Tacos from Haven
Release Date: 2002-07-04 “Taco Haven was crowded the way it always is Sunday mornings, full of grandmothers and babies in their good clothes, busy with hair still wet from the morning bath, big husbands in tight shirts, and rowdy mamas slapping rude children to public decency.” from Sandra Cisneros’ “Bien Pretty” When Jerry Torres and…
AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
When Gemini Ink Executive Director Nan Cuba received a phone message that read, “Tillie Olsen called,” she was speechless. When she finally did speak, the person who had taken the message didn’t know who Olsen was. Neither did several of the younger writers who work and volunteer at the literary center. But when Cuba told…
VOTERS ROCK THE VOTE
San Antonio voters Deborah Martin-Levoy and Lynn Rutland stood under the boiling sun angrily wielding their voter registration certificate to reporters crowded around them. “It makes me really mad! I know that my signature was okay. I wonder how many more valid signatures they tossed out?” Martin-Levoy said. She and Rutland had joined Save Our…
CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH
So how did it come about that a city like San Antonio is the only place in the nation to launch a month-long celebration of contemporary art? It took the City several years to officially throw its weight behind the month through producing a calendar. We’ve come a long way. This year the City produced…
PRINCE OF PRINTS
At the turn of the 19th century, during the Meiji era of modernization in Japan, printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) revived a dying tradition of the ukiyo-e woodblock print. His intricate works were a fusion of traditional Japanese subject — mores, myths, legends — and contemporary Western innovation in composition, movement, and technique. The legacy of…
TACOS FROM HAVEN
“Taco Haven was crowded the way it always is Sunday mornings, full of grandmothers and babies in their good clothes, busy with hair still wet from the morning bath, big husbands in tight shirts, and rowdy mamas slapping rude children to public decency.” from Sandra Cisneros’ “Bien Pretty” When Jerry Torres and his wife Edina…
PATCHWORK PIRATE POP
So you’re walking around your favorite hipster record store, and somebody at the counter puts on Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Okay, you think, haven’t heard this in a while. As that familiar opening riff starts, though, a female voice is whispering something. Is somebody fooling around on the store intercom? By the point in…
FOR LOVE OR MONEY
Peek-A-Boo Industries, Austinite Travis Higdon’s online business identity, is cheekily postured as a corporate megalith. In actuality, Peek-A-Boo is a struggling pop-punk indie label firmly grounded in rock ‘n’ roll reality. Higdon discusses some of the typical pitfalls of the biz, including inadvertent philanthropy and piles of unsolicited mail. Anjali Gupta: What was your first…
ALL EARS
MEN OF THE SOUTH What does it mean to live in the South these days? If you’re not a fan of rap (where Atlantans like OutKast are big stars), there is little out there speaking to the Southern experience, other than increasingly bland Nash-trash and the strange affectations of Kid Rock. The best new record…
