River Wild: Psych del Rio Brings Heady Vibes, Dope Lineup to Arneson
Psych del Rio, as we first announced back in December 2016, is a new, free (!!) psychedelic music festival that will take place on Saturday September 23 on the banks of the San Antonio River at Arneson Theatre. And, here’s the thing: this is the best music festival, pound for pound (if you will), that…
King Pelican to Play at Lowcountry
As Lowcountry, the quaint little watering hole just south of La Villita, continues to come into its own, its musical offerings are getting better and more frequent. Saturday’s show, for instance, is not only an excellent pairing of local bands, but both acts seem to suit the venue’s frill-free mood exceedingly well. San Antonio’s King…
First Impression: Pinch Boil House & Bia Bar
Though construction envelopes the Rand on both Main and Soledad, two restaurants are giving the building new life. Though Rosella’s downtown location is still not open, Pinch Boil House & Bia Bar finally opened their doors last Friday, September 8. It’ll be an interesting experiment. The pop-up-turned-restaurant opened by friends Andrew Ho, Sean Wen and…
Experience Mariachi Lab at the Pearl
Mariachi is a quintessentially Mexican musical/performance style. Hailing from Western Mexico in the 1700s, Mariachi was the homespun result of indigenous forays in colonial instruments and musical groupings. All these years later, the style enjoys a vibrant popularity the world over, especially in those areas of the United States richest in Mexican culture. On Saturday,…
New Orleans’ Trombone Shorty to Jazz up the Aztec Theatre
Ever since he was a small child in New Orleans, Troy Andrews, better known by his stage name Trombone Shorty, has been surrounded by jazz music. Dude began playing trombone at the age of four and has hardly looked back, through the years forging a successful musical career. It’s no wonder, given this long history,…
ICE Has Deported Two Survivors of the Fatal Truck Smuggling Incident
Two survivors of the tragic July smuggling incident in southwest San Antonio, in which 10 undocumented immigrants were found dead in a cargo trailer, have been deported after being turned over to immigration authorities when they were no longer needed to testify as witnesses to the crime. According to a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 9/14 “Leisure Lines” Widely exhibited in galleries throughout Texas and beyond, artist and educator Buster Graybill has likened his multimedia practice — which combines sculpture, installation, video, photography and works one might mistake for paintings — to “an all-terrain vehicle to traverse the rural landscape and reconnect with often-overlooked places.” Currently an assistant professor…
Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Halts Texas Redistricting Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that Texas shouldn’t rush to fix its electoral district maps before the state’s 2018 elections — even though two federal courts found 11 of these districts to be illegally drawn to suppress the votes of African-American and Latino voters. In two brief rulings issued late Tuesday, the court’s newly…
Peligrosa artist NurryDog to hit up Squeezebox
Peligrosa, for the uninitiated, is a loose, ATX-based collective of DJs, electronic music makers, and other performers that, since 2007, trade in all manner of nuevo-Latin@ sounds. Combining aspects of American hip-hop with all manner of traditional and experimental Mexican and Latin American styles, all with a distinct flavor and club-ready friskiness, the Peligrosa empire…
Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ Slathers an Arty Veneer on Ages-old Misogyny
I cannot recall the last time a film made me as angry as Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! has. Maybe never. As Mother! unfurled over its two-hour runtime, I found myself actually clenching my jaw with ever-increasing fury as Aronofsky’s head wended its way further and further up his own cinematic ass only to declare just how delicious his…
Savage Love: Girls and Women and Sex
Q: My teenage daughter just came out to us as gay. We told her we love her and support her. As a heterosexual, cisgender mother, how do I make sure she gets good advice about sex? I don’t want her learning from other kids or porn. Do you know of any good, sex-positive advice books…
Guitar God Kaki King to Tear up Tobin Center
Born Katherine Elizabeth King, Kaki King became interested in guitar at an early age but initially focused her attention on percussion, which clearly shows in her guitar work. She returned to the guitar while attending NYU and started writing, performing, busking in subways, and eventually signed with NYC-based label Velour Records. Through Velour, she released…
Chuck Ramirez Career Retrospective Spans Venues, Decades and Distance
Chuck Ramirez, American … photographer? “I don’t think it matters at all who pressed the button,” says Justin Parr, a friend and frequent collaborator who helped San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez in digital photography. “He wasn’t a guy who cared to own a bunch of equipment. He was an artist, first and foremost. What he…
The Classic Theatre Revives the Boisterous, Lunatic Farce ‘You Can’t Take It With You’
The stage directions to You Can’t Take It With You, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and an Oscar for Frank Capra’s 1938 adaptation, situate all three acts in “a house where you do as you like, and no questions asked.” It is a boisterous, busy menagerie whose multiple, motley bric-a-brac challenge the sanity…
SAISD Board Hears From Anti-LGBT Protesters — and Votes to Protect DACA Students
