Enjoy the Silence at Saturday’s Mass Meditation for Peace
Sat 8/6 Mass Meditation for Peace Created by school counselor and a mindfulness instructor Carrie Edmond as a means to expand her network of educators, students and families, the local organization ONE Mindful Maven champions the benefits of mindfulness through coaching, workshops and retreats. Organized in an effort to “offset the excessive negativity and suffering currently…
Artists, Healers, Dancers and Drummers Come Together to ‘Lighten Up’
Sat 8/6 Lighten Up: A Celebration of Conscious Art and Community It seems like a new festival pops up in this town every other day. But, who could hate on that if all festivals where as rad and consciousness expanding as the first annual Lighten Up: A Celebration of Conscious Art and Community? This unique one-day festival…
The Majestic Hosts Staunch Political Critic Bill Maher on Saturday
Sat 8/6 An Evening with Bill Maher A staunch supporter of gay marriage, animal rights and atheism, talk-show host, comic and political commentator Bill Maher has made his career calling out bigots and hypocrites. His public feuds with so-called conservatives have pushed the boundaries of public decency, and he is unapologetic about his scathing critiques of the world’s…
Esperanza Center Combines Healing Arts and Storytelling in ‘Curanderiando’
Sat 8/6 “Curanderiando: Tales of Healing” In beautiful and unique pairings of English with Spanish, mysticism with wisdom, and indigenous storytelling with dance, “Curanderiando: Tales of Healing,” is bound to make for a magical evening. The night will begin with traditional stories of Native American healers (curander@s), told by Carolina Quiroga-Stultz, a renowned Colombian social…
Hardcore Legends Cro-Mags Bring ‘The Age of Quarrel’ to SA on Friday
Fri 8/5 Cro-Mags Theseus’ parodox: So this Mythological king teenage gutter-punk Theseus has a legendary ship guitar, one that music plays some insanely bitchin’ heavy-metal and hardcore riffs — seminal stuff people make careers of copying. The only problem is that by now this guitar is like 30-something years old, and year by year, the strings and tuning pegs wear…
French Film ‘The Painting’ Brings Sketchy Characters to Life at SAMA
Fri 8/5 The Painting Visit any artist’s studio and you’ll likely be privy to an unfinished project or two, some of which may never be fully resolved. An artful exploration of that limbo-like state of affairs, French writer/director Jean-François Laguionie’s animated film The Painting (Le Tableau) brings to life a colorful crew of characters in…
Savage Love: Pokemon No
Q:I can’t believe this is why I’m finally writing you. My husband is using Pokémon GO as an excuse to stay out until 5 a.m. with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome. Our work schedules don’t match up,…
Freewill Astrology (8/3/16-8/9/16)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I apologize in advance for the seemingly excessive abundance of good news I’m about to report. If you find it hard to believe, I won’t hold your skepticism against you. But I do want you to know that every prediction is warranted by the astrological omens. Ready for the onslaught? 1.…
Food Court: Sherlock’s Closes, Specials at Hopdoddy and More
August Specials Speaking of burgers, San Antonio’s first Hopdoddy Burger Bar will celebrate its Southern roots with a new burger throughout August. The Triple B Burger, $12, will feature medium-rare Akaushi beef patty on arugula, with blue jack cheese, warm bourbon onion jam and fresh fried tobacco onions. Wash it down with the maple bacon…
‘Two Sisters and a Piano’ Is a Study On the Limits of Trust
The two sisters are Maria Celia, a 36-year-old writer, and Sofia, a 24-year-old pianist. The piano is a weathered old instrument that has been in the Obispo family for three generations and is badly in need of repair. “Two Sisters and a Piano,” a 1999 two-act play by Nilo Cruz, the Cuban American who won…
Eat Your Way Through Dignowity Hill
It’s no secret the Dignowity Hill neighborhood is having a moment. The area is steeped in history, and named after Dr. Anthony Michael Dignowity, a Czechoslovakian immigrant who was a public official, medical doctor, and abolitionist who immigrated to the U.S. in 1831, according to the Dignowity Hill Neighborhood Association. But the neighborhood is also rich…
