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Accidental Gem Clear up those sinuses with Attagirl’s Nashville-style hot chicken Flavor File Changes are coming for Citrus
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10 NEWS Innocuous Fumes? Take a peek inside SA’s rising vaping scene Industrial Mess Environment among other concerns in opposition to industrial plant Abort That Obsession Texas GOP overlooks crucial issues to zero in on women’s wombs
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25 ARTS Shared Commonality Artists go back to the basics — family, work and home — at Blue Star
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32 FOOD No Joke: Dietary Diseases Tricky living for people with diagnoses such as Crohn’s
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39 NIGHTLIFE A Dive To Call My Own La Kantina serves as refuge from the city’s cocktail scene Summer: Boozy Paleta Time Keep cool with Park Social’s tasty Rumsicle
44 MUSIC West Side Story Celebrating the Royal Jesters amid revival of SA’s West Side Sound A Moveable Feast Travi$ Scott, Vic Mensa, Flatbush Zombies and more hit JMBLYA mini-fest Music Calendar What to see and hear this week
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INNOCUOUS FUMES? Exploring SA’s Fledgling, Free-For-All Vaping Scene MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS
When Kimberley Velasquez started vaping six years ago, electronic cigarettes were scarce in San Antonio. Velasquez, director of inbound sales at Career Point College, smoked traditional cigs for 25 years. She wanted to quit after losing both of her parents to cancer, so she ordered an e-cigarette online — just about the only place she could get her hands on one. Though she readily took to her e-cig, also called a vaporizer, she’d sometimes slip back to smoking cigarettes simply because the new kind were so hard to find. That’s no longer a problem. “Once [vape] stores opened up around here, I had no excuse,” Velasquez, 47, told the San Antonio Current. “It changed my life.” Booming Industry Vaping has boomed nationwide in the past few years, San Antonio being no exception. Dozens of vape shops have sprouted up in the Alamo City, giving rise to a robust and nuanced culture of tinkerers, hobbyists and anticigarette crusaders. Vaporizers come in a range of shapes and sizes, but they’re basically battery-powered smoking devices that heat up a chemical cocktail, known as “juice,” to produce an inhalable vapor. Each juice flavor comes in varying strengths of nicotine — some are actually nicotine-free. Most people, like Velasquez, start vaping to stop smoking traditional cigarettes. But even after kicking the habit, many stick around after becoming fascinated with vaping culture: trying different flavors, experimenting with vaporizer modifications and tapping into the vast online network of fellow vapers to swap tips and tricks on blowing the biggest clouds. The community aspect is what attracts many vapers, according to Josh Brown, an employee at the North Side shop Vape Air Lounge. “People like the flavor and hanging out at the shop,” Brown said. “You get to sit back and kick it with people who have similar interests, talk shop.” Brown’s entire family — mother, father and even grandmother — quit smoking cigarettes by switching to vaporizers. Like many vapers, he raves about his improved health, the money he’s saved and no longer smelling like an ashtray. The jury’s still out on long-term health concerns when it comes to e-cigs; medically, it’s just starting to be researched. But the overall consensus thus far is that 10 CURRENT • June 17-23, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Puff on this: SA entrepreneurs are jumping all over the city’s fast-growing vaping scene, which is evolving into a culture of its own.
they’re not as dangerous as cigarettes. Vaping also transcends generations. Although users dkew young, it’s not unheard of to meet senior citizens taking to this cultural phenomenon. A typical e-cig starter kit costs about $60, with a oneounce bottle of juice running about $20. But there are more elaborate, expensive options. Upgrades are available for every part of a vaporizer and dedicated vapers drop serious cash to get their gear just right. Brown built himself a customized model just so he could blow gargantuan vapor clouds — shelling out $300 in parts. ‘Eureka Moment’ Randal Sterling’s story is a common one in vaping circles. He smoked for decades and could never kick the habit until he picked up vaping. “It was a eureka moment,” Sterling said, describing his first puff of an e-cigarette in 2011 at a mall kiosk. But Sterling took his vaping obsession further than most. The former radio and television ad salesman
ordered $600 worth of vaping supplies from China and sold them at a marked-up price to customers and colleagues in SA. In a few months, he was running a store out of his garage. By the start of 2012, he had moved into his first brick-and-mortar location, Thanks for Vaping, in a business park on Blanco Road. Sterling’s business has boomed with the San Antonio vaping scene. He sold $60,000 worth of products a month when he started the business. Last year, he almost topped $3 million in sales. Like many vape shops, Sterling’s stores — he’s got two now, with a third on the way — are part lounge, part workshop and part showroom. Tall barstools sit around two circular tables topped with dozens of juice flavors that customers can sample. At the counter, columns of dense smoke tumble out of employees’ nostrils, vaporizers clutched in hand like Linus’ blanket. Most shops tend to keep regular business hours, though some stay open late on weekend nights for social events. Sterling’s shop was one of the first in the Alamo
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Vaping Connoisseurs Maxey and Sterling’s stores cater mainly to mainstream vapers — folks who enjoy the ritual, the flavor and the health benefits they feel from keeping off cigarettes. Others cater to a more niche market: vapers whose interest in tinkering with their vaporizers borders on obsession. This crowd, including Vape Air Lounge’s Brown, tends to skew younger. There’s an arms race among them to see who can blow the biggest clouds, and who can eke the most flavor out of their modified e-cigs. Like any sub-culture, there’s a certain thrill in rattling off the kind of opaque jargon that’s gibberish to the uninitiated. And rattle they do — about new gear, modifications, flavors. Talking shop is half the fun and weighing the merits of an ever-expanding menu of juice flavors is a favorite topic of discussion.
Vaping flavors have sped past the normal array of what you might find at the snow cone stand. The most popular flavor at Brown’s shop, for instance, is Heisenberg — a Breaking Bad homage made by Innovape that tastes like “blue ice pops.” Campfire by Velvet Cloud Vapor tastes like graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallows. An earl grey-flavored juice made by Vigilante Juice Co., dubbed Grey Ghost, mixes “tea steeped to perfection ... with sweet cream, tied together with a twist of lemon.” Discussions at the counter of any vape store in town sound more like a sommelier’s convention than any conversation in a head shop. Vapers waft fumes from tiny bottles to their noses, complimenting the earthy notes from an oak barrel-aged juice. Shop owners show off high-dollar premium flavors, their caps sealed in wax like a bottle of Maker’s Mark. Juice prices run the gamut. There’s something for everyone, even vapers on a budget. “Some of it is just Boone’s Farm juice and some of it is like the most complicated French wine you could ever get,” Maxey said. Flavor fads come and go, too. In San Antonio, cereals were big a couple months ago — now it’s yogurt. Different demographic groups also tend to have their favorites. Recent cigarette smokers tend to look for tobacco flavors. For whatever reason, Brown said, women in their 60s and 70s favor key lime pie. Health Risks? Airman 1st Class Tom Le, who moved from Oregon to San Antonio after joining the Air Force, prefers Blackjack — a tart mix of blueberries and jackfruit. A rare vaper who has never smoked a cigarette, Le buys juice without nicotine. Le started vaping after learning about it from his friends. He likes the smell and the taste, and he uses it as a way to unwind. “Work is so stressful, I just [vape] at home to relax and have fun,” Le told the Current outside Thanks for Vaping shop on San Pedro Avenue. Le is convinced that vaping won’t harm his lungs. But that’s not an opinion shared by many health professionals in SA and beyond. Michael Siegel, a professor of health science at Boston University and a tobacco industry expert, said that he was extremely skeptical of e-cigarettes when he first heard of them around 2006. “I just assumed that it was a new tobacco industry ploy to try to pretend that they had come out with this new safer product,” Siegel said. But Siegel dug deeper. He poured through reams of reports and listened to personal accounts of vapers. What he found surprised him. “My interpretation of the science is that there’s no question that electronic cigarettes are much, much safer for you than tobacco cigarettes,” Siegel said — even if they’re packing nicotine. That doesn’t mean e-cigs are risk-free. Since they’re still a fairly new technology, little is known about the longterm effects of vaping. And only the most lemming-like disciples assert that vaping is completely healthy.
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City. Despite the growth of his business paralleling the industry’s overall expansion, Sterling expects some vape shops to eventually shutter. At its peak about a year ago, San Antonio had about 75 vape shops. There are now about 50, nearly all clustered on the North Side. Whether the market is still oversaturated or stable depends on whom you ask. “We’re going through a period of expansion and then we’re going to see a period of consolidation. That’s kind of a natural phase of business, a cycle,” said Sterling, whose vaping business has now become a full-time gig. But Bill Maxey, owner of Bad Wolf Vape, said that the SA vape scene is “behind” other metropolitan areas, with room to grow. Dallas and Houston both boast more than 100 vape shops. There are around 60 in Austin. Maxey smoked Marlboro Gold 100s for 26 years — and he was committed. “I was going to die with a cigarette in my mouth. Thankfully I found [vaping]. It was an alternative, and it worked for me,” said Maxey, 45. Now he and his wife own two vape shops in SA. He still works full time in IT, taking night shifts at his shops. For him, helping people quit smoking through vaping is a passion. Shops such as Thanks for Vaping and Bad Wolf Vape try to cultivate a professional and positive image. They distance themselves from head shops and preach proper vaping etiquette to their customers: don’t vape in non-smoking areas, don’t condescend to non-vapers or smokers, don’t blow vapor in people’s faces. Doing so can help San Antonio avoid the regulatory fate of other locales. Though various municipalities have outlawed indoor vaping, it’s still legal in SA. And there are few regulations for shop owners, other than the new state law barring e-cigarette sales to minors. Members of San Antonio’s vaping community want to keep regulations to a minimum — particularly since the local vaping wave may not have yet crested. Bonnie Herzog, a national beverage and tobacco analyst with Wells Fargo, said that e-cigarette sales could outpace traditional cigarettes within a decade. Herzog estimated that the domestic vaping market will reach $3.5 billion by the end of 2015 — a full $1 billion stronger than 2014.
Take your pick: Juice flavors for vaping run the gamut.
