Tex-Mex a la Lincoln Heights
Café Salsita talks down a little to its ’09 clientele, but the results are mostly delicious
A Margarita-fueled Melting Pot
Chacho’s & Chalucci’s. Yes, I’m referring to the mega tacomart on Perrin-Beitel just north of 410.
Value Vino – Great wines for under $15
Chenin Blanc has been called “probably the world’s most versatile grape variety” and “France’s answer to Germany’s riesling” by none other than Jancis Robinson in her Oxford Companion to Wine. In its home territory of France’s Loire Valley, it is capable of producing sweet (and some dry) wines of incredible power and age-ability. Yet if…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
Izukura is heralded for his graceful designs and his signaure textiles, hand-dyed and woven by artisanal methods. Courtesy photo. About a year ago, I clipped a photo of a coat from a magazine. It was a warm, mousy gray, with bell sleeves that ended in a turned-back ruffled cuff and a double collar — one…
The Queque
One word. Pronounced ke-ke for you mild-salsa-eating Northeasterner transplants from all-girls schools (Bienvenidos! Listen to the Spanish-English audio program in the bathroom at Southtown’s China Latina for that translation). “Queque” is a masculine noun and an Anglicism common among South-Texas Mexicanos that means cake. As in, “Of all the times Mexico has come out on…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent bliss of laughter? More than 103,000 San Antonians are employed by health-care companies to help us fight sickness. Our three military bases, staffed…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
Pleasurable Pilgrimage
,br> Fences 8pm Thu-Sat, 4pm Sun Through Feb 25 $16 general; $13 student, senior, military Jump-Start 108 Blue Star 227-JUMP Jump-start.org Literary canons are somewhat unfashionable these days. Words like “classic” and “masterpiece” reek of Old World Patriarchy and artists and audiences alike tend to resist the notion that Americans have a shared culture. We…
That’s a Wrap
I would not be original in proposing a movie-house embargo on romantic comedies starring Hugh Grant (in smug-bastard mode), but I would like to second that emotion, because God help me, I need a little variety. (What happened to the days of Edward “where the coffee beans come from” Ferrars of Sense and Sensibility?) You…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent bliss of laughter? More than 103,000 San Antonians are employed by health-care companies to help us fight sickness. Our three military bases, staffed…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Armchair Cinephile
The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions, counter-predictions, and…
Hustle and Flow
About this time last year, the city of Houston was abuzz with the celebrity-fueled spectacle known to some as NBA All-Star Weekend and to others as the Black Super Bowl. Amid the hoops-related festivities, there were plenty of VIP barbecues, swollen rap concerts, and over-priced parties to entertain the masses. One club even advertised an…
Peek-a-boo Playthings
Jay Overton portrays a scheming would-be philanderer, and Mindee MacCollister plays his nymphomaniac wife in Cameo Theatre’s What the Butler Saw! Courtesy photo. What the Butler Saw! 8pm Fri-Sat Through Mar 3 Matinee: 2:30pm Feb 18 $20 general; $18 senior, military; $12 student Valentine’s: 8pm Feb 14, $25 w/ coffee and dessert Cameo Theatre 1123…
That’s a Wrap
“Hello, I’m Ghost Rider. Sometimes after a tough day at the office, my head feels like it’s on fire. That’s when I reach for Extra Strength Tylenol.” Courtesy photo. I would not be original in proposing a movie-house embargo on romantic comedies starring Hugh Grant (in smug-bastard mode), but I would like to second that…
Tex-Mex a la Lincoln Heights
Café Salsita 555 E. Basse Rd. 826-6661 7am-3pm Mon-Sat; 8am-2pm Sun Credit Cards Entrée price range: $6.25-$14.95 Accessible Along with cloth napkins, there are roses on the tables at Café Salsita — real ones. There’s art on the walls, too, an inventive, er, chandelier in the lofty ceiling space, and furs on patrons during the…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent…
Hutto Report
Semantics On Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement welcomed the media to the adult-prison-turned-immigrant-family-detention center, the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility in Central Texas. It was an attempt to dispel the concentration-camp rumors about the Corrections Corporation of America facility circulating in the press and in a recent House Concurrent Resolution introduced by Texas Representative…
Armchair Cinephile
The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions, counter-predictions, and…
Hustle and Flow