Lots of Hits, Few Misses at Burnt Ends
It’s a good bet that most Q-heads have a platonic pit image in their minds that runs something like this: smoke-stained walls, past-their-prime calendars, old beer and/or oil signs, maybe a counter with knives chained to it, certainly a chopping block contoured and cured by years of slicing brisket and portioning ribs … and, somewhere…
A Surreal Thread Connecting ‘Dreamers and Realists’
With influences ranging from Frida Kahlo to Marcel Duchamp, Mexican artist Cisco Jimenez, among the first Artpace resident artists in 1995, says the key to surrealism is to create something “apparently disparate and irrational” that “at the end has more sense than the objective world.” “Surreal” is now commonly used to describe intense, disorienting experiences…
Checking out Restaurant Gwendolyn’s Flat Top Burger Pop-Up
Remember back when Restaurant Gwendolyn served one of the best lunches in the city? Well, chef Michael Sohocki and staff are bringing back lunch for a short time with a burger pop-up only they could throw. Through August 12, Gwendolyn will host “Flat Top Pop Up” with beef and veggie burgers priced at $10 to…
San Antonio Trial Reveals How Guns, Drugs and Corruption Turned a Mexican Border State into a Graveyard
E. Tavira and his wife were getting ready for bed when they heard the loud banging. It was the middle of the night, and as the noise grew louder and faster, Tavira realized that men were downstairs breaking through the security gate outside his home in Piedras Negras, the Mexican border city across from Eagle…
Megan Solis Exhibition Culminates with Bizarre First Friday Performance
San Antonio artist Megan Solis, who just graduated in May with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio, is the present resident at Hello Studio in the Blue Star Arts Complex. Her current exhibition — which continues in the vein of her recent sugary/grotesque, highly-personal inquiries into the manifold…
Blue Star Contemporary Opens Summer Exhibitions in Offsite Space
Despite a temporary closure for a facelift that entails a new front staircase, large glass doors and an extended awning, this is turning out to be a big summer for Blue Star Contemporary, which recently received a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support exhibitions over the next two years. Operating out…
Rewind to the ’80s with Two Nights of Culture Club at the Tobin
“It’s a Miracle” that a band calling themselves Culture Club and meaning it — a band fronted by Boy George and featuring a lineup that looks almost as diverse as a genre gumbo like “Karma Chameleon” sounds — even made it to American airwaves in the uptight ’80s (hell, it’d be a miracle in 2016),…
Dr. Richard Aste Announced as the McNay’s New Director
In June of last year, longtime McNay director William J. Chiego announced he’d be retiring in the summer of 2016, giving the San Antonio art world a full year to ponder who might lead the museum into its next chapter. Today the McNay announced Chiego’s successor will be Dr. Richard Aste, who most recently served…
10 Free Events Happening This Week
Thu 8/4 Alright DrawNite: Graphic Models Brick hosts a comic book-inspired figure drawing session complete with body-painted models from Beyond the Canvas, beats by DJ Pakman and a “superhero fight” courtesy of Capoeira Luanda San Antonio. Free, 6:30-10:30pm Thu, Brick, 108 Blues Star, (210) 262- 8653, facebok.com. Thu 8/4 Viva Las Vegas A wild band of…
Eric Andre’s ‘Rapper Warrior Ninja’ Is The Greatest Gameshow of All Time
In the run-up to season four of the absurdist The Eric Andre Show, the comedian has been on a hot streak at the expense of anyone who can’t handle his abrasive sense of humor. At the RNC in Cleveland, Andre, in a cheap beige suit, crashed a rally by Info War’s Alex Jones, annoying the…
Texas AG Calls Professors’ Campus Carry Fears “Ridiculous”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a brief filed Tuesday that a lawsuit brought by three University of Texas-Austin professors attempting to block the state’s campus carry law is frivolous. The law took effect Monday, but the three professors — Jennifer Lynn Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter — are trying to stop the…
Woman Pistol Whipped While Daughter Forced to Watch During Home Invasion