“Putting anything into your lungs that’s not air is a detriment to you. We realize that, and we never candycoat it,” Maxey said. “It’s always billed as harm reduction.” Sandra Adams, a pulmonologist at SA’s University of Texas Health Science Center, worries that the message may not get through to everyone. Adams, who gets asked about vaping “every day,” conceded that vaping is fine for people who are already addicted to cigarettes. But she’s worried about potential long-term effects and whether too many kids are attracted to the bright packaging and assorted flavors. The number of middle and high school students who used e-cigarettes tripled between 2013 and 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection. Many e-cigarettes also lack regulation by the Food and Drug Administration, which means that juice formulas can vary from brand to brand or even bottle to bottle. “If you can go from one or two packs a day to an e-cigarette and then get off, I think that’s a really great option,” Adams said. “But there needs to be a quit date for the e-cigarette as well.” She likened the current state of research to cigarettes in the 1950s — when even the country’s surgeon general smoked. Back then, some tobacco companies and health professionals alike touted cigarettes as a weight loss and focus tool. “[E-cigarettes] haven’t been around long enough to know the toxicities and the problems with long-term use of the devices,” Adams said. “We’re probably going to find out that they’re much more harmful than they’re advertised to be right now.” Although she loves her vaporizer and doesn’t understand the panic over using it, Velasquez’s goal is to eventually stop vaping altogether. “It’s healthier than cigarettes, but not vaping is healthiest,” Velasquez said. “I could have never quit without it. It’s been a game-changer for me.” mmarks@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • June 17-23, 2015 • CURRENT 11
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Just north of San Antonio in Comal County, there’s a little plot of land that actually sits in no-man’s land — no local city government has jurisdiction. A bulldozer has cleared the lot. Scattered tree trunks poke out of jumbled rubble while vibrant green trees stand watch surrounding the plot. Someone’s about to put it to use. The future site of an Industrial Asphalt plant, it’s less than a mile away from a 1936 limestone quarry operated by Hanson Aggregates — a Germanowned company. Hanson is leasing the land to Industrial Asphalt. Business-wise, this is a smart operation due to the close proximity of the companies that will mutually benefit from the facility. But Greg Mims, who owns a historic
house right across the street from the future industrial plant, does not plan to welcome his new neighbor. “The entire community and all the surrounding smaller towns and cities are in full support of our opposition to the plant, but everyone lacks teeth,” Mims told the San Antonio Current. “No one has authority to stop this.” A contingent of concerned citizens has convinced Garden Ridge, Schertz and New Braunfels to all pass resolutions in opposition. But they can’t actually stop construction of the future facility, which sits just outside Garden Ridge limits. Neither can Comal County leaders. Mims and a group of community activists who live in Comal County and Garden Ridge, a city that incorporated in 1970, fear that the plant will result in extreme amounts of truck traffic that will CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 ►
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threaten a popular route used by bicyclists, motorcyclists, joggers and cross-country athletes from nearby schools. “These guys are independent haulers, so the faster they get there and turn that load around, the more money they make,” Mims alleged. “They have no respect for the law and there’s no level of control in the county.” Then there are environmental concerns, like hazardous runoff possibly entering the Dry Comal Creek during floods, such as during last month’s incessant rainstorms. “If I can get some level of a moratorium halting construction, we can get real time science on the impact to water and air quality and whether it affects the people who live there,” Mims said. But that’s not likely to happen because Industrial Asphalt said it has nearly all the necessary permits to begin construction. John Ramming, owner of Ramming Companies, which includes Industrial Asphalt, has operated in Central Texas and San Antonio for more than 20 years. “We have one permit to go,” Ramming said. “But it’s just a formality that takes a 14 CURRENT • June 17-23, 2015 • sacurrent.com
little longer to get.” He disputes Mims’ environmental concerns, citing surveys of the land by Westward Environmental, a consultant the company hired to assess the site. “We have a retention pond for runoff and are going to follow all the guidelines the state has asked us to follow,” Ramming said. “We have a stormwater prevention plan. All of our storage tanks are enclosed in concrete so if there ever is an issue, there is a containment area.” Mims also cites Edwards Aquifer concerns in his opposition to the plant. “We are in the recharge zone about 100 feet into our property,” Mims said. Actually, not the case, Ramming countered. The plant property sits just outside of the recharge zone and not over the aquifer, he noted. As for truck traffic, Ramming admits it will increase, but not exponentially. The area is already heavily used by trucks hauling rocks and asphalt from the quarry to spots throughout San Antonio and Central Texas, he clarified. “Now it’s just going to be diverted to our plant,” Ramming pointed out.
By default, that means the truck traffic will be redirected in front of Mims’ house, along with several other homes on FM 2252 donning “No Asphalt Plant” signs on their fences. Jennifer McGovern, whose family owns land immediately adjacent to Industrial Asphalt, said the company literally appeared overnight and out of nowhere. Neither she nor anyone else in the area had a clue that a new plant was in the works at the previously unused lot. “We were taken by surprise,” McGovern told the Current. “They came in the dark of the night.” However, as both McGovern and Mims explained, this isn’t the first time the community has tangled with Industrial Asphalt. In May 2014, Comal County and Garden Ridge residents successfully stopped Industrial Asphalt’s plans to build a plant within Garden Ridge’s city limits. “We were really close to having that plant inside the Hanson Aggregate operations,” Ramming said. “All we needed has a height and parking lot variance. We couldn’t get that so we had to move our location,” he added. Tracey Blackwell, a Garden Ridge
resident who helped stop the plant in 2014, said Industrial Asphalt was planning to build two asphalt plants. They were able to stop one, but believe the company is still planning to build two plants — Industrial Asphalt being the first. “Out here, anybody can do whatever they want,” Blackwell said. Ramming, however, insisted that he’s not trying to mislead anyone. “We’re real clean,” he said. In an email provided to the Current, Steve Geiger, South Texas Vice President for Lehigh Hanson, the German company that owns Hanson and is leasing the land to Industrial Asphalt, pointed to his company’s legacy of being good neighbors. “Hanson Servtex Quarry has been active with the community over the years through philanthropic support to local organizations,” Geiger wrote. But promises and claims don’t quite convince local skeptics, who say they can see through the company’s cunning ways. “These guys know exactly what they did,” Blackwell said. “They went straight to the Achilles heel, where they knew we couldn’t fight.” mreagan@sacurrent.com
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Despite rampant problems like poverty, a broken schoolfinance system or Texas’ aging infrastructure, our state leaders chose — yet again — to focus on restricting women’s access to legal abortions. To add insult to injury, about two weeks after they wrapped up the 2015 session and went home, a conservative federal appeals court upheld a 2013 law that shut down all but seven of the state’s abortion clinics. This year hasn’t been kind to Lone Star State pro-choice advocates. But for a few hundred pregnant young women who seek permission from a judge each year to get an abortion because of problematic or absent parents, the future will be more difficult. Pro-life advocates and politicians targeted them this year, passing legislation that will adversely affect this small demographic. “The changes to the law make it really difficult to impossible for some of the most vulnerable young people to access abortion care,” Heather Busby, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, told the San Antonio Current. Judicial bypass allows young women who are the victims of parental abuse to access abortion care via judicial order. Minors cannot access abortion care without parental permission. Tina Hester, executive director of Jane’s Due Process, a nonprofit organization that ensures legal protection for pregnant minors, said 12 damaging changes were added to the law, including one that calls for a higher level of evidentiary standards not often seen in family law. “It is hard to get to court. Particularly in an area where you don’t have an abortion provider,” said Hester. “You have to get a sonogram and counseling and explain your sex life to an older judge and explain that your dad’s a crack addict and all those things,” Hester added. The addicts seem to be these state leaders, particularly the GOP majority,
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who just won’t let go of the issue. “They couldn’t figure out any other way to restrict abortion so they are going after 200 or 300 young women,” Hester said. But that’s not the end of it. There’s another big change to abortion law. Now adults seeking an abortion must provide a government ID to prove they’re not minors. If a doctor is confident the woman is not a minor, but for whatever reason she is unable to provide ID, the doctor can perform an abortion — but must report it to the state. “What are they reporting for?” Busby asked. “If you’re a provider, you are already under intense scrutiny. It’s denial of abortion affecting those with the least resources.” Despite setbacks, both Busby and Hester said educating the general public about reproductive rights will be the only long-term solution to turn back the tide of Texas’ obsession with restricting abortion access to all women in the state. mreagan@sacurrent.com
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The Luck Archive WORDS
The chance discovery of four four-leafed clovers pressed into a copy of the 1940s-era book 1,000 Facts Worth Knowing helped spark the idea for Mark Menjivar’s The Luck Archive, a fascinating volume exploring how luck and superstition factor into the lives of everyone from a motivational speaker to a New Orleans witch. Born in Virginia, raised in Central America and freelancing as an artist/ photographer in San Antonio since 2006, Menjivar assembled more than 500 stories, objects and photographs for the book, which comes to light at a discussion and signing Tuesday at the Twig. Free, 6-8pm, The Twig Book Shop, 306 Pearl Pkwy., (210) 826-6411, thetwig.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Zainab Johnson COMEDY
If you, like most of America, missed the single-season reincarnation of The Arsenio Hall Show, you didn’t see a woman-on-the-street segment in which Zainab Johnson enrolls in a poll-dancing class. The first question she asks the instructor is whether she needs to get a pimp. Judging from her appearances on Last Comic Standing, Johnson isn’t usually so confrontational, but seems unconcerned with offending those who can’t or won’t take her jokes. Her enthusiasm and effortless charm might make it easier to forget getting your feelings hurt. $16, 8pm Thu, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, 8pm Sun, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, lolsanantonio.com. — Jeremy Martin
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Nothing More MUSIC
Since its humble beginnings, San Antonio’s own Nothing More has fine-tuned a signature sound that fuses elements of nü metal, alternative and progressive rock. Formed in 2003, the band (vocalist Jonny Hawkins, bassist Daniel Oliver, guitarist Mark Vollelunga and drummer Paul O’Brien) has seen considerable success over the last year with its self-titled, major label debut peaking at 33 on the Billboard 200. The quartet returns home as part of the Jenny Tour, named after Hawkins’ sister, who suffers from Bipolar disorder. Proceeds go to several mental health foundations. $16, 8pm, Aztec Theater, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — Erik Casarez
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Black Violin MUSIC
With one of the most satisfyingly blunt names in all of music, the Floridian duo of Wil Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester are Black Violin. And it’s true: Both classically schooled gentlemen are black and gifted string instrumentalists. And both men will be at the Tobin on Friday, with band, treating fans and initiates alike to a high-octane show that deftly melds influences as farflung as hip-hop, bluegrass, R&B, funk, rock, jazz and classical. For a pre-show primer, dig the duo’s 2013 tour de force, the full-to-bursting Classically Trained. $14.50-$29.50, 8pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — James Courtney
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The Big Gay Burlesque Show LGBT PRIDE
In the spirit of good old-fashioned teamwork, SA mainstays the Pastie Pops, up-and-coming troupe La Petite Menagerie and members of the Central Texas “queerlesque” community have banded together to bump, grind and shimmy their way through Pride Month. Hosted by bearded gender-bender Foxxy Blue Orchid and featuring a bevy of beauties from the Alamo City, Austin and beyond, their Big Gay Burlesque Show benefits the fourth annual San Antonio Burlesque Festival — a two-night affair set to showcase regional and touring talent at the Woodlawn July 31-August 1. $10-$40, 9pm, The Uptown Studio, 700 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 387-1617, theuptownstudio.com. — BR
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Known and Unknown Artisan Fest SPECIAL EVENT
