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CONTENTS July 1-7, 2015
30 FOOD Between The Buns Alt-burgers, classics and then some Tour De Fry 6 fry baskets we can’t get enough of Flavor File Pouring a 40 for Arcade Midtown Kitchen
10 NEWS From Ditches To Riches San Pedro Creek restoration project has big impact on local art scene
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Bottle & Tap Boerne’s latest brewery, Kinematic, bucks the norm
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53 MUSIC
22 ARTS Cut & Paste Collage through the ages at McNay’s “Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn”
25 SCREENS Stripped Down Beefcake on a mindless road trip in Magic Mike XXL Troubled, Gifted And Black Netflix premieres new documentary on jazz legend Nina Simone Adult Play Date The Overnight brings debauchery with a side of soul searching
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Down Under In SA Roo Pub is an Aussie haven
Just Surviving A long way to go, but progress in fight to raise wages
Our top picks for the week
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Make The Girls Dance Nashville rockers Natural Child swing through San Anto with abandon Beyond The Devil Who is bluegrass icon Charlie Daniels? Music Calendar What to see and hear this week
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San Pedro Creek, part of the city’s original drainage system, is slated for a years-long upgrade that some say will eventually turn it into SA’s second River Walk, as seen in these artist’s renderings.
FROM DITCHES TO RICHES The Artful Restoration Of San Pedro Creek MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN
As San Antonio boomed over the years into one of the largest cities in the country, concrete became a symbol of success. The Alamo City’s massive system of highways that connect this sprawling metropolis might be the most visible reminder of its growth. But that same concrete is just as common — and extensive — in San Antonio’s drainage network, which includes historic San Pedro Creek. It’s starting to change in and around the urban core, but much of this paved maze of drainage and road that now stretches farther than ever actually never took in aesthetic concerns. That’s about to change. Artistic Arroyo A plan is in the works to restore grubby San Pedro Creek, a utilitarian drainage creek, into a park for locals and tourists to enjoy green space, walking trails and public art. Much has been talked about in local media regarding the economic impact of the San Antonio River Authorityled restoration project. Same goes for its architectural and urban planning aspects. And of course, its funding — $125 million from Bexar County — has made headlines. But what about public art? Where will it come from? What will it be? 10 CURRENT • July 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Truth is, restoring this two-mile, 22-acre stretch of San Pedro Creek will take three years — its completion timed with San Antonio’s 300th anniversary in May 2018 — and it’s now in its nascent stages. Lori Houston, director of the Center City Development and Operations Department, said Muñoz & Company — the lead architectural firm on the project, led by Democratic Party bigwig Henry Muñoz— has created a curating process to help identify the type of art that will adorn the walkable creek. “This process will also go through the city boards and commissions necessary,” Houston told the San Antonio Current, noting they’ll help guide the curatorial committee to make sure the art is appropriate and maintained. The City of San Antonio owns San Pedro Creek and when everything is said and done, it will own the art much like it does along the River Walk’s Museum Reach — another wildly successful outside-the-box approach to restoring inner city waterways. “I think that just like the Museum Reach urban segment, this is going to be a major catalytic project,”
Houston said. Paula Owen, president of the Southwest School of Art, said the Museum Reach includes a great example of public art in San Antonio with Philadelphia artist Donald Lipski’s F.I.S.H. exhibit. The installation includes 25 seven-foot-long hand painted anatomically correct long-ear sunfish, which are native to the San Antonio River, suspended under the I-35 overpass near Camden Street. “They light up at night,” Owen explained. “And if you go to that part of the River Walk on any evening of the year at dusk, you will see people gathering to watch the fish light up.” Sophistication Succeeds It’s pieces like F.I.S.H. that are accessible to everyone and of high quality that help establish urban artistic sophistication. “When we think about places that are memorable to us, they often include some kind of icon, some kind of symbol that is encompassed within public art,” Owen said.
The San Pedro Creek restoration project could be catalytic for SA.
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From playscapes to iconic pavillions, the San Pedro Creek revival will provide a unique opportunity to showcase new public art displays.
Not only that, public art activates and invigorates spaces — particularly neglected spaces — making them appealing to businesses and people alike. “We want San Antonio to be as culturally significant as other major cities,” Owen said. “So the more high-quality public art that we have, the more it will help accomplish that goal.” Emphasis on high quality. Otherwise, a public art project can turn into a boondoggle. “You know, it could be great and it could be awful. It always depends on whose hands transform the material,” Owen said. But it also depends on the space and restoration plans call for a wide variety of spaces, including picturesque walkways, like Paseo del Rio. Then there are the ribbons of life, which will incorporate aquatic and riparian planting areas that will support essential species while stimulating the human senses. Iconic pavilions will be built — think Joske Pavilion at Brackenridge Park or the pavilion in the Japanese Tea Garden. The driving design principle behind all of these moving parts is called Urban Latismo, a concept that blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor through the common and the exquisite. “We view the creek as a garden, a healing composite of living offerings that with great thought and care will nourish us for years to come,” a 2013 San Pedro Creek engineering study states. “By listening to the language
May 2013 Bexar County approves $125M in funding December 2013 San Antonio River Authority hires design team
of San Pedro Creek, its story will be shared via art and cultural components unique to our story.” The concept also values sustainability as a means to express San Antonio’s culture through repurposing, reusing and recycling common materials. So the landscape that will house public art — an outdoor museum, so to speak — will transform nondescript architectural features found in San Pedro Creek into a celebration of culture, craft and the commonplace. Those everyday features that are easy to overlook include eight city street bridges slated for replacement, six new pedestrian bridges and rehabilitation of six other bridges. “Yielding both comfort and delight, it pushes us to strive for more with less, yet still preserve the goals of maintaining a strong cultural and historical response to the design challenge ‘El Arroyo’ poses,” the 2013 study states. That’s where the San Antonio River Authority’s Russell Persyn, the restoration project manager, brings in the science that will dictate how the space will change. “Historically, if you looked at when the creek was channelized, one goal was to improve flood control,” Persyn told the Current. “And we were successful, but it was at the cost of portions of the ecosystem.” Floodplain Transformed Looking back, he said SARA would have treated San Pedro Creek differently in terms of including public art and green spaces to preserve the ecosystem.
January 2016-May 2018 Construction begins, 24 month duration
Febrary 2014 County allocates funding for final design phase February 2014 March 2016 Stakeholders participate in design phase
“We now better understand public investments can create multiple benefits from quality of life to connectivity to revitalization,” he said. “We’ve become smarter at having multiple benefits and have been at the forefront and taken a leadership role in doing that.” But it’s no easy task. The San Pedro Creek is part of a 100-year floodplain. “With the proposed design, we’ll be able to contain it,” Persyn said. The floodplain is a benchmark that Persyn uses to assess flood risk, which plays a role in the design process. “In this case, we’re designing the channel to limit our risk,” Persyn said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not an event greater than that, but it’s a level of risk we’ve assessed and decided is acceptable for the community.” But simply deepening a channel, digging drainage tunnels and paving over parts of creeks and ditches is no longer acceptable. It’s clear to city leaders that San Antonians want more from their environment in terms of art, walkability and green space. “It’s an exciting time. While we’re growing, we tried to make that growth in a way that maintains quality of life with respect to our city’s culture and history while not styming progress. Sometimes all those things are delicate to balance,” Persyn said. And with successful restorations in the Museum and Mission Reaches, which included quality of life improvements as well as public art, it appears city leaders are listening.
April 2015 County OKs 40% of design
August 2015 70% design due
January 2016 90% design due
March 2018 San Antonio is 300-yearsold, construction should be finished
March 2016 100% design due
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Mary could keep her ceiling from caving in — if she made $2 more per hour. The 68-year-old, who asked that her last name be omitted for fear of reprisal from her employer, earns $8 per hour as a home health care worker. Half the ceiling collapsed in a room at Mary’s West Side home. The whole roof is riddled with holes. As if that wasn’t enough, her 1979 Ford Explorer barely chugs along. But she lives with it. With no savings and no other breadwinner in her family, Mary’s money runs out each month after she pays for basics like keeping the lights on and the water running. The roof’s holes get a little bigger, the car whines louder. “I paid bills yesterday, I had a dollar left. That’s money to support myself until the next pay day,” Mary told the San Antonio Current. “I’m trying to make ends meet ... and I can’t do it.” Over 350,000 people in Texas earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Another two million workers, like Mary, earn less than $10.10 per hour, according to the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. That’s the amount some Texas lawmakers and the Obama administration want to set as the new minimum wage. If Mary lived in Seattle or San Francisco or Chicago — major cities that approved ordinances raising the minimum wage above $10 an hour — she might have repaired her house and car by now. But she lives in San Antonio, where the hurdles for increasing wages are much higher. Texas law prohibits individual municipalities from raising the minimum wage on their own. So living wage advocates in San Antonio have adopted a different strategy to raise wages: target campaigns to public entities like Bexar County, the City of San Antonio and school districts in order to apply pressure to the private sector. ‘A Matter Of Social Justice’ Communities Organized for Public Service and the Metro Alliance, or COPS/Metro, one of the leading wage advocacy groups in San Antonio, started its living wage campaign about a year ago. The goal is to raise hourly wages for public workers to at least $14.91 — the average amount needed for a family four to stay off government assistance such as food stamps. Father Mike DeGerolami, pastor of St. Timothy Catholic Church and a member of COPS/Metro, said the group maintains that “if you’re working full time, especially for a public entity ... you shouldn’t have to
SA members of the Service Employees International Union rallied last week in front of city hall.
