Three Hours of Riveting Programming … Yeah, sure.
Are your taxes in? Good. Tomorrow you can focus on the election. KLRN’s hosting a marathon of “political forums” today from 3pm ’til about 6pm. District 1 3:00 p.m. Mary Alice Cisneros kat swift R. Esmeralda Monreal de Mercado District 2 3:20 p.m. Sheila D. McNeil Keith A. Toney Ron Wright District 5 3:45 p.m.…
Thursday Morning Media Dump (Emphasis on Dump)
First, a wonderful little message left by a crotchety old man in our voicemail this morning. He thinks we’re filthy trashy and garbage! Oh my! He’s got his attorneys on standby! And then, this short little agit-prop trailer, originally posted by our man Vince Liebowitz at Capitol Annex blog: “The above is a very interesting little…
Thursday Morning Media Dump (Emphasis on Dump)
First, a wonderful little message left by a crotchety old man in our voicemail this morning. He thinks we’re filthy trashy and garbage! Oh my! He’s got his attorneys on standby! And then, this short little agit-prop trailer, originally posted by our man Vince Liebowitz at Capitol Annex blog: “The above is a very interesting little…
Thursday Morning Media Dump (Emphasis on Dump)
First, a wonderful little message left by a crotchety old man in our voicemail this morning. He thinks we’re filthy trashy and garbage! Oh my! He’s got his attorneys on standby! And then, this short little agit-prop trailer, originally posted by our man Vince Liebowitz at Capitol Annex blog: “The above is a very interesting little…
Sticks and Studs
Rob “The Commodore” Shuttles is returning captain of the USA World Cup Polocrosse Team and the highest-rated player in America. Photos by Alexis Souza. The dirt forms a fine cloud as the horses pivot and dodge. Racquets crack as the riders fight for the ball and fake out opponents on the way down the field.…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari, Is there a farmer’s market in San Antonio? I moved here three years ago from Olympia, Washington, where there is a weekend farmer’s market which was very reliable for fresh local fruits, veggies, fish, poultry, beef preserves, honey, etc. I was wondering if San Antonio had anything similar. I’ve looked online…
Ask the Chef
Honorary Texan: Chef Boy Ari Dear Chef Boy Ari, Is there a farmer’s market in San Antonio? I moved here three years ago from Olympia, Washington, where there is a weekend farmer’s market which was very reliable for fresh local fruits, veggies, fish, poultry, beef preserves, honey, etc. I was wondering if San Antonio had…
A Melting Pot It’s Not
Fusion Seafood, Steak & Wine bar 11703 Huebner Rd. 694-4201 11am-9pm Mon & Tue, 11am-10pm Wed–Sat Credit cards Price range: $7.95-$22.95 Accessible Fusion was first and formerly a chain noodle palace of the around-the–world-in-80-pastas sort. (I made up the 80 part, OK?) “It didn’t catch on,” we were told. So the next logical step, right?,…
Letters to the Editor
mail On the Cover Members of the U.S. World Cup Polocrosse team line up for a scrimmage in the Hill Country, their home base. Photos by Alexis Souza. WebMail UP IN SMOKE Re: Kahuna on the run Added: Monday April 09, 2007 at 04:18 AM EST The Dailey Crapper Elaine Wolff … you should be…
Un mensaje de los niños: Screw Newt
The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a special dignity that third- through sixth-graders do not bestow lightly, if I remember my overly serious days in elementary, reading heavyhitters like Judy Blume (1982 Bluebonnet winner for the little brother disaster tale Superfudge) and the story of a starving stray puppy that Bill Wallace (1983 Bluebonnet winner, A…
Unholy mandate
Should Texans read something into the fact that hearings on a bill mandating high schools teach the Bible — Christianity’s holy text — started on the same night Passover began? If you know what the celebration of the Exodus is, then you’re smarter than a parade of university professors who testified before the House Public…
Aural Pleasure
Dethroned Kings You learn a lot about rock artists with their third album. A debut album delivers 20 years of pent-up energy and generally culls the best material from a band’s club gigs. The second album tends to be a slightly more refined version of the first album, often with spottier songs and a diminished…
Unholy mandate
Photo illustration by Chuck Kerr Should Texans read something into the fact that hearings on a bill mandating high schools teach the Bible — Christianity’s holy text — started on the same night Passover began? If you know what the celebration of the Exodus is, then you’re smarter than a parade of university professors who…
Aural Pleasure
Dethroned Kings You learn a lot about rock artists with their third album. A debut album delivers 20 years of pent-up energy and generally culls the best material from a band’s club gigs. The second album tends to be a slightly more refined version of the first album, often with spottier songs and a diminished…
