Candy Crush: The glitter-pop of Snow Wite
When you eat a piece of candy, taste buds send a signal to the cerebral cortex, where the brain drips a tiny droplet of dopamine into the system as a reward, a message from brain to tongue saying, “Again! Again!” Unlike most foods, when the drip cuts off after repeated exposure, the dopamine feed stays…
5 Things You Have to Do This Week
Tue 6/10 Vertigo In Italy, Vertigo was marketed as La Donna Che Visse Due Volte (The Woman Who Lived Twice) Initially dismissed as “farfetched nonsense” (The New Yorker) and “another Hitchcock-and-bull story” (Time magazine), Vertigo is now counted among the greatest films of all time. Set in San Francisco, the 1958 psychological thriller stars James…
11 Free Things to Do This Week
Tues 6/10 H-E-B Free Tuesdays The San Antonio Museum of Art hosts its weekly “Free Tuesdays,” thanks to their sponsor H-E-B. On Tuesday, June 10, SAMA presents Sketching in the Galleries. Participants will be led by a sketching instructor and will sketch their own art based on the museum’s collections of artwork. Free, 6-8pm Tuesday,…
The Texas Folklife Festival: A first-timer’s recap
Confession: I’ve lived in San Antonio for just under 10 years. I moved here for school (Go Runners!) and somehow had not made it to the Institute of Texan Culture’s Texas Folklife Festival. This changed on Saturday, June 7. Here’s a quick recap for other Folklife virgins who should check out next year’s event. There’s…
Terrifying New Water Slide is World’s Steepest at Six Flags Fiesta Texas
via Six Flags Fiesta Texas has added a new ride to its water park – Bahama Blaster – touted as the world’s steepest water slide that sounds too scary to be real. According to Six Flags, the ride begins at the top of a six-stories high platform. Riders stand inside an enclosed capsule with a…
Texas Troubadour, George Strait, Says Farewell at Record-breaking Concert
Photo by William Toti, flickr/subcmdr ARLINGTON, TX – The whole of Texas, and a few very famous singers, came out to see George Strait say farewell, so long and vaya con Dios on the last leg of his The Cowboy Rides Away tour on June 7 at the AT&T Stadium. And like the true chivalrous cowboy…
What I Ate: Dino nuggets edition
I honestly can’t remember if I ever had Dino nuggets growing up. So last Friday while co-babysitting with my friend Joaquin, I indulged in the processed Stegasaurus-shaped goods. These are things that happen during Disney movie nights. This week also included one too many cupcakes, and two visits at Hot Joy, because you can never…
Recipe Round-Up: Fresh fruit recipes
Ahh June — a time where the kiddos and the mosquitos are out for summer. Not only is June the beginning of this favorite season for many but it’s also National Fresh Fruit Month. So kick back on your backyard swing and get ready to eat your daily recommended portion of fruit in a fun way. 1.…
First Course: Israeli culinary tour, truly Texas Mexican dinner and Hill Country Food Truck Festival
First Course Fodder brings in exciting food news to you in tiny, digestible bits. Truly Texas Mexican dessert via Sandy Oaks Olive Orchard (25195 Mathis) is giving diners a culinary trip to Israel with their Israeli Passport Event on Friday, June 13 at 7 p.m. Diners will stroll through a market setting sampling wine and…
SA Food Pics: Weekend culinary adventures
This weekend SA natives prepped themselves before the Spurs games with food from all over town. From pancakes at The Guenther House (205 E Guenther) — to dinner at La Gloria (100 E Grayson) and every where in between — Hot Joy (1014 S Alamo), Mariscos El Bucanero (16505 Blanco), Crepelandia (Pearl Farmers Market), Bakery Lorraine (511 E Grayson), Taps y Tapas (1012 N…
Do You Earn Enough To Afford A Home In San Antonio?
