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CONTENTS Issue 15_42 / October 21-27, 2015

11 NEWS First Words A rebuttal to “The High Life: An Ode to Cheap Beer” Newsmonger Hillary Clinton comes to town, Uber returns Vista Rift Controversy around the Vista Ridge project is heating up 45

16 CALENDAR

Our top picks for the week

22 ARTS & CULTURE Luminous Footprint What to expect from Luminaria’s latest reinvention Supernatural Progression RuPaul’s Drag Race star Ginger Minj takes the stage as Dr. Frank-N-Furter Spurs on the Brain Psychologists explain you love the Spurs

Drawn from Life We’re digging Drawn & Quarterly’s new comic collections

35 SCREENS Rotten Apple Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle skirts tradition with mediocre results

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Beasts of All Nations Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation explores the making of a murderer

45 FOOD So Long, Old Friend A goodbye letter to The Monterey Mass Appeal Burgers, sandos and more at Box Street Social

51 NIGHTLIFE Highbrow on LoBro Nectar is a new wine bar on Broadway Blending Skills Stephan Mendez flexes his creativity at The Boulevardier Group

57 MUSIC Land That Time Forgot Tape loop master William Basinski visits Luminaria The Young Thug Dictionary Understanding the Atlanta phenom’s private language Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

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I first caught wind of your article “The High Life: An Ode to Cheap Beer” (The Beer Issue, Oct. 14) on Facebook when I noticed a beer blogger up in arms over it. My first reaction was that we (the craft-brew industry) may take ourselves too seriously, and we probably need to develop a better sense of humor. But as indignation spread amongst local breweries, I finally got around to reading it.   Even I have been known to occasionally enjoy an American lager on a hot day and my love of a well-made Michelada is legendary. And after 20 years of working in the industry, I sometimes weary of the talk and discussion surrounding beer. I can really appreciate what Sigmund Freud meant when he said, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” I want to just enjoy the beer in my hand instead of waxing rhapsodic over the malts employed, the hops and their origins, or how closely it resembles a classic style. I get it. And if writer Matt Stieb had ended at that point, I would be grinning in lockstep with him.   But he didn’t stop there. He went on to vilify craft beer – something I have spent roughly half of my life building up into the still-nascent tradition it is today in San Antonio. And just a point of clarification – the law Jimmy Carter signed into law simply made it legal for people to brew up to 200 gallons of beer per year at home, and was not the legalization of craft brewing. The 50 states each enacted separate laws regulating brewing over time, and Texas first made it legal for a restaurant to brew and sell beer to the final consumer in 1993, thus allowing the first brewpubs in Texas since Prohibition.   I remember my first beer: Coors Banquet Beer – my dad’s go-to beer back in the day. I also remember my first record album – a Beatles compilation my aunt gave me for Christmas one year. Both the Beatles and Coors have stood the test of time and remain classics in the pantheons of rock music and American brew. But just imagine if I stopped with that first sip, as your music editor has. Maybe I add Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to my collection and then call it a day. Or maybe I try out the Rolling Stones and the Kinks – sticking strictly with British Invasion rock ‘n’ roll and then have done with it. It’s just a vehicle for sound waves to reach my ear, and maybe set my toe to tapping.   Never mind that there are countless genres and musical influences that led up to that moment in musical history and that there are countless yet to be formed and influenced by it. Never mind that I don’t have the language to describe it or the experience to understand where the Beatles fall in the context of music as a greater stream. I’m going to harp on this one thing and crow about it. On a platform given to me by the Current.   Now imagine that the Current is putting on a big Lollapalooza-type event that includes both local and national bands, the latest and greatest, spanning genres, tastes and preferences. And to welcome all of these artists to town, the Current prints my article about the first band I ever listened to and how it completely nullifies and devalues every act that sets foot on the stage that weekend.    That’s what you’ve done to craft beer in the Oct. 14-20 issue of the Current.   Jason Davis  Director of Brewing Ops  Freetail Brewing Co.

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Hillary Clinton showed off her Spanish last week at Sunset Station.

NEWSMONGER Uber rides again, the budget gets tweaked and Hillary plays SA Yo Hablo, Hillary? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for president, kicked off her Latino outreach campaign in San Antonio during a rally at Sunset Station on Thursday, October 15. Bolstered by endorsements from the brothers Castro, San Antonio’s political wunderkinds, Clinton touted her experience organizing in South Texas for George McGovern’s failed presidential bid in 1972. Clinton did her best to endear herself to the crowd, dropping a little Spanish and walking off stage to Selena’s “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.” Stylized prints of Clinton that featured the text “La Hillary” above a line reading “¡estoy contigo!” were placed around the venue. She also called out Texas Republicans for restrictive voter ID laws, which make it harder for some people, particularly minorities and the poor, to vote. “Latinos and Latinas … you’re our neighbors, our friends, our families. Because you are fellow Americans, you deserve an equal shot and opportunity just like everybody else,” Clinton said. Clinton might want to watch her back though. Fortune hasn’t favored the two Republican presidential wannabes who

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UBER RETURNS came to town; Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped out of the race after he stumped at the Bill Miller’s BBQ on Broadway, and curtains fell on the campaign of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina while she was here. Uber Up Like a pair of temperamental teenagers, San Antonio and Uber are back together again —- for at least nine months anyway. The two parties announced an agreement for a nine-month pilot program on Tuesday, October 13. Uber reactivated its app and re-established service in the city the same day. Uber ceased operations in San Antonio on April 1 over a disagreement with the city over background checks, but it never fully left the area. Although its drivers couldn’t pick up passengers in San Antonio proper, tiny municipalities such as Kirby and Windcrest remained open for business. Rumor has it a loophole let riders request an Uber in those cities but then call the driver for a San Antonio pickup. Uber hopes to hire at least 2,000 drivers in short order, all of which must pass a background check by the company. Drivers can also undergo a city-approved background check; those who do will receive a special mark on their profile visible to riders. Uber will pay the city $18,750 to operate in San Antonio, and an

additional dollar for every pickup from the airport. Both COSA and Uber can terminate the contract at any time. Though it’s nice to have the Uber transportation network back in San Antonio, the lingering question is what happened to Lyft? The company and agreed on a similar pilot program with the city more than two months ago, but it has yet to resume operations. Lyft officials did not respond to a request by the Current for comment. Spending the Cops’ Cash The San Antonio Police Department’s $3.7 million loss is a gain for other city agencies. That big block of cash was originally earmarked for cop bonuses but was redistributed by City Council last week after the San Antonio Police Officers Union halted contract negotiations with the city. More than two dozen line items benefited from the reallocation. The lion’s share of the money went to Project Quest, an education and workforce development program that’s faced problems with debt and mismanagement. The cash will also fund new code enforcement officers, the Mayor’s Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness and upgrades to “improve the visitor experience” at the San Antonio Missions UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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NEWS

