For many of San Antonio’s homeless living on downtown streets, Church Under the Bridge has become a welcomed respite. On a cold and drizzly night last week, the organization opened its doors at 5:30 p.m., offering an hour-long church service before serving a hot meal of chicken and rice and handing out clothes and blankets,…
This mix is the perfect soundtrack to stuffing your face with chocolates that you bought for yourself and washing it down with strawberry truffle flavored vodka. The Smiths, “Never Had No One Ever” Morrissey’s ballads are actually pick-me-ups knowing that somebody’s love life is shittier than yours. Beck, “Lost Cause” I’m sure this was…
Thu 2/5 “A Twisted Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste” Self-described “sit-down comic” Leigh Rubin drew his way into the cartooning business by launching a greeting card company in the 1970s and reached the masses through his syndicated mainstay Rubes — which factors into 400-plus media outlets, not to mention calendars, books and coffee…
San Antonio is in the running to become the first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage site in Texas, and the 22nd in the entire country. But according to a University of Texas at San Antonio expert in San Antonio Historic Preservation and Master Planning for Historic Sites, displacement of locals in…
San Antonio native and film professor at the University of Texas at Arlington Ya’Ke Smith (Wolf) says his latest short film Dawn is probably the most personal project he has ever created. Inspired by his oldest sister, who has spent a lot of time in and out of the prison system, Dawn explores the difficulty…
Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day to your loved ones like flowers, lots of chocolate and homemade recipes. Here you will find the perfect DIY guide to some popular recipes perfect for your kids and S.O.’s, from decadent treats to healthier alternatives. 1. Sweet and Salty Who can turn down a fun colorful mix to get…
The City of San Antonio is teaming up with Truckin’ Tomato, the roving farmers market with stops along most parts of the area, to launch a Farm to Work program for downtown denizens. As of Tuesday, February 3, the truck will park at the corner of South Main and East Houston every other Tuesday from…
San Anto native and accordionist Flaco Jiménez will receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award this Saturday in a ceremony the day before the 57th Grammy Awards. Alongside the Bee Gees, Wayne Shorter, Buddy Guy, George Harrison, Pierre Boulez and The Louvin Brothers, Jiménez will grab the honor for his contributions to conjunto and rock ‘n’ roll. Born…
Wednesday, February 4 Reading with Rosaldo Poet and anthropologist Renato Rosaldo will read pages from the book “The Day of Shelly’s Death” followed by a conversation with writer Cecilia Balli. Free, 6:30pm Wedneday, Museo Guadalupe, 723 S Brazos, (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org. Wednesday, February 4 Doris Kearns Goodwin Presentation Doris Kearns Goodwin, renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer…
Would it surprise you that San Antonio is ranked eighth as one of the United States’ 52 largest metropolitan areas with the best opportunities for Hispanics? Probably not. Richard Perez, President and CEO of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, however, was surprised the Alamo City wasn’t number one. “I think it’s a fantastic testament…
Today in SA Food Pics our readers were obsessed with soups. For the last couple of weeks it seems like every has had some kind of delicious-looking ramen or caldo, with visits to Kimura (152 E Pecan, Ste. 102) , La Gloria (100 E Grayson) and Seoul Oriental Market (1027 Rittiman, Ste. 101). Share your food…
The late inspiration behind Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed American Sniper — a former Navy SEAL who roused patriots nationwide with the publication of his provocative memoir — is remembered today on behalf of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who declared February 2 “Chris Kyle Day.” In a formal Proclamation from the Governor’s Office, Abbott emphasized that the…
The inaugural event to ignite DJ Proper Yarn’s First Monday series at Hi-Tones will kick off with Waco’s Loafers, recording on the Burger offshoot of Wiener Records. Loafers keep 21st Century cassette culture kicking with sounds that can be described as a fusion between the lo-fi pop of Daniel Johnston and the garage punk of Black Lips. Joining…
Ever wonder which state has the absolute best food in terms of fatty, greasy, drive-thru fare? Well, you’re living in it. Thrillist has meticulously ranked every US state by its fast food options. Yes, you read that correctly. Every state has been ranked by its fast food offering, and we are the winners. We are…
Monday, February 2 Groundhog Day Dinner Party The Alamo Drafthouse will serve you three different types of pie during Bill Murray’s classic, Groundhog Day. Murray plays Phil Connors, an egotistical Pittsburgh weatherman who hates nothing more than Groundhog Day. He detests covering the annual festival in nearby Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and he especially despises sharing his…
Michelle Griego, a resident of Dignowity Hill, is collecting signatures to help launch small market on Sundays at Dignowity Park. The petition, which has 92 signatures so far online and support via District 2 Councilman Alan E. Warrick, will be presented to San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department sometime this week. Griego hopes the market will stay small…
School officials in Odessa have learned how to make reason disappear without the help of a magical ring. In a story where the truth is stranger than fiction, the Odessa American reports that a 9-year-old boy was suspended for making a magical threat, err, a terroristic threat against a classmate last Friday. The child’s father,…
