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CONTENTS August 12-18, 2015

10 NEWS Hoping For Heidi Little girl’s murder, unsolved after 25 years, highlights lingering cold cases Searching For Answers Stories of 10 cold cases in SA

16 CALENDAR

Our top picks for the week

Lunchtime Snob Rock San’s solid Thai has a new fan Flavor File We’re getting ready for Hot Joy’s new brunch and Culinaria’s expanded Restaurant Week

37 NIGHTLIFE No Blues, All Brews Brews Brothers a new fave for watching UFC

41 MUSIC A Body Mover A conversation between D.T. Buffkin and organist Augie Meyers

21 ARTS Compromising Positions Local artist Daphid stirs up controversy with erotic drawings

Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

Comedic Evolution Carlos Mencia on TV projects and the new phase of his career

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The Problems And Promise Of Straight Outta Compton A peek inside the new N.W.A. biopic Urban Decay HBO’s Show Me a Hero sets the stage in a segregated Yonkers

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Slice It Up Searching for great pizza by the slice in SA

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ON THE COVER

The 25th anniversary of the unsolved murders of Heidi Seeman and Erica Botello highlight the perennial backlog of SA’s cold case files Art direction by Rick Fisher and Sarah Flood-Baumann

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NEWS

MICHAEL MARKS

HOPING FOR HEIDI Search For Little Girl’s Killer Continues 25 Years After Her Disappearance MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN

Just over 25 years ago, an unknown assailant kidnapped and killed a little girl. On August 4, 1990, 11-year-old Heidi Seeman went missing while walking home on Stahl Road after spending the night at a friend’s house. The child’s disappearance shocked San Antonio, prompting thousands of volunteers to launch a threeweek search stretching across 1,200 square miles. The search ended in tragedy when Heidi’s body was found wrapped up in trash bags more than 60 miles away in the town of Wimberley. She had been raped, strangled and killed before being dumped. The culprit has never been found. The case went cold, but hasn’t been forgotten.

SA’s Heidi Search Center, named after the little girl whose murder remains unsolved after 25 years, works to find missing kids.

Simmering Investigations

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of those tips was investigated. “All agencies working this investigation are hopeful that we will find other evidence or receive a tip that will help crack this case,” she said. However, cracking a cold case is no easy task. And Heidi’s is one among hundreds in Bexar County. “We’re aware of around 458,” Saidler said. “These are all homicides.” When he worked for the SAPD as a cold case detective, there were around 1,600 unsolved murders dating back to 1952. The Current reached out to SAPD for information and interviews on their cold case files, but the department did not get back to us as of press time. Saidler said working unsolved murders is difficult, but new technology like advanced finger print databases and improvements in DNA testing have significantly helped detectives. “There’s a new way for us to get fingerprints. The old way, we had to have a suspect name and have a fingerprint examiner do a one-to-one comparison,” Saidler said. In the new system, authorities can submit a print to a database, which can produce immediate potential hits. Another Texas Ranger top 12 cold case shows show how important these new tools have become in producing strong leads. In 1981, authorities found a female teenager shot to death by I-35 in Comal County. Twenty-eight years later, DNA technology identified her as 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon, who graduated from Thomas Edison High School just days before she was murdered. So that’s one step

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Bexar County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Chief George Saidler is in charge of the Criminal Investigations Division. He has extensive experience working cold cases. Between 2000 and 2007, Saidler worked for the San Antonio Police Department – including investigating Heidi’s murder. “All of our cases, especially involving children … are very disturbing to the community and to the officers who work to solve those cases,” Saidler told the San Antonio Current last week. Citing an ongoing investigation, Saidler declined to shed details about Heidi’s cold case. However, a quarter-century later, Heidi’s kidnapping and murder are still in the mind of many San Antonians. The Texas Rangers, the investigative branch of the state Department of Public Safety, feature her as one of the agency’s top 12 cold cases. “The Rangers have been working with the San Antonio Police Department since 2007 at the request of former SAPD Chief (William) McManus, and they continue to work together to solve this case,” DPS spokeswoman Summer Blackwell said in a statement. “Part of working together includes sharing and investigating any tips or information reported along with looking for new ways to test or retest any physical evidence,” she said. In 2013, DPS created the Texas Rangers Unsolved Crimes Investigation website, which prompted an increase of tips about Heidi’s case. Blackwell said each

The murders of Heidi Seeman and Erica Botello gripped SA.

toward closure. But her killer remains on the loose. The reams of publicly available information online and on social media have also helped cold case investigators make better connections with the community, often leading to useful tips. Saidler recalled a woman contacted him after seeing the SAPD’s cold case website about an unsolved murder 26 years after the murder took place.

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“She was able to help us and we ended up getting a conviction,” he said. Still At It There’s a nondescript building with a yellow awning on Naco-Perrin Boulevard in Northeast San Antonio where Dottie Laster works as executive director. Inside, last week, Laster was in an office talking to a distraught couple whose child was missing. This is the Heidi Search Center, which was formed to find Heidi. But even before the girl’s lifeless body was found, the center started helping another family whose little girl went missing on August 23, 1990. Erica Botello, 7, was abducted while playing outside of the End Baptist Manor Apartments on West 35th Street. Authorities found her the same day they found Heidi. And like Heidi, Erica was abducted, raped and strangled to death, her body found in a storm drain about a mile from her home. Three men were initially accused of killing Erica. One had an alibi. Another was released due to lack of evidence and a third was deemed mentally incompetent and committed to the San Antonio State Hospital. While Erica’s and Heidi’s lives were needlessly taken, causing a lifetime of pain for their families, both girls’ legacies live in the center’s daily efforts to help thousands of people find loved ones over the last

25 years. Its motto: “What started in tragedy continues in hope.” There’s a large “Wall of Hope” in the lobby that features the faces of the missing. “To let something evil turn into something beautiful, I think that’s an act of being a human, not a monster,” Laster told the Current. “We take up tragedy and turn it into the best thing possible.” However, for families who have lost loved ones in the most horrible way, hope is important, but it can also be fleeting. The Current couldn’t reach Heidi’s parents, who no longer live in Texas. But they spoke with WOIA-TV last week, telling the station they will privately mark the anniversary of Heidi’s abduction and murder at their home in Florida by eating Heidi’s favorite meal: macaroni and cheese and hotdogs. They doubt their daughter’s killer will ever be found. “But last year I realized that it’s going to be twenty-five years. So my head says no, after all this time it’s not going to be solved,” mother Teri Seeman told the station. Saidler understands how hard life becomes for relatives of cold case victims. Investigations may slow down as the volume of information and new leads decrease. But detectives are still at it, day in and day out. “I would say that even though the families don’t hear from us all the time, they are never forgotten about,” Saidler said. mreagan@sacurrent.com

RICK FISHER

MICHAEL MARKS

Dottie Laster, who has experience combating human trafficking, is the Heidi Search Center’s executive director.

SA and Bexar County have hundreds of lingering cold cases.