VISTA RIFT

Opposition to SAWS’ 142-mile pipeline grows MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN

Nearly a year ago, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved a $3.4 billion deal to pump water into the city from nearly 150 miles away in Lee and Burleson counties. The vote followed nearly four hours of public comment from the deal’s opponents, who ranged from homeowners to activist groups, and from supporters who were mainly from the chamber of commerce, real estate development and construction companies. And so, the 142-mile pipeline proposed by the Vista Ridge Consortium, which is comprised of the San Antonio Water System, the Spanish-based multinational company Abengoa, and the Austin-based Blue Water water-leasing company, inched closer toward reality. According to SAWS, the pipeline not only diversifies the city’s water portfolio, which has eight existing water sources and a ninth underway, it would also provide San Antonio with a 30-year supply of water from the CarrizoWilcox Aquifer. That would meet the needs of an estimated 1.1 million new residents expected to arrive in Bexar County by 2040, SAWS says. But what will it cost to bring the Vista Ridge Pipeline to fruition? Ask any member of the Mi Agua Vida Coalition, an anti-pipeline advocacy group, and answers range from increased rates to SAWS customers that would harm lowincome families and seniors, to damaging drawdown in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, to harm to the environment caused by the type of slash-and-burn development and suburban sprawl that this pipeline enables. Margaret Peggy Day, co-chair for the Alamo Group of the Sierra Club and a member of Mi Agua Vida, said that aside from Vista Ridge Pipeline, two other major projects — by two companies, End Op and Forestar — also plan to pump tens of thousands of acre-feet of water out of the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer. “It’s aquifer mining. They are depending a huge population on a water source that will be disappearing,” Day said. “The claim is it’s for our children and grandchildren but the truth is it will leave them high and dry.” If Vista Ridge Pipeline, End Op and Forestar were all allowed to pump from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, it would equate to nearly 46 billion gallons of water each year. Vista Ridge’s share of that is more than 16 billion gallons. Day’s drawdown claim is backed up by a South Central Texas Regional Water Planning Area report and another study by hydrologist George Rice. Then there’s the impending suburban sprawl foreshadowed by support from real estate developers and construction companies last year when City Council approved the deal. “One of our second greatest issues is impact on energy use and climate impacts. This is very energy intensive at a time when we need to be cutting back on greenhouse gases,” Day said. “Yet San Antonio is taking on an expensive project that’s energy intensive that will foster

The Mi Agua Vida Coalition has a host of complaints about Vista Ridge.

exponential growth, which suburban sprawl and auto transit contributes to.” Land that would likely be developed is full of flora and fauna that is already stressed from drought, and encroaching development north of San Antonio and along the Interstate 35 corridor has already taken thousands of acres of natural areas. Meanwhile, low-income families and the elderly throughout the city will help foot the bill for the sprawl and the pipeline through rate increases. Meredith McGuire, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Trinity University and Mi Agua Vida member, said that burden would not be new. “Ratepayers are already subsidizing the new development. It’s also precisely those new developments that are causing the most demand for SAWS water,” McGuire said. “And so if those new developments were to stop irrigating their mega-lawns, we wouldn’t need that 50,000 acre-feet [per year].” The Vista Ridge Pipeline will be partially funded through the ratepayers, and the projected average rate for 2020 — the year the pipeline would start pumping — is nearly $82 compared to roughly $54 in 2015. According to Graciela Sanchez, director of the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center and Mi Agua Vida member, that’s just not fair to San Antonio’s most vulnerable populations. “I think everybody is going to be affected. This is a great outrage,” Sanchez said. “Two weeks ago, when all these folks got high water bills ... in the wealthiest district in the city, if they’re complaining, if it’s a disappointment when they complain, why isn’t it when working class, elderly and low-income complain?”

Sanchez is referring to District 9 North Side residents who complained about high water bills, prompting a special City Council session in which SAWS CEO Robert Puente explained that the utility was using blanket estimates for bills, causing errors. He also mentioned bills are typically higher on the North Side, where there are more irrigation systems. However, for people living on fixed incomes, like fast food employees, seniors or people who work in hotels in downtown San Antonio, a near $30 increase in the next five years will hurt. City Council was scheduled to vote on the rate increase next week, but a controversial water study that described Vista Ridge as “high-risk” has slowed the effort. That report was by Texas A&M professor Calvin Finch, whom A&M removed as author after the city accused him of inaccuracies, opinionated statements and outdated information. At a meeting last week, the vote was pushed back until City Council is briefed on the report, which has a new author and isn’t yet finished. Eventually, someone leaked Finch’s version of the report to the San Antonio ExpressNews after the city refused to release it. Mayor Ivy Taylor has since provided a link on her city website to the report. But to the Mi Agua Vida Coalition, that lack of transparency coupled with the urgency from SAWS last year to push the deal through — and now the rate increase proposal — is another problem with the Vista Ridge project. “What about government accountability and transparency?” Sanchez asked. “It’s all a farce.” City Council will vote on the rate increase proposal on November 19. mreagan@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 15

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Established in 1970 by National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez and under the artistic direction of Eduardo Vilaro since 2009, New York-based Ballet Hispanico premiered its production of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s edgy CARMEN.maquia to ovations in 2014. With a title that marries Bizet’s groundbreaking opera Carmen and the dynamics of tauromaquia (bullfighting), the full-length narrative employs a mélange of movement styles, an orchestral score and Picassoinspired sets and costumes to reimagine the ill-fated romance of gypsy temptress Carmen and her tortured suitor Don José. $29-$110, 7:30pm, Lila Cockrell Theatre, 200 E. Market St, (210) 226-2891, artssa. org. — Bryan Rindfuss

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As herself, Rachel Feinstein describes her habit of throwing handfuls of change at men post-coitus and impersonates her mom criticizing her dirty talk, but when she’s playing characters such as world’s oldest hip-hop critic Ice Cold Rhoda things get really crazy. Her Comedy Central special even includes a reassurance that it’s OK to feel weird during one of her jokes — the gist of which we won’t explain here for fear of directing unwanted search-engine traffic to our website, and we can say in all honesty that’s never happened to us before. $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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Tease-O-Vision 2 BURLESQUE

As San Antonio’s longest-running troupe and a perennial favorite in our annual readers’ poll, Stars and Garters sets a high standard for burlesque in the Alamo City. Billed as a “burlesque tribute to television’s greatest moments,” the second installment of the sexy septet’s Tease-O-Vision promises anything but a rerun. Emceed by local comic Larry Garza, the evening features naughty numbers (inspired by Mad Men, Law & Order, Empire and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, among other series), variety acts and special guests — including members of Comedia-A-Go-Go and “aerial-tease soloist” Teddy Bare. $17-$25, 8pm, Brick, 108 Blue Star, (210) 262-8653, starsandgartersburlesque.com. — BR