(via) San Antonians wanting to settle down and play house will need to make over $44,000 a year to do so. That’s according to HSH, a real estate tracking site. HSH released figures recently that calculated the minimum household income required to purchase a home in various cities. The Alamo City was the most affordable…
Sunday Night Sound Bite: Lana Del Rey: “Brooklyn Baby”
The hype surrounding singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s forthcoming sophomore LP Ultraviolence has been brewing ever since the 2013 premiere of her short film Tropico (an Adam and Eve scenario involving John Wayne, Jesus, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe). Recorded in Nashville at the Black Keys frontman/Grammy-winning producer Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound (with the new…
Protect Ginobili with the Original Spurs Veladora Available Now
via saflavor Dear die-hard Spurs fans and passionate patrons of local art, delight in knowing this: the Manu Ginobili veladoras designed by local artist Jamie Stolarski are available, legitimately, at Pulquerios and Etsy for $11.95, with profits going to the Spurs fan artist himself. Win-win-win-win. Remember the bullshit the Current previously addressed when merchants were making bucks off…
Craigslist Hookup: Free Spurs Ticket for a Lucky Lady
For tonight’s game, a Corpus Christi guy from is offering a free ticket to a female Spurs fan who will be his arm candy for the evening. She has to be “HOT, FUN, SEXY” because these tickets cost him a cool $3000, and 20 rows from the Spurs bench, he wants to look good. He posted the offer…
SA’s Deer Vibes raise funds for debut LP via IndieGoGo
Deer Vibes (Michael Carrillo pictured singing) San Antonio indie orchestra Deer Vibes are crowdsourcing the funding for their debut LP via IndieGoGo. Led by multi-instrumentalist Michael Carrillo, Deer Vibes have been active in SA since 2009, gigging on the success of their huge, multi-faceted sound. And now, Michael Carrillo and company are asking fans to donate towards…
Adult Swim Announces Stellar Summer Singles Program
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network entity that brought you Metalocalypse, Superjail! and Tim and Eric, returns this summer with its 5th annual Singles Program. Since 2010, the franchise has put out free, unreleased tracks and cover art from the likes of Madvillian, LCD Soundsystem, Mastodon, Clams Casino and more. For the 2014…
5 Shows to See This Weekend
Romeo Santos (Friday, June 6) Bochata icon Romeo Santos In 2002, Aventura’s Spanish-language smash hit “Obsesión” announced the arrival of a modernized version of Dominican bachata. Fronted by chiseled crooner Romeo Santos, the group—a quartet of cousins and brothers—became a mainstay on the Latin charts but dissolved when Santos went solo in 2011. Anticipated as…
9 Free Ways to Celebrate LGBT Pride Month
Although San Antonio’s annual Pride “Bigger Than Texas” parade and festival doesn’t take place until July 5 this year (featuring performances by acoustic pop artist Tom Goss, Christopher Anton of Information Society fame and Paris, TX native/RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Shangela, “Debutantess of the Deep South”), the San Antonio Public Library, Pride Center San Antonio…
Bonehead Quote of the Week: Texas GOP Platform Edition
The state GOP convention kicked off this week in Forth Worth, which means the Texas Republican Party is in the process of crafting their official platform. The preliminary draft, obtained by the Houston Chronicle, is expectedly rife with erosions to LGBT and women’s rights, including support for gay conversion therapy, opposition to the manufacturing and…
Meet Your Spurs Fans: Libby Wardlaw and Chris Maddin
Libby Wardlaw and fiance Chris Maddin For the Finals, I’m crashing house parties and interviewing Spurs fans in their native environments. I couldn’t have found better guinea pigs for this experiment than Libby Wardlaw and Chris Maddin. Wardlaw is a talented singer, radio host, Trinity grad and wearer of excellent dresses. Her fiance Maddin you may…
10 Free Things to Do This Week
Gossamer Frontier Plays the Mix 10pm, Thu, Jun 5 via Gossamer Frontier’s Bandcamp bills the band as “Spaghetti Western,” a telling descriptor for the dark folk and light psych of the Austin quartet. With like-minded SA quintet Creatura and Afterhours. Venue: the Mix, 2423 N St. Mary’s “Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storyteller” 6-9 pm, Thu-Fri,…
10 Things in a Yu-gi-oh! Tournament You Need to Bring
