Do to popular demand, the AtticRep production of Will Kern’s Hellcab will return to the Attic Theatre stage for one more show this Friday, June 7 at 8 p.m. Based on Kern’s experiences driving a hack in Chicago, Hellcab features seven actors playing 36 characters in over 20 vignettes that lay out in raw but...
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Winner of a 2013 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, SA’s own SOLI Chamber Ensemble (Ertan Torgul, violin; Stephanie Key, clarinet; Carolyn True, piano; and David Mollenauer, cello) prides itself on “giving new voice to 20th- and 21st-century classical contemporary music.” Since 1994, the decidedly unstuffy quartet has commissioned more than 30 new works penned by...
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In Hellcab, playwright Will Kern explores the thrilling randomness of the whole taxi experience. Originally performed as the unlikely holiday offering Hellcab Does Christmas, the dark comedy introduces all walks (obnoxious sports fans, drunks, druggies, and born-again Christians included) in roughly two dozen vignettes as a Chicago cabby struggles through an endless shift. Revived...
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Rachael Z. DeLue, associate professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University and author of George Inness and the Science of Landscape, is completing a book about Arthur Dove (1880-1946), an early modernist who is often considered the first American abstract painter. In “Arthur Dove’s Meteorology,” DeLue discusses the artist’s preoccupation with the nature...
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The Artist Foundation of San Antonio (AF) has issued its open call for 2012 award applications. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 19. Up to 11 $5,000 awards will be made in the categories of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literary Arts, Media Arts, Classical Singing, Set Design and Costume Design. Interested artists...
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TEDx San Antonio is just around the corner. On October 13, 2012 at Trinity University’s Jane and Arthur Stieren Theatre, twenty-one bold, passionate speakers will be sharing their ideas–opening minds and creating discussion. If you’ve been waiting to learn who the speakers are before filling out your TEDx San Antonio attendee application—wait no longer....
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Unable to attend Bill Sinkin’s 99th birthday luncheon, I asked a colleague to go in my stead and guest blog for Beyond Paychecks. Desiree Prieto has written for a variety of publications, including the Emmy-award winning NBC Chicago Street Team and The San Antonio Current. Her articles have been syndicated across the country, and...
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A social statistics class at Trinity University is conducting a survey of the LGBTQ population in San Antonio. The group wants to know what the LGBTQ population looks like in the River City and what challenges people in this city have experienced because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. This survey is being completed for...
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SOLI Chamber Ensemble opened their season last night at Gallery Nord with “Quantum Change,” three works that emphasized the quartet’s dedication to the American modern tradition while sneaking in a few contemporary twists. Tonight the program repeats at Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Concert Hall. Mason Bate’s Red River opened the evening with five...
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The Kronkosky Charitable Trust Foundation has made a grant challenge to encourage new support for ARTS San Antonio. Each dollar donated by new supporters of ARTS SA before August 11 will be matched one-to-one. Give a buck, deliver two. The challenge will match donations up to $25,000, and extends to those who have...
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Story by Desiree Prieto Caroline Kennedy came to San Antonio for a five-city launch tour promoting her new poetry anthology, She Walks in Beauty, A Woman’s Journey Through Poems. Titled after Lord Byron’s famous poem, the anthology includes works from other greats of English literature, such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
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“I don’t have a definition of jazz… You’re just supposed to know it when you hear it.” — Thelonious Monk From the dulcet tones of Sade to the swinging sounds of Benny Goodman’s licorice stick; from Be Bop to Dixieland; from Brubeck to Spyra Grya … all that is jazz music is on the...
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Girl in a Coma Singer Nina Díaz' Spiritual Makeover Music: “What’s up with Nina?” I asked Faith Radle, Girl in a Coma’s manager, looking at the band’s lead singer, Nina Díaz. It was pouring rain that... By Enrique Lopetegui 6/19/2013
SB5: Dead Anti-Abortion Bills See New Life In Special Session News: Just when we thought we evaded a round of draconian abortion bills proposed during the surprisingly quiet 83rd Texas Legislative regular session, Gov. Rick Perry... By Mary Tuma 6/19/2013
Best Beer Selection Best of SA 2012: There are times at the Flying Saucer that frequent flyers need to be told to fasten their seat belts because they're in for a taste explosion. Even those who have... 4/25/2012
2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List Best of 2012: 2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List 4/25/2012
Free Will Astrology Astrology: ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’ve seen that meme circulating on the Internet: “My desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain... By Rob Brezsny 6/19/2013
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