WANT TO HELP? TIPS TURN INTO LEADS Bexar County Sheriff’s Department http://www.bexar.org/600/Sheriffs-Office (210)-335-6010

Texas Rangers (Texas Department of Public Safety) https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/contact.htm (800) 252-8477

San Antonio Police Department Cold Case Tip Line (210) 207-7401

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NEWS

SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS Delving Into San Antonio Police Cold Case Files MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS

There are dozens of unsolved murders in the San Antonio area — Heidi Seem an is but one. The stories behind these crimes — often called cold cases, since their trail of evidence or leads dry up — are grisly and tragic. Each one represents not just the senseless loss of life, but a ripple effect of heartbreak that resonates in the lingering grief felt by the victim’s loved ones and their communities. Below are stories of 10 San Antonio cold cases stretching back to the 1970s. They are just a random sample among many others. Despite advances in forensic technology and the advent of social media, they remain unsolved decades later. mmarks@sacurrent.com

Keith and Margaret Conable

Case File 80/151611

On the 400 block of Cherry Ridge Road, just inside Loop 410 near the Castle Hills neighborhood, neighbors heard gunshots and saw a tan Mercury Montego race down the street at about 11 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 1980. The car belonged to Margaret and Keith Conable, 50 and 53, respectively. Neighbors believed that one of the Conables must have needed urgent medical attention, prompting the late-night high-speed trip. But on the morning of May 10, a neighbor noticed that the Conables’ car was still gone and one of the doors to their house was open. Inside, the neighbor found the Conables bound and beaten to death. A few CB radios had been taken from the house, along with the car. SAPD identified neither a motive nor suspects for the murders and the Conables’ car has never been found. Keith Conable was a member of the Air Force during World War II. He and his wife are buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Robert Puente III

Case File 89/192231

Robert Puente Jr., father of Robert Puente III, received a call from SAPD on April 25, 1989, asking if he knew the location of his son’s 1988 red Nissan pickup truck. The SAPD dispatcher told the elder Puente that several people were seen stripping parts from the truck just south of downtown. Puente and his wife drove to their son’s apartment on Austin Highway. They found the younger Puente lying on his bed, the apartment full of smoke. The younger Puente, 21, was transported to Brooke Army Medical Center, now San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He had been beaten and stabbed multiple times, plus he succumbed to smoke inhalation. Neighbors report Puente coming home in the truck that evening with another man in the cab. They also reported seeing six more people on the bed of the truck when he pulled in.

Gabriel Gutierrez Jennifer Delgado

Case File 88/262206

Jennifer Delgado, 7, was stabbed to death in a laundromat on the West Side on June 6, 1988. Delgado lived across the street from the laundromat. She was there with her mother, when a white man came in and tried to use the vending machine. The man became frustrated after the machine failed to operate. He approached Delgado and her mother and stabbed them both. Delgado died shortly after being transported to the nearby Wilford Hall Medical Center. Her mother survived. The attacker left the laundromat before police arrived and has never been found. SAPD reopened the case in 2012, according to TV station KENS5.

Antoinette Jordan

Case File 90/264188

Antoinette Jordan was found dead lying face up under the Walters Street Bridge on May 26, 1990. Jordan was 35 at the time of her death. She had eight children ages 3-16. She died from a gunshot wound and investigators believe that she may have been raped before she was killed. Her clothing was in disarray and none of her personal belongings, including her jewelry, had been taken. SAPD retrieved some pieces evidence from Jordan’s killer at the crime scene, though law enforcement was unable to analyze them. Some of the evidence has been recently resubmitted to be evaluated with newer, more advanced technology.

Case File 72/198973

On September 9, 1972, police responded to a call about a shooting at the intersection of 27th Street and Poplar Street on the West Side. When officers arrived, they found a white 1963 Chevrolet in the intersection. The engine was running but no one was inside the car. Police found the body of Gabriel Gutierrez several blocks away while searching the area, on the 2300 block of Rivas Street. Gutierrez, 21, had been shot to death. Witnesses said they saw two “hippie-looking” men run away from the crime scene. Although several leads and potential suspects materialized during the more than 40 years since the murder, none have yielded enough evidence to press charges. Gutierrez was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War. He is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

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Gina Tovar

Case File 97/432716

On July 18, 1997, Gina Tovar was found stabbed to death and left in a van in the parking lot of a business park. A security guard at the business park saw Tovar’s foot hanging out of the van underneath a pile of clothes. Tovar’s sister, Michelle Valdez Lewis, told KSAT-TV that Tovar was stabbed more than 25 times. Tovar, 28, was last seen in the van at a Phillips 66 gas station at the intersection of Loop 410 and Culebra Road at about 1 a.m. on July 18. The van was likely parked at the business park between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. Tovar was already dead when police and EMS arrived on the scene. Although law enforcement obtained both DNA and fingerprint evidence at the crime scene, SAPD hasn’t been able to nail down a motive nor a suspect for the crime.

James Bledsoe

Case File 86/117374

James Bledsoe died after being shot multiple times in a breezeway at the All Star Inn Motel, located near the intersection of I-35 and Loop 410. The building is now a Motel 6. Bledsoe worked at the motel and lived in its office. The day before his death, he had kicked a suspected pimp off the property after receiving complaints from some of the motel’s workers. At about 10:30 p.m. on Monday, March 17, 1986, Bledsoe was seen outside Room 150. He got into a fight with a person described as a “black male, 20-25 years old, with short black hair, 5’10” to 6” tall, 160 lbs,” according to SAPD. Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots and then they saw Bledsoe fall to the ground. Bledsoe died at the scene. Witnesses said they saw the suspect leaving the scene in a yellow 4-door Ford. Two known prostitutes were also seen leaving the motel later that night.

Guadalupe Boston,

Case File 93/141796

Guadalupe Boston was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting on March 18, 1993. Boston was 21 at that time. She went to visit a friend in a neighborhood north of downtown at about 9:50 p.m. Her friend was not at home, but she stopped to speak to a group of people gathered near the house, including her friend’s brother. While speaking with the group, a dark-colored pickup truck pulled up. A man in the pickup shot into the group, hitting Boston in the head. She died at the scene, in front of the house on Alametos Street. Police believe she was killed with a “high-powered rifle.” Although police said Boston, a wife and mother, was not involved with a gang, the people she was talking to were connected to gang members. Boston was murdered during the height of San Antonio’s spree of drive-by shootings in the 1990s. She’s buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Paul Bernard Quinters,

Case File 93/664789

Paul Bernard Quinters, 26, was walking with a friend on the North Side along Broadway at about 11:30 p.m. on December 4, 1993. Quinters, 26, and his friend crossed the parking lot of Bronco Bill’s Night Club, where Quinters got into a shouting match with an unidentified man. The argument escalated to a fist-fight, which ended with the man stabbing him several times. Quinters died on his way to the hospital. The man who stabbed him escaped in a woodpaneled station wagon driven by a woman, in her late 30s, also unidentified.

“We take up tragedy and turn it into the best thing possible.” – Dottie Laster, executive director, Heidi Search Center

Phillip Hernandez

Case File 96/623638

Phillip Hernandez was stabbed to death in his car around midnight on Sunday, October 13, 1996. Hernandez and his girlfriend were sitting in his 1987 blue Oldsmobile after a date at Rivercenter Mall. They were parked in front of his girlfriend’s house on the 1900 block of Schley Avenue on the East Side. Three teenage males approached the car. One of them asked, “Is that them?” according to SAPD, and started punching Hernandez through the car’s open window. During the altercation, another member of the group asked, “Hey, what are you doing?” and the three teenagers fled. Hernandez’s girlfriend ran inside her house and called 911. She did not notice that Hernandez had also been stabbed until she went back to the car to wait for EMS. Hernandez – age unknown – succumbed to his wounds at Brooke Army Medical Center, now San Antonio Military Medical Center.

