10 Shows to See This Weekend
Thursday, November 19 JD McPherson His first album, 2012’s Signs & Signifiers, was hailed as “an utterly irresistible, slicked-back triumph” by Mojo and a “rockin’, bluesy, forward-thinking gold mine” by All Music Guide. I guess it’s aight. With Parker Millsap. $20, 8pm, Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene, (830) 606-1281 Thursday, November 19 Mariachi Vargas Serenata en El Rio…
Ted Cruz and Other Texans Double Down on Push to Keep Out Syrian Refugees
Days after Gov. Greg Abbott said he supports keeping Syrian refugees fleeing from their war-torn homeland out of Texas, some of the state’s politicians floated even more drastic measures. Sen. Ted Cruz, also a presidential candidate, plans to file a bill that would ban Muslim Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. He has also advocated…
Celebrate the 21st Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza at Noche De Cultura, Now!
Help welcome Mariachi Vargas singer-extraordinaire and violin virtuoso Andres Gonzalez and honor mariachi pioneer and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán trumpeter Rigoberto Mercado tonight at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico at the Noche De Cultura event. The ceremony is free and open to the public. This week marks the celebration of the 21st Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza, which…
This Stray Pit Bull and Donkey Were Abandoned and Now They’re Best Friends
We’re suckers for a good stray animal story – especially one with a happy ending – and this is definitely the best we’ve heard in a while. According to Koren Mercer of Lone Star Saddlebreds in Magnolia, at around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15, she was alerted to the presence of a stray dog…
Can’t Wait Until Turkey Day? Here’s 5 Places Where You Can Stuff Your Face With Thanksgiving Food Right Now
For those of you who need Thanksgiving food right now and can’t wait for your uncle to get drunk and start yelling about Tony Romo, here’s a few places to hold you over until the truck pulls into your driveway and the Miller Lite starts flowing. Smoke: The Restaurant This Thanksgiving “sandwich” is stuffed to…
The Pearl and Young & Jewish in San Antonio to Host Menorah Lighting
A new event next month at The Pearl will close out 2015 on a bright and positive note for San Antonio’s Jewish community and the city as a whole — a welcome development in a year marred by several instances of hateful anti-Semitic vandalism. The Pearl and Young & Jewish in San Antonio will host…
H-E-B Gets Low Marks on LGBT Equality and Inclusion Report
H-E-B is unrivaled in San Antonio for brand loyalty, commercials featuring local athletes and sweet, sweet deals (those Combo Locos, right?). But the grocery giant doesn’t rate quite so highly with its treatment of the LGBT community, according to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign. The Corporate Equality Index, a metric devised by…
You Can Feed the New Giraffes at the Zoo
For the first time in five years, giraffes are coming back to the San Antonio Zoo. After the long wait, zoo visitors will have the chance to feed these long-necked horses at the animals’ height level. Experience their beauty as they stare at you blankly while you feed them lettuce at the new interactive feeding…
San Antonio Has a New Film Commissioner
The City of San Antonio Department for Culture & Creative Development has announced a new San Antonio Film Commissioner. Galia Farber, who with more than 15 years of experience has worked as Production Manager for KLRU-TV, the Austin PBS affiliate which produces “Austin City Limits” and two-time Lone Star Emmy Award-winning show “SXSW Flashback.” Farber has…
At Least 100,000 Texas Women Have Induced Their Own Abortions
One of the main talking points of pro-choice proponents during debate over HB2, Texas’ controversial 2013 abortion law, was that the law would not reduce the number of abortions. Rather, enforcement of the law would reduce the number of safe abortions, as women who did not have access to adequate reproductive healthcare would attempt to…
San Antonio’s the 5th Best Place in the U.S. To Be a Nurse
