Currently, there are nearly 3,000 minors fleeing violence in their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras awaiting federal approval to settle in the United States. Last week, the Trump Administration extinguished that hope. On August 16, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security cancelled the Central American Minors (CAM) program, a federal immigration option…
The singer-songwriter listen-to-how-sad-my-songs-are-while-I-cry song and dance have been a new-musician trope that has, frankly, worn out it’s welcome. However, there are the rare occasions when an artist rises from the over-saturated-frat-boy-with-a-guitar community that write and sing song that resonate with us on a deep and spiritual level. City and Colour is one of those artists.…
Deeply effecting vocal performances may be an inherited capability for soul, jazz, and gospel singer-songwriter Lalah Hathaway, the daughter of soul legend Donny Hathaway, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t lived the pain and joy behind every emotive note she sings. Throughout her nearly 30-year career in music, which includes five Grammy wins, Hathaway has…
Combining heavy psych-rock, with bluesy stoner metal, Austin’s Duel’s Black Sabbath and 70s proto-metal influence is apparent within a few seconds of listening to “Devil” off their latest release Witchbanger. If you dig the sounds of metal’s earliest days, you’re gonna love these guys. Also on the bill is San Antonio’s HÖTZI. A little bit…
The state health department has witnessed a massive drop in the number of Texas women using the state’s family planning services in the past year. In a scramble to fix this decline, Texas has decided to pull millions in funding from the anti-abortion group originally tasked with helping women access these resources. The Heidi Group,…
Punctuated with oodles of electric guitar tapping and drums so tight you’d think they were computer programmed, Shaping The Legacy are probably the closest thing to the rapid-fire staccato guitar jabbing of “djent” our town has seen out of a local band. Made up from members of Counterculture and metalcore heavyweights Upon A Burning Body,…
Thu 8/24 Rod Man Of all the jokes comics have made about air travel since the days of the Wright Brothers, Last Comic Standing 2014 winner Rod Man might be the only stand-up who thinks to warn the audience about the dangers of wearing holey socks through airport security. “I got a bad big toe,…
Bobby Rush has been one of the consummate bluesmen for more than 65 years. And, the thing is, dude’s one of the only ones left who can honestly fly under that hallowed, blues-master banner. With a workman-like dedication, the now-83-year-old Rush has released more than 30 full length albums, and tons of other material, including…
If you aren’t actively seeking Ventura, it might be easy to miss. The music venue/bar has two entrances, a Riverwalk entrance, just down the way from The Luxury, and the other off of Avenue B. When notable headliners are performing or when Renegade Foodie, the food truck that slings out food at the Avenue B…
Alberico Fine Wine SA, which opened in 2015, has delinquent rent and late charges to the tune of almost $10,000. The restaurant is locked and a notice to Pursuant Texas Property Code 93.002 (F) has been posted on their door. This is the second notice for a Yard Shopping Center eatery. Earlier this summer, Olmos…
It’s doubtful any of the audience members at Ed Sheeran’s AT&T Center concert complained about his guest appearance on a certain dragon-filled HBO show. No, these were Sheeran’s people. And the sold-out crowd (a happy mish-mash of squads, couples and a handful of parents) was there to see the red-haired wonder perform tracks off his…
The man-child James in the offbeat comedy Brigsby Bear is stuck in a state of perpetual adolescence. A bespectacled naif with two-day stubble and the ringlets of an angel, he’s an eccentric young man with an arrested emotional development this side of Pee-wee Herman. Imprisoned his entire life in an underground fallout shelter by a…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint No. 1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint No. 2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous…
I’m a woman in my early 30s having sex with a guy in his early 20s. The sex is more than casual, and we really care about each other. My concern is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because…
J. Pierrepont Finch trades in his coveralls for a three-piece suit as he climbs the corporate ladder, all with the assistance of his trusty self-help manual. However, with a bunch of executives throwing their weight around in the company’s upper echelons, it takes every ounce of his wits to avoid disaster at every turn. If…
Over the past few years, since 2012’s Release Me, his most recent album of new material, Lyle Lovett has been in greatest hits mode. The Houston-area native and country and western/Americana music master has also been sticking to his characteristic regimen of hard-touring, playing shows in a variety of arrangements, from stripped down duo shows…
