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Political Strategist Laura Barberena Focuses on Energizing the Latinx Electorate
BY JADE ESTEBAN ESTRADA
As I sit across from political consultant Laura Barberena in the office of her firm Viva Politics in San Antonio’s Deco District, I’m struck by her buoyant enthusiasm — arguably, her greatest asset. “I’m 52,” she says. “But I think that I’m 32.” Barberena, who prefers that her name be richly pronounced with a Spanish accent, began her career in politics working on the Clinton-Gore 1996 reelection campaign. Her first professional encounter with President Bill Clinton came during a commercial shoot. “I always tell people, my big directorial debut was [yelling], ‘Mr. President! Look this way!’” she says. That moment launched Barberena into the wings of political stage. Since then, she’s built a career by helping to galvanize and reengage the Latinx electorate. Democratic candidates have witnessed Viva Politics grow into a behind-the-scenes, year-round presence. And, as the nation gears up for 2020, Barberena is ready to play a key role in what’s likely to be the most contentious election season in modern history. “I’m excited to compartir mis pensamientos with your audience,” she says, switching between English and Spanish for the first of many times during our interview. Born and raised in Austin, Barberena initially set her sights on becoming an actress. “Not an actress — a movie star!” she says melodramatically, referencing the 1982 film My Favorite Year. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, she switched her major from acting to film because the film department offered more performance opportunities. Soon, she’d amassed a long list of student film credits. But after a school trip to Los Angeles, she quickly realized that Hollywood didn’t feel like a good fit. When she received a job offer from a Hispanic ad agency in Albuquerque, she took it with the intention of building her reel so that she could make movies in Texas. Instead, she discovered a passion for politics while making radio and TV commercials for the Clinton-Gore campaign and the Democratic National Convention. The energy of the work suited her dynamic personality. “In politics, we work 24/7,” she says. “There’s no such thing as weekends or time off.” Barberena considers her father — who came to
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the United States from Nuevo Laredo at age 18 — a major influence on her life and career. Her mother is also of Mexican descent, although she didn’t cross the border. Instead, the border crossed her. Though not politically active, both of her parents valued education. Barberena also credits her father with inspiring her tireless work ethic. She worked at her his tortilleria through high school and college and developed an impressive array of skills. “I can be sitting at a conveyor belt of tortillas and count them and pick them up and gossip at the same time,” she says proudly. Currently, her work involves preserving the efforts of civil rights activist Rosie Castro and others who laid out the equality and visibility groundwork during La Raza Unida movement — progress she feels President Donald Trump is wiping away. “It’s funny, because with friends we kind of talk about what’s going on now with President Trump, and we jokingly say, ‘Man, I miss Bush! Remember how we thought he was the worst? I’ll take Bush any day now!’” she says. Later, as we chat about previous administrations, Barberena points out that many Democrats stood by President Clinton during his 1998 impeachment proceedings — even through allegations that he lied under oath and obstructed justice. “I see that happening definitely with Trump, like I see [conservatives] rationalizing or ignoring his behavior, because at the end of the day they’re getting the judges they want, they’re getting the politics they want, and so they’re able to kind of look the other way.” To be fair, she thinks Democrats did the same during the Clinton-Lewinski scandal. Barberena says her time in politics has also helped her better understand people. “Some people have a drive to help other people
that is beyond understanding. [Others] are mean and ugly and hurtful and will do anything to win. And that hurts,” she says. “Politics has taught me that there are such extremes. But you know, politics is painful. So, when people run for office, the first thing I ask is, ‘Are you ready for this? This is going to be the hardest thing you’ve ever done.’” Her political insight seems to lend an added thrill. While she was watching the Democratic debate in Houston, Barberena’s political Spidey senses kicked in and she hit on a realization. “I thought, ‘This is the cabinet. This is the team,’” she says. “I wish we could put them all in a blender and put them into one mega-candidate, because that would be awesome.” Like a Transformer, I point out. The campaign slogan could be “More than meets the eye.” “I like that!” she says, laughing. The highs in her line of work are often exhilarating, but the lows can be devastating. Barberena admits that it can be hard to pick herself up after an election loss. In one particularly stinging defeat, she worked with a Latino candidate on the West Side, a veteran and widower, who ultimately lost to his female Anglo rival. “I lost to a white woman on the West Side of San Antonio? What the hell’s wrong with me?” Barberena recalls asking herself. “I sat on the couch and read Harry Potter books the entire month,” she confesses. “I put my heart and soul and everything into it, so when you lose, it’s hard.” Even so, Barberena loves what she does and sees her role as that of an agent of change. “I want to keep doing this with integrity and with purpose,” she says. “I hope that [this work] will be change for the positive, change for the good and change that will lift up nuestra gente.” Which would be great for everyone.
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Hitched to the Tundra Despite big incentives, Toyota’s SA plant hasn’t delivered on all the jobs it once promised BY HEYWOOD SANDERS Editor’s Note: The following is CityScrapes, a column of opinion and analysis. The project was dubbed “Project Starbright,” as in “Star light, star bright… I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight.” The effort of which I speak, of course, was the one to lure Toyota’s new Tundra pickup plant to San Antonio, bolstered by ample public subsidies. The Japanese automaker’s announcement last month of an additional $391 million investment in that South Side plant makes it a good time to ask how that wish has worked out. When Toyota’s commitment to San Antonio was announced in early 2003, the manufacturing firm planned for initial employment of 2,000, and the production of 150,000 Tundras annually. Then-councilman Julián Castro said the new plant “should stimulate more economic development for the city than anything seen in the past 20 or 30 years.” But the far grander promise for all of the state, county and city subsidies granted to Toyota was that if Tundra sales worked out as anticipated, the plant could see a second phase, boosting truck production and bringing total employment to 4,300. Things didn’t quite work out that way. First, the Tundra didn’t take off in the market. After the first trucks came off the production line in late 2006, Toyota sold around 196,000 Tundras the following year. But 2008 sales dropped to 137,250, and then to just over 79,000 in 2009 as the entire auto industry suffered from the Great Recession. The Ford F-series pickup sales, for example, dropped from 796,000 in 2006 and 690,000 in 2007 to just 413,625 in 2009. 8
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However, the Ford pickups soon came roaring back, with sales of 763,000 in 2013 and almost 821,000 in 2016. For 2018, the F-series sales totaled 909,330. The Tundra has had a sharply different performance in the marketplace. From 2009 sales of 79,385, the Toyota pickup climbed back to 112,700 in 2013 and hit 118,493 in 2014. And then they stalled. The 2018 sales total was just 118,258. Simply put, the Tundra sales now are still not at the 150,000 a year expected in the 2003 announcement of the San Antonio plant. What has “saved” the San Antonio plant is production of the mid-sized Tacoma pickup, shifted here in 2010 when the joint Toyota-General Motors
plant in California was shuttered. The Tacoma has proven far more viable in the market, with sales growing in recent years from 155,000 in 2014 to over 245,500 in 2018. But that relative success does not translate into an expansion of jobs or production in San Antonio. Toyota has chosen to hedge its bets on building Tacomas, with a production line at its Tijuana plant and at a new plant in Guanajuato. The recently announced $391 million investment in San Antonio, accompanied by a 10-year tax abatement? It’s for additional robotics and “cobots” as part of a new platform for the pickups. It won’t mean any new jobs or added production. The prospects of that promised “second phase” for the San Antonio
plant that would yield 4,300 total jobs look seriously unlikely. The “wishes” on the star don’t always come true — not fully, anyway. And when, in August 2017, Mayor Nirenberg and Judge Wolff announced a bid to win a new Toyota-Mazda joint plant with a promised investment of $1.6 billion, that too came up short. That new plant is now being built in Huntsville, Alabama. Toyota has certainly brought something to this community. But it joins a long list of tax-abated and subsidized projects, from Golden Aluminum and the American Airlines reservation center to AT&T and Sony Microelectronics, that haven’t fully delivered or have simply closed up shop and left. Heywood Sanders is a professor of public policy at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Council approves changes to the paid sick time ordinance, but business groups are digging in for a fight BY SANFORD NOWLIN City council voted last Thursday to approve changes to San Antonio’s paid sick time ordinance intended to make the law more palatable to business owners and help it weather legal challenges. Even so, business groups took turns lambasting the measure at the meeting, with some threatening in not-so-veiled language to continue fighting it in court. City officials this summer agreed to delay the rule and appoint a panel to tweak it after business groups sued to halt implementation. “The changes to the ordinance don’t alter the fact that it’s still pre-empted by state law,” North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce CEO Cristina Aldrete told council at Thursday›s meeting. Aldrete asked members to kill the measure or
Activists and union members rally outside of city offices last year in support of a paid sick time ordinance.
M delay adoption until after the Texas Supreme Court rules on Austin’s similar ordinance. The high court is set to decide whether that law violates the state constitution. Despite the objections, council voted 8-3 to approve the revised ordinance, which will now be enforced in April. District 8 Councilman Manny Peláez, District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry and District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran voted against the changes. The changes to the rule included: • Switching the name of the ordinance to Sick and Safe Leave. • Requiring businesses to provide a baseline accrual of 56 hours of sick time for all workers.
