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Club For Small Members AtticRep gets struck by The Irish Curse
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Broken Record It’s Al Pacino’s greatest hits on repeat in Danny Collins
11 NEWS Nobody’s Perfect While labor leader César Chávez changed America for the better, his controversial immigration views are either ignored or hijacked for propaganda
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22 ARTS Be Well And Go Seek A Q&A with New Age guru Deepak Chopra Artist On Artist Gary Sweeney chats with celebrated Chicano painter Adan Hernandez
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31 FOOD Late Night Done Right Inside Crossroads Southern Kitchen Lunchtime Snob New ownership means new eats at Azro Afghan Cuisine Culinary Calendar 7 ways to get your drink/grub on this week Flavor File More Easter brunch options for you and la familia
39 NIGHTLIFE Straight To The Point The Watering Hole is a beer-drinker’s playground
Taking Back The Night Tons of new music and food options usher in the resurgence of the St. Mary’s Strip End Of An Era D.T. Buffkin crashes backstage at the historic Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard show Music Calendar What to see and hear this week
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NEWS
Hundreds of San Antonio activists took to downtown streets last weekend to celebrate the life and work of César Chávez, including a push to make his birthday a federally recognized national holiday.
NOBODY’S PERFECT César Chávez’s Legacy Includes Controversial Immigration Stance MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN
When galvanizing figures rise from nothing to change the course of American history, they leave behind lasting legacies. In many cases, controversial legacies. Civil rights leader César Chávez is no exception. Chávez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union in 1962, was remembered across the country yesterday, his birthday anniversary. President Obama designated March 31 as national César Chávez Day, though it’s not a federally-recognized holiday. Without Chavez and Dolores Huerta, his leading partner and a renowned activist in her own right, farm workers in California and across the country would have been victim to low wages and slave-like working conditions far longer. Chavez is remembered for striking, boycotting and fasting — nearly dying in the process — yet his controversial view on immigration is a thorny issue typically left out of his historical narrative.
Tea Party talking heads and antiimmigrant advocates have adopted racial slurs used by Chávez — like “wetback” — against strike-breaking immigrants in the 1970s as propaganda against immigration reform while leftist activists tend to ignore this side of the iconic activist altogether. But determining whether Chávez was virulently anti-immigrant isn’t easy when placed across a historical backdrop that has changed dramatically since the UFW first began organizing in the fields. And determining its impact back then, as well as what it means today, tends to depend on whom you ask. Miriam Pawel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, said understanding Chávez’s immigration views is complicated. “He certainly had implemented strong policies against immigrants at various points in time and against illegal immigration, particularly,” Pawel told the San Antonio Current. In 1974, Chávez spearheaded the controversial “Illegals Campaign.” The strategy was simple: UFW members were to report undocumented immigrants to the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service, known as the INS. Manuel Chávez, the leader’s cousin, simultaneously ran “wet lines” in Arizona with hundreds of UFW members patrolling the border to stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande to work as scabs during a strike. “That was a pretty violent setup and it was financed by the UFW. So all of that is part of his record on immigration, but
stems from his feelings of difficulty of winning over immigrants,” Pawel said. Chávez felt immigrants only had an interest in money, which they sent to their families in Mexico, which worked against the union’s efforts to improve wages and working conditions of American pickers, she added. For her book, Pawel said she spent hours listening to taped meetings between Chávez and other UFW leaders during which illegal immigration, Chavez’s use of racial slurs and campaigns against immigrants were hotly debated. But talk to Marc Grossman, spokesman for the Cesar Chávez Foundation, a San Antonio nonprofit advocacy group, and a different picture emerges. “There are two separate and distinct issues and some people confuse them, unintentionally or deliberately,” Grossman, who served as Chávez’s speech writer for two decades, told the San Antonio Current. In many cases, the UFW and Chávez promoted and protected the rights of undocumented immigrants working on the
farms, but on the other hand, in the 1960s and 1970s during labor strikes, companies would hire undocumented immigrants as scabs in attempts to break union strikes. But what’s wrong is to use a broad brush in labeling him as anti-immigrant. “There are those out there who say he was against undocumented immigrants or immigrants in general and that’s just absurd, and the union’s history belies that misinterpretation,” Grossman said. “Sometimes they’ll dig up 40- or 50-year-old news clips where he uses the word ‘illegal’ or ‘wetbacks’ to describe illegal immigrants. That’s just how people talked back then.” Grossman acknowledged that his boss did go through a linguistic transformation, eventually dropping the slurs. He also pointed to Chávez’s support of President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty for nearly three million undocumented immigrants; the UFW’s 1973 opposition to a federal law requiring employers to verify immigration status of employees; and CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 ►
CÉSAR CHÁVEZ: LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS • One of his 31 grandchildren, Sam Sanchez, is a pro-golfer. • In 2011, the U.S. Navy named a cargo ship the USNS Cesar Chavez, which delivers supplies to ships at sea, including ammunition, food, repair parts, stores and fuel. • Before eighth grade, Chávez changed schools a whopping 38 times. That’s because he grew up in a migrant farm worker family. • He was a vegetarian. • Chávez joined Synanon, a drug rehab and religious group deemed by its critics as a cult.
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efforts to end the Bracero Program, a legal guest worker scheme that legally imported Mexican farm workers from the 1940s until it ended in the 1960s. “He was someone who truly understood and predicted the mushrooming social and economic political influence of Latinos … He predicted what is happening today and what we’re seeing across the country,” he said. Grossman was critical of Pawel’s reporting on Chávez’s immigration views, but she stands by her work and is quick to list off Chávez’s myriad of accomplishments improving the lot of U.S. farm workers. “Denying that things happened is to deny people the opportunity to learn from the history,” she said. Such lessons are more important than ever now, particularly as millions of undocumented immigrants are poised to obtain legal status through President Obama’s orders — pending the outcome of a legal challenge by his detractors. Farm worker rights also continue to strike at the heart of activist movements. Giev Kashkooli, the UFW’s political and legislative director, said pickers still face atrocious work conditions, all for the lowest wages. Improving work conditions and pay are important, yet, in keeping in line with their founder’s prediction of Hispanic influence on American society, the UFW’s most pressing current issue is immigration reform. Kashkooli said 95 percent of presentday members are immigrants.
Just how crucial is Obama’s legalization program to the UFW and how influential is the organization? Its current leader, Arturo Rodriguez, sat with Obama on Air Force One to review the document with Obama before the president unveiled it in November. If it eventually goes through, it would mean legal status for a staggering 250,000 union members. “Earlier that week, dozens of farm workers from around the country had brought a Thanksgiving meal to D.C. so Americans could understand what it takes to harvest the food,” Kashkooli said. If all of America’s undocumented farm workers were deported, grocery stores across the country would struggle to fill shelves and the price of vegetables and fruits would likely skyrocket. “It’s very personal for today’s farm workers and this has been true for well over 15 years when we began intensively engaging in trying to change laws,” Kashkooli said. Were he alive today, Chávez would likely do what he always did best: organize strikes and boycotts and use the power of the people to force social justice. So he may have taken to his grave that little-discussed anti-immigrant side. Perhaps he’d want to take all that back – who knows. But nobody’s perfect. And, no matter what, no one could question the tremendous impact he had in putting Latino civil rights on the national consciousness. That is his legacy. mreagan@sacurrent.com
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Since 1996, April has been designated as National Poetry Month, a global celebration of “poetry’s vital place in our culture.” Billed as the largest literary celebration in the world, NPM takes shape locally through an array of happenings that overflow into May. Beyond community events like Bihl Haus Arts’ Go! Poe Reading (2pm Sat, 2803 Fredericksburg Rd.) and UNAM’s Voices, Vibes and Visions (7:30pm Sat, 600 Hemisfair Plaza), the first crop of offerings includes Twitter-driven calls for entries (such as the Witte’s Fiesta Royalty Haiku and San Antonio Public Library’s Tweet a Poem!) and the decidedly DIY incentive SLAM The Town. Visit npmsa.com for details. — Bryan Rindfuss
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WED
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The Search FILM
A companion to the exhibit “World War II in Photographs,” the McNay’s “WWII in Film” series wraps up with a screening of Fred Zinnemann’s 1948 war drama The Search, starring Montgomery Clift and Aline MacMahon. Shot in Germany, the film tells the story of an American army engineer who takes in a homeless Czech boy separated from his mother after both were sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Thought to be killed in a gas chamber, the mother is, in fact, alive and looking for her son. The Search was nominated for four Oscars, winning one for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story. $5-$10, 2pm, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. – Kiko Martínez
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Immortal Technique MUSIC
Felipe Andres Coronel, best known by his glorious emcee name Immortal Technique, is a bad motherfucker. Since 2001, Technique has proven himself as a rapper whose knack for lyricism and hip-hop delivery is matched only by the blunt force and vitality of his call to arms. In music that’s certainly not for the faint of heart, the emcee rails against cycles of violence and addiction, economic injustice, racism, capitalism and the superficiality of popular culture. On stage, Technique is a ball of righteous fire, exploding with anger sharpened by a philosopher’s sense of social critique. $20-$30, 8:30pm, Alamo City Music Hall, 1305 E. Houston St., scoremoreshows.com. — James Courtney
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Food Network has turned dozens of chefs into household names, but Alton Brown stands out as a wild card — a walking book of knowledge spiked with a sharp sense of humor. Launched into the culinary spectrum via the informative yet comical series Good Eats, Brown now hosts the ruthless competition show Cutthroat Kitchen. Touching down at the Tobin this week, the James Beard Award winner’s Edible Inevitable Tour combines food experimentation, stand-up comedy, original live music, “enforced” audience interaction and a messy, Gallagher-esque “poncho zone.” $55-$150, 7:30pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — BR