via Heroes and Fantasies will host another Yugioh! Regional Tournament June 7. Hundreds of competitors from all around South Texas will stream into San Antonio vying for a spot at the World Championship Qualifiers. Yu-gi-oh! is a trading card game based on the popular anime series of the same name that is part poker and…
Free Donuts in SA for National Donut Day
Friday, June 6 is National Donut day and there’s plenty of places in SA to get your free fill. The best way to spend the day. via Krispy Kreme (multiple locations) is offering a free doughnut of any variety to its customers this Friday. Dunkin Donuts (multiple locations) is also offering a free donut with a beverage purchase. Shipley Do-Nuts (multiple locations)…
Shot of the Week: The Four Horsemen
Whiskey, whiskey and more whiskey. (Dustin Dooling) The San Antonio Spurs dynasty was forged on the prowess of the big three—Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Together, they led the post-Admiral Spurs to three titles, 2003, ’05 and ’07. In recent years however, the big three have needed some help closing out the season…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 6/5 – Fri 6/6 “Spinning Yarns” Morgan Konn, Christina, Undergraduate Student, Art (from Her House, Her Clothes) Whether building on fact or fiction, the artists wrapped up in “Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers” present visual dialogues curators Anne Leighton Massoni and Libby Rowe admit present “more questions than answers.” Supported by the Kendall College of…
Take a Pommes Frites Tour of San Antonio
Pommes frites may be the que fancy way of saying French fries, but it’s a way to refer to the ultimate in comfort food with the respect it deserves. Belgium’s greatest cultural export is also its most pervasive, and it’s not difficult to explain why. Frites are simple, deep-fried potato goodness, a lightly salted, crispy,…
We’re Hiring: Staff writers
Spot the historical inaccuracy, win a job The Current, San Antonio’s only alternative news weekly, is looking for two full-time staff writers to cover one of the most dynamic cities in the U.S. Reporters will have the option to focus on a nationally noticed governor’s race, a hotly contested mayoral race (plus the rising national…
AT&T Center Unleashes the 3-Pointer Sandwich
Courtesy/Aramark Cue the waves of pseudo-nutritionists’ with their “this is why we’re fat” comments: there’s a new Franken-sandwich in town. The AT&T Center and food service company Aramark announced the triple decker 3-Pointer sandwich, a tribute to the the Spurs’ Big Three. There’s gotta be an “Everything’s Bigger in Texas” joke in there… Here’s what’s…
City and Bexar County Officials Offer Proclamations Supporting Spurs “Black Out”
The NBA Finals begin Thursday night at 8pm Today at 6 p.m. at Alamo Plaza, city councilman Diego Bernal and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff will make official proclamations to support the Spurs’ “Black Out” initiative. To clarify, the Spurs and the City of San Antonio endorse AT&T-goers to black out by wearing black t-shirts, not by…
City Council B Sessions (Finally) Broadcast
The City of San Antonio is moving to increase transparency. Starting today, City Council ‘B Sessions’ will be available for live viewing on the City’s government access channel, TVSA, and will be live streamed here. The B session archives will be available online and reruns are scheduled to air on TVSA at 8 a.m. on weekends. While COSA’s Thursday…
SA Food Pics: Where locals ate, drank and conquered this week
Locals made their rounds at many local hotspots this week including Mary Lou’s Cafe (4405 McCullough), Pappasito’s Cantina (10501 Interstate Highway 10), The Monterey (1127 S St. Mary’s), Freetail Brewing Co. (4035 N Loop 1604 W) and The Esquire Tavern (155 E Commerce). Without further adieu, we present a few snapshots that made us salivate over our phones.…
Moving on Up: Rosario’s North updates menu and décor
The restaurant formerly known as Barbaresco had all the charm of a pseudo-posh hotel lobby in a Central American banana republic: slick and cold, its best feature (and that’s not saying much) some over-scale realistic paintings. The paintings remain, but they seem at least a little more at home in the re-energized setting that is…
Boneheadz Brings on the Bros
Boneheadz Sports Bar (9503 Console), a place that could also be called Bro-Town USA, looks like a cross between a barn, a church and a frat house. An alcoholic’s Alamo if you will. And that is not necessarily a bad thing—as long as you know what you’re getting yourself into beforehand. The “sports bar” aspect…