What do you do if your entire kitchen staff is obsessed with HBO’s fantasy-drama, Game of Thrones? If you’re Mixtli (5251 McCullough, (832) 520-8928) you host a multi-course feast that’ll hopefully be nothing like the Red Wedding — or the Purple Wedding while we’re at it. Set for April 6, a week in advance of the…
Perhaps one of Texas’ most iconic treasures, the Alamo is a historical gift that keeps on giving. But preserving the historic mission that defines San Antonio to many people outside of the Lone Star State isn’t easy or cheap. San Antonio lawmaker Lyle Larson, however, believes specialty license plates could be the answer. Larson filed…
I finally bit the bullet and stood in line for a mangonada-dilly (with bonus gummy bears, because why not?) from Big Daddy’s Eats & Treats. The trick it seems is going right before they open and waiting with bated breath. Otherwise, I took in some Niki’s udon, my go-to when nursing a gnarly sinus infection.…
For its ninth Super Bowl spot, airing during this evening’s game, H-E-B announced a contest to name a new salsa from its Primo Picks line of food products. The commercial, which is expected to reach 3 million consumers during the broadcast, features a company employee traveling the world to source ingredients for the grocer’s H-E-B…
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation says ExxonMobil rewrote its Equal Employment Opportunity policy to include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. “Does this new policy mean that equality has come to Exxon at last? Well, sort of,” said Deena Fidas, director of HRC’s Workplace Equality Program and co-author of its Corporate Equality Index…
Saturday, January 31: In true pop-up fashion, Rebel Mariposa will team up with chef Yana Gilbuena, for SALO X Rebel Eats. The dinner will include three courses, with Deed Eddy Vodka cocktails, with both vegan and meat-based dishes with a Filipino twist. Gilbuena, has spent the last year traveling across the U.S., hosting similar pop-ups…
When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Something that wasn’t a scathing note left on the windshield of a terribly parked car or a reminder to yourself to buy dog food? If you can’t remember a time, please reach down into your technology-dependent, text message-loving heart and try to recall the satisfying…
UPDATE: Shriners hospital spokeswoman Tammy Robbins confirmed this afternoon that one victim, an infant, of the explosion has arrived in Galveston. Media reports indicate some of the nine infants injured in a Mexico City hospital explosion Thursday may be transferred to a Texas hospital. According to the Global Post, Mexico Health Secretary Armando Ahued said,…
Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be a circus performer? We had a chance to chat with Uladzimir “Vlad” Maliutsin about his high-flying experience working as a Cirque du Soleil performer, and I think it’s safe to say we wouldn’t make the cut. Vlad is one of six Russian Swing Flyers in…
Double-tap to congratulate Timmy on his 15th All Star selection! He is the fifth player in NBA history to earn 15 or more All Star selections. #GoTimmyGo A photo posted by San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) on Jan 29, 2015 at 4:39pm PST For the 15th time in his 18-year career, Tim Duncan has made the…
San Anto motorists, put those phones down and keep your hands on the wheel, unless you’re willing to run the risk of getting pulled over and fined. San Antonio City Council last November amended its distracted driving ordinance to prohibit talking on hand-held cellphones while cruising on of the Alamo City’s many highways, or, more…
SA duo Lonely Horse just released the music video for “My Desert Son,” the title cut from their debut LP due out in 2015. Billed as a short film, “My Desert Son” follows los Lonely boys as they do spooky things around town and feed eggs to a calico cat. Directed by SA videographer Jacob…
The Economic Policy Institute published a study this week detailing the growing levels of income inequality in the United States. As part of their analysis, the think tank published a map highlighting the amount of income all of us plebeians have to earn to reach the upper echelon of the top one percent in each…
Q-Productions just announced a two-day festival in Corpus Christi’s Bayfront Park, celebrating the life and music of Selena 20 years after her death. Scheduled a day after Selena’s April 16 birthday, Fiesta de la Flor will feature exciting names in Tejano and Texas music for the surprisingly cheap admission of $5. On Friday, April 17, the…
Thu 1/29 – Sun 2/1 True West Big-screen success aside, multitasker Sam Shepard has made a lasting impact on American theater. Hailed as his masterwork, the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s 1980 offering True West explores sibling rivalry and double nature via a tense encounter between estranged brothers Austin (a straitlaced screenwriter) and Lee (a drunken con-man). Brought…
Hey Game of Thrones fans, it’s time for a road trip! Texas A&M University in College Station announced today an upcoming visit from George R.R. Martin, author of the widely popular A Song and Ice of Fire series who just needs to hurry up already and finish books six and seven. The author will a gift…
Despite some uncertainty about whether City Council would approve placing funding mechanisms for the Edwards Aquifer Protection Program and the Linear Creekway Parks Development Program on the May ballot, council members on Thursday unanimously approved the move. In addition to placing the items on the ballot, funding for the two programs would increase under the…
Lawyers for a schizophrenic death row inmate are asking a federal appeals court to approve funding for defense attorneys and mental health experts so the man can make a claim that he is insane and should not be executed. Scott Panetti — a diagnosed schizophrenic, who is insane and suffers delusions — is being executed…
