10 Free Events Happening This Week
Tuesday 10/7 Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Award winning journalist and writer Amy Goodman will speak at Trinity University as part of the Maverick Lecture Series. Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a news program broadcast on more than 1,200 public TV and radio stations around the world. Free, 7:30pm Tuesday,…
What I Ate: Paella, tostadas and more
I stuffed my face with seafood this weekend. First with a stop to El Bucanero and later with homemade paella for one of my pal’s birthdays! Oh, and tacos, because this is San Antonio and National Taco Day is everyday… Follow me on Instagram for more food adventures: @JessElizarraras. Loading Polenta, kale, red sauce, smoked…
Artpace Chalk It Up is This Saturday
SPONSORED CONTENT Photo by Francisco Cortes Put the “temporary” in contemporary art with Artpace Chalk It Up on October 11, from . Hosted by San Antonio non-profit, Artpace, the event is celebrating it’s 11th anniversary by living up to it’s slogan, “Freedom to Dream”. With over 22,000 people in attendance annually, Artpace Chalk It Up is the largest…
5 Things You Have to do This Week
Monday 10/6 So You Think You Can Dance 2014 Tour Season 11 finalists Bridget Whitman, Casey Askew, Emilio Dosal, Jacque LeWarne, Jessica Richens, Ricky Ubeda, Ruby Abreu, Tanisha Belnap, Valerie Rockery and Zack Everhart reprise the year’s most popular routines as well as original pieces created specifically for this nationwide tour. $47.50-$67.50, 8pm Monday, The…
11 SA Food Pics to Drool Over
You know the feeling when you’re on Instagram and your friend posts a pic that immediately makes you crave what they’re eating. Well, we’re going to do that to you right now. From the deliciousness that is The Fruteria (1401 S Flores) to the elegance of Bliss (926 S Presa) and everything in between, you…
Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend One, Saturday
The crowds are thicker. The flags that dot the fields reach their heights earlier in the day. A cool front has spread through the region, chilling the afternoon’s high temperature to around 83°, but the Texas sun at the top of the sky in the middle of a field is still the Texas sun at…
Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend One, Friday
There’s a certain appropriateness this week with the release a report about the future of the South by SouthWest festival and reining in its outsized nature. How best should the city move forward to accommodate an event so intrusively interwoven into it? Thus, it’s that same pallor that hangs over the Austin City Limits festival—an…
14 Places to Get Great Tacos, Chosen By ‘Current’ Readers
(via) It’s National Taco Day, so we asked Current readers on our Facebook page to single out where they go to satisfy their taco cravings. The choices are endless; it rains tacos more than it actually rains here in the Alamo City, so here’s just sampling chosen by of the many places to go—besides your…
Rich Hands Release “Take Me Away” and Rolling Stones Cover
via Twitter Like a cross between a dusty vinyl frozen in time with a fresh, up-and-coming group going places, SA’s the Rich Hands are a revival of all things rock ‘n’ roll. With the Ramones-esque bubblegum punk “Teenagers” from Out of My Head, the Rich Hands take us back to a simpler time when adolescent romance…
How Krispy Kreme Suckered Me In With Ghostbusters Donuts
Because I have a stomach, two eyes and a heart that’s a sucker for nostalgia, I, like many other Slimer fans, was excited when Krispy Kreme announced limited edition Ghostbusters donuts a few days ago. So my street cred (or what little I have, let’s be honest) took a hit, as I bit the…
The UT Longhorns Dominate Texas in Map of College Football Fandom
Image courtesy of the New York Times. The UTSA Roadrunners are making their mark on college football, but they have some catching up to do. The New York Times released an interactive map today outlining which college football teams people root for in their part of the country, based on Facebook Likes. The state of…
13 Touchdown Tailgating Snacks
Football is huge in Texas and Roadrunner football is especially huge in San Antonio. Roadrunners and Rowdy fans alike are all gearing up for the UTSA and New Mexico game this Saturday, October 4. There are two staples for any tailgating event: beer and snacks. It’s easy to please a football fan when it comes…
Now Everyone Don’t Panic: Ebola in Texas not a significant threat
After the Center for Disease Control confirmed the first case of Ebola in a Dallas hospital this week, an onslaught of reports quickly ignited widespread anxiety as if we were on the brink of a catastrophic plague. While the spread of Ebola past the quarantined borders of African warrants scrutiny, epidemiologists remain skeptical of the virus’…