seek public assistance.” “We look at a budget as being a moral statement. What you pay your people says a lot about what kind of boss you are, what kind of institution you come from,” DeGerolami said. “It’s a matter of social justice. It’s a matter of the dignity of work.” The idea of targeting public workers, according to DeGerolami, is to “kick the conscience of private employers” and force them to raise wages by incentivizing public work. That argument resonated with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff. He and other county commissioners announced earlier this month that they would look into boosting pay for county employees. Minimum wage for county employees is currently $11.67. The Commissioners Court will try to raise it to $13 per hour next fiscal year. Wolff said that the court’s motivation to raise the wage was ultimately “selfish.” “We’re down to 3.4 percent unemployment and finding good workers gets harder and harder. If you’re willing to pay them a decent a wage, it’s easier to find good talent,” Wolff said. The raise would impact about 400 workers and cost about $1 million. But Wolff cautioned that the court didn’t
make a binding agreement with COPS/Metro — only that the county would escalate wages if it fit into the budget. The county will finalize the budget in September. “We told them we would try to step forward,” Wolff said. “But we’ve got to vote on the budget.” COPS/Metro officials hope that wages for county workers will rise to $15 per hour within three years. Groups such as COPS and Service Employees International Union have also set their sights on wages for City of San Antonio workers, who now make a minimum of $11.47 per hour. Robert Cruz, a COPS member, said the group estimates that a raise to $14.91 would cost the City $7 to $10 million. It’s a significant portion of the City’s $2.4 billion annual budget, but no less important than pet projects such as the $41 million renovation of the Alamodome that City Council approved earlier this year, advocates argue. Buddy Villejo, a 63-year-old who has worked for the city in various capacities for nearly four decades, said at a SEIU rally at City Hall last week that his wages were adequate, but he was concerned about his fellow municipal workers. “I’m not hurting, but I’m on the downside [of my career]. I’m worried about the people we left behind,” Villejo said. sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 13
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A Lonely Fight For the time being, advocates must rely on their own effort to raise wages, as proposals to raise the minimum wage statewide failed during the most recent legislative session. Lawmakers filed several bills to do so, with Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, spearheading the most promising effort. He proposed a constitutional amendment to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10, mirroring the Obama administration’s proposal from last year. As he watched other states and cities raise wages in the run-up to the 2015 legislative session, Martinez Fischer thought that Texas, with more minimum wage earners than any other state, should be next. “I figured that the time was right for Texas to be in that conversation,” Martinez Fischer said. “This would have had an immediate impact on our workforce. Although he thought his pitch resonated with liberal and conservative lawmakers alike — particularly the argument that the higher a person’s income, the less reliant they are on government assistance — Martinez Fischer’s measure died on the House floor. Even if it had passed, the measure would have still required ratification statewide by voters in November. But nationwide, there seems to be popular support for it: a recent poll by the New
York Times/CBS News found that 71 percent of adults favor upping the minimum wage to $10.10. Jon Fisher, president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas, represents one of the groups that opposed Martinez Fischer’s measure. His position is that the government shouldn’t set a minimum wage at all — much less increase it. “Our group does not believe that the government should be involved in employer/employee relations, period; it should be determined by the marketplace,” Fisher said. “We have just struggled with so much government intrusion ... we felt like any additional intrusion is something we are not going to support.” A study by the Congressional Budget Office showed that raising minimum wage to $10.10 would lift about 900,000 people out of poverty. But it could also result in 500,000 people losing their jobs with the tightening of employers’ profit margins. Martinez Fischer said he’ll continue to lobby his colleagues, but a new statewide proposition to raise the minimum wage can’t come until the legislature convenes again in 2017. Until then, Mary will continue to work, living paycheck to paycheck. “I just work, live from day to day. With my financials, I can’t live comfortably,” she said. “It’s hard, but that’s what it is.” mmarks@sacurrent.com
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High-octane desert rockers Lonely Horse.
Local indie-rock mainstay Buttercup. WED
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Buttercup, The Saarinens MUSIC
On Wednesday, Buttercup and The Saarinens, two of our most finely tuned indie-rock bands, will present sets of music in a laid-back concert that will also serve to highlight the exquisite venue, Period Modern. As a setting, the eclectic furniture/art store allows listeners to appreciate the nuanced music of these two acts in such a way that the loud and rowdy bar scene never could. As you prepare to head out, be sure to check out The Saarinens’ recently released début album, the moody and intricate Modern World, at thesaarinens.bandcamp.com. Complimentary beverages provided. $10, 8pm, Period Modern, 4347 McCullough Ave., (210) 902-1217, periodmodern.com. — James Courtney
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Military Appreciation Week COMEDY
Enjoy the comedy stylings of U.S. military veterans-turned-stand-up comedians Bobby Henline, Raul Sanchez and Anthony Torino, as they raise money for military support groups. The trio make up Crosshairs Comedy, a team of vets “who have taken on comedy as their new battlefield.” Henline, who did four tours in Iraq, ended his military career in 2007 after a roadside bomb burned over 40 percent of his body. “I had a good time in Iraq, but that last tour was a real blast. It took me four tours to realize my lucky number is three.” $16, 8pm Wed-Thu, 8pm & 10:15pm FriSat, 8pm Sun, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, lolsanantonio.com. – Kiko Martinez
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Let’s face it: Lonely Horse is about to take over the world. With its début album finally slated to drop in early August (on Nouveau Riche Records) and a massive tour planned, the highoctane desert-rock power duo is poised for big things. As such, we should relish the opportunity to see them rock in the quaint confines of Imagine Books and Records while we still can. Friday’s intimate show, which will also feature musical performances by Shamans Among the Machine and Octahedron, will be an all-arts event, showcasing art, clothing and photography by local vendors. Free, 6-11pm, Imagine Books and Records, 8373 Culebra Rd., (210) 236-7668, imaginebookstore.com. — JC
Julya Jara plays Yazmin in Water by the Spoonful. FRI-SUN
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Pennsylvania-born playwright and composer Quiara Alegría Hudes made her first big splash in the theater world as librettist of the musical slice of life In the Heights. Hudes’ flair for interweaving narratives took a turn for the dramatic with her “Elliot Trilogy,” a cycle of plays surrounding an ex-Marine’s search for meaning following a tour of Iraq. Skipping straight to Hudes’ Pulitzerwinning second chapter, Water by the Spoonful, the Playhouse delves into a tangled web strung together by a fractured family and an online chat room for addicts. $12-$30, 8pm Fri, 3pm Sun, The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258, theplayhousesa.org. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Woodlawn Lake Park lights up for its annual 4th of July Celebration. SAT
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Freedom to Say I Do SPECIAL EVENT
Even before the Supreme Court’s favorable ruling in the same-sex marriage case of Obergefell v. Hodges, Unity Church of San Antonio took a leap of faith in planning “Freedom to Say I Do,” a series of “inspiring but not religious” ceremonies that culminate with open house receptions complete with cupcakes. The brainchild of UCSA member Gail Johnson and minister Rv. Linda Martella-Whitsett, the daylong event exemplifies the nondenominational church’s Statement of Inclusivity. Couples wishing to tie the knot should bring a marriage license and register online at unityofsa.org. $25, 9:30am5pm, Unity Church of San Antonio, 1723 W. Lawndale Dr., (210) 824-7351, unityofsa.org. — BR
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4th of July Celebration SPECIAL EVENT
Tie your least favorite lawn chair or most mobile grill to one of the trees at Woodlawn Lake Park as the San Antonio Parks Foundation and City of San Antonio team up for the 15th annual ‘Murica bash. This year’s festivities include live music, an All-American Military cook-off, a children’s parade and kids’ zone, a Zumbathon to sweat off all those holiday treats and more. Pack those picnic baskets, blankets, bug spray and get there early to grab coveted seating for the Fireworks Extravaganza (you may want to leave the pups at home for this one). Free, 8:30am-11pm (fireworks at 9:30pm), Woodlawn Lake Park, 1103 Cincinnati Ave., (210) 212-8423, saparksfoundation.org. — Jessica Elizarraras
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Given the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last week, the LGBT community has plenty to celebrate during what’s been dubbed “Texas Marriage Freedom Weekend.” Presented by Bud Light and benefiting an array of local organizations, the annual Pride Bigger Than Texas festival takes over Crockett Park with food, music and live entertainment from the likes of Pride Championship Wrestling and Mobile, Alabama-based, gay dance team the Prancing Elites. As a bonus leading up to the Rainbow Dash (8pm), High Heel Race (8:45pm) and parade (9pm), Pride San Antonio will facilitate a mass same-sex wedding in the park. $10, 11am-11pm, Crockett Park, 1300 N. Main Ave., pridesanantonio.org. — BR
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Ladies, are you looking to jumpstart your summer? How about an opportunity to get wet and wild, sans the annoyance of the masculine gaze? Thanks to the new operation Joteria Productions — dedicated to high-quality, all queer female events — you’ll have that chance on Sunday. For a small donation, join the pool party, where you’ll enjoy good company, food by chef Nadia Casaperalta and music by queer crooner Alyson Alonzo. Proceeds will go, in part, to benefit LezRide, a fastgrowing collective that seeks to provide safe and fun outdoor community activities for the LGBTQA youth of SA. No boys allowed. $15, 4-10pm, Laguna Del Rio Swim Club, 1409 Donaldson Ave., (210) 352-5392. — JC
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‘Maestro of Pop’
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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. Outside of his artwork, Duardo turned his mastery with serigraph printing and publishing into a business, acting as managing director of the downtown print shop Modern Multiples. He collaborated with everyone from David Hockney and Keith Haring to Banksy and Shepard Fairey. 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 Wed, 10am-9pm Thu, 10am-4pm Fri, noon-5pm Sun, 10am-4pm Tue, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Art opening: “Re-enactment” UTSA’s off-
site gallery Terminal 136 hosts an opening reception for artist and educator Wanrudee Buranakorn’s “Re-enactment.” Born and raised in Thailand and now based in Wisconsin, Buranakorn explores physical beauty, desire, melancholy, dreams and contemplation via juxtaposed photographs presented as diptychs and triptychs. Free, 6-9pm Thursday-Friday; Terminal 136, 136 Blue Star, (210) 458-4391.
”Discover the Ice Age” Step back 2.5
million years into a world that was anything but sweltering with “Discover the Ice Age,” a traveling exhibition enhanced with animatronic models and life-sized skeletons. Visitors can channel their inner cave people alongside a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed cat and a gigantic “terror bird” while exploring extinction and whether our planet might see another ice age. $11-$15, 10am-5pm WednesdaySaturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-5pm Monday, 10am-8pm Tuesday; Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, (210) 357-1910.
”Getting the Big Picture” One night
back in 1965, Mel Casas drove past the San Pedro drive-in cinema and saw an on-screen 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,” the first of four exhibitions around town
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developed in tribute to the late artist’s work. Free, 9am-5:30pm WednesdayThursday, 9am-5:30pm Monday-Tuesday; Museo Guadalupe, 723 S. Brazos. St., (210) 271-3151.
Guitar Drag Partly in response to the 1998
death of James Byrd Jr. at the hands of white supremacists, New York-based artist Christian Marclay created Guitar Drag — a 14-minute video depicting a pickup truck dragging an amplified, electric guitar “across a Texas roadway to its aggressive destruction.” Free, noon-5pm WednesdayFriday, noon-5pm Sunday, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.
”Infinite Horizons” Nineteenth-century
naturalist John Muir once said, “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.” Ruiz-Healy Art presents two vastly different universes both deeply immersed in that wilderness in “Infinite Horizons,” featuring recent works by Abelardo López and Leigh Anne Lester. López’s landscape paintings recall the topography of his homeland in Oaxaca and seek to immerse the onlooker in a tranquil daydream, while San Antoniobased Lester’s scientific examinations use graphite and film to offer viewers an intimate peek into the unseen struggles of genetically modified plants. Free, 11am-4pm Wednesday-Friday, 11am-4pm Tuesday; Ruiz-Healy Art, 201-A E. Olmos Dr., (210) 804-2219.
”Lesley Dill: Performance as Art”
Interweaving aspects of contemporary art and theater, New York-based artist
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Oscar Shorts
After five successful weeks of screenings in June, which took audiences across 50 years of film — from 1925’s The Freshman to 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock — Texas Public Radio’s Cinema Tuesdays starts July with a presentation of 15 short films nominated for Academy Awards in February in their respected Animated, Documentary and Live-Action categories. The lineup includes the three winning shorts from each group: Feast (animated), Disney’s tale of a Boston terrier puppy who develops a bond with his owner through an insatiable taste for the food they share; Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press One (doc) about the staff working at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs suicide hotline; and what could be considered a companion piece to Crisis, The Phone Call (live-action), about a suicide counselor (Sally Hawkins) attempting to dissuade a depressed stranger (Jim Broadbent) over the phone from killing himself. Other favorites include the Polish doc Our Curse, about a family’s emotional struggle with its newborn’s rare disease, as well as French-Israeli live-action drama Aya, about a woman who picks up a stranger from the airport pretending to be his driver. $10-$15, 7:30pm, Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 614-8977, tpr.org. – Kiko Martínez
Lesley Dill’s “Performance as Art” brings together a number of costumes, ephemera, photographs and video projections from more than two decades. $5-$10, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.
