On the Street
Revenge of the Slovenian Riddle The Spurs have been rolling along impressively. Other than losses to Houston and Dallas, the team has marched through its schedule. And then a few days back they came across Sacramento. Artest was back on the team yet he wasn’t the reason for the Kings victory. Left for dead point…
On the Street
Revenge of the Slovenian Riddle The Spurs have been rolling along impressively. Other than losses to Houston and Dallas, the team has marched through its schedule. And then a few days back they came across Sacramento. Artest was back on the team yet he wasn’t the reason for the Kings victory. Left for dead point…
Jonathan Davis Solo Tour
Release Date: 2007-11-28 Davis, lead singer for multi-platinum, hard-rock band Korn, follows up the most successful Family Values Tour yet with another first: stepping out on his own for a solo tour. In what promises to be a unique concert, Davis will perform a wide variety of material, pulling out obscure tracks and fan favorites…
TunaPalooza
Release Date: 2007-11-28 Eight cans of tuna will get music scenesters in the door for a diverse lineup Saturday: the Latin, hip-hop style of Mexican Stepgrandfather; the pop rock sounds of The Reen; alternative group Sonido Estereo UK; and Texas Nouveaux Wave band Savior Daughters. Various restaurants will cater the event, offering up tasty soups…
Nutcracker Sweets
Release Date: 2007-11-28 20 award-winning chefs serve up desserts your sweet tooth never even knew existed, all to benefit the Battered Women and Children’s Shelter. Past years have showcased everything from exquisite crème brulée to Bananas Foster prepared in flambé fashion. The evening also features live music, a lavish auction, and festive décor to spice…
Cult To Follow w. Nancy Silva Project & Structure
Release Date: 2007-11-28 Cult to Follow is a local supergroup of sorts, comprised of talented musicians from three of the city’s most highly respected bands. The brainchild of Bryan Scott, who has lain dormant since his frontman days with Union Underground, CTF features the talents of Troy Doebbler (13 Muses/Alienation) on the low end, with…
Gabriel Iglesias
Release Date: 2007-11-28 With seven shows in four days, Gabriel Iglesias, aka “Fluffy,” brings his keeping-it-large presence to the Rivercenter Comedy Club. His talent has earned him several TV appearances, including the Tonight Show and HBO’s Comedy Minutes. The Club features a full bar and menu to complement the entertainment. $23-28, 8:30pm, Rivercenter Comedy Club,…
Glama-Rama: Legends of Drag
Release Date: 2007-11-28 Enjoy an evening of high hair, high heels, and hi-larity touting the legends of drag! John McBurney has organized this extravaganza honoring classic drag, featuring drag artists Jessica St. John, Blanca West & Co., Miss Shyla, Sweet Savage, Andrea la Moure, Courtney Devereaux, and more. The event benefits Jump-Start Performance Co. $25…
Cowboy Mouth w. Brookfield
Release Date: 2007-11-28 In 1981, John Thomas Griffith’s band the Red Rockers were hyped by some members of the underground music press as a potential American Clash. Twenty-five years later, Griffith cemented the connection by releasing a song called “Joe Strummer,” which pinned a failed relationship on irreconcilable music tastes: “She had to go because…
Rick Gutierrez w. Marc Yaffee & Jay LaFarr
Release Date: 2007-11-28 With seven shows in four days, Gabriel Iglesias, aka “Fluffy,” brings his keeping-it-large presence to the Rivercenter Comedy Club. His talent has earned him several TV appearances, including the Tonight Show and HBO’s Comedy Minutes. The Club features a full bar and menu to complement the entertainment. $23-28, 8:30pm, Rivercenter Comedy Club,…
JR Brow w. John Garrett & Danny Ingle
Release Date: 2007-11-28 With seven shows in four days, Gabriel Iglesias, aka “Fluffy,” brings his keeping-it-large presence to the Rivercenter Comedy Club. His talent has earned him several TV appearances, including the Tonight Show and HBO’s Comedy Minutes. The Club features a full bar and menu to complement the entertainment. $23-28, 8:30pm, Rivercenter Comedy Club,…
Tom Anzalone w. Kelly Morton & Matt Golightly
Release Date: 2007-11-28 With seven shows in four days, Gabriel Iglesias, aka “Fluffy,” brings his keeping-it-large presence to the Rivercenter Comedy Club. His talent has earned him several TV appearances, including the Tonight Show and HBO’s Comedy Minutes. The Club features a full bar and menu to complement the entertainment. $23-28, 8:30pm, Rivercenter Comedy Club,…
New Year’s Eve Shows
Release Date: 2007-11-28 With seven shows in four days, Gabriel Iglesias, aka “Fluffy,” brings his keeping-it-large presence to the Rivercenter Comedy Club. His talent has earned him several TV appearances, including the Tonight Show and HBO’s Comedy Minutes. The Club features a full bar and menu to complement the entertainment. $23-28, 8:30pm, Rivercenter Comedy Club,…