5 Shows to See this Weekend (Plus Monday)
Paul Collins Beat (Friday, October 3) Forming the Beat in the late ’70s as his personal power pop pulpit, Paul Collins helped set the tone for the genre for years to come with his speedy, fructose-packed guitar pulses. On “Rock ‘n’ Roll Girl” and “Don’t Wait Up for Me,” two of the Beat’s more famous…
Halloween Movies to See in SA This October
(via) It’s that time again–the only month out of the year when it’s totally appropriate to binge on slasher flicks, torture porn, slow-burn thrillers, and some classic on-screen ghost stories. If you’re in the market for some old-school Halloween movies this October, San Antonio’s theaters have got you covered. Slab Cinema Outdoor movie provider Slab…
Instagram’s 10th Worldwide InstaMeet Comes to Texas
(via) Get those lo-fi filters ready. Instagram is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a worldwide “InstaMeet” on Saturday, Oct. 4. The InstaMeet, known to instagrammers as #WWIM10, will be the photo-sharing app’s tenth global meet-up to date. During these meet-ups, instagrammers from all over the world are encouraged to step away from their phones and…
The Nerdiest All-Nighter: SA’s 24-Hour Comics Challenge
via Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy will host 24-Hour Comic Day, an annual event that challenges artists to draw an entire comic book in 24 hours. Like so many hilariously difficult endurance tests, 24-Hour Comic Day originated as a dare. In 1990, comic artist Scott McCloud challenged fellow artist Steve Bissette to draw a 24-page…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Wed 10/1 Gong Shorts Gong Shorts 2013 winner Dane Berkshire with host Jade Esteban Estrada Though The Gong Show wasn’t claimed as a primary influence on SA’s Gong Shorts, the NBC program surely is an unruly ancestor of this weekend’s mini film festival. From 1976 to 1978, NBC ran this absurd showcase of non-talent,…
The 10 Most San Anto Songs Ever
10. Piñata Protest, “Vato Perron” The self-described ‘mojado punk’ quartet Piñata Protest proves that blast beats and accordions make for a San Antonio combo to rival Big Red and barbacoa. On “Vato Perron,” Piñata Protest trades languages on each line, singing of a chingon life of cumbia, Don Simon juice and borracho beans. 9. Eva…
Bakery Lorraine Opens at Pearl
The space is HUUUUUGE./Jessica Elizarraras Gotta keep this brief so I can get back in line at Bakery Lorraine’s new location. The beloved patisserie has relocated to the Pearl complex at 306 Pearl Pkwy, Ste 110, across from Arcade and directly next to The Twig Bookshop. Opening hours for the shop, which seats 60, are…
Voter Registration Deadline This Monday, October 6
(via) The deadline to register to vote in this year’s general election, as well as update voter registration information like your name and address, is Monday Oct. 6. Here are the Bexar County Election Department’s extended hours of operation from now until Monday: Open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Monday Open 10 a.m. to…
States With More Abortion Restrictions Score Low on Women’s Health
Photo by mirsasha/Flickr A new report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Ibis Reproductive Health research organization shows that states with more abortion restrictions also score poorly on overall women and child well-being outcomes. Unsurprisingly, Texas performs low among the states, challenging the claims made by anti-abortion lawmakers that imposing tough…
Proposal To Ban Cell Use While Driving Moves Forward
The Public Safety Committee on Wednesday voted to move District 10 Councilman Mike Gallagher’s proposed ban on cellphone use while driving to the full City Council for debate. Courtesy. Not using your phone while driving could soon become as habitual as strapping on a seatbelt, hopefully. The Public Safety Committee on Wednesday voted to move…
SAPD: Panhandling Proposal Off The Table
San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus explains his decision to nix his proposal to fine people who give to panhandlers. Mark Reagan The San Antonio Police Department nixed a proposed ordinance to fine people who give to panhandlers. SAPD Chief William McManus made the announcement after District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran asked McManus at…
Live and Local: The Bad Plus at The Aztec
Reid Anderson, Dave King and Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus The boring adage about the Bad Plus is true: they really are the best of jazz and rock forms. Accenting each other’s riffs and rhythmic shifts, the trio incorporates the tight songwriting of rock, telling highly constructed short stories of chord changes and grooves. It’s…
