Dos reyes
Comic legend Paul Rodriguez talks racism and immigration; up-and-comer Johnny Sanchez on Scarface, cultural translation, and getting a job (all funnier than it sounds) PAUL RODRIGUEZ I heard you started out wanting to be a lawyer. Yeah … as a kid I wanted to be Chavez’s right hand man … working for the UFW. You…
All Ears
Quite possibly the coolest Texas-related item hitting record stores this summer is from a group that hasn’t existed for decades, started off as a cover band, and featured musicians whose biggest between-gig concern wasn’t paying the rent, but passing Algebra. Texas Thunder Soul, released by Now Again Records, anthologizes six years in the life of…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Love in a time of war
In the spring of 2003, 23-year-old peace activist Rachel Corrie left Olympia, Washington, for Rafah, a community in the Gaza Strip, to join the International Solidarity Movement in supporting Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation. At the time, ISM’s “direct action” strategy included physically positioning foreign volunteers between Israeli Defense Forces bulldozers and Palestinian…
Dos reyes
Comedian Paul Rodriguez confronts the café-con-leche future. Comic legend Paul Rodriguez talks racism and immigration; up-and-comer Johnny Sanchez on Scarface, cultural translation, and getting a job (all funnier than it sounds) PAUL RODRIGUEZ The Crown Royal Latin Kings of Comedy Tour: Paul Rodriguez, Luke Torres, Johnny Sanchez, Dennis Gaxiola 7pm Fri, Sep 29 $25-45 San…
All Ears
The Kashmere Stage Band in Osaka, Japan. Quite possibly the coolest Texas-related item hitting record stores this summer is from a group that hasn’t existed for decades, started off as a cover band, and featured musicians whose biggest between-gig concern wasn’t paying the rent, but passing Algebra. Texas Thunder Soul, released by Now Again Records,…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Tanto Toronto!
Our critic wraps up 10 jam-packed days at this year’s (particularly political) Toronto International Film Festival The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, which overlapped the fifth anniversary of September 11 (back in 2001, the American press here were stranded by the air-traffic lockdown), had plenty of politics on its mind. From somber Bush-damning documentaries (Spike…
The Art Capades
Our critic trumps fate to spend a few magical moments in UTSA’s Sound Gallery Dance faster, I said! My experience at UTSA’s Sound Gallery: de Ushuaia a San Antonio was a bit like the “speed golf” scene in The Houseguest. (If you haven’t seen it, just imagine playing 18 holes in 20 minutes). You might…
Sound and the Fury
A week on the scene COME BACK JONNY Three years ago, Jonny Lang brought his rock- and soul-tinged blues to Detroit and packed an aging theater with fans who were clamoring for some of the infamous guitar work that had made him a sensation when he released Lie to Me at the ridiculously young age…
Faces of Kev
“I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos? Nary a year has gone by in which your face, as kind…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Everybody poops
Jackass: Number Two is the epitome of a guilty pleasure — emphasis on “pleasure.” (Oh, and equal emphasis on “guilty.”) Jackass: Number Two Dir. Jeff Tremaine; writ. Sean Cliver, Preston Lacy; feat. Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Ehren McGhehey, Jason Acuña, Dave England (R) It’s only about five minutes or…
The Art Capades
One of Betty Bastidas’s photos of Colombian hip-hop, on view at the UTSA Downtown Gallery through Saturday. Our critic trumps fate to spend a few magical moments in UTSA’s Sound Gallery Dance faster, I said! My experience at UTSA’s Sound Gallery: de Ushuaia a San Antonio was a bit like the “speed golf” scene in…
Sound and the Fury
COME BACK JONNY Three years ago, Jonny Lang brought his rock- and soul-tinged blues to Detroit and packed an aging theater with fans who were clamoring for some of the infamous guitar work that had made him a sensation when he released Lie to Me at the ridiculously young age of 15. Who, after all,…
The Saints want to be your new (football) gods
