Monkeyfest w. Muchos Backflips, Sons of Sancho, Muncy’s Nurse, Silent Minority, & more
Release Date: 2007-07-11 In a three-day local art and music extravaganza, Monkeyfest showcases the musicians and artists who create and enrich San Antonio’s aspiring scene. Thursday’s kick-off show is dubbed San Antonio Unplugged, the lineup featuring indie-rock group Druggist, `see “Indie-Pop Pharmacy,” March 21-27, 2007` with Black Friday, Raul Gonzalez, Professor Amsterdam, and more on…
Interesting intersection
HillY Flores crosses cuisines for a flavorful lunch
Josiah Youth Media Festival
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2007-07-11 Peruse the works of tomorrow’s creative visionaries by joining a group of underage artists exhibiting their work in film, video, and media. This three-day festival pays homage to the life of Josiah Neundorf, a young media artist whose life was cut short by bone cancer. Innovative media makers will be…
Monkeyfest
Release Date: 2007-07-11 In a three-day local art and music extravaganza, Monkeyfest showcases the musicians and artists who create and enrich San Antonio’s aspiring scene. Thursday’s kick-off show is dubbed San Antonio Unplugged, the lineup featuring indie-rock group Druggist, `see “Indie-Pop Pharmacy,” March 21-27, 2007` with Black Friday, Raul Gonzalez, Professor Amsterdam, and more on…
Vans Warped Tour 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 Although these punk vets are now regulars on the bill, Bad Religion is still one of the driving forces responsible for the continuing waves of Warped multitudes. Reviews of the early tour dates affirm that they’re tight, tuneful, smart, and angry, still playing as if they’re one of the only bands that…
CAM The Final Run Ins
Release Date: 2007-07-11 As you check off your CAM calendar `see page 18`, don’t miss a rare night of music at Artpace with a performance by an irregular hardcore band. Ben Brantley, Nathan Carter, and Matthew Ronay are The Final Run Ins, a group of mischievous malcontents from the Big Apple searching for that highly…
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Release Date: 2007-07-11 They’re regarded by some as modern-day outlaws, others as the vanguard of the Red Dirt movement, and still others as the second coming of Waylon Jennings — spend time at one of their blazing shows and you’ll be a believer of at least one. Jason Boland walks the line, merging authentic vintage-country…
Balcones Heights Jazz Festival 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 On each of five consecutive Friday evenings in July and August, nationally acclaimed jazz artists, free admission, and music under the starry sky lures more than 4,000 jazz fans onto the grass-covered amphitheatre at Crossroads Mall for this South Texas tradition. Jazz vocalist Slim Man opens the series with Friday night’s performance;…
San Anto Cultural Arts’ Anniversary Bash
Release Date: 2007-07-11 6 p.m.-midnight, Beethoven Maennerchor, 422 Pereida This year’s anniversary bash is bigger than ever, celebrating a decade on the scene for San Anto Cultural Arts. The community-based cultural arts organization prides itself on being a learning space that promotes and encourages organic and cultural self-expression. A live art slam features local artists…
The Winter Sounds
Release Date: 2007-07-11 The Winter Sounds are an ambitious, atmospheric, indie-rock outfit completely unique in style and sound. Signed to Livewire Recordings in late December 2006, their debut, Porcelain Empire, hit stores last month and the band has already garnered praise from a wide variety of music critics and pubs. The array of musical instruments…
Balcones Heights Jazz Festival 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 On each of five consecutive Friday evenings in July and August, nationally acclaimed jazz artists, free admission, and music under the starry sky lures more than 4,000 jazz fans onto the grass-covered amphitheatre at Crossroads Mall for this South Texas tradition. Jazz vocalist Slim Man opens the series with Friday night’s performance;…
Balcones Heights Jazz Festival 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 On each of five consecutive Friday evenings in July and August, nationally acclaimed jazz artists, free admission, and music under the starry sky lures more than 4,000 jazz fans onto the grass-covered amphitheatre at Crossroads Mall for this South Texas tradition. Jazz vocalist Slim Man opens the series with Friday night’s performance;…
Balcones Heights Jazz Festival 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 On each of five consecutive Friday evenings in July and August, nationally acclaimed jazz artists, free admission, and music under the starry sky lures more than 4,000 jazz fans onto the grass-covered amphitheatre at Crossroads Mall for this South Texas tradition. Jazz vocalist Slim Man opens the series with Friday night’s performance;…
