Fruit of the vine
Release Date: 2003-04-10 The Vineyards is the only restaurant hereabouts where you can get a glass of wine made from grapes grown right outside the dining room windows. Located about 30 minutes outside of San Antonio, the Vineyards is a destination restaurant for most of us, and as such it satisfies most fantasies. The drive,…
SUNBURNED AND DREAMING
For many years, Gilliam wanted to make a film about the man whose spirit has surfaced throughout his career, and eventually a ragtag group of investors gave him money to do it. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was to be the most expensive film ever made with no U.S. funds whatsoever. (And even at…
ELECCION CONJUNTO Y ESPECIAL
3 de Mayo de 2003 LAS HORAS Y FECHAS DE VOTACION ADELANTADA SERAN: Miercoles 16 de abril hasta el viernes 18 de abril, 8am-6pm Sabado 19 de abril, 10am-6pm Domingo, 20 de abril CERRADO Lunes 21 de abril CERRADO Martes 22 de abril hasta el jueves 24, 8am-6pm Viernes 25 de abril, CERRADO Sabado 26…
REAL ‘ADAPTATION’
A conversation with Volker Schlöndorff More than any other director active today, except perhaps James Ivory, Volker Schlöndorff has based his career on translating literature into celluloid. He is best known for The Tin Drum, the 1980 adaptation of a Gunter Grass novel that established his reputation by winning an Oscar. But Schlöndorff also adapted…
JOINT GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION
City of San Antonio, Northside ISD, East Central ISD, ESD #2 MAY 3, 2003 THE HOURS OF EARLY VOTING WILL BE: Wed., April 16 thru Fri., April 18, 8:am-6pm. Sat., April 19, 10am-6pm Sunday, April 20, CLOSED Mon., April 21.CLOSED Tues., April 22 thru Thurs., April 24,.8am-6pm Fri., April 25, CLOSED Sat., April 26, 10am-6pm…
NEW REVIEWS
A MAN APART Dir. F. Gary Gray; writ. Christian Gudegast; feat. Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant (R) The reason rogue cops who “get too close to the investigation” and are “pushed over the edge,” requiring them to “take a little time off to clear `their` head`s`,” are such popular action-movie mainstays is that their…
POLITICAL HIERARCHY
LEGACY OF THE GOOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUE BY MICHAEL CARY Author Luther Lee Sanders in 1975 described the politically powerful Good Government League of San Antonio as a consortium of bankers, real estate brokers, advertisers, builders, manufacturers, retired military officers, doctors, lawyers and pastors whose real purpose was to select and elect candidates for City Council.…
Armchair Cinephile
TOUGH BROADS Personal Velocity (MGM) Gloria (Columbia/TriStar) Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros.) All About Eve (Fox) Rebecca Miller’s recent Personal Velocity, a three-segmented film adapted from her own novel, is a trio of character studies giving good actresses unusually great chances to shine. The most compelling segment is the first, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Delia, a…
STILL PLAYING
ADAPTATION Dir. Spike Jonze; writ. Susan Orlean (novel), Charlie Kaufman; feat. Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Maggie Gyllenhaal (R) Yes, it’s a meta-meta-movie in-joke, drooled over by film-buff brainiacs. It’s also a frigging funny movie, with Cage the most entertaining he’s been since he started showing us his biceps, and Colin…
SHOW TIMES
FRI 4/11 – THU 4/17 These show times are provided by the theaters and are subject to change. The Current includes show times submitted by press deadline, and is not responsible for the changes in the ever-morphing film industry. All times are p.m. unless otherwise indicated. DOWNTOWN AMC RIVERCENTER 9 Rivercenter Mall, third floor, 558-9988…
POSTAGE DUES
Post office employees fed up with angry customers, extra workload Joined by a few local members of the United Farmworkers and machinists unions, the picketers complained about personnel reassignments instituted last September by San Antonio Postmaster Manny Arguello. As a result, about Carlos R. Trevino (center) joins other postal workers in a picket line…
FREAKS AND HAIRIES
Another tall tale about the Star Storage billboards The billboards feature a human being that we can only surmise was hired through The Big, Fat, and Hairy People modeling agency, if such an entity existed. One shows the birthday suit clad person admiring a landscape (perhaps the property where the Toyota plant will be built).…
ROCKY’S ROAD
West Side drumming institution Rocky Hernandez is down with OBG When Deion Sanders was at his multi-tasking sports peak, the true measure of his magnitude was not that he became the first athlete ever to play in both a World Series and Super Bowl. No, all you had to know about Deion was that it…
SOCIAL APPEARANCE
It was a hot day in Havana when I walked into my bank in Chinatown and found a very small, old, black man wearing a Bolsheviki cap and an Afro-Cuban All Stars shirt. It was 1998, the Buena Vista Social Club had just hit paydirt in the States, and offshoots from Ibrahim Ferrer the…
SOUND AND THE FURY
A WEEK ON THE SCENE HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PUSSY For generations of musicians, gigging at Taco Land has become a sort of unwritten rite of passage, which in turn makes owner/operator Ram Ayala the most unlikely of gurus: half burly biker, half benevolent benefactor, and undisputed grandfather of the San Antonio music scene. Every musician and…
HUNGRY CONTENDERS
Election 2003: City Council Districts 6, 7, & 8 INCOGNITO INCUMBENT FACES AGGRESSIVE CHALLENGER: District 6 DISTRICT 6 BY GILBERT GARCIA Last summer, Brad Clear sent an e-mail to Mayor Ed Garza, looking for advice. A State Farm claim specialist in his late 20s, with no political experience, Clear was considering a run for Enrique…
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DURING WARTIME
Vedder, who impaled a Bush mask during a performance of “Bushleaguer” at a recent Denver, Colorado gig, reportedly caused his fans to walk out of the auditorium in disbelief. So expectations were high for his Saturday, April 5 San Antonio gig: What would the cultural relic say in the land of Bush himself? Not a…
LIVE TO SKATE, SKATE TO LIVE
SA’s single City-sanctioned skateboard park isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for local skaters Friendly hollers reverberate among the giant pillars beneath the underpass, as stark light reflects against white concrete embankments. Hard wheels scratch against the pavement – then the grating sound stops momentarily as a rider attempts a floor trick – and…
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The Missions open with a sluggish performance, but Ballapeño looks to be in mid-season form During an opening night pregame ceremony, when the Missions’ players received their 2002 Texas League championship rings (with the Wallflowers’ version of “Heroes” blaring from the PA), First baseman A.J. Zapp knocks out the Missions’ first home run of…
REVELATION OF ST. HUNTER THE LOATHSOME DIVINE
LOATHSOME SECRETS Hunter S. Thompson is a shining example of how a citizen is supposed to behave BY RICH PERIN “Hunter Thompson: U.S. journalist, writer, and anarchist, born in Louisville, Kentucky; originator of highly sarcastic, self-indulgent, ironic “gonzo” journalism; while under influence of alcohol, drugs, or sleep deprivation, describes what he sees through haze of…
