For this week’s episode of The Big Spoon Podcast we chat with chef Jason Dady AKA one of the most prolific chefs in the area with seven restaurants to his name including Two Bros BBQ Market, Tre Enoteca, Shuck Shack, Range and more. We chat about Chispas, his new project in Austin, Tre Trattoria’s big…
R. Kelly was slammed with a lawsuit on Monday, filed by a Texas woman who alleges that the rapper assaulted her after meeting at his concert in San Antonio last March. Faith A. Rodgers filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan court, which claims that she met Kelly when she was 19 in March 2017. After…
Despite predictions of higher voter turnout in today’s party primary runoffs, three of the polling sites we visited around San Antonio weren’t exactly abuzz with voting. Last week, Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen said she was hoping Bexar County would see 30,000 voters on election day, surpassing the 2014 midterm elections by 12,000 votes. Callanen…
It’s soft opening time for Revolucion Coffee + Juice’s Downtown location on Houston Street. The shop, opened in the former home of Moshe’s Golden Falafel, is a smaller satellite location of the Broadway flagship. Customers will find espresso drinks, juices, “not milks,” smoothies, acai bowls, and grab-and-go salads and sandwiches by chef Mike Hernandez. The…
Doesn’t sound like U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is holding his breath waiting for Gov. Greg Abbott’s roundtable on school shootings to result in meaningful action on gun violence. Good thing, too. We’d hate to see Lloyd turn green and pass out. That’s because past words and actions sure don’t suggest the Gov — who spoke…
A familiar face will be featured during the Cooking Channel’s Man Fire Food season 7 opener on May 30 at 9/8 CST. Edward Garcia of The Box Street Social is featured on the preview for the series premiere shared by host Roger Mooking yesterday. In the preview, Garcia and Mooking are seen rubbin’ up racks…
South BBQ & Kitchen will open May 23, just in time for Memorial Day. Opened by Andrew Samia (of Crazy Carl’s food truck and Dignowity Meats on the city’s East Side), South BBQ & Kitchen will offer meats by the pound including brisket, St. Louis spare ribs, pulled pork and chicken quarters, a sandwich or…
South Texas physician Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, already facing federal health care fraud charges for prescribing unnecessary drugs, has been sued by his alleged victims. Former patients Gloria M. Gabriel and Christina Deras filed suit against the doctor in Bexar County for giving them a false diagnosis. The San Antonio law firm Watts Guerra LLP represent…
Galveston will likely see a spike in tourists thanks to a recent report from Coastal Living. The magazine recently published a list of “The Best Beaches in America to Visit This Summer.” Among the top 10 was none other than Galveston Island. Here’s what writer Bob Curley had to say about the Texas spot: Texas is…
As part of American Idol’s season finale, which includes special performances from judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Katy Perry as well as duets with other top 10 performers from the show, Ada Vox and “New Attitude” singer Patti LaBelle performed LaBelle’s iconic hit “Lady Marmalade” last night and we’re still speechless. Yass, queen. Though…
Voting in the Democrat and Republican primary runoff elections ends at 7 p.m. today. Friday marked the last day of early voting, with a total of 22,750 Bexar County residents casting ballots. Even though early turnout was below the 2014 midterm primary elections by approximately 11,000 votes, Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen said she…
Did everyone from the ’90s just decide to go on tour the last couple years or what? With Ja Rule and Ashanti gracing SA last year and Marcy Playground, Candlebox and Local H making their way through the Alamo City, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Dru Hill would be next on the list…
Updated 9 a.m. Tuesday: This story has been updated to provide additional information on the baboon’s capture. A monkey on the loose turned the San Antonio International Airport into a zoo. Sort of. Reports say a baboon was running around the airport for almost an hour. The animal had been on a flight that landed…
Chef, author and filmmaker Adán Medrano is turning the camera on South Texas’ indigenous cuisine. Medrano, founder of the 40-year-old San Antonio CineFestival, is serving as executive producer of The Roots of Texas Mexican Food, a documentary filming this summer in the Alamo City and other Texas locations. The 45-minute film will accompany his forthcoming book, Don’t Count…
This story was originally published in The Texas Tribune. Three days after a 17-year-old Texas student killed 10 people in a shooting rampage at his high school, one of the Texas House’s most prominent Republicans called on Gov. Greg Abbott to order a special legislative session on school shootings. State Rep. Byron Cook, a Corsicana…