Good news for nurses in San Antonio or nurses looking to relocate to the Alamo City: It’s one of the best places to work in the country. According to Austin-based SpareFoot — an online listing depository for self-storage — and Indeed, an online job listings site, San Antonio has the fifth most available jobs for…
Looks Like Lyft Is Starting Driver Orientations in San Antonio
Update, 12:33 p.m.: Lyft got back to us and says it should launch before the end of the year. A spokeswoman said she should be able to provide a more definitive launch date after the Thanksgiving holiday. Clarification, 10:54 a.m.: Lyft’s 9-month pilot program begins once operations begin. Original post continues below. Lyft should be…
10 Free Events Happening This Week
Tuesday, November 17 H-E-B Free Family Night It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means that H-E-B is hosting its Free Family Night at The Doseum. The first 1,500 people to show up are admitted free. Parking is limited, so be sure to be there early. Free, 5:30pm, Tue., The Doseum, 2800 Broadway, (210)…
Tool and Primus are Coming to San Antonio
Tool, the band that helped launch Maynard James Keenan’s true calling – wine – will be headlining a 2016 tour along with 3Teeth and noodle-brained psychonauts Primus at the AT&T Center on Wednesday, January 13. Tickets for the event go on sale this Friday at ATTCenter.com, LiveNation.com, or can be purchased at the AT&T Center…
Several Ways to Celebrate Blues Legend Robert Johnson’s 79th Recording Anniversary
It’s a highly contested subject, depending on what blues-heads you are talking to, but we know for sure that Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues and Faustian demigod, did record 27 of his classic blues numbers in our fair city in 1936. The list of tunes laid down here is a compendium of blues…
Watch Kawhi Leonard’s Monster Jam Against the Trailblazers
There’s a new lament in the NBA: Kawhyyyyyy?!?!? During the San Antonio Spurs’ fifth straight win last night, 93-80 over the Portland Trailblazers, Kawhi Leonard wowed the crowd at the AT&T Center with an acrobatic and powerful dunk over gigantic center Mason Plumlee. The good folks who run the Spurs’ Facebook page did us all…
No, Gov. Greg Abbott Can’t Ban Refugees From Texas
Monkey see, monkeys do. Yesterday, something completely predictable happened. Conservative governors — and one Democrat — from 26 states tried to stand up to President Barack Obama. And by stand up against the president, I mean attempt to ban refugees from a war-torn Syria from entering their states — the obvious Christian thing to do…
Mayor Ivy Taylor Among Presenters for PechaKucha Night Vol. 20
PechaKucha Night San Antonio — an evening that brings together interesting and passionate folks to present 20 slides, each one lasting 20 seconds — announced presenters for its latest installment on Tuesday, December 1 at the Majestic Theatre (224 E. Houston St.). In partnership with SA2020, the latest edition of “chit chat” (PechaKucha’s Japanese translation)…
What’s Daddy Listening To? Protomartyr
I call my papa every week on Sunday, as I have done since I was a wee lad. You see, we have not lived together for a very long time because he is a traveling salesman. However, once a week when I make my phone call we talk all the important stuff: girls, guys, if…
San Antonio Cocktail Conference Tickets Are now on Sale
Presale tickets for the 5th annual San Antonio Cocktail Conference, scheduled for Thursday, January 14 through Sunday, January 16, 2016, are now on sale over at Do210. Prices range from $45 to $135. The SACC brings together top bartenders and cocktail aficionados for a four-day celebration of spirits featuring educational seminars, guided tastings and parties. Once…
McNay Art Museum Acquires Robert Indiana’s Signature ‘LOVE’ Sculpture
Versions of Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” sculpture can be found all over the world, from Tokyo to Tibilisi, Georgia, to a Hebrew version in Jerusalem. The iconic piece of Pop art can also be found in San Antonio — at the McNay Art Museum — and is a local favorite, especially for people who love…
5 Things You Have to Do This Week
