Note to Manu: Don’t get hurt; Spurs near regular season end
That was fast. The 2011-2012 NBA regular season concludes in less than four weeks on Thursday, April 26. With 16 games remaining, the Spurs (36-14) hold down the second spot in the Western Conference – 3 games behind the leading Oklahoma City Thunder and 4.5 games ahead of the third spot Los Angeles Lakers. Things…
NPM poetry reading at Lee High, Monday April 2
Rachel Seidner is a senior at the International School of the Americas and an intern at National Poetry Month San Antonio. She will host the reading “High School Teachers and their Students” at the Robert E. Lee High School auditorium Monday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. The Coming of Summer By Rachel Seidner …
#SXSan Anto: art-lover Chris Davila’s rolling answer to SXSW
Earlier this month when thousands were obsessing over the dizzying music portion of SXSW, local arts advocate Chris Davila turned a box truck into a mobile gallery and bravely drove it to an overcrowded Austin. A UTSA graduate with a passion for pickles and playing air tambourine, Davila hosts the interview segment Chris’ Connection on…
Review: Billy Elliot at the Majestic
The highest compliment one can pay to a film-to-stage transfer is that it doesn’t feel like a film-to-stage transfer: that it has a life, and radiance, entirely its own. So I’ve never watched Stephen Daldry’s film of Billy Elliot partly because I’ve been so enchanted by his musical of Billy Elliot, which seems to me…
State appeals judge’s order to treat mentally ill prisoners
State officials now say they can’t comply with a court order filed earlier this year forcing Texas to deal with the nagging problem of mentally ill defendants clogging country jails, reports the Austin American-Statesman. With a psychiatric hospital system bursting at the seams, and the state’s dismal record of funding mental health care services, county…
National Poetry Month reading at The Twig, Saturday March 31
To give a taste of what’s happening during National Poetry Month in San Antonio, we will be posting poems each week by poets reading at local events. Cyra S. Dumitru is a poet, swimmer, and faculty member of the English & Communication Studies Department at St. Mary’s University. Dumitru and other university teachers and their students…
Romney slinks through San Antonio
We’d love to tell you what Mitt Romney had to say to San Antonio on his Thursday swing through town before scoring his George H. W. Bush endorsement in Houston. Unfortunately, we can only tell you what was on the minds of the 100 or so protesters chanting outside the Pearl. Around midday, Mr. Inevitable’s caravan…
Lamar Smith’s ‘Holiday on ICE’
In a Congressional hearing Wednesday, San Antonio Rep. Lamar Smith led the chorus of GOP leaders deriding new immigration detention standards meant to prevent detainee rape and inhumane conditions at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. With a hearing mockingly titled “Holiday on ICE,” Smith and co. continued to charge that the Obama administration has gone…
Upcoming San Antonio events include TEDx and Fiesta at OLLU
An enthusiastic group of people met last week to kick-off the 3rd annual TEDx San Antonio event being held on October 13, 2012 at Trinity University. TEDx is an independent “talk” event inspired by TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. This year’s theme is “Be Bold.” And, “bold” certainly describes the group…
Angelina Mata Fashion Show for CAM (video!)
If you missed it, check out the YouTube video of Angelina Mata’s Fashion Show for Contemporary Art Month (CAM), at the Special Projects Social. Video shot and chopped by Cindy Chaffin.