Like the hilarious #GrowingUpinSanAntonio trend a few years ago, the Twitterverse recently created a #PoemYourCity hashtag that had locals describing San Antonio in the best way. While outsiders might not fully understand the poems, Twitter users shared their most creative and puro SA poems about the Alamo City. Some went the taco route… #PoemYourCityTacos, fiesta,…
The Silver Dancers – the Spurs’ spirit team – will be no longer. Instead, the all-female team, which has been around for 26 years, will be replaced with a coed squad. Spurs Sports and Entertainment announced Friday that it will hold tryouts for the inaugural coed “hype team” at the beginning of the 2018-2019 season.…
As this season of ABC’s American Idol comes to close, San Antonio’s Ada Vox, the singing drag queen from the South Side of San Antonio who slayed the competition for 6 weeks, is back on the AI stage for a special performance. Though it’s been three weeks since we’ve seen the South San High School…
San Antonio better be at its most productive now that we have yet another coffeehouse on Broadway. Open as of last Thursday across from the Witte Museum, Berry to Bean Coffee House features a menu of espresso drinks, juices and smoothies (though the shop was still blenderless as of Monday morning). Owned by Kam Mehta,…
Following hundreds of tweets, Waffle House took to Twitter to let San Antonio fans know that a location could be coming to the Alamo City. 5lbs of tweets received. We see you San Antonio. @WaffleHouseInSA @park pic.twitter.com/aUND4CS1pe — Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) May 18, 2018 According to the tweet, Waffle House headquarters has received hundreds of…
This story originally appeared in our sister publication, Out in SA. A fundraising campaign to help pay for the installation of a rainbow crosswalk on the Main Avenue Strip has nearly reached its goal, according to an email to Out In SA from District 1 City Councilman Roberto C. Treviño. Councilman Treviño reports: “By placing…
Calling yourself the “scariest band in the world” seems like a setup for ridicule, but San Diego’s Deadbolt gets a pass because its horror is of the cheeky I-Married-a-Monster-from-Outer-Space variety. The band, which plays S.A. Friday, has built a cult following in the U.S. and Europe by crafting odes to psychotic clowns, homicidal truck drivers and…
In addition to the “thoughts and prayers” pro-gun politicians dependably trot out after a mass shooting, there’s usually a wealth of ass-backward logic to explain why guns shouldn’t receive any blame for the bloodshed. In the wake of this morning’s Santa Fe High School shooting, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wasted no time with the…
The San Antonio Film Commission, in partnership with Texas Public Radio and Slab Cinema, presents the final entry in the excellent Made in S.A. film series. As part of San Antonio’s Tricentennial celebrations, this series has spotlighted films that were shot (at least in part) in the Alamo City. The final film in the series…
An addition to the onslaught (emphasis on the aught) of bands coming to Texas that gained popularity, well, the aughts: Long Beach indie rockers the Cold War Kids, who are making a stop at The Rustic. Kyle Noonan, creator of The Rustic, said the performance at the still-new venue is one of the band’s only…
Early voting for the Democrat and Republican primary runoff elections, which began on May 14, closes at 8 p.m. today. As of yesterday, the fourth day of early voting, Bexar County voters had cast 16,428 ballots – far behind the pace of early voting in the 2014 midterm primary runoffs. Then, a total of 33,772…
Austin’s Balmorhea, a minimalist, instrumental post-rock project formed in 2006 by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, is as consistently great and inventive as they come in a genre than can suffer from overwhelming sameness. Throughout the course of its six LPs and other releases, the most recent of which is 2017’s evocative and arresting Clear…
More and more Austin bands seem to be sliding into San Antonio for shows, and we gotta be honest, they’re pretty good. And look, SA, regardless of whether Austin wants to acknowledge San Antonio artists (heads up, the real Austin folks know), we’re gonna highlight good music when it comes to town, no matter where it…
A shooter killed nine students and one teacher at a Houston-area high school this morning, and a suspect has been captured by police, CNN has reported. Houston County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told media sources that the students and faculty member were killed at Santa Fe High School, which went on lockdown around 8 a.m. Ten people were…