Who dat? It’s New Orleans, making a run at becoming America’s new favorite team When Spike Lee (ambassador for New York’s Bedford Stuyvesant), Bono (from Ireland, but tied up in talking African debt relief), that Green Day guy with the perpetually bad hair (from northern California), and Snoop Dogg (the L.B.C — the “c” stands…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Dream Works
Michel Gondry’s fantastical The Science of Sleep is a bit on the style-over-substance side, but that’s precisely where the fun lies The Science of Sleep Dir. and writ. Michel Gondry; feat. Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Emma de Caunes, Aurélia Petit (R) Those of us who swooned over Eternal Sunshine of the…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Guest Column
Delete DOPA Terrorists. Pedophiles. Liquids. The politics of fear define this pivotal moment in history. Appeals to fear are effective for one simple reason: Our world is terrifying. Each day brings news of another senseless act of violence. Planes fly into skyscrapers. Someone will eventually deploy a nuclear or biological weapon in a major world…
Game Theory
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1994 I was buried waist-deep in a stack of un-graded papers when my computer chirped with an unusual invitation from a former student. He told me that singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton was headlining a concert in Second Life to promote the magazine PopSci and the nonprofit group Creative Commons. Intrigued…
Dream Works
Gael García Bernal navigates the formidable vagaries of Michel Gondry’s imagination in The Science of Sleep. Michel Gondry’s fantastical The Science of Sleep is a bit on the style-over-substance side, but that’s precisely where the fun lies The Science of Sleep Dir. and writ. Michel Gondry; feat. Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou,…
Game Theory
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1994 I was buried waist-deep in a stack of un-graded papers when my computer chirped with an unusual invitation from a former student. He told me that singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton was headlining a concert in Second Life to promote the magazine PopSci and the nonprofit group Creative Commons. Intrigued…
The Man from Kazakhstan
His name is Borat: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh TV reporter character causes controversy. Everything that Borat Sagdiyev does is designed to confuse and offend. A fictional creation of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Ali G, Borat presents himself as a Kazakh TV reporter attempting to make sense of American mainstays such as baseball,…
Achtung, baby
Old Heidelberg may not be the place to start a love affair with Rhineland cuisine Old Heidelberg Restaurant 6714 San Pedro 822-7866 11am-2:30pm & 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat; 5-9pm Sun Credit cards Price range: $9.50-12.95 Bathrooms not accessible San Antonio’s German heritage is tangible in the 19th-century architecture that gives the city much of its historic character.…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
Game Theory
Aaron Delwiche, right, interviews SA-based Adri Saarien/Adrienne Haik, who helped plan the Second Life Coulton concert. Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1994 I was buried waist-deep in a stack of un-graded papers when my computer chirped with an unusual invitation from a former student. He told me that singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton was headlining a…
Illustrated ballots, please
“I’m better-looking,” says Carlos Uresti, right, who is running in State Senate District 19. Brother Albert will also appear on the ballot in the hotly contested race for U.S. House District 23. The Uresti clan bank on a surname, confusion, in Bonilla runoff It was the year of ice-skater Nancy Kerrigan’s assaulted knee, Kurt Cobain’s…
Meditative meals in the Hill Country
Our writer discovers Thoughtful Travel at Fredericksburg’s Natural Palate Hoffman Haus Bed and Breakfast and The Natural Palate Cooking School 608 East Creek Street Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (800) 899-1672 Hoffmanhaus.com Also recommended to those curious and hungry in Fredericksburg: Cuvee Wine Market and Bistro 342 W. Main Street (830) 990-1600 Cuveewine.net Chef Jaime Pacheco hand-picks…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
