The Oscar-nominated short films in live action, animation and documentary often pass unnoticed even by avid cinephiles because of the considerable difficulty of accessing them. Fortunately, the excellent Texas Public Radio Cinema Tuesday series will present all five documentary shorts nominated for this year’s Oscars on Tuesday, July 9.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The state of Texas plans to double a state fund aimed at expanding the power grid as demand for electricity is expected to nearly double over the next six years.
Do you know the difference between a basilica and a cathedral? An undercroft and a crypt?
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court sent the legal challenge to a Texas social media law back to a lower court, sidestepping a landmark ruling for now.
Alamo City visual artist Tim Olson is known for incorporating text into his drawings and paintings on found objects, often the pages of discarded books. As an educator, Olson frequently works with special needs students and finds the simplicity of one of the basic tools of learning — alphabet flash cards — to be helpful.
My first experience with Hook Land & Sea was, let’s say, inauspicious. But let’s also say that it wasn’t long after the seafood-focused spot’s appearance on the near-Pearl scene.
Well, back to the drawing board. San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh has opted not to hire any of the 74 candidates who applied via a national search to take over as permanent director of the city’s troubled Animal Care Services department, officials said Monday. Instead, Walsh appointed Michael Shannon, director of San Antonio’s Development Services Department, […]
Adorned with wood paneling, velvet paintings and a poster of bare-breasted biker babes, newly launched bar Slow Ride promises to bring the sleaze to Government Hill. On Friday’s opening night, bikers and after-hours revelers from The Black Angels’ Stable Hall show packed the spot at 1524 E. Grayson St. Its location near underground music venue Snake […]
Real-estate developer Robert Melvin has joined the increasingly crowded San Antonio mayor’s race, the San Antonio Business Journal reports. A political outsider, Melvin may be best known as CEO and founder of construction firm Limitless Creations. The company grabbed headlines last year after one of its subsidiaries, Legacy Lofts on St. Mary’s LCC, filed for […]
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