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In honor of Juneteenth, Nusaiba interviews a local Black Artist in San Antonio named Lanai. She gives us an insight on her experiences as a black artist from Chicago now navigating her artistry and life in San Antonio. This episode contains important conversations and awareness towards racism and the reality of Black and African Americans till this day. Black culture is extremely important for the...

The 2nd episode of Nusaiba's Neighbors introduced a local San Antonio artist, Yasmeena Yaani, as she gives us an insight on being a Syrian R&B artist. She hold on to her Syrian identity as she uses her culture to express herself in her music with a twist. Yasmeena gives us an insight in her life as she allows the audience to get to know the deep and vulnerable parts about her and how music has...

This is the first episode of Nusaiba's Neighbors where she starts off her show by having a vulnerable conversation with one of her closest friends, Daniel "Ali" Jimenez as he describes his new life as a Latino revert living in San Antonio. He tells us how his life has changed and the way he still holds on to his Mexican identity while embracing a new religion.  

Una plática with Jerry Robledo Season 4, Episode 10 Some conversations ask you to bring your whole self with a side of vulnerability to the table. This was one of them. Sitting across from Jerry I knew within the first few minutes that this platica would be closer to a revealing, confession. On the menu, two writers, two parents, peeling back the language we use to protect, explain, and translate...

A Conversation with Xelena González Creator of Lotería Remedios & Author  What began as a plática — the kind that feels less like an interview and more like a random conversation you didn't anticipate, unfolded into one of the most tender, genuine exchanges of this season. Sitting with Xelena González felt like sitting with easiness to wisdom. A grounded sensation. The kind that comes from a w...

Season 4, Episode 9: Erika Prosper Some mujeres you meet become instant friends; others step naturally into a role of cariño y  cuidado — a comadre. As the mics went live, I was engulfed by La Erika’s powerful presence,  one that could be immediately recognized and held in reverence. Our culturally rooted plática felt like the kind that has unfolded at sobremesas across the world. Conversations ab...

The only items missing from our space were an incense slowly burning, and perhaps green tea.  What began as a carefully outlined interview was dissolved almost immediately. My physical  questions — printed, prepared, structured — disintegrated into space the moment Carmen Gray  began to speak. Instead of a formal exchange, what unfolded was something far more sacred: a  plática of intuition. An es...

Season 4, Episode 7 : Eduardo “Eddie” Vega If we both had shown up with a bag of tacos in hand, our platica would have run for hours. Where we would have forgotten the whole interview and entered a taco platica, where we would  have talked in the language of taquito, and painted a culinary picture in the studio where like a  ‘Water for Chocolate’ aroma fumes would have peeked and emerged out of ou...

Episode 6, Season 4: Dr. Octavio Quintanilla Grey cumulus clouds hung low like a soft, familiar plush blanket, as an heirloom passed down to  keep us warm through dark days. In this intimate plática, poetic creation stories were bestowed  as a gift by Texas Poet Laureate Dr. Octavio Quintanilla as he reflected on who he is as an artist,  tracing the ways poems emerge from image, ritual, and lived...

The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner was started 46 years ago with the intention to serve the elderly community of San Antonio. Today we talk to Patricia Jimenez, Rauls daughter, about the event, the history and the importance of community.