On the Street: The Tunnels of Gaza, A View From the Valley, A Completely Incomplete Year in Review, and Other Things
“And another one bites the dust.” Letters (to the On the Street Penthouse Suite) Before we get into last year, here are the last of the letters that somehow found their way home. #1 Self-titled Local and international photographer Bryan Rindfuss wishes us well. Happy New Year! xo, Bryan #2 Ladies! Hello All, Hope you…
Live & Local preview: The Hawks (of Holy Rosary)
Happy 2009, everyone. Tonight we’re kicking off 2009 with the parentheses-happy Hawks (of Holy Rosary) (who’ll be playing their first acoustic show ever `they’re ordinarily very much plugged-in`) at GIG on the Strip. The show is free and open to all ages. Marcus Rubio and the Gospel Choir of Pillows and Nick Krill lead singer…
Eve’s Eve Party
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Bring in the New Year a night early with the gay and lesbian community during the 4th Annual Eve’s Eve party at the Esperanza. San Anto rockers Easy Marie add live music to the celebration, and the proceeds benefit Equality Texas and the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center. $20, 8pm Tuesday, Esperanza…
New Year’s Eve at Azuca Nuevo Latino
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Embrace the New Year in style with elegant drinks and fine cuisine at Azuca, where chef Rene Fernandez has created a mouth-watering four-course menu. Dance to the fiery sounds of Fuego and step outside with your bubbly to catch the midnight fireworks. $63-75, 5:30pm & 7:30pm seatings Wednesday, Azuca, 713 S. Alamo,…
Flying Saucer New Year’s Eve Party
Release Date: 2008-12-31 The Flying Saucer’s weekly brewery night features Bosteel’s Brewery favorite Tripel Karmeliet on New Year’s Eve. Table reservations include a bottle of Dues Brut des Flandres — a divine, sparkling Bosteel’s concoction — in addition to commemorative glasses and party favors. Free Champagne toast at midnight and no cover for those without…
New Year’s Eve Improv
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Enjoy a double-shot of improv as ComedySportz takes to the stage in celebration of the Brazilian and American New Year. Teams compete for laughs in a series of games built on suggestions from the audience, and a special midnight appearance by Señor Pantalones Fuego clears the air of the nastiness that made…
Murder Mystery Players New Year’s Eve
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Not everyone lives to see the New Year when Murder Mystery Players, Inc. show up. The night includes a chef-crafted three-course meal, Champagne toast, midnight celebration, dessert bar, live DJ, and a power card to play games in addition to the hilarious interactive murder-mystery performance. $135/couple, 7pm Wednesday, Dave & Buster’s, 440…
Kid’s Countdown
Release Date: 2008-12-31 The under-12 set can make noisemakers, create glitter 2009 spectacles, or personalize a 2009 Calendar during the Children’s Museum New Year’s experience. The museum counts down the seconds to the kid-friendly hour of 12 noon, when the party explodes with FlutterFetti and the kids celebrate with a sparkling juice toast. $7 person,…
Travels with Frenchie
Part IV: Duck soup
Kremlin
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Ring in the New Year at San Antonio’s newest downtown hotspot, Acapulco Sam’s, which occupies the former Polly Esther’s building on the River Walk. Kremlin is the nightclub’s ultra-chic penthouse level, inspired by the nightlife in Moscow and specializing in VIP amenities. $2,500 balloon drop, party favors, happy-hour specials, light buffet, Champagne…
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon Composer: Welcome Wagon Conductor: Welcome Wagon Label: Ashmatic Kitty Release Date: 2008-12-31 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording Even if it weren’t produced by Sufjan Stevens and released on his Ashmatic Kitty label, discussing this full-length debut from the Welcome Wagon without mentioning him would be pointless and nearly impossible. The Welcome…
New Year’s Eve w. Robert Earl Keen and special guest Toni Price
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Robert Earl Keen’s annual New Year’s Eve concerts are a staple on the Texas Country reveler’s schedule, so much so that this year’s Gruene Hall performance is already sold out. But the usual gaggle of “extra tickets” (check Craigslist, i.e.) will likely abound, promising entry for those who really want to get…
Universal Mind Control
