Creepoid Friday, November 4 Nocturnal and brooding, the cerebral Creepoid is a post-punk quartet borne off the dirty streets of Philadelphia. Reverting to the melodic noise rock heard in 90’s grunge – remember Sonic Youth’s primordial Goo? – Creepoid waltzes through waves of distortion in a way that evokes the phantasmal presence of Kurt Cobain.…
The vast majority of Texas Republicans, like Donald Trump, think that the kind of criminal voter fraud that could swing an election is a “serious problem.” The overwhelming majority Texas Republican voters who responded to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll this week also hold “very unfavorable” views on the Black Lives Matter movement.…
Thu 11/3 – Sat 11/5 Muertitos Fest Aiming to offer “an international perspective on Día de los Muertos,” SAY Sí’s 10th annual Muertitos Fest welcomes members of Kolkata, India-based nonprofit Prayassam for a series of multidisciplinary performances exploring unlikely connections between the pre-Columbian tradition and the Hindu observance of Mahalaya Paksha (aka Pitru Paksha). Following…
Q: I’m a 41-year-old male who looks like the tall, strong, professional, alpha-male type on the outside. On the inside, though, I would like to find a strong, confident woman who wants a cuckolding relationship — she sleeps with other men, while I am faithful and submissive to her. There must be women out there…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I am in awe of your headfirst, charge-forward, no-distractions approach. In fact, I aspire to incorporate more of the Aries-style directness into my own repertoire. But I also love it when, on rare occasions, you flirt with a more strategic perspective. It amuses me to see you experimenting with the power…
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller swears he didn’t call Hillary Clinton a cunt. That’s why he quickly deleted a tweet from his personal Twitter account this afternoon that shouted otherwise in (mostly) all caps: “PENNSYLVANIA: NEW AUTO ALLIANCE POLL TRUMP 44 Cunt 42 Go Trump Go!” The internet didn’t blink. A screenshot of the post…
It’s hard to not write this as some sappy love letter to the Countdown City, but as a 14-year-resident of our fair metropolis, I can say that the only way one would be bored in San Antonio is if they decided to actively avoid having fun. Boring and San Antonio just shouldn’t be used in the…
Written on its sign that overlooks Zarzamora Street, Yatzil Mexican Restaurant claims to be “The Best in the West.” I assume the marketing gurus behind the slogan are referring to San Antonio’s West Side. I’m not ready to agree with that, because the West Side is the Mecca of breakfast tacos, and I have not…
Career Point College—the for-profit university that ghosted on its students earlier this month—has responded to the lawsuits piling up against them by declaring bankruptcy. The college’s parent company, Dickinson of San Antonio, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, signaling that its owners may be interested in keeping the private university system open. Debtors filing under…
Aside from the new seafood joint that finally opened inside the former home of Taqueria Chapala Jalisco, October meant a small wave of bar openings. La Roca Cantina, from Green Lantern’s Tony Coss opened quietly the week before Halloween, while Sangria on the Burg added tasty fideo to the Medical Center and High Street Wine…
The Well is really more like a barn. An awkward looking barn set behind a vast parking lot that was mostly empty on two daytime visits. The restaurant/dancehall’s most appealing spaces are actually outdoors under some live oaks and atop a ground of Astroturf. There are picnic tables, a covered bandstand, ledges to sit at…
Mayra was six months pregnant when she was raped and beaten so badly she had to be hospitalized out of fear she’d miscarry. A violent partner at home wasn’t the only reason she wanted to flee El Salvador. Mayra (not her real name) finally left after gang members searching for the father of one of…
October 31 is largely known as the day when thousands of costumed children ask strangers for candy. It’s also the yearly gathering of sex offenders in Bexar County. On Monday, between 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., some 300 registered sex offenders will crowd a county building to attend seminars reminding them of their limited civil…
<object We’re compiling a list of our favorite 100 dishes in the city with the San Antonio 100. Check back weekly for a new dish we love that either screams SA or you need to enjoy ASAP. Imagine being in Southtown on the first Friday of the month hopping around from place to place looking…
Tue 11/2 – Thu 11/3 Fashion Week San Antonio In a city that’s about as far from a “fashion capital” as one can get, the concept of Fashion Week San Antonio might seem like an oxymoron. Still, there’s a determined contingent of fashionistas determined to “make it work.” Founded in 2009 by a local chapter…
Not to get too emotional or philosophical about it, but there is just something truly special about a “new” beer. I don’t mean “new” as in, hey I just drank a beer and now I need a new one. No, I mean “new” as in never seen before. These are beers born in the minds…
Bringing back an ostensibly bygone era of grime in punk, long before the snapback and hoodie made any appearance in the genre, the Austin-based band Glue is pissed and dejected in every direction. On Friday, the band played a free show at the Mix on N. St. Mary’s street accompanied by locals Sex-Ray Specs and…
Bad news coming out of Southtown this morning: Brigid/Francis Bogside caught fire this morning and the restaurant/bar are closed until further notice. The fire, which SAPD believes to have started from an air conditioning unit according to a KSAT report, was first reported at 6:30 a.m. Monday morning. Management has issued the statement below: This…
The permanent smell of weed wafted through the air, christening the fest in a way into the ranks of Electric Daisy Carnival. But this wasn’t like the EDM holy land or any other similar hip hop hotspot: Mala Luna Fest is in a class of its own, partly because it’s unique to a city that’s…
An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Bexar County for misinforming voters about the state’s voter ID rules. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), filed the lawsuit Friday afternoon on behalf of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP). MALDEF attorneys argue that since Monday, October 24, the first day of…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future…
