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CONTENTS August 25-September 1, 2015

35 FOOD Family Ties Two degrees of separation for Rodriguez Butcher Supply & The FoodWhore Co. Brotherly Bites Philly’s Phamous expands under new owners Flavor File Openings for Fairview Coffee Bar, Cappy’s and more

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Uprooted, Undeterred SA’s Katrina survivors have come a long way 10 years after the storm

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Float On We break down top offerings for this semi-aquatic fest

25 ARTS

Scumdogs Supreme Brent Purgason or Pustulus Maximus? Exploring the Gwar mindset

Artist On Artist Gary Sweeney and Ricky Armendariz tackle mark-making, mythology and mentoring Diamonds In The Rough New pictorial history explores Mexican-American baseball In South Texas Silver Lining Silver Stars’ Jia Perkins on juggling being a pro baller and a single mom

31 SCREENS Speaking For Themselves Lessons to be learned from The Diary of a Teenage Girl

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47 MUSIC

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Keeping Tabs A new great white grape in Texas

Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

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Savage Love Jonesin’ Crossword Free Will Astrology This Modern World

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The sun is ripe for harvesting in San Antonio. The numbers bear it out: San Antonio ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 cities for solar production and solar energy potential. But solar in SA will soon change. Funds for the industry-leading rebate from CPS Energy, which engendered so much growth, may evaporate. And almost simultaneously, CPS plans to launch a pilot program that would allow customers to lease out their rooftops to the utility in exchange for a discount on their bill. The moves have created a deep rift in San Antonio’s solar energy community. A group of solar installers argue that CPS’ actions will put them out of business, stifle innovation, limit consumer choice and create a solar monopoly. CPS officials counter that the idea is to take solar to as many people as possible. “All the installations now require the consumer to come up with a lot of up-front cash to participate and that really limits it to ... a small number of folks,” Raiford Smith, vice president of corporate development and planning for CPS, told the San Antonio Current. “How do we broaden that appeal?” The debate has ramifications for the entire solar industry. As the nation’s largest publicly-owned utility, CPS’ actions could set a new precedent for the booming technology. Members of the solar community across the country are watching San Antonio to see what happens, according to Kim Sanders, a spokesperson for the Alliance for Solar Choice, a national solar industry group. “There’s a concerted attempt by utilities across the country to undermine effectively what is the first competition they’ve seen in quite some time,” Sanders said. “Utilities are probably egging one another on trying to see these programs through.” Solar Rebate San Antonio’s path to being a top solar city leads back to one man: William Sinkin. Sinkin, a long-time San Antonio civic leader, founded the advocacy group Solar San Antonio in 1999. With seed funding from CPS, Sinkin spread the solar gospel throughout San Antonio for nearly two decades. Winning support from CPS for a rebate was a major victory, according to Sinkin’s son, Lanny, who took the torch after his father died last year at 100. “There was an uphill education process of getting CPS Energy involved,” Lanny, who served as the group’s executive director from 2010 through earlier this year, told the Current. “But we’ve been generally successful 14 CURRENT • August 26– September 1, 2015 • sacurrent.com

Solar panels lined up on the roof of Alamo Brewing Company.

through the years in getting CPS to pay the rebate and keeping it alive.” Since then, the rebate has been the lifeblood of the San Antonio solar industry, defraying some of the hefty upfront costs that rooftop solar systems require. CPS currently offers a rebate of $1.60 per watt for residential customers. The average residential solar system in San Antonio costs about $21,000 before a local rebate and federal tax incentive, which can shave off over $10,000, depending on equipment costs. The rebate lured many solar installers to the Alamo City, including Patrick Attwater of One80 Solar. Attwater, originally from Kansas, brought his solar installation business to San Antonio early last year after scouting the country for the best spot. Business was brisk, with One80 Solar netting commercial clients such as Alamo Beer Company. He described solar’s long-term growth potential as a “hockey stick curve.” Despite the success, Attwater and his industry colleagues say they now find themselves stuck. The rebate is set to run out at the end of this year, just as CPS will roll out a pilot program leasing rooftop space from homeowners. Ben Rodriguez, a spokesperson for San Antonio Solar Alliance, a new group of about two dozen local solar installers, estimated that losing the rebate would cost the industry at least 400 jobs. “It’s a monopoly replacing an entire marketplace,” Rodriguez said. “I find it very difficult to accept the line that this is what’s best for the citizens of San Antonio.”

Good For Whom? But CPS officials argue that the lease program, along with another program that will allow customers without suitable rooftops to buy off-site solar panels, will allow more San Antonians to embrace solar. Smith, the CPS executive, said that the “installer community is going to have more work than they can possibly manage.” Under the proposed program, which will likely roll out in October, CPS customers would lease their roof to the utility for solar panels in exchange for a credit on their bill. Customers would incur little or no up-front cost. The rooftop program will fund 10 megawatts of power, which Smith estimated would take about a year. “The programs that we’re offering will actually increase total solar installation for San Antonio,” Smith said. “I understand [installers’] concern about change in the marketplace. I don’t wish drama or negative change on anyone, but on the other hand, I think the change that we’re envisioning here is better for the community, better for installers and better for consumers.” CPS has already selected the third party outfit slated to administer the lease program, but Smith could not reveal its identity because of pending negotiations. San Antonio Solar Alliance members objected to the idea that the program would be free. One installer likened it to leasing a car versus owning one — a cheaper option CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 ►

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up front but with fewer long-term benefits. Residential solar systems typically pay for themselves in 10 years or less. Commercial systems can pay for themselves in less than five years. “[Consumers are] getting a sour deal with the move away from a marketplace and solar ownership. These systems aren’t ‘free’ because CPS takes almost all the benefit of what a solar array offers,” Attwater said in a statement to the Current. In addition to marketing and installation, the third party selected by CPS would also be responsible for buying equipment, a major profit source for installers. Last year, the Solar San Antonio board approved a resolution supporting the rooftop lease program while also recommending that the rebate be extended and the creation of a “broad based solar and community working group.” But in a letter to the board, Sinkin warned that if “CPS Energy did follow through on its plan to terminate the rebate at the end of 2015, there would be no solar installation industry in San Antonio after 2015” because CPS would turn into an unfettered monopoly. Moving Money San Antonio Solar Alliance’s top goal now is to extend the rebate through at least 2020 and work with CPS to find a long-term solution. The group will need to convince CPS officials to manipulate a program called Save for Tomorrow Energy Plan (STEP). The program funds a suite of efforts that encourage energy efficiency among CPS customers. In addition to the solar panel rebate, the programs include incentives for high-efficiency air conditioners, smart thermostats and refrigerator recycling. The program’s total cost is $849 million. The goal of STEP is to save 771 megawatts — the equivalent of a large power plant — of electricity demand through 2020. CPS Energy reports that the program has saved about 345 megawatts so far. But the amount earmarked for solar rebates, about $30 million, is already spent, according to Smith. Extending the rebate would require taking funds

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from other STEP programs. “It’s not just moving money around from one bank account to another,” Smith said. “It would be taking away from some of these other aspects of the community that could benefit from energy efficiency.” Solar installers argue that’s because of the program’s success and popularity and that allowing the rebate to peter out would punish potential solar panel owners. While negotiating with CPS, they’ve also brought their pitch to the city council. Councilman Ron Nirenberg, an alternative energy proponent, said the best solution is whatever results in the most effective and efficient proliferation of solar throughout San Antonio. “I would want to make sure that when we provide solar through our utility, that we have some options to work with,” Nirenberg told the Current. “The overall market concern is what does this mean for solar in San Antonio if CPS essentially owns and operates the residential market? I understand that.” Nirenberg said that the council will likely hold a briefing on the issue in either late September or early October. In the meantime, San Antonio Solar Alliance members plan to continue lobbying CPS for a more predictable marketplace. Even if that means painful change, according to Smith, the public utility’s long-term aim is similar. “We’re not here to blow things up. We’re here to make things better,” Smith said. mmarks@sacurrent.com

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48 Hour Film Project FILM

In the field of sleep study, the idea of “creative insomnia” is a controversial one. Can working through the wee small ones provide an inspired spark that can’t be achieved through ordinary means? Each year, it’s a question that the 48 Hour Film Project looks to answer. Across the country, filmmakers get one sleepless weekend to write, shoot, edit and score a short film. If you’re not inclined to drudge through each of SA’s caffeinefueled projects on Wednesday at the Bijou, a best of screening occurs Sunday at the Rialto. $10, 6pm, 6:15pm, 9pm & 9:15pm Wed, Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd.; 7pm Sun, Santikos Rialto, 2938 NE Interstate Loop 410, brownpapertickets.com. — Matt Stieb

