One for the family
Giuseppe Palmeri opens a homey pizzeria for his son
Rusks, crisps, and treacle
The English tea tradition calls for pouring milk in the cup first, then adding tea. (Photo by Laura McKenzie) Rusks, crisps, and treacle By Lisa Sorg Find your favourite dishes at British Sensations The characters: Christopher Wickham, native of Reading, England, UTSA professor of German, and film buff. He came to America in 1976. Lisa…
Art pop
C U R R E N T Hyperbubble: distilling the spirit of Devo and Blondie into a San Antonio duo(Photo by Hyperbubble) Art pop By Dawn Pomento Hyperbubble takes retro-futurism into the 21st century Jeff and Jess DeCuir launched their band Hyperbubble four years ago to coincide with the new millennium. “It was almost like…
Sound and the Fury
Sound and the Fury a week on the scene Sonic health The third installment in Casbeers’ monthly “Healthy Music Experiment” series (designed to help local musicians gain affordable health care) should be a bona fide corker, as jazz singer Bett Butler and bluegrass combo Tennessee Valley Authority join forces on Thursday, June 3. The showcases…
Van Lear Rose’s daughter
Loretta Lynn: still prepared to send her rivals to “Fist City” Van Lear Rose’s daughter By Gilbert Garcia As she approaches 70, Loretta Lynn makes the album of her life In the 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide, rock critic Dave Marsh had this to say about Loretta Lynn: “If Lynn were ever granted artistic rather…
High heater
High heater CD Spotlight In the post-Nirvana landscape of ’90s alt-rock radio, attention spans were short and loyalty was thin. In sharp contrast to the ’70s, when most successful bands slowly developed audiences – and radio interest – over the course of several albums, ’90s rock featured a parade of mediocre one-shots that inspired no…
Fresh Prince
Prince Fresh Prince By M. Solis If you’ve ever lived in the Twin Cities, particularly MPLS, Prince has never left you. Minneapolis has always been the lavender one’s paisley fortress of solitude, and its frozen denizens have stuck with him when most of us bounced – you know, right around the time you watched Under…
Rubbed the wrong way
Del Ellis-Routsong, director of the Side Door Dinner Theatre at the Blue Hills Inn and Spa. (Photos by Mark Greenberg) Rubbed the wrong way By Laurie Dietrich Blue Hills Inn and Spa and its Side Door Dinner Theatre sometimes work at cross purposes “Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.” It’s a great lead, but…
Happy homegirl
Carrie Janell, a graduate of the North East School for the Arts, is seeing the country and honing her chops on tour with the Broadway musical 42nd Street. Happy homegirl By Laurie Dietrich SA native Carrie Janell returns with ’42nd Street’ Warning! Taco-crazed musical theater performers are headed this way. While in Austin, the cast…
All Ears
All Ears By John DeFore Women on screen, in the other room, and trampin’ through the mud A new Sam Phillips record is always something to celebrate. The pop chameleon takes her time – in the decade between her new one, A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch) and her breakthrough Martinis and Bikinis, she has…
A cult Cassandra grows louder
The dramas that spring from author Whitley Strieber’s mind are as awe-inspiring as the special effects in The Day After Tomorrow, the global warming disaster movie loosely based on Strieber’s The Coming Global Superstorm. (Photo: Michael Salas; Weather photos: courtesy U.S. NOAA; Photo illustration: Julie Barnett) A cult Cassandra grows louder By Gregg Barrios Whitley…
New Reviews
Giant tidalwaves are only the beginning of gloom and doom in The Day After Tomorrow. New Reviews The Day After Tomorrow Dir. Roland Emmerich; writ. Emmerich, and Jeffrey Nachmanoff; feat. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Sela Ward, Kenneth Welsh (PG-13) Certain people out there are going to feel very silly about trying…
What color is your watermelon?
Independent filmmaker Wendy English plays Jude, a semi-autobiographical character, in a film directed by her partner, Bryan Goldsworthy. What color is your watermelon? By Susan Pagani Beaumont native’s exit strategy was to keep following her dreams Searching for Wooden Watermelons is a classic coming-of-age-in-a-small-town story; young Jude Farnie is the proverbial rose wilting on the…
A century of Cary Grant
Armchair Cinephile John DeFore on DVD A century of Cary Grant This year – January 18, to be exact – marks the centenary of Cary Grant. (If that sounds somewhat hard to believe, give credit to the actor, who took himself out of circulation at the dignified age of 62 and thus kept our image…
Recent Reviews
Bon Voyage Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau; writ. Gilles Marchand, from a novel by Patrick Modiano; feat. Isabelle Adjani, Gerard`acute accent over e` Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal, Gregori`acute accent over first e`Derangere,`grave accent over next-to-last e` Peter Coyote (PG-13) In 1940, following the “phony war” in which the French military stood serenely behind what it assumed…
One for the family
Waiter Will Zebell shows off a Supreme Pizza recently at Wise Guys Bar & Pizzeria. The Supreme pie features a homemade crust topped with tomato sauce, fresh onion, bell pepper, olives, mushrooms, pepperoni, canadian bacon, sausage, and meatball. (Photo by Mark Greenberg) One for the family By Ron Bechtol Giuseppe Palmeri opens a homey pizzeria…
