With the school year just beginning, many students have already been scared into believing they’re doomed to four years of poverty. College students are often the butt of financial jokes, many focusing on all-too-real accounts of school-time poverty and couch-surfing. Despite innocent jokes about ramen-noodle diets and high textbook prices, they highlight a very real…
Editor’s Note: The following is The Big Spoon, an opinion column on San Antonio’s food and drink scene. Summer is at our doorstep, and several things will happen as soon as kids have those three carefree months known as summer vacation. First, many will lose access to the Internet and computers. Second, the dreaded summer…
Jeff Rymes, a singer-songwriter from Portland, will be in town this week to play an intimate show at one of the coziest places to catch live music in San Antonio. Rymes, who has self-released a couple solid albums of his own since the dissolution of his band the Lonesome Strangers, makes a moody and jazzy…
If you were trying to experience what might be the best live orchestral tribute to Prince on the planet, then you’re definitely going to want to see “4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince,” which is coming to the Majestic Theatre this fall. On October 19, the symphonic celebration of one of the most revered recording…
Arena-punk leather daddy Billy Idol is returning to San Antonio. The ’80s bad boy will be at the Tobin Center on Tuesday, September 25 as an extension of his Live! 2018 Tour Idol and we’re already online shopping for leather pants. While the Sex Pistols induced riots here back in ’78, Idol will most likely…
Growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer in the United States comes with a lot of stress and anxiety — including fears of abuse — according to a new study. The survey findings, released Tuesday by the Human Rights Campaign, are based on the responses of 12,000 young people, ages 13-17, who responded to…
Ever wondered what it’s like to be in Manu Ginobili’s shoes? If so, here’s your chance. Fans of the Spurs legend can take part in a Twitter contest to literally know what it’s like in his shoes. Ginobili announced on Twitter Tuesday that he recently found a pair of basketball shoes he wore during games…
Let’s get nerdy, y’all. The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and the San Antonio Symphony present Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert – featuring screenings of the complete film with Oscar-winning composer John Williams’ musical score performed live to the film by the San Antonio Symphony. If you dig all things Star Wars…
San Antonio Food Bank CEO Eric Cooper and Democratic U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro and Lloyd Doggett today warned that the farm bill facing a vote in the House would create a food crisis for low-income residents. The bill, championed by the Trump administration and Speaker Paul Ryan, would slash $15 billion from the Supplemental Nutritional…
Earlier today, Mr. “Hotline Bling” himself announced that he and Atlanta trio Migos, are gearing up for a 41-date tour across North America entitled “Aubrey and The Three Migos” tour. ‘Cause Drake’s real name is Aubrey… I guess he’s really embracing that now? Anyway, both acts are headed to Dallas and Houston, with H-Town securing two…
Local anchors are pretty much a target for laughs on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver at this point. For the second week in a row, host John Oliver featured a San Antonio anchor in a roundup of ridiculous news segments. Last week, it was Ursula Pari for Cinco de Mayo. This week, it’s Mark…
What if Gregg Popovich hadn’t brought Avery Johnson to the Spurs? What if Johnson – then the team’s leader – hadn’t gone to bat to help save Popovich’s job? NBA TV explored just that in a new video. Following a season unlike any other for the Spurs, the league’s media network took a look at…
Prepare for brunch, lunch and late night specials over at Botika. The Pearl restaurant is re-launching its brunch program, available Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The menu will include mimosas (naturally), Loko Moko (smoky bacon, fried rice, burger patty, caramelized onion and mushroom “gravy,” sunny side egg), Botika Benedict (roasted sweet potato, glazed…
This story was originally published in The Texas Tribune. The Democratic runoff candidates for governor sparred Friday evening over abortion and immigration in their first and likely only debate before the May 22 election. Meeting at a church in Austin, Andrew White and Lupe Valdez sounded out their differences — sometimes with rancor — over…
Texans have the opportunity to take part in early voting this week in the May runoff elections. Beginning Monday, San Antonians can vote from one of 38 polling locations throughout Bexar County from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Friday. Voters who took part in the March 6 primaries must vote within the same party…
Satyricon, one of the bands who put Norwegian black metal on the map, will close out its final North American tour in Texas. But fans will need to drive to Austin instead of seeing them in metal-hungry S.A. During its more than 25-year career, Satyricon helped push the uncompromising black metal genre away from murky sounding…
Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) would leave an estimated 10,000 Bexar County residents without food assistance, according to estimates from U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s office. The farm bill championed by the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers would slash $20 billion from SNAP over the next 10 years. Along with tougher work requirements, it…
There’s a chance Tony Parker may not return to the Spurs next season. In an interview with French sports outlet RMC Sports, Parker discussed his future in the NBA. Parker, 35, is a free agent this offseason and told RMC Sports that he’d like to continue playing, even if that means not playing with the…
Indie-rock favorite Dr. Dog has a reputation for doing whatever the fuck it wants. While keeping the acid-folkie dream alive through its pop-jolted, freak-folk stylings, the group has also managed to keep its sense of humor. Over the course of eight LPs and four EPs, the Dr. Dog sound has grown away from lo-fi folk…
One of the key ingredients in Mexico’s alternative music is its ability to organically embrace native sounds and rhythms with those of a “foreign” origin (as far as we’re concerned, at this point an electric guitar is as much a part of Latin American folk as the so-called “Spanish” guitar). First with her band La…
Not content with running a popular restaurant on the city’s Northwest Side, and planning a new pizza place in the city’s Downtown area, chef Caesar Zepeda is jumping into seafood this coming month. The chef will open Ceviche Ceviche at 18360 Blanco, Suite 120 with “a few core signature ceviches, or opt to build their own…
We’re not really sure where the 1986 comedy ¡Three Amigos! would fall in the debate on cultural appropriation in today’s world (Latinx would likely be upset if they saw three gringos wearing mariachi gear and throwing gritos at, say, La Villita on Cinco de Mayo or at a Mexican-themed frat party), but the classic movie…
Pasha Mediterranean Grill, which opened its first location off Wurzbach Road 10 years ago, just opened its latest location. This time they’re ditching the sit down concept for Pasha Express, a concept they’ve dabbled with inside Incarnate Word, which opened last year. With Pasha Express, the company is offering to-go options and disposable plates along…
Ground lamb kebabs have seen their last plate at Rebelle, the second restaurant by Andrew Goodman and chef Stefan Bowers. As of Tuesday, the restaurant shifted their focus to seafood with a new menu created by Bowers and chef de cuisine Alan Dale Nelson. The plan had been in the works for the past three…
Beyond breaking down “stereotypes linked with classical music,” the long-running and award-winning SOLI Chamber Ensemble takes rightful pride in championing works by living composers, commissioning new compositions and performing in unexpected spaces. Formed in San Antonio in 1994 and comprised of clarinetist Stephanie Key, cellist David Mollenauer, violinist Ertan Torgul and pianist Carolyn True, SOLI…
Anyone who’s muddled through crowds of clueless conventioneers downtown knows San Antonio is a hotspot for business travel. But is it a star on an international stage like Las Vegas or Singapore? Absolutely, according to one study. Taco Town ranked 7th best in the world for business trips in a new report by website FitSmallBusiness.com, beating…
Brought to you by K23 Gallery, Bookworm: a Fair for Book Lovers is a far-out adult version of the book fairs that you (if you’re nerdy like us) remember so fondly from your grade-school years. This year, for the second annual installment of the event, fair-goers will have the opportunity to peruse a bevy of…
San Antonio’s going in on this Francophile theme. Lili de Paris is now open at 16350 Blanco Road inside the former home of Redbird Farmacy. The small eatery is owned by the same folks who own C’est La Vie Bakery in Castle Hills and is billed as “the 1rst Real French Crepes in San Antonio.”…
Not unlike GWAR, members of Cleveland-based electro-industrial-monster-metal band Mushroomhead lurk behind frightening costumes and junior-high-worthy pseudonyms (Jeffrey Nothing, Skinny, Gravy, and Pig Benis to name a few). On October 5, 2015, vocalist Waylon Reavis announced via his Facebook page that he had parted ways with Mushroomhead, citing “irreconcilable differences with band ownership” and stating he…
With Mother’s Day coming up this Sunday, it seemed only fitting to feature a Sunday fave, the mimosa for the cocktail of the week. Particularly, the beautiful piece of artwork that is Bite’s Champagne-meets-OJ offering. The mimosa is a staple on brunch menus and is a fairly simple drink, featuring Champagne or another bubbly and…
San Antonio’s been featured again by Atlas Obscura, the online database for some of the world’s most strange and wonderful hidden sights. This time, the site’s showing off the River Walk bench where country music legend Johnny Cash etched his love to his first wife Vivian Liberto. Legend has it, Cash carved “Johnny Loves Vivian”…
“The world is a comedy to those that think,” quipped Horace Walpole, “a tragedy to those that feel.” A play that inspires complicated thoughts and feelings, The Cherry Orchard has been a categorical challenge since 1904. Anton Chekhov subtitled it A Comedy in Four Acts and was bitterly disappointed when, a few months before the…