If your knowledge of public art in San Antonio stalls somewhere between Mexican sculptor Sebastián’s two-ton Torch of Friendship and New York-based Donald Lipski’s illuminated F.I.S.H., there’s plenty out there just waiting to be discovered. Evidenced by a handy map organized by Public Art San Antonio (PASA), our city abounds with public art — but some…
One risk of adapting a groundbreaking work is that what once was shocking and new may come off as derivative in light of everything it inspired. That’s especially true for genre fiction, in which trailblazers are quickly cannibalized and reinterpreted. So, a 2018 film based on Ray Bradbury’s classic 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is…
For this episode of The Big Spoon Podcast, we’re chatting with Richard Diaz and Matt Contreras of BarbacoApparel, the makers of “Bean & Cheese” T-shirts, fideo tote bags, crispy dog pins and more. Diaz and Contreras chat about what inspires them, where they find the best barbacoa in town and what’s next for BarbacoApparel. So…
The City of San Antonio probably will join other municipalities in suing opioid manufacturers over their potential role in the opioid crisis, District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez said. “If I had to make a bet on it, I’d bet we’ll be making that decision by the end of the year — and that we’ll be going…
Cocktail historian David Wondrich once tried researching Texan cocktails and came up with very little. There was Commander Dick Dowling, who launched the Bank of Bacchus and a handful of cocktail names, but no drink measurements to speak of. So when Nico Martini — yes, that’s his real last name — took on the research for…
Fremonti Coffee Cart is the latest coffee purveyor on Broadway as of Wednesday morning. The cart owned by graphic designer Robert Pecina and architect Daniel Rodriguez. The duo created Fremonti a little over a year ago as a way to combine their love of design and newfound knowledge of coffee. Until earlier this year Fremonti…
If you’re part of the population that loves sloths, you’ll want to head on over to the San Antonio Aquarium. No, not the zoo. The local aquarium announced Wednesday that it now has a furry two-toed sloth, Kiwi. A native of South America, Kiwi is about 18 months old. The aquarium is offers a “sloth…
Easily among the most conceptual San Antonio artists working within the realm of dance, Britt Lorraine creates challenging, memorable pieces that have involved lugging gold-leafed sandbags around the McNay Art Museum and performing an interpretation of Ballet Russes’ “Rite of Spring” for eight hours straight. Trained at Southern Methodist University, the University of Iowa and…
Frontier Airlines is adding service to nine new cities from San Antonio. The low-cost airline announced Thursday they will soon offer San Antonians direct flights to Albuquerque, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, Oklahoma City, Omaha, and Tulsa. The additions make Denver-based Frontier the largest carrier in San Antonio for direct flights, totaling 23 cities. Frontier…
If you’re anticipating the October release of Marvel’s Venom, you’re going to love this Venom/Spurs mashup. Comic artist and illustrator Mike Choi shared his work of Spider-Man’s nemesis, complete with the Spurs logo on his chest. Although he also drew a version of the villain with the Chicago Bulls logo, the silver and black aesthetic…
After earning an Oscar this year for his compassionate foreign-language drama A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica), Chilean director Sebastián Lelio makes his American film debut with Disobedience, a seductive and mature love story between two women with ties to an Orthodox Jewish community in London. Esti Kuperman (Oscar-nominated actress Rachel McAdams) and Ronit Krushka…
If you’ve been around San Antonio for a while, you know warm weather, low costs and available medical facilities make it a retirement hotspot. But would you believe Taco Town is the United States’ No. 2 retirement destination? S.A. ranked only behind Henderson, Nev., in grabbing a net gain in retirement-age residents, according to a…
A high school freshman was arrested last week in Dallas after school officials learned he was actually a 25-year-old man. Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley enrolled at Hillcrest High School in Dallas last November, claiming to be displaced by Hurricane Harvey. According to Dallas ISD, Gilstrap-Portley enrolled in two other high schools before landing at Hillcrest. Going by…
After numerous postponements, Juan Castillo was finally executed Wednesday evening for the 2003 lovers’ lane murder. Castillo was sentenced to death for the 2003 robbery and murder of local rapper Tommy Garcia Jr. Castillo, his girlfriend at the time, and two others lured Garcia with the promise of drugs and sex in order to rob…
I’ll be brief: Clementine is the most exciting restaurant in San Antonio right now. I’m not trying to discount its peers in the realm of chill fine dining, but this small, 50-seat restaurant is reinvigorating the scene with new dishes, refreshing takes on standard fare and expert service. Opened by chefs John and Elise Russ,…
