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Oct 29, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
World-renowned author David Sedaris will take the stage this Wednesday in San Antonio for a night of literature and laughter. The one-night-only event at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts will consist of readings, anecdotes, a Q&A session and a book signing. Funny as his compositions and observations are, Sedaris’s legacy is nothing to snicker at.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
With its full-day lineup of animal-themed autumnal activities, this Saturday's Dogtober Fall Festival is a one-stop-shop for pet lovers. Attendees are likely to bring home tail-waggingly terrific memories — and maybe pick up a new four-legged friend along the way. Some 200 animals will be up for adoption at the event hosted by San Antonio Animal Care Services (SAACS).
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
Grab your proton pack and prove that you “ain’t afraid of no ghost” with a free outdoor screening of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire at Mission Marquee Plaza this Sunday. In this crowd pleaser, the most recent installment in the well-worn supernatural comedy saga, the discovery of an ancient artifact awakens a sinister, frigid force. Ghostbusters new and old are called to battle, laying their lives on the line to rescue the world from a second ice age.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
When the fake cobwebs have come down, colored porch lights replaced and Halloween candy goes on closeout, San Antonio will welcome back Día de los Muertos. The centuries-old tradition of remembrance and reverence for deceased loved ones is a custom native to the lands we inhabit. In accordance with a mission to preserve and commemorate the past, the Briscoe Western Art Museum is assembling its annual community ofrenda this Thursday, and it will remain up through Nov. 4.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
The Rocky Horror Show is time-warping back to the San Antonio stage starting this Thursday. The production, which debuted in London’s West End in 1973, was once widely derided for its brazen sex positivity, gender fluidity and embrace of the glam-rock counterculture. However, it’s since achieved cult status and is beloved by millions for the very same reasons.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
The San Antonio Zoo is ushering in the spooky season with the fur-raising fun of its annual Zoo Boo! event. Starting this Saturday, expect Halloween decor spread across the grounds and a plethora of family friendly activities through Halloween night. Trick-or-treating will take place daily during the last hour of zoo operations — 4-5 p.m. Sunday through Friday and 6-7 p.m. Saturday. To keep things fresh, every weekend will incorporate a theme.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
As the calendar approaches four years since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre has set its stage for a two-night run of All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The one-woman play, which runs this Tuesday and Wednesday, honors the legal mind's life, legacy and cultural impact.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
San Antonio theater group 100A Productions will launch its 2024-25 season this Wednesday with The Lifespan of a Fact, a comedic commentary on the state of modern media and the impact of generational divides in the workplace. Based on the 2012 book of the same name, The Lifespan of a Fact centers around a multi-year feud between seasoned writer John D’Agata (Andy Thornton) and fledgling fact-checker Jim Fingal (Michael Roberts).
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
sacurrent.com | Caroline Wolff
San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum will close the stable doors on its Summer Film Series this Sunday with a screening of the 2023 blockbuster Killers of the Flower Moon. Directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, the Oscar-nominated biopic unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma after members of the Osage tribe discover oil on their land.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Caroline Wolff |Ottessa Moshfegh |Olga Tokarczuk |Elizabeth Hand
There are so many female archetypes in literature—the femme fatale, the damsel in distress, the angel of the house. While I was writing my novel The Wayside, I was thinking a lot about (and mindfully avoiding) one trope in particular: the madwoman. Alternately an object of fear and pity, the madwoman is often erratic, occasionally violent, and usually stowed away unseen, haunting the edges of the story until some climactic moment of confrontation with the hero. She’s a foil for the pure of heart.
