On the Street
Hustle and Snow(cones) I feel like he does a route between the tiny bus station on Alamo Street and the bus station on Broadway. The ruta raspa… Don’t Let the Sun Set On Me At one point there were solar panels on the roof of this building. I’m almost positive they sold those panels. I…
On the Street
Hustle and Snow(cones) I feel like he does a route between the tiny bus station on Alamo Street and the bus station on Broadway. The ruta raspa… Don’t Let the Sun Set On Me At one point there were solar panels on the roof of this building. I’m almost positive they sold those panels. I…
Weiland der Heiland
Release Date: 2007-08-29 With three concurrent shows in San Antonio, German sculptor and performance artist Vaago Weiland has made his mark on the city’s art scene this month. The curious will flock to Fl!ght Gallery; Weiland’s Exist: Resist Metamorphosis of Destruction has existed throughout the month only to end in complete destruction at the closing…
Battle for the PuroSlam 2008 Nationals Team
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The battle for the PuroSlam 2008 Nationals Team starts now! PuroSlam holds its first of four semi-final rounds as the top 10 poets from the last four months will be battling it out with some intense verbal action. Tuesday’s top two wordsmiths secure a finals spot, taking them one step closer to…
Valentine’s Day Screening of The Wedding Singer
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Music Monday Presents: Wayne’s World
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Pancake Theater Presents: The Dark Crystal
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Easy Rider
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Military Night at the Drafthouse: Top Gun
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Cellar Door
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
Zoolander
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
A Night of Roller Derby
Release Date: 2007-08-29 The Alamo City Rollergirls take a rare night off the track for some classic derby footage. The triple feature screening comprises derby flicks Kansas City Bomber, Roller Derby Mania, and clips of ACRG’s Greatest Hits. Raquel Welch stars as a pro-skater in KCB, a gritty portrait of life behind the traveling derby…
2nd Annual Feral Cat Music Benefit
Release Date: 2007-08-29 Help musicians, artists, and local businesses raise funds for the SA Feral Cat Coalition. Proceeds will benefit the Trap-Neuter-Return program, support low-cost spay and neuter services, and educate the public about SA’s goal to become a “No-Kill” city. Live music by Big Soy, Savior Daughters, Kick It, and Mama Speedheart; silent auction…
Lady’s first
Houston native Bianca Rivera has been bombing since 1996. Under the name Lady Binx, Rivera is recognized by many as H-town’s first full-fledged female graffiti artist and when she’s not painting, caring for her 2-year-old daughter, or practicing danza, you can usually catch her rhyming on a stage. San Antonio also played a key role…
Dating, college, & San Antonio
After I graduated high school, the possibilities before me seemed endless. The different majors I could choose from, the new friends I would make, and the many dating experiences I would surely have excited me. I decided to go to San Antonio College to get my basics done because I wasn’t sure what I wanted…
The Sound and the Fury
R.B. Blackstone, keyboard player for The H!x, recalls that the last time the absurdist roots-music quartet played in Luckenbach, someone came out of the crowd and offered them $200 to play an extra 45 minutes. That helps explain why the band is so fond of the legendary country dance hall. Blackstone describes the modern Luckenbach…
How to cope with a bad roommate
There’s nothing more terrifying about your first moments in your new dorm than meeting the person you’ll be bunking up with for the next year. It’s bad enough mommy won’t be there to wash your clothes and cook your dinner, but now you have to shack up with a stranger in a room a few…
All Ears
History is fullof artists who flowered briefly, with works of startling beauty, and then died young, leaving generations to wonder, heartbroken, how much more they might have done. In the music business, this sad cliché of the too-sensitive-to-live artist has acquired such mythological weight that we sometimes suspect young stars of setting on self-destructive paths…
Lite me up
Over the past 30 years, lightbeer has become as American as apple pie and hot dogs on the fourth of July. Despite its reputation for being the watered-down, less-tasty cousin of “real” beer, sales continue to skyrocket. Half of all beers sold in the United States are light, with Bud Light and Miller Lite leading…
Aural Pleasure
There’s been aconsiderable buzz building over the last several weeks about Rilo Kiley’s fourth album, but most of the discussion has found old fans carping that Under the Blacklight is the LA underground-pop band’s “sellout album.” The charge that the album’s slick surface is proof of a new-found commercial shamelessness would be persuasive, except for…
Avoiding the freshman 15
It’s not a myth!The“freshman 15” is as real as a long line on registration day. But, unlike that line, the added pounds on your body can be avoided. It just takes knowing how to choose your meals, exercising (not just walking to classes), and of course, willpower. Most students are initially overwhelmed with all of…
Playback