Simon Pegg Saves ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’
In case you were wondering, yes, Simon Pegg does play yet another overgrown man-child in Hector and the Search for Happiness. It’s essentially the same role that we’ve seen him play before in films like Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End—the complacent not-so-grown-up that life has passed by. However, the only difference is…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Latin Alternative Band
Best Latin Alternative Band 1. Colao As SA’s premier salsa band, Colao’s clave rhythms toe the line between Latin alternative and Latin jazz. In either category, they’re at the top of their game. 2. Los Nahuatlatos 3. Los de Esta Noche
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Recording Engineer
Best Recording Engineer 1. Damián Rodriguez (Bekah Kelso) 2. Will Gannon (Gannon Music and Sound) 3. David Kassai (FireWave Productions)
San Antonio Music Awards 2014 Current’s Choice: Milli Mars
“Milli Mars: a metaphor for change,” explains the SA rapper. “Mars, space, wanting to get away totally. I love Greek mythology, and Mars is the god of war. Milli: a thousand gods of war. It’s just me, I can’t give anybody anything else.” In his rhymes, videos and in conversation, Milli Mars radiates confident energy…
Simon Pegg on Traveling, Childish Glee and Tom Cruise
Simon Pegg looks pretty bleary-eyed. It’s not because he’s hungover. It’s not even because he slept poorly last night. It’s because he basically just got off a plane from Morocco after a long day on a film set. “I did a whole day being a spy and then got on a plane and came to…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Hard Rock/Metal Band
Best Hard Rock/Metal Band 1. My Madness 2. Monkeysoop 3. Tie: Killer Dismount, The Uprising
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Local Music Radio Show
Best Local Music Radio Show 1. Chop Shop Radio with the Kueen of Krunk On her Tuesday 7-9 p.m. slot on Chop Shop Radio (chopshopsa.com), Terry Torres holds it down as the Kueen of Krunk, covering local hip-hop and R&B with enough style to win the Local Music Radio Show category two years in a…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Guitarist
Best Guitarist 1. Ryan Ortiz (Grupo Texas Heat) 2. Robert García (Colao) 3. Tie: Chris Boss, Rex McNeil (Felix Truvere and the Open Road Band)
Sky High: Getting acquainted with Christopher Ware’s Paramour
Christopher Ware leads our group into a lofty conference space with mile-high ceilings, two giant wooden tables and possibly the comfiest meeting chairs I have sat on. Ever. I’m trying my best to be a fly on the wall at the meeting as members of Austin’s Strange Fruit Public Relations and Ware meet to discuss…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Hardcore Band
Best Hardcore Band 1. Ghost Police Winning last year on the merits of their EP Dead Soul Noise, the hardcore incumbents maintain their title with an eponymous, 14-track scorcher released late in 2013. 2. American Swine 3. Afflictive Nature
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Sound Person
Best Sound Person 1. Don “Smoke” Chapman 2. Carlos Ramos 3. Joseph Devine (502 Bar)
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Keyboardist
Best Keyboardist 1. Richard Salazar (Grupo Texas Heat) 2. Ricky Hernandez (Bekah Kelso and the Fellas) 3. Elena Lopez (Octahedron)
On the Rocks: Alternative delivery systems
The crowd is three-deep at the bar, the ’tender is trying to keep from flaming out by shaking two drinks at once, and you’re invisible. But wait—there are signs of hope: alternative delivery systems. No, this is not the equivalent of pot brownies. I’m talking Negronis on tap and carbonated cocktails for which one only…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Instrumental Band
Best Instrumental Band 1. Bright Like the Sun 2. Adam Zuniga band 3. Verisimilitude
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Promoter
Best Promoter 1. All About the Experience 2. Carlos Ramos 3. Tim Slusher
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Vocalist
Best Vocalist 1. Ryan Ortiz (Grupo Texas Heat) 2. Bekah Kelso 3. Ray “Colao” Rodriguez
Sizing Up This Year’s Crop of Pumpkin Ales
It is technically autumn in Texas now, and though it will stay shorts weather through Thanksgiving, other markers of the ostensible change of seasons are everywhere: college football games, network TV premieres and, most relevant to this column, a bumper crop of pumpkin ales. Oktoberfest is, after all, still half a month away. And just…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Hip-hop Group