SA/Austin outfit Feuding Fathers Defy Math Rock Genre
In November 2011, at the now defunct Studio 13 Hookah Bar, Feuding Fathers opened for their math rock idols Tera Melos and “we fell on our faces,” according to drummer Mason Macias. The thorny, complex outlines of their tunes required a high level of communication and the early pressure proved too much for the trio…
Sprawling New Latino Art Exhibit Revives Former Museo Alameda
The future of Texas is in the hands and heads of a rising Hispanic majority, according to the state’s latest demographic studies. Young Latino graduates wearing luminous blue robes and mortarboards float upwards into the sky in José Esquivel’s Dreamers in Space, a vision of hope and reconciliation in the inaugural exhibit, “Contemporary Latino Art:…
‘Finding Vivian Maier’ Captures the Story of a Reclusive Photographer
How is it that the work of one of the greatest street photographers who ever lived went completely unnoticed in her lifetime? After watching Finding Vivian Maier the answer seems simple: She was a little nuts. First-time filmmaker John Maloof found Maier’s work accidentally. He bought a box at an auction that contained hundreds of her…
Savage Love: Make the call
I’ve got a question I doubt you’ve ever gotten before. It has a bit of everything: sex-work etiquette, long-distance phone interaction and a het cis chick anxious not to lose her tolerance badge. Here it goes: A few months ago, I started getting hang-up calls from numbers I didn’t recognize in Boston. Then weird texts…
An Urban Watering Hole at GS 1221
Quiz time: Do you like craft beer? If the answer is yes, GS 1221 should probably be on your usual rotation. If not, you may want to consider checking out the spot anyway. Here’s the thing about GS 1221: It gets to the point. The latest bar to hit Broadway is a growler station for…
Nostalgia by the slice at Hollywood Pizza
When I first learned about Hollywood Pizza after my visits to their strip center neighbor Sushi Seven, I thought the place was a front. Thankfully, it seems I was wrong. Turns out Sean Meade (above), a California transplant, owns the pizza joint. Meade, 30, previously spent his time living off Hollywood Boulevard, chowing down at…
Tom Cruise Control: ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Cleverly Remixes Sci-Fi
Hooray! Director Doug Liman has given us exactly the kind of sci-fi action drama we were hoping for from the indie filmmaker who snuck up on the genre and booted it into the 21st century with 2002’s The Bourne Identity. Edge of Tomorrow is, unsurprisingly, smart, cleverly playing with clichés it knows we’re familiar with…
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: Electro-trash pioneers
“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.” —John Waters “Up till then, the music had been kind of…
Sexo y la Ciudad: Author’s lustful Latina is straight out of telenovela
Give It To Me by Ana Castillo The Feminist Press | $16.95 | 256 pp Ana Castillo’s daring new novel, Give It To Me, is a lustful look at love in the 21st century. Our passionate heroine, Palma Piedras, is a 40-something divorcée looking to live a life straight out of a telenovela. The character’s…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us,” writes novelist Robert R. McCammon. “We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it…
Council Members Want Stronger Role In SAWS, CPS Bonus Pay Process
District 9 City Councilman Joe Krier wants to increase Council’s role in determining executive pay and bonuses at the municipally owned water and electric companies. Krier recently filed a Council Consideration Request (CCR) to improve transparency when it comes to San Antonio Water System (SAWS) and CPS Energy top-level executive bonus pay. The CCR comes…
Flavor File: L&L Hawaiian Grill opens, Spurs donuts and SA’s ‘Next Food Network Star’
Breakfast tacos really do have a stronghold in this city. Vinny’s Donuts (124 Broadway), which opened in mid-January closed its doors less than two weeks ago. Vinny’s is the second restaurant to come and go in the space since Twin Sisters closed its doors after serving downtown for more than a dozen years. Vinny Pharakhone,…
Day in the Life: Crave Market
While you’ve likely seen their juice at Rosella Coffee, Bird Bakery or several other places around town—maybe you’ve even unknowingly sipped it in your cocktail at George’s Keep, the Brooklynite or Stay Golden Social House—Crave Market has bigger plans than just juice. Crave Market redefines the 21st century market. It’s not a restaurant, not a…
