10 Black-Eyed Pea Recipes for New Year’s Day
Eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is an American southern tradition said to usher in a year and luck of prosperity. The belief makes sense, because if any legume were to have magical powers, it would be the one with the eye that sees all, even the future. Here are 10 black-eyed pea recipes…
2014: While Child Migrants Surged, Illegal Immigration Declined
At the end of the year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its year in review, called the CBP Border Security Report. And according to the agency, illegal immigration is continuing to decline from its peak in 2000, with apprehensions totaling 486,651 for FY 2014, compared to FY 2013’s 420,789. At the turn of the…
James Courtney’s Picks for the Best Songs of 2014
2014 was an exciting year in music. And while I tend to think in terms of albums or EPs, the prospect of making a list of the ten best songs of the year forced me to focus on the power of individual songs. The process was rewarding and the list, a real doozy, represents my…
Q&A with Texas House District 123 Candidates: Roger Gary
As early voting gets underway this week to replace key San Antonio legislators—Leticia Van de Putte and Mike Villarreal—we’re continuing our periodic Q&A series with candidates hoping to replace Villarreal in the Texas House of Representatives. The Libertarian candidate is Roger Gary, former chairman of the Libertarian Party of Texas. Your website says that you…
Adkisson Joins San Antonio Mayoral Race
After months of tip toeing around his intentions to run for mayor of San Antonio, Tommy Adkisson finally made his big announcement. “I’m in and ready to stay home,” Adkisson exclaimed on his Facebook page. “As many of you know, I am fresh from four, four-year terms of office in local government as County Commissioner…
5 Things To Do on New Year’s Eve
Wednesday, December 31 Celebrate San Antonio Get your party hats out and your zany glasses on—it’s time to count down to 2015 at Celebrate San Antonio. With barrels of fried food, carnival games, rides and a Valero Fireworks Extravaganza, this all-ages celebration has something for everyone. The night also promises live music on three different…
The Top Ten Blog Posts of 2014
Judging by our most popular blog posts of 2014, SA loves fast food and the San Antonio Spurs. Our readers also really hate Yolanda Saldivar. 10. Fiesta Texas Unveils New Batman Roller Coaster The San Antonio theme park announced an insane-looking roller coaster. 9. Timmy D Hits Chick-fil-A Even Spurs players get a craving for a crispy…
10 Great Songs From San Antonio Bands in 2014
Like most years, 2014 saw the release of a ton of great music from San Antonio. We are blessed to live in a city with rich and incredibly diverse threads of musical thought and feeling. Here are the ten songs that, for me, seemed the most interesting and the most fulfilling—in other words, these are…
Julián Castro Announces Birth of Second Child
Secretary Julián Castro and his wife Erica announced the birth of their son Cristian Julián Castro last night on Twitter. The former San Antonio mayor posted a photo of the newborn on the social media outlet. The baby boy was born at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington D.C. yesterday at 11:16 a.m and weighs 7 pounds and…
New Year Ushers in Amended Distracted Driving Ordinance
In early November, San Antonio City Council amended the Alamo City’s distracted driving ordinance to include talking on the cellphone. Come January 1, motorists battling San Antonio’s traffic congestion and zipping through backroads to avoid traffic jams, will have to put the cellphone down. However, the San Antonio Police Department said in November that it…
The Most Annoying Song of the Year Gets the Spurs Treatment
Maybe it’s because we actively avoid Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” if and when we have an opportunity to hear it (unless we’re making a Hanukkah playlist), but we didn’t know the most annoying song of the year now has a San Antonio Spurs remix. San Antonio pop chanteuse Sonya Hamill released her “All…
Senate Approves Texas’ First Openly Gay Federal Judge
Last night, the U.S. Senate confirmed three Texas lifetime judicial appointments, and in doing so, confirmed the state’s first openly gay federal judge. U.S. Attorney Robert Pittman was confirmed alongside Robert Schroeder III, who is a lawyer in Texarkana, and Judge Amos Mazzant III, a magistrate in Sherman. Pittman fills a Western District of Texas…
