Tex-Mex Supergroup Texas Tornados Pays Tribute to Original Member Doug Sahm
A Tex-Mex supergroup of unrivaled proportions, the Texas Tornados — with an original lineup consisting of Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers and Doug Sahm — make a damn-near-perfect (and consistently critically acclaimed) hybrid of Tejano and rootsy rock ‘n’ roll. Now, with Freddy and Sir Doug gone, Shawn Sahm (Doug’s son) and several others…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 11/17 “Beck Whitehead & Pulparazzi” The Southwest School of Art bids adieu to its longtime papermaking and book arts department chair Beck Whitehead with a survey showcasing her work — some of which entails “painting” with colored paper pulp — alongside like-minded “pulparazzi” John Babcock (California), Shannon Brock (New York), Joan Hall (Rhode Island),…
“Loving” is a Civil Rights Lesson Worth Seeing
It’s easy to critique overwrought emotions in movies about racial tension because they – both the movies and emotions – are plentiful. Loving, however, has the opposite problem: It’s so subtle and quiet that it’s underwhelming. Thankfully, strong lead performances from Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, as well as a still-timely social message, make this…
Creative Gifting: What to Get the Art Lover in Your Life
When shopping for the artists and art lovers in your life, don’t fall into the trap of searching for something precious that needs to be hung on the wall or displayed on a pedestal. With an abundance of artist-made offerings available from holiday markets and local retailers (see this week’s cover story), creative options abound…
5 Gifts the Music Lover in Your Life Will Adore You For
Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings Box set, CD, $149.98 Released just last week, this CD box set compiles every known recording from Bob Dylan’s heroic 1966 tour of the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Australia. The recordings, which are heavy on songs from the massively influential albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited,…
Keep it Local this Holiday Season With these Shops We Love
Chica Verde A fresh addition to Dignowity Hill, Chica Verde wants you to “add a little green to your life” in the form of artfully potted plants and all-around “porch and patio vibes.” Formerly a refrigerated storage facility for an adjacent restaurant, the tiny shop opened this past summer to a warm welcome from the…
Morrissey Cancels San Antonio Concert
The Tobin Center must have broken hundreds of hearts today when it sent an email to Morrissey ticket holders saying Thursday’s concert has been canceled due to “severe illness of a member of the band.” According to Pitchfork, Morrissey canceled his sold-out show in Boulder on Monday night after keyboardist Gustavo Manzur collapsed backstage. Today, Morrissey’s…
Blanquita Sullivan talks Business, Family and Why Attitude is Everything
My first exposure to designer Blanquita Sullivan’s fashion was at her PechaKucha presentation last year. (If you aren’t familiar with PechaKucha, please check it out.) I was smitten. Her line, Bonjour Biqui, is fun, chic and original. I want her to start a line for men, but she’s a very busy person with a full…
A Guisada Fest at Mary’s Snack Bar & Cafe
Here’s a little gem on the southwest side that’s nestled in what looks like the main drag of a small town. However, most of the retail buildings along this stretch of Southcross Boulevard are shuttered. It’s weird that this specter of a community is in the middle of the seventh largest city in the U.S.…
San Antonians Report Post-Election Hate Speech
For Drew Galloway and his partner Martin, the hardest thing about finding a homophobic slur scrawled on the side of their car was explaining it to their sons. “My oldest, who is 12, already knew what the word ‘faggot’ meant, but my 10-year-old had never heard it before,” said Galloway, director of MOVE San Antonio. “We…
Soccer Coach Charged With Showing Naked Photos of Himself to a Minor
Another day, another alleged incident of a San Antonio-area “adult” getting creepy on a high school-aged kid. According to a San Antonio Express-News report, 50-year-old Marcelo Gomez, a so-called freelance soccer instructor, allegedly whipped out his smart phone during practice with at least three female athletes and did something really dumb and gross: showed naked…
