers and synthesized accompaniment. The…
Global warming to blame for Texas heat, drought, says NASA’s James Hansen
NASA’s James Hansen has stepped ahead of most Texas climatologists by declaring in a draft paper that global warming is unequivocally to blame for Texas’ record-breaking temperatures that contributed to our worst one-year drought on record last year. Most Texas-based climatologists — including state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon — have so far only been willing to…
Paula Deen’s irresponsible diabetes drug endorsement
This month, restaurateur, celebrity chef, and Food Network television personality Paula Deen revealed her three-year-long battle with type 2 diabetes to the public. Though the news comes as a shock, given her sinful Southern food no one is too surprised. After all, hallmarks of Deen’s cooking include everything fried, carbohydrate-rich, sugary, and light on real…
