Come on and do the rodeo, Spurs
It’s a large concession, but if you set aside the jingoistic rants and flashes of homophobia and sexism, there are production elements employed at the San Antonio Rodeo that the Spurs should incorporate during game-nights. Here are a handful of suggestions: Lasers aren’t for losers: The San Antonio Spurs incorporate several spotlights that dance throughout…
Cheat Sheet: Oscar predictions for tonight
Nothing good ever comes out of predicting the winners at the Academy Awards, but I do it every year for the same reason diehard college basketball fans fill out their March Madness brackets: they’re gluttons for embarrassment, especially when said bracket busts. I don’t anticipate winning my Oscar pool tonight, but if you’re hard up…
Operation Homefront Texas serves military families
From their San Antonio office on North IH 35, Operation Homefront Texas serves all branches of the military–18 bases, the Reserves, and 100 National Guard divisions–throughout the entire state of Texas. With the help of volunteers, President Jennifer Cernoch, and her relatively small staff, take ‘goodie’ bags to soldiers leaving Fort Hood for Afghanistan, and…
Portrait of a Six-String Wizard by “Flash”
This week we have a musician writer Pablo “Flash” Montez. I didn’t check him opening for Queensrÿche until after I accepted the piece because he had me at “slobbering mobs.” Long-haired metal-heads? Yes. Forever and ever. And this short rumination is why. Look at him go… Submit yours: flashfiction@sacurrent.com. —Lyle Rosdahl Portrait of a…
Education’s “Jukebox,” live at Jack’s 2/17/12
Education’s Brian Baker.
Video: The Hawks (of Holy Rosary)’s “Be Not Afraid/Freak of the Week” live at Jack’s
The Hawks (of Holy Rosary)’s Christine Roberts.
New rule could end Women’s Health Program
The state may have finally killed its widely successful Women’s Health Program today, in the process cutting off thousands of low-income and uninsured Texas women from basic healthcare and family planning services come next month. In mid-December the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shot down Texas’ request to ban certain family planning providers…
Institute of Texan Cultures announces new executive director
The Institute of Texan Cultures announced the appointment of Angelica M. Docog as executive director of the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, effective March 12, 2012. Docog has 14 years experience as a museum-pro, previously working at the Charlotte Museum of History. Docog currently sits on the advisory board for Smithsonian Affiliates, the Asian Pacific committee of the…
Perry: no special session to restore education funding
It appears the widening call from parents, teachers, and Democratic lawmakers for a special session to mend the beating public education took in the 82nd Legislature will go unanswered. Among others, the Texas State Teachers Association has been pushing for a special session to tackle public school finance, in light of the $5.4 billion the…
Berlinale 2012: The winners
Italy’s Cesare Deve Morire, the big winner. At the 62nd annual of the Berlin International Film Festival (February 9-19), the big prize, the Golden Bear for Best Film, went to Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die), the wonderful movie by the Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Here, Shakespeare’s Caesar is produced in a prison…
Barrio Couture at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
Photos by Bryan Rindfuss Story by Desiree Prieto Nicknamed, “Wildcard Cuellar” by Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, Agosto Cuellar brings Barrio-chic style to ambitious amateurs in the community, an inspiration from his former vintage re-sale boutique on South Alamo for fifteen years, Jive Refried. The class, titled, “Barrio Couture,” meets on Wednesdays from 6 p.m. –…
Review: The Blue Man Group
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I saw the Blue Man Group at the small Charles Playhouse in Boston; my memories are a bit hazy, but I recollect plenty of liquids, regurgitation, percussion, and toilet paper. (I do hope these are memories of the Blue Man Group.) So I was…
Spurs give up win streaks for Lent; All-Star Weekend quietly approaches
After Tuesday night’s 97 – 137 drubbing at the hands of the Portland Trail Blazers, let’s hope the San Antonio Spurs give up 40 point losses for Lent and beyond. Granted, the final score doesn’t properly supply the game’s complete context – Tim and Tony resting for the second night of a back-to-back, Manu (left…
