Fit to be Thai’d
Release Date: 2003-03-06 Psst! Here’s an insider tip: If, on an ordinary weeknight, you sit at the right table at Sompong’s, your culinary/cultural experience will be much enhanced. What is the right table, you ask? The one where the waitresses, when not otherwise occupied, are folding napkins. I’m not talking about picking up a little…
DEATH ON THE BORDER
Shooting outside Anunciación House leaves one man dead Nineteen-year-old Juan Patricio Peraza Quijada made it across the border to the Anunciación House, but he never made it back to his home in Mexicali, Baja California. Witnesses at Anunciación House reported that Peraza was walking out of the building to the parking lot to take out…
Armchair Cinephile
Shampoo (Columbia/TriStar) Tadpole (Miramax) The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) (Columbia / TriStar) The Long Goodbye (MGM) Warren Beatty, not known as one of Hollywood’s bigger Puritans, found a role that fit like a glove in 1975’s Shampoo, where he plays a hairdresser to the rich, famous, and horny. “Found” isn’t exactly the word; Beatty, who by…
SHOW TIMES
These show times are provided by the theaters and are subject to change. The Current includes show times submitted by press deadline, and is not responsible for the changes in the ever-morphing film industry. All times are p.m. unless otherwise indicated. DOWNTOWN AMC RIVERCENTER 9 Rivercenter Mall, third floor, 558-9988 Bringing Down the House (PG-13)…
STILL PLAYING
ABOUT SCHMIDT Dir. Alexander Payne; writ. Louis Begley (novel), Payne; feat. Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates (R) Schmidt is a road movie set on the other end of life’s cycle from Nicholson’s Easy Rider, as full of metaphoric ambition and as devoid of solid meaning. The actor is utterly convincing as a…
ARTIFACTS
News and notes from the San Antonio art scene Often, amidst San Antonio’s monthly foray into art appreciation, the work of contemporary folk artists gets blurred by the all-too-familiar free beer shuffle. This month, practicing that ludicrous habit would be more than an unfortunate oversight. The intensely spiritual work of Jamaican-born, North Carolina-based folk artist…
EXECUTIVE DIRECTION
The new executive director of Blue Star, Bill Fitzgibbons, makes administration an art ANJALI GUPTA: Your predecessors, Carla Stellweg and Lawrence Miller, were both very enthused about reinventing Blue Star, with placing it on a sort of global continuum, and judging it in relation to other arts organizations. Lawrence was in the process of drafting…
SUCH BEAUTIFUL POSES
Nearby, smaller hombrecitos and mujercitas – some with open mouths that form sensual Os, while other’s pursed lips push out delicate breaths of air like soft kisses – gracefully cavort in Javier Marín (2000) Mujer Blanca 1 JAVIER MARÍN 9am-9pm Mon-Thu 9am-5pm Fri & Sat 11am-5pm Sun Through March 16 Parking fee Central Library, 600…
HE’S NO GENE KRUPA
Although he has worked with rock bands (albeit freaky ones such as Pere Ubu and the Residents), his solo work isn’t about keeping time. Filling space is more like it – creating a sonic fog in a specific room, before a particular audience, improvising his compositions using a lot more than the standard drum kit.…
A MIGHTY WIND, INDEED
This year is the fest’s 10th anniversary, and programmers have put together a nice retrospective of memorable films from SXSW’s past. Some – Swimming With Sharks, Dancer, Texas, Pop. 81 – may have shown up in a theater near you, but others are rare treats. Most noteworthy is It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by…
RIDE ‘EM, COWGIRLS!