Signs of the times
Genevieve and Scotch! talk about collaboration and personal evolution
Flagrant fouls
Dave Zirin targets sports exploitation and cowardice with his politically charged new book
Balcones Heights Jazz Festival 2007
Release Date: 2007-07-11 On each of five consecutive Friday evenings in July and August, nationally acclaimed jazz artists, free admission, and music under the starry sky lures more than 4,000 jazz fans onto the grass-covered amphitheatre at Crossroads Mall for this South Texas tradition. Jazz vocalist Slim Man opens the series with Friday night’s performance;…
Great halls of fire
At long last, the San Antonio Museum of Art has ripped out the nasty carpet, created more wall space, and put a bright coat of paint in the Contemporary Galleries. Remember them? The two dingy rooms upstairs that always felt like you had accidentally stumbled into either a storage area or a mausoleum? And what…
Plugged in to wind
At an early June press conference, representatives from the Sierra Club, Environment Texas, and Solar San Antonio planted hundreds of pinwheels, representing wind turbines, in the lawn at Maverick Park to demonstrate the potential for renewable energy in the Lone Star State. The groups rallied for U.S. Representative Charlie Gonzalez’s support of House Resolution 969,…
Skinning the surface
Ethan Moore’s latest body of work, excerpts from The Book of @trophy, is currently on view at 311 Howard. The exhibition opened Friday, after a fortuitous 11th-hour move from Stella Haus in the Blue Star complex. Formerly Sol y Sombra and now the home of musician Matthew Ahern, the domestic setting provides an ideal backdrop…
El Mal de Ojo
My fever raged. Every joint in my body ached. Chills racked my 13-year-old body. The family diagnosis: Mal de ojo. I was sick as a dog, all because I had shown my aunt’s neighbor my latest dance moves and she had admired me … but not touched me. My Tía Santos went into E.R. mode…
To commemorate America’s amnesia, we turn this column over to the Know Nothings.
Dear Gabachos: You love us, you really love us! Mere moments after the Senate allowed an amnesty bill to collapse like the peso’s value, ustedes bombarded the Mexican with typo-heavy valentines. To commemorate America’s latest amnesic spell regarding its immigrants and assimilation (previous examples include the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Immigration Reform Act of 1924,…
If you can’t do the rhyme, don’t do the crime
From the Editor It seemed like a clever idea: adapt Dr. Seuss’s Marvin K. Mooney Would You Please Go Now! to W — perfect, because it’s a simple book, filed under the good Dr.’s “Bright & Early” catalog. Small words, lots of repetition, a little fantasy to keep the pages turning (“You can go in…
Mr. Happy Man
This short digital animation by Michael Stoltz screened at the Loop Barcelona festival in Spain earlier this year as part of the UTSA New Media Student Program. A still from the video was featured in the Catalonian newspaper “El Mundo” along with work by Matthew Barney and student work from the Royal Academy of Art in…
Plugged in to wind
At an early June press conference, representatives from the Sierra Club, Environment Texas, and Solar San Antonio planted hundreds of pinwheels, representing wind turbines, in the lawn at Maverick Park to demonstrate the potential for renewable energy in the Lone Star State. The groups rallied for U.S. Representative Charlie Gonzalez’s support of House Resolution 969,…
A Harry Potter Crossword
ACROSS 1. Protagonist of Michael Gerber’s Harry Potter parody series 3. Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald played Potter in this spoof 5. Hagrid’s giant baby half-brother 7. The High Inquisitor of Hogwarts 11. The replacement Albus Dumbledore 12. Harry Potter spoof porn from the 40-Year-Old Virgin 14. The fireplace network relies on this powder…
Living history
If you have attended any cultural or political events in San Antonio, you’ve probably noticed John Stanford, the sparkly eyed 82-year-old with a childlike grin who hands out the People’s Weekly World, the Communist Party newspaper, to anyone willing to take a copy. From the moment I laid eyes on him, I was intrigued: What…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Among the Yanyuwa Aboriginal people who live along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, the word for “fat” is nalu-ngiliny. It doesn’t merely refer to the greasy stuff that grows naturally under the skin of animal bodies. It’s also a metaphysical term for vitality. Anything that’s rich in nalu-ngiliny is healthy.…
Money, it’s a gas.
