Born in New Mexico and based in California, Carla Trujillo is an esteemed fiction writer, editor, educator and a founding member of the Macondo Writers Workshop that Sandra Cisneros established in San Antonio in 1995. Celebrated for her novel What Night Brings (2003) and her work as editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Chicana…
Author Carla Trujillo to read from ‘Faith and Fat Chances’ at Central Library
On Tuesday, November 17, Central Library welcomes award-winning author Carla Trujillo for a reading presented in collaboration with Pride Center San Antonio and Trinity University. Trujillo is expected to read from her recent novel Faith and Fat Chances, published in September by Northwestern University Press. The reading is free and open to the public. A native of New Mexico,…
The Midtown Men bring ’60s stylings to San Antonio
“It is Broadway-quality talent singing the hits of the ’60s.” The original performers from Broadway’s Jersey Boys are back, and you can catch them at the Tobin Center for a limited engagement. Broadway fans can expect the entertainers of Broadway’s three-season success to perform what critics are calling a 1960s hit with a modern twist.…
Alyson Alonzo sings her way onto the mainstage
Editor’s note: Alyson Alonzo will be opening for the local rock band Buttercup on Friday, Sept. 18 at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m. Tickets for the show are $10 and may be purchased at this link. “That’s a really crazy example of manifesting…
Chulita Vinyl Club spins women into the mix
“I see this as a small-scale movement to bring girls to the front.” When Claudia Saenz, aka DJ Tear Drop, went to her local record store to purchase Chicano Soul records, she kept noticing that she was the only woman in the store. Thus was born Chulita Vinyl Club. The 27-year-old Austin resident lived in…
Vet Erika Land pulls poetry from her PTSD
“I had to shut off my emotions. The only emotion was anger.” Erika Land’s memories of her deployment at a military hospital in Iraq include a military pilot’s brain fragments spilling out over her hands. She began obsessively washing them. She’s since recovered from that compulsion, but other symptoms of her PTSD are not as…
Jenn Alva and Kia Geronimo on fame and marriage
“She took me to meet Nina and Phanie the very first time we went out.” Jenn Alva and Kia Geronimo locked eyes one night at the Korova, and they knew instantly romance was in bloom. “I saw her dancing and I just knew that I had to talk to her,” Alva recalled. “I gave her…