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MuertosFest

SPECIAL EVENT

La Villita presents Día de los Muertos, otherwise known as MuertosFest, a two-day celebration of culture and commemoration of our dearly departed. Featuring an altar-building contest, workshops, live music and poetry, and tons of art vendors, MuertosFest offers a little something for everyone. Family-friendly and free to the public, this festival comes a tad bit earlier than the actual Día de los Muertos, but gives us all the spirit and spectacle of that hallowed Mexican holiday. Musically, we’re looking forward to catching Girl in a Coma (pictured), Los Nahuatlatos and Suger Skulls in action. Free, 10am-11pm Sat, noon-10pm Sun, La Villita, 418 Villita St., (210) 207-8614, muertosfest.com. — JC

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San Antonio Zombie Walk SPECIAL EVENT

If predictable, half-baked and dreaded “sexy” costumes have sucked the creepy fun out of your Halloween festivities, look no further than the San Antonio Zombie Walk. Modeled after similar events that have haunted public spaces and fought for Guinness World Records since the early 2000s, this blood-soaked gathering unites undead of all walks — nurses, mariachis, clowns, toddlers, dogs, you name it — in a moaning, brain-thirsty crawl through downtown. Bring a camera: The BYOB (bring your own blood) affair typically culminates with winning photo ops on the hallowed ground of The Alamo. Free, 5pm, Tower of the Americas, 739 E. César Chávez Blvd., sanantoniozombiewalk.com. — BR

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Aki Matsuri 2015: Imagine Japan SPECIAL EVENT

In cute-crazed Japan, mascots go beyond sports to represent (and soften the images of) everything from the nuclear industry to the Self-Defense Forces. Born to promote Kumamoto’s bullet train, the rosy-cheeked bear Kumamon has raked in billions of yen by endorsing airlines, snacks and cellphone cases. Having previously “lectured” at Harvard and walked the red carpet at Cannes, Kumamon lands in SA as guest of honor at Imagine Japan — a kid-friendly event with food booths, karaoke, martialarts demos, a cosplay fashion show and live music by Austin-based video-game tribute band The Returners. $1, 11am-6pm, Japanese Team Garden, 3853 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 207-3050, jas-sa.org. — BR

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Meat Loaf MUSIC

When Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf, comes bursting out of the deep-freeze on his motorcycle singing “Hot Patootie” in 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the moment seems especially random — but the song could serve as an overture for the Loaf’s similarly unexpected career as a rock star. From the revving engine to the operatic vocals, “Patootie” is of a piece with 1977’s Bat Out of Hell. Platinum 14 times over, it serves up extra-large portions of r’n’r comfort food like “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” that fans have been wolfing down ever since. $39.50-$250, 7:30pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 2238624, tobincenter.org. — JM

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Lionel Richie

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Even with complimentary dessert and champagne, even if they agreed to play “All Night Long (All Night),” few artists could sell tickets for a grand apiece. But Lionel Richie – whose string of 100-millionplus-selling hits began in the late ‘70s (with ballads he composed to perform with Motown’s the Commodores such as “Easy” and “Three Times a Lady”), continued into the ‘80s (with the likes of the Diana Ross duet “Endless Love” and “Say You, Say Me”) and even includes a couple of country-music-chart-toppers (“Deep River Woman” performed with Alabama and “Lady,” which Richie penned and produced for Kenny Rogers) — seems not to be governed by the same rules as mere mortal musicians. In the new millennium, for example, as the UK’s Independent pointed out in 2013, Richie (who appropriately enough co-wrote 1985’s “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson) is one of the very few topics on which Iranians and Iraqis seem to agree. Plus, the venue’s website doesn’t say as much, but we assume the $1,000 ticket comes with a complimentary personalized bust sculpting courtesy of the lady in the “Hello” video. $85-$1,000, 8pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — Jeremy Martin

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”Miró: The Experience of Seeing” Born

in Barcelona in 1893, Spanish master Joan Miró drew deep inspiration from his native Catalonia but evolved considerably among the avant-garde icons of 1920s-era Paris. Exemplified by his heavily symbolic Still Life with Old Shoe (1937), elegantly abstracted series Constellations (19391941) and immersive triptych The Hope of a Condemned Man, Miró employed his own visual vocabulary to address the political landscape and illustrate the atrocities of war. Culled from the permanent collection of Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and highlighting the artist’s later years (from 1963 to 1981), the traveling exhibition “Miró: The Experience of Seeing” brings together more than 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures said to “plumb the process of making art.” $15-$20, 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.

RAW: San Antonio presents “Merge”

The local chapter of the independent arts organization RAW takes over the Aztec with a multimedia showcase highlighting works by more than 30 emerging artists. $15-$20, 7pm Thursday; Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355.

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female-fronted punk bands Las Sheilaquiles (garage rock), LLoronas (pop-punk), Double Trouble (dance-pop), and DJs Heavyflow and Flor, plus visual art and readings by contributors. $3, 9pm-2am Friday; La Botánica, 2911 N. St. Mary’s St., (619) 886-2594.

Film

Rocky Horror Fundraiser The LGBT Rackers

and Allies join forces with Alamo Drafthouse for a screening of the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (complete with props, callbacks, singing and “stimulating pre-show games”) benefiting Thrive Youth Center, San Antonio’s only LGBTQ homeless youth shelter. $10.50 in advance from rackspacepride.yapsody.com, 8pm Thursday; Alamo Drafthouse Park North, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500.

Synchronize, The Future Is Back Central

Library rewinds to 1985 for a 30th anniversary screening of Robert Zemeckis’ comic sci-fi classic Back to the Future (4pm) followed by the sequel Back to the Future II (7:15), plus crafts, trivia, snacks and photo ops with the Codeup DeLorean — BTTF cosplay highly encouraged. Free, 4-9pm Wednesday; Central Library, 600 Soledad St., (210) 207-2500.

