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Special Rapport
The independent position Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants was created by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1999 with the mandate to “examine ways and means to overcome the obstacles existing to the full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants, including obstacles and difficulties for the return…
Special Rapport
Christian Ramirez of the American Friends Service Committee (left) and Dr. Bustamante spoke with day laborers in Rancho Penasquitos in San Diego’s North County. (Courtesy ACLU) The independent position Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants was created by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1999 with the mandate to “examine ways…
Special Rapport
The independent position Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants was created by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1999 with the mandate to “examine ways and means to overcome the obstacles existing to the full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants, including obstacles and difficulties for the return…
Best of Music 2007
Full Music Text Home Sports Media Arts Places People & Politics Food Reader’s Picks Saustex Media impresario and local punk legend Jeff Smith recently made the valid point that for all the sadness accompanying the 2005 murder of Taco Land owner Ram Ayala, the tragic loss spurred the music community to develop. The brutal…
Best of Media 2007
Full Media Text Home Music Sports Arts Places People & Politics Food Reader’s Picks As a wee, round-faced pipsqueak growing up in San Antonio, I had a strange conception of media. It wasn’t until I was embarrassingly old that I grasped that newspaper and magazine articles weren’t conjured out of binary code by some…
Best of People & Politics 2007
Full People + Politics Text Home Music Sports Media Arts Places Food Reader’s Picks There’s a joke about cities in Texas that comes courtesy of environmental lawyer Enrique Valdivia (president of the two big Edwards Aquifer protection groups in town, as well as other nice-guy distinctions). “Dallas is the Little New York, Houston is…
Reader’s Pick Sports
READERS PICK SPORTS Best Sporting- Goods Store 1. Academy Sports and Outdoors Academy.com 2. Soccer Locker USA 6487 Blanco, 349-5021 3. Bass Pro Shop 9806 IH-10 West, 877-5770, Basspro.com Current readers voiced their opinion loudly on this one. Your one-stop-shop for camping, fishing, hunting, and athletic equipment for every sport imaginable, Academy is…
Reader’s Pick Arts
BEST OF ARTS Best Gallery Show 1. Bettie Ward The Marvelous Hysterical, Southwest School of Art & Craft 2. Mike Esparza The Bijou 3. Casting a New Light Southwest School of Art & Craft The always-polished Southwest School of Art & Craft scored twice in this category, once with their Fotoseptiembre…
Reader’s Pick Food
READERS PICK FOOD Best Burger 1. Chris Madrid’s 1900 Blanco, 735-3552 2. Chester’s Hamburger Co. Multiple locations 3. The Cove 606 W. Cypress, 227-2683, Thecove.us It isn’t the beef — standard-issue, pounded flat, heavily salted and peppered — that makes this family-run hometown eatery a fixture on best-burger lists, but the toppings:…
Best of Sports 2007
Full Sports Text Home Music Media Arts Places People & Politics Food Reader’s Picks Fox Tech tangles with Lanier in the 2006 Chili Bowl. Best Sports Event Chili Bowl If we rated San Antonio sporting events by their athletic brilliance, we’d start by looking at post-season Spurs action. In 2006, that meant a heart-stopping,…
Best of Arts 2007
Art Full Text Home Music Sports Media Places People & Politics Food Reader’s Picks Sometimes the Best Of SA critic is a spider, spinning a web of pretty but ephemeral words, hoping to snag at least one butterfly that she can show off to readers: See, this bug is a truly spectacular bug, and…
Best of Places 2007
Full Places Text Home Music Sports Media Arts People & Politics Food Reader’s Picks Stand in the place where you live … Now I hop on my moped. The scooter isn’t supposed to go above 35 mph, so usually I stay off the highways. Unless I make a wrong turn, and in that case…
Reader’s Pick Music
READERS PICK MUSIC Best Rock Band 1. Los #3 Dinners Number3dinners.com 2. Dog Men Poets Dogmenpoets.com 3. Skunkweed Skunkweed.com Dog Men Poets’ loyal crowd always comes out in big numbers for Best-of votes, but the Poets couldn’t quite match a large turnout for veteran rockers Los #3 Dinners, a band once praised…
Reader’s Pick Media
READERS PICK MEDIA Best Blogger 1. Sean Paul Kelley The Agonist, Agonist.org/user/sean_paul 2. (Tie) Dave Maass Chisme Libre, Sacurrent.com Stephen Walker The Walker Report, Walkerreport.blogspot.com Stephen Walker, Balcones Heights councilman and consummate red-light camera watchdog, posted for the 1,000th time on the “pulse of San Antonio’s” Walker Report this…
