10 Raunchy Songs To Put On Your XXX Valentine Playlist (NSFW)
Here’s a raunchy little playlist to help you get your groove on, libido up, and ready for action for Valentine’s Day, or any day, really. Dead Kennedys, “Too Drunk to Fuck”Nothing is sexier than Jello Biafra proclaiming his love by being too blasted to get it on. Lil’ Wayne, “Pussy Monster” After proclaiming himself as…
Vi//ZiNE Releases Trailer for Seventh Issue
Vi//ZiNE, SA’s idiosyncratic DVD zine, celebrates the screening of its seventh issue, premiering Thursday night on the Bottom Bracket Social Club patio. To spread the hype, the Vi//ZiNE boys released a bizarre trailer on the dangers of the subcultural stuff. If previous issues are any indication, the new reel will feature segments on San Antonio music,…
Stand Banh Mi Pop-Up Heading to Faust
The Crossroads Kitchen folks are taking a breather next week as they lend their space at Faust Tavern (517 E Woodlawn) to Dave Rizo and Becka Rodgers. Rizo and Rodgers, area cooks who’ve been dating for the past 3 and a half years, will host Stand Banh Mi on 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. starting…
Aural Pleasure: Panda Bear’s ‘Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper’
Panda Bear | Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | Domino | 4 stars From the darker turn of his latest solo and Animal Collective work to the foreboding album title, it seemed Panda Bear (real name: Noah Lennox) might be ready to delve into the gloom. Not even close. Panda Bear Meets the Grim…
Aural Pleasure: Father John Misty’s ‘I Love You, Honeybear’
Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear | Sub Pop | 4.5 stars Far from the somber folk of Josh Tillman’s seven efforts as J. Tillman, Father John Misty is Tillman as honky-tonk shaman, psychedelic philosopher and self-destructive ladies’ man. On the gorgeous I Love You, Honeybear, Tillman uses this persona to deflect the…
Aural Pleasure: Sleater-Kinney’s ‘No Cities to Love’
Sleater-Kinney | No Cities to Love | Sub Pop | 4.5 stars After a decade in hiatus and new projects from Portlandia to Drumgasm piling up, a Sleater-Kinney reunion seemed unlikely. And yet we’ve got No Cities to Love, a thoroughly excellent return to form that proves the band hasn’t missed a step. At a…
Local Black Lives Matter Protest Calls for Presidential Pardon of Marissa Alexander
Standing on the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse, several San Antonio organizations called on President Barack Obama to pardon a Florida woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun at her abusive husband, who wasn’t injured. P.E.A.C.E. Initiative Executive Director Patricia S. Castillo said simultaneous press conferences and peaceful…
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Rick Perry’s Indictment for the Second Time
San Antonio-based Judge Bert Richardson on Tuesday rejected a second request by Rick Perry’s attorneys that the criminal case against the former Texas governor be dismissed. Perry’s lawyers contend he acted within his authority when he threatened to veto funding for the state Public Integrity Unit in 2013 after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg…
10 Free Events Happening This Week
Thursday, January 29 GET REEL: Under the Skin Under the Skin is a chilly, beautiful alien avant-garde creation disguised as a feature film, just as it’s seductive anti-heroine seems disguised as a woman. With little dialogue, Scarlett Johansson plays a predatory cypher who cruises Scotland in a van, picking up guys and doing something strange,…
What I Ate: Love and heart-shaped pizzas
This week’s food adventures included stops at Whiskey Cake (look for that review tomorrow), a few NSFW office snacks and a Restaurant Week visit to Thai Topaz, which delivered with red curry mussels, great presentation for their pineapple fried rice and ridiculous homemade coconut ice cream. Sidebar: The line at Torchy’s Tacos was out the…
Live and Local: Shovels & Rope at Sam’s Burger Joint
She’s from Nashville by way of the Mississippi delta, and he’s from Charleston by way of Denver. She brings the soul; he brings the rock, and they meet on the fertile pastures of country-leaning folk music. Husband and wife duo Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, known together as Shovels & Rope, make joyful and…
Texas Leads in Exoneration Rates in 2014