Hear me out. Let’s make preparadas our summer drink of choice. This Fiesta season, when temperatures crawled to the high 80s, low 90s and I stood in line for chicken on a stick/a turkey leg/steer on a stick, sweet scents of watermelon and green apple wafted through the air. The source? Plastic 24-ounce cups filled…
If you’re ornery on account of just coming around to the idea that it’ll soon be hotter than a witch’s tit in a brass brassiere outside, and it will likely stay that way for five months, then we’ve got just the show to segue satisfactorily into another hot Central Tejas summer. Dwight Yoakam, who just…
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion,” quick-witted salon owner Truvy Jones tells her grieving friend in the 1989 film version of Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling’s bittersweet ode to strong Southern women and the ties that bind. An oft-quoted gem, Truvy’s telling words encapsulate much of the mood in Steel Magnolias, a genuinely funny tearjerker…
The highly-anticipated Wonder Woman roller coaster is set to open this weekend, according to a press release from Six Flags Fiesta Texas. First announced last August, the new addition is the world’s first single-rail streamline coaster. Though a couple of months behind the expected March opening date, the Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster is ready…
Comedian Michelle Wolf might’ve received mixed reviews for the verbal beatdown she unleashed at last week’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but she earned some nonpartisan props from attendees when she said, “It’s 2018 and I’m a woman, so you cannot shut me up!” It’s an empowering message that female comedians like Aida Rodriguez, April Macie and Emma…
Republican House members in Latino-heavy districts are trying to force a vote that could help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients avoid deportation. Will Hurd, whose district includes San Antonio, was among the five lawmakers who signed onto the effort. Video of their Wednesday press conference is available here. The filing would require the signatures…
This show is a fat and daisy-doused slice of new school psych with old soul glow. It’s the type of bill that makes its own demand that you come early and stay late. First off, Flower Graves, a Texas psych-pop crew that some may remember from its groovy set at last September’s Psych Del Rio,…
Although it already happened earlier this year in director Clint Eastwood’s poorly-constructed drama The 15:17 to Paris, it’s rare for a filmmaker to cast the real-life subjects of a story to portray themselves in their own biopic. The decision, of course, is usually made when a filmmaker believes the non-actor, who actually lived through the…
Four more states have reported E. coli food poisoning linked to an ongoing investigation by the CDC. This spring, an E. coli outbreak affecting growers in Yuma, Ariz., led to massive recalls on romaine lettuce, which is primarily grown in that region. To date, 29 states have the reported food poisoning of 149 people with…
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for weed to be legal in Texas, but some opportunists are already teaching aspiring entrepreneurs how to turn a profit once it is. The newly opened Dallas Fort Worth Academy of Cannabis Science is enrolling students interested in learning about pot’s medical value, its cultivation and that tricky bit…
YouTube has picked a San Antonio vlogger and filmmaker as one of its Creators for Change, a program that flows financial resources to content providers who use the channel to tackle social issues. Hallease Narvaez, operator of the YouTube channel Hallease, is one of 47 global creators — only six are in the U.S. —…
Formerly on the illustrious hardcore/metal label Victory Records, San Antonio’s metalcore outfit Darkness Divided has had an impressive run. Since 2010, the now-three-piece band managed to take the waning popularity of metalcore and introduce enough clever dynamics and textures to breathe new life into it. Last year, the band announced they were calling it quits…
Editor’s Note: Jade Esteban Estrada is the writer of Glitter Political, a series of articles detailing San Antonio’s elections. As a professional homosexual, I admit to feeling a little star struck when I see Gina Ortiz Jones, candidate for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, waving at me through the glass-door entrance of Taqueria El Rodeo on…
Planned Parenthood South Texas welcomed Bill Nye the Science Guy as the keynote speaker for its annual fundraiser luncheon on Tuesday. During his speech the renowned science communicator was unafraid to challenge his critics and to condemn the current administration’s skepticism of climate change. “You may know that we have a president who has done…
The San Antonio Symphony picks up where German film composer Klaus Badelt (and uncredited film composer Hans Zimmer) left off when he co-wrote the score for director Gore Verbinski’s 2003 adventure fantasy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The Disney in Concert event will feature the symphony performing on stage as…
This has been about 30 years in the making – Helmet and Prong are co-headlining a tour, and we’re pretty fucking stoked about it. Since we live for all things throwback in San Antonio, you should be, too. “Finally! Helmet and Prong on tour together at last. The circle is now complete,” Prong’s Tommy Victor…
