Hot Chisme2403 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 530-4236. The restaurant group behind The Monterey, Barbaro and Hot Joy has added a fourth concept with the opening of Chisme this week. Located inside the former location of the original Teka Molino is Chisme, which brings flavors of South Texas as presented by chef Mara Serna (formerly…
Thu 12/15 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles In a 2009 article titled “Then as Now, the Terrors of the Routine,” The New York Times drew an unlikely parallel between Orson Welles and Chantal Akerman as both were just 25 when they directed masterpieces that cast long shadows over their careers. While Akerman’s…
“Are you a food critic?” she asked — standing over me bearing a plate recently filled at Royal Cuisine’s buffet. “You look like a food critic.” “What does a food critic look like?” I responded, lamely, attempting to fend off further contact. “Well,” she replied, “you have several plates, you’re reading Food and Wine (I…
A new analysis from Eve, a sex and period tracker app, says that San Antonio women are having a lot of sex — so much that we came in at No. 17 on the app’s list of U.S. cities where ladies are getting laid the most. Eve, which was named Google Play’s “most innovative app”…
Hudson Moore Wednesday, Dec. 14 Well, damn son, Hudson Moore is one sexy country dude. On his latest album Getaway, you’ll get the feeling he’s singing straight to you especially on “Sand In The Bed” – “swimming under those king size covers and wrapping my arms around you sweetheart” (Yes, Gawd!). His baritone vocals, accented…
This weekend, the mayor’s race officially began. District 8 Councilman Ron Nirenberg stood before a chilly downtown crowd and announced he wanted to challenge Mayor Ivy Taylor because, as he put it, under her watch “our city has stopped rising.” Then on Monday, a little bit of karma. Someone did exactly what Nirenberg did to his…
Texas has seen a steady rise in yearly unpaid hospital charges, mostly accrued by uninsured patients, according to new data released by the state health commission. While the report only includes data up to 2014, when the bulk of Affordable Care Act regulations went into place, this costly pattern is expected to continue — partially due…
How better to show your disregard for a core federal agency than to appoint to its helm a figurehead who has said he literally wants to eliminate it? If you’re President-elect Donald Trump, you appoint someone like ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry to lead the U.S. Department of Energy. Meaning the dude famous for being so…
Donning matching black T-shirts that read, “On Main Off Main, Adiós Amigos, 1983-2016,” Bill Davis and Oscar Camacho are laughing while reminiscing about some of the more colorful customer exchanges they have had over the past 33 years of owning the quirky and eclectic On Main Off Main gift shop in Monte Vista. “We had…
At the Oceti Sakowin Camp, just outside the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in North Dakota, the sun seems to rise in the west. Thanks to the north’s low-slung winter sun, there’s never a midday, not one recognizable to a South Texas denizen. It seems perpetually dawn or dusk, sacred moments for gathering or dispersing.…
Reposted with permission from The Tacoist. Sometimes you don’t need to ingest all the tacos to know whether a taqueria is legit. At Mi Celayence on Fredericksburg Road, all it took was the carne guisada. This is what carne guisada is supposed to taste like: Stewed meat that is tender and complex in flavor, and not…
Top reproductive rights lawyers are suing Texas’ health department for its newly minted “fetal burial” rule a week before the law is meant to go into effect. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed litigation Monday morning against the Department of State Health Services, arguing that the rule disregards a woman’s constitutional right to access abortion…
There are times when I regret not having had a Mexican grandmother. Yes, I did have a German one; her sauerkraut was especially good. And while it’s true that I remain a sucker for anything pickled, it would have been good to have gotten a head start on menudo, barbacoa … that sort of thing.…
Frustration over flooded toilets, rodents, serious overcrowding and a lack of basic inmate services led to the all-out riot at the Willacy County Correctional Center nearly two years ago, according to a federal lawsuit that blames the South Texas prison’s closure on “abysmal mismanagement” from the for-profit company tapped to run the facility. On February 20,…
A judge has denied the motion for a new trial for a convicted killer who sexually assaulted a lesbian couple, shot them, killing one of them and leaving both for dead in Violet Andrews Park overlooking Corpus Christi Bay in Portland, Texas. On December 8, visiting Judge Philip Kazen from San Antonio denied the motion…
Some 300 tiny, blind salamanders have gone missing from a San Marcos federal research facility — and experts say it could impact the future of an already endangered species. The small population of Texas blind salamanders, native only to a 25-mile aquifer beneath San Marcos, had been kept in the San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center…
“Hey, my friend and I forgot our IDs do you think if we gave you money you could buy us some drinks?” some rando teenager asked me after the closing of Oni’s set, the prog/djent metal band from Canada opening for Children of Bodom. I apologized, said I couldn’t even though I kinda wanted to…
Asylum-seeking families, recently released from a couple of South Texas immigrant detention centers, kept showing up at San Antonio’s bus station at all hours of the night with basically no resources and no idea what to do next. That’s why Raices, a San Antonio nonprofit that provides legal assistance and other help to refugees, created…
