Phony Diploma: City Election Mud
Oh man, Philip Cortez, your false UTSA master’s degree claim has cost you the Express-News endorsement, and just today conservative radio talk-show host Adam McManus contacted the Current to see if we knew some way to get ahold of you (Why? We aren’t close with the phony diploma crowd, just the fake Universal Life Church…
Phony Diploma: City Election Mud
Oh man, Philip Cortez, your false UTSA master’s degree claim has cost you the Express-News endorsement, and just today conservative radio talk-show host Adam McManus contacted the Current to see if we knew some way to get ahold of you (Why? We aren’t close with the phony diploma crowd, just the fake Universal Life Church…
Phony Diploma: City Election Mud
Oh man, Philip Cortez, your false UTSA master’s degree claim has cost you the Express-News endorsement, and just today conservative radio talk-show host Adam McManus contacted the Current to see if we knew some way to get ahold of you (Why? We aren’t close with the phony diploma crowd, just the fake Universal Life Church…
Phony Diploma: City Election Mud
Oh man, Philip Cortez, your false UTSA master’s degree claim has cost you the Express-News endorsement, and just today conservative radio talk-show host Adam McManus contacted the Current to see if we knew some way to get ahold of you (Why? We aren’t close with the phony diploma crowd, just the fake Universal Life Church…
Toll-road redemption (for filmmakers and legislators)
I’m doing the deliberate slow clap (most redemptively portrayed in Corey Haim’s Lucas) for Truth be Tolled documentary filmmaker and Trinity graduate William Molina and his co-writer Deborah Fazackerley. They picked up the Platinum Remi award at the WorldFest Houston Film Festival after their April 22 screening of Tolled, which followed last year’s passionate grassroots movement against…
Toll-road redemption (for filmmakers and legislators)
I’m doing the deliberate slow clap (most redemptively portrayed in Corey Haim’s Lucas) for Truth be Tolled documentary filmmaker and Trinity graduate William Molina and his co-writer Deborah Fazackerley. They picked up the Platinum Remi award at the WorldFest Houston Film Festival after their April 22 screening of Tolled, which followed last year’s passionate grassroots movement against…
Toll-road redemption (for filmmakers and legislators)
I’m doing the deliberate slow clap (most redemptively portrayed in Corey Haim’s Lucas) for Truth be Tolled documentary filmmaker and Trinity graduate William Molina and his co-writer Deborah Fazackerley. They picked up the Platinum Remi award at the WorldFest Houston Film Festival after their April 22 screening of Tolled, which followed last year’s passionate grassroots movement against…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Reps, Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth
San Antonio millionaire and school-voucher champion Dr. James Leininger got very little love for his money last week. Last year, he spent about $3 million to elect candidates to the legislature who had one single qualification: they supported his pet cause of private-school vouchers. But those millions didn’t even buy Leininger one lousy vote when…
Electing a President Proportionally
Courtesy photo The entire state of New Hampshire holds fewer voters than the city of San Antonio, but if Mike Huckabee, Chris Dodd, Sam Brownback, Joe Biden, and other presidential wannabes flash their smiles in Bexar County during 2007 it will be to shake out wallets in Terrell Hills and Olmos Park, not shake hands…
The Mashup
From the Editor A freight train loaded with cigarettes, all lit, the smoke drifting heavenward in perfect Erte coils, runs full steam through my life’s main line. My parents smoked, as my husband likes to say, like it was their job. That is until my father died late last year from congestive heart failure. If…
Kahuna on the Run
Big Kahuna’s MySpace page. Courtesy photo. The former owner of Big Kahuna’s deli and Casa Verde Garden Supply may have skipped out on a three-year sentence for conspiracy to grow and sell more than 1,000 marijuana plants `“Thank you for not snitching,” August 16-22, 2006`, but he checked his MySpace page not long ago, according…
Hustle and Flow
This spring, for the first time since Larry Bird accomplished the feat in the mid-’80’s, a white player will walk away with the NBA’s regular season MVP award for the third year in a row. Many basketball writers have already penciled in Dirk Nowitzki, a solid choice, to be sure. The Good German is averaging…
Free Will Astrology
By: Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): To manufacture one penny, the U.S. Treasury spends 1.4 cents. To process petroleum for use in operating a car, the oil industry expends 20 percent more energy than the gasoline yields. These are the kinds of situations you’ve urgently got to avoid in the coming week, Aries. You…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Ill-conceived notions