Cowboy Mouth
Release Date: 2007-11-28 In 1981, John Thomas Griffith’s band the Red Rockers were hyped by some members of the underground music press as a potential American Clash. Twenty-five years later, Griffith cemented the connection by releasing a song called “Joe Strummer,” which pinned a failed relationship on irreconcilable music tastes: “She had to go because…
Make It Stop! The Most of Ross Johnson
Make It Stop! The Most of Ross Johnson Composer: Ross Johnson Conductor: Ross Johnson Label: Goner Records Release Date: 2007-11-28 Rated: NONE Media: CD Length: LP Format: Album Genre: Garage At one point in the middle of this career-spanning collection, Ross Johnson describes himself as “the king of middle-aged garage-band losers.” If only things were…
45:33
45:33 Composer: LCD Soundsystem Conductor: LCD Soundsystem Label: DFA Records Release Date: 2007-11-28 Rated: NONE Media: CD Length: LP Format: Album Genre: IDM Alone among dance-music royalty, James Murphy’s greatest attribute is his “normal dude” status. While his peers dress up like robots and put on airs, Murphy exudes a snarky, slacker-like demeanor. As LCD…
Darfur Now
Darfur Now Director: Ted Braun Screenwriter: Ted Braun Release Date: 2007-11-28 Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988102/ Rated: PG Genre: Documentary Darfur now is not what it used to be, before Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militias killed more than 200,000 of its people and displaced more than two million others. (Anyone who thinks the Nobel Prize for Peace has…
Clothes-minded
“Gemuetlichkeit” doesn’t translate very easily, but to Germans and our local German-Americans, it roughly conveys a sense of goodwill. Get into the gemuetlichkeit of the season at the annual Kristkindlmarkt at the Beethoven Maennerchor this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Kristkindlmarkt, modeled after the Christmas craft markets of Germany and Bavaria, gets…
THE QUE QUE
Bumper cinema Gleefully burnin’ the petrol on the T-giving family pileups of Interstate 10. Maybe I saw you there? I was the one tailgating into the wee hours as the frost from Washington’s assembling Middle East peace gathering swept west. It was nothing to do with your speed. It was just I’d never seen The…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: With a scant four weeks before I cram my mochila with a few clothes for me and a horde of presents (read: bribes) for my future cuñadas, sobrinas, y mi mera suegra, I found myself terror-stricken tonight as mi novio and I watched a home video of his family doing varios familial things…
No country for optimists
Shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday I participated in a panel at Our Lady of the Lake University on the media and war coverage — the “media” being two gentlemen from the Express-News and yours truly from the Current. When we got to the open-discussion portion of the evening, one of the very first questions was…
Dear Uncle Mat
My life is a total mess. My mother won’t speak to me and it is pretty much all my fault. Her boyfriend started liking me way too much. I, being an idiot, fell for all of his suaveness and really fucked this situation up. My mom found out and hates me. I realize he shares…
Todd on Bob
It seems like a radical idea for any biopic, hiring six different actors to play the main character, but director Todd Haynes did just that with I’m Not There, his cinematic ode to the music and shifting public personas of Bob Dylan. From the first frame, the non-linear, hyper-stylized movie challenges the medium’s generally stagnant…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): How much more can you hold? How much further are you willing to reach? How much bigger of a big picture can you open your mind to see? We will soon discover the answers to those questions, as well as several others that have to do with the themes of unbinding,…
CRITICAL Darling
Did it take Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis long enough to get litigious about the name of David Duchovny’s new Showtime series, or is it just me? Far be it for Critical Darling to dispute Kiedis’s statements about his own band’s career, but I would argue Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the group’s…
There’s a pony in there somewhere
Friday afternoon dump (and, oh, it’s a big one) For a good time call … ? You lovers of the political gossip blogs (or all things steamy and innuendo-based), may have clocked that one of San Antonio’s own was accused last Monday of being the real reason Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi is stepping down…
‘Romance and Cigs’: Lewder, smarter than the average musical
