Thomas and the onion rings
The unexpected make what would have been a flat trip to Jacala something to come back for
VIVA DIVA
When Metropolitan Opera legend Roberta Peters flies to San Antonio this week, she’ll find a city where opera, if not enjoying widespread interest, is at least growing up. If your neighbor can’t name the three tenors, nonetheless he’ll know one of them packs on the pounds. Still, San Antonio’s opera scene is in flux, and…
CD REVIEWS
Carl Cox Global (CD, London) Carl Cox is one of electronic music’s anomalies. One of the most popular deejays in the world, “Coxy” is a ubiquitous presence in the biggest clubs and magazines. Unlike other European DJs who’ve earned his level of success, when you look at the stats (i.e., his record selection and DJ…
LA GLORIA: 1928-2002
You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone. No one knows the saying better than the Save La Gloria Alliance, which has fought fiercely but unsuccessfully in the past two weeks to save a 73-year-old building from destruction. It stood on the West Side corner of Brazos and Laredo — abandoned, unused, and collecting…
MAN OF STEEL
Somewhere, deep in the art of Texas, there is a special place for the steel guitar. It can cut into a Texas swing number with all the force of a horn section, or drift over a country ballad like a haunting sad angel. The steel is a purely American instrument, invented by country musicians and…
UNIMPRESSED
Architect David Lake sounds frustrated. “It’s not clear when we’re going to get a final document out of the Mayor’s office,” says Lake. He’s a spokesperson for the Smart Growth Coalition, a loose umbrella organization of neighborhood, professional, religious, labor, and environmental groups. What these groups have in common is that they have come together…
LIFE IS A BEACH IN MEXICO
It is early summer, and best friends Julio (Bernal) and Tenoch (Luna) seem to be living out an adolescent fantasy. When their girlfriends departed for a stay in Europe, drugs and videos appeared to be their only antidotes to boredom. However, at a sumptuous formal party attended by the president of Mexico and his thuggish…
New Reviews
Clockstoppers “Nickelodeon know-how” Dir. Jonathan Frakes; writ. Rob Hedden and Andy Hedden; feat. Jesse Bradford, French Stewart, Paula Garcés, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas, Jason Winston George, Linda Kim, Julia Sweeney, Lindze Letherman, Jeff Ricketts, Garikayi Mutambirwa (PG) When high-schooler Zak Gibbs (Bradford) stumbles across a top-secret wristwatch that ushers its wearer onto a hyperfast plane…
Video & DVD
DVD (3 discs), HBO Home Video Leave it to HBO, which seemingly has fewer regulations than a Boystown brothel, to do for prisons what Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere did for cops and hospitals. With a cast of little-known but gifted actors, it paints a portrait that does justice to both inmate and jailer,…
Still Playing
A Beautiful Mind “Pity, fear, and cognitive reverie” Dir. Ron Howard; writ. Akiva Goldsman, based on biography by Sylvia Nasar; feat. Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Vivien Cardone, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Christopher Plummer (PG-13) Black Hawk Down “Crash landing in confused territory” Dir. Ridley Scott; writ. Mark Bowden, Ken Nolan; feat.…