In the early 1970s, before Doonesbury became a household name, Garry Trudeau surveyed newspapers that ran his strip to map the range of issues that he could and could not get away with. One newspaper editor who replied to Trudeau’s questionnaire offered the fledgling cartoonist some guidance: “It has nothing to do with subjects, it’s…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Ill-conceived notions
In the early 1970s, before Doonesbury became a household name, Garry Trudeau surveyed newspapers that ran his strip to map the range of issues that he could and could not get away with. One newspaper editor who replied to Trudeau’s questionnaire offered the fledgling cartoonist some guidance: “It has nothing to do with subjects, it’s…
Toll-road redemption (for filmmakers, legislators, and me)
Posted by Keli Dailey on May Day, 6 p.m. I’m doing the deliberate slow clap (most redemptively portrayed in Corey Haim’s Lucas) for Truth be Tolled documentary filmmaker and Trinity graduate William Molina and his co-writer Deborah Fazackerley. They picked up the Platinum Remi award at the WorldFest Houston Film Festival after their April 22 screening of…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Life in the fast lane
My love of food is what gets me arm-deep in the food chain every week, prying pearls of inspiration like so many wisdom teeth from the mouths of experts — the chefs, farmers, home-cooks, butchers, and bakers who make the world of food go ’round. It’s this love that keeps me in the kitchen, day…
Aural Pleasure
Stone Age The problem with Joss Stone’s third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is not the fact that it takes at least five listens before its exquisite Raphael Saadiq-produced grooves and Stone’s often off-kilter lyrical delivery begin to sound like a cohesive, melodic pop album you can sing along with (by this point, though, the revelation…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Life in the fast lane
My love of food is what gets me arm-deep in the food chain every week, prying pearls of inspiration like so many wisdom teeth from the mouths of experts — the chefs, farmers, home-cooks, butchers, and bakers who make the world of food go ’round. It’s this love that keeps me in the kitchen, day…
Aural Pleasure
Stone Age The problem with Joss Stone’s third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is not the fact that it takes at least five listens before its exquisite Raphael Saadiq-produced grooves and Stone’s often off-kilter lyrical delivery begin to sound like a cohesive, melodic pop album you can sing along with (by this point, though, the revelation…
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Developer’s Choice Which candidates are funded by San Antonio’s institutional elite — the realtors and engineering firms, bankers and investors, political dynasties and powerbrokers? These folks, based on their 30-days-before-the-election campaign-finance reports Candidate Race EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPER-TIED CONTRIBUTIONS Phil Hardberger Mary Alice Cisneros Sheila McNeil Roland Gutierrez Philip Cortez Delicia Herrera …
Life in the fast lane
Illustration by Chuck Kerr My love of food is what gets me arm-deep in the food chain every week, prying pearls of inspiration like so many wisdom teeth from the mouths of experts — the chefs, farmers, home-cooks, butchers, and bakers who make the world of food go ’round. It’s this love that keeps me…
Aural Pleasure
Stone Age The problem with Joss Stone’s third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is not the fact that it takes at least five listens before its exquisite Raphael Saadiq-produced grooves and Stone’s often off-kilter lyrical delivery begin to sound like a cohesive, melodic pop album you can sing along with (by this point, though, the revelation…
The Mary Alice Tree
dave chart Developer’s Choice Which candidates are funded by San Antonio’s institutional elite — the realtors and engineering firms, bankers and investors, political dynasties and powerbrokers? These folks, based on their 30-days-before-the-election campaign-finance reports Candidate Race EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPER-TIED CONTRIBUTIONS Phil Hardberger Mary Alice Cisneros Sheila McNeil Roland Gutierrez Philip Cortez …
The Fast Foodie (Super-size)
When I first heard there was a place where taco trucks go to get inspected, I hoped for a warehouse hidden on the West Side where men and women wear lab coats and sunglasses, and hold clipboards and blowtorches while smoking cigarettes. It would be a place not unlike David Hasselhoff’s secret KITT garage. I…
CDs Nuts
How’s this for a review: If you’re the kind of person who buys this, it’ll be your new favorite album. Of course, I’m assuming here that if you bought this you’re a 14-year-old boy who draws a giant 69 on all his book covers. If not, you might still enjoy it with some liberal fast-forwarding.…