Summer Shows at Blue Star Representing
works by 21 artists selected from an open call in 2014, Blue Star’s summer exhibitions explore the anti-heroes and understated places in our lives (“Everyday Is Ordinary”), technology and communication (“Transmissions”), time, history, memory and containment (“Of Reference, Of Departure, Of Origin”) and the boundaries between interiors and exteriors (“StellarScape”). $3-$5 (free on First Thursday and First Friday), noon-8pm Thursday, noon9pm Friday, noon-6pm Sunday; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, 116 Blue Star, (210) 227-6960.
Film
Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of The Grateful Dead Fathom Events
presents three five-hour live broadcasts of The Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” concerts at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Promising a different experience each night, the performances bring surviving original members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir together for an onstage reunion supported by musicians Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jeff Chimenti (RatDog) and Bruce Hornsby. $15, 7pm Friday-Sunday; Santikos Embassy
14 (13707 Embassy Row); Santikos Rialto (2938 NE Loop 410); Santikos Silverado 16 (11505 N. Loop 1604 W.); Santikos Palladium (17703 I-10 W.).
Theater
A Life (Asleep) Written and directed by
Sophie Bolles, A Life (Asleep) follows the increasingly strange dream-life of an ordinary young woman as she navigates everything from the office to the apocalypse. $10-14, 8pm Friday, 7pm Sunday, The Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden St., (210) 557-7562.
Mary Poppins Following two raucous
children and the magical nanny that swoops in to save their family, Mary Poppins brings laughter, music and flight to the Woodlawn. With the theater’s largest ensemble to date, artistic director Greg Hinojosa enlists choreographer Eric Mota and special effects artists to create a spectacle that’s truly “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Adapted for the stage by the Sherman Brothers and Julian Fellowes, the musical draws from both the 1964 film and the P.L. Travers books, the rights to which it took Walt Disney more than 20 years to obtain. $17-$26, 7:30pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 267-8388.
Special Events
1965 Vintage Car Show As part of its gold anniversary celebration “Fresh at 50,” Sea Island Shrimp House turns back the clock to the days of LBJ and 31-cent gallons of gas for a show of classic cars from 1965,
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to offer Legal Same Sex Mass Wedding Ceremony at San Antonio Pride Festival
When: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, July 4th Where: Stage at Crockett Park, 1300 N. Main Ave, San Antonio,
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DETAILS: We used to be San Antonio’s best-kept secret, now we’re telling all. The McNay is an intriguing destination offering world-class art, as well as diverse and diverting experiences for everyone. Avenues to hike and bike, lawns for picnics, quiet courtyards for relaxing, surprise and inspiration around every corner. Now that you know, welcome to The McNay.
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Pride San Antonio will proudly present
the 2015 Pride “Bigger than Texas” Festival and Parade! In celebration of the June 26th Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage, Everlasting Elopements and Texas Wedding Ministers, in conjunction with Pride San Antonio, will perform a free mass wedding ceremony for any and all couples
who wish to participate.
Judge Ron Rangell and Rev. Audrie Henry, from Texas Wedding Ministers, will perform the ceremony. Rev. Rene Esparza, co-owner of Texas Wedding Ministers, will also translate the ceremony into Spanish. ceremony to sign marriage licenses and take photos. All couples will be invited to come back Sunday, July 5, to march as married couples in the Parade at 8 a.m.
Wedding Attire encouraged!
For more information on this special wedding ceremony, contact Kari Esparza at 210-860-5680 or contact@txweddingministers.com.
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retro tunes, and charbroiled shrimp and lemonade available for purchase in the parking lot. Free, 10am-1pm Sunday; Sea Island Shrimp House, 322 W. Rector St., (210) 342-7771.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Legends Ringmaster
Johnathan Lee Iverson leads circus stars, trick-riders, acrobats and exotic animals in a new spectacle inspired by legendary creatures, including unicorns, Pegasus and “Woolly the Mammoth.” $15-$60, 7:30pm Wednesday-Friday, noon & 4pm Saturday, 1pm & 5pm Sunday; Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St., (210) 444-5140.
Scobee Summer Shows The Scobee
Planetarium at San Antonio College hosts a series of weekday matinees throughout the summer months, featuring the programs Black Holes (Wednesday) and The Little Star That Could (Monday-Tuesday). $2-$5. 2pm Wednesday, 2pm Monday-Tuesday; Scobee Planetarium, 1300 San Pedro Ave., (210) 486-0100.
Stinson Commemorative Air Force Independence Weekend
Stinson Municipal Airport celebrates Independence Day weekend with family activities, displays of antique cars and tours of WWII-era combat planes. Attendees may register for flights (starting at $225) aboard the Texas Raiders B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-25 Yellow Rose, the C-47 Bluebonnet Belle and the U-3A Blue Canoe. $5-$20 (free on Saturday), 10am-2pm Friday-Sunday; Stinson Municipal Airport, 8535 Mission Rd., (210) 207-1800.
Talks Plus
Art Conversation: “Vincent Valdez on Jamie Wyeth” SAMA curators
William Keyse Rudolph and Anna Stothart engage in a lively discussion with esteemed local artist Vincent Valdez about representational art in contemporary society as it relates to the Jamie Wyeth retrospective on view through July 5. $15-$25, 6-7pm Wednesday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.
Mash-Up Series: “Furniture & Fashion” Designed to uncover connections between seemingly disparate topics, the McNay’s unconventional, interactive Mash-Up lecture series picks back up with “Furniture & Fashion,” a session pairing Andrew Wit (an international practitioner in residence at Ball State University) and local fashion designer Angelina Mata. Free, 6:30-7:30pm Thursday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.
“Museum Pop Culture” The Briscoe’s
education and programs manager, Beth Foulds, points out popular culture references within the museum’s collection and explains their significance in shaping perceptions of the American West. Free, 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499.
“Not So Creepy Critters” Erik and
Courtney Honer bring a selection of their unusual critters — including Reggie the blue-tongued skink and Douglas the bearded dragon lizard — to Hardberger Park’s Urban Ecology Center for a kidfriendly presentation. $3-$5 suggested donation, 9-11am Saturday; Phil Hardberger Park West, 8400 NW Military Hwy., (210) 492-7472.
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Ware Lecture: Dr. Cornel West First
Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio hosts a video presentation of philosopher, activist and author Dr. Cornel West’s recent lecture at the UUA General Assembly in Portland, Oregon. Immediately following, representatives from the local chapter of the NAACP and the SAPD will engage in a dialogue about West’s lecture as well as race relations in San Antonio. Free, 7pm Tuesday; Fellowship Hall, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 7150 I-10 W., (210) 344-4695.
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¡BRAVO! An Evening of Song and Dance Local radio personality Elizabeth Ruiz emcees a festive program of traditional folkloric numbers, live music and contemporary dance routines performed by the Parks and Recreation Department’s Fandango and Alamotion dance troupes and the pre-professional music ensemble Take Note. Free (donations accepted), 8pm WednesdayThursday; Arneson River Theatre, 418 Villita., (210) 207-3132.
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Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey’s 2005 collage Procession.
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McNay Celebrates DIY Collage Tradition With ‘Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn’ DAN R. GODDARD In the art world, the McNay’s Guitar and Wine Glass (1912) by Pablo Picasso is a superstar. Not only regarded as one of the earliest fine art collages, it’s also considered the first to incorporate a newspaper. That’s why it recently starred in both “Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and “The Shock of the News” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Currently, the influential collage, part of founder Marion Koogler McNay’s original bequest in 1950, is anchoring “Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn: Collage and Assemblage,” on view through September 6. This small work made from cut newspaper, wallpaper, sheet music and faux-wood paper has played a significant role in shaping the permanent collection of the state’s first private modern art museum. “We featured Guitar and Wine Glass in the 60th anniversary exhibit, but we brought it back for this show because it’s the reason why the McNay has long put an emphasis on collecting collages and showing why collage has been such an important development in modern art,” William J. Chiego, McNay director, who just announced his departure next year, told the San Antonio Current. “We wanted to show off our strength in collage, and we were able to bring works together from all areas of the 22 CURRENT • July 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
collection, including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts,” Chiego said. Alongside some of the bestknown names in American art, several San Antonio artists are included, a tribute to the city’s DIY tradition of making the best of what you have. The McNay defines collage as “the imaginative combining of disparate, often ephemeral materials or detritus to create a work of art.” In Guitar and Wine Glass, Picasso pasted in a drawing likely done by him, but the patterns of the faux-wood paper probably aren’t his. In the scrap of newspaper, he cut off the text after the “u” in Le Journal, suggesting a “game” or a “gamble.” The story below is about a crisis in the Balkans and may have been a challenge to Georges Braque, his friend and rival in inventing cubism. Braque is credited with inventing papier collé, which is a collage that uses paper exclusively. Robert Motherwell, who has the most works in the show, is the best-known American artist to use papier collé. He regarded collage as the “20th century’s greatest creative innovation” and critic Robert Hughes thought Motherwell was the most original collagist after Matisse. Motherwell’s primary innovation was his use of the torn edge, such as the ragged Suchard chocolate box mailer in The Emmerich Collage and a clipping ripped from The Times, London, August 6.
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Magnetic Fields, 2009, by SA’s own Kelly O’Connor (left) and Austin-based Lance Letscher’s Funny Hat, 2009.