San Antonio’s city clerk will confirm tomorrow that the fire union has collected enough signatures to force a November referendum to change the city charter. City Clerk Leticia Vacek will present that confirmation at Thursday’s city council meeting. She worked with the Bexar County Elections Department to verify that each of three petitions circulated by the union…
City council took a baby step toward ensuring San Antonians have access to a free and open Internet — a concept techies refer to as “net neutrality.” Council’s governance committee authorized further discussion of Councilman Manny Pelaez’s proposal to require Internet providers that do business with the city not to block or prioritize traffic on…
On May 10, San Antonio law firm Phipps Anderson Deacon LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Bexar County against opioid manufacturers, promoters and distributors, including Purdue Pharmaceuticals, for misleading doctors and patients about the addictiveness of their painkillers. The local battle to staunch the opioid epidemic began in June 2017 when Bexar County Judge…
The Mummy has been revived from the cinema graveyard many times over the decades, adding color and gore and CGI, but it all started with Boris Karloff and this tale of doomed love. After Karloff became a star in Frankenstein and the studio had an equally big hit with Dracula, Universal tried to scare up…
A century before Rent rocked its way onto Broadway, another tale of bohemians in the big city splashed onto the scene — Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. Set in Paris’ Latin Quarter, the opera is centered on the tragic romance between seamstress Mimi and poet Rodolfo, who meet when Mimi knocks on his door seeking to…
In a fine pairing for fans of indie electronica, New Zealand’s Kimbra and New York’s Son Lux will come through Paper Tiger together this weekend. Singer and bona fide pop star Kimbra, whose eclectic sound blends pure pop sensibility with jazz, R&B and indie rock elements, is supporting her third album Primal Heart, which came…
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, for the uninitiated, was a groundbreaking feminist theorist, poet and writer. As a queer woman of Mexican-American descent, Anzaldúa wrote of her struggles against the forces of misogyny and racism (among many other topics) in ways that explore her specific experience, while speaking profoundly to the larger experience of all those who…
If you think Bubble Puppy’s only good song was their hit “Hot Smoke and Sassafras”, I urge you to dust off that album (or jump online) and re-listen to the record in its entirety. It’s a solid piece of rock ’n’ roll that deserves another whirl. After opening for The Who in 1967, the then-San…
The Tejano Conjunto Festival, which will enjoy its 37th annual incarnation this weekend, is a treasure among treasures in terms of its value as a cultural celebration that is true to the soul of San Anto. It’s also just a great chance to catch a whole bunch of fantastic performances from some of the finest…
There’s more sushi in San Antonio as of last week. Sushi Express, which opened a Stone Oak location in 2011, has now opened a second location at 12055 Vance Jackson Road, Suite 107. The new location will feature more of the same Japanese/Korean menu inside a 2,300-square-foot space. Through May 31, owner Dino Kim will…
In today’s pop-culture landscape, it might seem a tad unusual to refer to Tom Jones as a sex symbol, but that status has followed the Welsh icon for half a century and his legendary live shows have long involved female fans flinging their underwear onto the stage. “I think I was a sex symbol as…
Less than a year after the opening of the second LA Crawfish location in San Antonio, the seafood/pho chain has announced plans for a third location. The Houston-based crawfish restaurant will build a stand-alone structure at 25 NE Loop 410 next to the shopping center’s Jason’s Deli. According to T. Pham, regional director for the…
You’re a goddamned liar if you didn’t absolutely love Marcy Playground’s “Sex and Candy” when it was in steady rotation on that radio back the ’90s (if you were alive back then). As a good-for-nothing millennial, the song’s now iconic title lyrics sort of forced us then-middle-schoolers to think about what sex, well, smelled like.…
Editor’s Note: Jade Esteban Estrada is the writer of Glitter Political, a series of articles detailing San Antonio’s elections. On my way down the carpeted walkway at Mi Tierra Restaurant, two admirers are blocking my initial view of Bexar County Commissioner Paul Elizondo. One is wishing him well in the May 22 runoff for the Democratic…