As readers may learn from next week’s LGBT Pride issue, local artist Nina Donley has risen above a series of hard knocks and now runs Zac Cimi Arte, a small West Side gallery abuzz with good vibes and day-glo colors. Housed in one of 12 live/work units in the Gardens at San Juan Square, ZCA joins neighboring In The Weeds Artisan Shoppe (ITWAS) and portrait artist Art Forrest on Saturday for a mini block party. While browsing for smartly priced paintings, handcrafted wares, pet accessories and more, attendees can take in performances by hip-hop outfit i35 ConneKt and indie jazz quintet Dirty Genez. $3, 6-11pm, Zac Cimi Arte, 2003 S. Zarzamora St., (210) 725-0391, zaccimiarte.com. — BR
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SpiritFest MUSIC
Hop in the hooptie, head west on Highway 90 and peep the wildflowers burgeoning on account of El Niño’s recent rage. At first, it doesn’t matter where you’re headed, because the journey’s the thing. But, where you’re going is to the quaint town of Castroville, about 30 minutes away. In Castroville, at Texas Spirits Saloon, you’ll dig the free SpiritFest, a multi-stage affair that features some of the most exciting musical talent from San Antonio and the surrounding areas, including Antique Sunlight, The Native Roar (pictured), and Collective Dreams, among others. You’re welcome. Free, 4pm, Texas Spirits Saloon, 3940 FM 471 N, Castroville, (830) 538-2300, texasspiritssaloon.com. — JC
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‘Chicanismo Today, a Collective Expression’ TALKS PLUS
Visual artist Adan Hernandez once told the San Antonio Current : “I think Chicano art today is, like most Mexican-Americans, still clawing to exist.” With this in mind, Hernandez and several collaborators are working to create the Chicano Fine Art Museum (CFAM). The group presents its second public panel in order to introduce the influence of Chicano art and the cultural expansion of the movement. Panelists include Hernandez, curator David A. Elizondo, actor Jesse Borrego, educator Joseph Bravo and poet Fernando Esteban Flores. Free, 6:307:30pm, Memorial Branch Library, 3222 Culebra Rd., (210) 207-9140, mysapl.org. — Murphi Cook
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José Torres-Tama
Earthlings take heed: Performance artist José Torres-Tama will land at the Guadalupe for a weeklong residency. For 20 years, the Ecuadorianborn and NEA award-winning Torres-Tama has used his genre-bending one-man shows to promote social change around the country. On Friday and Saturday, Torres-Tama will perform Aliens, Immigrants, and Other Evildoers, a sci-fi Latino noir production that “exposes the hypocrisies of a system that vilifies the same people whose labor it exploits.” Sunday brings a free immigrants right forum headed by Torres-Tama’s “Art & Social Change: The Artist as Provocateur,” a multimedia event that transforms the traditional lecture experience via live art and poetry. Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers: $10-$12, 8pm Fri-Sat; “Art & Social Change: The Artist as Provocateur”: free, 2pm Sun; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org. — Murphi Cook
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5th Annual Art in the Dark San Antonio
Lighthouse for the Blind’s signature fundraiser encourages guests to rely on the “the touch ... the sense ... the feel of art” while bidding on cloaked works (donated by local potters, sculptors and jewelers) at a silent auction and reception with food and drinks from area eateries. $30, 6:30-9pm Thursday; The DoSeum, 2800 Broadway, (210) 531-1533.
”Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn: Collage and Assemblage” Developing
since Marion Koogler McNay’s founding bequest of 1950, the McNay’s love for collage (and its three-dimensional sister assemblage) takes center stage this summer via “Recycled, Repurposed, Reborn.” Representing a collaboration between McNay curators William J. Chiego, René Paul Barilleaux, Jody Blake and Lyle Williams, the exhibition draws from all corners of the museum’s collection and showcases a broad range of artists, including Austin’s Lance Letscher, Atlanta-based Radcliffe Bailey and San Antonio’s own Kelly O’Connor. $5-$10, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.
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A Star Is Born Texas Public Radio’s
Cinema Tuesdays series continues with director George Cukor’s remake of the 1937 classic A Star Is Born.
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Counted among the greatest musicals of all time, the 1954 film follows an aspiring young actress and singer (Judy Garland) who gets a career boost from an alcoholic movie star (James Mason) on his last professional legs. $10-$15, 7:30pm Tuesday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 614-8977.
Ernest & Celestine SAMA and Slab
Cinema’s outdoor Family Flicks series revisits 2012’s Ernest & Celestine, a French animated feature about an unlikely bond between a busking bear (voiced by Forest Whitaker) and an artistic mouse (Mackenzie Foy). Lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome. Free, 8:45pm Friday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.
Kung Fu Hustle CineSnob hosts a free
screening of Stephen Chow’s comic masterpiece surrounding a wannabe gangster who aspires to join the notorious Axe Gang while residents of a nearby housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. Free with RSVP at eventbrite.com, 7:30pm Monday; Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes, 1255 SW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500.
Schindler’s List In conjunction with the
San Antonio Public Library’s monthlong program “The Holocaust: Learn & Remember,” Igo Branch screens Steven Spielberg’s epic drama starring Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, an enterprising German-Catholic businessman, rogue and Nazi Party
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member who bartered his vast fortune to save 297 Jewish women and 801 Jewish men after the German invasion of Poland. Free, 5-7pm Monday; Igo Branch Library, 13330 Kyle Seale Pkwy., (210) 207-9080.
¡Three Amigos! The third installment of
the Briscoe’s Comedic West film series revives John Landis’ 1986 comedy starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short as three unemployed silent film stars mistaken for heroes by the suffering people of a small Mexican village. The outdoor screening includes free popcorn, beer and food truck are available for purchase. $5 suggested donation, 6:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499.
Thursday; Cibolo Nature Center, 140 City Park Rd., (830) 249-4616.
a free car show, food trucks (including Nelson’s BBQ & Italian, Teka Molino and Fat Matt’s) and an inflatable bounce house. Free, 11am-1:30pm Sunday; LifePoint Church, 10822 FM 1560, (210) 501-5181.
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Move Live on Tour Intended to “feel
Chef Robert Irvine Live! Food Network
star Robert Irvine’s new multimedia show combines revealing interviews, a Q&A session and culinary challenges based on audience suggestions. Much like his shows Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant: Impossible, Irvine walks into the theater with no knowledge of what he is about to face. $24.50-$125, 7:30pm Thursday; Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100
Wildflowers & Whiskey Sours Cibolo
Nature Center hosts a kid-friendly social with light snacks, whiskey sours, lemonade, a presentation on Hill Country wildflowers and an evening stroll along meadow trails. $10 (includes cocktails for adults; free for kids under 16), 6-8pm
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like a rock concert for dance,” celebrity siblings/Dancing with the Stars alums Julianne and Derek Hough’s genrespanning spectacle Move Live on Tour features original choreography by the Houghs as well as Kyle Hanagami and the Emmy-winning duo NappyTabs (Napoleon and Tabitha D’umo). $40-$95, 8pm Saturday; The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333.
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Mo Saidi The Twig welcomes local author
and poet Mo Saidi in support of The Searchers, his debut novel exploring life inside the crucible of the Iranian revolution from the 1970s to the 1990s. Free, 3pm Saturday; The Twig Book Shop, 306 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 106, (210) 826-6411.
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Deco Mercado Days Held every third
Saturday from June to December, Aztlan’s Deco Mercado Days offer a broad range of goods from nearby farmers, local artisans, designers and makers. Free, 9am-2pm Saturday, Centro Cultural Aztlan, 1800 Fredericksburg Rd., Suite 103, (210) 432-1896.
Fatherfest: Beer, Sausage and Music
Alamo Beer brings fathers and their families together for a Kiolbassa sausage cook-off between local chefs, live music by the Rick Cavender Band and Two Tons of Steel, games and plenty of “dad stuff” — including trucks, a mobile barber and cigar rollers. Free, noon-6pm Sunday; Alamo Beer Company Brewery, 202 Lamar St., (210) 872-5589.
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From left: Frank Oriti’s painting Summer Help; a drawer from Cynthia Gregory’s sculpture The Poet’s Table; Emily Fleisher’s assemblage Terraced.
SHARED COMMONALITY
Everyday Life Connects The Dots In New Blue Star Exhibits DAN R. GODDARD
When Mary Heathcott became executive director of Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, she learned artists were always invited to propose exhibits. But since it wasn’t well publicized, only those in the know responded, leading to charges of “insiderism.” Last summer, Heathcott advertised an open call to artists nationally and received more than 400 responses. Aided by members of her exhibits committee, she divided 21 finalists into four exhibits on view through August 9. Despite the diversity of responses, the work is best summed up by the title of the Main Gallery exhibit, “Everyday Is Ordinary.” “Many of these artists didn’t know about the Blue Star and we didn’t know many of the artists, so it helped to spread our network,” Heathcott said
during a press preview. “But I was surprised how many artists were looking at ordinary life. When we’re being bombarded with so much information from social media and the internet, these artists are exploring our shared commonality — family, work and home.” ‘Of Reference, Of Departure, Of Origin’ A cluttered desk, a stack of books, a collection of stones — Cynthia Gregory’s incredibly realistic sculptures look like artifacts plucked from a writer’s study. But nothing is quite what it seems. The books and composition tablets are carved from discarded lumber. Pencils, erasers, rulers, paperclips, seashells, rocks and other bric-a-brac are carefully fabricated in plaster and painted. However, Gregory hopes you
will see more than simply amazing threedimensional trompe l’oeil. “My intention is not to fool people,” Gregory told the San Antonio Current. “I am an artist of the hand by the hand. Much of my work is guided by my exploration of the connection between writing and drawing.” The everyday objects she constructs are often the only physical evidence of a creative person’s mental effort to rise above the ordinary. Snapshots and small, personal drawings provide fuel for memories and the imagination. Grass stems contrasted with starry views of the cosmos illuminate the gap between physical reality and our yearning for the spiritual, universal and transcendent. ‘Transmission’ In the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan coined the terms “the medium is the message” and the “global village,” anticipating the interconnectedness of the World Wide Web 30 years before it was invented. His
communication theory seems more relevant than ever, but the 10 artists assembled for “Transmission” are primarily concerned with how advances in communication technology are intruding on and reshaping our fragile sense of self. Benjamin McVey of Northwest Vista College charts our disintegrating personal space in his minimalistic, lasercut Fractures I. Alluding to the tilted perspective of tile floors in Renaissance paintings, he uses rings of hexagons to signify the personal, social and public boundaries that buffer people. “I’ve been investigating proxemics, which studies the degree of spatial separation individuals naturally maintain in different social situations,” McVey said. “But our personal space is becoming warped and fragmented by social and digital media. When people can call you at any time and Summer Shows at Blue Star study your personal life on $3-$5 Facebook, it prevents us Noon-8pm Thu, noon-6pm Fri-Sun Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum from maintaining any sense 116 Blue Star of privacy.” (210) 227-6960 Transylvanian-born artist bluestarart.org Through August 9 Elisabeth Ajtay of San
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Francisco obliterates advertising’s subliminal influence, providing viewers with a blank slate for their own slogans in her nighttime photographs of billboards she encountered while living in Germany. She provides the advertising slogans in her titles — I’m rich, refined and critical — but the billboards are wiped clean in her digital images. “By cutting out the advertising, I think you can make a kind of peace with it,” Ajtay said. “You can create whatever you want and project it on the space.” San Antonio photographer Ansen Seale is showing a computermanipulated digital print of ball moss growing on wires in Moss Music, which suggests musical notes. He plans to turn the design into a large-scale public artwork for the remodeled AT&T Center. “I’m going to turn the image on its side and make it about 25-feet wide,” Seale said. “It’ll be behind a special glass that will light up with colors when you touch it. Since the center is designed in a ‘Texas barn vernacular,’ it will be the Texas landscape redux.” Korean-born Hyousang Yoo provides a disturbing image, Nothing But Flowers, becoming nauseatingly ubiquitous at art museums, concerts, sporting events and other public venues — people mindlessly holding their smart phones over their heads and taking pictures. Instead of directly experiencing what they are witnessing, absorbing a real event in real time, people now rely on crappy cell phone photos to mediate what they think they ought to remember.
