Spain’s Beatriz Talegón lambasts Socialist International
Twenty-nine year-old attorney Beatriz Talegón is the Secretary General of the International Youth Socialist Union, but she became a viral sensation on February 5, when she lambasted the Socialist International in Portugal for driving expensive cars and meeting in five-star hotels. She went on criticizing the party for claiming to care about the youth, when…
C?lin Peter Netzer’s ‘Child’s Pose’ takes Berlinale 2013 Golden Bear
The 63rd Berlinale (Feb. 7-17), the world’s largest international film festival, has announced this year’s winners. GOLDEN BEAR for the Best Film Pozi?ia Copilului (Child’s Pose) by C?lin Peter Netzer JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear) Epizoda u životu bera?a željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker) by Danis Tanovi? ALFRED BAUER PRIZE (Silver Bear) -…
Oh Yoko! Happy 80th Birthday, Ms. Ono.
On Sunday, February 17, Yoko Ono celebrated her 80th birthday with a sold-out performance by her Plastic Ono Band at Berlin’s legendary Volksbühne. She performed with son Sean (guitar, piano and bass), Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto, keyboards and laptop), Yuko Araki (Cornelius, drums), Nels Cline (Wilco, guitar), Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan/Donald Fagen, trumpet), Charlotte…
World Press Photo champ is Sweden’s Paul Hansen
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen’s “Gaza Burial” won the World Press Photo of the Year award for 2012, the world’s most prestigious photojournalism contest. “Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike,” reads the photo description at WPP’s website. “Their father Fouad was also killed…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: A Raisin in the Sun
The anticipation of a $10,000 life insurance check drives A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s seminal American drama inspired by her family’s pivotal 1940 Supreme Court battle surrounding a covenant that barred African Americans from purchasing or leasing land in a Chicago neighborhood. In a cramped apartment, members of the Younger family clash over…
Miller Farms penalized for illegal raw milk drop-offs
Fifteen miles east of San Antonio, Miller Farms’ dairy production has encountered legal troubles. Miller supplies Grade A quality grass-fed raw milk to San Antonio and neighboring areas both via retail sales on the farm and drop off points around town. These drop off locations are usually held at private residences and make acquiring…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Asian Festival
The Year of the Snake will be in full force during the Institute of Texan Cultures’ 26th Annual Asian Festival. The family-focused event will commemorate the Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Filipino, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, and other thriving Asian cultures in San Antonio. True to the markers of the Year of the Snake, the festival has been…
New Reign by Sonya Barrera Eddy
Science fiction is a laudable genre (though I’m not one to make black and white assumptions about genre). And I think flash fiction lends itself well to it. All good flash creates a world, so why not make it one that is clearly not one we live in — socially, culturally, politically, economically, what have…
Castro Twins in Vogue
San Antonio wonder twins, Mayor Julián Castro and Congressman Joaquin Castro are slated for a profile in Vogue’s esteemed March issue, the power issue, which this year features fellow Texan Beyonce on its cover. Photographed by the incomparable Annie Leibovitz and penned by Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and prolific political journalist, the piece entitled “Pair…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: The Full Monty
In its transition from Oscar-nominated film to Tony-nominated musical, The Full Monty relocates from Sheffield, England, to Buffalo, New York, to watch a sextet of down-and-out steel workers one-up Chippendales dancers with a ballsy money-making scheme. Adapted by playwright Terrence McNally and scored by David Yazbek, the Americanized play channels the film’s themes and twists…
Q&A: Alden Ehrenreich & Alice Englert on ‘Beautiful Creatures’
Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) and Lena (Alice Englert) play star-crossed lovers in the supernatural romance “Beautiful Creatures.” In the film Beautiful Creatures, actors Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro) and Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa) play Ethan and Lena, the main couple at the center of the supernatural love story where dark secrets are uncovered in a small Southern…
Rackspace does the Harlem Shake
So, the Harlem Shake isn’t exactly new. Either is krumping or trap music. But the bat shit crazy 30 second video meme of people dancing to Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” went viral so quickly in past week that you can’t log on to the interwebs anymore without seeing some bizzare dance party on your screen. In a…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Carly Garza & Lorita Drive
Possessor of an angelical voice and above-average songwriting talent, Carly Garza returns with yet another show that even she finds hard to describe beforehand. “I originally wanted to have a drummer … but my last two solo shows were pretty successful and so now I’m thinking, ‘How many things can I do at once successfully,…
The Royalty coming to War Room 2/16
El Paso alt-rockers The Royalty are scheduled to feature in an excellent night of regional talent at War Room. Behind Nicole Boudreau’s gorgeously soulful vocals, The Royalty makes R&B-infused indie-rock imbued with a distinguishing dream-pop quality. Their Victory Records debut Lovers should provide ample fodder for a rousing soul-penetrating set that defies expectations and investigates…
