The Week in Music 11/1-11/7
Here’s what’s in store musically in SA this week, IN ADDITION TO all the stuff we highlighted in our print edition. Always check our calendar for comprehensive listings. Dudes! Are we still in San Antonio? There’s at least one show worth going to every single damned night this week! Mon Nov 1: Vampires Everywhere and…
In-box Surprise – La Sera’s killer new video
Forget Saw 3D, this campy, gorey video from Katy Goodman’s (Vivian Girls) solo act is the real deal.
Anti-Reed chalk art decried by KENS5 as ‘spray paint’ vandalism
We know who isn’t reading the QueQue: KENS5. The station aired a shocking — shocking! with an incensed exclamation mark! — story about graffiti spray painted “and even stenciled” on a local church’s sidewalk last Thursday. This was one day after the Que2 reported the chalk-based initiative was underway (scroll down to “Chalk Her Out”)…
Hey San Antonio – It’s Operation Homecooking!
Ferg_e – A Mom On A Mission Hey there. My name is Ferg_e and I am a mom on a mission. My mission is to make this world a better place for my son Bradyn to grow up in. In this segment for the San Antonio Current I will blog twice per month about local…
5MB 10/30
1MB Schwarzenegger Vs. EMA is set to hit the Supreme Court on Tuesday. In case you don’t know, this case is about California’s right to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. The case has been been struck down by Golden State judges on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. If…
Last minute costume idea: Spanish hooker
Ah the Europeans. Our kinder, more liberal neighbors across the pond. When this article hit my inbox a few days ago, I began prowling for a safety vest to complete the ultimate Halloween costume: Spanish prostitute. It’s important to note that the pros are not being targeted because of the work they do, but because…
Yelp Goes Local(er)
There’s been quite a bit of online buzz about Yelp and their newest employees. We, the ever-curious minds at Tech Tease had similar questions: what is a community manager and why does our community need managing? So, like good little investigators, we tweeted Krys Theilen, San Antonio Community Manager (@yelpsanantonio) and asked to sit down,…
Seriously, Steve?
It’s one thing that I can only delete in one direction from my iPad, but I’ve learned to deal with it. There are workarounds, inconvenient as they are. However, if I’m going to spend an additional $9.99 for the Pages app on the “magical” beast, I’d have liked the consideration of compatible formatting. Here’s the…
Interview: Juliette Lewis
After taking a few years off from her film career to find an audience as a musician, actress Juliette Lewis is back in full force with four films in 2010. In Conviction, the true story of Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) and her 18-year struggle to prove her brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) was wrongfully convicted…
Interview: Betty Anne Waters
There is no denying the devotion Betty Anne Waters had for her brother Kenny. When Kenny was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison, Betty Anne went on an 18-year mission, which would ultimately end with her earning a law degree and helping exonerate her brother in 2001 when DNA…
Finally! Use those Gaming Skills for Money.
This post brought to you by Officer D-Pad. Admit it, ever since you were five years old, you’ve been trying to figure out how to convert those glorious hours of button-mashing into of cash. The sounds of whatever spaceships, rockets and aliens you were preoccupied in would drown out your parents’ complaints of not filling…
Review: Cirque Dreams Illumination
By Thomas Jenkins/tjenkins@trinity.edu Let’s cut to the chase: Cirque Dreams Illumination is far more entertaining than it has any right to be. Even the granddaddy of all Cirques—the world-famous Cirque du Soleil—discovered this year the fickleness of the market, with a short-lived (and terribly titled) “Banana Shpeel” closing early in Manhattan. With a number of other variations…
Beyond Pretty
A friend of mine recently posted this video on Facebook, and it gave me the chills. It’s such a timely message for women (and men) of all ages. This video demonstrates one of the primary ideals that we, as women, continue to buy into, allowing for our own suppression. The false sense of worth through beauty is…
AARTVARK!
Introducing the arts video series that sucks up what you might’ve missed. AARTVARK!!