Kevin Sanchez is a lifelong socialist and Robert E. Lee High School alum who writes political columns for the Current. The planned removal of a statue of a certain Confederate general served as a rallying cry for white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville less than two weeks ago – the subsequent violence leaving dozens injured…
After Six Flags decided to remove the Confederate flag from the theme park’s marquee last Friday and instead replace all of their flags with the American flag, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticized the move as being part of a “militant, anarchist movement sweeping our country, destroying and attempting to sanitize our nation’s history.” The…
The San Antonio Independent School District board voted unanimously Monday evening to add new protections to the district’s non-discrimination ordinance. Now, students and employees will be protected from discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. “SAISD has to advance with the times and lead Bexar County to protect the most vulnerable…
Are you ready to be the next American Idol? With open call auditions just around the corner, San Antonians can see if they’ve got the stuff. Ryan Seacrest, host of this classic singing competition, tweeted on Monday there would be four new cities holding auditions: Fargo and Rapid City in North Dakota, as well as…
The Safdie brothers, Benny and Josh, have made a movie about another set of brothers, Connie and Nick Nikas. In addition to co-directing, Benny Safdie also plays the part of Nick, the mentally impaired sibling of Connie, a criminal sociopath played with cunning aplomb by Robert Pattinson. In his post-Twilight Saga career, Pattinson has smartly…
With thumping basslines that drive listeners down corridors of echoing tremolo guitar progressions, Mojave Red are a kaleidoscope of sound worth getting lost in. Hailing from the great city of Houston, the band is led by Josh Cobb and are heading over to Ventura to douse us in vibrating waves of R&B tinged psych rock,…
Isabelle Harrison was born into a basketball team. She was the 10th of 12 siblings in the Harrison family, a full roster for every afternoon at the driveway hoop. The daughter of 6-foot-8 Dennis Harrison, a 10-year NFL veteran who played in a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles, the Harrison dozen were blessed with…
After being gored to death in August 1934, the glamorous bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejias was memorialized in a haunting elegy that repeats the refrain “at five in the afternoon.” Its poet, Federico García Lorca, would himself die almost exactly two years later, murdered by fascist soldiers and dumped into an unmarked grave. When, during his…
Following up on the well-attended first installment in the series, “Canciones,” a uniquely San Antonio showcase that features some of SA’s best musical talents, is back with another excellent bill. While the last “Canciones” show featured local rock-based learders (including Girl in a Coma’s Nina Diaz) celebrating their favorite songs, especially those that remind them…
First performed in 1777, Irish satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners The School for Scandal concerns a wealthy businessman who disguises himself as both a poor relative and a moneylender in order to determine which of his nephews deserves to inherit his massive fortune. Fueled by gossip, rumors and trickery, that 18th-century classic serves…
Of all the jokes comics have made about air travel since the days of the Wright Brothers, Last Comic Standing 2014 winner Rod Man might be the only stand-up who thinks to warn the audience about the dangers of wearing holey socks through airport security. “I got a bad big toe, I know that about…
It’s rare for a band from the glory days of MTV to still be recording and touring with its core lineup intact. Save for a few early switch-ups, that’s reality for The Fixx — an admittedly introspective five-piece comprised of vocalist Cy Curnin, drummer Adam Woods, keyboardist Rupert Greenall, guitarist Jamie West-Oram and bassist Dan K.…
It ended just how it began, in perhaps the most Texas way imaginable: With a standoff. On August 15, a day before the end of Texas Legislature’s whirlwind special session was set to end, House lawmakers declared they wouldn’t tweak a property tax reform bill to appease the Senate — and called their session over.…
This story was originally published in our sister paper, Out in SA. Back-to-school time can be daunting for any child. For transgender children and their parents, the beginning of a new school year holds challenges the rest of the population may not face. On August 26, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center will present its…
Bob A. Polunsky, a longtime local movie critic, who reviewed films for the San Antonio Express-News from 1968 to 1996, passed away on Sunday. He was 85 years old. Polunksy, a U.S. Army veteran and University of Texas at Austin graduate, started his career in the media as a traffic manager at KABC Radio in San…
Late Sunday night, heavy machinery rolled onto the University of Texas at Austin campus and removed four statues of men involved with the Confederacy from the school’s central walkway. “Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism,” wrote UT Austin President Gregory Fenves in a statement released at 11 p.m. Sunday night. He…
