Arts Artifacts
News and notes from the San Antonio art scene Artist and artisan Harold Wood, whose singular installation, A Room of His Own, is on view at the McNay Art Museum through February 5, was the belle of San Antonio’s art ball last week, first at a crowded gallery talk Thursday evening and again on Sunday,…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
The San Antonio Current hosts four free movie nights at the Alamo Drafthouse. FOUR FREE MOVIE NIGHTS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x222 dreyna@sacurrent.com What: Movie Night celebrating the Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. (Limited Capacity – First come first serve) When: 6:30-9:30 p.m. …
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
News Speed reads
Workers, feds reach agreement A settlement between the federal government and workers displaced by NAFTA ends years of litigation between the Association of Border Workers and the U.S. Department of Labor, the Texas Workforce Commission, and El Paso’s Upper Rio Grande Workforce Development Board. The settlement requires job training for Spanish-speaking workers and includes $6.5…
Arts Who needs SoHo? We’ve got SoSo
Anchored by artists and small businesses, Southtown is expanding As a kid, my folks warned me to look where I was going when I walked, and not stare at my feet, which is sage advice and probably spared me many an accident. However, had I followed it on a recent walk down South Presa, I…
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Barely legal
At 20, the Current grows up, but not old “The Current is an idea whose time has come. It is a newsweekly for those who love San Antonio, who care about her past and her future, who want to know not only what’s going on but why, who want an intelligent digest of the week…
Arts Sewn up tighter than a …
Intimate Apparel’s turn-of-the-century heroine is threatened by amour No, Intimate Apparel isn’t San Antonio’s first foray into Victoria Secret-based performance art. (Though, for the record, I’d be all for that.) It is the San Pedro Playhouse’s generally solid production of Lynn Nottage’s recent off-Broadway hit about an emotionally stunted African-American seamstress and her complex, intimate…
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News Party lines
How we got here from there An 18th century Spanish urban planner drew a map of a colony in the New Philippines, aka, San Fernando de Bexar. Instead of a napkin, the planner might have used parchment to draw the San Fernando Cathedral with its village that would encompass six square miles. The church was…
Arts Encore for the memories
Jump-Start relives the best of its past in a kaleidoscopic performance By the time you read this, everything may have changed. I sat down with Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Steve Bailey and Shimi Subramaniam on a Friday morning, three days before the two-week rehearsal process for Jump-Start: The RemiXX began. Individual company artists have been working…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
There are no bad racks when the Current plays 10-pin at the city’s hippest lanes. THE CURRENT’S FREE BOWLING NIGHT AT HERMANN SONS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x207 dreyna@sacurrent.com WHAT: A free bowling night at SA’s coolest old-fogey lanes. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, August 19 WHERE: Hermann Sons’ Lanes, 525 S. St. Mary’s HOW…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
There are no bad racks when the Current plays 10-pin at the city’s hippest lanes. THE CURRENT’S FREE BOWLING NIGHT AT HERMANN SONS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x207 dreyna@sacurrent.com WHAT: A free bowling night at SA’s coolest old-fogey lanes. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, August 19 WHERE: Hermann Sons’ Lanes, 525 S. St. Mary’s HOW…
Media Allah be mirthful
And may the audience be patient with Albert Brooks In 1989, shortly after Salman Rushdie published a satiric novel, The Satanic Verses, considered blasphemous by many Muslims, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa targeting for violent retribution not only the author but also his publisher. So when Albert Brooks insisted on calling his new film…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
There are no bad racks when the Current plays 10-pin at the city’s hippest lanes. THE CURRENT’S FREE BOWLING NIGHT AT HERMANN SONS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x207 dreyna@sacurrent.com WHAT: A free bowling night at SA’s coolest old-fogey lanes. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, August 19 WHERE: Hermann Sons’ Lanes, 525 S. St. Mary’s HOW…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance, $20 at the…
Arts Vbar and Unit B
Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, 150 E. Houston, will feature the work of San Antonio artists Gary Sweeney and Gini Garcia at two receptions from 5-7 p.m., January 19. Sweeney, a former sign painter, creates many of his works with salvaged signs, old photographs, and text. The exhibit will also include works from Sweeney’s handwriting series, including…