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According to her official Facebook page, New York-based drag star Miss Fame is “beautiful, confident, powerful, hilarious and … condemned to hell.” But she also loves chickens — like the ones she used to tend to on the family farm (as California boy Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen). After building a fanbase via YouTube makeup tutorials covering everything from old-school Hollywood to alien glam, Miss Fame landed on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race and parlayed that success into a record deal that recently reared its latex-clad head in the Billboardcharting album Beauty Marked. $15-$25, 11:30pm, Heat, 1500 N. Main Ave., text (210) 386-4537 for reservations, heatsa.com. — Bryan Rindfuss

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FRI

Art Party

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With its winning blend of humor and history, “Miguel Covarrubias: Culture and Caricature” is a perfect fit for SAMA’s latest Art Party. Enforced with contributions from Yale and Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, the retrospective showcases 140 works by Covarrubias, a celebrated caricaturist, writer and Vanity Fair contributor who’s been described as “Mexico’s Renaissance Man.” Besides tours of the exhibit, the event includes live jazz from David Villanueva, light bites from Paloma Blanca and “Vanity Affair” cocktails custom-crafted for the occasion by Blue Box bartender Nick Kenna. $5$10, 5:30-8pm, San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100, samuseum.org. — BR

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American Idol Live! MUSIC

Here’s a fact: Fox’s American Idol is now in its 14th and penultimate season. So, the end is near for the pioneering singing competition/reality show. And whether that leaves you bummed, slightly relieved or indifferent, there’s hardly any denying that the show has, for better or worse, played a massive role in popular culture this side of the year 2000. This Friday, catch the latest crop of top Idol hopefuls as they hit the Majestic to perform with a full band backing them. This year’s top five are Nick Fradiani, Jax (pictured), Clark Beckham, Rayvon Owen and Tyanna Jones. $53.50-$63.50, 8pm, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — James Courtney

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Girl Talk & Ludacris MUSIC

For all those times you were relaxing by the river and thought you could use some bass in your life, rapper Ludacris and mash-up master Girl Talk have got you covered. While it may seem that both artists are past their cultural moment, Luda and Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis (pictured) have each remained musically active over the past five years. Girl Talk dropped a solid collaboration with Freeway in 2014 and Luda recently dropped his first album in five years. Will they play the hits though? Rest assured, with a pairing like this, the focus will fall squarely on crowd pleasers. $40-$1,020, 7:30pm (rescheduled from May 23), Whitewater Amphitheater, 11860 FM 306, New Braunfels, whitewaterrocks.com. — James Courtney

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Race

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David Mamet tackles race and the self-consciousness that surrounds it in this gritty drama following three attorneys called upon to defend a high-profile white client charged with the rape of an AfricanAmerican woman. Peppered with “Mamet speak” (the cynical, edgy, overlapping style for which the playwright is famous), Race raises a number of issues — guilt and shame among them — that critic Ben Brantley suggested “should offer ample nutrition for many a post-theater dinner conversation.” So call it a date night and leave the kids at home. Morgan Clyde directs at the Rose. $10-$12, 8pm Fri-Sat, The Rose Theatre, 11838 Wurzbach Rd., (210) 360-0004, therosetheatreco.com. — Murphi Cook

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West Side Story THEATER

The Jets and the Sharks take the stage in this timeless Sondheim and Bernstein musical about forbidden love. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, West Side Story tells the tragic story of Maria and Tony, two teens from enemy gangs in 1950s-era Manhattan. Early drafts of the script explored a conflict between families (one Irish Catholic, one Jewish) on the Lower East Side; amid rising gang violence, the creators set the play on the Upper West Side to focus on turf wars between Puerto Ricans and whites. Christopher Rodriguez directs the Woodlawn’s production. $17-$26, 7:30pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun, Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 267-8388, woodlawntheatre.org. — MC

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Tinta Digital Pachanga WORDS

A yearlong collaboration between literary arts center Gemini Ink and alldigital public library BiblioTech, Tinta Digital brought together teens, tweens, adults and seniors for three unique writing workshops — “Recetas de Mi Vida,” “Yo Soy” and “Imagen Mi Barrio.” This weekend the “festival of literary arts education and outreach” culminates with the Tinta Digital Pachanga, a free event with refreshments, a student photography exhibit and spoken-word performances by Texas Poet Laureate Dr. Carmen Tafolla (pictured), San Antonio Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero and many more. Free, 2-4pm, BiblioTech, Bexar County Digital Library, 3505 Pleasanton Rd., (210) 6310180, geminiink.org. — BR

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Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature in 2011 and the first-ever animated film made by George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, this family-friendly installment of the Briscoe’s Comedic West film series stars Johnny Depp as a pet chameleon who gets stranded in a small Mojave Desert town where water is scarce and danger lurks around every corner. When it first came out, I dubbed the film, which includes a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas reference, as a kind of imaginative tribute to a movie genre from which kids would benefit. Free, 6:30pm, The Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499, briscoemuseum.org. – Kiko Martínez

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Artists Looking at Art: Christie Blizard

Pulling something witty and compelling out of the tricky middle ground between painting and performance is no easy task — yet artist and educator Christie Blizard thrives at that odd intersection of disciplines. An assistant professor of painting and drawing at UTSA, Blizard has contributed to upwards of 70 exhibitions but has reached an even broader demographic via numerous appearances on Good Morning America and The Today Show. By arriving on the shows’ outdoor sets with hand-painted signs in tow — emblazoned with such curious messages as “I Feel Like You Know,” “Without You I Have No Mirror” and “This May Be The Last Time” — Blizard has put a conceptual spin on a touristy practice while creating “an alternative exhibition space” that “disrupts the affects of television.” Blizard, who has also been known to mud wrestle and distribute free works of art on telephone polls, speaks at the McNay on Thursday as part of the museum’s Artists Looking at Art series. Free, 6:30pm, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

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Summer 2015 International Artistsin-Residence Acting as guest curator for the summer installment of Artpace’s International Artists-in-Residence program, Istanbul-based Ian Alden Russell selected Gabriel Martinez (Houston), Wafaa Bilal (New York) and Fatma Bucak (London/Istanbul) — a trio with shared “points of connection in their negotiation of social and political issues.” Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.

Film

Ghostbusters Main Plaza Conservancy

and SATX Pedal Power’s outdoor Cycle-In Cinema series continues with director Ivan Reitman’s 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as unemployed parapsychology professors who set up shop as a ghost removal service. Concessions will be available for purchase from Blue Star Ice House and El Oasis Café #2. Free, 8:45pm Thursday; Main Plaza, 115 N. Main Ave., (210) 225-9800.

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Grease Inspired by his time at Chicago’s

William Howard Taft, Jim Jacobs developed the risqué musical Grease with Warren Casey in 1971. In subsequent productions and the 1978 film, much of the play’s vulgarity was diluted; however, today those greasers still manage to tackle teen pregnancy, rebellion and gang violence with hip-shaking style. Tony Ciaravino directs the Playhouse’s production. $12-$30, 8pm Friday, Saturday,

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3pm Sunday; San Pedro Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

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Braindead Comedy Anniversary Show

Braindead Comedy celebrates its first anniversary with a free show featuring sets by New York City stand-up Mike Robles (Comedy Rumba, Que Locos, Loco Comedy Jam), local mainstay Alex “Koolaid” Ansel and cohorts Rafael Molina, Christopher Chavez Sr., Jeff Stone and Eric Packard. Free, 9:30-11:30pm Tuesday; Zombies, 4202 Thousand Oaks Dr., (210) 281-8306.

Special Events

Community Health Fair & Back to School Drive Southwest Workers Union

hosts a health fair offering free assistance from nurses, healers and healthcare professionals, on-site screenings courtesy of Methodist Healthcare Ministries, workshops (from healthy cooking to domestic violence awareness) and information tables (9am-4pm Friday), followed by a school drive with free backpacks and supplies to the first arrivals and complimentary haircuts for kids and others in need (noon-5pm Saturday). Free, 9am-4pm Friday, noon-5pm Saturday; Southwest Workers Union, 1416 E. Commerce St., (210) 299-2666.

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crunchy bugs at the Witte during its Salud! Culinary Nights dinner series as the museum welcomes chefs Stephen Paprocki and Ernest Lopez. They will join Dr. Harry Schafer, the museum’s curator of archeology, as well as Meghan Curry, founder of Bug Vivant, to educate attendees on the nutritional benefits of eating insects. Dinner will consist of a spinach salad with goat’s milk ricotta cheese, roasted beets and “caviar” containing mixed hymenopteran larvae and Pizza Pissaledière made with meal worms and Texas goat cheese. Food will be paired with beers from Houston’s Karbach Brewery. $45-$50, 6:308:30pm Wednesday; Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, (210) 357-1900.

