Port has an image problem. Part of it has to do with the popular vision of who actually consumes this robust, fortified wine from Portugal’s Douro Valley: fusty old farts in fraying tweeds. Or maybe fussy old biddies straight out of Dickens. Then there’s a taste issue: it’s all cloyingly sweet. (Fake news, but that’s…
It’s those three little words: fast casual pizza. The Huebner and I-1o area gained a new pizza joint six weeks ago with the opening of Pizza Roto, the third location of this Ohio-based company and its first franchise. Opened by Tracy Johnson, wife Rachel Johnson and business partner Stephen Webb, Pizza Roto will celebrate its…
With Game of Thrones’ final season scheduled for 2019 and rumors of yet another delay of George R. R. Martin’s sixth installment of the books (which have already been surpassed by the show, plot-wise), fans have been left itching for their Westeros fix in the worst way. Well, fear not, for a balm for thy…
A rock n’ roll band blending the earnestness of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden with the celebratory showmanship of Mötley Crüe and KISS, Michigan’s Pop Evil conjures aggressive riffs and hard-charging sing-a-longs with emotional heft and melodic power in equal measure. Sure, they definitely have a twinge of that late ’90s/early-aughts vibe that has carried into…
Literary arts center Gemini Ink and Trinity University Press have collaborated to bring renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood to San Antonio for a much-buzzed-about event taking place on International Women’s Day. In conjunction with Gemini Ink’s Autograph Series, Atwood will be the guest of honor at a ticketed luncheon at the Witte Museum and give…
Pink Martini sounds like the band that’s playing in the background at literally every party James Bond goes to when he’s looking for the girl or the villain … or both. Founded in 1994 by Thomas Lauderdale in Portland, Ore., Pink Martini blends a mix of pop-jazz, lounge, and Latin music that feels, at times,…
“MANU-20, TAIWAN-SA, 1,265 KM, I’M HERE FOR U,” read the sign 22-year-old Wen Yu Lin held with her father. It was about an hour before the San Antonio Spurs faced the Philadelphia 76ers at the AT&T Center on January 26. “I’ve been following [Manu Ginóbili] since I was 12,” said Lin, who played for Taiwan’s national…
An upcoming student publication at the University of Texas at San Antonio is causing a bit of controversy. Although it has since been deleted, a Facebook event promoting the “No Whites Allowed” Zine’s launch party last Thursday said the publication would create a space for “black and brown people, especially those who are queer,” according…
Cities only turn 300 once, so the San Antonio Tricentennial Commission is going all out in every way it can (except for the New Year’s Eve concert lineup, but that’s okay). Texas-based jeweler James Avery just announced exclusive tricentennial items for San Antonians to add to their collection. While you might already have the Texas-shaped…
Returning to San Antonio to remind everyone that Jesus still rocks, is one of the few bands to have continued to dominate the Christian contemporary/active rock scene since the late ’90s, Skillet. On Thursday, April 19, the husband-and-wife-fronted four-piece will make a stop at the Freeman Coliseum with Australian pop duo For King & Country,…
Hailing from Orange County, Calif., since 1979, Agent Orange was one of the first bands to fuse punk with surf — a blend that has become popular again. With a few lineup changes, including some ex-members of Social Distortion, the band is back on tour to remind this next generation of punkers where this shit…
There are two types of people in the world: those who know the magic of Pollos Asados Los Norteños’ spatchcocked grilled chicken and those who didn’t make it to the restaurant before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality filed a lawsuit against the Rigsby outpost for violating the Texas Clean Air Act this past September.…
Editor’s note 3/9: This article has been updated to reflect Hernandez’s renaming of the event from “Michelada Madness” to “Michelada Mania” following a trademark incident. Original story: Ever wondered who has the best michelada in San Antonio? Well, now you don’t have to (as long as you think it’s any one of Johnny Hernandez’s family…
In a lawsuit filed March 2, former Shipley Do-Nuts employees allege that the company’s owner groped them and used racial slurs, which is inline with lawsuits dating back to 2004, according to the Houston Chronicle. These employees, all Hispanic females, claim that owner Lawrence Shipley III regularly touched them without consent, behaved inappropriately and made…
Throw those horns to the sky, folks. Your favorite metal act is coming to town. Back in January, metal legends Slayer announced what dates for what they said is their final world tour, which was disappointingly going to miss San Antonio altogether. However, with more than half the tour’s first leg dates already either completely…
Sunday was the last day of business for San Pedro-based Edera Osteria-Enoteca. The shop opened in 2016 with regional Italian fre inside a former flower shop. Owners Roland & Sarah Gutierrez, along with partner Cesar Amador, announced the closing via Facebook citing new opportunities. Edera Osteria – Enoteca 1903 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX So…
Formed in 1998 in Washington, D.C. from the remnants of other local bands The Impossible Five and Colour, Dead Meadow combined ’70s heavy metal with ’60s psychedelic rock and explored themes found in the writings by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft. Their music is heavy, echoey and probably some of the best psychedelic rock out…
As part of the Tricentennial Celebration of San Antonio, Texas Public Radio, the City of San Antonio’s Department of Art & Culture, and Slab Cinema have joined forces to bring films made in San Antonio back to the big screen to celebrate the cultural and film history of the city. Screened at or very close…
