Counterpoint – The Tale of a ‘Trigger’-Happy Greenhorn
From The Editor I’m going to say it three times, hoping that when the 2007 Texas Legislature roosts in Austin in January, you’ll remember: Trigger laws do not protect your right to bear arms. Trigger laws do not protect your right to buy and keep guns. Trigger laws have nothing to do with gun control.…
South Texas Cinema
Leonard Cohen is one of the most fascinating figures to have survived the ’60s songwriter scene with his artistry intact – an elegant enigma who can look convincing as either monk or lothario, and write piercing songs while doing it. He is so adored by peers and acolytes that it sometimes seems there are as…
Unhappy meals
Molly Ross (not her real name) is a perky young Texan with a gift for gab. She opened a Super Suppers franchise a year-and-a-half ago in a bustling urban neighborhood. Pretty and petite with a warm smile, she is a born hostess with the ability to put people at ease. Optimistic by nature, she envisioned…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
The Stinking Democratic Process
A poster boy for revenge of the primaries: disgraced and resigned former House Majority Leader Tom Delay. There’s good white-tailed-deer hunting in Uvalde, and his family ranch, 70 miles from here, is something visceral and real that Ricardo Martinez can count on this November — unlike the justice-of-the-peace seat that seemed all his after he…
Counterpoint – The Tale of a ‘Trigger’-Happy Greenhorn
From The Editor I’m going to say it three times, hoping that when the 2007 Texas Legislature roosts in Austin in January, you’ll remember: Trigger laws do not protect your right to bear arms. Trigger laws do not protect your right to buy and keep guns. Trigger laws have nothing to do with gun control.…
South Texas Cinema
It’s been a while since we last took to nosing around the South Texas film world. That while ends now. Let’s get to it. Toward the end of last year, then-23-year-old UTSA student Pablo Veliz made one of the biggest San-Antonio-centric cinematic splashes in recent memory, as his immigrant song La Tragedia de Macario was…
Unhappy meals
Assistant Manager Karen Goforth and “meal-preparation goddess” Jamie Adams assemble six servings of Beefy Campfire Packets at the Super Suppers Stone Oak store.. Molly Ross (not her real name) is a perky young Texan with a gift for gab. She opened a Super Suppers franchise a year-and-a-half ago in a bustling urban neighborhood. Pretty and…
All Ears (08-30-06)
Aside from the fact that no studio is likely to say “no” to Johnny Depp for a while, surely the best thing about the success of the recent Pirates movie has little to do with the film: Hal Willner got to make a two-disc record on the flick’s coattails. Willner is the onetime Saturday Night…
Power Failures
On July 18, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued an email message that would have stirred consumer anxiety throughout the state – if only consumers had known about it. The email, sent to utility regulators, industry providers, and, inadvertently, to a few media outlets, stated that ERCOT projected a “higher than usual risk” of…
Culture – A B&W and Brown Revolution
Back at the dawn of the ’80s, when comics were created almost exclusively for pubescent boys and stores specializing in comic books were practically unheard of, a strangely named series popped up that, by any reasonable expectation, shouldn’t have lasted more than a couple of issues. The comic, Love & Rockets (no, they didn’t steal…
Coming of Age in Echo Park
Culture, more than biology, according to Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, directs the perilous passage from girlhood to womanhood. Cultures have peculiar ways of initiating their adolescents into the community of adults. Apache girls paint their bodies and participate in a sunrise ceremony of prayer, dance, and instruction. In parts of Africa, maturation…
Unhappy meals
Assistant Manager Karen Goforth and “meal-preparation goddess” Jamie Adams assemble six servings of Beefy Campfire Packets at the Super Suppers Stone Oak store. Molly Ross (not her real name) is a perky young Texan with a gift for gab. She opened a Super Suppers franchise a year-and-a-half ago in a bustling urban neighborhood. Pretty and…
All Ears (08-30-06)
Aside from the fact that no studio is likely to say “no” to Johnny Depp for a while, surely the best thing about the success of the recent Pirates movie has little to do with the film: Hal Willner got to make a two-disc record on the flick’s coattails. Willner is the onetime Saturday Night…
Power Failures
On July 18, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued an email message that would have stirred consumer anxiety throughout the state – if only consumers had known about it. The email, sent to utility regulators, industry providers, and, inadvertently, to a few media outlets, stated that ERCOT projected a “higher than usual risk” of…
Unhappy Meals
Assistant Manager Karen Goforth and “meal-preparation goddess” Jamie Adams assemble six servings of Beefy Campfire Packets at the Super Suppers Stone Oak store. Molly Ross (not her real name) is a perky young Texan with a gift for gab. She opened a Super Suppers franchise a year-and-a-half ago in a bustling urban neighborhood. Pretty and…