Sen. Campbell pushes Creationism during SBOE confirmation hearing
The Texas State Board of Education still trying to distance itself from its recent tumultuous past. In 2010, as the board revised curriculum standards for the state’s science and history textbooks, a super-conservative wing led by Don McLeroy made the SBOE the butt of jokes across the country, injecting charged conservative language into the state’s…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”
Oppositional currents in 20th-century art converge in “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art.” Second in a series aimed at reassessing the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition assembles works by Edward Hopper, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Yves Tanguy, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Philip Guston, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, George Tooker, and Andrew Wyeth…
Anti-LGBT pastor will again officiate tonight’s mass marriage ceremony
Last year a dozen or so same-sex couples who showed up on the Bexar County Courthouse steps for the annual Valentine’s midnight marriage ceremony got good ol’ religious rebuke local pastor Joe Sullivan. “He said we were there solely to be repulsive and disgusting,” GetEqual Texas activist Julie Pousson told us back then. “And for…
San Antonio Regional Golden Gloves Schedule 2013
Preliminary Competition $10 6pm Feb 19-21 Woodlawn Gym 1103 Cincinnati Novice Championship $12 7pm Fri, Feb 22 Woodlawn Gym 1103 Cincinnati Open Division Championship $15-$25 7pm Sat, Feb 23 Scottish Rite Center 308 Avenue E
AG appeals Southtown building sale
Apparently Rosario’s owner Lisa Wong isn’t the only one troubled by shady dealings behind the sale of her Southtown restaurant’s neighboring building, the former Texas Highway Patrol Museum. At the request of the state Attorney General’s office, the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals on Friday granted an emergency motion to stall the sale of the…
Pollack steps down at Our Lady of the Lake
Tessa Martínez Pollack’s tumultuous stint as president of Our Lady of the Lake University will end March 1. Her decade-long tenure was marred by declining enrollment. The decision to eliminate 12 degree programs — including the B.A.s in Religious Studies and Mexican-American Studies — inflamed simmering consternation towards her among faculty and students. The Board…
Eels: 'Wonderful, Glorious'
After a shot of bourbon, the garbled brilliance that floods to the brain just before the aftertaste is where Eels resides. Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, releases his 10th album full of contemplation and distortion. The release follows on the heels of 2010’s End Times and Tomorrow Morning, the final two pieces of…
‘Cult’ wants to kidnap and brainwash you
Cult (8pm Tue, CW) Cult offers one of the 2012-13 season’s most intriguing concepts. It’s about a TV series, itself named “Cult.” The show-within-the-show portrays a creepy cult run by a psycho who kidnaps and brainwashes his followers. “Cult” has inspired a legion of fans, some of whom go off the deep end in their…
Book reviews: Nahuallliandoing Dos, We the Animals
Nahualliandoing Dos: An Anthology of Poetry in Nahuatl, Espanol and English / Edited by Anisa Onofre and Juan Tejeda / Atzlan Libre Press / $12, 52 pages Who owns poetry? A medium that begins and ends, as cultural critic Michael Ventura has put it, in silence. No one can, but nations often claim poetry as…
Delivery Market does just that
There are plenty of opportunities downtown for a casual al fresco lunch, but if you need good sustenance in a hurry, choices are limited. Delivery Market, a deli located opposite San Antonio Children’s Museum on Houston Street, is known for getting lunch-to-office on the quick, with free delivery in the downtown area. They make a…
Oscar-nominated shorts make their way to the Bijou Feb. 15
They don’t have the glitz and glamour of categories like Best Costume Design or Best Sound Mixing (and if you’re an Oscar predictions junkie, one of them is bound to screw up your stats during the evening), but the 15 Academy Award-nominated short films that make up this year’s three short film categories (Documentary, Animated,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Afrikaner author Laurens van der Post told a story about a conversation between psychologist Carl Jung and Ochwiay Biano, a Pueblo Indian chief. Jung asked Biano to offer his views about white people. "White people must be crazy because they think with their heads," said the chief, "and it is well-known…
'Beautiful Creatures' embraces "classic stupidity"
There is exactly one fascinating line of dialog in writer-director Richard LaGravenese’s faux gothic Beautiful Creatures. It is spoken by the insubstantial yet wicked witch Sarafine Duchannes (Emma Thompson), who hopes to convince her daughter Lena (Alice Englert) to embrace dark magic and rule over all humankind. “Love,” she explains, “is a spell created by…
The March Divide: 'Music for Film'
Music for Films, the debut album from San Antonio’s Jared Putnam (formerly of The Conversation) and company, leaves the listener lost in the anticipation of something it never fully delivers. A record of partial hits and total misses, Music for Films seems to hint at a promise somewhere in between the melodramatic pop-punk of Cursive…
Industry News: Accolades to Bliss; Arcade Midtown Kitchen to open
San Antonio often loses to our neighbors north and east when it comes to culinary accolades. But no one can deny that San Antonio’s food scene is bustling these days, least of all Texas Monthly. The magazine named Bliss as one the favorite new restaurants that opened in the past year. San Antonio’s NAO, Bite,…
