MUSIC FOR SALE
A look at our local love affair with the independent record store Javier Gutierrez, manager of Del Bravo Records, looks through a rack of CDs at the popular West Side shop. Photo by Mark Greenberg San Antonio has had a long, complicated love affair with independent record stores. Never mind the corporate dollar-backed megamusic…
SOUND AND THE FURY
a week on the scene BLESS UP Feelin’ irie? On Friday, June 13, the Burning Spear (1011 Ave. B, 223-4423) will feature reggae artist Carlton Pride & Zion. The son of country music legend Charley Pride, Carlton formed his San Marcos-based band in 1995. In 1997, the band leader was arrested on charges of possession…
ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR
From MC battles to youth league basketball, Lotus Tribe enjoys the game Lotus Tribe members (l to r): Diego Chavez, Kevin Hartman, Jason Torres, Jack Sanford, Zack Crater, Louis Alfaro, Max Salazar, and Mark Gonzalez. Photo by Austin Muchemore. Lotus Tribe Productions, a local collective involved in the San Antonio hip-hop scene, has two…
BLOWING ZEN
Riley Lee Texas shakuhachi masters apply the simple tones of Japanese traditional music to complex spirituality A while back, Stan Richardson was performing traditional Japanese shakuhachi music for an audience of museum patrons when he received one of the greatest compliments of his life. “Someone in the museum said it was quieter when I…
ALL EARS
ON THE ROAD AGAIN AND AGAIN Leave it to Willie Nelson to break this rule, as he has so many others. His epic 1978 double-disc release Willie and Family Live (Columbia Legacy) is one of the reasons live records shouldn’t be outlawed, and it will be reissued on the 24th with even more tracks to…
CINEMA HOMICIDE
Josh Harnett and Harrison Ford star in the hackneyed crime drama, Hollywood Homicide. A frenetic action comedy about police detectives, Hollywood Homicide violates the Law of Aesthetic Economy – Who needs yet another cop caper pairing incompatible partners? The script that Robert Souza, formerly of the LAPD, has cobbled together with Ron Shelton is…
NEW REVIEWS
2 FAST 2 FURIOUS Tyrese stars as the reckless Roman Pierce in 2 Fast 2 Furious. The makers of the classroom film, Mechanized Death, released in 1961 and shown in American high schools to thousands of doubtlessly agog students, probably thought they were doing the nation’s youth a favor by passing off as curriculum…
Armchair Cinephile
TESTOSTERRIFIC! The real bonanza this month is in Westerns, everything from anonymous B pictures to star-studded blockbusters. And then some – if Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves (MGM) wasn’t a big enough movie for you the first time around, the filmmakers have gone back and added 52 minutes, making it just shy of four…
STILL PLAYING
Anger Management Dir. Peter Segal; writ. David Dorfman; feat. Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro (PG-13) The director of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, brings us this season’s dumb-and-dumberered down version of Punch-Drunk Love, in which Sandler is oddly less volatile than in any of his other films. No coincidence is…
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The sci-fi classic: The Day the Earth Stood Still. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Dir. Robert Wise; writ. Harry Bates, Edmund H. North; feat. Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe (G) One of the early classics of science fiction, The Day the Earth Stood Still presents one of the genre’s iconic…
WITTE EYES TEXAS
Portrait of Sam Houston. ‘Texas Originals’ exhibit de-mystifies things Texan BY MICHAEL CARY Young folks who have trouble naming the four Beatles wouldn’t remember the phrase: “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.” Nope. It’s not a trailer for an epic John Wayne Western featuring a horseless carriage. It’s…
SHOW TIMES
FRI 6/13 – THU 6/19 These show times are provided by the theaters and are subject to change. The Current includes show times submitted by press deadline, and is not responsible for the changes in the ever-morphing film industry. All times are p.m. unless otherwise indicated. DOWNTOWN AMC RIVERCENTER 9 Rivercenter Mall, third floor, 558-9988…
ARTIFACTS
Say Sí graduating seniors display their work through June 21. Above is East Central High School senior Ashley Sanchez’ III, 18 x 25 inches, acrylic and graphite, 2003. news and notes from the san antonio art scene This may be the weekend that you finally bite the bullet and make that boring-ass, three-and-a-half-hour-long drive…
