One-woman show visually appealing
Last Friday was the opening night of On the Island written and performed by S.T. Shimi at Jump-Start Theater. While sitting in the audience I could not stop staring at the long vertical tissu (a piece of woven material used for cloths) suspended from the ceiling in the middle of the stage. The lights dimmed. I…
One-woman show visually appealing
Last Friday was the opening night of On the Island written and performed by S.T. Shimi at Jump-Start Theater. While sitting in the audience I could not stop staring at the long vertical tissu (a piece of woven material used for cloths) suspended from the ceiling in the middle of the stage. The lights dimmed.…
A visual futurist uncovered
I wasn’t quite too sure what to expect when I received the press release for the presentation “Inspired Imagination: Visual Futurist Syd Mead.” Upon further investigation I realized that a visual futurist wasn’t as tripped out as I originally thought it to be, in fact, Mead’s work is nothing short of amazing. Last night I…
A visual futurist uncovered
I wasn’t quite too sure what to expect when I received the press release for the presentation “Inspired Imagination: Visual Futurist Syd Mead.” Upon further investigation I realized that a visual futurist wasn’t as tripped out as I originally thought it to be, in fact, Mead’s work is nothing short of amazing. Last night I…
Langston Hughes Project: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
2008 Cavalcade of Stars
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Playwriting Workshop
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Spiritual Wisdom on Relationships
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Rocky Votolato, Portugal the Man, & Scholars + Theives
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The last time Rocky Votolato came through San Antonio, he sang and played guitar in an intimate, stripped-down performance for 20 people in a free, BYOB house show just off North Main. That was in March of this year, when Votolato was on some self-described “rough-assed” national tours in support of his…
The Passion of Dance
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
The Windows
Release Date: 2007-10-17 Friday is two-for-one night at Jump-Start, as the theater features an installation in the front window and a show, both focusing on human rights, imprisonment, and political justice. “The Windows” is a free, 20-minute performance viewed from the street, followed by a production of On The Island, the one-woman show by noted…
The Shirelles feat. original member Beverly Lee
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Woody Plants of GCSNA
Release Date: 2007-10-17 Hike the evergreen woodland and deciduous forest trails of Government Canyon with naturalist Ranger Carl Green — you’ll learn about the understory trees and shrubs so important to the ecology of the State Natural Area. Wear sturdy shoes and weather-appropriate clothing, and bring water and a snack. $6 park fee, 9am-Noon, Government…
Pocket’s Next Big Star 2008
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
The DIY Factory
Release Date: 2007-10-17 Bringing the handmade revolution to San Antonio! The San Antonio Craft Mafia and Alamo City Craft Union team up for a do-it-yourself mish-mash of local indie artisans and crafters, fashion designers, and vendors. Shop for the handmade and unusual, listen to South Texas musicians, make and take crafts, and enjoy a fashion…
Hunt Family On Tour
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
3 Mo’ Divas
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Hogleg, Megatits In Outerspace, Journey to Ixtlan, & Spank
Release Date: 2007-10-17 Saturday’s multi-talented lineup features continuous music, as the bands morph into one another during a continuous set. Journey channels acid, jammy blues rock into a long piece of composed inspiration, giving way to the eclectic and jam-oriented musical styling of Megatits. Hogleg closes the night with their experimental Texas-style rock in the…
San Antonio Current Ale Fest 2007
Release Date: 2007-10-17 We love good beer and so do you…evidenced by last year’s bash! Don’t miss out — don the lederhosen and sample 50 local and premium brews in our second-annual Ale Fest. The main event is paired with some German-style treats on the grill and appropriate tunes by the Beethoven Dance Band. Our…
A Tribute to Jon Esquivel “La Musica Es Mi Pasion” Concert
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead
Release Date: 2007-10-17 We love good beer and so do you…evidenced by last year’s bash! Don’t miss out — don the lederhosen and sample 50 local and premium brews in our second-annual Ale Fest. The main event is paired with some German-style treats on the grill and appropriate tunes by the Beethoven Dance Band. Our…
Fire ‘n Ice
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Salsamba!