The Mary Alice Tree
dave chart Developer’s Choice Which candidates are funded by San Antonio’s institutional elite — the realtors and engineering firms, bankers and investors, political dynasties and powerbrokers? These folks, based on their 30-days-before-the-election campaign-finance reports Candidate Race EXAMPLE OF DEVELOPER-TIED CONTRIBUTIONS Phil Hardberger Mary Alice Cisneros Sheila McNeil Roland Gutierrez Philip Cortez …
Heavy on the tradition
Salis Italian Restaurante 7115 Blanco Rd. 524-2413 11am-9pm Mon-Thu; 11am-10pm Fri & Sat Entrées $9.95-$13.95 Credit cards Accessible As we all know, the Eternal City wasn’t built in a day — and not because of problems with building inspectors. It just takes time to get things right, to acquire that desired patina of life well-lived.…
CDs Nuts
How’s this for a review: If you’re the kind of person who buys this, it’ll be your new favorite album. Of course, I’m assuming here that if you bought this you’re a 14-year-old boy who draws a giant 69 on all his book covers. If not, you might still enjoy it with some liberal fast-forwarding.…
The Mashup
CITY OF SAN ANTONIO Request for Council Action Agenda Item # 2 Council Meeting Date: 5/2/2007 RFCA Tracking No: R-781 DEPARTMENT: Planning and Community Development DEPARTMENT HEAD: Emil Moncivais COUNCIL DISTRICT(S) IMPACTED: City Wide SUBJECT: Historic and Design Review Commission Role and Responsibilities SUMMARY: This briefing will provide City Council…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The elections are just one tiny far off corner of the SA voter’s amygdala. That won’t keep us from making the ballot cerebral. Cover illustration by Beto Gonzales. MAIL Pen pal Hello my greetings to you. I’m just writing to let you know that I received the S.A. Current issue and…
Kamikaze
Wanted: Promoters Con Huevos Next stop: Austin. You kind of get used to the fact that, year after year, most of the best Latin albums of the year are not released in the U.S. But can the artists at least stop in San Antonio while on tour? What is it about our city that prompts…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The elections are just one tiny far off corner of the SA voter’s amygdala. That won’t keep us from making the ballot cerebral. Cover illustration by Beto Gonzales. MAIL Pen pal Hello my greetings to you. I’m just writing to let you know that I received the S.A. Current issue and…
last words
“Black Gold” by Jason Stout (2007)
Kamikaze
Wanted: Promoters Con Huevos Next stop: Austin. You kind of get used to the fact that, year after year, most of the best Latin albums of the year are not released in the U.S. But can the artists at least stop in San Antonio while on tour? What is it about our city that prompts…
last words
David Halberstam. Courtesy photo. Modern Times The late David Halberstam left warning signs for future American leaders in The Next Century By: Gilbert Garcia Of all the arguments that have ever been made for a career in journalism, the one I find the most persuasive came from David Halberstam. Halberstam, the revered reporter who died…
last words
“Black Gold” by Jason Stout (2007)
Jett Passengers
Girl in a Coma with Big Soy, The Moriartys, and The Offbeats 8pm Sat, May 5 $8 (all ages) Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson 223-2830 The members of Girl in a Coma recently spent bassist Jenn Alva’s birthday shopping for a new van. The SA all-female trio has been depending on the kindness of…
last words
David Halberstam. Courtesy photo. Modern Times The late David Halberstam left warning signs for future American leaders in The Next Century By: Gilbert Garcia Of all the arguments that have ever been made for a career in journalism, the one I find the most persuasive came from David Halberstam. Halberstam, the revered reporter who died…
last words
“Black Gold” by Jason Stout (2007)
Jett Passengers
Girl in a Coma with Big Soy, The Moriartys, and The Offbeats 8pm Sat, May 5 $8 (all ages) Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson 223-2830 The members of Girl in a Coma recently spent bassist Jenn Alva’s birthday shopping for a new van. The SA all-female trio has been depending on the kindness of…
Election brain candy
Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school bonds, among other region specific elections.…
Election brain candy
Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school bonds, among other region specific elections.…
Aural Pleasure
Stone Age The problem with Joss Stone’s third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is not the fact that it takes at least five listens before its exquisite Raphael Saadiq-produced grooves and Stone’s often off-kilter lyrical delivery begin to sound like a cohesive, melodic pop album you can sing along with (by this point, though, the revelation…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Election brain candy
Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school bonds, among other region specific elections.…
Election brain candy
news piece Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school bonds, among other region…
Jett Passengers
The members of Girl in a Coma recently spent bassist Jenn Alva’s birthday shopping for a new van. The SA all-female trio has been depending on the kindness of friends and acquaintances since the oil pump of their old van broke down and left them stranded 80 miles away from a gig in El Paso.…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Game Theory
Courtesy image “He doesn’t use e-mail? Didn’t he get the faxed memo? This is the ’90s!” I uttered these outraged words last decade when a fellow graduate student informed me that her advisor refused to communicate via email. As our nation’s leading media-law scholar, he was in the fortunate position of being able to do…
Election brain candy
news piece Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school bonds, among other region…
Jett Passengers
Girl in a Coma with Big Soy, The Moriartys, and The Offbeats 8pm Sat, May 5 $8 (all ages) Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson 223-2830 The members of Girl in a Coma recently spent bassist Jenn Alva’s birthday shopping for a new van. The SA all-female trio has been depending on the kindness of…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
Upright men
When former Senator Bob Dole, the failed presidential candidate, was hired as the pitchman for Viagra in 1998, he was hardly the first leader to attempt to straddle politics and impotence. As Angus McLaren notes in his erudite, entertaining, and insightful study of what’s now been medicalized as “erectile dysfunction,” Charles II’s “lack of success…
Election brain candy
news piece Illustration by Beto Gonzales Early voting started Monday, and the City Clerk can expect half the ballot take to come in before the May 12 general election. San Antonio’s election is important — offering our 1.4 million citizenry (by recent estimates) input on City Council, Mayor, and the $550-million citywide bond and school…
Free Will Astrology
By: Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): To manufacture one penny, the U.S. Treasury spends 1.4 cents. To process petroleum for use in operating a car, the oil industry expends 20 percent more energy than the gasoline yields. These are the kinds of situations you’ve urgently got to avoid in the coming week, Aries. You…
They Said It
Sometimes a candidate can shuck’n’jive their way past the media filters (and fact checkers) and connect directly with their audience (mostly through campaign mailers. But with another postal-rate hike jacking up stamps! … OK, that’s not in effect until two days after the May 12 election). Well, we’re feeling generous (or overwhelmed by all the…
An art-lover’s guide to First Friday
A very long time ago (in art-world years), when Linda Pace was the only San Antonio collector buying video art, First Friday was about galleries, artists, and the stuff hanging on walls and sitting on pedestals. If you want to recapture the invigorating sense that you’re participating in something more than just a really big…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER Readers voted; critics typed; computers tallied, and the results are in! 66 pages of the Best of SA. Cover photo by Justin Parr. MAIL Turn it off Thank you very much for your excellent editorial on the abominable coverage of `the Virginia Tech` incident. `The MashUp, April 18-24.` On Wednesday night…
last words
“Black Gold” by Jason Stout (2007)
Victim of the Nineties
If you read this on Wednesday, Johnathan Bryant Moore will most likely be alive. If you read this any day after, he will probably be dead. There will have been no zero-hour reprieves for Officer Fabian Dominguez’s killer, no Supreme-Court intervention, no silence-shattering call from the governor’s office. There will have been no late-breaking innocence…
We’ve Only Just Begun
Last month, as yet another scandal exploded in Austin — this one about a large number of deaths at state facilities for the mentally and physically handicapped — Governor Rick Perry had the audacity to tell the state’s citizens to “take a deep breath” before jumping to conclusions. (The conclusion being, presumably, that the Governor’s…
The Queque
The Queque hopes you’ve enjoyed the campaign trail mix we’ve been serving up lately, and want you to try these delicious nuts: Mayor Phil Hardbody and 18 other candidates on San Antonio’s May 12 ballot did not bother to seek an endorsement from the Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio, a chapter of the LGBT national…
Cherry Picking Abstinence