Monday, November 16 Out of Silence Abortion Stories Confronting the cacophony of polarizing political rhetoric surrounding abortion, Out of Silence asks the viewer to instead listen to the voices of women while exploring the situations, relationships, emotions and logistics that contextualize their decisions to seek abortion care. Presented by the Texas Freedom Network at Trinity…
2-year-old Beluga Whale Dies at SeaWorld San Antonio
A 2-year-old beluga whale died at SeaWorld San Antonio on Friday, the park announced this weekend. According to KSAT, the cause of death will not be known until a necropsy is performed. Results from the procedure are not expected for at least six to eight weeks. The whale, whose name was Stella, was being treated…
5 Shows to See This Week
Monday, November 16 Combichrist The video for Combichrist’s “Maggots at the Party” looks like a typical day in the Teller-Morrow body shop/clubhouse, complete with motorcycle revving, stripper tongue-licking and 9am whiskey shooting…and all the girls look like Kat Von D. These guys just missed the Family Values Tour. With The Birthday Massacre, MXMS, Echo Black.…
Eva Longoria’s Production Company Developing Show Based on the Castro Twins for ABC
The story of San Antonio’s most famous political brethren may be going to the small screen. And another SA resident is putting it there. ABC recently bought a new show from Corpus Christi native and part-time San Antonian Eva Longoria, according to Deadline. The as-yet-unnamed program will be based loosely (probably very, very loosely) on…
Matt Bonner on the Wrapper of Big Red Bottles Is a Match Made in Heaven
Spurs Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge have garnered most of the headlines in this young NBA season. But do either of them have their own signature soda bottle? The answer is no. That privilege belongs to just one Spur: the Red Rocket himself, Matt Bonner. To honor Bonner’s 10th season in San Antonio, the city’s…
Gov. Abbott Flames Xenophobic Anti-Refugee Sentiment in Wake of Paris Attack
Just three days after a horrific attack on Paris, France, by members of the barbaric Islamic State, or ISIS, Texas Governor Greg Abbott felt it was necessary to send a letter to President Barack Obama, saying the Lone Star State wouldn’t accept any refugees from Syria. And just to be abundantly clear, the refugees in…
Severe Weather Possible Tonight, Tomorrow Morning
The National Weather Service reports that an upper level system and cold front could create strong to severe storms Monday night through Tuesday morning. “The Hill Country including the Austin and San Antonio areas are under a slight risk of severe weather,” according to NWS. Meteorologists warn that damaging winds and large hail are the…
San Antonio’s French Community to Hold Support Gathering Tomorrow at Main Plaza
The impact of the tragic terror attacks in Paris, which left over 120 people dead and hundreds more wounded Friday night, reverberated all the way to San Antonio and beyond. Tomorrow, there will be an event where you can share support with local French ex-pats. San Antonio’s French community will hold a support gathering at…
Actor Aaron Eckhart on ‘My All-American,’ Texas Football, Tim Duncan
In the true-life sports drama My-All American, actor Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) plays late UT football coach Darrell Royal, who won national championships with the Longhorns in 1963, 1969, and 1970. Part of the film covers the time when Royal recruited safety Freddie Steinmark, who, after playing in the 1969 “Game of the Century”…
13 Local Places To Pre-Order Your Thanksgiving Pies in San Antonio
Everyone knows the best part of Thanksgiving is the pie. If you’re making your own, well, props to you, but for the rest of us who simply don’t have the time, there are plenty of places around San Antonio to place your Thanksgiving pie orders. Here’s a round-up of your options, so you can make…
SA’s Pink Leche and Xy!o to Release ‘House of Relaxation’ Joint EP
On Friday, November 20, self-proclaimed queer bass artist Pink Leche and electronica mastermind Xy!o will throw a party to celebrate the release of their first collaboration House of Relaxation. As one of the premier musicians that identifies with the LGBTQ movement, Pink Leche reps the color pink like no other. As one of the select…
Brush Up on Your Light Saber Skills at Library’s ‘Star Wars’ Celebration