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‘Veinticinco’ ART

As one might guess from its title, UTSA’s “Veinticinco” features works by 25 Latino and Latina artists. Less obvious is the fact that the group show also employs the medium of printmaking and a uniform paper size as threads to link diverse styles, themes and processes ranging from etching to screen-printing. Standing out among the highlights are late legend Luis Jimenez’s lithograph portrait of César Chávez, local artist/educator Alex Rubio’s street-inspired symphony El Callejero and El Paso transplant Ricky Armendariz’s rainbow-striped Tu Eres o No Tu Eres Mi Baby (pictured). Free, 6-8pm, UTSA Downtown Art Gallery, 501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., (210) 458-2000, art.utsa.edu. — Bryan Rindfuss

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The Kid with a Bike FILM

Belgian filmmaking brothers Pierre and Luc Dardenne produce painstakingly natural, intimate character studies in carefully observed milieus —without a wasted moment. The hero of their intense focus in The Kid with a Bike, a Grand Prize winner at Cannes, is an angry, sullen boy, red of shirt and hair. He bites. His desperate, hopeless love for the father who doesn’t want him leads to painful scenes. Newcomer Thomas Doret holds his own against pros Cécile de France and Jérémie Renier in a simple yet deep coming-of-age tale that bursts into moments of Beethoven lyricism. Free, 6:30pm, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Michael Barrett

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Junior Brown MUSIC

Neo-traditionalist, country and western artist Junior Brown is a bona fide Americana generalist. A devotee of what can best be described as honkytonk boogie, Brown plays his own mutant version of the double neck guitar with such alacrity and deadpan sincerity that he almost makes it not look ridiculous. The Texas country transplant, always an exuberant performer, has been making his own defiantly quirky way in music since the early ’80s and he’s found a cult following among would-be country fans who find themselves distressed with the lack of imagination and spice in the genre’s evolution. $20, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertiger.queueapp.com. — James Courtney

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Henry + The Invisibles MUSIC

Nearly every Friday for the past nine years, Henry Roland — as Henry + The Invisibles — has taken over Rebar and performed a multi-instrumental loopfest of a solo show. Over the course of roughly 500 shows, Henry has plied and perfected his zany and unflinchingly optimistic brand of space-funk in front of multitudes of boozy San Antonians. And, speaking from one or two many hazy personal experiences, it’s hard to imagine that there was even a single show that Henry didn’t slay. Friday, he wraps up his residency to focus on recording and touring nationally. Won’t you come get down one last time? Free, 10pm, Rebar, 8134 Broadway, (210) 320-4091, rebarsatx.com. — JC

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Hollywood Babble-On COMEDY

Kenneth Anger’s 1959 secretspiller Hollywood Babylon exposes the dark heart of Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” detailing the gristle to let the rubberneckers take a good long leer. Outsider filmmaker-cum-“Smodcaster” Kevin Smith’s Hollywood Babble-On won’t tell you much more than you already know about the lives of the rich and famous. It’s just Smith riffing on Hollywood headlines with co-host Ralph Garman, something like watching Entertainment Tonight in Smith’s danky den, a much more inviting proposition for anyone who’d rather watch Mallrats than Lucifer Rising. $44.50, 9pm, Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s, (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — Jeremy Martin

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It’s not often that a gift inspires a career — yet that’s the case with UK native Scott Pepper, who received a magic set for his ninth birthday and started landing gigs in his teens. Over the past two decades, Pepper’s fine-tuned his signature blend of magic, illusions and comedy in venues across Europe and aboard many a Disney Cruise Line. The touring entertainer’s latest combines sleight of hand tricks, daring escapes and audience participation in a kid-friendly spectacle surrounding a secret society of magicians who use their skills “to take on dangerous missions and make the world a safer place.” $10-$15, 7pm, Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St., (210) 227-2751, magiktheatre.org. — BR

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San Antonio Vintage Expo SPECIAL EVENT

Back in the pre-grunge era, vintage finds could be scoured from the racks and shelves of almost any thrift store. With that treasure hunt sadly over, vintage retailers are the only hope for the fashionably nostalgic. Inspired by Austin’s sprawling City-Wide Garage Sale, San Antonio Vintage Expo aims to please retro enthusiasts with 100-plus dealer spaces packed with clothing, toys, records, glassware and high-end estate items. According to organizer Cameron Schleusner, a second event is planned for March. $5, 10am-5pm Sat, 11am5pm Sun, Austin Highway Event Center, 1948 Austin Hwy., (210) 464-1764, sanantoniovintageexpo.com. — BR

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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Fans of the scrumdiddlyumptious cult classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory can thank Madeline Stuart — an LA-based interior designer who, at 10, convinced her filmmaker father to adapt Roald Dahl’s 1964 masterpiece. Revered for his work on serious documentaries — including Four Days in November and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — Mel Stuart (1928-2012) rose to his daughter’s challenge by bringing Dahl’s deliciously dark tale of eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) and his heir apparent Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) to life on screen complete with insufferable brats, orange-faced Oompa Loompas, Everlasting Gobstoppers and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Shot in Munich in 1970, Willy Wonka earned an Oscar nomination for its schizophrenic score, which progresses from the innocent joy of “Pure Imagination” to the haunting anxiety of “The Rowing Song.” Main Plaza Conservancy closes out its pedal-powered Cycle-In Cinema series with an outdoor screening of the film that candy-coats some of the more sinister moments in the G-rated genre. Free, 9pm, Main Plaza, 115 N. Main Ave., (210) 225-9800, mainplaza.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

Art

Art opening: Alfredo “Freddy” Lopez Jr. In conjunction with its Alamo City Comic Con-inspired “Illustrator Series,” the San Antonio Public Library highlights Alfredo “Freddy” Lopez Jr. with a reception and presentation. Free, 2pm Saturday; Forest Hills Branch Library, (210) 207-9230.

Art opening: John Picacio Central Library

hosts a presentation and reception for “Illustrator Series” artist John Picacio. Free, 6:30pm Tuesday; Central Library, 600 Soledad St., (210) 207-2500.

”All School Exhibition” The Southwest

School of Art’s well-rounded “All School Exhibition” features recent works from the likes of Chris Sauter, Margarite Guggolz and Gary Schott alongside a pool of juried students, studio artists, adjunct faculty and the talented teens of “Bee Nation.” Free, 9am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-4pm Sunday, 9am-5pm Monday-Tuesday; Southwest School of Art–Navarro Campus, 1201 Navarro St., (210) 224-1848.

”Getting the Big Picture” One night back

in 1965, Mel Casas drove past the San Pedro drive-in cinema and saw an onscreen close-up of a woman. From where he sat, her giant talking head appeared to be eating the trees. This startling reality inspired Humanscapes, a decades-long series of paintings. The Guadalupe presents 21 of his large-scale acrylics with “Getting the Big Picture,” one of four exhibitions around town developed in tribute to the late artist’s work. Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Friday,

noon-4pm Saturday, noon-5pm MondayTuesday; Galería Guadalupe, 723 S. Brazos St., (210) 271-3151.

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 group he felt would “form a sort of family.” With shared “points of connection in their negotiation of social and political issues,” the trio spent two months creating projects that explore public space and interaction (Martinez), chromotherapy as it relates to war veterans (Bilal) and immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border (Bucak). Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.

