Music Picks: Shows To See This Week
Cold Cave Thursday, February 2 Dark wave is on the rise again. Gaining popularity in the 80s as a darker, atmospheric alternative to new wave and synth-pop, the sound incorporates gothic rock and synths to produce a colder, sharper version of its more up-beat counterpart. Wesley Eisold (who was the singer of hardcore group Give…
Discovering Some of San Antonio’s Stranger Sounds
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “noise” as a sound, “especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance,” but also, “Irregular fluctuations that accompany a transmitted electrical signal but are not part of it and tend to obscure it.” The latter might be a closer description of the art/music/experience/genre generally called…
UTSA Wants to Archive Your Women’s, MLK March Posters
In efforts to preserve and document activism in San Antonio, the UTSA Libraries Special Collections is asking for donations of flyers and posters used during last week’s Women’s March on Washington and Martin Luther King Day marches. The department is eager to document movements of activism in the Alamo City — including materials from the…
K23 Launches ‘Astral Projections’ Concert Series at The Planetarium
You already know Gem and Glenn Hotvet, the groovy husband and wife duo behind K23, as important (and decidedly psychedelic) curatorial forces on the local music scene. You already know they are up to exciting new adventures this year, branching out of their tiny (but mighty) DIY venue on Fredricksburg to bring us Psych Del…
Savage Love on Kink Shaming, Donald Trump and ITMFA
Q: A problem has cropped up for me ever since the reports of Donald Trump’s pissing Russian hookers made the news. Every time someone on social media tries to make a comment about how disgusting that is, someone else jumps in and scolds that person for “kink shaming.” The problem for me is that by…
Meat Week San Antonio Is Back for Fifth Year
Remember the time I ate vegetarian/vegan meals for a week? Yeah, me either. This Sunday marks the return of Meat Week to Saytown, and it seems like it’ll be a beefy one. The celebration of all things beef and smoked, which features stops at local barbecue joints for specials, will kick off at 2M Smokehouse…
Free Will Astrology (1/25/17-1/31/17)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Westward Ho! is the name of a village in southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation point. But it’s not as dramatic as that of the only town on earth with two exclamation points: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is in Quebec. I invite you Aries folks to be equally…
The Surreal, Hybrid Beauty of James Cobb’s ‘17 Pelicans’
When we first arrived at Flight Gallery, to walk and talk with James Cobb through his new exhibit “17 Pelicans Along the Banks When I’m 64,” my 3-year-old daughter Emerson, true to her current custom, insisted on having the first word. “What do you do with all these paintings?” she asked the long-celebrated, consistently-inventive San…
The Growing List of Anti-Abortion Bills Texas Conservative Lawmakers Hope to Pass This Year
By now, this should come as no surprise: Texas conservative lawmakers still hate abortion. In the past few months, state lawmakers have filed no less than 17 anti-abortion bills (and judging by past legislative sessions, more are on the horizon). All but three have been filed by men. They come in a variety of shapes…
Food Court: A New Food Truck Park, Sam’s Boat Docks and More
The Rose Bush Opens If you’ve driven or walked on San Pedro within the last five months, you may have noticed a cluster of food trucks on a semi regular basis. Owned by Robert and McKayla Rose, owners of Philly’s Phamous Cheesesteaks, The Rose Bush serves as a food truck park with indoor/outdoor seating options…
20th Century Women Tells an Endearing Story of Teen Confusion
A movie as well written and acted as 20th Century Women must be seen. It must be seen by teenage boys who don’t know how to act around girls. By teenage girls who allow peer pressure to dictate their actions. By middle-aged men and women who are lost souls in search of themselves, and by…
Former Lüke San Antonio Sous Chef Finds Home for Carnitas Concept
Souhthown’s tasty corridors are expanding into South Roosevelt these days with the upcoming opening of Carnitas Lonja, a new eatery by Alex Paredes formerly with Lüke San Antonio. A standout at this year’s San Antonio Cocktail Conference’s Opening Night party, Paredes is one half of Gallo/Toro pop-ups, a concept he launched during his time at…
Moonlight Shines Brightly on a More Diverse Oscars Season
Hollywood embraced diversity today with its 2017 Oscar nominations that included actors of color in all the acting categories — a marked difference from last year’s #oscarssowhite controversy. (You can find the full list of nominations here.) Academy voters gave most of its kudos (14 nominations) to La La Land, a musical that echoes self-referential…
Cover Your Ears: Tone-Deaf YouTube Sensation Miranda Sings Is Coming to the Tobin
Considering the innumerable YouTube users posting painfully sincere garbage covers of viral hits by Drake, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga at all hours of any given day, just how good do purposefully bad versions of this stuff need to be to get the attention of 7 million subscribers, to land a development deal with Netflix,…
Did Texas Lawmakers Deliberately Pass a Racist Voter ID Law?