All You Can Eat
News and notes from the San Antonio food scene Polka ,salt, and beer — what more could a hungry vagabond possibly ask for? Come and celebrate the Alamo City’s unofficial beverage at the First Annual AleFest, sponsored by the Current, Budweiser, and the Alamo Drafthouse. With 50 different micro and boutique beers to wash down…
Love in a time of war
In the spring of 2003, 23-year-old peace activist Rachel Corrie left Olympia, Washington, for Rafah, a community in the Gaza Strip, to join the International Solidarity Movement in supporting Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation. At the time, ISM’s “direct action” strategy included physically positioning foreign volunteers between Israeli Defense Forces bulldozers and Palestinian…
SPA
How Spoon stripped down its sound and made a bigger noise Spoon with Sons of Hercules 9pm Fri, Sep 29 $12 White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 A few months ago, Britt Daniel did something that made him uncomfortable. He went back and listened to two nearly-decade-old records made by his band Spoon for…
Faces of Kev
I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos? Nary a year has gone by in which your face, as kind and warm as a golden retriever’s, has been denied us onscreen. You graced us in real life on August 11, when you returned to Dyersville, Iowa (for the first…
All You Can Eat
News and notes from the San Antonio food scene Polka ,salt, and beer — what more could a hungry vagabond possibly ask for? Come and celebrate the Alamo City’s unofficial beverage at the First Annual AleFest, sponsored by the Current, Budweiser, and the Alamo Drafthouse. With 50 different micro and boutique beers to wash down…
South Texas Cinema
News from the greater SA film industry Last month around this time, SA filmmaker Pablo Veliz (who, at 22, saw his first picture La Tragedia de Macario win acceptance to Sundance ’06 — and still isn’t old enough to legally rent a car some places, the whippersnapper) was nearing the end of production on his…
SPA
How Spoon stripped down its sound and made a bigger noise Spoon with Sons of Hercules 9pm Fri, Sep 29 $12 White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 A few months ago, Britt Daniel did something that made him uncomfortable. He went back and listened to two nearly-decade-old records made by his band Spoon for…
Faces of Kev
I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos? Nary a year has gone by in which your face, as kind and warm as a golden retriever’s, has been denied us onscreen. You graced us in real life on August 11, when you returned to Dyersville, Iowa (for the first…
Faces of Kev
I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos? Nary a year has gone by in which your face, as kind and warm as a golden retriever’s, has been denied us onscreen. You graced us in real life on August 11, when you returned to Dyersville, Iowa (for the first…
Achtung, baby
The Old Heidelberg dining room: see if you can spot the steins (or the capers). Old Heidelberg may not be the place to start a love affair with Rhineland cuisine Old Heidelberg Restaurant 6714 San Pedro 822-7866 11am-2:30pm & 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat; 5-9pm Sun Credit cards Price range: $9.50-12.95 Bathrooms not accessible San Antonio’s German heritage…
Tanto Toronto!
Kate Winslet in The Little Children. Our critic wraps up 10 jam-packed days at this year’s (particularly political) Toronto International Film Festival The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, which overlapped the fifth anniversary of September 11 (back in 2001, the American press here were stranded by the air-traffic lockdown), had plenty of politics on its…
To be or not to be … mestizo
Santos’s work weaves through the cultural minefield In his 1943 treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre uses vignettes to explain the individual’s estrangement from the world. The great irony of existentialist writing, he reveals, is the presentation of a protagonist absorbed with being alone even as he is surrounded by multitudes. This…
SPA