Blues legend Buddy Guy and guitar powerhouse Jonny Lang are teaming up to perform live at the Majestic Theatre on Friday, May 18. If you’re a fan of guitar shreddery, then you’ll know how intense this lineup is. At age 81, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and has earned…
As if you needed another reason to be hyped for the Barbacoa and Big Red Festival this Sunday, organizers of the puro SA fest have announced some pretty exciting news. The BBR fest is partnering with Krispy Kreme this year to offer two new Big Red-inspired snacks. Naturally, that means a Big Red donut. The…
For its 300th birthday, San Antonio’s unwrapped plenty of national recognition, mostly for its fascinating history, lovely River Walk and great-n-greasy Tex-Mex fare. Now, it’s getting a big birthday kiss from the Environmental Defense Fund for playing a “powerful role” in tackling green issues. A new article on the watchdog group’s website commends the Alamo…
Some tourists won’t have a hard time remembering the Alamo after a San Antonio man recently streaked around the historic plaza. Hector Melero, identified by San Antonio police, can be seen walking around Alamo Plaza on security footage from May 6. At first, a shirtless Melero pushes a stroller around before sitting down and getting…
Ignore the fact that Deadpool 2 is one of the six live-action superhero films being released in theaters in 2018. Moviegoers love the specialty genre, and damned be any outsider who proclaims half a dozen action-packed pictures from the Marvel and DC catalogs is excessive. When a company is pulling in billions worldwide, it’s not…
In today’s weird metal news, reality TV star, radio host and frontman for the legendary Twisted Sister Dee Snider is releasing a new album. And it’ll be via Napalm Records, which is sort of strange considering Snider’s catalog of music doesn’t necessarily match the label’s prog, death, and symphonic metal vibes. Regardless, the singer who…
Most San Antonio artists only dream about the kind of year Ana Fernandez is having after winning a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2017. Past San Antonio winners include Vincent Valdez in 2015, Dario Robleto and Alex Rubio in 2007 and Franco Mondini-Ruiz in 2001. She also landed in last year’s Texas Biennial in…
Editor’s Note: The following is Their Town, a column of opinion and analysis. More than a decade ago, then-District Attorney Susan Reed put the kibosh on efforts to save the lives of intravenous drug users on the streets by giving them clean needles. She made clear that her office would prosecute anyone caught handing out…
Savage Love Live at Denver’s Oriental Theater last week was epic. I fielded sex questions in front of a sold-out crowd, singer-songwriter Rachel Lark performed amazing news songs, comedian Elise Kerns absolutely killed it, and Tye—a token straight guy plucked at random from the audience—joined us onstage and gave some pretty great sex advice! We…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my assessment of the astrological omens, your duty right now is to be a brave observer and fair-minded intermediary and honest storyteller. Your people need you to help them do the right thing. They require your influence in order to make good decisions. So if you encounter lazy communication,…
Over the past year, San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture has been working with artist, curator and Lady Base Gallery founder Sarah Castillo to develop “We Are,” a multimedia exhibition that “reflects upon the wide array of experiences and challenges faced by the LGBTQI+ community and celebrates LGBTQI+ identities, narratives and history.” Presented in…
Honestly, we don’t know a lot folks who don’t get down with the Gipsy Kings. The band possesses a mystique that predates the 1987 release of their global hit “Bamboleo.” An outgrowth of the late flamenco legend José Reyes’ France-based family band Los Reyes, Gipsy Kings – brothers Nicolas, André, Paul, Canut and Patchai Reyes…
Culinaria, “an organization committed to the celebration of food, wine, spirits and fine tastes,” is back with this year’s Festival Weekend. It kicks off with Bubbles at Topaz at La Cantera Resort & Spa with fascinating views of the city and sparkling wines for all budgets and occasions ($75-$100, 7-10pm Thu). The Texas Grand Tasting…
Less than a week after helping win the 2016 presidential election, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale showed up at the launch for then-mayor Ivy Taylor’s re-election bid. Amid the crowd gathered outside CAST Tech High School, the 6-foot-8, billy goat-bearded Parscale was hard to miss. Television cameras shifted away from the stage for shots…
Echoing the dreamy, melancholy-pop tones of her previous work, Elena Lopez returns with her first full-length effort, Topics. Holy shit, it has been worth the wait. If you’re unfamiliar with Lopez and her role in the San Antonio music scene, let’s catch you up: Lopez loved to sing as a kid, and her parents enrolled…