Best Hip-hop Group 1. Sire FNS 2. Young B Baby 3. Blk Sheep
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Record Label
Best Record Label 1. Blk Sheep Music Group 2. Dreamland Collective 3. Texas Is Funny Related Stories
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Bassist
Best Bassist 1. Rudy Flores (Audiomouth) 2. Josh Borchardt (Crown) 3. Damián Rodriguez (Bekah Kelso and the Fellas)
Bavarian Brauhaus Packs in the Brats
Blame it on my love of accordions and early exposure to conjunto…but I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for German food. I was originally introduced to vinegary hot potato salad, brats and sauerkraut at Beethoven Maennerchor Halle und Garten in Southtown, where pals and I have congregated almost monthly to celebrate the end…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best R&B Artist
Best R&B ARTIST 1. J. Ryan 2. Chelsea G 3. Charles Williams
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Music Venue (Small)
Best Music Venue (Small) 1. 502 Bar Though it’s housed in a strip mall out by the airport, the 502’s badass sound rig makes it the ideal spot for SA bands to showcase their work. 2. The Ten Eleven 3. Hi-Tones
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Drummer
Best Drummer 1. Andrew Rodriguez (Grupo Texas Heat) 2. PJ Santiago 3. Ryan Kelso (Bekah Kelso and the Fellas)
Knife & Fork’s $10K Makeover and Taco Day activities
Saturday, October 4 is National Taco Day…which seems a bit silly for San Anto, but any excuse to load up on tacos, amirite? Viva Tacoland (103 W Grayson) will host a mid-day yoga-taco-music sesh. Stop in for a chamoy margarita, get bendy with Mobile Om ($10 donation for session) and of course, chow down on…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Singer-songwriter
Best Singer-songwriter 1. Bekah Kelso Holding down the fort as SA’s best singer-songwriter, Bekah Kelso is branching out with her backing band the Fellas, a neo-soul outfit with extreme chops: keyboardist Ricky Hernandez, bassist Damián Rodriguez and drummer Ryan Kelso all charted in their respective categories. 2. Felix Truvere 3. Reed Deming
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Music Venue (Large)
Best Music Venue (Large) 1. Backstage Live 2. The White Rabbit 3. The Aztec Theatre
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Album
Best Album 1. Are These the Good Days? (Crown) The debut LP from the bluesy trio of Carlos Zubillaga, Josh Borchardt and Oscar Webber, Are These the Good Days finds Crown in righteous psych form. One of the best-sounding albums of the year, Crown employed Brian Lucey, who also mastered the Black Keys’ El Camino…
Artist on Artist: Gary Sweeney interviews Catherine Lee
If I ever found myself teaching an art class, I would pack up my students and drive them to Wimberley, where I would give them a tour of Catherine Lee’s studio. “This,” I would explain to them, “is what it takes to be a serious, successful artist. Catherine Lee is a bona fide art star.…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Country/Americana Act
Best Country/Americana Act 1. Felix Truvere and the Open Road Band 2. Bret Mullins Band 3. Clint Taft and the Buck Wild Band
Just Happens to Be LGBT: The Queer Collective is here
In late 2013, Ernesto Olivo, a local artist and art educator who just happens to be gay, had an idea: a holiday market for and by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Year after year, he watched his fellow artists, artisans and craftspeople line up in droves to participate in Christmas markets all over…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Song
Best Song 1. “Queen of the Flies” (Audiomouth) 2. “Apology” (J. Ryan) 3. “What Best Friends Do” (Felix Truvere and the Open Road Band)
Drama Texan Style: ‘Unbroken Circle’ lands at the Woodlawn
The Biblical description of a jealous God “visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations” would be a fitting epigraph to much world drama from Agamemnon to All My Children. Some of the most notable works of American theater, including Long Day’s Journey into Night,…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Tejano/Conjunto Act
Best Tejano/Conjunto Act 1. Grupo Texas Heat 2. Ricky Valens 3. Cacy Savala Related Stories
Mayoral Horse Race
According to a memo obtained by the Current dated Sept 19 and addressed to council members and staff, Mayor Ivy Taylor, who has said she won’t be seeking the mayoral seat in the spring 2015 elections, is planning “open office hours” at libraries in every district (except District 2, her former seat) between October and…
Will Austin Academy’s Fine Arts Program Survive?