5 Gifts Every Boozehound Would Fall in Love With
LUCIO Tailoring Co. Cocktail bar roll up: Your favorite cocktailian deserves fine leather goods. Get them a place to store their tools that’ll make everyone jealous at the next potluck or gathering. Designed by Maria Galvan, the roll-up is versatile, sturdy and always in fashion. $180, Lucio Tailoring Co. luciotailoring.com. Codigo 1530 Tequila: Named after…
Holiday Gift Ideas For the Food-lover in Your Life
Caramels from Wildflower: Hand-made in San Antonio by Ellyn Dixon, these caramels aren’t run-of-the-mill Werther’s Originals. Buttery, soft and combined with organic and local ingredients (including bourbon, honey, coffee, Branchline’s shade oak blonde ale and Pederson Farms bacon), each offers a unique bite. Grab a maple bacon or honey espresso for a sweet jolt. $10…
‘Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove’ Gets Screen Time at the Guadalupe Theater
During the Texas Tornados heyday in the ’90s, a bunch of friends and I went to some club in West Covina, California, to see Flaco Jiménez in person (he had just recorded an amazing solo in Café Tacuba’s debut album). Once the TT concert started, though, we quickly forgot about Flaco. We encountered, instead, a human…
Keep Holiday Spending Close to Home with these San Antonio Markets
We know there’s no easy way to completely divorce yourself from shopping online or even visiting a dreaded big-box store from time to time. But nothing feels quite as nice as keeping your holiday spending close to home — so we’re here to sing its praises. Thanks to a steady stream of weekly and monthly…
Southwest School of Art Says Goodbye to Book Arts Department Chair with Showcase this Thursday
The Southwest School of Art bids adieu to its longtime papermaking and book arts department chair Beck Whitehead with a survey showcasing her work — some of which entails “painting” with colored paper pulp — alongside like-minded “pulparazzi” John Babcock (California), Shannon Brock (New York), Joan Hall (Rhode Island), Lois James (Washington), Anne Mckeown (New…
Stand-up Comedian Jim Breuer Comes to the Aztec Theatre
As might be expected of the dude who played Goat Boy in the late ’90s and the guy who carries Jerry Garcia’s ashes in a bag around his neck, Jim Breuer isn’t quiet or subtle. His high-energy humor is delivered with great effort, but that’s a large part of his charm —he isn’t afraid to…
One-woman Show ‘The Other Mozart’ Arrives at the Tobin Center
On a worldwide tour making a stop at the Tobin, The Other Mozart is a one-woman show about the Mozart sister we’ve never heard about: Nannerl, who, as a child touring with Wolfgang, earned rave reviews for talent equaling or even surpassing her brother’s. When she turned 18, however, she had to sit out Wolfie’s…
SA Lawmakers File Anti-Bullying Law
This story originally appeared in our sister paper, Out in SA. On November 14, State Senator Jose Menendez and State Representative Ina Minjarez will introduce a law aimed at preventing and combating cyber-bullying. The bill is being filed on the first day legislation can be introduced for consideration by the 85th session of the Texas…
Texas Lawmakers Prepare For Upcoming Session by Filing Laws Targeting Abortion, LGBT Rights
At 8 a.m Monday, Texas state legislators officially began pre-filing new legislation to be considered in the fast-approaching 2017 session. By noon, state lawmakers had already submitted more than 400 bills. While the official January 10 start date is still a couple months off, Monday marks the unofficial kickoff to the 85th legislative session with…
The Last Bandoleros Will Open for Sting on US, European Tours
It’s official: The Last Bandoleros will open for Sting in his upcoming US and European tour and “possibly” join him onstage for a couple of tracks. The tour starts February in Vancouver and wraps in mid-April with shows in Paris and Olympia. “This whole Sting thing is so surreal, man…” Diego Navaira told the Current…
Inaugural New Urbanism Film Festival Comes to Alamo Beer Company
The inaugural film festival, which is basically a mini version of the one that takes place annually in Los Angeles, features films on the topic of “build environment.” The festival is presented by the San Antonio chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism (CNU-San Antonio). According to CNU-SA co-chair Sarah Esserlieu, “build environment” is defined…