About this time last year, the city of Houston was abuzz with the celebrity-fueled spectacle known to some as NBA All-Star Weekend and to others as the Black Super Bowl. Amid the hoops-related festivities, there were plenty of VIP barbecues, swollen rap concerts, and over-priced parties to entertain the masses. One club even advertised an…
Metamorphosis by Song
Frogg Marlowe 8:30pm Thu, Feb 15 Call for price Limelight 2718 N. St. Mary’s 735-7775 Myspace.com/limelightsa The virtual world of Second Life is tailor-made for wasting real-world time, a stylish and fashionable playland hipper than World of Warcraft and less ghetto than cruising Myspace pages. Among all the tweemos haunting Second Life’s cyber streets, Jeremy…
The Jewish Film Festival Presents Eight Films That Will Make You Say “High-Five!”
Borat, whose anti-Semitic title character actually speaks Hebrew while pretending to speak Kazakh, could alone comprise a splendidly meshuga Jewish film festival. However, the planning committee for the 6th Annual San Antonio Jewish Film Festival (full disclosure: I was a member) selected eight new features never before screened in this city. The San Antonio Museum…
Aural Pleasure
Arms Race Relations Over the last couple of years, Fall Out Boy has enjoyed the sort of press usually reserved for only the biggest names in music. Oh wait, that’s them. In fact, you know you’re big when the CEO of your record label — in this case, Jay-Z — opens up your latest album…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent…
Hutto Report
Semantics On Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement welcomed the media to the adult-prison-turned-immigrant-family-detention center, the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility in Central Texas. It was an attempt to dispel the concentration-camp rumors about the Corrections Corporation of America facility circulating in the press and in a recent House Concurrent Resolution introduced by Texas Representative…
Armchair Cinephile
The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions, counter-predictions, and…
A Margarita-fueled Melting Pot
Chacho’s & Chalucci’s 8614 Perrin-Beitel 892-1400 Margaritas: $4.49 platinum, $4.99 top shelf Chacho’s & Chalucci’s. Yes, I’m referring to the mega tacomart on Perrin-Beitel just north of 410. Some may say this isn’t really a bar; it’s a restaurant. If that were true then why is everyone drunk? Though they mass produce Mexican food in…
Metamorphosis by Song
Frogg Marlowe 8:30pm Thu, Feb 15 Call for price Limelight 2718 N. St. Mary’s 735-7775 Myspace.com/limelightsa The virtual world of Second Life is tailor-made for wasting real-world time, a stylish and fashionable playland hipper than World of Warcraft and less ghetto than cruising Myspace pages. Among all the tweemos haunting Second Life’s cyber streets, Jeremy…
The Jewish Film Festival Presents Eight Films That Will Make You Say “High-Five!”
6th Annual Jewish Film Festival Presented by the Barshop JCC Feb 17-21 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W. Jones 978-8100 Call ahead or see Samuseum.org for showtimes Borat, whose anti-Semitic title character actually speaks Hebrew while pretending to speak Kazakh, could alone comprise a splendidly meshuga Jewish film festival. However, the planning committee for…
Aural Pleasure
Arms Race Relations Over the last couple of years, Fall Out Boy has enjoyed the sort of press usually reserved for only the biggest names in music. Oh wait, that’s them. In fact, you know you’re big when the CEO of your record label — in this case, Jay-Z — opens up your latest album…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). Photos by Antonia Padilla People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days,…
Families Behind Bars
Named after the co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America, the T. Don Hutto Correctional Center in Taylor, Texas, opened as a medium-security prison in 1997. Today, the federal government pays CCA, the nation’s largest private-prison company, $2.92 million per month to house detainees that have not been charged with any crimes. In fact, more…
Armchair Cinephile
The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions, counter-predictions, and…
A Margarita-fueled Melting Pot
Chacho’s & Chalucci’s 8614 Perrin-Beitel 892-1400 Margaritas: $4.49 platinum, $4.99 top shelf Chacho’s & Chalucci’s. Yes, I’m referring to the mega tacomart on Perrin-Beitel just north of 410. Some may say this isn’t really a bar; it’s a restaurant. If that were true then why is everyone drunk? Though they mass produce Mexican food in…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). Photos by Antonia Padilla. People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days,…
The Jewish Film Festival Presents Eight Films That Will Make You Say “High-Five!”