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
Boxing for many area youngsters has been more than just a rite of passage or a dream of title belts or Olympic gold. We asked two San Antonio men who boxed as youngsters what boxing meant then and now in their lives. ARTURO INFANTE ALMEIDA, Artist: "I was part of the Franco Family boxing club…
Ron Young faces mortality with a little help from his friends
Forever Young Benefit, featuring George Chambers and the Country Gentlemen, Twist of Fate Band, Tennessee Valley Authority, Los #3 Dinners, Ruben V, Augie Meyers $10 2-9pm Sun, Feb 17 Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson (210) 223-2830 samsburgerjoint.com Life’s defined by its challenges. In writer/musician Ron L. Young’s case, it’s a banked curve revealing either…
Review, 'Days That I'll Remember: Spending time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono'
Days That I’ll Remember: Spending time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono By Jonathan Cott 242 pages, hardbound (Doubleday) $25.95 In the world of that ancient thing called "journalism," you were not supposed to hang out too much with the people you wrote about. "You cannot … make friends … with the rock stars," Lester…
'Printed in San Antonio,' McNay exhibition reveals tradition
Click here to see more images from the exhibition. Beyond the stretch of plains, past the shelter of lush forest and the heavy-handed presence of a white church, rests the simple, symbolic gesture of a cross upon the hill. Its position above the church bears much greater Texas cultural significance, neither dominating nor imposing upon…
Council approves SAWS rate hike
After hours of heated discussion, Council last week voted 8-3 to approve San Antonio Water System’s requested 8.4 percent rate increase. True to form, Northside Councilman Carlton Soules put up the loudest objection. Soules argues SAWS has been too slow to respond to concerns from the Environmental Protection Agency, which in 2007 opened an investigation…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: I’m 39. My stepdad — who raised me — just died. This freed my mother to tell me (stepdad always forbade it) that the man I thought was my biological father all this time was not. The man who IS my biological father is Mexican … totally, (e.g. both of his parents were…
A.M. Architect: 'Pattern Language'
It’s now been a little over a year since SA-natives Diego Chávez and Daniel Sanush relocated themselves and their A.M. Architect project to Boston. This 26-minute, seven-track EP is still entrenched in the dreamy electronica of the first two A.M. Architect records. But it’s also a richer sounding effort, steeped in warm organ tones and…
502 Bar: Bridging the gap with sound
I have been to 502 (and nearly every other bar in this town) enough times to know that it’s one of my favorite music venues in San Antonio. This wasn’t the case when it was formerly Wise Guys Bar & Pizzeria, back in the heyday when you could smoke inside and watch cover bands such…
Texas loses money by ignoring children's needs
Advocacy group Texans Care for Children last week released a new year-long study finding that Texas spends between $14.3 billion and $20 billion more than the rest of the country every year because it fails to address child well-being. The report says Texas’ child poverty rate is seven percentage points higher than the rest of…
Michael Haneke's 'Amour' holds a mirror to Death's harrowing face
In Michael Haneke’s Amour, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are an affectionate elderly French couple enjoying their twilight years in comfort. Then Anne is hit by a series of strokes, and her husband must take care of her; feeding her, helping her go to the bathroom, supporting her as a suicidal depression sets…
Hit like a girl: women boxers in a man's world
Raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women. (The female boxer violates this stereotype and cannot be taken seriously — she is parody, she is cartoon, she is monstrous. Had she an ideology, she is likely to be a feminist.) — Joyce Carol Oates,…
Downtown Tuesday and Mayor Castro announce photo contest
by M.R. Brown It’s Fat Tuesday and Downtown Tuesday couldn’t be luckier to be celebrating its One-Year Anniversary on a day famed for food, beer, beads and mischief. “San Antonians need to know, if you haven’t been downtown in a while, you don’t know what you’re missing,” said Mayor Castro at the anniversary press conference at Ocho…
Texas Civil Rights Project sues City of San Antonio for banning man from City Hall
Michael Cuellar The Texas Civil Rights Project yesterday filed a lawsuit against SAPD Chief William McManus, San Antonio City Attorney Michael Bernard, and the City of San Antonio for the rare practice of banning troublemakers from City Hall and Municipal Plaza. The group sued on behalf of former SA Fire Department contract coordinator Michael Cuellar,…
Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Love Triangle
The dynamic between Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, and Clara Schumann inspired the 1947 biopic Song of Love. As illustrated in the film, Clara (a celebrated pianist) married Robert (a composer and critic) against her father’s wishes. More than a decade later, the couple welcomed young Johannes into their home and fostered his talent. Touted as…
San Antonio Spurs: On the Road
With All-Stars Tim Duncan and Tony Parker watching from the sidelines in civilian attire, and Manu Ginobili and Stephen Jackson also unavailable, Spurs swingman Kawhi Leonard rose to the occasion lifting San Antonio to an impressive 103-89 victory over the Bulls in Chicago. The quiet Aztec sparked the Spurs with a career-high 26 points unleashing…