”Maestro of Pop” A key figure within

LA’s Chicano art scene, Richard Duardo co-founded the politically-minded collective Centro de Arte Público in 1977 and earned the nickname “West Coast Warhol” through his poppy, silk-screened portraits of celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington and Lauren Bacall. Upon Duardo’s passing in 2014, iconic comic and avid art collector Cheech Marin told the Los Angeles Times, “An artist could have no better friend than Richard.” With “Maestro of Pop,” the McNay celebrates the master printer with a collection of 20 large-scale works gifted to the museum by UTSA president Ricardo Romo. $5-$10, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm

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Syfytonians

Local filmmaker and self-proclaimed “urban journalist” Alejandro Cabrera admits he didn’t know too much about superheroes and comic books, aside from recent mainstream franchises like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy but was quickly intrigued when Alamo City Comic Con rolled into town for its second year in 2014. In his first feature-length documentary, Cabrera, a student at Northwest Vista College studying digital media and applied science, examined San Antonio’s comic book subculture and how ACCC’s fast rise in popularity has inspired many people to tap into their inner geek. In the doc, he profiles ACCC founder and CEO Apple de la Fuente and features a host of interviews, including one he conducted at last year’s convention with Marvel legend Stan Lee. “As I delved deeper into this project, it became apparent that something as nerdy as comic books and superheroes could unite people from all walks of life,” Cabrera, 26, told the San Antonio Current last week. “Fans, cosplayers, vendors, artists and everyone in the community have found a place to belong and cultivate new friendships.” Too busy washing your tights for the convention to make the screening? Fear not, young padawan. The doc will premiere on YouTube on September 6. $5, 7:30pm, Alamo Drafthouse Park North, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500, drafthouse.com. – Kiko Martínez

Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

“Miguel Covarrubias: Culture and Caricature” Rightfully dubbed “Mexico’s

Renaissance Man,” Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) made a name for himself as a caricaturist, writer and commercial illustrator but also made significant contributions to the realms of theater, ethnography and archaeology. Born in Mexico City, Covarrubias moved to New York on a government grant in 1923, fell in with an elite crowd and emerged as go-to caricaturist for the likes of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Published in 1925, his book The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans put a witty spin on icons of the era while his 1927 offering Negro Drawings celebrated the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. $5-$10, 10am-5pm Wednesday-Thursday, 10am-9pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday-Sunday, 10am-9pm Tuesday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

RAW: Natural Born Artists: “Paramount” Hosted by Maximo Anguiano, the latest edition of the San Antonio chapter of RAW showcases nearly 30 creative types — including photographer Clint Kastner, visual artist M. Shea Stanley, musician Carrie Williams, makeup artist Angela Rodriguez and hairstylists from the K. Charles & Co. Design Team. $15-$20, 7-11:30pm Friday; Aztec Lounge, 280 W. Crockett St., (210) 812-4355.

Theater

Boeing, Boeing The Vex’s 2015-2016

season takes flight with Boeing, Boeing, a classic bedroom farce that inspired a film adaptation billed as “the big comedy of nineteen-sexty-sex.” Revived in 2008 with its mod look and swinging ’60s sensibility firmly in tact, the Tony-winning sex comedy is tame by today’s standards, albeit guilty of a few stereotypes embodied by a rotating trio of “air hostesses” The New York Times summed up as “the take-charge, healthobsessed American; the sentimental, lusty Italian; and, most hilariously, the dominating but thin-skinned German.” $16-$22, 7:30pm Thursday, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday; Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Hwy., (210) 302-6835

Race 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 African-American 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 Friday-Saturday; The Rose Theatre Co., 11838 Wurzbach Rd., (210) 360-0004.

Two Rooms Inception Theatre tackles

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West Side Story The Jets and the Sharks

take the stage in this timeless Sondheim and Bernstein musical about forbidden love. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and 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 Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 267-8388.

Comedy

Chistopher Titus Once hailed by Newsday as “TV’s most original comic voice since Seinfeld,” California native Christopher Titus (whose self-named sitcom aired on Fox from 2000 to 2002) draws from his dysfunctional family and shocking life experiences to create cohesive acts such as Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, The Voice in My Head and his latest — Angry Pursuit Of Happiness. $22.50, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805.

Humor for Heroes Wounded Warrior

and stand-up comic Bobby Henline headlines a night of comedy benefiting Texas A&M–San Antonio’s Patriots’ Casa, which provides support for student veterans, military personnel and their families. $10, 8pm Saturday; Texas A&M University-San Antonio (Auditorium), One University Way, (210) 630-5250.

Special Events

She’s Crafty: Beerlesque Show

Catherine Contreras and Brandi Dunagan’s drunken journey to beer knowledge continues with a live podcast taping featuring a burlesque performance by Pystol Whips (Stars and Garters Burlesque) and insight from the beer experts of Freetail Brewing Co. Free, 7pm Sunday; The Hoppy Monk, 1010 N. Loop 1604 E., (210) 545-3330.

“Spy! The Exhibit” This touring exhibit

offers a rare peek into the undercover operations of the KGB, Stasi and CIA via 250 objects, artifacts and documents collected by intelligence historian Keith Melton. $15.50-$19.50, 10am-9pm

Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6pm Sunday, 10am-9pm Monday-Tuesday; Rivercenter Mall, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 225-0000.

Talks Plus

Edible Landscapes Rachel Cywinski

shares ideas about plant varieties to use when creating an “edible landscape.” Free, 10-11am Saturday; Rainbow Gardens-Bandera, 8516 Bandera Rd., (210) 680-5734.

From Global to Local: Trade and Daily Life in New Spain’s Northern Frontier Amy Porter, assistant professor

of history at Texas A&M–San Antonio, investigates objects in the Briscoe’s collection — highlighting material culture and the adaptability of frontier settlers — and sheds light on how the Spanish world shaped the frontier of its empire, particularly in Texas. Free, 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499.

Let’s Talk Sex In this two-hour session,

life coach Shawn McGuire explores “the ceremony of listening” as it relates to sex and intimacy. $15, 7-9pm Wednesday; Sexology Institute and Boutique, 727 S. Alamo St., (210) 487-0371.

Texas Hill Country Estate Planning Workshop Estate planning attorney

Thomas Hall leads a workshop on how Texas Hill Country landowners can protect their property and become eligible for tax relief by establishing conservation easements. $15-$20, 6-8pm Wednesday; Cibolo Nature Center, 140 City Park Rd., Boerne, (830) 249-4616.

Dance

Ballet Folklórico De Navarro 25th Annual Dance Recital The long-

running troupe Ballet Folklórico de Navarro celebrates a quarter century of dancing with a festive performance featuring live music by Rhonda Garcia and Mariachi Azteca de América. $8-$12, 7pm Saturday; Arneson River Theatre, 418 Villita St., (210) 286-6924.

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Local artist Ricky Armendariz is, at 45, one of the youngest subjects I’ve interviewed for this series. I first saw his work in the Denver Art Museum a number of years ago and his paintings have always seemed mature beyond his years. In addition to his job as a professor at UTSA, his gallery exposure has gained rocket status, thanks in part to the Olmos Park gallery Ruiz-Healy Art. A native of El Paso, Ricky moved to San Antonio in 1999 after earning his MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. I caught up with him at Mr. Lucky’s Tattoo, where he was getting a makeover on one of his sleeves. Was art an important part of your family life growing up in El Paso? No. Not at all. My mother was a teacher and we weren’t allowed to speak Spanish during the week. On weekends, when our aunts and uncles came over, it seemed like only Spanish was spoken. Our family priority was to blend in. On a side note, Luis Jiménez was a family friend, but he wasn’t considered famous to us. What was the first piece of art that had an impact on you? I think it was seeing old William Turner paintings in the El Paso Art Museum. They had lots of work by dead white guys. How did you first become involved with drawing using a router? In grad school at UC-Boulder. I needed an aesthetic that was all mine. I discovered the router gave me a sort of “Frontierland Western” aesthetic, which I liked.

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Would you consider yourself a storyteller? I like using protagonists from different cultures. For instance, the coyote is used in both Asian and Mexican mythology. Metaphysical links have always been in my work. Tell me about the mythological symbolism in your artwork. The myths and legends come from Greek, Roman and Indian traditions. The characters are used but placed in original stories of my own creations. Many traditions have a “trickster” character. I change the stories around and sample to draw further connections between them and my own Mexican Indian tradition. Is it important that the viewer understand the stories in your work? Not really. I’m not retelling stories, I’m writing original stories based on old protagonists. In your woodcuts, you clearly lay out the image first and then begin working your magic with the router, which is amazingly labor-intensive. Is that part tedious or therapeutic? Carving is very repetitive, but [it’s] the part where I can be the most expressive. I have to be very aware of my mark-making.