Media Armchair Cinephile
Funny strange, or Funny Ha Ha? Sometimes a little obscurity isn’t such a bad thing. Reading through some of this month’s year-end recaps, for instance, cinephiles may have noticed a film that has been on Top Ten lists for both 2005 and 2004, and may even have been eligible for some in 2003. With the…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
There are no bad racks when the Current plays 10-pin at the city’s hippest lanes. THE CURRENT’S FREE BOWLING NIGHT AT HERMANN SONS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x207 dreyna@sacurrent.com WHAT: A free bowling night at SA’s coolest old-fogey lanes. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, August 19 WHERE: Hermann Sons’ Lanes, 525 S. St. Mary’s HOW…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
The San Antonio Current and Dewar’s raise a final 20th-anniversary toast in one of the San Antonio’s hottest contemporary-art spots GALLERY PARTY INFO: ELAINE WOLFF ewolff@sacurrent.com (210) 218-2151 What: The final gallery party of 2006 celebrating the Current’s 20th year as…
Media Whole latte love
Caffeine? Check. Tunes? Check. Starbucks will get you loaded. These are tense times for the music industry. The old model is crumbling, but a new one has yet to emerge. People are listening to more music than ever before, yet CD sales have declined steadily over the last five years, and in 2005 by 8…
Media That’s a wrap
The low-down on this week’s premieres In The New World, Academy Award-nominated director and screenwriter Terrence Malick (1998’s A Thin Red Line) — who finished the script in the ’70s — awakens from his seven-year filmmaking slumber to offer movie-goers the story of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and his band of English settlers, who wash…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
There are no bad racks when the Current plays 10-pin at the city’s hippest lanes. THE CURRENT’S FREE BOWLING NIGHT AT HERMANN SONS INFO: DORINDA REYNA (210) 227-0044 x207 dreyna@sacurrent.com WHAT: A free bowling night at SA’s coolest old-fogey lanes. WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, August 19 WHERE: Hermann Sons’ Lanes, 525 S. St. Mary’s HOW…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
The San Antonio Current and Dewar’s raise a final 20th-anniversary toast in one of the San Antonio’s hottest contemporary-art spots GALLERY PARTY INFO: ELAINE WOLFF ewolff@sacurrent.com (210) 218-2151 What: The final gallery party of 2006 celebrating the Current’s 20th year as San…
Media South Texas Cinema
News from the greater SA film industry As the Academy Awards and Golden Globes buzz closer, high-profile, major releases such as Brokeback Mountain and A History of Violence are on the lips of those given to stargazing and book-making. Meanwhile, two San Antonio films are receiving attention at prominent, if less-televised, award ceremonies. UTSA Communications…
Food & Drink Pharmers vs. farmers
The Future of Food reveals the dangers of genetically modified crops In 1980, there were no genetically modified crops grown in the United States; by 2005 there were 125 million acres of GMO corn, soy, cotton, and canola. Is that good news or bad? That depends on whether you believe that GMO crops will end…
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Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
The San Antonio Current and Dewar’s raise a final 20th-anniversary toast in one of the San Antonio’s hottest contemporary-art spots GALLERY PARTY INFO: ELAINE WOLFF (210) 218-2151 ewolff@sacurrent.com What: The final gallery party of 2006 celebrating the Current’s 20th year as San…
Media Special screenings
Civil Rights Titans The Know Why You Are Marching Civil Rights and Film Series continues at noon Saturday, January 21, with an appearance by Dr. Georgette Norman, director of the Troy State University Rosa Parks Library and Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. The eight-week series, a co-production of the San Antonio Independent School District, Neighborhoods First…
Food & Drink Los corazones están alegres
Cielito Lindo is puro Mexico, from the sábana tarasca to the cochinita pibil If Cielito Lindo, located in Stone Oak at Huebner, is a long way from the mountains of Mexico, its food is not. Owned by Alfonso Olvera and Louis Ochoa, from Mexico City and Michoacan, respectively, the restaurant, which has just celebrated its…
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Food & Drink Value vino
Enjoy the viu Wine names are getting way too cute these days. I mean, Corq Dorq? Three Blind Moose? It’s refreshing to come across a label that’s straightforward, graphically neat, and succinct: Duo is a perfect case in point. Produced by Chile’s Veramonte, which is run by father-and-son pioneers Agustin and Agustin Francisco Huneeus, Duo…
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News Penalty box
