Are flying saucers invading San Antonio’s skies?
For centuries, humans have glanced up at the sky and posed the cosmic question, “Are we alone?” Accounts of unidentified flying objects date back to biblical times — the airships of extraterrestrial demigods if you believe such stuff. But, modern attitudes about unearthly visitors took a dramatic turn on June 24th, 1947, when a pilot…
Talking with a POTC4 mermaid
Her professional career may have begun obscurely as an actress and model in Paris, but Ástrid Bergés-Frisbey will soon see some major fanfare when her very first American-made movie, the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (see review) starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, hits theaters today. In the swashbuckling sequel, Bergés-Frisbey, who…
“The Boxer” by Fred Bailón
Introduction What I found most striking about Fred Bailón’s “The Boxer” is it so clearly, completely and simply creates a character and through that character drama. The story takes place in only a few minutes but the tension arises through the juxtaposition of past and present. The Boxer is unable to reconcile the present emotion…
Why Mortal Kombat: Legacy may be the white horse of the entire franchise
It began as a rumor, spreading like wildfire: a high definition, professional-appearing Youtube video appearing to “reboot” the Mortal Kombat mythology into a new, darker territory the likes of which any Batman aficionado could get behind. Within hours, websites across the interwebz proved fact from fiction — not only was this video real, but it’s…
Suzanna Choffel CD Release
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-19 Choffel, a guitar-wielding Austin-based indie soul-pop songstress who sings like a smoking angel, is releasing new album Steady Eye Shaky Bow with a band every bit as good as she is: Johnny Vogelsang (bass), Laura Scarborough (vibraphone, accordion, synthesizer), and Kyle Thompson (drums). If you still haven’t caught her video “Raincloud” on…
Hill Country Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-19 This Friday, Museo Alameda is hosting an after-hours reading and book signing in the museum lobby of Hill Country Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas by Texas history fanatics David Bush and Jim Parsons. Both authors have worked with the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance and have the professional chops to…
Eternal Sunshine of the Solar Fest Mind
Many of my life’s attitudes and ideals were shaped during my hippie years in the 1960’s and 70’s. With the famous Austin music scene as a backdrop, my friends and I were hip to living a healthy, natural life–breastfeeding babies, growing our organic veggies, baking bread, walking or biking to our destinations as much as…
D.I.Y. to D.I.E. for at the D.I.Y. Factory
San Antonio’s alternative sewing studio Sew-Deluxe, a recent “do-it-yourself” venture that always did more than stitch, has evolved. The new creature on San Antonio’s shore? The D.I.Y. Factory on San Pedro. But don’t look for any smokestacks; this is still a hand-made venture catering to local artists and amateurs alike. Located at 529 San Pedro,…
Get Reel Film: Debra Sugerman
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 Locally based photographer and filmmaker Debra Sugerman is the co-founder of Creativity for Peace, a camp in Santa Fe, N.M., that nurtures understanding and leadership in Palestinian and Israeli adolescent girls. Five teenagers from the first Creativity for Peace camp accompanied Sugerman on a cross-country mission to break down barriers…
Art opening: Guus Kemp: “Bring It On!”