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Fire and Ice
Release Date: 2007-10-17 The Carver kicks off this season with a melodious journey celebrating the miraculous versatility of the female voice. The night spans 400 years and eight musical genres, including opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, R&B, spirituals, and gospel. The rendition of Marion J. Caffey’s international hit “Three Mo’ Tenors” features Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Laurice…
Nu-queer family
“Are you her mommy?” a little girl asks Penny Miller, 31, as she follows her 3-year-old daughter Amelia Rose around the indoor playground at McDonald’s. “Yes, I’m her mommy,” Penny says smiling at the curious child. “Then who’s that?” the little girl counters, pointing to the table where Jamie Haight, 29, sits watching Amelia running…
Honky tonk promenade
For 35 years, Joe Ely has built his legacy one roadhouse gig at a time, like a force of nature. He’s put out at least 13 studio recordings (in addition to his work with Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in the Flatlanders), and a pair of legendary live performances, 1980’s Live Shots (recorded while…
A whole New World (of jacquard and wasted opportunity)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is, in a word, silly. That Cate Blanchett plays it so convincingly straight is evidence that the film’s no-duh musical score was certainly not played live on set. Clive Owen, on the other hand, plays Sir Walter Raleigh like something out of Harlequin Presents: Pirate Treat o’ the Week (matey), with…
To love, honor, and immigrate
Anna-Marie Lopez is a passionate woman, and never more so than when she’s talking about her current life’s work: Lopez is in love with a woman. But the Chicana artist isn’t just a lesbian woman living in a country that hasn’t quite accepted her — she’s in love with a foreign-national. Lopez and her French…
SOUND THE & THE FURY
After struggling for ages to obtain U.S. travel visas, the six-piece Ecuadorian group known as Nuages Jazz Ensemble is currently soaking up the wonders of the Lone Star State, with a debut San Antonio performance set for Friday, October 19, at Ruta Maya Riverwalk Coffee House (107 E. Martin). The band took its name from…
Penn goes ‘Wild,’ and our critic likes it
The sparse, quiet whiteness of the Alaskan wilderness comes into focus as Christopher McCandless, played by Emile Hirsch, crushes the snow with his slow tracks and Eddie Vedder’s guttural vibrato builds in the background. From its opening credits, Into the Wild strikes a beautiful, somber tone with such moments and sustains it until the end.…
ART CAPADES
Two days, three big art events, and one eager arts writer was the combination Art Capades needed to kick-start last weekend’s full slate of events. The festivities began with Chalk it Up, while a few hours later Art in the Hood – Fall Art Walk started in Southtown, and just blocks away South Flores’s bustling…
Kamikaze
When Café Tacuba came out of nowhere (Mexico City, to be exact) in 1992, few realized that we were witnessing the arrival of the New Messiahs of Spanish-language rock. “I think they’re ridiculous,” a then-prominent LA deejay from Argentina told me. This same person refused to play Mexican music at his club because “we don’t…
ARTIFACTs
Love dance but tired of the craze surrounding Dancing With the Stars? Come out and support the local dancing community — SpareWorks Dance Company presents Basics, an evening of past and present work by Amber Ortega-Perez. SpareWorks is San Antonio’s newest contemporary dance company, set to debut Friday at the University of the Incarnate Word…
aural pleasure
Magic Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) Bruce Springsteen hasn’t made a carefree record since 1973’s The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, and even that one had a few ominous shadows. Everything since then has been about that ever-present darkness on the edge of town: either battling it (The River), losing your identity and moral…
Mandala Gallery imports India and more
When the dust clears from the civil-engineering project that is the Blanco road and Fulton roundabout, there shall appear a new neighborhood hot spot. More of a WiFi hotspot, actually, where you can also get a spot of hot tea — organic and herbal teas from India and Nepal. The aromatic steam will float on…
CDs Nuts
Obligatory Villagers Nellie McKay (Hungry Mouse) Somewhere within the Obligatory Villagers album, there’s a really stellar iTunes exclusive downloadable EP. McKay’s always taken risks, but they’ve never paid off at such a low percentage before. A decent quad of songs (Just pretend the godawful fart song “Livin” doesn’t exist, please.) “Gin Rummy,” “Identity Theft,” “Galleon,”…
Macy’s most infamous elf returns to Say-Town
