A royal flake
The cook’s favorite recipe, “All Sold Out Chicken Pot Pies,” soothes the soul with a traditional creamy sauce, vegetables, and chunks of chicken encased in a flaky dough rich with an abundance of cream cheese and butter. (Photo by Susan Pagani) Rather Sweet Bakery & Café’s ‘over-the-top’ recipes are fit for a Texas queen Rebecca…
Emerald boa
The historic Chandler Building: from law offices to the Rainforest Café Negotiations are underway for a lease agreement on the historic Chandler Building at 110 E. Crockett, which could bring a Rainforest Café to the River Walk by December. Landry’s Restaurants of Houston, operators of about 35 Rainforest Café locations worldwide, confirmed Monday that negotiations…
The Lion & Rose Pub: Fit for a king
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For the record
June Parker (second from right) and Spot Barnett (third from right) in a performance photo circa 1963. San Anto Music Preservation Project collects oral histories of SA legends Saxophonist Spot Barnett has a soothing way of speaking: slow, smooth, and jazzy. And to hear him tell a story – of being hit on the head…
Private Texas
Bats exit a Texas cave for their evening rounds in a still from Jeremy Deller’s “Memory Bucket,” a short film he created while a resident at ArtPace. Deller received the 2004 Turner Prize for the work. ArtPace residents take a little bit of the Lone Star to a gallery far far away London’s museums were…
Sound and the Fury
Hey, Honky Bassist Jeff Pinkus, who joined the Butthole Surfers in 1985 as a snot-nosed 17-year-old, barnstorms San Antonio with his band, Honky, on Saturday, January 8 at Jack’s Patio, 2950 Thousand Oaks. The gutrock ‘n’ roll trio is releasing a new album, Balls Out Inn on February 15. For those with new 2005 DayPlanners,…
Embrace your doom
Dave Bryant takes his turn in the Roundhouse at Sala Diaz, as artist Randy Wallace provides the manpower. (Photos by Chuck Ramirez) Randy Wallace’s Sala Diaz installation creates a carnivalesque sensation Wouldn’t it be cool if America were like France and intellectuals were celebrities? That may never happen here, but on First Friday in December…
Fever dream
Lonely landscape through a dusty window With Ray Wylie Hubbard’s latest creation, the South shall surprise again. Due in stores January 25, Delirium Tremolos offers 10 new tracks from a man intent on bringing the soothing sounds of the South to new and old audiences. Upon first listen, the album blurs together like a lonely…
Artifacts
News and notes from the San Antonio art scene All quiet on the art front It’s no doubt the deceptive calm before the storm, but as we type away at our desks, curators, museum directors, and, we hope, artists, are enjoying holiday vacation, making for a rather empty e-mail in-box. First Friday should shake us…
Fallen angel
Before the magical hour ends Often, musicians and singer-songwriters work with other well-known artists if their own careers are at a crossroads or sputtering into darkness. With hip-hop heavyweights such as Andre 3000, Dr. Dre, and Nellee Hooper handling the controls, Gwen Stefani embarks on her solo vision quest for beauty and the beats. Love…
Life between the panels
Three new graphic novels explore everyday life in fantasy land Most people consider comics a form of escapism – and after last fall’s election results, some readers may be eager to spend time in another world. But who’s to say life is any easier in the pages of a comic book? As four recent graphic…
He’s evergreen
Pinetop Perkins bringing the boogie to Casbeers At 91, pianist Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins is among the few remaining blues pioneers who emerged from the segregated, impoverished, post-war South to create a musical form that reflected and transcended the human condition. It isn’t an overstatement to say that Perkins and his fellow first-generation blues players…
Still home on the range
A famous Texas ranch gets a coffee table book worthy of its story At a little over 12 inches square, 6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch is a pretty good spread, and with 150 color photographs in 160 pages, it contains many glorious spreads – black baldies lumbering through belly-high grass, cowpokes branding colts, the…
Get a rope
Bill Murray leaves his manic side ashore in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as deep sea explorer Steve Zissou, which casts the rest of the crew, including Owen Wilson, Waris Ahluwalia, Anjelica Huston, and Cate Blanchett adrift in a sea of deadpan humor and affectation. Wes Anderson’s charm is drowning in a sea of…
Armchair Cinephile
The year on disc Now that the DVD era is well underway, there are fewer Casablancas waiting in studio vaults for their time in the sun. So DVD producers are looking less to the blockbusters in their catalog and more to the underexposed titles – many of which ought to be household names among cinephiles.…
Limbo, Incorporated
Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace get tangled up in corporate and familial reshuffling in Paul Weitz’ In Good Company. ‘In Good Company’ is an unsubtle lecture on the malaise of corporate greed As countless recent features have reminded us, the credo behind the phenomenal success of Seinfeld was that there would be “no hugs, no…
New reviews
Joel Schumacher takes the gruesome out of the Phantom to tell a romantic tale of genius, isolation, and hyper-chivalry. The Phantom of the Opera Dir. Joel Schumacher; writ. Schumacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel by Gaston Leroux; feat. Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Simon Callow, Victor…
Recent reviews
Assault on Precinct 13 Dir. Jean-François Richet; writ. James DeMonaco; feat. Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Maria Bello, Gabriel Byrne, Brian Dennehy (R) A remake of the 1976 film written and directed by Halloween creator John Carpenter, Assault on Precinct 13 unites policemen with criminals in a shoot ’em up standoff with little bang. Spending their…
What money can’t buy
Scenes from the IMAX documentary Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag. ‘Fighter Pilot’ spares no expense on aerial fireworks, but fails to produce the right stuff Whoever said “bigger is not necessarily better” was not far off the mark when it comes to IMAX films. IMAX is about in-your-face, saccharin “info-tainment” that might hold your attention…
Special screenings
Famed documentarian takes on ’80s syntho-gloomsters Famed documentarian D.A. Pennebaker and his colleagues have captured the sweat of Otis Redding at Monterey, the sarcastic cool of a freshly minted Bob Dylan, and the weird androgynous glamour of Ziggy Stardust. (Outside the concert arena, they’re most famous for The War Room, which chronicled Bill Clinton’s first…
East Side loses again
ACCD board reaffirms plans for Medical Center campus Trustees of the Alamo Community College District last week stuck to a controversial decision to build a planned $100 million health campus in the Medical Center, despite pleas from citizens to consider the East and West Sides and Downtown as possible locations for the project. Citizens who…
One more page to go
From front: Shrimp Biryani served with raita and curry sauce; ras Malai dessert; and the potato and pea masala dosa. (Photos by Mark Greenberg) Austin’s Sarovar left part of the menu behind when it came to town, but all of the flavor is here I love this place. Not for its “placeness,” mind you; even…
