For the sixth-annual Musica en la Calle, Hotel Havana will once again turn its parking lot into a mini-music festival, creating an ideal winter’s evening under the stars. Along with artisan vendors and an impressive food and drink menu (provided by Ocho at Hotel Havana), Musica en la Calle, hosted this time by DJ Steven…
Scant months after proposing more lax (and deadly) air-quality rules, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it now wants to roll back Obama-era clean water protections. Its proposal would scale back the number of waterways that fall under EPA purview, leaving tributaries and intermittent streams essentially unregulated by the feds. The rule change would…
The “Sad Clown with the Golden Voice” is coming to San Antonio with his heartfelt anthems and a suitcase full of tissues. Recognizable from America’s Got Talent and YouTube (you know you can just fall down a rabbit hole watching music videos?), Puddles performs old-timey interpretations of classic pop and rock songs from the likes of…
What more can be said about Vince Staples that we don’t already know? The Compton-born rapper has been making waves since appearing on different Odd Future members’ projects since the 2010s and collaborating with some of the best in the weirdo hip-hop world like the late Mac Miller. Back in 2014, Current contributor James Courtney…
Fans of San Antonio native Carol Burnett will be able to catch the funnywoman back in her hometown for a special performance. Burnett will host “An Evening of Laughter and Reflection” at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Audience members will be able to ask Burnett questions about her…
For the first time in more than two decades, the Shops at Rivercenter will not have a comedy club. On Sunday, the Improv Comedy Club at Rivercenter closed its doors after 25 years in business. Formerly called the Rivercenter Comedy Club, the downtown spot has hosted big acts and local comedians alike, but business declined…
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and other advocates are making a last minute push for Congress to restore funding to a program that’s provided $577 million in upkeep to Texas parks including the San Antonio Missions. As we reported this fall, the 53-year-old Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) expired on Sept. 30 because Congress, despite…
The Culinary Institute of America-San Antonio is bringing a new restaurant to the Pearl next month. Foodies, say hello to SAVOR. On Tuesday, CIA announced the new restaurant, a seasonal Modern-American concept that allows faculty to teach future chefs cuisines and techniques from around the world. “We are thrilled to have SAVOR join the Pearl…
You can build just about anything in the hit game Fortnite, and with millions of daily players, it’s no surprise that someone has made a recreation of San Antonio’s famous Alamo. #FortniteBlockParty Based on the Alamo. San Antonio, Texas. pic.twitter.com/54QcXG9kL2 — BlakeStancik (@BlakeStancik) December 10, 2018 Here you can see the original tweet, along with…
In order to celebrate the opening of the upcoming renovations to the rhinoceros exhibit at the San Antonio Zoo, a large sculpture will be arriving in 2019. Aptly titled “The Last Three,” the piece is meant to represent the last three Northern white rhinos. However, the last male Northern white rhino, Suda, passed away mere days…
As the year comes to a close, that means local foodies can get excited about Culinaria’s Restaurant Weeks next month. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 2019 edition of Restaurant Weeks will allow San Antonians to taste food and drink from more than 100 participating area restaurants. While the annual two week long event is meant…
City Councilman Greg Brockhouse — Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s likely opponent in next May’s election — is again using outgoing City Manager Sheryl Sculley as a political differentiator. In a statement, Brockhouse called on council to make its vote on Sculley’s bonus compensation in an open meeting rather than a closed-door executive session. Sculley, a Nirenberg…
The blurb for the current tour of The Phantom of the Opera trumpets a “spectacular new production” with “exciting new special effects,” and new “scenic and lighting designs, staging and choreography.” Yep, those elements are all new, but not, alas, all good, which only proves that newer doesn’t mean better and that advertising isn’t analysis.…
It’s a Christmas miracle, y’all. Metal icons Slayer have just announced Leg 5: North America, the fifth leg of their final world tour, which includes more Texas dates. Just in case you missed them in San Antonio earlier this year, 2019 is the year of redemption with chances to see the band with Lamb of…
Free Week 2019 kicks off one month from today, and host Paper Tiger is trickling out the lineup details. From Thursday, January 10, to Sunday, January 13, Paper Tiger will bring in multiple acts for four days of free music and parties. The annual offering is open to music-lovers of all ages. While the full…
Spurs fans who just can’t get enough of the team’s H-E-B commercials can now own a part of that super-Texan collaboration. Beginning today, they’ll be able to bid on items used in the TV ads as part of the H-E-B 12 Days of Christmas Spurs Auction. The online auction features more than a dozen props…