This week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Texas’ appeal to save its embattled voter ID law, which lower courts have said carries an “impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African Americans” and blocked from going into effect last year. That means the battle over voter ID in Texas now heads back to a…
Pinch’s Second Round of Crowdfunding Offers Double Rewards for Founders
Restaurants are expensive — opening a restaurant in downtown San Antonio, and serving seafood doubly so. To help reach their goal of opening sometime this spring, the Pinch Boil House & Bia Bar guys are once again reaching out to their fans. Sean Wen and Andrew Ho, who introduced Pinch in early 2016 with Vietnamese-style…
Shots Fired at Another San Antonio Mall This Week
San Antonio police are searching for two men who allegedly fired gunshots after threatening a pair of women in the Ingram Park Mall parking lot this afternoon. According to witnesses, the men jumped out of a green SUV and yelled “I’m going to kill you!” at the women — causing them to run inside the mall…
Drag Race Star Milk Lands in SA for Two Shows and an Underwear Signing
Likely to the chagrin of the dairy industry, a Google search for the term “Milk Queen” currently returns much less about lactose-loving pageant winners than it does New York-based performer Milk, who brought a campy, conceptual vibe to the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Remembered for outlandish runway styles — including a veiled look…
Ivy Taylor Missing from List of ‘Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination’
This post originally appeared in our sister paper, Out in SA. Nearly 200 mayors from across the country, including four from Texas, have joined a coalition named Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination. Missing from this list is Mayor Ivy R. Taylor of San Antonio. The Texas mayors who have joined the effort are Mike Rawlings of Dallas,…
Sierra Nevada Issues Voluntary Recall due to Broken Glass
California brewery Sierra Nevada announced a voluntary recall on Sunday of select 12-ounce bottles that could contain a “small glass packaging flaw,” meaning there could be broken glass in your beer. Though the brewery believes only 1 in every 10,000 bottles have been effected, Sierra Nevada is taking precautions. According to a statement from the…
Folc Folks Are Opening an East Side Pub Inside Former Toro Taco Bar
The Folc Burger is getting a new home this spring. According to chef Luis Colon, he and business partner Daniel Eisenhauer are taking their talents to the east side to open Bexar Pub. The Folc Burger (named the No. 1 Burger in Texas by Texas Monthly last summer) along with a menu of signature burgers,…
The Cyber-Punk Musings of Mutant
It takes a lot to keep an album on repeat, especially with the unlimited access we have to music made possible through torrents and online streaming. So when an artist is able to transcend that dense sea, it feels kind of like an event that should be celebrated. (Like, Hooray! You’re not boring!) Joseph Caceres’ latest…
Trust Issues: Can San Antonio Build Trust Between Police and Policed?
