The Bar Tab
Bombay Bicycle Club 3506 N. Saint Mary’s 737-2411 11am-2am Drinks: circa $8, excluding specials Around 10 p.m. on a Friday night, the slight crowd at Bombay’s Bicycle Club is simmering. Minimal barstools entreat friends to lounge on the comfy mis-matched couches, while couples tuck themselves away in hushed booths. With only a few draft beers…
Home on the Range – A former New Yorker’s guide to the texas adjustment
You know that TV commercial where the guy and girl are camping and they wake up in the morning and the girl has a giant tarantula plastered on her face and the guy is freaking out because he doesn’t know how to tell her? Well, every day I wake up wiping a (thus far) imaginary…
Balls Out
Rick Martin, service manager at H.A. Franz and Co., stands beside a Johnny Mnemonic pinball machine he recently repaired and is selling on consignment. With a quick pull of the plunger, a tiny steel ball is launched into a new mechanical adventure. Instantly, it begins to dance underneath a pane of glass as bright, flashing…
The Visionaries in the Machine
The Paul Bunyans of music: Medeski, Martin, and Wood take on the synthesizer, the drum track. The challenge for the modern musician is this: How do you sound like a machine and not like a machine at the same time? How do you match the mathematical precision and power of a drum program and/or the…
The Bar Tab
Bombay Bicycle Club 3506 N. Saint Mary’s 737-2411 11am-2am Drinks: circa $8, excluding specials Around 10 p.m. on a Friday night, the slight crowd at Bombay’s Bicycle Club is simmering. Minimal barstools entreat friends to lounge on the comfy mis-matched couches, while couples tuck themselves away in hushed booths. With only a few draft beers…
Framed
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Fed-Ex Delivery
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The Bar Tab
Bombay Bicycle Club 3506 N. Saint Mary’s 737-2411 11am-2am Drinks: circa $8, excluding specials Around 10 p.m. on a Friday night, the slight crowd at Bombay’s Bicycle Club is simmering. Minimal barstools entreat friends to lounge on the comfy mis-matched couches, while couples tuck themselves away in hushed booths. With only a few draft beers…
Framed
Dynamic Duo: Batman and Robin return to a save a hellish Gotham City from itself in Frank Miller’s seminal 1986 graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. We know that not everyone on your shopping list this holiday season is a comics fan. But you might be surprised — especially after checking out the range of…
Fed-Ex Delivery
In lieu of a snarky caption, we’d like to direct you Kevinfederline.com, where you can stream tracks off his (unintentionally) hilarious debut album, Playing With Fire. As soon as Britney Spears dumped the 150 pounds of career baggage known as Kevin Federline, gossip columnists feverishly began to suggest reasons that the much-derided union came to…
The Jerk at D’s
A heaping helping of D’s seafood: catfish strips, a shrimp po boy, and jambalaya. D’s Seafood, Jerk & More 4403 Rittiman Rd. 653-9066 11am-8pm Tue-Sat Credit cards Entrées: $4.99-$13.99 Accessible D’s Seafood, Jerk & More does happy food. Not to be confused with the (trademarked) Happy Meal, it’s simply food that makes you feel good.…
Ode to Joy: On Olive Oil, Fine Wine, and Artisanal Cheeses
Eyes Over Texas went over the top for the New World Grand Tasting, with a seafood display anchored by a lobster ice sculpture. This year’s New World Wine and Food Festival, held November 1-12, showed once again that San Antonio has earned a seat at the global culinary table. In addition to having more Tex-Mex…
Guest Column – The Say-Town Lowdown
In mid-November, the first Tundra pickup trucks began rolling off the assembly line at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas. For San Antonio, the much-heralded arrival of Toyota was a development coup, with the promise of new jobs, a boost for Southside growth, and the potential for plant expansion. One local writer called it “the largest single…
Setting Off Alarms With the Stroke of a Brush
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Onions” (1881) is part of the Collecting the Impressionists exhibit currently on view at SAMA. Collecting the Impressionists 10am-8pm Tue, 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-6pm Sun $8 general; $7 senior; $5 student; $3 age 4-11 Free 4-8pm Tue Through Jan 7 San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W. Jones 978-8100 Samuseum.org The sirens are blaring,…
Balls Out
With a quick pull of the plunger, a tiny steel ball is launched into a new mechanical adventure. Instantly, it begins to dance underneath a pane of glass as bright, flashing lights and electronic music keep a frantic beat. Lisa Cummings does not let the lively distractions draw her away from her goal. Her eyes…
Milagro eN CD-23?