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La Cage Aux Folles THEATER
Everything is dandy in SaintTropez until the “Tradition, Family and Morality Party” shows up. In La Cage Aux Folles, Georges, the owner of a glitzy drag club, and his partner Albin, the club’s star performer, experience an upheaval of their charmed lives when George’s son arrives with his fiancée and her homophobic parents in tow. From there, antics ensue, love is tested and disguises are worn. Based on a 1973 French play, the Tony-winning musical comedy (which inspired the 1996 film The Birdcage) lands at the Woodlawn under the direction of Tim Hedgepeth. $17-$26, 7:30pm FriSat, 3pm Sun, Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 267-8388, woodlawntheatre.org. — Murphi Cook
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More than 200 established and emerging artists and artisans are expected at the Starving Artist Art Show in La Villita, a tradition since 1963. The brainchild of Reverend Paul Soupiset (whose tireless efforts to raise funds for the needy earned him the nickname “The Beggar of La Villita”), the weekend event was devised to showcase struggling local artists while also supporting the Little Church of La Villita’s year-round food assistance program. A portion of proceeds from the 53rd annual show will benefit the elderly, widows and widowers, veterans and others in need. Free, 10am-6pm Sat-Sun, La Villita, 418 Villita St., (210) 226-3593, getcreativesanantonio.com. — BR
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Vusi Mahlasela MUSIC
Vusi Mahlasela is a celebrated South African singer-songwriter whose music is steeped in the emotions of a never-ending quest for justice and freedom. His songs combine elements of South African folk music with the loose structures and improvisational bent of jam band rock. That his struggle music eschews resentment in favor of love and forgiveness is a true testament to Mahlasela’s beneficence. Like his message, Mahlasela’s voice resonates deeply — a breath of dewy sunlight, generous and full of optimism at the end of a long night. Essential tracks include “When You Come Back” and “Say Africa.” $35, 8pm, Jo Long Theatre, 226 N Hackberry St., (210) 207-7211, thecarver.org. — JC
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Bad Religion MUSIC
The landscape of American punk rock was largely shaped by the West Coast movement of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Among the key players, Bad Religion has remained a staple in the punk rock world, consistently releasing albums over the last 30-plus years through guitarist Brett Gurewitz’s pioneering Epitaph Records. Syncopated drumbeats, trebly guitar riffs and frontman Greg Graffin’s powerful vocals are all hallmarks of the Bad Religion sound. Fellow LA punk legend Keith Morris, of Black Flag and Circle Jerks fame, will be providing support with his latest outfit Off! $27-$29, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — Erik Casarez
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Established in 1989, Hank Lee’s San Angel Folk Art is among the oldest anchors of the Blue Star Arts Complex. Although stocked with giftable wares and a whimsical line of guayaberas, Lee’s eclectic emporium chiefly traffics in works crafted by artists – folk, outsider and contemporary – from Latin America, Europe, Africa and beyond. On view through May 31, San Angel’s “Amor Sin Fronteras” serves as both a showcase and Texas début for young Mexico City artist Felix D’Eon. Referencing erotic Japanese woodblock prints from the Edo period, children’s book illustrations and lots more in between, D’Eon’s provocative yet playful gouache paintings hijack vintage sheet music and other ephemera with homosexual fantasies exploring “happy endings and outcomes in Aztec civilization, Revolutionary-era Mexico and the American West.” Free, 5:30-7:30pm, San Angel Folk Art, 110 Blue Star, (210) 226-6688, sanangelfolkart.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
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an opening reception for local artist and educator Sarah Fox’s latest series of mixedmedia collages and drawings. Currently pursuing her MFA in painting and drawing at UTSA, Fox describes her mythologyinspired pieces as “visual poems” and “externalized portrait drawings of internalized dialogues.” Free, 6-8pm Thursday; AnArte Gallery, 7959 Broadway, (210) 826-5674.
Art opening: “There Are No Happy Endings” Recently named curator of
exhibitions at Montana’s Red Lodge Clay Center, former San Antonio resident Wesley Harvey unveils a new body of work that further examines gay male sexuality and popular culture. By use of appropriation, Harvey creates narratives and collages enveloped by queer theory on hand-built ceramic sculptures such as plates, teapots and vessels. Free, 7-10pm Thursday-Friday; Hello Studio, 1420 S. Alamo St. #106, (210) 291-8640.
International Artist-in-Residence Exhibition As guest curator for the first
IAIR exhibition of 2015, Los Angelesbased Cesar Martinez tapped Londonbased Colombian art star Oscar Murillo, theatrical Houstonite Autumn Knight and LA-based painter Henry Taylor. Dubbed by fans as a “21st-century Basquiat,” Murillo has been known to paint with a broomstick and scrawl words like “burrito” on his canvases. A trained drama therapist, Knight combines elements
of performance, video and sculpture in multimedia projects that encourage discourse about emotional, racial and geographic boundaries. Honored in 2012 with a mid-career retrospective at MoMA PS1, Taylor has depicted prostitutes and drug dealers in his folky paintings, but does not identify as an “outsider artist.” Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.
“Les Artistes Exposés” Southtown’s
Sexology Institute hosts a “Frisky First Friday” reception for Baton Rouge-based body painter Christina Babin and writer/ dildo designer Keisha Maria, who’ll be signing copies of her book The Best and Worst 50 Sexual Experiences Ever. Free 6-11pm Friday; Sexology Institute and Boutique, 727 S. Alamo St., (210) 487-0371.
”One Way Trail” Pittsburgh-based artist
Kim Beck’s Art in the Garden installation offers a plethora of alternatives to the “predictable” or “official” trail. Complete with phone-accessible snippets of audio from interviews the artist conducted with 16 “tour guides” — a motley crew that includes SAY Sí students, two dogs, a Buddhist priest, a Texas rancher and a 95-year-old SA native — her “One Way Trail” envisions our stories, our preferences and our desires as integral parts of our experience in the park. $5-$8, 9am-5pm daily; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, (210) 207-3250.
”Tooky Jelly” Revered local artist James
Cobb’s new solo exhibition features work created digitally and printed on metal —
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Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II
When Bugs Bunny on Broadway (aka Bugs Bunny at the Symphony) débuted back in 1990, there was a not-so-subtle irony in having classic Looney Tunes episodes play before the stiff opera house crowds they were made to parody. But then Merrie Melodies animators likely had a clue that their cartoons would serve as so many people’s first (and often only) exposure to classical standards. Such were their influence that even today it’s hard to hear “Figaro’s Aria” without picturing Bugs in a barber’s outfit or “Flight of the Valkyries” without hearing Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the Wabbit!” A 25th anniversary update, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II finds the Looney Tunes crew with the full backing of the San Antonio Symphony to revisit their most classic(al) moments. Besides Bugs episodes, there’ll be a wide sampling of other symphonically minded Looney Tunes selections from Daffy Duck, Pepe Le Pew, Tom & Jerry and even a couple of new Warner shorts made specifically for the show. $25-$65, 8pm Fri-Sat, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, sasymphony.org. — J.D. Swerzenski
“labor intensive, though untouched by human hands save for the firm grip on a mouse.” Free, 2-7pm Thursday-Saturday, Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047.
Film
Food Chains Esperanza Peace & Justice
Center hosts the San Antonio premiere of Food Chains, a documentary revealing the human cost in our food supply. The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida said to be revolutionizing farm labor. Following the screening, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Student/Farmworker Alliance will lead a march from Esperanza to Wendy’s. $5, 6pm Friday; Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Ave., (210) 228-0201.
Theater
A Numbers Game Four actors take on
roles in four unusual love stories in this collection of tales written and directed by Emily Fizgerald. $10-$14, 8pm ThursdaySaturday, The Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden St. (210) 557-7562.
An Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show Funded in part by the Jim Henson Foundation, locally-based artist Zach Dorn’s latest “live-action comic book” recounts mysterious tales surrounding a lonely puppeteer, a vertically challenged ghost and an opera-singing landlord. $15, 8:30pm Friday-Saturday; Miniature Curiosa’s Toy Theater Parlor, 1906 S. Flores St., (813) 843-3722
Crime and Punishment Curt Columbus
and Marilyn Campbell’s fast-paced theatrical adaptation of Dostoevsky’s classic tasks three actors with portraying an array of characters. David Rinear directs the Playhouse’s production. $12$30, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.
Disney On Ice: Frozen Hosted by Mickey
and Minnie Mouse, this live action adaptation of the Oscar-winning musical fantasy features guest appearances by Disney princesses and characters from favorites like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Lion King. $34-$329, 7:30pm Thursday, 1pm & 7:30pm Friday, 11:30am, 3:30pm & 7:30pm Saturday; 10:30am, 2:30pm & 6:30pm Sunday; Alamodome, 100 Montana St., (800) 745-3000.
Mary Poppins Based on the books by P.L.
Travers and the 1964 Walt Disney film, Jullian Fellows’ theatrical adaptation of Mary Poppins promises to “transport audiences to the Banks’ household on Cherry Lane as well as the rooftops of London” while revisiting such classic songs as “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Jonathan Pennington Studios produces the Cameo’s production. $15-$33, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 4:30pm Sunday; Cameo Theatre, 1123 E. Commerce St., (210) 212-5454.
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210|West Gallery Talk: This Land Is Your Land (?) Francine Sanders Romero,
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Policy, explores how rules of property ownership and water rights aided the settlement of the American West. $8-$10, 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., San Antonio, (210) 299-4499.
Music for Your Eyes Walter Mathis
enhanced Villa Finale’s world of visual beauty by filling it with the sounds of music. Visitors to his home were treated to a unique visit as they toured Villa Finale’s collections while their ears were entertained by the musical delights of antique machines. Guests on this tour will be treated to demonstrations of some of the rare music machines in the Mathis collections, including the automated 1921 Bechstein-Welte reproducing piano. $15-$20, 6:30-7:30pm Thursday; Villa Finale, 401 King William St., (210) 223-9800.
The Settlement of Leon Springs: From Prussia to Persia In conjunction
with Igo Library’s Live Smart/Learn Well series, author Marlene Richardson recounts highlights from her 25-year journey writing about the history of Leon Springs, a vital watering hole for travelers of yore — from gypsies and gangsters to German nobility and Sufi sheikhs. Free, 2pm Thursday; Igo Library, 13330 Kyle Seale Pkwy., (210) 207-9080.
