Saucy Pizza, Jersey-Style
The attitude is authentic as the food at Florio’s Pizza
Want fries with that?
Restaurants and retail shops get serious about the art business
Riparian Hippies Before and After
A scene from Robb Moss’ Riverdogs Riparian Hippies Before and After By Steven G. Kellman Robb Moss revisits his ‘Riverdogs’ If, as Heraclitus famously observed, you cannot step in the same river twice, you can either go with the flow, cherishing impermanence, or else try to stay dry by watching from the banks. In the…
After the Deluge
Thurman Sargent, a member of a City/County advisory committee for a regional flood control, drainage, and storm water management program, wants stricter guidelines for new development or redevelopment, in San Antonio and Bexar County. (Photo by Michael Cary) After the Deluge By Michael Cary Development could contribute to East Side flooding To read the first…
Special Screenings
Trinity film festival examines environmental issues An East Side community in Bexar County grapples with a landfill and an unresponsive state agency. Austin is sprinkled with communal, yellow bikes. Another bicycling movement, Critical Mass, spreads from its epicenter, San Francisco, throughout the nation. A woman searches for alternatives to vinyl siding, the kudzu of building…
What’s in your cup?
Trinity University held a conference about fair trade practices on April 2 and 3. (Photos by Laura McKenzie) What’s in your cup? By Abraham Mahshie The push for fair trade coffee It can cost as little as a penny more per cup of coffee to ensure that coffee growers in Mexico and Central America earn…
Scandinavian Ergonomics
Norwegian bachelor Isak (Joachim Calmeyer, left) is “observed” by researcher Folke (Tomas Nostrom) in Kitchen Stories. Scandinavian Ergonomics By Steven G. Kellman The Swedish Home Institute blurs the distinctions between the observer and the observed Before sarin, napalm, and Agent Orange, before industrialized societies began to notice they were fouling their nests with toxic waste,…
Saucy Pizza, Jersey-Style
Steve Florio shows off a freshly made New Jersey-style pepperoni pizza at his family’s Linclon Heights eatery. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) Saucy Pizza, Jersey-Style By Ron Bechtol The attitude is authentic as the food at Florio’s Pizza If you’re looking for a major, this-can’t-be-San Antonio experience – and some of you out there surely must…
Savoring Saveur
Saint Arnold’s Lawnmower graces a plate of Kenny Callaghan and the restaurant Blue Smoke’s black pepper beef ribs. Resting underneath are sections of beer-can game hens in root beer sauce, a creation of Steve Raichlen, author of Barbecue Bible. (Photo by Laura Fries) Savoring Saveur By Laura Fries & Ron Bechtol A Texas foodie festival…
Want fries with that?
Silo Restaurant’s Terri Wright always wanted to have an “art bar.” Last summer Wright, who is a painter herself, started holding quarterly openings featuring the work of local artists. During the most recent show, 75 percent of the work sold, including a painting by Mark Hogensen, seen in the background. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) Want…
Purple Reign
Prince’s Musicology tour hits San Antonio on June 9. Purple Reign By Gilbert Garcia Prince re-emerges as a ‘true funk soldier’ who won’t fade away On his current standup tour, Chris Rock recalls that in the 1980s there were two distinct pop factions: those who favored Prince and those who preferred Michael Jackson. Rock -…
Sound and the Fury
Sanford Allen, right, of Boxcar Satan Sound and the Fury a week on the scene Garage Skronk Local fans of music that skronks and squawks have reason to cheer this weekend – thanks, as usual, to Boxcar Satan’s intrepid Sanford Allen, who continues to book artists from aural territories that other promoters fear. The Thursday,…
Turn Off the Radio
A billboard for HOT 92.5 FM, lies in the shadow of the Tower of the Americas. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) Turn Off the Radio By M. Solis San Antonio’s hip-hop programming sends mixed signals “When asked whether he saw an end to rapping, Afrika Bambataa said he expected that MC-ing would be around as long…
Darkness Descends
The Darkness Darkness Descends By Shannon McGarvey It’s 6 a.m., the sun is peeking through the slits of my cheap Venetian blinds, and I’m dreaming of The Darkness. I’m dreaming of David Lee Roth disciples (circa “Panama”) kicking and howling, Lycra locked tightly to genital portions of their anatomies. I’m fantasizing Freddie Mercury wannabes, writhing…
Great Scots
Great Scots By Gilbert Garcia If SXSW handed out awards for such things, this year’s “buzz band of the year” would have unquestionably been the Glasgow quartet Franz Ferdinand. The crescendo of hype around this group strongly recalls the reaction that greeted the Strokes’ emergence three years ago, strangely fitting because on first blush this…
Armchair Cinephile
Armchair Cinephile John DeFore on DVD Disturbed Men For some, the biggest DVD news this month will be the arrival of Ripley’s Game, a European take on one of Patricia Highsmith’s Talented Mr. Ripley novels that, despite boasting John Malkovich in the leading role, somehow was never picked up for theatrical distribution. (Instead, it made…
Laugh-Lite Life Lesson
Laugh-Lite Life Lesson By Ian Grey Jersey Boy Interview by John DeFore A few words from director Kevin Smith on topics other than Jersey Girl John DeFore: Does all the heat you got for `Smith’s controversial religious comedy` Dogma give you any perspective about the Passion brouhaha? Kevin Smith: It does. I realized that I…
All Ears
All Ears By John DeFore Lubbock, Bangkok, Juarez and Milan I still remember how, years ago, I came by my collection of Terry Allen records. I was scrounging through the Santa Fe flea market, a place where African textile merchants, dealers in cowboy ephemera, and turquoise jewelers sit side by side. One book vendor had…
Artifacts
Recent Corpus Christi transplant Ann-Michele Morales is a standout in the current show at UTSA Satellite Space. 3 Pop Tarts also features the work of Susan Warner and former San Antonian Rainey. The show is on view noon to 6 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through April 18, at 115 Blue Star. Call 212-7146 for…
The Passion of the Alamo
Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton, left) at battle in The Alamo (courtesy photo) The Passion of the Alamo By Gregg Barrios Filmmakers bite off a larger hunk of Texas history than they can chew “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Passions…