Another major American artist, Robert Rauschenberg, the native of Port Arthur who had a Texas Sesquicentennial exhibit at the McNay in 1986, pulled topical images — sports figures, satellite dishes, animals, airplanes — from several sources that he combined in Rush #5 from the Cloister Series to form a quilt-like snapshot of the media landscape circa 1980. More mysterious is the small Black Mail (1958) with a winter landscape providing a backdrop for a small mirror and a gray postcard-like rectangle, perhaps a harbinger of bad news. But the most spectacular and complex collage is by San Antonio artist Kelly O’Connor, who mines the psychic terrain of her childhood pop culture in Magnetic Fields (2009), dominated by a radiant Julie Andrews leading the von Trapp family over the Alps in The Sound of Music. Besides drawing from animated Disney fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland, O’Connor also
incorporates Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz in a glitzy yet troubling trip through girl-power fantasyland. Clouds dripping or maybe bleeding black reveal a dark underside to this feminine version of the American Dream. Best-known for his vividly colored portraits of pachucos, San Antonio artist César Martínez used sepia-toned, burnt and black-painted found wood for his poignant Cono’s Christmas Buck (South Texas Lascaux) (1993). With antlers and deer heads etched into the wood, memories of a holiday hunting trip in Webb County are evoked by flattened, rusted, bullet-riddled beer cans and bits of scratched-in graffiti. Other San Antonio artists include Kent Rush, who sends a subtle line of cowboys riding across the horizon line in his untitled collage with acrylic, charcoal and graphite on panel used to make it look like burnished and weathered metal. Part of a torn shirt set within a burning-red,
roiling plane becomes the centerpiece for for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Reginald Rowe’s mythic Oracle I. Mark Design at the Theatre Development Schlesinger, whose public art graces new Fund/Irene Sharaff Awards in New York, sections of the River Walk, employs rolleddeveloped his 1972 scene design for up pink vinyl for charming effect in Coco Grease around high school yearbook (2004). Henry Rayburn memorializes the photos and portraits of James Dean. pleasures of Paris with small architectural Natalia Gontcharova’s Spanish Dancer details in Place de L’Opera. (1916) is considered one of the Russian Radcliffe Bailey uses water-related constructivist designer’s masterworks. imagery including ships, fish, ripples Collage goes three-dimensional in and oars etched on the glass covering assemblage sculpture, such as Texas the epic Procession (2005) to chart the artist Jim Love’s smiling Choir Director African diaspora, trans-Atlantic slave (1959) and Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s pot trade and waterways of the South. An old of gold chocolate coins. The gallery is family portrait, a medical too small for the McNay’s diagram of an eye and more monumental works, Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn: a photo of a UFO tell a such as Leonardo Drew’s Collage and Assemblage $5-$10 complicated family story in epically overstuffed 10am-4pm Wed, 10am-9pm Thu, Legba (2003). Number 33A (1999). For 10am-4pm Fri, Noon-5pm Sun, From the Tobin Theatre collage artists, putting 10am-4pm Tue Collection are several set seemingly unrelated McNay Art Museum 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave. designs. Douglas Schmidt, images and objects (210) 824-5368 this year’s winner of the together unlocks new mcnayart.org Robert L. B. Tobin Award worlds of meaning. Through Sept. 6 sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 23
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STRIPPED DOWN Magic Mike XXL Goes Back To The Grind With Nothing On Its Mind SCOTT RENSHAW
There’s an important, perhaps counter-intuitive point that must be clear before we start talking about Magic Mike XXL: The original 2012 Magic Mike was not about male strippers. Make no mistake: It contained male strippers. A whole lot of ‘em, grinding and thrusting away in routines designed to send female audience members — those in the movie and those at the movies — into fits of shrieking glee. But the movie was not fundamentally about male strippers and that’s why it worked as something besides beefcake eye-candy. Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin used that milieu as the backdrop for a Great
Recession-era tale of shadow economies, with people working their hardest and resorting to less-than-savory activities in an attempt to stay above water, let alone grab the American Dream. From the efforts of Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) to finance his customfurniture business to under-the-table construction jobs and drug deals, Magic Mike was, at its core, about money — and not just the singles stuffed into the protagonists’ G-strings. Magic Mike XXL picks up three years later and it’s got entirely different things in mind — or, more to the point, it really has nothing on its mind. Mike is still running his furniture business in Tampa, mourning the recent end of his relationship with Brooke, when he hears from his old stage buddies who are now facing a last hurrah after being ditched by Dallas and The Kid (Matthew McConaughey’s and Alex Pettyfer’s characters, not returning for this goround). That last hurrah will be a trip to the annual stripper convention in Myrtle Beach, a trip on which Mike impulsively decides to tag along. What follows is mostly an episodic road trip, as the lads bounce up the coast: a beach stopover, where Mike meets a flirty photographer (Amber Heard); an impromptu routine in a convenience store set to “I Want It That
Way”; and a visit with one of Mike’s old associates, Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith), who’s now running a lavish private male stripper club in Savannah. Director Gregory Jacobs — Soderbergh’s long-time assistant director, taking over the main chair with Soderbergh still as cinematographer and editor — maintains the loosey-goosey performance energy of the original, with plenty of casually entertaining banter. And while McConaughey’s oily Dallas is missed, Tatum carries XXL a long way purely on the strength of his charm and charisma … OK, and also his ridiculous abs. But what’s missing is anything even remotely resembling a story, even the thin “mentor and protégé” narrative that supported Magic Mike. Carolin (also returning as writer) makes some token stabs in the same economic direction as the original, with members of Mike’s crew variously mentioning their dreams of selling yogurt, becoming an artist, singing and acting, etc. Here, though, it all feels like background noise — something to talk about because they need to talk about something on that long trip up to Myrtle Beach. Even the subtext of “male entertainers” facing the downside of their career as they hit their late 30s is quickly discarded (though it inspires a great gag about a younger generation of dancers
doing a Twilight-themed routine). It’s a movie where stuff happens on the way to the next scene where stuff happens on the way to the final scenes where big stuff happens. A lot of the stuff that happens involves hunky guys dancing provocatively with their shirts off and let’s be honest: There’s an audience for it. Based on the advance screening I attended, viewers would be thrilled to be part of actual be part of the action, making it rain dollar bills on those hunky, provocatively dancing guys. The accompanying choreography is bold and wild and shot in a way that dancing is rarely shot in movies any more, so that you can actually appreciate that athleticism of the routines. But it’s sad that there’s such a gaping hole in the middle of the “let’s put on a show” stuff. Even the final shots — seemingly meant to duplicate the lineup at the end of Ocean’s Eleven — can’t hide that this caper isn’t an effervescent ride. It’s just a movie about male strippers.
Magic Mike XXL (R) 115 min. Dir. Gregory Jacobs; writ. Reid Carolin; feat. Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez Opens July 1
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TROUBLED, GIFTED AND BLACK Netflix Premieres Documentary On Jazz Great Nina Simone MATT STIEB/@MATTHEWSTIEB “But what happened, Miss Simone?” asked poet Maya Angelou, after interviewing the jazz singer in 1970. “Specifically, what happened to your big eyes that quickly veil to hide the loneliness?” That’s the question that Liz Garbus tries to answer in her new documentary on Netflix, What Happened, Miss Simone? Loneliness is a basic tenet of Nina Simone’s life. From a childhood practicing classical music alone at the piano to the isolation of mental illness later in life, Simone suffered heavily in her quest to (unsuccessfully) become the first black classical pianist in America and (successfully) become a “rich black bitch.” Garbus, responsible for docs like The Farm: Angola, USA and Bobby Fischer Against the World, walks us skillfully through the Wikipedia points of Simone’s life. With so many interviews and lushly filmed performances, there’s no need for a voiceover narrator — Simone’s unique voice is strong enough to carry the viewer through the movie. As the 1960s burned, Simone took her godhead of talent to voice the passion of the times. As a documentarian, Garbus’ best work comes in the layering of Simone’s civil rights catalog with images from the movement. “To me, American society is nothing but a cancer and it must be exposed before it can be cured,” Simone says, over a montage of National Guard soldiers firing on demonstrators. “I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness.” As Simone finishes her diagnosis,
the stream shows a young black man struck with the butt of a rifle, going down to the concrete hard, visibly concussed, in the way that all her white audiences in America and Europe had never heard before. After The Struggle, it would have been nice to see a little more of Simone’s personal melees for happiness. Not out of a couch-side schadenfreude drive, but to witness just how great the spectrum was between glamour and sadness in Simone’s life. Garbus gets into Simone’s mental illness, IRS woes and dealings with her abusive cad of a husband/ manager, but touches only slightly on her series of expatriotisms in Switzerland, France, Liberia and Barbados. Nothing is mentioned of her affair with Barbadian Prime Minister Errol Barrow, and nary a word is raised about Simone putting a bullet in a teenage neighbor boy in France for heckling her. In the feel-good quotes at the end of What Happened, family friend and Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz states, “As I got older, I started to look at her and I thought to myself, ‘wow she’s from another time.’ But she was not at odds with the times, the times were at odds with her.” In 1978, in ill health at a performance in London, Simone voiced her anachronism a little differently. Just before leaving the stage, she offered: “I am not of this planet.” What Happened, Miss Simone? (NR) Dir. Liz Garbus feat. Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Attallah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz, Andrew Stroud
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debauchery and good times. Instead, and in spite of its sex, nudity (Scott and Schwartzman sport prosthetic penises of vastly different sizes), alcohol and drugs, writer/director Patrick Brice’s film is really about the drudgeries of marriage and maintaining vitality when monotony becomes the norm. Thus, when the public façade of a “happy” marriage is exposed, it feels raw and real, unflinchingly honest for audience members who identify with the excited/scared/irresponsible decisions and emotions on screen. If only Brice could find a better way to communicate this message. The talented cast plays the material straight, as they should, because it’s not intentionally funny. But this puts the onus on Brice to create humor through context and timing, which he does not effectively nor consistently do. Just because comedians are the stars doesn’t automatically make the movie funny, after all. We’re then left with a 79-minute film about four lost souls searching for something, anything, to make them feel more alive, and a narrative that does not engage us enough to care about their journey. A muddled tone will always take you nowhere, regardless of the story’s intentions. The Overnight (R) 79 min. Dir. and writ. Patrick Brice; feat. Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, R.J. Hermes, Max Moritt, Judith Godrèche Opens July 3 at Santikos Bijou
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1123 N. Flores St. (210) 320-1168 alchemysanantonio.com Much like the people behind Alchemy — which combines first-time restaurateurs and kombucha-makers, upscale cocktailians and untamed chefs — the Traphouse burger brings together several key ingredients that deliver a harmonious chomp. Featured on both late night and lunch menus, the Traphouse comes together with a hefty halfpound brisket-chuck patty, a sinful and top secret cheese sauce, a rough chop of iceberg lettuce, red onions and tomato, sandwiched between toasty and pressed buns. Prepare to destroy your cloth napkins and banish any semblance of neat eating: the Traphouse is serious — and delicious — work. — JE
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Cullum’s Attaboy Burgers
Multiple locations alamostreeteatbar.com Chris Cullum has perfected the burger — yeah, we said it. Found at both Tucker’s and Alamo Street Eat Bar, the bacon cheeseburger is made with fresh, golden brown baked buns, hand-ground beef, crispy pickles and a secret sauce so good that Mondo Burger would try to steal the recipe. It’s the combination of great ingredients and Cullum’s love for delicious food that makes this classic summer sandwich stand out from the rest. Vegetarians, fear not: Attaboy also features a veggie burger that is equally