Dazzling! Léon Bakst and the Ballets Russes Versed in Russian literature, stage design and the avant-garde, University of Southern California professor John Bowlt visits the McNay to shed light on Léon Bakst — an accomplished portrait painter and landscape artist, couturier and photographer, fencer and tattooist. $5-$10, 6:30pm Thursday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.
Mayoral Candidate Forum Moderated
by former television personality Michael Valdes, four special panelists will pose questions to all confirmed San Antonio mayoral candidates. Members of the community are invited to meet the candidates, hear their positions and obtain information about their campaigns. Free, 6pm Wednesday; Texas A&M University-San Antonio, One University Way, (210) 317-6283.
San Antonio Fetish Ball: Exotic Easter Hosted by Temple of Flesh
and benefiting the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, the latest incarnation of Exotic Easter features performances and appearances by adult film star Gen Padova, aerial artist Deborah Espinosa, the EBM Dollz dance troupe, body modification expert Ariel, drag performer Sasha Taylor and DJs Mr. Scandal and Star 23. $15-$20, 8pm-2am Sunday; Player’s Club, 11431 Perrin Beitel Rd., (210) 300-2376.
Talks Plus
DeCoursey Lecture: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Northern Irish astrophysicist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell will present Trinity University’s 2015 DeCoursey Lecture. Regarded as one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain by BBC Women’s Hour, Burnell takes interest in radio stars, which she discovered as a graduate student, and transient astronomical phenomena. Free, 7:30pm Thursday; Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University, One Trinity Pl., (210) 999-8117.
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Even if you’re not among the growing number of his devotees, chances are you know something about Deepak Chopra. The distinguished — and wildly popular — endocrinologist, writer, lecturer, alternative medicine advocate and New Age spiritualist has written more than 80 fiction and non-fiction books. He’s hailed by some as a postmodern visionary, bringing contemplative depth, ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science to bear on some of our most significant issues. By others, he’s lambasted as a pseudo-scientist, using his medical credentials, vague religious extrapolations and an understanding of alternative medicine to profit from his followers’ naiveté. Now, with his new fiction book The 13th Disciple just out, he’s coming to the Tobin Center to deliver a talk entitled “The Future of Wellbeing.” Chopra spoke with the San Antonio Current last month from a lecture 22 CURRENT • April 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
stop in Philadelphia. In an insightful conversation, he discussed his new book, the Tobin lecture, his response to detractors and general hopes for the planet. So your new book, The 13th Disciple, is a historical fiction with a powerful element of spiritual exploration. What’s the social value of a book like this? Let me start by providing some context. Not many people know this, but I was educated by Irish Christian missionaries in India, so I have a very strong background in Catholic theology. So that heavily influenced the writing of this book. But the book is the experience of six people who run the entire gamut of where people are in their spirituality. In society today, you have atheists, agnostics, curious people, people with a spiritual bent and people who are religious in the orthodox sense. And
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atomic universe is mysterious too, in that it is both particles and waves. Particles are things and waves are possibilities. And the second hard problem is: What is the basis of consciousness? And, again, we don’t know. So we neither know what existence is, nor do we know why there is awareness of existence. For those of us who are curious, this leads to a lot of contemplation and inner-inquiry. And that’s what this book is about. So the book is as much about non-specific inner-inquiry as it is about the Christian tradition?
this is how society is today. You know, there are people who are totally wed to the material world and have no interest in spirituality and who are, in fact, militantly atheist. But the characters in the book show the entire gamut of how we explore reality. The conclusion of the book is ultimately that reality is more mysterious than we think it is. More mysterious … How so? The five senses deliver to us a reality that we call the physical world, but we have no idea how we experience the physical world when all that goes to the brain is electrical information. How does that create a three dimensional world evolving in time? And that is one of the hard problems in science today. And there are really two important hard problems. One is: What is the universe made of? And we don’t know. See, 95 percent of the universe is mysterious dark energy and dark matter. Only five percent of the universe is atomic and the
Right, but you know one of the tenants of Christianity is Jesus as the light, the way and the truth. So my interpretation of that is that light is the light of awareness — nothing is real for you unless you are aware of it. The way is contemplative self-inquiry. And the truth is the truth of existence. We know we exist and we know there is awareness of existence. With a novel that imagines the quest for a 13th and female disciple, how do you respond to people saying you are taking liberties with Christian tradition? Well this is my third book on Christianity and it’s, you know, ultimately a work of fiction. I’m not claiming that this is the way it really is. However, I’ve spoken about Jesus at many churches. But, if you look at, for instance, the Sermon on the Mount, there are a lot of feminine attitudes there: forgiveness, love, nurturing, caring, affection, beauty, intuition. I think the feminine aspects of the gospel have been largely ignored. Tell me more about the malecentered nature of Christianity. Well, yeah, there’s a lot of guilt and retribution embedded in the religion. In
fact, institutional Christianity is basically a monument to guilt. I think that if we look deeply into the teachings of Jesus, it’s much more about love and compassion and forgiveness. But religions are based on control, aren’t they? Sure, but to what end? Wealth and power. Human tendencies toward wealth, power and control. Tell me how your lecture “The Future of Wellbeing” connects to the book The 13th Disciple. There are a lot of different types of wellbeing. I’m talking also about social wellbeing, wellbeing in your career and finances, and in your community. Once you have achieved that kind of holistic wellbeing, there’s still the spiritual hunger that we have. A hunger that asks: What is the meaning of our existence? What is the meaning of death? Is there a higher being or consciousness, and if there is do we have a connection with that? I think unless we address our spiritual yearning, mankind remains incomplete. So that’s the connection between wellbeing and my new book. You have been criticized for your promotion of alternative medicine and holistic healing on the grounds that these notions could possibly derail people with serious illnesses from seeking conventional medical treatment. How do you respond to that?
with scientists about these topics. But what I decided about six months ago is that the best way to counter this type of criticism is not to defend myself or to counter-attack. I’m an MD and I have a practice in California with six other physicians and our courses are approved by the American Medical Association. I lecture at medical schools all the time. Now I am building a library online of all the peer-reviewed articles on holistic healing. Anybody can check it out at ISHARonline.org. But I definitely don’t encourage people to go away from traditional therapy. I only ask people to realize that 80 percent of medical prescriptions are for pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia and constipation or PANIC. We could save a lot of money by paying attention to things like stress management, meditation, exercising, yoga, healthy emotions and food that is real instead of manufactured. Approach the physical problems as well as the emotional and lifestyle connections … It’s not so radical. That’s all I’m asking people to look at. I don’t think it warrants such criticism, but people have a right. What is your overall goal in all your spiritual and academic efforts? In the biggest sense, my goal is to reach a collective consciousness for a more healthy, happy, sustainable, just and peaceful world. What’s the biggest obstacle to this progress you seek?
The hypnosis of our social Look, right now we are in a very conditioning, which always looks for a interesting time physical solution to every because of all this new problem. So the solution to Deepak Chopra: understanding of what terrorism is to kill a terrorist, The Future of Wellbeing we call neuroplasticity but you can’t kill an idea. $36.50-$100 7:30pm Wed, Apr 8 and epigenetics and the We must understand things Tobin Center for the Performing Arts connection between our like climate change and 100 Auditorium Circle consciousness and our economic and social justice (210) 223-8624 tobincenter.org biology. I’ve written books in much deeper ways.
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Gary Sweeney Interviews Adan Hernandez Adan Hernandez is one of the seminal figures in San Antonio’s Chicano art movement, which began to get attention in the 1970s. His parents were migrant cotton pickers. The family eventually settled in San Antonio, where Hernandez became interested in drawing. It wasn’t until he saw a painting show by Jesse Treviño in 1980 that it occurred to him that he could be a serious artist, and his big break came when film director Taylor Hackford chose 30 of Hernandez’s paintings for his 1993 crime-drama Blood In, Blood Out. In addition to his large body of work that occupies both public and private collections (including Cheech Marin’s definitive Chicano art collection), Hernandez also published the novel Los Vryosos: A Tale from the Varrio and is currently working on an ambitious project to bring a Chicano art museum to San Antonio. What was your first art experience? Was there a moment when you knew you wanted to be an artist? I didn’t know I could be or make a living as an artist until I was 30 years old. I would come home from work and paint the walls with trivial art, and I was evicted a few times for doing this. I didn’t realize my potential until Jesse Treviño had an art show downtown. That’s when my girlfriend (and later my wife) Debi Fischer convinced me to quit my job and focus on being a serious artist. If not for her, I never would have been an artist. How would you describe your work to someone who’s never seen it?
Adan Hernandez and Gary Sweeney in Hernandez’s West Side studio.
Antonio was an incredible experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything. In the ’60s, it was a hard time to make a living. My parents had eight kids, and I worked in the fields every summer just to put food on the table and have clothes for school. In spite of that, we had so much fun and laughed so hard. Chicano culture on the West Side was like barrio theater, with the way we handled hardship with humor and friendship. Were there artists you looked up to?
