Tricks and treats
the illusionist Dir. Neil Burger; writ. Burger, Steven Millhauser (short story); feat. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell (PG-13) The most surprising thing about the period-piece murder mystery/drama The Illusionist is that Edward Norton can, despite all evidence to the contrary until now, deliver an underwhelming performance. That’s good news for Jessica Biel,…
Tricks and treats
THE ILLUSIONIST Dir. Neil Burger; writ. Burger, Steven Millhauser (short story); feat. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell (PG-13) The most surprising thing about the period-piece murder mystery/drama The Illusionist is that Edward Norton can, despite all evidence to the contrary until now, deliver an underwhelming performance. That’s good news for Jessica Biel,…
Action Jackson
Let’s ignore the fact that Samuel L. Jackson probably couldn’t bench what most action stars can curl with one arm, after being shot in it. Let’s ignore the fact that he’s balding, that he isn’t especially handsome, that he’s done more crack in his life than steroids. The truth of the matter is, Jackson shouldn’t…
Action Jackson
Let’s ignore the fact that Samuel L. Jackson probably couldn’t bench what most action stars can curl with one arm, after being shot in it. Let’s ignore the fact that he’s balding, that he isn’t especially handsome, that he’s done more crack in his life than steroids. The truth of the matter is, Jackson shouldn’t…
Tricks and treats
THE ILLUSIONIST Dir. Neil Burger; writ. Burger, Steven Millhauser (short story); feat. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell (PG-13) The most surprising thing about the period-piece murder mystery/drama The Illusionist is that Edward Norton can, despite all evidence to the contrary until now, deliver an underwhelming performance. That’s good news for Jessica Biel,…
Tricks and treats
THE ILLUSIONIST Dir. Neil Burger; writ. Burger, Steven Millhauser (short story); feat. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell (PG-13) The most surprising thing about the period-piece murder mystery/drama The Illusionist is that Edward Norton can, despite all evidence to the contrary until now, deliver an underwhelming performance. That’s good news for Jessica Biel,…
Tricks and treats
THE ILLUSIONIST Dir. Neil Burger; writ. Burger, Steven Millhauser (short story); feat. Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell (PG-13) The most surprising thing about the period-piece murder mystery/drama The Illusionist is that Edward Norton can, despite all evidence to the contrary until now, deliver an underwhelming performance. That’s good news for Jessica Biel,…
The Mister Giveth and the Pathfinder Taketh Away
From: Mister Danny Geisler Subject: ashamed & a shame Date: August 7, 2006 7:14:01 AM CDT today has been awful for me. i watched the flowers in the dumpster during the wind and rain – from 5-6:30-ish – expecting to have the whole thing fall apart. everything survived with no problems. i then visited lilla…
The Mister Giveth and the Pathfinder Taketh Away
From: Mister Danny Geisler Subject: ashamed & a shame Date: August 7, 2006 7:14:01 AM CDT today has been awful for me. i watched the flowers in the dumpster during the wind and rain – from 5-6:30-ish – expecting to have the whole thing fall apart. everything survived with no problems. i then visited lilla…
The Mister Giveth and the Pathfinder Taketh Away
From: Mister Danny Geisler Subject: ashamed & a shame Date: August 7, 2006 7:14:01 AM CDT today has been awful for me. i watched the flowers in the dumpster during the wind and rain – from 5-6:30-ish – expecting to have the whole thing fall apart. everything survived with no problems. i then visited lilla…
The Decent
OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you” moment, accompanied by an opportunistic spike in the score) – unless done…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and…
Bird of a Different Feather
Bad-boy restaurateur Joe Cosniac has a reputation among local diners for being caustic. It’s less well- known that his generosity to staff betrays a heart of gold apparently beating beneath the gruff exterior – and that there’s more to the man than the occasionally brusque demeanor at the door of any of his locally beloved…
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you”…
The Decent
OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you” moment, accompanied by an opportunistic spike in the score) – unless done…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments From The Editor you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
The Zone of Interconnectedness
This is how incredibly small and wrapped in cozy clover the nation’s seventh-largest city has become: Two active San Antonio zoning commissioners are likely to resign and compete for the same District-8-City- Council seat that Art Hall will vacate in May (vacate isn’t the right word – how about “from which he’ll be term-limit Mantua…
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you”…
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you”…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her The Descent Dir. and writ. Neil Marshall; feat. Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone (R) …
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her satisfaction that she imagined it, then turns to go … and runs smack into her friend (the “Oh, it’s just you”…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
The Decent
Below ground, no one can hear you scream. Except for mutant people-eaters. OK, three new rules for horror-genre filmmakers. Listening? One: No more “jumps” wherein a character is investigating a noise, decides to her The Descent Dir. and writ. Neil Marshall; feat. Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone (R) …
No End In Sight