The December 15 release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is not here yet, which is just so unfair. Sure you can spend the next seemingly interminable month before opening night painstakingly analyzing all the new footage or reading jaw-dropping fan theories about Luke Skywalker. (There are so many.) You can also get off the computer…
U.S. Supreme Court to Take Up Texas’ Restrictive Abortion Law
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up components of the abortion law passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 which greatly restricted access to abortions in the state. House Bill 2, the one which then-state Senator Wendy Davis staged a 13-hour filibuster to block, banned any abortion after 20 weeks and drastically raised standards for…
We Could Be Getting a Bacon Emoji, but, Alas, No Raspa
This week, we created a set of puro San Antonio emoji characters that we all need in our lives. Unfortunately, as much as we need a Big Red and barbacoa emoji, you can’t actually use them on your phone. That’s because Unicode Consortium, the body that decides the standard for computer character encoding, decides which emoji…
Rackspace Open Cloud Academy Moves Next to Geekdom
The Rackspace Open Cloud Academy dedicated a new space in the downtown Rand Building — where Geekdom is — this week. The tech company’s education center works on “developing technical talent, and enhancing technical career opportunities in our local community.” Students can achieve certifications, which can help bolster their careers. More than 100 people attended…
The Bread Box Cafe & Bakery to Open This Fall
Update November 30, 9:05 p.m.: The city’s latest bakery and cafe opens December 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. per the company’s Facebook post this afternoon. Check out the teaser dessert up top. Original post continues below. More bread is always a good news, and I’m sticking to it. The Bread Box, formerly a…
Blue Bell Will Return to San Antonio on December 14
The wait is almost over. Blue Bell will be back on San Antonio shelves on December 14, according to the company’s website. The much-loved creamery has been on hiatus since April, when it recalled all of its products due to contamination by Listeria bacteria. The bacteria killed three people and hospitalized several more. Since then,…
Mystery Woman in Old Photos Quickly Identified Through Power of Social Media
In just under a week, with the help of social media, local producer Luis Muñoz was able to identify “Rose” in one of the old 35 mm photos he bought from the Alamo Antique Mall. Coincidentally, the woman in the photo who piqued his curiosity — and who he dubbed “Rose” — is actually named Rosemary…
Motörhead’s ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor Bites It
I wouldn’t use that headline for just anyone, as it is literally a matter of life or death and some people get all bent out of shape when you try to crack wise about ol’ Jim Reaper (like they’ve never seen Patch Adams and shit), but if you’re at all familiar with the madman behind…
What’s Happening? The Blind Owls
Corpus Christi’s The Blind Owls skip over the corpse of Mersey-beat era Beatles (that’s the early stuff, goof), stopping only to pick their pockets for spare guitar picks, song lyric scraps and prophylactics. Owing a fair amount to the U.K.’s version of the U.S.’s version of ’50s rock ‘n’ roll, when the genre was just…
H-E-B Launches Online Shopping and Home Delivery
Are you a Texas ex-pat who pines for H-E-B’s selection of SOMETHING? Or a San Antonian who just doesn’t like to leave the house? Then today’s your luck day. H-E-B announced that it will now offer an online marketplace where customers can have items shipped directly to their home or office. In addition to shipping…
Jonathan Simmons on How the Spurs Develop Player Potential up I-35
Just last week, the San Antonio Spurs quietly announced that forward Jonathan Simmons had been assigned to the Austin Spurs of the NBA Development league. This came after the club recently exercised the third-year option on Kyle Anderson for the 2016-17 season. While the move wasn’t as heralded as the offseason additions of LaMarcus Aldridge…
What Should We Name the New Soccer Team in San Antonio?