Aural Pleasure Review: 50 Cent, ‘Animal Ambition’
50 Cent | Animal Ambition G-Unit/Capitol | * As 50 Cent has been chilling in his Connecticut mansion on his Vitamin Water money like a well-hydrated dragon, rap has moved away from the days of the long sing-song hooks of his ’03 hit “In Da Club.” Where 50 dedicated four solid bars to his memorable “In…
Aural Pleasure Review: Fucked Up, ‘Glass Boys’
Fucked Up | Glass Boys Matador Records| **** When you name your band Fucked Up, you automatically forego a certain level of mainstream acceptance. So credit the Canadian six-piece for pushing the boundaries of a hardcore band with an unprintable name to absurdly ambitious levels: touring with the Foo Fighters, writing rock operas and recording…
Aural Pleasure Review: Trash Talk, ‘No Peace’
Trash Talk | No Peace Odd Future/Sony **** Shuck the shrink-wrap on No Peace and you’ll be surprised to hear the trap-meets-trip hop of “Amnesiatic” open Trash Talk’s third release. It’s as if the Sacramento hardcore mavens spent too much time with the eponymous operators of Odd Future Records and forgot the live evil of their first…
Just Happens to Be LGBT: Four Fantastic Reasons Why Gay Geeks Love Superheroes
In the Marvel Comics issue of Astonishing X-Men Northstar a homosexual mutant betroths his true love. via “When I was a teenager, I always felt different from everyone else. Like I didn’t quite belong with the rest of the crowd. I felt that maybe I didn’t even belong here and that the rest of world might…
6 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on this Week
(Via) Friday, June 6: There’s no need to drive when you’re checking out the some of the coolest bars in town. The Brooklynite, Stay Golden Social House and Tacoland. The bus will start at The Brooklynite at 8 p.m., head to Stay Golden Social House and Tacoland and then back to The Brooklynite at 1 a.m.…
SA Sound: The State of Jazz
With HemisFair on its way to becoming a “jazz park,” Jazz S’Alive in its 31st year and KRTU keepin’ on, Alamo City jazz infrastructure is on the rise, recovering from the loss of The Landing and Carmen’s in recent years. This edition of SA Sound takes a look at some recent releases from the San…
Booze News: Luau party at BKSA and far east dinner at Tuk Tuk
Booze News slings up the latest gulp downs around town every Tuesday. Refreshing tiki cocktails at BKSA. (Courtesy David Rangel) You’ve heard of Tiki Tuesdays but now The Brooklynite (516 Brooklyn) is having an all out luau party on Tuesday, June 2 at 9 p.m. Tiki Tuesday drink specials will be going all night…
UTOPIAfest, Purveyors of Actual Utopia, Announce 2014 Lineup
Don’t be me. That’s basically my life advice all the time, but in this case, I really mean it. Why? I slept on UTOPIAfest, now in its sixth year, until 2013’s iteration. Located out in Utopia, very close to Garner State Park about 90 miles Northwest of SA, it just seemed so far away and…
San Antonian, Annie’s List Director Dies In Car Crash
San Antonio native and head of Annie’s List, Grace Ann Garcia, died in a car crash Monday in Waxahachie, reported the political organization she led. Grace Ann Garcia. Photo via Annie’s List. “It is with a tremendous sense of loss that we announce the passing of our executive director and leader Grace Garcia, who lost…
Free Cupcakes: Kate’s Frosting holds try-before-you-buy tasting
Just one, no wait, two cupcakes couldn’t hurt right? (via) Update: June 5, 2014, 12:40 The free tasting for the Broadway location has been changed to Tuesday, June 10. Our original post continues: Kate’s Frosting (2518 Main) is letting customers eat their delicious cupcakes for free in a “Try Before You Buy” event showcasing their new…
Oddsmaker (Gambling) Sites Choose Spurs as Favorites for NBA Finals
NBA artwork done by SA graphic designer JC Pagan Either Latvia and Antigua and Barbados pay keen attention to the timbre of the NBA Finals, or the countries are great spots for gambling sites to set up shop outside American jurisdiction. Either way, oddsmaking (gambling) sites Bovada.lv and Sportsbook.ag have favored the Spurs as the men in front…
NBA Finals Schedule: Spurs Home Tickets On Sale Today
OK, SpursNation, let’s get down to business. The first two games of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat are home games, and tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m., online only at Spurs.com. If you’ve been wanting to purchase season tickets for next season, now is the time as that will guarantee your spot…