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Making the regulation apply equally to all businesses, regardless of size. • Getting rid of an implementation delay for businesses with five or fewer employees. Supporters of the ordinance used their time at the microphone to remind council that the measure was adopted after labor and social justice activists collected 144,000 signatures demanding it be placed on a public ballot. They also pointed out that more than a third of workers in San Antonio are not offered any kind of paid sick leave, meaning they lose wages when they’re ill or must take time off to care for an ailing child. They couched the issue as both a matter of fairness and public health. “All of our families deserve earned sick leave, and we want our mayor and city council to deliver it today,” said Michelle Tremillo, executive director of the Texas Organizing Project, which participated in the petition drive. sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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A DAY IN SOUTHTOWN
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SAN ANTONIO BLACK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The inaugural San Antonio Black International Film Festival (SABIFF) will feature a host of events across the Alamo City for four days. The event starts with its Opening Night Gala and the screening of the 2019 drama #Truth written and directed by Charles Murray, who has penned episodes and served as an executive producer for TV shows including Sons of Anarchy, Castle and Luke Cage. Murray will be in attendance for a post-screen discussion. Other panels will take place throughout the week covering topics such as African American cinematic history, opportunities for black actors in the film and TV industry and the business of Hollywood as it relates to culture and Afrofuturism. Films in competition this year screen October 12 at the UTSA Downtown Campus and include titles such as Bewildered, The Birth of Deceit and Brooklyn in July. Free events include the cultural exchange series Afro Pop, which will feature short films and guest speakers. “We are all passionate volunteers who have produced this amazing festival because of the need to speak to marginalized voices in San Antonio with films from a black perspective,” said Ada M. Babineaux, SABIFF founder and director. $10-$150, times and location vary, sanantonioblackinternationalfilmfestival.com. — Kiko Martinez
Southtown’s five neighborhoods are hosting a full slate of free events in tandem with artists and nonprofits for the arts district’s fourth annual celebration, #ADayInSouthtown. Frolic with the pups at Collins Garden Park’s “Dog Gone Crazy,” find some funky thrifts at King William’s “Rummage Sale,” shout “¡Viva Lavaca!” at the neighborhood’s “Art in the Park” showcase, join Lone Star for its “Second Saturday Artwalk” at Lone Star, get active with Roosevelt Park’s “Fall Fitness Frolic” — or go all in and try to hit as many of the district’s events as you can. You’ll have all day: they begin at 9 a.m. and run as late as 10 p.m., so it’s tough to miss out on what the fest has to offer. Free, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., locations vary, southtownsatx.com. — Daniel Conrad
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words to paper that explore the context of the artists’ work, seek out commonalities and connections and otherwise “amplify the results of individual practices.” During the opening reception, exhibition curator Mario Ybarra Jr., artists Ruth Buentello, Rosalie Lopez, Teresita De La Torre, Yvette Mayorga and Angelica Muro and writers Karla Diaz, Jenifer Vanegas, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Raquel De Anda and Claudia Zapata will give insight into the collaborative effort at a 6:30 p.m. panel. Free, 4-7 p.m., on view 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays through December 1, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, Southwest School of Art, 1201 Navarro St., (210) 200-8263, swschool.org. — Kelly Merka Nelson
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‘COUNTDOWN CITY ART I (A SWEET GROUP SHOW)’
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If anyone was wondering whether Jeff Wheeler would be slowing down anytime soon, the answer is: absolutely not. The San Antonio transplant is inaugurating his new gallery space in the South Side Living + Maker Spaces with the Alamo City-centric group show ‘COUNTDOWN CITY.’ SPACE C7 will be filled to the brim with pieces by local icons including César Martínez, Gary Sweeney, Ken Little, Chris Sauter, Susan Budge, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Mira Hnatyshyn Hudson, Hiromi Stringer, Sarah Castillo, Andy Benavides and Cruz Ortiz, who’s fresh off a recent San Anto art-world controversy. In addition to the main event, several pop-up galleries will be open off the main gallery, including a retrospective show dedicated to recently deceased singer-songwriter and outsider artist Daniel Johnston, with whom Wheeler frequently collaborated over the past few years. The exhibition is meant to be a living memorial for Johnston, and attendees are invited to bring drawings, writings, flowers or any other meaningful items they’d like to leave to honor his legacy and memory. Free, 6-9 p.m., on view by appointment through November 4, SPACE C7 @ South Side Living + Maker Spaces, 2450 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 879-7673, thesouth-side.com. — KMN
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Remember those bygone childhood days when you would inhale chalk dust as you created amateur masterpieces on the sidewalk? San Antonians have the chance to relive those memories by witnessing local artists get down and dirty as they create original murals down Houston Street and Main Avenue as part of Artpace’s annual Chalk It Up festival. This year’s artists will create murals themed around “Sustainability,” the goal of reducing waste and increasing efficiency to reduce damage to the planet’s ecology. To promote sustainability at the event, Artpace encourages attendees to bring a refillable water bottle to hydrate at the SAWS Water Station. Plus, the event’s information booths are all solar-powered, and recycling bins will be available all along the block. Attendees can also kick up some dusty fun, enjoy live music from local artists, design their own chalky creations in the Freestyle Zone or peruse the selection of food trucks. Just remember kids, the chalk itself is not edible. Free, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Houston St. & N. Main. Ave., (210) 212-4900, artpace.org/chalk-it-up. — Brianna Espinoza Francisco Cortes
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Photographer and videographer Natalia Sun will project her work with musical accompaniment at San Antonio College’s McAllister Auditorium for this multi-disciplinary event. The concert-presentation kicks off new-on-thescene chamber ensemble Agarita’s second annual season of cultural events. Formed last year by four San Antonio Symphony musicians, the nonprofit will host five more “collaborative concerts” throughout the year, aiming to unite different sectors of the art community via multidisciplinary, bilingual free programming. Sun promises that her narrative imagery will spotlight San Antonians “from all ages and walks of life” as they express their “dreams, life journeys and passions.” Free, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 12, McAllister Auditorium, 1300 San Pedro Ave., agarita.org. — DC
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Homegrown tabletop RPG publisher Swordfish Islands is back with a brand-new adventure: The Tomb of Black Sand. Originally launched on Kickstarter as a zine, the dungeon crawl evolved into a full-on hardcover book. Swordfish Islands tapped longtime collaborator Gabriel Hernandez to fill the book to the brim with detailed depictions of the tomb’s dangerous denizens, but the company’s coup de grâce was getting RPG royalty Daniel Horne to paint the tomb’s resident
lich for the book’s cover. To celebrate the new publication, Swordfish Islands’ Jacob Hurst is exhibiting Horne and Hernandez’s original art at his studio in 1906 S. Flores, and if we’re lucky he’ll have fresh-off-the-press copies of The Tomb of Black Sand on hand to sell. Any geeks who trek down to 1906 early for A Day in Southtown festivities can pop in from 2-4 p.m. for the chance to make their own zine coloring book with foil on the cover and a mini-book “signature.” Free, 7-10 p.m., blkboxspace, 1906 S. Flores, (210) 227-5718, shop. swordfishislands.com. — KMN
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JASPER ST. JAMES’ RISQUE REVUE 2
San Antonio, get ready for some all-inclusive action: award-winning burlesque star Jasper St. James is hosting the Risque Review at the Bonham Exchange. This full-length night of entertainment is an all-new immersive experience filled with artists performing drag, burlesque, boylesque, cabaret and more. The debut cast will feature international burlesque superstars such as Coco Lectric, Fat Bottom Cabaret, Vixy Van Hellen, Mary Anette and Natasha D. Capri. $10-$50, 8 p.m., Bonham Exchange, 411 Bonham St., (210) 224-9219, bonhamexchange.com. — Rhyma Castillo
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MIRANDA SINGS: WHO WANTS MY KID? Daniel Horne
If you’ve never heard of YouTube-comedian-turned-Netflix-star Miranda Sings, count yourself lucky, because you may still be able
to look at red lipstick with some semblance of dignity. For those rarified, ignorant few — or for those who have been able to block out the nasal noise of Sings’ career — the 411 on the performer is that she first appeared in 2008, making innocuous vlogs imitating other users of the platform singing covers of pop songs. Sings, whose real name is Colleen Ballinger, quickly became a juggernaut in the burgeoning field of YouTube comedians, going on nationwide tours and gaining notice from the likes of Jerry Seinfeld. Like most online things you found funny in the aughts, she may not have stood the test of time, but people may still feel compelled to witness those overdrawn lips in real life. $43, 7:30 p.m., Tobin Center, H-E-B Performance Hall, 100 Auditorium Cir, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — Georgie Riggs
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As the first Latina to create, produce, write and star in her own U.S. primetime comedy, Cristela Alonzo is a pioneer in the entertainment industry. The San Juan, Texas-born Alonzo’s comedy is influenced by her life experiences as a first-generation American. “My mom from Mexico didn’t understand the concept of Santa Claus,” Alonzo said in her 2018 Just for Laughs comedy special Barely Catholic. “[She] tried to do Santa Claus one year for me. She’s like ‘I am Santa Claus. I did not bust my butt so this white guy takes credit for my shit. Jo-Jo-Jo! Merry Christmas!’” In 2017, Alonzo filmed her Netflix special Lower Classy in San Antonio. Now, she’s returning to bless the city once again with biting observational humor about everyday life as a Latina. $25-$35, 8 p.m., Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — RC
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MONARCH BUTTERFLY & POLLINATOR FESTIVAL
What’s more idyllic than a late-October trip to the Pearl Farmers Market? Butterflies and lots of them, you say? The fourth-annual festival hosted by the Texas Butterfly Ranch promises to include everything you know and love about these flying creatures while supplying surprising facts you might now have known. The event will feature gardening workshops for pollination, a parade, dancing and, of course, live butterflies. Over 700 monarchs were tagged at last year’s festival, and three of them have since been found in Mexico. The best part, though? Butterfly costumes are encouraged. Free, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., The Pearl, 303 Pearl Parkway, (210) 2127260, texasbutterflyranch.com. — GR
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By combining the dynamic, expressive movements of flamenco with the lush, vibrant visuals of Spanish culture, Arte y Pasión has fashioned itself into one of the most respected contemporary dance companies in the country. Led by dancer and artistic director Tamara Adira, the dedicated group is bringing its skills to Brick at Blue Star. The performance will feature several artists, including flamenco singer Champion Chayito, guitarist Randy Cordero, dancer Genevieve Obregon and a surprise guest who has performed in Carlo’s Saura’s Flamenco India. $15-$50, 8 p.m., Brick at Blue Star, 108 Blue Star, (210) 262-8653, arte-y-pasion. com. — RC
