The Creature from the Kitchen
At about 10 a.m. this morning I zipped home to pick up a postcard I needed in order to blog about the Blue Star Bunny Lady at First Friday. I found the postcard on the chair. Then this thing came running out from the kitchen. Yes, that’s my dog Marlowe, a Yorky mix. And yes,…
The Creature from the Kitchen
At about 10 a.m. this morning I zipped home to pick up a postcard I needed in order to blog about the Blue Star Bunny Lady at First Friday. I found the postcard on the chair. Then this thing came running out from the kitchen. Yes, that’s my dog Marlowe, a Yorky mix. And yes,…
The Creature from the Kitchen
At about 10 a.m. this morning I zipped home to pick up a postcard I needed in order to blog about the Blue Star Bunny Lady at First Friday. I found the postcard on the chair. Then this thing came running out from the kitchen. Yes, that’s my dog Marlowe, a Yorky mix. And yes,…
The Creature from the Kitchen
At about 10 a.m. this morning I zipped home to pick up a postcard I needed in order to blog about the Blue Star Bunny Lady at First Friday. I found the postcard on the chair. Then this thing came running out from the kitchen. Yes, that’s my dog Marlowe, a Yorky mix. And yes,…
Art Capades: Was ist das?
Was ist das? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a work of art is intentionally malfunctioning or if, left in the hands of a volunteer attendant, entropy has had its passive way with it. So it is with “Shanti,” one of a handful of mysterious art assemblages on view at UTSA Satellite Spaces’s current show,…
Art Capades: Was ist das?
Was ist das? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a work of art is intentionally malfunctioning or if, left in the hands of a volunteer attendant, entropy has had its passive way with it. So it is with “Shanti,” one of a handful of mysterious art assemblages on view at UTSA Satellite Spaces’s current show,…
Art Capades: Was ist das?
Was ist das? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a work of art is intentionally malfunctioning or if, left in the hands of a volunteer attendant, entropy has had its passive way with it. So it is with “Shanti,” one of a handful of mysterious art assemblages on view at UTSA Satellite Spaces’s current show,…
Art Capades: Was ist das?
Was ist das? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a work of art is intentionally malfunctioning or if, left in the hands of a volunteer attendant, entropy has had its passive way with it. So it is with “Shanti,” one of a handful of mysterious art assemblages on view at UTSA Satellite Spaces’s current show,…
On the Street
On the Street On Friday the Downtown Highlife Bicycle Club rode again. After everyone met at the Alamo a small cadre of DHBC members broke off and there was a discussion that the route had never gone north before, only south, east, or west. This was true. And not wanting to discriminate, or worse, reverse-discriminate…
On the Street
On the Street On Friday the Downtown Highlife Bicycle Club rode again. After everyone met at the Alamo a small cadre of DHBC members broke off and there was a discussion that the route had never gone north before, only south, east, or west. This was true. And not wanting to discriminate, or worse, reverse-discriminate…
On the Street
On the Street On Friday the Downtown Highlife Bicycle Club rode again. After everyone met at the Alamo a small cadre of DHBC members broke off and there was a discussion that the route had never gone north before, only south, east, or west. This was true. And not wanting to discriminate, or worse, reverse-discriminate…
On the Street
On the Street On Friday the Downtown Highlife Bicycle Club rode again. After everyone met at the Alamo a small cadre of DHBC members broke off and there was a discussion that the route had never gone north before, only south, east, or west. This was true. And not wanting to discriminate, or worse, reverse-discriminate…
Sticky, but it ain’t soda
Not everything I post up here on Chisme Libre will be about Texas’s death row. Promise. This doesn’t count, though, because you can file this along with all your other Smoking Gun goodies under Public Information Treasure. This memo comes from Major Melodye Nelson, the TDCJ official who watches over death row, to Warden Loyd…
Sticky, but it ain’t soda
Not everything I post up here on Chisme Libre will be about Texas’s death row. Promise. This doesn’t count, though, because you can file this along with all your other Smoking Gun goodies under Public Information Treasure. This memo comes from Major Melodye Nelson, the TDCJ official who watches over death row, to Warden Loyd…
Sticky, but it ain’t soda
Not everything I post up here on Chisme Libre will be about Texas’s death row. Promise. This doesn’t count, though, because you can file this along with all your other Smoking Gun goodies under Public Information Treasure. This memo comes from Major Melodye Nelson, the TDCJ official who watches over death row, to Warden Loyd…
Sticky, but it ain’t soda
Not everything I post up here on Chisme Libre will be about Texas’s death row. Promise. This doesn’t count, though, because you can file this along with all your other Smoking Gun goodies under Public Information Treasure. This memo comes from Major Melodye Nelson, the TDCJ official who watches over death row, to Warden Loyd…
Armchair Cinephile
This week, the New Releases shelf is very much a stick-your-neck-out affair, with an assortment of guilty pleasures and boy-do-I-hope-they’re-pleasures. What am I talking about, exactly? Well, there’s Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut (Warner). After releasing a dud in the theaters, then taking a second crack at cutting it for the DVD market, are…
Armchair Cinephile
This week, the New Releases shelf is very much a stick-your-neck-out affair, with an assortment of guilty pleasures and boy-do-I-hope-they’re-pleasures. What am I talking about, exactly? Well, there’s Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut (Warner). After releasing a dud in the theaters, then taking a second crack at cutting it for the DVD market, are…
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Art Capades went to the NY Armory Show last weekend, and all you got is this lousy post.