‘Everyday Is Ordinary’ Large-scale works about family, labor and domestic architecture occupy Blue Star’s biggest space, but seemingly most intriguing is the subtlest — scuff marks on the wall. During the opening, Dallas artist Ryder Richards adopted the dress of a “nouveau cowboy” and the slouching posture of a John Wayne-wannabe, using one boot heel to prop himself up against the wall. “When I had a gallery in Lubbock, I always had to paint the walls after an opening because of the cowboys,” Richards said. Figurative paintings, especially of the working class, are now rare in contemporary exhibits, but this show has two. Jim Arendt of South Carolina used actual weathered, stained coveralls in his life-size portrait of Dad. Cleveland artist Frank Oriti’s Summer Help is a bearded, sunburned slacker. In an abstract vein, Houston artist Shayne Murphy’s Surfacing is a deconstructed office worker, splintered and melting after a hard day pushing pixels. ‘Stellar-Scape’ New York-born Emily Fleisher of San Antonio College finds the universe in a package of Pastina, an East Coast staple and a favorite childhood food. In stop-motion animation, the tiny stars of pasta spin into a map of the cosmos, supplying an endless vista for a child’s imagination.
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WRITING THEIR OWN TICKET SA’s Entertainment Industry Pitches City To Fill Funding Void Left By State Cuts KIKO MARTÍNEZ
Local film and production professionals are not letting last month’s major cuts to the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program slow them down. State legislators slashed incentives for film, TV and videogame production to $32 million starting in 2016, a third of the program’s current funding. Some might see the reduction as a death knell for film production in Texas and evidence that the state is not concerned with competing for projects on a national level. But the San Antonio film industry has decided to take a proactive approach, hoping that local lawmakers can help them write their own ticket and make the Alamo City a viable production hub. “We’re banding together as a production industry and working to bolster what we have here in our own backyard,” said Fernando Cano, line producer on the 2014 family drama The One I Wrote for You, which was shot entirely in San Antonio. “Regardless of what happens at the state level, we want to be able to draw in productions independently.” Unwilling to let the state dictate their industry, professionals like Cano and others have designed an ambitious plan that will promote the city as a preferred location to shoot feature films, TV shows and commercials. It’s a multi-pronged proposal that includes an enhanced incentives package, new infrastructure, educational and training opportunities, and a shift in city departments. “When the slash happened, it made us realize how much more important what we we’re doing is,” said local filmmaker Kerry Valderrama (Sanitarium). “It was a devastating blow, but it showed we have a real need for our movement and what we’re trying to do on a local level.” It’s an ambitious undertaking and definitely not an easy sell. Their plan begins with a substantial increase in current incentives the city offers for productions. Presently, the Supplemental San Antonio Incentive (SSAI) gives filmmakers a 2.5 percent break in spending. Eligibility includes the production having already been approved for the recently downgraded state incentive, which offers filmmakers incentives on a sliding scale (between 5 and 20 percent) depending on the project’s budget. San Antonio industry professionals are proposing the city expand incentives to bring the combined state and
SA production company GeoMedia shoots an SWBC commercial with Spurs guard Tony Parker and assistant coach Becky Hammon.
city total savings to 30-35 percent. “I feel what we’re doing right now is a call to action,” said Chantel Nasits, production manager at SA’s GeoMedia, Inc. “We can make change here. We can market our city in the same way as Baton Rouge and New Orleans. We just want a little more help and need to change the mindset.” Along with an increase in local incentives, filmmakers want to encourage more economic development in San Antonio by having the city fund (without raising taxes, noted Cano) more infrastructure. That would mean more production centers — spaces where professionals can work, create more projects and jobs, as well as train and educate individuals interested in working in the industry so they don’t feel they have to leave San Antonio to find better opportunities. Cano said the group has identified some places in the city — he’s not yet ready to name them — where structures could either be repurposed or built from the ground up. He estimated the city would have to invest anywhere from $50,000 to $9 million. “Some of the locations we have in mind have already been functioning as production-type studios in the
past,” said Cano. “It would just be a matter of rehabbing them and getting them up to code. But if we wanted something brand new, it would be $9 million. The more activity we have across the city, the better for us.” Local filmmakers’ final request to the city might be the most contentious. They would like to see the San Antonio Film Commission plucked from the Department for Culture & Creative Development and moved to the Mayor’s Office or the Economic Development Department. “Something that is critical is for there to be a distinction between cultural arts and the professional production industry,” Cano said. “This industry provides thousands of jobs and brings in quite a bit of revenue to the city. We need to be in a department that would facilitate that. Being under the cultural arts umbrella, their goals are different.” Filmmakers are confident their new campaign will reach the ears of city leaders, including the soon-to-come new mayor and lead to serious, productive conversations on how to move forward. “The state may have cut their budget, but we still have amazing crews and locations within San Antonio,” said Valderrama. “We just need to get more leverage here, so we can keep our film industry growing.” sacurrent.com • June 17-23, 2015 • CURRENT 29
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A piece of Dior haute couture to hang in the closet is probably not in most of our futures, but this enthralling documentary allows viewers to finger the hem, so to speak, of some grand designs indeed. The film chronicles the 2012 arrival of new artistic director Raf Simons at the Parisian House of Dior and the galloping, mere eight weeks he had to produce his first collection for an audience of fashionistas and their perfectly manicured talons. While Simons — a soft-spoken Belgian who’s pretty obviously stressed out of his gourd — is the film’s entry point, Dior and I’s net scoops up a multilingual consortium of creatives and craftspeople toiling away at so much tulle. (Incidentally, the seamstresses wear heels. So chic.) The language barrier borders the Babel-esque; it’s a surprise fount of humor, too, as when a translator is terrified to pass along an Italian tailor’s request to the French-speaking chief seamstress, knowing she’ll be furious at the added work. Onto this fly-on-the-wall portrait of an atelier at work, writer/director Frédéric Tcheng appliqués an ethereal narration drawn from founding designer Christian Dior’s own autobiography, Dior by Dior. (Tcheng employed a voice-from-beyondthe-grave technique less successfully in 2011’s Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, which he co-directed.)
The narration is a nifty doubletasker: both contextual aid and artistic statement. By using Dior’s personal musings — on founding his fashion house, his philosophies on life, his dealings with the press — Tcheng neatly establishes the legacy of Dior and, consequently, how very high the stakes are for Simons, while also prepping the audience for mirroring points in Simons’ own narrative arc. The young designer didn’t benefit from the same cheat sheet, admitting he stopped reading Dior’s memoir on page 15 because the similarities were “too weird.” The doc concludes with the debut of Simons’ collection, a spectacle I won’t spoil for anyone without a Vogue subscription — only to say that Tcheng, cinematographer Gilles Piquard and editor Julio Perez IV assemble a flat-out thrilling representation of a geographically tricky catwalk/backstage and an emotionally draining day. Dior and I’s only misstep is saved for the final credits, which roll over a black screen with random bursts of blinding light meant to mimic a camera flash. No matter the season: Seizure-inducing is never a good look.