His mathematical mind: Britt Daniel and Spoon will bring their brand of lean, spacious, yet catchy rock to the White Rabbit on Friday, September 29. How Spoon stripped down its sound and made a bigger noise Spoon with Sons of Hercules 9pm Fri, Sep 29 $12 White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 A few…
Faces of Kev
I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos? Nary a year has gone by in which your face, as kind and warm as a golden retriever’s, has been denied us onscreen. You graced us in real life on August 11, when you returned to Dyersville, Iowa (for the first…
To be or not to be … mestizo
Santos’s work weaves through the cultural minefield In his 1943 treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre uses vignettes to explain the individual’s estrangement from the world. The great irony of existentialist writing, he reveals, is the presentation of a protagonist absorbed with being alone even as he is surrounded by multitudes. This…
Meditative meals in the Hill Country
Our writer discovers Thoughtful Travel at Fredericksburg’s Natural Palate Hoffman Haus Bed and Breakfast and The Natural Palate Cooking School 608 East Creek Street Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (800) 899-1672 Hoffmanhaus.com Also recommended to those curious and hungry in Fredericksburg: Cuvee Wine Market and Bistro 342 W. Main Street (830) 990-1600 Cuveewine.net Chef Jaime Pacheco hand-picks…
Armchair Cinephile: The Cine-Mini
John DeFore on this week’s recommended DVDs The Big Animal (Milestone): Actor Jerzy Stuhr, vet of numerous Krzysztof Kieslowski films, gets behind the camera to direct one of his late mentor’s unfilmed screenplays. The Dead Zone (Paramount): Chris Walken as a man made psychic by an auto accident, Marty Sheen as a decidely un-Jed Bartlet…
Dos reyes
Comic legend Paul Rodriguez talks racism and immigration; up-and-comer Johnny Sanchez on Scarface, cultural translation, and getting a job (all funnier than it sounds) PAUL RODRIGUEZ The Crown Royal Latin Kings of Comedy Tour: Paul Rodriguez, Luke Torres, Johnny Sanchez, Dennis Gaxiola 7pm Fri, Sep 29 $25-45 San Antonio Municipal Auditorium 100 Auditorium Cir. 207-8511…
Aural Pleasure – Album Reviews
GOING DUTCH If Gwen Stefani is pop’s Judy Holliday and Jessica Simpson is Marilyn Monroe, Fergie is Jayne Mansfield. Desperate for attention (even by pop-star standards) and grizzled enough to know that her teen-appeal clock is ticking rapidly, the Black Eyed Peas front woman is willing to out-raunch the competition, stoop to the crassest depths,…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
Counterpoint
A modest proposal: Let’s declare war! As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter — and a lasting lesson — from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser and he was a Vietnam-era Republican senator from Vermont named George Aiken. I…
Meditative meals in the Hill Country
Our writer discovers Thoughtful Travel at Fredericksburg’s Natural Palate Hoffman Haus Bed and Breakfast and The Natural Palate Cooking School 608 East Creek Street Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (800) 899-1672 Hoffmanhaus.com Also recommended to those curious and hungry in Fredericksburg: Cuvee Wine Market and Bistro 342 W. Main Street (830) 990-1600 Cuveewine.net Chef Jaime Pacheco hand-picks…
That’s a Wrap
Snap judgments about this week’s premieres Let’s see: An arthouse piece, a Kevin Costner actioner, another CGI fur-fest, and what looks like an hour-and-a-half of (comparably) mild nut-shots and dick jokes. Looks like another week on top for Jackass 2 (review, pg. 23). The Guardian provides the first half of this weekend’s Ashton Kutcher double-shot…
Dos reyes
Comedian Paul Rodriguez confronts the café-con-leche future. Comic legend Paul Rodriguez talks racism and immigration; up-and-comer Johnny Sanchez on Scarface, cultural translation, and getting a job (all funnier than it sounds) PAUL RODRIGUEZ The Crown Royal Latin Kings of Comedy Tour: Paul Rodriguez, Luke Torres, Johnny Sanchez, Dennis Gaxiola 7pm Fri, Sep 29 $25-45 San…
Aural Pleasure – Album Reviews