When District 4 Councilman Rey Saldaña campaigned for reelection in 2013, he kept running into the same roadblock: Many of his Southwest Side constituents couldn’t legally vote for him. “I would knock on people’s doors with my campaign speech and they’d interrupt me — ‘No, I literally I can’t vote. I have a felony charge,'” Saldaña…
The South doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being open-minded. So when Dolly Parton came out as supportive of gay marriage in a Huffington Post interview a couple of years ago, the news was met with mixed responses. (Among her comments: “I think everyone should be with who they love… I think gay couples should be allowed…
The University of Incarnate Word is a private institution. That is, unless one of its cops, while off campus for a fast food run, spots someone driving erratically, follows them to their off-campus apartment, gets into a confrontation and then guns them down in the parking lot. In that case, according to UIW attorneys, that…
Bakery Lorraine, the brainchild of Jeremy Mandrell, Anne Ng and Charlie Biedenharn has become a San Antonio staple. This comes as no surprise as, after recently celebrating their 4th anniversary as a storefront in October (five years if you include the years previous to that when they were but a wee farmers market booth), Bakery…
Coffee is so hot right now, and one local producer wants you to know exactly how those delicious beans make it to your coffee maker. That’s the story Aaron Blanco, owner of Brown Coffee Co. is sharing in Coffee-Hunting: Kenya, a 138-minute doc by Lee Eubanks. The film, which was screened in May at the…
Last session, it was open carry. This session, the statehouse may take on a further-reaching firearm debate: Constitutional carry. Rooted in the Constitution’s Second Amendment, “constitutional carry” laws give any U.S. citizen the right to carry a firearm without a license — and is already permitted in 11 states and Puerto Rico. Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford,…
Myra and Mike Cerny moved from the San Antonio suburbs into a fixer-upper house on a one-acre tract of land in Karnes County several years before oil companies discovered the shale gas revolution beneath the South Texas dirt. The Cernys wanted a quiet country life, but, by 2010, companies eager to frack the Eagle Ford Shale…
San Antonio will continue to allow rideshare companies to operate in town —regardless of whether their drivers have passed a city background check. This decision comes after nearly three years of rocky negotiations between the city and rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, negotiations based largely on the companies’ refusal to adhere to city’s existing transportation…
I’m a 44-year-old married gay male. I recently found out my 30-year-old husband has been sending dick pics to randoms on Grindr. He says he doesn’t remember who he sent pics to, or why, other than I was working late and he was drunk and pissed at me. I want to be mature about this,…
Governor Greg Abbott has approved an $8 million grant to re-house hundreds of foster kids who have been victims of crime and are currently living in state institutions. The grant will specifically back a pilot program, run by the Department of Family and Protective Services, that will test the state’s ability to find permanent, supportive…
The holidays mean bringing family, friends, and significant others together, which usually results in ridiculous arguments, awkward tension and nervous political discourse. The only way through get through the tinsel-mania, packed malls and crowded airports is booze. Here are a few ways to get your booze on while dealing with the holiday season. Holiday Cocktails:…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally I cheer you on when you devote single-minded attention to pressing concerns, even if you become a bit obsessive. But right now, in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to run wild and free as you sample lavish variety. It’s prime time to survey a spectrum of spicy, shiny,…
More warm chocolate chip cookies are on the way this month as Austin-based Tiff’s Treats opens its fourth San Antonio store at 139 N. Loop 1604 E., Suite 102. The grand opening of the 27th store for the chain, which will take place on Saturday, December 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., will also…
Texas Medicaid is refusing to fully fund the most commonly used treatment for children with autism, according to a lawsuit filed in a San Antonio federal district court Tuesday. Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid and Disability Rights Texas filed the suit on behalf of three Texas boys — all with autism spectrum disorder and all…
Thu 12/8 Dolly Parton Dolly Parton is a legend. Oh sure, folks say that about all sorts of people, but with Dolly, there’s hardly another word more apt. The actress, author, entrepreneur, fashion icon, philanthropist, country cultural touchstone, and, of course, supremely gifted singer-songwriter is the most awarded female country act of all time. And…
Air Canada may have taken our jokes about moving after the election a bit too seriously because starting next year it’ll be a whole lot easier to get there. The San Antonio International Airport announced earlier today that it will offer nonstop flights to Toronto through Air Canada, beginning May 1, 2017. The Canadian airline…
During Halloween weekend, the inaugural Mala Luna Festival kicked things off with a sold-out crowd totaling 30,000 over a two-day span. Now, after the dust has settled, the festival is giving back to San Antonio’s youth by donating $15,000 to a local arts charity. The money will benefit the nonprofit the Network for Young Artists,…
