Public art is an essential component of any truly thriving city. The statement that (tactful, thoughtful) public art projects make to the residents of a city is multifaceted, involving the dual recognition(s) that art is valuable and improves quality of life – and that, as such, everyone deserves art in their lives. Public art is…
Holy shit folks. This election just keeps getting crazier (and more frightening) by the day. Whether you’re an avid follower of American politics or an apathetic so-and-so, it’s highly unlikely that the ballistic balderdash of this particular presidential race hasn’t impacted you in some way. It’s hard to avoid engaging with a spectacle so preposterous.…
As excitement builds for a rare, already-sold out Morrissey show at The Tobin Center on November 17, fans, barely able to contain their delight, are finding ways to express their adoration and welcome the emo icon to our neck of the woods. While the godfather of highly-emotive, melodramatic alternative pop-rock has been returning to his…
After more than a year of will-they-won’t-they open tension, El Marinero is finally open at 1819 McCullough Ave. Owned by the same folks behind Taqueria Chapala Jalisco, El Marinero is taking the spot formerly occupied by its sister restaurant inside a shuttered Pizza Hut. The interiors are, of course, decked out with seascapes both above…
"I'm so honored to be here … so many other teams try to be like the Spurs." More from @paugasol » https://t.co/3N88RCLHF8 pic.twitter.com/smuA5cGXN7 — San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) September 26, 2016 In many ways, Pau Gasol has always had the makings of a prototypical Spur. He describes himself as “cerebral,” brings an international flair to an otherwise…
An Irish-themed bar built on bourgeois charm, Francis Bogside differs from most Emerald Isle watering holes. Eschewing the rough, unrefined ethos that often characterizes an Irish pub, Bogside offers manicured cocktails and table service, essentially flipping pub culture on its head. Unfortunately, since opening a year ago, the schemata seems to have run aground, proving that there is a reason…
In yet another instance of local musicians doing good for the community, Fea is set to play a unique and imminently worthy Planned Parenthood fundraiser at Paper Tiger on October 20. The multifaceted event, billed as “Get it On!,” will feature games (like Viva la Vulva trivia and Name That Contraceptive), prizes (including special items…
With the city’s fragile, temporary contract with rideshare companies weeks from expiration, city council members appeared eager Wednesday to hear the police department’s new proposal for citywide transportation rules. The San Antonio Police Department, working with the city manager’s office, had been tasked with crafting a new contract with the rideshares (or, transportation network companies,…
Great beer makes everybody wordy, doubly so when the subject is the beloved brew itself. We write about beer for the love, in loving terms; the problem is that some reviewers write beer reviews that read like romance novels. It’s not the beer’s fault, any more than it is Cupid’s fault that Nora Roberts keeps…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A study published in the peer-reviewed Communications Research suggests that only 28 percent of us realize when someone is flirting with us. I hope that figure won’t apply to you Aries in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological situation, you will be on the receiving end of…
Q: I’m 64 years young, a musician, chubby, full head of hair, no Viagra needed, no alcohol, I don’t mind if you drink, smoker, yes I am. I am also faithful, loyal, and single for five years. No health issues, nada, zero, zilch. Not gay, not prejudiced against gays, pro-woman, Democrat, MASCULINE. Except I only…
The Spurs’ real dress rehearsal began, albeit somewhat belatedly, this week. After sending a skeleton crew to Phoenix for the preseason opener, the team has suited nearly everyone up in its last two. Going at full strength – against Atlanta on Saturday and at Detroit on Monday – has coincidentally resulted in two consecutive wins,…
Donald Trump’s latest round of crude and misogynistic comments has left many Texas Republicans quick to drop their support of the GOP Presidential candidate. U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, however, decided to instead run straight into the fire, defending Trump’s “locker room banter” in a MSNBC interview. And he didn’t stop there. Reporter Chris Hayes…
The Indigenauts are a homegrown collective that makes genre-defying, multicultural music which sometimes reaches for enlightenment in the stars and sometimes revels in the plain, warm truth of the dirt. On the band’s ambitious debut album Paso Stellar, which will be released this Friday night at The Squeezebox, Indigenauts’ sound runs the gamut from indie-folk…
We finally know the two new tenants at Yanaguana Garden. The Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corporation announced Dough Pizzeria Napoletana and CommonWealth Bakery will join Paleteria San Antonio and Con/Safos (whenever that opens) next year. After seeking proposals in July for the spaces vacated by then-San Antonio Brewing Company (Küntsler Brewing) and Revolucion Coffee + Juice, which…
Along with Job and Freddie Gibbs, I too bear witness to the Lord’s proclivity to both giveth and taketh away. Nearly two years ago, on a night no doubt marked by an abundance of black cats and peals of thunder, my sweet tooth, having been a fixture of my existence for my entire life, suddenly disappeared. In the days…