Virgin: The Untouched History By Hanne Blank Bloomsbury $24.95, 304 pages Some suicide bombers are reportedly motivated by a Qu’ranic promise: To reward martyrdom, 72 virgins will serve their pleasure in the afterlife. However, those erotic expectations are probably based on a linguistic misunderstanding; scholars contend that the correct translation is not “virgins” but “raisins.”…
Game Theory
Virtual Laguna Beach, an immersive MTV world that lets players live the hit TV show. Courtesy image. It could have been a disaster. During lunchtime on the first day of the Virtual Worlds conference, the line of attendees snaked out the cafeteria and down the hallways of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Patrons chattered enthusiastically…
A Fab First Friday
6:25 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 8:30 p.m. You only go for the art, you say? Then set down the beer cup, quit tailing that hot maybe-out-of-high-schooler, and follow the Current’s handy guide to a fab First Friday. 6PM: Mo+PoMo UTSA Satellite Space, 115 Blue Star The annual MFA graduate show promises a variety…
Skit in a Box
A vortex of comic power: Joel Settles, Mark Riojas, Regan Arevelos, Jess Castro, and Larry Garza. Courtesy photo. Public Axis 8pm Fri-Sat, Apr 6-14 $12 general $9 student, senior Jump-Start Theater 108 Blue Star 227-5867 Jump-start.org Ever feel like you’re living in the Mojave Desert of contemporary comic theater? It seems the cosmic hope we’ve…
The Art Capades – Build it and they will come
The Mayor of Grip River handles the town’s phones and wields the official groundbreaking shovel. Courtesy image. Under Construction: Mayor of Grip River Discusses Public Works 6:45pm Fri, Apr 6 Free Cactus Bra 106C Blue Star 226-6688 Ian O’Brien is just really busy, and he’s apologetic about not returning messages. His staff (“me, myself, and…
The Bar Tab
The Lion and Rose 842 NW Loop 410 798-4154 11am-2am daily Drink specials: circa $3.50 Imperial pints: $4.50-7 While I was on my way to a Country & Western bar out near Vance Jackson, the apocalypse hit. The rain came crashing down in a glorious release and our plans soon began to change. We were…
Great Things, Small Packages
Doña Tota is all gorditas, and you can have them filled with chicharron, cochinta pibil, pastor, and more. Gorditas Doña Tota 7053 San Pedro 375-8200 7:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat; 8am-8pm Sun Credit cards Gorditas: $.99-$1.99 Accessible It might seem strange that a commodity that is hardly common currency on Tex-Mex menus hereabouts can serve as the entire…
Here’s the Beef
The Akaushi story is so multidimensional that it’s nearly impossible to pin down as one subject. It’s a Texas business story; a nutritional-science story; an animal-husbandry story; and a food story — all wrapped around 11 head of pure Japanese bovine. Plus, the word “Akaushi” is just plain fun to say. I’m not sure if…
Armchair Cinephile
Even in an age where films blurring the line between fact and fiction are commonplace enough to demand their own genre label (the “mockumentary”), the cinema of British native Peter Watkins is a rare beast — a fascinating filmography, blending aesthetic and political concerns, that has seen a huge boost in accessibility thanks to a…
Aural Pleasure
Living With the Living Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (Touch and Go) Leo’s Manifesto Ted Leo is an American Billy Bragg, a punk in the philosophical — rather than musical — sense. Both men are tireless activists who view music as a tool for sweeping social change, but tend to express their political anger with…
Sound and the Fury
Best Bett The International Songwriting Competition recently announced its 2006 winners and local vocalist/pianist Bett Butler walked away with first place in the annual contest’s jazz category. The Nashville-based ISC is generally recognized as the gold standard for songwriting contests and the 2006 competition boasted a mind-boggling panel of judges: Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Frank…
Picking Up the Mic
Young, gifted, and gay: rapper Deadlee fights stereotypes with the HomoRevolution Tour. Courtesy photo. Homorevolution Tour: With Deadlee, Tori Fixx, Johnny Dangerous, and Qboy 8pm Thu, April 5 $10 The Saint Showbar 1430 N. Main Being a gay performer in hip-hop is much like being a Log Cabin Republican or an African-American member of the…
Fitness Gurus
Gym Class Heroes build a sizable collection of apples. Courtesy photo. Gym Class Heroes 8pm Wed, Apri1 4 $12-$15 White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 Some bands form in garages. Others, like Hanson or the Partridge Family, are the product of genetics. There are also those that are born out of reality shows. And…
The Say-Town Lowdown
It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty last week to providing material support for terrorism. Hicks offers us a glimpse into the Kafkaesque netherworld of…