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Seth Andrews The Freethinkers Association of Central Texas (FACT) hosts a live presentation with Seth Andrews, a former Christian broadcaster who chronicled his transition from believer to atheist in his autobiography (Deconverted: a Journey from Religion to Reason) and now heads The Thinking Atheist — an online community which encourages all to reject faith and embrace doubt, curiosity and reason. $5-$10 suggested donation, noon Saturday; Radius Center, 106 Auditorium Circle, (210) 896-1985.

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COMPROMISING POSITIONS Daphid Unveils Controversial Work At New K23 Exhibit JAMES COURTNEY

The human experience, and thus its expression in art, is as endless and diverse as the natural world. The most powerful and primordial aspect of the human experience is one that ties us most inextricably to the natural world: sex. Throughout the millennia, artists have continually dealt with sexuality in their work, with a variety of aims. Some works of art are essentially moral and convey a pointed social message about sex. Some works celebrate the human form and its perfection. Some works seek to link sex to love or to high religious ideals. Some works carry an important message and some are mere expressions of personal fantasy or are only intended as pure exercises in form. The erotic/pornographic works of local artist Daphid, which will be exhibited for the first time in a single collection on Friday at K23 Gallery, fall in the category of fantastical exercises. Daphid is a 33-year-old San Antonio native who has been a working artist for the past eight years. But, he told the San Antonio Current over the phone last week, he only began trying his hand at erotic art about a year ago. Much of Daphid’s other work deals with celebrity and popular culture, using stark black lines and vivid, messilyapplied water colors to recreate iconic movie scenes and to lend a wobbly, lysergic effect to celebrity portraits. His work is edgy and vibrant and tends to celebrate cult classics and grotesque figures that elicit a twinge of shock and pity as much as reverence. “At first, this was just something I was doing in my sketch book,” Daphid explained of his erotic works. “I had gathered some old pornographic images and was just working from them and seeing how it came out. I’ve always had an interest in edgy, boundary-pushing erotic art and photography.” After having enlarged a few of the sexually explicit works for a few folks who expressed interest, the artist says it was Gem Hotvet, co-owner of K23 Gallery, who encouraged him to take these works out of the sketch book and create a full exhibition. Over the past six months or so, using mainly black pen and marker on watercolor paper, Daphid completed the 15 pieces that will comprise this stunning erotic exhibition. Meanwhile, several members of the local art community, who declined the Current’s requests for comment, expressed outrage at the time of the exhibition’s announcement. The crux of the issue likely stemmed from the image that accompanied the show’s announcement, which depicted a woman’s face surrounded by penises.

Too much for some? Daphid’s art focuses on eroticism and sexually explicit images.

The individuals who have bemoaned this show are people’s sexual lives and “playfulness is just as important as concerned about how the depiction of women as any other part of the human experience.” sexual objects of masculine desire and for masculine Plus, Hotvet added, political interpretation is left to the dominance degrade them and dangerously normalizes eye of the beholder. their objectification. “I chose to offer Daphid this show because I For his part, Daphid told the Current that he was personally identify with the subjects of some of his art. “shocked and a little disappointed” about the initial I am a feminist because I believe in choice, and that criticism his exhibition received. But, with a nearly includes the choice to be slutty,” Hotvet said. audible shrug, he suggested that his erotic works “aren’t “Feminism is the belief that women and men are equal, anything new or particularly over the top.” For the most and that extends to self-expression. Censoring art is not part, Daphid sees these works, inspired not by personal only a slippery slope, it is anti-intellectual and immature,” fantasy but by existing images, as fun exercises in a vein she continued. “It is also worth noting that it isn’t just of art that’s relatively new to him. women getting dicked down by a gaggle of gentlemen. Hotvet, who also spoke to the Current last week, was This show depicts an array of encounters between couples less interested in deflecting. “We have showcased a (or more) in consensual yet compromising positions.” lot of sexually explicit art in the year we have The advice from artist and gallery seems to been open,” she explained. “If you are just now converge on one key admonition: Lighten up! offended by our program, you have obviously not New Works by These are exquisite works that explore a Daphid been paying attention.” diverse swath of human sexuality in pristine Free (18 and up only) Hotvet, who considers herself a feminist, argued 7pm Fri, August 14 black-and-white renderings over geometrical that “not all art has to be political, not everything K23 Gallery backgrounds. Perhaps this exhibition won’t be has to make a statement.” For her, these are playful 702 Fredericksburg Rd. for everyone, but you won’t know if it’s for you (210) 776-5635 images that give us an imaginative look inside unless you take the time to check it out. facebook.com/k23gallery sacurrent.com • August 12–18, 2015 • CURRENT 21

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Wipe the slate clean of everything you’ve ever heard or read about Carlos Mencia. At least that’s what the once despised comedian hopes audiences will do as he sets his sights on redeeming his name after years of vitriol aimed at him by the industry he’s inhabited for the last two decades. It won’t be an easy task, but Mencia, 47, isn’t about to quit the funny stuff now. He spoke to the San Antonio Current last week about his new lease on life.

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To be honest, I’m a better performer now than I was back then, so I don’t know where it’s going to go. I’m better I’m in a better place now, bro. I’ve at what I do. But that’s not important evolved as a human being and a to me. It never has been, bro. When comedian. I’ve gotten funnier. Well, I’m I started doing comedy, I just wanted not sure how much more funny I can to be funny. Now, I think there are a lot get, but you know. I’ve been getting of things that need to be talked about, huge laughs at my shows. comedically speaking. I It’s everything you want as a Carlos Mencia believe that Carlos Mencia’s $25 comedian — the immediate voice is a necessary part of 8pm & 10:15pm Fri, August 14 what’s going on in the world gratification and the 7pm, 9:15pm & 11:30pm Sat, verification later about how right now. I’m going to do my August 15 great the shows were. Right best to fulfill that. 7pm Sun, Aug 16 now I’m working on a couple Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club For our full interview 618 NW Loop 410 of TV projects, so, yeah, I’m with Carlos Mencia, visit (210) 541-8805 in a good place. sacurrent.com. lolsanantonio.com

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In June, MC Ren, one of the least visible of Niggaz Wit Attitudes, tweeted his dissatisfaction over the upcoming N.W.A biopic — “Man fuck these bitches at universal pictures leaving me out the movie trailers tryin to rewrite history.” In less than 140 characters, Ren summed up the potential dangers of Straight Outta Compton. Ren’s cohorts Ice Cube and Dr. Dre — the remaining oligarchs of N.W.A — produced the movie, helping to determine how the story of their teen and twenty-something years will be told. That is a recipe for some serious retroactive mythmaking. The danger here is that Straight Outta Compton might confuse N.W.A lyrics for a transcript of the rappers’ lives — the same way people may confuse images from the Selena movie with events from her real life. A heavy-handed N.W.A fiction would be a shame, given the cultural importance and gripping thrills of The World’s Most Dangerous Group. In 1988, Dre, Cube, Eazy-E, Ren and DJ Yella released the album Straight Outta Compton. Even on the cover, staring at a body, or mic, dropped on the ground, N.W.A knew they rewrote the rulebook of hip-hop. Previously dominated by New York, N.W.A scored one of the first rap mega-hits outside of the five boroughs. Geography has always been vital to hip-hop — it’s not just the sneakers that are important but which streets those Adidas step on. Breaking out of the NYC grid, N.W.A opened up future employment opportunities in cities like Atlanta, Houston and Memphis. Rappers have witnessed the trials of the ghetto since The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, but it was N.W.A that first reveled in the decay. Gangsta rap, set in motion by Ice T and Philadelphia’s Schoolly D, became a household genre under the authority of N.W.A. Proud of South Central culture, the quintet lent the rest of America a new vocabulary — jacking, static, the eight, the benzo and the sweet chariot, the six-four. Public Enemy’s Chuck D once said that “rap is black America’s CNN,” making N.W.A the profane LA correspondents in Raiders gear and dark denim. In the Reagan era, the racially charged Anti-Drug Abuse Act created mandatory minimum sentencing and made crack possession 100 times greater a crime than cocaine,