Reader’s Pick People & Politics
READERS PICK PEOPLE AND POLITICS Phil Hardberger Person of the Year 1. Phil Hardberger Mayor of San Antonio 2. Ciro Rodriguez Representative, U.S. District 23 3. Kinky Friedman Personality and gubernatorial candidate We love that you love politicians and would-be politicos, too, readers. (You might’ve picked fallen Idol Haley Scarnato, after all).…
Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prison
Call it Kidmo — a supposedly family-friendly version of the Guantanamo Bay detention center deep in the heart of Texas. While the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Center houses mostly “Other-Than-Mexican” immigrant families instead of suspected terrorists, including more than 200 children from 30 countries, the policy of hide, deny, and dodge civil-rights law is…
Special Rapport
The independent position Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants was created by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1999 with the mandate to “examine ways and means to overcome the obstacles existing to the full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants, including obstacles and difficulties for the return…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a nearly comprehensive survey of the Colombia-born contemporary artist’s career, opens this week at SAMA and the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Unfortunately, writes Frank Hammel, Botero’s most famously controversial paintings won’t be seen, although the three-month schedule of events, collectively titled Botero: Beloved…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a nearly comprehensive survey of the Colombia-born contemporary artist’s career, opens this week at SAMA and the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Unfortunately, writes Frank Hammel, Botero’s most famously controversial paintings won’t be seen, although the three-month schedule of events, collectively titled Botero: Beloved…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a nearly comprehensive survey of the Colombia-born contemporary artist’s career, opens this week at SAMA and the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Unfortunately, writes Frank Hammel, Botero’s most famously controversial paintings won’t be seen, although the three-month schedule of events, collectively titled Botero: Beloved…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a nearly comprehensive survey of the Colombia-born contemporary artist’s career, opens this week at SAMA and the Southwest School of Art & Craft. Unfortunately, writes Frank Hammel, Botero’s most famously controversial paintings won’t be seen, although the three-month schedule of events, collectively titled Botero: Beloved…
All Ears
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute): While you await (eagerly or with fear in your heart, either way) next month’s return of the Polyphonic Spree, take a moment to meet this less cultish but similarly schoolbus-sized pop band, a 29-member group in which, as far as I can tell, nobody actually comes…
Kino Club
Victoria Tijerina’s video “The Digital Deep” deciphers an underwater world by means of pixel pushing on the digital front. Experience this mesmerizing audio-visual interlude in which the layered images, color palette, and undersea sound-remix convey a new description of life sub aqua. “The Digital Deep” will show at the international video festival LOOP Barcelona next…
last words
The liberation of Paris An open letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger By: Gilbert Garcia Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: As you surely know, the state of California is currently suffering through a crisis of unprecedented urgency. I’m not talking about the Griffith Park fire, the state health-care mess, the looming budget crunch, the immigration debate, or prison overcrowding.…
Free Will Astrology
By: Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Only Three Questions That Count is the title of a book by Ken Fisher. I’m stealing it to use as the theme of your horoscope. So your next assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to craft three essential questions that will guide your journey…
Letters to the Editor
mail ON THE COVER Sham*Rock aims to put Knockaleptic to sleep during a recent pillow-fighting bout courtesy of Slumber Bash Co. Cover photo by Justin Parr. MAIL IRA-TE HISTORY BUFF Surprising that you dis a historical flick `“The Trouble with the Troubles,” May 9-15` (filmed mind you, in County Cork, and originally released in Eire, England,…
Kino Club