The annual Armory Show, held February 23-26 on a pier in NYC and billed as a giant showcase for contemporary art, is: a. A massive gallery in which all sorts of art, some contemporary, some merely not antique just yet, is for sale, often for sums of money that will buy you an ’09 bungalow.…
Art Capades went to the NY Armory Show last weekend, and all you got is this lousy post.
The annual Armory Show, held February 23-26 on a pier in NYC and billed as a giant showcase for contemporary art, is: a. A massive gallery in which all sorts of art, some contemporary, some merely not antique just yet, is for sale, often for sums of money that will buy you an ’09 bungalow.…
A Little Dutch Courage for Texas Death Row
When you think about the Netherlands, you think about windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and Amsterdam. And when you think about Amsterdam, you think about hash and ‘shrooms and a trio of pre-op transexual dominatrices all named Anke. And when you think about … well you, usually you try not to, because when you do, you…
Art Capades went to the NY Armory Show last weekend, and all you got is this lousy post.
The annual Armory Show, held February 23-26 on a pier in NYC and billed as a giant showcase for contemporary art, is: a. A massive gallery in which all sorts of art, some contemporary, some merely not antique just yet, is for sale, often for sums of money that will buy you an ’09 bungalow.…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Art Capades went to the NY Armory Show last weekend, and all you got is this lousy post.
The annual Armory Show, held February 23-26 on a pier in NYC and billed as a giant showcase for contemporary art, is: a. A massive gallery in which all sorts of art, some contemporary, some merely not antique just yet, is for sale, often for sums of money that will buy you an ’09 bungalow.…
Armchair Cinephile
This week, the New Releases shelf is very much a stick-your-neck-out affair, with an assortment of guilty pleasures and boy-do-I-hope-they’re-pleasures. What am I talking about, exactly? Well, there’s Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut (Warner). After releasing a dud in the theaters, then taking a second crack at cutting it for the DVD market, are…
A Little Dutch Courage for Texas Death Row
When you think about the Netherlands, you think about windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and Amsterdam. And when you think about Amsterdam, you think about hash and ‘shrooms and a trio of pre-op transexual dominatrices all named Anke. And when you think about … well you, usually you try not to, because when you do, you…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Armchair Cinephile
This week, the New Releases shelf is very much a stick-your-neck-out affair, with an assortment of guilty pleasures and boy-do-I-hope-they’re-pleasures. What am I talking about, exactly? Well, there’s Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut (Warner). After releasing a dud in the theaters, then taking a second crack at cutting it for the DVD market, are…
Tobin It Is
In another coup for San Antonio’s powerful private citizens, Tobin Endowment co-trustee J. Bruce “Almighty” Bugg got the library name change he had asked his friend (and our Mayor Phil Hardberger)for last spring. What delayed the unprecedented changing of the 38-year-old Oakwell Library to the Tobin Library at Oakwell? Bruce Almighty was essentially talking to…
Crescent City Cool
Robert Riddle’s ‘Awlin’s venture makes a mean fried-oyster po’boy
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
The Number Made Me Do It
Alrighty then: Jim Carrey’s latest ventura is just so-so. Courtesy photo. The Number 23 Dir. Joel Schumacher; writ. Fernley Phillips; feat. Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman (R) … And the moral of the story is: If someone you’re repulsed by attempts to seduce you in public, decline diplomatically. Especially if she’s your…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved baked mac and cheese: melted block cheese poured over cooked pasta shells, covered in crumpled potato chips and baked until the mess is congealed into a single glob. I’ve always made it with Velveeta, just like dear madre did. I realize Velveeta is…
The Queque
The weather’s been so beautiful this week that the Queque has had trouble concentrating on the news. And so, while the boss was away on vacation, we found ourselves lost in unimportant mid-summer ponderings, such as trying to convince the Current’s media editor that Lars Von Trier’s Dogville was a rip-off of Dog Day starring…
Southern Discomfort