When I first met David Sedaris, in Manhattan in the ’80s, he was still cleaning apartments for a living. His boyfriend, Hugh, was a tromp l’oeil painter who had done the sets for a performance piece I was in. Celebrating opening night in Chelsea, I sat next to David, who gazed wide-eyed at me and asked, “Are…
Armchair Cinephile
PICK OF THE WEEK: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse) Spanish director Saura has devoted much of his career (up to his latest film, Fados) to becoming one of the foremost alchemists of music, dance, and film. This famed triptych from the ’80s weaves ballet and opera material together with new settings and narratives, drenching the…
DIY Factory promotes independent artists
The ladies from Alamo City Craft Union and Alamo City Craft Mafia have brought the do-it-yourself mentality to a whole new level with the DIY Factory, an event spotlighting more than 40 vendors selling handmade items ranging from jewelry and ceramics, to accessories, original art, and more. “It is your traditional crafts but it does…
Goodbye, operator
Pardon me for making this an age thing, but I talk to a lot of users, and while everybody “gets” the internet, and cell phones, and even GPS navigation for their car (if they can afford it), there’s a whole bunch of people over 30 who have never sent or received a text message. So…
Mex in Manhattan
“How do you piss in that thing?” “I have to hang up now, Mario’s wearing a skirt.” “What do you have on under there?” Just a few of the reactions men can expect if they decide to wear a kilt. I currently wear one and George H. W. Bush had something to do with it.…
Cutting out the CAB
Mayor Phil Hardberger was elected to office in 2005 in part on a platform of increased funding for the arts — a promise he’s kept both through effort (by convincing Council to raise the Hotel Occupancy Tax allotment for the Cultural Arts Fund) and good fortune (HOT revenues are up). For this coming year, as…
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio López de Santa Anna was struck by a cannon ball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right leg was removed from the knee down. When he returned to Mexico City, he ordered that a state funeral…
THE QUE QUE
The Gatekeeping of the Alamo Like the sturdy and indefatigable Hidalgo showing up those snooty inbred Arabians on their own turf, Queque likes to revel in its American exceptionalism. Fairest of all? No. Longest in the leg? Not. But crafty. Loyal. Big-hearted and tenacious. Just like the mongrel — always the best pick at the…
Clothes-minded
“When you raise your pencil skirt, like a veil before my eyes …” (Pulp, “Pencil Skirt”) It doesn’t get much sexier in women’s fashion than the iconic pencil skirt. An absolute must for women with curves, the pencil isn’t revealing, but it’s definitely not modest either. An evolution of the hobble skirt of the 1920s…
Vested rights in action: bargaining with the neighborhood association
Look out Cyndy Nemcik’s bedroom window and it’s evident just how much a plan to re-zone four empty lots beside her home will affect her and her three daughters. Through the branches of the Persimmon, elm and hackberry trees that fill her backyard and the lots, Nemcik has a view of the back of a…
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Dear Uncle Mat
This summer I started dating a guy and thought it would be strictly a “summer fling,” as I go to college in a state more than a thousand miles away. The summer played out, there were wild parties, movies, drunken shows at The Cafe or Limelight, and midnight walks in the moonlight around San Anto.…
Revealing Briefs
AUSTIN — Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s campaign announced Tuesday morning that several state leaders had joined his ranks as “co-chairs” for Texas. Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott and Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson will both serve as co-chairs for the “Law and Order” actor’s presidential effort in Texas. “Attorney General Abbott and Commissioner Patterson…
The House of Guadalupe
When Danny López Lozano passed away in 1993, the city lost an original presence who inspired a group of then-unknown local artists, writers, poets, and musicians who have since come into their own. And while Lozano might claim little credit for their rise in the local and national cultural scenes, he must secretly be enjoying…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his book The Primary Colors, Alexander Theroux writes that yellow is the color of “early bruises, forbidding skies, dead leaves, dental plaque, foul curtains, speed bumps, and callused feet.” And yet, he muses, yellow is also the color of “the generous sun, butter, candlelight, ripening grain, translucent amber, and spring…
Are we up to the No-Kill challenge?