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 Readers may recognize the layered brushstrokes of Dutch artist Guus Kemp from “Momentum,” his 2010 solo show at Galeria Oritz Contemporary. Kemp, who holds a degree in Organizational Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, is currently based in Houston and has found inspiration in the work of Mark Rothko and…
Art in the Dark
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 Bidders rely on the “touch, feel, and sense of art” at Art in the Dark, a silent auction organized by the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind. Luckily, many of the one-of-a-kind creations up for grabs at this silent auction are sculptural, which will give potential buyers an advantage in…
Soul Food Festival
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 The Gospel on the Plaza competition — which divides $3,500 between three outstanding adult choir groups — kicks off SA’s annual Soul Food Festival in La Villita’s Maverick Plaza this Friday. Organized by the nonprofit La Villita Heritage Society, the Soul Food Festival has been celebrating South Texas’ African-American heritage…
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 With album titles like Roadhouse Sun and Junky Star, it should come as no surprise that 30-year-old singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham conjures up “dusty wood and steel” (Rolling Stone) with a “whiskey-and-cigarette throat that screams of hard living” (Texas Music Magazine). A former bull rider, Texas-bred Bingham hit the ground running…
Suzanna Choffel
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 Choffel, a guitar-wielding Austin-based indie soul-pop songstress who sings like a smoking angel, is releasing new album Steady Eye Shaky Bow with a band every bit as good as she is: Johnny Vogelsang (bass), Laura Scarborough (vibraphone, accordion, synthesizer), and Kyle Thompson (drums). If you still haven’t caught her video “Raincloud” on…
The Decorator
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 Jeffrey Strausser’s original “dark and fashionable” comedy The Decorator stars Renee Garvens as “vixen designer” Amanda Hartman, whose professional endeavors include remodeling her clients’ lives as well as their homes. Scorned by an unfaithful husband, Hartman channels her anger into a revenge scheme that takes on a life of its…
Yanni
Critic’s Pick Release Date: 2011-05-18 If Wednesday’s Josh Groban concert didn’t drain your easy listening allowance, then give it up for Yanni! Born Yiànnis Hrysomàllis, this “contemporary instrumental” (not New Age) artist launched into mega-stardom in 1994 with the release of Yanni: Live at the Acropolis, an album and subsequent video that has been seen…
Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winner In a Better World explores complexities of bullying
There’s no need to run behind mommy’s skirt anymore. It looks as if politicians and human rights activists are finally taking up the cause of the trombone-playing bookworm with the funny haircut who packs his lunch every day. Everywhere you turn, it seems like someone is kick-starting a new anti-bullying campaign. There’s an Anti-Bullying Bill…
Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman/Blizzard of Ozz 30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set
By the time the original Black Sabbath ran out of gas in the late ’70s, Ozzy Osbourne had become a worn-out and washed-up rock ’n’ roll casualty. Nobody expected much from his debut solo album, 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz, which surprisingly featured a sound that would define metal over the next decade. With hotshot guitarist…
San Antonio Beer Week at half
SA BEER WEEK AT HALF By the time you read this, San Antonio will be a few days into its first official beer week celebrated alongside National Craft Beer Week. There are 50 special beer-themed events taking place at local businesses and even late-developing tie-ins with the arts and foodie scenes. Freetail Brewing Co. brewers…
Various Artists: Hammock House Africa Caribe
Here’s a sweet one. Working from original analog multi-track tapes, New York producer Joaquín “Joe” Claussell set out to re-create the golden age of salsa (the salsa dura, or “hard” salsa of the ’70s put out by the legendary Fania label) into a powerful two-disc contemporary dance record. CD one is a live continued mix;…
Martinis and ribs at The Grill at Leon Springs
Should you find yourself in Leon Springs at a certain hour, head straight for The Grill, the last remaining outpost of the former L’Etoile boys, Thierry and Armand. Don’t ask them to make a drink for you, however; ask instead for Daniel, the bar manager. Unlike some ’tenders around town, he knows how to make…
Tracey Moffatt dissects racial encounters at Hudson (Show)Room
Some artists don’t get stuck. When Tracey Moffatt hit the art scene 20 years ago, she quickly became known as a new voice from the Aboriginal communities of Australia, her knack for storytelling displayed first in still photography and later in film often depicted racial and class mashups — behavior that strayed dangerously from convention,…