Yes, we. Apparently, we’ll all get a crack at naming the new soccer team in San Antonio. Now that the City and County have both approved a deal to purchase Toyota Field from philanthropist and developer Gordon Hartman, Spurs Sports and Entertainment will move forward with its plan to bring a Major League Soccer team…
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 11/12 International Artists-In-Residence Creative minds from the distinct art capitals of London, New York and Marfa converge in the final installment of Artpace’s 2015 International-Artists-In-Residence cycle. Hand-picked by NY-based Cecilia Alemani, whose curatorial credits include Frieze Projects and High Line Art, artists Cally Spooner (London), Marie Lorenz (New York) and Larry Bamburg (Marfa) have…
Tickets to Monster Jam Go on Sale Friday
San Antonio loves Monster Jam. There’s just something about 10,000 pound custom-designed vehicles with ginormous wheels and edgy names like “Grave Digger” taking to the air in acrobatic feats reaching up to 35 feet in the air and flying as far as 125 to 130 feet. Nothing quite says America (and Texas) like 1,500 to…
7 SA Hotel Restaurants Offering Thanksgiving Dinner With Reservation
Thanksgiving is almost here, and if you’re the type that doesn’t even want to think about cooking dinner but still want to enjoy a fancy meal, go the easy route and make reservations at any of the number of hotel restaurants that will make dinner for you. Antler’s Lodge (9800 Hyatt Resort Drive, 210-520-4001) will…
10 Shows to See This Weekend
Thursday, November 12 Crizzly The Boerne native has a pretty consistent plan of attack: find a track from the trap and crunk heroes of Memphis, Houston and Atlanta and send them though an EDM bootcamp. 9pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N St Mary’s St., papertigersa.com Thursday, November 12 Juan Gabriel Madres y tias, rejoice! La Voz esta aqui! Juan…
Another Game, Another Milestone for Tim Duncan
On LaMarcus Aldridge’s return to Portland — and a solid 113-101 win over the Trailblazers — Tim Duncan grabbed his 14,716th rebound. Now he has the 7th most rebounds in NBA history, passing Boston Celtic Robert Parish. In this short season, Duncan set the record for most wins with a single team (954). Manu Ginobili,…
SAPD Arrests Suspect in Halloween Baby Abandonment Case
Since the end of October, San Antonio police have been looking for a woman captured in grainy video footage from the VIA Metropolitan Transit park and ride near Windcrest. She’s accused of abandoning a premature baby in a bathroom at the transit station. After releasing the photos to the public, police announced an arrest late…
You’ll Soon Be Able to Nerd out on Coffee at Paramour
If you’re hoping to avoid the crowds of bar-goers on weekends but would still like to enjoy the plush couches and Downtown view found at Paramour, this should be big news for you. The rooftop bar (that doesn’t require a membership to get to or a stay at a downtown hotel or a drive to…
Smoke: The Restaurant Will Open Second Location Near Sunset Station
It’s official: There’s more barbecue coming to downtown and lots of it. The team behind Smoke: The Restaurant shared the news of their second location with the San Antonio Current this afternoon. Smoke: The Restaurant and Cocktail Bar is gunning for a February opening inside the former home of Ruth’s Chris Sunset Station at 1170 E.…
Can You Help Identify the People in These Old Photos?
On a visit to the Alamo Antique Mall, a box of old 35 mm photographs caught Luis Muñoz’s eye. “I am not sure what hit home with these photos,” says Muñoz, executive producer at Bauhaus Media Group, Inc. “Something deep within just told me I had to buy them and try to find these people.” So he…
Southerleigh Sneakily Launched Brunch Two Weekends Ago
Don’t worry, y’all. I snuck in last week and got a peak at the menu. Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery (136 E. Grayson St., Suite 120, 210- is now serving a Saturday brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the offerings are pretty varied. You’ll find a German pancake (featured above) with lemon curd…
Texas Veterans Rally at State Capitol for Medical Marijuana Reform
Veterans from the Air Force, Army and Navy used the day that honors their service to rally in Austin, urging state officials to take a step toward creating a medical marijuana program that will allow treatment with cannabis for “service-related conditions,” like PTSD. Calling the action ‘Operation Trapped,’ which is backed by the Texans for…
Amazon Will Soon Offer Restaurant Delivery to SA Prime Members
