Where to Eat in SA on National Gyro Day
Maybe I love gyro because I love trompo. What’s not to love? Both are spit-roasted, both topped with fresh ingredients and loads of veggies, both delicious. September 1 is National Gyro Day (just go with it…) and here are a few ways to eat your weight in gyro around town. Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill The only…
Film Forecast 2016: The Most Anticipated Films on the Horizon and the Best So Far
What a terrible summer! We saw unabashed hate speech, institutional tyranny and tin-hat conspiracy theories collide to create an almost complete disintegration of the American social fabric. And that was just people Tweeting about Ghostbusters! Thankfully, we’re almost past the superhero cape-strewn dog days of summer and into awards season, where most films are forced to project at…
Bubbles and Sushi Blend Beautifully at Sukeban
Sukeban, Blue Star’s sushi and sparkling wine bôite with an anime vibe, has been open long enough now to get its groove. The cheeky boss-girl and Samurai sword-wielder murals suggested irreverence from the get-go, while the shou sugi ban (charred wood) wall cladding (most of us first saw it used in SA at Kimura), suggested…
San Japan Prop Policy Says No to Open Carry, Silly String
Planning to cosplay as Wolverine from the X-Men at San Japan? Better make sure those claws can’t even cut through butter. Want to make your Thor costume as authentic as possible? Sounds great, but that oversized hammer better be made out of plastic or Styrofoam. Otherwise you’ll be leaving the convention center faster than you…
A Rare Q&A with Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros’ nearly 30-year, on-and-off relationship with San Antonio is a dysfunctional one. Here she found enough love to move from her native Chicago in 1984 and establish her Macondo Writers’ Workshop, but also enough people “throwing rocks at you” that, in 2013, she packed her things and moved out quicker than you can say…
José Rubén De León Takes a Stab At ‘The House on Mango Street’
For José Rubén De León, securing Sandra Cisneros’ blessings to direct The House on Mango Street was easy. Making it a reality was a different matter. “It almost didn’t happen,” De León told the Current during a rehearsal break in early August. “A play like Mango Street gets produced, but not a lot. You have…
A Look at the Diverse Fans and Unique Subcultures that Make Up San Japan 009
Dressed in a sparkling black cocktail dress, faux mink white coat, perfectly-coiffed black-and-white wig and long false lashes, green eye shadow and dark red lipstick, Tristian Ramirez makes his rounds on the convention center floor staking out his next target. Embracing his role as iconic Disney villain Cruella De Vil, Ramirez slowly makes his way…
Madame Tussauds Debuts Selena Wax Figure
A large crowd gathered on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles Tuesday evening for the unveiling of a new wax figure at Madame Tussauds to honor the legendary queen of Tejano and crossover icon, Selena. The event coincided with the 21st anniversary of Selena’s fifth and final studio album, Dreaming of You, a record she would…
Sabine Senft Explores Border Violence in Haunting Fotoseptiembre Exhibit
An official part of this year’s Fotoseptiembre, despite also sneaking in some sculpture work and painting, “Borderland” is a new exhibit by multimedia artist Sabine Senft. Through her varied methods, Senft ruminates on the harsh experience of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, something that has become increasingly treacherous. Begun in Marfa in 2013, this exhibit of…
Thursday’s Shop Rare Marketplace a Must for Vintage Enthusiasts
Having drawn a considerable crowd last month with an event showcasing local vendors selling on the buzzy e-commerce site Depop, vintage specialists Katalya Bustos, Mae Darrin and Kirstine Haynes are launching Shop Rare Marketplace, a monthly pop-up combining vendors, live music, DJ sets and a photo-booth outfitted with an artist-designed backdrop. At the inaugural shindig,…
Photographer Ansen Seale Skews Perspective with ‘The Transient Landscape’
Just in time for this year’s more-massive-than-ever Fotoseptiembre bonanza, a new photography exhibition by Ansen Seale opens this week at FL!GHT Gallery. Seale, a local artist and photographer whose primary obsessions include mathematical explorations, nature and interconnectivity, quotes Polish-American semantics scholar Alfred Korzybski: “The map is not the territory.” For Seale, it’s often by the…
Accordion King Ramón Ayala Headlines Tejano Takeover of Cowboys Dancehall
Cowboys Dancehall might appropriately be redubbed Vaqueros Salón de Baile for this stacked Tejano bill. For all the KXTN radio faithful, Janie’s Record Shop regulars and the new crop of Tejano-phile youngsters searching for authentic cultural experience, this show is certainly not to be missed. At the top of the bill, Ramón Ayala (El Rey…
Get a Sneak Peek of The Good Kind at Pearl Farmers Market
The Good Kind, which is set to open this fall inside the space formerly occupied by One Lucky Duck Texas, is giving San Antonio a taste of what’s to come. The concept is the brainchild of Tim McDiarmid of Tim the Girl culinary company. The Good Kind will be an extension of McDiarmid’s food philosophy…
Southwest School of Art Welcomes September with Four New Exhibitons
Architectural interventions, imagined landscapes, amplified nature and marching bands are but a few of the themes examined in four exhibitions opening at the Southwest School of Art on Thursday and remaining on view through October 30. An Indiana-born artist, curator and freelance arts writer who earned his MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, Seth…
Where to Have Sex When Your Roommate Won’t Leave
Sharing a college dorm room is a difficult task. People need their privacy — and it disappears as soon as you’re living five feet away from another person in a single room. Whether or not you care to acknowledge it, we humans are sexual creatures and college is when many start to explore exactly what…
16 Pro Tips: How to Stay Sane Your Freshman Year
Tips provided by Thomas Baez, director of UTSA Counseling Services
What You Need to Know Now That Guns are Allowed on Campus
Locked ’n’ Loaded Learnin’
A Movie for Every College Occasion
Ones to Watch
The Five People You’ll Meet in Your Study Group
You forge a special bond with people you’ve met in class. Usually friends of friends, people you’ve seen online, or owners of laptops decked out with stickers of cool bands, they ride the rollercoaster with you. Your study group is there with you when everything finally clicks in the basement of the library at 2…
Getting Married in College With No Regrets
Student Bride
Reap the Rewards of Your Student ID
Where to Get Discounts
Where to Find Free Food On and Around College Campuses
Campus Foraging
Beware of These College Roommates from Hell
Rowdy Roomies
Welcome to College Guide 2016
Table of Contents What You Need to Know Now That Guns are Allowed on Campus A Shortlist of Ideas for the College Kid Hard-up For Cash Reap the Rewards of Your Student ID Getting Married in College With No Regrets The Five People You’ll Meet in Your Study Group Look Out for These Five Kinds…