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Growing up, David Arciniega was the athletic kind, making allstate a decade ago while playing football for St. Anthony High. He had seemingly boundless energy. So it came as a shock when Arciniega, now a 26-year-old San Antonio restaurant owner, ended up in the hospital for two weeks, requiring two blood transfusions and iron shots. Then he learned the hard truth: He was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. Piles of work, stress, poor diet and drinking are what finally caused a physical breakdown, said Arciniega, who described symptoms of fatigue and indigestion so painful it would bring tears to his eyes. “My schedule before going to the hospital was get my bar going, go to Alamo Street Eat and hit up Where Y’at or Attaboy and eat,” he told the San Antonio Current. “That was my diet, with alcohol, no sleep and stress.” Usually diagnosed between in people during their late teens and mid-20s, Crohn’s Disease (named after Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, who first diagnosed it in the early 1930s), is considered an inflammatory bowel disease. Though there is no specific cause for the disease, patients who deal with Crohn’s either have family members who also had it, or they suffer the symptoms as white blood cells go on hyperdrive and start attacking parts of the gastrointestinal tract. “Patients would likely have had issues for a while — diarrhea, weight loss, pain. It’s a pretty silent disease,” said Karen Martin, a local registered dietitian who sees her fair share of these cases. A study conducted from 1940 to 2011 in Minnesota discovered approximately 33,000 new cases of Crohn’s a year. Around 780,000 Americans currently live with the disease. And there’s no specific diet to abide by either, as the disease can affect any part of the tract. What makes Crohn’s difficult to deal with — aside from the 32 CURRENT • June 17-23, 2015 • sacurrent.com
piling expenses of surgery, flares and medication that help suppress the immune system — is learning what foods to stay away from. A balanced diet for Crohn’s patients might include eight to 10 glasses of water, oat bran, legumes and barley, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts, poultry, soy, healthy fats, deeply colored, skinless and seedless fruits and cooked vegetables, and vitamin supplements. The laundry list of items to avoid includes personal trigger foods, highfiber and high-fat foods, caffeine, nuts, seeds, popcorn (which can get lodged in fissures or fistulas and cause havoc), spicy foods, raw fruits and vegetables, especially the ones with skins, prunes, beans, dairy products and large food portions. Some patients can also be prescribed gluten-free diets. For Arciniega, that means moderating intake of his favorite foods. “I miss steak,” the cook said while at Amaya’s Tacos & Bakery, a restaurant he opened with brother Ruben in January. “I love dairy. I’m not lactose intolerant, but it was making my joints become weak. I was the type to eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, chocolate milk and a donut before work, eat things with heavy cream at work and a bowl of cookies and cream before bed.” During his two-week hospital stay, Arciniega’s weight dropped from 180 to 160 pounds. Nowadays, he takes one steady medication and is able to stave off more prescriptions by controlling his diet. He’s learned how to cook healthy meals, not only at Amaya’s, where they carry a vegan elote soup and a veggie-filled taco, but also while working with chef Elizabeth Johnson, owner of meal-delivery service Pharm Table. Johnson’s program is based on antiinflammatory foods and removing dairy, wheat and sugar. At $125 per week, the menu includes about 10 meals and snacks that require 10 minutes or less of prep time. The menu for the week of June 8 (they change weekly) included
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three soups (gazpacho, roasted potato and fennel and cucumber soup); three small plates (garlic and thyme pork sirloin, spice-rubbed Wagyu tri-tip barbecue and pulled pork with braised collard greens); three salads (zucchini, watermelon radish and zucchini hearts and turmeric-curry leaf roasted vegetables); three bowls to pair with soups; and three snacks. Though she has picked up a number of clients affected by Crohn’s, Johnson doesn’t stick to one specific diet plan, but rather a different lifestyle where wheat, dairy, sugar and processed foods aren’t staples. “I’ve been told I have a very eclectic palate. As a chef, once you dominate flavors [some people joke it takes 10 years to get your knife skills down], you can get to the point of playing around with them,” Johnson, a former instructor at the Culinary Institute of America-San Antonio, told the Current. She dabbles in cuisines hailing from as “Blue Zones,” or areas of the globe where people have shown to live the longest. Latin American foods play a huge part, as do those found in Southern Spain, Northern African, the Middle East and the Spice Route — ginger, turmeric and saffron (touted for their
anti-inflammatory properties) frequently appear in her menus. Once the disease is managed or in remission, enjoying a night out or eating out doesn’t have to be a drag. Arciniega can eat most things in moderation (though one too many beers can wreak havoc) and he’s picked up ways to cook food correctly to help with digestion. Beans, chockablock full of necessary iron, require a good soak to release gases and the addition of epazote or wormseed to ensure adequate, pain-free digestion. Changing his diet, and trying to help those around him, hasn’t been without sacrifices. Helping family members who struggle with diabetes has become one of his missions, even if it means getting into heated arguments. “The amount of pain I was in made me aware that I needed to make these changes. I’m winning a few battles, but it’s not an overhaul,” Arciniega said. Clay Morgan, a local attorney, is usually able to keep up with wife Erika Nadeau, who likes to check out new restaurants in town. Even though he exhibited no Crohn’s-like symptoms, Morgan was diagnosed at 26 in the early 2000s after being diagnosed with Akylosing Spondylitis, another
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inflammatory disease. Though he’s able to keep Crohn’s symptoms at bay, he’s careful with dietary choices. “Over the years, I’ve learned I can have some dairy. I eat cheese regularly and I switched to soymilk, but if I have ice cream, it’s like cheating. Sometimes I pay for it,” Morgan said — typically suffering gastrointestinal issues for two to three days. When it comes to dining out, moderation helps, but he has to be extra inquisitive when it comes to fried foods, his Achilles heel. “It depends on the type of grease it’s being fried in and how heavy the breading is; tempura is usually fine.” Learning how to cope with flares is easier when patients realize they’re not alone. After his initial diagnosis, Arciniega attended a meeting of the local support group of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. June’s group included a varied batch of attendees ranging from a recently diagnosed 20-year-old and his parents,
to the group leader, who learned of his Crohn’s in 1996. It was the second meeting for Veronica Torres, an agent at Ellis Insurance Agency. She’s got ulcerative colitis, an off-shoot of Crohn’s that impacts the large intestine or colon and causes the formation of ulcers. Her diagnosis came in December after a two-month stay at the hospital. Because treatment varies on a case-bycase basis, Torres finds solace in online forums and groups. She has enlisted the help of vitamins and moderation, along with probiotics, fish oil, aloe vera and turmeric, to hold off going on immunesuppressants or steroids. “It was a total guessing game,” Torres said of the trial-and-error diet. Her 18-pill a day solution allows her to eat most things (except Malt-O-Meal, which was a no-go just a few weeks ago). “You just have to figure it out,” she said. “Everyone is so different, but it’s better than the excruciating pain.” flavor@sacurrent.com
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A life-threatening food allergy (or two) is a pretty small blip on the grand scale of human suffering. But it does create a peculiar challenge at every meal. Each pedestrian bite has the potential to shatter plans and force a hospital visit if I’m not careful. Like the TSA, it’s only the failures — the security breach of a hidden sesame seed — that demand attention and protocol review. Since birth, I’ve been allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, shellfish and sesame seeds. It still leaves a lot on the table to work with, but I’ve got a restraining order filed on crawfish boils or lobster bakes and I don’t venture east of India with Asian food. If I eat a certain allergen, antibodies strike back, mistaking sesame or peanut as trouble. A bad reaction exhibits troubled breathing and crawling hives. At this point, if I don’t inject epinephrine — not Pulp Fiction style, the shot goes into the thigh — then I enter anaphylactic shock, an allsystems shutdown potentially resulting in death. Save for a couple of hospital trips, dealing with food allergies, as an adult, it hasn’t been too much of a burden. With years of experience reading ingredients, eating at home and being diligent at restaurants, reactions are few and far between. At home in Massachusetts, it’s slightly easier to order at restaurants, due to a law requiring a “certified food protection manager,” often a chef, to come out and speak about potential allergens or cross-contamination, that invisible foe. Still, in Texas, I’ve found most restaurants to be receptive and responsive in confronting the dilemma.
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As a kid, coping with allergies was a little more difficult, more evident in daily life. In the 1990s, the population of allergic people was smaller, meaning less awareness at the restaurant table and a less important market share on grocery shelves (the CDC reported an 18 percent uptake in food allergy in children between 1997 and 2007). But the worst of it, sidesplitting in retrospect, was the social element. In the caste system of middle school lunch, the peanut-free table was the lowest rung of all, shared exclusively by me and a weird kid who liked to steal hubcaps from imported cars. When dating came around, my mom — not-coincidentally an allergy nurse by profession — promptly warned me of the dangers of kissing someone who ate an allergen. God bless her diligently informed soul. This year, the food allergy economy is a success story of capitalism, serving allergic patrons and exploiting trendy ones. With gluten-phobia at an all-time high, gluten-free is a billion-dollarindustry. So people like my little brother, severely allergic to wheat, can enjoy delicious snacks and functional bread. Two decades ago, he was eating snacks like saw dust for afternoon treats. But the increase in attention can also mean a diluted standard of gluten-free food. In restaurants and the college cafeteria, my brother has had trouble with a lax understanding of the problem — or mean looks when he insists on cross-contamination by cleaning the grill. So, for the non-allergic, the nonCeliac, the tolerant and trendy, thanks for your purchasing power. But be careful with the G-word. mstieb@sacurrent.com
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Building off the success of this year’s Hot Wells Harvest Feast, chef Robbie Nowlin will leave his post at Citrus inside Hotel Valencia (150 E. Houston St.) on June 22. According to a press release, the chef will focus on philanthropic efforts and events including a Hot Wells Summer Nights dinner series with visiting chefs and private dining events, including a Wicked Nights At Wickes with Jason Dady on June 28. Your last chance to visit Nowlin will be during this weekend’s Father’s Day brunch with dad-friendly fare from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Make your reservations at (210) 230-8412. Cocina Heritage is hosting its next Long Table Dinner at Dorcol on Thursday, June 25, at 6:30 p.m. The menu will include four courses of the catering company’s Guanajuato and Yucatán repertoire, along with cocktails by Southtown’s first distillery. Tickets ($65-$75) can be purchased through Eventbrite. It’s summertime and with it comes the nation’s nearly insatiable craving for hot dogs. The River Road area will celebrate the grand opening of Pugel’s (3502 N. St. Mary’s St., 210-467-5062) on Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. with specials on dogs, brews and a stop by the Dos Equis party bus. They’re open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 11 a.m. to midnight Thursday though Saturday. As for Zulcoralis Rodriguez, SA’s speediest cocktail sweetheart with a love for all things taxidermy, the Esquire Tavern bartender did not make the Top 8 during this year’s Speed Rack competition in New York City. She’s still a champ in our collective hearts. flavor@sacurrent.com
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Nobody needs to know your name at La Kantina, a great spot to step back in time and unwind.