Conflicts & Resolutions, by Richard Yanas, portrays an encounter between two figures who could be both twin and doppleganger at the same time. The landscape and changing light set a scene within the conflict unfolds. Resolution or renunciation, you decide. Conflicts & Resolutions by Richard Yanas (2006) digital video 3:36
Hustle and Flow
Last week, Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony was named the Western Conference Player of the Month, joining Alex English and Fat Lever as one of only three Nuggets to be honored with the award. On Sunday night, Anthony reminded San Antonio that April is still his month, scoring 30 points in a raucous Nuggets victory…
last words
Introducing … For your instant gratification and convenience … The San Antonio Current’s All-Purpose Hate-Mail Template! Just circle any and all of the appropriate descriptors and add postage! It’s that easy to let us know you care! Dear Editor: I can’t help but feel (grossed out, outraged, aroused, shocked, revolted, dismayed, violated, annoyed, pissed off,…
Deep sea:
Fish City Grill 18130 281 North @ Loop 1604 495-3474 11am-10pm daily Credit cards Price range: $5.99-$16.99 Accessible Should you happen to idly google “escolar,” you’re in for a rude surprise. Often and erroneously (but poetically) referred to as “white tuna,” this deep-dwelling ocean fish is also frequently (and indelicately) called “the Ex-Lax fish” by…
Toast
Despite a determined putsch by adherents of the gin martini, the cocktail Winston Churchill and James Bond sipped to fame nowadays is defined only by its distinctive conical stemware. Becoming a universal icon for happy hour is pretty good consolation for surrendering your singular identity, but I sympathize with tipplers who prefer a clean iteration…
No love lost
Confessions, Romances, Secrets and Temptations: Archer St. John and the St. John Romance Comics By John Benson Fantagraphics Books $9.95, 112 pages. On their web site, Fantagraphics Books announces their latest call for contributions as if it were a seasonal canned-food drive: “It’s that time again — the Fantagraphics Defense Fund is open for business!”…
Spittin’ Game
The first Raimi Spider-Man movie and accompanying licensed game were refreshing reminders that 1) comic-book adaptations don’t have to suck and 2) everything’s better with a little Bruce Campbell. Spider-Man 2 took an already solid premise and upped the too-legit factor (Kids still say that, right?) to classic level. So Spider-Man 3, both screen and…
Spittin’ Game
The first Raimi Spider-Man movie and accompanying licensed game were refreshing reminders that 1) comic-book adaptations don’t have to suck and 2) everything’s better with a little Bruce Campbell. Spider-Man 2 took an already solid premise and upped the too-legit factor (Kids still say that, right?) to classic level. So Spider-Man 3, both screen and…
Spittin’ Game
Spider-Man 3 Xbox 360 $59.99 The first Raimi Spider-Man movie and accompanying licensed game were refreshing reminders that 1) comic-book adaptations don’t have to suck and 2) everything’s better with a little Bruce Campbell. Spider-Man 2 took an already solid premise and upped the too-legit factor (Kids still say that, right?) to classic level. So…
Beloved, especially when edited
“Our Lady of Colombia” (1992), part of the Fernando Botero retrospective that opens May 26 at the Southwest School of Art & Craft and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Botero: Beloved artist of the Americas May 26-August 19 San Antonio Museum of Art Southwest School of Art & Craft San Antonio Public Library Downtown…
Spittin’ Game
The first Raimi Spider-Man movie and accompanying licensed game were refreshing reminders that 1) comic-book adaptations don’t have to suck and 2) everything’s better with a little Bruce Campbell. Spider-Man 2 took an already solid premise and upped the too-legit factor (Kids still say that, right?) to classic level. So Spider-Man 3, both screen and…
Aural Pleasure
Airbrushed Alibis Hyperbubble (Filthy Little Angels Records) Computer Dating The great conceit behind SA electro-pop duo Hyperbubble is that its most deeply felt love songs are all about machinery. You can hear it in the ardent tone Jeff DeCuir assumes when he name-checks his 707 drum machine and “Casio synthetic strings” on “Synesthesia,” the heady…
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Aural Pleasure
Computer Dating The great conceit behind SA electro-pop duo Hyperbubble is that its most deeply felt love songs are all about machinery. You can hear it in the ardent tone Jeff DeCuir assumes when he name-checks his 707 drum machine and “Casio synthetic strings” on “Synesthesia,” the heady opener to Airbrushed Alibis, Hyperbubble’s new collection…
Sound and the Fury
