Blogs: Staff Blogs

Welp, it’s that time of year again when our beloved Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and the ever tasty Dogfish Head Brewing Co. get together and throw the Off-Centered Film Festival. Slated to go down April 18-20 in Austin, the festival’s theme this year is “Hip-Hop, Off Centered.” Submissions are being accepted now through March 1st...
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We just capped day three in the trial against bogus reality TV producer Gemase Lee Simmons, and the allegations against him just get curiouser and curiouser … If you believe the FBI’s case against him, Simmons is a whole new breed of digital-age predator. According to the feds, Simmons’ typical ruse would go something...
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahue announced today that the United States Postal Service will no longer deliver mail on Saturdays. The new “Six‐Day Package, Five‐Day Mail Delivery” scheduled to begin this August will save the floundering mail agency an estimated $2 billion a year. And they need it. The USPS has been struggling financially for...
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    While the glorious Meyer Lemon has a specifically wonderful character, I am of the opinion that fresh citrus in general is one of the finest tools in the culinary arsenal. Fortunately, we live in a climate that favors home-growing a whole range of citrus goodness. Most tolerate a light freeze, don’t need...
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Could Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin be headed our way? As announced last month, San Antonio is one of six U.S. cities in the running to host the 2016 Olympic U.S. Swim Team Trials to take place just weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. This past week, San Antonio Sports launched an online...
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The 10th installment of the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Texas Contemporary Artists Series highlights Luisa Wheeler’s “bold” and “unbridled” works in an exhibition comprising 51 digitally manipulated photographs that chronicle her “life experiences through the present.” Curated by Arturo Infante Almeida, the solo show is playfully punctuated with a lone sculpture — a chair...
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We asked our readers on all social platforms what bars they’ll be hitting up for the Superbowl this Sunday. Check out their responses then start planning your own Sunday Funday!     Best Superbowl bars in San Antonio We asked our readers on...
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Musical legend Lydia Mendoza has her own stamp.
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  Well, here’s a heartbreaking way to start your weekend… Police are looking for the dirtbag(s) that burned a puppy alive this week. Early this week, a woman found a badly-burned, barely-alive puppy (pictured above) stuffed in a garbage bag and dumped on her front lawn on the 2400 block of Hicks Avenue. According...
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The San Antonio batch of American Idol auditions aired last night and countless Alamo City singers wowed judges Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, and Nicki Minaj with that special brand of soul that we ooze here in town. With the Etta James loving Adam Sanders, mother-of-three Cristabel Clack, mariachi badass Victoria Acosta and 28...
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  The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, now under construction, will bring a lot of art to downtown–some of it will be street side. To find out what might be in the works, check out this free talk: In the summer of 2012, the UTSA College of Architecture, in partnership with the City of San...
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A conversation with director Maxim Pozdorovkin.
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