Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
el 2 de agosto 2006
el 2 de agosto 2006 Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO News Corporation 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor New York, New York 10036 Estimado Don Rupert: I have gleaned many truths from the life and works of my idol, Che Guevara, including this gem: Always stay one step – and two book deals…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Arts: It’s verbal-throwdown season
San Antonians have a lot to be proud of. The Spurs. The River Walk. The Alamo. Whatever. I’m talking about poetic hecklers — as in poets who heckle other poets, making good old SA a prime location for some sweet pre-National Poetry Slam action. If you can take the heat at the puroSLAM National Showdown…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Arts: It’s verbal-throwdown season
San Antonians have a lot to be proud of. The Spurs. The River Walk. The Alamo. Whatever. I’m talking about poetic hecklers — as in poets who heckle other poets, making good old SA a prime location for some sweet pre-National Poetry Slam action. If you can take the heat at the puroSLAM National Showdown…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Food & Drink: All you can eat/div>
Drink (not to be confused with its downtown neighbor Sip) Coffee & Wine Bar is augmenting its caffeine and alcohol with fresh art this month. The reception for up-’n’-comin’ artists Carol Hernandez, Natalie Cone, Wendy Bryant, and Flight Gallery’s Justin Parr is 6-8 p.m. Thursday. The work can also be viewed through August 27 during…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Latin America’s Game
It’s a breezy Wednesday evening at Nelson W. Wolff Stadium as the San Antonio Missions get set to square off against the Corpus Christi Hooks. The somewhat subdued crowd is typical for a minor-league baseball game, and consists primarily of families both young and old, with sprinkles of gruff national pastime aficionados mixed in. The…
Food & Drink: All you can eat/div>
Drink (not to be confused with its downtown neighbor Sip) Coffee & Wine Bar is augmenting its caffeine and alcohol with fresh art this month. The reception for up-’n’-comin’ artists Carol Hernandez, Natalie Cone, Wendy Bryant, and Flight Gallery’s Justin Parr is 6-8 p.m. Thursday. The work can also be viewed through August 27 during…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Sports: Latin America’s Game
It’s a breezy Wednesday evening at Nelson W. Wolff Stadium as the San Antonio Missions get set to square off against the Corpus Christi Hooks. The somewhat subdued crowd is typical for a minor-league baseball game, and consists primarily of families both young and old, with sprinkles of gruff national pastime aficionados mixed in. The…
Food & Drink: All you can eat
Drink (not to be confused with its downtown neighbor Sip) Coffee & Wine Bar is augmenting its caffeine and alcohol with fresh art this month. The reception for up-’n’-comin’ artists Carol Hernandez, Natalie Cone, Wendy Bryant, and Flight Gallery’s Justin Parr is 6-8 p.m. Thursday. The work can also be viewed through August 27 during…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music: Rebirth of the Cool
The Rebirth Brass Band takes the most traditional New Orleans musical approach – a group of brass players supplemented only by a drummer – and consistently places it in a modern context. While the Crescent City’s most famous horn group, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, leans toward oldschool jazz and the city’s funeral-march history, the…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Music: Rebirth of the Cool
The Rebirth Brass Band takes the most traditional New Orleans musical approach – a group of brass players supplemented only by a drummer – and consistently places it in a modern context. While the Crescent City’s most famous horn group, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, leans toward oldschool jazz and the city’s funeral-march history, the…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Fair summer fruit
There are few fruits that evoke the word “luscious” more readily than a plump, ripe fig. The honey-sweet pink flesh, wrapped in cool green or purple-brown skin lightly flushed with pink, is as beautiful as it is tasty. The sliced fig, with jewel-like seeds and beads of sweet syrup, has appeared in countless Old Master…
Music: Rebirth of the Cool
The Rebirth Brass Band takes the most traditional New Orleans musical approach – a group of brass players supplemented only by a drummer – and consistently places it in a modern context. While the Crescent City’s most famous horn group, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, leans toward oldschool jazz and the city’s funeral-march history, the…
In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
Clothes Minded – Black is the new black
We may still battle 100-degree days for the next few months, but in retail, fall starts immediately after the Fourth of July sales. Neiman Marcus held its fallfashion show last week to clearly and easily outline the must-haves that will keep you up-to-date without looking over-the-top. For women, black is the new black. You can…
Nigh listless