Rogelio Carlos carried a camera as he walked around his family’s far Westside lot on May 20, 2014, checking in on construction of his new family business. When he looked up, he saw a red truck in the distance. It was moving fast, coming straight at him. Carlos swore in a complaint to the San…
Music Picks: Shows to See This Week
Matt the Electrician Wednesday, January 25 Born to a union carpenter and a seamstress, Matt Sever moved from the west coast to Austin in the mid-1990s searching for better opportunities for his music career. An electrician by day and folk artist by night, Sever, still in his work attire, would actually introduce himself as “Matt…
“King of Song”: Talking with Marching Church and Iceage Frontman Elias Rønnenfelt
With Marching Church, singer/songwriter Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s ongoing project, he’s an anarchist pinup for brooding young adults lost in the overwhelming age of unrest. Dane Rønnenfelt first captured the underground’s attention almost a decade ago in Iceage, where he and his bandmates became saviors of the frigid and deep post-punk sound with three albums that,…
Romaine Calm: I Ate Vegetarian/vegan Meals for a Week and I’m Not Mad about It
Patrick Attwater isn’t my first vegetarian friend, but he’s one the most enthusiastic. Save from sending me links to PETA videos, the owner of One80 Solar is a bit of a poster boy for all things vegetarian/almost vegan. Though not averse to a plateful of vegetables, my general conditioning is to seek out delicious animal…
Santana is Coming to San Antonio
Announced early Monday morning, Santana will make a stop in the Alamo City this summer. Slated for July 4, Carlos Santana, who’s been regarded as a pioneer of rock and Latin American fusion, will bring The Transmogrify Tour to the Majestic Theatre, playing songs from Santana’s 40-year career. Tickets to see the three-time Latin Grammy Award-winning…
Construction Worker Crushed to Death By Backhoe
A 19-year-old construction worker was crushed to death by a backhoe operator Monday morning — just a week after the same operator injured her leg with a backhoe. Destiny Rodriguez, an employee at Step It Up Construction, died around 10:30 a.m. at a Potranco Rd. construction site after a backhoe bucket (the giant claw-like scoop…
Tackling Los Laureles’ Giant Flour Tortillas
Reposted with permission from The Tacoist. This is blasphemy, I realize, as a native Texan, but bigger isn’t always better. Like those Mexican plates that come with three cheese enchiladas, and the chalupa, and the gordita that sits on the beans because there’s no more room on the plate, and the rice — all squished…
One Dead, Three Wounded After Sunday Mall Shootout
A bungled jewelry store robbery at Rolling Oaks Mall Sunday has left one person dead, three people suffering gunshot wounds, and two in custody. According to witness reports, two men attempted to rob a Kay’s Jeweler store inside the north side mall around 3:30 pm on Sunday — but a pair of bystanders attempted to…
Coach Pop Praises Women’s March, Shames Trump in Interview
Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich may not exactly love speaking to the media — but when he decides to really air his thoughts, he makes it count. Before leading the Spurs to an overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers Saturday, a reporter asked Popovich what he thought about the Women’s Marches going on across the world.…
Honeysuckle Tea Time’s Hosting Another Milkshake Pop-Up
During Saturday’s grand opening festivities of the shops at Broadway News, Honeysuckle Tea Time will be poppin’ up with some sweet treats. Known for their tea-infused treats, the catering company will feature their three signature shakes from previous pop-ups — chocolate chai cupcake, lavender doughnut, and strawberry macaron — all priced at $7 each. The…
Texas Supreme Court Will Hear Case Attacking Benefits of Married LGBT Couples
On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court changed its mind about hearing a case threatening the rights of married gay couples in the state. The case, brought against the City of Houston by anti-LGBT lobbyists, would specifically block same-sex spouses of government employees from receiving any health benefits (benefits that all Houston city staffers’ spouses currently…
New Beers, Same Attitude at New Braunfels Brewing Co.
