Last week, The Texas Tribune held their twelfth annual Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin, a three-day celebration of politics, panels, and pandemonium as speakers from differing partisan sides shared their opinions along with their platforms. While the festival is obviously a state event, the panels provided covered a wide variety of issues beyond just…
Recently crowned Miss San Antonio USA, 22-year-old Lillian Perez is grateful for her accomplishments, and her ability to overcome adversity which has only driven her ambition, confidence, and success. Reflecting on her recent win, Perez is also excited to share her thoughts on the competition and what came to mind as she was announced the…
By Laura Donnelly AUSTIN, Tx. — Do you like creepy stories? An intensity that builds like a slow heat? All with a nod to dark histories in Mexico’s interior? “Mexican Gothic” reads like cinema, as in, I cannot wait until this story becomes a movie! On the cover of “Mexican Gothic,” we see a beautiful,…
By Martina Vásquez Alejandra (Aleja) León was my childhood babysitter, but now she is much more than that. Ever since I can remember, I’ve admired her ability to thrive, her commitment, her ambition, and above all, her perseverance: these are all traits of hers that are visible from the outside. But I’ve always known there…
San Antonio native Preston Perez is making his National Tour debut starring as Hans in Disney’s Frozen, and we spoke to him for all the exciting details. I’ll be the first to admit that when I think San Antonio, Musical Theater is not exactly what comes to mind, but Perez was quick to set me…
Superheroes have never captured my attention. It’s just that every movie is the same to me– a good guy puts on an incredibly well-tailored suit, fights a bad guy, saves their city (which for some reason is always somewhere in New York), kisses the girl in the end, and so on. Sure, I did…
On December 16th, Yvonne Guidry invited the Houston community to donate new toys for “H-Town” kids and Christmas shop at her first-ever Spoiled Latina Toy Drive and Holiday Mercado at Art Square Studios on Commerce in East End Houston. With a goal of filling up two Volkswagen Atlases with new toys, the Houston community showed…
This past weekend Latinitas and JCPenney joined forces once again for the official launching of JCPenney’s Hope & Wonder Hispanic Heritage Month Collection in San Antonio. The event took place Saturday morning at the Ingram Park Mall. Latinitas students and family from all over the city were invited to join in on the celebration with…
Just one minute after participating in a One-on-One panel discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival, in which Dallas Mayor, Eric Johnson, spoke on all matters partisan, his excitement toward reelection, and the current state of Texas’s climate, the Wall Street Journal pushed publish on an unexpected piece he’d written. In the article titled “America’s Cities…
