SAN ANTONIO
Tejano Music Awards lines up top bands
San Antonio Express-News (02/27/08)
Ramiro Burr
"Dozens of new bands and special performances are on tap as part of the 2008 edition of the Tejano Music Awards and Fan Fair. For the first time in the awards' history, the ceremonies are taking place on a Thursday - March 6 - and, also for the first time at Villita Assembly Building."
TEXAS
Politics, war dominate SXSW
Film festival turns sober in this election year.
Austin American Statesman (03/06/08)
"If you hadn't noticed, it's an election year. A big one. Maybe the biggest in a generation. And filmmakers have noticed. The overwhelming theme of the 15th South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, which starts Friday and continues through next week, revolves around the political sphere, with documentaries, dramas and comedies dealing forthrightly with the current election, American leadership and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
NATIONAL
The Lords of Dumbo Make Room for the Arts, at Least for the Moment
New York Times online (03/06/08)
Robin Pogrebin
"Some 1,000 artists and arts organizations are now working in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, courtesy of the developers David Walentas and his son, Jed, partners in Two Trees Management. Operating on the principle that cultural ferment makes a neighborhood hot, Two Trees has offered creative people rents that they cannot refuse."
INTERNATIONAL
London's Contemporary Art Sales Jump More Than 50%
Bloomberg (03/29/08)
Scott Reyburn
"Contemporary-art sales in London rose more than 50 percent to 245.7 million pounds ($487.2 million) in February from a year earlier, figures from auction houses show, a sign the market is weathering a worldwide economic slowdown."
Ballet San Antonio: Off Center
First Friday
New Zealand Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre
Alma de Mujer
Richard Rosen is the creator and founder of The Magik Theatre as well as many other successful theatres in San Antonio, most notably, The Melodrama Theatre and the San Antonio Theatre Club. He holds a B. A. in Theatre from Trinity University.