(From left) MC Ren, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and Dr. Dre – the actors playing N.W.A in Straight Outta Compton, at least.

despite the drugs being chemical twins. As the drug war revved up, Nancy Reagan even hopped in a tank on the streets of LA for a PR stunt to break down a crack house — a bust that brought in a single gram of rock cocaine. If there’s reason to question the individual posturing of N.W.A in Straight Outta Compton, do not doubt the violence of police in the community. In 1992, after N.W.A had already split due to contract disputes, the prophecies of “Straight Outta Compton” and “Fuck the Police” became true. On April 29, after four police officers were acquitted of fracturing Rodney King’s skull in 11 places, Los Angeles broke into a riot. Over six days, 53 people were killed, over 11,000 were arrested and damages exceeded $1 billion. (With a Bush and a Clinton running for the country’s top office and national outrage over videos of police brutalizing black bodies, sometimes it’s hard to tell what year it is in America.) Since day one, N.W.A has thrived on controversy, using media hype or blasting cops as a way to move records. In the run-up to Straight Outta Compton, it’s been the same old song and dance. On January 29, Death Row Records’ Suge Knight, who threatened Eazy-E into releasing Dr. Dre from his contract, did a fatal hit-and-run after leaving the film set. Connected by some underworld of bad dudes, Knight expected boxer/domestic abuser Floyd Mayweather to bail him out by forking over $10 million. Mayweather did not oblige. In July 2014, Sande Allesi Casting posted a notice calling for female extras with a repulsive grading system of attraction. At the top, the company called for “A” girls

— the “hottest of the hottest,” regardless of race. These women were presumably cast in actual roles like “topless female” and “ménage girl #2.” A level down were the “B” girls: “Light-skinned” women with “small waists, nice hips” were encouraged to apply. “Beyoncé is a prototype here,” read the notice. Time out. If Beyoncé is on the B-level, what sort of “light-skinned” Helen of Southern California were they looking for to launch 1,000 pubescent erections? If there’s a level of physical perfection above the Queen Bey, may the lord have mercy on our self-images. At the bottom of the casting call were the “D” girls — “African American girls.” “Poor, not in good shape. Medium to dark skin tone.” It doesn’t take a Ph.D. on race relations to suss out the sexual and racial politics at play. The skin tone of the pool girls doesn’t matter, for their currency is in the shape of their bodies, not their racial identity. But the heavy “medium to dark” girls are there to signify a total lack of currency, typecast into South Central poverty. Surprising no one, Sande Allesi retracted the casting call. Unfortunately, as attuned to race problems as N.W.A was, there are all too many bars to reflect the misogyny of Straight Outta Compton’s casting call. Let’s go with one from the tune from which the film takes its name. “What about the bitch who got shot? Fuck her. / You think I give a damn about a bitch? I ain’t a sucker” — Eazy-E. mstieb@sacurrent.com

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Central Park Pizza of N. Y. 103 S. Flores St., (210) 239-5002 Ambiance: This downtown nook is casual, fast-paced. Perfect for grabbing a slice if you’re on jury duty. The Deal: You can get outta there with a slice, a side salad and a drink for $5.95. The Slice: Central Park uses a large thinly sliced ‘roni for its pies, which adds heat and helps with presentation. The crust allowed for folding, but could have been the slightest bit thicker. Variety: Extra toppings will cost you 35 cents. Otherwise, there are plenty of ready-made pies to choose from — our recent visit included cheese, pepperoni, pepperoni and sausage and a chicken-

Florio’s Pizza 7701 Broadway St., (210) 805-8646 floriospizza.com Ambiance: Think Jersey pizza counter. Owner Pat Florio is a sass machine so come ready with your order (and don’t pass on the homemade chocolate cake, or really any cake Florio’s has on display). The Lincoln Heights/Broadway institution has been serving up fresh slices since 1989. The Deal: Two 1-topping slices and a cold Coke will cost you $4.60. Extra toppings are 40 cents a pop. The Slice: Florio’s is an institution for a reason. The New York-style, foldable slice is a) massive and b) measured in its delivery of both toppings and cheese. Too much of either would make for a sloppy lunch, but 30 years in the biz means Florio’s nails it during every lunchtime rush. Variety: You’ve got 10 toppings from which to pick, including jalapeño, onions, extra cheese or sliced meatballs. Hours: 11:30 am-3pm & 5-9:30pm Tue-Fri; 1-9:30pm Sat; closed Sun-Mon.

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So many great chances to eat this week — let’s get started. Hot Joy (1014 S. Alamo St., 210-368-9324) will ditch lunch service in favor of brunch starting on Saturday and Sunday. The pan-Asian eatery is rolling out a new menu as well, though fans of migas fried rice and twice-fried wings can keep calm — those two items Take a coffee with pastry break without leaving SAMA. aren’t going anywhere. Expect to find new dishes inspired by chef Quealy Watson’s trip to Asia earlier this year, such as honey sesame chicken with butter biscuits and chives, South Texas Heritage Pork with Thai red curry, green jackfruit, kaffir lime, coconut and chilies and a new Cajun-tinged tsukemen ramen that combines gumbo jus, pork belly, smoked sausage, pickled okra and green onion. Brunch, on the other hand, will pack in Asian twists on Texas and Louisiana influences. On the drink front, Elisabeth Forsythe is adding tableside cocktails out of a wee bar cart for $3.

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Sunday Funday. Whether you’ve been going hard since Friday night and need to keep the party going to avoid the collective hangover, or you’re looking for a way to forget that Monday and all its nonsense lurks right around the corner, finding the right place to score a hangover cure is tough. Once these spots are found, it’s even harder to keep others from ruining it. So, bored by the usual locales, I ventured way past my comfort zone to find a new beerfilled haven for Domingos Divertidos. Just past its two-month mark, Brews Brothers is north of Culebra on 1604 off Leslie Road. Don’t mind the construction, though you may want to plan for the slow crawl of traffic lined with giant trucks and minivans. Keep your eye out for the spot, because if you miss it you’ll have to go around 1604 and Culebra, like I did. But once you make it there, Brews Bros has plenty of potential to work with. Owned by the same folks who brought you The Leaky Barrel, Helix Bar and Beer Goggles Bar, Brews Brothers doesn’t break the mold when it comes to bar design — that’s just fine. The main hall is filled with tall bar tables, beer neons litter the walls and the garage doors signaled there was more coming in the way of a patio, which remained closed off and devoid of furniture during our visit. We settled on the sangria carafe ($10) and we joined tables with pals who also happened to be in the area for Sunday Funday. It doesn’t take much convincing to try a new bar, but the free barbacoa likely helped. Served with both flour and corn tortillas and diced cilantro and onions, the barbacoa was an excellent start to our midday drinking. Sangria fans should note that this version was on the sweeter side, but fresh lemon and orange slices helped cut that sweetness. Our group also tried the bottomless mimosas (also $10) and made a day of it while discussing great tacos of San Antonio, Carnival cruise stories and the level of anxiety that goes along with filling in one’s eyebrows. Bar patrons ranged from families to couples to groups of chill bros, all digging into the barbacoa or ordering bites from nearby restaurants. This will likely change in the coming weeks as Brews Bros opens its kitchen, hoping to crank out “pub grub” including burgers, appetizers and salads.