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At the risk of heartburn, indigestion and almost birthing several burger babies, we’ve compiled a list of patties we’re digging and which we think you shouldn’t miss. Be it classic, greasy iterations, healthconscious alt-burgers, fast and furious craving-busters or fancysauce variations with more rich aioli and cheese sauces than we could possibly muster, we tasted them all. And so we share with you our love of the top burgers with odes and haikus to fresh-baked buns and everything that goes between them. Here are our #burgergoals. — Jessica Elizarraras
312 Pearl Pkwy., Bldg. 3 (210) 354-4644 boilerhousesa.com Chef Jeff White knows burgers and though he might not have a degree in architecture (that I know of), the big cheese at Boiler House is prone to building structurally sound, but insane, burger creations. Take for instance my latest fave, the Jackie Treehorn, a marvel of a burger that asks, “why not?” Made with a thick short rib-blend patty, this sando combines cured and whipped foie gras with peanut butter and green tomato habanero jam — don’t forget the fried egg — for a truly impressive bite. It’s messy, it’s playful, it’s sexy and it’s definitely shareable (but we won’t judge if you don’t). At Boiler House, White definitely abides. — JE
The Cookhouse
720 E. Mistletoe Ave. (210) 320-8211 cookhouserestaurant.com Technically, this sando qualifies as a po’boy, but let’s not split hairs. Made with 30 percent ground mushrooms and 70 percent grass-fed local Wagyu beef, the dish serves as chef Pieter Sypesteyn’s entry into a James Beard Foundation’s social media-driven Better Burger Project competition. Rounded out with house-made pickles, arugula pesto and a gob of Gouda cheese on a Gambino’s Bakery baguette, The Cookhouse’s better burger is
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306 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 101 (210) 314-3929 curedatpearl.com It kills me inside to see a perfectly seasoned and cooked ribeye doused in “house made artesian free range A1 steak sauce.” Just salt and pepper me, baby. Quality ingredients are the name of the game and Cured hit the nail on the head with its Blue Ribbon Burger: well constructed while letting its individuality shine through. I would call the burger simple — not to be confused with plain. The patty, made from a bacon/ground beef blend, has an agreeable thickness and is juicy without making my bun a sloppy disintegrating mess. The wellbalanced flavors were not at all overpowered by the onion jam, which was a perfect mixture of sweet and peppery. The pièce de résistance was the “Blue Ribbon Cheese,” an artful blend of American and smoked Gouda cheeses with Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for a little extra depth. —Amanda Bianchi
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155 E. Commerce St. (210) 222-2521 esquiretavern-sa.com Since reopening its doors in 2012, Esquire Tavern has turned its burger into a downtown must-have. The latest menu gave us an homage to Mark “Wildcat” Garcia, punk rock chef at Alchemy (whose burger also made our list). Chef
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Brooke Smith combines organic beef, lettuce, grilled pineapple, habanero aioli, red pepper jelly, American cheese (the only cheese that should ever grace a burger) and nestles it into a Hawaiian bun. It’s a sweet and spicy handful for those willing to get their hands a little dirty. – JE
226 E. Olmos Dr. (210) 822-0100 folc-restaurant.com Brunch at Folc means one of two things: taking in a classic American breakfast with tasty biscuits and such, or facing down its lamb burger (the moniker might be a bit misleading as this seven-ounce patty mixes 80 percent house-ground lamb and 20 percent fatty brisket, to juicy results). Not one to be content with serving one of the most enticing blends in town, chef Luis Colon embellishes the burger with house-made everything — bread and butter pickles, ricotta, red onion marmalade and pillowy buns — and a gooey egg to seal the deal. The eatery’s also serving this number at lunch if you’re feeling brave. — JE
Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery
136 E. Grayson St., Suite 120 (210) 455-5701 southerleigh.com The latest burg’ on the block comes via Jeff Balfour and his team at Southerleigh, where all sorts of buns are made in house to winsome results. First showcased at this year’s Burgers & Beers, the small, but mighty sandwich starts with beef out of 44 Farms (in Cameron, Texas), layered with bacon jam (because strips are pedantic, natch), cheese and their homemade pork fat bun. Gather up your closest bros and toss it back with Southerleigh’s Darwinian IPA or call it a day and take in an 8-beer flight and a game of darts — you earned it. — JE
Zinc Bistro & Wine Bar
207 N. Presa St. (210) 224-2900 zincwine.com As someone who frequently writes about fancy food, I try to make peace with pricey patties crowned with slabs of foie gras. No luck there. The sweet spot lands somewhere north of mid-ground: not too tony, but not cranked out by the crapload, either. Hence Bacon Cheeseburger the Zinc Burger — or the “crack Everyone in line burger,” as its presumably has two things: 5 bucks and a addicted aficionados call it. As an great burger future. added benefit, all the component decisions are made for you. Tuesdays only at The Monterey The smoky cheddar adds 1127 S. St. Mary’s St. umami, the parmesan tuile (210) 745-2581 provides cheesy crunch, bibb themontereysa.com. lettuce is way better than iceberg, the house-made spicy tomato
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Fast & Furious Burger Boy
2323 N. St. Mary’s St. (210) 735-1955 The North St. Mary’s Strip is renowned for its many venues and restaurants, but perhaps none are more iconic than Burger Boy and its signature rotating sign. The restaurant, which has remained largely unchanged since its 1985 opening, couldn’t be better represented by anything other than its own 278-bulbed orange marquee. Every year the Spurs make the playoffs, every day the sun rises and every second the Burger Boy sign keeps spinning. Just like the restaurant continues, day after day, to produce the same menu it has always has offered in the same no-frills style stand they’ve had since its conception. Staples of the tangerine burger angel include the Bates Special, which comes with a quarter-pound burger, small fries and a soft drink, as well as the Working Man Special, which includes a half-pound burger, a half-pound of fries and a drink. — Sebastian Oates sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 31
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Whataburger
Multiple locations whataburger.com I’m sure I made the most pedestrian choice on this list, but real talk: for the two years I lived as a Texpat in Atlanta, the only thing I talked to strangers more about than Whataburger was the Alamo. In the same way that other Southerners swapped “fiddin’ah” for “fixin’ t’” and served ice tea sweet by default, the ubiquity of Waffle House’s alphabet-block logo instead of that iconic Whatafont “W” was mildly disorienting. I love gourmet burgers as much as the next carnivore, but there were nights I would have traded a dozen steaktartar-and-pickled-shallot burgers for a No. 2 combo. Back now in The Greatest State, I keep it simple: two buns, double patties and a slathering of yellow mustard. No vegetables or cheese, just the Lone Star satisfaction of meat, bread and God’s own condiment. Pair with Shiner Bock and Doug Sahm. – Lance Higdon In-N-Out Burger
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Multiple locations freddysusa.com San Antonio’s rivalry between Whataburger and In-N-Out Burger distracts us from acknowledging which franchise actually has the best fast food burger in town. That would be the bacon and cheese double Steakburger at Freddy’s. This ‘burguesa includes two made-to-order patties sandwiched between two butter-toasted buns with bacon, cheese, two slices of deli-style pickles — the real kind, not the sad limp kind — plus onion slices and a tangy smattering of mustard. Order this sandwich with Freddy’s signature shoestring fries and one of its deliciously thick concrete shakes — and a Chicago-style hot dog, if you’re nasty — and you’ll end up asking yourself: “In-N-Out and Whataburger, who?” — Albert Salazar
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Homestyle Biff Buzby’s Burgers
121702 Toepperwein Rd. (210) 590-2040 www.biffbuzbys.com Biff Buzby’s Burgers prides itself on mystery, aviation and burgers. When you walk into the restaurant, you see the wall is covered with stories written by patrons, each detailing what they think happened to the mystifying fighter pilot, the restaurant’s namesake. While his whereabouts remains an enigma, there’s no mystery as to why this joint is worth a visit. For starters, there’s a classic car show every Friday night. Now that’s a bit more than fries to go with your burger. Go for the chili cheeseburger, a half-pounder topped with cheddar, grilled-onions and, of course, Biff Buzby’s house chili. All of these tasty ingredients are then sandwiched in between two of Biff’s homemade sweet buns. Even sweeter: Free pinto beans with every meal. ‘Nuff said. — SO
Multiple locations in-n-out.com Big Bob’s Burgers When the California chain spread south, lines of Multiple locations cars began to pile and never really stopped. The virtues bigbobsburgers.com of In-N-Out are its simplistic, no-gimmick menu and Not to be confused with FOX’s Bob’s Burgers, the consistency of its product. The actual menu only Big Bob’s Burgers is the embodiment of owner Bob contains six items: hamburger, cheeseburger, doubleRiddle (albeit slightly muted). The larger-than-life chef double, shakes, fries and beverages. has carved out a niche for himself If you want to throw simplicity out the and his company by consistently window, you can try their “Not So Guac & Jack Burger delivering solid burger choices at Secret” menu and get your burger Branded burger buns decent prices at his three locations double-wide as a 4x4 (four patties A sort of mark of the beef throughout SA: Santa Rosa, and four slices of cheese) and your Choose the Guac and Jack Hildebrand and 1604 at Lockhill. fries “animal style” with extra house The chargrilled patty is made that sauce. In-N-Out is also a good option Sam’s Burger Joint much better when morphed into the if you’re on a budget. Its hamburger 330 E. Grayson St. 50/50, part bacon, part beef chuck combo, for example, with fries and (210) 223-2830 with a generous dose of cheddar. a medium drink will run you $5.35. samsburgerjoint.com The fixins are always fresh and if your Can’t argue with that. — FD experience is less than amazing, 32 CURRENT • July 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Riddle, who personally checks each table, makes it a point to right every wrong. Now, that’s big time. – JE
Chester’s Hamburgers
Multiple locations So many burgers vie for the attention of the Alamo City’s appetite that it’s easy to forget an old standby, especially if you are a dweller of Inner Loop Land. Chester’s Hamburger’s three North Side locations — I-10 and Wurzbach, Loop 410 and N. New Braunfels and 281 North near Hollywood Park — offer a no-frills burger menu that’s always there when you need it. They may not make the best burger in the city, but they’re made-to-order and always reliable. The poppy seed buns, which may or may not have made them all the more addictive, are finally back. That means Chester’s will always be worth a visit, not only for its namesake offering but also for its hand-cut fries and bottled beer selection. Be sure to try the green chili bacon cheeseburger. Yes, it’s a little messy, but so are so many truly good things in life. — AS
Fattboy Burgers & Dogs
Multiple locations fattboyburgers.com The name might turn away the calorie-averse, but if you’ve got a hankering for a full-bodied and extremely customizable burger, Fattboy Burgers & Dogs should be high up on your list. Whether you’re visiting the original and quaint Dellview location off Vance Jackson, or the sleek and modern Huebner Road spot, the burgers continue to wow. You can’t go wrong with the half-pound, made-to-order Fattboy lunch special ($9 with fries and a drink), where your only limitation is your imagination when it comes to how you’ll dress your burger-beast. Keep it low-key and plain or load up on toppings with your choice of dressings (ketchup, mayo, mustard,
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Mark’s Outing (FKA Fatty’s)
1624 E. Commerce St. (210) 299-8110 Mark’s Outing has taken the home of the original Fatty’s Burgers and More and upped the ante to create a sanctuary for bigger, better burgers. The buzzword is options at this burger joint, with menu choices that lean toward the unbelievable such as the Ice Cream Burger, which includes a — wait for it — heaping scoop of deep fried ice cream. For an even bigger burger option for those who like a challenge, the $20 two-pound Lineman Burger sits waiting for contenders. Whether it’s avocado, barbecue or breakfast toppings, these gourmet burgers are sure to please — with options galore. — FD
The Lord’s Kitchen 118 Seguin St. (210) 354-3888 Disguised as an Eastside hole-in-thewall, this kitchen’s holy mission is to serve hearty, downto-earth burgers that
can heal anyone’s soul. Whether you want your burger beef, chicken, turkey or bean, there is definitely enough food to appeal to any palate. Ten bucks can go a long way here, with sides including grilled onion rings, fries on the greasy side, or chips and salsa. For an extra touch of southwestern flair, Mayor Ed’s Mole Burger with house mole sauce could do the trick. Lord’s Kitchen serves burgers with humility and plenty of flavor. — FD
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(a slightly messy creation thanks to a sunny-side up free-range egg) and the 09’er, which comes topped with goat cheese, pesto aioli and roasted red peppers. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Tycoon Flats 2926 N. St. Mary’s St. (210) 320-0819 flatsisback.com Try the patty melt
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Fries aren’t a side dish, they’re a sidekick. Legit superheroes (or villains) need an equally legit sidekick by their side — burgers are no different. They’re numero uno in an effective one-two punch combination. The tasty burger serves as a delicious right cross. But some fries in San Antonio are so good that they can deliver a knockout blow on their own.