In another attempt to justify paying $100-a-year (or $50-a-year for students) for two-day shipping and some TV shows , Amazon announced earlier this week that it will be partnering with restaurants in major cities to deliver food, including San Antonio. Unlike other services like GrubHub, Amazon isn’t charging for the delivery service yet. The online…
To City Leaders: Put Vista Ridge to a Public Vote — or Explain Why Not
The following is an opinion piece submitted by a San Antonio Current reader. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the San Antonio Current or its parent company Euclid Media Group. While a supporting water rate hike required to proceed with…
Indigenous Peoples Day Resolution Makes It on to Nov. 19 SA City Council Agenda
The Texas Indigenous Council’s Antonio Diaz says he’s elated and hopeful that San Antonio City Council will approve a resolution November 19 that designates October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day. It’s been a long campaign to get the Resolution Recognizing October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day on COSA agenda a thing that to me should…
Houston Native Mel Chin to Construct Mission San Jose Art Portal
The Mission Reach’s third public art portal, this one at Mission San Jose, will be built by Houston native Mel Chin, according to Stuart Johnson of the San Antonio River Foundation. Chin’s work will join the other two art portals on the Mission Reach: “River Return” at Mission Concepción by Stacy Levy, and the recently…
Bexar County Approves Deal to Buy Toyota Field; City Council Decision Next
Toyota Field is now just a City Council vote away from changing hands — and perhaps bringing San Antonio closer to fielding a Major League Soccer team. Bringing a team to town is still a long way off though, and questions linger about the plan to lure an MLS franchise and how much more public…
Viva Vegeria Nails Vegan Nachos, Misses Some Flavors
I want to like vegetarian restaurants. I really do. As an avid carnivore, I know I need to eat more plants and less dairy. So I really want to like vegetarian and vegan restaurants. But dammit, sometimes they just won’t let me. Viva Vegeria is the sister restaurant to Vegeria on Broadway. Located on the…
Diwali Will Illuminate La Villita
Founded in 1640, nearly 100 years before the Alamo City, with more than triple the amount of residents, San Anto will celebrate its relationship with one of its nine sister cities — Chennai, India — with Diwali San Antonio Festival of Lights. The celebration returns to La Villita, where the inaugural festival took place, on…
Go Nuts With the Combinations at Joseph E. Coffee, SA’s First Cereal Bar
I’m not really a cereal person. There was a brief period in college when all I ate was Fruit Loops because I swore the colored little o’s were differently flavored — no, I wasn’t high — but, that was a slightly rebellious phase where my biggest indiscretion was eating extremely sugary cereal. Who wouldn’t burn…
Bottle & Tap: The Not-so-Mad Scientist at Black Laboratory Brewing
A lot of scientific advancements have come out of a two-car garage: DIY biology, the Macintosh I, the warp drive a guy built in Omaha (dream big, right?). Black Laboratory Brewing is also run by two scientists operating out of a garage, but their efforts focus not on taking man into hyperspace but putting a…
Savage Love: Broadway Babies
I’m a hetero guy in need of advice. Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends. I’m less awkward now, in large part because…
Goblin: The Band Behind the Screams
Goblin is the soundtrack to your childhood nightmares. In the days before digital streaming services cherry-picked and homogenized what we “choose” to watch on Friday and Saturday nights, mystical places known as “video rental stores” dotted the landscape of ’80s and ’90s suburban America. These wondrous strip-mall staples were a congregation place for all color…
Former Attorney Blends Lets Yeast Run Wild at La Cruz de Comal Wines
Lewis Dickson is a former Texas criminal defense attorney who has defended miscreants like former House Speaker Tom DeLay, but is now more than making up for it by turning out relentlessly natural vino from La Cruz de Comal’s Wines, a 3-acre vineyard near Canyon Lake. I arrived at the winery’s rustic tasting room, lined…
‘Labyrinth of Lies’ Posits That We’re All Nazis
Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies commits the Hollywood faux pas that I hoped, perhaps ignorantly, a foreign film would avoid. Namely, that it inserts a tepid love story into a film about the Holocaust. I understand people really, desperately need some sort of metaphorical teddy bear to cuddle when the harsh realities of humanity’s brutality…
