Preemptive Protest in South Texas

It’s only a staff recommendation, but a report suggesting that funding for many San Antonio arts groups be zeroed out to help balance the city’s budget is drawing early fire. The Cultural Arts Board has recommended killing all funding for the long-embattled San Antonio Symphony, the ballet, and the Josephine Theater, and proposed heavy cuts for several other groups. “The issue of entitlement has been the largely unspoken bone of contention at the core of this funding cycle, with much of the anger from applicants focused on the peer panelists who have been called unqualified at worst and unprepared at best.”