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Co-founder Carl Doninger hopes to strengthen the pop culture convention's branding while looking at additional markets for more events.

5 Things to Do This Weekend Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually. April 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Dance Image The Sarasota Ballet performing Frederick Ashton’s “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.”Credit...Frank Atura It was one of the happy surprises of dance in the 2010s: how the Sarasota Ballet, a scrappy troupe on the Gulf Coast of Florida, became a critical darling and one of the world’s prime preservers of the work of the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton. Ashton isn’t all that Sarasota Ballet does, but the Ashton special...

CADILLAC — Whether you are into movies, comics, video games or simply pop culture, Cadillac is where you want to be on Saturday. After COVID-19 canceled last year's event, the 7th Cadillac Pop Culture Con, also known as the Pop Con, will be a welcoming gathering for fans of everything comic, anime, gaming, cosplay, sci-fi, horror and more. Although Wargames North owner and Cadillac Pop Culture Con organizer Jeff Miller is excited about the event returning to the Wex Saturday, he also said he is apprehensive. "We will not charge admission, so it won't change anything for me financially, b...

'E.T.' star Henry Thomas talks about his debut fantasy novel, love of Dungeons & Dragons FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Actor and San Antonio native Henry Thomas made his writing debut with the 2019 fantasy novel, “The Window and the Mirror.” Thomas will take part in this month’s Pop Madness, the San Antonio Public Library’s virtual pop culture convention.Courtesy Rare Bird BooksShow MoreShow Less 2of6 “The Window and the Mirror” by Henry Thomas is the actor’s debut novel. The San Antonio native has been a fantasy fan most of his life.Courtesy Rare Bird BooksShow MoreShow Less 3of6 H...

Leaders much more than anyone had suspected. now al qaeda is promising to strike back. roger cressy is an nbc terrorism analyst. we hear today al qaeda threatening retaliation, acknowledging death, and also all this information coming out of that compound. our colleague bob windrum has been reporting it as well. what are the most important things we've learned from all this? >> what is remarkable, andrea, there was operational command and control still with bin laden in this compound, maybe for up to five years. it might not have been the tactical op con that we might otherwise see, but he w...