Pearl Jam: 'Lightning Bolt'
The pissed-off preteen version of me who listened to Ten ’till the cassette tape melted would probably hate the band Pearl Jam has become over the past two decades, but the version of me who’s old enough to be nostalgic for cassettes in 2013 knows that kid was an ignorant little shit. Lightning Bolt’s first…
5 Things You Have to Do This Week
1. SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Past Mon, Oct 14 – Tue, Oct 15 Winner of a 2013 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, SA’s own SOLI Chamber Ensemble (Ertan Torgul, violin; Stephanie Key, clarinet; Carolyn True, piano; and David Mollenauer, cello) prides itself on “giving new voice to 20th- and 21st-century classical contemporary music.” Since 1994, the decidedly…
Analog Is Not Dead 6: Estate Sales, A Night Out With Mondo Nation, Fashion Friday and More
Analog Is Not Dead #6 – A plethora of estate sales. Fashion Friday. House party with You and Me Under Water, Jeremiah Bredvad, DirtY GeneZ. Mondo Nation presents: Xander Harris, Russian Tsarlag, Human Beast, and Massiver at Essentials Studio. CLICK ON IMAGES TO SEE LARGER VERSION Hello all, brain here, Analog is not dead post number…
5 Things to Know About Taps y Tapas
Be on the lookout for soft opening dates. Taps Y Tapas is THIS close to opening. Here are a few things to note: 1. Taps Y Tapas (1012 N Flores) is located inside the former Quincy’s Deli. The home-turned-eatery was built in 1883. While on the topic of location, the tapas joint is located at…
Mixtli Launches Garden Kickstarter
The folks over at Mixtli, the progressive kitchen found at The Yard in Olmos Park, have launched a crowd-sourcing campaign to fund a rooftop garden. Owned and operated by Diego Galicia and Rico Torres, with wine help from Cecilia Barretto of Vinously Speaking Wine Shop (7271 Wurzbach, Ste 117), Mixtli offers seated eight-course dinners for…
Lunchtime Links: 13 Soggy Pictures of ACL Fest’s Flood, Burger King Japan’s Scary ‘Black Ninja’ Burger, The GOP’s Sneaky House Rule Change Called Out, Where TX Lottery Revenue Really Goes + More
1. 13 Unbelievable Pictures of ACL Fest 2013 Flooding (Republic of Austin) 2. 31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places That Will Give You Goose Bumps “Here’s a selection of some of the most ghostly abandoned places around the world, every single one of which has its own special charm. Beneath all the dust, rust and cracks, there are stories…
Texas Wins Big During Great American Beer Festival
Tim Schwartz president of the Texas craft brewers guild and co-owner/brewer of Real Ale Brewing. Three days and a few brews later, the Great American Beer Festival (otherwise known as GABF) has now come to a close and as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year’s festival competition saw 732 breweries from around the United States…
10 Free Events Happening This Week 10/14-10/20
1.) Bret Graham Monday, Oct. 14, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Equip with his guitar and harmonica, Bret Graham graces the stage at Gruene Hall with his stage presence and country charm. If you want to listen to great songs that tell a story and tap your feet to a great tune, then this is…
De La Tierra: A Latin Metal Supergroup
From left: Alex González (Maná), Andrés Giménez (A.N.I.M.A.L.), Andreas Kisser (Sepultura) and Sr. Flavio (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs). Latin America is one of the world’s great breeding grounds for metal, and while De La Tierra isn’t the first Spanish-speaking extreme supergroup (that title likely belongs to Brujería), they’re still out to stake a claim in that…
2013 Latin Flavors, American Kitchens Conference: A Wrap-Up
“Sin maiz, no hay pais”, might well have been the foundation of the Culinary Institute of America’s 6th annual symposium on Latin cuisines, recently held at the school’s San Antonio campus—even if the sentiment expressed in “without corn there is no country” is uniquely Mexican. For every prediction about snacking being the future of food…
Staff Picks: Favorite Halloween Candy
Turns out we’re all huge candy fans here at the Current (our dentists are really busy). With Halloween around the corner, we decided to share our fave snacks. Did your favorite make the list?
