Category: Community

Community, Education

OER Grant awardee saves students over $200,000

Haylie Godoy

With Open Educational Resources, higher education is not just more accessible—it has the potential to be more adaptable, inclusive, and engaging than ever before.According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, an Open Educational Resource (OER) is a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution of the resource by any person.OER’s could be the solution to the growing costs of higher education in the country. College tuition and fees have risen over 80% in the past 12 years, with…

Community, Drama, Entertainment

Giving the audiences ‘Goosebumps’

Paul Farias

For the first time ever a South Texas theater, namely Corpus Christi’s Harbor Playhouse, is staging “Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium.” Tickets can be found on Harbor Playhouse’s website at harborplayhouse.com. One of the lead actors, Abigail Martin, felt a certain kinship with her character, Brooke Rodgers. “Brooke is kind of an upbeat, optimistic fun-loving girl who loves scary stuff and that’s me really,” Martin said. The music also influenced her to audition as well. “I loved the songs ‘Babbling Brooke’ and ‘Story of the Phantom,’ and they are my second and third most-listened songs on Apple Music right now,”…

Community, Entertainment

Let’s do the time warp again at Aurora Arts

Paul Farias

For local actor Ricky Martinez, Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” was a calling. “It’s one of those shows that you kind of have to do as a performer,” said Martinez, who portrays character Brad Majors. Despite the calling, he decided to audition later in the process. “It was really a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing, I decided to audition last-minute,” said Martinez. “My voice was shot. It was a crazy audition process.” Martinez is one of many actors for this year’s installation of Aurora Arts Theater’s annual staging of “Rocky.” “With only a month and a half to stage a…

Community

Corpus Christi police’s most anticipated upgrade

Edward Green

The Corpus Christi Police Academy is growing. Cadets will soon leave behind their current 8,000-square foot building on Corona Drive for a new 34,000-square foot facility on Del Mar College’s Oso Creek Campus. The academy had been at the location, a former shooting range, for about 40 years. “During the late ‘90s, early 2000s, they had plans for creating a public safety training academy. They did it in phases, and phase one was the outdoor range, and that’s all we ever got to,” Senior Officer Travis Pace stated. Pace was a training instructor with the academy for 17 years. Pace…

Campus, Community

Unveiling Corpus Christi Talent: Longnecker’s Witchblade Cover Art Takes Center Stage at Most Wanted Comics Event

Lola Ponce

On July 17, Most Wanted Comics buzzed with excitement as David Longnecker, a DMC Math Assistant instructor, presented his cover artwork for the Witchblade comic book series. The signing event, which ran from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., drew a diverse crowd eager to witness local talent in the spotlight. Steven Fuentes, owner of Most Wanted Comics, spearheaded a cover art contest aimed at renowned publisher Image Comics. Despite initial resistance due to Longnecker’s lesser-known status, Fuentes persisted, successfully positioning Longnecker as the first Corpus Christi artist featured on a Witchblade cover, a prestigious achievement within the comic book community.…