Thu 10/13 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition For some reason that we will never understand, it’s a long-running cliché that those who can, do; and those who can’t, teach. We think that’s ridiculous, because, as if the nobility of the profession weren’t enough, teachers and professors the world over are some of the biggest movers and…
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected Attorney General Ken Paxton’s final attempt to appeal the felony charges against him, cementing his appearance in court early next year. He faces up to 99 years in prison if convicted. A grand jury indicted Paxton last year on three felony charges — two first-degree felonies for convincing…
For more than a decade, Antonio Diaz pushed for city and county leaders to honor native peoples and recognize San Antonio’s dark colonial past by declaring October 12 Indigenous Peoples Day. That’s the day, as Diaz puts it, “Christopher Columbus arrived on the continent, parked his stupid ship, and then commenced with the destruction of…
In what amounts to an utterly face-melting dose of heavy ass rock music, Atlanta noise power trio Whores will play Paper Tiger on Saturday, accompanied by fellow ATL hard rockers Big Jesus and local stalwarts The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Whores, repping an intense and burgeoning ATL metal scene, make dead-ahead noise rock, a la The Melvins or Pissed…
At its core, Los Angeles four-piece Chicano Batman is a jam band. The group’s music, charged with that singularly twee, jam-band energy and replete with solos/extrapolations aplenty (especially live), is special, however, because it strays quite far from the typical genre haunts of other favorite jam bands. With a sound that’s as diverse as it is…
Peruvian cuisine is having a moment, thanks largely to the warp-speed international expansion of restaurants such as La Mar Cebicheria by Peruvian chef Gaston Acurio. Although he has addressed aspects of Peru’s cuisine ranging from fish to potatoes, Acurio has paid scant attention to a huge component of that country’s food culture, the chifa and…
For women across the country, Donald Trump’s self-described “locker room banter” was so appalling it caused them to start publicly sharing their own stories of sexual harassment and assault. But for a dozen or so San Antonio police officers, Trump’s recently-revealed comments about women – that, because he’s a rich and powerful man, he can…
Ballet San Antonio opens its 2016-17 season at the Tobin with the San Antonio premiere of Don Quixote, a three-act production based on Miguel de Cervantes’ iconic novel from the Spanish Golden Age. The production is choreographed by BSA artistic director Willy Shives, after versions of the ballet by Marius Petipa (1869) and Alexander Gorsky (1900),…
Like in most major cities, the craft brew revolution means San Antonians are swimming in fine, locally made beer. And if you find yourself downtown, you can sample almost all of them in one fell hoppy swoop. Since bikes and brews are a perfect pairing, I suggest you cycle your way through some of the…
Cactus LandOnly a few hundred feet from the Bexar County line, in neighboring Guadalupe County, sits Cactus Land Brewing Co. at 368 County Road 325 in Adkins, Texas just outside of Loop 1604. This 800-square-foot nano-brewery might be small, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for with big personalities, hand-crafted brews and…
The day after Edward Albee’s death, at 88 on September 16, the Alley Theatre in Houston dimmed its lights in memory of its favorite contemporary playwright. The Alley has produced more work by Albee than any other author not named Shakespeare; beginning in 1967 with A Delicate Balance, the Alley has staged 14 different Albee…
More ‘za is on the way by the folks that bring you made-to-order pies in a quick-service setting. Urban Bricks Pizza, which has locations in Alamo Ranch and The Rim, will open its third off Potranco this Saturday, October 15 at noon. Get there early as free pizzas will kick off opening day for everyone…
San Antonio artist and gallerist Amada Claire Miller (Hello Studio) opened her latest solo show, “Motherlode,” at FL!GHT in the Blue Star Arts Complex on October 6. The exhibit, which sees Miller returning to the gallery where she had her very first solo show, back in 2012, finds the artist experimenting on the borderline between art…
The Pearl announced the opening date of its new wine bar and shop on Tuesday morning. Opened by Scott Ota and partner Mark Stoltz, wine lovers and dabblers can enjoy High Street Wine Co.’s wares starting Thursday, October 20. The shop, which will focus on high-value, small production wines from across the globe available by…
El Clasico “Y mi iré con el sol cuando muera la tarde…” The afternoon isn’t yet dying, the sun not yet leaving when happy hour starts at Mi Tierra’s Mariachi Bar. But then you likely don’t really want to start drinking at 3. Wait until about 5: 30 p.m. You’ll still have an hour to…
See if this make any sense. A bar fills up your amber-colored growler with your favorite craft brew to-go, screws on the cap, and that’s perfectly legal. But if said bar fills up a giant can instead and stamps on a cap to seal it, that bar is now a beer “manufacturer” – which decidedly…
“Trump supports sexual violence!” “Dump Trump!” “Love Trumps Hate!” A crowd of around 30 protesters hoisted signs and sang chants this afternoon as they waited for the arrival of Donald Trump, who dropped by San Antonio for a private lunchtime fundraiser at the Grant Hyatt Hotel. As his dark SUV sped into the hotel’s garage,…