The Queque
We never thought we’d have a chance to compare Current readers to Death Row Records founder and felon Suge Knight (who supposedly hung Vanilla Ice over a sixth floor balcony by his feet until he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”), but after Queque contributor Keli Dailey wrote her part two on pot…
All Ears
The tie-in may be tasteless or morbid, I don’t know, but the just-started murder trial for legendary producer Phil Spector inspires a flashback to mid-’60s pop that makes a Mary Weiss comeback feel timely. Weiss, of the Shangri-Las (not a Spector group, but from the same orbit), has lent her voice to latter-day garage band…
The Queque
We never thought we’d have a chance to compare Current readers to Death Row Records founder and felon Suge Knight (who supposedly hung Vanilla Ice over a sixth floor balcony by his feet until he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”), but after Queque contributor Keli Dailey wrote her part two on pot…
All Ears
The Good, The Bad & The Queen mind the age gap. Courtesy photo. The tie-in may be tasteless or morbid, I don’t know, but the just-started murder trial for legendary producer Phil Spector inspires a flashback to mid-’60s pop that makes a Mary Weiss comeback feel timely. Weiss, of the Shangri-Las (not a Spector group,…
The Queque
We never thought we’d have a chance to compare Current readers to Death Row Records founder and felon Suge Knight (who supposedly hung Vanilla Ice over a sixth floor balcony by his feet until he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”), but after Queque contributor Keli Dailey wrote her part two on pot…
All Ears
The Good, The Bad & The Queen mind the age gap. Courtesy photo. The tie-in may be tasteless or morbid, I don’t know, but the just-started murder trial for legendary producer Phil Spector inspires a flashback to mid-’60s pop that makes a Mary Weiss comeback feel timely. Weiss, of the Shangri-Las (not a Spector group,…
The Queque
We never thought we’d have a chance to compare Current readers to Death Row Records founder and felon Suge Knight (who supposedly hung Vanilla Ice over a sixth floor balcony by his feet until he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”), but after Queque contributor Keli Dailey wrote her part two on pot…
Remembering Ram
Ram Jam II Big Drag, Sons of Hercules, Mescaleros with Suzy Bravo, Snowbyrd, and others 5pm Sat, Apr 14 $7 (all ages) Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson 223-2830 Every year in March, Taco Land would host a birthday party for the club’s owner, Ram Ayala. True to Ayala’s personality, the events were informal, irreverent…
The Queque
We never thought we’d have a chance to compare Current readers to Death Row Records founder and felon Suge Knight (who supposedly hung Vanilla Ice over a sixth floor balcony by his feet until he signed over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby”), but after Queque contributor Keli Dailey wrote her part two on pot…
Straight Shooter
I have to admit I’m getting pretty burned out on protest comics these days. Like most members of generations X-9/11 I’m afraid I’m too ADD and self-conscious to successfully protest a war, or much of anything else. Sure I don’t want the killing to continue and I sure as hell don’t want to be drafted,…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards. Puff (Snapshots)…
Straight Shooter
I have to admit I’m getting pretty burned out on protest comics these days. Like most members of generations X-9/11 I’m afraid I’m too ADD and self-conscious to successfully protest a war, or much of anything else. Sure I don’t want the killing to continue and I sure as hell don’t want to be drafted,…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards. Puff (Snapshots)…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
When I took Ronald Kolodzie’s fashion-drawing class last spring at the Southwest School of Art and Craft, it didn’t take me nine weeks to realize I couldn’t draw. I kept going back every Thursday for the stories. Kolodzie, a San Antonio native, graduated from the prestigious Parsons School of Design before spending three decades as…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards. Puff (Snapshots)…
The Art Capades
Monumental Drawings; The Best That I Can Give You And Less Than Half Of What You Deserve Noon-6pm Wed-Sun Through Apr 29 Free Blue Star Contemporary Art Center 116 Blue Star 227-6960 Bluestarart.org I’ve visited Blue Star’s Monumental Drawings show twice, and I’m still not sure how size matters when graphite and paper meet —…
Crossed-Off and Barred
After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of the…
A Melting Pot It’s Not
Fusion is a culinary jack of all trades, master of few
Free Will Astrology