The oldest elementary school in Bexar County is set to close for the 2016-2017 school year. Stephen F. Austin Academy is one of five schools that will close as part of the San Antonio Independent School District’s long-range plan to save costs by consolidating schools in a district that has seen a continuing decline in…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Blues Artist
Best Blues Artist 1. Tie: Granvil Poynter, Cool Cat Charlie 2. Tie: Will Owen-Gage, Ty Gavin
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Grupo Texas Heat
Best Tejano/Conjunto Act Best Guitarist (Ryan Ortiz) Best Vocalist (Ryan Ortiz) Best Keyboardist (Richard Salazar) Best Drummer (Andrew Rodriguez) Most Underrated Artist (Second) Well, if Grupo Texas Heat was underrated, those days are in the rearview. After winning the Best Tejano/Conjunto referendum in 2013, the SA quartet cleaned up this year, courtesy of a tradition-preserving,…
Mass detention of migrant women and children continues to expand
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement made plans official last week for the nation’s fourth family detention center, to be built in Dilley, about 72 miles southwest of San Antonio. The facility will ultimately imprison 2,400 migrant women and children while they await immigration court proceedings. The inmates will be held pending a decision in…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Jazz Band
Best Jazz Band 1. Royal Punisher Featuring Estevan Garcia on sax, Don Robin on guitar, Phillip Luna on bass and Kory Cook on drums, Royal Punisher’s incendiary improvisations and keen compositions continue to land them at the top of the polls. It’ll have to be a true revolution in SA jazz to dethrone this royalty.…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: J. Ryan
Best R&B Artist Best Song (“Apology,” Second Place) Best Album (‘Apology,’ Second Place) Best Video (“No Happy Ending,” Second Place) Most Underrated Artist (Third Place) Though he’s from the crawling ’burbs of Stone Oak, J. Ryan hasn’t been spending too much time around San Antonio these days. Two years ago, after an impressive run on…
Funding Approved to Plan West Commerce Improvements
Last week, District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales got one step closer to kicking off her West Commerce Economic Corridor project, which she’s named the Gateway to the Historic West Side of San Antonio. When City Council approved the 2015 budget last Thursday, it signed off on $1 million in funding for the planning stage of…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Latin Jazz Band
Best Latin Jazz Band 1. Colao 2. Henry Brun
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: BLK Sheep Music Group
Best Video Best Record Label Best Hip-hop Group (3rd Place) With Positive 4 Opiates Vol. 2, the Texas-toasted, syrup-for-breakfast rapper South Sil won the nod for Best Hip-hop Artist last year. For 2014, Sil teamed up with some newcomers to San Antonio, creating BLK Sheep Music Group, a hybrid between a record label, video production…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Video
Best Video 1. Blk Sheep Productions 2. “No Happy Ending” (J. Ryan) 3. “What Best Friends Do” (Felix Truvere and the Open Road Band)
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Club DJ
Best Club DJ 1. DJ Relapse 2. DJ EPSR 3. DJ Rice
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Tides
Best New Artist As far as best new artist winners go, Tides. feels like an unassuming choice. The band name, wisely shortened from Spirit Tides, still lacks a certain splash value. At first pass their music—a chiming, pleasant blend of indie-pop—glides by evanescently, often leaving no trace it was ever there. But in the spirit of…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Indie Rock Band
Best Indie Rock Band 1. Crown 2. RMRS 3. Octahedron Related Stories
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best EDM/Electronic producer
Best EDM/Electronic producer 1. DJ Relapse 2. Delenda 3. Bryan Hamilton
San Antonio Music Awards 2014 Current’s Choice: Femina-X
What does a band that claims Aphex Twin, Erykah Badu, mariachi singer Vicente Fernández and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as influences sound like exactly? You’d be hard-pressed to come up with Femina-X out of that cross cultural jumble of influences, especially given the overt turn-of-the-millennia Björk vibe the group exudes. However, that wide-ranging eclecticism comes…
Savage Love: Friend in Need
A straight male friend practices sounding and has for years. I am pretty sure he does other things that he isn’t telling anyone about—not even his wife. He has some medical questions about sounding. I am a pediatric nurse, so he brought his concerns to me, but the questions are totally outside my area of…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best New Artist