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For a museum to be successful, there’s a certain character it must achieve — something about the building, its contents or its staff that couldn’t be repeated anywhere else. Tex Pop, one of San Antonio’s odder cultural institutions, has an abundance of character. At times, it’s all they’ve got. In a strip mall by the corner of Broadway and Mulberry, its inconspicuous wood sign is sandwiched between a Planet K and the Broadway Grocery Stop. Once, planning to meet its proprietor Michael Ann Coker, I waited outside Tex Pop for an hour because I couldn’t actually tell that it was open. But the idiosyncrasies of the building emulate the weirdo stuff that Tex Pop seeks to cover — those kinks, like a strip mall museum, that couldn’t exist anywhere but South Texas. “We’ve got such a rich history,” Coker told the San Antonio Current last week. “San Antonio culture is a bit of New Orleans, Mexico, country western, heavy metal — it’s such a big story. And that’s what we’re trying to tell.” Formally known as the South Texas Popular Culture Center, the project began in May of 2012, after Coker met Margaret Moser, then music editor at the Austin Chronicle. After the pair visited the South Austin Popular Culture Center, they decided to set up a similar spot in San Antonio. It’s no coincidence that the Austin and San Antonio centers both neighbor a Planet K. Michael Kleinman, the founder of the interstellar-themed head shops, donated the space for both projects. In a way, Tex Pop is a gift from the weed economy, allowing the museum to run exhibitions, often about weed-inspired music, without having to worry about rent. (Tex Pop thanks you for smoking.) Inside, the space is part performance hall, part gallery space. During exhibit openings, if you’re next door grabbing a tall boy, concerts rattle the shelves of the Broadway Grocery Stop. On the spare white walls, Artyfacts from the psychedelic and soul eras tell the story of San Antonio through posters, concert pics and LPs. The best of Tex Pop’s art functions as conversation pieces, sparking a discussion with Coker, Moser or Tex Pop collaborator Jeff Smith. A visit to the gallery would be remiss if you didn’t check in with one of the curators to get the full story, however lewd, of that rock ‘n’ roll scene on the wall. “If people have a question about local history, we want them to come to us,” said Coker. “We want to encourage the creative spirit here in San Antonio; we want to encourage pride in San Antonio and our rich culture.” The current exhibit, “Terror in Taco Town,” explores the

A poster for D.C.’s Skunks (left) and a San Antonio Light punk cartoon from 1979.

punk scene from 1978 to 1986. On Sunday, in one of the better-attended Tex Pop openings, the building was packed with the sweat and sounds of the era, featuring performances from Heather Leather, The Screech of Death and The Semi Automatics. On the walls, crowd favorite pieces included the original signs to punk bars like Taco Land, the Bone Club and Raw Power and Light Company — “a biker bar, a drug den, a gay bar, a live music club and a neighborhood bar,” according to Jeff Smith. With long sideburns, an encroaching mullet and a pearl snap shirt, Smith looks like a Hunter Thompson vision of a cowboy punk. He’s also the curator of “Terror in Taco Town.” A punk exhibit poses a few curatorial challenges. Recording money wasn’t there and bands came and went about as fast as a hardcore setlist. With punk, there’s Gibby Haynes(left) and Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers. also the politics of definition. “Punk music at that point in time was just really outsider music,” said Smith. “Punk — it’s easier to say what it is than what it isn’t in some ways. In 1978, you could say, ‘that band’s punk, that’s not punk.’ But two years later your idea and “Pure Punk and Putrid” spread rumors and fear about of what those same bands were changed.” the fast new music. “Terror in Taco Town” tells the punk story largely through In a December 1982 article, The News leads with the gig posters — small, Xeroxed copies with cut-up gripping title “Grotesque Punkers Rock Malls, fonts and wacked-out illustration. Wail Over Arrest.” In the columns, the reporter Big names like Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and “Terror in Taco Town” describes a Wonderland performance in which Black Flag coincide with San Anto outfits like the 2-6pm Saturdays & Sundays, the members of No Way Muffo (featuring Texas or by appointment Bang Gang, Lung Overcoat and No Way Muffo. Tex Pop Public Radio’s David Martin Davies) were The prize relics of “Terror in Taco Town” are 1017 E. Mulberry Ave. arrested after an impromptu, “horrible and (210) 792-1312 the newspaper clippings that try to reckon with unbelievably loud” gig. stpcc.org the music. Headlines like “Terror In The Malls” mstieb@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • August 12–18, 2015 • CURRENT 41

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A Casual Conversation With Organ Legend Augie Meyers D.T. BUFFKIN

Before interviewing Augie Meyers for the San Antonio Current, I should have been racking my brain, scouring liner notes, session player listings and biographies of Dylan, Waits, Willie or a myriad of other movers and shakers of the last 50 years of popular music, searching for the ideal inquiries that would pull the truths, myths, legends, tall tales and short lies from Augie’s mind. Instead, I was getting lubricated, shooting the bull — aptly and poignantly as tequila encourages — and listening to Shotgun Willie on repeat. Flipping the record over to survey the players that color Willie’s first Atlantic record, as well as the first record of country music released by the label, my eyes caught sight of the fourth name on the last song of side one: Augie Meyer [sic]. This is exactly why I had shirked my research duties. The music gods deliver when your heart is true, the music is good and the company is worth keeping. Augie Meyers must have made some Faustian deal with these same gods because his career as a bandleader, session man, songwriter, and musician’s musician is one to envy. Here’s Augie himself: “When I was 16 I drove my motor scooter all the way to Houston to see Jimmy Reed took me five and a half hours, but we became good friends and I played a club in Houston back in the ’70s called Liberty Hall and I opened the show for ‘em. We were sitting in the room one night and he told me a story, he said, ‘I had this woman one night, I had me a bottle, I had $5,000, my guitar and we went to my room, we partied all night and in the morning the bitch was gone, my guitar was gone, the money was gone, my bottle was empty.’ I said, ‘Jimmy, how many times did that happen?’ He looked at his fingers, counting, he said, ‘Too many.’” What were the Shotgun Willie sessions like? Well, I knew Willie before Willie was Willie. I had a 36acre farm in Bulverde and Willie used to take his mobile home out there, run a 100-foot extension cord and stay two or three days. I used to see him at Floore’s with a bowtie and a flat-top. He wasn’t getting high. Where did the ‘Vox Sound’ come from? Chuck Wood at San Antonio Music, we were looking through a catalog, I told him ‘I like this keyboard, can we get one?’ He said, ‘I’ll have to write them [Vox] a letter.’

Tex-Mex, country or rock ‘n’ roll – name it and 75-year-old Augie Meyers can play it.

He called me back about a month later, said, ‘I can get we did a show called Ready, Set, Go! and George and that keyboard, but it’s gonna cost a lotta money — $285.’ John and Paul [The Beatles, duh] came in and said, I said, ‘I want one.’ The only reason I wanted one is ‘How do you get your sound on your Vox, we can’t do because the black and white reversed keys. that?’ I said, ‘Super Reverb.’ Next week all the stores in The Dave Clark Five came to town and my band England had it. The Goldens opened up and Doug [Sahm]’s band played. The Dave Clark Five were gonna cancel the How does it feel to be considered a legend and show because they didn’t have a Vox Organ, and I to have played with so many legends? said, ‘Well, I’ve got one.’ The only one in the US. That’s how we met Huey P. Mueax. Huey had a barbershop in You meet people as you go along down the line and Winnie, Texas, and he was putting records out already. they’re just musicians … they’re just friends. My daddy was He told me and Doug, ‘Put a song together.’ So, we from rodeo people and one day at the rodeo I said, ‘Daddy, went to the Blue Note. that’s Roy Rogers’ and he said, ‘Calm down, boy.’ And I Women used to wear long dresses, petticoats, and this said, ‘but that’s Roy Rogers, Daddy!’ And he said, ‘When guy used to get on this girl and hold her from the back you go to the bathroom, who wipes you?’ And I said, ‘I do.’ like, excuse my language, he was giving her head, And he said, ‘They do the same thing, they wipe and watching the way she moved Doug said, themselves, so they ain’t no different from you.’ Augie Meyers ‘Man, she’s a body mover.’ Well, that’s where $15-$50 8pm Fri., August 14 ‘She’s About a Mover’ came from. ‘She’s a body Augie may maintain that Dylan, The Beatles, Sam’s Burger Joint mover.’ We had to change the title. Four weeks Willie Nelson, Roy Rogers, Jimmy Reed, Doug 330 E. Grayson St. later we went to Houston and cut it. Sahm, etc. are no better than him, but they’re (210) 223-2830 samsburgerjoint.com Our record was doing real good in England, sure better than you. Go see him. sacurrent.com • August 12–18, 2015 • CURRENT 43