Universal Mind Control Composer: Common Conductor: Common Label: G.O.O.D Music/Geffen Release Date: 2008-12-31 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording Common is Chicago’s ambassador of soul. Over the course of eight albums, the Midwest maestro of jazzy hip-hop has carried the Native Tongues torch into the 21st century. The spiritual funk of his last two records, Be and…
Celebrate San Antonio
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Fireworks will explode from the 750-foot-tall Tower of the Americas during the annual Celebrate San Antonio New Year’s festival. The biggest end-of-year celebration in the Alamo City draws a quarter of a million people downtown every year with free entertainment on six stages, 50 food and beverage booths, a children’s area, and…
If All Goes Wrong
If All Goes Wrong Composer: Smashing Pumpkins Conductor: Smashing Pumpkins Label: Coming Home Release Date: 2008-12-31 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording One of the most influential bands of the early ’90s alternative-rock explosion reformed in 2007 when the Smashing Pumpkins played residencies at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina, and the Fillmore in San Francisco,…
Lifehouse
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Now, normally this would be a Critic’s Diss. Lifehouse, don’t forget, is responsible for “Hangin’ by a Moment,” that weirdly romantic Christian “rock” ballad that manages to somehow be simultaneously preachy and soulless. On top of that, this is a free concert sponsored by the freaking U.S. Army in a super-sad promotional…
Beyond a shadow
After the Church’s sex-abuse scandal, is Doubt still a virtue?
The UTSA Satellite Space All Ladies Video Review
Release Date: 2008-12-31 The first of January is rough for many of us; woozy, miasmic, gastrointestinally indeterminate, and wincingly suffused with night-before regrets. A day of TV-watching’s no oasis, either, punctuated as it is by those manipulative and annoying fitness-and diet-related commercials. You know what might cheer you up? The UTSA Satellite Space All Ladies…
Timecrimes
Timecrimes Director: Nacho Vigalondo Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo Cast: Nacho Vigalondo, Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Juan Inciarte Release Date: 2008-12-31 Rated: R Genre: Film The less you know going into Timecrimes, the more you’re going to enjoy it, so an ideal review for the film would be something like: “You there! Go see this!” But that…
Phantasmafiosa
Release Date: 2008-12-31 Unit B has canceled this weekend’s hotdogs-and-vodka closing for Smoke & Mirrors `see “That Voodoo that you do,” December 3, 2008`, but Saturday evening’s not lost: you can gyrate to the trance-inducing power of fusion belly dance (Vavavoom, Zombie Bazaar, and what’s billed as a final appearance by SA’s Poisonbelly, with Sullen…
The UTSA Satellite Space All Ladies Video Review
Release Date: 2008-12-31 The first of January is rough for many of us; woozy, miasmic, gastrointestinally indeterminate, and wincingly suffused with night-before regrets. A day of TV-watching’s no oasis, either, punctuated as it is by those manipulative and annoying fitness-and diet-related commercials. You know what might cheer you up? The UTSA Satellite Space All Ladies…
Year in Review: Busy signal
COSA and Bexar County DA Reed get: a lump of coal What the paper trail will show when John Foddrill gets his day in court (scheduled for early February, if justice can spare a judge): The former City Telecommunications Manager tried to blow the whistle on contract fraud and a department slush fund that other…
NYE SOS
New Year’s Eve is not my favorite night of the year. Which is unusual, since the occasion involves two things I generally like (Champagne and dressing up) and lacks the major stressors of the rest of the holiday season (buying gifts, family). But inevitably, by the time New Year’s Eve rolls around, I’m tired, cranky…
Role Player
It’s a little difficult to see the late Gary Gygax, a sturdy, bearded Midwestern uncle type, in Grand Theft Auto’s glitz and violence, Spore’s bizarro creature building, or Metal Gear’s urban sneak ’n’ shoot, but he’s there. Indeed, the megabillions video-game industry likely owes a good chunk of its enormous cultural brainshare to Gygax. For…
Year in Review: PERF-o-rated
Wild Turkey Saloon strip searches, gas-station anal probes, and a random bullet to the temple of a young man with a set of threatening car keys: If any police department in the nation was overdue for an independent overview it was the San Antonio Police Department, where reported officer use-of-force climbed 20 percent between 2006…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Special “GUSTAVO’S ON HOLIDAY” BEST OF THE MEX EDITION Published on February 01, 2007 Dear Mexican: How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names? For instance, José becomes Chepe, Eduardo is Lalo, Gabriel becomes Gabi, and Guillermo devolves into Memo. — It’s Marcela, Not Chela I want to know why Mexicans have…