Theater

A Midsummer Night’s Dream The UTSA

Friends of Shakespeare and the department of English welcome five members of the internationally touring theater organization Actors From the London Stage for three performances of the Bard’s 16th-century

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The Music of Queen & The Music of Led Zeppelin

It is becoming increasingly common, thankfully, for popular music to be considered alongside its ostensibly more-refined predecessor in classical music. Really, classical music was the popular music of its heyday, before musical technology and new ways of thinking about composition allowed for music to explode out into the multitude of sub-categories that we are so familiar with today. This weekend, in a best-of-both-worlds kind of scenario, The San Antonio Symphony, accompanied by a full rock band and led by arranger/ conductor Brent Havens, presents the music of Queen and Led Zeppelin in two shows that are not to be missed. As two classic rock bands with massive sounds and stage shows, it’s hard to imagine bands better suited to the classical treatment. Whether you’re a rock fan with classical curiosities or a classical music fan with a bit of a wild streak, these two shows, reimagining some of the finest and most beloved songs in recent music history, provide unique crossover opportunities. $25-$65, 8pm Fri (Queen), 8pm Sat (Led Zeppelin), The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — James Courtney comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. $10$18, 7:30pm Wednesday, 7:30pm FridaySaturday; UTSA Recital Hall, University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 N. Loop 1604 W., (210) 458-4374.

Alvin And The Chipmunks: Live On Stage Beloved chipmunk trio Alvin, Simon

and Theodore take the stage with the Chipettes in an interactive show that follows them from an old-school breakdancing competition in Chicago to a no-holds-barred food ﬁght in New York City as they perform hits by One Direction, Maroon 5, Carly Rae Jespen and Elvis Presley. $15-$45, 3:30pm & 6:30pm Thursday; The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333.

American Idiot Green Day always knew their

Grammy-winning rock opera would be more than just a record. Developed by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong with director Michael Mayer, American Idiot translates the concept album into a rock musical unlike any other. Following three disillusioned suburban youths trying to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, the show includes very little dialogue, relying instead on the band’s lyrics to tell its story. Kurt Wehner directs the Woodlawn’s production. $17-$26, 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

Bad Jews Mark McCarver directs the Vex’s

production of Joshua Harmon’s lacerating comedy Bad Jews. Summed up by The Hollywood Reporter as “a family fight of biblical proportions that brims with bile and belly laughs,” the play concerns a trio

of 20-somethings brawling in the wake of their grandfather’s death. $16-$22, 7:30pm Thursday, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday, Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Hwy., (210) 302-6835.

Evil Dead: The Musical In 2006 The New

York Times suggested, “Evil Dead: The Musical wants to be the next Rocky Horror Show, and it just may succeed.” While those are some big fishnets to fill, Evil Dead has made quite a splash since its 2003 debut in the back room of Toronto’s Tranzac Club. A campy mashup of all three films in Sam Raimi’s horror franchise, Evil Dead even acknowledges its debt to Richard O’Brien’s cult musical from 1973 with a shout-out in “Do the Necronomicon” — a devilish dance number that name-drops “The Time Warp” along with other pop oddities like Henry Winkler and Bell Biv DeVoe. $20-$40, 8pm Friday, 7:30pm Saturday; Cameo Theatre, 1123 E. Commerce St., (210) 212-5454.

Red Promising a (slightly) kid-friendlier

counterpart to such previous spectacles as Moon City and Tonight a Clown Will Travel Time, multimedia puppet troupe Miniature Curiosa’s new collab with the Magik re-envisions Little Red Riding Hood as a troubled teen navigating a forest that’s as much John Hughes as it is Brothers Grimm. $12-$15 (free for kids under 2), 9:45am & 11:30am Wednesday-Thursday, 9:45am, 11:30am & 7pm Friday, 2pm Saturday; Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St., (210) 2272751.

The Rocky Horror Show With just a jump to the left and a step to the right, John

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Waters-approved RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and self-described “glamour toad” Ginger Minj slips into Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets for the Woodlawn’s latest take on The Rocky Horror Show. No stranger to the theater, Minj recently set out on tour with her original show Crossdresser for Christ and is also fine-tuning a forthcoming album likened to a hybrid of Jennifer Holliday and Meatloaf. Artistic director Greg Hinojosa’s 2015 vision for Rocky adds ’80s-inspired touches to the absurdist classic that feeds on audience participation. $35-$50, 8pm Thursday, 11pm Friday-Saturday, Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

TeatroSAlon Showcase A program

highlighting new works that “explore, celebrate, challenge, and further define the Latino, Chicano, and Native American experience,” the Guadalupe’s TeatroSAlon unites local playwrights, performers and ensembles for presentations of the works 100% NDN (Fully Native), REMEDIOMATIC, Niños Santos, Karma’s A Bitch, Becoming, Bulto and Chato’s Bridge. $5 suggested donation, 7pm Saturday; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151.

Special Events

3rd Annual Sactacular A celebration of all

things SAC, this third annual event takes over the San Antonio College mall area with departmental showcases, Olympicstyle boxing, live music, a Michael Jackson impersonator, food booths, planetarium shows, a game zone, bungee run, gladiator joust, sumo wrestling and an outdoor screening of Marvel Studios’ 2015 superhero film Ant-Man. Free, 5-9pm Friday; San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Ave., (210) 486-0880.

BOOtanica The Botanical Garden

celebrates the season with a variety of family activities including a Scarecrow Trail, a “Big Garden, Little Me” exhibit, life-sized checkers, photo ops in giant Adirondack chairs and under-sized picnic tables, a plant sale (10am-2pm), pumpkin-carving demos (1-3 pm), fortune telling and a “Mad Science House” presented by the Texas A&M University–San Antonio Biology Club. $7-$10, 9am-5pm Saturday; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Pl., (210) 207-3250.

even an immersive overnight camping adventure. $9.99-$99.99 at darkmayhem. com, 6pm-midnight Saturday; Victoria’s Black Swan Inn, 1006 Holbrook Road, (210) 323-8424.

Día de Los Muertos Altar Workshop

Historic Casa Navarro hosts a crafting workshop to shed light on traditional Día de los Muertos altars (bring a copy of a photo of a dearly departed loved one). Free, 5-8pm Tuesday; Casa Navarro State Historic Site, 228 S. Laredo St., (210) 2264801.

Fall Festival Centro San Antonio and

the City of San Antonio co-host a free event in Travis Park with performances by Orchid Dreams Dance Co. and the Magik Theatre, a pumpkin patch, arts and crafts activities, an artisans alley from The People’s Nite Market, a marimba workshop and a screening of the computer-animated fantasy Hotel Transylvania. Free, 3-10pm, Travis Park, 301 E. Travis St., (210) 207-3677.

HalloVista 2015 Northwest Vista College

scares up a new Halloween tradition with two haunted houses, food truck fare (from Cheesy Jane’s, Big Guido’s and Maui Wowi), a lakeside screening of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters and a fireworks finale — costumes encouraged. Free, 4-9pm Saturday; Northwest Vista College, 3535 North Ellison Drive, (210) 486-4000.

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Lebanese Food Festival The S. A.