Robin Williams’s career has bounced around over the years with the unpredictability and speed of one of his stream-ofconsciousness monologues — and unlike the best of those rants, it has often made its unexpected landings in really, really unsatisfying places. Tired of broad family comedies? He’ll try a sappy wonder-of-life piece like What Dreams May…
Sound and the fury
ALL IN THE FAMILY As always, summer in San Antonio this year has seen numerous multi-band festival celebrations of loud, overdriven guitars played with maximum ferocity. If Ozzfest, Vans Warped, and the homegrown Robb’s Metalworks Showcase didn’t satiate you, there’s at least one more opportunity for hard-rock catharsis before school starts. Korn has relaunched the…
Japan’s Economic Secret Weapon: Cute
I still remember the first time I heard that sound. It was 1975, and my third-grade classroom was celebrating “world cultures week” at Edison Elementary School in Eugene, Oregon. We snacked on regionally appropriate foods and watched our classmates demonstrate their “traditional native costumes.” The Pacific Northwest is hardly a bastion of ethnic diversity, so…
Media: When Rafi met Leni …
If you took Hannah and Her Sisters, fed it a mite-too-many whiskey sours, and coaxed it gently-but-firmly into a threesome with a Neil Simon farce and Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage (or its French progenitor), the resulting cinematic kiddo — if taught lispy Castilian and versed in the homegrown tumult of the Middle East — might…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Media – Game Theory: Japan’s Economic Secret Weapon: Cute
I still remember the first time I heard that sound. It was 1975, and my third-grade classroom was celebrating “world cultures week” at Edison Elementary School in Eugene, Oregon. We snacked on regionally appropriate foods and watched our classmates demonstrate their “traditional native costumes.” The Pacific Northwest is hardly a bastion of ethnic diversity, so…
Media: When Rafi met Leni …
Only Human stars Guillermo Toledo and Norma Aleandro take a peek at their review. If you took Hannah and Her Sisters, fed it a mite-too-many whiskey sours, and coaxed it gently-but-firmly into a threesome with a Neil Simon farce and Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage (or its French progenitor), the resulting cinematic kiddo — if taught…
Music – CD Spotlight: Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his altrock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Arts: It’s verbal-throwdown season
San Antonians have a lot to be proud of. The Spurs. The River Walk. The Alamo. Whatever. I’m talking about poetic hecklers — as in poets who heckle other poets, making good old SA a prime location for some sweet pre-National Poetry Slam action. If you can take the heat at the puroSLAM National Showdown…
Media: When Rafi met Leni …
Only Human stars Guillermo Toledo and Norma Aleandro take a peek at their review. If you took Hannah and Her Sisters, fed it a mite-too-many whiskey sours, and coaxed it gently-but-firmly into a threesome with a Neil Simon farce and Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage (or its French progenitor), the resulting cinematic kiddo — if taught…
CD Spotlight – Lonely Neptune
Four years ago, a solo album from Pharrell Williams would have been greeted with breathless anticipation. Between his state-of-the-art R&B production work for the Neptunes and his alt-rock moonlighting project N.E.R.D., Williams epitomized a musical climate where all boundaries were dropping, where an African-American skateboarder with minimal singing and rapping skills who loved Steely Dan…
Arts: It’s verbal-throwdown season
San Antonians have a lot to be proud of. The Spurs. The River Walk. The Alamo. Whatever. I’m talking about poetic hecklers — as in poets who heckle other poets, making good old SA a prime location for some sweet pre-National Poetry Slam action. If you can take the heat at the puroSLAM National Showdown…
When Rafi met Leni …
Only Human stars Guillermo Toledo and Norma Aleandro take a peek at their review. If you took Hannah and Her Sisters, fed it a mite-too-many whiskey sours, and coaxed it gently-but-firmly into a threesome with a Neil Simon farce and Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage (or its French progenitor), the resulting cinematic kiddo — if taught…
el 2 de agosto 2006 Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO News Corporation 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor New York, New York 10036 Estimado Don Rupert: I have gleaned many truths from the life and works of my idol, Che Guevara, including this gem: Always stay one step – and two book deals…
Food & Drink: In Good Cyder Spirits
To alcohol’s less-subtle magnetism, add history. There is hardly a spirit that doesn’t have a tantalizing back story tied to a colorful family, cherished piece of literature, cornerstone philosophy, or elaborate sarcophagi. If imbibing it by the pitcher or martini glass doesn’t aid comprehension or insight, per se, perhaps we feel a deeper, subliminal connection…
el 2 de agosto 2006 Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO News Corporation 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor New York, New York 10036 Estimado Don Rupert: I have gleaned many truths from the life and works of my idol, Che Guevara, including this gem: Always stay one step – and two book deals…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
That’s a wrap