Sarah (Roni Hadar) and Shlomo (Sirak M. Sabahat) walk on the beach in Live and Become. Courtesy photo. 6th Annual Jewish Film Festival Presented by the Barshop JCC Feb 17-21 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W. Jones 978-8100 Call ahead or see Samuseum.org for showtimes Borat, whose anti-Semitic title character actually speaks Hebrew while…
Aural Pleasure
Arms Race Relations A Weekend in the City Bloc Party (Vice/Atlantic) Over the last couple of years, Fall Out Boy has enjoyed the sort of press usually reserved for only the biggest names in music. Oh wait, that’s them. In fact, you know you’re big when the CEO of your record label — in this…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). Photos by Antonia Padilla. People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days,…
Families Behind Bars
Inside Hutto: Life lessons on the system. Courtesy photo. Named after the co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America, the T. Don Hutto Correctional Center in Taylor, Texas, opened as a medium-security prison in 1997. Today, the federal government pays CCA, the nation’s largest private-prison company, $2.92 million per month to house detainees that have…
Armchair Cinephile
The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions, counter-predictions, and…
The Fast Foodie
Green 1017 N. Flores 320-5865 Several months ago, as remodeling began on a building on North Flores just a few short blocks from I-35, I noticed a banner announcing it as the future home of Green, San Antonio’s first vegetarian restaurant. In a city proud of its barbacoa and beef fajitas, I was curious to…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
Oh My Lard
Eddie Murphy mines fat for laughs and comes up short in Norbit. Courtesy photo. Norbit Dir. Brian Robbins; writ. Jay Scherick, David Ronn; feat. Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr. (PG-13) At first, I thought it possible that Norbit was merely misunderstood, that a movie that appeared so pointless, laughless, and mean was perhaps…
Still Fightin’
When country legend Merle Haggard performed at the Municipal Auditorium on Monday, February 5, he had something else to sell besides Tee-shirts and a huge back-catalog of CDs. The “Hag” is now an official biodiesel peddler. Haggard and his backing band The Strangers were in San Antonio as part of the third annual National Biodiesel…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
Top: G.Q. Country, aka Willie Caldwell. Middle: comedian Mike Dunlop. Bottom: Oxymorons Hilary Keahey, Chuck Robinson and Chuy Zarate with Reverend Rocco (center). Photos by Antonia Padilla. People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days,…
The Queque
One word. Pronounced ke-ke for you mild-salsa-eating Northeasterner transplants from all-girls schools (Bienvenidos! Listen to the Spanish-English audio program in the bathroom at Southtown’s China Latina for that translation). “Queque” is a masculine noun and an Anglicism common among South-Texas Mexicanos that means cake. As in, “Of all the times Mexico has come out on…
Value Vino – Great wines for under $15
Chenin Blanc has been called “probably the world’s most versatile grape variety” and “France’s answer to Germany’s riesling” by none other than Jancis Robinson in her Oxford Companion to Wine. In its home territory of France’s Loire Valley, it is capable of producing sweet (and some dry) wines of incredible power and age-ability. Yet if…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
1. Floppy 2. Spiky 3. Travis Bickle 4. Sideshow Bob 5. Princess Leia Illustrations by Chuck Kerr. Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re…