By: Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): On April 1, 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore told his radio listeners that a rare configuration of Jupiter and Pluto was occurring. So dramatically would it affect Earth’s gravity, he said, that they might feel lighter than usual, and perhaps even be able to float up into…
Letters to the Editor
mail On the Cover Cole Haddon talks to Grindhouse aficionados Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Cover design by Chuck Kerr. Mail ALTA VISTA ON THE RISE Thanks for the review of Big Kahuna’s, long a part of Alta Vista (not Tobin Hill, sorry). `The Fast Foodie, March 28-April 3.` The arts and cultural expansion (largely…
last words
– Illustration by Chuck Kerr
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
Aural Pleasure
Dethroned Kings You learn a lot about rock artists with their third album. A debut album delivers 20 years of pent-up energy and generally culls the best material from a band’s club gigs. The second album tends to be a slightly more refined version of the first album, often with spottier songs and a diminished…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
Aural Pleasure
Dethroned Kings You learn a lot about rock artists with their third album. A debut album delivers 20 years of pent-up energy and generally culls the best material from a band’s club gigs. The second album tends to be a slightly more refined version of the first album, often with spottier songs and a diminished…
Value Vino – Great wines for under $15
Statements such as the following drive the cynic in me nuts: “`famous European winemaker’s` love for the soil grew into a love for mother earth, and he began to champion the well-being of the planet … ” The romantic in me, on the other hand, wants to believe every sanctimonious-sounding word of it. Growing up…
Unholy mandate
Should Texans read something into the fact that hearings on a bill mandating high schools teach the Bible — Christianity’s holy text — started on the same night Passover began? If you know what the celebration of the Exodus is, then you’re smarter than a parade of university professors who testified before the House Public…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
Crossed Off and Barred
11 After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of…
Hester Day!
HAPPY EASTER! P.S. Don’t forget Moses! He saved you from the Pharoah and the Apes!
Crossed Off and Barred
11 After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of…
Free Will Astrology
By: Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “‘Don’t look before you leap!’ is a Zen saying that contrasts with what many in the West consider wise counsel,” writes Christopher Moors in his article “Magical Buddha Nature” at tinyurl.com/34swxd. “If everything is premeditated, we never have the naked brilliance of a truly new experience. Though…
Crossed Off and Barred
11 After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of…
The Bar Tab
Finding an interesting bar sometimes requires a fresh perspective. For example, observe the bar scene at the restaurant Chacho and Chalucci’s at 1:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Similarly, finding great restaurants with cheap prices provides its own challenges. Luckily, for a few hours each week, the bar in Azuca serves a delicious combination of…
Crossed Off and Barred
11 After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari, Is there a farmer’s market in San Antonio? I moved here three years ago from Olympia, Washington, where there is a weekend farmer’s market which was very reliable for fresh local fruits, veggies, fish, poultry, beef preserves, honey, etc. I was wondering if San Antonio had anything similar. I’ve looked online…
Crossed Off and Barred
After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of the…
A melting pot it’s not
Fusion was first and formerly a chain noodle palace of the around-the–world-in-80-pastas sort. (I made up the 80 part, OK?) “It didn’t catch on,” we were told. So the next logical step, right?, was for the chef and part-owner, from Mexico City, to turn to fusion of a more straightforward sort: mahi-mahi with cilantro hollandaise,…
Crossed-Off and Barred
After hours on the highways crossing Texas, turns down a farm road in Livingston, 70-odd miles northeast of Houston. She veers off at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the sprawling maximum-security home to the men on Texas’s death row, and slows to a stop in front of the…
Kino Club
This series of beautifully considered moments, infused with color and a subtle touch of humor, take the viewer to a special quiet corner of paradise where the sunlight and breeze are the best company a person could enjoy. Puff (Snapshots) was awarded Best New Media by Potter-Belamr Labs in the 2006 CAM awards.