I can’t zone out. I have to be very present. One mistake and I have to start over from scratch. So it’s not therapeutic. You’re a master craftsman. Do you stress the importance of quality to your students? Please say yes. Yes. I do two things: I interview each student to see what their goals and expectations are. I also tell them to read Robert Irwin’s book, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. What’s the most important advice you give your students? It depends on their goals. If you want to be a gallery artist, you really have to treat it as a job and work at it every day. And you need a certain amount of talent. You also need to get help from others, whether you like it or not. Lastly, you need a certain amount of luck. Do your paintings and prints flow out of you easily, or do you agonize over them? They flow out of me. I’m very prolific. I only agonize over personal setbacks. Some people claim to do their best creative work during times of personal turmoil. Does that apply to you? Turmoil describes my life right now. I

would say yes. I’m experiencing a new and creative time right now. Lots of changes and I’m putting my son and my work first and that’s having some consequences. I had a show some time ago titled “Ya Me Voy a Therapy,” a foreshadowing of things to come. It’s been a real pleasure following your artwork over the years. It’s certainly in the realm of Romanticism, but I’ve never read anything revealing about yourself in them. Is that an accurate observation? I think that much of my work starts from a very personal place but I try to place it in a context that is more user-friendly. An example might be the story of Zeus and his lover Callisto. Both were wrong for each other and there were consequences to their actions. If you could own any piece of artwork, what would it be? One of the mercenary paintings of Leon Golub. He’s politically engaged and his work deals with violence and injustice. What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned about getting older? That I can do with a lot less than I thought I could even five years ago.

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Texas held its first high school baseball state championship four years after World War II — a time when racism and indignities toward Hispanics throughout the state ran rampant. Those hardships didn’t stop the 1949 El Paso Bowie High School baseball team, whose members grew up in poor Mexican neighborhoods, from beating every single anglo team in the second largest state in the country. Bowie’s is just one story, however. All across Texas, there is a storied history of Hispanic baseball teams and leagues that came together on weekends to play America’s game: baseball. Mexican American Baseball in the Alamo Region, a new pictorial history of Mexican-American teams in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and rural areas in between stretching to the Rio Grande Valley, tells that story through fascinating photos that give readers a glimpse of a past that’s not widely shown. The book’s authors, Richard A. Santillan, Jorge Iber, Grace G. Charles, Alberto Rodriguez and Gregory Garrett, compiled the photos, which range from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century. In the forward, Angelo State University history professor Arnoldo De León writes that he used to consider the topic as a pastime and leisure activity, but his view has grown more nuanced. “Recent essays on Tejano sports … have persuaded me that the baseball field is equal in importance to such subjects as community building, labor,

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It was clear early on that Jia Perkins would make her life all about basketball. And after turning into a well-respected player at one the country’s women’s basketball powerhouse college teams, her chances to go pro looked real good. Then, in her senior year, she got pregnant. In her mind, the news surely meant that those chances of making it in the Women’s National Basketball League had dramatically dwindled. At best, she thought, she’d have to search out teams later for tryouts. But it never came to that. The Charlotte Sting picked Perkins in the 2004 WNBA draft. So instead of providing a setback, the birth of Perkins’ daughter ended up being the player’s good luck charm. And it forever altered her life priorities. “I’m not two different people, on or off the court,” Perkins, a shooting guard with SA’s WNBA team Silver Stars, told the San Antonio Current after practice in late July. “I’m always a mom first.” Perkins, 33, was born in New York – her father played professional football with the New York Giants for seven years – but grew up in Granbury, near Fort Worth. She and basketball became inseparable since she was 7, when she started playing with her family. Her mom schooled her from the get-go on the art of being a team player and not a ball hog. She dabbled in other sports but after her first year of high school, it became all-basketball-all-the-time. And she was good. Real good. In White Men Can’t Jump style, her older brother would take her to serious baller pick-up games and fool players who never thought a girl would take them to school. “I have no idea if he was betting or what,” Perkins recalled with a laugh, “but I remember him telling me that after I made the last bucket for the win, to start running.” A successful high school prospect, she earned a scholarship to Texas Tech, a perennially top-ranked team that was actually No. 1 in the country when Perkins was a senior. It was that year that she got pregnant with Aalirah. She actually kept playing for four months, thinking otherwise she risked losing her scholarship. The biggest surprise took place several months later, during the 2004 WNBA draft: “I got a call saying I got drafted and I said, ‘whaaaat?’ Pregnant and all? I didn’t even think that was possible!” Eleven years later, Perkins finds herself in the Alamo City, now into her fifth season with the Silver Stars and serving as a widely respected veteran and team leader. Known for her defensive skills, her career stats

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include 11.7 points and 1.6 steals per game. She played with the national team in 2002 and was named a WNBA All-Star in 2009. “It’s fun to have her on the team,” Jayne Appel, 27, a center for the Silver Stars, told the Current. “She’s someone you can lean on. She works your tail off and holds everyone accountable.” Like many other star WNBA players, Perkins has taken to playing overseas to supplement her income. Unlike their male counterparts in the NBA, who earn on average $5 million a year, WNBA players average about $75,000. They can make as much as $500,000 playing abroad. They usually fly off to far-flung places for three to six months right after the WNBA season. Perkins has played in Slovakia, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Poland and Dubai. But unlike many of her WNBA colleagues, at each stop, Perkins wasn’t just focusing on herself. She took Aalirah with her everywhere, so she had to have her schooling lined up. In San Antonio, Perkins’ mother helps with logistics. The soft-spoken 11-year-old sixth-grader has taken it all in stride. She realizes she’s got quite a unique family life. She does like basketball and wouldn’t mind following her mother’s footsteps, but she’s keeping her options open. “I wanna do a lot of things,” she said. “Soccer, track, band, piano.” What about at school, do her classmates know what

her mom does for a living? Oh, yeah. “It feels great that everyone knows my mom,” gushed Aalirah, a fixture at her mom’s practices. “Everyone wants to be popular! There’s never getting too much attention.” Perkins has certainly gotten the attention of Silver Stars Head Coach Dan Hughes. Hughes told the Current that Perkins has stood out, using her skills as a veteran player and her parental knowledge to mentor and mold her teammates. “I’ve watched her grow into a leader,” said Hughes. “Sometimes, as a coach, players take energy from you. Jia always gives you energy.” Sounds like Perkins could be coaching material in her own right. Hughes readily concurred. “Just like her daughter, Jia is very thoughtful,” he said. “She could be a good coach. If she asked me if she should, I’d say yes.” So is that in the cards for Perkins? She’s not sure yet. For now, she intends to fulfill the remaining two years in her contract. Not surprisingly, family is not far from her mind – that’s why she’s not likely to keep playing overseas in the off-season. “It was fun and a great experience for us, but I don’t want Aalirah to keep missing school here,” said Perkins. “I don’t want her to have to keep moving. I want stability for her.” hernan@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • August 26– September 1, 2015 • CURRENT 29

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SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES The Diary of a Teenage Girl Is An Unflinching Look At Early Sexuality ANDI ZEISLER

It’s pretty disturbing that we live in a time where just the phrase “teenage girl” has taken on an indelibly pornographic tone. At a screening of the new film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, I was unsurprised but still squicked out to note that the rest of the audience was men who appeared to be in their 50s — that is, until the movie started and I realized that my knee-jerk reaction of protective disapproval was exactly the sort of thing that its main character would have hated. Director Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the graphic novel by legendary underground comix artist Phoebe Gloeckner is incredibly faithful to its title: The narrative never strays from the point of view of 15-year-old Minnie Goetze. The result is something that reflects all the anxiety, giddy joy, dread and drama of first love. The twist, of course, is that the subject of Minnie’s love is her mother’s 35-year-old boyfriend, Monroe (True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård, dreamy even with a skeezy moustache). In a simpler story, he’d be an irredeemable perv, but the film is sensitive in filling out Monroe’s character, too. In The Diary, he’s an immature man who sees in Minnie a fellow soul yearning for escape. The film takes place in 1976 San Francisco and its sun-bleached cityscapes and era-appropriate popculture references (Iggy Pop, H.R. Pufnstuf, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) underscore the now-unfamiliar permissiveness of the time, when books like Sol Gordon’s You! The Teenage Survival Book treated young people as sexually autonomous humans rather than naifs to be protected from the world. Played by British actor Bel Powley, Minnie — she actually looks and talks like a 15-year-old and not like the miniature adults who populate most teen movies — is selfsufficient and creative, but palpably lonely. Her fantasies take the form of lushly animated, psychedelic blooms of flowers, feathers, and leaves; in her sketchbook, she draws anthropomorphic vulvas and gargantuan women stomping through the city. She’s addled by hormones — confident and bubbly one minute and sulky and fatalistic the next. Her free-floating desire to be loved has her almost bursting through her skin. Minnie’s loneliness makes sense when we meet her mother, Charlotte (Kristen Wiig, magnetic as always), an emotionally unavailable, aging party girl who toggles between treating her daughter as a peer and seeing her as a usurper of sexual power. “I was quite a piece when I was your age,” she