Voting in the primary eliminates options The Texas Secretary of State’s office is planning a primary-election wingding next week in front of the Alamo to “educate” San Antonians about electronic-voting machines for persons with disabilities. Yet, like many educational efforts in Texas, the presentation will omit important information. What the Secretary of State won’t tell…
Food & Drink All you can eat
News and notes from the San Antonio food scene The “Whole Planet” mantra of Whole Foods Market rang especially true on December 9, when the company reduced its dependence on fossil fuels by purchasing 458,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy credits from national wind farms. Energy credits track the energy generated by wind power, and are…
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News Impeach Bush
See, it’s not so hard to say While we’re observing milestones — this year marks the Current’s 20th anniversary — let’s remember this week in 1998 when the Express-News called for President Bill Clinton’s resignation over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. It seems quaint, the country getting all lathered up over fibbing about fellatio, in…
Music Running for covers
Raul Malo makes a singer’s record, and proves himself a great interpreter Ex-Mavericks frontman Raul Malo is out the door, on his way to the studio where he’s producing a new album by Rick Trevino. It’s Malo’s second collaboration with Trevino — if you discount their work together with Los Super Seven — but he’s…
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ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
News Shit happens
Raw sewage and a federal mandate put the brakes on the toll road Two unrelated, but coincidental, incidents this week boosted the case of local groups suing the Federal Highway Administration and the Texas Department of Transportation over the U.S. 281 toll-road project. On January 12, the Express-News reported that San Antonio-based Zachry Construction, which…
Music After sunset
Symphony meets funky dance tracks on New Year’s Eve It was a New Year’s Eve without significant others for myself and three of my friends, so we decided to class it up with a group date to the San Antonio Symphony’s “A Night in Old Vienna” at the Majestic Theatre. We had dinner reservations for…
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ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
News It’s about time
Parks receive a City windfall Stella Camacho strolled through the old Japanese Tea Garden in Brackenridge Park on a warm winter afternoon last week. Camacho reminisced about bringing her son to the Tea Garden when he was old enough to walk, and remembers how beautiful it was when she went there on a first date…
Music CD Spotlight
‘Ghost’ is reborn Music is not only Jeff Tweedy’s lifelong obsession, it’s his favorite source for metaphors. Tweedy, frontman and visionary for the band Wilco, continually tries to explain his mercurial relationship with the world through his relationship with music: “they fell in love in the key of C” (“Shot in the Arm”); “sad sad…
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ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
News Brief
Planes bring shame to MLK march As Air Force jets flew over Pittman-Sullivan Park in a missing-man formation last Monday, a small group of protesters stood in the drizzle and shouted “shame, shame, shame,” drowning out Mayor Phil Hardberger, who was delivering a tribute to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. They shouted down District 2…
Music Current Choice
Roxie’s music maker Leonard Albert Kravitz is the type of artist whose back story and influences always overshadow his music. The 41-year-old retro-rocker was born in New York to film producer Sy Kravitz and actress Roxie Roker, of The Jeffersons fame, who soon relocated to California and ran with the likes of Duke Ellington, Count…
Current 20th Anniversary – Event Info Listings
ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
Arts Talking in circles
Socrates Café gives philosophical types a place to question A few minutes into the album Wild And Crazy Guy, Steve Martin asks, “How many people majored in philosophy? See, they can never raise their hands, they only get it about halfway.” The joke hinges on the confusion philosophers face in their ponderings, but it could…
Music Sound and the Fury
A week on the scene Former San Antonio filmmaker Jim Mendiola has often documented his love for music, most recently with his 2003 punk-meets-Fiesta mockumentary, Speeder Kills. That film, along with Mendiola’s earlier feature Come and Take It Day, often turns up on Sí TV — an English-language Latino cable television network -as part of…
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ALE FEST 2006 CONTACT: NANCY A. LAGLEDER (210) 227-0044 x206 (210)884-6972 nlagleder@sacurrent.com WHAT: Ale Fest 2006 celebrating The Current’s 20th year as San Antonio’s alternative weekly paper. WHEN: Saturday, October 14th, 2006; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: HemisFair Park Arch Plaza (off S. Alamo at Nueva) HOW MUCH? $16 advance,…