Coming of Age in Echo Park
Culture, more than biology, according to Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, directs the perilous passage from girlhood to womanhood. Cultures have peculiar Quinceañera Writ. & dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland; feat. Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo Gonzalez (R) ways of initiating their adolescents into the community of adults. Apache girls paint their…
Unhappy meals
Assistant Manager Karen Goforth and “meal-preparation goddess” Jamie Adams assemble six servings of Beefy Campfire Packets at the Super Suppers Stone Oak store. Molly Ross (not her real name) is a perky young Texan with a gift for gab. She opened a Super Suppers franchise a year-and-a-half ago in a bustling urban neighborhood. Pretty and…
All Ears
Aside from the fact that no studio is likely to say “no” to Johnny Depp for a while, surely the best thing about the success of the recent Pirates movie has little to do with the film: Hal Willner got to make a two-disc record on the flick’s coattails. Willner is the onetime Saturday Night…
Power Failures
On July 18, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued an email message that would have stirred consumer anxiety throughout the state — if only consumers had known about it. The email, sent to utility regulators, industry providers, and, inadvertently, to a few media outlets, stated that ERCOT projected a “higher than usual risk” of…
Piss and Tell
“Here ya go pimp,” Omar Renfro says as he squeezes scented beads of liquid soap into the hands of a man whose Budweiser consumption has led him to the men’s bathroom at Sherlock’s Pub on a Saturday night. “Everything going all right out there?” Renfro asks as the man lathers his palms and runs them…
That’s a Wrap
Well, will y’ look at that? My alma mater done gone an’ made herself a movie. (Thanks for waiting ’til I left, guys. Nice.) (Sigh.) At any rate, The Quiet stars Elisha Cuthbert (or, as I like to affectionately call her, “diminutive Canadienne Elisha Cuthbert,” or “Ol’ Unpronounceable-Name”) as a popular-and-attractive cheerleader (I smell Oscar!)…
Belle of the Burger
Certain streets — mature streets with an apparent patina of age — seem to say “San Antonio” in a way neutrally named lanes and highways never can. Honoring people, places, and physical features other than oaks, they resonate with homegrown history, reminding us of Belle’s Burgers 517 Pleasanton Rd. 922-5097 10:30am-8pm Cash only Price range:…
Hot to Go
The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s My Baby Don’t Tolerate. It’s not unusual for even…
For Whom the Ledge Tolls
By accepting Governor Rick Perry’s invite to again chair the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority — described as a mini-TxDOT and endowed with special powers by the state lege to find money to build and operate roads (read: to usher in a shiny alloy era of Bexar County toll roads) — Dr. William Thornton starts his…
Piss and Tell
Omar Renfro (right) jokes with a customer as he hands him a paper towel to dry his hands. “Here ya go pimp,” Omar Renfro says as he squeezes scented beads of liquid soap into the hands of a man whose Budweiser consumption has led him to the men’s bathroom at Sherlock’s Pub on a Saturday…
That’s a Wrap
Well, will y’ look at that? My alma mater done gone an’ made herself a movie. (Thanks for waiting ’til I left, guys. Nice.) (Sigh.) At any rate, The Quiet stars Elisha Cuthbert (or, as I like to affectionately call her, “diminutive Canadienne Elisha Cuthbert,” or “Ol’ Unpronounceable-Name”) as a popular-and-attractive cheerleader (I smell Oscar!)…
Piss and Tell
“Here ya go pimp,” Omar Renfro says as he squeezes scented beads of liquid soap into the hands of a man whose Budweiser consumption has led him to the men’s bathroom at Sherlock’s Pub on a Saturday night. “Everything going all right out there?” Renfro asks as the man lathers his palms and runs them…
Hot to Go
The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s My Baby Don’t Tolerate. It’s not unusual for even…
For Whom the Ledge Tolls
The tollman cometh: Bill Thornton will again chair the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority By accepting Governor Rick Perry’s invite to again chair the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority — described as a mini-TxDOT and endowed with special powers by the state lege to find money to build and operate roads (read: to usher in a shiny…
Belle of the Burger
A typical Belle’s repast: french fries, onion rings, chocolate shake, and bacon cheeseburger. Certain streets — mature streets with an apparent patina of age — seem to say “San Antonio” in a way neutrally named lanes and highways never can. Honoring people, places, and physical features other than oaks, they resonate with homegrown history, reminding…
More ‘Idle’ than ‘Wild’
Idlewild is a Hollywood rock-star vehicle, and we all know what that means. A performer with proven appeal in one field is angling to enter a bigger sphere of the pop consciousness, and any Idlewild Dir. and writ. Bryan Barber; feat. André Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Macy Gray, Cicely Tyson,…
