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San Antonians Get Their Chance To Purchase MAC's Selena Collection

Customers at the MAC Cosmetic Store at San Antonio’s North Star Mall were scrambling Thursday afternoon to buy whatever makeup they could from the newly released Selena Collection. Fans of the late Tejano star say they’ve been waiting years for her makeup line to be released. 

"She was an inspiration. It was one of my favorite movies and then I read up on her. Being Mexican, Mexican- American, she’s just an inspiration to all of us. She’s a fashion icon," says Angelicia Perez.

"I got the lipsticks and the eyeliner, because that’s all that was left. It’s just really exciting because I’ve been waiting for them for a really long time," Martin Caldera says.

"She’s my role model. She’s so timeless, very beautiful, so inspiring. I just love her," says Halie Jessee.

Selena was loved and admired for her trend-setting styles such as flare-legged body-suits and for her songs that were mostly sung in Spanish.  The Corpus Christie native was murdered in 1995.

Louisa Jonas is an independent public radio producer, environmental writer, and radio production teacher based in Baltimore. She is thrilled to have been a PRX STEM Story Project recipient for which she produced a piece about periodical cicadas. Her work includes documentaries about spawning horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds aired on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Louisa previously worked as the podcast producer at WYPR 88.1FM in Baltimore. There she created and produced two documentary podcast series: Natural Maryland and Ascending: Baltimore School for the Arts. The Nature Conservancy selected her documentaries for their podcast Nature Stories. She has also produced for the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Distillations Podcast. Louisa is editor of the book Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her training also includes journalism fellowships from the Science Literacy Project and the Knight Digital Media Center, both in Berkeley, CA. Most recently she received a journalism fellowship through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she traveled to Toolik Field Station in Arctic Alaska to study climate change. In addition to her work as an independent producer, she teaches radio production classes at Howard Community College to a great group of budding journalists. She has worked as an environmental educator and canoe instructor but has yet to convince a great blue heron to squawk for her microphone…she remains undeterred.