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Current film critic Kiko Martínez shares his reaction on this year’s nods.
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  Stravinsky and Shatner in the same season? We’re not exactly sure how Arts San Antonio cobbled together its 2012-2013 slate—how many Trekkies will be rioting for Le Sacre du Printemps this spring?—but it turns out that Shatner’s one man show is a surprisingly charming evening of (I suppose) theater. Well, perhaps theater is too...
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With all the recent talk of New Year’s resolutions, maybe some of you have decided to include renewing your personal efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. Environmentally friendly practices not only help save Mother Earth, they also help save you money. Did you know food waste and yard trimmings account for up to 25%...
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Among the growing pantheon of Mario titles, Paper Mario has always been a diamond in the rough of sorts. When viewed throughout his many iterations and forms, this paper-ized persona has come to represent his quirkiest, yet most dynamically unique adventures in many years. With excellent writing and a growing thirst to try new...
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Best known for winning an Academy Award for writing the song “Evergreen” for the 1976 film A Star is Born and for the song “Rainbow Connection,” which Kermit the Frog sings in The Muppet Movie, singer/songwriter Paul Williams has never lost his passion for the craft that made him a cultural icon in the...
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If we are ever to have a real debate about gun control, conservative right wing republicans are going to have to do something they haven’t done for quite some time. Confront many of their long held arguments on the meaning of the 2nd amendment and dispel their own hypocrisy. They’ll have to finally admit...
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As some of you may know, I’m intrigued by constraint. I love poetry and prose that construct some kind of artificial or natural rules (or boundaries) and then play the game. Oulipo is a group of writers and mathematicians (and musicians and artists and on and on) who insist on constraint. Raymond Queneau, one...
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Well, The Wicked Stage has fallen woefully behind. Yes, I still have theater reports on Madrid and Los Angeles in my hopper, but I plead (as my friends and colleagues know too well) that I really should be writing my #@$#* book. But as the year winds down, I find that I simply have...
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The San Antonio Spurs finished up their recent four-game home stand with a spirited 122-116 victory over James Harden and the Houston Rockets on Friday evening. Houston’s dynamic duo of Harden and Jeremy Lin did not disappoint, combining for 54 points, 15 assists, and 6 steals, but San Antonio’s big three ultimately sealed the...
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So, where were you this Christmas? Most likely you were with family enjoying all the usual happy activities. For many of those affected by mental illness, there is no family gathering or festivities–or hope. Fortunately, in San Antonio, nestled in a group of trees at the end of Recoleta Street, there is the San...
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Do you know anyone who claims to have been abducted by aliens?
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Connections to the past are important (well, maybe not so much today, the last day of the world). Especially as you get older. But sometimes you prefer to have the connection, say a recipe, without the human interaction. Then it’s time to put your memory (a close relation to imagination) to the test. It...
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