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Death From Above 1979’s return was welcomed just as it was surprising. When Romantic Rights dropped in 2004, everyone was fixated on two-piece groups (thank the White Stripes) and DFA couldn’t have been more different from the pack. With just a few synths, a bass and a drum kit, the group took on selfmocking and brooding behavior that was almost endearing. Their albums of danceable thrashpunk didn’t cross over to mainstream acclaim but they were rather left to cult status amongst devout fans. Only two years later, the band ended abruptly with a statement admitting that bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer Sebastien Grainger hardly spoke any more. Eventually the lyrics to “You’re A Woman, I’m a Machine,” served prophetic: “Now that it’s over, I love you more and more.” If they sound the same as they did when I saw them at Lollapalooza 2011, expect to hear Grainger’s choked, yearning howls caught in a boyish, abandoned purgatory coupled by his arrhythmic drums as Keeler’s bass, backed with distortion, is tightly coiled into fuzz and power. And while The Physical World, their latest album, left them with more questions than answers — as Grainger begged “Show me something new/ Something I can like” — maybe they’ve come to accept the dissatisfaction. With The Bots. $25, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertiger.queueapp.com — Alejandra Ramirez

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Bring Your Own Vinyl Revel with friendly

vinyl-heads over the best wax in your collection or slam pickle shots in the corner and seethe over that one girl with an original copy of Their Satanic Majesties Request. Hi-Tones, 9pm

Bruk Out! A term of celebration in

dancehall culture, Bruk Out! visits the legendary reverb and airhorns of the Jamaican genre. Concrete Jungle, 10pm

Eric Johnson Austinite Eric Johnson is a

guitar nerd’s dream player — full to the brim with chops and a desire to express them. Since the late ’70s, Johnson has worked as a session musician for Cat Stevens, Carole King, Christopher Cross and anybody who needs a crisp Fender tone. In 1990, his platinum-selling album Ah Via Musicom produced the Grammywinning single “Cliffs of Dover.” A second show has been added for Saturday, August 15 at 8 p.m. Tobin Center, 7:30pm

Nag Champa Named after the Indian

incense, Nag Champa hosts a weekly revue of the explosive cumbia rhythm. Bottom Bracket Social Club, 10pm

The Melissa Ludwig Band The Pearl

continues its summer concert series in its gorgeous stable with Melissa Ludwig, a deft Americana-rock songwriter. Pearl Stable, 5:30pm

Yung Simmie Miami rapper Yung Simmie

is a rising star in SpaceGhostPurrp’s Raider Klan, one of the premier crews of internet rap. As can be expected of most

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Thursday, August 13

King Conquer Florida deathcore outfit

King Conquer shows no mercy on pair of 2015 EPs, Decomposing Normality and Welcome to Hell. With Here Comes The Kraken, Adaliah, Dealey Plaza, Of Ruins, In Balance. The Korova, 6pm

Mirror Kisses, Tides., Calico Club Performing as Mirror Kisses, New Yorker George Clanton produces 4 a.m. bangers, with enough beat for the molly-heads to vibe to and enough texture for your suburban cousin to fall asleep to. In the spirit of Washed Out, Beach House and the host of other modern acts contained in the dream pop aesthetic into which Tides. comfortably slides, there’s a subtle undercurrent to their music (gentle at first) that draws you in closer. And like those acts, the trick lies in making the complex sound simple. Like Iggy Pop’s “Nightclubbing” or anything Grace Jones ever touched, Calico Club’s Permanent Night is a record about the bar as not only a lifestyle but a creative opportunity: the chance to perform in posture, dress and dance even if you’re not onstage. With Children of Pop. Paper Tiger, 9pm

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The Lost Project While The Lost Project’s

live sets have always included heavy doses of ska, mixed up in an edgy poppunk vibe, Far From Where You Are finds the trio accomplishing an impressive blending act, where many seemingly disparate elements coalesce to form a remarkably cohesive and polished whole. Alamo Lounge at Alpha Media, 6:30pm

The Suite feat. DJ Gibb and Donnie Dee Two of SA’s finest soul and funk jockeys deliver a Thursday night soundtrack in original funky drummers. Southtown 101, 10pm

Friday, August 14

Camp Lo Bronx Duo Camp Lo scored a

boom-bap anthem in 1997 with “Luchini (AKA This Is It).” Over a Dynasty funk sample, Sonny Cheeba and Geechi Suede are relentless, filling every syllable with attitude and a style beyond cool. Paper Tiger, 8pm

Classic Old School Jam In 1994, this

lineup would have raised stadium roofs to the stratosphere. In 2015, it still guarantees a hip-hop head a goldenera good time. Highlights include Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force, the Afro-centric innovators whose “Planet Rock” helped spin off the entire subgenre of freestyle. Fucking Melle Mel will be in town, too. As the first emcee of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Mel rhymed “The Message,” the first instance of socially-conscious rap and the tune that’s usually listed at the top of any mainstream list of the greatest hip-hop songs of all-time. With a parade of one-hit wonders, including Vanilla Ice, Coolio, Tone Loc, Rob Base, Young MC, Candyman, Newcleus, Melle Mel, Scorpio, Shock G. Illusions Theatre At The Alamodome, 7:30pm

Saturday, August 15

Colbie Caillat Colbie Caillat’s beach-bungalo pop tune “Bubbly” will either make you want to vomit hungover into someone’s sandals or pick up a ukele and belt it out over the wrong chords at a campfire, depending on how you feel about white guys wearing brimmed hats — you know who you are. With Christina Perri, Rachel Patten. Majestic Theatre, 7:30pm

D.T. Buffkin, Ghostrider SA chanteur D.T.

Buffkin howls with an animal intensity, tossing his gravelly voice around with abandon. For my dollar, stand to the side of the stage that guitarist Roland Delacruz

occupies — there isn’t a guitar player in town who can match his thoughtful, melodic solos. The Mix, 10pm

Granger Smith With his 2013 album Dirt

Road Driveways, Dallas native Granger Smith made a small, but promising dent in the Billboard chart. With Earl Dibbles, Jr. Floore’s Country Store, 7pm

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Michael Angelo Batio Having made his

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Noche Azul: Musica De Africa Latina Azul Barrientos will perform music culled from the African continent, as if there were any other kind. More specifically, the San Antonio songwriter explores the way that African rhythms interact with the music of Spain, Portugal, France and the indigenous cultures of Latin America. Musical guests include Nina Rodriguez and Aaron and George Prado. Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 8pm

Ryan Bingham Steeped in the traditions

of Americana, but with a Los Angeles ear for sweaty riff-rock, Ryan Bingham has straight-up put in work over the last eight years. While his sound is not terribly inventive, his combination of lyrical deftness, knack for dusty melody, and prowess as a vocal performer have earned him numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe for his work on the Crazy Heart soundtrack. Whitewater Amphitheater, 7:30pm

Snow Wite Listening online to the Sour

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Texas Tornados Tornados fans, rejoice!