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LoveCraft: The Musical posits that H.P. Lovecraft, the patron saint of cosmic horror, was gifted with inspiration for his expansive oeuvre in a Faustian deal made with some sort of tentacled Mephistopheles. At the end of the prolific horror author’s life, the dark forces that populate his pages have now come to collect his soul. The Overtime Theater’s latest original production was written and directed by Scott McDowell and stars Alan Delafield as our main man H.P. Whether or not you’re a fanatic for Lovecraft’s squirming Cthulhu mythos, the musical may be worth a gander simply to hear how the cast will manage to sing “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” $10-$15, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through November 9, 3 p.m. Sunday, October 27, 7 p.m. Sunday, November 3, Overtime Theater, 5409 Bandera Road, Ste. 205, (210) 577-7562, theoverKoury Angelo timetheater.org. — KMN sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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Oh dear, don’t be late to Ballet San Antonio’s whirling and twirling performance of Alice in Wonderland — the first full-length ballet production by Brian Enos, who has helped create works for ballet and dance companies around the nation and was named “Best Up and Coming Choreographer” by the Houston Press. A timeless tale of adventure and imagination, the ballet version of Alice in Wonderland offers a new perspective on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale through a mixture of classical and contemporary movement. Audiences will be immersed in the lush visual world of Pixar artist Luis Grané’s surrealist production design, which renders Alice’s darkly complex, yet beautiful, descent into fantasy. Consider this an invitation to hop down the rabbit hole — but don’t smoke any of the Caterpillar’s funny tobacco, or you’ll be seeing talking cats and leaping playing cards for days. $24.50-$114, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — BE David Teran Photography
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RUBY CITY RIBBON CUTTING
More than a decade after it appeared to late local artist, collector and benefactor Linda Pace in a vivid dream, Ruby City is finally a reality. Inspired by Pace’s sketches, designed by famed British architect Sir David Adjaye and built in partnership with local firm Alamo Architects, the $16 million, 14,000-square foot contemporary art center opens to the public with a ribbon cutting with Mayor Ron Nirenberg. In addition to Adjaye’s dramatic new addition to San Antonio’s architectural landscape, guests can take in a broad cross section of the Linda Pace Foundation’s robust permanent collection via the inaugural exhibition “Waking Dream.” Curated by Kathryn Kanjo, director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, “Waking Dream” speaks to Pace’s practice as an artist as well as her taste for challenging, surreal and otherworldly work. Thoughtfully blending pieces created by international art stars and accomplished local artists, including many alums of Artpace, the residency program Pace founded in 1993, “Waking Dream” hits
a high note with Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic’s 16-foot Chair for a Man and His Spirit (the lower portion of which guests can sit on and temporarily escape reality as an invisible spirit perches above); startles with New York-based San Antonio native Alejandro Diaz’s hyper-realistic human sculpture Muebles (Hatstand); and intrigues with Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s translucent, dream-like passageway Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK. Viewers versed in the San Antonio art world will undoubtedly recognize the late great “Tia” Chuck Ramirez’s stark and poetic photographs of garbage bags, White 1 and White 2, Ana Fernandez’s painterly slice of Alamo City life Los Valles, Ethel Shipton’s screen-printed Exit Sign Series and Cruz Ortiz’s painted portrait of fellow artist Jesse Amado, whose mastery with jewel-toned felt is showcased in one of Ruby City’s sleek stairways. Longtime friends, Pace and London-based filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien are represented in both “Waking Dream” and “Jewels in the Concrete,” a compact complement housed in the auxiliary exhibition space Studio in Chris Park. The all-female mariachi troupe Las Damas de Jalisco will set the lively tone for the celebration, which also includes refreshments and light bites. Free, ribbon cutting at 11a.m., exhibition hours noon-6 p.m. Sunday, October 13, Ruby City, 150 Camp St., (210) 227-8400, rubycity.org. — Bryan Rindfuss
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A Dream Materialized
A look inside Ruby City, Linda Pace’s fantastical temple for art BY BRYAN RINDFUSS
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f the idea of taking dreams seriously sounds whimsical, consider for a moment the iconic works and revolutionary ideas that came to their creators in dreams: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory. The melody for the Beatles’ song “Yesterday.” The periodic table. The sewing machine. The double-helix structure of DNA. The list goes on. San Antonio artist, collector and philanthropist Linda Pace, who died in 2007, took her dreams to heart. Chronicled in her 2003 memoir Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace, Pace experienced “dreams that were so real, so luminous and sometimes so frightening that they startled [her] into seeing glimpses of [her] true identity.” Dreams helped her decide to divorce her husband Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury in 1987 and reclaim her passion for making art. And dreams inspired her to write the script for her second chap-
Ruby City Public Opening Free, ceremony and ribbon cutting 11am-noon, exhibitions on view noon-6pm Sun, Oct. 13, Ruby City, 150 Camp St., (210) 227-8400, rubycity.org.
ter, one that led her to establish Artpace, an esteemed residency program that earned San Antonio a spot on the global art map, and the Linda Pace Foundation, which maintains and showcases her personal collection of contemporary art. Around 2004, Pace started envisioning a contemporary art center that would house that growing collection. When she pitched
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this idea to then-rising London architect David Adjaye in 2006, he agreed to bring her vision to life. The following year, Pace was diagnosed with breast cancer and eventually had “an absolutely incredible dream” about a shimmering “ruby city.” Pace sketched the fantastical complex and shared the drawings with Adjaye less than two months before she died. Now a knighted architect who earned great acclaim for his design for Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Adjaye recently told the Wall Street Journal that Pace had asked him to “Please, please make this building happen.” Funded by an endowment Pace left her foundation, Ruby City finally became a reality this year through a partnership between Adjaye Associates and Alamo Architects. While it’s far from the sketches Pace supplied, the two-story, 14,000-square-foot interpretation boasts a dreamlike quality of its own with origami-esque peaks and deep red exterior panels composed of precast concrete and crushed glass. 30 6
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was an activist for contemporary art practices and for the inclusion of San Antonio and Texas artists to be part of the bigger art world.” Local artist Bill FitzGibbons, who taught Pace sculpture at the bygone San Antonio Art Institute on the grounds of the McNay Art Museum, sees Ruby City’s draw from the inside out. “Ruby City is one of the most important architectural treasures in Texas,” he said. “Linda’s collection includes former Artpace residents, some who have become MacArthur Fellows as well as several that have been represented in the Venice Biennale. Exhibitions and events at Ruby City should attract curators, collectors and artists from around the world.”
Portrait of the Artist While it represents only a fraction of the Linda Pace Foundation’s collection — which comprises more than 900 pieces and continues to grow through the acquisition of work that “reflects Linda’s sensibility of a feminist perspective, engages social issues and considers aspects of spirituality and beauty” — Ruby City’s inaugural exhibition “Waking Dream” presents a fascinating cross-section curator Kathryn Kanjo
likens to a “portrait of Linda Pace, both as a collector and as an artist.” Encompassing 40-plus works united by themes ranging from vulnerability and resilience to the creative self and notions of home, Ruby City welcomes visitors into its “Waking Dream” with a powerful, poppy, playful punch delivered by Pace’s 2001 assemblage Red Project. Upon noticing the recurrence of red in her dreams in 1997, Pace started collecting mass-produced red items from “dollar stores, botánicas and flea markets all over the world.” When the members of the Jungian dream group she belonged to were tasked to make something using imagery from their dreams, Pace started assembling the first building block of her Red Project, which includes 16 joined panels swimming in ruby slippers, boxing gloves, religious statues, Teletubbies, the Rolling Stones’ “Tongue and Lips” logo, Elmo, rubber snakes, a patch embroidered with the Pace Foods logo, a vagina candle, a voodoo doll, Buddhas, beads, boas and plenty in between. Almost too much to absorb in one viewing, Red Project is one of those rare pieces that seems to disclose a new secret every time you see it. Upstairs in the main galleries, a few unmistakable San Antonio scenes emerge, including Ana Fernandez’s recently acquired 2017 painting Los Valles, 34 6
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But it’s perhaps what Head of Collections & Communications Kelly O’Connor characterized as “experiential works” that will transport Ruby City visitors into waking dreams of their own. Standing tallest among those is New York-based Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic’s towering iron sculpture Chair for a Man and His Spirit. For this particular piece, Abramovic — who famously spent 716 hours staring down 1,000-plus strangers who participated in her 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective “The Artist Is Present” — gives viewers specific instructions to experience the work. “Sit on the lower chair,” she writes. “Look at the wall in front of you. Motionless. Depart.” While these instructions are followed, the titular spirit is purportedly perched on the upper chair, which stretches more than 16 feet off the ground. In an email, Kanjo identified Abramovic’s piece as one that feels “particularly transformed” by Ruby City’s architecture. “Visitors first see it at a distance, as they enter the gallery: its exaggerated height is framed by the soaring wall and lit from above,” Kanjo said. Offering an equally surreal interpretation of domestic comforts, Korean innovator Do Ho Suh’s polyester and stainless steel 2016 structure Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK invites viewers into a translucent lavender recreation of a vestibule in the artist’s London apartment building. Of particular interest in this delicate, handsewn passageway are human-scale details such as door hinges, a fire exit and evacuation warning signs, even buttons to call the elevator. As an Artpace resident in 1997, British artist Cornelia Parker created the sculptural installation Mass (Colder Darker Matter) from the remains of a church in Lytle that burned down after a lightning strike. That mobile-like piece earned her a coveted Turner Prize nomination and also informed visually similar works to come, including Ruby City’s Heart of Darkness. First assembled in 2004 from the charred remnants of a Florida wildfire, it might suggest a black-and-white abstract painting from afar but comes to life as you approach it, swaying gently and revealing organic textures and blackened pinecones. A fellow Artpace resident who also earned a Turner Prize nomination with work created in San Antonio — the 1999 film The Long Road to Mazatlán — Isaac Julien held a special place in Pace’s heart, evidenced by an enduring friendship and admiration that led to her foundation preserving the world’s largest collection of his work. Presented in a theater-like gallery dedicated to Julien’s immersive, multichannel film installations, 2014’s Playtime employs capital as a thematic thread connecting vignettes in Lon-
Isaac Julien’s Stones Against Diamonds. Linda Pace’s Red Project.
don, Reykjavik and Dubai. Based loosely on French director Jacques Tati’s 1967 comedy of the same name, it plays out on three screens simultaneously, pairing meditative landscapes and charged exchanges while artfully blurring lines between documentary and narrative. Although James Franco, who portrays a smarmy art dealer, often gets top billing in Playtime summaries, eccentric Swiss auctioneer Simon de Pury steals the show by simply playing himself. If you don’t have 64 minutes to spare, don’t let that keep you from sitting for a spell to get a glimpse of Julien’s distinct approach to storytelling. Taken as a whole, “Waking Dream” isn’t necessarily a crowd-pleaser or an easy read. Instead it’s provocative, pensive, otherworldly and, at times, dark. “Pace’s collection reflects some of the most influential approaches in contemporary art,” said Chad Dawkins, curator and director of exhibitions at Southwest School of Art.” [It reflects] many Artpace resident artists, and it should be known by San Antonio’s art community.”