Still Fightin’
Merle Haggard: yes to biodiesel, no to encores. When country legend Merle Haggard performed at the Municipal Auditorium on Monday, February 5, he had something else to sell besides Tee-shirts and a huge back-catalog of CDs. The “Hag” is now an official biodiesel peddler. Haggard and his backing band The Strangers were in San Antonio…
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The Queque
One word. Pronounced ke-ke for you mild-salsa-eating Northeasterner transplants from all-girls schools (Bienvenidos! Listen to the Spanish-English audio program in the bathroom at Southtown’s China Latina for that translation). “Queque” is a masculine noun and an Anglicism common among South-Texas Mexicanos that means cake. As in, “Of all the times Mexico has come out on…
Tex-Mex a la Lincoln Heights
A few of Café Salsita’s Tex-Mex specialties: Enchilada plate, Tamale Plate, and pork in a cascabel sauce, all served with rice, beans and the house salsas. Photo by Antonia Padilla. Café Salsita 555 E. Basse Rd. 826-6661 7am-3pm Mon-Sat; 8am-2pm Sun Credit Cards Entrée price range: $6.25-$14.95 Accessible Along with cloth napkins, there are roses…
Down-to-Earth Housewarmings
Courtesy photo. A new home is like a new partner: It’s a commitment. First there was the search. Maybe a few missed opportunities. Then you find the one. Sign some paperwork. Examine your baggage and jettison what you no longer need. Gather what remains, clean it up, and take it with you into a new…
Armchair Cinephile
Courtesy photos. The small but devoted subset of film buffs who enjoy reading about movies almost as much as watching them can run into trouble around this time of year. Newspapers and magazines that typically might offer a think piece on documentary trends or a profile of some up-and-coming director are full instead of predictions,…
Action Figures
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus with Emery, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, A Static Lullaby, Kaddisfly 7pm Thu, Feb 15 $15 (advance); $17 (day of show) White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus didn’t start out as a band that wanted to change the world, and maybe they still aren’t, but they are…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
That’s a Wrap
I would not be original in proposing a movie-house embargo on romantic comedies starring Hugh Grant (in smug-bastard mode), but I would like to second that emotion, because God help me, I need a little variety. (What happened to the days of Edward “where the coffee beans come from” Ferrars of Sense and Sensibility?) You…
Aural Pleasure
Arms Race Relations A Weekend in the City Bloc Party (Vice/Atlantic) Over the last couple of years, Fall Out Boy has enjoyed the sort of press usually reserved for only the biggest names in music. Oh wait, that’s them. In fact, you know you’re big when the CEO of your record label — in this…
The Green Goddess
Rick Frederick and Chris Sauter used Vinyl Composition Tile to create quilt-like mosaics on their floors. Photo by Justin Parr. Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
About a year ago, I clipped a photo of a coat from a magazine. It was a warm, mousy gray, with bell sleeves that ended in a turned-back ruffled cuff and a double collar — one sharp and minimalist, standing up close to the neck, the other soft and wide, also ruffled, lying languorously against…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
The Jewish Film Festival Presents Eight Films That Will Make You Say “High-Five!”