Eilan Adds New Bar
Mahoney (right) is expanding his boozy empire. A week after announcing a new Piatti location going into Eilan, the mixed-use development has announced the addition of George’s Keep coming January 2014. George’s Keep will be opened by Steve Mahoney, owner of the Pearl’s Blue Box and Stone Oak’s Green Lantern. The Terrace level bar will…
Celebrity Chef Stephan Pyles Will Whip Dia de los Muertos Eats on Oct. 26
Chef Stephan Pyles will be giving a cooking class from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 at Sustenio, Elian Hotel Resort and Spa. Pencil in spooky treats with celebrity chef Stephan Pyles on Saturday, October 26. Pyles will offer a cooking class from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at Sustenio at…
Head to Fredericksburg for the 23rd Annual Food and Wine Fest
Fredericksburg Food and Wine fest will be from noon to 7 p.m. on Oct. 26 at Market Square in downtown Fredericksburg. Tickets are on sale now. (Courtesy) Fredericksburg is sponsoring the 23rd annual Fredericksburg Food and Wine Fest on Oct. 26 at the Market Square in downtown Fredericksburg from noon to 7 p.m. During the…
Spoiled Palate conducts tours for foodies, wine and beer lovers
Tours are booking now. (Courtesy) Spoiled Palate is a new company aiming to spoil (get it?) your palates by conducting tours of the most celebrated restaurants and craft breweries. Tours, which will travel by van and can accommodate up to 10 attendees, kick of in mid-November include several stops in some of the areas hottest…
Bonehead Quote of the Week: State Sen. Dan Patrick on the “Fox News Formula”
Legislating your uterus doesn’t seem to be enough for state Senator and candidate for lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick (R-Houston), who recently offered up advice on how female journalists can help boost cable news ratings during a media criticism kick on his conservative radio show, “Dan Patrick and Friends.” Via Texas State Senate web site. “I mean…
Lunchtime Links: American Women’s Lifespan Decreasing, The Eight Craziest Things Ted Cruz Said Today, 18 Timely Halloween Costumes, Casting News for Fargo’s TV Adaptation, A&M Students Make Living off Writing Dinosaur Porn + More
1. Comedian pranks TED Talks, giving its best speech ever “Hyde showed up wearing gold toy body armor, and his speech—which apparently nobody organizing the event even attempted to stop—was peppered with irritating TED buzzwords. Things like, “What inspires me is teaching African refugees how to program JavaScript,” “How are we going to get clean drinking…
Study Finds Record Number of PACs in Texas
Texas is heavily PAC-ing. A record number of political action committees (PACs) flushed Texas– and some nationwide– coffers during the 2012 elections, finds a new study by Texans for Public Justice, a non-profit watchdog group that tracks money in state politics. Some 1,364 Texas PACs spent $126 million in the two-year cycle, according to the…
Are you the next Food Network Star? Auditions Coming to SA
Do you have what it takes? (Courtesy) Dying to audition for the tenth season Food Network Star? Well, you’re in luck: the Food Network show will hold auditions on Monday, October 14 at the Hyatt Regency, 123 Losoya, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Folks with “captivating personalities” at the top of their “culinary game”…
The Monterey & Saint Arnold’s Team Up For Backyard BBQ
Beer and BBQ! (Courtesy) The Monty was made for crisp fall days. Take advantage of that sweet, sweet patio with this event that pairs meaty treats from The Monterey with Saint Arnold’s Oktoberfest and then some on Saturday, October 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Get your tickets now–this event will sell out. All-inclusive…
Shot of the Week: Frosting shots from Kate’s Frosting
Yep, that happened. There are two types of people in the world: People who love frosting and people who love cake. Kate’s Frosting (2518 N Main; 7701 Broadway), has a solution for those frosting fiends that ditch moist cake for that sweet, sweet sugary topping. Shots are available in 2-ounce Dixie cups for $1 in…
Rolaids and Institue of Chili Teaming Up for Free Chili
Rolaids and the Institute of Chili food truck will give away a bowl of chili and a roll of Rolaids on Oct. 24 from noon to 2 p.m., while supplies last. Rolaids is baaaaack. After three years of hibernation, Rolaids is back in the groove and introducing a new liquid form of the…
Ranger Creek Lands As One of the Best Farm-to-Pint Breweries in Nation
We knew we liked them for a reason (Courtesy) Ranger Creek Brewing and Distilling was named seventh of 10 Awesome Farm to Pint Breweries named by farmflavor.com, a national website that encourages people to grow and cook food by providing recipes, cooking tips and more. Farm Flavor searched for a brewery that had the best local ingredients for…
NAO Hosts “Icon of the Andes” Tasting and Dinner
NAO, 312 Pearl Parkway, will host the “Icons of the Andes” wine dinner Oct. 11 from 6p.m. to 7p.m., dinner is at 7p.m. NAO , 312 Pearl Parkway, will host the “Icons of the Andes” wine dinner, and want to invite attendees to experience 16 South American and Spanish wines and during a fourcourse dinner created…
Lunchtime Links: 55 Halloween Costume Ideas, Tobey Maguire and Kristen Wiig’s Epic Miniseries Trailer, Portraits of 21st Century Gypsies, Former Bandidos Biker and Hells Angel Informant Dies Gruesome Death, The Highest Paid Texas Employees + More