It’s not your tia’s house, but it’ll do. El Luchador, which opened last month, with a full-blown lucha libre theme, will host a loteria night on Tuesday, August 22. The party starts at 7:30 with tablas and beans markers, as well as, swag for round winners. Paulina Martinez will read out the cards and there’s…
The New York Times shared a few myths that early civilizations believed the “earth would split and that jaguars would emerge ‘and eat most of the people.'” These days, we wait out impending doom by eating our feelings if restaurants and bars celebrating the eclipse are any indication. Here are a few ways to enjoy —…
A day after announcing that no, it wouldn’t remove the Confederate flag from the theme park’s marquee, Six Flags Over Texas has decided that maybe it’s a good idea. According to press statement release Friday morning, the original Six Flags theme park has taken down the Confederate flag from its spot at the park entrance…
The San Antonio Current is looking for interns to join our editorial team to assist with writing, editing and digital projects for our food and nightlife sections. As an intern at the Current, there’s no getting coffee, filing or making copies. Our interns spend their time doing meaningful work: researching, writing and most importantly, pitching…
Unless you live along the “path of totality” (a 70-mile-wide ribbon crossing the U.S.) or are perhaps among the estimated 7.4 million people expected to invade Nashville, Kansas City and hundreds of unassuming (and quite possibly unprepared) “solar eclipse boom towns,” you won’t be experiencing a total eclipse of the sun on Monday. That being…
It was a two year on-again, off-again kind of thing until it wasn’t. Paramour, downtown’s first rooftop bar, and Jason Dady (you may know him as San Antonio’s Iron Chef Gauntlet cheftestant and owner of Tre Enoteca, Tre Trattoria, Shuck Shack, The Bin, Two Bros. BBQ and the upcoming, Range) have decided to make it…
A federal grand jury indicted James Bradley, Jr. on five criminal charges Wednesday for his role transporting dozens of undocumented immigrants in an unventilated, crowded semi truck in July. The incident left ten passengers dead. The indictment included charges of “conspiracy to transport aliens” for financial gain resulting in death and possession of a firearm by…
When it first opened in 2012, Bite was an eclectic restaurant — filled with chef Lisa Watel-Astorga’s French-Chilean dishes, creative cocktails and unique pop-art — but the Southtown eatery has helped bridge the gap between familiar and modern dining in San Antonio with new talents and a recently expanded lunch menu. “There’s more happening here,…
Last week the 2017 PuroSlam Team, which features four local performance poets who had to earn their spot through the crucible of competition, participated in the National Poetry Slam tournament, held this year in Denver. Since its founding in 1999, PuroSlam, the only nationally certified poetry slam in town, has hosted innumerable weekly slam events,…
Ugh, is it already time to head back to school? Is summer really over? Where has the year gone? Why God, Why?! Ok, before this turns into a full-on Cathy comic strip, we’ve compiled a list of 10 shows to look forward to while we get back into the swing of things – many of…
It’s time to drown our sorrows in a big margarita — but you won’t be able to do so at Cha-Cha’s. Cha-Cha’s Mexican Restaurant is closed for business. The 32-year-old establishment owned by the Ruiz family announced via social media yesterday afternoon. TL;DR: The restaurant at 5616 Bandera Road has seen a drop in business due…
Thu 8/17 North by Northwest The thing about the best Alfred Hitchcock films that makes them so enduringly great is their timeless universality. Hitchcock was a pioneer in using our collective fears, doubts and alienation to create powerful cinematic experiences that thrive in the unknown. Any list of the great-grandfather of macabre and suspenseful cinema’s…
In town as a guest for the “Official Countdown To Rockula,” a pre-party to October’s rock ‘n’ roll horror expo “Rockula,” Shameless and Rings actress Laura Slade Wiggins will be performing a solo acoustic set at Ventura. The songs on her 2012 EP Clementine are pretty straight-forward singer-songwriter jams that explore the care-free edges of…
Shake Shack’s first San Antonio outpost will open on August 23 at 11 a.m. The Danny Meyer-founded shop, is known for its fast-casual burgers, hot dogs, crinkle-cut fries and shakes. The SA location will utilize local products in two of its offerings: The Peanut Butter Park custard concrete with vanilla custard, peanut butter sauce will…
The Texas Legislature’s month-long special session wrapped up Tuesday evening, a day earlier than expected. After weeks of intensifying resistance between the House and the Senate, the session unsurprisingly ended with a stalemate between both chambers over one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s top-priority issues: property tax reform. House lawmakers, bitter that the Senate had stripped…