6th Annual Jewish Film Festival Presented by the Barshop JCC Feb 17-21 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W. Jones 978-8100 Call ahead or see Samuseum.org for showtimes Borat, whose anti-Semitic title character actually speaks Hebrew while pretending to speak Kazakh, could alone comprise a splendidly meshuga Jewish film festival. However, the planning committee for…
Still Fightin’
Merle Haggard: yes to biodiesel, no to encores. Courtesy photo. When country legend Merle Haggard performed at the Municipal Auditorium on Monday, February 5, he had something else to sell besides Tee-shirts and a huge back-catalog of CDs. The “Hag” is now an official biodiesel peddler. Haggard and his backing band The Strangers were in…
The Say-Town Lowdown – Guest Column
Really. This coming May 12. We’ll finally have our say on the PGA. No issue has generated as much open political conflict in recent years as the battle over the PGA Village development. For its proponents, the arrival of the PGA (there were two different entrances, it turned out) represented the opportunity to add a…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Clothes-Minded – Fashion Deconstruction
Izukura is heralded for his graceful designs and his signaure textiles, hand-dyed and woven by artisanal methods. About a year ago, I clipped a photo of a coat from a magazine. It was a warm, mousy gray, with bell sleeves that ended in a turned-back ruffled cuff and a double collar — one sharp and…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
Oh My Lard
Norbit Dir. Brian Robbins; writ. Jay Scherick, David Ronn; feat. Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr. (PG-13) At first, I thought it possible that Norbit was merely misunderstood, that a movie that appeared so pointless, laughless, and mean was perhaps only a hyperbolic metaphor for how we all feel about our significant others: they…
Sound and the Fury
Safe Sanctuary Since being raided by Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and San Antonio police officers on February 2, the Sanctuary has been the source of much speculation about its future as a live-music venue. As it turns out, the club is continuing to operate, although temporarily without a liquor license, on a BYOB basis. Angel…
Hutto Report
Pizza day coincides with media visit day at Hutto. Courtesy photo. Semantics On Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement welcomed the media to the adult-prison-turned-immigrant-family-detention center, the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility in Central Texas. It was an attempt to dispel the concentration-camp rumors about the Corrections Corporation of America facility circulating in the press…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Peek-a-boo Playthings
What the Butler Saw! 8pm Fri-Sat Through Mar 3 Matinee: 2:30pm Feb 18 $20 general; $18 senior, military; $12 student Valentine’s: 8pm Feb 14, $25 w/ coffee and dessert Cameo Theatre 1123 E. Commerce 472-2636 Cameotheatre.org What the Butler Saw! at the Cameo theatre this month comes complete with partial nudity, dry humor, and sexual…
Simply Green
Gary Woods’s home is finally about five weeks from completion. The lot that Woods’s home sits on today was once just a parking lot covered with clay bricks. Now, seven years in the making, his home is nestled in the coveted King William district among finely manicured lawns and numerous historic houses; but, Woods’s home…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
Action Figures
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus didn’t start out as a band that wanted to change the world, and maybe they still aren’t, but they are certainly doing their best to make it look that way. The Middleburg, Florida quintet who, like many of their peers, enjoy mixing punk, pop, metal, and screamo for chart success, are…
Families Behind Bars
Inside Hutto: Life lessons on the system. Courtesy photo. Named after the co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America, the T. Don Hutto Correctional Center in Taylor, Texas, opened as a medium-security prison in 1997. Today, the federal government pays CCA, the nation’s largest private-prison company, $2.92 million per month to house detainees that have…
Metamorphosis by Song
Frogg Marlowe 8:30pm Thu, Feb 15 Call for price Limelight 2718 N. St. Mary’s 735-7775 Myspace.com/limelightsa The virtual world of Second Life is tailor-made for wasting real-world time, a stylish and fashionable playland hipper than World of Warcraft and less ghetto than cruising Myspace pages. Among all the tweemos haunting Second Life’s cyber streets, Jeremy…
Down-to-Earth Housewarmings
A new home is like a new partner: It’s a commitment. First there was the search. Maybe a few missed opportunities. Then you find the one. Sign some paperwork. Examine your baggage and jettison what you no longer need. Gather what remains, clean it up, and take it with you into a new life. Some…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