I would say my artwork is sacred to me and mi gente because it comes from a people who have suffered brutal hardships. That this art has been pummeled to the ground in hopes that it would just go away by a racist regime, which is our institutions. This art stands for something significant in the American experience. Where do you think the state of Chicano art is today? I think Chicano art today is, like most MexicanAmericans, still clawing to exist. There are, however, glimpses of hope here and there. To be a working artist is hard enough, and to be a Chicano artist is highly hopeless. Although there are pockets of collectors who have kept me, and others like me, in the art scene. What was it like growing up as a Latino in San Antonio in the 1960s? Growing up as a Chicano on the West Side of San 24 CURRENT • April 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
My peers wouldn’t even talk to me. Only after I gained national recognition when the [Metropolitan Museum of Art] bought two of my pieces for their permanent collection, and after my paintings were featured in a movie, did I gain some grudging respect. As far as influential art, I loved Jesse Treviño’s art, which was about my barrio, and César Chávez, whose art I really admired. In Los Angeles, I was influenced by the late Carlos Almaraz ... César Martínez, who has lived next door to me since 1986, has become like a brother to me, and I think his work is incredible. If someone were to ask you about the content behind Chicano art, what would you say? I prefer to call myself a Chicano artist because I come from a time when we were slave labor. My parents and grandparents knew nothing else. It was the Chicano Civil Rights movement that allowed us to realize our dreams. We came out of the fields and into the classroom and
became empowered. Most Mexican-American youths don’t know about our struggle. They think their rights were given to them by a caring America. We are also grateful for white people like Robert and Ethel Kennedy, who came to our struggle. Nobody seems to care about our struggle, even though there was plenty of violence against our leaders. Our rallying cry was, “Adelante con la causa! La gente primero! Y que viva la raza!” What’s your best advice to young artists? My advice to young artists is that if you are not obsessed with art, viewing or creating it, find other ventures. Art demands everything from you if it is to be worth viewing. And if you are that person who is devoted, remember that every age has its great truths, and it is up to artists and authors to reveal them to the world. Why do you think artists and musicians never seem to find appreciation where they live? In 1980, local Chicano artist Jesse Treviño took the city by storm. Never had this town seen such incredible Chicano art. He influenced me greatly, and 10 years later I got a break when my work was discovered by Hollywood, and I was hired to create 30 paintings for Taylor Hackford’s cult classic Blood In, Blood Out. Local actor Jesse Borrego played the Chicano artist in the film. It took Hollywood for my work to be accepted, in a film that crashed cultural barriers internationally. And most of that had to do with my art in the film. Viva Chicano art!
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CLUB FOR SMALL MEMBERS AtticRep Revisits Martin Casella’s Raucous Comedy The Irish Curse STEVEN G. KELLMAN
In A Moveable Feast, his memoir of Paris in the ‘20s, Ernest Hemingway recounts how F. Scott Fitzgerald appealed to him for advice: According to Zelda, Fitzgerald’s penis is not large enough to satisfy her or any other woman. Hemingway tries to reassure him by taking him to the Louvre to compare his measurements to those of the museum’s nude statues. According to an ethnic stereotype, men of Irish descent — like Fitzgerald — tend to be poorly endowed. Whether anatomically accurate or not, a belief in “the Irish curse” can deflate a man’s sexual AtticRep’s Rick Frederick in The Irish Curse. performance and devastate his ego. In The Irish Curse, a support group gathers one rainy Wednesday responsible for the set design), who, evening in the basement of a Brooklyn last seen here as Austin in True West, church in order to share and assuage continues to demonstrate remarkable their anguish over anatomical versatility. Challenged to talk about insufficiency. In what is in effect “The himself, jolly Father Kevin, who gets Penis Monologues,” five anxious men flustered when the others become too each tell their stories. In the intimate bawdy or combative, reveals that he, space of the Tobin Center’s Carlos too, has the Irish curse; it is why he Alvarez Studio Theater, AtticRep’s became a priest. “Aren’t you ever angry raucous, funny and disquieting at God?” asks Kiernan. No one blames production of Martin Casella’s 2005 Saint Patrick, who chased the snakes play situates the audience within that — those phallic devils — from Ireland. group, to ponder not only a peculiar Explaining how he manages to physiological problem, but larger be hyperactive sexually despite his questions about the relationship “Irish” handicap, Stephen Fitzgerald between anatomy and destiny as well (Tyler Keyes), a belligerent gay cop, as sexuality and love. nevertheless concedes: “Some days AtticRep first produced The Irish I’d sell my soul for seven inches.” Curse in May, 2011, and this revival Weeping openly over the fact that enlists two new actors — Alejandro his beloved wife abandoned him for Cardona as Rick Baldwin, a 22-yeara well-hung stud, Joseph Flaherty old Irish-American who masks his (Lawrence Coop), a genteel, middlephysical deficiency by stuffing a sock aged lawyer, likens his own penis to a in his pants and affecting lechery, bottle cap. He riffs wildly, and wisely, and Sam Mendelbaum as Kieran on penis envy as the Riley, an actual Irish source of global conflict. immigrant who wanders The Irish Curse The five actors in this in out of the rain with a $18-$28 production seem as woeful tale that outdoes 8pm Wed-Sat, 2:30pm Sun comfortable in their roles them all. Convening Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater Tobin Center for the Performing Arts as their characters are the proceedings is 100 Auditorium Circle awkward in their bodies. Father Kevin Shaunessy, (210) 223-8624 The Irish Curse is a played with panache atticrep.org Through Apr 5 blessing in these guys. by Rick Frederick (also
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BROKEN RECORD Can Al Pacino Actually Avoid Playing Al Pacino In Danny Collins? DANIEL BARNES
It feels as though Al Pacino has been “doing Al Pacino” in movies ever since he won the Oscar for 1992’s Scent of a Woman, where he played the blind, brash, brazenly offensive Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade. It was a terrible film then and it’s almost hilariously unwatchable today, yet people were inexplicably charmed by Pacino’s onenote bellowing, and it raised him to a new level of popularity. Despite the fact that one-note screaming lessons came to dominate his work, Pacino’s 1990s post-Scent performances in films like Heat, Donnie Brasco and The Insider are a relatively diverse lot. But like his generational equal Robert De Niro, he succumbed to a highly lucrative life of scenery-munching self-parody. It was kind of fun at first, like a reclusive rock star playing a concert full of his greatest hits, but it’s grown progressively depressing, like that same rock star playing that same catalog of greatest hits a quarter century later. In writer-director Dan Fogelman’s scattershot Danny Collins, there is a brief sensation that Pacino will engage in some soul-searching self-commentary on the subject (sorry, Jack and Jill does not count). He plays the title character, a sensitive 1970s folk singer turned creatively bankrupt modern-day pop buffoon, a man who gets more washed up the more successful he becomes. As the film opens, Danny is drowning in the clichés of boomer rock stardom — cocaine, booze, a ridiculously young fiancée, fake tans, wigs and girdles — and his life has become a non-stop greatest hits tour played for an audience of Twizzler-eating seniors. A birthday present from his best friend and tour manager Frank (Christopher Plummer, good in even the most incredulous roles) pulls Danny out of his 28 CURRENT • April 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Recipe for success? Or done one too many times? Actor Al Pacino seems stuck in a trend playing, well, Al Pacino. Is Danny Collins any different?
downward spiral of runaway success. It’s a framed 1971 letter written to Danny by John Lennon, stolen and lost for decades, in which Lennon responded to a magazine interview where Danny talked about his fear of commercial success, especially the negative effect it might have on his music. In the letter, Lennon advises Danny that the key is to “stay true to yourself,” which Danny interprets as a call to ditch the mansion and the fiancée to hole up at a New Jersey Hilton, where he intends to reunite with his estranged family and write the One Perfect Song that will fix everything. As soon as it becomes clear that the film is really about the megastar Danny bantering with star-struck hicks and learning how to love again, it sinks like a stone, and we’re right back to Pacino “doing Pacino.” Pacino’s shameless preening results in some enjoyably loose-limbed moments, the best of which he shares with Annette Bening (who plays the hotel manager), but the family scenes are a drag. A teeming mass of quirks, tics and inexplicable behavior, Danny’s family could have
been assembled by a Sundance Film Festival selection committee. There is the dewy-eyed but inwardly tough pregnant mother (Jennifer Garner), the resentful but sensitive father hiding a Big Secret (Bobby Cannavale) and an adorably sass-mouthed moppet named Hope. They come straight out of Juno’s Buyers Club of Little Miss Station Agents, and the contrivances stack up whenever they’re around. The actors all do fine work, but they’re swimming against the tide of Fogelman’s script, which features some sharp dialogue and interesting ideas but never assembles its pieces into a credible whole. Fogelman absolves Danny of any responsibility for the familial estrangement very early, cutting off the film’s limbs in order to make the protagonist more ostensibly likeable. Robbed of any real character stakes, Pacino is left to ham it up for the hotel staff, goof around with his granddaughter and wait for the son to get over his shit. Although the film claims to be “based on a true story a little bit,” the Lennon letter is the only sliver of a semi-fact in Danny Collins. A more accurate
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It’s late, and you need something to fill your belly after one too many beers. Other than hitting up the same ol’ taco joint or staying home and firing up the stove (or microwave), the post-bar cuisine options in San Anto are limited. This isn’t a knock on the Chacho’s, Las Salsas or Los Robertos that dot the area, and I would be remiss if I didn’t admit to chowing down on Los Regios when the mood strikes, but certain nights call for something different. How does fried pickled okra sound? Or how about a “ridiculous chicken biscuit” that’s not wrapped in bright yellow paper wrappers? Veggie-seekers — wouldn’t a seitan-sausage with red beans and celery relish really hit the spot after a few cocktails? Hungry party-hoppers can head to Crossroads Southern Kitchen inside Faust Tavern and satiate those late-night cravings for actually digestible fare, that’s scratch-made to boot. The kitchen first opened in May, replacing the pizza by-the-slice concept Faust had initially tried getting off the ground. After meeting chef Drew Morros at a popup dinner, Faust owner Danny Delgado offered her the space to work her magic. Morros, a native of Charleston, North Carolina, had been in San Antonio for five years at that point. The 29-year-old fan of homesteading first worked at The Cove under Mike Sohocki, where she took charge of adding vegan and vegetarian menu items such as the vegan burger and Mexican lentil stew, before transitioning into a catering manager role. “They were great about helping develop my skills,” Morros said of owners Lisa and Sam Asvestas, who paid for butchering classes and a weekend hunting trip with Jesse Griffiths of Austin’s Dai Due. She then moved over to Restaurant Gwendolyn, and helped run Sohocki’s farmers market operations and charcuterie prep. Morros (wo)mans the tiny 15-by-10-foot kitchen with childhood friend Roberta Marques, who joined her in San Antonio two years ago. Of the three major menu board changes in the last 10 months, Morros believes her current one is also her strongest offering. By now,
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the food has amassed a solid following, so favorites have started bubbling up to the surface and staying on top. The fried pickled okra, for one, is an obvious bar snack, but the smoked mozzarella mac ‘n’ cheese isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The recipes come via Morros, who sees homesteading and Southern eats as going hand-in-hand. Her day-today consists of getting into the kitchen at around 1 p.m. to start making biscuits from scratch. Though sales from food industry insiders and bar-goers make the bulk of her revenue (“we have a window from 1:50 to 2:30 a.m.”), a happy hour crowd of professionals and teachers keep her busy in the evenings. Again, it’s the menu that sets Crossroads apart from the rest. There’s a salad of sweet peas, sugar peas and black-eyed peas on romaine, drizzled with a mint dressing and dotted with crunchy biscuit croutons, added as a way to make eaters feel better about taking down a meatloaf sandwich this winter. Though the salad is textured, light and one of the best this writer has had in the city, diners can’t help but linger on the ridiculous chicken. Served between a homemade bun as a sandwich or over the scratch biscuits and covered with red-eye gravy infused with coffee and