In a record year of exonerations in the United States, Texas led the way with 39 innocent people being exonerated of criminal convictions. There were 125 exonerations across the country in 2014. This is the first time the Registry found more than 100 instances of faulty convictions that put innocent people behind bars. “The big…
Report: San Antonio Left Out of Google Fiber Expansion
Update: Tuesday, January 27, 2014, 4:15 p.m. The Current has received a statement from Google Fiber Community Impact Manager Parisa Fatehi-Weeks: “San Antonio has been committed to the mission of improving broadband speeds for its citizens long before it was a hot topic, and the city has made great progress this year as we’ve worked…
Watch Julián Castro’s Interview on ‘The Daily Show’
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Daily Show last night. The current Washingtonian braved the East Coast blizzard to talk up a new FHA mortgage reduction program, which is what one generally goes on a talk show to promote when they don’t have a book or movie coming out. “You…
Aldaco’s Downtown Heads to the Fairmount
In zesty restaurant move news, Blanca Aldaco of Aldaco’s at Sunset Station, Stone Oak and Dominion announced the Downtown location’s move via press release on Monday afternoon. The restaurant’s last day of business inside St. Paul’s Square, where the eatery’s been for the past 26 years, will be Friday, January 30. Aldaco hopes to be…
We’ve Got Your Super Bowl Balls Right Here
The Super Bowl. I don’t really know much about it other than it’s going down this Sunday, and that I’ll be switching back and forth between that and Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl during commercials. What I do know about Super Bowl XLIX is that Tom Brady and the rest of the New England (kind of…
Texas-Originated Lawsuit Against Immigration Executive Action Grows
Tennessee and Nevada have joined Texas and 24 other states in a lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s immigration executive order, the Associated Press has reported. The legal challenge originated in the Lone Star State after Obama announced a plan to provide temporary relief for nearly 5 million undocumented adults — many parents of children — and…
Watch Sam Rubik & 3Zone$ New Video for ‘Que Quiero’
What’s a true hip-hop video without booty shots, Benjamins being thrown around, a plethora of joints, red Solo cups and grillz? Directed by Jalin Morgan and shot by Alex Donaldson, and starring SA rappers Sam Rubik and 3Zone$, the new video for “Que Quiero” covers all the basics with a hometown twist. “Que Quiero” is…
5 Things You Have To Do This Week
Monday, January 26 Wildstyle The first true hip-hop movie, Wild Style, is a snapshot of creativity encompassing free styling, scratching, breakdancing and graffiti in the early 1980s New York. Starring Lee George Quinones, Lady Pink and Fab 5 Freddy. $9.50, 7 p.m. Monday, Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes, 1255 SW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500, drafthouse.com. Tuesday, January 27 Chicago…
Texan Game Developers Sound Off on PAX South
PAX South was a strange event, not because of the eccentric cosplay on display in the Henry B. Gonzalez Center. Instead, PAX South seemed to be an event where everybody was waiting on something big to happen. Penny Arcade Expos, like PAX East in Boston and PAX Prime in Seattle, typically pack more virtual punch…
Julián Castro Will Appear on ‘The Daily Show’ Tonight
Julián Castro, former SA mayor and current secretary of the Department Housing and Urban Development, will be tonight’s guest on The Daily Show. At 10 p.m., viewers can tune in to watch Castro and host John Stewart discuss the finer points of the FHA’s recent actions to lower insurance premiums — mortgages are set to…
San Antonio Strays to be Featured in Puppy Bowl XI
This year, Animal Planet’s 11th annual Puppy Bowl features seven formerly homeless canine residents of Alamo City — Roscoe, Lance, Olive, Moses, Zane, Papi and Theodore — on Sunday, February 1, opposite Super Bowl XLIX. These bright-eyed and bushy-tailed additions to the program’s roster wandered the streets of San Antonio before Animal Care Services impounded…
PAX South Review: Gamer Heaven Comes to San Antonio
PAX South, the mega-expo showcasing video game culture, brought big names and big games to Alamo City this weekend. Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is a different kind of convention than Alamo City Comic Con and other pop culture events. The expo is completely dedicated to gaming, tabletop and video games. Web comic artists Jerry Holkins…
Spurs Vines of the Week: Pop Death Stare, Beer Spill, Behind-the-Back Dish
