It seems that San Antonio’s love for Frida Kahlo is constantly growing, with events, restaurants and themed shows inspired by the artist popping up throughout the city year-round. Last July’s Frida Festival, which featured Kahlo-influenced work by 30 artisans and vendors, filled Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex with admirers and Frida look-a-likes. In September,…
The most familiar face at Paramour will step down on January 31. Christopher Ware, general manager for downtown’s first rooftop bar, responsible for designing and opening the cocktail spot in 2014, is moving on to new adventures per a press release sent out by the Paramour’s public relations’ firm on Wednesday afternoon. Ware, who began his…
Instead of simply targeting high-crime neighborhoods, the San Antonio Police Department will spend 2017 specifically focusing on individuals who commit crimes, according to SAPD Chief William McManus. In a Wednesday press conference, McManus shared his department’s tactics for the coming year — leaving many unanswered questions. “If we are able to arrest the right individuals,…
While we might be in the thick of January’s Restaurant Week, it’d behoove significant others across the land to get a feel for what area restaurants will be serving up as a V-Day feast. To that effect, restaurants and bars hosting Valentine’s Day dinners and/or events have until February 1 to share details on their…
Aerial shots of San Antonio blend with a mariachi band playing outside a downtown building during the opening of “San Anto,” the latest video and re-released track of local rapper Milli Mars. The song originally appeared on his 2011 album YMID but the rapper says he never put out a video because of some conflict…
Facebook is terrible and awesome all at the same time. We see the best and worst of our “friends'” raw, unfiltered emotions splattered across our screens, (especially during the recent train-wreck of a presidential election). There are however, fun and sometimes silly personality quizzes and ridiculous memes to take our minds off the approaching apocalypse.…
In October, while City Council worked to finalize rideshare regulations that would ultimately lower the safety procedures for Uber and Lyft drivers (by removing a previously mandatory fingerprint background check), an Uber driver allegedly raped a passenger. The man had never been fingerprinted. Officials say Gabriel Vasquez, who opted out of the city’s free fingerprint…
Thu 1/19 “United We Are One” San Antonio hosts three large marches each year. The Martin Luther King Jr. March, International Women’s Day March, and the César Chávez March, all aimed at promoting social justice and fostering community, are major events for our city and important catalysts for discourse. Hosted by the City of San Antonio’s…
The San Antonio high school football player who intentionally tackled a referee to the ground in 2015 will return to the John Jay High School football field in the fall. In a 5-0 vote, members of the University Interscholastic League (the state’s governing organization for public school athletics) released 16-year-old Victor Rojas from his indefinite…
Q: I’ve never admitted this to anyone: The idea of committing suicide turns me on sexually. I recognize how crazy that is, and I want to emphasize that I’m not suicidal. I’m not depressed, I love living, and despite this sexual impulse, I don’t want to kill myself. I’m turned on by the fantasy of…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you more attracted to honing group dynamics or liberating group dynamics? Do you have more aptitude as a director who organizes people or as a sparkplug who inspires people? Would you rather be a Chief Executive officer or a Chief Imagination Officer? Questions like these will be fertile for you…
In the midst of a passionate embrace, May knees Eddie in the groin. “I don’t understand my feelings,” says May, trapped in the tumult of fervent love and violent hate. For 15 years, the relationship between May and Eddie has been obsessive and ambivalent. The fact that they share the same father makes their union…
The word “binge” means indulging to excess – it’s classically associated with eating and contemporarily associated with watching TV, and it almost always gets phrased in the pejorative. But why does binge-watching have to be a bad word? After all, aren’t intensive athletic programs like SoulCycle just a form of binge-exercising? And you’re not a…
Dignowity Kolaches is launching their official grand opening celebration, and it’s going to be a lengthy one. The month-long soiree begins this week and runs through February 11. But the long celebration seems just right for founding sisters, Silvia Alcaraz and Lupita Rivero, who opened their bakery last year and wanted to get everything just…
