Buddy Berlin
Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss two stories by Lucia Berlin— "Panteón de Dolores" and "Emergency Room Notebook, 1977." In these stories we find family dysfunction and tragedy set against the backdrop of another country and its culture and rituals — or in a hospital, another place with its protocols and routines. Except within all that is expected in these settings there is something totally new to make us pay attention to situations and people to whom we might never have given a second thought.
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Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Her latest book, Startlement: New and Selected Poems, is a retrospective spanning two decades and also includes 21 new poems. The book is the poet's invitation to meet the world with an open mind — but also an open heart. She encourages us to embrace our "strangeness" and our tenderness, and to bear witness to the arc of all we know with hope and compassion. -
The 17th annual Diwali Festival in San Antonio celebrated the sister-city relationship between San Antonio and Chennai, India. -
Downtown San Antonio had been without a downtown comedy club since 2019. -
Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda was believed by many to have bilocated hundreds of times from her monastery in rural Spain to parts of what’s now the American Southwest. -
We've gathered information about Día de los Muertos and several Day of the Dead events. -
Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda was believed by many to have bilocated hundreds of times from her monastery in rural Spain to parts of what’s now the American Southwest.
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The shop on Bandera Road reports traditional costumes are outselling costumes inspired by movies and television. -
Stop Making Sense, considered one of the greatest concert films of all time, will screen on Nov. 13 at the Empire Theatre in San Antonio, with a special Q&A appearance by Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads. TPR's Nathan Cone gets some insight into the film and band's music in this interview. -
From the supernatural to the slightly-too-realistic, it's been a banner year for scary movies, many of which are available to stream from home this Halloween. -
The Weekender has three good ideas for things you can do this weekend.