Endless Highway
Klaus Dinger never called the drum beat/rhythm he created “motorik,” as musicians and music critics have referred to it ever since. He found the term, a neologism which translates roughly as “motor-music,” unflattering. He was once quoted as saying that he called it the “Apache beat,” but in another of the few interviews he gave…
Year in Review: The Book of Revelation
Artist, preacher, comforter of the afflicted, and afflicter of the comfortable, the Rev. Seymour Perkins has had a tough Fall. In the first week of October, a fire destroyed his house near Hackberry and Nevada. On October 10, after a series of fainting spells, he was diagnosed with cancer. Then on November 1, he sighs,…
Dear Uncle Mat
I’ve been reading your column for quite some time now, and it surprises me that I’m actually writing to you. I’m usually the one who others come to for advice. I’ve been seeing this guy since March. Ups and downs like any relationship I suppose. He has very low self-esteem, and he was previously in…
Go Lightly
Like jazz music and go-go dancing, funny women are one of America’s most slept-on natural resources. From Anita Loos to Dorothy Parker, Dawn Powell to Alison Lurie, to be a smart, funny, and female writer in America means you inevitably get forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise sidelined, personally or professionally, for daring to be talented and…
Year in Review: Watchdog in time out
James Myart is a demagogue and an impassioned crusader; a vainglorious publicity hound and a quiet lifeline for the dispossessed and exploited; a convicted petty thief and a seeker of justice. Trying to untangle Myart’s contradictions would be a lifetime project for the best psychiatrist, and without those contradictions what would we be left with?…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s a great privilege to live in a free country. You’re fortunate if you have the opportunity to pursue your dreams without having to ward off government interference or corporate brainwashing or religious fanaticism. But that’s only partly useful if you have not yet won the most important struggle for liberation,…
Loving
Mildred Loving had no intention of being a civil-rights hero. She and her husband simply wanted to go home. And that wish turned the soft-spoken Loving into a crusader, who struck down laws prohibiting interracial couples from marrying. Mildred Jeter, who was African- and Native-American, and Richard Loving, who was white, first met as children…
Year in Review: Black-eyed Susan
The Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition remains under legal fire for its needle-exchange program — which provides intravenous drug users with sterile needles and encourages them to turn in used ones, often carriers of HIV and Hepatitis, for safe disposal — but help appears to be on the way. Advocates expressed optimism earlier this month…
Bein’ good isn’t always easy
For my generation, the British Invasion of the 1960s and ’70s brings forth grainy, black-and-white television images of frothy teenage girls screaming wildly for those hunky Beatles or the dangerous Rolling Stones. The years preceding this were not the proudest in America’s musical history: Corny teenagers crooned about “the hop” while other musicians stole the…
What a Bozo
Bozo is the consummate clown, the epitome of clown. The fire-orange yak hair erupting sideways from the bald white head, the gateway-arch eyebrows, the red-ball nose, the huge greasepaint grin — Bozo, created in 1946 by Alan Livingston — is the archetype. Bozo’s influence is seen from Ronald McDonald to Killer Klowns From Outer Space…
2008 Year in Review
An entire strip-mined Ozark mountaintop would seem to be in order for old San Antone, where our City Council rewards our renewed faith in government (if not specifically this government; the new term-limits extension doesn’t apply to the current reps) with a weak City Auditor law and a golden parachute for our handsomely compensated City…
Year in Review: Drug Tsars
After a year marked by employee union organizing, public protests, and rampant allegations of mismanagement, Bexar County’s probation department marches boldly on in one of the last major cities in the state that refuses probationers the right to a high-quality pee test. Lawsuits swirl about the department’s tattered edges and state investigations return highly questionable…
THE SOUND & THE FURY