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First things first: This stop was with yogurt for dipping. Offered a déjà vu for me — I reviewed choice between leek and potato filling, Azro (a male name in Arabic, we opted for the leek. A thicker Afghan adapted from the far more common bread was served on the side. girl’s name Azra, meaning virgin) for For main courses we selected the San Antonio Current back in early chicken quorma (lamb quorma is also 2013, when it had recently opened at on the menu) and the kabab-e-kofta. this location as a Moroccan restaurant. Several kebabs — chicken, lamb and The décor is largely unchanged since beef — are on the menu. There are it reopened under new ownership last also a few vegetarian entrees. All main summer as an Afghan eatery. A lowcourses include basmati rice (white or padded platform for those who like to eat brown) and a salad. The quorma (more on a partial lean has been added to the commonly korma) was mildly spiced in table seating for about 50. A tiny patio is a tomato sauce with hints of coriander available with a view of the parking lot for and cumin. Our orders were mixed up those wishing to dine al fresco. with the rice, and our request for an Lunch on a recent weekday at noon extra plate to facilitate sharing was was pleasantly unhurried, with a number ignored, but it was really quite tasty of women with hijabs (head coverings) and filling. and their preschoolers at large tables, The kebab — lean ground beef formed a Saudi couple in military camouflage into small strips, seasoned with garlic, and a quartet of older women dining coriander and cumin and lightly braised together. We seated ourselves at — was the star of the show. a vacant table for four and were Playing a much smaller, and not immediately greeted by the owner and so satisfactory role, was the salad: a asked our beverage choices (if you’re small bowl of iceberg lettuce, a single looking for alcohol to wash down the cherry tomato, a few carrot peels, with food, you’re out of luck). a light oil dressing. Not much to talk For appetizers, we ordered borani about, indeed. badenjani, small eggplant slices We split and both enjoyed a rich, thick sautéed in a tomato and meat sauce rice pudding dessert, shir-berenj, with with a taste of garlic and mint and a sprinkle of cardamom on top. Prices drizzled with a thin, homemade yogurt are a tad high for lunch ($46 for two sauce. Eggplant is ubiquitous in Middle including tax and tip) — Azro charges the Eastern and Mediterranean dishes, same for lunch and dinner. However, but this was mild and the flavor had if you want to try a well-prepared meal a subtlety not found in that moves outside San Greece and Turkey. Our Antonio’s steady staple of Azro Afghan Cuisine other starter was bolanee Mediterranean restaurants, 2211 N.W. Military Hwy., Suite 131 (or bolani), a very thinAzro is an inviting place (210) 342-0011 crusted flatbread stuffed, for a leisurely lunch in 11am-3pm and 5-9 Tue-Sun; 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat lightly fried and served Castle Hills.
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Thursday, April 2: Francophiles will get to enjoy “A Night in France” inside Speisen European Cuisine with French eats, wine and culture. Austin-based chanteuse Julie Slim will sing tunes alone with pianist Shawn Ellison. No cover, 7-10pm, 7115 Blanco Road, Suite 110, (210) 541-8911, speisens.com. Saturday, April 4: Learn how to spice up your palate using aromatic blends. The Central Market Cooking School hosts this “Spice Trail” handson class where you’ll make bruschetta Got what it takes to compete at Beardcon? with Spanish chorizo, shrimp, tomato and spicy harissa; roasted carrot soup with Egyptian Dukkah and yogurt; crispy berbere (a spicy Ethiopian blend) chicken with lentils; and ras el hanout, spiced popcorn with chocolate. $60, 11am-1:30pm, 4821 Broadway, (210) 368-8617, centralmarket.com. Saturday, April 4: The tasting room at Ranger Creek Brewing and Distilling is open for all to purchase beer and whiskey brewed right here in San Antonio. Try their take on the Moscow Mule or their frozen margarita, which combines a few secret ingredients with the distillery’s .36 white whiskey. No cover, prices vary, 5-9pm, 4834 Whirlwind Drive, (210) 775-2099, drinkrangercreek.com. Saturday, April 4: If you’re into beards or just a fan of the fuzzy follicles, you’ll want to stop by 502 Bar as they host the fourth annual Alamo Beard Club Beardcon. This year’s comic con theme facial hair competition will feature 10 unique categories including full beard over six inches, full beard under six inches, full beard with styled ’stache, partial beard, best groomed, natural mustache, styled mustache, military mustache, ladies creative beard and freestyle beard. $5 for spectators, $15 to compete, 7pm-2am, 502 Embassy Oaks, (210) 257-8125, facebook.com/alamobeard.club.1. Sunday, April 5: It’s time for veggies to take the spotlight. San Anto’s first-ever chili cook-off will be held inside the Movement Library on Easter Sunday. Stop in and taste offerings from nine chefs including Rebel Mariposa of Rebel Eats Catering, Nadia Casaperalta of Hot Joy and David Arciniega of Amaya’s Tacos & Bakery. $3, 3pm, 1412 E. Commerce St., (210) 299-2666.
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Feast isn’t going anywhere any time soon since the eatery’s owner, Andrew Goodman, triumphed with a recent court ruling against landlord entity Santos Holdings. The Southtown staple known for its New American cuisine will remain at its 1024 S. Alamo location at least through July 2018, and has the choice to opt for an additional three years. The end of this yearlong lease battle will help finally get the ball rolling on Goodman’s second Southtown restaurant, which he plans to open inside the Fire Station No. 7, with chef Stefan Bowers as a business partner. The duo is also collaborating on a new restaurant inside the St. Anthony Hotel, which they hope to open within the next three months. Easter menus are still rolling in. Don’t forget to get those reservations in for this Sunday or else you’ll be SOL come brunch-time. This only happens once a year: Cured (306 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 101, 210-314-3929) will open its doors on Easter for a special à la carte menu of French toast with bananas foster and praline bacon, grits and grillades and (probably the only way you can enjoy plenty of family time) table-side mimosas. The kiddos can enjoy a special treat in the “Worms, Dirt & Mud” dessert with chocolate cake crumble, gummy worms and chocolate mousse. The menu for Silo Elevated Cuisine & Bar also looks intriguing. The Alamo Heights (1133 Austin Hwy., 210-824-8686) and 1604 (434 N. Loop 1604 W., 210-483-8989) locations will host a three-course Champagne brunch at $38 per person with several options including choice of lobster bisque, ancho braised pork ragout or signature chicken fried oysters; grilled Texas redfish, eggs Benedict, pan-seared sea scallops or Maine lobster roll as a second course; and choice of vanilla bean cheesecake, dark chocolate truffle mousse or toasted coconut mousse pie for dessert. Stone Werks Big Rock Grille’s three locations will feature a special brunch and drink menu from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Easter Sunday with $2.75 mimosas, sangria and bloody marys. Starfish (709 S. Alamo, 210-375-4423) joined the brunch game two weekends ago. Available Saturdays and Sundays, the brunch is served 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and includes chef Diego Fernandez’s rye and buckwheat waffles with halibut cheek and salmon. The menu also features smoked salmon with a poached egg, green tea hollandaise and a hominy cake along with caramelized bananas and Nutella crepes. flavor@sacurrent.com
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Sometimes a bar needs a good makeover that’ll help attract a fun crowd without falling into a rut. I lived down the street from RBar, a tiny cantina that was wedged between a Cambridge Auto Center, a Full Service Auto Parts and a Lone Star Body & Paint, for the better part of a year – but then I moved out and was left wondering what happened to that beer joint. The answer? RBar was turned into The Watering Hole, another not-so-great example of SEO, but a very inclusive bar setting near the Medical Center. The new owners made some obvious upgrades. These are the same folks behind barcade-favorite, Slackers, and The Silver Fox, a Leon Springs roadhouse that caters to all despite its moniker. Though it’s still a hole in the wall, and RBar’s signage continues to command the outdoor façade, the bar’s inside has been tweaked. The clubby bar lights and aesthetics were swapped for rustic wooden touches used throughout the interior and outdoor patio. Long, tall wooden eight-tops are scattered throughout and touches of Slackers are visible in the
lone Beer Ball skee ball lane, Golden Tee Live golf game, two water-filled beer pong table sets and darts. Another Slacker staple, a ridiculously frustrating ring toss game, is also available at The Watering Hole, though as a bar-top game and yes, it’s equally tough. If the games, pool table and two dartboards aren’t enough to keep you entertained, the bar doubles as a Fan of Slackers? Then this game should look familiar. sports fan refuge with a handful of large flat-screens scattered around, further driving its mini-Slackers included Blue Moon (a peachy seasonal), Miller Light, impression. The pièce de résistance is the 40-foot Crispin, Killians, Abita Grapefruit IPA, a few selections projection screen that streams three games at once (they of Leinenkugel, Pedernales’ Lobo Negro and Robert Earl were basketballs deep in March Madness during our Keen’s Honey Pils, Karbach’s Hopadillo, Modelo Especial visits) that sits on the bar’s elevated second portion. and Freetail’s Soul Doubt IPA (though they were out for Just like other area bars that cater to USAA employees the evening). fresh off the clock, The Watering Hole features specials for Bottled and canned selections elevated the beer said professional clientele on Wednesday and Thursday. selection to around 50-ish brews, so hop fans won’t go The insurance claims adjusters and such filled the joint at thirsty any time soon. And a full bar means the beer-averse around 6 p.m. with their loosened ties and business attire, sect can still enjoy their outing. Though I made my way over whilst enjoying $3 wells, probably hoping to wait out the to the bar with only two buds in tow, The Watering Hole is area’s traffic jam. Sadly, San Antonio Current employees spacious enough to accommodate large groups with ease don’t get that discount, but to be fair, The Watering Hole – its homey vibe will keep it from feeling too corporate. prices were far from steep and specials are available Some folks know how to open a bar and keep bar-goers throughout the week. entertained. That’s the case for owners Mike Salinas, Sundays mean free pool and darts with $3.25 “u-callWallace Harding, Jeff Shoemaker and Steve Blames, who it on almost anything” while Tuesdays are pint night. are bringing accessible and laidback joints to San Antonio Thursday means Trivia Night and you can work on your with signature details. For USAA employees and folks from toss during Beer Pong tournaments on Fridays. Service area neighborhoods who are down to party industry folks also get a bit of a break with 20 with fun specials in a clean, lively space, The percent off their tabs. The Watering Hole Watering Hole is a convenient joint that will This being a beer joint and all, The Watering 9809 Fredericksburg soon turn into a favorite. Hole does have a fair selection of brews both (210) 778-9543 flavor@sacurrent.com facebook.com/Thewaterholesa big-brand and local. Draft choices, 20 in total, sacurrent.com • April 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 39
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The most iconic glass in America, by far, is the pint glass — the shaker pint glass, to be technical, so named for its other use (agitation for cocktails). It’s hard to botch a pour with these guys, and they’re best suited to brash American styles like Ranger Creek’s Dark Side Of The Hop or Branchline’s Woodcutter’s Rye. The shaker pint finds its European counterpart in the nonic pint. Sporting a little love handle just beneath the lip of the glass — easy to stack and easy to grip in the close quarters of the pub — and makes an ideal vehicle for porters and darker ales, like Freetail’s Local Coffee Stout. As their names imply, pilsner glasses and weisen vases are designed for the Bohemian lagers and wheat ales of central Europe. Tall and tapered, they can handle the ample head and substantial drafts favored in Cologne and Prague — hence Ranger Creek’s branding a pilsner glass for the release of its Love Struck Hefe. Rounding out this abbreviated list are the small, round glasses — tulips and snifters — that deliver the wild lambics and boozy tripels of Belgium. Similar in style to wine glasses, their diminutive serving size opens up their aromas and provides portion control. If you were lucky enough to snag one of Karbach’s snifters last week for their Double Rodeo Clown cask at the Huebner Big Hops, congrats — you’ve got the Charizard of glasses.
