UTSA gathers SA’s culinary mixtura in a homey collection
Homey recipes from UTSA, for a good cause Before cookbooks became big business, and before food was overtly about something else altogether (cultural voyeurism, the ability to buy white truffle oil, the latest dietary trend), many home cooks corralled tried-and-true recipes in an index card box, or pasted into pages of a notebook. My mother…
Child’s play
Here come They Might Be Giants: The duo’s forthcoming kid-friendly CD and DVD, Here Come the ABCs is due out February 15. Veteran alt-rockers find safe haven in the kids’ music bins Where do rock stars go when they become too passé (read: old) for the youth market? The original generation of rockers handled such…
A handful of holiday hash
The weather outside may be frightful, but these movies are not delightful: scenes from Jingle All the Way, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Surviving Christmas, and casting a pall over the holiday, Ernest Saves Christmas. Christmas: How bad can it be? In Hollywood, pretty damn bad The Holiday Season is in full swing and so,…
Lonely at the top
The Garza Brothers, also known as Los Lonely Boys, will be the subject of a documentary due out next year. The San Angelo-based trio has been nominated for four Grammy Awards. Filmmaker Hector Galán documents the stunning rise of Los Lonely Boys After producing the landmark documentary Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights…
Poor little rich boy
Leonardo DiCaprio takes to the skies, and Hollywood, as the impulsive, brilliant, and mentally unstable magnate Howard Hughes, in The Aviator. Scorcese’s ‘Aviator’ celebrates a man who conquered the world and then rejected it Those who had to survive the 1960s without a private jet or personal chef looked to Howard Hughes as reassuring proof…
Sound and the Fury
Robert Earl Keen A week on the scene Walking the floore On what shapes up to be an understandably slow yuletide week for live music, Floore Country Store trots out a couple of deep-voiced heavy hitters. Robert Earl Keen, a Bandera native and one of the definitive Lone Star troubadours (not to mention a Texas…
Digging up the past
Audrey Tatou, who captivated audiences as the mischievous title character in Amélie, plays an intense and impetuous French woman investigating the fate of her fiancé, a soldier in World War I, in A Very Long Engagement. The star and director of ‘Amélie’ take us to the trenches of World War I to find a young…
Pop opera
The only grandiose ambition he won’t cop to The cover of Rufus Wainwright’s Want Two looks strikingly similar to last year’s Want One, except for a crucial difference. On Want One, Wainwright depicted himself as the heroic knight in armor, while on Want Two he’s the damsel in distress. That’s Wainwright’s duality for you: He…
New reviews
It’s loathe at first sight for the Byrnes and Fockers in Meet the Fockers, sequel to Meet the Parents. ‘Flight of the Phoenix’ meets the plight of the Fockers Meet the Fockers Dir. Jay Roach; writ. John Hamburg, Jim Herzfeld; feat. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo (R)…
Shady’s retreat
And that’s why it sucks to be dude A buck says it sucks to be Eminem these days. True, his latest could be multiplatinum by the time you read this. But when you’re the shocking Marshall Mathers, and your shock shine has all but faded, millions in sales cease to be the barometer for success.…
Armchair Cinephile
The countdown begins Okay: It’s something like an hour and a half until somebody’s expecting a present from you. You’re reading this, which normally would be classified a procrastination technique. Fortunately, your movie-lovin’ pal has some last-minute gift ideas for the cinemaniacs on your list, particularly the hardcore film historians. Everyone knows that a DVD…
Not for sale
Forty-three million bottles of beer on the bar, forty-three million bottles of beer … if one of those bottles would happen to fall, forty-two million bottles of beer on the bar. Contrary to the rumor mill, The Esquire Tavern on the River Walk is not for sale, its owners say. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) The…
Fault lines
(Photo by Mark Greenberg) Crowd divided at power plant hearing Last week, the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy, a city- and county-funded organization, sponsored an energy summit downtown, where the buzz was about technological breakthroughs that allow us to keep the air clean – through green building, conservation, and efficiency – without having to turn off…
Recent reviews
Closer Dir. Mike Nichols; writ. Patrick Marber; feat. Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen (R) Closer has as much rapid-fire banter and biting wit as you’d hope to find in a comedy, but you’re not very likely to mistake it for one: Closer insists on showing us the horrific side of love, the…
Kolache waits for no one
Nicavid’s Bakery and Cafe co-owner Janie Spalding stands along side a selection of baked goods from her shop near the Medical Center. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) There’s plenty to fill your belly at Nicavid’s Bakery, but plan your trip wisely A full pastry case is one of the most hopeful sights in the world: row…
Part of the world the world had stopped watching
The wars in Central America and their impact on the region’s citizens, including the children, are the topic of Después de las Guerras, a radio program that will air on Texas Public Radio station KSTX. (Photo by Donna Decesare) A new radio series checks in on Central America after the wars and considers how its…
Hot time in the old town
Selma firefighter Myron Fiedler prepares a casserole made with ground beef mixed with pork & beans, and macaroni & cheese for dinner for himself and another firefighter as the four-person crew prepares to sit down to eat. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) When they’re not busy answering calls, the city’s firefighters cook up a mean meal…
Playing with childhood
Steven Mintz examines how society shapes youth to serve its needs George Washington was never a teenager – not because the father of this country was born at 50 but because the concept “teenager” did not exist; the word did not appear in print until 1941. A 13-year-old has more in common with a 12-year-old…