Q: I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment, and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she’s content with sex once a week or so, and I…
This week, outraged Senators demanded an immediate fix to the state foster care program that’s left 2,800 kids at high risk of abuse across Texas, early voters said they were given false information about state ID laws at the polls, and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus urged the state to lift a rule that has…
There’s no denying that 2016 has been a rough year. Bowie’s gone, Prince is gone, election madness — there’s a litany of generally awful things to come out of the last 10 months. But in all that dreariness, there has been a glimmer of hope by way of a new-to-SA cuisine. I’m not saying Pinch…
In the 1930s, one of our country’s most under-appreciated philosophers cribbed from a line attributed to the French philosopher René Descartes: “I y’am what I y’am, and that’s all that I y’am.” Taking those words to heart, the good folks at Yaghi’s New York Pizzeria have offered up a pie that is simply what it…
Texas is finally getting the national recognition it has long deserved as a craft beer state, attracting many well known out of state breweries in recent years, such as California based AleSmith Brewing Company. It’s a trend that continues next March with the arrival beer from Kalamazoo, Michigan-based Bell’s Brewery to the Lone Star State.…
At 9 a.m. Thursday, Donald Trump posted a tweet: “A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting booths in Texas. People are not happy. BIG lines. What is going on?” It’s classic Trump: baseless anecdotes, hints at conspiracy, unnecessary capitalization. Of course, there is no evidence backing the GOP candidate’s claims—state elections officials…
As it is just a bar and a barbershop away from the Puerto Rican haunt El Bohio, Aloha Kitchen, a tiny Hawaiian joint helmed by a gaggle of cheerful, brisk waitresses, helps elevate the strip mall down the street from Fort Sam from a cluster of commercial property to a bona fide dining destination. Where…
This weekend’s inaugural Mala Luna Music Festival will bring a roster of EDM megastars along with up-and-coming rappers, hip-hop and R&B artists, the likes of which this city’s never really seen before. Excluding, that is, Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates, who was originally slated to perform at the festival and was just sentenced to 180 days…
When it comes to superheroes on the small screen, they don’t get much bigger than Netflix’s Daredevil. Leading the way as the show’s title character is British actor Charlie Cox, 33, one of the celebrity guests who will be in attendance at the 2016 Alamo City Comic Con this weekend to meet fans, sign autographs, take photos and participate…
For this week’s cover story, Bloomberg Businessweek was granted remarkable–and exclusive–access inside Donald Trump’s digital nerve center, which is run by San Antonio web designer Brad Parscale, one half of the local digital marketing firm Giles-Parscale. Parscale, a political newbie who won Trump’s love after building some web pages for the family’s businesses and charities…
Thursday, Oct. 27 Island Earth While touching on the pressing issue of large corporations monopolizing natural resources, “Island Earth shows how to take control of our food supply through local farming and native wisdoms”. Get there early for chips, guacamole, and salsa provided by Chipotle Mexican Grill. 6pm, Free, Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Place Island Earth Trailer from…
As Austin’s Blue Cat Cafe turned one (and dealt with some gnarly vandalization), San Antonio’s Cat Cafe launched a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign to help open its doors. Casey Steuart, who registered the nonprofit 4 Pawsitive Change Inc. AKA San Antonio Cat Cafe, is hoping fans of cat cafes and kitties will put their money where their…
In celebration of Dia de los Muertos, Centro de Artes will host an altar exhibit to remember Latino/a artists and community leaders, with an opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. today. As part of the holiday’s tradition in honoring the dead, several local artists were selected to create altars in memory Manny Castillo, Adina…
One out of every five uninsured kids in the country lives in Texas, according to a new study out of Georgetown University. This means Texas’ rate of uninsured children is among the worst in the nation, second only to the uninsured rate in Alaska, which has 6.8 million fewer children than Texas. “It’s not just…
In 1981, staff at what was then Bexar County Hospital noticed that babies kept dying from problems that shouldn’t have been fatal. By the time an internal inquiry determined that no less than 10 infants had died from “sudden and unexplained” complications with nurse Genene Jones at their bedside, she’d already left the hospital to work…
Reviewing the last touring musical in San Antonio, I lamented that it was pointless for producers to assign a first-rate director like Jack O’Brien to second-rate art like The Sound of Music (and you are welcome to check out my kvetching here). By contrast, the current touring production of Cabaret is exactly the sort of…
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is calling for state education officials to suspend their apparently random target for special ed enrollment that over the past decade has kept tens of thousands of disabled kids from receiving the special classes and services they need. Straus’ letter to Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath Wednesday comes on the heels…
The San Antonio Police Department team tasked with quickly responding to cases of domestic abuse has failed to do just that. SAPD’s so-called Crisis Response Team was created in 1996 to help victims of abuse get immediate assistance and protection. However, according to an internal audit presented to a council committee on Tuesday, the team failed…
In Inferno, a billionaire mad scientist (Ben Foster) believes overpopulation will engender the end of mankind in 40 years, so he strives to restart civilization by creating a virus that could wipe out half the world’s population. Not sure about you, but I’d rather have 40 more good years than be dead, or living in…