Randy Foye Catches Beer Shower Spilling into the crowd after the transitional play, Foye lost his footing and crashed into a server, accidentally living the High Life in the Mile High City. Meanwhile, Leonard remained dry and finished with 17 points and 15 boards in the 109-99 win over the Nuggets. Manu Ginobili’s Behind-the-Back Gem…
Three Pop-Ups On The Horizon
The dining scene is getting more diverse with the addition of more pop-ups, restaurant concepts that take over other eateries or spaces for a short amount of time in an effort to wow our senses. And we’ve got three coming up within the next few weeks. Here’s a quick run-through of each: Gallo/Toro: Marcos Cervantes…
San Antonio Missing Among Cities Supporting Obama’s Immigration Executive Action
A coalition of over 30 mayors plan to sign on to an amicus brief in defense of President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration reform. Notably absent from the list of city leaders is San Antonio’s Mayor Ivy Taylor. Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York City and Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles announced plans…
Runoff Elections to Replace Key San Antonio State Legislators Set For Feb 17
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday that the runoff elections to replace State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte and State Rep. Mike Villarreal, both longtime Democrats who are running for mayor of the Alamo City, will take place on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Texas House colleagues Trey Martinez Fischer and Jose Menendez will face one another…
Make it a Picasso Date Night Tonight at SAMA
Valentine’s Day is less than a month away, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until then to do a big romantic gesture. Tonight, the San Antonio Museum of Art is hosting Date Night Picasso from 6 to 10 p.m. to coincide with their exhibit of Nelson Rockefeller’s Picasso tapestries. (You can read our…
Castro Twins Join Matt Bonner on a Sandwich Hunt
Talk about three birds with one stone. When the Spurs visited with the White House and President Barack Obama rightfully celebrated America’s team, San Antonio’s favorite redhead decided to hook up with the city’s favorite set of twins, Congressman Joaquin and Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, for a…
Mexican University in San Antonio Receives Full Accreditation
The first Mexican university to receive full accreditation from the Commission on English Language Accreditation (CEA), which means the U.S. Department of Education recognizes it as an institution of higher learning, is in San Antonio. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) received accreditation last December. “San Antonio has symbolized a tradition of academic and cultural…
Austin Blind Salamander Added to Texas Endangered Species List
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission approved adding the federally endangered Austin blind salamander to the state’s list of endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Austin blind salamander as endangered in 2013, and it was “inadvertently not added to the state endangered species list at the time,” according to TPWD.…
Limelight to Reopen Under Direction of 502 Bar
Known for its green neon tenure on the St. Mary’s strip, in 2015 the Limelight will be managed by Deric Wynne of the 502 Bar. Affectionately known as “The Slime,” the bar at 2718 N St. Mary’s will close at the end of January, reopening under 502 direction in mid-to-late March. SA music fans can…
San Antonio Botanical Garden Set to Expand
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Thursday that it awarded the San Antonio Botanical Garden a $1 million Urban Outdoor Recreation Grant for a 2.5-acre expansion. And the expansion will be one the whole family can enjoy since the grant will be used to build a Family Adventure Garden designed for families with young…
Texas Game Developers to Watch Out for at PAX South
PAX South invades the Henry B. Gonzalez Center this weekend, attracting tens of thousands of gaming enthusiasts all ready to play the latest games from dozens of exhibitors. Game developers from around the globe will spend the whole weekend trying to convince attendees why their game is more deserving of attention than the hundreds of…
Nearly 1 Million Texans Enroll in Health Care Plans