1. To Help During Shutdown, Man Mows Lawn Around Lincoln Memorial “”These are our memorials. Do they think that we’re just going to let them go to hell? No,” Cox told All-News 99.1. “If they shut down our memorials, we’re still going to take the trash out, we’re going to clean the windows, we’re going to…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
1. The Rocky Horror Show Thu, Oct 10 – Sat Nov 2 Mmhmm. You read that right, girlfriend. There’s not one, but two concurrent live theater productions of Rocky Horror this season (see item #8 for deets on Cameo’s version.) While the sweet transvestite takeover of local theater may have some vowing never to do…
Song of the Week: Eminem’s “Survival”
Eminem has released the new video for his latest single, “Survival,” which was featured prominently in the Call of Duty: Ghosts video game trailer released in August. Likewise, the Eminem video features Call of Duty game footage throughout. This is the second single off MMLP2 (Marshall Mathers LP 2) following the Rick Rubin-produced “Berzerk.” Liz…
Wendy Davis Featured On Mexican Lotería Card
Today, Sen. Wendy Davis made her debut…as a Lotería card. Courtesy of Pa’delante Tejas An animation of the recently announced gubernatorial candidate graces card 14 of the Mexican lottery (albeit unofficially), a traditional Bingo-style game with iconic characters and objects. Holding the Texas flag in one hand and a microphone in the other, Davis dons an orange blouse– the color…
Lunchtime Links: American Apparel’s Menstruating Vagina Shirt, #StarbucksDrakeHands, Wes Anderson Collection Tour Coming to SA, Coolio Does an Acoustic Version of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ in…
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Elite Eight: Texan Beer Bracket Edition
Click image to enlarge. We’re counting down the days until the San Antonio Beer Festival (ICYMI, it’s October 19 at the Hemisfair) by pitting beers against each other. We hand-picked brews from all corners of the state, all of which will be available for you to sample the day of the festival. Second round voting…
Robert Rodríguez, Danny Trejo and Alexa Vega talk ‘Machete Kills’
Agreeing to an itty-bitty 10-minute interview with Robert Rodríguez, Danny Trejo and Alexa Vega shows you how much we care about anything Machete. I hustled my way into 15 minutes, and when I showed up at the Austin hotel I was told 12. Whatever. I had to work fast. There they were: an exhausted, bored…
After Public Concern, CPS Promises To Scale Back Bonus Pay, Rate Hike
After taking heat for trying to increase customer rates while top-level executives receive sizable bonus checks, CPS Energy is doubling up on efforts to save face. During a presentation before City Council last Thursday, CPS CEO Doyle Beneby said the utility is formulating a plan that could lessen bonus pay and cut the proposed rate…
Barbaro: Upscale pizza and then some
It wasn’t long after Barbaro’s soft opening when snarky sports fans started making equine references. No, Barbaro isn’t a shrine to the late great winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby. No, the restaurant doesn’t serve horsemeat. No, this eatery won’t be put down any time soon. The brainchild of business partners Charlie Biedenharn, Chad Carey…
‘The Haunted House’: A raucous Roman holiday
Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus’ Mostellaria is the rowdy forerunner of Risky Business and other movies in which teens transform their homes into dens of debauchery while their parents are away. Plautus is best known today because Shakespeare filched elements from two of his plays, Menaechmi and Amphitryon, to create The Comedy of Errors. Plautus…
SASound: Melina in LA, Crown in the studio, Exponential online
MELINA’S BIG SURPRISE: Yeah, keep on dreamin’, Melina Narezo. You release one good album and you think you can make it in the big leagues? Do you think someone like Paul Brown, a jazz guitarist and producer with two Grammys under his belt and dozens of No. 1 smooth jazz hits, someone who has worked…
‘Machete Kills’: Más murder
When Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu released his acclaimed Amores Perros (2000), the comparisons to Quentin Tarantino were as inevitable as they were off-the-mark. True, the movie had plenty of graphic violence and an unconventional narrative that went back and forth in time, but he immediately distanced himself from, say, Pulp Fiction. “I like the…
Flavor File: New Piatti slated for Eilan and Meatopia announces carnivorous menu
Hold on to your butts. Lots of food business to report: Piatti is adding another location on the Northwest Side of town at Eilan (17101 La Cantera Pkwy). The new 4,742-square foot restaurant, which specializes in Italian-inspired eats, is slated to open October 22. It will seat 204 guests and feature a barrel-to-table wine program.…
Barraca: Spanish flair in Blue Star
Barraca, the latest addition to Blue Star’s growing arsenal of restaurants, brings a taste of Spain to the Alamo City. Tucked away behind Stella, this tapas and paella bar by chef Javier Flores presents simple, rustic flavor profiles in an intimate setting. Flores led the kitchen of La Fonda on Main as executive chef for…
6 Ways to Get your Grub/Drink On This Week