Interview with Doug Stanhope: A drunken Thomas Payne with dick jokes
Doug Stanhope is vulgar, crude, honest to a fault (and then some), and has no qualms about pissing off his audiences. But what separates him from all those other jackoffs you’ve met before is the fact that he’s also quite brilliant. Stanhope plays in the fields of taboo with the recklessness of someone who’s too…
D.I.Y. to D.I.E. for
San Antonio’s alternative sewing studio Sew-Deluxe, a recent “do-it-yourself” venture that always did more than stitch, has evolved. The new creature on San Antonio’s shore? The D.I.Y. Factory on San Pedro. But don’t look for any smokestacks; this is still a hand-made venture catering to local artists and amateurs alike. Located at 529 San Pedro,…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: What happened to my friend? She is white (Irish — her only aunt was a Catholic nun!), she grew up in Pico Rivera (so most people think she is Mexican with green eyes), she is converting to Judaism, and guess what? All she meets are Mexicans! And all she likes are Mexican men…
West Texas nuke dump going national, Durango becomes Cesar Chavez guey
Council election runoffs for D1, D7 District 1’s turntablist underdog came out ahead in Saturday’s city elections, winning 40.5 percent of the vote. That solid first-place finish marks Diego Bernal, local musician and civil-rights attorney, as the clear frontrunner for the June 11 runoff against retired firefighter Ralph Medina, who seized 28.44 percent of the…
Freewill Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today I received this email: “Dear Chosen One: My name is Boopsky, also known as ‘The Impossible.’ I rule a small kingdom that exists in a secret place — an island with abundant riches and rhinoceros playgrounds. To make a long story short, you have won our ‘naked’ lottery. Please come…
TxDOT Sunset Bill giving birth to oversized clutch of toll roads across the state
Just when you thought the state’s controversial practice of using public-private partnerships to build new toll roads was dead, it isn’t. Like a zombie in Night of the Living Dead, they are back and stronger than ever. On the last Friday in April, with little attention from the media, the Texas House of Representatives took…
In execution of basics, Lorenzo’s and Dough not so far apart
Anyone who ever wanted to club Kelly LeBrock like a baby seal for saying “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” will understand that, if we’re honest with ourselves, we don’t know all that much about Italian food. We gravitate to beautiful decor because real Italian languishes between two extremes: there’s the endlessly-adjectived menus in Italian,…
Notes from the Edge: Elders fear the continued shortchanging of Medicaid assistance
For working folks struggling to maintain a home and family, the times are already hard enough. But for those relying on social services for a place to stay, necessary medical care, or drug or alcohol assistance, notions of individual responsibility and Tea Party-inspired austerity measures at the state and federal levels are poised to kick…
Rediscovering Portugal
Portuguese navigators were instrumental in launching the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries. A mere five centuries later, we turn the tables by returning to Portugal for some wine exploration of our own. Don’t expect fabled cities of gold. Still … This column has previously mentioned that country’s sprightly, even sparkly, vinho…
Cine File looks at two pieces of resistance: ‘Army of Shadows’ and ‘The Battle of Algiers’
French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville is best known for making cool, detached gangster films such as Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouraï (not that anyone’s walking around talking about them on a regular basis or anything). He clearly liked movies about guys in fedoras stealing diamonds, which makes his most personal film, Army of Shadows, stand…
Taste This: Black bean, egg, & potato tacos from Twin Sisters
From the whole-wheat tortilla forward, it’s apparent we’re playing with tacos that have long since left the border and resettled post Kellogg’s revelation. You could order alfalfa sprouts to help fill in this Austiny San Antonio offering, but the place to start at Twin Sisters is the creamy black beans or tofu chorizo. The scrambled…
Pirates from Hell: Johnny Depp and Co. keep on stretching a tired franchise
On the high seas again for the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean action-adventure franchise, this one penned as On Stranger Tides, three-time Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp returns as the slurry and always-peculiar pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, a character he first brought to the big screen in 2003’s The Curse of the…
Bruce Auden overlooked for Best Chef in the Southwest a sixth time; 1604’s Godai Sushi & Bistro closes for good
After six years of nominations, you’d think the James Beard Foundation would give San Antonio chef Bruce Auden a wink. But, no. Best Chef in the Southwest 2011 went elsewhere again this year, though not very far: The award was a split last week between Austin’s Tyson Cole of Uchi and Uchiko and Saipin Chutima…