Since open enrollment began on November 15 of last year for health insurance plans available in the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace, 918,890 Texans had either chosen a new health plan or reenrolled in their previous plan, the federal health department announced yesterday. Nationally, 7.1 million Americans have enrolled in insurance plans. According to data available…
10 Things You Have To Do This Weekend
Thursday, January 22 Snake Hawk Press Print Show Cruz Ortiz, SA artist and maker of clever Tex-Mexicana prints, has been busy of late, exhibiting his craft, contributing art to political campaigns, dressing up Absolut vodka bottles and managing his own screen-printing and letterpress design firm Snake Hawk Press. Thursday night in the sleek confines of…
‘Men’s Journal’ Picks Boiler House as One of America’s 10 Best Places to Brunch
Looking for really rad, manly brunch options? The Boiler House (312 Pearl Pkwy, Bldg 3) might be your best bet according to Men’s Journal, which included the Pearl-based eatery on a list of 10 of the country’s best places to brunch this Tuesday. Boiler House, which opened in late 2012, sits inside a 117-year old…
7 Shows To See this Weekend
Thursday, January 22 Ronia There’s a direct and opposite correlation between small towns and punk music: The smaller and more quaint the town, the meaner and heavier its punk bands. Out of lovely Beeville (population 13,000), Ronia’s d-beat brigade is a vicious exercise in hardcore, slugging through the ’80s pastime with a small town outsider’s…
Watch a KRTU In-Studio Performance With Austin’s Migrant Kids
Home to jazz and indie rock, Trinity University’s radio station KRTU has been rockin’ the airwaves since the ’70s. The station continued the tradition of featuring non-mainstream music by having Austin-based indie rockers Migrant Kids on Indie Overnight’s “Plugged in Session.” Sounding like a score to an indie wet dream with emotionally provoking lyrics and…
Google Fiber Waiting Game Continues for San Antonio
Google Fiber is now live in Austin, but the decision on bringing the company’s gigabit internet service to San Antonio has yet to be finalized. Last February, Google Fiber announced to great fanfare that San Antonio would be one of nine U.S. cities considered as the next location to roll out the tech giant’s lightning-fast…
Texas to Execute First Inmate of the Year Tonight
A man who stabbed three people to death with a screwdriver is scheduled to be executed tonight. Arnold Prieto, 41, murdered husband and wife Rodolfo and Virginia Rodriguez, aged 72 and 62, along with their housekeeper Paula Moran, 92, in 1993. Prieto was convicted in 1995. According to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office, brothers…
5 SA Chefs Heading to Austin Food + Wine Festival in April
Tickets are now available for the Austin Food + Wine Festival, slated for April 24-26, and so is the list of participating chefs. Jason Dady (Two Bros. BBQ Market, Tre Trattoria, The DUK Truck, B&D Ice House, and upcoming Shuck Shack and Tre Entoneca) will join Smokehouse’s Tim Love, Uchi’s Tyson Cole, FT33’s Matt McCallister…
Bar 1919 To Host ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Watch Party
Fans of the Marvel’s latest flick will be happy to know that Bar 1919 is just a big a fan of the flick that turned Chris Pratt into a leading man. The Blue Star Art Complex-based bar will host a viewing party of Guardians of the Galaxy on Sunday, January 25 at 8 p.m. with…
SA’s Burger Hangover Fest Announces Second Day
Bring out your B vitamins and chilaquiles ’cause the Burger Hangover Fest — swiping the best garage acts from the boozy last days of SXSW — just announced a second day of jangly celebration. On Sunday and Monday, March 22-23, BHF will host over 20 rock ‘n’ rollers dreaming up visions of reverb, fuzz, tremolo and…
Denver Nugget Gets Beer Shower in Spurs Win
In this loose ball struggle in last night’s Spurs win, Kawhi Leonard ended up with a rebound and an assist, while Denver’s Randy Foye caught a face full of stadium beer. Spilling into the crowd after the transitional play, Foye lost his footing and crashed into a server, accidentally living the High Life in the Mile…
The Home Vidiot: January videos bring a dose of strangeness to awards season
As the awards season builds steam, two January video releases hope to be top contenders: David Fincher’s thriller Gone Girl, with Ben Affleck as a man who looks guilty as heck when his wife disappears, and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, with Ellar Coltrane as a Texas boy whose childhood disappears over the course of 12 years…
Sold out? MLK march strong in numbers, but what about its message?