Where do boy-band survivors go to live out the humiliation of adulthood? These days, they go to VH1, to star in Man Band, a reality series featuring former members of N*SYNC, LFO, 98 Degrees, and Color Me Badd, desperately trying to squeeze that mega-stardom genie back in the bottle. My first thought about Man Band…
The high cost of tuition
Thereis no denying that college needs to be made more affordable. According to the College Board’s 2006 Trends in College Pricing report, tuition rates are 35-percent higher than they were five years ago, after adjusting for inflation. The average tuition fee at a four-year public college is $5,836. Although 60-percent of students receive some type…
Last words
“Alberto” By Andy Benavides
The Law of Parties
Kenneth Foster is scheduledto be executed August 30 for the 1996 murder of Mike LaHood. Foster, the driver but not the shooter, was convicted under Texas’s controversial Law of Parties, as were more than 80 current death-row inmates. Local criminal-defense attorney Rusty Guyer, who has tried four capital-murder cases, put it into laymen’s terms for…
College Guide
People may be strange whenyou’re a stranger, as Jim Morrison eerily crooned, butthere’s no reason to feel estranged in friendly ol’ SA. Spread out we may be, but nearly every corner of town has a few student must-haves and hangouts. From affordable salons to body modification to comic-book stores, let us introduce you to your…
An atavistic vision
While the average college student might try to boost his or her GPA by taking a slacker course or two in ceramics, food science, or weightlifting, Chris Eska, who attended Rice University and planned to follow in his father’s footsteps in the medical field, once decided “to get an easy A” by enrolling in a…
Anatomy of a counterinsurgency
Stand-off. Attempted coup.Insurgency. These labels seem more fit to describe government proceedings in Iraq or South America, but during the final days of the 80th Legislature, all three terms fit the Texas House of Representatives like a glove. Motions to vacate the chair, questions relating to the authority of the speaker to recognize members, and…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: Do you agree with immigration-rights activists calling Elvira Arellano, who is an illegal immigrant AND a criminal I might add, the Mexican Rosa Parks? The very idea that these people refer to her as such is deeply disturbing. Rosa Parks was a legal resident of this country and took a stand against the…
Michael Myers gets Zombie-fied
A lot of obscure horror movies have been resurrected as atrocious remakes in the past few years, but, for the most part, nobody considered most of them to be anything more than obscure horror movies that weren’t exactly very good to begin with. After all, it’s not like Black Christmas was on anybody’s Horror Classics…
The QueQue
Chingo Singularity A lunar eclipse promises insight to those feminine forces among us; the Hutto kids are freed; Alberto, the last official Bush bitch to flee Washington, announced his exit; and Kenneth Foster comes to what will likely be his final hours for failing to psychically control the actions of others. We’d love to tell…
Clothes-minded
The cardigan — it’s a cult. A simple knitted garment with a front closure, the cardigan sweater has its hazy origin story (invented by the seventh earl of Cardigan during the Crimean War), its icons (Mr. Rogers, Kurt Cobain, Steve Urkel), and the immortality of being so practical and versatile that not a fashion season…
Critical Darling
Most advertisements are asking for it. From faux-Geek Squad commercials to leaflets with BOGO (that’s “buy one, get one,” natch) printed on any part of them, the majority of ads beg, “Mock me.” (What, ads don’t talk to you?) Last week, at a movie screening, I endured a really unfortunate pre-previews advertisement for Jim’s, wherein…
Tarred & weathered
No joke, U.S. 281-N iscrippled. Drivers crunch along each other in a diesel-tinged wash even as fresh cement tonnage is draped across the denuded landscape. New roofs sprout like an alien fungus with each morning sweat. It’s the “dark side” at work, with massive residential and commercial developments rocketing far beyond the pitiable roadway’s ability…
The Omniboire
There’s a lot ofloose talk in the summer about picnic, pool, porch, and patio wines, but what if your end-of-August affair moves into the parlor? (Yes, I know nobody has a parlor anymore — humor me.) When the occasion calls for a little more glitz, Omniboire bets on bubbles. Ever cautious about the bottom line…
Sweet ‘Science’
No, a pair of folks whose marital therapy consists of playing instrumental (piano and cello) Violent Femmes covers doesn’t guarantee a good movie, but it’s a start. Films like Stranger than Fiction aped the Kaufman/Jonze/Gondry oeuvre, and, at first glance, Rocket Science appears to be doing the same with Wes Anderson’s body of work, but…
Haven for Hope rounds the corner
Haven for Hope supporters have made the turn down the final stretch and can see the finish line in the distance. It has been a long and arduous journey marked recently by vocal opposition from neighborhood advocates, who turned out in full force at an August 21 Zoning Commission hearing to protest the facility’s proposed…
The Omniboire
There’s a lot of loose talk in the summer about picnic, pool, porch, and patio wines, but what if your end-of-August affair moves into the parlor? (Yes, I know nobody has a parlor anymore — humor me.) When the occasion calls for a little more glitz, Omniboire bets on bubbles. Ever cautious about the bottom…
Live green or (your grandkids will) die hard