Black Snake Moan Writ. & dir. Craig Brewer; feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, John Cothran Jr. (R) Though it sings and explains the blues, Black Snake Moan begins in black and white. In a grainy vintage clip that serves as an epigraph to the film that follows, ’30s bluesman Son House tells…
Crescent City Cool
Podna’s Catfish and Po’Boys 1264 Austin Highway 829-8333 11am-8pm Mon-Thu, 11am-9pm Fri & Sat $5.45-$8.95 Credit cards Bathrooms not technically accessible When last we encountered Chef Robert Riddle, he was clad in stain-free chef’s whites, schmoozing customers at San Remo, his upscale Italian restaurant at the corner of West and Lockhill-Selma. Today, after a come-to-Cajun/Creole…
Framed
Gary Panter’s 10” Jimbo vinyl figure comes with a real fabric loincloth (with cool genital-covering action!) and a creepy stare. Courtesy photo. Add Gary Panter to the growing number of adult-oriented cartoonists who have entered an arena once exclusive to super heroes and other kidstuff: the world of action figures. Granted, this won’t be any…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved baked mac and cheese: melted block cheese poured over cooked pasta shells, covered in crumpled potato chips and baked until the mess is congealed into a single glob. I’ve always made it with Velveeta, just like dear madre did. I realize Velveeta is…
Passion of the Crist
Saving Texas: Schuylar Crist. Photo by Kiko MJartinez As I listen to laundry list of political organizations that local ultra-right-wing activist Schuylar (prounounced Sky-lar) Crist (rhymes with twist) belongs to, the rock anthem “Making Time” (played, appropriately, by the Creation) from the Rushmore soundtrack plays in my mind. Crist’s extracurricular activities are exhaustive in their…
The Number Made Me Do It
The Number 23 Dir. Joel Schumacher; writ. Fernley Phillips; feat. Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman (R) … And the moral of the story is: If someone you’re repulsed by attempts to seduce you in public, decline diplomatically. Especially if she’s your boss. Wait … Are we talking about the same movie? I’m…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved baked mac and cheese: melted block cheese poured over cooked pasta shells, covered in crumpled potato chips and baked until the mess is congealed into a single glob. I’ve always made it with Velveeta, just like dear madre did. I realize Velveeta is…
Mistaken Identity
The Virgin of Flames By Chris Abani Penguin $14, 304 pages Chris Abani’s new novel is flying off the new-releases shelves at stores throughout the city. It’s easy to see why. A glance at its cover of Alma Lopez’s unorthodox “Our Lady” might remind readers of the brouhaha in San Antonio over another artistic take…
Ask the Chef
Chef Boy Ari Dear Chef Boy Ari: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved baked mac and cheese: melted block cheese poured over cooked pasta shells, covered in crumpled potato chips and baked until the mess is congealed into a single glob. I’ve always made it with Velveeta, just like dear madre did. I…
Divested interests
First, a quick lesson on the limits of divestment when you’re trying to change the world. Consider the case of the Prison Moratorium Project and its No More Prisons campaign of the late ’90s, a student-based movement that sought to end the U.S. expansion of private prisons. The project sicced the Young Democratic Socialists on…
The Number Made Me Do It
The Number 23 Dir. Joel Schumacher; writ. Fernley Phillips; feat. Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman (R) … And the moral of the story is: If someone you’re repulsed by attempts to seduce you in public, decline diplomatically. Especially if she’s your boss. Wait … Are we talking about the same movie? I’m…
Ask the Chef
Chef Boy Ari Dear Chef Boy Ari: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved baked mac and cheese: melted block cheese poured over cooked pasta shells, covered in crumpled potato chips and baked until the mess is congealed into a single glob. I’ve always made it with Velveeta, just like dear madre did. I…
Anger Management
Kaitlyn Jones and E.J. Roberts are two of the 10 cast members who reprise Laramie’s 60 characters at Trinity. Courtesy photo. The Laramie Project 7pm Wed-Thu 8pm Fri-Sat Through Mar 3 $8 general, $6 senior, $4 student Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater Trinity University 1 Trinity Place 999-8515 Nearly 10 years after the first production…
Divested Interests