Put your political hat back on (so durable, so oiled with worry around the band) and pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe on December 12. Not only is it the day to honor the supreme symbol of Mexican unity, Nuestra Señora, it’s also, coincidentally, a day to vote against undermining Hispanics et al. It’s time…
Indie S.A.: Deleted Scenes
Deck Kevin L. Williams, 41, writer/director, Sandwich: First of all, is Alzheimer’s something that you personally have had some experience with, or how did the idea come about? Well, yes and yes. The idea came about because we had a friend who was in this particular situation several years ago, and she actually she was…
Balls Out
Rick Martin, service manager at H.A. Franz and Co., stands beside a Johnny Mnemonic pinball machine he recently repaired and is selling on consignment. With a quick pull of the plunger, a tiny steel ball is launched into a new mechanical adventure. Instantly, it begins to dance underneath a pane of glass as bright, flashing…
Milagro En CD-23?
O Mystical Rose, we invoke you! Put your political hat back on (so durable, so oiled with worry around the band) and pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe on December 12. Not only is it the day to honor the supreme symbol of Mexican unity, Nuestra Señora, it’s also, coincidentally, a day to vote against…
Indie S.A.: Deleted Scenes
Deck Kevin L. Williams, 41, writer/director, Sandwich: First of all, is Alzheimer’s something that you personally have had some experience with, or how did the idea come about? Well, yes and yes. The idea came about because we had a friend who was in this particular situation several years ago, and she actually she was…
That’s a Wrap
So, now that the Daniel Craig’s somewhat contentious Bond has risen to the occasion and taken up the legendary 007 mantle (with widely favorable results — he’s arguably the best since Connery, `if quite arguably`), Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story makes a hot-iron strike for 16-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) as the newest incarnation of…
Not So Pearly Gates
Texas A&M President and Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates bridges two Republican administrations that have served only to destabilize the Middle East. Last week marked the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s worst Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, November 25, 1986, as Huxtable-era America prepared for a long weekend of turkey, cranberry sauce, and college football, Attorney…
Indie S.A.
You’ve heard, of course, that it’s near impossible to get a film made outside the studio system. Maybe a few can squeak by every now and then, thanks to Clerks and the advent of miniDV and digital filmmaking, but you’d sure as heck better live in L.A. and have two attached stars with name recognition…
The Jerk at D’s
D’s Seafood, Jerk & More 4403 Rittiman Rd. 653-9066 11am-8pm Tue-Sat Credit cards Entrées: $4.99-$13.99 Accessible D’s Seafood, Jerk & More does happy food. Not to be confused with the (trademarked) Happy Meal, it’s simply food that makes you feel good. Much of this has to do with the cheery service, the homey feel of…
Indie S.A.
You’ve heard, of course, that it’s near impossible to get a film made outside the studio system. Maybe a few can squeak by every now and then, thanks to Clerks and the advent of miniDV and digital filmmaking, but you’d sure as heck better live in L.A. and have two attached stars with name recognition…
The Mashup
From the Editor “You can actually learn the constancy of curiosity and the constancy of outrage. You can learn that it is okay to keep asking the questions and to be dissenters. And if you don’t, if you’re not taught it, then you don’t know it. But we owe ourselves and the United States that…
Aural Pleasure
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Ode to Joy: On Olive Oil, Fine Wine, and Artisanal Cheeses
This year’s New World Wine and Food Festival, held November 1-12, showed once again that San Antonio has earned a seat at the global culinary table. In addition to having more Tex-Mex cafés per capita than any other place on the planet (an unconfirmed statistic, but one I’m fairly comfortable asserting), San Antonio has a…
SaboTaj
Your eyes say, “Kill this franchise,” but your studio says, “Let’s do a prequel.” This weekend, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj will open and, if there is a God, close before MGM can make enough to cover its marketing expenses. It stars hard-working Kal Penn who, in the original, played a foreign student…
Aural Pleasure
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Ode to Joy: On Olive Oil, Fine Wine, and Artisanal Cheeses
Eyes Over Texas went over the top for the New World Grand Tasting, with a seafood display anchored by a lobster ice sculpture. This year’s New World Wine and Food Festival, held November 1-12, showed once again that San Antonio has earned a seat at the global culinary table. In addition to having more Tex-Mex…
Messing with the Middle East
Blood and Oil— The Middle East in World War I Writ. & dir. Marty Callaghan (unrated) To judge by the gory landmarks usually associated with it — the Marne, the Somme, Verdun — World War I was about as global as the so-called World Series. However, some of the fiercest combat, in Asia Minor,…
Nursing a Movement
Affordable health care: 46 million Americans want it so bad they can almost taste it. Far be it for a tiny, local alternative news-weekly to predict the future of the Dem-Dem Congress (particularly when palms are so much harder to read with a thinner grease trail to follow), but even us yokels understand four out…
Aural Pleasure
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Ode to Joy: On Olive Oil, Fine Wine, and Artisanal Cheeses
Eyes Over Texas went over the top for the New World Grand Tasting, with a seafood display anchored by a lobster ice sculpture. This year’s New World Wine and Food Festival, held November 1-12, showed once again that San Antonio has earned a seat at the global culinary table. In addition to having more Tex-Mex…