The Luxury
103 E. Jones Ave., (210) 354-2274 The Crack Fries ($4) from The Luxury are sprinkled with the right amount of sea salt and cracked black pepper to make them an irresistible stand-alone force to be reckoned with. Once you start eating these fries, it’s hard to stop. Amazing fries should be crisp on the outside while staying soft inside and these guys do it right. The Luxury gives the option of three sauces ($1.50) as patrons embark on their crack-fry journey: sriracha aioli, chipotle aioli and the over-the-top war sauce (honey garlic aioli, ketchup and onions). For the more adventurous, The Luxury also offers a scrumptious option of Crack Fries with two eggs on top for an extra $2.50.
OrderUp
999 E. Basse Rd., Suite 193, (210) 824-9600 Legend has it that OrderUp’s fries ($2.25/$3.65) were
inspired by traditional Belgian paper cone fries — so rich they don’t require ketchup to eat, but rather a healthy dab of mayonnaise. These sodium sticks are lightly salted, crisp and with a semi-rough texture that doesn’t reveal any sign of softness until you take a bite to expose their tender interior. The Serrano Cheese Fries ($3.95/$5.25) — traditional fries drenched in a paper cone holder with some seriously spicy serrano queso, salsa and sour cream — from their handy dandy OrderUp favorites menu are where it’s at, though. It’s the kind of soak where you have to eventually rip the paper cone open to dip any stragglers in the surprisingly spicy queso that could give local Mexican restaurants a run for their money.
Rockerdogz “Gourmet Street Dogz” Multiple locations
Chef Kris Martinez has made quite a name for himself and his famous “Gourmet Street Dogz” by setting up his iconic cart outside some of San Antonio’s favorite spots. His tots ($4) look and taste as if each one was individually and separately made for his customers. Crunch after mouthwatering crunch of sriracha- and parmesan-topped crisp tots give way to their soft insides. Speaking from experience, it can sometimes be a bit of a hassle to track down the Rockerdogz cart (chef plans are often derailed by the weather, though he’s setting up a permanent camp at the Korova these days), but believe me when I say that’s it’s definitely worth the search.
Beto’s Comida Latina
8142 Broadway St., (210) 930-9393 The menu at Beto’s Comida Latina is overflowing with tasty choices, but hiding in plain sight among other sides is their yuca frita. The red cayenne generously sprinkled on top is the first ingredient to infiltrate your palate, delivering a sturdy punch right up until you bite into the
crispy exterior of the fried yuca root. At first taste, the yuca frita is reminiscent of all the good things found in a full bite of a tasty fried burrito (one of my greatest road trip guilty pleasures) minus the meat and health risks. When paired with Beto’s cilantrofilled chimichurri sauce, this side graduates to full-blown appetizer status.
Taps y Tapas
1012 N. Flores St., (210) 277-7174 The mountain on a plate that is known as the carne asada cheese fries ($10) from Taps y Tapas are layered both visually and in taste. The pickled red onions, cilantro, queso fresco, blue cheese and carne asada make the appetizer a sight to see and dish to enjoy. The mountainous mixture of Mexican ingredients served within a texturally palate-pleasing scaffolding of fries, deliver individual attacks to your taste buds. It’s not what I was expecting when I typically think of cheese fries, but they were still quite impressive.
Attaboy
609 S. Alamo St. & 1338 E. Houston St. Currently residing within Alamo Street Eat Bar on South Alamo and inside Tucker’s Kozy Korner, Cullum’s Attaboy’s silver Airstream trailer has been dishing out some of the tastiest burgers our city has got to offer. Attaboy’s sweet potato fries ($4) are the absolute crispiest a fry can get without breaking the laws of physics (or at least that’s how they seem to feel/taste when crunching into them). The revelation of the moist and fresh sweet potato filling mid-bite is the perfect contrast to its salt and pepper tempura-ish coated crisp, crunchy shell. I enjoy taking photos and trying to capture what I experience in words, but the sweet potato fries make me wish there was a way to record and replay tastes over and over in my head like a good song. Now that’s what I call #GorditoProblems. sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 43
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Following the footsteps of its vegan brethren — Earth Burger and La Botanica — Vegeria Vegan Tex-Mex is looking to its loyal fan base to help fund its second location located at 1422 Nogalitos. The $10,000 IndieGoGo campaign is aimed at helping spread the gospel of plant-based Mexican and Tejano foods in a second, larger space with an expanded patio. Perk packages start at $5 (which includes being listed on the restaurant’s Kosher and vegan and delicious? All three at Moshe’s. wall of gratitude) and go up to $2,500 for a private catered party for 20 guests. As of press time, the campaign had raised $940 with 28 days to go. Vegeria’s second location will open August 17. If you didn’t make it to Arcade Midtown Kitchen (303 Pearl Pkwy., 210-3699664) before last Sunday, you’re S.O.L. Chef-owner Jesse Perez decided to close the restaurant to pursue other projects within San Antonio and abroad, including Oxido, his joint project with NYC’s Daihwan Choi, taking authentic Mexican flavors to the Big Apple. While I’m not yet privy as to what will replace the hole Arcade’s left at the epicenter of the hopping Pearl complex, I’m sure there are plenty of interested parties. Meanwhile, Olmos Park is creating its own little food strip with the addition of Andrew Weissman’s new falafel joint inside a refurbished ice cream shop at 3910 McCullough Ave. Love him or hate him, the chef and his crew are whipping up a pretty simple and hard to pass up product that’s vegan and kosher with fresh-baked falafel and fixins. Moshe’s Golden Falafel is only open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the time being, as they get into the swing of things. Get there early and don’t be afraid to get a little messy with that tahini sauce. Sides include the now-classic Weissman fries and a fried eggplant. The eatery will also be closed from sundown on Fridays through sundown Saturdays to honor the Sabbath. If you’re down for some wings, Hot Joy (1014 S. Alamo St., 210-368-9324), which recently launched take-out hours, is hosting Wingsdays, serving up their signature twice-fried crab fat caramel wings along with a few other flavors for $5. Sister eatery, Barbaro (2720 McCullough Ave., 210-320-2261) is adding new pizzas, desserts, small plates and “stuff on toast” onto its latest menu. flavor@sacurrent.com
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I enjoy being pleasantly surprised during bar visits and though Roo Pub was way outside my usual purview, the bar’s insistence on Australian authenticity proved to be its strongest, most endearing feature. Located in the same shopping strip as Live Ultra Lounge and the original location of sister bar Angry Elephant, Roo Pub blends into the Sonterrey backdrop all too well. Whether that’s on purpose or not, the bar could benefit from a giant Australian flag outside to prepare folks for the grandeur of Aussie-ness which Roo Pub’s owners offer. Let’s say they went all out. Massive in size and almost overwhelmingly cavernous, Roo Pub is outfitted with plenty of seating. Tall tables litter the dining room, while a long bar bench lends itself as a second row of sorts from which to take in one of the 12-plus TV screens. The attentiondrawing 40-plus foot projection screen had three different games on, so come football season, the end of baseball or Spurs season, Roo will probably be on your list of places to take in a game. Once again, I can’t stress how downunder the joint becomes once you really take it all in. Autographed rugby jerseys hang along the walls and a Patty Mills section, likely reserved for the Spurs guard for when he’s feeling homesick, is filled with portraits and photographs. For those wondering, Mills himself is a fan, lending owner Chip Ingram advice on how to outfit the space before its conception. And whether it dips into kitsch or not, the Australian went as far as to pose with a toddler-sized kangaroo during a “Straya Day” Mills hosted in 2014. And yes, there’s a “Patty Millt” on the burger menu. Speaking of which, the menu is almost as tall as the 6-foot Aussie himself and it’s filled with just about everything under the sun. A welcomed respite from faux-pubs that forget to
Feel like taking a little trip down under without leaving San Anto? Then make your way to Roo Pub on the North Side.
pack in the food, Roo Pub’s menu includes apps, greens, counter meals, burgers and sweets, ranging from $6.95 for dessert to about $12.95 for one of their tricked-out hamburgers. After a few weeks’ worth of burger trials, I was hesitant to order yet another meaty number, but as they take up a full third of the menu, it seemed wrong to go another way. My bar-partner and I also tried the alligator bites, deep-fried nuggets served with fresh lemon slices and a creamy remoulade. We washed them down with Fireman’s 4 ($5) and a Freetail TexiCali ($5.50). Those looking for happy hour specials will find $2.50 bottled domestics, $3 draft domestics and $3.50 liquor specials (currently a spiced Malibu rum is in the spotlight) can find them from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Themed nights are an obvious choice in a uber-themed bar,
so Roo Pub has a Taco Tuesday with triple sec, sour mix and lime juice. It was Mexican beer specials and $2 tacos cold and strong, but definitely worth $8. and a Thursday Steak Night where the We spent most of our time at Roo house chefs mix things up regularly Pub taking in fellow bar-goers and — the most recent offering includes a Aussie décor before realizing there was grilled rib eye with sweet and savory a whole other bar in the next room over. shrimp skewer, grilled pineapple, onions A veritable game room, the addition and jalapeños, a ginger-lime butter and held four cornhole game stations, a a side of fancy mac ‘n’ cheese for $20. ping pong table, two pool tables, a Insert joke here about forgoing throwing fine electronic dart board nook and a something on the barbie, mate. handful of sport video games. While the rest of the drink list is Though it might be dissonant to find just as massive as the food menu, our such a “Strayan” refuge in Stone Oak, bartender strongly suggested we stay the bar gets so much right it begs for within the confines of the margaritas Ingram to try his hand at more countryand mule variations. I can appreciate themed joints. Imagine a Belgiumwhen someone helps me avoid French joint for Tony Parker and the pitfalls of a sugar-bomb drink. Boris Diaw. Or a Brazilian bar/ I went with the Cowboyrita, a churrascaria for Tiago Splitter. Or Roo Pub 19314 U.S. 281 N., replica of the ‘ritas served inside an Argentinean version for Manu. Suite 109 Cowboy’s AT&T Stadium with I’d go. (210) 491-4425 Hornitos reposado, DeKuyper flavor@sacurrent.com theroopub.com sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 47
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It’s been a quartercentury or so since the alt-timers could hand you a dunkelweiss off the back of their parade float during Berges Fest, but there’s still plenty of beer to go around in Boerne. In addition to the Dodging Duck’s brewpub setup and Boerne Brewing’s traditionminded output, the little burg 30 miles up I-10 is about to see its third full-time operation, Kinematic Brewing, open its doors next month. Just don’t expect them to be pouring your Opa’s pilsner. “Our four main beers will be our Meridian Belgian Wit, Ascension Double IPA, Umbra Imperial Porter and Declination Pale Ale,” Jaime Beaumont, brewery representative and wife of brewmaster Jon Beaumont, told the San Antonio Current. ”Right now in the fermenter we’ve got a session IPA and a pale ale brewed with actual killer bee honey.” Clearly, it’s Reinheitsgebot-be-darned at this nanobrewery, which began production in January at its location on Highway 46. Paradoxically, Jon credits his visit to Heineken’s Amsterdam headquarters in the mid-90s with inspiring his ultimate move to take his homebrewing habit public. “I was completely blown away by the scale of it, its mechanics,” he said. “It seemed like the ultimate place to work everyday.” Twenty years later, the Beaumonts paired with business partner David Salazar to realize their dream. Kinematic’s setup has come a long way from the days of Jon’s homemade three-burner gas stove. Their fourbarrel system can produce roughly 400 gallons at full production, with 24 kegs on hand to house the finished product. Kinematic’s TABC brewpub credentials are already in place, which means thirsty visitors will be able to take home a growler or two.