First, a quick lesson on the limits of divestment when you’re trying to change the world. Consider the case of the Prison Moratorium Project and its No More Prisons campaign of the late ’90s, a student-based movement that sought to end the U.S. expansion of private prisons. The project sicced the Young Democratic Socialists on…
The Number Made Me Do It
Alrighty then: Jim Carrey’s latest ventura is just so-so. The Number 23 Dir. Joel Schumacher; writ. Fernley Phillips; feat. Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman (R) … And the moral of the story is: If someone you’re repulsed by attempts to seduce you in public, decline diplomatically. Especially if she’s your boss. Wait…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 West Jones Ave. 978-8100 Concert Duo Sokyo: An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Music 2pm Sun, Mar…
Divested Interests
First, a quick lesson on the limits of divestment when you’re trying to change the world. Consider the case of the Prison Moratorium Project and its No More Prisons campaign of the late ’90s, a student-based movement that sought to end the U.S. expansion of private prisons. The project sicced the Young Democratic Socialists on…
Framed
Add Gary Panter to the growing number of adult-oriented cartoonists who have entered an arena once exclusive to super heroes and other kidstuff: the world of action figures. Granted, this won’t be any ordinary sandbox toy — not from the punk artist best known as the designer of “Pee Wee’s Playhouse.” Panter’s vinyl figure, an…
Passion of the Crist
As I listen to laundry list of political organizations that local ultra-right-wing activist Schuylar (prounounced Sky-lar) Crist (rhymes with twist) belongs to, the rock anthem “Making Time” (played, appropriately, by the Creation) from the Rushmore soundtrack plays in my mind. Crist’s extracurricular activities are exhaustive in their scope, and as with Jason Schwartzman’s character Max…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 West Jones Ave. 978-8100 Concert Duo Sokyo: An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Music 2pm Sun, Mar…
The Omniboire
11 In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that…
The Mashup
From the Editor When I was promoted to editor of the Current 10 months ago, a good friend gave me a piece of advice: Don’t spend time criticizing the San Antonio Express-News, he said, because … well, I don’t actually remember his rationale, but I generally follow the suggestion since, to borrow liberally from Sir…
Mistaken Identity
Chris Abani’s new novel is flying off the new-releases shelves at stores throughout the city. It’s easy to see why. A glance at its cover of Alma Lopez’s unorthodox “Our Lady” might remind readers of the brouhaha in San Antonio over another artistic take on La Guadalupana. But never judge a book by its cover.…
The Queque
The weather’s been so beautiful this week that the Queque has had trouble concentrating on the news. And so, while the boss was away on vacation, we found ourselves lost in unimportant mid-summer ponderings, such as trying to convince the Current’s media editor that Lars Von Trier’s Dogville was a rip-off of Dog Day starring…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
“Cricket and Flowering Vine,” a hanging scroll painting with colored lacquers and gold wash by Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin. Courtesy image. The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
The Mashup
From the Editor When I was promoted to editor of the Current 10 months ago, a good friend gave me a piece of advice: Don’t spend time criticizing the San Antonio Express-News, he said, because … well, I don’t actually remember his rationale, but I generally follow the suggestion since, to borrow liberally from Sir…
Anger Management
The Laramie Project 7pm Wed-Thu 8pm Fri-Sat Through Mar 3 $8 general, $6 senior, $4 student Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater Trinity University 1 Trinity Place 999-8515 Nearly 10 years after the first production of The Laramie Project (and after the crime upon which it is based occurred), in a post-Brokeback Mountain world, the play…
The Queque
The weather’s been so beautiful this week that the Queque has had trouble concentrating on the news. And so, while the boss was away on vacation, we found ourselves lost in unimportant mid-summer ponderings, such as trying to convince the Current’s media editor that Lars Von Trier’s Dogville was a rip-off of Dog Day starring…
The Omniboire
wines Wines in Order of Rank, High to Low: 2001 “Rubrato dei Feudi di San Gregorio,” Iripinia Aglianico IGT, Campania $20.99 Tannic but elegant; needs time and food 2004 Dievole “Fourplay” No1 IGT, Sicily $10.99 Cherry fruit with herbs and minerals (all stainless) 2003 Liveli “Pezzo Morgana” Salice Salentino DOC, Puglia $19.99…