Dozens of members of an activist group that first galvanized on social media joined San Antonio’s massive march on Monday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. But this was far from kumbaya for them. [Photos: 135 Photos of San Antonio’s 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March] The activists, members of SATX4 and…
Savage Love: The Hunger
I’m a straight 18-year-old girl in my first sexual relationship. Things are a little awkward, and I could chalk it up to inexperience, but here’s what I feel conflicted about: I have a vore fetish. It was a fascination for me as a young child and became a sexual thing around the time I hit…
Free Will Astrology, Week of January 19
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is there a patron saint of advertising or a goddess of marketing or a power animal that rules publicity and promotion? If so, I’m going to find out, then pray to them in your behalf. It’s high time for your underappreciated talents and unsung accomplishments to receive more attention. And I…
East Side Gains Breakfast Options With Amaya’s Tacos & Bakery
It’s hard to miss the bright purple building that sits on the corner of Commerce and Hackberry. The drive-up spot formerly housed a convenience store, signs of which are still evident in the giant coolers that fill up the 300-square-foot space that makes up Amaya’s Tacos & Bakery. During a morning visit, you might find…
Meet LocalSprout, SA’s hydroponic veggie farm
In an entrepreneur’s uniform of jeans, T-shirt and slipshod beard, LocalSprout co-founder Mitch Hagney walks me into his warehouse on the grounds of the San Antonio Food Bank. The sartorial choice works for his upstart business sense and for the business at hand—the warehouse is actually a greenhouse, one of two locations where LocalSprout grows…
6 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on This Week
Thursday, January 22: Rosella Coffee Co. turns the volume up to 11 with a visit by the Snake Hawk Press. The space will turn into an art gallery featuring work from Cruz Ortiz, and attendees will take home freshly screened art pieces. Steven Lee Moya will spin some tunes. Free, 7-11pm, 203 E Jones, Ste…
Flavor File: San Anto’s Speed Rack three-peat and Dady’s Shuck Shack
Last week’s San Antonio Cocktail Conference kicked off with three of our finest female bartenders heading north to represent San Antonio in Speed Rack Dallas. Previous Texan champ Elisabeth Forsythe, fellow Barbaro bartender Janessa Flowers and The Esquire Tavern’s Zulcoralis Rodriguez competed alongside 17 of the state’s most agile bartendresses with Rodriguez staking claim to…
Happy Hour Hound: Hot Joy’s truncated offering
It’s no secret that we’re fans of Hot Joy, the little pop-up that could, and chef Quealy Watson’s pride and, well, joy. So when the eatery rolled out a happy hour menu earlier this month, our interests were piqued. And although it is quite literally an hour long, the case can be made for ditching…
Sanctified Brews Inside SA’s First Hoppy Monk
To say that the wait for Hoppy Monk was a lengthy one would be quite the understatement. The bar was first announced in June of 2013, and yet it wasn’t until last month when they finally opened their doors to a, shall we say, eager crowd. But much like their build-out phase, which took longer…
Triple Murder of American Siblings in Mexico Highlights Unrelenting Drug War At Our Doorstep
Four people are kidnapped and beaten, possibly tortured. They are bound, gagged and taken out to a remote rural area where they are executed with a bullet to the head. Then they’re left to rot in the elements. No one would fault you for thinking this is likely a scene right out of the war-torn…
SA Rapper Milli Mars Returns to Earth with ‘Red Klay’
In conversation, SA rapper Milli Mars speaks at AK-pace, throwing out images and brisk ideas as fast as the ears and brain can connect to keep up with it all. So it’s no surprise that his newest release Red Klay is a massive and quick-witted project with 24 tracks on deck. Is it an album?…
Shovels & Rope Wed Folk and Rock, and Each Other, in Marital Music
As hard as it is to build a happy romantic relationship, it’s even harder to do so while creating a successful music career. Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope are making it look too damn easy, crafting music that’s impossible to shake—smart, sanguine, frustrated and triumphant all at once. It’s ruminative…
Is a $41 million Alamodome Renovation Worth the Cost?
Depending on whom you talk to, the $41 million renovation to the Alamodome approved by City Council last week either creates an economic boon or is an example of San Antonio’s misguided priorities. The upgrade was part of the pitch that secured the men’s college basketball 2018 Final Four, including the national championship game. Construction…
Cellist Maya Beiser and Wilco Drummer Glenn Kotche join for ‘All Vows’
Pinning down the music of cellist Maya Beiser is a tricky proposition. In concert, her multitrack, prerecorded loops dance around her cello like variations in a mirror and her repertoire includes classical texturalist Phillip Glass and Led Zeppelin. Certainly, her music is as disruptive to the idea of classical music as it is beautiful. Thursday…
Value Vino: Trader Joe’s Italian varietals
Trader Joe’s (in)famous Two Buck Chuck has been three-buck plonk for a while now. Yes, we know it has its defenders. But we’re about to suggest an even more astonishing leap—all the way up to $5.99. Stay with us here. TJ’s Epicuro line of Southern Italian varietal/regional wines is simply and handsomely packaged for starters;…
Artist on Artist: Gary Sweeney interviews Trish Simonite
I’ve been a fan of Trish Simonite’s beautiful photographs since I first saw her series of English seaside amusement parks. She’s influenced an entire generation of young local photographers as a professor at the Southwest School of Art and Trinity University. Raised in the English countryside, she met dashing Texan Richard Simonite and soon found…