Wow, so OK: I was all ready to let loose on Barnyard — or rather, give it the cold shoulder, bearing in mind that it’s about the 30th weird-lookin’-3-D-animalslearn- some-sort-of-vaguely-applicablelesson flick that’s come flying down the pike this month, and then I saw the name Steve Oedekerk. Which won’t (and shouldn’t, really) change anyone’s mind,…
Blowing the whistle on Diebold
On July 13, the Pensacola, Floridabased law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a “qui-tam” lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic-voting- machine companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were “unhackable.” Kennedy claims to have witnesses “centrally located, deep within the corporations,”…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
That’s a wrap
Wow, so OK: I was all ready to let loose on Barnyard — or rather, give it the cold shoulder, bearing in mind that it’s about the 30th weird-lookin’-3-D-animalslearn- some-sort-of-vaguely-applicablelesson flick that’s come flying down the pike this month, and then I saw the name Steve Oedekerk. Which won’t (and shouldn’t, really) change anyone’s mind,…
High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
That’s a wrap
Wow, so OK: I was all ready to let loose on Barnyard — or rather, give it the cold shoulder, bearing in mind that it’s about the 30th weird-lookin’-3-D-animalslearn- some-sort-of-vaguely-applicablelesson flick that’s come flying down the pike this month, and then I saw the name Steve Oedekerk. Which won’t (and shouldn’t, really) change anyone’s mind,…
Music: Fairytale synergy
Good looks are an obvious advantage for anyone performing on stage, so it’s no coincidence that singers are usually above-average in the looks department. It’s rarer to find all four members of a band in the upper quartile of attractiveness. Add singular musicianship, throw in an endearing lack of ego, and San Antonio band Ledaswan…
Arts: CAM Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Media : That’s a wrap
Wow, so OK: I was all ready to let loose on Barnyard — or rather, give it the cold shoulder, bearing in mind that it’s about the 30th weird-lookin’-3-D-animalslearn- some-sort-of-vaguely-applicablelesson flick that’s come flying down the pike this month, and then I saw the name Steve Oedekerk. Which won’t (and shouldn’t, really) change anyone’s mind,…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
Music: All ears
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical…
Sentimental sauerkraut
In many ways, the histories of San Antonio and Schilo’s are intertwined. Reflective of the city’s mid-19th-century German roots, the venerable delicatessen was established by Papa Fritz Schilo in 1917, and, despite a couple of moves before arriving at its present location, seems not to have changed a whit. Only the occasional ding of a…
News : Blowing the whistle on Diebold
On July 13, the Pensacola, Floridabased law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a “qui-tam” lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic-voting- machine companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were “unhackable.” Kennedy claims to have witnesses “centrally located, deep within the corporations,”…
Music: All ears
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical…
News : Fairytale synergy
Good looks are an obvious advantage for anyone performing on stage, so it’s no coincidence that singers are usually above-average in the looks department. It’s rarer to find all four members of a band in the upper quartile of attractiveness. Add singular musicianship, throw in an endearing lack of ego, and San Antonio band Ledaswan…
Music: All ears
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical…
Music: Fairytale synergy
Good looks are an obvious advantage for anyone performing on stage, so it’s no coincidence that singers are usually above-average in the looks department. It’s rarer to find all four members of a band in the upper quartile of attractiveness. Add singular musicianship, throw in an endearing lack of ego, and San Antonio band Ledaswan…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Music: All ears
You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical side. A new compilation from France, Musics in the Margin (Sub Rosa), aims to change that by corralling…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Music: All ears
You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical side. A new compilation from France, Musics in the Margin (Sub Rosa), aims to change that by corralling…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Music: All ears
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
All Ears – (08-02-2006)
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Music: Fairytale synergy
Good looks are an obvious advantage for anyone performing on stage, so it’s no coincidence that singers are usually above-average in the looks department. It’s rarer to find all four members of a band in the upper quartile of attractiveness. Add singular musicianship, throw in an endearing lack of ego, and San Antonio band Ledaswan…
News : The poet’s poet
Some writers and artists view their work as the exclusive province of an intellectual elite, something that only a select few are qualified to make or understand. Trinidad Sánchez Jr. viewed his poetry as a gift, a humble offering to his friends, neighbors, and aspiring young writers. It was not merely a way of documenting…
Commentary – What price moderate?