Being the Voice
Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder Edited by Max Sherman $19.95 2007, UT Press The feminine counterpart of “avuncular,” meaning “like an uncle,” is “materteral,” but if you were watching Barbara Jordan on your living-room set July 25, 1974, the large, hunched-over black woman easily improvising her comments in the Richard Nixon Inquisition…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 West Jones Ave. 978-8100 Concert Duo Sokyo: An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Music 2pm Sun, Mar…
The Queque
The weather’s been so beautiful this week that the Queque has had trouble concentrating on the news. And so, while the boss was away on vacation, we found ourselves lost in unimportant mid-summer ponderings, such as trying to convince the Current’s media editor that Lars Von Trier’s Dogville was a rip-off of Dog Day starring…
Stranded Base Runner
In Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams, first-time author Gary W. Moore vividly recounts his father’s life story, a tale he first heard the day before his father passed away from a heart attack on May 13, 1983. Warren Eugene Moore, known to friends…
The Omniboire
wines Wines in Order of Rank, High to Low: 2001 “Rubrato dei Feudi di San Gregorio,” Iripinia Aglianico IGT, Campania $20.99 Tannic but elegant; needs time and food 2004 Dievole “Fourplay” No1 IGT, Sicily $10.99 Cherry fruit with herbs and minerals (all stainless) 2003 Liveli “Pezzo Morgana” Salice Salentino DOC, Puglia $19.99…
Being the Voice
The feminine counterpart of “avuncular,” meaning “like an uncle,” is “materteral,” but if you were watching Barbara Jordan on your living-room set July 25, 1974, the large, hunched-over black woman easily improvising her comments in the Richard Nixon Inquisition did not look or sound like a perfumed, delicate auntie sharing somber news about “the misconduct…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
“Cricket and Flowering Vine,” a hanging scroll painting with colored lacquers and gold wash by Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin. The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum…
Being the Voice
The feminine counterpart of “avuncular,” meaning “like an uncle,” is “materteral,” but if you were watching Barbara Jordan on your living-room set July 25, 1974, the large, hunched-over black woman easily improvising her comments in the Richard Nixon Inquisition did not look or sound like a perfumed, delicate auntie sharing somber news about “the misconduct…
That’s a Wrap
It always happens this way: Just when you think you know someone, just when you’ve learned to trust again, said person has to go and say something silly like “David Fincher is overrated.” David Fincher is overrated. … I expect that you’ve gotten a good gasp on by now, because you, like many I love…
Aural Pleasure
New Magnetic Wonder The Apples in Stereo (Simian Records) If he’d been conceived a generation earlier, Robert Schneider might have built a lucrative career writing commercial jingles and Saturday-morning cartoon themes. But Schneider grew up in an era when the bubblegum virtues of the Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” were no longer in the pop mainstream, so…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
The Urban Geographer
As much as we like to look at the urban environment from the viewpoint of a pedestrian in this column, the roadways of the city cannot be denied. They are as much a part of the urban experience, and for many people driving them is the most familiar outdoor activity. In a short amount of…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
“Cricket and Flowering Vine,” a hanging scroll painting with colored lacquers and gold wash by Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin. The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum…
Being the Voice
The feminine counterpart of “avuncular,” meaning “like an uncle,” is “materteral,” but if you were watching Barbara Jordan on your living-room set July 25, 1974, the large, hunched-over black woman easily improvising her comments in the Richard Nixon Inquisition did not look or sound like a perfumed, delicate auntie sharing somber news about “the misconduct…
That’s a Wrap
Robert Downey, Jr. dials it in for David Fincher’s Zodiac. Courtesy photo. It always happens this way: Just when you think you know someone, just when you’ve learned to trust again, said person has to go and say something silly like “David Fincher is overrated.” David Fincher is overrated. … I expect that you’ve gotten…
Sound and the Fury
