Monday, April 5, 2021 Write off your other weekend plans, because the San Antonio Book Festival is back in a big way Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 3:11 PM click to enlarge Courtesy of San Antonio Book Festival From left: Frank Andre Guridy, Isabell Allende and Trung Le Nguyen
After its sudden cancellation in 2020, San Antonio’s mega-celebration of the written word is back with a stacked deck of nearly 200 authors.
This year’s event will take place solely online, with a veritable cornucopia of book discussions and even a live science demonstration, free for all to attend, barring four ticketed events that come with a mailed copy of the guest author’s books.
Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 3:55 PM click to enlarge Courtesy of Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer will make a virtual appearance at the San Antonio Book Festival on Friday. The San Antonio Book Festival’s guest list features a bevy of literary giants, but only one author who’s written a book that literally includes a giant flying bear.
From the
Southern Reach Trilogy to
Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer’s award-winning weird fiction has long captivated readers. After making the jump to the screen with Alex Garland’s film adaptation of
Annihilation, he’s now working with AMC on an upcoming television series adapted from 2017’s
Posted By Jada Teague on Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:21 PM click to enlarge Facebook / San Antonio Zoo Dragon Forest is open through October. Locals can make their fantasies a reality with a brand new attraction at the San Antonio Zoo. In Dragon Forest, which opened on March 12, visitors journey through a medieval kingdom and meet its 15 resident dragons. Embracing the renaissance faire spirit, Dragon Forest has great food like turkey legs, kettle corn and Bavarian nuts on offer, as well as Butter Beer and Dragon s Blood to drink. click to enlarge Facebook / San Antonio Zoo
Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:30 AM click to enlarge Courtesy of SOLI Chamber Ensemble SOLI s upcoming concert will feature three world premieres.
SOLI Chamber Ensemble is joined by Grammy-winning electric guitarist D.J. Sparr for a virtual performance in which “phasing, loops and funk meet rock, flavors of jazz and contemporary classical harmonies to bring electrifying energy to the ear.”
The concert, titled Electrified Air, will be free to view on SOLI’s YouTube channel.
Following the group’s usual modus operandi, SOLI will perform three world premieres on the program: Anthony Joseph Lanman’s
Hammer and Nail, Olivia Kieffer’s
Posted By Dana Nichols on Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:07 AM click to enlarge The documentary
Coded Bias will be screened online for free on March 14. The Indie Lens Pop-Up Series presented by ITVS, Independent Lens, KLRN and Presa House Gallery continues with an online screening of the documentary
Coded Bias, made by award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya. The film follows computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, who realized that facial recognition technology failed to accurately detect dark-skinned faces or those of women. Following this discovery, Buolamwini formed the Algorithmic Justice League, a group pioneered by women with the goal of exposing the widespread underlying biases in everyday technology.