Left to right: Kristen Wiig, Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård as the nuclear (disaster) family in The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

winks during one mother-daughter chat. It’s she who inadvertently sets Minnie and Monroe’s affair in motion when she encourages Minnie to take her place on a night out at a neighborhood bar. As with Andrea Arnold’s 2009 indie Fish Tank, which also centers on a young woman entangled with her mother’s boyfriend, there’s some definite fingerpointing in mom’s direction. In this case, it’s underscored by Minnie’s ex-stepfather (Christopher Meloni), who disapproves of his ex’s freewheeling lifestyle. He takes less than a minute to sniff out the vibe of Minnie’s affair with Monroe. It’s no secret that teens of all sexes are walking powder kegs of sexual frustration, but Hollywood movies have always been loath to portray girls as having any agency, especially where orgasms are involved. Teen boys can fuck as many pies and visit as many brothels, locker rooms, and strip clubs as they need to with no consequences for their bad decisions. Girls, meanwhile, have generally had pregnancy, social ostracism and even mental illness imposed on their characters as punishment for daring to have sex on their own terms. Films like 1999’s Coming Soon and 2013’s The To-Do List have gone some way toward mitigating this shortcoming, but in both sex is treated as something that requires planning, research and some degree of romantic remoteness — practice for later rather than fulfillment for now. The portrayal of Minnie’s hunger for Monroe is unique because for her sex is not a matter of

accruing social capital but of overwhelming desire. It’s also unique in that the film is deliberately unclear about how we as an audience should feel about that desire’s chief target. With female sexuality onscreen, especially young women’s, we’re often presented with a binary: Is it exploitative or empowering? Damaging or liberating? Depressing or joyful? The Diary of a Teenage Girl asks why it can’t be all of these things and more. Judging from some of the reviews, it’s still going to be a while before we’re able to accept films that offer up female sexuality as something that can be as movingly unremarkable as Minnie’s, almost as though the lack of external judgment offered by the story invalidates it. It’s not surprising when a story that’s presented exclusively from the perspective of a teenage girl is deemed “generic attitudinizing” — too many of us simply don’t trust girls to be reliable narrators of their own experiences, much less of their riot of desires. I started this film wanting to protect Minnie from the gaze of unknown men but I ended it remembering that teenage girls, as eroticized as this culture has made them, will always speak for themselves. We should all try listening.

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then some — he’s crafting leather and canvas aprons for executive chefs around town, along with entire restaurants and bars (you’ll see the custom designs at Smoke, Starfish and Paramour). He’s up to 20 different aprons, chef bags, messenger bags, knife rolls, shirts, leather bracelets — you name it, he’s likely got it or designing it. Though the majority of his sales come through his website — Aaron Sanchez of Food Network’s Chopped fame also dons FoodWhore clothing these days — chefs and cooks can find his cook wear at Rodriguez Butcher Supply Co. “It was a bit funny, when Javi called and said, ‘I own a company called FoodWhore,’” Fickel said.

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Though Treviño’s uncle Roland (partowner of Los Barrios) worked with the Rodriguez clan through the 1990s and still has yellowed receipts from 1960 for an order his father made through the company, Fickel and the younger Treviño met just as their business relationship was starting. “Philip came into the Mezcaleria and was showing the guys some knives,” said Treviño, who bartends on the side. And then they put two and two together. So whether you’re looking for badass cutlery or a handcrafted roll to put it in, you needn’t go farther than the city’s West Side to find them. flavor@sacurrent.com

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If you want a free side of respect from the Philly natives, there are three ingredients to never forget to add: salt, pepper and ketchup. “You always know someone is from Philly if they ask for it with salt, pepper [and] ketchup. That’s how they eat it up there,” McKayla said, as Robert at the grill chimed in: “That’s the only way to eat it.” While the new location is a big leap, the truck is still a valuable asset. Six days a week, the Roses trek to a different location around San Antonio and are supported greatly by a regular customer base. South, West, Stone Oak, UTSA, SeaWorld — name the spot, they’re there. The best part about a food truck is the ability to quickly adapt to new settings. “If a spot isn’t good you, pull out,” Rose said. “The cool thing about the food truck is that we know where to open restaurants because we’re able to go around the city and kind of fill it out. We’re able to grow our customer base by showing up on those sides of town so we know where our best sales are [and] we know where people like to have us,” Rose said. The freedom that comes with the truck also means dealing with some disadvantages, such as unpredictable weather conditions and limited storage. The truck becomes most uncomfortable during summer and winter but it doesn’t stop customers, who will either call or text ahead to put in orders for pickup and inquire about locations. “We’re pretty fortunate to have customers who are pretty devoted and dedicated to finding us ... they still beat the heat or the storms, whatever it is,” Rose said.

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It’s a Lisa Frank wet dream — there’s a nukestrapped lady Sperm whale spewing flames from her blowhole, a purple-black pega-bat horse with flowing pink mane and a tame uni-kitty tabby. They all made the cut for a flyer not for a drug-fueled rave but to spread the news of Freetail’s “Super Mega Awesome Bottle Release Day,” or SMABRD ’15 for short, scheduled for August 29. Much like its flyer-making skills, Freetail’s beer has also come a long way. Next month marks a year since Freetail Brewing opened at 2000 S. Presa St. As one of the first major craft breweries to come out of SA in recent years, Freetail is known for throwing legit shindigs to celebrate the release of certain bottles since its early days as a wee brewpub on the city’s North Side. There’s La Muerta, an imperial stout brewed for Día De Los Muertos (which pairs with smoked foods, dark chocolate, pan dulce and “fond memories,” according to the brewery’s site); and a recent launch for its barrelaged Local Coffee stout bomber made in conjunction with neighboring Merit Roasting. But the largest multiple release is held during the SMABRD, often preceded by an intimate bottle share made up of hardcore beer enthusiasts. “If you want to show up to the bottle share and get in on that, come strong,” said Jason Davis, director of brewing operations (“funk master” according to his business card). “Don’t be showing up with something you just went down and bought at Central Market that day,” Davis affirmed. The bottle share is usually made up of unique, difficultto-source bottles, noted Davis, who doesn’t usually partake in the sharing. “You’ll see a lot of our vintages, which is nice, but they’ll usually keep La Muerta for that release,” he said. Other finds might include sours, barrel-aged beers, funky lambics and rare brews out of Jester King in Austin or Hill Farmstead in Vermont. As this is the first major bottle release day at the new brewery, rules have been set in place to help ease growing pains. Fans of SMABRD can start lining up at 8 a.m. for numbered wristbands. Beer sales start at noon, with owner Scott Metzger and other members of his team calling batches of numbers up to buy Freetail bottles. The bottle share will continue through 1:30 p.m. There will be four beers up for grabs in limited quantities: Komorebi, a Belgian-style tripel fermented

on pears and aged in 1/3 mezcal barrels and 2/3 wine footprint across the state. Three new sales reps were barrels out of A-Z Wines; Peach Bexarliner is an imperial hired to work their magic in the Houston area, while Berliner-weisse aged on peaches; Despertado de deals are being developed with distributors to supply Manzanilla, a Witicus with a focus on chamomile. The Freetail beers throughout the Hill Country and the fourth bottle, a #Whalezbro with aforementioned Lisa Gulf coast. Frank-like labeling, will remain a mystery until the next day. Next up? Austin. Freetail will make its first appearance All we know is it contains a blend of five different barrels. at the Texas Craft Brewers Festival on September 19 in “The secret beer is really good,” Davis teased. “It will Austin with a special small-batch brew. not disappoint.” But the San Anto market is still home — dinners The previous iterations of SMABRD, held every are in the works with Goro Pitchford of Godai Sushi; August since 2012, catered to around 200 people. bendy beer lovers can enjoy a sweaty vinyasa sesh But it’s safe to assume, taking into account Freetail’s every Thursday with Mobile Om inside the main expansion, that this year there will likely be more beer brewing room; and more movie nights are lined up fanatics in the house. throughout the fall, along with a block party still in the Freetail’s growth keeps Davis busy these days — he works with Merit Roasting. delegated brewing duties to Nick Adcock, now the As for SMABRD ’15, BeerAdvocate user kmello69 headbrewer downtown. sums up how to plan the day around the event: Davis oversees the upkeep of raw materials, from “Show up. Get free wristband. Get absolutely CO2 to grain and hops, while trying to predict which hammered at bottle share. Laugh at Scott’s Bain ingredients to stock up on as operations increase. impression. Take a nap behind the dumpster. Spend lots “Everything has been a surprise,” Davis said of of $ at Freetaill. Vaguely remember having an Freetail’s lineup and how well it’s done on shelves amazing time the next day. Freetail shares really Freetail Taproom and in draft. are the best. :) See you animals there!” 2000 S. Presa St. As Freetail goes into its second year of brewing (210) 625-6000 at this location, it’s working on increasing its flavor@sacurrent.com freetailbrewing.com sacurrent.com • August 26– September 1, 2015 • CURRENT 41

