The Alamo City has seen a Manifest Destiny-like northbound sprawl, feverishly gobbling up land for construction past Loop 1604 and beyond. At the same time, over on the East Side of the city near downtown, neighborhoods languished as crime and poverty rates soared. That’s now starting to change. Five years ago, San Antonio Mayor Ivy…
SA video mag Vi/ZiNE is having a banner year, full of SA music, street art and DIY delight. After releasing issue seven in January, the project returns on Wednesday with help from like-minded players from SA and Austin. Raw Paw, an Austin zine and record label, will head down the highway to help curate the…
Matt Bonner, Patty Mills, Aron Baynes, Kawhi Leonard, and The Coyote somehow managed to incorporate everything terrible about the 80’s music scene, including keyboard guitars, in a new video released by the NBA franchise today. It’s nice to see the players have a little fun before the Playoffs. Do they take requests? Because we would…
The San Antonio Express-News is reporting that a wacky police chase and crime spree (no, seriously, go read it, the whole thing was insane) has led to the arrest of the alleged Brisket Bandit, Alan Meneley. According to the report, police will be treating each meaty burglary separately, so the other three haven’t been (sausage)…
As the friendly match between the United States and Mexico’s draws closer, our neighbors to the south of us are alleging the field at the Alamodome is unfit for play. The Washington Post, citing Medio Tempo, reported that Mexico was unable to practice on the field Tuesday because of poor conditions, namely temporary grass laid…
Not like anyone was surprised, but Hillary Clinton officially announced Monday that she’s running for president. When Clinton created “Hillary for America” and filed the paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, the New York Times reported “that Jose H. Villarreal, a veteran of past Clinton campaigns, is the treasurer.” According to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer…
With Easter out of the way and Fiesta on the horizon, local good samaritan Joan Cheever is mad as hell — for good reason, too. Last week, Cheever, who runs The Chow Train, a nonprofit that provides hot restaurant quality meals — that are healthy — to the Alamo City’s homeless, was feeding hungry people…
Yesterday, Paper Tiger announced that their June 6 show with Diarrhea Planet will be free with RSVP at Do210. It appears San Antonio is becoming a hotspot for the Nasvhille sextet, with three appearances in SA in the past year. They’re more than welcome, as long as they continue to bring hang-from-the-rafters, anthemic rock ‘n’ roll.…
It’s time for this weeks SA Food Pics. It’s full of sushi, sandwiches and a whole lot of other great picks. Some of the highlights of the bunch were the sushi from Nama Ramen (6565 Babcock) and Kona Grill (15900 La Cantera Pkwy Ste. 7300), tofu wings from Hoppy Monk (1010 N. Loop 1604) and…
A former judge admitted Monday that car repairs to a couple of Mercedes Benz’s and cash for favorable court rulings was just too much to pass up. Angus Kelly McGinty, 51, pleaded guilty to a charge of honest services wire fraud and admitted he solicited and accepted bribes to influence rulings, the FBI announced in…
San Antonio’s Joaquin Castro was the only Texan on the congressional delegation to the Summit of the Americas in Panamá this weekend. He let out a hearty laugh when asked if he got to meet Cuban leader Raúl Castro. He clarified that no, he didn’t meet him – that moment was reserved solely for President Obama. “I did get…
Hot dog alert — Chef Kris Martinez of RockerDogz Gourmet Street Dogz (the zs mean they’re extra deliciouz) finally announced the upcoming location for his first brick-and-mortar at 906 S. Laredo. The space, about 50-by-50 feet according to Martinez, will need your help to get off the ground. Martinez will host a Fiesta Fundraiser on…
The city’s Northwest side is getting a brewpub in the next few months. Owner Jason Gonzales, 36, signed a lease to open Mad Pecker Brewing Co. at 6025 Tezel Road. Though he originally planned on opening a nano-brewpub within 1,500 square-feet, Gonzales has leased a 4,200 square-foot space, the former home of House of Pizza.…
Hell yeah! Metal’s favorite Satanists Slayer and King Diamond will be making a stop in New Braunfels this summer, hitting Whitewater Amphitheater on Rockstar’s touring Mayhem Festival. The full lineup includes HELL YEAH, The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, The Art Is Murder Jungle Rot, Sister Sin, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange…
Monday, April 13 Pee Wee’s Big Adventure Movie Party Cine Snob is hosting a special 30th anniversary screening of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Tickets are only $5 and guests will be provided with several props to interact with throughout the film. $5, 7:30pm Monday, Alamo Drafthouse Park North, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500, drafthouse.com Tuesday,…
Three writers at Buzzfeed, yes, three writers, had the wonderful task of imaging Selena Quintanilla, the Queen of Tejano, as a Disney princess. While I don’t personally understand the appeal of Disney princesses, I can definitely say that some of their mock-ups are on point. Check the rest out at Buzzfeed.com. Related Stories
Monday, April 13 Small World Led by drummer Kyle Keener and guitarist Polly Harrison, Small World places world music in the jazz setting. The band features music from the Great American Songbook and bossa nova sung in the original Portuguese. 7:30pm, Olmos Pharmacy, 3902 McCullough, (210) 822-1188 Sell Music online at ReverbNation.com Tuesday, April 14…
