Pies and Suds
Pizza Italia supplies life’s necessities: pizza and beer
Armchair Cinephile
Crimes in the family Happiness (Lions Gate) The Honeymoon Killers (Criterion) Vengo (Home Vision Entertainment) Coal Miner’s Daughter (Universal) Capturing the Friedmans’ story of pedophilia lurking within a happy family resonates strongly with Todd Solondz’ Happiness (Lions Gate), the quasi-comedy that disturbed so many of us by treating a child molester like a sympathetic…
STILL PLAYING
Martin lawrence, Will Smith, and that chick from Bring It On prove the gun-size-relative-to-plot-stupidity theory in Bad Boys 2. Bend It Like Beckham Dir. Gurinder Chadha; writ. Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges; feat. Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (PG-13) Beckham is the endearing story of culture clash – between England and India,…
PEPE EL TORO
Dir. Ismael Rodríguez; feat. Pedro Infante, Joaquín Cordero, Amanda del Llano, and Irma Dorantes. The third movie in a series, Pepe el Toro tells the story of a young man (Pedro Infante) who, if it weren’t for bad luck, would have no luck at all. In the second film, his wife and twins died…
FUNK BROTHERS
From left: Bassist Gregg Rhoades and MCs Charles Peters and Tre Scipio. Photo by Mark Greenberg Mojoe puts old-skool soul into their hip-hop “Anybody in the house ever heard of a guy named Sam Cooke?” Tre Scipio, MC for the hip-hop/R&B sextet Mojoe, is testing the soul I.Q. of his audience at Jewels Lounge.…
THE TOUR GROWS MORE WARPED
Glenn? Oh no, it’s just Davey Havok of AFI. You can’t beat getting to see famous musicians making fools of themselves and spraying you down with $4 bottles of water Can a farmer’s tan pass as a fashion statement? I am ridiculed with this question every time I go to the Vans Warped Tour.…
EL FULGOR DEL VERANO
Con el verano llegan no solamente los largos y luminosos días que llaman a la aventura, el descanso y la grata somnolencia del ensueño: vienen también entre sus cálidos aires y largos atardeceres las imágenes nostálgicas de una edad dorada de vacaciones interminables en el mundo perfecto de la infancia y en el no tan…
GERIATRIC GIGOLO JOKER
David Lee Roth and three unidentified fans. With very few exceptions, rock is a young man’s bag. Reunion or nostalgia tours often end up as sad jokes taken seriously only by die-hard fans or attended by kitsch seekers. Past-their-prime rock shows can attract those with a morbid curiosity, rubbernecks who know they shouldn’t look,…
VOTER VIRUS
Bexar County Elections Administrator Cliff Borofsky holds one of the county’s new LCD touch screen voting machines. In most elections, the machines will replace the outdated and often problematic paper ballot. Photo by Mark Greenberg Citizens urge using printed ballots to verify electronic voting Imagine a future where a benevolent drug corporation invents a…
DAVE MATTHEWS BLAND
Dave Matthews Band Misguided rumor has it that back in the ’80s, David Bowie contemplated changing his name in an effort to reinvent himself. It was to be a minor alteration, simply abandoning the last two letters of his first name and adding an “e.” The move to “Dave Bowie,” it was believed, would…
SAPD BLUE
By Michael Cary Newsflash: Cops say their jobs are stressful Here is a heartening thought: There is a decent chance that the police officer who pulls you over or responds to your noise complaint is unhappy with his or her job. According to a recent police union survey of SAPD rank-and-file cops, four in 10…
SOUND AND THE FURY
a week on the scene THINGS TO DO IN SA WHEN IT’S DEAD Make your own party. It’s Lala Land – David Lynch style – at Top Karaoke Room (10608 Perrin Beitel, 590-2560), where $20 will get you and up to nine friends a private room for an hour. It’s a surreal experience. A room…
THE FIRST ELEMENT
From front: Shek, Supa, and Cien 63 paint graffiti art on large pieces of canvas at the recent Urban Art Fest. The San Antonio artists will be featured at Clogged Caps III, which will be held at an old meat-processing plant at 1700 S. Brazos. Festival sponsors will supply each participating artist with a…
SUMMER SPLENDOR
Summer brings not only the long and bright days that call for adventure, relaxation, and daydreaming, but also in its warm breezes and long sunsets the nostalgic images of a golden age of childhood, and the boundless world of early youth. More than spring itself – with its symbolism of birth, death, and resurrection -…
HEAD TO HEAD: SUPHER VS. SHEK
(L to r) Graffiti artists Shek and Supher spend some quality time together. Photo by Mark Greenberg Supher and Shek are two of San Antonio’s most visible graffiti artists – when they want to be seen. Aside from their public art, both have work at the art warehouse Ellis Bean, and .357 Studio at…
ARTIFACTS
News and notes from the San Antonio art scene ArtWHERE? #3, “EVERYWHERE” opens Thursday, July 17 at the Vogue Building, located at 301 E. Houston Street downtown. The installment features the work of San Antonio-based artist Andrea Caillouet, and two New Zealand-born artists, Joyce Campbell and Julaine Stephenson. Caillouet’s work is somewhat misleading in its…
YAAARRRGH!
Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom bring new meaning to pirates’ booty in Pirates of the Caribbean. One peg-leg, umpteen skeletons, and two hours of fun Ahoy, mateys, and welcome to the ride of the summer. You may know that Pirates is ostensibly based on a theme park ride. You may reasonably have concluded that…
NEW REVIEWS
Sean Connery stars in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Dir. Stephen Norrington; writ. James Dale Robinson, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill; feat. Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh (PG-13) Take six fictional characters…