Since releasing their debut LP Everything All The Time, Band of Horses have continue to carve out their own space in the vast sea that is indie rock. Formed and led by singer and songwriter Ben Bridwell, the South Carolina-based band have given us numerous much-loved singles, including “The Funeral” and “No One’s Gonna Love…
Here’s a cautionary note to temper your holiday shopping scramble: San Antonians have some of the highest credit card debt in the nation. According to the killjoys at financial site WalletHub, the Alamo City is in the top 27 percent of U.S. cities with the most credit card debt. Turns out, we owe a median of $2,809…
This article was originally published by the Texas Tribune. With more than 200,000 people in Texas jails and prisons, and nearly half a million children in Texas who have experienced a parent getting locked up, a new national report highlighted something Texas families are well aware of: family incarceration leads to potentially devastating emotional and…
This article was originally published by our sister publication Out In SA. There is no shortage of holiday cheer in San Antonio’s LGBT community with fundraisers, mixers and seasonal concerts. If you’re looking to hit the town to celebrate, the following list offers a bit something for everyone. December 8 // Concert: Once Upon a…
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, appeared yesterday on MSNBC to discuss Roger Stone’s likely fate in the Mueller probe. And his prediction doesn’t look good for the political consultant and Trump ally. “I’ll tell you right now that Roger Stone, I’m almost certain, will be prosecuted for lying to the House Intelligence Committee,” Castro said.…
The now-viral story of a San Antonio mother being her son’s wingman while shopping at H-E-B now has a new chapter. On Monday, Charisma Valdez, a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, took to Twitter to look for a fellow Roadrunner on campus. If your name is Cody, you’re 6’4, you go…
This article was originally published by our sister publication Out In SA. State Representative Diego Bernal of San Antonio has filed two pro-LGBT bills ahead of the 86th session of the Texas Legislature which convenes on January 8, 2019. Bernal has so far authored 26 bills covering a variety of issues. The first of the…
The luck in San Antonio continues: a local resident has won $1 million from a scratch-off ticket. On Friday, the Texas Lottery confirmed that a San Antonio resident won the payout via a Million Dollar Loteria ticket, marking the first of the five million-dollar prizes in the game. The new millionaire, who has smartly chosen to remain…
Fire union President Chris Steele’s mantra over the past four years had been that he’d return to the bargaining table with the City within seven days of it dropping its lawsuit against the union. On Nov. 29, San Antonio abandoned its suit over the so-called “evergreen clause” in the union’s contract, meaning those days have…
The Midnight Hour — consisting of A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, who’s produced for the likes of Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan and Common — is arguably one of the most ferocious duos active right now. And their genius goes beyond the numerous genres they tiptoe through with their music — jazz, soul, bebop and…
If you’ve never had the refined pleasure of enjoying a concert in the friendly confines of Wolverton Home Concerts’ house venue, then you have been missing out — and there’s precious little time left to amend your ways. The cozy venue has been hosting small and splendid concerts (they never call them “shows,” because it’s…
Morphing from metalcore roots in the vein of bands like As I Lay Dying and Parkway Drive into a more active-rock sound, In This Moment has pressed on since the mid-2000s, releasing albums as recently as last year. And even with that change in their sound, the L.A.-originated group hasn’t stopped gaining new fans. Along…
Barring an unforeseen post-season showdown, the Spurs tip off against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers for the last time this season on Friday – after losing by eight points on Wednesday night. In previous wins against the Lakers, LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan have led the way, with Aldridge scoring a season high…
The Buzzcocks lead singer Pete Shelley has died at the age of 63 following a suspected heart attack, according to a report from BBC. A publicist confirmed that Shelley passed away Thursday at his home in Estonia. Even though the band is widely known as a punk outfit, The Buzzcocks managed to step into multiple…
Remember the family that set their Christmas lights to “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” last year? Well, they’re back with two new light shows. The Hinojosa family decided to go all out this year after making headlines for a Selena light display last year. Their Boerne home will include the same “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” track…
City council voted Thursday morning to let the hospitality industry collect additional hotel funds so San Antonio can up its marketing game. A lone holdout, District 4 Councilman Rey Saldaña, voted against the measure, saying he wanted a delay so the city could mull devoting a share of the new money to groups aiding the city’s…
Aaron Lewis has come a long way from his adolescent angst-igniting anthems from the late ’90s. If you graduated high school between 1998 and 2005, you or someone you know probably had a Staind CD (and maybe even wrote some terrible poetry because of those songs). But with the release of 2011’s Town Line, Lewis…
