5 Things You Have to do This Week
Monday 10/13 Zadie Smith Zadie Smith once said, “That’s all people want from fiction, right? The feeling of it being necessary. Most of the things we read feel so fundamentally unnecessary.” Smith brings these ideas and her own vital writing to San Antonio for “An Evening with Zadie Smith, a Reading with Commentary.” Since her…
Carl’s Jr.’s New Location: Giveaways are coming
You eat burgers like this, don’t you? Source: Carl’s Jr Facebook https://www.facebook.com/carlsjr Fast-food enthusiasts, your golden ticket may have finally come in. Carl’s Jr., the company that taught us that Paris Hilton is a misunderstood billionaire heiress whose goal in life is to eat burgers while washing cars, is opening its 13th San Antonio location…
SA Food Pics: 11 pics of SA’s culinary diversity
San Antonio’s food scene is booming and there’s definitely no shortage of diversity when it comes to what you can eat. This week we’re showing the wide range of culinary options from Fujiya Japanese Garden (9030 Wurzbach) to Tucker’s Kozy Korner (1338 E Houston) through your #safoodpics. As always, be sure to share what you’re eating…
Wendy Davis Doubles Down on Wheelchair Ad Message
State Senator Wendy Davis speaks at a press conference in Forth Worth, Texas, on Monday, October 13, 2014. In a Monday morning press conference, State Senator Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for Texas Governor, doubled down on the message of a campaign ad that lead to sharp criticism across the media this past weekend. The…
Fort Hood Soldiers Accused Of Human Smuggling
Thursday marked arrest of three United States soldiers whom purportedly capacitated the illegal immigration of several undocumented persons across the Mexican border. The three soldiers–identified by U.S. immigration officials as Eric Rodriguez, 20, Brandon Robbins, 20, and Christopher Wix, 21–were taken into custody at the Fort Hood Army post in Central Texas while dressed in…
3 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on this Week
(Via) Friday, October 10: What’s more party than an Art Party at the San Antonio Museum of Art? Stop in for a quick appetizers, cocktails, chit chat and music by D. T. Buffkin, while learning about the history of the Lone Star Brewery. $10 for nonmembers, free for members, 200 W Jones, (210) 978-8100, samuseum.org.…
Shot of the Week: Alien Secretion
It may not officially be Halloween yet, but like the creepy guy down the street who puts out Christmas decorations in September, I like to start the festivities a little early. Pre-drink anyone? This week’s shot is a haunting little concoction known as the Alien Secretion. It looks a little out of this world, but…
10 People You Meet While Tailgating
Four ‘Oh Yeahs’ Tailgate at UTSA season opener. Photo by Linda Romero. San Antonio loves some football, and nothing is better than spending the day getting rowdy with the UTSA Roadrunners. As an avid lover of football, beer, and BBQ, I think we need to throw some attention to the tailgating that’s gonna go down…
Jan Hooks Helped Us Remember the Alamo
Comedienne Jan Hooks in ‘Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.’ Comedic actress Jan Hooks passed away yesterday at the age of 57 of an undisclosed illness. Recognized for her trademark wide smile and spirited personality, she’s best known from her time spent on SNL from 1986 to 1991, a period that revived a program on the brink…
Abortion Access in Texas Receives Another Blow
Whole Woman’s Health San Antonio is the city’s only ambulatory surgical center licensed to perform abortions under House Bill 2. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals announced mid-day Thursday it would not reconsider a decision made earlier this spring to uphold two provisions of Texas’ sweeping abortion law. In dealing another blow to abortion access…
Austin City Limits Festival Weekend Two Preview
Photo by Jaime Monzon You’re waiting it out, you thought to yourself. The blogs, and newspapers, and bragging tweets from your friends who went up to Austin for the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival all reported on the very cool sets from the likes of the reunited OutKast, a rejuvenated Interpol,…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 10/9 “Either or, Or Both” Just as we were wondering what to get the artist-couple that’s already got everything from clear Plexiglass birdhouses to expertly upholstered basketball backboards, Olmos Park gallerist Patricia Ruiz-Healy steps up to the plate with “Either or, Or Both,” an exhibition pairing multi-tasking SA-based duo Nate Cassie and Ethel Shipton.…
3 Must-see Artists at Chalk It Up This Weekend
Students created chalk art today on the Artpace rooftop during a press event promotion Chalk It Up. Photo by Kevin Femmel Artpace’s 11th annual Chalk It Up will make downtown San Antonio significantly more colorful this weekend by bringing over 20,000 would-be artists of all ages and unleashing their creativity through chalk on the streets.…