Lebanese Community of St. George Maronite Catholic Church hosts an indoor/outdoor festival with a Lebanese dance troupe, live music, beer, wine and a children’s play area. $1-$3, 6-11pm Friday, 1-11pm Saturday, noon-6pm Sunday; St. George Maronite Church Center, 6070 Babcock Road, (210) 690-9569.

SA Michelada Massacre Area restaurants and bars compete by mixing up their finest micheladas while guests enjoy samples, food truck fare, art and music. $15-$20, 4-11pm Saturday; Alamo Beer Company Brewery, 202 Lamar St., (210) 872-5589.

Dark Mayhem Halloween Adventures

Dark Mayhem sets up shop at famously haunted Victoria’s Black Swan Inn to tempt thrill-seekers with an array of chilling adventures — from sinister cinema to an intense horror-themed scavenger hunt, a thrilling game of chase in the dark with creature “attacks,” and

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LUMINOUS FOOTPRINT Luminaria lights up SAMA and Maverick Park for its eighth incarnation JAMES COURTNEY

In its first seven years, Luminaria has showcased more than 3,000 artists in multiple disciplines and brought in over one million attendees. A momentous celebration of culture, Luminaria has helped grow the reach and strengthen the community of San Antonio art and artists while also bringing diverse national and international talent to the Alamo City. Over the years, the contemporary all-arts festival — originally proposed in 2008 by then-Mayor Phil Hardberger as a local answer to Paris’ Nuit Blanche and Madrid’s Noche Blanca — has wandered from the Alamo Plaza area to La Villita, to Hemisfair Park and, most recently, to the area surrounding Central Library and the Southwest School of Art. This year, the roving multigenre arts extravaganza will take over the San Antonio Museum of Art and the surrounding areas on Jones Avenue, all the way to Maverick Park. As we gear up to experience what could very well be the best Luminaria yet, the San Antonio Current spoke with Kathy Armstrong, the newly appointed (and first ever) year-round executive director of Luminaria, about her role and the changes we can expect this year.

KATHY ARMSTRONG Tell me a bit about yourself, how you became executive director of Luminaria and what your specific roles are in that position. I moved to San Antonio about 20 years ago. And for most of the time since (18 years) I’ve been the exhibition director and curator at Southwest School of Art. I love being involved especially in the community aspect of art, and I love showcasing local artists of all types. This position as director of Luminaria is a dream come true because it allows me to expand my knowledge and understanding of all the wonderful music and art in this city. This position is very different, because I’m not a direct curator. As executive director, aside from overseeing all the setup and operations, I got to select the members of the Artistic Advisory Committee, who are six people that live and 22 CURRENT • October 21-27, 2015 • sacurrent.com

Mexican muralist Miguel Mejia (aka Neuzz) will paint a site-specific work for Luminaria

work in San Antonio and are in touch with different aspects of the art scene here. When I took the position, back in March, I quickly appointed those individuals, nailed down the dates, reached out to the San Antonio Museum of Art and met with their contemporary curator Anna Stothart. How did this SAMA partnership come about? This particular footprint at SAMA had been under consideration for a few years. We are using all of their grounds and their auditorium for this event. But, I’m also excited that we are partnering with surrounding businesses and using Maverick Park and the adjacent space. Looking forward, will you move back to downtown proper, have a roving locale or stay anchored at SAMA? The idea is to keep moving. That way we can showcase different neighborhoods, institutions and businesses around the city. Well the SAMA location is certainly a change, but what other changes can we expect with this

year’s Luminaria? One of the things that we brought back this year is the open call for artists, which opened in the spring and closed in June. Even though the members of the Artistic Advisory Committee and I have all been involved in the arts in San Antonio, the open call really gave us a reminder of the wealth of talent in our community. The open call provides a great opportunity for artists who are under the radar or who have maybe just worked in different subsets than we are familiar with. There is such a broad array of artistic activity in our city. So the open call is one of my favorite accomplishments so far, because it allows for this kind of plurality and breadth. It’s actually a combination of invitation and open call, I should note. The Artistic Committee was given the ability to invite artists, along with selecting artists from the open call. It’s really the best of both worlds. The Artistic Advisory Committee worked tirelessly reviewing the submissions, scoring them individually and then comparing. It was not an easy task, to say the least. But, I’m proud of the truly diverse program that they’ve put together. Another significant change for this year is that all works were required to be created specifically for Luminaria, unless Luminaria is also the Texas or U.S. premiere.

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In what ways is Luminaria beneficial to San Antonio? There are really two aspects to the benefits. For the artists, we give them a large audience and seed money, along with incentive to create new work. As a positive side effect, we bring together artists of diverse mediums and backgrounds in a setting that encourages cross-pollination and a sense of artistic community. For the city, people get to be exposed to artists, local and otherwise, that they might not normally have experienced. Also, people gain a deeper appreciation for the businesses and institutions within the footprint.

CHRIS SMART To get a better feel for the nuances of the Artistic Advisory Committee’s operations, we also spoke with Committee member Chis Smart, who is a Trinity University graduate and veteran San Anto musician who has fronted several bands, toured internationally and is now working with singer Chrysta Bell, performing music she co-wrote with David Lynch. Tell me a bit about how the Artistic Advisory Committee works. With so many entries and six people on the committee, how were decisions ultimately reached? We’re a pretty democratic group. Everyone rated the entries independently and compared notes later, which gets interesting when my “nine” is someone else’s “three.” If you’re really passionate about an artist, it’s up to you to convince/coerce/convert the nonbelievers. Each of us specializes in a different field, however, so there really weren’t many battles. What was the biggest challenge you faced with the committee? What about your favorite accomplishment? It’s my first time to be on the curator side of the table so I had to get up to speed pretty quickly with how things are done. This year the committee made a definite decision to push the contemporary aspect of the festival by bringing in more cutting-edge performers. I’m super excited to have internationally acclaimed minimalist composer William Basinski and avant-garde, drone guitarist Stephen O’Malley, from the band SUNN O))), making their only Texas appearances at Luminaria this year. San Antonio rarely gets to outdo Austin in the music arena. What do you think is better about the open-call approach vs. the curatorial approach that was used last year?