A San Antonio man has been booked for driving while intoxicated after crashing his SUV into a fast food restaurant on the city’s West Side. Happens all the time in San Anto, right? The twist here is that he also happens to be a mariachi. The man, along with at least one other mariachi, drove…
The San Antonio Film Commission has awarded its 2019 Local Filmmaker Grants to directors Allison Herrera, Nathanial “Than” Niles, Justin Rodriguez and Dave Sims. The matching grants, each in the amount of $5,000, will help the San Antonio-based filmmakers defray the cost of projects they’re working on through the end of 2019. To win one of…
Another for-profit college in San Antonio has shut its doors. Around 800 students at Brightwood College’s two San Antonio campuses were informed Wednesday that the school’s parent, Education Corporation of America, is shutting down, effective immediately. The closure comes after the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools suspended ECA’s accreditation, according to Inside Higher Ed. The…
If you find the combination of ghastly snarls, blast beats and spooky, tremolo-picked electric guitar riffs soothing, then you’re clearly a fan of black metal. One of the most abrasive genres in the wide spectrum of metal, black metal isn’t for everyone, and not just any band can be good at it. But Portland’s Uada…
Although Warner Bros. waited patiently for two years to release Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, so that it wouldn’t have to compete with Walt Disney’s highly enjoyable 2016 live-action take on The Jungle Book, the subsequent fantasy adventure based on English author Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories feels needlessly glum and irrelevant. The narrative framework…
Assorted monsters, quirky canines, bumble bees with human skulls for heads, two-headed bears, rabbits dragging their own hearts and mushroom-cat hybrids are among the beasties that populate the odd universe of Jessica Pliez, a French street artist who works between photography, drawing, painting and printmaking. Although she draws inspiration from her upbringing (amid the culinary…
It’s once again time for San Antonians to give vent to our ongoing obsession with the quirkily macabre work of auteur Tim Burton, via the seventh annual Burton Ball. From Pee-wee’s Big Adventure to Beetlejuice, from Edward Scissorhands to The Nightmare Before Christmas, from Sweeney Todd to Big Fish, the writer/director has created a whole,…
Ready or not, the season of gifting is once again upon us. And whether your personal shopping list covers dozens of family members and friends both naughty and nice or stops abruptly at an office-enforced Secret Santa, keep in mind San Antonio’s many artisan fairs and locally focused initiatives such as the OPEN Holiday Market.…
How did heavy brews come to dominate our beer scene? It seems to run counter to history and climatology both. Stouts and porters come from Ireland and England, not the German or German-via-Mexico traditions that cast the longest shadow in South Texas, and even if the Texicans were used to Russian imperial stouts, how the…
San Antonio’s landed on plenty of lists suggesting we’re not exactly the most physically fit city. Now, adding insult to injury, a new study’s telling us we’re also slobs when it comes to “wallet fitness.” Sheesh. It’d be nice if we could catch a break. Here’s the deal — the new study by financial site WalletHub…
Editor’s Note: Jade Esteban Estrada is the writer of Glitter Political, a series of articles detailing San Antonio’s political scene. It’s late afternoon when I meet Judge-elect Monique Diaz, 34, at her campaign office on North St. Mary’s Street, and she’s aglow in the rippling aftermath of Bexar County’s blue wave. As part of that…
One local female athlete is ready to take on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Well, she’s ready to take on Johnson’s challenge to prove her athletic skills on his new NBC series The Titan Games. Jackie “Jax” Wood, a trainer based in San Antonio, will be one of 32 women to undergo an intense physical and…
Tucker’s Kozy Korner is back in the groove, y’all. Following a month-long hiatus, Tucker’s is reopening Wednesday under new operators. Last month, Andrew Lake and Nathan Azar took over the East Side institution, promising to make changes. While Lake and Azar say they’re committed to upholding the restaurant’s traditions, Tucker’s will sport a new food and…
For many children, The Nutcracker provides a first exposure to ballet and classical music. Set to Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s iconic score, the magical tale of Marie and her Nutcracker Prince has become synonymous with the holiday season. And it’s not just young girls who dream of dancing like the Sugar Plum Fairy — boys…
Dear Dulce! guests, We have some IMPORTANT news about the sweetest event of the year, happening this Friday, December 7. Although the weather has been gorgeous for the past few weeks, the forecast is calling for a 100% chance of thunderstorms on Friday night, with a possibility of localized flooding. Our original venue, the stunning…
During a scene in the 1975 Academy Award-winning drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a doctor at a mental institution tells R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) that after evaluating him for four weeks, he sees no evidence of mental illness. “You know, what do you want me to do?” McMurphy asks before mimicking masturbating, as…