Live and Local: Ringo Starr at the Tobin
Photo Credit: Vanessa Sanchez There is a distinct something different when hearing a track played on the radio versus a live version performed by passionate veterans, like those in the Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band. The difference is a vacancy of filters resulting in raw emotion. Last night at the Tobin Center, there weren’t any crazy special…
Peace in the Plaza Combats Violence Against Children
George Garza of Pop Pistol, pictured left (Photo credit: Josh Huskin) “Raising Our Future, Not Our Hand” is the motto for Peace In The Plaza, out to end violence against children today and end the cycle for future generations. Presented by the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, the Main Plaza Conservancy and Dreamland Collective, Peace in the Plaza…
Dan Patrick Warns of ISIS Terrorists in Latest Ad
About a month before Election Day, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Dan Patrick has released his latest ad, in which he attacks his Democratic opponent Leticia Van de Putte and warns us that the terrorists are coming. “While ISIS terrorists threaten to cross our border and kill Americans, my opponent falsely attacks me to hide her…
First Course: SA Beer Festival and jazz brunch with Culinaria
Pairing wine and a fabulous four-course dinner is one of the best nights you will ever have. Thankfully, The Palm (233 E Houston). will be hosting a wine dinner series with Ceretto, a respected wine producer from Piedmont. This gorgeous dinner is happening Thursday, October 9 so RSVP for this event ASAP. The cost to…
Danny Green Makes Holocaust Gaffe on Facebook
How do you balance the care-free nature of a spontaneous vacation selfie with the somber recognition of the systematic genocide that claimed the lives of millions of Jews? You don’t. Just ask Danny Green. The San Antonio Spurs guard, who is currently in Germany with the team for an exhibition game against Alba Berlin, quickly…
New Angles, More Tragedy in ‘Dracula Untold’
Untold? Really? How can that be? We’ve been telling Dracula stories for more than a century. There are literally hundreds of movies featuring the Transylvanian bloodsucker (and that’s not counting all the films about vampires who aren’t named Dracula). How can there possibly be anything yet untold about him? Now, I haven’t seen all those previous…
Adam Carolla on Mangria, Hillary Clinton and WD-40
Comedian Adam Carolla is a busy man. When he’s not making movies and reality TV shows or writing books or hosting the most downloaded podcast in the world, he enjoys interacting with loyal fans. He’ll be in town October 10 for a live podcast. Before the show, Carolla will visit Spec’s (11751 Bandera Road) at…
Filling Station Tap Room’s No-Frills Shop
A former colleague would often say, “More is more.” This applied to everything from accessories to Fiesta decor, and it’s the mindset behind loads of tap-filled joints that own that more the merrier mantra. That’s not the case at the wee Filling Station Tap Room. The Tap Room replaced its predecessor The Filling Station (now…
Cocktail Know-How: Heading South With Pisco Sours
Last month I kicked this column off with an American throwback. I took a walk through pre- and post-Prohibition whiskey stardom, profiling a cocktail that is a part of the history of American nightlife. This month, however, is going to have a little international flair. I’m sticking with a revival of bitters-infused cocktails and profiling…
Kohinoor Summits With K2
Spoiler alert: Most of my reviews follow a similar pattern. There’s a brief bit of history, I give a rundown of the decor, the menu and then I indulge you in whatever bites I may have sampled throughout both my visits. I often find a particularly good dish that I feel compelled to recommend to…
Lunchtime Snob: Bolner’s Meat Market
When you want to learn more about cabrito, you go straight to one of the most prolific and longtime meat suppliers in the area. It also works out that it was close to lunchtime, and I had a hankering for brisket—a classic case of two birds, one stone, indeed. For those unfamiliar with Southtown’s go-to…
Bakery Lorraine Opens and Melting Point Food Truck Needs Your Vote
Our favorite bakery, and yours, if yearly Best of San Antonio polls are to be believed, moved into its bigger, Pearlier home last week. Bakery Lorraine, owned by partners Jeremy Mandrell, Anne Ng and entrepreneur Charlie Biedenharn, relocated from its original house-turned-bakery spot to a 2,400-square-foot space inside the Pearl complex at 306 Pearl Pkwy,…
Wild Party Throws Long-awaited Bash for ‘Phantom Pop’
