I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and…
By now you’ve likely been sucked into the hordes of San Antonians scouring the streets looking for the next best Pokemon. You’re yelling at your phone. You’re sweaty. You’re almost out of pokeballs. Fuel up at the nearest pokestop, which just so happens to be a locally owned eatery and or bar. Here are a…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I’m referring to…
A wounded and beautiful soul singer, Charles Bradley will make his first San Antonio appearance at Paper Tiger on Friday, November 4. Born in 1948 in Gainesville, Florida, Bradley traveled an especially long road to success, working as a cook and James Brown cover singer until his 60s. Living in Brooklyn, the hometown label Daptone…
When Governor Greg Abbott appointed Hank Whitman as commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in April, he said the status quo at Child Protective Services was unacceptable. In a two-page letter to Abbott, Whitman released a 10-point plan that he says is a roadmap to fixing CPS. While Whitman’s plan appears…
Calling it a cocktail may be a stretch, but this month’s Remix candidate is definitely a classic. It may not meet the standards of propriety and taste of some of our more time-honored and traditional drinks – the Manhattan, the Sazerac – but it’s undeniable summer fun wrapped up in a physics demonstration. The Mexican…
In an effort toward transparency, Float Fest should stylize its concert as “Float/Fest,” for the concert and tubing portions are separated like oil and water. Or liquor and river water, for a more suitable metaphor for the occasion. Unfortunately, you cannot float down the San Marcos and flex to Rick Ross doing “Ima Boss” —…
Political Art Month does not have the sanction of the city, state, or any local nonprofit. It is not affiliated with a particular gallery, museum, or performance space. Rather, PAM is a conceptual designation by its founder, Gene Elder, writer, conceptual artist, librettist and archivist of the Happy Foundation, an LGBT archive housed in the…
On the last evening of the Kobe Bryant farewell tour, when the star willed himself toward a 60-point performance, some of rap’s most influential names were in the house: Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Schoolboy Q and Anthony Tiffith of Top Dawg Entertainment were all sitting close to the hardwood as possible. From…
Remember the days when your only evening responsibility was holing yourself up in your bedroom and battling Pokemon on your Gameboy for an indefinite amount of time? How about when the only fat stacks you were worried about acquiring were new packs of Pokemon cards? Those were the simple times. Thankfully, we can all finally…
A video surfaced on social media this weekend that shows a white couple hurling racial slurs at a black family inside Chester’s Hamburgers Co. in Universal City. As the confrontation reaches a boil, the white woman is heard on video telling the family, “My ancestors owned your ass, bitch… Black people don’t belong in America.”…
*Press play* Hold onto your flip flops, guys. Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville has finally released a date for the opening of its San Antonio location inside Rivercenter Mall (849 E. Commerce St.). Yes, we have plenty of margs in SA already, but the first Margaritaville in Texas will offer a family-friendly restaurant with seating for 315…