Don’t worry about the Government Quirky SA indie-rock quartet Not the Government is relocating to Los Angeles for an extended stay that may or may not prove permanent. The band members emphasize that the move is based purely on a desire to enhance their chances for industry success. Along those lines, they’ve secured a year-long…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari, I’ve been getting manure for my garden by looking at the “giveaway” section of the local classifieds. Got some great “stuff” from a horse farm the other week, and yesterday I came home with a nice load of sheep manure. I gotta say, though, my sheep shit smells really strong, like…
Aural Pleasure
Computer Dating The great conceit behind SA electro-pop duo Hyperbubble is that its most deeply felt love songs are all about machinery. You can hear it in the ardent tone Jeff DeCuir assumes when he name-checks his 707 drum machine and “Casio synthetic strings” on “Synesthesia,” the heady opener to Airbrushed Alibis, Hyperbubble’s new collection…
The Say-Town Lowdown
Like the black goo that transformed Peter Parker in the latest Spider- Man movie, a new sticky web of censorship seems to be spreading over our country, exacted not by government officials, but by social and economic forces too large to be overcome by one woman, man, or superhero. Over the past month, a bigoted…
Toast
Despite a determined putsch by adherents of the gin martini, the cocktail Winston Churchill and James Bond sipped to fame nowadays is defined only by its distinctive conical stemware. Becoming a universal icon for happy hour is pretty good consolation for surrendering your singular identity, but I sympathize with tipplers who prefer a clean iteration…
Aural Pleasure
Computer Dating The great conceit behind SA electro-pop duo Hyperbubble is that its most deeply felt love songs are all about machinery. You can hear it in the ardent tone Jeff DeCuir assumes when he name-checks his 707 drum machine and “Casio synthetic strings” on “Synesthesia,” the heady opener to Airbrushed Alibis, Hyperbubble’s new collection…
The Say-Town Lowdown
Like the black goo that transformed Peter Parker in the latest Spider- Man movie, a new sticky web of censorship seems to be spreading over our country, exacted not by government officials, but by social and economic forces too large to be overcome by one woman, man, or superhero. Over the past month, a bigoted…
Toast
Cucumber and vodka await summertime apotheosis: the Mott Street Martini. Photo by Elaine Wolff Despite a determined putsch by adherents of the gin martini, the cocktail Winston Churchill and James Bond sipped to fame nowadays is defined only by its distinctive conical stemware. Becoming a universal icon for happy hour is pretty good consolation for…
All Ears
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute): While you await (eagerly or with fear in your heart, either way) next month’s return of the Polyphonic Spree, take a moment to meet this less cultish but similarly schoolbus-sized pop band, a 29-member group in which, as far as I can tell, nobody actually comes…
TYC media origin story
Nate “Tex” Blakeslee, as the House’s commendation reads. Courtesy photo. “That bastard Nate Blakeslee!” — on the phone, the first thing Dallas Morning News reporter Doug Swanson (playfully) says about the Texas Observer freelancer who scooped him and broke the Texas Youth Commission sex-abuse and cover-up scandal … by two days. “Yeah, we were planning…
All Ears
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute): While you await (eagerly or with fear in your heart, either way) next month’s return of the Polyphonic Spree, take a moment to meet this less cultish but similarly schoolbus-sized pop band, a 29-member group in which, as far as I can tell, nobody actually comes…
The Queque
If there were a manic street preacher posted somewhere on Vance Jackson, testifying and laying down the gospel about the District 8 candidates for the June 12 runoff election, what would s/he say? These are the kinds of hypotheticals that keep the Queque up at night. Along with how long baby actors can work on…
All Ears
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute): While you await (eagerly or with fear in your heart, either way) next month’s return of the Polyphonic Spree, take a moment to meet this less cultish but similarly schoolbus-sized pop band, a 29-member group in which, as far as I can tell, nobody actually comes…
The Muslim peacemaker
Sami Rasouli of the Muslim Peacemaker Team. Courtesy photo. Sami Rasouli grew up in Iraq, settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1986 (the rare, hyphenated Iraqi-American — yes, rare: less than .01 percent of the population, according to recent figures), and in 2005 founded the Muslim Peacemaker Team based in Iraq’s Najaf. Stateside since March, Rasouli…
Toast
Despite a determined putsch by adherents of the gin martini, the cocktail Winston Churchill and James Bond sipped to fame nowadays is defined only by its distinctive conical stemware. Becoming a universal icon for happy hour is pretty good consolation for surrendering your singular identity, but I sympathize with tipplers who prefer a clean iteration…