It’s been less than a year since Circa Survive’s last stop in the Alamo City and already they’re coming back. Announced earlier today, Circa Survive, plus special guests mewithoutyou and Turnover, are hitting the road for a 31-city tour to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of On Letting Go, with a stop in San Antonio Feb.…
You know that quick sense of elation, if not euphoria, you get from that spontaneous action of slapping hands with another person? That rush you get from the good, old-fashioned high five is the kind of excitement that owner and artist Joseph Silvas wants everyone to experience when it comes to the San Antonio art…
We’re compiling a list of our favorite 100 dishes in the city with the San Antonio 100. Check back weekly for a new dish we love that either screams SA or you need to enjoy ASAP. It should be no surprise that Johnny Hernandez, the chef behind El Machito, The Fruteria, and La Gloria, a man so…
Anti-Trump San Antonians aren’t letting the GOP Presidential candidate’s Tuesday visit slip by unnoticed. Local activist group Vote San Antonio has organized a “Never Trump San Antonio Rally” to protest outside Donald Trump’s closed-door lunchtime fundraiser at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The event isn’t just meant to sour Trump’s visit—official county registrars will join the…
In the spring of 2011, dozens of gunmen tied to the infamous Zetas drug cartel descended on a group of small towns in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, part of a lucrative smuggling route that borders the Texas city of Eagle Pass. The assassins went house to house, indiscriminately killing and disappearing an untold…
For some reason that we will never understand, it’s a long-running cliché that those who can, do; and those who can’t, teach. We think that’s ridiculous, because, as if the nobility of the profession weren’t enough, teachers and professors the world over are some of the biggest movers and shakers in a whole host of…
For its latest exhibition, Bihl Haus Arts celebrates the upcoming centennial of the Old Spanish Trail. Pre-dating the highway system, the Old Spanish Trail, or OST, was an auto trail that traversed the U.S. from Florida to California, and was centered in San Antonio. Marked by colored bands on telephone poles, the trail was completed in…
Launched in 2013 by Pride San Antonio, QFest is held annually during LGBT History Month “in order to promote the understanding and multicultural community that is the LGBT community.” Now in its fourth year, the film festival sets up shop at Brooks City Base Cinema for four days of features and shorts which reflect the unique diversity of…
Pumpkin spice is out. Pecan pie is in. Though a bit premature in the way of autumnal flavors (I usually stay away from pecan pie until Thanksgiving, but that’s just me), Hotel Emma’s boutique grocer, Larder, is now serving a pecan pie latte. Made with a pecan pie syrup that uses a bouquet of spices…
STRYPER Monday, October 1o Tonight could very well be your last chance to slay evil with STRYPER, the Jesus-loving metal act who gave the world the 1986 Grammy-nominated album, To Hell With the Devil. The first Christian metal band to achieve platinum status is promoting the 30th anniversary re-release of its hit record with a tour across God’s…
After years of skirting the borders of Bexar County, Big Bend Brewing has finally come to San Antonio. An 18-wheeler rolled out from the Far West Texas outpost of Alpine last Monday, carrying flats of beers born out of the desert dreams of Texas’ original craft brewmaster. This week, in the run-up to the San…
Mondays are the worst. Post-debate Mondays … well, let’s just say they have a few of us reaching for the bottle. You can cheer yourself up this evening at Attagirl which is hosting cook Alex Paredes of Lüke San Antonio for his second Gallo/Toro pop-up at the small chicken house. The menu includes a chorizo…
San Antonio State Hospital is falling apart. A recent report has found 80 percent of the facility’s network of buildings —some built as far back as 1892 — to be in “critical condition.” The independent research group, appointed by the 2014 legislature, urged the state to tear down every single structure on the property, as…
When The Squeezebox opened back on July 1, it was with a statement-making musical bill that included Santiago Jiménez Jr (who just won the National Medal of the Arts) and La Reyna Del Acordeón, Eva Ybarra. And, booking-wise, they’ve been on a roll ever since. The old school cantina, owned by Danny Delgado—Hi-Tones, La Botanica, Phantom…
Some top Texas Republicans are finally ditching Donald Trump. And all it took was Friday’s revelation that Trump’s self-described “locker room banter” includes cracks about sexually assaulting women, saying that, since he’s a celebrity, he can just “grab them by the pussy.” Published online by the Washington Post Friday night, the decade-old video that captured Trump…
(This story originally appeared on Out in SA) Choco Gonzalez Meza, who was a tireless activist for the Democratic Party and the lead of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in San Antonio, died on Sunday, October 9 after a short battle with cancer. “Choco Gonzalez Meza is a treasure, a tremendous resource for San Antonio,…