Boogaloo Nights Michael Chambers, aka Boogaloo Shrimp, first burst onto hip-hop’s collective consciousness via the seminal German documentary Breakin’ and Enterin’. Most people, however, remember him for his role as Turbo in the 1984 b-boy classic Breakin’ and its famously maligned sequel Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo. Chambers was also featured in Lionel Richie’s video for…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
That’s a Wrap
It always happens this way: Just when you think you know someone, just when you’ve learned to trust again, said person has to go and say something silly like “David Fincher is overrated.” David Fincher is overrated. … I expect that you’ve gotten a good gasp on by now, because you, like many I love…
Japanese Charms, Shining in the Dark
“Cricket and Flowering Vine,” a hanging scroll painting with colored lacquers and gold wash by Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin. The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun Through May 6 $8 adult; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 children over 3 San Antonio Museum…
Spittin’ Game
Superman Returns Electronic Arts Xbox 360, Playstation 2 $49.99-59.99 Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s…
Spittin’ Game
Superman Returns Electronic Arts Xbox 360, Playstation 2 $49.99-59.99 Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s…
All Ears
Like Dylan in the movies: Don’t Look Back gets the deluxe DVD treatment. Courtesy photo. The next time you see this column, festival mania will be upon us, with South By Southwest ahead and piggyback-fest SAIndie just finished. Music will be inescapable on the streets, in the air, in your favorite hangover-nurturing breakfast joint. Just…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
That’s a Wrap
It always happens this way: Just when you think you know someone, just when you’ve learned to trust again, said person has to go and say something silly like “David Fincher is overrated.” David Fincher is overrated. … Robert Downey, Jr. dials it in for David Fincher’s Zodiac. I expect that you’ve gotten a good…
Aural Pleasure
If he’d been conceived a generation earlier, Robert Schneider might have built a lucrative career writing commercial jingles and Saturday-morning cartoon themes. But Schneider grew up in an era when the bubblegum virtues of the Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” were no longer in the pop mainstream, so he attached himself to the underground, Athens, Georgia music…
Spittin’ Game
Superman Returns Electronic Arts Xbox 360, Playstation 2 $49.99-59.99 Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s…
Hot Cops
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) leads the gang in a game of palm-Jenga. Courtesy photo. Reno 911!: Miami Dir. Robert Ben Garant; writ. Garant, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney; feat. Garant, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Cedric Yarbrough, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash (R) The task of turning a television show into a feature film is not always…
Super Bad
Suzy Bravo and the Soul Revue are on a mission from the Godfather. As James Brown’s hyper-funky “Ants in My Pants” blasts from a small jam box, Bravo and her bandmates set up their gear at a downtown rehearsal space. Bravo’s auburn locks are wrapped in pigtails and her expressive face is framed by giant…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
Spittin’ Game
Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s found a next-gen-way of screwing up by trying like…
Aural Pleasure
If he’d been conceived a generation earlier, Robert Schneider might have built a lucrative career writing commercial jingles and Saturday-morning cartoon themes. But Schneider grew up in an era when the bubblegum virtues of the Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” were no longer in the pop mainstream, so he attached himself to the underground, Athens, Georgia music…
Spittin’ Game
Superman Returns Electronic Arts Xbox 360, Playstation 2 $49.99-59.99 Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s…
South Texas Cinema
And we’re back. See, we like to keep you on your toes, is the thing — make sure you’re paying attention, never too complacent or secure; but rather simmering, like an impassioned and jealous lover. Of cinema. Yes, cinema lover, ’tis too true. Lady Celluloid can be a cruel mistress: fickle and unkind, here today,…
Super Bad
Suzy Bravo and the Soul Revue are on the good foot. From left to right: Frank Rodarte, Paul Ward, Suzy Bravo, Eddie Hernandez, and Roland De La Cruz. Photo by Justin Parr. James Brown Tribute Show 10pm Wed, Feb 28 $5 Limelight Music & Drinks 2718 N. St. Mary’s Suzy Bravo and the Soul Revue…