The Surreal and Grotesque Fem-Pop of Kira Leigh
Boston’s Kira Leigh, or “the gross Kira” as her website puts it, is a visual artist whose compelling and bright works are, at once, universal critiques and deeply personal battles waged in vibrant colors. Leigh is a feminist who fights the patriarchy in an emotive manner by turning inward and depicting her own anxieties and…
First Words: Opinions From our Commentariat
On “Voter Turnout Is Low as Texans Approve 7 Constitutional Amendments”//Gus Martinez: I went & voted *weeks* ago. Only other people in the place were the 2 poll workers, one of which who practically begged me to remind everyone to get out & vote. Can’t wait for folks to bitch about how certain pols don’t…
5 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on This Week
Thursday, November 12 Latte Art: Thursday Night Throwdowns are back. This time, Rosella Coffee Co. will play host as baristas from across San Antonio and beyond in this latte art competition with Snake Hawk Press’ fun prints and a few kegs of Freetail Brewing’s La Muerta 2015. Rickshaw Stop will park out front with kebabs…
Thanksgiving Is Almost Here — Leave the Cooking to Professionals
The holidays are almost here. If you’re not about toiling over a hot stove and oven or hosting 15 of your closest, weirdest family members in your make-shift office/dining room, then keep an eye out on the Thanksgiving menus popping up around town. Las Ramblas at Hotel Contessa (306 W. Market St.) will host T-giving…
Free Will Astrology, Week of November 9
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I demand unconditional love and complete freedom,” wrote Slovenian poet Toma Šalamun. “That is why I am terrible.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid…
‘All the Houses’ Finds Familial Tragedy in Political Scandal
The median age in the United States is 36.8, which means that most Americans have at most a dim recollection of Iran-Contra, a scandal that almost toppled the Reagan presidency. Administration officials covertly sold arms to Iran and siphoned the profits to right-wing guerrillas attempting to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. Both ends of the operation…
Gore-core Duo Zombi Takes a Page From Goblin and the Necronomicon
As any good VHS gore-hound can tell you, Zombi is the European title for George A. Romero’s Dawn of The Dead, an iconic undead flick that produced a series of sensuously gruesome Italian not-quite-sequels borrowing the same name. Besides gifting the world with zombie-on-shark duels and helicopter decapitations, they all featured some of the best…
Horror You Can Hear: the Housecore Horror Festival
Phil Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Festival settles its dark cloud over us Thursday, November 12 (which would be a great prequel title for the Friday the 13th series). The band listings are, truly, a Murderer’s Row of some of the roughest, most aggressive, hell bent for hardcore, blistering bands in the genre, to say nothing of…
Why I Would Sacrifice My Firstborn For Merle Haggard
Raised up in a train boxcar, which his father James converted into a home for his growing family, Merle Haggard comes by his grindstone-and-grit roots honestly. As authenticity has always been prided and championed in folk music and subsequently invented, tailored and lied about for decades since the plow was left to rust in the…
Diana Krall Shows Off Her Softer, Sadder Side
Released in February, Diana Krall’s Wallflower takes its name from a Dylan tune, first recorded by the bard with San Anto’s sideburned hero on 1971’s Doug Sahm and Band. It falls into the category of Dylan tunes that rattle properly in the vocal chords of other artists — “Subterranean Homesick Blues” defines the other category…
Plan for MLS in SA Excites Fans, Prompts Questions
Update: November 11, 2015, 11:25 a.m. The Bexar County Commissioner’s Court approved a deal after we went to press for the County to jointly purchase Toyota Stadium with the City of San Antonio for $18 million. City Council vote on the Toyota Field purchase. You can read more about what the CIty, County and Spurs…
Newsmonger: Racist Messages Over Gun Signs, Indigenous Peoples Spurned Again and Sanctuary Cities
Hate Speech During the last legislative session, freshman Rep. Diego Bernal, a former San Antonio City Council member, fought hard against Texas’ new open carry law for handguns. He lost. However, business owners are allowed to prohibit open carry in their establishments. To do so, they must post what’s called a Penal Code Section 30.07…