Hey, you knowwhat would be great? If the good folks who made the documentary The 11th Hour trimmed it down to five essential minutes and tacked it onto the previews before every remaining summer blockbuster, then onto fall’s Oscar-bait. At the end of the preview-short-film, Leo Di could proclaim that the full-length version was available…
Letters to the Editor
Recently you printed an article titled “Plugged in to the Wind” `July 11-17` which addressed our addiction to fossil fuels and our reluctance to use abundant renewable energy.? While I appreciate Congressman `Charlie` Gonzalez’s notion to start setting mandates, I fail to realize why according to Congressman Gonzalez this bill HR 969 doesn’t have a…
Amuse-BOUCHE
The biblical rains have been hard on Texas’s farmers, and in turn have affected the produce available at the city’s newest farmers market, which sets up every Friday at 8 a.m. at the Pearl Brewery and runs until 2 p.m. or depletion. “A lot of them have had to replant,” says Texas Farm to Table…
N-BAF too dangerous for New York, but fits right into SA plans
It’s certainly fascinating to watch lawmakers, economic boosters, and universities around the country scrap for the privilege of hosting one of the most dangerous research facilities imaginable. The new Plum Island, as chronicled in the Current a couple weeks back, would involve research on some of the most transmissible and deadly diseases on the planet.…
No End in Sight
What are we doing in Baghad? No End in Sight addresses the question not in terms of why we invaded Iraq (illusory weapons of mass destruction, specious link to 9/11, pretense of creating democracy), but of exactly what American leaders did to turn Iraq into an anarchic abattoir. It begins in May 2003, when George…
N-BAF too dangerous for New York, but fits right into SA plans
It’s certainly fascinating to watch lawmakers, economic boosters, and universities around the country scrap for the privilege of hosting one of the most dangerous research facilities imaginable. The new Plum Island, as chronicled in the Current a couple weeks back, would involve research on some of the most transmissible and deadly diseases on the planet.…
Stefania’s Country Italian copies the Dolores Del Rio recipe
One of thebest-kept dinning secrets in San Antonio is Dolores Del Rio, Stefania Baldeserelli’s River Walk hideaway. Its location almost under the St. Mary’s street bridge means locals have to think like tourists in their own city to find it. Luckily, the proprietor has opened Stefania’s Country Italian on San Pedro at Mulberry, in historic…
Armchair Cinephile
PICK OF THE WEEK: Just in time for the star-heavy remake, this 50-year-old Western rides in to show who’s boss. Glenn Ford owns the thing, oozing a cool, conflicted badness that Russell Crowe doesn’t match. The web phenom continues unabated, with Homestar ‘toons now joining the five-disc-strong Strongbad Emails series. The latter’s our fave for…
Photo finish
In the spring of 1962, Tom Wright was in his late teens and an American studying photography at Ealing Art School in London. He was also already a heavy drinker and pot smoker, but he had two things going for him: talent and an impressive R&B record collection. Then he met Pete Townshend. Townshend was…
Gimlet-eyed
Food & Wine’s recipe for a “Classic Vodka Gimlet” jibes with the tool that shares its name: a metal shaft with a grooved screwpoint and a wooden cross handle. Two of the former might make you feel certain you can bore into your companion’s mind to pull a core sample of his true intentions, even…
The “there”
Real-estate agents live and die by it. Mets pitcher Tom Glavine has forged a Hall of Fame career on it. And far too often, game developers dramatically underestimate how critical it is to the success of their product. I’m talking, of course, about location, the “there” that puts the “there” in so many things —…
‘The Pillowman’ in the Cellar saves art from a trite death
MartinMcDonough’s Tony-nominated The Pillowman is the best play in the past 10 years about the possibilities, and the perils, of art. (It’s also the best play about exsanguinated children, though the competition for that honor is understandably less fierce.) Part police procedural, part fairy tale, The Pillowman plays a lot like Law & Order: Very,…
Dear Uncle Mat
I want to know why I keep attracting unavailable men. The last four guys I dated were in relationships or getting divorced (with kids) or getting married. The divorced ones are at least single, but an ex-wife does lend her own special drama, especially if there are children involved. The married one just got married.…
Artifacts
Since you’ve already got your portfolio updated (for the Artist Foundation applications, natch; see Artistfound.org for details), you may as well copy, collate, and enter the absolutely crazy 2008 Hunting Art Prize. Wait! It’s not even that hard. The company, a petroleum outfit based in Houston, gives away $50,000 guided by a single sample (2-D…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Here’s how you can tell if you have a bad psychotherapist or counselor,” says my friend Laura. “She or he buys into all your BS, never questions your delusions, and builds your self-esteem even if that makes you into an a**hole.” I agree with Laura’s assessment, which is why I’m going…
The symphony hangs on contract negotiations
I remember watching the news one night as a child and hearing a story that caught my youthful attention: San Antonio Symphony musicians were going on strike. I was horrified. What about my field trips? How would I get to Laurie Auditorium for the day and tap my toe quietly to the music, inside my…
