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1 month ago | 
star-telegram.com | Rene Guzman |René Guzman |Richard Marini |Deborah Martin
Five years ago, San Antonio kidney doctor Sayed Tabatabai was in a dark place. It was during those early, uncertain days of the pandemic. He had just shared a not-so-bright vision of a future after COVID-19, a work of speculative fiction told in tweets on what was then called Twitter. The story spoke of a world where we no longer greeted each other behind fabric masks and 6 feet of social distancing.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
Walker Everidge has been on Broadway and in movies, but he's also found an artistic home with the decidedly unflashy Zion Theatre Group. "It's become one of my favorite things," said the actor, who performs professionally as Daniel Everidge and oversees the musical theater acting program at the North East School of the Arts. "It's just so welcoming and warm and delicious and fun. It feels like some weird kind of summer camp."He is not alone in his fondness for the company.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels' archive has found a home in Texas. Michaels, the executive produced the iconic comedy series for most of its 50-year run, has donated the collection to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The public will get a look some of those holdings in "Live from New York! The Making of Lorne Michaels," an exhibit opening Sept. 20.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
Vocalist extraordinaire Lisa Fischer was sharing a bill with Ranky Tanky the first time she heard the band play. "Quiana Parler was singing her guts out and the band was just cradling her in sound," said Fischer, a one-time background singer who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Feet from Stardom."She wanted more of that sound, so she tracked down video online of a performance Ranky Tanky did with Bobby McFerrin.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
sanantoniomag.com | Deborah Martin
The art that lines the walls and dots the garden of the Ecumenical Center is more than décor. The paintings, drawings, sculptures and textiles are a nod to the fact that the arts are a big part of the behavioral health services that the center provides to people of all ages, including veterans and families. Once a year, the visual arts literally support that work through “Art Heals Hearts,” its annual exhibit and sale.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
It took a while for Kathy Sosa to see herself as a painter. "I didn't think of it it as something I would be," said Sosa, 71, who started painting in her 40s. "I thought of it as something I would do on Sundays."She first tried her hand at it after asking her husband, advertising legend and artist Lionel Sosa, if she could work on a portrait of their Jack Russell terrier that he had started and abandoned. He told her she could do whatever she wanted with it.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
As drummer Phanie Diaz has been playing gigs with the reunited Girl in a Coma, she's also been talking up the Rah! Rah! Room. "Being on the road, I get to meet all these bands," she said. "As they're traveling through, I can spread the word, telling them if they're coming to San Antonio, they have a place to play."The big new space at 6322 San Pedro Ave. - which Diaz will run with her Bang Bang Bar partner, Jamie Hoppe, and Chrissy Bliss - will open later this month.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
Damon Sayles grew up watching "Wheel of Fortune" with his late aunt, and he had the opportunity to honor her memory by competing on the game show. Sayles, a 2001 graduate of Texas State University who now is senior editor for culture at The Athletic, solved all the puzzles in the triple tossup and made it to the bonus round, which he also won. He walked away with $69,290 in the Nov. 20 broadcast.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
AC/DC's first U.S. tour in nearly a decade doesn't include a stop in San Antonio, but it will play the Dallas Cowboy's home. The 13-date tour will play the 80,000-seat AT&T Stadium in Arlington on April 14, 2025. Tickets go on sale at noon Dec. 6 at acdc.com/tour. It is the only Texas stop on the tour, which starts April 10, 2025, in Minneapolis and wraps up May 28, 2025, in Cleveland.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
star-telegram.com | Deborah Martin
About 13 years ago, a friend told rap icon Kurtis Blow he would be perfect for a new project called "The Hip Hop Nutcracker" and invited him to check out a rehearsal. Blow had no idea what to expect. But within a few minutes of watching performers do their thing, he was in. "I saw the kids, B-boys and B-girls, and there was a DJ spinning funky hip-hop beats under this classical music of Tchaikovsky, and they were break dancing to it," Blow said in a telephone interview.