CHALLENGE: `chal-inj` v. tr. to call or summon to engage: Mayor Phil Hardberger challenged the city to meet the requirements for a No-Kill animal community designation by the year 2012. One simple word, a complex set of variables, countless interpretations. Our community has been challenged to reconsider what we accept and what we believe is…
I read your signal loud and clear
New York radio personalities Ryan Jay and Caroline Hand recently signed a deal with San Antonio-based Clear Channel Radio to become the first nationally syndicated radio talk show targeted at the LGBT community. PRIDE Radio with Ryan and Caroline airs in San Antonio on Sundays, 7 p.m. to midnight on KXXM-FM 96.1. As gay culture…
San Antonio backyard barbecue
Let’s face it, barbecue in San Antonio for the most part sucks. Texas is the barbecue capital of the world, and our city is the heart of the Lone Star State, so it’s a damn shame that to get really excellent Q you have to drive to Lockhart or Austin. You’d think with all the cattle…
On-air pride
“We are the Giorgio Armani of FM radio stations,” said Rob Basile, program director and operations manager for the Toronto, Ontario-based 103.9 PROUD-FM, which hit the airwaves in April 2007. “Fifteen years ago, the most conservative males were wearing Armani suits and very proud to show them off — suits that had been designed and…
Newly minted SA barbecue legend
San Antonian Diane Stallings was surfing the National Pork Board’s website for the lowest-possible safe temperature for cooking pork when she noticed the Grilling Grates from the 50 States recipe contest, and realized her variation on traditional fajitas fit the guidelines. She entered what will heretofore be known as Diane Stallings’ Award-Winning Fajitas de Puerco:…
Brothers in (dissimilar) charms
For a few years there, Ben Affleck’s name had become something of a punch line. What with his very public engagement to Jennifer Lopez, an unfortunate music video in which he slathered oil on her derriere, and a string of cinematic duds like Pearl Harbor, Gigli, and Surviving Christmas, it wasn’t difficult to imagine that…
Ginsberg, Beat poet and photographer, paved the way out
“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” — Allen Ginsberg, “America.” One might be hard pressed to find a more apt person to honor during National Gay History Month than Allen Ginsberg — poet, activist, pacifist, ecologist, spiritual guru, Buddhist, holy bohemian, and gay-liberation trailblazer. Talk about a positive role model for…
Making a Backyard Smoker Out of a Trash Can and High Hopes
I’m not sure when I first became obsessed with making a barbecue smoker out of a trash can. I remember seeing an episode of the Food Network’s Good Eats a few years ago in which host Alton Brown smoked some salmon using a foil-lined cardboard box and a hot plate. That was pretty nifty. Then,…
CRITICAL DARLING
The cursed fate of the Mission 4 Drive-In was sealed last Thursday as City Council unanimously approved San Antonio’s 3-plus million-dollar purchase of the Santikos landmark, and the 26 acres upon which it stands (one theater, inimitable, with graffiti-ready wall space for all). According to District 3 Councilman Roland Gutierrez, the sale will be closed…
ENDA endrun enrages SA’s transgendered community
May was an identity whirlwind for San Antonian Julia DeGrace. First, she got her name and gender legally changed. Then, still without proper picture identification, she traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby for a federal hate-crimes bill and employment protections for the LGBT community. Within one week of returning to San Antonio, she gained the…
An American president
Filmmaker Adam Christing saw the opportunity for a history lesson when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney jumped into the 2008 presidential race. “People don’t know that Joseph Smith also ran for president,” says Christing, who argues that Smith’s campaign was the direct cause of the Mormon prophet’s 1844 assassination. The tremendous political and military power…
Bryan Ortiz and the ‘Sex Crazed Reefer Zombies’
A machete. That’s director/writer Bryan Ortiz’s weapon of choice in the event that he must face an army of the undead. Ortiz knows this because it’s a situation he has played through his mind hundreds of times before. The fact that he has thought about it might seem a bit bizarre to some, but Ortiz…
On the Street
Friday Night Lights (Redux) While San Anto High Schools were breaking bones on the gridiron, the other futbol was being played, hidden in full light in the middle of crackertown in an odd enclave of SA municipality known as Olmos Basin. No taco trucks were found though I have seen their cousin there, the raspa/candy…
On the Street
Friday Night Lights (Redux) While San Anto High Schools were breaking bones on the gridiron, the other futbol was being played, hidden in full light in the middle of crackertown in an odd enclave of SA municipality known as Olmos Basin. No taco trucks were found though I have seen their cousin there, the raspa/candy truck,…