The Fast Foodie
Web House Cafe and Bar 517 E. Woodlawn 320-4280 The Gab House I love a buffet like the Arden-Ohman Orchestra loves a parade. The Chinese smorgasbord, the all-you-can-eat curry, the Sizzler salad bar. In Japanese it’s called tabehodai. Like an undisciplined mutt, I’ll gorge until grub’s flowing out my nose. So when Current news editor…
Value Vino – Great wines for under $15
Great Boutique Wines You Can Buy Online By Catherine Fallis, Robert M. Cohen Silverback Books $12.50, 248 pages According to Gourmet magazine, one in every four bottles of wine sold in the U.S. is produced by E.& J. Gallo Winery. Even accounting for the slipperiness of statistics (Does a jug count as a single bottle?),…
Follow the Simple Instructions
Robert Tatum and Kati McAllister chat over drinks at Drink. Photo by Antonia Padilla. Drink 200 Navarro, Ste. 100 (enter on Market Street) 858-5949 5pm-2am daily Credit cards Food: $9-$17 Accessible “Winter Tomatoes (and other non-seasonal nonsense).” That’s the title of the book I think I’ve been writing for years without knowing it, but don’t…
Hustle and Flow
It’s been nearly 10 years since the basketball gods smiled down on San Antonio and, via a lucky ping-pong ball, delivered Tim Duncan to the Spurs. While May 18, 1997, the date of that year’s NBA draft lottery, is fondly recalled in the Alamo City, it is steeped in infamy for fans of the Boston…
The Say-Town Lowdown – Guest Column
Our streets are a mess, we’re told. “San Antonio is one big block of broken asphalt,” in the words of one local commentator. Cracks and potholes are “everywhere.” And the bill to fix them all is staggering — a total of $2 billion in street needs. So the $300 million for streets in the proposed…
Straight Shooter
Chronicles of Wormwood Avatar Writer: Garth Ennis Art: Jacen Burrows $3.99, 32 pages Obviously, very few people are reading comics these days. When the press discovered that two bloggers hired by John Edwards’s campaign had made semi-offensive remarks about the Catholic church, it was a national news story. When Garth Ennis, one of the biggest…
Profits During Wartime
SA false-claims attorney Glenn Grossenbacher. Photo by Mark Greenberg. When Glenn Grossenbacher talks about the workings of San Diego-based defense contractor SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), the word he always comes back to is “insidious.” Grossenbacher, a San Antonio attorney who has handled two of the biggest false-claims cases in U.S. history `“High Currency,” August…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
I was not the only woman who brought her mother to the Fiber Artists of San Antonio annual fundraiser on Saturday. The Omni Hotel ballroom was stocked with Women of a Certain Age in brightly appliquéd capes and quilted jackets and Red Hat Society matrons in their signature plumage. Grandmothers sold luncheon tables to support…
The Queque
The Queque has always had this fantasy in which three commanding, height-weight-proportionate Democratic statesmen were sprawled out before us, promising to sustain our electoral arousal all the way through the presidential primaries, which state reps Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, Helen Giddings, D-DeSoto, and Roberto Alonzo, D-Dallas, are trying to bump up on Texas’s calendar.…
The Sea Around Her
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement By Mark Hamilton Lytle Oxford University Press $23, 176 pages Though most books transform their writers, few leave lasting effects on readers. Fewer still, regardless of sales, can be said to have changed the world. The Origin of Species, The Communist…
New Anti-Toll Slang