Waiting to Exhale
The final results are in from all reporting precincts and it’s now official: Bobby Brown can’t catch a break. Granted, we all suspected that Mr. Whitney Houston has been rolling snake eyes at the craps table of life for a long time. It’s been 14 years since he enthralled us with “Humpin’ Around,” and since…
Hot to Go
Not afraid to wear the black hat: Lyle Lovett. The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s…
For Whom the Ledge Tolls
The tollman cometh: Bill Thornton will again chair the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority By accepting Governor Rick Perry’s invite to again chair the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority — described as a mini-TxDOT and endowed with special powers by the state lege to find money to build and operate roads (read: to usher in a shiny…
Belle of the Burger
Certain streets — mature streets with an apparent patina of age — seem to say “San Antonio” in a way neutrally named lanes and highways never can. Honoring people, places, and physical features other than oaks, they resonate with homegrown history, reminding us of Belle’s Burgers 517 Pleasanton Rd. 922-5097 10:30am-8pm Cash only Price range:…
More ‘Idle’ than ‘Wild’
Idlewild is a Hollywood rock-star vehicle, and we all know what that means. A performer with proven appeal in one field is angling to enter a bigger sphere of the pop consciousness, and any Idlewild Dir. and writ. Bryan Barber; feat. André Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Macy Gray, Cicely Tyson,…
Lessons in the Key of Life
A Bach minuet resonates in the air in the back room of the Blue Star Brewing Company. Frank Muñoz, 55, sits at the piano, concentrating on his every stroke of the ivory keys. “Isn’t that beautiful?” he asks with a confident smile, glancing back and forth from his sheet music to a few restaurant patrons…
Hot to Go
Not afraid to wear the black hat: Lyle Lovett. The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s…
Waiting to Exhale
By: Gilbert Garcia The final results are in from all reporting precincts and it’s now official: Bobby Brown can’t catch a break. Granted, we all suspected that Mr. Whitney Houston has been rolling snake eyes at the craps table of life for a long time. It’s been 14 years since he enthralled us with “Humpin’…
The Green Goddess – Changing the World One Shopper at a Time
Central Market, oh, Central Market, what can I say? I am torn. You hold such a special place in my heart but you’re behind the times — and if you can’t change we might have to go our separate ways. Let me begin with the positive, because I am a glass-half-full kind of goddess. Lots…
Listen Up
People hate Uwe Boll with a seething virulence generally reserved for Judas Iscariot, unrepentant puppy-kickers, and those asshole skeleton guys from The Karate Kid. A Google search for the über-embattled German director — purveyor of such unanimously assailed video-game-based fare as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne — yields links such…
Lessons in the Key of Life
Pianist Frank Muñoz tickles the ivories at the Blue Star Brewing Company. A Bach minuet resonates in the air in the back room of the Blue Star Brewing Company. Frank Muñoz, 55, sits at the piano, concentrating on his every stroke of the ivory keys. “Isn’t that beautiful?” he asks with a confident smile, glancing…
Hot to Go
Not afraid to wear the black hat: Lyle Lovett. The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s…
Waiting to Exhale
This year’s hottest love triangle? Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, and Osama bin Laden By: Gilbert Garcia The final results are in from all reporting precincts and it’s now official: Bobby Brown can’t catch a break. Granted, we all suspected that Mr. Whitney Houston has been rolling snake eyes at the craps table of life for…
The Urban Geographer – Walk Softly and Turn Down the Bass
Dear Urban Geographer: I’ve just returned to San Antonio after my summer break from college. I moved into a nice new apartment but I’m worried that I might not make any new friends in my building this coming year. Last year started off just great, but by mid-October none of my neighbors would talk to…
All You Can Eat (08-30-06)
It’s hot to go, it’s ready. And you’ll make the curtain at the Majestic for Lyle Lovett’s Texas Homecoming Tour September 2. Chef Jeffery Balfour of the Hotel Valencia’s Citrus restaurant, 150 E. Houston and just down the street from the theater, will serve a pre-show themed dinner, including The Cowboy Man NY Strip, A&M…
The Urban Geographer – Walk Softly and Turn Down the Bass
Dear Urban Geographer: I’ve just returned to San Antonio after my summer break from college. I moved into a nice new apartment but I’m worried that I might not make any new friends in my building this coming year. Last year started off just great, but by mid-October none of my neighbors would talk to…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
Hot to Go