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Sunday, August 16

Buckcherry It’s a good thing that

Buckcherry waited 10 years into its career to release “Crazy Bitch,” a tune that couldn’t have taken more than two one-night stands and seven minutes to write. ‘Cause now butt rock assholes must demand the number once in the main set and at least twice in the encore. With Saving Abel. Tobin Center, 7:30pm

Le Monde Caché Flautist and

ethnomusicologist Katchie Cartwright leads Le Monde Caché in the band’s application of world music and jazz. McNay Art Museum, 12:30pm

Little Joe y la Familia Tejano icon Little

Joe found his true creative voice in the Bay Area in the late ‘60s, from where so many pop music origin myths emanate. As the flower children bum-rushed the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, Latin American musicians found a home in the same thriving scene. After tuning into the Chicanismo of the area, Little Joe changed his band name from the stuffy Latinaires to La Familia, whose anthem “Las Nubes” became the marching song of the United Farm Workers. In between political appearances, Joe helped create and hone the Tejano sound, a musical force that reached full stride in the ‘90s. In the Tex-Mex heyday of Selena, Mazz and La Mafia, Joe y La Familia’s 16 de Septiembre won the ‘91 Grammy for Best Mexican Performance. Traders Village, 2pm

Snow Tha Product Originally rapping as

Snow White, San Diego native Claudia Feliciano changed her name to Snow Tha Product, doubling down on her cocaine reference and avoiding a fat lawsuit from Disney. Now signed to Atlantic, Snow Tha Product flows in a concoction of Spanglish party-rap. With Audio Push. Alamo City Music Hall, 8pm

Monday, August 17

The Cry It appears Portland isn’t too

cool for pop-punk – yet. On Dangerous

Game, PDX quintet The Cry punches out Johnny Thunderous power-pop, unabashed and beautiful. With Lost Element. Jack’s Bar, 8pm

Two Tons of Steel Led by songwriter Kevin Geil, Two Tons of Steel has over 20 years of country rock ‘n’ roll under its belt. At Sam’s weekly swing night, the Texas staple will adapt its ouvre to a swingfriendly groove. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm

Small World Led by drummer Kyle Keener and guitarist Polly Harrison, Small World places world features music from the Great American Songbook and bossa nova sung in the original Portuguese. Olmos Bharmacy, 7:30pm

Tuesday, August 18

Jim Cullum Jazz Band Any serious

reputation San Antonio has as a jazz town has to be chalked up to Jim Cullum, Jr., the man in charge of the long running public radio show Riverwalk Jazz. Bohanan’s, 7pm

Los Texmaniacs Bajo sexto player Max

Baca was born into the conjunto tradition, with his father, Max Sr., playing the music in their hometown of Albuquerque. Fairly early in his career, San Anto legend Flaco Jiménez invited Baca to come play in his band. Inspired by Flaco’s Texas Tornados, Baca started his own tejano-crossover band, Los Texmaniacs. With his brother Josh on accordion, Baca y Los Texmaniacs can rep cantina conjunto or pop-funk covers of “Low Rider.” This breadth of style makes for an inexhaustible live show and some impressive trophies, including a Grammy for Best Tejano album in 2010 for their album Borders y Baile. With FEA, Lonely Horse. Arneson River Theater, 7pm

Nekrogoblikon The goblin, the

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primarily in things that are polished, sleek, and perfect. Celebrities work hard and spend a lot of money to cultivate their immaculate attractiveness, and are often treated as if they have the most pleasing appearance that human beings can have. Art that is displayed in museums has equally flawless packaging. But the current astrological omens suggest that it’s important for you to appreciate a different kind of beauty: the crooked, wobbly, eccentric stuff. For the foreseeable future, that’s where you’ll find the most inspiration.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Do you remember your first kiss? How about the first time you had sex? Although those events may not have been perfectly smooth and graceful, they were radical breakthroughs that changed your life and altered your consciousness. Since then, there may have been a few other intimate rites of passage that have impacted you with similar intensity. No doubt you will experience others in the future. In fact, I suspect that the next installments are due to arrive in the coming months. Get ready for further initiations in these mysteries.

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GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Twothirds of us don’t know what our strengths and talents are. That’s the conclusion of a study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. One reason for the problem is what the report’s co-author Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener calls “strengths blindness,” in which we neglect our real powers because we regard them as ordinary or take them for granted. Here’s the good news, Gemini: If you suffer from even a partial ignorance about the nature of your potentials, the coming months will be a favorable time to remedy that glitch. Life will conspire to help you see the truth. (Read more: bit.ly/truestrengths.) CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): In 1504, Michelangelo finished his sculpture of the Biblical hero David. But he hadn’t been the first person to toil on the 17-foot-high block of marble. Forty years earlier, the artist Agostino di Duccio was commissioned to carve David out of the stone. His work was minimal, however. He did little more than create the rough shape of the legs and torso. In 1476, Antonio Rossellino resumed where Agostino had stopped, but he didn’t last long, either. By the time Michelangelo launched his effort, the massive slab had languished for 25 years. I see parallels between this story and your own, Cancerian. I suspect that you will be invited to take on a project that has been on hold or gotten delayed. This may require you to complete labors that were begun by others -- or maybe instigated by you when you were in a very different frame of mind.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): Many people harbor the unconscious bias that beauty resides

tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell,” wrote psychologist Carl Jung in his book Aion. My interpretation: We earn the right to experience profound love and brilliant light by becoming familiar with shadows and suffering. Indeed, it may not be possible to ripen into our most radiant beauty without having tangled with life’s ugliness. According to my understanding of your long-term cycle, Virgo, you have dutifully completed an extended phase of downward growth. In the next extended phase, however, upward growth will predominate. You did reasonably well on the hellish stuff; now comes the more heavenly rewards.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): The Great Balancing Act of 2015 doesn’t demand that you be a wishy-washy, eager-to-please, self-canceling harmony whore. Purge such possibilities from your mind. What the Great Balancing Act asks of you is to express what you stand for with great clarity. It invites you to free yourself, as much as you can, from worrying about what people think of you. It encourages you to be shaped less by the expectations of others and more by what you really want. Do you know what you really want, Libra? Find out! P.S.: Your task is not to work on the surface level, trying to manipulate the appearance of things. Focus your efforts in the depths of yourself.

know which target you should aim your arrows at. During those times, you may have been forceful but not as productive as you’d like to be; you may have been energetic but a bit too inefficient to accomplish wonders and marvels. From what I can tell, one of those wandering seasons is now coming to a close. In the months ahead, you will have a growing clarity about where your future power spot is located – and may even find the elusive sanctuary called “home.” Here’s a good way to prepare for this transition: Spend a few hours telling yourself the story of your origins. Remember all the major events of your life as if you were watching a movie.

success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” Aquarian actor Paul Sorensen said that. It’s no coincidence that I’m bringing this theory to your attention right now. The coming months will be a good time to determine whether the ladder you have been climbing is leaning against the right wall or wrong wall. My advice is to question yourself at length. Be as objective as possible. Swear to tell yourself the whole truth. If, after your investigations, you decide it is indeed the wrong wall, climb down from the ladder and haul it over to the right wall. And if you’re satisfied that you are where you should be, celebrate!

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You have been slowing to a crawl as you approach an exciting transition. But I’m here to advise you to resume normal speed. There’s no need for excessive caution. You have paid your dues; you have made your meticulous arrangements; you have performed your quiet heroisms. Now it’s time to relax into the rewards you have earned. Lighten your mood, Capricorn. Welcome the onrushing peace and start planning how you will capitalize on your new freedom.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): “Most people reach the top of the ladder of

When he served as Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi denigrated the cuisine of Finland. “Finns don’t even know what prosciutto is,” he sneered. At best, he said, their food is to be “endured.” He mocked the “marinated reindeer” they eat. But Finland fought back against the insults. In an international pizza contest held in New York, their chefs won first Prize for their “Pizza Berlusconi,” a specialty pizza that featured marinated reindeer. The Italian entry finished second. I foresee you enjoying a comparable reversal in the coming months, Pisces. And it all begins now.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Muslims, Jews, and Christians are collaborating to erect a joint house of worship in Berlin. The building, scheduled to be finished by 2018, will have separate areas for each religion as well as a common space for members of all three to gather. Even if you don’t belong to any faith, you may be inspired by this pioneering effort to foster mutual tolerance. I offer it up to you as a vivid symbol of unity. May it help inspire you to take full advantage of your current opportunities to heal schisms, build consensus, and cultivate harmony.

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