The Complete Picture Those who have set aside several hours to experience Ruby City in its entirety should save time for a stroll around the sculpture garden, where the building’s architecture is on full display and native Texan and Artpace alum Nancy Rubins’ descriptively titled 5,500 lbs. of Sonny’s Airplane Parts, Linda’s Place,
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550 lbs. of Tire-Wire is poised for a post-apocalyptic photo op. Across Camp Street in the Linda Pace Foundation’s Chris Park, named after Pace’s late son Chris Goldsbury, Ruby City’s Auxiliary Gallery Studio complements “Waking Dream” with the tightly curated “Jewels in the Concrete.” Titled after imagery from one of Pace’s dreams, the exhibition offers its own variety of dreamlike reflections, exemplified by Julien’s ambitious 2015 project Stones Against Diamonds. That piece is set against the dramatic backdrop of Icelandic ice caves and presented on five portrait monitors backed with mirrors. Pace’s 2006 sculpture Mirror Mirror offers a mirrored igloo that visitors can crawl inside to take a surreal look at themselves.
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arts ‘This Shit Isn’t Safe’ Eric André talks onstage nudity and how a near-death experience got Tiffany Haddish cast in his latest movie BY KELLY MERKA NELSON
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hile longtime fans may recognize Eric André from as far back as ABC’s Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, the actor and comedian sprung into a whole new level of fame on the back of his infinitely memeable eponymous anti-talk show, The Eric Andre Show. Now a television and movie star in his own right, André provided the voices for both cackling hyena Azizi in this year’s The Lion King reboot and sly demon Luci in Matt Groening’s Netflix series Disenchantment. André isn’t moving on from the comedy biz by any means. The Eric Andre Show will return for a fifth season, and he’s taken things to the next level in his forthcoming film Bad Trip, a prank-filled narrative comedy made with Jackass’ Jeff Tremaine and seasoned The Eric Andre Show director Kitao Sakurai. Right now, he’s bringing his unpredictable antics to fans nationwide on his massive Legalize Everything stand-up tour. Ahead of his stop in San Antonio, we chatted on the phone with a very hungover André while he got an IV treatment to rehydrate after a wild night out. You’re coming off of this summer’s release of The Lion King remake as well as Disenchantment’s new season. Bad Trip will hit theaters next year, and you’ve been filming the fifth season of The Eric Andre Show. How do you keep all these balls in the air? I don’t know. I’m exhausted. So, just by the seat of my pants. Skin of my teeth. Now that The Eric Andre Show has such a cult following, is it harder for you to get guests? Are celebrities more clued in to the fact that they’ll be tortured? We do a couple tactics so they don’t know what they’re getting into, but also it kinda didn’t matter this season. We just like brought whoever in. They don’t know what torture’s coming up — it’s a 360-degree house of horrors. You’ve said that a few years ago you almost died at the RNC when filming The Eric Andre Show, but you recently had another near-death experience while making Bad Trip. What happened there? Me and [Lil Rel Howery] have this scene where our penises are stuck in a Chinese finger trap. We went
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into this barbershop in the hood and we went up to a guy — it’s all hidden camera, you know — so we went up to this guy, and we’re like, “Excuse me, Mr. Barber, can we borrow your scissors to get us out of this thing?” And this guy came after us. He was looking for a gun — he couldn’t find it — but he came after us with a knife and chased us. We could barely run in this Chinese penis trap contraption, so we’re like, “Ahhhhhhhh!” Then Rel fell down, and I’m running for my life, and then my [first assistant director] stepped in and he was like, “It’s a prank show! It’s a prank show!” And the guy was like, “Oh, you guys are hilarious! Yeah, no problem, I’ll sign the release form.” He was so cool. It was Rel’s second day shooting and he’s miserable. He was saying, “Dude, you’re gonna get me killed. That’s not cool, man, I have kids. This shit isn’t safe.” Later he called Tiffany Haddish — she wasn’t in the movie, yet. We lost the woman that was going to play Rel’s sister in the movie, the first actress that we cast. So Rel calls Tiffany. He’s like, “Dude, Eric André’s gonna get me killed! This movie’s crazy. It’s not safe.” And Tiffany’s dying laughing. Five minutes later she calls me and says, “What? You almost got Rel killed? I wanna be in your movie. That sounds awesome. That sounds crazy.” So, I said, “Your wish is my command.” When Rel fell over, did you guys end up getting separated, or did you both go down? We kinda both went down, and then the dick trap snapped. We ran out of frame before we fell, so it
didn’t affect the edit. But yeah, he was fucked up. That made it into the movie? Yeah, it’s in the movie. You’ll see it. During live shows, you often get nude onstage, albeit with a thoughtful “genitalia tuck” to avoid, shall we say, excessive exposure. Have you ever had audience members freak out on you? I haven’t gotten into trouble for that. Usually it’s met with wild applause and enthusiasm. What’s the over/under on the likelihood of you disrobing at your San Antonio show? I’d say it’s pretty high. Pretty high chance. Pretty high probability.
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A spate of evil clowns are joining Pennywise and the Joker to terrorize moviegoers BY KIKO MARTINEZ
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or the past 14 years, local clown Diana McCurtain-Talbert’s mission in life has been to make people laugh. Whether it’s by making balloon animals at a child’s birthday party or performing a skit at a hospital or church, the self-described “friendly and happy clown” only wants to bring joy to the world. But it’s become more difficult, McCurtain-Talbert admits, to portray her character Buttons — a sunny-dispositioned clown who wears wacky clothes and full makeup — without making some people shudder. Lately, pop culture has transformed clowns into something sinister. So much so, in fact, that there have been times when McCurtain-Talbert has been hired for an event but asked not to show up with her face painted. “I have seen more scared-of-clowns behavior increase over the last few years,” McCurtain-Talbert said. “Hollywood has the potential to make anything be viewed badly.” Clowns of America International president Glenn Kohlberger agrees. In 2014, he took issue to the inclusion of a disfigured clown in the TV horror anthology American Horror Story. “Hollywood makes money sensationalizing the norm,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “They can take any situation, no matter how good or pure, and turn it into a nightmare.” While some might argue that the evilclown archetype started on screen with the release of 1990’s It, a TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s book about a shapeshifting killer clown named Pennywise, one could go as far back as 1924, when actor Lon Chaney played an eerie-looking clown in the silent film He Who Gets Slapped. Since then, pop culture has continued to churn out scary clowns in TV shows, movies, novels, comic books, music, video games and more. This year, Hollywood seems to have turned consumers’ fear of clowns into a fullout cinematic blitz. Two of the most talked about movies to hit theaters in 2019 feature corrupt clowns, It Chapter Two and Joker. What’s more, a handful of low-budget horror movies about clowns have made — or will make — their debuts this year on various platforms. Look out for Wrinkles the Clown, Gags the Clown, Clown, Clownado, Clown Motel: Spirits Arise, Clownface, Clown Doll, Cleavers: Killer Clowns, Drown the Clown, Clown of the Dead, Big Top Evil and Haunt. “I’ve always found clowns to be very inter-
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esting,” said Clownado writer-director Todd Sheets. “You can’t tell their real emotions from their faces. They are painted and kind of mysterious. I find them to be of both worlds. They’re fun and entertaining but they also have that dark side.” Filmmaker Adam Krause found inspiration for his horror flick Gags the Clown from the real-life story of the so-called Wasco Clown, who roamed around California cities in 2014 creeping out residents. “Somewhere along the line, the general perception of clowns went from being people who provided a silly form of entertainment to people who provided pure terror,” Krause said. “It’s the idea of the clown that many find so unsettling — the painted face, the bright clothing, the exaggerated emotions.” Like the Wasco Clown, another real-life clown that terrorized society — although to a far greater extent — was serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who volunteered as a clown for events. Actor Mark Holton, who portrayed the killer in the 2003 horror biopic Gacy, said that although playing Gacy without clown makeup was just as terrifying as playing him with it, he understands the fear people have of clowns. “There’s this feeling of incongruence because some parts of the clown look normal, but some do not,” Holton said. “I think some people look at the makeup and see a distortion of the facial features, which ultimately leads to an uncomfortable feeling of dread.” Local horror author Tim Miller has written
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about evil clowns before in his books Welcome to Happytown, Clown Night, Coulrophobia and Clown Apocalypse, which features a female clown who slices a young girl’s scalp off and wears it as a wig. “There is something about clowns that gives off innocence but menace at the same time,” Miller said. “I’ve often dressed as a scary clown for Halloween or comic cons. It’s just fun to see how people react. Some are fascinated and want to take pictures. Others move as far away from me as possible.” In a 2016 poll conducted by Vox, 42% of Americans said they were afraid of clowns — more than terrorist attacks (41%), biological war (35%), climate change (34%) and death (19%). Anthony Valadez and Kristopher Aleman are the founders of Killer Clowns from San Antonio, a cosplay group that dresses in scary clown regalia for special occasions. Although they think the quality of most clown horror movies can use some improvement, they like that filmmakers are keeping the novelty alive for genre fans. “People who find comfort in clowns probably don’t appreciate the horror aspect,” Valadez said. “But whether they’re scary or not, clowns bring out the adrenaline in everyone. You can’t help but love them for that.”