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Go ahead and call it a comeback. It remains to be seen how far the resurrection will go, but the venerable St. Mary’s Strip is abuzz with new offerings — going way beyond the standard boozing and bar side flirtation fare. The venue shuttered in December after 18 years in operation as the White Rabbit. It reopened last week as Paper Tiger, a rock ‘n’ roll nightclub with a clear vision of independent music and illustrious speakers. The new venue, donning an orangeand-white façade, is but the latest addition to the historic nightlife area. It’s actually the new crown jewel of a growing and beer-stinking collection of St. Mary’s Strip gems. A revamped Limelight, the AMP Room, a new offering by Hi-Tones’ Danny Delgado called Phantom Room and a medley of local restaurants will open in upcoming months. To call it a revival of the Strip would be an insult to the rad work already at hand on SA’s least touristy nightlife street. But quickly, all at once, San Antonio’s best string of dives is becoming a place where formerly boarded-up joints now have new tenants and parking is a thing of the past. At 2410 North St. Mary’s, Paper Tiger is the epicenter of the return of a vibrant mix of music and food choices on the Strip. “The story is not one of strategy as much as me and Chad deciding to do more,” said Charlie Biedenharn, who runs Empty Stomach restaurant group with Chad Carey. Their portfolio includes haute spots such as Bakery Lorraine, Hot Joy, Barbaro and The Monterey. 44 CURRENT • April 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
For Paper Tiger, the duo teamed with musician Garrett Capps, Southwest School of Art professor Justin Boyd, booker Ryan Brummettt and Austin’s Transmission Events. “We don’t really sit around and stroke our beards and think about ‘oh this would be a really strategic investment,’” said Carey. “When I opened The Monterey, I did it because I thought the vast majority of dining options were sort of lame and I wanted to do something different and interesting.” Oh yeah, and there’s that thing about boosting the local music scene so people here don’t feel they have to jump on I-35 North for an hour to catch good tunes. “Acquiring the White Rabbit was sort of the same thing where me and Charlie and Justin Boyd were all fans of music, with disparate tastes,” Carey noted. “Our opinion was, we got tired of going to Austin to see the bands we wanted to see.”
Rabbit Gets Stripes It all began in August 2014, when White Rabbit owners Rhonda Moore and Richard Sciaraffa sold the venue to Empty Stomach. “Richard and Ronda had run it for a long time and they were tired,” said Carey. “I had made overtures in the past … in this case, the timing was just right.” Shortly after the announcement, Jennifer Holt of promo company Twin Productions sued the venue, claiming she was owed a 25 percent cut from
the Rabbit’s sale. Incensed that they didn’t hear of the sale until after the fact, Twin Productions and fellow bookers Scoremore Shows bailed on the venue, moving their Rabbit-scheduled gigs to The Korova and Alamo City Music Hall. Sounds like the makings of a nasty and bitter fight, but for now at least, the Paper Tiger seems to have been able to stay above the fray. Despite maintaining the adjective-animal formula for the venue’s name, Carey and Biedenharn are moving towards a mature and more critically hyped schedule of music, away from the teen-core and solid hip-hop of the former venue. To do so, they’ve brought in Austin’s Transmission Entertainment, the purveyors of Fun Fun Fun Fest. “We had never been sure if we could book San Antonio ‘cause we didn’t know what venue to work with, what the market was like or how big the scene was,” said Graham Williams, founder and talent booker for Transmission. “This seemed like a great way to do it. We have people there in San Antonio fully committed to help grow what is happening down there. And we could work with them on that as opposed to being someone from another city trying to do something in a city where we don’t live, which always felt a little egregious to us.” Founded in 2006, Transmission established a name in Austin as one of the smartest booking companies in town, with impeccable planning and giving the world a bold new invention in 2012 — the taco cannon, a Tex-Mex Gatling gun
debuted at Fun Fun Fun. “It’s going to turn everything upside down,” said Ryan Brummettt of DIY bookers Mondo Nation, in charge of Paper Tiger’s smaller tours and local shows. “It’s hard to imagine the impact it will have until we actually see it, but there’s never been a booking company like this in SA.” Already, the spring lineup has a consistency of quality that’s foreign to a venue of its size in SA. Between its opening and May, Paper Tiger will host NYC downtown legends Swans, party rockers Turquoise Jeep, soul strutter Lee Fields and Beefheartian pop star Ariel Pink. Brummettt, along with Justin Boyd and Garrett Capps, will pitch in to book local shows and provide a tastemaker’s ear for choosing larger acts. For fans of Mondo Nation, Brummettt’s mag and show-throwing project, there’s no need to say goodbye. “Mondo Nation will still exist,” said Brummettt. “It’s still based on environment and guerilla style.”
Helpers Or Interlopers? While excited to move forward, Carey and Biedenharn are careful not to step on the paws of the former White Rabbit, an institution of sorts on the Strip. With over 18 years in service, the venue has amassed such cultural weight that, perhaps not surprisingly, has put a bright spotlight on its new owners. They’re already being dubbed as interlopers in
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some quarters. “We’re painfully aware of the perception that we’re a bunch of hipster, cultural snob elitist motherfuckers,” said Carey. Painting over the Rabbit’s rough likenesses of Iggy Pop and Frank Zappa, Paper Tiger went with a geometric white and orange pattern, obviously in deference to their animal of choice. To the right of the papel picado cat is the “C/S” brand, graffiti culture shorthand for “Con Safos,” or with respect. As another sign of respect, Paper Tiger made its three-day opening weekend “free as a gesture,” according to Carey. In that late March fest, Iceage, Roky Erickson, The Spits and Ryan Hemsworth hit the main stage, while the recently reopened side stage featured SA acts like Bill Baird, Spokesmodel and Cannibal Bitch. Both stages sound great, with their JBL toys losing no fidelity.
More To Come Elsewhere along the St. Mary’s Strip, exciting new spots for music will be in operation in the next few months. Danny Delgado, of Hi-Tones and Faust fame, is opening up Phantom Room in April in the old Enchilada Warehouse/ Web House/Los Frogs building at 2100 North St. Mary’s. “Phantom Room is looking a little more clubby, with more DJs,” said Delgado. “The inside is old school theater-ish
looking, we’ve knocked down several walls. We’re doing photos of a lot of famous spots here in San Antonio that have been haunted, like the Dancing Devil on the West Side to La Llorona to the Donkey Lady. It has an eerie, old theater feel to it. Everything in there is going to be very old school vintage-y.” Like most actors on the Strip, Delgado is optimistic about the recent investments in the area. “It has a lot of history. For a while it started to diminish,” he said. “The whole Strip is changing in a positive way. This resurgence is going to be good for everybody, including the neighborhood.” New management at the long, shotgun-sprawling venue at 2718 North St. Mary’s will keep the Limelight’s name and neon sign. Deric Wynne, purveyor of 502 Bar on the North Side, plans to add the same speaker system to the Limelight that’s made 502 a destination. After four years north of the airport, Wynne is excited to have a presence closer to downtown. “It seems like people are getting into the city a bit more,” Wynne added. “Actually going out and doing things and participating in this place … San Antonio and Atlanta are the two most passed-over large markets in the whole country. That’s a real bummer. We need to get a touring history with a lot of these groups, get ‘em coming here from the time they’re playing small clubs all the
way up to amphitheaters. We need to establish that continuity. We need cool places that people dig.”