An early morning cigarette turned terrifying for two women in San Antonio when five people driving by their house got out of the car and forced them into their home, pistol whipping one woman while forcing the other to watch, according to police and reporting by Kens5. However, after the suspects ransacked the house, stole money…
Bakery Lorraine to Partner With the DoSeum For New Cafe Menu
Two crown jewels of San Antonio are joining forces at long last. Starting the first week of August, Bakery Lorraine will be teaming up with the DoSeum to bring new menu items to the DoSeum Cafe. According to a press release the two sent out today, the menu will feature Bakery Lorraine’s famous Parisian macarons…
Why Texas’ New Fetal-Burial Rule Might Not Survive a Lawsuit
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the country’s most important abortion case in more than two decades, blocking parts of a Texas law that threatened to shutter most of the state’s abortion clinics under the guise of women’s health and safety. In overturning key provisions of Texas’ House Bill 2 (the one former…
The Krayolas Debut Candidate-Bashing “Piñata Trump”
Imagine the catharsis of a whacking a piñata in the likeness of your least favorite presidential candidate. You stretch out, psych up and take a huge, Josh Hamilton rip into the thing, and watch its candied guts spill to the floor. Before Donald Trump’s fundraiser in June, piñatas with his pout on them were flying…
Teenager Dies Doing Backflip Into San Marcos River
Witnesses say 19-year-old Michael Hughes had been doing backflips into the San Marcos River Saturday afternoon when he hit his head, went underwater, and never resurfaced. According to a statement released by the City of San Marcos on Monday, Hughes was “performing back flips and jumping into the water approximately 12 feet from the millrace…
Lunch Hour Snob: Chowing on the Cheap at Dos Meños Tacos
Like many great restaurants, Dos Meños Tacos has an unassuming façade. Located in an easily memorable redundancy of street names at Rittiman Road and Rittiman Plaza, the hole-in-the-wall Mexican eatery sits sleepily in a strip of office buildings and guards against inspection with darkly tinted windows. Stepping inside requires something akin to courage. Once you do, like something out…
Happy Hour Hound: Sippin’ Martinis at J-Prime Steakhouse
Steakhouses usually fail to thrill. They come across as numbingly similar, they are almost universally pricey, and though there may be good wine lists, the most often seem to be pushing labels, not contents. But there are exceptions, and one of them is J-Prime, a steakhouse spun off of the Chama Gaucha chain, and its…
Feds Fine South Texas Research Facility For 13 Primate Deaths in 2014
A South Texas research lab will have to pay $31,500 in fines for the deaths of 13 primates that overheated in quarantine rooms two years ago. The United States Department of Agriculture fined Covance Research Products, Inc., which has a lab in Alice, Texas, about 125 miles south of San Antonio, for the deaths of…
Meet Katrina Cailao, Owner of Downtown’s Latest Filipino/Vietnamese Food Truck
Filipino street food may not be the first thing that comes to mind when making your late-night eating decisions, but Katrina Cailao of KalyeSATX is here to change that. Located in the heart of Downtown, the new-to-the-scene bright yellow food truck is offering a culmination of Filipino dishes mixed with flavors and ingredients Texans are…
City Unveils New Design For River Walk Barges
The classic red with blue trim river boats that snake through the River Walk carrying tourists and the occasional Spurs championship team now have a very different new look. City officials unveiled the bright yellow and blue river barge prototype Monday morning. The barge, which is electric as opposed to the city’s current gas-powered fleet,…
Six People From San Antonio Died in Lockhart Hot Air Balloon Crash on Saturday
Six of the 16 victims who died in a deadly Central Texas hot-air balloon crash this weekend are from San Antonio. Just before 8 a.m. Saturday morning, a hot-air balloon floating above a field near Lockhart struck a high-tension power line before crashing to the ground, killing everyone on board, according to the Lockhart Post-Register.…
Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff Charged with DWI After Late-Night Trip to Whataburger
When Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff got out of jail Sunday morning after police arrested and booked him on a DWI charge, he admitted to reporters that he had been drinking. San Antonio police arrested Wolff at a Whataburger on San Pedro near North Star Mall just after 3 a.m. Sunday. According to the SAPD,…
You’ve Got to Hear Netflix’s New ‘Stranger Things’
For a few years now, Netflix has been the essential steaming service and content house for TV and film — as of January, during peak hours of internet use, it accounted for a staggering 37% of total traffic. A little less obvious is the provider’s laurels in music. First off, there’s the wide selection of…
5 Shows to See This Week
Al Lover, Baby Bangs Monday, August 1 Throw a track Al Lover’s way and the producer is bound to make it infinitely more psychedelic. Consider his treatment of Drakes “6 God,” turned from a boastful anthem to a trip through doom and desert rock. With Baby Bangs. $5-$8, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St.…
Stormwater Runoff Killed More Than 12,000 Fish At Espada Park
Rain can be a blessing and a curse in San Antonio. For 12,525 fish near the San Antonio River in what’s called the Espada Ditch on the South Side, this week was a curse. San Antonio River Authority biologist Shaun Donovan said a cocktail of stormwater runoff that likely carried pesticides, herbicides and gasoline combined…
Bexar County Grand Jury Indicts Trio Accused in Horrific Child Abuse Case
A Bexar County grand jury indicted a California trio Thursday who are accused of tying up two young children, ages three and four, like animals in the backyard of a northeast Bexar County home. Porucha Phillips, 34, is charged with three counts of injury to a child; Deandre Dorch, 36, is charged with two counts…
Texas Mexican Mafia Hitman Facing Life in Prison for Five Murders
A convicted Texas Mexican Mafia hitman is looking at life in prison for killing four fellow gang members and ordering a hit on a fifth gang member who doubled as a Balcones Heights police officer. Ruben Reyes, 38, a “Lieutenant of Lieutenants” who went by the nickname “Menace,” pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to five counts…
Come Intern with Us!
The San Antonio Current is looking for motivated and creative graphic design interns to join our production team. This is the perfect place for new designers to learn, develop their portfolio, network with industry professionals, and develop new skills that they will carry with them throughout their career. Passionate voices are welcomed and essential here.…
Bexar County Jailers Are Working Twice the Amount of Overtime Compared to This Time Last Year
Bexar County jailers are working twice the amount of overtime this July compared to the same time period last year. In July, jailers worked 10,000 hours of mandatory overtime compared to 5,001 hours during the same month last year, Bexar County Sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said. And to make up for the dramatic increase, Bexar County…
Chefs for Chefs to Hold a Brunch to Help out Their Own
This coming Sunday, July 3, more than 20 local celebrity chefs will donate their time and talent to fundraise for fellow culinarian Ana Martinez. Chef Martinez, who’s worked at Acenar and the Guenther House and volunteered as a cook at the Covenant Hills Women’s Center, was badly injured in a car crash and has since…
Joaquin Castro Comes Out Swinging In DNC Speech
How many times can Joaquin Castro bash Donald Trump in less than five minutes? A lot, turns out. While he wasn’t given the prime Democratic National Convention speaking slot his twin brother got four years ago, the San Antonio Congressman delivered one of the many short speeches leading up to Hillary Clinton’s address Thursday night.…
UTSA Lets Professors Decide If Offices Will Be Gun-Free Zones
Just days before concealed handguns on college campuses becomes a reality, UTSA President Ricardo Romo announced that faculty and staff may designate their offices as gun-free zones. The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 11 in 2015 that allowed concealed licensed handgun holders, who must be 21, to carry their weapons on public college campuses, including…
San Antonio Company Wants to Build Hyperloop That Whisks People to Austin in 15 Minutes