Critic’s Pick: American Splendor
At the beginning of American Splendor, a v.o. narration by the real Harvey Pekar describes the man portraying him in the film. “This guy here, he’s our man, all grown up and going nowhere,” says Pekar, who wrote the legendary American Splendor comic book series illustrated by some of America’s best cartoonists (most notably Robert…
Draining Gaaboseh Korean Café’s bowl
Under the radar for most of us, a Little Korea seems to have been developing along Rittiman Road from I-35 to Harry Wurzbach. Its foundations are at the western end with long-established places like Koreana, but the most recent evolution is closest to 35 in the vicinity of the now-veteran Go Hyang Jib. One of…
San Antone Café & Concerts wraps up with Dylan tribute Tuesday
“We’re safe,” says Barbara Wolfe, co-owner of Casbeers at the Church, recently redubbed San Antone Café & Concerts. It was minutes after the Armageddon-like storm that blackened San Antonio skies the morning of May 12. “We’re at the basement of a church. What could be safer than that?” Unfortunately for her and local music fans,…
Arts advocates should tap the power of Brackenridge High School
With Texas Commission on the Arts slated for destruction in this year’s budget, it’s clear that art advocates are not doing the best of jobs. But that failing is not just a Texas thing. TCA is one of almost a dozen state art agencies facing either serious funding losses or outright dissolution this year. Last…
Metal supergroup, Evil United, emerges from Pitbull Daycare’s ashes
Those who witnessed Evil United’s first San Antonio show at Nightrocker Live in March knew they’d gotten a sneak peek at something big. A supergroup of regional greats from bands like Pitbull Daycare, Riot, and Broken Teeth, this new project is an abrasive assault forging old-school heavy metal with the new school. The racing twin-guitar…
Built fjord tough: Classic Theatre mounts one sturdy ‘Hedda’
The Classic Theatre wraps up its season with a solid production of Henrik Ibsen’s famous Hedda Gabler (now only occasionally known by its working title, The Real Housewives of Sør-Trøndelag County). While other plays by Ibsen grapple with the Big Picture — including the public policy analysis of An Enemy of the People or the…
Live & Local: Disco Wasteland at Limelight Music + Drinks
Disco Wasteland’s bass player and vocalist Michael Arriaza is a fairly unassuming, nicely groomed guy until he puts on his bass and gets behind the mic. Then he’s a collar-popped, flinger of sweat who isn’t just unafraid to play lead, but insists on it. Some may remember him from his days drumming for Love Hate…
KSYM’s ‘Hot Mustard’ looking to have 25 local bands on his show in 25 days
James Velten, known as “Hot Mustard” to his listeners on KSYM 90.1 FM, usually plays blues on The Sauce, his show every weekday morning. But from May 30 through July 1, he wants to do something different. “I want to have a LOCAL band on my show everyday!” Hot Mustard told the Current via email.…
Le Butcherettes: Sin Sin Sin
If you’re one of the many people shocked and hooked by Le Butcherettes’ ferocious live performances (mega-babe singer Teri Gender Bender wears a blood-stained apron, “eats” pig heads, and does backward flips into the audience) but weren’t sure about the band’s music amid so much noise and theatrics, here’s the whole package. Produced by Omar…
Your memory wanted: a ‘Current’ quarter century
“Memory is more indelible than ink.” — Anita Loos The year before the Current set up shop, San Antonio saw its first International Woman’s Day March downtown; the year after, the legendary arts pioneer Hap Veltman passed away (and, we might add, Chernobyl blew sky-high, though it didn’t register quite as deeply with locals). In…
The Cars: Move Like This
New Wave’s back. Only this time it’s not the creation of 20-something nostalgia for a time before their birth or the moody Joy Division-inspired gloom they try to reenact. Ric Ocasek has reunited the remaining original members of the Cars for a fieldtrip through time, finally putting the Todd Rundgren-fronted rehash found in The New…
Bexar Dems pick Choco Meza to lead party
The Bexar County Democratic Party on Tuesday night elected veteran Democratic activist Choco Meza to lead the party past a swarm of controversy left in the wake of Dan Ramos. Meza, who recently ran for the position but lost to Ramos last year, won overwhelming support from party leaders to replace the embattled chair. Ramos,…
West Texas nuke dump going national, Durango becomes Cesar Chavez guey
Council election runoffs for D1, D7 District 1’s turntablist underdog came out ahead in Saturday’s city elections, winning 40.5 percent of the vote. That solid first-place finish marks Diego Bernal, local musician and civil-rights attorney, as the clear frontrunner for the June 11 runoff against retired firefighter Ralph Medina, who seized 28.44 percent of the…
Bruce Auden overlooked for Best Chef in the Southwest a sixth time
