Spurs Word of the Day: ‘Nasty’
When “nasty” becomes an acceptable descriptor for food marketing. Thanks, Coach Pop. WATCH: Have you seen any similar signs around town since Coach Pop went viral?
Güero Polkas: The Current Q & A
July 29, 2011, was the last day on the air for the original KEDA 1540 AM, Radio Jalapeño. For the last few months, the legendary conjunto station has resumed operations in a new building on West Laurel with four deejays of the original KEDA (Nelda “La Reina de Conjunto Music” Sáenz, Luis “Lucky Louie” Gonzales,…
Stephenville: Texas’ latest UFO Hot Spot?
It appears as though a dozen or so UFO sightings that were reported to San Antonio police earlier this month have been explained. A local news station broadcast the story about illuminated globes that were spotted floating over the Alamo City by several residents on the evening of May 17. One eyewitness named Roger Barrera…
Cannes Film Festival 2012: the top winners
Palme d’Or: Amour (Love) directed by Michael Haneke. Grand Prix: Reality, directed by Matteo Garrone. Best Director: Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux. Best Screenplay: Cristian Mungiu for Dupã Dealuri (Beyond the Hills). Best Actress: Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Strata for Beyond the Hills. Best Actor: Mads Mikkelsen for Thomas Vinterberg’s Jagten (The Hunt) Jury…
EPA skeptical of plans to mine uranium from aquifer in Goliad County
Pat Calhoun, president of the Goliad County Farm Bureau, looks on as a resident displays what she claimed was contaminated water from UEC’s exploration drilling in this 2009 Current file photo. Al Armendariz may have left the building, but that doesn’t mean the region’s EPA is rolling over for industry or industry’s fast friends at…
Red Dot art sales at Blue Star soar past $100K
A few sales are still pending, but we just heard that Blue Star Contemporary Art Center has sold over $110,000 in art works at this year’s Red Dot Art Sale. Half of that amount–$55,000–goes to the over 60 artists who participated this year bringing 125 works of art to last Wednesday’s gala and sale. The…
To See by Emily Hernandez
The city is alive and breathes in that hulking slumber of summer. It can pull you in. It can change you but you can change it too; symbiotically we exist. This week Emily Hernandez explores such a relationship in “To See.” But here it is the cancerous and ragged breath of a city already in…
Actress/writer Brit Marling talks future, ‘Sound of My Voice’
In the independent thriller Sound of My Voice, actress and screenwriter Brit Marling plays Maggie, the leader of an underground cult, who draws in new members by telling them she is a time traveler from the future. When two members, Peter and Lorna, join the group, Maggie calls upon them to help her solve her…
Holy Moses’ new video: “Decapitated Mind”
German legends Holy Moses celebrate three decades of thrash with the release of 30th anniversary – In the Power Now. Today, the band released the album’s second video featuring their new lineup. If you missed the first one, released last week, here it is:
San Antonio honors Solar SA founder Bill Sinkin
Unable to attend Bill Sinkin’s 99th birthday luncheon, I asked a colleague to go in my stead and guest blog for Beyond Paychecks. Desiree Prieto has written for a variety of publications, including the Emmy-award winning NBC Chicago Street Team and The San Antonio Current. Her articles have been syndicated across the country, and she’s…
UTSA boasts dismal graduation rates, report finds
By Joshua Hughes UTSA is graduating fewer than one in five of its full-time students within four years, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The group’s 2012 Texas Public Higher Education Almanac, released last week, reports that the campus graduates a mere 15.8 percent of its full-time students within four…