Up, Down And Up Again With all the new spots popping up, comparisons are being made to the Strip’s heyday in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when MTV visited with its Day-Glo spring break show. “There was a lot going on but it was a little more 6th Street-ish,” said musician and Robot Monster co-owner Chris Smart. At the desk of his music gear store on the Strip, Smart recalled the street’s history, when he played in a SA post-punk outfit called Lung Overcoat. “A lot of bars, but mostly cover bands playing or Top 40,” he said. “There was a lot going on, but it was a lot straighter, honestly. There was a lot more people down here. Halloween, they used to close off the street.” As the decibel levels steadily increased, so did tensions with the neighborhood. “The Strip was at an all-time high and it was starting to be a nuisance for the neighbors,” real estate developer Don Thomas recalled. “People were parking deeper into side streets and not well lit, cars were getting broken into, petty crime.” Thomas recalled one evening in the early ’90s as the tipping point that sent the area into decline. Thomas’ friend Trey
Waters and his wife were leaving the building that Candlelight now occupies. As Thomas went across the street, he saw a group of “five to seven” kids surround Waters and hit him and his wife. “Me and the two other guys I was with ran across the street and ended up in the middle of a pretty big fight,” said Thomas. “There was a lot of commotion so it attracted some people, a bartender nearby was trying to help … I remember hearing the sound of a muted fire cracker. It didn’t dawn on me that it was a gun.” The bullet entered Waters’ heart, causing him to bleed out later on the operating table. “It was overnight — people quit going there immediately,” Thomas said. “There was a time when people were scared to come down the Strip, ‘cause it was rough and dangerous,” noted Smart, of Robot Monster. “Which is hard to think of now. I’ve been playing here since the late 80s and it’s always been pretty trashy. It’s nice to see it get a little cleaner.” Far from overdeveloped, without a single chain, the Strip is now at an exciting crossroads. With grooming, it can maintain the image of the Paper Tiger — a little edge, but no real harm, without the bark of gentrification and the bite of violence. CONTINUED ON PAGE 47 ►
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Paper Tiger opening salvo: Iceage’s Elias Ronnenfelt (left) howls over the audience at the club’s free three-day fest while Travis Buffkin of Spokesmodel (and Current contributor) shreds the small room.
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New Culinary Options Just as the music scene along St. Mary’s is going through a tonal renaissance, so is the neighborhood’s food and nightlife landscape. The momentum picked up in the summer of 2013 as Delgado opened Faust Tavern and Casey Lange and James Moore opened the doors of TBA (formerly Salute), promising serious cocktails, fanciful infusions and upscale snacks within a neighborhood bar. Delgado ditched the pizza-by-the slice-approach — “it might have been too soon” — and used its wee kitchen as an incubator of sorts for Drew Morros of Crossroads Kitchen (read more about Morros and her Southern fare on page 31). “We met Drew during one of her pop-up dinners and figured the kitchen was the perfect place for her to do her thing,” Delgado said. Though Delgado and Morros plan to relocate to Southtown, the eatery has grown quite the following with late-night eaters and food industry members. Delgado and business partner Andrea Vince will stick with the Strip for their next venture, La Botanica, which pairs vegan eats by chef Rebel Mariposa with Vince’s herb-filled cocktails. The restaurant will fill the empty space at 2909 N. St. Mary’s this summer. For Mariposa, a native of San Antonio and longtime Delgado buddy who had concentrated on a vegan catering
business, the decision to jump on board with the new project was not an easy one. But it felt right. “This is why I moved back to San Antonio,” Mariposa said. “I wanted some of the development to be from some of us in different neighborhoods … to keep San Anto in San Antonio.” The eatery will focus on regional fare with a focus on Tex-Mex and New Mexico cuisine, though diners can get a fried green tomato po’boy with their chile relleno. La Botanica will follow Pieter Sypesteyn’s The Cookhouse (720 E. Mistletoe) and Chris Cullum’s Attagirl (119 Kings Court) as new eateries along the Strip. For Sypesteyn, the reason to move into the area was twofold: The Tobin Hill neighborhood reminded him of New Orleans and it was affordable. “We were already invested in the neighborhood and its great feel,” Sypesteyn said of he and wife Susan’s purchase of a home in the area three years ago. The building, constructed in 1931 and the former home of Carmens De La Calle for 14 years, was the perfect size for the restaurant’s concept and their vision of the eatery. Like Mariposa, Sypesteyn also noted the area’s booming growth. “We saw it happening when they expanded the river into the museum and the Pearl,” Sypesteyn said.
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Feeding Off The Pearl For Casey Lange, he’s glad to see some of the Pearl’s momentum expanding into the area he had hoped would turn into a walkable bar and restaurant scene 10 years ago when he opened Limelight. Like Delgado, he stressed community instead of competition. “The new operators are bringing in some great ideas and are exactly what the Strip needs … I believe the shared vision of a number of my fellow operators on the Strip is for St. Mary’s to be a one-stop destination,” Lange said via email. “You only have to park … and then you can walk to see a show, have a delicious dinner, enjoy some great cocktails, play some pool, dance your ass off, watch a Spurs game or whatever you wish to do that night.” Lange’s all-day breakfast concept, Hash, is still in the works — it’s slated to open this summer. Though he was coy about other upcoming projects, Lange shared a bit of chisme: “I can say that in the next few years there are at least two more restaurant and bar projects that I am currently working on
renovating … on St Mary’s and will be a partner in.” Cullum’s Attagirl, first announced in September, is hoping to open its doors in the next few days. The tiny eatery, former home of Willard’s Jamaican BarB-Que, will fire up tabletop fryers and Panini presses to serve small plates of fried chicken and grilled cheese. Keep and eye out on Urbex, the newest project from Rudolfo Martinez of Tapa Tapa Truck and Concrete Jungle, inside the former filling station adjacent to Burger Boy. The tiny space will feature a full-service bar and serve a family-style tasting menu that blends technique with hyper-local foraged ingredients. “St. Mary’s has been hot since the ’80s, and it’s the third-easiest neighborhood to get into that we can still afford,” Martinez said. “It’s the natural choice.” With St. Mary’s encroaching on the Pearl’s collection of apex eateries, the area is quickly becoming a connected, pedestrian-friendly feast. From the heavenly Pearl to the hellaciously cheap Faust, it’s a nightlife destination returning to its prime. sacurrent.com • April 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 49
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Jim Christie, Merle’s drummer, and ask if he’d like to say anything on the record. We settle down into the green room for him to eat and for me to try to contain my schoolboy giddiness of being backstage surrounded by such total fucking legends. Jim tells me what Scott Joss and later Willie’s harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, echo throughout the evening: these two men are “the end of an era.” When I asked Mickey what he would do if just starting out now as a 20-year old harmonica player — the age he joined The Family — he states, simply: “Learn to weld. It’s the end of an era. Learn to weld.” I didn’t get to see but the last twenty minutes or so of Willie’s set, but I watched it from the stage about thirty feet behind Sister Bobbie’s piano. He sounded great, even spent time with his phrases, relishing their musicality. He looked old as hell, but distinguished. I don’t want to be too sentimental or just gush all over ‘em, but these two men are a gateway to the past. To a time when each city limit they entered greeted them with a custom sign, tailored to and for that community. Despite playing in an amphitheater usually reserved for EDM, these two are still just trying to be true to Jimmie, Django, Ray, Hank, the Playboys, themselves and the music.