GOING DUTCH If Gwen Stefani is pop’s Judy Holliday and Jessica Simpson is Marilyn Monroe, Fergie is Jayne Mansfield. Desperate for attention (even by pop-star standards) and grizzled enough to know that her teen-appeal clock is ticking rapidly, the Black Eyed Peas front woman is willing to out-raunch the competition, stoop to the crassest depths,…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
To be or not to be … mestizo
In his 1943 treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre uses vignettes to explain the individual’s estrangement from the world. The great irony of existentialist writing, he reveals, is the presentation of a protagonist absorbed with being alone even as he is surrounded by multitudes. This preoccupation with existence and nonexistence, life and…
Meditative meals in the Hill Country
Our writer discovers Thoughtful Travel at Fredericksburg’s Natural Palate Hoffman Haus Bed and Breakfast and The Natural Palate Cooking School 608 East Creek Street Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (800) 899-1672 Hoffmanhaus.com Also recommended to those curious and hungry in Fredericksburg: Cuvee Wine Market and Bistro 342 W. Main Street (830) 990-1600 Cuveewine.net Chef Jaime Pacheco hand-picks…
Everybody poops
Jackass: Number Two is the epitome of a guilty pleasure — emphasis on “pleasure.” (Oh, and equal emphasis on “guilty.”) Jackass: Number Two Dir. Jeff Tremaine; writ. Sean Cliver, Preston Lacy; feat. Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Ehren McGhehey, Jason Acuña, Dave England (R) It’s only about five minutes or…
Dos reyes
Comedian Paul Rodriguez confronts the café-con-leche future. Comic legend Paul Rodriguez talks racism and immigration; up-and-comer Johnny Sanchez on Scarface, cultural translation, and getting a job (all funnier than it sounds) PAUL RODRIGUEZ The Crown Royal Latin Kings of Comedy Tour: Paul Rodriguez, Luke Torres, Johnny Sanchez, Dennis Gaxiola 7pm Fri, Sep 29 $25-45 San…
All Ears
Quite possibly the coolest Texas-related item hitting record stores this summer is from a group that hasn’t existed for decades, started off as a cover band, and featured musicians whose biggest between-gig concern wasn’t paying the rent, but passing Algebra. Texas Thunder Soul, released by Now Again Records, anthologizes six years in the life of…
Faces of Kev
An encyclopedia of the Cos (not that one), from Bodyguard to Guardian “I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest.” — Ben Randall (Kevin Costner), The Guardian I’ll bet you wish you still had your webbed feet sometimes, don’t you, K-Cos?…
counterpoint
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter — and a lasting lesson — from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser and he was a Vietnam-era Republican senator from Vermont named George Aiken. I had just written a newspaper article…
Meditative meals in the Hill Country
The great room at Haufman Haus in Fredericksburg, where the author enjoyed “sumptuous” eggs Benedict. Our writer discovers Thoughtful Travel at Fredericksburg’s Natural Palate Hoffman Haus Bed and Breakfast and The Natural Palate Cooking School 608 East Creek Street Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (800) 899-1672 Hoffmanhaus.com Also recommended to those curious and hungry in Fredericksburg: Cuvee…
Everybody poops
Jackass: Number Two is the epitome of a guilty pleasure — emphasis on “pleasure.” (Oh, and equal emphasis on “guilty.”) Jackass: Number Two Dir. Jeff Tremaine; writ. Sean Cliver, Preston Lacy; feat. Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Ehren McGhehey, Jason Acuña, Dave England (R) It’s only about five minutes or…
The Art Capades
Our critic trumps fate to spend a few magical moments in UTSA’s Sound Gallery Dance faster, I said! My experience at UTSA’s Sound Gallery: de Ushuaia a San Antonio was a bit like the “speed golf” scene in The Houseguest. (If you haven’t seen it, just imagine playing 18 holes in 20 minutes). You might…
All Ears
The Kashmere Stage Band in Osaka, Japan. Quite possibly the coolest Texas-related item hitting record stores this summer is from a group that hasn’t existed for decades, started off as a cover band, and featured musicians whose biggest between-gig concern wasn’t paying the rent, but passing Algebra. Texas Thunder Soul, released by Now Again Records,…
To be or not to be … mestizo