The Mix Reels In Making Movies
You’ve already been prodded to hit The Mix tonight by Sound and Fury, but consider this your second warning! Pop Pistol brings their brand of groovy guitar rock, but they’re not alone — home after a two-week stint in the Midwest and New York, the band is bringing a touring buddy over for dinner. Kansas…
Bwahaha! 10 Halloween Tricks and Treats
DIY Bloody French Tip Nails Tutorial We agree that dressing up your pet for Halloween can be fun. Stop by the ASPCA website for their Top 10 Safety Tips for Pets. Who doesn’t love tacos? How about spooky eyeball tacos? Grab the free recipe here. Customize your cell phone with this cheap app appropriately named…
Cancer Sucks – Saving Lives One Mile at a Time
Ferg_e – A Mom On A Mission Hey there. My name is Ferg_e and I am a mom on a mission. My mission is to make this world a better place for my son Bradyn to grow up in. In this segment for the San Antonio Current I will blog twice per month about local…
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$0$ Composer: Die Antwoord Conductor: Die Antwoord Label: Cherrytree/Interscope Release Date: 2010-10-27 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording Die Antwoord sound like they come from a place that’s a lot farther away than South Africa. On its debut album, the Cape Town trio spins hip-hop into a frothy blend of futuristic electro beats, outer-space bips and bleeps,…
Come Around Sundown
Come Around Sundown Composer: Kings of Leon Conductor: Kings of Leon Label: RCA Release Date: 2010-10-27 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording Come Around Sundown, the latest from the Kings of Leon, feels like a totally natural progression from their breakout mega-hit, Only by the Night. On the new album, the Kings still employ big- and shiny-sounding…
Candy Apple Nightmares
Candy Apple Nightmares Composer: Hyperbubble Conductor: Hyperbubble Label: Bubblegum Release Date: 2010-10-27 Rated: NONE Genre: Recording It should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the camp-friendly duo behind Hyperbubble would go ga-ga for Halloween. To celebrate this year, Hyperbubble turned its February LP Candy Apple Daydreams into Candy Apple Nightmares, to be…
Hi, my name is Glenn
If you don’t know Glenn Danzig, you probably haven’t been paying attention to heavy music for the last 30-odd years. A character of epic proportion, Danzig first came on the scene with horror punk upstarts Misfits in the late ’70s. Danzig’s dark vision turned the Misfits’ blend of semi-competent punk and ghoulish imagery into a…
The Queque – October 27, 2010
People Power How long before “load”-sensitive toilets compute each household’s input to the city’s bottom line? Surely that was the question on everyone’s mind as area elected leaders and local water officials gathered at the San Antonio Water System’s Dos Rios Water Recycling Center last week to celebrate the grand opening of a national first.…
Migrating north
Let me start by coming clean: a few weeks ago, researching upcoming shows in San Antonio, I came across In Beds. Sure, I liked what I heard, sunny pop with a layer of grime, old school R&B with a lo-fi punk ethic. It could be surf music, if the surfers were dropping in on flotsam-strewn…
Piling on SA2020 group think this Thursday
Build a rail transit system. Bring back the go-cart track at HemisFair Park. Reopen the sky ride at Brackenridge/Koehler Park. These are just a few suggestions for improving public transportation in San Antonio flowing from SA2020, the citywide public forum on improving life in the Alamo City launched last month. The effort, seeking input from…
Ghost Lapse
Enter the Ten Eleven. To newcomers, it looks like Santa’s hellhole where blood-red paint stains the walls and Christmas lights illuminate the stage where the band usually plays. Tonight Ghost Lapse has set up in the darkness on the floor while a small crowd gathers around them. Before they play a note, the young power…
Bexarly legal
It seems for the first time in Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed’s 12-year tenure as the County’s chief prosecutor, she has found herself an opponent. And it’s one that especially aggravates her already overly molested sense of indignation (or is that just a slowing digestion?). Nico LaHood, son of a prominent local judge, is…
The Sound & the Fury
It’s the Sound and the Fury’s favorite time of the year, i.e. the only time we can openly encourage local cover bands. With apologies to those who do this year-round, here’s our extra-special Halloween lineup of bands trying hard not to be themselves. Don’t act like you didn’t know this was coming first, but Chuck…
Black robe scuffles
Outside the struggle for Bexar County’s District Attorney, two of the area’s hottest races are for district court judgeships. The first is the fight for the seat of vacating 285th District Court Judge Michael “no tittie left untasselled” Peden. Republican Richard Price and Democrat Rosie Alvarado are facing off for a chance to grip Peden’s…
Dawkins reactivates “Atavistic”
On Hills Snyder’s website, a mysterious section called “Lubbock” sits alongside the usual suspects: Projects, Selected Press, Biography, Links, etc. In this section a visitor will find one photograph, and one set of instructions, both titled “How to Photograph a Painting in Lubbock, Texas.” The photograph shows an abstract painting called Atavistic, which Snyder created…
Rodriguez honored at Austin Film Festival
It’s opening night at the 17th Annual Austin Film Festival and Conference and downtown’s Paramount Theatre is pulsating. Inside the lower rim of the 1,100-seat venue, screenwriters and film buffs scramble for the right spot to soak in the world premier of Exporting Raymond, director Phil Rosenthal’s fish-out-of-water travelogue about bringing Everybody Loves Raymond (which…
Magic carpet ride