If he’s not careful, Vaden Todd Lewis could become this generation’s Guy Lombardo, at least as far as San Antonians are concerned. Lewis, frontman for the Toadies, has, in recent years, made a curious but welcome habit of dropping into SA in late December to help us ring out the old. In 2003, he brought…
Heartbeat
You do not know the darkness of life without mambo. This is because Israel Lopez, a Havana-born bassist, invented this dance/rhythm/feeling/universe some time in 1937, probably around a small round table with a bottle of rum on it inside a dark club in the wee hours of the morning. He was with his brother, the…
Year in Review: Electrical bill (hidden costs)
We admit it. It was CPS Energy’s nuke fixation that first tickled our news sense. And, yes, we kind of like that. Maybe a little too much. Still, they kept tickling. But behind the veil of back-to-the-future atomic mentality, we found something darker and equally troubling. As management sold its various requests to City leaders,…
Year in Review: A star over Big Tex
Four years, 1,200 cubic yards of asbestos-contaminated soil, a $500,000 cleanup bill (still in need of a billing address), and the Big Tex saga is finally winding down. The EPA’s remediation project, scheduled to finish just before Christmas, will remove the last of the tremolite asbestos traces from the site along the San Antonio River,…
Snowbyrd
The crowd snakes around tables and chairs, blocking waitstaff from serving drinks and tripping over-served patrons on their way to break the seal throughout Snowbyrd’s loose, bouncing, sporadically psychedelic set. So when singer-guitarist Chris Lutz commands the audience to “C’mon on up here,” and dance toward the end of the show, few people have the…
New Year’s Eve countdown
EVE’S EVE Bring in the New Year a night early with the gay and lesbian community during the 4th Annual Eve’s Eve party at the Esperanza. San Anto rockers Easy Marie add live music to the celebration, and the proceeds benefit Equality Texas and the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center. $20, 8pm Tuesday, Esperanza Peace…
Year in Review: Nuclear options
(Free download at ieer.org) Stockings filled with coal come by the Wyoming trainload to feed the furnaces powering CPS Energy’s plants. But impending federal regulation of carbon emissions is causing utilities nationwide to wrestle with alternatives. CPS’s position has been that natural-gas prices are too volatile. Solar’s still too small. But does that imply nuclear…
Year in Review: Battle of the bones
The history embedded in the hundreds of teeth, mandibles, ribs, and assorted other slivers of bone is not lost on Juan Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas. As a child growing up in San Antonio, the history of his people was full of obvious reminders. The celebrated Spanish missions lining the San…
“Good Good Fun” — Fuck City, USA
The longer-than-customary feedback intro is a warning shot. Then a rusty hacksaw bass riff digs in, and muffled screams promise “good good fun,” as if the folks in Fuck City get their jollies smothering hipster kids. The ensuing off-kilter dance-party rains rough-cut Death From Above before squeals of “whoo whoo” and “oh, yeah” announce the…
BATTLEFIELD GAZA
Yosef Sheinin, the chief rabbi of Ashdod, was understandably distraught at the funeral of Irit Shetreet, one of four Israelis to be killed by Palestinian rockets since Israel launched its bombing campaign against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday. However, he was wrong to say that her death was "the latest manifestation of 3,000 years…
Year in Review: Pennies from heaven
Call it the Miracle at Military Plaza. For much of the summer, we heard that SA was facing a serious budget crunch, with a projected deficit of nearly $14 million in fiscal 2009 and a panic-inducing $58 million the following year. In June, Mayor Phil Hardberger talked openly about the possibility of slowing down the…
Year in Review: Toxic Triangle testing drags on
The EPA took air samples back in May in the Toxic Triangle surrounding former Kelly Air Force Base, where local residents fear contaminated groundwater is responsible for a rash of cancer cases and other diseases. Results from these tests were revealed in August, but local station WOAI reported just last month that EPA is still…
S’Nuff film
Show me that smile again, San Antonio. Who better to help us forget last year’s growing pains than Mike freaking Seaver himself, Kirk Cameron, who’ll be appearing at this year’s San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (independentchristianfilms.com). But Cameron has more to talk about than his seven-year stint in Alan Thicke’s sitcom vehicle. (Isn’t it…