I once caught a lot of slack for a play review written for this paper in which I confessed that the musical tended to be my least favorite form of theater. Some of you may still be inflamed. Of course what I meant is that I’m often disappointed by the lack of emotional truth or…
Hometown sexless scandal update
Big Head DC’s Rob Capriccioso emailed this AM to point out a blog at the Dallas Voice that gives another summary of what is so far either just a liberal wet dream or a race to the signing-bonus tell-all finish line. One of the red herrings here may be Hustler publisher Larry Flynt’s $1 million…
The Mist
Writ. and Dir. Frank Darabont; feat. Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher (R) At this point, it’s pretty impossible to say just how many of Stephen Kings’ books, novellas, and short stories have been adapted as television and big-screen movies. In fact, you would probably need some sort of physics…
Cru Beaujolais
White zinfandel was nearly the death of the one, the true, the real red grape — and yet in the end was perhaps its savior. At least its popularity kept many growers from ripping out long-established vines to plant more-fashionable cabernet and chardonnay. We needed time to come to our senses, and white zin gave…
Armchair Cinephile
PICK OF THE WEEK: Waitress (Fox) When it was released at Sundance, it was hard to separate Waitress from its tragic backstory: Adrienne Shelly, the Hal Hartley ingénue who directed and co-starred in the movie, was murdered shortly before its debut. Months later, though, watching without tears in our eyes, we can confirm that the…
Amuse-BOUCHE
Despite the multiple caveats the first listing requires — Azuca for Best Latin/South American — the newly published Where the Locals Eat offers a surprisingly accurate recommendation or two for a 50-city dining guide assembled from afar via internet surveys and website research. L’Etoile makes the cut (Best French), as does Paesanos (proof that us…
‘quarterlife’ crisis
quarterlife (New episodes posted to quarterlife.com and myspace.com/quarterlife on Sundays and Thursdays) Dylan is a tortured writer. Her roommate Lisa is a tortured actress (and also a bit of a slut). Her other roommate, Debra, doesn’t seem very tortured at all, but then, Debra doesn’t claim any sort of artistic inspiration. A portrait of contemporary…
Bakin’ for the holidaze
Londoner Tim Pilcher smoked so much weed he developed asthma. The process of “taking a plant, setting it alight and inhaling fumes” seemed a bit crazy to Pilcher anyway — “so the next logical step was to cook with it.” Over the past 15 years Pilcher has used herb as an herb, and the results…
Clutter, thy name is gaming peripherals
There are some hobbies that just invite clutter, the same way Britney Spears invites ridicule — and, in her case, unsolicited advice from every wannabe celebrity shrink in Hollywood. Think about all those scrapbookers, with their endless mountains of patterned paper, punchers, and stamps. Or the ones who collect Hummel figurines, cans of Foster’s Lager…
Revealing briefs
AUSTIN — Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of liberal and progressive bloggers formerly known as YearlyKos has selected Austin as its host city for 2008. The convention, originally named after the popular blog DailyKos.com, was hosted last year in Chicago. AUSTIN — A program to pay low-income drivers in Dallas and Houston as much…
Diva decadence
For one night only, you can witness the spectacle of Glamarama, a professional drag show and benefit for Jump-Start Theatre Performance Co. Glamarama — Legends of Drag will be a festive party for all who attend — a night to remember where fearless performers will be in abundance. Costumes will sport zigzag patterns that look…
Beyond the beats
The commercial wing of the hip-hop genre, which tends to get all the airplay, wallows in materialism and topless-bar notions of eroticism. It’s easy to caricature and mock, and it gives Bill O’ Reilly (and his ilk) easy ammunition. At the same time, the conscious, adventurous wing of hip-hop, while easily overlooked, continues to become…
Police State
It was an event most of us thought we’d never see: The three original members of the Police, whose partnership was famously rocky even when their careers revolved around it, had kept their reunion tour together long enough for a second leg trailing from Madison Square Garden to closing night in San Antonio. Was this…
ARTIFACTS
What do Britney Spears, Miss Piggy, and Andy Warhol have in common? No, not their ability to rock platinum wigs — they all have a perfume of their own. Warhol posthumously joins the ranks of socialites, pop stars, and Muppet royalty with his all-new fragrance “Silver Factory,” the first in a series of Warhol-inspired perfumes…
THE SOUND & THE FURY
Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar tends to ignore genre distinctions, opting for a common denominator of louder, faster, more. This weekend demonstrates that approach, with a one-two punch of Melt-Banana and Uptown Creepers, two bands united primarily in their allegiance to high-energy catharsis. Melt-Banana is a veteran Tokyo noise-punk quartet that sneaks giddy, yelping vocal bursts…
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass Monday, December 3rd 7:30pm at Santikos Palladium @The Rim – IH 10 Exit La Cantera 210-496-2221 The San Antonio Current is out of passes Please check this weeks issue for other locations to pick up passes
Extreme Home Makeover: Theater Edition
The mother-son duo of Elvia Martinez-Montez and Rockcliffe Montez share more than genes — they share a love of theater and the paranormal … but that’s a different story. Like a modern-day super-twosome, by day Elvia and Rockcliffe write original plays to be performed at their theater, the Old San Antonio Playhouse, and by night…
Hitting Rock Bottom
Located at the dark corner of Jones and Avenue B, bordered by abandoned houses on one side and the San Antonio Museum of Art on the other, Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar is the essence of the complex culture of downtown San Antonio. Easily missed if you’re driving by, the venue is modest on the outside,…
The ballet and the beast
A renegade choreographer made news this fall when he eschewed a likely offer to run the New York City Ballet. Christopher Wheeldon left the historic troupe to cull his own dancers and build Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, where vision reigns over all — including legacy, following, and funding. Starting a ballet company is a risky venture…
CDs Nuts
Little Kingdom Citay (Dead Oceans) Generally any review of this band is completely full of influence guessing, but this is less throwback-rock than near-ambience. The instrumentals here — and it's almost entirely instrumental — approach space-rock, but unlike those deeper, dopier bands we all love, the music here is less engaging. There’s less variation on…
There’s a pony in there somewhere
Friday afternoon dump (and, oh, it’s a big one) For a good time call … ? You lovers of the political gossip blogs (or all things steamy and innuendo-based), may have clocked that one of San Antonio’s own was accused last Monday of being the real reason Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi is stepping down…
Library-bound
If only they’d had crystal balls, the juvenile delinquents who read MAD Magazine in the ’50s could have blown the ever-lovin’ minds of the moms who begged them to stop: “Ma,” they’d taunt, “Someday this stuff is gonna be bound up in hardback and shelved in college libraries!” It’s true: As their readers have aged…
Operation quagmire
It seems that with each passing week more stories are published that raise the specter of George Bush turning Iraq and Afghanistan into a bloody trifecta by attacking Iran. In mainstream daily papers we see pieces such as the one by Gannett’s John Yaukey, who wrote in early November that “confrontation could be near” because…
Hometown sexless scandal update
Big Head DC’s Rob Capriccioso emailed this AM to point out a blog at the Dallas Voice that gives another summary of what is so far either just a liberal wet dream or a race to the signing-bonus tell-all finish line. One of the red herrings here may be Hustler publisher Larry Flynt’s $1 million…
Forensic files
Don’t call it an autopsy service and please don’t call it CSI: San Antonio. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office is staffed with trained physicians who are board-certified forensic pathologists. They investigate traumatic and sudden deaths and it may take months — not one hour — to wrap up your loved one’s case. Dr. Randall…
The pink lady on Commerce, looking for love
The Museo Alameda is all about us — Latinos and those interested in Latino culture. The pink lady on Commerce Street is new, hip, sexy — and in trouble. Revenue and attendance goals are not meeting initial expectations. How could this have happened? This is Latino Land — home of the Southwest Voter Research Project…
One Word Government
In this increasingly less unipolar world, the final days of our Information Revolution near with an urgency our forebears could never have predicted. The pending synchronicity of information is not to be feared. It is destiny. Like American oil struck beneath Saudi Arabian sands. Or slave labor wrapped in Colombian banana leaves. Or space —…
One Word Government
In this increasingly less unipolar world, the final days of our Information Revolution near with an urgency our forebears could never have predicted. The pending synchronicity of information is not to be feared. It is destiny. Like American oil struck beneath Saudi Arabian sands. Or slave labor wrapped in Colombian banana leaves. Or space —…