Click for larger image For starters, no one’s called it “the Trans-Texas Catastrophe” since Granny Strayhorn’s failed bid for governor. And the word “boondoggle,” as it applies to the Trans-Texas Corridor network of superhighways and railroads, is going the way of “bling” and its wearying Urban Dictionary variations (“bling blung” … “bling bling silver spring”).…
The Aesthetics of Sustainability
Stacy Berlfein tries “art as a healing force” with Harvesting Water. Courtesy photo Harvesting Water By appt. Through Mar 25 Cactus Bra 106C Blue Star 226-6688 Art converges with social activism in Harvesting Water, Stacy’s Berlfein’s Cactus Bra installation, in which the audience is encouraged to create and sell their own artworks alongside Berlfein’s images. Money…
The Mashup
From the Editor Like the sun moving through the man-made canyons of the urban landscape, the shift in Capitol Hill’s ruling demigods has dramatically changed the appearance of the political field, casting former golden boys in deep shadows. The politically motivated firing of eight federal prosecutors has grown into a major scandal that may bring…
Love in the Time of Covert Ops
Rodney Garza as Che Guevara in The School of the Americas. Courtesy photo The School of the Americas 8pm Thu-Sat $10 adult; $6 senior Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center 1301 Guadalupe 271-3151 Guadalupeculturalarts.org Ernesto “Che” Guevara is an icon: his image haunts dorm-room walls, coffee mugs, finger puppets (yes, hasta siempre, finger puppets) and the ubiquitous…
Love the message. Not so sure about the messenger.
Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy By Jeff Chester New Press 2007 $24.95, 304 pages As a semi-activist during college in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, I was shocked to learn that good political viewpoints do not necessarily translate into positive social energy. I’ve met insensitive bullies with awesome political views,…
Reading Between the Pixels
Snapshots from the 2007 Texas Biennial, left to right, top to bottom: Noah Simblist’s manifesto, in a portable-container installation at Site 1808; Tom Matthews’s chair spiral, also at Site 1808; large-scale photographs by Michele Grinstead and Nancy O’Connor, on view at the Dougherty Arts Center; Gary Sweeney’s Put-in-Cup portraits of JFK and Jackie in the…
Aural Pleasure
Maude Maggart Live Maude Maggart (Self-released) In the Mood There will never be a shortage of singers interested in interpreting the Great American Songbook. But vocalists with the right combination of nuance, authenticity, emotional commitment, and pipes — they get rarer with each passing year. That’s why when a gifted stylist like Maude Maggart comes…
Sound and the Fury
SXSWilling and Ready Buttercup, SA’s favorite art-pop quartet, will get maximum mileage out of SXSW with three Austin gigs this week: an official SXSW showcase at the Co-Op Bar (400 E. 6th St.) on Wednesday, March 14; a blowout hosted by Saustex Media honcho (and Hickoids frontman) Jeff Smith at Hole in the Wall (2538…
All Ears
Iggy Pop reunites with The Stooges for their new release The Weirdness and their SXSW show Saturday at Stubb’s BBQ. Courtesy photo If you’re reading this, it means (I hope) that you’re not in a car driving north to Austin. Why not? What, do you hate live music? Then again, maybe you are driving north, and…
Money Talks
Fast Money: Readying a debut CD called The South’s Newest Find Vol. I. Courtesy photo. When Dwayne McKnight, aka Fast Money, meditates on his future in the rap game, there’s always a countdown ticking in the back of his mind. Sure, there are images of lounging on BET’s 106 & Park couch and talking up his…
The Bar Tab
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in the opening sentence of his novel A Tale of Two Cities. Though Dickens was referring to the French Revolution, in more ways than one this phrase fits my experience at Silo Bar the other weekend. Silo Bar is in…