Used most commonly in Texas for resaca-cures and cocktail medleys, that Topo Chico you’re drinking has a long and storied history hiding under all its bubbles. The company began in 1895, sourced down the road in Monterrey, Mexico. Bottled at the base of the Cerro del Topo Chico, Topo survived the impossible business climate of the…
We Leave at Midnight, one of the bonafide San Anto acts on the hometown label Texas Is Funny, just released a new song “Run to the Ocean,” a bubblegum appetizer from the upcoming Terror Flora EP. First premiered on Stereogum, the tune comes out swinging, with singer John Dailey and company entering the room with a…
Mr. President, stop this pipeline. That’s the message from the Big Bend Conservation Alliance, which has set up an online petition asking President Barack Obama to halt plans to build a 143-mile pipeline through the region. “The Trans-Pecos pipeline is slated to run through the Big Bend to supply natural gas to Mexico as part…
Those liberal communists over at MSNBC think we all look alike. Congressman Joaquin Castro, who is in Panama City at the Summit of the Americas, had to politely correct host Andrea Mitchell of Andrea Mitchell Reports, who stated he had a “Cuban-American background,” according to Fox News Latino — yes you read that correctly. “Well,…
Day two of Maverick Music Fest brought early rain and bayou-thick humidity to La Villita. But it couldn’t displace the excitement for the bulk of the fest — the only independent music festival of its kind in San Antonio. tUnE-yArDs Merril Garbus, performing as the exhaustively-stylized tUnE-yArDs, is one of the few musicians in indie rock doing…
Set in the historic San Antonio fiesta hot spot, La Villita was home to some not-so-traditional music this weekend. On day one of year three, Maverick Music Festival blew the lid off of downtown SA with some top indie acts. The scent of classic fest foods with a south Texas twist wafted through the air,…
Saturday, April 11: Bring your own cup to 7-Elevens across San Antonio and fill it up with frosty Slurpees for just $1.49. The only catch is your container, be it a hat, or a small bucket, has to fit inside a 10-inch cut out next to the Slurpee machines. 11am-7pm, 7-Elevens everywhere, 7-eleven.com. Saturday, April 11:…
San Antonio City Council approved a $500,000 settlement with a woman who sued the city over allegations that a former police officer raped her in his patrol car in 2013, the Associated Press reported. The officer, Jackie Neal, was fired over the allegations and is facing a charge of sexual assault. Neal is accused of…
Thu 4/9 Through a Lens Darkly Raised between the Bronx and Tanzania, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris employs a blend of video, photography and performance to address everything from sexuality and spirituality to politics and identity. UTSA’s Honors College celebrates the “cultural warrior” by screening his documentary Through a Lens Darkly, a film Time summed…
Oh, holy hell. First it comes for our Blue Bell ice cream, now listeria monocytogenes is going after our mashed chick peas, the healthy thing we eat to make us feel good about ourselves. Sabra announced yesterday that a the threatening bacteria, which has made headlines in recent weeks for being linked to Blue Bell…
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, best known for the scratchy voice work he has used to create such characters as Iago the Parrot in the classic 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin, and as the former spokesduck for Aflec Insurance commercials, will be performing stand-up at the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club in San Antonio from April 10-12.…
Thursday, April 9 Howlin’ Rain, Crown Led by guitarist Ethan Miller, Howlin’ Rain kicks back to Doors-era organ rock ‘n’ roll. On the final track of their debut album, Crown sets up to ride out on some surf rock, but transitions to a massive slow-burner to light fire to the album’s end. It’s an impressive…
San Antonio Police Chief Anthony Treviño said today that the department’s administrative review of a police shooting that left a 23-year-old man dead last February has been completed and turned over to the District Attorney’s Office. “Officer (Robert) Encina is still on administrative duty and waiting the outcome from the DA’s office,” Treviño said. Encina shot and…
Five volunteer firefighters in Waxachachie, Texas, have been charged with aggravated sexual assault for an alleged January 20 hazing incident that involved a chorizo sausage. The Waxachachie Daily Light reports that Emergency Service District 6 volunteers Lt. Alec Chase Miller, 28, Lt. Keith Edward Wisakowsky, 26, Firefighter Casey Joe Stafford, 30, Firefighter Preston Thomas Peyrot, 19,…
In his directorial film debut, journalist and author Joe Nick Patoski digs deep into the Texas music archive to tell the story of iconic San Antonio-born musician Doug Sahm, best known for forming the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and the Texas Tornados in the 1990s. Patoski ‘s documentary Sir Doug and the Genuine…
Mondegreen is the phenomenon of mishearing lyrics, making your own interpretation out of the one provided in song. A common enough error, but it’s one we made embarrassingly in a review of Calico Club’s debut EP Permanent Night. “She has her spells, she’s using them well,” sang PleasureFaces of the SA duo. In a sensory goof,…