Wild Party’s bag of melodic tricks is Santa-huge. Loaded with vocal licks and memory worm hooks, the parcel must bulge out of the tour van’s back door in the way St. Nick’s parcel threatens to fall from his sleigh on rough turns. Take “When I Get Older,” the opening cut from Wild Party’s first album…
Take Five: The artists who define jazz singer Dianne Reeves
With regards to Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones, no one has made as strong a case as the preeminent jazz diva of the modern jazz era as Dianne Reeves, aptly steering the genre’s current course between traditional and crossover styles. With her latest album, February’s Beautiful Life, Reeves cast a wide net of collaborators and…
Texas Is Funny label drops new EPs from Vetter Kids and Ex-Breathers
With nods from Daytrotter, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Brooklyn Vegan and other music nerd sites, Texas Is Funny has had a bitchin’ summer on the hype circuit. And the online love is not without merit: The SA label’s new releases from Ex-Breathers (out October 7) and Vetter Kids (October 14) are some of the best…
Better Daughter: The progression of Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis was 23 years old when her influential indie rock group Rilo Kiley released their first EP in ’99, the quirky and uneven, but ultimately promising Initial Friend. With its confessional, wry lyrics and insular, lo-fi bedroom aesthetic, Friend hit home for fans of growingly popular indie acts like Death Cab for Cutie and…
Shopping for a Future at La Villita
When he retired as a sheet-metal worker, Melvillyn Adame’s father opened Villita Stained Glass in the historic arts village of La Villita in 1982. The family occupied two other buildings in the downtown historic district before they moved into the store’s current location in building 1 near the west entrance, complete with a studio and…
Civil Rights: Woman who had miscarriage sues SAPD, City
A little more than two years ago, as Texans were celebrating the Fourth of July, Destiny Annmarie Rios was walking to her grandmother’s house on Culebra Road. A police officer stopped her near 27th Street just before 6 p.m. Rios asked San Antonio Police Department Officer Travis Reich why she was being stopped. Reich allegedly told…
Glitter Political: For Renée McElhaney, constitutional law is a piece of cake
Renée McElhaney’s ability to “take really deep concepts of the law and turn them into something that a regular person can understand”—developed and mastered through her experience as a school teacher—has brought her a fair share of praise and criticism. In fact, she’s heard that some political chismoleros have branded her “a cheerleader.” Maybe it’s…
Savage Love: Foreign Affairs
I’m 25, I’m virgin, and I find it quite difficult to relate with girls. My main problem is I can’t accept my sexuality. I’m into fetish SM. But it seems like there are two parts of me. The first part of me wants to lick women’s feet and be humiliated. The second part of me…
Mayoral Horse Race
Last week, State Rep. Mike Villarreal reached a fundraising goal and secured an important endorsement in his bid to be the next mayor of San Antonio. “We raised $50,000 associated with our first fundraiser,” Villarreal said of the event, which pushed his campaign over a $200,000 goal. “More than 200 people have donated to our campaign,”…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Situation #1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha! This diversion can’t slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical sword!” And then brandish a few charismatic swipes of your sword to prove that you mean business. Situation #2: If angst and worry are preventing…
Glass Menagerie: Get familiar with SA’s art glass scene
Hot, grueling and downright scary, the work in a glass studio seems like horror at every turn. The molten material could disfigure or kill a person, start a fire or cause bystanders to burst into screaming flames (this is maybe a rare-to-nonexistent occurrence, but I can’t stop imagining it), the volatile half-born objects could explode…
‘Kill the Messenger’ Misses Impact of Gary Webb’s CIA Crack Scoop
The most overused narrative crutch in the last decade is the use of news footage, whether real or faked, to artificially advance the story and fill in blanks that the writer refused to bother with. It’s the modern-day equivalent of a newsie shouting out headlines directly pertaining to the protagonist or a whirling newspaper hurtling towards…
Postmodern Concepts Collide in Cinnabar’s ‘Momentary Realities’
The most impressive image in “Momentary Realities” at Cinnabar is one of the simplest. In August Muth’s Enfold, a three-dimensional yellow square floats about six inches in front of a blue-green background. You can pass your hand through the square, and you don’t need special glasses to see this large-scale, single-beam hologram. Beam me up,…