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MAKE THE GIRLS DANCE The Raw Glory of Nashville’s Natural Child JAMES COURTNEY
As music listeners, we tend to have two modes of relating to music: intellectually/ conceptually and viscerally/emotionally. It’s a uniquely human divide — head vs. heart. Some folks listen one way as a default and some move comfortably back and forth. For music makers, there seems to a similar dichotomy at work. Nashville rock ‘n’ roll band Natural Child, for its part, falls squarely in the heart category. Natural Child’s sound is a hot mess (in the best way) of an amalgamation of the various strands of American musical history. The Burger Records trio (sometimes more) serves up sweaty boogie-blues by way of raw garage rock, with a southern-fried twang and a touch of surf for salty flavor. The band’s most recent offering, Dancin’ With Wolves, brings a fuck-all punk attitude to loose and ambling outlaw style country, indebted heavily to Willie and Waylon and the boys. Basically, Natural Child brings all the nostalgic and propulsive jams that make you want to hang on to the night just a little bit longer than you should. Put another way, as bassist/co-vocalist Wes Traylor told the San Antonio Current last week, “Rock ‘n’ roll is a pretty big and diverse thing, and [Natural Child] like[s] all of it.” As individuals, the band’s three original members take their inspiration from all over the sonic map, with their biggest measuring stick being the raw blues-rock of the 1960s Rolling Stones. Close seconds, at least of late, might include Neil Young and Basement Tapes-era Dylan.
Despite the outfit’s unwavering commitment to following its shapeshifting rock muse wherever it leads, don’t get it twisted: there’s not a lot of conscious, serious decision making going on behind the scenes here. While the band’s sound has shifted and grown from album to album — most notably with its most recent release, the decidedly outsider country Dancin’ With Wolves — it has more to do with letting things happen organically than it does with forcing the issue and intentionally diversifying. “I’ve learned a lot from doing what I want to,” Traylor and guitarist/co-vocalist Seth Murray croon on one of Wolves’ standout tracks, “Country Hippie Blues.” This humble brag of sorts could easily be made into the official mantra of the band. Trying to find points of unification among the strands of the impressive body of music the group has cranked out since
2009, I asked Traylor about his hopes and “Because it’s easy to make the dudes aspirations for the band, long term. dance; just play loud and fast and “I don’t really think about that too they’ll jump around and break shit. It much, I don’t think that far ahead,” he takes something a bit more subtle and said. “We just wanna keep making the substantive to get the girls to dance.” music we like and we wanna do that Fair enough. Not exactly a music justice.” philosophical approach, but when your Traylor, ever in the present, the wheels music’s about chicks and weed, booze always turning, told the Current that and abandon, it’s best if it doesn’t come the band is nearing completion of its from an affected position of calculation. next release, Okie Dokie, which should Sometimes, it’s the progress towards be out by year’s end. The album is the a small goal that produces the most prolific group’s fifth full-length in as many satisfying work. years. And that’s not to mention EPs. You can see if Traylor’s endearingly Finally, we got around to talking about simple, yet potentially quite profound, the band’s live show. Knowing the ambitions are brought to fruition on dudes’ reputation for thrillingly Sunday in the cozy confines thrashing performances, of Hi-Tones. The knockout bill Natural Child feat. I asked Traylor about also includes a hat trick of The Rich Hands, D.T. Natural Child’s live mission mad talented locals: garage Buffkin and Crown $5 statement.“We wanna make rock heavys The Rich Hands, 8pm Sun, July 5 the girls dance,” he chuckled, blues growler (and Current Hi-Tones as if afraid to fully commit to contributor) D.T. Buffkin and 621 E. Dewey the genius of his statement. prog-psych luminaries Crown. (210) 785-8777 sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 53
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Understanding Country Icon Charlie Daniels D.T. BUFFKIN
Charlie Daniels doesn’t like it still working. He can play bass, guitar, when you play “The Devil Went banjo, mandolin and fiddle like a Down to Georgia” against Lou — motherfucker. His skills were featured the game’s final boss, short for Lucifer — in Urban Cowboy, John Travolta’s best on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and movie and he worked as a Nashville that sometimes The Devil wins. session musician, especially with He doesn’t like Barack Obama’s producer Bob Johnston — whose reference to the never-ending War on catalogue of work is so badass it makes Terror as the “Overseas Contingency Rick Rubin look like whoever produced Operation.” Daniels’ third top song that Paris Hilton record and if you don’t states, “Be proud you’re a rebel know who Rick Rubin is, you’ve got because the South is gonna do it a problem — at a time when Nashville again.” The “do(ing) it again,” refers to wasn’t the etymological equivalent of rockin’ out, I think (I hope). the “C-word” to (country) music fans. In 2003, Daniels published a In all honesty, I’m not sure if San document called “Open Letter to the Antonio Current readers are as Hollywood Bunch,” supporting George interested in seeing Daniels at The W. Bush’s actions in Iraq and the really, Mix as I am (and probably buff Kyle). really airtight reasons for getting involved However, if you were already planning in that most necessary of wars. He also on going to the show and read this, thinks that Darwin’s theory of evolution just do one thing: In light of the and natural selection will one day be (finally) growing reconsideration of the seen as equally as absurd as the once absurdity of flying a flag that not only widely-touted theory of a flat Earth. stood for a geographical portion of Daniels has also played on records the U.S. but also a system of slavery, by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. The oppression, rape and terrorism, don’t lyrics on “Long-Haired Country Boy” belt out with the same gusto as you are so perfect and classic, may have in years past, it’s only a shame that there is “Be proud you’re a rebel The Charlie Daniels Band no belt big enough on which [white, Southerner], $59.50 7pm Thu, July 2 to emblazon them. ’cause the South [white Gruene Hall Daniels is one of the Southerners] is gonna do 1281 Gruene, New Braunfels most all-around proficient it again.” (830) 630-1281 gruenehall.com North American musicians Just listen to Charlie play.
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In the promotional material for the new Destruction Unit album Negative Feedback Resistor, the Arizona crew proudly declares that it “sacrificed their ears to make this album as loud a statement as possible. Will you lend them yours?” Believe the hype. At some point in the collective death drive they call a career, Destruction Unit glued its amp volume settings in place. At the shotgun-style K23 Gallery on Monday, the outfit will hit with all the recoil, violence and American ingenuity of a Marine Corps howitzer. “If Death Ever Slept,” the first volley fire from the new album, serves as a good introduction to Destruction Unit’s psychotropic noise rock. A six-shooter chord progression kicks off the nightmare of guitar, hardcore rhythms and sibilant hiss. After a pause for guitar decay, the Unit returns to the breakneck march to pick up remaining audience members and throw them deep into the void. With Black Liquid Drop, Filthy. $8, 9:30pm, K23 Gallery, 702 Fredericksburg Rd., facebook.com/K23Gallery — Matt Stieb
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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 chick with original prints of the dopest Marc Bolan records. 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
Midtown Jazz Sound Drummer John
Fernandez, leader of Midtown Jazz Sound, returns to Soho for the sixth year of residency at the downtown club. Soho, 10pm
Noah Peterson On his live album At Biddy
McGraw’s, SA saxophonist Noah Peterson charts his way through funk-laced bop standards like “Song for My Father” and “Watermelon Man.” J&O’s Cantina, 8pm
Thursday, July 2
Big Sam’s Funky Nation Beginning
his career as a student of Big Easy saxophonist Kidd Jordan, Big Sam Williams has developed into one of New Orleans’ most prized brass players. A founding member of the Stooges Brass Band and a contributor to the great Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the trombonist is a master of the New Orleans street style, where jazz meets blues, marching songs and a few tumblers of bourbon. In 2010, Williams inked himself a deal as a recurring character on HBO’s Treme,
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helping export his exciting genre to the masses (or at least everyone who’s on my friend’s dad’s HBO Go subscription). Recently, Williams also found out he is the great grandson of Buddy Bolden, the un-recorded schizophrenic and innovator of ragtime. Aztec Theatre, 11pm
Ces Cru Though Kansas City rap duo Ces
Cru hit the 40th spot on the Billboard chart in 2014 with the album Codename: Ego Stripper, I don’t have the slightest clue what an ego stripper is. Fitzgerald’s Bar, 8pm
Ila Minori Gliding between her native San
Antonio and her second home in Italy, Ila Minori is going back to her roots. Minori’s worldly singer-songwriter dynamic and pristine, sing-song vocals works either intimately or with a full-piece band, showing that she is wise beyond her years. Joe Blue’s, 9:30pm
Pete Rodriguez The son of salsero Pete
“El Conde” Rodríguez and godson of Fania bandleader Johnny Pacheco, Pete Rodriguez is a trumpeter and bandleader exploring vivid directions in Latin jazz and salsa. Growing up in the Bronx as the borough contributed to the gift of hip-hop, Rodriguez took a musical turn when he moved to Puerto Rico as a child, diving into classical music. Rodriguez has kept up that curiosity in adulthood, earning a doctorate in music at University of Texas Austin and performing with Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, and Eddie Palmieri. Carmen’s De La Calle, 6:30pm
Matt Adler San Anto songwriter Matt Adler
traffics in charming, soft beard rock. But be warned Googling his name — you may end up learning about Matt Adler the actor who played Lewis in Teen Wolf who rocks the type of hair coif they just stopped making after Reagan stepped out of office. 502 Bar, 9pm
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
Widespread Panic You can’t really listen to
a single Widespread Panic song. Like any of the great American jam bands (read: Grateful Dead, Phish pre-2004), you’ve got to sit down for a few hours and whiteguy groove out to the stuff. Like many American jam bands, Widespread Panic began on a college campus, in the early ’80s in Athens at the University of Georgia. Over the next 30 years, the band released 11 studio efforts, 10 much better live ones and have made an absurd amount of money playing to people in sandals and cargo shorts who smoke weed exclusively at Widespread Panic shows. This weekend at the Majestic, Widespread Panic headlines a triptych of shows in celebration of our nation’s 239th birthday. Majestic Theatre, 8pm
Friday, July 3
Dyrty Byrds Downtown on Friday night,
Colorado rockers Dyrty Byrds hope to catch the stragglers of the second Widespread Panic gig still vibing on the oregano and Zig Zags I sold to them as $40 joints. Aztec Theatre, 11pm
Henry + The Invisibles SA’s own Henry +
the Invisibles continues to turn in soulful, ridiculously costumed one-man shows. Rebar, 10pm
Ian Moore and the Lossy Coils Honky-
tonkers Ian Moore and the Lossy Coils nail a falling down melody on “Tap The Till.” Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
Lonely Horse, Octahedron After a year-
plus in the can, Lonely Horse’s impending debut, My Desert Son, finally has a release date. Due out August 1 on URNR, expect loud and exciting things from the San Antonio duo. Recorded on the illustrious toys of the Sonic Ranch studio, My Desert Son extends the band’s rich aesthetic in glorious high fidelity. “…And
Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers Cowpunks Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers dip into some lovely honky-tonk cuts on Miles From Home. Floore’s Country Store, 7pm
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the Number 3” sounds extraordinary: Hild’s open hi-hat pounding is emotional and crisp, while Long’s guitar-bending solos wheeze like decaying, overworked machinery. Singing a blues legend of Faustian bargains, Long’s voice pounces proudly over the mix. As finalists in the San Antonio Music Awards 2014 for best keyboardist and indie band, Octahedron has proved successful with an optimistic indie sound. With Shamans Among the Dream, Alix Williams. Imagine Books & Records, 6pm
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Amos Lee Since 1939, Blue Note Records