Action Figures
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus: The pride of Middleburg, Florida mixes punk, pop, metal, and screamo. Courtesy photo. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus with Emery, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, A Static Lullaby, Kaddisfly 7pm Thu, Feb 15 $15 (advance); $17 (day of show) White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus didn’t start out as…
The Mashup
From the Editor Neo-cons can rest easy: Prejudice is alive and well in our liberal university system. Take Laura Elizabeth Morales, executive director of UTSA’s new Young Conservatives of Texas chapter. Her group trumpeted its presence last week with a PR gambit straight out of Phyllis Schlafly’s quiche-slinging manual: “Border Crossing,” an outdoor sculpture on…
Metamorphosis by Song
Frogg Marlowe 8:30pm Thu, Feb 15 Call for price Limelight 2718 N. St. Mary’s 735-7775 Myspace.com/limelightsa The virtual world of Second Life is tailor-made for wasting real-world time, a stylish and fashionable playland hipper than World of Warcraft and less ghetto than cruising Myspace pages. Among all the tweemos haunting Second Life’s cyber streets, Jeremy…
Down-to-Earth Housewarmings
Courtesy photo. A new home is like a new partner: It’s a commitment. First there was the search. Maybe a few missed opportunities. Then you find the one. Sign some paperwork. Examine your baggage and jettison what you no longer need. Gather what remains, clean it up, and take it with you into a new…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
Pleasurable Pilgrimage
Fences 8pm Thu-Sat, 4pm Sun Through Feb 25 $16 general; $13 student, senior, military Jump-Start 108 Blue Star 227-JUMP Jump-start.org Literary canons are somewhat unfashionable these days. Words like “classic” and “masterpiece” reek of Old World Patriarchy and artists and audiences alike tend to resist the notion that Americans have a shared culture. We don’t…
The Mashup
From the Editor Neo-cons can rest easy: Prejudice is alive and well in our liberal university system. Take Laura Elizabeth Morales, executive director of UTSA’s new Young Conservatives of Texas chapter. Her group trumpeted its presence last week with a PR gambit straight out of Phyllis Schlafly’s quiche-slinging manual: “Border Crossing,” an outdoor sculpture on…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent bliss of laughter? More than 103,000 San Antonians are employed by health-care companies to help us fight sickness. Our three military bases, staffed…
Down-to-Earth Housewarmings
Courtesy photo. A new home is like a new partner: It’s a commitment. First there was the search. Maybe a few missed opportunities. Then you find the one. Sign some paperwork. Examine your baggage and jettison what you no longer need. Gather what remains, clean it up, and take it with you into a new…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
Pleasurable Pilgrimage
Fences 8pm Thu-Sat, 4pm Sun Through Feb 25 $16 general; $13 student, senior, military Jump-Start 108 Blue Star 227-JUMP Jump-start.org Literary canons are somewhat unfashionable these days. Words like “classic” and “masterpiece” reek of Old World Patriarchy and artists and audiences alike tend to resist the notion that Americans have a shared culture. We don’t…
The Mashup
From the Editor Neo-cons can rest easy: Prejudice is alive and well in our liberal university system. Take Laura Elizabeth Morales, executive director of UTSA’s new Young Conservatives of Texas chapter. Her group trumpeted its presence last week with a PR gambit straight out of Phyllis Schlafly’s quiche-slinging manual: “Border Crossing,” an outdoor sculpture on…
Conducting ‘The Ride’
People in San Antonio are laughing today. Probably right this minute. But what about tomorrow? Will future San Antonians trudge through an endless succession of gray, humorless days, deprived of the transcendent bliss of laughter? More than 103,000 San Antonians are employed by health-care companies to help us fight sickness. Our three military bases, staffed…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Currently the divorce rate is almost 50 percent and a good chunk of those partnerships fall victim to the home-remodeling monster. My marriage, like the flooring from my once-out-of-date kitchen has become rubble in a landfill somewhere. Ah, yes, I remember the fights we had in front of contractors, the hurling of tile samples, and…
Hugh’s Mane Talent
Hugh Grant’s Hair is a consummate performer, among the best in the business in fact, and often as memorable as Grant’s characters. We here at the Current thought it was high time these follicles got the credit they’re due. So we sat down with Hugh Grant’s Hair to discuss its onscreen history. Here’s what it…