Best New Artist 1. Tides 2. Bekah Kelso and the Fellas 3. The Happy Campers
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Hip-hop Producer
Best Hip-hop Producer 1. Andre “FNS” Johnson 2. Bryan Hamilton 3. BumSix
San Antonio Music Awards 2014 Current’s Choice: Lonely Horse
When the Lonely duo of guitarist Nick Long and drummer Travis Hild employs the ‘desert’ descriptor on their first EP, My Desert Son, it’s referring to the actual desert, right? The exquisite solitude and sublime might of the Chihuahuan melted down and poured into a rock ‘n’ roll mold—something like that? “It’s just the heat,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I hike through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance. No matter where I go, their sound is farther off, never right up close to me. How can that be? Do they move away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Most Underrated Artist
Most Underrated Artist 1. Kae Hache The crown jewel of the Fresh New Sound collective, Kae Hache has the potential to be a one-woman hit machine, delivering on deft verses and memorable, syrupy R&B on her hooks. “I’m feeling myself, but I won’t stop ’til I’m feeling my wealth,” Hache promises on “Vi$ion.” 2. Grupo…
San Antonio Music Awards 2014: Best Recording Studio
Best Recording Studio 1. Fresh New Sound Studio 2. Edit Point Studios 3. Tie: Harter, FireWave Productions
San Antonio Music Awards 2014 Current’s Choice: The Bolos
San Antonio garage act the Bolos plays a fuzz-enthused twang-infused brand of boozy blues that really crackles and cooks. With strong East Texas roots, these boys are drawn to the blues—particularly in the style of Howlin’ Wolf, Ledbelly, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Junior Kimbrough—before anything else. On the other hand, as aficionados of garage rock old…
6 Free Events Happening This Week
Wed 10/1 San Antonio Spurs Open Scrimmage The San Antonio Spurs return to the court ahead of the upcoming 2014-15 NBA season to face each other in an intra-squad scrimmage, hosted by Sean Elliott with appearances by The Coyote and The Silver Dancers. See this year’s Spurs team in action before the first home preseason…
5 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on This Week
Wednesday, October 1: The Hangar Tavern is having their monthly craft beer tasting, held every first Wednesday of the month. Guests will sample 10 craft beers from five different breweries. Admission includes 10 beer samples, light snacks, a $10 Hangar Tavern gift card and a raffle ticket. $5, 7-9pm, 14532 Brook Hollow, (210) 846-8810, hangartavern.com.…
Hey, SAPD: Aransas Pass PD Loves Body Cameras
(via) Police body cameras in the Coastal Bend city of Aransas Pass helped heal strained relations between the public and the police department. “Well, the police department was kind of struggling. The old administration didn’t communicate with the public and with the media, and when you don’t communicate, everybody thinks the worst,” Aransas Pass police…
Free Taco Alert: Taco C’s giving out chicken fajita tacos on October 1
(Via Taco Cabana) Taco Cabana is hooking folks up with free chicken fajita tacos on October 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. The freebies kick off a month-long fundraiser for the Warrior and Family Support Center (WFSC) at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, in which all Taco Cabana locations in Texas, Oklahoma and…
A Day as a Teenage Ghoul: working at the 13th Floor haunted house
13th Floor Logo For one day, and one day only, I was a creature of the night. I was offered the chance of a lifetime to go undercover as an actor at the 13th Floor Haunted House, and I jumped at the opportunity like a zombie eyeing fresh meat. The first part of the…
18 Juanes Jams to Know Before Thursday’s Concert
(Via) The folks at Tobey McFineArts (AKA The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts) are hosting international hottie Juanes on Thursday, October 2 and somehow tickets are still available. If you’re still on the fence about forking over hard-earned cash, then may I suggest listening to this comprehensive playlist that includes Juanes’ early hits such…
The Gong Shorts Annual Mini Film Fest Gets Educational
Though The Gong Show wasn’t claimed as a primary influence on SA’s Gong Shorts, the NBC program surely is an unruly ancestor of this week’s mini film festival. From 1976 to 1978, NBC ran this absurd showcase of non-talent, with B-list celebrities judging campy acts, nixing rough ones with a monstrous gong and granting a useless…
Spurs Media Day Tips Off 2014 Season Coverage
“Manu in Spanish, anyone?” asked a Spurs rep at the team’s media day last Friday, trying to draw bilingual reporters from a scrum around Gregg Popovich. “Manu in Spanish?” It was a hectic scene at the Spurs practice center, with Spurs staff and the city’s media running around, mingling and co-ordinating coverage. Huge camera rigs bathed…