The Cowgirls draw from a vast reflecting pool of influences – just as the Stooges, the Dolls, and the Ramones did. But their peculiarly Midwest, blues-tinged, garage rock sound didn’t exactly sit well with your average first-generation, black-flag-waving Orange County hardcore fan; the Cowgirls emitted a fuel-injected fusion reminiscent of Chuck Berry and the MC5.…
NEW REVIEWS
CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE Dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak; writ. Channing Gibson, John O’Brien, Reggie Rock Bythewood; feat. Jet Li, DMX, Mark Dacascos, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold, Kelly Hu, Gabrielle Union (R) This is the sweetest exploitation movie since Starship Troopers. The combination of whirlwind plot disintegration, needless gory violence, excessive gadgetry, and arbitrary booty makes this…
QUEENIES
QOSA began with a split with Beaver off Man’s Ruin Records. From there they have reached heights uncommon to relatively unknown bands with members older than 35 reach. (Fans can thank Dave Grohl for their favorite psychedelic metal secret appearing on MTV’s TRL.) After the release of their self-titled album, QOSA garnered Grohl’s attention -…
SAFE PASSAGE
The United States’ reception of these migrants was never warm. Today it is overwhelmingly hostile. Steel fences topped with electrified barbed wire, guard dogs, and soldiers carrying high-powered rifles drive them ever farther from the ford, with many dying of dehydration, hypothermia, and heat stroke in the desert, or drowning in fast-flowing water downriver. Still…
HOLLEY, NOT HOKEY
Whether thanks to her own sensibilities or to the time she CLAIRE HOLLEY 8pm Saturday, March 8 Casbeers 1719 Blanco Road 732-3511 spent in Chicago’s eclectic and sophisticated music scene during college, she avoids the kind of exaggerated mannerisms and hokey themes that plague so many aspiring troubadours. The folk-phobic will have a hard time…
PASS THE MUSTARD, PLEASE
In 11 years, the band has had nearly zero mainstream exposure, opting to remain under-the-rug punk/ska legends. But, according to bassist Matt Van, being an underrated artist is “a big fucking wicked pisser.” Van MUSTARD PLUG WITH ECHO SQUAD 8pm Thursday, March 6 Sin 13 1902 McCullough 785-9486 chatted briefly about the release of MP’s…
SOUND AND THE FURY
HOUSE NATION UNITE Get your back up off the wall and check out the recently opened Club Fusion on Main Street by San Antonio College. Use the front entrance on Saturday nights for a heavy dose of House Nation DJ Rise, Leonard Trujillo, fresh off his 9-11 p.m. shift on KSYM 90.1. (The side entrance…
EL REY FEO
Representations – likenesses, images, pictures – sustain power. Unconvinced? Consider the conquest of the Américas. Spanish conquistadors arriving on this continent in the early 16th century not only killed or enslaved thousands of indigenous peoples, but they also sought to obliterate the entirety of the indigenous life world. Subjugation depended upon usurping self-made likenesses. Chief…
ALL EARS
The early Bad Seeds did a lot of that apocalyptic rock as well, but somewhere along the way Cave decided he didn’t need to meet the Reaper in person, so long as the pair could keep up a meaningful correspondence. His records became more provocative than pummeling, and as the adrenaline subsided over the years…
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Peaceniks and other social activists aren’t the only ones who should be worried. Among the many unconstitutional intrusions permitted in the Act, federal agents can tap your phone, monitor your e-mail and Internet use, search your home without telling you, and pull your library records if the U.S. government decides you could be involved in…
SA AT SXSW
No one seems to know how to describe the music of the Mechanical Walking Robotboy. After banging my head in frustration at my inability to neatly define their sound, I decided to ask people who had seen the band what they thought of the music. Names such as David Bowie, the Flaming Lips, the Velvet…
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Peaceniks and other social activists aren’t the only ones who should be worried. Among the many unconstitutional intrusions permitted in the Act, federal agents can tap your phone, monitor your e-mail and Internet use, search your home without telling you, and pull your library records if the U.S. government decides you could be involved in…
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Peaceniks and other social activists aren’t the only ones who should be worried. Among the many unconstitutional intrusions permitted in the Act, federal agents can tap your phone, monitor your e-mail and Internet use, search your home without telling you, and pull your library records if the U.S. government decides you could be involved in…
LEADING THE GRASSROOTS CHARGE
San Antonians fight for justice at Brazil’s World Social Forum Luiz Ignacio, or “Lula,” Da Silva, the newly elected President from the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT), marks a breakthrough for the working class struggles and was welcomed at the Anfi-teatro ‘Pôr-do-Sol’ (Sunset Amphitheatre) to a mass of waving flags and the loud chant of “olé,…
DRAFT: LOCAL RESOLUTION TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES
DRAFT: LOCAL RESOLUTION TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES WHEREAS The City of _______ is proud of its long and distinguished tradition of protecting the civil rights and liberties of its residents; WHEREAS The City of _______ has a diverse population, including immigrants and students, whose contributions to the community are vital to its economy, culture and…
MARCHING FOR EQUALITY
Originating in garment-worker protests in 1857, the IWD March has been a tradition throughout the 20th century, as women protest their right to “bread and roses”: sustenance and quality of life. Women all over the globe have been marching since 1977, when the U.N. declared March 8 the global day of women’s rights and international…