After six years of nominations, you’d think the James Beard Foundation would give San Antonio chef Bruce Auden a wink. But, no. Best Chef in the Southwest 2011 went elsewhere again this year, though not very far: The award was a split last week between Austin’s Tyson Cole of Uchi and Uchiko and Saipin Chutima…
D.I.Y. to D.I.E. for at the D.I.Y. Factory
San Antonio’s alternative sewing studio Sew-Deluxe, a recent “do-it-yourself” venture that always did more than stitch, has evolved. The new creature on San Antonio’s shore? The D.I.Y. Factory on San Pedro. But don’t look for any smokestacks; this is still a hand-made venture catering to local artists and amateurs alike. Located at 529 San Pedro,…
Notes from the Edge: Elders fear the continued shortchanging of Medicaid assistance
For working folks struggling to maintain a home and family, the times are already hard enough. But for those relying on social services for a place to stay, necessary medical care, or drug or alcohol assistance, notions of individual responsibility and Tea Party-inspired austerity measures at the state and federal levels are poised to kick…
In execution of basics, Lorenzo’s and Dough not so far apart
Lorenzo’s Italian Restaurant 8032 Fredricksburg Rd (210) 692-9900 lorenzosristorante.com THE SKINNY: Better Italian than you deserve. BEST BETS: Lasagna; baked ziti HOURS: 10am-10pm Mon-Fri, 4-10pm Sat PRICES: Lunch Entrees $5.99-$22.99; Dinner Entrees $6.99-$24.99 Dough 6989 Blanco Rd (210) 979-6565 doughpizzaria.com Anyone who ever wanted to club Kelly LeBrock like…
San Antone Café & Concerts wraps up with Dylan tribute
“We’re safe,” says Barbara Wolfe, co-owner of Casbeers at the Church, recently redubbed San Antone Café & Concerts. It was minutes after the Armageddon-like storm that blackened San Antonio skies the morning of May 12. “We’re at the basement of a church. What could be safer than that?” Unfortunately for her and local music fans,…
Metal supergroup, Evil United, emerges from Pitbull Daycare’s ashes
Evil United CD release w. Las Cruces, Deadpool, & Kill Hate Free 7pm doors Sat, May 21 Backstage Live 1305 E Houston (210) 698-2856 backstagelivesa.com Those who witnessed Evil United’s first San Antonio show at Nightrocker Live in March knew they’d gotten a sneak peek at something big. A supergroup of regional greats from bands…
Martinis and ribs at The Grill at Leon Springs
The Grill at Leon Springs 24116 I-10 W (210) 698-8797 leonspringsgrill.com Should you find yourself in Leon Springs at a certain hour, head straight for The Grill, the last remaining outpost of the former L’Etoile boys, Thierry and Armand. Don’t ask them to make a drink for you, however; ask instead for Daniel, the bar…
Rediscovering Portugal
Portuguese navigators were instrumental in launching the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries. A mere five centuries later, we turn the tables by returning to Portugal for some wine exploration of our own. Don’t expect fabled cities of gold. Still … This column has previously mentioned that country’s sprightly, even sparkly, vinho…
Cine File looks at two pieces of resistance: ‘Army of Shadows’ and ‘The Battle of Algiers’
French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville is best known for making cool, detached gangster films such as Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouraï (not that anyone’s walking around talking about them on a regular basis or anything). He clearly liked movies about guys in fedoras stealing diamonds, which makes his most personal film, Army of Shadows, stand…
Le Butcherettes: ‘Sin Sin Sin’
If you’re one of the many people shocked and hooked by Le Butcherettes’ ferocious live performances (mega-babe singer Teri Gender Bender wears a blood-stained apron, “eats” pig heads, and does backward flips into the audience) but weren’t sure about the band’s music amid so much noise and theatrics, here’s the whole package. Produced by Omar…
Johnny Depp and Co. keep on stretching a tired franchise
On the high seas again for the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean action-adventure franchise, this one penned as On Stranger Tides, three-time Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp returns as the slurry and always-peculiar pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, a character he first brought to the big screen in 2003’s The Curse of the…
Various Artists: ‘Hammock House Africa Caribe’
Here’s a sweet one. Working from original analog multi-track tapes, New York producer Joaquín “Joe” Claussell set out to re-create the golden age of salsa (the salsa dura, or “hard” salsa of the ’70s put out by the legendary Fania label) into a powerful two-disc contemporary dance record. CD one is a live continued mix;…
Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: What happened to my friend? She is white (Irish — her only aunt was a Catholic nun!), she grew up in Pico Rivera (so most people think she is Mexican with green eyes), she is converting to Judaism, and guess what? All she meets are Mexicans! And all she likes are Mexican men…
Tracey Moffatt dissects racial encounters at Hudson (Show)Room