Someone pour the Queque a gin & juice: This week, to jack Snoop Dogg’s stylee, we’ve got our mind on your campaign money, and your campaign money on our mind. On July 16, semi-annual campaign-finance reports are due, which means that federal, state, county, and city officials will have to open their books to public…
Letters to the Editor
WEBMAIL Re: “Dream in peace,” posted July 4, 2007 Added: Thursday July 05, 2007 at 10:59 AM EST Wonderful piece for a special person Artists are full of contradictions and she was no exception. But they were great contradictions! No one in the last two decades has meant more to the SA art scene then…
The Byrne Report
Last week, I was talking by cell phone to Leslie Angeline, a Santa Rosa resident who was on the ninth day of a hunger strike in Washington, D.C. She refused food until Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut met with her about his call to bomb Iran. (She has since been hospitalized without meeting Lieberman.) Angeline…
Dead air
Waco is a button-down Baptist town and a pretty unlikely base for aradio station devoted to the extreme aggression of heavy metal, but it’s a pretty natural fit for Robert Rutherford. Rutherford, 41, is a retired trucker who drove 18-wheelers for 16 years before illness forced him into early retirement. In search of a new…
Once bitten, twice shy when it comes to term limits
Mayor Phil Hardberger is apparently having second thoughts about pressing ahead immediately with a vote to change city-council term limits. News reports indicate that a recent poll found voters were not terribly interested in changing term limits, and that an “education” campaign would be difficult and costly. Not a surprise. Despite the touting of Mayor…
‘Escape’ artists
It’s not fair to say that John O’Keefe, drummer for Boys Like Girls, is an asshole or even a dumbass, but he’s the most oblivious musician I’ve ever interviewed. His Boston-based band, most simply described as emo and more accurately described as a poppier Jimmy Eat World, formed in 2005 and quickly loaded two of…
Eagles and sharks and Kiwis
New Zealand’s Eagle vs. Shark suggests a secret love affair between The Science of Sleep and Napoleon Dynamite transpired on the southerly isles. The byproduct: a squirm-comedy within whose self-consciously nerdy universe two childish misfits (Loren Horsley and Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement) fall for one another amid periodic animated sequences. Lily (Horsley) is…
Coma dose
Coma Dose Girl in a Coma has taken a short break from touring to play a couple of SA shows, including a July 7 welcome-home gig at Ruta Maya and a slot on the Vans Warped Tour’s July 13 blowout at Verizon Wireless. After that performance, the trio will play Warped shows in Houston and…
Voldemort votes Republican
I shan’t commence discussing my stance on the Harry Potter films thus far — I’ll drain their begotten joy faster than a dementor’s kiss (then you can cast your Patronus! Weee!). But something about the casting of #5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, struck me as fitting: Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix…
Bleak ‘December’
Bleak ‘December’ After her first two albums, Kelly Clarkson had the world in her hands. Her success with rocked-up sing-alongs like “Since U Been Gone” and “Behind These Hazel Eyes” transformed her from “American Idol” into something that almost looked like a legitimate artist. However, her third outing, My December, takes all the good will…
Forever young
A gentleman dressed in a stylish lounge suit and trousers awkwardly steps up to a phonograph and places a record — Music for Sleeping Spirits — onto the machine. As a Chopin prelude begins to softly flow from the brass bell, the man’s head opens and his soul is released. Now on a journey across…
Bite-size album reviews
Easy Tiger Ryan Adams (Lost Highway) The rock’s gotten a little softer and Adams is singing duets with Sheryl Crow these days, but Easy Tiger is still a justification for the fans who stood up for this douche bag while he’s been playing rock star, honky-tonk man, and drunken frat dude. Adams, in his attempt…
Shoot me, please
What does a Polish-American gangster from Buffalo, New York, sound like? For most Texas-raised moviegoers, that’s hard to say. We don’t know a lot of them. Nevertheless, we suspect they don’t sound like Ben Kingsley in director John Dahl’s You Kill Me. Kingsley, an intense actor whose risk-taking performances sometimes hit paydirt (Sexy Beast) and…
Beer-can chicken
Beer-Can Chicken, known variously as drunken chicken or beer-butt chicken, is a barbecue legend. It’s tender, juicy, and makes for a fantastic conversation piece during backyard festivities. And with so many different ways to create this simple masterpiece, you honestly can’t go wrong. It is simple. All you have to do is (carefully) cut the…
Stranger than fiction
THIS WEEK’S PICK: MGM FILM NOIR: Call them late to the noir-reissue game, but MGM comes out packin’ heat with a quartet of titles from A-listers like Fritz Lang (The Woman in the Window) and Orson Welles (The Stranger). Edward G. Robinson stars in three of them, which is rarely a bad sign when it…
Lunch with the winemakers
Just as you’ve suspected all along, there are some perks to this gig, and one of them is having lunch with the occasional winemaker. First, you are tasting wines with food, and second, you get to pose all kinds of potentially embarrassing questions. (Turns out that asking a winemaker if he would ever contemplate using…
Garlic cloves and cabbage heads
Dear Chef Boy Ari, I was lazy last fall and didn’t get much garlic in the ground. So this spring I found a few sprouting cloves in my cupboard, said “what the heck,” and planted them. They’re doing really well, but I wonder, will I actually get any garlic this season? — Late Bloomer …
