MLK March 2012 slideshow, video
San Antonio’s march commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. turned 25 Monday, drawing a crowd at least 100,000 strong out into the city’s Eastside streets. For this year’s keynote speech, the legendary civil rights leader’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, spoke of what his father’s legacy means more than 40 years after his assassination. Dr.…
Charity Lee, SA death penalty opponent, to make her stand on Supreme Court’s stoop
At the death penalty intersection, popular caricatures include both victim’s families pressing up to the glass for a better view of the lethal injection process and those rogue Catholics who’ve worked their way beyond abortion in their pro-life positioning holding signs and chanting outside. San Antonio’s Charity Lee has certainly earned a right to permanent…
New ‘Healthy at H-E-B’ initiative a good start
In the United States, food corporations and politics are intricately intertwined. That is, corporations (the big players, at least, like Monsanto and Cargill) often have ties to government officials in the Food and Drug Administration, Congress, United States Department of Agriculture, and others. A most recent and obvious example is the Obama administration’s appointment of…
Keke Palmer makes a ‘Joyful Noise’
When actress/singer Keke Palmer received the script for her new movie Joyful Noise, it was almost like the role was written specifically for her. Not was it the first in her career that gave her the opportunity to do a whole lot of singing, the actual character hit really close to home. In the film…
A Texas-sized print, Saturday at Alamo Stadium
While monoprints are often cut and printed on the same day, some printmaking requires longer prep, and more people are needed for its execution. Last September, dozens of volunteers converged on the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center parking lot to help print 30 monster woodblock prints. Known as “steamroller prints,” each 9 foot by 5…
New year, fresh ink: SA poet laureate nominations, writing classes, goodbyes
The new year is upon us and LIT-url would like to enter the Year of the Dragon with a fresh start. And what better way to kick off 2012 than finding San Antonio’s first poet laureate? Nominations are still up for grabs (till January 18) for the position. In addition to promoting the ars poetica,…
Lamar Smith, SOPA crusader and copyright violator
The interwebs are teeming with anger over Lamar Smith’s authoring of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), so maybe it was only a matter of time before someone dug up reason to label the Texas GOP congressman a hypocrite. While Smith says he aims to crack down on copyright and trademark infringement with SOPA, Vice…
Ho, Vitsi by Jesse Tatum
Learning a language can be a daunting task. Teaching one even more so. The student-teacher dynamic is a tricky one and being on one side certainly does not prepare you for being on the other. In fact, it can be much too easy to forget what being a student is like when you’ve been on…
Texas leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions
New data released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week shows Texas power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities pumped out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010, more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combined. The EPA says it collected data from more than…
Spurs Sparknotes, wherein DeJuan Blair doesn’t sleep
I have a sleeping coach!!! He always bench me lol!!!! — DeJuan Blair (@DeJuan45) January 12, 2012 Duncan passes Larry Legend: During the Spurs 101 – 95 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, Tim Duncan moved to 27th on the NBA’s All-Time Points List, passing Larry Bird. Duncan is now 15 points…
CPS Energy taps Korean OCI Solar in deal worth 800 jobs and 400MW (video)
CPS Energy may have met its match. Long in the hunt for a strong solar-energy partner capable of delivering up to 400 megawatts of pollution-free solar power, the City-owned utility announced today at an outdoor downtown press conference that it has entered negotiations with South Korea-based OCI Solar for those megawatts. With the proposed 25-year…
San Antonio’s Martin Luther King, Jr. March one of the nation’s largest
Did I ever tell you about the time I was participating in a student exchange program at Prairie View A&M on the very day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot? Yep. In the middle of an all-black campus, thinking with my young, naive, blond-headed brain I was helping erase generations of prejudice and inequality by…
Personal Stylist Secrets: Staples, color blocking, and street style, oh my!
Story By Desiree Prieto Street style photoshoot by Margaux Gonzalez at AWW Snap Photography I met with Sofia Davis, Personal Shopper and New York Fashion Week Stylist, who loves calling San Antonio, Texas her home. Sofia met me at one of my stylish offices around town, Officina de Starbucks on Stone Oak, to literally “talk…