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On my nightly trek home from work each night, I pass a neighborhood corner bar called La Kantina (103 Denver Blvd.) . The building demands little attention — small, dilapidated with a hand-painted logo boasting of its offerings: wine, an air conditioner, beer and darts. What more does one truly need? Perhaps it was the precursor of a date night spent at Barbaro having happy hour cocktails that fueled my curiosity, but on my way home that faithful evening, I decided to pop in to La Kantina for a little nightcap. I situated myself at the bar top as per tradition in my first visit to any establishment and began to absorb my surroundings. The bar top, a domino checkered tile reminiscent of a kitchen floor out of the 1950s, grabbed my eye so I shared a compliment with the barkeep. The walls are decked in beer memorabilia from promotions past — an apparent ode to your tio’s man cave behind your mom’s house from which he
never moved out because he lost his job at the Butter Krust factory. Directly behind the well-lit pool table in the center of the room, a life-sized scantily clad Bud Light model cardboard cutout had me thinking I had found the corner dive bar of my dreams. As if I wasn’t already thoroughly impressed by the tapestry motif and giant Pancho Villa “I WANT YOU GRINGO!” posters, I saw the arrow through my heart; in plain eyesight, cooling in the fridge, stood a tall bottle that would almost bring a grown man to tears. “I’ll have a Schlitz,” I professed to the bar keep. His disbelief in my beer selection was clearly visible in his facial expression. I hadn’t seen this glorious bottle in so many years and the mere sight of it took me on a whirlwind of nostalgia. I explained to my date that the reason we were drinking this awful beer was in tribute to my old man. My dad, a religious Schlitz drinker in his younger days, had many family Polaroids donning a table full of bottles
displaying that glorious old label. Each sip took me back to those Saturday mornings spent driving around with my dad listening to Roy Orbison on our way to Guzman’s Ice House for breakfast (which ironically had a huge Schlitz tapestry above our table). Just like that, La Kantina had fully won me over. We began to converse with the friendly barkeep, Richard Ramirez and I quickly learned from his tales that we had something in common — both Ramirez and I had graduated from McCollum High School. In fact, Mr. Ramirez was the first Mexican-American to graduate from our old stomping grounds. It was apparent that my date and I were the youngest patrons in the bar that night, but once I made my way to the jukebox to select a medley of oldies and Tejano classics, our age gap didn’t seem to matter much. These were just hardworking people (many of them still in their work uniforms) looking for a place to relax and have a
cold one, just like me. I left that night singing praises of my newfound favorite dive and within the next few days I had taken another batch of friends — La Kantina first-timers. They shared the exact same sentiment: the bar felt like we were having beers and playing pool in one of our own homes. Since most of my cohorts are fellow bartenders and service industry folks, plus the fact that in SA everyone seems to know one another, I cherished the anti-Cheers feeling — a place where no one knows my name. A place where the beer is cold and the sound of an accordion-fueled good time is only a few jukebox plays away. Although I have been a huge proponent and beneficiary of the rise of cocktail culture in San Antonio, I will forever be rooted in bars like La Kantina, because they remind me of who I am. I am a beer-guzzling, Tejano-loving, grito-throwing, jukebox-hogging, Spursdefending, full-blooded San Antonian. sacurrent.com • June 17-23, 2015 • CURRENT 39
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Unlike Westeros where winter is coming (along with a few thousand white walkers), San Antonians know summer and the perma-humidity that goes along with it are already making their presence felt. So many of us dutifully reach for a cool drink or a sweet paleta … but why not both? Enter the rumsicle. “Chef Luis [Colon] had asked for me to put together a popsicle that melts & infuses a cocktail for the [Big] Pig Jig. Something that not only can be batched & made ahead of time, but that’ll be really refreshing all on its own,” David Naylor, bar manager at Park Social, said via email. Served up in a rocks glass, the icy treat was one of the several highlights of the aforementioned pig roast (the excellent DJ was another) in late May. The prep concluded with a pour of white rum and a splash of Topo Chico for an ice-cold number that got boozier as time went on. The execution is relatively painless and easy enough to substitute other berries in lieu of blackberries. But don’t overdo it with the alcohol. At about 20 percent of the entire recipe, the 80-proof rum will still freeze. So, go ahead and enjoy your adult paleta poolside — roasted pig optional. Here’s how we’ll be keeping cool this summer:
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Digging in flea market bins and scouring the digital marketplace, Rae D. Cabello is on the prowl for the dusty soul hits of San Antonio’s West Side Sound. “In 2005, I really started buying up these records,” Cabello told the San Antonio Current. “I thought it was a cool thing. This is from San Antonio. This is badass. In the same way that screwed music is to Houston, I was down for the West Side Sound as a San Antonio thing.” With square-rim black frames on his square face, Cabello is lit with the passion of a collector grabbing a body of art from the sands of time. After swapping messages with the founders of Chicago reissue label Numero Group, Cabello became the head researcher for the label’s next San Antonio project: English Oldies, a compendium of the Royal Jesters. At Hi-Tones on Saturday (June 23 nationally), Numero will release “28 tracks of heartbreakers,” as Cabello calls them. On vinyl or CD, English Oldies follows the long and elaborate career of the San Anto hunnies, from their days in the halls of Lanier High School to the polyester funk of the Chicanismo ’70s. Apart from the soul food taste of the recordings, one of the most exciting parts of the West Side Sound is its fusion of Chicano and African-American identity. Brown kids playing black music, documented on 45s by local microlabels with brilliant, candy-colored decals. “No where in the world has a regional style of R&B music like San Antonio,” said Alex LaRotta, who penned his master’s dissertation at Texas State University on the West Side Sound. “Period. And it was so vast — there are countless recordings and independent labels which sustained this unique culture for so long.” It’s called the West Side Sound, but the movement’s roots lay on the other side of town. In the ’40s and ’50s, the East Side housed a few spots on the Chitlin Circuit, the constellation of venues in America booking African-American 44 CURRENT • June 17-23, 2015 • sacurrent.com
blues and rock ‘n’ roll artists. “Eastwood Country Club, Keyhole Club, Ebony Lounge — these were clubs that fostered this unique intercultural mixing of blacks, whites and Hispanics during the era of Jim Crow,” LaRotta said. At these racially integrated clubs, a rarity in Texas at the time, young San Anto musicians learned from the touring masters, or sat in with local legend Spot Barnett for a real-time education. “San Antonio musicians would be in the audience and learn rhythm and blues listening to Bobby Bland and all these guys that were coming through,” said Ruben Molina, author of Chicano Soul. “Doug Sahm, Randy Garibay, Joe Jama [of the Jesters], Sunny [Ozuna]’s musicians were all there learning.” For the musicians too young to hit the bars, the radio offered an education on the dial. Between the long programming of conjunto, norteño and orquesta, DJs slipped in a few hours of doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll. Sunny Ozuna, the reigning King of San Anto Soul, dubbed the hours “English oldies,” from which the Numero reissue takes its name. “The radio stations that played Spanish music had what they called ‘English oldies,’” Ozuna noted in the album’s liner notes. “The deejay would play the Spanish songs but then he would pick some English oldies to add to that so we all grew up listening to our stuff.” Soon enough, bands like Sunny and the Sunglows, Mando and the Chili Peppers and Rudy and the Reno Bops popped up in the fertile ground of the West Side. As these names suggest, many of the bands had an undisputed leader singing at the front mic, with a rotation of backing players filling the rhythm section and busting tertiary harmonies. In 1958, in the halls of Sidney Lanier High School just west of downtown, the Royal Jesters were cast in a different mold. With no single name claiming the marquee, the Jesters borrowed from the close harmonies of Mexican crooners.
From the ’50s to the ’70s, The Royal Jesters were one of San Antonio’s most requested soul outfits.
“We based our harmonies on the Mexican trios like Los Tres Diamantes, Los Tres Aces and Los Panchos, which were very similar to the group harmony sound we were listening to on the radio,” founding Jester Oscar Lawson said in the liner notes. “The Royal Jesters’ background comes from their parents’ records by Mexican trios, three-part harmonies sung in Spanish,” added Molina. “Take that and you get the foundation of the Royal Jesters. But then you bring in the harmonies from the black artists and you’re able to create this sound.” Formed by Oscar Lawson, Henry Hernandez, Louie Escalante and Mike Pedraza, the Royal Jesters tried their simple, lovebird songs at the sockhops and school dances of the day. “Between classes in school, they’d
get together and sing in the hallway,” said Cabello. “Girls would just swoon. They were heartbreakers. They were desperately in love with their girlfriends. And there were so many girls in love with those guys.” Eager to make it to the next level, the Jesters began writing their own material. “All the groups, they wrote all their own stuff so we figured that’s the way it must be,” Henry Hernandez told the Current. In 1959, the band cut a 45 on San Antonio’s Harlem Records and shipped it out to regional press. The single, 1959’s “My Angel of Love,” found a good home at KMAC in the hands of radio impresario DJ Joe “The Godfather” Anthony. Of all the tastemakers in San Antonio music history, The Godfather may have had the greatest impact on the city’s rock ‘n’ roll palate. In the late ’60s and ’70s,
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Left: The Royal Jesters rehearsing at Municipal Auditorium (left to right: Oscar Lawson, Louie Escalante, Henry Hernandez, Dimas Garza). Right: The Royal Jesters in action.
Anthony picked up on the heavy sound coming out of industrial England, helping to shape San Antonio as a metal market, a title that stands to this day. But in ’59, Anthony was on a local kick, spinning the Jesters’ single into oblivion. After the radio boost from the Godfather, the Royal Jesters signed a deal with Abe Epstein’s Cobra and Jox labels. A real estate mogul by trade, Epstein was South Texas’ most pervasive music industry player. In a true collector’s crate, you won’t have to look too long before running across a 45 for an Epstein producer or publisher credit. A 1962 Cobra single, “I Never Will Forget,” found its way out of the bin and onto English Oldies. With Epstein helping out on a backing harmony, the cut is loaded with shoo-be-doo backgrounds and an American Graffiti feel — with the band cruising to the fruteria instead of the drive-in. Like so many moguls in his stead, Esptein could make you popular, but he wouldn’t make you rich. Despite scoring a few regional hits, the sales never trickled down to the Jesters. “We never got any money for none of these other recordings,” Hernandez said in the liner notes. “Nobody ever paid anybody. So we said, ‘let’s do it on our own.’” In 1964, the same year the Jesters
created their Clown and Jester imprints, the band made a sea change in the rhythm section. Since the beginning, the Jesters hired the instrumental guns to fill out the band. Now, for the first time, the band picked up full-time instrumentalists to populate the Royal sound. With a boisterous, tight horn section and Luvine Elias, Jr. on the organ, the Jesters’ reign in San Antonio was set. “They were the local band,” said Molina. “With his bands, Sunny Ozuna spent 10 years on the road. The one that never really left San Antonio, that was really a San Antonio band, was the Royal Jesters.” The Jesters even ran a dance hall, Patio Andaluz. At the corner of Colorado and Commerce, the Jesters held a lovestruck Chicano court for three years. This middle period of the English Oldies catalog is some of the sweetest and most prominent stuff from the band. On “We Go Together,” the Jesters sing, naturally, of stuff that goes together, trying to a woo a girl into going steady. Warm chords and heart-piercing horns lay down the first date setting, under the convincing, fluttering melody. In the 1970s, Chicano musicians faced a dilemma of identity. Rise with the tide of cultural pride or fall to the dregs of popular music. Led by coastal powerhouses like Santana and the Fania
All-Stars, the wave of Latin rock and funk toured with, they started to slow down and swept up the Jesters and many of the break up because it was getting a little West Side Sound bands. hard to travel.” “The West Side Sound reflects Nearly two decades after they toyed these social changes in the song titles, with the hearts of Lanier High School, the messages, and iconography of the era,” Royal Jesters were done. said LaRotta. “The Royal Jesters’ Yo Soy Almost 40 years later, Cabello, dressed Chicano and Sunny and the Sunliners’ in the monochrome of a graphic designer Young, Gifted, and Brown are good (Rae does in-house art for RackSpace), examples of this cultural turn in San Anto is one of the DJs in town spinning the — when Mexican-American youth were West Side Sound back into the ear of the proudly self-identifying as Chicanos.” young barfly. In recent years, with upstarts On English Oldies, tunes like “AfroChulita Vinyl Club, Alamo City Soul Club, lypso” and “Spanish Grease” pop up, Faust’s 45 Friday and Tuckers’ long doubling the tempo of the laid back soul standing Soul Spot, the West Side Sound of the ’60s. Boogaloo guitar rhythms is a known entity in young San Anto. and a Latin rock backbeat dominate the “The Sound never went away,” said Jesters’ funk, with the frontline switching Cabello. “When Salute was around, over to Spanglish. Agnes was playing the Jesters and But like the constructive movement of Sunny. The West Side Horns have been Chicano pride, the Royal Jesters couldn’t doing their thing for years. Ram would avoid the problems of the 1970s. After have that on in the jukebox in Taco Land. a strong run in the early decade, the oil It never left.” embargo of 1973 slowed the Jesters’ With the Jesters reissue — the third momentum to a crawl. LP in Numero’s catalog dedicated “It was Valentine’s Day of to San Antonio — the West Side 1977,” Hernandez said in the liner Sound is back in high fidelity for all Royal Jesters notes. “That’s when we stopped to take in. English Oldies performing … At that time, At Faust, more and more people Release Party $3 gasoline was starting to go up, come up and request, ‘hey do that’s when they had shortages in 9pm Sat, June 20 you have the Royal Jesters?” said Hi-Tones gas at service stations and stuff Cabello. “Fuck yeah I do!” 621 E. Dewey like that … A lot of the groups we (210) 785-8777 mstieb@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • June 17-23, 2015 • CURRENT 45
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Three years since it launched and two since it dropped its vowels (ostensibly to avoid confusion with Gonzales, Louisiana’s more crustacean-centered bash), JMBLYA has distinguished itself from the crowded field of Texas fests by staking a claim on hiphop up-and-comers. That they’ve pulled the likes of Tyler, The Creator, A$AP Ferg, Earl Sweatshirt and Chance the Rapper to the stage of the Whitewater Amphitheater these past two years rightly suggests they’ve got an eye for spotting on-the-rise talent. True to form, this year’s bash — spread over two gigs, in Dallas and New Braunfels — features another impressive freshman rap class, the majority of whom have only been alive for one Bush era. For those of you making the trek up I-35, here’s who to mark as must-sees. Travi$ Scott The Houston-born rapper/producer holds the laudable distinction of attending and dropping out of UT Austin and UTSA. Based on the winning streak he’s been on since, that may have been the best drop-out call since Bill Gates. Or at least Scott’s mentor, Kanye West. Months after moving to LA, Scott was behind the boards with Ye, working on Cruel Summer and Yeezus. Soon after, he signed with GOOD Music, putting out a debut mixtape featuring 2 Chainz, A$AP Ferg and T.I. Two years later, he’s mixed records for Drake, cut a hit song with the Rich Gang and co-produced Rihanna’s latest, “Bitch, Better Have My Money.” The one mountain Scott has yet to scale in his quick climb has been stardom as a solo act. His official début, Rodeo, releases this week, and from its numerous delays, it’s pretty clear Scott intends to make a big statement. For his headlining set at JMBLYA, Scott will no doubt dig into his strong back-catalog of 46 CURRENT • June 17-23, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Chicago upstart Vic Mensa, a top act to watch at New Braunfels hip-hop fest JMBLYA, will show off his collabs with Kanye.