On August 22, the San Antonio Independent School District board updated district policy to include protections for students or teachers discriminated against for their “gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.” But like a failed game of telephone, SAISD parents, anti-LGBT advocates, and conservative lobbyists showed up to SAISD’s Monday night board meeting to protest…
Cloak and Dagger Blends Speakeasy and Sports Bar to Curious Results
Cloak & Dagger Social Club, just down the ways from UTSA on the northside of San Antonio, is now well into its second year of business. If seen from afar (read: online), one might think of it as your typical college bar, complete with cold beer, shot specials, and large TVs, but walking tells another…
The South Chicken and Waffles Is Now Open
Chef John Belvin always knew he wanted to have his own restaurant. Though the initial concept for the shop morphed from burgers to po’ boys, the final result opened last weekend as The South Chicken & Waffles off Callaghan Road. Belvin chose the name The South about two years ago with the original concept of…
Downstairs at Esquire Is Classing Up Tuesdays with Champagne and Chicken
Forget tacos — fried chicken and Champagne compliment Tuesdays. Downstairs at The Esquire Tavern, will begin serving complimentary chicken with the purchase of featured bubbles. Starting tonight from 5 to 11:30 p.m. purchases of either a glass ($22 and up) of any featured Champagne or a bottle ($50 and up), will come with two pieces…
Female Jogger Allegedly Raped at Hardberger Park Tuesday Morning
A woman was raped around 9 a.m. Tuesday morning while jogging through Hardberger Park, according to the San Antonio Police Department. Early reports from the San Antonio Express-News say the police described the suspect as a white man in a grey hoodie. The victim was running down a trail through the north side park when…
Shimmery Post-hardcore Quartet Emery Return to SA
Emerging out of post-hardcore’s peak in the early aughts, Emery grabbed the scene’s attention with their Tooth And Nail Records debut The Weak’s End. If you had a carabiner key chain, a pair of Onitsuka Tiger’s and an iPod nano shuffling tracks from bands like Norma Jean, Underoath and MewithoutYou, chances are this Seattle-based fivesome…
Bryan Adams to Rock Whitewater Amphitheater
I lost my virginity to “Everything I do (I do it for you).” LOL, JK, but like, you know an entire generation of folks went all-the-way in the ’80s when this emotional ballad came out. And who could blame them? Bryan Adams’ scratchy vocals that make listeners think he’s talking right to them have me…
Janet Jackson to Play ATT Center
Originally scheduled for January 21, 2016, Jackson’s concert was postponed and rescheduled for Monday, July 11, 2016, citing an undisclosed surgery procedure as the source of the postponement. However, the LiveNation “Unbreakable World Tour,” which may not be breakable but is clearly postponable, was announced back in May and so far the September 13 date…
Conservative Group Fights SAISD’s New LGBT Non-Discrimination Rule
A group of religious conservatives are protesting a new San Antonio Independent School District ordinance that promises protection to LGBT students and employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. The addition to SAISD’s non-discrimination ordinance, which was proposed by a SAISD student, was unanimously approved at the board’s August…
Green Day Destroys San Antonio
I’ll have to admit that I definitely stopped being interested in Green Day after 2000’s Warning, however, when anything from that album or any of their previous work showed up on the radio or a Spotify playlist I’d let my inner angsty-teen rock out for 3 minutes. Green Day was many folks’ introduction to punk…
Olmos Park Loses Iconic Restaurant
The last day of business has come and gone for the Olmos Pharmacy. During the middle of the day Thursday they closed early with little notice and made an announcement Friday to stay tuned about reopening. Earlier this morning though, general manager, Rod Campbell, issued a statement via Facebook announcing that the location will be…
Guns N’ Roses Play Longest Show Ever at Alamodome
One of my earliest childhood memories is of me sitting on my older sister’s bed with a Sony Walkman listening to Guns N’ Roses’ “You Could Be Mine,” or as I called the song back in the early 1990s, “The Terminator 2 song,” since the video was basically mixed with scenes of the blockbuster hit.…
Terrific Singing, Baffling Flowers and a Climactic Gunfight in Opera San Antonio’s ‘Macbeth’
All hail … Macduff? That was certainly the buzz last night after Eric Barry’s extraordinary performance of the aria “Ah, la paterno mano”: Barry takes his solo moment — as the stunned Macduff learns that the other Macker has slaughtered his entire family — and makes the strongest possible case for this operatic treatment of…
Punk Rock Powerhouse Downtown Boys Return to SA
With feel-good punk rock that makes you want to bust out your skateboard and scream “Fuck yeah!,” Providence, Rhode Island’s Downtown Boys blend old-school hardcore, a bit of ska and a pinch of post-hardcore for a sound that’s smart and just fucking good. The quintet just released their latest album Lips That Bite earlier this…
I-10 and I-35 Will Have Significant Highway Closures This Weekend
San Antonio drivers may have to sit in traffic for more time than usual this weekend, since I-10 and I-35 will have significant lane closures due to construction, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Starting at 9 p.m. on Friday, all main lanes of I-10 at Fair Oaks Parkway will be closed while the…
El Bucanero’s Marbach Location Is Now Open
