NEW YORK – Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize. Each of the recipients, who also include the dramatists Dominique Morisseau and Jasmine Lee-Jones, will be given $175,000. Over the last few weeks, Everett has been voted into the American … Read more
Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – It’s time to wrap it up — April 30 is the final day of Fiesta San Antonio 2023. If you haven’t made it to any events in the last ten days, this is your chance to celebrate and get in on the Fiesta fun. Here’s the list of events for Fiesta San … Read more
After watching the trailer for the highly anticipated “Barbie” movie, I think I can confidently say that this film will save cinema. The highly anticipated film will hit theaters on July 21, and has an all star cast that includes Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Dua … Read more
Jost has been writing for SNL since 2005, and also co-anchors “Weekend Update.” SAN ANTONIO — Funnyman Colin Jost is coming to San Antonio! Jost is head writer at Saturday Night Live, tv’s longest running and most successful sketch and comedy show, which has been on the air since 1975. He is also a very … Read more
NEW YORK – Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the … Read more
NEW YORK – While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were writing “The Last Duel,” their first screenplay together since their 1997 breakthrough, “Good Will Hunting,” they noticed that something in their winding and usually separate careers had been missing. “I remember my wife said to me one day: ‘I haven’t heard you laugh like that … Read more