mixtape singles and best known collabs, including: The Young Thug/Rich Homie Quan collab “Mamacita” and the trapharpsichord banger “Don’t Play.” But it’ll be interesting to hear him approach the new material and to see if he’s really got it and can take it to the next level. Vic Mensa In a Chicago scene stacked with upstarts ranging from the heartless drill of Chief Keef to the acid hip-hop of Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa seems intent to pull from all sides. Like his tutor Kanye West, the rapper/singer traffics in all manner of styles: club ready EDM, street tested trapbeats, a bit of future-sound R&B. Best of all, he’s a complete cut-up, dropping odes to orange soda (including a Kenan and Kel sample), using his phone as a prop in a much hyped XXL cypher like a dweeb and letting himself get arrested, roofied and hit by a truck in the excellent video to “Down on My Luck.” All of this combined to make 2013’s INNANETAPE one of that year’s musthave mixtapes. He’s also been gifted with the coveted Kanye bump, appearing alongside Yeezy and Sia on SNL. And, if Kanye ever
drops that new record, Mensa sings on the lead-off track, “Wolves.” His latest, the Kanye-featuring “U Mad,” points towards a bigger, brasher sound, one which will hopefully come alive on the Whitewater stage. G-Eazy At 25, he’s the old man of the bunch, having worked the Bay Area scene for almost a decade. Unlike his Tumblrcentric tourmates, G-Eazy built up his following the old-fashioned way on MySpace, cementing ties with a number of Bay Area legends, such as E-40 and Lil B. Last year’s These Things Happen is by no small measure his best effort to date, nicely pulling together his penchant for self-aware lyrics, off-kilter beats and an oddly charismatic sense of flow. Flatbush Zombies The Brooklyn hip-hop trio has positioned itself as a sort of rap game Misfits, trafficking in the sort of lo-fi recordings, horror-show imagery, violence and sinister energy that I’m sure a fellow dark soul like Glenn Danzig
would appreciate. Along with its trap and EDM-obsessed tourmates, the Zombies offer a bit more of a throwback, hardedged sound to the lineup — “Beast Coast,” as they dub it. It’s hard to tell how tracks like “Death,” “Drug Parade” and “Thugnificense” will sound in the festival’s mid-afternoon sun, but no doubt the Zombies will bring plenty of heat of their own.
PARTYNEXTDOOR It may be a stretch to say that PARTYNEXTDOOR is poised to become the next The Weeknd. Then gain, the right elements are all there. He’s from Toronto; he’s established himself as a Drake protégé; he’s even got the dreads. His murky, drug-addled churn of minor-key samples and trap beats played a major role on Drake’s If Your Reading This, It’s Too Late, especially on the excellent “Preach.” His own releases — so far comprising a set of JMBLYA self-titled mixtapes — skew $55-$159 a bit more towards the party 2pm-midnight Sat, June 20 Whitewater Amphitheater sound inherent in his name, a 11860 FM 306, New Braunfels trait which should endear him (830) 964-3800 to the festival atmosphere. whitewaterrocks.com
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Since the dawn of dialup, the internet rap scene has been murky, unpredictable, insanely fun and with only a few exemptions, inconsistent. One of those rather rare exceptions is the hellishly themed Raider Klan. With historical collaborations with Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky and former home to huge acts like Chris Travis and Xavier Wulf, Miami rapper SpaceGhostPurrp leads the evolving franchise in its dominance of what it means to be an internet rap group in 2015. That means keeping up with relevant issues and styles while playing unaware of the constant movements of other lineups and staying true to original presentation. Raider Klan records are typically a mélange of synth-heavy chopped and screwed instrumentals, the usual suspects of today’s subject matter and the cutthroat rhythms of the mid ’90s, all while keeping a low-key, shadow-in-the-night presence. Recent acquisitions of female MC Amber London and fellow Houston representative Yung Simmie cement the dark, bombastic focus of the Memphis hybrid sound for the conglomerate. $15, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s, papertiger.queueapp.com. — Anthony Maltos
Wednesday, June 17
Bruk Out! A term of celebration in
dancehall culture, Bruk Out! visits the legendary reverb and airhorns of the Jamaican genre. Concrete Jungle, 10pm
Ken Slavin Like a comedian careening
through a familiar joke, Slavin has incredible control over the pacing, charm and melodic intricacies of the crooner pages of the fake book. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
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, 10:30pm
Toro Flores and Miguel Garza Guitarists
Toro Flores and Miguel Garza team up for a capable evening in six-string jazz. Urban Taco, 6pm
Yelawolf Revisiting his Alabama-fried
roots on his latest effort, 2015’s Love Story, Yelawolf is a double threat as he tackles both sing-a-long choruses and hardcore spits. With a little help with his famous friends, including drummer Travis Barker and rapper Eminem, Yelawolf is finding a pack of his own. Alamo City Music Hall, 8pm
Thursday, June 18
FEA Tour Kickoff “It’s not very pretty,
that’s why we’re called FEA,” said Jenn Alva, at FEA’s debut show at Maverick Music Festival in March of 2014. Though
the music isn’t conventionally “pretty,” it sure as hell shreds, as Girl in a Coma’s Jenn Alva and Phanie Diaz take a harder punk approach to their new project. A year and change after the debut, FEA takes over Jenn Alva’s Cock Block Thursday programming at Phantom Room for their tour kickoff. With Kristeen Youn. Phantom Room, 8pm
H20 Formed in New York in 1994, singer
Toby Morse learned first hand as a roadie with hardcore Queens outfit Sick Of It All, adopting a similar, blistering, board short attack. With Cruel Hand, Eightfifteen, Hardside. The Korova, 8pm
John Cortez Band A blues rock trio from
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Sub.Culture Electronic music collective
Sub.Culture aims to facilitate a wider degree of deep-frequency culture in the conservative sonic climate of the Alamo City. Paper Tiger, 9pm
The Creepshow Hard rockabilly Canadians
The Creepshow pen most of their tunes on the plots of famous and deep cut horror. Recommended if you like band member nicknames like “SickBoy McNab.” Jack’s Bar, 8pm
The Suite feat. DJ Gibb and Donnie Dee
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Aaron Lewis The founding member of butt rock joke-butt Staind, Aaron Lewis’ solo career in country sounds quite similar to his work in nu-metal, but with slightly less guitar distortion and white guy tribal tattoos in the rhythm section. Floore’s Country Store, 7pm
Black Violin 2 Cellos meets 2 Chainz. Tobin Center, 8pm
Cory Morrow Red Dirt rocker Cory Morrow
seems to have a permanent residency on the Billboard country chart, with seven albums appearing on the list since 2001. Gruene Hall, 7pm
Elias Haslinger and Church on Monday Originally scheduled for November 2014, several rain checks have pushed this exciting soul jazz gig to June. On his new release Church on Monday LIVE at the Gallery, Austin saxophonist Elias Haslanger leads his band through Blue Note boogaloo and straight-ahead standards, featuring Jake Langley on guitar, Daniel Durham on bass and Scott Laningham on drums. On organ, Dr. James Polk, Austin legend and former arranger for Ray Charles, brings a soulful and full-bodied punch of B3 to the set. Artpace, 8pm
Henry + The Invisibles SA’s own Henry +
the Invisibles continues to turn in soulful, ridiculously costumed one-man shows. Rebar, 10pm
Ill Niño New Jersey nu-metal sextet Ill
Niño have made a solid ding in the metal market, with the 2014 album Til Death, La Familia coming in at 143 on the Billboard chart. With Kittie, Unloco, Davey Suicide, Motograter, Thira, Lydia Can’t Breathe, The Taking, Dark C31. 210 Kapone’s, 7pm
Lucas Jack On his official debut Before I
Forget, Jack observes the sacraments of his 88-key idols, including honky-tonk descending chords and an emotional outlook both anthemic and exposed. But it’s the details that bring the album into a clear and lifelike focus. Jack sings of girls in love with the “tan and risky,” lives half-lived “in and out of conditioned air” and a stalled relationship putting in maintenance sex “once a month with our t-shirts on.” Though some of the songs on the album have seen light before, Before You Forget marks Jack’s official debut and a major life milestone. A Chicago lawyer in a past life, Jack ditched the briefcase and Lionel Hutz stiffness for a life as a musician (and husband) in SA. With the new album, Jack has found a solid footing in Texas soil from which to jumpstart his career. With Poor J. Brown. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
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“Dry County” and “Town Drunk,” Arkansas’ Mountain Sprout spins bluegrass yarns of hot, boozy, summer life. On Garrett Capps’ “San Antone,” the cagey songwriter pins down Alamo City musical culture with verve and an insider’s knowledge. “I found myself down a deep, dark road / empty pockets and a wayward soul / then I heard somethin’ on the radio / sounded like San Antone. / It had deep blues roots, and a Vox organ / a groovy shaker, and a Fender tone / it said ‘she’s about a mover’ and I was gone / gone home to San Antone.” 502 Bar, 9pm
Saturday, June 20
Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore Butch Hancock is an especially deft lyricist, easily finding the simple but powerful beauty in a train song (“Boxcars”) or elucidating the human struggle through metaphors about a small town dance hall (“West Texas Waltz”). His songs, often accompanied by fantastic rambling stories, range from challenging ruminations on the large contained within the small, to simple and surprisingly rich explorations of common themes like love, work, rural life and the struggle between good and evil. While Hancock may not exactly be a household name, those who are familiar with Texas music will most certainly be acquainted with his rock-infused alt-country band The Flatlanders. Something of a Texan supergroup, The Flatlanders also feature esteemed West Texas singer-songwriters Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Though Jimmie Dale Gilmore might not be a household name either, his face is in the DVD racks and Netflix queues of untold American homes (Gilmore played Smokey in The Big Lebowski, the bowler who John Goodman points a gun at in a league game). With Colin Gilmore, Rory Hancock. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
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Lovin’ In The Summertime The K23
Gallery and Vi//ZiNE present an art and music showcase, with works from Edwin Sandoval, Ines Estrada, Mauro Rangel, novelties for sale by Lechuzacabra, clothing by Trash Brat Vintage and tunes from Si Tu Propio Dios, Summer Moon, Ellis Redon, D.T. Buffkin and Jeskia Cueta. K23 Gallery, 5pm