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First things first: it’s pronounced vee-oh-nyay, y’all. Second, this very Frenchiesounding grape is poised to become the major white wine grape of Texas. Move over chardonnay, you’re so last century. Here’s some proof: in 2013, at least 14 Texas wineries bottled viognier. There have been scholarly symposia on the subject. Lone Star viognier has beat out contenders from France and California in more than one blind tasting and one vintner, Pedernales Cellars, has won double-gold at a prestigious French wine competition. It was time to rustle up a few bottles. But a word of caution: 2013 was a tough year in the Texas High Plains appellation from which much of the state’s viognier comes. According to Richard Becker of Becker Vineyards, freezes wiped out much of the crop, forcing him and others to bottle juice from Cali just in order to keep a product in the market. Tip: make sure Texas appears somewhere on the label. One producer intent on making lemonade (metaphorically) out of 2013 was Kim McPherson of McPherson Cellars in Lubbock. The “Brothers Blend” ($10) was made possible by calling upon his wine-making brother in California for supplemental grapes. The resulting wine is brilliant gold in color, honeyed and lightly floral on the nose and dominated by bright grapefruit (with a little raisin-y muscat) on the palate. We look forward to trying his totally Texas 2014. Viognier is one of the first grapes to ripen in Texas. When picked early, citrus flavors tend to dominate; when harvested later (at higher sugar levels), the fruits turn to peach and melon. Becker Vineyards’ 2014 Texas High Plains Viognier Reserve ($ 15) has a little of both: lime peel and some clove to start and as the wine warms, dried apricot, melon and a whisper of vanilla. This wine feels especially lush in the mouth just above refrigerator temperature, too.

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For its sophomore year, Float Fest returns with an odd combo of independent music, camping and the Lone Star pastime of tubing. Unfortunately, you cannot float the river and shotgun Lone Stars to Paul Wall (6:30pm on Saturday) — you’ll have to get your ass out of the San Marcos River and in front of the stage to catch the Houston rap or indie crooners on tap for the weekend. Below, peep our six acts not to miss at the semi-aquatic, three-day gig.

Local Natives / 9:45pm / Friday

This LA quintet looks like a J. Crew college rock ad campaign playing ever-annoying, front-of-stage auxiliary drum rigs. Though it’s generally a good rule of thumb among musicians, this time don’t judge the band by its look. Local Natives’ animal-inspired pair of records — Gorilla Manor and Hummingbird — is the criterion for indie rock arrangement. Over long, melodic tom riffs, the band nails enviable three-part harmonies, singing of romantic duress and the daily life of “cold cereal and TV.”

Sam Lao / 3:30pm / Saturday

On “Nirvana,” trying to cover new ground, Dallas rapper Sam Lao hopes her new shoes will “take her further than the last pair did.” But, her previous kicks weren’t too shabby if they’re the ones that brought her into the hip-hop spotlight from the hip-hop desert of North Texas. With the 2013 EP West Pantego, the metroplex rapper flashes the boundless ambition of a young and bloodthirsty career. Stylistically, Lao can juggle backbeat rides and Last Poet rambles, most effectively working in a trap pose more familiar down the road in Houston. On her best tune, “Pilgrims,” Lao takes on all interlopers and culture vultures: “It’s too fucking early for these pilgrims, let’s Kill Bill ’em.”

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Otis the Destroyer / 2pm / Sunday With a name like Otis the Destroyer, you might expect this ascendant Austin four-piece to brandish a punishing and desolating sound. The band however, is actually a refreshing presentation of crunchy riffs, big drums and damn-near-pretty pop singing. This is a rowdy, loud garage rock band, but without an over-abundance of fuzz or confoundingly drowned vocals. Otis the Destroyer’s music is loose and delivers a liberating sensation of aimlessness without ever feeling sloppy or disposable. In other words, the group has managed to find the sweet spot, elusive to so many, between creative abandon and purposeful precision. — JC

▲ Sarah Jaffe / 5:45pm / Sunday ▲ Dr. Dog / 8pm / Friday Perennial indie rock favorite Dr. Dog is a band with a reputation for doing whatever the fuck it wants. While keeping the acid-folkie dream alive through its pop-jolted, freak-folk stylings, the group has also managed to keep its sense of humor. Over the course of eight LPs and four EPs, the Dr. Dog sound has grown away from lo-fi folk and, increasingly, into brighter and bolder territory. Only time will tell if this progression is going to continue to pay dividends or if it will take Dr. Dog more in the direction of irrelevant oddness à la Flaming Lips, or jam band blandness. For now, having just dropped a thoroughly satisfying live album at the beginning of the year, the Dog dudes are just having fun playing big ass shows, which is really what they do best. — James Courtney

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Denton singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe is among the most criminally underrated talents in Texas music, maybe even popular music in general. Why? Jaffe has — in the span of seven years and five albums — marched from gritty bedroom folk to Starbucks pop, through lush indie rock to even more lush, orchestral indie rock, and finally, with her most recent effort, to electro-pop. Meanwhile, as she tries on genres, discontent with sitting still in form or in content, her brash, bright and oddly beautiful voice has remained at the core of her work. Jaffe just has one of those truly singular rock voices that can constrict or widen the Float Fest very pumping of your heart. It’s a penetrating $65-$349 2pm-10:45pm Fri-Sun instrument, to say the least. Jaffe’s most recent Aug. 28-30 work, 2014’s Don’t Disconnect, might signal her Cool River Ranch arrival as a mainstream contender but she’s been 601 Dupuy Ranch Rd. Martindale, Tx proving her mettle since the get-go. — JC Floatfest.com 888-512-7469

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Soon after Gwar’s Pustulus Maximus answered the phone, I knew I had not prepped right for the interview. After cordialities, I jumped into an introductory round of questions for the guitarist of the world’s fake-bloodiest, most theatrical band. I was promptly interrupted. “Let me back up for one second, are you interviewing me, or the character, or both?” asked Brent Purgason, the man behind the Pustulus mask. It was a layering I had not anticipated. Through Gwar’s 30-year history, its band members have dressed in flayed and decayed costumes pulled from a complex band mythology. Of course they have a character headspace to slip into as well. “The old way was drink a bunch of beer and that’s how you get into the character,” said Purgason. “But nowadays, I’m absolutely comfortable. Really for me, it’s just putting on the mask. As long as I can put the mask on, I am that dude.” The man is Purgason, a tested guitarist in death and thrash metal with a humorous wink. From 2010 to 2014, Purgason played lead guitar in Cannabis Corpse, a weed-themed trio (riffing off the name of Buffalo death dealers Cannibal Corpse) with tunes like “Baptized in Bud” and “Shatter Their Bongs.” The mask is Pustulus Maximus, a horrid costume from head to toe. Covered in sores, Pustulus wears a loin-cloth, a skull-helmet and shoulder armor skulls that look like a cross between an elephant and Ridley Scott’s Alien. He’s got Sharpied-on ab demarcations and his face is an unsettling blue, potholed with a case of acne from hell. “When [I’m in] in character, I don’t feel good unless I’m making myself uncomfortable,” said Purgason. “That’s how I know I’m doing a good job. If I’m saying things that would make me blush outside of that, I know I’m going in the right direction.” There’s plenty of blush-worthy material in the Gwar folklore to fall back on. The immortal “Scumdogs of the Universe,” Gwar was banished to Earth after a failed coup against its interstellar Master. “Pustulus was first on Earth with the rest of the Scumdogs that were frozen in time,” explained Purgason. “He was in the closet taking big bong rips trying to hotbox it and when everybody got thawed out, they left him. They didn’t know he was still back there. Pustulus got out and wandered around Antarctica for about 20 to

Pustulus Maximus (second from left) with the Scumdogs of Gwar.