has been the home to some of the most stunning and accessible jazz in the canon. But, over the years, the Finest in Jazz has stretched outside the genre with great succeses like Amos Lee. The new Blue Note picked up the soul-pop singer in 2005 with Lee’s eponymous debut. That same year, Lee gained some unbeatable cred as the opener for Bob Dylan as part of the Modern Times tour. In 2011, the neo-soul singer debuted at the top of the Billboard chart with Mission Bell. Whitewater Amphitheater, 7:30pm
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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 and who’s been consistently swinging in the Alamo City for decades. Cullum is one of the many legends this town has, like some bow-tied wearing anachronism who could only fit in a town like this, playing the old jazz canon and commanding new
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Lawrence has a voice like the composite of every song on those pre-internet TV ads for country comp records. But, his mullet in the video for “I See It Now” is a fucking awesome mullet, a Kenny Powers vision of light. Blue Bonnet Palace, 8pm
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life from it. Cullum and the band play as part of the KRTU series Skyline Swing, featuring a lovely vista of downtown made lovelier by the Independence Day fireworks scheduled shortly after sundown. Trinity University, 7pm
Los #3 Dinners Since the late ’70s, Los #3
Dinners have been a San Anto institution with tunes like “Take a Walk on the West Side,” “South Presa Man” and “Livin’ Inside the Loop.” With Ruben V. Sam’s Burger Joint, 2pm
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CAR SHOW Benefiting
Willie’s 2015 Fourth of July Picnic It’s a
little bit further than our usual purview, but Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic truly sounds like the most American thing you can do West of the Mississippi this weekend. With The Red-headed Stranger, Merle Haggard, Kacey Musgraves (whose brand new sophomore record Pageant Material totally rules), Sturgill Simpson, Asleep At The Wheel, Jamey Johnson, Jason Isbell and Leon Russell all on deck on the grounds of a NASCAR arena, there’s really no hope for any of your friends to out-patriotize you if you hit this gig. Austin 360 Amphitheater, 11am
Sunday, July 5
Connoisseur The cannabinoid art of this
Oakland trio suggests stoner metal, but once you open the bong-rip packaging, Connoisseur proves its dexterity in hardcore. With Acrylics, Cursus, Sudden Attack, Se Tu Propio Dios. The Korova, 9pm
Doc Watkins Trio Unlike some jazz
musicians whose claim to a doctorate is just a nickname (looking at you, Dr. Lonnie Smith) and others who have won honorary degrees (congrats, Sonny Rollins!), Brent ‘Doc’ Watkins has a doctorate in music from UT Austin. It’s a degree he’s put to good use, swinging viciously on his piano or Hammond B3 rig. Esquire Tavern, 3pm
John Mark McMillan I’m usually not
one for Christian rock, but John Mark McMillan’s “Future / Past” is a gigantic, emotionally rich example of the stuff. That being said, the video looks like a Millenial cult of Christians who moved to Greenpoint and call it an “edgy” neighborhood. Sam’s Burger Joint, 6:30pm
Walt Wilkins SA native Walt Wilkins plays
in the tradition of ’70s country rock with excellent harmonies on his new album Plenty. With Tommy Alverson, Dick Gamble. Luckenbach Dance Hall, 1pm
Monday, July 6
Deuce Coup Named after the style of an
old school hot rod, Austin’s Deuce Coup takes over Sam’s weekly swing night with a rockabilly repertoire. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm
Sissy Spacek, Street Sects Noise and
musique concrète mastermind John Wiese leads the affront of Sissy Spacek. On the 2014 album Lead Their Exit, the LA band doesn’t pass the minute mark on a single tune. With MXCG. Paper Tiger, 8pm
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, July 7
Crimson Jazz Orchestra Orchestra
Saxophonist George Briscoe leads his band through the repetoire of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Buddy Rich. In addition, the band performs compositions of contemporary big band arrangers. Blue Star Brewery, 8pm
Two Tons of Steel Led by songwriter Kevin Geil, Two Tons of Steel have over 20 years of country rock ‘n’ roll under their belts. Gruene Hall, 7:30pm
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13 isn’t something I could do just once.) What do I say to my boyfriend about being suddenly hairless and about my kink? And what do I say to the guy? I want to go back and continue to explore being an object, but I don’t feel like I can trust him. Desire Erased Humanity Until My Aching Nuts Explode
This is going to sound like bragging, but my appearance is intrinsic to my kink. I’m a gay male gymnast. Most of the guys on my college team are annoyed by the kind of objectification we routinely come in for. (We actually don’t want to be auctioned off at yet another sorority fundraiser, thanks.) But I’ve always been turned on by the thought of being a piece of meat. I’ve masturbated for years about dehumanization. Being in bondage, hooded, and gagged — not a person anymore, faceless, nude, on display, completely helpless. (Just typing that sentence made me hard.) It finally happened. I found a guy on Recon.com (which I discovered on your podcast, so thank you). He is into BDSM, which isn’t the goal for me and he wanted to do some of “his stuff” to me while I was dehumanized and helpless. We had a long talk about what I was okay with (gentle tit clamps, some butt play, very light spanking) and what I wasn’t okay with. I didn’t want to be marked. He asked what I meant by that and I said, “No bruises, no welts, no red marks.” He didn’t bruise me, but he did something that it didn’t occur to me to rule out: He shaved off all my body hair — pits, pubes, legs, ass, chest. I’m angry, but at the same time, I’m seriously turned on by the thought of seeing this guy again. I also have a boyfriend. I thought going in that this would be a one-time thing, that I would get this out of my system and never tell my boyfriend about it, but I don’t think I can do that now. (Maybe I should’ve figured out that something I’ve been jacking off about since age
You could tell your boyfriend the partial truth, DEHUMANE, or you could tell your boyfriend the whole truth. The partial truth would go something like this: “Guess what, honey? I shaved off all my body hair all by myself just for fun. Do you like it? And, hey, we’ve been dating for a while, so I should probably lay all my kink cards on the table.” Then you tell him about these fantasies — to be dehumanized, to be an object, to be helpless — and you do it with a smile on your face and a bone in your jock. Remember: You’re not sharing a tragic cancer diagnosis with him. You’re sharing something fun, interesting, and exciting about your sexuality. Don’t panic — and don’t hold it against him — if he reacts negatively at first. This is the start of a conversation, not the end of it, and it’s a conversation about his desires, too, DEHUMANE, not just yours. If it turns out that dehumanization/objectification isn’t something he can do and it’s not something he could allow you to do with others, then you’re not right for each other. End the relationship and date kinksters you meet on Recon and disclose your kinks earlier to any presumed-to-be-vanilla guys you date. (You never know: You could disclose your kink to a presumed-tobe-vanilla boyfriend and discover that he’s as kinky as or kinkier than you are.) The full truth would go something like this: Hand him this column. DEHUMANE’s boyfriend, if you’re reading this, please know that the mistake your boyfriend made — doing this behind your back in the hopes that one experience would satisfy his curiosity forever — is a common one. A lot of people, kinky and not, believe that kinky desires don’t work the same way vanilla desires do, i.e., unlike “normal” sexual desires (fucking, sucking, rimming), kinky desires (pissing, spanking, binding) only have to be acted on once. Do it once, get the kink out of your system, enjoy vanilla sex — and only vanilla sex — for the rest of your life. But kinks don’t work that way. In the same way that “normal” people don’t wanna fuck just once in their lives, a person with your boyfriend’s kinks isn’t going to wanna be objectified and dehumanized just once in his life. Your boyfriend didn’t know that before he did it the first time, but he knows it now. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him, you could wind up with a very hot and very grateful guy. Back to you, DEHUMANE: Put Recon Guy on hold
until after you full or partial the boyfriend. If you do want to play with him again — because you’re single or because your boyfriend approves — have an out-ofroles conversation with him about what happened last time. He didn’t hurt you, he tricked you, and you’re understandably wary of playing with him again. If you do play with him again — a big if — this time anything you haven’t ruled in is automatically ruled out. No tricks. With any luck, your boyfriend, if he feels like he can trust you again, will be there to keep an eye on him and to enjoy the sight of your helpless, faceless body. I’m a 26-year-old guy. I had a fling with an awesome bisexual girl and I told her about the fantasies I’ve always had about men. She suggested I was bisexual and it started to make a lot of sense to me. So like an idiot, I came out to my parents. They don’t seem to believe that I’m bisexual, despite my father being a trans woman. I’ve never been very macho and they think I’m confusing that with being bi. Some days I don’t feel the urge to have sex with men at all and I feel silly for coming out. I worry that this is something to do with my feelings about my dad. But I’ve cybered with a few guys on Gaydar, etc., and I’ve really enjoyed it. So am I bi or not? Or does it even matter? Was I stupid coming out? I am in a rural area far from the LGBT community, but I’m planning a weekend in the city soon, and I’m hitting the gay bars in the hopes that if I at least make out with a guy, I will get some clarity. Can’t Retract And Panicked Some days I don’t feel the urge to have sex with men — believe it or not — but that doesn’t make me any less gay. And there are lots of openly bisexual guys out there who don’t have dads who are trans women, CRAP, so I think we can set both the intermittentlydisinterested-in-dick and out-trans-parent issues aside. So what’s going on? You have a bad case of something that is rarely discussed: coming-out remorse. All the bad falls on your head the instant you come out — shitty reactions from parents, for example, even ones who should really know better — and the good has yet to arrive. Don’t panic, give it time, go suck a few dicks and see how you feel. Bisexual is an identity, not a tattoo on your forehead and if it’s not right for you — if it’s not who you are — you can round yourself back down to straight. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Hillary Frank about sex after pregnancy: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net sacurrent.com • July 1-7, 2015 • CURRENT 61
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions. 1. Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquito-ridden swamp, or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? 2. Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? 3. Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation?
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded twenty separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): “I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing,” said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That’s excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you’re experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage’s advice and help you get the most from your period of 64 CURRENT • July 1-7, 2015 • sacurrent.com
self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: “I imitate everyone except myself.”
profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.
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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21):
Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, ‘so what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what.’” Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating nonattachment -- of dropping your fixations about matters that can’t be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol’s version. So start there.
There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way -- perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them. In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): In her late twenties, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): It’s the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: “I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration, and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand, and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called ‘the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.’”
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): I’m a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal raw crazy wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): “I find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your
life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): I think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion, or put it to work for you?
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Do you sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.
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