Note: This post is by new contributor Andrew Hilbert. Tonight, award-winning Texas poet Naomi Shihab Nye will be speaking and signing her latest collection of stories There is No Long Distance, Now. more ›

We might be able to sum up how great the event taking place tonight at St. Edward's University by just saying that it is going to be great, but for extra enthusiasm we'll say its going to be superb, a word that means it is going to be great but also has a phat dose of talent in it, audible in its 'erb' ending - a sound not many words can pull off without sounding like they're high. It's also a perfect word to describe the author featured at said event, someone you probably already know and love. more ›

There is something so undeniably delicious about Brecht. It doesn’t really matter what your particular aesthetic is, if you love theatre, you should jump at the chance to see one of his works. The Life of Galileo, which recently closed at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, is no exception. more ›

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