The Omniboire
In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes, that Troy)…
Spittin’ Game
Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s found a next-gen-way of screwing up by trying like…
Aural Pleasure
If he’d been conceived a generation earlier, Robert Schneider might have built a lucrative career writing commercial jingles and Saturday-morning cartoon themes. But Schneider grew up in an era when the bubblegum virtues of the Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” were no longer in the pop mainstream, so he attached himself to the underground, Athens, Georgia music…
South Texas Cinema
And we’re back. See, we like to keep you on your toes, is the thing — make sure you’re paying attention, never too complacent or secure; but rather simmering, like an impassioned and jealous lover. Of cinema. Yes, cinema lover, ’tis too true. Lady Celluloid can be a cruel mistress: fickle and unkind, here today,…
Crescent City Cool
When last we encountered Chef Robert Riddle, he was clad in stain-free chef’s whites, schmoozing customers at San Remo, his upscale Italian restaurant at the corner of West and Lockhill-Selma. Today, after a come-to-Cajun/Creole experience in New Orleans, he can be found, clad in a purple T-shirt, slathering sandwiches with mayo at his new catfish…
The Omniboire
Courtesy photo In springtime — or any time, for that matter — the young oenophile’s fancy rarely turns to thoughts of the wines of Basilicata. Or Campania. Or Puglia … despite the fact that Southern Italy is one of the world’s oldest wine-producing regions, home to grapes with names such as uva di troia (yes,…
Spittin’ Game
Drop $60 for this and you’re mostly buying a valuable life lesson. Superman video games are like movies featuring Martin Lawrence in drag. No one’s made a good one, ever, and they never will. Please stop giving these evil people money. At least this time EA’s found a next-gen-way of screwing up by trying like…
All Ears
The next time you see this column, festival mania will be upon us, with South By Southwest ahead and piggyback-fest SAIndie just finished. Music will be inescapable on the streets, in the air, in your favorite hangover-nurturing breakfast joint. Just to get that “it’s everywhere” vibe kickstarted, let’s observe as music slinks into … :…
Southern Discomfort
“Maybe if I squeeze his leg hard enough, he’ll stop playing ‘The Song That Never Ends,’” Christina Ricci wonders. Courtesy photo. Black Snake Moan Writ. & dir. Craig Brewer; feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, John Cothran Jr. (R) Though it sings and explains the blues, Black Snake Moan begins in black and…
Crescent City Cool
Robert Riddle and his Podna’s specialities: Sausage with red beans and rice, oyster poor boy, and fried catfish. Photo by Antonia Padilla. Podna’s Catfish and Po’Boys 1264 Austin Highway 829-8333 11am-8pm Mon-Thu, 11am-9pm Fri & Sat $5.45-$8.95 Credit cards Bathrooms not technically accessible When last we encountered Chef Robert Riddle, he was clad in stain-free…
The Say-Town Lowdown – Guest Column
Earlier this month, the Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group founded by Cecil Richards (daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards), released its second annual report on the state of the Religious Right in Texas. The report, God’s Lawgivers, highlights a special 14-person “watchlist” (including San Antonio’s Ken Mercer, recently elected to the State Board…
Hot Cops
Reno 911!: Miami Dir. Robert Ben Garant; writ. Garant, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney; feat. Garant, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Cedric Yarbrough, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash (R) The task of turning a television show into a feature film is not always easy (cf. Scooby-Doo), but Robert Ben Garant (Deputy Travis Junior), the writer, director, and star…
Super Bad
James Brown Tribute Show 10pm Wed, Feb 28 $5 Limelight Music & Drinks 2718 N. St. Mary’s Suzy Bravo and the Soul Revue are on a mission from the Godfather. As James Brown’s hyper-funky “Ants in My Pants” blasts from a small jam box, Bravo and her bandmates set up their gear at a downtown…
Southern Discomfort
“Maybe if I squeeze his leg hard enough, he’ll stop playing ‘The Song That Never Ends,’” Christina Ricci wonders. Courtesy photo. Black Snake Moan Writ. & dir. Craig Brewer; feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, John Cothran Jr. (R) Though it sings and explains the blues, Black Snake Moan begins in black and…