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. Dining at Paloma Blanca, the culinary darling of Alamo Heights that deftly celebrates Mexican cuisine, isn’t just an experience.…
NPR’s annual Tiny Desk Contest is back and is looking for new talent to join the pool of artists who have graced NRP’s studios in Washington D.C. with their intimate concerts. According to the entry guidelines, artists must be “undiscovered talent” and at least 21 to enter. Musicians are asked to submit a new video…
Three Texas congressmen, Rep. Joaquin Castro, Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Rep. Al Green, have pledged to join more than 50 representatives in boycotting President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Two of them represent San Antonio. This boycott was originally inspired by Trump’s weekend dismissal of Rep. John Lewis’ undisputed role in the civil rights movement. After Lewis…
Evidenced by the success of the Pitch Perfect movie franchise, the new Broadway musical In Transit, Texan pop quintet Pentatonix and reality competition shows like The Sing-Off and Pitch Slapped, a cappella is back with a vengeance. Few organizations are prouder of this resurgence than the Barbershop Harmony Society, a Nashville-based troupe boasting more than…
D.C. Women’s March organizers have scratched a Dallas anti-abortion group from their list of event partners — calling the temporary partnership an “error.” According to the New Wave Feminists, a “pro-life feminist” group, this news was largely unexpected. They had received notice on Friday that women’s march organizers were happy to add them to the…
Amusingly named after a type of fungus that thrives in cow dung, Pilobolus sprouted from a dance composition class at Dartmouth College circa 1971. Founded by a motley crew of non-dancers that counted a cross-country skier, a fencer and a pole vaulter among its members, the company takes an experimental approach to movement-based performances and…
Although “pen on paper” might not conjure thrilling possibilities, local artist Mark Hogensen has emerged as a champion of this basic medium while producing densely layered drawings celebrating equally basic subjects — namely tables, chairs and lumber. Born in Portland, Hogensen studied architecture at Oregon State University and later worked in “the building trades.” Fed…
Reposted with permission from The Tacoist. When I walked into Tony’s on Nogalitos Street, my eyes didn’t know where to begin. Rows of masa balls were lined on a tray that sat next to dunes of flour. One by one, a cook loaded the balls semi-flattened in an industrial tortilla press, cranked it, and out…
Chef Snacks Mark Garcia, formerly of Taco Land and Alchemy Kombucha & Culture, is taking a crack at mobile kitchens with a new concept out of the Say.She.Ate truck. Matokie Slaughter will pack in late-night snacks at Stay Golden Social House Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Menu highlights include cheese-loaded fries,…
On Caleb Pitts’ 18th birthday, two letters were delivered to his Comal County jail cell. One was from his foster mother, Elaine, who’d watched him dart in and out of juvenile detention for years. The other was from the state of Texas, informing Pitts that he had officially become an adult. Suddenly, after 11 years…
I’ve been going to the San Antonio Cocktail Conference since its beginning as an upstart conference going glass to glass with established institutions such as New Orleans’ Tales of the Cocktail. (True, we had the late legendary cocktailian Sasha Petraske on our side.) Six years later, we can claim to be among the best —…
Wed 1/18 Atmosphere, Brother Ali I don’t know what the hell’s in the water in Minnesota that has continuously birthed dope indie rappers. Seriously — like, Sims and Dessa from Doomtree, or Astronautalis, Brother Ali and then the legendary Slug from Atmosphere. Rhymesayers, the heavyweight indie rap label that houses the likes of Aesop Rock…
The 85th Texas Legislature opened on January 10, starting a 140-day work session with a Republican majority. So far this session, 17 pro-LGBT bills and four anti-LGBT bills have been filed. Among the bills proposed to benefit LGBT Texans is legislation repealing laws that are still on the books which punish homosexual conduct; prohibiting discrimination…
Bexar County Appraisal District leads Lowe’s in a one-possession game. But it’s only the end of the first quarter. Last week, a three-person Bexar County arbitration panel told Lowe’s Home Improvement that their tax-dodge argument, known as the dark-store theory, doesn’t fly-ish — ish, because the decision, which is non-binding, applies to just four of…