I first met Chris Cheney at SxSW earlier this year, in the dark parking lot of an independent record store. The guitarist- lead singer and his band, seminal Australian punk outfit The Living End, had just played a live show on the porch of the small building. This, of course, doesn’t mean I actually caught…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
With your busy schedule, how to From The Editor manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
French: Hard to Pronounce, Easy to Drink
It’s a complicated and confusing wine world out there. A column such as this can only introduce the consumer to a few examples a month – and despite my efforts to discuss wines of relatively general release, it often takes luck to find them at local retailers. We have all stalled in front of ranks…
A History of the Overlooked
Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back in the early 20th century, and those famous strips weren’t nearly enough to fill the pages. What about all the other stuff?…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms that smack of futurism. Take,…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
Shooting Stars
A modest crowd of 6,965 gathered at the AT&T Center last week when the San Antonio Silver Stars began their late-season playoff push with a battle against the Charlotte Sting. Despite valiant performances from Katie Feenstra and Sophia Young, who contributed double doubles in points and rebounds, the Stars fell to the Sting on a…
French: Hard to Pronounce, Easy to Drink
It’s a complicated and confusing wine world out there. A column such as this can only introduce the consumer to a few examples a month – and despite my efforts to discuss wines of relatively general release, it often takes luck to find them at local retailers. We have all stalled in front of ranks…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
French: Hard to Pronounce, Easy to Drink
It’s a complicated and confusing wine world out there. A column such as this can only introduce the consumer to a few examples a month – and despite my efforts to discuss wines of relatively general release, it often takes luck to find them at local retailers. We have all stalled in front of ranks…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
That’s a Wrap
I know there are a lot of hurt feelings going around, but I really … I feel I have to come to this guy’s aid. He was drunk. He didn’t know what he was saying. It may be ill-advised, but I … I want to officially add my voice to the small chorus of those…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
The Hunt for Warren Jeffs
It’s astonishing how much a cult leader can get done while he’s on the run from the FBI. Witness the case of Warren Jeffs, leader of the largest fundamentalist Mormon cult in America, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or FLDS) whose members number in the region of 10,000. In the…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Brotherly Love
It’s hard not to root for Los Lonely Boys. The idea of three Chicano brothers from San Angelo building an audience by word of mouth and becoming one of the biggest bands in the country could temporarily restore your faith in the music industry. The only snag in this feel-good story is the actual music…
Strings Attached
Reunited (and it feels so good): Sergio Lara (left) and Joe Reyes. On the night of September 10, 2001, Sergio Lara and Joe Reyes were at the summit of their career. The guitar duo, known as Lara & Reyes, were in Los Angeles to attend the Latin Grammys because they had been nominated for “Best…
Melon Drama
Kevin Banks, 2, and Violet Vallejo, 9, play atop a truck load of watermelons. “I’d go for one with seeds; they’re sweeter,” Lupe Villarreal advises a customer who has pulled into a parking lot on the city’s South Side to purchase a watermelon. “If you want me to pick one out, I pretty much know…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Brotherly Love
It’s hard not to root for Los Lonely Boys. The idea of three Chicano brothers from San Angelo building an audience by word of mouth and becoming one of the biggest bands in the country could temporarily restore your faith in the music industry. The only snag in this feel-good story is the actual music…
When Oilmen Turn Sour on Crude
HOUSTON – It’s a small group: three members of the Unitarian church we’re gathered in, an engineer from Mexico, a smattering of activists, and a Pacifica Radio reporter. The meeting opens – the second of the just-hatched Houston Climate Protection Alliance – by talking about what each at the table has done to cut down…
Sound and the Fury
MAN WITH A HORN San Antonio lost one of its true musical giants last week when tenor-sax powerhouse Rocky Morales passed away on August 2 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Morales was one of Doug Sahm’s favorite creative accomplices, working with the legendary Sir Douglas off-andon for four decades.…
A History of the Overlooked
A panel from Sparky Watts by Boody Rogers, one of several obscure comic-strip artists featured in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time. Plenty of books have popped up to tell the history of comics, marching through such familiar names as Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Popeye, and The Spirit. But newspapers were a huge business back…
Two-Dimensional History and a Bunch of Show Offs
Kota Ezawa revisits historical touchstones. Kota Ezawa’s exhibition at Artpace’s Hudson (Show)Room reconfirms that our 21st-century human form is changing. While our pinky fingers haven’t dropped off yet (I’m typing with them right now) and our bodies haven’t shrunk in proportion to our heads, popular culture seems to be streamlining us into smoothly animated forms…
Brotherly Love