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Sun-Scorched Terror Celebrate the leadup to Halloween with these five terrifying flicks set in Texas BY MAX BOOTH III
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exas is a scary place. Our state has a rich history of terror, from our haunted landmarks and ghostly children at train tracks to that one Whataburger where everybody swears somebody once died. Hell, not many states can boast that one of its senators is also possibly the Zodiac Killer. Appropriately enough, there’s also an amazing selection of horror films set in Texas, so we thought October would be a perfect time to offer some recommendations of our favorite Lone Star spooktaculars.
THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976)
Town rates as one of the earliest slashers in history, made two years after Black Christmas and two years before Halloween. While the movie’s not a classic like the pair of titles it’s sandwiched between, it’s still worth a viewing for a handful of truly creepy scenes. A lot of its humor doesn’t really work now — and maybe never did — so prepare to cringe through a chunk of the runtime to get to the high points, though. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is loosely based on the real Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a series of unsolved killings and attacks in — you guessed it — Texarkana, back in spring of 1946. So, you can probably imagine why back in 1977 city officials threatened to sue over the film’s poster tagline: “In 1946 this man killed five people… Today he still lurks the streets of Texarkana.” Ultimately there was no suit, and to this day, Texarkana celebrates The Town That Dreaded Sundown with an annual screening at Spring Lake Park around Halloween.
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Who would have guessed ’90s rocker Rob Zombie would become one of the most interesting horror filmmakers of the new century? Not everything he’s made has been great by any means — I’m specifically looking at you, 31 — but the guy has gifted us with several gems, The Lords of Salem being my personal favorite. But, The Devil’s Rejects, a sequel to the bizarrely entertaining House of 1,000 Corpses, is what most people think about when they talk about Rob Zombie — and for good reason. This film is a sun-scorched road trip to hell stretched out across 109 minutes in the wilds of Texas. It’s less cartoonish than its predecessor, coming across more like a violent Western in the style of The Wild Bunch and Badlands. The Texas in The Devil’s Rejects is so hot it’ll make you sweat just watching it.
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FRAILTY (2001)
Anybody who’s visited the Lone Star State for more than five minutes can tell we tend to take our religion quite seriously. Well, many of us do, anyway. Almost to a terrifying level. Maybe that’s why Frailty works so well. In it, the late Bill Paxton gives one of his best performances as an insane dad forcing his two boys to help him exterminate “demons” from the world. Those demons? Yeah, they’re just regular people. Or are they? No, really, they are. As you might imagine, this isn’t a good movie to watch on Father’s Day.
with his cinematic approach. Sometimes TCM feels less like a movie than the nightmare of a deranged lunatic locked up in an abandoned asylum. Hooper’s direction is raw and appears totally oblivious to how things are supposed to be done. That makes the movie a nihilistic retreat into the unknown. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre works because it makes its viewer worried not just for the characters but also the filmmaker. For some fans, it remains perhaps the greatest achievement not just in horror but cinematic history.
BUBBA HO-TEP (2002)
Not everybody wants to feel the absolute desecration of the human soul when watching a horror movie. Some folks prefer something a bit more light-hearted and humorous. Enter Don Coscarelli’s amazing adaptation of a novella of the same name by Texas’ greatest literary gift to the world: Joe R. Lansdale. Bubba Ho-Tep spins a yarn about Elvis Presley, now an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, battling a goddamn mummy with his trusty sidekick: a resident convinced he’s President John F. Kennedy. It’s hilarious and well worth your time. Make sure you read Lansdale’s novella, too, found in his collection The Best of Joe R. Lansdale. By the way, every story in this book slaps; you won’t regret picking it up.
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) 2
What more can be said about the weirdest and scariest horror movie of all time? Forty-five years later, and nothing has topped it. No movie in history has ever made its viewers so vividly uncomfortable like this one. Thousands of films have tried, and they’ve all failed. TCM is scary not only just for its content but its presentation. Director Tobe Hooper accomplished something truly special
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Making the Best of the Fest
Whether you’re a first-timer or veteran guzzler, these tips can help you get the most out of the San Antonio Beer Festival BY LEA THOMPSON
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ven if you’ve been to beer tasting events before, the San Antonio Beer Festival can be intimidating. You’ll be surrounded by 400-plus beers from more than 100 breweries, not to mention thousands of thirsty beer fanatics. Fortunately, we were able to touch base with some SABF regulars who helped us compile a list of dos and don’ts that will help you pack the most fun into your trip to South Texas’ premiere beer event. Prost!
DO SHOW UP EARLY (OR ON TIME)
Waiting in lines is overrated. Arrive early and you have a chance to scout the grounds, talk to brewers, ask questions and sample beers to your heart’s content. It’s a good way to get a jump on snacks and find the best spot to sit and unwind between drinks. Not to mention, some brewers may run low on popular styles late in the day.
DON’T THINK YOU HAVE TO DRINK ALL THE BEER YOURSELF The festival will offer everything from porters and stouts to pilsners and saisons, so pick judiciously and pace yourself. Attendees will also find wine, ciders, live music, local vendors and plenty of food options on-site if you need to take a break from the suds. You don’t necessarily need a pretzel necklace to keep up the pace, but we will never turn down a great pretzel with cheese. Keep an eye out for food truck options onsite.
DO MIX IT UP
We all have our favorite local beers, but with more than 100 breweries represented, this is the time to venture outside of your comfort zone. Try a new brewer. Try a new style. Pick out five unfamiliar beers that interest you or simply wander around the grounds and explore before you commit. This is a beer festival, not a marriage.
DON’T BE INTIMIDATED
You don’t have to pretend to understand the difference between alcohol by volume percentages or how many International Bitterness Units a beer rates to enjoy the festival. Visit with brewers and fellow beer lovers and make connections — ask about their favorite beers so far, the stories behind brewery names and what makes a particular style stand apart. Even if you don’t know the difference between a porter and pale ale, you belong here and you’re here to learn, right?
DO DUMP BEER
Let’s be real: there’s no wy you can sample everything. Start with lighter beers and work your way up to more complex brews. We won’t judge you if you decide to skip a stand or dump a beer that you don’t like. Or, even better, ask for just half a glassful if you’re unsure whether something is likely to appeal to your taste buds.
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DON’T SKIP THE HYDRATION STATIONS
SABF is a long game, so don’t forget to drink water. Try to keep a 1:1 ratio or at least stop by the water stations every couple of beers to help you recharge and rehydrate. There should also be water so you can rinse out your cup between beers and keep your palate ready for your next sample. Your future self will thank you for being so thoughtful.
DO PAUSE BEFORE YOU DRINK
There’s nothing worse than warm beer, but overly chilled beer (and mugs) can also leave you with a boring or less-than-stellar drinking experience. Think about holding onto that chilly glass for a few minutes, so you can actually taste what you’re drinking.
DON’T PRE-GAME
You’re literally here to drink, so it doesn’t make sense to burn extra money at the bar beforehand or to get too tipsy to enjoy the experience. You’ll be awash in drinking options onsite. That said, plan ahead while you can and select a designated driver or just skip the driving — and parking — game altogether and split a rideshare with friends.
DO DESIGNATE MEETING PLACES
Before getting too deep into the festival, break out that map and settle on your go-to meeting places in event you get separated from your group. You can also decide where you’ll meet and chill if you need a break. It’s best to designate meeting times and locations before you arrive, so plan accordingly.
DON’T STARE AT YOUR PHONE
Phones can help you connect with new friends, figure out the best brew and food pairings or capture great photos for the ’gram, but put the phone away while you’re walking around and sampling new brews. You may miss the opportunity to try something new or get the lowdown from one of the brewers. Try to stay in the moment and just enjoy the fest.
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Local brewers face high hurdles to make sure their products end up on taps and shelves BY SANFORD NOWLIN
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one are the days when San Antonio lacked craft brewers. It’s fair to say the city has undergone a beer renaissance in recent years. But that’s not to say its bevvy of new beers are well-represented on store shelves or bar taps. Local brewers say they’re waging an uphill battle to get their products to a wider retail audience, and the growing number of craft breweries snapped up by conglomerates like Anheuser-Busch InBev have only made that fight harder. “There’s a distinct difference between making a good product and being good at the competitive part of the landscape,” said Randy Ward, head brewer of Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., producer of the High Wheel beers. “The fight for tap space is incredibly competitive, and it’s getting worse.” Dorćol more than doubled its production from 2017 to 2018 and last year was named the state’s fastest-growing independent brewery by the Brewers Association. Even so, it serves just 100 bars, only three of them outside of San Antonio. With some 300 breweries now competing in Texas, it makes more sense for self-distributed Dorćol to focus on being a “village brewer” and serving the immediate community, Ward said. Indeed, several local production brewers say that if they were getting into the business today, they would choose to open a brewpub and cater to a neighborhood clientele rather than face the state’s cutthroat retail market.
Buying Spree While many local brewers produce a half dozen or more styles, most are lucky to land one or two on store shelves, said Tim Campion, a vice president at San Antonio’s GLI Distributing, which handles craft brands such as Busted Sandal alongside Pabst and other mass-market brews. H-E-B and other grocers have opened up more shelf space for craft product, but the aisle is still dominated by mass-produced brands like Budweiser, Miller and Coors. Not to mention, the nationwide proliferation of craft brewers has made the remaining space far more competitive. And the battle for tap space is even tougher, Campion points out. If a beer doesn’t move quickly at a bar or restaurant, management is quick to replace it with a known quantity with a guaranteed track record. “If you get on a tap ahead of your brand’s trend,
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you’re not going to keep it,” Campion said. “And once you’ve lost that tap, it’s really, really hard to get it back a second time.” Complicating matters, brewing conglomerates have been on a nationwide buying spree, snapping up craft brewers. ABInbev bought Houston’s Karbach Brewing Co. three years ago, for example, and DFW’s Revolver Brewing Co. became a MillerCoors property shortly before that. That corporate backing gives one-time indies like Karbach an upper hand when vying for tap space, especially when reps can offer it as part of a package deal with sure sellers like Bud and Bud Light, local brewers say. “At the end of the day, our biggest competition is ignorance,” said Eugene Simor, CEO of Alamo Beer Co. “People just aren’t aware that there are all these great products being made locally.”