As you may have heard, the fire union is trying to blow up city government. City Hall and the chambers of commerce are a messy combination of shocked, incensed and scared witless. San Antonio’s opinion writers are competing to see who can write more ominously about the union’s threat to our way of life. And San…
The Shops at La Cantera will now allow shoppers to bring their dog along with them, according to its website. Because why not be a little bit more bougie? While we’re guessing there’s going to be plenty of tiny pooches in expensive purses, all well-behaved dogs on leashes will be welcomed in common areas of…
San Antonio is on the map, y’all. A list of the 10 Coolest U.S. Cities to Visit in 2018 from Forbes includes the Alamo City. While many travelers flock to bigger cities like New York or well-known for niche interests like Nashville, contributor Ann Abel said they should spend time time in cities they’ve never…
VIA Metropolitan Transit is encouraging San Antonians to vote and will offer free rides for the Texas primary election on Tuesday, March 6. The transit system offers free rides on election days (municipal, state and federal) for anyone who presents a valid voter registration card. The free rides will be valid during regular bus service…
An example of a charitable idea that truly caught on, Empty Bowls brings together potters, educators, caterers and chefs in an effort to combat hunger. Devised in a Michigan high school in 1990 and now under the umbrella of the North Carolina nonprofit Imagine Render Group, the “international grassroots effort” follows a similar format in…
Ahhhhh, Oyster Bake. The beloved part of Fiesta that lets you relive your late ’90s and early-aughts guilty pleasures. Like when rap/rockers P.O.D. played last year or Tool-influenced, alt-rockers Chevelle rocked a set the year prior. Organizers behind the event announced the first round of artists including H-Town rapper Mike Jones, nu-metal bros Drowning Pool,…
In a strip mall tucked between Dibble’s Hobbies and Screen Rite, The Koffee Kup Co. stands with a new owner. An on-again, off-again cafe/restaurant for the past decade, for its latest iteration new owner Marisol De La Cruz is working on serving quality coffee and creating a space for the community to gather. Opened mid-January, the…
With “winter” pretty much over, more sunshine and warmer days means it’s farmers market season. Farmers and Artisans Market at Mission Marquee launches its season this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2.p.m. Occuring every first and third Saturday through November, the market goes beyond your typical fresh fruits and vegetables. Visitors will get to participate in book…
On Monday, we reported that San Antonio’s North East Independent School District would be punishing students who cut class to participate in any of the scheduled national school walkouts — events planned to protest unchecked gun laws and memorialize the high school students and staff killed in Parkland, Florida last month. Both of the national…
Alternatively titled That Time I Got Kidnapped, comic Jamie Campbell’s one-person storytelling show is based around a true tale of child abuse, bullying, juvenile delinquency and hair metal — parts of which, obviously, are funnier than others. The blog posts detailing the story on Campbell’s site open with a plea to his family members not…
OK, this might be heresy, but look. We get it. We love Selena. Like, who in their sound mind doesn’t? She represents so much about Latin and Tex-Mex culture. She could sing, and she was beautiful, and kind, and apparently (from the movie) could eat a whole medium pizza on her own. This list could…
Heavy, brooding and slightly psychedelic, Big Business is a two-piece (in the past, a three- and four-piece) heavy rock ‘n’ roll band that meld elements of punk, metal and indie art-rock in a way that’s unique to many metal acts in the genre. The band was signed to Hydra Head Records earlier in their career,…
Thu 3/1 “Common Currents” We’re already 150 years deep in “Common Currents,” the far-flung Tricentennial exhibition series that unites nearly 300 artists and six cultural institutions (Artpace, Blue Star Contemporary, Southwest School of Art, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Carver Community Cultural Center and the Mexican Cultural Institute). Assembled in a “chain letter-inspired” format, the sprawling…
Stay Golden Social House may have closed its doors this past June (the former space was promptly demolished to make way for a 10-story office building), but it’ll be born again in the coming days as Still Golden Social House. Opened by the same group behind Stay Golden, Still Golden is a block away from…
In conjunction with Trinity University’s Mexico, the Americas, and Spain (MAS) program and its Álvarez Seminar (a series combining lectures, readings, performances, films and workshops), Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz presents a selection of excerpts from her poetry and song collection The Canción Cannibal Cabaret. Inspired by the current political climate and issues of…
One of the country’s largest sports equipment chains, Dick’s Sporting Goods, made headlines Wednesday with an unexpected announcement: The company will no longer sell assault-style rifles or high-capacity magazines, and it will cease to sell any gun to anyone under age 21, regardless of local laws. According to company officials, these changes were a direct…
Celebrating a year after their launch in Austin, Venus is a collaborative online publication dedicated to empowering self-identified women and non-binary folk by showcasing their diverse achievements and perspectives. Their first San Antonio showcase features the music from Blushing, a dream-pop and shoegaze band from Austin, as well as indie alt-rockers Born Again Virgins whose…
If you listen to punk rock, and have been living here long enough to know how special the original Taco Land really was, you know how important and awesome and exciting this show is. If you’re new to Taco Land’s history though, The Dead Milkmen is a band from the ’80s who have made lasting…