Not afraid to wear the black hat: Lyle Lovett. The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s…
South Texas Cinema
It’s been a while since we last took to nosing around the South Texas film world. That while ends now. Let’s get to it. Toward the end of last year, then-23-year-old UTSA student Pablo Veliz made one of the biggest San-Antonio-centric cinematic splashes in recent memory, as his immigrant song La Tragedia de Macario was…
I See London, I See France …
I just spent a night ruminating about early 20th-century German underpants. It’s not my fault. I blame society… and Carl Sternheim for writing The Underpants … and Steve Martin for adapting it, and The Church Bistro & Theatre for producing it. But mostly, I blame society, because only societal forces could make such a fuss…
The Urban Geographer – Walk Softly and Turn Down the Bass
Dear Urban Geographer: I’ve just returned to San Antonio after my summer break from college. I moved into a nice new apartment but I’m worried that I might not make any new friends in my building this coming year. Last year started off just great, but by mid-October none of my neighbors would talk to…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
Hot to Go
Not afraid to wear the black hat: Lyle Lovett. The argument has been made that Lyle Lovett’s much-publicized marriage to Julia Roberts reduced the flow of his songwriting faucet to a trickle. Since 1996 (the year after Lovett and Roberts split up), the Houston-based troubadour has released only one album of new, original songs: 2003’s…
South Texas Cinema
It’s been a while since we last took to nosing around the South Texas film world. That while ends now. Let’s get to it. Toward the end of last year, then-23-year-old UTSA student Pablo Veliz made one of the biggest San-Antonio-centric cinematic splashes in recent memory, as his immigrant song La Tragedia de Macario was…
I See London, I See France …
I just spent a night ruminating about early 20th-century German underpants. It’s not my fault. I blame society… and Carl Sternheim for writing The Underpants … and Steve Martin for adapting it, and The Church Bistro & Theatre for producing it. But mostly, I blame society, because only societal forces could make such a fuss…
Listen Up
People hate Uwe Boll with a seething virulence generally reserved for Judas Iscariot, unrepentant puppy-kickers, and those asshole skeleton guys from The Karate Kid. A Google search for the über-embattled German director — purveyor of such unanimously assailed video-game-based fare as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne — yields links such…
The Urban Geographer – Walk Softly and Turn Down the Bass
Dear Urban Geographer: I’ve just returned to San Antonio after my summer break from college. I moved into a nice new apartment but I’m worried that I might not make any new friends in my building this coming year. Last year started off just great, but by mid-October none of my neighbors would talk to…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
CD Spotlight 08-30-06
Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi keep finding new ways to work separately under the group umbrella. After the oddball triumph of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below proved that they could co-exist without actually speaking to each other, they conceived Idlewild as a film project that could harness their ebbing sense of unity. The movie’s conceit, that…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
I See London, I See France …
I just spent a night ruminating about early 20th-century German underpants. It’s not my fault. I blame society… and Carl Sternheim for writing The Underpants … and Steve Martin for adapting it, and The Church Bistro & Theatre for producing it. But mostly, I blame society, because only societal forces could make such a fuss…
More ‘Idle’ than ‘Wild’
Idlewild is a Hollywood rock-star vehicle, and we all know what that means. A performer with proven appeal in one field is angling to enter a bigger sphere of the pop consciousness, and any Idlewild Dir. and writ. Bryan Barber; feat. André Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Macy Gray, Cicely Tyson,…
The Urban Geographer – Walk Softly and Turn Down the Bass
Dear Urban Geographer: I’ve just returned to San Antonio after my summer break from college. I moved into a nice new apartment but I’m worried that I might not make any new friends in my building this coming year. Last year started off just great, but by mid-October none of my neighbors would talk to…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
CD Spotlight 08-30-06
Idlewild – Outcast (Laface/Arista) Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi keep finding new ways to work separately under the group umbrella. After the oddball triumph of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below proved that they could co-exist without actually speaking to each other, they conceived Idlewild as a film project that could harness their ebbing sense of unity.…
That’s a Wrap