Two-thirds of low-income women in Texas who recently delivered a baby aren’t getting their preferred method of contraception, according to a new study. The report by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) found that the majority of poor women didn’t receive the type of contraception they wanted at their initial six-week postpartum visit, putting them…
“Kottonmouth Kings telephone rings!” As labelmates of the Insane Clown Posse, Kottonmouth Kings have a built-in audience of Juggalos, ICP’s cult fanbase. But instead of focusing on “Miracles” and forming their own religion (seriously) like their Psychopathic Records brothers, Kottonmouth Kings focus all their energy on bong rips. One of their more popular songs, 2011’s…
It’s that time of year again — Hallmark Christmas movies are being broadcast wall-to-wall and carols are piped out of tinny speakers in every public space imaginable. If this is enough to make you batty, you’re certainly not alone. In his early 30s, much to his chagrin, David Sedaris found himself working as an elf…
“Fruiting Bodies,” the latest from Jennifer Bieniek, uses a mythological journey as the narrative structure upon which to map an exploration of the female reproductive cycle. The immersive installation “examines the human biological drive for procreation” and the “biological, psychological and cultural factors controlling the female reproductive system.” Featuring draped swathes of fabric in varied…
In addition to their commendable efforts to showcase the work of established, emerging and practically unknown San Antonio artists — from old-school photographer Joan Frederick to rising printmaker Michael Menchaca and even the talented preparators who work behind the scenes at museums and cultural institutions — Presa House Gallery co-directors Rigoberto Luna and Jenelle Esparza have…
Editor’s Note: The following is City Current, a column of opinion and analysis. The voters have spoken, and Sheryl Sculley is gone. Well, almost. The question now becomes what Mayor Ron Nirenberg and San Antonio’s city council should do to remedy the heartburn voters expressed when they overwhelmingly approved a charter amendment restricting future city…
Toronto-based indie pop-rock outfit Born Ruffians came up in the mid-2000s, a special time for indie rock music that some might even call the golden era of that nebulous genre. Like the Shins, the New Pornographers, the Decemberists or any number of indie bands who rose to prominence during the era, there’s a deceptively simple…
Q: I’m a 59-year-old man in good health. For basically my whole adult life, I’ve had this problem during intercourse with a woman of (1) being very quick to come and (2) having a too intense “cringey” sensation when I come. This has led to often going soft at the prospect of intercourse. This too-intense…
In what seems like a righteous kick-off to this celebratory holiday season and end to our city’s tricentennial year, ’90s alt-icons Smashing Pumpkins came to San Antonio and put on arguably the best live rock ‘n’ roll show of the year. On the way to the show, a friend and I reminisced about when we…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I write a horoscope for you, I focus on one or two questions because I don’t have room to cover every single aspect of your life. The theme I’ve chosen this time may seem a bit impractical, but if you take it to heart, I guarantee you it will have…
Tirelessly “bumping and grinding all over the city of San Antonio since 2011,” the bubbly, bodacious, body-positive Pastie Pops burlesque troupe serves up sizzling, seasonal performances that combine classic tease, contemporary interpretations, bawdy comedy, boylesque, drag and fun-loving surprises that hearken to the vaudevillian era. Comprised of ringleader Jasper St. James (the “big and tall…
Since the chandelier first crashed onto the stage in 1986, The Phantom of the Opera has left an indelible mark on theater culture worldwide. Now a touring company mainstay, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel transforms the modern theater into a haunted Parisian opera house for each performance, an effect that will…
Fake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censored’s vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. “But Censored 2019 is a book…
Straight up now, tell me do you want to see Paula Abdul in San Antonio? I mean, we do. The Grammy Award-winning pop legend will headline the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts’ 2018 Benefit Concert Gala Wednesday in the H-E-B Performance Hall. The dance superstar will perform the hits we love, like “Straight Up,”…
You won’t see stand-up Brian Regan bat an eyelash when a fellow comedian drops one of George Carlin’s original “Seven Dirty Words” during a gig. Hell, Regan is even OK when his character Mugsy on his comedy TV series Loudermilk is called a “dickhead” and a “dumb fuck” to his face in one episode. And…
Cooper Greenberg, a San Antonio/Austin singer-songwriter and (excellent) guitarist, will drop his sophomore release December 7 and celebrate the occasion with a show the same night at the Rustic. The album, called Dream Sequence, follows up Greenberg’s promising 2016 debut EP Wave Pool. It’s a seven-song affair and his first recorded work with a full band.…