Beginning its 23rd season this Monday, San Antonio’s own SOLI Chamber Ensemble (Ertan Torgul, violin; Stephanie Key, clarinet; Carolyn True, piano; and David Mollenauer, cello) prides itself on bringing “new voice” to contemporary classical music, performing in unusual spaces and reaching out to younger generations and individuals in hospitals, hospices and rehab facilities. Seeking to break stereotypes about classical…
The head of the Bexar County Republican Party forgot what day his party’s presidential candidate is coming to town. “Yeah, he’s coming to the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Wednesday,” Robert Stovall told the Current when reached by phone to discuss next week’s campaign stop. Actually, it’s Tuesday. With just a month until election day, it…
At the young age of 11, Lauren Nicole Shipley began constructing designs in her hometown of San Antonio. She loved the creative process – sketching, draping, sewing and seeing her visions come to life, A jumpstart to her career, Lauren Nicole was accepted to attend summer classes centered in LIM College in Manhattan where teens…
Before yelling insults at a televised Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton while viewing the second United States presidential debate, scheduled for Sunday night in St. Louis, remember that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is the only political pundit humankind needs. Coach Pop has often dropped keeping-it-real thoughts on the state of the (often jacked…
Should you ever find yourself in fear of forgetting, there are few clearer reminders than a dining room packed with armed forces personnel, construction workers, cowboys, businessmen, and families, that everyone, from all walks of life, appreciates a well-made hamburger. At the Longhorn Café on Rittiman Road, though the lunch rush finds the restaurant catering to a wildly diverse crowd,…
This week we got another peek at what will soon happen to the iconic, but long neglected, Lone Star Brewery when the San Antonio Business Journal broke news of the first tenants locked in for the multi-million dollar redevelopment project. CBL & Associates Properties, the Tennessee-based developer and one half of the partnership (the other…
As of July 1, the City of San Antonio Solid Waste Management Department stopped messing around with the gross messes that slip into the blue bins each week. As a potential result, according to figures acquired by the Current in an open records request, a new trend may have emerged in the minds of locals:…
🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/SmPt0vGdzd — San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) September 28, 2016 With only five players remaining from the 2014 championship run on their roster, there are plenty of fresh faces at Spurs training camp. This includes rookies Patricio Garino and Nicolas Laprovittola, who are joining fellow countryman Manu Ginobili for the start of what could be his final NBA campaign.…
A Comal County man who threatened to kill a woman’s unborn child has been charged with one of the state’s most egregious crimes: Solicitation to commit a capital murder. Jason Dean Hunter, 37, was also indicted for rape, assault with a deadly weapon, and stalking the pregnant woman—but the murder charge alone could leave him…
Thu 10/6 – Fri 10/7 “Motherlode” Justin Parr and Ed Saavedra’s beloved indie art space FL!GHT keeps things neighborly this October by hosting fellow Blue Star gallerist Amada Claire Miller’s new solo show “Motherlode.” Said to be reminiscent of the minimalist work of Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly, the two-part exhibition blurs lines between fiber…
Artpace Chalk It Up, now in its 13th year on Historic Houston Street, raises awareness and support for Artpace’s educational programs, which serve 14,000 children every year. Festival attendees can become an artist for a day and work on a collaborative, city block-sized mural between Soledad St and the San Antonio River on Houston St.…
On June 1, 1990, just one week after he checked out of a state psychiatric hospital, Gary Ligon murdered and dismembered his wife, leaving her torso in a field before attempting to burn her head in a washtub on the back porch of their home near Kerrville. It’s unclear why Ligon’s case lingered for some…
Thu 10/6 – Sun 10/8 Josiah Media Festival The internationally recognized film festival for filmmakers 21 years of age and younger has continued to inspire attendees each year since its inaugural event in 2007. Named after Josiah Miles Neundorf, a 20-year-old media artist from San Antonio who passed away from bone cancer in 2006, the…
Update 10/6/16: One of the three juvenile suspects was arrested and charged with First Degree Arson yesterday evening, according to Kerrville Fire Marshal Chris Lee. The investigation remains “open and ongoing.” ——— A Kerrville boy is on life support after he was allegedly set on fire Sunday afternoon. His mother said she believes the act…
The Supreme Court showed interest in granting convicted Texas murderer Duane Buck a second trial today, a decision that could spare Buck the death penalty. Buck could be facing life in prison—instead of lethal injection—if it weren’t for one man’s racist testimony, his lawyers argued. The majority of the justices appeared to agree. Buck, found…
Here’s the biggest problem with Rachel (Emily Blunt), a head case alcoholic stalker, as the protagonist of The Girl On The Train: We can’t trust her. She’s an emotional wreck who makes a habit of drinking to the point of blacking out and waking the next morning with no memory of the night before. As…