Well, will y’ look at that? My alma mater done gone an’ made herself a movie. (Thanks for waiting ’til I left, guys. Nice.) (Sigh.) At any rate, The Quiet stars Elisha Cuthbert (or, as I like to affectionately call her, “diminutive Canadienne Elisha Cuthbert,” or “Ol’ Unpronounceable-Name”) as a popular-and-attractive cheerleader (I smell Oscar!)…
I See London, I See France …
Eva LaPorte, as flirtatious hausfrau Louise, and Mellissa Marlowe, as her accomplice and neighbor, rub each other the right way in Steve Martin’s Underpants. I just spent a night ruminating about early 20th-century German underpants. It’s not my fault. I blame society… and Carl Sternheim for writing The Underpants … and Steve Martin for adapting…
Close Your Eyes and Listen
Leonard Cohen is one of the most fascinating figures to have survived the ‘60s songwriter scene with his artistry intact — an elegant enigma who can look convincing as either monk or lothario, and write Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Dir. Lian Lunson (PG-13) piercing songs while doing it. He is so adored by peers…
I See London, I See France …
I just spent a night ruminating about early 20th-century German underpants. It’s not my fault. I blame society… and Carl Sternheim for writing The Underpants … and Steve Martin for adapting it, and The Church Bistro & Theatre for producing it. But mostly, I blame society, because only societal forces could make such a fuss…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
CD Spotlight – Outkast
Idlewild – Outcast (Laface/Arista) Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi keep finding new ways to work separately under the group umbrella. After the oddball triumph of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below proved that they could co-exist without actually speaking to each other, they conceived Idlewild as a film project that could harness their ebbing sense of unity.…
Game Theory
Bella Noche, the wood-elf priestess, wanders through the forests of Antonica. After months of training, she finally feels comfortable strolling through the territory unaccompanied. She has mined ore, rehearsed healing rituals, and defeated countless gnolls and Turian sentries in battle. She has even joined the hallowed ranks of the guild known as The Vindicators. Her…
Close Your Eyes and Listen
Leonard Cohen is one of the most fascinating figures to have survived the ‘60s songwriter scene with his artistry intact — an elegant enigma who can look convincing as either monk or lothario, and write Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Dir. Lian Lunson (PG-13) piercing songs while doing it. He is so adored by peers…
Culture – A B&W and Brown Revolution
Back at the dawn of the ’80s, when comics were created almost exclusively for pubescent boys and stores specializing in comic books were practically unheard of, a strangely named series popped up that, by any reasonable expectation, shouldn’t have lasted more than a couple of issues. The comic, Love & Rockets (no, they didn’t steal…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
A ‘Dream’-like run
It’s been 10 years since Dream Team 3, the last of the legitimate Dream Teams, ran through international basketball competition at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Coach Lenny Wilkins’s squad included five holdovers from the original Dream Team and routinely bested their opponents by more than 20 points per game on the way to capturing…
Game Theory
Bella Noche, the wood-elf priestess, wanders through the forests of Antonica. After months of training, she finally feels comfortable strolling through the territory unaccompanied. She has mined ore, rehearsed healing rituals, and defeated countless gnolls and Turian sentries in battle. She has even joined the hallowed ranks of the guild known as The Vindicators. Her…
Close Your Eyes and Listen
Leonard Cohen is one of the most fascinating figures to have survived the ‘60s songwriter scene with his artistry intact — an elegant enigma who can look convincing as either monk or lothario, and write Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Dir. Lian Lunson (PG-13) piercing songs while doing it. He is so adored by peers…
Culture – A B&W and Brown Revolution
Back at the dawn of the ’80s, when comics were created almost exclusively for pubescent boys and stores specializing in comic books were practically unheard of, a strangely named series popped up that, by any reasonable expectation, shouldn’t have lasted more than a couple of issues. The comic, Love & Rockets (no, they didn’t steal…
Sound and the Fury (08-30-06)
NEW RELEASES 10 City Run likes to call its maverick brand of twang “psychedelic country,” and they found one of the pioneers of the form, John Beland, to produce their debut album, Somethin’ Else. As a late-period member of the cult-worshipped Flying Burrito Brothers, Beland sustained an indestructible catalog and sensibility that mashed together raucous…
The Stinking Democratic Process
There’s good white-tailed-deer hunting in Uvalde, and his family ranch, 70 miles from here, is something visceral and real that Ricardo Martinez can count on this November — unlike the justice-of-the-peace seat that seemed all his after he beat incumbent Judge Saul Acevedo, 6,564 votes to 5,697, in this year’s Democratic primary. Because there isn’t…