All Ears
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute): While you await (eagerly or with fear in your heart, either way) next month’s return of the Polyphonic Spree, take a moment to meet this less cultish but similarly schoolbus-sized pop band, a 29-member group in which, as far as I can tell, nobody actually comes…
The Mashup
From the Editor Friends, Texans, countrywomen (apologies to W. Shakespeare), lend me your ears. I come to bury Craddick, not to praise him. And unlike Mark Antony, I don’t wish to turn your hearts against those brave legislators who would unseat our homespun Caesar, for it’s true that the evil that men do lives long…
The Fast Foodie
Alas 6618 Seidel Road 930-0000 7:30am-7pm Mon-Sat; 9am-3pm Sun Tex-Mex is like Tim Duncan — a fundamental part of the city, yet unassuming and often overlooked. Its domination allows other cuisines to stand out like Lila Cockrell at a low-rider roundup. In that sense Tex-Mex is the perfect teammate, just like Tim. I mention this…
TYC media origin story
“That bastard Nate Blakeslee!” — on the phone, the first thing Dallas Morning News reporter Doug Swanson (playfully) says about the Texas Observer freelancer who scooped him and broke the Texas Youth Commission sex-abuse and cover-up scandal … by two days. “Yeah, we were planning our story for the Sunday paper, and the Observer put…
The Mashup
From the Editor Friends, Texans, countrywomen (apologies to W. Shakespeare), lend me your ears. I come to bury Craddick, not to praise him. And unlike Mark Antony, I don’t wish to turn your hearts against those brave legislators who would unseat our homespun Caesar, for it’s true that the evil that men do lives long…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari, I’ve been getting manure for my garden by looking at the “giveaway” section of the local classifieds. Got some great “stuff” from a horse farm the other week, and yesterday I came home with a nice load of sheep manure. I gotta say, though, my sheep shit smells really strong, like…
The Muslim peacemaker
Sami Rasouli grew up in Iraq, settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1986 (the rare, hyphenated Iraqi-American — yes, rare: less than .01 percent of the population, according to recent figures), and in 2005 founded the Muslim Peacemaker Team based in Iraq’s Najaf. Stateside since March, Rasouli was on a recent tour of Corpus Christi and…
Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prison
Call it Kidmo — a supposedly family-friendly version of the Guantanamo Bay detention center deep in the heart of Texas. While the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Center houses mostly “Other-Than-Mexican” immigrant families instead of suspected terrorists, including more than 200 children from 30 countries, the policy of hide, deny, and dodge civil-rights law is…
Ask the Chef
Dear Chef Boy Ari, I’ve been getting manure for my garden by looking at the “giveaway” section of the local classifieds. Got some great “stuff” from a horse farm the other week, and yesterday I came home with a nice load of sheep manure. I gotta say, though, my sheep shit smells really strong, like…
The Muslim peacemaker
Sami Rasouli of the Muslim Peacemaker Team. Courtesy photo. Sami Rasouli grew up in Iraq, settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1986 (the rare, hyphenated Iraqi-American — yes, rare: less than .01 percent of the population, according to recent figures), and in 2005 founded the Muslim Peacemaker Team based in Iraq’s Najaf. Stateside since March, Rasouli…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: Why don’t Mexicans have enough gratitude for America to learn to speak English? Are they too stupid? Too lazy? What — they can’t learn two or three words a day? Is this asking too much? Took Four Years of Spanish in High School Dear Gabacho: The United States government shares your concerns,…
Ask the Chef
He’s diggin’ it: Chef Boy Ari Dear Chef Boy Ari, I’ve been getting manure for my garden by looking at the “giveaway” section of the local classifieds. Got some great “stuff” from a horse farm the other week, and yesterday I came home with a nice load of sheep manure. I gotta say, though, my…
Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prison
Call it Kidmo — a supposedly family-friendly version of the Guantanamo Bay detention center deep in the heart of Texas. While the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Center houses mostly “Other-Than-Mexican” immigrant families instead of suspected terrorists, including more than 200 children from 30 countries, the policy of hide, deny, and dodge civil-rights law is…
Untarnished by time