Imagine being able to travel from San Antonio to Austin in just 15 minutes by being shot through a tube at 600 mph. It may sound crazy, but Transonic Transportation, a San Antonio-based company, wants to do just that by using a Hyperloop, a system that uses a magnetic pneumatic tube system with pressurized pods…
Visit the Institute of Texan Cultures for a Girl’s Eye View of San Antonio’s Eastside
The Institute of Texan Cultures is collaborating with the Martinez St. Women’s Center on our first ever summer youth exhibit, Girl’s Eye View: An Eastside HerStory. We challenged ten Girl Zone summer camp participants reflect on their own culture and identity through the lens of community. Through three diverse media—photography, poetry, and film—these 11-15 year…
Dignowity Meats to Host Southeast Asian Pop-Up Event
San Antonio’s Eastside knows Dignowity Meats for its signature smoked meat sandwiches, but this Saturday it’s bringing a totally different type of cuisine to the area. From noon to 5 p.m., Dignowity will host the folks of Pinch Vietnamese Kitchen for a pop-up food event showcasing their authentic Southeast Asian fare. Pinch will be doing a…
Texas AG Took $100,000 Gift From Someone His Office Was Investigating
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took $100,000 from a “family friend” as a gift from the CEO of a company his office helped investigate for Medicaid fraud to defend himself from criminal charges. Paxton, not surprisingly, says the money he took from Preferred Imaging LLC head James Webb to defend himself against felony securities charges…
Man Arrested in East Side Shooting of Woman Who Died Shielding Friend From Domestic Violence
Police have arrested a 39-year-old man wanted in the death a woman who reportedly threw her body on top of her friend last Friday to protect the woman from domestic abuse. U.S. Marshals found James Edward Striblin at a convenience store Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Houston and Walter streets, the San Antonio Express-News…
10 Shows to See This Weekend
Young Fel Thursday, July 28 After releasing his auto-tuned, Young Thug and Future-worshipping Young Fel EP, the juvenile LA rapper celebrates with a stint of parties on the road — not sure why he’s only touring Texas, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, though. $12.50-$24, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St. Jazzed on Tap Friday, July 29…
Botika Ups San Antonio’s Late-Night Food Game
It’s no secret that San Antonio is severely lacking when it comes to our late night food scene. While we all have a special appreciation for “stripper tacos” and Whataburger, we desperately need a new place to embarrass ourselves after 11 p.m. Cue Botika. The Pearl’s newest darling, Botika, has only been open a few weeks…
Do Your Business in Downtown’s New $100,000 Public Toilet
In an effort to both crack down on public urination and give downtown tourists a free place to go when nature calls, District 1 Councilman Robert Treviño pushed for and got city approval earlier this year to spend $97,000 on a toilet. Not just any toilet, but a so-called “Portland Loo,” a standalone 24-hour unisex…
Could Texas’ Anti-LGBT Politicians Screw San Antonio Out of the NCAA Final Four?
A few months ago, the NCAA announced that it wouldn’t reward cities and states that passed anti-LGBT laws with revenue-generating championships. The significant policy change was a response to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, who in March signed a bill that repealed an ordinance that offered protections to the transgender community in Charlotte — an ordinance…
City Gets Ready to Pitch Near-Billion-Dollar Bond to Voters
The City of San Antonio is preparing a massive $850-million pitch to voters for the city’s 2012-2017 bond program. Officials have said the near-billion-dollar price-tag will help San Antonio prepare infrastructure for an estimated population influx of one million people over the next couple decades. The bond categories include streets, bridges and sidewalks; drainage and…
Morrissey Will Play the Tobin in November
Rejoice Moz fans! This morning, the all-time sadboy and The Smiths legend announced a world tour, including a gig at the Tobin Center on November 17. *That’s according to multiple media reports and True to You, a Morrissey fanzine that confirmed the dates early Wednesday (the Tobin has yet to officially announce the date). It’ll…