Personal Connections Last month, a new Texas law allowed breweries to sell beer to go for the first time, giving craft brewers another opportunity to put their products in customers’ hands. Under the old regulations, brewery visitors could buy beers at a brewery tap room but
were unable to take six-packs and growlers home. “That news was really well received by our customers last month,” Dorćol’s Ward said. “It’s hard to tell whether that’s because it’s something new or whether the interest will last.” While selling beer on-site is one way to build a customer base, it’s not a quick process. Without the kind of ad budgets boasted by the conglomerates, craft brewers are forced to take a face-to-face approach to building awareness and brand identity. For Dorćol, that includes holding tastings for bar staffs to make sure they understand the product and can help sell it to customers, Ward said. It also includes personalized customer service, from rushing a delivery to one account that forgot to place its order to helping another fix a problem with its tap system. For its part, Alamo Beer sponsors a half-dozen events and does 40 in-store tastings each month to get its brews in front of customers and build a personal connection. In the end, San Antonio’s craft brewers are waging their war for retail space one beer drinker at a time, according to Simor. “I don’t think the CEO of Budweiser is going to walk into your bar, shake your hand and thank you for your business,” he said. sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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BY LEA THOMPSON Openings Dallas-based dining chain Ida Claire will open its first San Antonio location at 7300 Jones Maltsberger Road in the Alamo Quarry Market. The restaurant will offer Southern dishes and cocktails in the space previously home to chef Johnny Hernandez’s El Machito. … Iconic
local burger chain Burger Boy recently opened its third restaurant at 7363 W. Loop 1604 North. … Though Big Hops at the Bridge has closed, Espuela’s — The Bar at the Bridge recently opened in its place at 306 Austin St. … The East Bar is now in operation, serving up drinks and music at 829 N. New Braunfels Ave. … Le Macaron French Pastries recently set up a new location at 15900 La Cantera Parkway offering sweet and savory pastries, French gelato and coffee.
Closings Storied diner Earl Abel’s, located at 1639 Broadway at the Pearl, has temporarily closed for a remodel. The eatery is slated to reopen under new ownership in November. … Fujiya Japanese Garden has also temporarily closed for renovations at 9030 Wurzbach Road. … The San Antonio-based liquor chain behind Gabriel’s and Don’s & Ben’s recently filed for bankruptcy reorganization, announcing plans to close at least five locations.
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Community Cultures Yeast Lab collects fungi to make your beer taste better BY LEA THOMPSON
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ithout yeast, there is no beer. But, beyond that, yeast has the potential to transform the world of beer, giving it more complex flavor profiles and unique regional differences. So say Rob Green and Mara Young, the husband and wife behind San Antonio-based Community Cultures Community Yeast Lab. The couple teamed up in 2016, drawing on Green’s work as a microbiologist, Young’s managerial and entrepreneurial experience and their shared love of nature. They officially launched their business the following year selling 10 varieties of saccharomyces, a type of fungi that can be used to brewing beer. “We realized that there weren’t really any true American yeast strains, even though the American craft beer scene has been going on for a couple of hundred years,” Young said. “But Rob said he wanted to find them.” Their company, previously known as Texas Community Cultures, has since expanded using yeast samples found during hiking trips and from people they dub “community scientists” who volunteer to help collect yeast strains. The couple also operates a 1,100-square-foot lab, from which they provide yeast testing and cloning. They even offer manufacturing services for craft breweries and distilleries throughout the U.S.
Flavorful Flora Yeast naturally forms a variety of flavor compounds during the fermentation and maturation processes — evoking everything from green apple and sweet fruits to butterscotch, spicy cloves and medicinal notes — that, along with hops and water varieties, determine a beer’s taste profile. “Yeast drives up to 70% of a beer’s flavor profile,” Young said. “There are many subspecies of saccharomyces, but only a fraction has been discovered to date. We’re hoping to find those new ones.” Today, Community Cultures works with more than half a dozen San Antonio breweries, including Alamo Beer Co., Künstler Brewing, Issla Street Brewing, Mad Pecker Brewing Co., Basement Brewers and Cactus Land. Its fingerprints are on several high-profile local beers such as the recent collaborative effort to recreate San Antonio’s first commercially brewed beer, a dry-hopped pilsner named Degan’s Famous Beer, first brewed in 1885. Thanks to Community Cul-
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tures’ input, the beer will appear on tap at Alamo Beer Co. earlier this year. Degan’s — which included input from a dozen area breweries — is expected to roll out on an even wider scale, although the collaborators haven’t yet finalized how it will be manufactured and distributed.
Championing flavor Commercial brewing yeast typically uses neutral strains designed in a brewery, with multiple copies of genes that are resilient and hardy. Most mass-produced beers are produced with neutral strains, which results in an easily drinkable but often flavorless brew. “We’re still in the drinkability era, where people say, ‘I want to taste the lager with no flavor in it,’ basically,” Green said. Where Community Cultures hopes to make a difference is by getting craft brewers shift to using wild and native yeasts. Wild yeast strains produce little to no alcohol, while native yeast — a type of saccharomyces — primarily produces alcohol. In contrast to commercial yeast, neither type is engineered or perfected over generations, but they tend to capture the terroir, or flavorful essence of a particular place, as defined by its natural surroundings. In recent years, breweries have used hops to impart extra flavor to the grains that account for a beer’s body. Community Cultures champions the idea that the same can be done with yeast. “Five hundred years gone is the idea that the yeast would actually do all the flavor,” Young said. “We’re talking monks with barrels here. Whatever grain
happened to fall into the mash resulted in the flavor you got.”
Something New Though Community Cultures works with many local breweries to improve and perfect existing beer styles, the couple is always ready for newcomers to rethink existing beer styles by introducing new yeast strains. “Our hope is that with our native strains, people will break outside the existing beer mold a little bit,” Young said. With the potential to discover new subspecies of saccharomyces, brewers still have the potential to create something completely new. “New strains don’t have a set style. It’s not a Belgian, it’s not a Hefeweizen and it’s not a French saison,” Young said. “So, what are you going to do with it?” When the couple isn’t working at the lab, they’re traveling to meet with professional brewers and hobbyists, and always looking for new opportunities. In the coming months, beer lovers can look forward to seeing more brews incorporating the company’s yeast. For example, Community Cultures recently used a strain of yeast found at Big Bend National Park to create a collaborative beer with Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. to help commemorate the park’s 75th anniversary. It’s scheduled to drop this month. For the couple, the possibilities are endless. “There’s potential to take all that creativity and build it around a wonderful thing’s that been never been discovered before,” Young said. sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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Beyond the Pale (Ale) Texas brewers offer great ways to explore lesser-known beer styles
San Antonio brewpub Kunstler Brewing’s Kleiner Geist is an exemplar of the style readily available in our own backyard. True to style, it’s easy on the alcohol, just 3.9% ABV and quick to refresh — especially crucial as this South Texas summer drags on. It’s certainly a friendly little ghost.
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here’s an embarrassment of riches available to Alamo City brew hounds these days. Crisp, quality lagers abound, as do lupulin-loaded IPAs. While we love those conventional styles, why stop there? Style-sleuthing beer enthusiasts need look no further than Lone Star State breweries to explore some lesser-known brews worthy of including in this year’s cervecerous celebrations. Let’s run down a few, shall we?
TUSCULUM BREWING COMPANY BLACKBERRY BAM BA LAM BERLINER WEISSE Native to Germany’s capital city, the Berliner Weisse is a Teutonic cousin to the sour wheat beers over in Belgium, although the tartness in this style comes from kettle souring, not free-floating yeasts. The Berliners also liked to cut the beer with flavored fruit syrups, which has translated in the States to pitching fruits into the mash from the outset.
RANGER CREEK BOURBON BARREL AGED WEE HEAVY SCOTCH ALE
We’ve had bad luck with past Berliners, mostly due to the inexplicable sensation of getting Scotch tape stuck to the roof of our mouths. Boerne’s Tusculum Brewing Company side-stepped the scotch tape thing in favor of an effervescent, flavorful pint, equal measures of fructose sweet and lactic sour. And, at 4% ABV, we could sip on these all evening.
For the most recent release in its Texas Bourbon Barrel Series, San Antonio brew-stillery Ranger Creek unbreaks the circle between bourbon, the finest distillation of Appalachian Scots-Irish spirit, and the scotch ale indigenous to old Caledonia. The “wee heavy” designation signals that a scotch ale tops 6% alcohol by volume, or ABV. Ranger Creek’s version nearly doubles that, and with bold barrel notes on the nose, we expected a mule kick of booze. But this wee heavy is a wily one. There’s some alcohol up front, yes, but the dominant quality is sweet and smooth, with black currants, caramelized sugar, and a wisp of peat.
JESTER KING SNORKEL FARMHOUSE ALE BREWED WITH OYSTER MUSHROOMS AND SEA SALT Austin’s Jester King produces worldclass iterations of the farmhouse ale tradition, drawing on the land itself to supply beers with an irreplaceable sense of terroir. We shared a bottle of Snorkel around the table during our last feast at The Monterey, and we’ve sought it ever since.
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Looking for all the world like a tall glass of Central Market lemonade, Snorkel drinks like a sheath of blonde silk. The smoked sea salt is there up front, riding side-saddle with gentle tartness from Jester King’s indigenous bacteria. If the thought of fungus-kissed beer makes you uneasy, fear not: the oyster mushrooms make themselves known only through the light electrification of the umami region of your tongue.