The lovely, the talented: Danielle King and Jericho T. English in Hollywood and Time. Courtesy photo. Hollywood and Time 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun Through May 27 $12 general; $9 student (50 percent discount for members) Jump-Start Performance Co. 108 Blue Star 227-5867 Jump-start.org It is probably inappropriate (and impossible, besides) for me, a critic, to…
Deep sea:
Clockwise from left: Blackened catfish, bread pudding, and oyster nachos from Fish City Grill. Photo by Antonio Padilla Fish City Grill 18130 281 North @ Loop 1604 495-3474 11am-10pm daily Credit cards Price range: $5.99-$16.99 Accessible Should you happen to idly google “escolar,” you’re in for a rude surprise. Often and erroneously (but poetically) referred…
Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prison
Call it Kidmo — a supposedly family-friendly version of the Guantanamo Bay detention center deep in the heart of Texas. While the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Center houses mostly “Other-Than-Mexican” immigrant families instead of suspected terrorists, including more than 200 children from 30 countries, the policy of hide, deny, and dodge civil-rights law is…
Framed
A week ago Saturday was “Free Comic Book Day,” a periodic promotional event in which comics stores and publishers give away teasers of their wares. One thing I found among the superheroes and manga was an almost cruel temptation: a sampler from a book that won’t exist until “Spring of 2008.” What It Is, by…
last words
Introducing … For your instant gratification and convenience … The San Antonio Current’s All-purpose hate-mail template! Just circle any and all of the appropriate descriptors and add postage! It’s that easy to let us know you care! Dear Editor: I can’t help but feel (grossed out, outraged, aroused, shocked, revolted, dismayed, violated, annoyed, pissed off,…
Toast
Despite a determined putsch by adherents of the gin martini, the cocktail Winston Churchill and James Bond sipped to fame nowadays is defined only by its distinctive conical stemware. Becoming a universal icon for happy hour is pretty good consolation for surrendering your singular identity, but I sympathize with tipplers who prefer a clean iteration…
Singin’ in the change
Katie Anne Harper, Carla Nickerson, Jane Haas, and Melissa Gonzalez star in Menopause the Musical at the Cameo. Courtesy photo. Menopause The Musical 7:30pm Wed-Fri; 2pm & 7:30pm Sat; 2pm & 5:30pm Sun $39.50 Cameo Center 1123 E. Commerce 569-0560 Cameocenter.com Menopausethemusical.com I didn’t know what to expect when I walked into the Cameo Center…
Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prison
Call it Kidmo — a supposedly family-friendly version of the Guantanamo Bay detention center deep in the heart of Texas. While the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Center houses mostly “Other-Than-Mexican” immigrant families instead of suspected terrorists, including more than 200 children from 30 countries, the policy of hide, deny, and dodge civil-rights law is…
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The Art Capades
“I dreamt that I was a butcher and that you were not a bitch,” by Chris Tracy, right, and a detail from Potter-Belmar Labs’ “Three Aethers at the Center of the Sphere” left. The Three Aethers at the Center of the Sphere By appointment Through Apr 27 Three Walls 106D Blue Star, Building B 212-7185…
About a Mexican
¡Ask a Mexican! By Gustavo Arellano Scribner Publishing $20, 242 pages LOS FAVORITOS DEL MEXICANO Favorite Mexican beer? I don’t drink beer, I’m pure tequila. It would be a tie between Cazadores and Corralejo. Favorite Mexican dish? Aguachile. It’s a seafood dish from the state of Sinaloa. It’s basically ceviche, but 30 times more spicy…
The Bar Tab
Soluna 7959 Broadway 930-8070 11am-10pm Mon-Wed; 11am-11pm Thu-Sat; 11am-10pm Sun Margarita: $8 Michelada: $5 On Sunday, as the sun was setting, a friend convinced me to meet for a drink at Soluna on Broadway and Sunset. Soluna is in a fancy shopping center called the Collection that’s full of red-brick buildings that always seemed too…
Do right woman
It’s not every week that music fans get to share a room with a truly legendary performer. It’s even more rare, when those concerts happen, that the artist isn’t overshadowed by the legend: either slavishly trying to please the crowd by cramming a career into 90 minutes or simply not stacking up in comparison to…
The Fast Foodie
Kayla’s Café 1015 Navarro 222-2008 7am-10pm Mon-Thu; 7am-midnight Fri-Sat; 7am – Noon Sun Hidden in a building behind the atmospheric Havana Riverwalk Inn, Kayla’s Café easily eludes discovery. Even supposing you found it, you might not realize that Kayla’s is actually part of the Havana. I stopped in for a late lunch/early dinner on a…
Born in east L.A.