SACRED – Los Lonely Boys (Epic/Or) It’s hard not to root for Los Lonely Boys. The idea of three Chicano brothers from San Angelo building an audience by word of mouth and becoming one of the biggest bands in the country could temporarily restore your faith in the music industry. The only snag in this…
Hearts of Gold & Chrome
Julio “Shrek” Guanche, president of the San Antonio chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, right, with fellow member Chuck “Wolf” Felix. Hunter S. Thompson’s 1967 book Hell’s Angels, aided by the murderous 1969 Rolling Stones Altamont concert, pretty much cemented the modern biker stereotype: “outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levi’s … running fast…
Sound and the Fury
MAN WITH A HORN San Antonio lost one of its true musical giants last week when tenor-sax powerhouse Rocky Morales passed away on August 2 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Morales was one of Doug Sahm’s favorite creative accomplices, working with the legendary Sir Douglas off-andon for four decades.…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced 1992 debut, What’s the…
All You Can Eat
Uptown Deli & Grill, 612 McCullough Ave., got a rough welcome to the neighborhood (just north of North St. Mary’s by Chella’s Café and Bright Shawl) last week. The small eatery opened at the end of July and was promptly robbed. The felons absconded with all of the meat and cheeses, the dismayed counterperson said…
Bird of a Different Feather
Bad-boy restaurateur Joe Cosniac has a reputation among local diners for being caustic. It’s less well- known that his generosity to staff betrays a heart of gold apparently beating beneath the gruff exterior – and that there’s more to the man than the occasionally brusque demeanor at the door of any of his locally beloved…
Sound and the Fury
MAN WITH A HORN San Antonio lost one of its true musical giants last week when tenor-sax powerhouse Rocky Morales passed away on August 2 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Morales was one of Doug Sahm’s favorite creative accomplices, working with the legendary Sir Douglas off-andon for four decades.…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are seemingly conspiring to…
Bird of a Different Feather
Bad-boy restaurateur Joe Cosniac has a reputation among local diners for being caustic. It’s less well- known that his generosity to staff betrays a heart of gold apparently beating beneath the gruff exterior – and that there’s more to the man than the occasionally brusque demeanor at the door of any of his locally beloved…
Blinded With Science
For nearly two decades, residents of the so-called “toxic triangle” surrounded by the former Kelly Air Force Base have insisted that their illnesses were caused by chemical contaminants used at the military facility. On July 27, a 379-page report issued by the National Research Council on the dangers of trichloroethene (TCE) provided residents with their…
Sound and the Fury
MAN WITH A HORN San Antonio lost one of its true musical giants last week when tenor-sax powerhouse Rocky Morales passed away on August 2 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Morales was one of Doug Sahm’s favorite creative accomplices, working with the legendary Sir Douglas off-andon for four decades.…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and global events are…
Bird of a Different Feather
Bad-boy restaurateur Joe Cosniac has a reputation among local diners for being caustic. It’s less well- known that his generosity to staff betrays a heart of gold apparently beating beneath the gruff exterior – and that there’s more to the man than the occasionally brusque demeanor at the door of any of his locally beloved…
How *Not* To Name Your Movie
Look, I get it. OK? I do. It’s not your fault. You’re just a screenwriter – one of four who will eventually have a crack at this thing, and it’s not even through the first round of rewrites yet. You blew your creative wad on the last one, that six-year passion project that actually got…
Sound and the Fury (08-09-2006)
MAN WITH A HORN San Antonio lost one of its true musical giants last week when tenor-sax powerhouse Rocky Morales passed away on August 2 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Morales was one of Doug Sahm’s favorite creative accomplices, working with the legendary Sir Douglas off-andon for four decades.…
Royal Debut
Just like hip-hop, Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the ’70s. After spending some time in Savannah as a youngster, she returned with her family to New York, this time living in the Schlobam housing projects in Yonkers, which helped shape her street personality. Her Sean “Puffy” Combs-produced MARY J. BLIGE 7:30pm…
Counterpoint – Personal Agenda
From The Editor With your busy schedule, how to manage your armchair activism – those moments you From The Editor can sneak in a phone call or email to your elected representatives between packing school lunches, working, and fixing dinner? On top of the mundane stresses of First-World life, the current White House occupants and…
Bird of a Different Feather
Bad-boy restaurateur Joe Cosniac has a reputation among local diners for being caustic. It’s less well- known that his generosity to staff betrays a heart of gold apparently beating beneath the gruff exterior – and that there’s more to the man than the occasionally brusque demeanor at the door of any of his locally beloved…
Either You’re With Us …
Potter-Belmar Labs has already shredded the contemporary-videoart envelope beyond recognition, but the San Antonio duo will try to top their previous accolades (“blows away your expectations of new media” is oft-quoted) Saturday at Salon Mijangos with an improvised videoand- music performance narrated by the audience’s collective (sub)conscious. “This is a little bit of a hybrid…
