How to win friends and inebriate people
So you’re 12, and your plan was just to play in the cul-de-sac with your kid friends (like every other night of the week), but for some reason when you get there, there’s a moon bounce and popsicles, and with your pint-sized pals are their parents. You suspect they’re responsible for all the yums and…
Blooming gardens invade concrete jungle
If the Vision of St. John, that Book-concluding acid test crowded by multi-eyed beasts, oceans of blood, and a Lamb with a crown of horns, scared you away from the Holy Church, perhaps the vision of July Moreno de Lopez will draw you back again. The tomato-popping executive director of the Basilica of the Little…
Rise of the recessionista
I didn’t see the Sex and the City movie, not having been a huge fan of the television show. But more than that, the whole premise — the hyper-exaggerated glam of Manhattan’s Manolo and Vogue obsessed — just seemed so dated. Who lives like that anymore? Who consumes that way? The fashionista has been replaced…
Landa of beer and brisket
In venturing out to Landa Park on a few occasions since the summer season unofficially kicked off over Memorial Day weekend, it’s rather apparent that park officials are not lost on the notion that San Antonio ranks among the cheapest — and, yet, most good-timing — cities in the nation. How else can one explain…
Deep chill
No matter how many summers you’ve spent in South Texas, you’ll never tire of finding new ways to beat the 100-plus degree heat. Surprisingly enough, Texas is home to more than 2,000 known caves, most of which are located in the limestone and gypsum rich areas of central and west Texas. Though Natural Bridge Caverns…
The Current-approved Summer Reading List
Untitled Document Fiction Gods Behaving Badly Marie Phillips A jokey mash-up of classical myth and chick-lit, Gods Behaving Badly details the shenanigans of Apollo and Cupid as they rearrange the sex lives of mortals in modern London. More giggles than Gilgamesh, and the quickest of summer reads. — TJ The Waitress Was New…