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people pay attention — freestyle is the unbelievably awesome, cocaine-friendly, monotonous, 808-worshipping music of the Latin American culture centers of the ’80s. The genre’s liftoff can be traced almost directly to Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock,” whose breakdance-friendly beat, shoutraps and retro-futurist bent set the tone for the shape of freestyle to come. The annual Freestyle Explosion is a perfect and genrestar-studded revue of the artform. With Stevie B, Taylor Dayne, The Original Cover Girls, Seduction, Company B, Debbie Deb, Pretty Poison, Lisette Melendez, Lil Suzy, Nocera, J.J. Fad. Illusions Theatre at the Alamodome, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 21
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 the paper to prove it. Esquire Tavern, 3pm
Henry Brun and the International Trio For his newest release, Soul Tren
Latino, SA mainstay and Latin Grammy winner Henry Brun translates some of his favorite soul and pop classics into the language of Latin Jazz. Like his
playing style on the timbales, claves and assorted percussion, Brun has a knack for blending styles, mixing Latin jazz, funk and R&B in a style all his own. McNay Art Museum, 12:30pm
Julión Alvarez Norteño pop tastemaker Julión Alvarez travels up the road from Sinaloa with his Y Su Norteño Banda. Freeman Coliseum, 7pm
Monday, June 22
Jim Cullum Jazz Band Playing the music of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Bix Beiderbecke, cornetist Jim Cullum is a leader among a growing community of trad jazz players. Tucker’s Kozy Korner, 7pm
The Georges South Texas stalwarts The
Georges inject rockabilly with the pop stylings of the Fab Four. Monday night, they’ll provide a rockabilly soundtrack to Sam’s weekly swing night. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm
Tuesday, June 23
Prime Time Jazz Orchestra Prime Time
saxophonist John Magaldi riffs through straight ahead standards with his big breathy tone. He’s a worthy bandleader and first chair, having performed with Johnny Mathis, Boots Randolph, Tony Bennett and Marvin Gaye. Blue Star Brewing Company, 8pm
Run DMT Once upon a time, there were
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1 Nullifies 11 Basketball hoop part 14 Savory bakery appetizers 15 Hungarian wine city 17 “Tommy” star 18 The heart’s location? 19 Hard rain 20 Straddled 22 Service pieces 25 Prefix before pod or pub 26 Drake’s genre, derisively 27 Target for some vacuum attachments 28 Henner of “Taxi” 30 Figure out 31 “Deliverance” piece 36 “Save us!” 37 Words before well or often 38 Lifelong 42 Head-of-the-line boast 45 Subway in a Duke Ellington tune 46 They chase in chase scenes 48 Tony with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy 50 Attacked on foot 51 Times long gone?
52 Upgrade from black-andwhite 56 Submission tape 57 NPR show covering journalism 58 “Solaris” author Stanislaw ___ 59 “Here goes nothing”
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1 Get down without much energy? 2 Founder of the American Shakers 3 Workday start, for some 4 Phrase of reassurance, to a Brit 5 F flat, enharmonically 6 Copier option smaller than 29-Down 7 Go limp 8 Hockey legend Bobby 9 Early Coloradans 10 Booster phase on some rockets 11 Unoriginal idea 12 “Whoa, look at the time ...” 13 Photo album contents? 16 Do the news
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Would you like to stop pushing and struggling for a while? Is there a clenched attitude you would love to let go of? Do you wish you could take a break from having to give so much and try so hard and be so strong? Then do it! Now would be a good time to take a sabbatical from any situation that feels too demanding or frustrating. You wouldn’t incur the wrath of the gods or the twists of karma if you sneaked away to indulge in some recreational frivolity. For the foreseeable future, “relax” and “surrender” are your words of power.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Theologian Karl Barth speculated that when the angels get together to praise and honor God with music, they perform the compositions of Bach. But when they are playing for each other, they are more likely to choose Mozart. I guess that’s because Mozart’s stuff is loose and free and inventive compared to Bach, who’s formal and sober and systematic. Mozart is more for parties, while Bach is for serious occasions. I’m seeing the coming days as a time when you, like the angels, should be especially willing to express yourself in very different ways, depending on the audience.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Before E. Annie Proulx became a Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist, she wrote a series of how-to books, including a dairy foods cookbook and an instructional text on making your own hard cider. But the manual of hers that I especially want to call your attention to right now is Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives . It might be inspirational for you to read it. You’re in a phase when it makes perfect sense to create new paths for yourself to travel on. This will allow you to forgo at least some of the paths that others have built and that can’t actually take you where you need to go.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): I’m getting itchy to see you blow your own cover. I would love you to come all the way out of your hiding place, even if just for a while, and see what happens if you make full disclosures and brave displays. My hope is that you will close the gap between the real you and the images that people have of you. Does that sound interesting? Or have you become so fond of being a big riddle that you can’t imagine any other way to be? Maybe I can tempt you to be more self-revelatory if I add this: Taking your disguises off even briefly will enable you to discover intriguing secrets about yourself. And then once you put your disguises back on, you will seem more mysterious than ever.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): A new cycle will begin for you after your birthday. Between now and then you will be wrapping up the current cycle. I invite you to
do so with a flourish. Don’t just wait around passively for the themes of the last 11 months to fade away or go to sleep. Instead, set an intention to bring them to a climactic close. Schedule a splashy graduation or a grand finale. Plan a cathartic party or a celebratory rite of passage. Take a playful leap of faith or try that magic trick you’ve been saving for the perfect moment. Or all of the above!
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22):
happy and safe, and visualize four versions of it at the four cardinal points, hovering three feet above your circle. Then say this: “I dissolve any hex and banish any pest that has been draining my energy. I purge any wasteful emotions, unsound ideas, and trivial desires that I may have grown attached to.” To put the seal on your magic, laugh for two minutes.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19):
“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep,” said author Jean Kerr. “That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” In accordance with the current astrological omens, Virgo, you should feel free to play around with that impish idea. Just for now, appreciate and enjoy the surfaces of things. Make decisions based on first impressions and instant analyses. Give your attention and energy to what looks appealing to you, and don’t think too hard about stuff that presents a boring appearance.
By my estimation, 97 percent of the population is chronically starving for the pleasure of being listened to with deep empathy and focused intelligence. Very few of us enjoy the prolonged and undivided attention of a receptive ally on a regular basis. It’s rare to be in the presence of a person whose sole agenda is to be innocently curious about you. Your assignment, Capricorn, is to go on a quest to remedy this shortfall. Figure out how you can get the skillful listening you’re missing. (P.S. One way to prime the magic is to offer yourself up as a skillful listener to others.)
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22):
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18):
Now is a favorable time to wish upon a star. In other words, you can enhance the likelihood that your wish will come true if you choose this phase of your cycle to enlist the assistance of a higher power. It’s your duty to make sure, however, that you wish upon the right star. Pick a higher power that can truly help you with your wish, not necessarily one that has worked for other people’s wishes. Here’s another crucial detail: Be precise in formulating your wish. No foggy thinking or sloppy language allowed!
At this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, British singer Sam Smith won in four categories. His tune “Stay with Me” was named Song of the Year. In one of his acceptance speeches,
Smith expressed appreciation for the difficult muse who inspired the song. “I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year,” he said. “Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys.” I invite you to come up with a comparable expression of gratitude, Aquarius. What experience that seemed like tough luck at the time has actually turned out to be a blessing? Now would be a perfect time to acknowledge and relish and make full use of the unexpected grace.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): The Bay of Fundy is a branch of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It’s renowned for its tidal range. When high tide comes, the water may be as much as 53 feet higher than what it is at low tide. The shift back and forth happens twice a day. I’m wondering if in the coming weeks your emotional ebb and flow will have a similar variability. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience both very high highs and very deep depths. Please note that when I say “depths,” I don’t mean sadness or despair. Rather, I’m talking about a profound ability to feel your way into the heart of things.
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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): If you are fully committed to being both honest and kind, you will have more power to heal other people than you’ve had in a long time. You will have a resemblance to a magic potion or a wonder drug. Here’s a caveat, however: The therapeutic influence you have to offer might be scary to those who aren’t ready to be cured. The solutions you propose could be disruptive to anyone who is addicted to his or her problems. That’s why I advise you to be discerning about how you share yourself. P.S. The medicine you are generating is not too potent for your own use. It’s exactly what you need to transform limitation into liberation.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): Each of us has at least one pesky ghost or nagging demon that occupies a dark corner of our psyches. It may have been there for years, or we might have picked it up more recently during a phase of temporary insanity. In any case, most of us can benefit from conducting a periodic banishing ritual. Now would be prime time for you to do just that. Ready? With your imagination, draw a clockwise circle of your favorite-colored light on the floor or ground. Next, identify an image that makes you feel
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