“It’s a lot quieter for sure,” said Purgason. “He was 30 years and then went home.” the loudest dude in the room no matter what. I miss that Here, in this roaming backstory, one can make the so much, but I think we’re doing a good job keeping that case for Gwar as the greatest band in the universe. Time dream alive and doing it for him as well as doing it for freezing and thawing, fake blood oozing by the gallon, ourselves. Because we’re here and we gotta do what a Grammy-nominated longform video called Phallus In makes us happy on top of trying to preserve this legacy Wonderland — no other band goes so far out of its way to the best we can.” make a spectacle of itself. That $17 ticket price goes a lot Through Brockie’s death and a caustic legal battle further than the average band, building and maintaining with his family, Gwar continues on, trying to get back the props and fluids produced by Gwar’s production to the brutal plane in which it’s most comfortable. For company, the Slave Pit. the current tour, Purgason guarantees the expected Most bands rely on a key member, or a dynamic “murder, blood death and mayhem” of a Gwar outing. In between marquee talents, to maintain a career’s an election season, the band’s tradition of mutilating prop momentum. But Gwar has never been restrained to this celebrities takes on an interesting bent. form of mortality. With 30 musicians subbing in and out “We’ve done Justin Bieber, Mitt Romney — that was of the band in its 31-year vocation, Gwar’s legacy is in the awesome to kill him,” said Purgason. “We’ve done Obama, blood-spurting, thrash-theatre of the live show. we’ve done Bill and Hilary Clinton, George Bush, Sarah But in March of 2014, Gwar suffered a very mortal blow. Palin. Anytime there’s an election year, you know Frontman David Brockie, the man behind the we’re gonna kill the most popular people.” mask of Oderus Urungus, overdosed on heroin Gwar feat. Scumdogs, if you’re reading this, for the sanity in his home in Virginia. Since 1986, Brockie had Butcher Babies, of American politics and the good of the Grand been the vile spokesman for the band, spewing Battlecross, U.S.O. Old Party, please dismember and de-wig a Trump the story of Gwar onstage, on MTV and, oddly $17 7pm Tues, Sept. 1 doll for 2016. enough, as a frequent guest on Fox News’ Red Alamo City Music Hall Eye. In retrospect, Brockie’s frequent jokes about 1305 E. Houston St. mstieb@sacurrent.com crack use feel pretty morbid. alamocitymusichall.com sacurrent.com • August 26– September 1, 2015 • CURRENT 49

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The Art of War festival is something of a March Madness-style breakdance competition, with movers and shakers ascending up the bracket for the glory of a cash prize. Presented by the Urban Dance Educational Foundation, the gig champions b-boy culture — the arms-crossed, downrocking dance artists of hip-hop. At midnight, Art of War shifts gears with a Chessboxin’ seminar from Wu-Tang MVP Ghostface Killah. Since the pre36 Chambers era of Staten Island Timbs and a Jason mask, Ghostface has been known for storytelling, a brash delivery and some of the cleanest bars of the Wu-Tang Clan. In February, Ghostface released Sour Soul, his most gripping work in some time. A collab with Canadian jazz/instrumental hip-hop trio Badbadnotgood, Sour Soul realizes Wu-Tang’s throwback soul textures with a nimble live band. $20-$25, 2pm-1am, Josabi’s, 17200 TX 16, Helotes, (210) 372-9100, josabis. com

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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 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

Doc Watkins And His Orchestra For the

final gig of the Pearl Stable’s summer series, the gorgeous venue hosts pianist Doc Watkins and his big band, who just released a charming live album. Pearl Stable Pearl Stable, 5:30pm

Nag Champa Named after the Indian

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

Ottmar Liebert German-born guitarist

Ottmar Liebert plays Spanish-influenced classical guitar/easy listening compositions with remarkable popular acclaim. In addition to five Grammy nominations, Liebert has gone either gold or platinum in the U.S. 38 times in his 27-year career. With Luna Negra. Aztec Theatre, 7:30pm

Will Owen Gage San Antonio roots rocker

plays all over the spectrum of Americana, though his favorite style seems to be blues a la Austin’s Vaughan brothers. With Lil’ Roger. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm

Yes, Toto Prog rock forefathers Yes released their first record in 1969, a self-titled

work that became one of the great templates of winding, progressive guitar music. In June, founding bassist Chris Squire passed away due to complications from leukemia, marking the first time that the band has performed without any founding members. Founded in 1977, Toto’s hits — including “Hold the Line”, “Rosanna”, and “Africa” — have earned the LA band album sales of over 40 million units. Majestic Theatre, 7:30pm

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Nashville Pussy, Valient Thorr, Hickoids Atlanta sleazeballs Nashville

Pussy really hit the mark with their band name. Pulled from a Ted Nugent song called “Wang, Dang, Sweet Poontang,” the single-minded silicone rock band puts out wailing and shameless hard rock numbers. Led by bearded singer Valient Himself, the North Carolina native commands his band —composed of instrumentalists all with the last name Thorr — on a Marshall Stack, Southern metal campaign. At varying intervals in the last three decades, San Antonio’s Hickoids have staked their claim over defiantly crass, discomfortingly honest cow punk, borderline parodic country ballads and bluegrass sing-alongs. Paper Tiger, 7pm

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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

Todd Rundgren Pennsylvania power-

popper Todd Rundgren made his mark on the stage with tunes like “I Saw the Light” and “Bang the Drum All Day.” But his greatest achievements have occured behind the mixing board, having produced Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell and the New York Dolls debut record among many others. Aztec Theatre, 8pm

Friday, August 28

Bombasta, Los De Esta Noche, El Dusty

On “De la Calle,” Bombasta proves their status as SA’s barrio big band. As Roberto Livar sings in Spanish and raps in English, Bombasta switches from a cumbia beat to a subtle reggaeton feel, as if absorbing the city’s influence on a ride-through with the windows down. On the new, self-titled album, Los De Esta Noche takes a swing at cumbia, ska, rocksteady and Tex-Mex rockabilly, trading Spanish for English as gracefully as they swap out their rhythms. As part of Master Blaster Sound System, Corpus native El Dusty is a dealer of the addictive electrocumbia rhythm. Empire Theatre, 9pm

Hank & Cupcakes, Femina-X Full of

brazen contradictions, surprising permutations and deliberate subversion, Hank & Cupcakes’ zany electro-pop-rock sound is, in turns, funky and abrasive, shimmering and coarse. Forwardthinking San Antonio quartet Femina-X has been in and out of the studio all spring, laying down an anticipated electro-pop effort. Limelight, 9pm

Kim Lenz San Antonio Shindig presents a

new fourth Friday series at The Amp Room, featuring new directions in rockabilly. Kim Lenz kicks off the series with some wolfcryin’ honk-tonk from Dallas. With Caroline Casey, DJ Tropicana Joe, Jive Bomber, Sandman. The Amp Room, 8pm

Monte Montgomery Originally from

Birmingham, Monte Montgomery has been a staple of San Antonio’s acoustic music community, reaching beyond the loop for some solid national coverage. In addition to a 1999 ACL date, Montgomery’s work has been featured in the 2006 crime drama Arc and Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm

Seven Lions Santa Barbara EDM/trance

producer Seven Lions hits Club Rio with the material from his 2014 Billboardcharting EP Worlds Apart. Club Rio, 10pm

Sweet Spirit, We Leave at Midnight Austin nonet Sweet Spirit pop tunes

large in size and stature, unafraid of emotional vulnerability despite their grand size. The 2015 EP from We Leave at Midnight, Terror Flora floats into headphones with a pro’s sense of arrangement. Guitars stomp around with satisfaction, but never tread on each other. Little bubblegum phrases stick to you for the day. Singer John Dailey, under all sorts of lacquered finishes, calls out for and receives the ear’s attention. 502 Bar, 8:45pm

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The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Spokesmodel, Blithe The Grasshopper Lies Heavy’s 2014 album All Sadness, Grinning into Flow serves a master class in long droning riffs, expansive textures and the importance of badass amps. This gig at the Ten Eleven marks the tour kickoff for a mid-country jaunt. Spokesmodel’s twin guitars play high and furious riffs, blasting through tempos of muscle-cramping speed. Blithe’s inaugural EP False Sense of Entitlement reeks of anxiety, pounding over flickering dance-punk rhythms and tightly-wound guitar riffs. With The Freebies. The Ten Eleven, 9pm