“That song is women’s anthem when she comes unto her own, That flag is woman’s banner and should float from zone to zone, That cause is right and justice, and should rule the world alone, As we go marching on.” So goes a song from a 1909 suffragette songbook Rebecca Lawrence-Weden plans on teaching a busload of women…
“Starburst is the perfect candy,” a friend says, noticing me clutching a pack of the juicy goodness as a group of us chatted under the first full moon of 2017. We all laughingly agreed and reminisced about how dope the chewy squares really are. We were at K23 and this venue feels like home. Not…
Brother Ali, who will be at Paper Tiger with Atmosphere and others January 18, is an uncommonly thoughtful rapper — really, an uncommonly thoughtful person. An activist, a devout (and progressive) Muslim, a father, and a member of the highly-influential Minneapolis hip-hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment, Brother Ali uses his music to address topics like spirituality,…
Federal, state and local police conducted raids across San Antonio on Thursday, arresting 15 people who they claim were part of a drug ring slinging cocaine and methamphetamine across the city. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas is calling Francisco Cerda and John Paul Flores, both of whom were arrested Thursday,…
The slow-going rollout of Google Fiber in San Antonio ground to a halt this week. On Wednesday, City Manager Sheryl Sculley alerted city council members that construction on the city’s elaborate Google Fiber system had been put on pause. The reason? “Constraints” of several public properties, as first reported by the Express-News. In her letter to…
So, if you didn’t already know, apparently there had been a ban on busking, or street performing, in San Antonio up until the summer of last year (even though I swear I’ve seen that bagpipe guy by the downtown McDonalds for years). With the ban gone, we asked a few local performers from San Antonio…
Sunday Funday won’t get any more fun than this weekend’s bookend to the San Antonio Cocktail Conference. Here’s how to finish out the week’s worth of cocktails with a boozy bang. Brunch In Old San Antonio: Like NIOSA but better, and with less drunks. Enjoy a bloody mary or mimosa as you wander the courtyard…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is set for trial on federal securities fraud charges later this year, just as the legislative session wraps up and re-election campaigning starts. As the Texas Tribune reports, the judge overseeing the case against Paxton, the state’s first sitting attorney general in more than 30 years to face criminal indictment, has…
Kawhi Leonard #NBAVote pic.twitter.com/i03UXPD9H9 — Caleb Saenz (@calebjsaenz) January 6, 2017 The NBA released the second returns for fan All-Star voting this afternoon, with a trio of Spurs cracking the top ten at their respective positions. Kawhi Leonard topped all Spurs with 630,766 votes, good for third place in the Western Conference Frontcourt category behind…
I’ve met one too many people who think that enlightenment is something you reach on the physical/ it’s more than spiritual/ love, infinite miracles/ but I’m not here to preach just a perspective to reach on So raps a calm but poignant Kree23 on the track “Open Minded.” Within a day of the video’s release…
The city’s north side will gain a taste of New Orleans this summer when Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar opens. Co-owned by Drew Brees (of New Orleans Saints fame) as of 2015, Walk-On’s was launched in 2003 by college pals Brandon Landry and Jack Warner in Baton Rouge. The first San Antonio location, franchised by Moussa…
The nonprofit Texas Cultural Trust has announced the 2017 honorees for the biennial Texas Medal of Arts Awards, to be held February 21-22 in Austin. The event honors Texans that have made significant contributions to the arts with the Stars of Texas Brunch at the Governor’s Mansion and a star-studded awards show and gala dinner.…
Thu 1/12 San Antonio Cocktail Conference: Opening Night Ben Stiller probably won’t make a cameo as hundreds of San Antonio adults tap into their inner kid at Opening Night’s new venue. After being held at the Majestic Theatre for at least three years, the opening festivities will be held inside The DoSeum. Those familiar with…
With more cocktail bars than ever, San Antonio’s penchant for things shaken and stirred is still going strong. To celebrate that ongoing love affair, this year’s San Antonio Cocktail Conference is making some changes to its signature lineup. For those unfamiliar with the SACC, here’s a quick catch-up: Hosted by Houston Street Charities helmed by…