Tracey Moffatt Free Noon-5pm Wed-Sun Artpace 445 N Main (210) 212-4900 artpace.org On view to September 11 Some artists don’t get stuck. When Tracey Moffatt hit the art scene 20 years ago, she quickly became known as a new voice from the Aboriginal communities of Australia, her knack for storytelling displayed first in still photography…
Disco Wasteland at Limelight Music + Drinks
Disco Wasteland’s bass player and vocalist Michael Arriaza is a fairly unassuming, nicely groomed guy until he puts on his bass and gets behind the mic. Then he’s a collar-popped, flinger of sweat who isn’t just unafraid to play lead, but insists on it. Some may remember him from his days drumming for Love Hate…
The Cars: ‘Move Like This’
New Wave’s back. Only this time it’s not the creation of 20-something nostalgia for a time before their birth or the moody Joy Division-inspired gloom they try to reenact. Ric Ocasek has reunited the remaining original members of the Cars for a fieldtrip through time, finally putting the Todd Rundgren-fronted rehash found in The New…
Classic Theatre mounts one sturdy ‘Hedda’
Hedda Gabler $10-$20 8pm Thu-Sat, 3pm matinee Sun Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start 108 Blue Star (800) 838-3006 brownpapertickets.com classictheatre.org Through May 29 The Classic Theatre wraps up its season with a solid production of Henrik Ibsen’s famous Hedda Gabler (now only occasionally known by its working title, The Real Housewives of Sør-Trøndelag County). While…
Draining Gaaboseh’s bowl
Gaaboseh Korean Café 6019 Rittiman Plaza (210) 829-0299 Under the radar for most of us, a Little Korea seems to have been developing along Rittiman Road from I-35 to Harry Wurzbach. Its foundations are at the western end with long-established places like Koreana, but the most recent evolution is closest to 35 in the vicinity…
Ozzy Osbourne: ‘Diary of a Madman/Blizzard of Ozz 30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set’
By the time the original Black Sabbath ran out of gas in the late ’70s, Ozzy Osbourne had become a worn-out and washed-up rock ’n’ roll casualty. Nobody expected much from his debut solo album, 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz, which surprisingly featured a sound that would define metal over the next decade. With hotshot guitarist…
Taste This: Black bean, egg & potato tacos from Twin Sisters
Twin Sisters Bakery & Café (Alamo Heights) 6322 N New Braunfels (210) 822-2265 twinsistersbakeryandcafe.com Also see Downtown location From the whole-wheat tortilla forward, it’s apparent we’re playing with tacos that have long since left the border and resettled post Kellogg’s revelation. You could order alfalfa sprouts to help fill in this Austiny San Antonio…
TxDOT Sunset Bill giving birth to oversized clutch of toll roads across the state
Just when you thought the state’s controversial practice of using public-private partnerships to build new toll roads was dead, it isn’t. Like a zombie in Night of the Living Dead, they are back and stronger than ever. On the last Friday in April, with little attention from the media, the Texas House of Representatives took…
Local protesters crash mega-church pastor John Hagee’s “honor to Israel” sermon
John Hagee’s Cornerstone mega-church grew tense Sunday as over a dozen protesters infiltrated the pews and spoke up during the pastor’s “honor to Israel” sermon, slamming the evangelical pastor for funneling millions of dollars to pro-Israel causes. Shouting slogans like, “Genocide does not bring honor to Israel,” and, “How many olive trees have been uprooted…
Nearly half of all ICE detainees land in private detention centers
Over the past five years, the number of immigrants held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers has skyrocketed. In 2005, the U.S. detained about 240,000 immigrants. By 2010, that number had spiked to nearly 400,000 detained immigrants. Data recently released by the advocacy group Detention Watch Network shows just how deeply private prison…
International Academy of Design and Technology Announces New Programs
San Antonio’s International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT), educates emerging designers and produces high-end runway shows featuring local talent. They’ve recently announced additions to their programs, which already include graphic design, fashion design, merchandising, merchandising management and advertising design. The addition of a Bachelor’s of Science in internet marketing, web design and development, are…
Larry Graeber retrospective extended to May 31
No, the exhibition profiling three decades of work by local artist Larry Graeber at Hausmann Millworks is not closed yet (as originally planned). The show’s run has been extended to May 31. That gives you two weeks to see this important retrospective, Two Worlds: A Look Back – The work of Larry Graeber, 1980-present. Here is…
SA’s Freetail Brewing picks Houston
In 2012, Houston beer drinkers will get what they’ve been waiting for: a brewpub. Since the Two Rows brewpub in Houston shut it’s doors in October over a rent dispute with the landlord, Houston has had to make do with it’s myriad of great beer bars and a handful of local microbreweries. Not so shabby.…
