By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor URBAN-15 has a number of programs and events in different disciplines. How would you describe the organization and its activities?We have three disciplines that we espouse: music, movement (dance, etc.) and media. Actually, we have one more that we do not talk about that much, and that’s design – costuming and sets. All of us are …

March is Contemporary Art Month with many artists and art venues participating in a range of events. To kick-off the celebration of contemporary art Friday, Blue Star Contemporary will present An Original Drive, a multidisciplinary performance by Xavier Gilmore with collaborators Anthony Francis, Kellen Stanley, Nick Long, Edwin Stephens, and San Antonio poet laureate, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. “Through sound, scent …

By SUZI CASTELLAW, Contributor Max Stalling has this great song about the end of a passionate romance between a cowboy and his fiery mistress.  To cool off and gather his thoughts, he jumps into a “pila.”   For those unfamiliar with the term, a pila is a large cement reservoir built next to a windmill that holds water pumped from the …

By RUDY ARISPE, Contributor In early March 2020, Elizabeth Jordan, general manager of the Nowwhere Bookshop in Alamo Heights, and the store’s owner, author Jenny Lawson, were making last minute preparations for their grand opening slated for that April. The space, located in the former El Paso Imports at 5154 Broadway, had just undergone a complete buildup to transform it …