April is National Poetry Month, and the city offers residents dozens of events to inspire their poetic creativity.

Register on the Texas Film Commission website. The deadline to register is April 4.

New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

Max Baca’s Los Texmaniacs are playing Gruene Hall this Friday. The band has won Grammys, toured the world for decades and earned the respect of fellow superstar musicians.

After more than three decades as an actor, Matthew McConaughey told the Texas Senate Finance Committee on Monday that one of his only regrets is not making more films in Texas.

Plus, Kevin Bacon plays a bounty hunter in The Bondsman starting Thursday, and a new medical drama premieres on Netflix.

Three generations of Los Inocentes honor Cesar Chavez and their culture nearly 30 years after their founding.

Girls point to Selena Quintanilla-Perez as a symbol of empowerment who was authentically herself and embraced her culture and identity.

The novel is about race and class and about parents trying to raise their sons in our fraught times.

Acclaimed writer ZZ Packer joins Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides to discuss “Gold Coast” by James Alan McPherson.