Comedian Dustin Ybarra Will Stop by San Antonio this Week to Cheer You Up
You might have seen Bedford-born standup comic Dustin Ybarra as a character actor in Gotham, We Bought a Zoo, and Ted 2, but watching him onstage, it’s impossible to imagine him being anyone but himself. In all the right ways, Ybarra’s act seems indistinguishable from watching him telling a story to friends at a party…
Anti-Trump Protest Takes Downtown San Antonio, Peacefully
Of the 600 people who came out to protest Donald Trump’s election victory last night, some fifty were waving paper butterflies in the air. “It’s to represent peaceful migration,” said a gray-haired man carrying a origami monarch butterfly. “Like butterflies, immigrants and refugees should be able to move freely across borders.” This symbolism carried over…
Tejano Music Awards 2016: Elida Reyna Sweeps, the Navairas Rule
Elida Reyna was the big winner at the 36th Annual Tejano Music Awards which took place last night at the Tobin Center, but the emotional night clearly belonged to the Navaira family: the late Emilio was paid a tribute by sons Diego, Emilio IV and the rest of The Last Bandoleros (Derek James and Jerry…
Once Again, Coach Pop Expertly Articulates Our Feelings
Gregg Popovich says he’s “sick to his stomach” over how this election turned out and that “he’s shocked that people have chosen a president who has overlooked women and minorities, and made fun of someone with a handicap.” When asked by Express-News reporter Jabari Young how he was feeling about this week’s election, Pop said,…
“The Fight of Our Lives”: Young, Undocumented and Anxiously Awaiting President Trump
Diego Mancha avoided election-night watch parties Tuesday. Instead, he sat in his living room glued to the TV, anxiously surfing the channels. “I just didn’t want to be around people,” he says. “I was just too nervous.” It felt like every time he landed on the news, another key state had gone for Donald Trump.…
Southerleigh and HighWheel Team Up For Holiday Brew
San Antonio’s fast growing craft beer scene has already seen a few collaborations between its area breweries, most notably the annual San Antonio Beer Week collaboration brew each year. Further showing this collaborative spirit, San Antonio’s Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery and Dorćol Distilling’s HighWheel Beerworks have teamed up to give us a unique holiday…
Ramones-inspired Zine Makes Debut at The Bang Bang Bar
Pioneers of a stripped-down sound and a uniform of tight jeans, leather jackets, Converse sneakers and moppy bowl cuts, The Ramones are considered the first New York punk band to land a major contract and find international acclaim. Formed in Queens circa 1974 by vocalist Jeffrey Hyman (aka Joey Ramone), guitarist John Cummings (aka Johnny…
Tejano Music Awards Takes Over the Tobin Center this Saturday
Will Tejano music ever relive its glory days from the ’90s, when Selena, La Mafia and Emilio Navaira were red-hot? Year after year, the list of Tejano Music Awards nominees seems a rehash from the previous year and the genre, in the eyes of the mainstream Latin music industry, feels like a sound perennially in…
‘Papa Bear’ Founder of San Antonio AIDS Foundation Has Died
Originally published in our sister paper, Out in SA. Out in SA has learned that Robert “Papa Bear” Edwards, founder of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, died of natural causes on November 10. According to a source close to his family, Edwards had been hospitalized several times and eventually passed away at home while under…
Southtown Welcomes Inaugural STADfest this Saturday
Designed to “organize, unify, market, build, connect and promote” the creative culture and businesses within a footprint bound by César Chávez Boulevard, I-90, I-37 and I-35, the recently minted Southtown The Arts District (STAD) is billed as an “adjunct neighborhood” criss-crossed by both the First Friday and Second Saturday art walks. Headquartered in Andy and…
Free Will Astrology (11/9/16-11/15/16)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then you display an excessive egotism that pushes people away. But during the next six weeks you will have an excellent chance to shed some of that tendency, even as you build more of the healthy pride that attracts help and support. So be alert for a steady flow…