On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those geographically less-wellendowed portions of the nation, you can’t sneeze without being blessed by some busybody across the border.) In sharp contrast to NPR…
Music: All ears
You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to this world’s musical side. A new compilation from France, Musics in the Margin (Sub Rosa), aims to change that by corralling…
News : The poet’s poet
Some writers and artists view their work as the exclusive province of an intellectual elite, something that only a select few are qualified to make or understand. Trinidad Sánchez Jr. viewed his poetry as a gift, a humble offering to his friends, neighbors, and aspiring young writers. It was not merely a way of documenting…
Food & Drink : Sentimental sauerkraut
In many ways, the histories of San Antonio and Schilo’s are intertwined. Reflective of the city’s mid-19th-century German roots, the venerable delicatessen was established by Papa Fritz Schilo in 1917, and, despite a couple of moves before arriving at its present location, seems not to have changed a whit. Only the occasional ding of a…
Music: All ears
Peaches: With an album called Impeach my Bush, she’s about as on the fringe as you can get. back two years.. You hear plenty about outsider artists these days — self-taught, often obsessive individuals whose distinctive styles seem to come out of nowhere — but with a few exceptions, not much attention is given to…
Arts: The poet’s poet
Some writers and artists view their work as the exclusive province of an intellectual elite, something that only a select few are qualified to make or understand. Trinidad Sánchez Jr. viewed his poetry as a gift, a humble offering to his friends, neighbors, and aspiring young writers. It was not merely a way of documenting…
Food & Drink : Sentimental sauerkraut
In many ways, the histories of San Antonio and Schilo’s are intertwined. Reflective of the city’s mid-19th-century German roots, the venerable delicatessen was established by Papa Fritz Schilo in 1917, and, despite a couple of moves before arriving at its present location, seems not to have changed a whit. Only the occasional ding of a…
Cam Showdowns
Contemporary Art Month went out like the many-headed Cerberus last weekend, a fearsome clutch of events through which the faithful persevered, heat be damned, to pass wearily into the small gap between CAM and Fotoseptiembre. Despite Dignowity Park’s westward tilt — playing anvil to the setting sun’s hammer — a rowdy crowd turned out Saturday…
Media: Revolution studios
If you asked a mother in Jonesboro, Arkansas, if film has the power to save the world, she’d probably tell you it was doing more to damage future generations than to benefit them. All those guns, romanticized portrayals of crack and gangbanging, and, of course, homosexuality. Has any film since My Own Private Idaho corrupted…
All good strays go to heaven
Like authentic-looking stuffed animals, 11 cats lay on operating tables, lifeless and cold. Each cat, with a thick syringe protruding from its heart, was enough to change my previous pet label from dog-person to dog and- cat-person. I paid a much-dreaded visit to Animal Care Services’ killing room last week: 10 dead, one barely alive…
News : Can’t hang with TRMPAC?
Want to know how you, Mr. Jake Everyday Worker – who had just enough discretionary income to get a tub of popcorn with extra butter on Miami Vice opening weekend, who is trying not to pawn your DVDs for gas money – could ever compete with those pay-to-play lobbyists who wield influence in Washington, swing…
News – Commentary : What price moderate?
On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those
A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
News – Commentary : What price moderate?
On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those geographically less-wellendowed portions of the nation, you can’t sneeze without being blessed by some busybody across the border.) In sharp contrast to NPR…
Arts A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Can’t hang with TRMPAC?