LIVE OAK BREWING GRODZISKIE
Grodziskie (pronounced “GRODZis-key”) is something of a zombie recipe. It’s native to the Polish city of Grodzisk, first brewed there in the 11th Century and last brewed there in the early 1990s. Lucky for us, Aus-
tin-based Live Oak Brewing resurrected the style in 2018. Given the state-wide passion for pit barbecue, it’s only appropriate that Texas would bring these smoke-flavored suds back to life. Grodziskie is a wheat beer, low in alcohol (3% ABV) but high in flavor, owing most overtly to the oak smoke treatment given to the wheat before brewing. Live Oak spikes assertively with Saaz hops and brews with both German and Polish yeasts. It’s a classic Old World style with an unorthodox, satisfying twist.
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As we’ve noted in these pages before, San Antonio is uniquely suited by both environment and inclination to the heavy stuff. No surprise then that stouts and porters feature prominently on beer boards and in fridges all around us. But there’s more than one shade of darkness. We’re particularly partial to black ales, and right now there are none more black than Real Ale’s Blakkr. This beast began existence in 2014, although it’s trimmed some ABV since then — down to a mere 9% — but kept its piney hop snarl and dark-fruit-and-black-licorice body. The hails-inducing heavy metal label art only e nhances the heaviness. sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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t the 2017 Austin City Limits Festival, I was sardined in with thousands of other people watching Jay-Z perform on the edge of Zilker Park. My feet hurt, and I was dehydrated. Partway through the performance, I started to wonder why I was even there. Sure, I was hanging with close friends, but I wasn’t even much of a Jay-Z fan. The place I really wanted to be was home. The experience made me wonder whether anyone really likes festivals or whether fans are simply drawn in by the hype — the promise of seeing a bill stacked deep with must-see acts. With ACL in Austin again, split between last weekend and next, it seemed like a good time to put the question to both fans and performers. It got a mixed response. “I especially love ACL,” San Antonio fan Richard Evans said. “I love being able to bounce around and see tons of acts that if I added up the cost of seeing individually would be way too expensive. But seeing some huge acts next to [obscure ones], all during a three-day period is really fun. ... One year I watched Dwight Yoakam and then walked over to the main stage to watch the Weeknd, all in the span of an hour.” Austin fan Lisa Hernandez says she only goes to big festivals like ACL if she has a free pass. “I hate the crowds and heat, so I don’t want to spend my own money,” she said. San Antonio’s Karah Carmack would rather experience artists in a more intimate setting. Musicians are often unable to provide their full light and multimedia experience when performing on festival stages and sometimes fail to connect with the audience, she added. “I don’t feel like the bands put quite as much effort into the show,” Carmack said.
From the Stage For Austin-based rising pop artist Kady Rain, festivals such as ACL open the door to a whole new audience. While Rain’s tune “R.A.D. Moves” landed on last year’s NPR’s Songs of Summer list and now boasts 190,000 streams on Spotify, she sees festi-
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vals as a chance to keep growing her brand. “Playing ACL is a dream come true for me,” she said. “It exposes you to a whole new audience that you would otherwise never would have found. Because you don’t have the kind of draw that a music festival has, where literally thousands of people are flocking to one place.” Illinois-born rapper, singer and musician K.Flay, who grabbed two Grammy nominations last year, said she enjoys the challenge of playing festivals. She sees them as an opportunity to engage an audience that might not know her music. “I’m being led into an environment where I get to meet new people and [have the opportunity] to showcase my individuality as an artist amongst [other artists],” said K. Flay, who is playing both weekends at this year’s ACL. As for whether audiences get more from seeing performers at a festival or in a traditional venue, K.Flay sees the upside to both. “I do think people want an intimate experience with bands that they love. I don’t think that’s ever going to change,” she said. “But to me, what a festival is — it’s of course about the music — but it’s a social thing. When I talk to people who are attending festivals, it’s about who they’re going with. And, yeah, on top of that, they’re excited to see X, Y and Z, and that’s going to be a part of their experience. But to me the festival environment is really social, and that’s the driving force.”
K.Flay performs at ACL Fest 2019. The rapper says she enjoys the challenge of playing festivals.
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Festival Fails Texas has seen a recent spate of festival failures. Fun Fun Fun Fest, Maverick Music Festival and Day for Night have all hung it up, and this year’s River City Rockfest and Float Fest were both postponed. And the flops aren’t limited to the Lone Star State. Oversaturation has led to the slide in festivals nationwide, industry observers point out. “It might be partly that people are less interested now [in music festivals] than they were before, but I think a bigger part is that there’s so many festivals,” Austin concert promoter Graham Williams said of the spate of failures. Pop artist Rain said music festivals could stay fresh and relevant by booking more up-and-coming artists to balance out the established ones. However, she doesn’t want to see them disappear. “Music festivals are a really special thing, and I think we should work really hard to continue to have curated music festivals for specific genres and alternative genres,” Rain said. “They’re the perfect place to discover new music. You can be walking past a stage and discover your favorite new band.”
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How many puns can we fit into this listing? Let’s see. Kevin Bacon may be a sizzling Hollywood actor, but he isn’t the whole hog. Turns out, there’s another pig in the pen — his brother, Michael Bacon. With songs like “Philadelphia Chickens” and “Pots and Pans,” this duo’s eclectic approach to country-folk might just make you squeal. If you’re looking to do something other than Netflix and swill for the night, it may be worth your time to crack open your piggy bank and check this show out. $45, 7 p.m., Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene Road, (830) 606-1281, gruenehall.com. — RC Courtesy of Amigo the Devil
FRI | 10/11 AMIGO THE DEVIL, KING DUDE, TWIN TEMPLE
Amigo the Devil has been creating a buzz in the darker corners of the folk music genre. The solo performer layers lyrics that seem more suitable for a doom metal band over the rustic textures of acoustic guitars and banjos. The results possess a haunting charm. His music also seems like a good mesh for that of tour mate King Dude. If you’re unfamiliar with King Dude’s mix of acoustic folk and Southern Gothic drama, you’re missing out — especially if you’re likely to appreciate the haunted, vintage vibe he conjures on stage. Rounding out the bill is Twin Temple, who describe themselves as Satanic doo-wop. $17, 7 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Chris Conde
Wednesday, October 9
Thursday, October 10
TONY BENNETT
JAI WOLF
Still crooning and touring at 93 years young, Bennett is supporting Love Is Here to Stay, an album he did with Diana Krall. He’s performed for 11 presidents, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and is the oldest artist to have a No. 1 album by virtue of his 2014 collaborative release with Lady Gaga. Translation? Bennett = stud. $59.50-$149.50, 7:30 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — Jay Nanda
Best known for his singles “Indian Summer,” “Like It’s Over” and “Starlight,” New York producer Sajeeb Saha, otherwise known as Jai Wolf, is bringing his dreamy synth beats to San Antonio for his The Cure to Loneliness tour. Saha’s most recent album delivers electronic dancepop goodness to anyone who’s willing to crack open a few glow-sticks and smear on some fluorescent paint. $20, 8 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355. — Rhyma Castillo
BILLY RAY CYRUS, JOHNNY MCGUIRE, GABE GARCIA
The mullet jokes about good ol’ Billy Ray are too easy these days, as are the jokes about daughter Miley or his weed biz. Hell, the snark about “Achy Breaky Heart” is even low-hanging fruit. I guess if we need something to new to bag on, the dude released a “patriotic” album in 2010 called I’m American. Yeah. You do you, guy. $10-$95, 7 p.m., Backyard Amphitheater, 2254 US Hwy 87, Fredericksburg, thebackyardamphitheater.com. — Mike McMahan
Saturday, October 12
ANITRA JAY
Houston-based acoustic soul artist Anitra Jay is a songstress on the come up. She excels at crafting and performing music that incorporates the raw stuff of gospel and soul into the slinky sensuality of R&B. Playing live, with or without her backing band, Jay displays a fast-developing ability to fully capture an audience. Free, 9:30 p.m., Bar 301, 23567 W. Interstate 10 Frontage Road, (210) 4559576, bar301.com. — James Courtney
THUR | 10/17 KNOCKED LOOSE, ROTTING OUT, CANDY, SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY Hailing from Kentucky and active since 2013, hardcore punk band Knocked Loose has had time enough to pay some dues, but perhaps not enough time earn the respect it deserves. With its recently released sophomore album A Different Shade of Blue, the group has embarked on a huge tour that may change that, however. The album builds on the same blueprint of floor-smashing breakdowns that made Knocked Loose’s first album so satisfying while adding some unpredictability to the mix. So far, the record has earned the band generally favorable reviews. You can check out the album over at purenoise.bandcamp.com and dig the rest of Knocked Loose’s music to date at knockedloose.bandcamp. com. Pure Noise labelmates Rotting Out, Candy and SeeYouSpaceCowboy will round on the bill. $22, 6 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — JC Courtesy of Knocked Loose
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THUR | 10/17 UFO
A foundational influence on hard rock and heavy metal — and one of the bands that helped make San Antonio the Heavy Metal Capital of the World — Britain’s UFO has been at it more or less consistently since forming in the late ’60s. Lineup changes have been frequent over the band’s five decades, but vocalist and songwriter Phil Mogg has been a constant, helping keep its sound imminently recognizable. In a career that’s spanned 22 studio albums, there have clearly been some soft spots in the act’s body of work. Even so, it’s hard for anyone to deny UFO’s overall influence or legacy. Hard rock and metal fans should see this show as a perfect opportunity to brush up on the development of the genres and to bid farewell to the band as a touring entity. The tour is being billed as Mogg’s last. $30-$40, 7 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — JC
SURF CURSE
The indie-rock duo Jacob Rubeck on guitar and Nicholas Rattigan on lead vocals and drums — yeah, one of those singing drummers — released its latest LP Heaven Surrounds You on September 13. But expect the Nevada-based duo to draw material from across its three-album, one EP catalog, including the songs “Midnight Cowboy” and “Disco.” With a little luck, maybe you’ll get to dance under some strobe lights and a disco ball. 8 p.m., $15, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — JN
