Sebastien de la Cruz Keeps Singing
It’s not often an 11-year-old boy gets to sing the national anthem twice during the NBA Finals.
But it’s been a surprising week for Sebastien de la Cruz of San Antonio.
Governor Perry and Boots sign Service Animal Law in San Antonio
Gov. Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 489 to benefit returning wounded warriors and other disabled people who use service animals.
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Photograph by Adam Dean—Panos for TIME
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses with the cover he created for TIME at his studio in Beijing, China, June 3, 2013.
The cover reads: “The World According to China”
A new chamber music series debuts this weekend in San Antonio: “Q.” Led by oboist Jennifer Berg, it will include three concerts this summer at Christ Episcopal Church.
Here, Berg is joined by Daniel Anastasio, piano, and Marisa Bushman, viola, for Charles Martin Loeffler’s “Rhapsody #2: The Bagpipe.” (Listen as the viola echoes the droning sound of the bagpipe).
For more details: http://tpr.org/post/new-chamber-music-series-q-debuts-sunday
San Antonio Firefighters Help Houston Brethren Through Difficult Day
Yesterday, 150 off-duty San Antonio firefighters stood watch over Houston so that firefighters who wanted to attend the public memorial service for the four fighters who died Friday are able to do so.
Three San Antonio firefighters are assigned to each Houston fire truck - along with one Houston firefighter assigned to drive each truck - responding to all calls to HFD through 11:30 Wednesday night. Early that morning, the firefighters responded to a call for a high-rise fire.
$10,000 Reward For Help Finding Riverwalk Duck Killers
One of San Antonio’s River ducks is the subject of a city investigation this week, and a $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest.
The City’s Animal Care Services has several videotapes from Riverwalk restaurants, and is searching for those responsible for the death of George the Duck.
83rd Legislature Made Strides In Education Funding, But Were They Enough?
Both parties in the school finance battle have been called back to court to review what has happened in the legislative session, which could lead to an official decision.
In 1971, when the Environmental Protection Agency was in its early days, someone at the agency got the idea to send nearly 100 freelance photographers around America to document the country. These weren’t postcard shots, but pictures of street corners, freight yards, parking lots, alleyways — wherever people were working and living. It was called Documerica, and it went on for seven years.
A young photographer, Michael Philip Manheim, joined the Documerica project in 1973. His assignment was to take a good look at the noise pollution in Boston from Logan International Airport.
Forty years later, he went back to East Boston to take photos for the EPA’s next generation of the project, State of the Environment. Manheim joins Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon to talk about the project then, and now.
Documenting America’s Environments: Then And Now
Photo Credit: Environmental Protection Agency
Shovels In Hand, Kids Break Ground On New Children’s Museum
Children stood over a sandbox full of bright blue sand with plastic shovels, and after Mayor Julián Castro and onlookers counted down from five, the kids dug into the granules and lifted it into the air with their shovels.
The event marked the official groundbreaking of the new San Antonio Children’s Museum to be built at Broadway and Mulberry and expected to open in 2015.