SA native Vincent Valdez (second from right) joined Ollin in 2006. Courtesy photo. Ollin 10pm Wed, April 25 The Cove 10pm Thu, Apr 26 Limelight 2pm Fri, Apr 27 Market Square 12pm Apr 28 King William Fair 10pm Apr 28 Salúte The new EP by Los Angeles collective Ollin opens with the sound of a…
Ask the Chef: SA Edition
Chef Boy Ari: Smiling on the inside. Courtesy photo. A few weeks ago in this space, some of you may have read the question sent in by Produce Curious, a reader who’s somewhat new to town and wanted to know where he could hook up with some farm-fresh produce in San Antonio. I had to…
Armchair Cinephile
Jean Renoir: Collector’s Edition (Lions Gate): LG’s recent licensing deal with Studio Canal has been a boon for classic-film fans — first their Hitchcock set, and now this collection of seven little-seen Renoir titles, stuffed onto three discs and priced, amazingly, at under 30 bucks. Phantom Museums and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Zeitgeist): Just…
The Omniboire
Photo courtesy Tom Maack via Wikimedia Commons With apologies in advance to women of the cloth, it’s difficult to dispute that many San Antonians of a certain age and upbringing were terrorized by nuns. But I submit here that many more innocents around the world have been traumatized by a different order, that of the…
Spittin’ Game
Xbox arcade round-up Various The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle arcade game should’ve stayed in my second-grade memories, apparently. Turns out most of my recollections of the game center around fighting in real life over who got to be Michelangelo, and with good reason: The actual game is pretty crappy. You will probably remember this as…
Aural Pleasure
Traffic and Weather Fountains of Wayne (Virgin) Inclement ‘Weather’ There are few songwriters today who can craft pop lyrics as literate or beguiling in their simplicity as Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger. Remember the Oscar-nominated song “That Thing You Do” from the terrible Tom Hanks movie of the same name? Well, that was him. Elvis…
The Queque
Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston) has already proved himself the most nauseating freshman of the 80th Legislature by sponsoring a remarkable array of far-right sludge, including a pro-life measure to pay pregnant women $500 to give their babies up for adoption in lieu of abortion. Last Thursday he proved himself unscrupulous as well as hypocritical, when…
Sound and the Fury
Snow Day Inventive lap-steel-pop quartet Snowbyrd recently learned that they were accepted for a showcase at North By Northeast in Toronto. The music confab, an Ontario answer to SXSW, is now in its 13th year. This year’s NXNE will run from June 7-10, and feature more than 450 bands performing at 30 venues. Instant…
The Say-Town Lowdown
Two Sundays ago on the morning news show Face the Nation, Dick Cheney, in between his lies and half-truths, referred to embattled U.S. Attorney General (and closeted Mexican American) Alberto Gonzales as ‘Al,’ which is as gringoized a version you can make of the very Spanish, y muy elegante, “Alberto.” I mention this because, like…
Public Axis
A sample of quality programming from the 411 Show on public access. Courtesy photos. Last week I found myself yelling at Kerry Hibbs, public-affairs coordinator for AT&T in Austin. It was cathartic, and pointless. A week earlier, Hibbs had emailed a letter to the editor from former San Antonio mayor Howard Peak — now executive…
The Mashup
Floating by the water crossing at Brackenridge last weekend. From the Editor (Psssst. Think for a minute about what you love best about this city that we all share. Now hold onto that thought for a paragraph.) Welcome to the Current’s annual Best of San Antonio issue! It’s a fantastic issue, crammed full of superior…
Framed
Who would have thought, back in the ’80s, that the company that gave us Superman and Batman would someday be home to Harvey Pekar comics? But here we are, with DC Comics publishing the post-big-screen incarnation of American Splendor, the first four issues of which are compiled in the new Another Day. Happily, fame and…
Mouth to ear resuscitation
The Surgeon 7:30pm & 9pm April 26-28; May 4-5, 10-12 $9 general; $5 teacher The Overtime Theatre Co. 814 West Ave. 380-0326 Theovertimetheater.com Some folks love to say that theater is a dying art form. Theater folks, especially, take a perverse pleasure in whining about this decline while wondering why they get diminishing returns for…
Cause and Effect: Anti-Toll Movie Wins Award: Lege Goes Anti-Toll
… Anyway, what I meant to say on the slow-clap salute to the filmmakers of Truth be Tolled (the blog post yesterday got truncated!!! Technical issues!!! I’m not the number 2 blogger in San Antonio like Dave Maass!!! I’m not even in the top 100, the daily’s transportation reporter Patrick Driscoll even has me beat)…
Locostyle at the Museo Alameda
Posted by Keli Dailey at 6:25 P M, 04.13.2007 “It’s the Mexican tuxedo,” Cynthia said when she noticed my date at last night’s Museo Alameda del Smithsonian pre-opening gala event at Market Square matched hers: the black guayabera with crisp khaki pants, black shoes. The guy(abera) on my arm was decade-plus friend Beto Gonzales, one of the…
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…