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Devil’s Hollow From the hills of West
Texas, Devil’s Hollow pulses with a blues heart, a honky-tonk attitude and imitations of Billy Gibbons’ guitar. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm
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Toro Flores & Miguel Garza Guitarists
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Thursday, April 2
Baroque Series: Messiah The San
Antonio Symphony takes on Handel’s 1741 Oratorio based on the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Joining conductor Akiko Fujimoto, the Symphony and its Mastersingers are soprano Sherezade Panthaki, alto Kirsten Sollek, tenor Scott Mello and bass Sumner Thompson. Majestic Theatre, 8pm
Bynon Candian producer Richard Beynon
devotes his time to taking hip-hop samples and dropping them into the brotested formula of EDM. The Falls, 8pm
Collective Dreams, Animal Spirit San
Antonio’s Collective Dreams give pure instrumentation the recognition it deserves with proggy post-rock jams. On their self-titled 2013 effort, Fort Worth’s Animal Spirits uses the Texas
garage sound as a launching point into some wild and exciting pop ideas. With Swimming with Bears, Sharpen the Quills. 502 Bar, 9pm
Dawn of the Phoenix On the forthcoming album A World Without You, SA’s Dawn of the Phoenix combines well-trodden new wave with the low synths of James Murphy. With Guild. The Mix, 11pm
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Sean McConnell, Lucas Jack Moving from Boston to Texas, soft country rocker Sean McConnell has found a strong reception in the Lone Star State On his official debut Before I Forget, piano rocker Lucas Jack observes the sacraments of his 88-key idols, including honky-tonk descending chords and an emotional outlook both anthemic and exposed. But it’s the details that bring the album into a clear and lifelike focus. Jack sings of girls in love with the “tan and risky,” lives half-lived “in and out of conditioned air” and a stalled relationship putting in maintenance sex “once a month with our t-shirts on.” Aztec Theatre, 7pm
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Friday, April 3
Alamo City Soul Club One of San Anto’s
best vinyl nights, this week’s Alamo City Soul Club features Felipe Galvan of Los Skarnales, bringing “pachuco boogies, jump up blues, cumbias” and the usual soul hits of the ACSC. Hi-Tones, 9pm
Bleu Edmonson On his new album The
Future Ain’t What It Used To Be, New Braunfels songwriter Bleu Edmonson adds some touching piano lines to his portraits in country rock. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
Blood on the Dancefloor In the music
nerd bracketology for Worst Band of All Time, emo-electronic outfit Blood on the Dancefloor is a sure number one seed. 210 Kapone’s, 7pm
Bob Schneider For better or worse, Bob
Schneider is the Dave Matthews of South Texas. So if you’re down for DMB, Bob Schneider’s pan-rock should be a treat. If not, avoid New Braunfels like the plague. Gruene Hall, 8pm
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II The
San Antonio Symphony recreates the magic of a 1959 Chuck Jones cartoon called “Baton Bunny,” in which Bugs flails around onstage, trying to catch a fly and conduct a symphony at the same time. Inspired by this ’59 foolishness, conducter George Daugherty and the Symphony will also take on the soundtracks to classics featuring Daffy Duck Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and more Bugs favorites, including “What’s Opera, Doc?” “The Rabbit of Seville” and “Rhapsody Rabbit.” Majestic Theatre, 8:30pm
Chasca Austin glam-rocker Chasca
combines glam rock with Jethro Tull flutes on the new EP Bedtime for Bedlamites. 502 Bar, 9pm
D.T. Buffkin, Flower Jesus San Anto
singer D. T. Buffkin continues in the heavy blues and rock ‘n’ roll legacy of Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers, trying the grain of his voice against stomping brush rhythms. On Flower Jesus’ new single “Buddha and Crowley,” singers Torrin Metz and Rob Martinez walk the line between the titular poles of spirituality and the “worlds we live between.” But no words are necessary for the chorus, an excellent “Ah-ah” section that carries the song towards its faded outro. With Happy Campers. Rosella, 9pm
Henry + The Invisibles SA’s own Henry +
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Islands and Tigers Tour Kickoff On the
strength of their 2014 EP I’m Afraid of My Brain, Islands and Tigers are embarking on a month-long West Coast tour. Their fourth EP effort is an escape from the real world into a land where spring break lasts forever, as Harmony Korine can only hope. The lyrical themes are typical to the surf genre, reflecting on the past and lovebird relationships, and generally longing for “the way things used be.” Sun-soaked and saltwater-drenched, I’m Afraid of My Brain is a love letter to the greatness of surf’s past and its future promise. Despite their relatively young age, the Islands & Tigers kids have successfully tapped into a genre as timeless as sacred memories of family beach vacations. With The Sour Notes, Tides. The Ten Eleven, 8pm
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The Texas Jamm Band Beginning as a
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Bitforce San Anto nerd metal quartet
Bitforce combines a love for virtuosic music with eight-bit tones. With Starfighter Dreams, DJ Mighty Iris. Oak Hills Tavern, 9pm
Apr. 24 & 25 Randy Rogers Band
Holy Wave, Shiva’s Medicine Chest With their 2012 album Knife Hits, Austin’s Holy Wave dropped the best drug reference as an album name since Spacemen 3’s Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To. With their followup, 2014’s Relax, Holy Wave returned with a clarity to their psychedelic visions, drenched in reverb but unclouded in their harmonies. Shiva’s Medicine Chest is the solo project of Marc Smith, drummer in Creatura and head-shredder in The Mockingbird Express. Under Shiva, Smith manipulates tape loops and guitar drones to establish long, stunning mantras of psychedelia. With Verisimilitude, Hidden Ritual. K23 Gallery, 9pm
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Jazmine Sullivan From the soul capitol
of Philadelphia, Jazmine Sullivan first made waves with the 2009, Missy Elliotproduced single “Need U Bad.” “Bad like the food I eat,” sang Sullivan, over Stax organ and dancehall guitar. For 2015’s Reality Show, Sullivan returned on the strength of her magnificent pipes, defying the Atlanta-fication (see the cadence on Kanye’s “All Day”) of contemporary hip-hop and R&B. Aztec Theatre, 7pm
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Libera in America South London’s boys
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machinery. Singing a blues legend of Faustian bargains, Long’s voice pounces proudly over the mix. With Native Lights. The Korova, 7pm
Ready Revolution SA pop-punkers Ready
Revolution sing of teenage love in South Texas on songs like “All I Need” and “Love to Kill a Bomb.” Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
Sundary, April 5
Doc Watkins Trio Unlike some jazz
musicians whose claim to a doctorate is just a nickname (looking at you, Dr. Lonnie Smith) and others who have won honorary degrees (congrats, Sonny Rollins!), Brent ‘Doc’ Watkins has a doctorate in music from UT Austin. It’s a degree he’s put to good use, swinging viciously on his piano or Hammond B3 rig. Esquire Tavern, 3pm
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Johnny P. and the Wiseguys This week
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Small World Led by drummer Kyle Keener and guitarist Polly Harrison, Small World places world music in the jazz setting. The band features music from the Great American Songbook and bossa nova sung in the original Portuguese. Olmos Pharmacy, 7:30pm
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): “Choconiverous” is an English slang word that’s defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don’t get bogged down with preliminaries. Don’t get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions, or peripheral concerns. It’s your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what you want and unapologetic about getting it.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): The American snack cake known as a Twinkie contains 68 percent air. Among its 37 other mostly worthless ingredients are sugar, water, cornstarch, the emulsifier polysorbate 60, the filler sodium stearoyl lactylate, and food coloring. You can’t get a lot of nutritious value by eating it. Now let’s consider the fruit known as the watermelon. It’s 91 percent water and six percent sugar. And yet it also contains a good amount of Vitamin C, lycopene, and antioxidants, all of which are healthy for you. So if you are going to eat a whole lot of nothing, watermelon is a far better nothing than a Twinkie. Let that serve as an apt metaphor for you in the coming week.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): You may be as close as you have ever gotten to finding the long-lost Holy Grail — or Captain Kidd’s pirate treasure, for that matter, or Marie Antoinette’s jewels, or Tinkerbell’s magical fairy dust, or the smoking-gun evidence that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon. At the very least, I suspect you are ever-so-near to your personal equivalent of those precious goods. Is there anything you can do to increase your chances of actually getting it? Here’s one tip: Visualize in detail how acquiring the prize would inspire you to become even more generous and magnanimous than you already are.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): People are paying attention to you in new ways. That’s what you wanted, right? You’ve been emanating subliminal signals that convey messages like “Gaze into my eternal eyes” and “Bask in the cozy glow of my crafty empathy.” So now what? Here’s one possibility: Go to the next level. Show the even-more-interesting beauty that you’re hiding below the surface. You may not think you’re ready to offer the gifts you have been “saving for later.” But you always think that. I dare you to reveal more of your deep secret power.
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believe all astrology is nonsense. They think that everyone who uses it is deluded or stupid. I say that both of these groups are wrong. Both have a simplistic, uninformed perspective. The more correct view is that some astrology is nonsense and some is a potent psychological tool. Some of it’s based on superstition and some is rooted in a robust mythopoetic understanding of archetypes. I encourage you to employ a similar appreciation for paradox as you evaluate a certain influence that is currently making a big splash in your life. In one sense, this influence is like snake oil, and you should be skeptical about it. But in another sense it’s good medicine that can truly heal.
1830) wrote hundreds of poems. Among his most famous was “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which is also known as “Daffodils.” The poem sprung from him after a walk he took with his sister around Lake Ullswater in the English Lake District. There they were delighted to find a long, thick belt of daffodils growing close to the water. In his poem, Wordsworth praises the “ten thousand” flowers that were “Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way.” If you are ever going to have your own version of a daffodil explosion that inspires a burst of creativity, Sagittarius, it will come in the coming weeks.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22):
Your subconscious desires and your conscious desires seem to be at odds. What you say you want is not in precise alignment with what your deep self wants. That’s why I’m worried that “Don’t! Stop!” might be close to morphing into “Don’t stop!” — or vice versa. It’s all pretty confusing. Who’s in charge here? Your false self or your true self? Your wounded, conditioned, habitbound personality or your wise, eternal, ever-growing soul? I’d say it’s a good time to retreat into your sanctuary and get back in touch with your primal purpose.
According to the Biblical stories, Peter was Christ’s closest disciple, but acted like a traitor when trouble came. After Christ was arrested, in the hours before the trial, Peter denied knowing his cherished teacher three different times. His fear trumped his love, leading him to violate his sacred commitment. Is there anything remotely comparable to that scenario developing in your own sphere, Virgo? If you recognize any tendencies in yourself to shrink from your devotion or violate your highest principles, I urge you to root them out. Be brave. Stay strong and true in your duty to a person or place or cause that you love.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19):
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Sometimes you’re cool, but other times you’re hot. You veer from acting aloof and distracted to being friendly and attentive. You careen from bouts of laziness to bursts of disciplined efficiency. It seems that you’re always either building bridges or burning them, and on occasion you are building and burning them at the same time. In short, Aquarius, you are a master of vacillation and a slippery lover of the in-between. When you’re not completely offtarget and out of touch, you’ve got a knack for wild-guessing the future and seeing through the false appearances that everyone else regards as the gospel truth. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained!
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): How can you ripen the initiatives you have set in motion in recent weeks? Of the good new trends you have launched, which can you now install as permanent enhancements in your daily rhythm? Is there anything you might do to cash in on the quantum leaps that have occurred, maybe even figure out a way to make money from them? It’s time for you to shift from being lyrically dreamy to fiercely practical. You’re ready to convert lucky breaks into enduring opportunities.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): Marketing experts say consumers need persistent prodding before they will open their minds to possibilities that are outside their entrenched habits. The average person has to be exposed to a new product at least eight times before it fully registers on his or her awareness. Remember this rule of thumb as you seek attention and support for your brainstorms. Make use of the art of repetition. Not just any old boring, tedious kind of repetition, though. You’ve got to be as sincere and fresh about presenting your goodies the eighth time as you were the first.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): In Cole Porter’s song “I Get a Kick Out of You,” he testifies that he gets no kick from champagne. In fact, “Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,” he sings. The same is true about cocaine. “I’m sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too,” Porter declares. With this as your nudge, Scorpio, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to identify the titillations that no longer provide you with the pleasurable jolt they once did. Acknowledge the joys that have grown stale and the adventures whose rewards have waned. It’s time for you to go in search of a new array of provocative fun and games.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): The English writer William Wordsworth (1770-
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