Mount Tapas
Carmens de la Calle Café peaks with abundant wine, food, and song
HIGH SCHOOL NON-CONFIDENTIAL
Critics of the provision in the No Child Left Behind Act argue that allowing recruiters additional access to students “fosters a culture of violence” and militarizates high schools. Photo by Mark Greenberg Schools must allow military recruiters to mine student information lists – or risk losing federal funding In a speech delivered last January,…
THE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY
The Woodlawn Theatre, one of the few buildings in the Deco District that has maintained its original exterior, harkens back to another time It no longer shows movies, and is vacant. Photo by Mark Greenberg The dream of revitalizing the Deco District Liquor, hairdos, diner food, groceries: You can still buy many of the…
BRING ME THE HEAD OF PANCHO VILLA
Antonio Banderas in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself Courtesy photo The Mexican revolutionary is shown in whiteface yet again HBO has taken a little-known historical event and blown it beyond recognition in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, which premieres on HBO Cable Network at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 7. The film…
FORGOTTEN VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Regardless of the place, soldiers’ experiences remain the same: They enter a bewildering world of war and when they return to civilian life, are expected to be the same as when they left. Yet, rarely is that the case. Photo by Mark Greenberg Will America snub the vets of the Iraqi war as it…
DESOLATION ROW
Bob Dylan is joined by John Goodman and Luke Wilson in Masked and Anonymous. Courtesy photo Bob Dylan’s latest cinematic indulgence is tangled up in clues that lead nowhere He always told us the times were changin’, but even Bob Dylan probably wasn’t imagining they would get this weird: Power has changed hands, and…
VET PARADE
Some veterans navigated the VFW convention on electric scooters; others leaned on canes, and many still stood straight and strong. Photo by Mark Greenberg VFW ‘comrades’ invade Alamo City for national convention Veterans who returned home from fighting in the Spanish-American War in 1898 were dismayed to find the United States government had no…
ARRIVING AT THE AGE OF GRIEF
Dana (Hope Davis) and Dave (Campbell Scott) share a ride on a bike in The Secret Lives of Dentists. Courtesy photo ‘The Secret Lives of Dentists’ is a revealing examination of conjugal cavities Drs. David and Dana Hurst, the dentists on whose secret lives director Alan Rudolph performs root canal surgery, have been husband…
HEAVEN ON THE VERANDA
Through arson, delinquent taxes, and missing money, VFW Post 76 has resurrected itself to become a popular hangout for VFW members and the public. Photo by Mark Greenberg Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76 is the oldest ‘home’ in Texas When the state commander of the Wisconsin Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars…
Armchair Cinephile
THE FIRST, THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH PICTURE SHOWS Targets (Paramount) What’s Up, Doc? (Warner Bros.) Paper Moon (Paramount) Daisy Miller (Paramount) Laurel & Hardy (Hallmark) Little Rascals (Hallmark) Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who now talks about movies more than he makes them, is rarely able to go 10 minutes in an interview without dropping the…
PLASTIC ONO MAN
Yoko ‘Come Together’ exhibit of John Lennon’s artwork reflects Yoko Ono’s effort to keep his memory alive One of the most revealing moments in the very public relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono involved a brief, wordless exchange that few people noticed. It was December 1968, and Lennon had been invited to perform…
RECENT REVIEWS
Buffalo Soldiers Dir. Gregor Jordan; writ. Eric Weiss, et al.; feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Peña (R) A portrait of the peacetime Army as a den of thieves, Buffalo Soldiers is not so much political as opportunistic, like the scoundrel characters of its 317th Supply Battalion stationed outside…
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2003
A montage from Reuben Njaa’s “Digital Montages,” which opens from 6-8 p.m. September 4 at Galeria Ortíz/Market Square Art Space (102 Concho, 225-0731). FotoSeptiembre 2003 stretches from San Antonio to Mexico City, with participating galleries in Kerrville, Boerne, Rebecca Creek, New Braunfels, San Marcos, and Austin. Locally, more than 50 self-curated venues display conventional…
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
WINGS OF DESIRE Dir. Wim Wenders; writ. Peter Handke, Wim Wenders; feat. Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk (PG-13) The meditative, elegiac Wings of Desire was the capper to a string of brilliant work by German filmmaker Wenders, the transition point between films that were largely realistic and interested in the…
ARTIFACTS
Alicia Wagner Calzada’s “Clear Hopes/Claras Esperanzas,” debuts from 5-7p.m. September 8 at the City of San Antonio International Center (203 S. St. Mary’s, 231-8000). Courtesy photo News and notes from the San Antonio art scene On First Friday, September 5, San Angel Folk Art (110 Blue Star, 226-6688) will unveil new work by San…
MILLER’S CROSSING
Scott Miller Courtesy photo If Scott Miller’s gruff twang and obsession with the American heartland occasionally suggests a younger Steve Earle, the similarity is no coincidence. Earle and Miller have been friends for years, and Earle signed Miller’s ’90s roots-pop band, the V-Roys, as the first act on his E-Squared record label. The V-Roys…
SOUND AND THE FURY
Droom a week on the scene WHOLLY COMMUNION Main Street dance club Communion is planning a masssive electronica gathering with its Different Drum Synthpop Festival on September 5-6. Devoting itself to underground artists with a knack for applying songcraft to electronic textures, the weekend blowout features a heavy dose of vocalist-programmer duos, in the…
SMART MOB MENTALITY
Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba is the poster boy for music-related meetups. Photo by Richard Agudelo Meetups alter the political landscape, and show signs of stirring up pop culture Matt Birnbach moved from New Jersey three weeks ago, and he hardly knows any of the locals yet. But you would never guess that from the…
FLESH FOR FANTASY
The Fleshtones’ dedication to simple party raveups remains undiminished. Courtesy photo The Fleshtones return to bask in the glory of a new garage-rock revival How can we as a culture be in the midst of our third (yes, THIRD) documented garage rock revival since the dawn of the ’60s if no one really ever…
MR. GOOD EXAMPLE
The story goes that sometime in the early ’80s, Warren Zevon was on a plane when he suddenly experienced frightening chest pains. Confronting his own mortality, a desperate Zevon begged God: “Please don’t let me die, and have Jackson Browne write a song about me.” Of course, Zevon survived that scare, but a year…