DECIMATION FEST 2019
Absorb the sweet cacophonies of guttural vocals and harsh guitars as they purge your insides at the 2nd annual Decimation Fest. The lineup brings together some of the most brutal metal acts from around the state. Band names like Whore of Bethlehem and Desecrated Remains should give you a good idea of what to expect. $10, 6:30 p.m., Bonds 007 Rock Bar, 450 Soledad St., (210) 225-0007, facebook.com/bonds007rockbar. — Brianna Espinoza sacurrent.com | October 9-22, 2019 | CURRENT
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Thursday, October 17
ENFORCER, WARBRINGER
Courtesy of Amon Amarth
SUN | 10/20 AMON AMARTH, ARCH ENEMY, AT THE GATES, GRAND MAGUS
This bill serves up a smorgasbord of head-thumping sounds from some of Sweden’s finest metal exports. Indeed, it seems more like a co-headlined tour than just a package built around Viking-metal stalwarts Amon Amarth. Although Amon Amarth’s crunching riffs and anthemic choruses have elevated it to legendary status, each of the band’s tourmates could easily top a bill on its own. Arch Enemy has made a name for itself by fusing death metal with proggy musicianship, At the Gates attacks its thrashy riffs like a pit bull going after a mailman’s leg and Grand Magus specializes in bluesy protometal that skimps on none of the heaviness. Arive early for this one, because there doesn’t appear to be anything in the way of filler. $37.50-$59.50, 6 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre. com. — Sanford Nowlin
TROYBOI
Fresh off a tag team with Flosstradamus that’s tearing up the scene, multi-talented London producer Troyboi is bringing his Nostalgia tour to San Antonio. Be prepared to dance and gyrate, but attend at your own risk. “Buckle up and get ready to be taken into the world of TroyBoi because once you are in, you will NEVER want to get out,” his biographer cautions. Color us scared but intrigued. $20, 7 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — JN
Sunday, October 13
NATALIA LAFOURCADE
Since making her 2003 debut, Natalia Lafourcade has emerged as one of Latin America’s most successful pop-rock musicians. The prolific Mexico City-based singer-songwriter is capable of spinning angelic melodies and telling heartfelt stories with her powerful soprano voice. Many in the U.S. got their introduction to Lafourcade via the track “Remember Me,” her duet with R&B singer Miguel featured during the credits of Pixar’s 2017 film Coco. $45-$100, 7 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355. — RC
Tuesday, October 15
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
Motionless in White surfed in on the mid2000s alt-rock resurgence wave and continues to release new material. The band’s latest album Disguise remains rooted in that special place that came after grunge and before the emo explosion. Songs like “Reincarnate” and “Another Life” make it hard to tell whether the members are men or vampires. Seeing as they’re from Scranton, Pennsylvania — America’s version of Transylvania — you may want to bring some garlic and a wooden stake just in case. $28, 6 p.m., Vibes Event Center, 1211 E. Houston St., (210) 255-3833. — RC
The thrashiest show of the month features the Sweden’s Enforcer — not to be confused with that other Enforcer from Chicago — and California destroyers Warbringer. Enforcer released Zenith in April, while their co-headlining tour mates are still riding high from 2017’s Woe to the Vanquished. If you’re going to have a band with only one remaining original member, it best be the vocalist, and John Kevill has been pulverizing microphones and ears for Warbringer since the group’s formation in 2004. $16, 7 p.m., Rock Box, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 2553833, therockboxsa.com. — JN
City. The band, which features members of Grupo Fantasma, describes itself as “hardcore Latin funk,” and they mean it. Did we mention the outfit’s also released two LPs of Black Sabbath covers? SA, this one’s for you. $15-$70, 9 pm, Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint. com. — MM
WITT LOWRY
Friday, October 18
Graphic designer-turned-rapper Witt Lowry transformed his love of writing into musical compositions that confront love, internet culture and rap tropes a la Eminem. The Connecticut native will make a stop in town in support of new album Nevers Road. $16, 7 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — BE
BLUE OCTOBER
COLDCOCK FEST III
CHARLEY CROCKETT, GARRETT T. CAPPS
Saturday, October 19
The stalwart alt-rock act from Houston is heading to town during its namesake month. Legions of post-Joe Anthony 99.5 KISS fans can be heard rejoicing from great distances. Nobody loves Blue October like the Alamo City. $35-$59.50, 7 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — JC
Two of Texas country music’s hottest rising stars are scheduled to meet up on the hallowed ground that’s considered the musical birthplace of the Red Headed Stranger. This one is highly recommended for anyone looking to peer into the future of Texas country. $17.50-$23, 7 p.m., John T. Floore Country Store, 14492 Old Bandera Rd., Helotes, liveatfloores.com. — JC
BROWNOUT
The aptly named Brownout is bringing its Fear of a Brown Planet Tour to the Alamo
Nothing says “sophisticated, cosmopolitan outing” like an event with “coldcock” in the title. With 21 bands on the bill, it’s probably best not to go expecting long sets full of deep psychedelic jams. Topping the bill are The Recasts, who also organized the show. 4 p.m., Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue, 437 McCarty, Suite 101, (210) 607-7007, fitzrockssa.com. — MM
SKILLET, ALTER BRIDGE
Grammy-nominated Christian rockers Skillet return to San Antonio for the umpteenth time, bringing with them more beards, more electronic music and Alter Bridge, a band made up of three parts Creed alumni and one part Miles Kennedy. Get ready for some late 2000s-style rock ballads and distortion-kissed praise hits. $41.50, 6 p.m., Vibes Event Center, 1211 E. Houston St., (210) 255-3833, vibeseventcenter.com. — BE
SUN | 10/20 DWIGHT YOAKAM
Wednesday, October 16
I never really got into country growing up, so as an adult I stayed away from it. Until a friend forced me to listen to Dwight Yoakam. My friend, knowing my affinity for darker lyrics and more depressing music, turned me onto the 1990 song “Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose.” As Yoakam sang, “Well, I’m back again for another night of trying to break free from this sadness that I can’t lay to rest,” something resonated with me. After a stroll through the singer’s catalog, I really could relate to some of what he was saying. If you don’t dig country music, but appreciate honest, well written music, Dwight Yoakam might change your mind about the genre. $49.50-$79.50, 9 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-5700, majesticempire.com. — CC
MUSHROOMHEAD
Not to be confused with Slipknot — you know, that other group of mask-wearing nu-metallers — Mushroomhead found a new home with Napalm Records this year and is preparing for another album release in 2020. Don’t forget to bring your x-eyed mask and keg barrels if you plan to turn up and rock out to classics like “Solitaire Unraveling” and “Qwerty.” $18, 6 p.m., Rock Box, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 2553833, therockboxsa.com. — BE Courtesy of Dwight Yoakam
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TUE | 10/22 THE HU
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One of the latest bands to emerge from the wildly diverse subgenre of world metal, The Hu is a Mongolian band that blends traditional Mongolian musical forms and instruments with a heavy metal aesthetic. Although formed in 2016, the outfit only released its first LP, The Gereg, last month. The Hu, however, is already making waves. Its music has everything any diehard metal fan could ask for: hard driving percussion, bruising riffs and repetitive, throbbing bass lines. The group makes things interesting by paying homage to its culture by making use of the morin khuur, also known as the horsehead fiddle, and traditional Mongolian throat singing — both of which make it sound even more ominous and terrifying. Additionally, the band has an intense anti-authoritarian and anti-oligarchical message in its lyrics, which make it seem more purposefully intense than bands that are just loud for the sake of being loud. Check out this unique band on the rise at thehuofficial.com for a preview of this sure-to-be-wild show. $20-$23, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — JC
Saturday, October 19
MARCUS STARKIST
Straight outta H-town, DJ Marcus Starkist — tuna jokes not included with the cover charge — is bringing the boom bap for a night of untz-untz-untz. He only wears one earphone in his promo picture, so you know the man is a serious EDM practitioner. $5, 8 p.m., Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s, thelimelightsa.com. — MM
YUNG GRAVY
In an effort to explain his style of profane, smooth jazz-informed rap, Yung Gravy sings in “Pizzazz” that he “does it for the Jane Fondas, Michelle Obamas and Brandi Loves.” He couldn’t get the first two to appear in his video, so his consolation prize was the porn star who’s arguably more “sweet, creamy and succulent” than the self-described crooner. Expect the Minnesotan to trot out his singles “Mr. Clean” and “1 Thot 2 Thot, Read Thot Blue Thot.” 8 p.m., $22.50, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St. (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — JN
MICHAEL W. SMITH
Uber-successful Christian singer-songwriter Michael W. Smith is coming to town on a victory-lap tour celebrating 35 years of peddling Jesus via well-crafted tunes. $42.25-$87.75, 7:30 p.m., Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 226-5700, majesticempire.com. — JC
Monday, October 21
THE MAINE
Pop-punk veterans The Maine are dropping
into SA supporting new album You Are OK and to help us relive the days of emo haircuts, skinny jeans and Vans Warped Tour summer memories. They may have cut off the flippy hair, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still sing along to tracks about that one special girl from high school. $25, 6 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — BE
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Tuesday, October 22
HOBO JOHNSON AND THE LOVEMAKERS
Part poetry-slam pining, part sad-boy stream of consciousness, Hobo Johnson’s music has been the subject of much online hate. We can’t lie, though, the beats on his self-produced tracks are pretty clean and serve as a solid backup to his spoken-word delivery. If you’ve been recently rejected by your local Manic Pixie Dream Girl, consider picking up a ticket. Hobo Johnson may provide you with the support you need to get the hell over it. $25, 7 p.m., Aztec Theater, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355. — RC
DREAM THEATER
The reigning gods of progressive metal are coming to town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of what may be their finest album, Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory. Expect the band to perform that release in its entirety, alongside other favorites and tracks from its latest release Distance Over Time. $34.50$69.50, 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-5700, majesticempire.com. — JC
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