Thursday, January 29 Tortuganónima, Sunrise and Ammunition For their weekly gig at The Mix, SATX Music reached out to a delightful Chilean export — instrumental post-rockers Tortuganónima. On their 2015 Pársec EP, the Santiago outfit creates vivid textures and long, dynamic guitar riffs. On their 2012 LP Tesseract, Houston mind-melters Sunrise and Ammunition meld math…
As the bounty of underpaid SXSW bands runneth over, San Antonio venues are ready to catch the talented spill for another year. The K23 Gallery (702 Fredericksburg) continues its badass run of rock ‘n’ roll shows with a date on March 15, hosting a psych/prog showcase in their minimal performance space. From Brooklyn, Monogold works in…
Any hotel concierge can regale you with stories about their quirky guests. More often than not, travelers turn out to be a total freakshow, but great hotels have the mantra that employees must go out of their way to create a satisfying and memorable lodging experience. Well, consider Hotel Indigo as one of downtown San…
San Antonio didn’t get Tesla Motors’ much sought-after battery factory, but it might get a little showroom where the curious can look at the company’s electric cars. Tesla Motors is asking the City of San Antonio to rezone five acres of land between East Sonterra Boulevard and Loop 1604, City documents show. Members of the planning…
Sat 1/31 Du Yun With its melange of shifting layers, surreal figures and “singing spheres,” Pakistani-born, New York-based artist Shahzia Sikander’s 15-minute animation Parallax doesn’t exactly spell out its historical inspiration (maritime trade and colonial occupation in the Strait of Hormuz). But don’t let the conceptual challenge deter you from tackling her three-channel video, which…
I have a dildo that I loooooove, and I was wondering if it’s safe for me to use it in both my ass and my cunt. I would clean it in between uses/orifices, of course, and it has a flared base, so it’s safe for anal play. Can I do this or do I need…
As its title and two of its songs, “Moving Too Fast” and “The Next Ten Minutes,” suggest, The Last Five Years is a musical about time — the brief duration of a love that Jamie Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt vow will be eternal. Drawing on his own experience so directly that legal threats from his…
As much an American pop art icon as an Andy Warhol Campbell soup can or a Roy Lichtenstein comic book scene, Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963) is a streamlined, radically foreshortened view of a gasoline station that shines with the hope of the open road. But telling another story in the McNay Art…
Onstage in a saffron denim jacket, Institute singer Moses Brown struts around like Mick Jagger on ketamine, jumbling his body language like the mess of words pouring from his mouth. On “Salt,” the eponymous single from the group’s EP on Sacred Bones, you can’t gather much from the lyrics that Brown spits out. He plods…
J.C. Chandor is in the business of making solid movies. His feature debut, Margin Call, is the best movie about the 2008 financial crisis because it humanizes the bankers responsible for bringing the economy to its knees while simultaneously making them look like opportunistic assholes. Chandor’s second feature, All Is Lost, features Robert Redford in…
Foodies hoping to escape San Antonio during the last weekend of Fiesta can take a quick trip to Austin. Trade turkey legs and gorditas for the Austin Food + Wine Festival, April 23-26, which will feature five SA chefs, including Jason Dady (who will compete in the Rock Your Taco challenge judged by Bizarre Food’s…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have an entourage or posse that helps you work magic you can’t conjure up alone? Is there a group of co-conspirators that prods you to be brave and farseeing? If not, try to whip one up. And if you do have an inspirational crew, brainstorm about some new adventures…
Formed in San Diego in 2010, the jaded yet vivacious sample-based pop project TV Girl started out as a weekend leisure activity among friends Trung Ngo and Brad Petering. The pair, who played in a few bands together before TV Girl’s spontaneous birth, began with no particular ambition other than experimenting and hanging out. Petering’s…
I can’t remember the last time a server shook my hand when introducing himself, but Dalen did. My co-worker, who previously ventured to Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar, La Cantera’s latest eatery, sometime during the holidays, was the first to fill me in on the uber-friendly gent. Even my curmudgeonly office compadre was swayed by…
I didn’t really know what to expect during my visit to El Chivito last week. I accidentally came across it while scanning the state’s sales tax permits log, when an application showed up for a new location at 204 Crossroads Blvd. The torta shop sat off Culebra for the past two years, but owner and…
An emerald ring of creek-hugging trails surrounding San Antonio is more than half complete, but without voter approval, funding to finish the project will dry up next year. Since 2000, voters have approved a one-eighth-cent sales tax every five years that’s used to fund the Linear Creekway Parks Development Program and Edwards Aquifer Protection Program.…
Admittedly, a Wednesday evening might not be the best night for a bar review, and my visit happened to coincide with a dreary and wet cold front. Perhaps not my best moment, but I’m no meteorologist (and those guys only get it right half the time anyway!). But On The Rocks Pub opened about a…
There must be dozens of perfectly good vermouths on the market — and that tally now includes several small-batch products such as Quady’s Vya. So why make your own? Hopefully, I’ll figure it out by the end of the article. Assuming you don’t need a profound reason, there’s also a perfectly good recipe in the…