Santos’s work weaves through the cultural minefield In his 1943 treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre uses vignettes to explain the individual’s estrangement from the world. The great irony of existentialist writing, he reveals, is the presentation of a protagonist absorbed with being alone even as he is surrounded by multitudes. This…
counterpoint
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter — and a lasting lesson — from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser and he was a Vietnam-era Republican senator from Vermont named George Aiken. I had just written a newspaper article…
SPA
His mathematical mind: Britt Daniel and Spoon will bring their brand of lean, spacious, yet catchy rock to the White Rabbit on Friday, September 29. How Spoon stripped down its sound and made a bigger noise Spoon with Sons of Hercules 9pm Fri, Sep 29 $12 White Rabbit 2410 N. St. Mary’s 737-2221 A few…
Everybody poops
“Dude, this sucks! … Uh, literally.” Steve-O takes a leech to the eyeball in Jackass: Number Two. Jackass: Number Two is the epitome of a guilty pleasure — emphasis on “pleasure.” (Oh, and equal emphasis on “guilty.”) Jackass: Number Two Dir. Jeff Tremaine; writ. Sean Cliver, Preston Lacy; feat. Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris…
The Art Capades
One of Betty Bastidas’s photos of Colombian hip-hop, on view at the UTSA Downtown Gallery through Saturday. Our critic trumps fate to spend a few magical moments in UTSA’s Sound Gallery Dance faster, I said! My experience at UTSA’s Sound Gallery: de Ushuaia a San Antonio was a bit like the “speed golf” scene in…
The Man from Kazakhstan
Everything that Borat Sagdiyev does is designed to confuse and offend. A fictional creation of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Ali G, Borat presents himself as a Kazakh TV reporter attempting to make sense of American mainstays such as baseball, rodeos, and honky-tonks. Once he’s earned his subjects’ trust, he inevitably shocks them…
Aural Pleasure – Album Reviews
The Dutchess Fergie (A&M) GOING DUTCH If Gwen Stefani is pop’s Judy Holliday and Jessica Simpson is Marilyn Monroe, Fergie is Jayne Mansfield. Desperate for attention (even by pop-star standards) and grizzled enough to know that her teen-appeal clock is ticking rapidly, the Black Eyed Peas front woman is willing to out-raunch the competition, stoop…
To be or not to be … mestizo
Santos’s work weaves through the cultural minefield In his 1943 treatise on existentialism, Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre uses vignettes to explain the individual’s estrangement from the world. The great irony of existentialist writing, he reveals, is the presentation of a protagonist absorbed with being alone even as he is surrounded by multitudes. This…
Aural Pleasure – Album Reviews
The Dutchess Fergie (A&M) GOING DUTCH If Gwen Stefani is pop’s Judy Holliday and Jessica Simpson is Marilyn Monroe, Fergie is Jayne Mansfield. Desperate for attention (even by pop-star standards) and grizzled enough to know that her teen-appeal clock is ticking rapidly, the Black Eyed Peas front woman is willing to out-raunch the competition, stoop…
Dream Works
Gael García Bernal navigates the formidable vagaries of Michel Gondry’s imagination in The Science of Sleep. Michel Gondry’s fantastical The Science of Sleep is a bit on the style-over-substance side, but that’s precisely where the fun lies The Science of Sleep Dir. and writ. Michel Gondry; feat. Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou,…
The Green Goddess &ndash Changing the world one shopper at a time
Thrift-store bonanza In she walks and no one can take their eyes off of her. This vision, nay goddess, whose tiny feet hardly grace the floor, certainly she is not of this world. She pauses to speak, and with great poise she says, “85 dolla make me holla”! It’s true; you can buy cheap and…
Illustrated ballots, please
The Uresti clan bank on a surname, confusion, in Bonilla runoff It was the year of ice-skater Nancy Kerrigan’s assaulted knee, Kurt Cobain’s suicide, Rwandan genocide, Whitewater investigations, the O.J. Simpson car chase, and, in an unparalleled sunny addendum to the 1994 almanac, South Africa’s first ever multiracial election. And if there was ever an…