Want to know how you, Mr. Jake Everyday Worker – who had just enough discretionary income to get a tub of popcorn with extra butter on Miami Vice opening weekend, who is trying not to pawn your DVDs for gas money – could ever compete with those pay-to-play lobbyists who wield influence in Washington, swing…
News – Commentary : What price moderate?
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=”content-type”> On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those geographically less-wellendowed portions of the nation, you can’t sneeze without being blessed by some busybody across the border.) In…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
News – Commentary : What price moderate?
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=”content-type”> On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those geographically less-wellendowed portions of the nation, you can’t sneeze without being blessed by some busybody across the border.) In…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
News – Commentary : What price moderate?
On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those geographically less-wellendowed portions of the nation, you can’t sneeze without being blessed by some busybody across the border.) In sharp contrast to NPR…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
News : Blowing the whistle on Diebold
On July 13, the Pensacola, Floridabased law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a “qui-tam” lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic-voting- machine companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were “unhackable.” Kennedy claims to have witnesses “centrally located, deep within the corporations,”…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
News : All good strays go to heaven
Like authentic-looking stuffed animals, 11 cats lay on operating tables, lifeless and cold. Each cat, with a thick syringe protruding from its heart, was enough to change my previous pet label from dog-person to dog and- cat-person. I paid a much-dreaded visit to Animal Care Services’ killing room last week: 10 dead, one barely alive…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Media – Culture : Legend has it
It’s a complicated world in which we’re living, and you’ve got burning questions. Burning, searing questions that deserve soothing, aloe-vera-like answers. Maybe you’re deeply concerned about the direction our nation is going. Maybe you’re rapt by the everchanging, ever-static uproar in the Middle East. Maybe you think “Hezbollah” is the leaked character-name for a top-secret…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Media – Culture : Legend has it
It’s a complicated world in which we’re living, and you’ve got burning questions. Burning, searing questions that deserve soothing, aloe-vera-like answers. Maybe you’re deeply concerned about the direction our nation is going. Maybe you’re rapt by the everchanging, ever-static uproar in the Middle East. Maybe you think “Hezbollah” is the leaked character-name for a top-secret…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Media – Culture : Legend has it
It’s a complicated world in which we’re living, and you’ve got burning questions. Burning, searing questions that deserve soothing, aloe-vera-like answers. Maybe you’re deeply concerned about the direction our nation is going. Maybe you’re rapt by the everchanging, ever-static uproar in the Middle East. Maybe you think “Hezbollah” is the leaked character-name for a top-secret…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Media – Culture : Legend has it
It’s a complicated world in which we’re living, and you’ve got burning questions. Burning, searing questions that deserve soothing, aloe-vera-like answers. Maybe you’re deeply concerned about the direction our nation is going. Maybe you’re rapt by the everchanging, ever-static uproar in the Middle East. Maybe you think “Hezbollah” is the leaked character-name for a top-secret…
Feature : High Currency
One of the first things you learn as a false-claims attorney is patience. Not the I’ll-remain-calm-in-thetraffic- jam kind of patience. This kind of patience requires you to slowly build a case against a corporation that systematically cheated the federal government; wait years for the Department of Justice to hop aboard the train you set in…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Arts A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Arts A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
Arts : A Comedy In Errors
It’s late July and the snoutnose butterflies are swarming, so it must be the perfect time to see some outdoor theater, right? That, at least, is the thinking over at San Pedro Playhouse as they commence the first annual Shakespeare in San Pedro Springs Park with a production of The Comedy of Errors. Error #1: It’s…
News : Tobin, or not Tobin?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Because, according to Hamlet’s Lord Polonius, both parties can find themselves in some awkward, news-making positions. We turn to the Bard to explain what broke down between the philanthropists over at the Tobin Endowment (patrons of all things staged) and the fund-raisers over at the San Antonio Public…
News : Can’t hang with TRMPAC?
If you can’t put together a junket, influence politics by where you shop, say Democrat advocates at Buyblue.org Want to know how you, Mr. Jake Everyday Worker — who had just enough discretionary income to get a tub of popcorn with extra butter on Miami Vice opening weekend, who is trying not to pawn your…
News : What price moderate?
On Sunday, The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont, Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s opponent in the Democratic primary of that state. (Lest my fellow Texans find that strange, remember that in those