In retrospect, the Vexler’s 2007 production of Mary Zimmerman’s splashy Metamorphoses — literally set in a pool — appears to have set something of an artistic, um, high-water mark; thus it makes all the sense in the world for the theater to revisit an earlier, though similar, work: Zimmerman’s adaptation of The Arabian Nights. Like…
Get Horrified
Sure, Saw 3D and Paranormal Activity 2 are the 800-pound gorillas this horror holiday season, but 2010 had a bumper crop of other frightening flicks worth checking out, too. Just this once, ignore the hype and go for one of these underappreciated gems. Frozen Dir. Adam Green; feat. Ed Ackerman, Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, Kevin…
Leaving the wicker
He died alone. Sitting in his white wicker chair surrounded by flying multicolored dragons, parrot-beaked visages, and Disney-inspired creatures floating in bubbles across the brooding indigo canvases. By his side, his drum set. The greatest drummer I have ever known died alone, in a converted garage in the back of a Monticello Park Historical District…
Commitment to Conviction
Director Tony Goldwyn sees a lot of himself in the real-life Betty Anne Waters, portrayed by actress Hilary Swank in his film Conviction. Waters spent 18 years proving her brother Kenny (played by Sam Rockwell) had been wrongfully imprisoned for murder. “If you have faith in something and believe in it hard enough it will…
Righting a wrong
Last week, on a geeky politics podcast I’m partial to indulging in when not evaluating Insane Clown Posse merchandise or reviewing CGI owl movies, the topic was the Supreme Court and its upcoming consideration of John Thompson’s case. Formerly on death row for a murder charge, Thompson was exonerated after a private investigator hired by…
Critic’s Diss: Stone
Edward Norton works diligently to be a real actor in movies, all serious about his craft and stuff. He doesn’t do fun “popcorn” movies (the Hulk was awfully quiet for a comic book flick, and it’s not his fault knuckleheads like Fight Club), and even though he’s stuck a feeler out, he’s always coming back…
Gourmet brings earth-friendly flavor
It’s the end of the month and therefore another installment of Travels with Frenchie, the monthly food series in which a trio of culturally mismatched San Antonians explores the city in search of dining adventure. As always, the culinary vice squad consisted of: Frenchie (aka Fabien Jacob, celebrated local sommelier), Carlos the Bike Mechanic (aka…
Best bets for Pan De Muerto
This is the time of year for Pan de Muerto. It’s a traditional baked bread flavored with orange and anise that is placed as on offering on Dia de Los Muertos altars everywhere to nourish the dearly departed souls. This bread is also eaten at cemeteries by families celebrating their loved ones’ passing into another…
Sailing away with an M.K. Davis schooner
Though Melvin Kimble Davis may be gone (he passed away October 18 at age 83) his restaurant and bar M.K. Davis is still family-run and going strong 54 years down the line. I discovered the bar side of the modest one-story building last Sunday while doing a little early investigating on where to watch this…
DJ Pop Quiz: Josh Stone
We stumbled upon DJ Josh Stone during “Deluxe Fridays,” a weekly dance party he throws at Alibi’s (1141 E Commerce). CD, vinyl, or mp3? All vinyl. Where and how do you buy music? Everywhere and anywhere. Dave at Hogwild helps me out a lot. Favorite artist right now: Two Door Cinema Club. Artist to play…
Bottle & tap
Most people wouldn’t eat at a restaurant or do take out every day. It’s cost prohibitive, harder to control whatever thing the latest diet says you should count, and the dishes at home would feel underappreciated. But that’s just what most beer drinkers do on a regular basis. They drink their beer in bars or…
¡Ask A Mexican!
Dear Mexican. I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: what was the citizenship status of all Mexicans/gringos who lived in parts of Mexico “acquired” by the United States,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the Chinese province of Fujian, there used to be people who believed they could communicate directly with the dead. If they slept on the grave of the person they wished to reach, their dreams during the night might lead to a meeting with the spirit of the departed. I propose…
Week in Music 10/26-10/31
Here’s what’s in store musically in SA this week, IN ADDITION TO all the stuff we highlighted in our print edition. Always check our calendar for comprehensive listings. In fact, this week we so comprehensively covered the Halloween night shenanigans, there’s little to add. If you know of anything we missed, post on comments below!…
BexarMet meddlers: fighting the 7% rate hike
To their minds, the residents of Oak Glen Park and Castle Park should probably have never been rolled into BexarMet’s service area to begin with. Now, after years of service and billing complaints, residents here are starting to band together on a petition initiative intent on beating back BexarMet’s planned seven-percent rate increase set to…
DA would-be LaHood gets candy-coated treatment from NSIDE
Michael Cary randolphmetro@hotmail.com Plenty of ink’s been poured into printing presses about District Attorney Susan Reed — naturally, given her long-in-the-tooth tenure in the Bexar County Courthouse. And her challenger for the high-profile public office, Nico LaHood, has gotten some chafing treatment from various news agencies, including the San Antonio Current. One San Antonio publication,…
Kings in Adidas
When Cody Chesnutt first sang about “crowning kings in Adidas” on 2002’s The Headphone Masterpiece, the royalty he was referring to was comprised of aging b-boys making their way through the post-millennium haze. This was still a year before a high-school kid named LeBron James decided to skip college and take his talents to the…