Year in Review: Taking a hike
Democracy is messy, boring, and a goddam pain the ass, built as much upon tedious motions and sparsely attended meetings as lofty rhetoric. So we raise our glasses of eggnogg to the members of the Park and Museum Reach subcommittees and the River Oversight Committee, who sat through many a tense hour this past year…
Year in Review: Viral marketing
The Department of Homeland Security won’t make its super-official, you-can-bank-on-it Record of Decision until January 12, 2009 (eight days before radical agent-of-change Obama takes his presidential oath), but the Environmental Impact Statement’s already out, and San Antonio didn’t get the nod for NBAF, a massive germ-research lab that will replace the country’s nigh-obsolete Plum Island…
House of god
A long time ago — way before anyone began to worry about the digital-TV switchover — gods fiddled in the affairs of man. They had powers mortals could only dream of, but their failings were equally renowned. They were drunks and lechers, envious and wrathful. They impregnated human women, sent men on impossible missions of…
Year in Review: The (almost) free lunch
One of the many advantages in relying on tourism for a chunk of our local economy is that it’s easy to do our part during a recession simply by selling the unvarnished truth to friends and family in need of a little vacation: San Antonio is a bargain — Segway tour of downtown and La…
A (semi-) misanthrope’s guide to a tolerable New Year’s Eve
If you’re at all like me, you view New Year’s Eve with a certain amount of incipient reveller’s dread. Maybe you’ve been invited to some function or other. Maybe you have a new dress for it. Maybe you have a date, too. And yet, you can’t help but feel that no matter the amount of…
Cinema Obscura
Schizopolis, writer-director and first-and-so-far-only-time actor Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), proclaims in the film’s introduction, is “the most important motion picture you will ever attend … proven to heal minor cuts and abrasions.” The story is that Soderbergh added this introduction, which assures us that any aspect we don’t understand is our own fault,…
Year in Review: Parking violation
It’s easy to see what the San Antonio Police Department got out of a new deal that places the Park Police under the supervision of SAPD Chief William McMa-nus. The agreement allows the SAPD to control the actions of park officers without relinquishing any collective-bargaining leverage to them. It also allows SAPD to skirt a…
ARTIFACTS
Would you believe it? 2009 marks the 24th year of Jump-Start Performance Company! And on the first Saturday in January, just like every year, Jump-Start celebrates its birthday with a a multi-hour orgy cum (that’s right) fundraiser featuring SA’s beloved multi-media avant garde, from John McBurney to Urban-15, and … the Jump-Start Fire-Eaters! For its…
People Who Died
Death took its usual toll this year, and seemingly then some. Genocide, war, terrorist attacks, disease — yikes. But for the purposes of our annual tribute to influential cultural notables whose deaths deserve a little extra note, it was a terrible harvest. In addition to the loss of A-list names like Paul Newman and Heath…
Year in Review: Free speech fight
Kicking along a cracked and crumbling thoroughfare, one doesn’t typically glow with the pride of ownership one takes in a new home addition or waxed, speed-hungry cruiser in the drive. But that’s your cement-chip and asphalt stream you’re treading on. Your street. Your sidewalk. Your park. These most public of public spaces have long served…
Paper dolls
The current generation of art fans is used to work that shows its seams — and its dirty chones, and its neuroses — as a method of deconstructing the art-making process, of pushing art off its pedestal, as a document of exploration, and so on. But it wasn’t so long ago that art, sculpture as…
Design for Living
Victor Schreckengost, who died January 26 at age 101, did not have an especially famous name. But to understand his impact on the way America lives, it helps to know that he designed not only the sissy bar that kept you from sliding off the back of your banana seat while popping the wheelies of…
Year in Review: Hardberger Plaza
Even Phil Hardberger’s many admirers find it hard to defend Main Plaza. They see it as a well-intentioned attempt to create some welcoming, open space downtown and soften the city’s urban landscape. They jokingly call it Hardberger Plaza and chalk it up as one obvious mistake in a mayoral run that doesn’t lack for success.…
Death and the pregnant pause