Since starting up operations in 2012, Kelly Meyer and his crew at New Braunfels Brewing Co. have been making beer “their way.” Made with 85 percent wheat, fresh hops, house yeast, locally-sourced water, and a ton of attitude. With a line of saurs, “Fun-damentals,” elementals, and experimentals, they are forging a path that is truly…
“Devil in the White House” and Other Protest Songs from SA Artists
A fog swept through our fair city early this morning, perhaps an omen for the state of our country. Today is, after all, inauguration day and Donald Trump is now officially our President. So in case you need help processing, we’ve compiled a list of songs from local artists that channel the spirit of revolt…
Boy Stabbed at Southside High School
A teenage boy was stabbed Thursday night at Southside High School. Southside ISD police say at least three teenage boys were involved in the incident, which occurred near the school gym. “This was an unfortunate incident that did occur after school while several student athletes were practicing or gathered,” wrote Southside ISD spokeswoman Sylvia Rinconin a…
Police Searching for Sexual Assault Suspect Near Medical Center
The San Antonio Police Department are searching for a man in his early 20s suspected of “several sexual assaults and attempts” in the Medical Center area. The man has been seen stalking multiple women in parking lots near Huebner Rd, Eckert Rd and Babcock Rd — and officers believe he may be linked to reported…
PETA Claims Medics at Fort Sam Houston Are Shooting, Stabbing Goats
On Thursday, animal rights group PETA sent Fort Sam Houston officials a letter accusing them of mutilating goats during training exercises and asking that they please stop. PETA claims a “whistleblower” recently came forward to say that Army Reserve combat medics at Fort Sam shoot, stab, and kill goats during training in order to learn…
Houston’s Sam’s Boat Will Open Location In SA
Sam’s Boat, a Houston-based casual, seafood joint is readying for the opening of its first San Antonio location. The Galleria-area fave describes itself as offering “a full complement of fresh Gulf Coast seafood and Tex-Mex favorites coupled with daily specials, refreshing libations, mastery of sports bar excellence, in an exciting dining environment.” The San Antonio…
The Rose Bush Is Finally, Officially Open
If you’ve driven or walked on San Pedro within the last five months, you may have noticed a cluster of food trucks on a semi regular basis. Owned by Robert and McKayla Rose, owners of Philly’s Phamous Cheesesteaks, The Rose Bush serves as a food truck park with indoor/outdoor seating options and it’s BYOB so you…
Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas Attempt to Cut Planned Parenthood From Medicaid
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas from booting Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid coverage plan. Judge Sam Sparks granted the women’s health provider an injunction Thursday — after three days of hearings — delaying the state’s plan to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid coverage this month. Sparks, who called the state’s evidence “baloney,”…
Rick Perry Didn’t Know Trump Wants to Gut His New Department
Several hours before former Gov. Rick Perry’s confirmation hearing this morning, news broke: Donald Trump’s administration has plans to eliminate at least a dozen federal departments — including three major offices within the U.S. Department of Energy. But Perry, the incoming Secretary of Energy, appeared to be the last to know. Asked by Sen. Deborah Greer…
Another Texas Congressman Boycotts Trump Inauguration
A South Texas congressman says he’s boycotting president-elect Donald Trump’s Friday swearing-in, claiming supposed “inauguration attendees” hurled racial slurs at students from his district who were visiting Washington DC this week. Congressman Filemon Vela, whose district stretches from the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, would be the fourth Texas congressional Democrat…
Let’s Get a Masters in Pizza at Il Forno
I’ll spare you the cheesy pizza/school puns, but you’ll want to reserve your spot for this class. Led by chef Jason Garcia at Il Forno, the hour-long course on January 31 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. will teach students how to throw their own dough and make fresh mozzarella. This is the second class of…
Brother Ali and Atmosphere Rock Paper Tiger
I had a spiritual experience at the Brother Ali show last night. Atmosphere was the co-headliner, and he’s sick, but honestly, I was really there to see Brother Ali. A couple days ago I was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a condition that causes half of the afflicted person’s face to become paralyzed. So basically, it’s…
With Fiber Stalled, Google Isn’t Really Talking With the City Right Now
On Wednesday, a week after city hall essentially stalled Google Fiber’s much-anticipated rollout in San Antonio, city leaders say Google’s been mum on the issue and has only provided “limited information” to the city thus far. While councilwoman Rebecca Viagran defensively assured citizens city leaders hadn’t “halted” the high-speed fiber-optic network (she called any such…