San Antonio’s fire union has been circulating three significant petitions outside of city polling locations: One that would decrease their boss’s salary, another that would prevent the city from suing them, and another that would make it easier for them to get petitions like these expedited. Chris Steele, president of San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association, says…
George Washington Carver once said, “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied.” After working with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson formed Complexions as a way to strip boundaries from contemporary dance. More than 20 years later, their revered New York company has…
Three days after Pixar’s Coco is released on Blu-ray/DVD, Slab Cinema will hold a special outdoor screening of the award-winning animated film for families to enjoy. Coco, which is basically a lock to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature the night after the Slab Cinema screening takes place, tells the story of Miguel (Anthony…
A stand-up who’s toured with both Chelsea Handler and Larry the Cable Guy; appeared in Raising Hope and My Name Is Earl; written a New York Times bestseller titled It Takes Balls: Dating Single Moms and Other Confessions from an Unprepared Single Dad; and hosted Fox Sports’ The College Experiment, Trinity University alum Josh Wolf…
“People want to box me in so bad,” said K. Michelle in an interview with Billboard this past December. “They want me to be one thing. I’m learning that my complexities make me. That’s why this song speaks on who I am. It’s controversial because it’s saying everything I love: God, sex and a little…
Poké shops are popping up across town and the latest to enter Loop 410 comes from the folks behind Rolling Fish Sushi Burrito & Poké. Hula Poké, tucked inside the same shopping center as a Taco Cabana and Guitar Center, is almost the mirror image of its Northwest side counterpart. Opened early this February, the…
Former President Barack Obama is the true OG. Like, he would sign with the Spurs type of OG. At a speaking event at the MIT Sports Analytics Conference (fancy), Obama was asked what NBA team he would choose to meet with if, as an All-Star, he was going to be a free agent in the…
Author, activist and actress Diane Guerrero stopped by Texas Lutheran University Tuesday evening to speak about her family’s immigration story, which inspired her memoir and dedication to activism. In a speaking event led by KSAT’s Jessie Degollado, Guerrero spoke on her memoir, “In The Country We Love: My Family Divided,” which details her experience coming…
Q: I recently stumbled on an Instagram account of a young woman who’s a “knife play” enthusiast. I consider myself sex-positive, but I must say I was disturbed by the images. I was also shocked that I didn’t know this was a thing! But of course it’s a thing cuz everything is a thing, right?…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group…
While the French term “femme fatale” can be traced back to the early 20th century, the archetype — a dangerous woman who uses her beauty, charm and sexuality to tempt her lovers into deadly situations — has been around for centuries. From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery…
Matching vaporwave with the synth-chord progressions you might find scoring your tia’s favorite novela, LA’s Cuco has been making a buzz as of late, and at only 19-years-old, that buzz will most likely continue for the young Chicano heartthrob. Sort of sounding like slowed down (and stripped down) tracks from Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms, and…
Sponsored by Family Violence Prevention Services and the National Council of Jewish Women, among other community partners, the Can’t Beat Love youth film contest aims to give local teens a platform to creatively address an array of difficult issues. Having previously challenged high schoolers with tackling themes such as peer pressure, bullying and substance abuse,…
Easily one of the dopest local lineups happening this week, this show features three of arguably the best indie rock outfits to come out of San Antonio over the last 10 years. Featuring the desert rock duo that’s been turning heads since 2009, Lonely Horse is known for smacking audiences across the face with distorted…
Indie pop duo D and Chi have a sound that’s the most authentic blend of acoustic, pop and indie-rock we’ve heard in a long while. The songs are definitely pop-structured and easily could show up on a montage in any rom-com ever, but these folks actually write their own music and their level of musicianship…
We’re already 150 years deep in “Common Currents,” the far-flung Tricentennial exhibition series that unites nearly 300 artists and six cultural institutions (Artpace, Blue Star Contemporary, Southwest School of Art, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Carver Community Cultural Center and the Mexican Cultural Institute). Assembled in a “chain letter-inspired” format, the sprawling project invited each participating…
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Texas case that questioned the constitutionality of the state’s execution process. The lawsuit dated back to 2013, when multiple death row inmates sued the Texas prison system claiming its lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional, in part based on…
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. It didn’t take long for the rebukes to start pouring in after state Sen. Carlos Uresti was convicted of 11 felonies [last] Thursday. Colleagues on the left and right called on him to resign. But the San Antonio Democrat insisted after the verdict that he had…
Contemporary Art Month (CAM), the beloved, month-long art bonanza that lends visibility to local artists and promotes the San Antonio art scene to the world, will mark its 33rd run this March, as San Antonio continues its Tricentennial celebrations. CAM began in 1986 as a means to bring the art-loving/art-buying community together with a large…
