San Antonio Designer’s Dreams come true at New York Fashion Week
Photos by Bryan Rindfuss Story by Desiree Prieto Dreams do come true. San Antonio native Mandi Gallegos featured her new Mikailee Alton Collection at the PLITZS New York City Fashion Week, “Designer Showcase Presentation,” in which only 36 emerging designers were chosen to participate. The event, showcased in Manhattan’s Fashion district, coincided with the official…
San Antonio International Woman’s Day March 2012
Cindy Chaffin, the Current‘s top video shooter, covers the San Antonio International Woman’s Day March 2012.
Sneak peek of CAM’s “Seven Minutes in Heaven”
Wesley Harvey, the enfant terrible of SA’s ceramic scene, isn’t the only artist making Contemporary Art Month’s “Seven Minutes in Heaven” an explicit affair, but he’s the only one who officially invited us behind the… creepy red door to his Fox Motel room for a peek at his installation. Don’t you love how this broke-ass 2 looks like a…
San Antonio nonprofits hold 5K runs
Dust off your running shoes and start training now. Two of my favorite nonprofits are having 5K Walk/Run fundraisers. March 24th: Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) is racing around the beautiful Alamo Heights neighborhood in the Beethoven 5K/10K. The brochure says its suitable for all levels of runners (or walkers). And, for extras, YOSA…
CAM 2012 Kick-Off Party
Cindy Chaffin, the Current’s top video shooter, covers the CAM Opening Party, the crowning of Amada Claire Miller as Miss CAM 2012, and visual highlights from shows at 3 Walls, Joan Grona Gallery, and Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.
Get ready: ‘Silent House’ opens March 9
Silent House, a horror film starring Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, opens nationwide March 9. The movie is based on 2010’s La Casa Muda, a Uruguayan film shot in one continuous take with a photo camera. If you want to get in the mood, here’s the…
Waken by Ben Tremillo
Ghosts are much more than they appear. They live in the creases of our brains and mock us and vanish with not so much as a wisp of smoke. They are our lives, buttoned down, our pasts, ethereal and empty. They are us. Send your flash to flashfiction@sacurrent.com. I’m looking for work of around 500…
Ron Paul makes men gay, says recent study
When not being mistaken as the ghost of Henry Gibson, Ron Paul is found deep in the race for president. And while many have speculated on his possible racist history, but not much has been made of his apparent disapproval of the homosexual community. Politically, the congressman has remained neutral on the issue of gay…
Interview: Jason Isaacs on ‘Awake’
In the new TV drama Awake, actor Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy of the Harry Potter franchise) plays Michael Britten, a police detective who finds himself caught between two parallel universes after being involved in a terrible car accident. In one world, Britten wakes up to learn his wife died in the accident and his son…
San Antonio Scientology squabble continues
And deeper down the Scientology rabbit hole we go… Debbie Cook, formerly a leading member within Church of Scientology, filed a counterclaim in the church’s Bexar County lawsuit against her this past Monday. As first noted by longtime Scientology watcher and Village Voice editor in chief Tony Ortega earlier today, it seems Cook’s trying to drag all…
SA Scorpions begin stadium construction
With the presence of City and team officials, including Mayor Julián Castro and team founder Gordon Hartman, the SA Scorpions held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Community Stadium to be inaugurated in 2013. The Scorpions are the latest expansion team of the North American Soccer League, the second-division professional league in the USA. The…
‘Slim Down’ with H-E-B challenge (last day to enter!)
This year H-E-B has stepped up its concern for the health of its customers and taken an interest in getting San Antonio fit and healthy. First the grocery store chain introduced “Healthy at H-E-B” — a line of specialty items including vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-free, whole grains, and weight management foods. The store has certainly made…
Court releases new redistricting maps
After nearly four months of legal wrangling, Texas finally has maps. A panel of federal judges in San Antonio today released a plan that looks much like the compromise negotiated between Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the Latino Redistricting Task Force earlier this month – interim redistricting maps that were flatly opposed by…
Art supplies round-up for schools at Blue Star
I’m all for free art, but who’s buying the art supplies? In the public schools, it’s often the art teachers, paid for out of their own pockets. Not that they’ve got money to burn, but art supply budgets are impossibly low. You can help. To celebrate Contemporary Art Month, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (with…
I’m On The Radio Now!
This past month, I was invited to be a video game correspondent on the Computer America Radio Show with Craig Crossman. It is the nation’s longest running nationally syndicated computer and technology radio show, and the 2nd Tuesday of each month is “gamer Tuesday.” Each month, I will appear on their show and we will…
Chris Perez publishes Selena book
Angel Ferrer sings in the Chris Perez Project, Chris’ new band In one of the final chapters of his book To Selena, With Love ($24.95, Celebra, March 6), Selena’s widower Chris Perez mentions that Abraham Quintanilla, his former father-in-law, once called him “a cancer” in the family. “I turned out to be benign. Nobody detected…
Texas’ own private CIA
The anti-secrecy group Wikileaks claims its got massive dirt on Austin-based private “global intelligence company” Stratfor, saying a trove of over 5 million emails hacked from the company’s servers reveals a shadowy web of informants, collusion with government, and the shuffling of dark corporate cash to offshore tax havens – the “private intelligence Enron,” as…
“New” Selena single out today
Here’s an example of a good pop remake of Selena’s “Amor Prohibido.” It was produced by Andrés Castro and based on an original Selena track, with added vocals by Samo, a member of Mexican pop trio Camila. It is the first single off Enamorada de ti (scheduled for April 3), which features Selena duets with…