Trae Tha Truth A member of the late DJ

Screw’s Screwed Up Click, Tra That Truth has automatic apostle status in Houston. Outside of the city, he rides on the merit of his baritone trap. Highlights from Trae’s new album Tha Truth include “I Don’t Give a Fuck,” featuring Rick Ross, and “Criminals” with Rich Homie Quan. Alamo City Music Hall, 8pm

Saturday, August 29

Bob Schneider For better or worse, Bob

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Mariachi Weekend San Anto’s finest

Mariachi and Folklorico bands descend on Market Square for two days of traditional folk music. Market Square, noon

Michael Jackson Birthday Party DJ Isaiah. FromTexas of dancehall collective Bruk Out hosts this tribute to the King of Pop on what would have been MJ’s 56th birthday. Southtown 101, 10pm

Sub.Culture Dance music collective

Sub.Culture aims to facilitate a wider degree of deep-frequency culture in the conservative sonic climate of Alamo City. Paper Tiger, 9pm

Sunday, August 30

Leon Russell Leon Russell wasn’t exactly

lost, but thanks to Elton John, he’s been rediscovered. After their collaboration on 2010’s The Union, the Oklahoma songwriter enjoys his highest profile since the early ’70s when he released three gold records in as many years. He’s resurfaced just in time for his brand of grizzled gospel-roots to catch a ride on the burgeoning southern soul revival. At this point in his career, it’s hard to believe there’s much Russell hasn’t done. He began piano lessons at 4 and by 14 was playing nightclubs in Tulsa. He went to LA to get into advertising but wound up a member of the Wrecking Crew, the seasoned LA session players featured on the biggest hits of the ’60s from the Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Tina Turner and Bob Dylan, to name a few. With Hailey Whitters. Luckenbach Dancehall, 7pm

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club At the front of

Denver’s premiere rockabilly band, Slim Cessna has led his Auto Club through country blues and alt-country twang since

founding the band in 1992. With Wolverton, Ghostwriter. Paper Tiger, 7pm

Monday, August 31

Nina Diaz Open Mic At the front of Girl In A Coma and her thrilling solo band, San Anto’s Nina Diaz hosts the Limelight’s weekly open mic. Limelight, 9pm

Savagist Atlanta metal quartet Savagist

has a taste for brutal fare with tunes like “Nourishment for Larval” and “Fangs That Drip Venom.” With Deguello. Paper Tiger, 9pm

Small World Led by drummer Kyle

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

The Swingsters Austin revivalists The

Swingsters take a crack at a wide range of swing music, from Fats Waller to The Modern Mountaineers. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm

Tuesday, September 1

Crimson Jazz Orchestra Saxophonist

George Briscoe leads his band through the repetoire of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich and contemporary arrangers. Blue Star Brewing Company, 8pm

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 behind the public radio show Riverwalk Jazz. Bohanan’s, 7pm

Mushroomhead Nu-metal nonet

Mushroomhead falls into all the trappings of the bête noire genre: turntables, misguided breakdowns and matching facemasks. With Scare Don’t Fear, Unsaid Fate, Assailants. The Korova, 7pm

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): You like to run ahead of the pack. You prefer to show people the way, to set the pace. It’s cleaner that way, right? There’s less risk you will be caught up in the messy details of everyday compromise. But I suspect that the time is right for you to try an experiment: Temporarily ease yourself into the middle of the pack. Be willing to deal with the messy details of everyday compromise. Why? Because it will teach you lessons that will serve you well the next time you’re showing the way and setting the pace. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Are you ready to revise your ideas about how love works? Would you consider re-evaluating your relationship to romance, your approach to intimacy, and your understanding of sex? I hope you will not only be willing but also excited to do these things. Now is a favorable time to make changes that will energize your love life with a steady flow of magic for months to come. To get the party started, brainstorm about experiments you could try to invigorate the dynamics of togetherness. Make a list of your customary romantic strategies, and rebel against them all. Speak sexy truths that are both shocking and endearing. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20):

Querencia is a Spanish word with many nuances. At its simplest, it refers to your favorite spot, a place where you long to be. But its meaning can go even deeper. Querencia may be a sanctuary where you feel safe and authentic, or a situation that enables you to draw on extra reserves of strength and courage. It’s a special kind of home: an empowering shelter that makes you feel that you belong in this world and love your life. Can you guess where I’m going with this message, Gemini? These days you need to be in your *querencia* even more than usual. If you don’t have one, or if you don’t know where yours is, formulate a fierce intention to locate it.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): The art of effective communication consists of knowing both what to say and what not to say. It’s not enough to simply find the words that accurately convey your meaning. You have to tailor your message to the quirks of your listeners. For example, let’s say you want to articulate the process that led you to change your mind about an important issue. You would use different language with a child, an authority figure, and a friend. Right? I think you are currently at the peak of your abilities to do this well, Cancerian. Take full advantage of your fluency. Create clear, vivid impressions that influence people to like you and help you.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): Arthur Conan Doyle first used the term “smoking gun” in a story he wrote over a century ago. It referred to

a time the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes burst into a room to find a man holding a pistol that had just been fired, along with the fallen body of a man who had been shot. Since then, the meaning of “smoking gun” has expanded. Now it’s any piece of evidence that serves as compelling proof of a certain hypothesis. If you can’t find the cookie you left in the kitchen, and your roommate walks by with cookie crumbs on his chin, it’s the smoking gun that confirms he pilfered your treat. I believe this is an important theme for you right now. What question do you need answered? What theory would you like to have corroborated? The smoking gun will appear.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): At least for now, I suggest you suspend the quest for order and refinement and perfection. The wise course of action is to disengage from your fascination with control, and instead give yourself to the throbbing, erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. Why? If you do, you will be able to evolve faster than you thought possible. Your strength will come from agile curiosity and an eagerness to experiment. Do you remember when you last explored the catalytic wonders of spontaneity and unpredictability? Do it again!

will fall into your lap, although such an event is more likely than usual. More importantly, this omen suggests that you will influence luck, fate, and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance your career and ambitions.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): On August 28, 1963, Capricorn hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. In that address, he imagined what it might look like if African Americans were free of the bigotry and oppression they had endured for centuries at the hands of white Americans. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I encourage you to articulate your own “I Have a Dream” vision sometime soon. Picture in detail the successful stories you want to actualize in the future. Visualize the liberations you will achieve and the powers you will obtain.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): If you have been patiently waiting for a propitious moment to buy a new yacht, pledge your undying love, or get a tattoo that depicts Buddha wrestling Satan, now is as close as you’ll get to that propitious moment, at least for a while.

Even if you have merely been considering the possibility of signing a year-long lease, asking a cute mischief-maker on a date, or posting an extra-edgy meme on Facebook or Twitter, the next three weeks would be prime time to strike. Diving into a deep, heart-crazed commitment is sometimes a jangly process for you Aquarians, but these days it might be almost smooth and synchronistic.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Ready for a ritual? Get a piece of paper and a pen. Light a candle, take three deep breaths, and chant “YUMMMM” five times. Then spend ten minutes writing down the qualities you would like your perfect lover to possess. Identify both the traits that would make this person unique and the behavior he or she would display toward you. Got that? When you are finished, burn the list you made. Disavow everything you wrote. Pledge to live for at least seven months without harboring fixed beliefs about what your ideal partner should be like. Instead, make yourself extra receptive to the possibility that you will learn new truths about what you need. Why? I suspect that love has elaborate plans for you in the next two years. You will be better prepared to cooperate with them if you are initially free of strong agendas.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): This is the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. The star that you will ultimately make a wish upon has not yet risen. Your pet monsters seem to have forgotten for the moment that they are supposed to be your allies, not your nemeses. Smoke from the smoldering embers in your repressed memories is blending with the chill night fog in your dreams, making your life seem like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a taco. Just kidding about that last part. I wanted to see if your sense of humor is intact, because if it is, you will respond resiliently to all the cosmic jokes in your upcoming tests.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): According to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, here’s what God says to each of us: “Go the limits of your longing . . . Flare up like flame and make big shadows that I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Whether or not you’re on speaking terms with the Creator, this is excellent advice. It’s time to give everything you have and take everything you need. Hold nothing back and open yourself as wide and wild as you dare. Explore the feeling of having nothing to lose and expect the arrivals of useful surprises. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): The sun and the expansive planet Jupiter are currently making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This does not necessarily mean that a boon to your career and ambition

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