This week, as Mother’s Day approaches, we’re chatting with Mary Collazo, the owner and chocolatier behind Chocollazo chocolate shop off Broadway and Hildebrand. Collazo shares what drove her to leave a stable corporate job for the rush of creating chocolates in the heat and humidity known as South Texas. Follow Chocollazo on Facebook and Instagram…
Oh, man. I couldn’t tell if this was like a joke lineup, like you know how people put those fake festival lineups together? Well, this isn’t a joke, and if you dig ’90s nu metal and alt-rock, then this is probably a tour you want to check out. Aptly dubbed the Gen-X tour, Buckcherry, P.O.D.,…
Boasting new individual and collaborative works from Brittany Ham and Justin Korver, two increasingly visible local artists, this dual exhibition caught our attention for its promising talents, the consistently multiplying credibility of host gallery Clamp Light, and for its absolutely loaded title. As you might imagine from the name “Boys With Feelings and Girls Without…
It didn’t take long for critics to blast city council’s decision not to bid on the 2020 Republican National Convention as a purely political move. After last week’s closed-door deliberation, Councilman Greg Brockhouse lashed out at Mayor Ron Nirenberg, saying the progressive-leaning council’s agenda stood in the way of economic common sense. “If you’re Republican…
When indie folk giants Fleet Foxes announced earlier this year that they’d be extending their 2018 tour with a stop in the Alamo City, I freaked out a little bit. Like it’s fucking Fleet Foxes, arguably the best indie rock band on the planet (come at me, Radiohead fans). Since soaking myself in the sounds…
Pioneering bilingual newspaper La Prensa soon will be an online-only publication. Last week, the paper cut four editorial positions — or roughly a quarter of its total staff — as part of a plan to go web-only around the end of May. The outlet will rely more on contract workers and freelancers for content, publisher Nina Durán…
It probably won’t become the definitive film on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and 60-year legal career, but the documentary RBG is a satisfying start. Referring to the initialed moniker of the trailblazing judge and champion of women’s rights, RBG is a solid, albeit slight, glimpse into the inspiring story of the…
Kick off summer with Cheesy Memorial Day Goodness! If you’re throwing a party or BBQ in your backyard, or need a dish to share at the family potluck, celebrate with these tasty dishes. Yay for summer! Nacho Cheesy Taco Pasta Ingredients 1 pound box rotini pasta 15 ounce can Ricos Gourmet Nacho Cheddar Cheese Sauce…
Q: I’m a 37-year-old male. I’ve been with my wife for 15 years. I know that passion transitions in a long-term relationship, but I’m having a hard time finishing lately. Yes, I’m on SSRIs—antidepressants—but that has only exacerbated the issue. We all know that a lot of people who own a vagina enjoy foreplay to…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in…
A program of the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, the interactive exhibition “Spain to San Antonio: Hispanic Culture on Stage” brings together drawings, prints and theatrical costumes related to operas, ballets and performances with ties to Spain. Exploring “San Antonio’s beginnings as an outpost of New Spain,” the exhibition conjures Romani culture, flamenco and storied characters…
Hailing from the UK, the Telescopes are a foundational force in the shoegaze genre, boasting a cult following ever since the band’s beginnings in the late 1980s. Despite years of inactivity at various points in its roughly 30-year existence, the group has been especially active of late, with a flurry of releases since 2010 (check…
Seemingly stronger with each passing year, the legacy of late tejano icon Selena Quintanilla-Pérez thrives in the modern era, inspiring heartfelt tributes, imaginative fan art, big-name covers (by everyone from Thalia to Solange to Bruno Mars) and even a MAC cosmetics line. Adoring fans celebrate her birthday, observe the anniversary of her death and bond…
Born in Plainview, Todrick Hall has been a force to be reckoned with since his appearance on the ninth season of American Idol. On top of pumping out hits like “Dem Beats” and “Low,” which features RuPaul herself, Hall is also a drag queen, actor and dancer, and served as a guest judge on RuPaul’s…
To most American Idol viewers, the singing drag queen Ada Vox came out of nowhere to turn in one stunning prime-time performance after another. Vox grabbed our attention early on with an incandescent rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep,” and she didn’t let go. Vox followed up with her interpretation of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good,” which brought…
Boiler House // Mother’s Day brunch at Boiler House will run 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and include specials like berry and ricotta blintzes topped with lemon curd, butterscotch, vanilla streusel and candied pecans; bacon-wrapped Texas peaches; honey roasted oats with dried cranberries, pistachios, vanilla yogurt and pan-fried ham and eggs; along with favorites salmon…
Editor’s Note: The following is The Big Spoon, an opinion column on San Antonio’s food and drink scene. This story starts in the summer of 2005, when my best friend and I moved into a new apartment across the street from UTSA. Like most other apartments complexes that popped up at the time, this one…