The profoundly influential English playwright Harold Pinter died of cancer this Christmas Eve at the age of 78. Theatergoers and critics continue to praise him for his dark, often hilarious, and always menacing plays. Pinter built his legacy on tense pauses, latent violence, and language that never communicated so much as it conspicuously failed to…
Unlimited Imagination
A roving camera soaks in the Old World opulence of an unnamed castle. Handsome, trim men in evening attire and jeweled women expressionlessly stare at a refined entertainment. A Chanel-clad Delphine Seyrig emerges at the top of a rococo staircase looking like the most desirable elegant object in the world that you’re never going to…
Year in Review: Future’s so bright
Early next year, most likely January 29, Development Services will report to Council on the City’s year-old digital-billboard pilot program, which gave two companies the right to erect 15 hi-def “variable message” signs along SA’s highways, including Scenic and Scenic Urban Corridors. The lion’s share of those went to Alamo homeboys Clear Channel Outdoor —…
La vie en rosé
Champagne and celebration are as linked as Texas and 10-gallon hats in the minds of most of us — so much so that the festive bubbly is all but ignored in ordinary times. Not so with Sir Winston Churchill. “I drink Champagne to celebrate a victory, and I console myself with Champagne in times of…
Silent Partner
As far as processing and recording music goes, in 2008 anyone can do almost anything with a click of a computer mouse. Some 30 years ago, though, a tape delay meant slightly staggering two tapes of the same track and crossing your fingers, and edits to a recording were made with a razor blade and…
Year in Review: Keep the bums in
Whatever you thought of this year’s term-limits-extension campaign, you can’t accuse Phil Hardberger of being ruled by self-interest. Unlike New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who responded to the Wall Street meltdown by deciding that he was too indispensable to be term-limited out of office, Hardberger and his Council compatriots will not benefit from the voters’…
Amuse-BOUCHE
New Year’s resolution: make celebration plans early in ‘09. This year, a sluggish economy may mean that one of the following still has room for you on New Year’s Eve. A-B makes no promises. In Zinc’s wine cellar, $100/person will get you duck confit, sturgeon caviar … rack of lamb, baked Alaska for two (flamed…
Not as Directed
You know that little information booklet you get with your prescriptions? How about the warning labels on the medications themselves? Well, if it weren’t for Barbara Seaman you might not get that information at all. Seaman, a writer and activist, made a career of speaking up for women, and trying to ensure that their health…
Caroline No
By Gilbert Garcia CBS reporter Roger Mudd noted during his infamous 1979 interview special with Ted Kennedy that, off the campaign stump, the Massachusetts senator “can become stilted, elliptical, and at times appear as if he really doesn’t want America to get to know him.” Couldn’t the exact same words be applied to Teddy’s niece,…
Alamo Bowl Thriller is Heartbreaker for Northwestern
The 2008 Alamo Bowl didn’t sell quite as many tickets as in recent years, as a fair number of empty seats were plainly obvious. But the game was easily one of the most thrilling contests of the 2008 bowl season so far, as the heavily favored Missouri Tigers managed to pull out a 30-23 overtime…
Martinis & Heels
Release Date: 2008-12-30 Enjoy great food, $3 martinis and cosmos and $1 draft beer while being served by the area’s best female impersonators and other characters. Not just a show but a drag experience.
George Devore
Release Date: 2008-12-30 George DeVore is making a mark with a worldly voice, honest songs, and a stage presence that caused Playboy to name him a pop-powerhouse. The power of his positive rock has garnered a growing following with much anticipated San Antonio and Austin shows, but he hasn’t limited himself to the United States.…
Performance Party XXIV
Release Date: 2008-12-30 Celebrate Jump-Start’s 24th anniversary with a performance buffet of tasty acts served up by the usual, and some highly unusual, suspects. Confirmed performers include the Overtime Theater, poet Rodney Garza, comedian Joel Settles, Madmedia, Alisa Claridy, excerpts from the Vagina Monologues, and more. The annual fundraiser, benefiting Jump-Start’s original programming, has become…
Nothing More CD Release
Release Date: 2008-12-30 CD Release Party Part II with a special guest performance by The Black Tracks and an appearance by former guitarist Josh Kercheville. All ages show. Support by The Vettes and Oso Closo.