San Antonio City Councilman Cris Medina says the city is ignoring former Mayor Julián Castro’s request for a third-party review of pay disparities between men and women who are city employees is unacceptable. Last year, at Medina’s urging, City Council approved a study to measure whether men and women with equal education and experience receive equal…
Put the Blue Bell Banana Pudding Ice Cream pints down and walk away. Blue Bell Creameries announced Tuesday that it is expanding its recall to include the banana pudding flavor, which tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, along with other products manufactured on the same line in the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma facility. According to Blue Bell,…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I don’t know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it’s such…
It’s been three years since Chase Cowan has been inside a jail cell. For someone who has spent much of his adult life in and out of the prison system for drug and alcohol-related crimes, it isn’t a place he wants to return to anytime soon. “I was ready for change one way or another,”…
It was a day that the owner of Feast restaurant felt like he could jump for joy and, well, throw a celebratory feast. Andrew Goodman, who opened the eatery in 2012 as the second small plates dining concept in Southtown, rejoiced in a March 24 court ruling confirming he could stay put at 1024 South…
The San Antonio Book Festival is upon us Saturday, April 11 (read all about it, pages 29-33), and Central Market’s Cooking Tent is back with four authors, demos and plenty of snacks. Kate Payne, the Austin-based author Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking, will share recipes from her latest book. Released in 2014, Hip Girl’s Guide…
With inspiration and support from the Austin-based Texas Book Festival, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation launched the San Antonio Book Festival in 2013 with a mission to “unite readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries and literary culture.” Expanding on a format that attracted more than 10,000 visitors and camera crews…
Born in Virginia and raised in Central America, self-described “artist and photographer” Mark Menjivar attended Clark High School, studied social work at Baylor University and earned an MFA (in art and social practice) from Portland State University. It wasn’t until after he’d moved to Bolivia and started a nonprofit that he began looking at photography…
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s emotive and often family-focused fiction has appeared in publications like The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. Quade was a recipient of the 2014 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award and currently teaches writing as the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. Her recently published collection…
For The Secret Language of Color, the mother-daughter pair of Joann and Arielle Eckstut teamed up for an extensive look at the science and culture of the light we experience as color. Joann, an interior designer, and Arielle, an author, are both on the “color czar” committee of the Color Association of the United States,…
Sobia Khan is a British-born, Pakistani-bred writer, scholar, proud Texan and English Faculty member at Richland College in Dallas. She earned her PhD in 2014 from the University of Texas at Dallas and has published translations of Urdu poetry as well as many critically lauded short stories. Currently, Khan is finishing her first novel, Mariam,…
The Latino Vote: Where It’s Been, Where It’s Going With the Supreme Court’s recent dismantling of the Voters Rights Act and the rising importance of the Latino vote, this conversation is a timely one. Political scholars and co-authors Matt Barreto (UCLA) and Henry Flores (St. Mary’s University) will serve as astute historians and prognosticators under…
Last year at La Villita, Maverick Music gave San Antonio its first real music festival as defined by the 21st Century behemoths cultivated in Austin, Tennessee and Southern California. Now in its third year, Maverick Music Festival returns to the historic though tourist-heavy spot, boasting a strong lineup of rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop and everything…
I’m a straight male kinkster who used to do live performances as a rope bondage top, but I recently jumped out of the kink community. I just think I’ll have better luck finding a long-term relationship with a girl from the vanilla world. So long as she’s GGG, I can live with it. As much…
“Are you guys from around here?” asked our hair-netted waiter/cashier. We had just finished telling him that everything we had eaten could have been a little bit spicier, and he was having trouble processing the information. “Most people want it less spicy,” he said with a shrug. Whether you like your food smugly spicy or…
Call it the Near East Side, Dignowity Hill, “just east of downtown” or what have you, the area east of U.S. 281 as it borders downtown has come seen a boom in watering holes as of late. Here’s a rundown of new options to head to once the clock strikes 5. Alamo Beer 202 Lamar,…
The night before my visit to The Sheraton Gunter’s Bar 414 was spent having my face melted by hot guitar licks provided by the legendary Buddy Guy and backup band at The Aztec Theater. I woke up with the blues still on my mind the following day, and decided it was time to revisit a…