Friday, October 11: You’ll have plenty of chances to fill up on Texas vinos and music during the 27th annual Gruene Music & Wine Festival. The fest includes Texas wine and food on Friday; tastings, live music, food trucks and more on Grapevine grounds on Saturday; and a big ol’ music fest with a Gospel…
Una Noche en la Gloria’s Funky Foundation
On the corner of Guadalupe and South Colorado, the beginnings of glory apparently occur in an unadorned studio where the only thing fighting back the surrounding vegetation is a campaign placard. There, the giant picture of Bexar County Democratic chairman Manuel Medina’s face gives me the sort of fright that indiscriminately proves that democrats can…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don’t think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the…
Texas Wine Month: Go local with these unconventional vineyard picks
Texas wine tourism? Just in time for Texas Wine Month, there’s an app for that. In the beginning, there was no app of any kind. Lacking sage advice from Siri, the early pioneers—Becker Vineyards, Fall Creek and Llano Estacado among them—initially hitched their fortunes to the so-called “noble” grapes: cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and merlot. Many…
Artist Megan Harrison on Creating a Crystal Cave in Southtown
As we sat talking on the porch in front of Sala Diaz about her show Atramentite, Megan Harrison brought up early an important but little-discussed fact of visual art: works don’t often begin with specific or fully-realized concepts. Instead, artists get interested in a form, or a particular material. Then they combine it with other…
Great American Beer Festival Preview: Where to find local faves
You’ve heard of the Great American Beer Festival. Each year you keep saying you’ll make the trek out to the Rocky Mountain state. Now the year has finally come (that is, if you’re one of the lucky ones), and you’re heading to Denver, Colo. for the beer event of the year. The Great American Beer…
Wendy Davis Is Running For Governor, But Can She Really Win?
The will-she or won’t-she comes to an end. State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) officially announced her bid to run for governor of Texas last week, leading everyone to ask the inevitable question—can she really win? Davis’ speech played out pretty typical—promises of a better tomorrow, criticisms of the status quo, deft humble-brags of past…
Lone Star Green: Policing Eagle Ford
Hector Zertuche’s first environmental crime occurred around 2009 when he discovered a truckload of oilfield drilling muds dumped on the banks of the Nueces River outside Sandia, Tex. “We matched the tracks to a nearby resident,” the Jim Wells County Sheriff’s Deputy told me recently. “But we messed up. We cited him for illegal dumping.”…
Savage Love: The Coast
I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week—for my geographically illiterate fellow Americans, Halifax is the biggest city on Canada’s Atlantic coast—to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Coast, Halifax’s kick-ass alternative weekly newspaper. The paper brought me to town to do Savage Love Live. I took questions for two hours in…
Ice the Lounge Welcomes Japanese Acts; ICE the Federal Agency Doesn’t
The Pandemonium Tour, stopping in San Antonio Sunday at the Ice Lounge, was supposed to be another unforgettable night honoring Japan’s most androgynous underground music: The Candy Spooky Theater, a horror and Halloween-themed band that combines the beautiful and the macabre, sweet melodies and death rock; DJ SiSeN, a Berlin-based DJ you need to actually…
Donations Requested For 10th annual Chalk It Up Event
Linda Pace, Orange Crush, 2006. Photo by Taylor Browning. Courtesy of Linda Pace Foundation The 10th annual Chalk It Up event hosted by Artpace promises to be filled with opportunities to well- chalk it up in the streets of downtown San Antonio. This year however, Artpace will not only showcase the work of talented local…
Alt-Weeklies Team Up To Investigate Plan B Access
Our alt-weekly partners around the nation joined forces to shine light on the availability of Plan B emergency contraceptive. The Where is Your Plan B? project– a collaborative effort between the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the Media Consortium– seeks to answer: “Are stores turning what should be a personal, private health decision into an uncomfortable and unpleasant…
Lunchtime Links: TX Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, 26 Costumes for Toddlers, Little League Team Named to SA Sports Hall of Fame, Study Finds Dogs Have Emotions Just Like Us + More
1. VIDEO: The Cast of ‘Modern Family’ Played a Round of ‘Family Feud’ Last Night “The entire cast of Modern Family joined Jimmy Kimmel on his show last night, and in a stroke of cross-promotional genius, former game-show host Kimmel hosted the ABC television family on a special segment of Modern Family Feud, where the sibling Pritchetts…
Slow Food South Texas Hosts October Farm Dinner
Tasty food from scratch. (Courtesy) Sandy Oaks Olive Orchard (25195 Mathis Road, Elemendorf) will host the next Slow Food Farm Dinner on Saturday, October 12 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Chef Alfred Sanchez will menu that includes tomatillo gazpacho shooters; “South Texas Blini” – pulled pork open-faced gordita with cilantro sauce; local, grass-fed steak salad…
