Blogs: THE DAILY

Straight from the Spurs’ mouth: Tickets to the San Antonio Spurs’ first two home games of the Western Conference Finals (Games 1 & 2) against the Memphis Grizzlies are on sale now on Spurs.com or ATTCenter.com.  The Spurs will host the Grizzlies at the AT&T Center for Game 1 on Sunday, May 19 at 2:30 p.m. Spurs tickets...
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If you, a Spurs fan, were told that Tim Duncan sat on the bench during the final four minutes, that Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker combined to shoot 4-22 from the field, and that the Spurs were playing a Game 6 against a desperate–and supremely talented–team in one of the most hostile road arenas...
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 Last July, GEO Care, a wholly owned subsidiary of the private prison behemoth GEO Group, submitted a proposal to the Texas Department of State Health Services to privatize the Kerrville State Hospital, where hundreds of criminal defendants deemed mentally incompetent are sent for treatment each year. To the delight of government watchdogs and prison...
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Introducing a weekly opinion column about vaginas, penises, and everything in between. Why yes, there is some sand in my vagina. It is actually irritating me and I need to address it, so hold on, here we go… Vagina. There, I said it. Vagina, vagina, vagina. I have a vagina. Y’all, my mom has...
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Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) spent two years following fruit-obsessed horticulturalists, pomologists, and backyard enthusiasts to create The Fruit Hunters, a documentary inspired by Adam Leith-Gollner’s book The Fruit Hunters: A Story Of Nature, Adventure, Commerce And Obsession. In his cinematic odyssey around the world, Chang explores how intertwined we...
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Have you ever seen a vagina walk down the street? Not in the midsection of a woman, but an entire human who’s made entirely of vaginal matter? If you haven’t, just watch a Spurs game and, in particular, watch Tiago Splitter. Oh, the Spurs won Tuesday night, rather easily (109-91), because they had to,...
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  A mistake by law enforcement put Miguel Montanez inches away from death. Driving to his job at a metal shop in the early morning hours last July, a Hays County SWAT truck rammed the front of his BMW. Montanez dove to the floorboards when bullets began flying through his windshield. When Montanez emerged...
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  Last week, with much of City Council stuck in campaign season crunch time, downtown Council member Diego Bernal sought to deliver on a promise he made to the LGBT community nearly two years ago. Bernal, who went uncontested in Saturday’s election, met with members of CAUSA ­, a coalition of local LGBT rights...
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Happy Mother’s Day from the NBA! We gave every conference semifinalist the night off on Thursday so we could plop a key playoff game right in the middle of your day, just for you. Chicken wings and beer are great brunch items, aren’t they? And surely you’d rather spend your afternoon at a sports...
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Less than 7 percent of San Antonio’s registered voters turned out yesterday and during early voting. To be fair, most races were pretty uninspiring: popular incumbent mayor without a serious threat; an unchallenged D1 council member; only one open seat on council, with all but two races going handily to incumbents. Most of us...
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Isn’t it amazing what happens when the San Antonio Spurs decide to run their offense through Tim Duncan and move the ball? Actually, it’s not; it’s utterly fucking predictable. Unless they’re facing the ghosts of Bill Russell’s Celtics, the Spurs are going to win. And win they did Friday night in Oakland by a score of...
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It’s 8:00 a.m. at Sam Houston High School and the words, ‘hello,’ sleepily escape from peoples’ mouths.  The quiet energy barely has time to settle before a firecracker comes flying in; it’s Jack Schneider. Shaggy blonde hair unbrushed, Casio watch broken – but still useful for his timed meditations – Schneider nonchalantly rolls his...
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