Más Sinaloa-style seafood, por favor. Mariscos El Bucanero, which has two locations on the city’s northside, opened a third off Marbach this Thursday. The new location seems to replicate the two sister spots off Embassy and Blanco road almost to a tee. There’s sea creatures on the wall, plenty of seating and loads of over-the-top…
Mission Pachanga Returns To Mission Park Pavillion
As something of a capstone to World Heritage Festival, a week of festivities and educational opportunities centered around our very own World Heritage sites, the Mission Pachanga is a culturally-relevant (and free) concert. Featuring a bill that indicates someone in the planning department knows the music that is closest to the heart of San Anto,…
Local Indie Folksters Ranch House Release New Album
Ranch\House, a local indie folk-pop outfit helmed by Stephen Dietert (with lots of help from a huge cast of SA talent), will release its sophomore album at Period Modern this week. On this album, entitled Book It To Sundown, Dietert’s vision — really more polished and complex than what you might expect from the folk-pop…
Smuggling Survivors Dismissed as Witnesses, Turned Over to Immigration Authorities
Survivors of the tragic smuggling incident in southwest San Antonio, in which 10 undocumented immigrants were found dead in a trailer parked in a Walmart parking lot, will no longer testify against the man who was driving the trailer, according to officials. “I can only assume that the government reached some type of agreement with…
‘It’ Delivers Scares in an Incomplete Version of its Source Material
“It: Chapter One” teases the title card over the closing credits of the Stephen King adaptation It, but anyone familiar with the novel could have told you that. The source material told an epic tale of friendship and supernatural horror spanning a generation, weaving together two time frames in the lives of its central characters;…
Pluckers Wing Bar is Heading to San Antonio
Hope you’re ready for more wings because Pluckers Wing Bar is heading to San Antonio. The Austin-based wing restaurant, which now has locations in Baton Rouge, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Killeen and San Marcos, announced it will open its first San Antonio location in the Forum Pointe Shopping Center at Olympia Parkway and IH-35 next year.…
Former Spur, Antonio Daniels, Will Visit Walk-On’s Bistreaux Tonight
Antonio Daniels, former Spur, 13-year NBA vet and studio analyst for the OKC Thunder in Fox Sports Oklahoma, will make a cameo at Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar today from 4 to 6 p.m. Part of the 1999 roster for the Spurs, Daniels will be on hand to sign autographs, take photos and meet and greet fans during…
The San Antonio Cocktail Conference Unveiled a SA-friendly Signature Cocktail
The San Antonio Cocktail Conference is gearing up for their seventh year of booze filled events and spirits classes. This year, like every year, the conference has a themed drink that is showcased through out the conference and is responsible for embodying the spirit of the conference. This year the cocktail was showcased and announced…
Pharm Table Is Now Offering Saturday, Sunday Brunch
Brunch, often a caloric bacchanal filled with fluffy pancakes, frittatas, waffles and over-the-top fries, isn’t always the most health-conscious meal. Pharm Table, known for its dairy, wheat, and refined sugar-free fare is adding another option with their new Saturday and Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to chef Elizabeth Johnson, the brunch…
A First Timer’s Visit to Shake Shack
Texas has never suffered from a shortage of great burgers or fast-food options, so I’m always surprised when Texans tell me that Shake Shack — the popular East Coast chain known for its burgers, concretes and long wait times — is their favorite place. I’ve never felt the need to wait in long lines, but…
15 States Sue Trump Over Ending DACA
The day after President Donald Trump announced his decision to end DACA, 15 states and Washington D.C. have filed a lawsuit against him, asking a federal court to throw out the memorandum to end the program. DACA, short for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” is a 2012 Obama Administration program that allowed undocumented immigrants who…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Wed 9/6 – Sun 9/10 World Heritage Festival This collaborative five-day festival takes place across the city in celebration of the San Antonio Missions and to raise money for nonprofit organizations and projects that “preserve, maintain, promote and connect” the city to its world heritage. Although some events have already sold out (like Thursday’s Sunset…
The Melvins Gear up to Rock Paper Tiger
Buzz Osbourne and his band The Melvins remain so active, in the recording studio and out on the road, that you might forget, even if you’re a longtime fan, that they are now in their fourth decade as a band. The band’s diverse early output, all loosely falling in the weird/hard rock category, was seminal…
Free Will Astrology (9/6/17-9/12/17)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re half-intoxicated by your puzzling adventures — and half-bewildered, as well. Sometimes you’re spinning out fancy moves, sweet tricks, and surprising gambits. On other occasions you’re stumbling and bumbling and mumbling. Are you really going to keep up this rhythm? I hope so, because your persistence in navigating through the challenging…
Savage Love: Stranger Things
I’m a lady considering taking on a foot fetishist as a slave. He would do chores around my house, including cleaning and laundry, and give foot rubs and pedicures in exchange for getting to worship and jack off to my model-perfect feet when I’ve decided he’s earned it. Am I morally obligated to tell my…