Korean artist Siyon Jin’s light-based project Flow

Open call tends to be the accepted format internationally for a lot of festivals so most visual artists are familiar with it. However, musicians are less acquainted with the process, and I think there were several bands who might have been a bit intimidated by it. Hopefully we can improve on that next year. In general, open call allows more people to get involved. What do you see as the value of Luminaria for

our city? San Antonio has always embraced the cultural arts but has been rather shy about the contemporary-arts side. With the city growing and new people moving here from all over, that’s finally changing. Luminaria is the perfect place to get acquainted with the more cutting-edge side of music and art that’s happening in our city, country and world. sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 23

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Walking the Footprint: A Preview of Selected Artists/Performers by Area

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Nils Westergard This nomadic Belgian-American street artist and filmmaker, who creates striking works that surrealistically plumb the shadows of our deepest unrest, will produce an onsite mural entitled I Am No One. We don’t know what this piece will look like yet, but his past work and that haunting title seem to suggest a dark piece that examines the loss of identity and/or the struggle to maintain it. Rattletree and Joel Laviolette – Stage 1, 11:10pm Moving the Ancient Forward is an interactive performance from Austinbased musician Joel Laviolette and percussion workshop Rattletree. This special performance explores the interplay between traditional Zimbabwean music and contemporary music technology. Laviolette tells us that the show will feature “intricate polyrhythms and electronic beats activated by midi-triggers in the marimba keys, dynamic video-projection mapping, bizarre costumes and vibrant sculptural set design.” Ronnie Cramer – SAMA Auditorium, 11pm Denver-based artist, musician and filmmaker Ronnie Cramer is an allarts lifer. Active for 30-plus years in various mediums, he has been especially lauded for his experimental, independent film work. For Luminaria

2015, Cramer will unveil an animated video composition entitled simply SA, which is comprised of more than 4,000 individual watercolor paintings and acts as a virtual tour of the city.

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Más Rudas Homegrown Tejana art/activist collective Más Rudas will present Walking Altars as their roving performance project for Luminaria this year. The collective, comprised of Kristin Gamez, Sarah Castillo, Mari Hernandez and Ruth Buentello, told the Current that it thrives on creating “fully-collaborative, multimedia installations that promote dialogue about our personal and social identities as Chicana/Tejana women from San Antonio.” The altars, a concept deeply rooted in Mexican-American culture, will be “worn” by the four members of the collective and will each tackle a different social issue. Convergent Media Collective: Tortillas & Technology Formed at the University of the Incarnate Word, Convergent Media Collective — which is debuting two projects at Luminaria this year — is an arts, technology and community-building coalition. Representing the collective at Luminaria this year, artist Andrew Valdez will present Tortillas & Technology, an interactive station where various images will be printed onto tortillas. Folks are

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San Antonio Symphony performs Windborne’s Music of Queen featuring Guest Conductor Brent Havens and Vocalist Brody Dolyniuk

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encouraged to bring images to upload and then watch as they are printed onto those popular and pillowy agents of yum. This shrewd and deceptively superficial conceptual project looks, albeit rather flippantly, at religious and superstitious experience, literalizing the way people thrust their own beliefs and egos onto the world around them. Virginia Grise and Rafa Esparza – 8pm Fri-9pm Sat SA-born Brooklynite, playwright and performer Virginia Grise will present, along with her collaborator artist Rafa Esparza (hailing from LA), a performance ritual based on work by local poet Joe Jiménez. Grise, who has exhibited at Luminaria before, told the Current that she wanted to explore “intimacy and public ritual in a performance event.” Working with Esparza, and in consort with Jiménez, Grise has prepared “an immersive, sensory experience” based on Jiménez’s prose-poem “The Presence and Absence of Kites.” Grise said that the entire performance will be built around the ritual of making barbacoa. So bring your Big Red and get set to enjoy the tender meat of gorgeous Chicano poetry like never before.

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The Aesthetic of Waste Representing The Aesthetic of Waste collective, which was formed at Trinity University in 2012, Seth Larson, Abigail Entsminger and Noah Voelker will present the interactive performance/ installation FaceLookLive for the first time in the U.S. Larson told the Current that “FaceLookLive is a startup analog socialmedia network created specifically for the festival environment, helping people connect efficiently and with guaranteed success.” Using algorithms similar to those used by social media networks, FaceLookLive is, at least in part, “meant to demonstrate to users of social media the ways in which the information they publish on particular websites can be repurposed.”

Woonhak Chung Korean artist Woonhak Chung is bent on heightening spiritual and everyday experience through playful and, quite literally, illuminating works of art. Often employing the figure of The Buddha, The Bolos – Stage 2, 11:20pm Chung begins from a meditative place When you hear San Antonio band and lunges forth, radiating The Bolos play, two things joy and immersive color in his are immediately evident. First Luminaria enrapturing public art pieces. of all, this Saytown foursome Free Ruminative and silly in equal 7pm-midnight Fri-Sat, is as fearsome as they come, measure, Chung’s past work wrangling wildly electric garage- Oct 23-24 San Antonio Museum hints at a Luminaria debut rock bombast into even the of Art that exemplifies the admirable most basic blues-infused tunes. (200 W. Jones Ave.) Maverick Park Buddhist predilection to laugh Secondly, they write incredible (1000 Broadway) at oneself, even while seeking songs that will leave you with (210) 721-1670 spiritual nourishment. the simultaneous impressions of luminariasa.org

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SUPERNATURAL PROGRESSION RuPaul’s Drag Race star Ginjer Minj takes the stage as Dr. Frank-N-Furter MARCO AQUINO

Fresh off her appearance on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Orlando’s Ginger Minj is starring as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this year’s production of the Woodlawn Theatre’s The Rocky Horror Show. We spoke with Minj over the phone about her time on Drag Race, a new album in the works and how she plans to spend her time in San Antonio. Do you think your experience in the theater is what helped you advance as far as you did in last season’s Drag Race? I think it has a lot to do with the training that I got in musical theater. One thing that you always have to be is professional. [You’ve] got to push ahead; the show must go on no matter what. Even in my bad days on Drag Race, I knew that I had to push through or I was going home. Just like in regular life, there are good days, there are bad days, there are days when you don’t want to get out of bed and shave your face, but you realize that you have to because that’s the gig; that’s the job. It’s what you signed up for. One of the most memorable moments from last season was a challenge where you had to re-enact a scene from a a classic John Waters film and ultimately John Waters himself selected you as the winner. What’s it like to have the approval of such a legendary figure in the entertainment world? You know, that challenge was so life-changing for me. John Waters and Divine really kind of saved my life when I was younger. Coming from a little Southern Baptist, backwards town, I knew that I was different, and I was always being made fun of and put down for not being like everyone else. And that was my window to the outside world:

their movies. Between Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, I was able to go, “Oh my god, there is so much more than what is here in Leesburg! [I’ve] just got to hold on and push through it.” So to actually get, not only recognized by John Waters, who is my idol, but to be praised by him as well, it really put my life in perspective.

What are some influences on this album? Well, I like to think that I’m a cross between Jennifer Holliday and Meatloaf; kind of a gospel-rock feel. And I wanted it to be something that everybody could relate to on some level but still kind of have that musical-theater vibe to it without being musical theater.