The Albums Your Friends Told You to Listen to but You Didn’t ‘Cause You Were Feeling Drake (Not That Drake isn’t Tight)
10. Lil B | Hoop Life | BasedWorld Without the slightest hint of editing, Lil B dropped 33 songs of D-League dreams, NBA TV commercials, positive energy, an A+ hype-track game, non sequiturs and occasional straight-ahead rhymes. 9. Twin Peaks | Wild Onion | Grand Jury With excellent garage jingles and a terrible name, Twin…
The Top Albums of 2014: J.D. Swerzenski’s take on the finest efforts of the year
10. Vince Staples | Hell Can Wait | Def Jam Around the 1:35 mark of “Hands Up,” an incendiary indictment of police brutality, Vince Staples works himself into a frenzy, his voice rising to a near shout. Just as his anger is about to boil over, he composes himself, regaining his snarl for another cutthroat…
The Top Albums of 2014: Anthony Dean-Harris’ take on the finest efforts of the year
10. Taylor McFerrin | Early Riser | Brainfeeder McFerrin’s debut album has been cooking and simmering for years, apparently, until it was just right for release. If in that time of making such rich soulful electronic music he had time to gather Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm, Robert Glasper, Thundercat and Marcus Gilmore, it was time…
The Top Albums of 2014: Matt Stieb’s take on the finest efforts of the year
10. Antwon | Heavy Hearted in Doldrums | Aesop Alternative album name: Confessions of an Articulate, Overweight Sex Fiend. Antwon’s rhymes give new meaning to the NSFW tag and pound with heavyweight blows and sting-like-a-butterfly grace. HEAVY HEARTED IN DOLDRUMS by ANTWON 9. White Lung | Deep Fantasy | Domino Of all the astonishingly heavy…
Top 10 San Antonio Releases of the Year
10. The Hawks (of Holy Rosary) | What Team Am I On? | Texas Is Funny After some national hype and a tour with Dr. Dog, Frank Weysos and his merry avian crew debuted on Texas is Funny with 12 tunes of gleeful rock ‘n’ roll. 9. Chisme | It’s OK To Dream | Self-released…
Free Will Astrology, Week of December 22
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Hell is the suffering of being unable to love,” wrote novelist J. D. Salinger. Using that definition, I’m happy to announce that you have a good chance of avoiding hell altogether in 2015. If there has been any deficiency in your power to express and bestow love, I think you will…
Savage Love: Only the Lonely
I’m a short guy and I need advice. I don’t want a small paragraph’s worth of advice, like you gave “Below Their League” a few years ago. I need advice beyond “Women like men taller than them, get over it!” I get it. I’m short (five foot two), and most women are taller than me.…
Bottle & Tap: 10 of this year’s best brews
It’s a distinct pleasure to be a published drinker, and even more so when asked to deliver one’s year-end beer best-of. It felt half like cheating, since many of the brews I wrote about in the past half-year wound up on this list. Regardless, after wading through the deluge of breweries available on pour, both…
Flavor File: Torchy’s opens, New Year’s Eve events and a new eatery inside The Yard
Don’t be blue if you missed out on free tacos this past week as Torchy’s Tacos (999 E Basse) tried to win over the hearts of San Anto eaters during its first day of business. The newest addition to Lincoln Heights opened the doors at its giant 4,362-square-foot location with a full menu of favorites,…
On the Rocks: Top 10 cocktails of 2014
The Jackstrap Bar 1919, 1420 S Alamo, Ste 001, (210) 227-1420, 1919bar.com We’re convinced that bar guys stay up late thinking up outrageously double entendre-ish names for drinks. (The best ideas probably come after a couple of shots of challenging, though super-bracing Fernet-Branca.) Sometimes the monikers miss, but when they score, even if in the…
Once the Tamales are Gone, Spend December 25 at the Theater
If going to the movies on Christmas Day is as much of a tradition in your family as huddling together on the couch to watch It’s a Wonderful Life (or Gremlins!) or leaving some rum balls out for Santa (because snickerdoodles just won’t cut it), San Antonio theaters should be as busy as workshops full…
The Year in News: San Antonio’s top headlines
Google Fiber As the internet became a household item in the new millennium, the worldwide web became the go-to place to apply for a job, to shop, listen to music, connect with friends on social media and really, anything else you can conjure up. And so Google, the mega-corporation that it is, is aiming to…