Messing with the Middle East
Blood and Oil— The Middle East in World War I Writ. & dir. Marty Callaghan (unrated) To judge by the gory landmarks usually associated with it — the Marne, the Somme, Verdun — World War I was about as global as the so-called World Series. However, some of the fiercest combat, in Asia Minor,…
Nursing a Movement
Affordable health care: 46 million Americans want it so bad they can almost taste it. Far be it for a tiny, local alternative news-weekly to predict the future of the Dem-Dem Congress (particularly when palms are so much harder to read with a thinner grease trail to follow), but even us yokels understand four out…
Aural Pleasure
Peel Sessions: 1991-2004 PJ Harvey (Island Records) “You snake you crawled between my legs,” PJ Harvey fumes on “Snake,” spite mixing with her tears. The choppy guitar progression behind her vocal helps elevate the Rid of Me-era track to a terrifying level — it’s blues, it’s religion, it’s stripped-down hardcore punk, and it’s live. Besides…
SaboTaj
This weekend, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj will open and, if there is a God, close before MGM can make enough to cover its marketing expenses. It stars hard-working Kal Penn who, in the original, played a foreign student named Taj with no game. He’s also the guy who played Kumar in the…
Messing with the Middle East
Blood and Oil— The Middle East in World War I Writ. & dir. Marty Callaghan (unrated) To judge by the gory landmarks usually associated with it — the Marne, the Somme, Verdun — World War I was about as global as the so-called World Series. However, some of the fiercest combat, in Asia Minor,…
Nursing a Movement
Affordable health care: 46 million Americans want it so bad they can almost taste it. Far be it for a tiny, local alternative news-weekly to predict the future of the Dem-Dem Congress (particularly when palms are so much harder to read with a thinner grease trail to follow), but even us yokels understand four out…
Sound and the Fury
GULF COAST SOUL Sam’s Burger Joint has quietly become a haven for underappreciated rock ’n’ roll pioneers, if you consider last year’s performance by rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson and the recent visit by surf-guitar master Jerry Cole. Sam’s next history lesson will come from Barbara Lynn, one of the great, unsung R&B figures of the…
He’s Got a Mexican (whoa-oh) Video … Store
If the extent of your knowledge of Mexican cinema begins and ends with Jamie Escalante teaching calculus to inner-city youth in Stand and Deliver or Miklo finding his place among “la onda” in Blood in Blood Out, there is much to be learned. Even watching critically acclaimed 21st-century foreign-language films that were made in Mexico,…
Messing with the Middle East
Blood and Oil— The Middle East in World War I Writ. & dir. Marty Callaghan (unrated) To judge by the gory landmarks usually associated with it — the Marne, the Somme, Verdun — World War I was about as global as the so-called World Series. However, some of the fiercest combat, in Asia Minor, was…
What would Izzy do?
All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone By Myra MacPherson Scribner $35.00, 564 pages If, as Ezra Pound claimed, “Literature is news that stays news,” then even the best journalists are doomed to obsolescence. The work of Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, and Wallace Stevens continues to be…
Milagro En CD-23?
Put your political hat back on (so durable, so oiled with worry around the band) and pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe on December 12. Not only is it the day to honor the supreme symbol of Mexican unity, Nuestra Señora, it’s also, coincidentally, a day to vote against undermining Hispanics et al. It’s time…
He’s Got a Mexican (whoa-oh) Video … Store
John Florez restocks his selection of videos which range from vintage Mexican classics to modern, dubbed American films. If the extent of your knowledge of Mexican cinema begins and ends with Jamie Escalante teaching calculus to inner-city youth in Stand and Deliver or Miklo finding his place among “la onda” in Blood in Blood Out,…
Clothes-Minded
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Not So Pearly Gates
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s worst Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, November 25, 1986, as Huxtable-era America prepared for a long weekend of turkey, cranberry sauce, and college football, Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that administration officials had covertly sold weapons to avowed enemy Iran. In addition, they had funneled millions of dollars…
Milagro En CD-23?
Put your political hat back on (so durable, so oiled with worry around the band) and pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe on December 12. Not only is it the day to honor the supreme symbol of Mexican unity, Nuestra Señora, it’s also, coincidentally, a day to vote against undermining Hispanics et al. It’s time…
Artest for MVP
For mercurial Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest, hailing from Queensbridge, New York, carries a lot of weight — particularly for an aspiring emcee. “I think it influenced my music a lot, just from being in the same area where guys are very successful with their music,” said Artest via telephone prior to his showdown with…
Clothes-Minded
I like the holidays A wool area rug by Zapotec Indian Porfirio Sosa of Oaxaca, Mexico, at Bazar Sabado. I like the holidays. For someone not particularly religious, I still manage to get completely gooey inside over the decorating, the parties, the downtown lights. But I understand where all the Bah Humbug comes from: the…
Balls Out
With a quick pull of the plunger, a tiny steel ball is launched into a new mechanical adventure. Instantly, it begins to dance underneath a pane of glass as bright, flashing lights and electronic music keep a frantic beat. Lisa Cummings does not let the lively distractions draw her away from her goal. Her eyes…