You released a new single, “Ooh Lala LaLa,” over the summer. What’s next? We’ve been working really hard on the new album. One thing that I was really adamant about going into it was: I don’t want to be like the other Drag Race girls. Not putting them down, because I love what they do, I love their music, but it’s all kind of schlocky, cheap and gay danceclub kind of music. That’s great, but it’s not what I do. It’s not what I would excel at ... We’ve been doing amazing songs. We have been doing a few duets with people who are important to me, who are my idols ... I just did one with Margaret Cho and it was

This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Were you a fan of the film before getting this role? Oh, Rocky Horror has been a huge part of my life — my entire life. I grew up watching the movie of course, and then when I was old enough, I started going to the “shadow casts” that they do and I thought it was really fun. Everybody could be themselves no matter what the hell they were. Then for the past seven years, I’ve been doing productions of it in Orlando. I’ve played Magenta; I’ve played Brad; and I’ve played Columbia. I think it’s a natural progression now to move into playing Frank. I know you’ve played Hedwig in the past. Did that prepare you for this role in any way? Absolutely. [Hedwig and the Angry Inch] I did for two years. I try to call myself, not an actor, but a reactor. I put myself in that moment and kind of relate to whatever I’m going through in my daily life. Especially when I did Hedwig, it was always changing, it was always a little different, and it was always very personal for me. Even though Rocky Horror is just an out-there, schlocky kind of show, I think that if you keep it grounded in reality, the absurdity is going to be even more over the top. How is your Dr. Frank-N-Furter different? I think my Frank is going to be a beast all unto itself. When I did Hedwig, I thought it was important to honor what John Cameron Mitchell had created and made so famous, but also to kind of make it my own because I’m not John Cameron Mitchell; I’m not Tim Curry; I’m not Sharon Needles. I need to adapt it and make it personal for me.

one of the funniest What are your plans while you’re in San Antonio? experiences of my life. She’s I’m going to go to the Alamo because I have to. I don’t just this amazing open soul; know — I just want to immerse myself in the town and she’s crazy. I just did one the culture and get to know everybody there a with Carnie Wilson little bit more. The best part of being on tour from Wilson with Drag Race is I’ve met people from all over Philips who has The Rocky Horror Show the world who have become great friends and become like $35-$50 people I stay in contact with. Me being this one of my best 8pm Thu, 11pm Fri-Sat small-town Southern boy, it’s great to make those friends. Woodlawn Theatre 1920 Fredericksburg connections. Road (210) 267-8388 woodlawntheatre.org Through October 31

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SPURS ON THE BRAIN Why you live and die with the silver and black MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS

The comments read more like telegrams from some hostile foreign front than a reaction to a basketball game. “Everything hurts and I’m dying.” “I’m out of words. I feel immense sadness. … The sudden drop of stress gave me an actual headache.” “Speechless.” “I don’t even know what to say.” “I just cried.” Those are selections from a post-game thread on the San Antonio Spurs subreddit, an online community for Spurs fans, after the team’s season ending playoff loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on May 2, 2015. There’s clearly some hyperbole at work here (this is the Internet, after all), and comments made in the immediate aftermath of a crushing loss are likely the rawest and lack the most perspective. But the pain that comes with such losses isn’t irrational. To an extent, our reaction might even be outside our control. Our sense of self-esteem, self-identity and community connection are greatly influenced by the success of our favorite teams, according to psychologists. And that might be truer in San Antonio than most other places. With only one team from United States' the four major sports leagues, San Antonio occupies a unique place in the professional sports landscape. Of the 122 teams in those leagues, just seven are the only squad in their respective cities. Psychologists are unsure how that impacts the psychic effects of fandom. But some suspect that it could intensify the impact. Rick Grieve, a psychology professor at the University of Western Kentucky, called it a “fascinating question.” Grieve contrasted San Antonio’s sports market with New York City’s, where nine teams from major leagues vie for the loyalty of Big Apple residents. Choosing between so many different rooting interests might divide fans’ loyalty and attention, he said. Or it could be a matter of swapping out devotion as the seasons change. “If it’s the only game in town you’re going to be 100 percent Spurs 100 percent of the time. But maybe that person in New York is 100 percent Knicks in basketball season and 100 percent Mets in the summer,” Grieve said. “Does that dilute it? I think it might. But then on the other hand ... when you’re looking at what kind of behaviors are going on, functionally is there a difference between die-hard Spurs all the time and die-hard Knicks and die-hard Yankees?”

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Success and Self-esteem What’s clear is that fandom binds people together in a way that few forces do. And while wins and losses are important for a community’s collective psyche, a sense of uniqueness and differentiation from other groups is what fan bases truly crave. “Fandom definitely plays a role in community building,” said Stephen Reysen, a psychology professor at Texas A&M University — Commerce. “You can see your fan group as positive, but ... research shows distinctiveness is more important than being successful.” That Spurs fans perceive their team as special and unique is no secret. The anecdotal evidence — in the form of blogs, radio call-in shows and social media — is ubiquitous. But polls also quantify the city’s ceaseless adoration for the silver and black. The Spurs recently topped ESPN’s Ultimate Standings, an annual holistic ranking of all 122 major sports team in the United States and Canada. The rankings rely on thousands of fans to rate their teams in various categories. Wins and losses count, but other factors bear more weight. Management’s relationship to fans, community involvement, ticket affordability and player likability all come into play. This is the second year in a row that Spurs fans have ranked their team as the best franchise in sports. They’ve topped the rankings four times total, and never finished outside the top 10 since ESPN first began the study in 2003. The Spurs have also tallied four second-

place finishes. Grieve said that the relationship between the team self-identity is a “mechanism that feeds back on itself.” Team success begets personal positivity and confidence. “It really does get tied up an awful lot in self-esteem,” Grieve said. “I identify with this team, the team does well, I feel good about myself because I picked this team, I get more attached. It becomes a big cycle.” What about when things go south though? The Spurs’ current run of dominance has few rivals in the entire scope of professional sports history, to say nothing of the NBA. But like all good things, it will eventually end. What will happen to Spurs fans’ collective self-worth when the team is trolling for lottery picks instead of vying for championships? The short-term effects won’t be pretty. Viewing life through the lens of a losing team so tightly tied to one’s identity can lead to “maladaptive attachment”: pyschspeak for anger, sadness and general angst. That’s truer for some fans than for others, depending on the intensity of one’s team loyalty and other psychological factors. But in the long-term, Grieve and others have found that attachment to a local team is generally healthy. “Long-term attachment is going to lead to more psychological health rather than less psychological health,” Grieve said. “I think it does bring people in closer together.” mmarks@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 31

