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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Sean Saldaña
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
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1 week ago | 
wunc.org | Sean Saldaña
The Symphony Orchestra and the Heritage Chorale showcased songs of sorrow to mark Juneteenth, as a way to preserve and recognize the history and culture of African Americans.
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1 week ago | 
texasstandard.org | Sean Saldaña
160 years ago, Union General Gordon Granger delivered an announcement in Galveston that changed American history. “The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” it began. Granger’s news officially freed around 250,000 people who were still enslaved in Texas after the Civil War and the day commemorating this event is known as Juneteenth. It’s been celebrated in the Lone Star State every year since.
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1 month ago | 
texasstandard.org | Sean Saldaña |Patricia Lim
Carrie Rodriguez has recorded and shared the stage with the likes of John Prine, John Mayer, Bruce Hornsby, Los Lobos, Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams and more. She’s a native Texan and Texas is infused in her music, but she regularly curates unique performances in collaboration with other musicians ready to embrace experimentation. One ongoing project is called Laboratorio, and the latest from this lands at Austin’s Paramount Theater this weekend.
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1 month ago | 
kut.org | Sean Saldaña
When I sat down to chat with Molly Hale, she had spent part of her morning pushing pieces of string through a small wooden loom. “I am working on a tapestry, weaving out of different types of threads,” she said. “It just comes randomly what I want. I got three done over there and I also add charms to them.”Hale is an artist who produces work at SAGE Studio & Gallery, an organization in East Austin that supports and shows the work of creators with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
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1 month ago | 
kut.org | Sean Saldaña
In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature that defies comprehension. “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,” it begins, “from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”The book starts and ends with a sentence fragment, combines multiple languages and has no clear or linear plot. It’s a work that’s so dense, one group that started in Austin has been working on it for more than a decade.
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
If you want to understand how researchers and policymakers are thinking about the economy, you’d want to look at things like price indices, GDP figures and monthly jobs reports. You would also want to look at consumer spending habits, which in many ways reflect how everyday people are thinking about their own economic futures. If people are optimistic, they may buy more. If they’re worried, they may buy less. But how do we make sense of consumer spending when there’s no one clear trend?
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
In February, more than a thousand people associated with Texas Craft Brewers Guild met up in Austin to drink beer, hand out awards, and talk about a growing issue in their industry: Many breweries are closing their doors. For the past few decades, the world of craft beer has boomed, but last year, for the first time since 2005, more breweries shut down than opened in the United States – that’s according to the Brewers Association.
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
Since last summer, three separate organizations have announced plans to open stock exchanges in Dallas. At first, there was the Texas Stock Exchange, which plans to open up early next year. The second was the New York Stock Exchange, which moved its Chicago branch to the Lone Star State and made international headlines last week when it opened its doors and listed Trump Media and Technology Group as its first stock.
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2 months ago | 
victoriaadvocate.com | Sean Saldaña
Right now, the median home sale price in Texas is about $328,000. It sounds like a lot, but not only is that about $70,000 less than the national average, it’s also a figure that’s been ticking down in recent years as home sales have slowed down and units have been sitting on the market for longer. In fact, the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University says that “conditions have shifted in favor of homebuyers” as what has historically been a spring homebuying season gets underway.
