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Sarah Palin Takes on 'America's Next Top Models'new
An expert dramatization of a crazy moment in American history: Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
03-09-2012 |
TV
Tags: Game Change
Sex and Desolation: inside 'Seven Minutes'new
The appeal of art openings isn't just in looking at the art (which is often difficult to see, hidden behind other viewers), but in the opportunity to look at people looking at art.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
03-09-2012 |
Art
Tags: seven minutes
The Two Lives of Lila Downsnew
Lila Downs is as American as apple pie and as Mexican as tequila, but her looks and sound have an undeniable agave aftertaste.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-09-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Disappointing Disney adaptation of pulp hero John Carternew
For the last 100 years, John Carter has been an inspirational, beloved hero. Now thanks to this adaptation, a pulp icon will be known as the jerkwad from that lame-ass Disney movie.
Tags: John Carter
Semi-Cellaring Bordeauxnew
The big boys with super cellars and the bucks to fill them are likely to brag about their big Bordeaux, their Burgundies, and maybe even their Brunellos.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
03-09-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine
Kris Saknussemm: Bent and Reverentnew
The author takes the dirty backroads home in Reverend America.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kris Saknussemm
Husband of slain icon Selena tells of romance, sufferingnew
In one of the final chapters of his book To Selena, With Love (out March 6), Selena's widower Chris Perez mentions that Abraham Quintanilla, his former father-in-law, once called him "a cancer" in the family.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-09-2012 |
Nonfiction
SXSW Film Fest pulling in four proud San Antonio filmmakersnew
The road to the South by Southwest Film Festival stretched through San Antonio once again this year.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko MartÃnez |
03-09-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ray of Lightnew
Despite a life wracked by abuse and loss, a Tucson author heals others through his writing.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Ray, Tucson authors
Organos' Conchanew
Organos and Concha are happily different both in source and sound, offering a humbly memorable reappraisal of the limits of pop.
Tags: Organo
From 'Papers Please' to Librotraficantenew
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs Senate Bill 1070 into law, making it a crime for a non-citizen resident to be in Arizona without carrying required papers. It becomes known as the 'Papers Please' law.
San Antonio Current |
Compiled by Veronica Salinas |
03-09-2012 |
Immigration
Librotraficantes: Caravan to protest Arizona's dismantling of Mexican-American studiesnew
On Monday, March 12, the busses and cars of the Librotraficante Caravan will roll into San Antonio from Houston, making the first stop on their road trip.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
03-09-2012 |
Education
Life Between the Coversnew
Southern Arizona library expert David Laird contemplates the future of reading.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
03-09-2012 |
Books
Arizona Capitol Chatternew
The Arizona Legislature wants to end Project White House, stop voters from hiking taxes, and sample urine from the unemployed.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
03-09-2012 |
Politics
Moving West, Writing Eastnew
The life of a writer in the Southwest of the 1960s and '70s.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Miller |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tom miller, Tucson writers