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In Adrian Tomine’s latest collection of graphic short stories, Killing and Dying, broken people navigate clumsily through their lives. Whether revving wheels that seem permanently stuck in the mud or trudging away from an emotional car crash, gingerly checking themselves for injury, Tomine’s characters do eventually arrive at some form of peace or at least stasis — or some of them do, anyway. Tomine has been writing and drawing Optic Nerve since the age of 16; Killing and Dying is the latest hardbound collection of stories from the Optic Nerve series, and it continues its tradition of quiet devastation captured in minimal lines. The title story, about a teenage girl with a stutter who wants to do stand-up, catalogs every cringe, every pain, every fragile hope with staggering economy. Killing and Dying seems to have been dicated by that still small voice in the night — the one that tells you what a fuckup you are and then, in the next breath, tells you it’ll all be OK. Quirky is a word that sets my teeth on edge, and yet I can’t argue with its inevitable application to Kate Beaton’s comics. That adjective denoting a blend of oddball and endearing fits, and so Beaton wears it, though it’s annoyingly reductive. There’s quirk in the way she applies modern-day perspective to historical events, and in her loose, scribbly Killing and Dying line, but do not be deceived by it: There’s by Adrian Tomine also the deep and broad knowledge of world Drawn & Quarterly | 123 pages events only a history major would possess, and those innocuously wiggly sketches manage to depict utterly specific emotions, evoking reaction with a millimeter’s precision while looking like a dashed-off doodle. For people of a certain bent, Beaton’s “Hark! A Vagrant” has been an addiction since its inception in 2007. Her mix of obscure historical detail, literary obsessions, Canadiana and pop-culture noodlings attracts a surprisingly large following, most of whom will no doubt purchase Step Aside, Pops — who’d predict that a collection of riffs on sea captains, the Brontë sisters, Danton and Step Aside, Pops Robespierre, Nancy Drew and Ida B. Wells by Kate Beaton would catch fire? Drawn & Quarterly | 168 pages But it does. Like all the best jokes, it’s impossible to explain why a multi-page ramble through the life of a minor character in a Janet Jackson video from 1986, or a series of “continuations” from scenes depicted in antique stock art, or even just Napoleon huffily explaining that he’s not really that short, is funny — you have to see it to feel it. Sure, you can see a lot of it for free online, but for those moments when you’re away from the web, Step Aside, Pops exists to keep you entertained. There’s even a helpful index, so you can flip right to your favorite character, from Achilles to Zeus.

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ROTTEN APPLE Steve Jobs is a mediocre look into the man behind the Mac DAVE RIEDEL

Give screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle credit for making a biopic that skirts tradition. Give them demerits for the Aaron Sorkin-ness of it all, the non-Danny Boyle-ness of it all. Sorkin has written a screenplay that resembles a three-act play — he did start his career as a playwright, after all. And he has filled it with all the things Sorkin fans love. There’s the rapid-fire dialogue in which each character speaks in the same voice, sometimes even speaking the same sentences in the same scene (“I don’t know what that means” is a big one). There is the blocking that dictates the actors must almost always be on the move (in those moments Boyle channels his inner Thomas Schlamme, director of many episodes of The West Wing, but thankfully leaves out the hot spots). Most exhaustingly, Sorkin deploys the writerly contrivance of setting all the action moments before Big Events — the product launches of the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT computer in 1988, and the iMac in 1998. You know what’s perfect for ramping up the tension, kids? When the main character has a finite amount of time to resolve a bunch of personal and professional problems before he has to talk to thousands of punters about his latest gizmo! Steve Jobs focuses on Jobs (Michael Fassbender, who looks and sounds nothing like the Apple cofounder but gives a decent performance) and his shitty personal relationships with his daughter Lisa, her mother Chrisann (Katherine Waterston), his put-upon employee Joanna (Kate Winslet), Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) and Apple guru Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg). Learn Jobs’ feelings about his two adoptions, his biological father, his treatment of the Apple II team, his dismissal from Apple, his terrible parenting skills and his complete lack of empathy. Or don’t. Few of the moments in this movie happened the way they’re rolled out here — what are the odds that every intimate crisis a person has ever had will need to be ironed out in the 40 minutes before a product launch? Or before three product launches? It isn’t all bad. Rogen is a charming Wozniak, and there’s a dynamite scene in the movie’s NeXT section between Fassbender and Jeff Daniels, who plays

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former Apple CEO John Sculley. If there had been more moments like the Jobs/Sculley scenes and fewer like all the others, Steve Jobs would be much, much better. As it is, it’s pretty humdrum.

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JO B S FLIC KS Steve Jobs is a polarizing figure, even for those enrapt in his latest iGadgets and still trying to scratch the original iPod apple sticker off of their ’98 Prius. He is one of the few meta-nerds that has garnered a following not just for his contributions to the tech industry but also for his personal pension for turtlenecks, totally screwing over partner Steve Wozniak, and just being kind of a dick. Here are some other films that take on the guy who couldn’t find an app for fixing his pancreas. iSteve Written in three days and shot in five, iSteve, is the first full-length film from Will Ferrel’s Funny or Die online comedy outlet. A parody of the trials and tribulations of Jobs’ trek through the highs of “Silicon Mountain” and the lows of “Silicon Valley,” as the first biopic released after Jobs’ death from cancer in 2011, it is enjoyably sacrilegious and irreverent. The virtual reality sex scene is super hawt. -D.T. Buffkin Jobs Written while Jobs was on medical leave for Pancreatic cancer, this 2013 bio-fiction follows Steve Jobs’ life from

the Los Altos garage days through his re-hiring and the iconic Think Different commercial. The first image of the movie, the introduction of the iPod in 2001, is the last chronological moment, assuming you know the story of Apple’s mid-aught innovation and market domination. And, like that first iPod, Ashton Kutcher’s haircut and presentation feels pretty clunky. -Matt Stieb Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview I’m not sure which is more nauseating: the idea of sitting through seventy minutes of Steve Jobs prattling on about the advantages of a yet to be realized iLife — which is rapidly consuming every aspect of organic culture — or knowing that Mark Cuban helped make this Urkel-circlejerk a reality. -DTB Steve Jobs: One Last Thing This PBS profile from 2011 explores the difficult visionary through interviews with Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak, Pixar co-founder Alvy Smith and others. Jobs himself weighs in on his legacy, speaking in 2004, a year after he was first diagnosed with cancer. -MS sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 35

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Dear Monty, It seems silly to write this now, with your doors still open and sherry still flowing. Some would argue getting verklempt over the closing of a restaurant seems over the top or ridiculous and they’d be correct. But something about this particular closing warrants more introspection than other closures. In 2010, when you first opened your sliding gate, I was but an editorial assistant in the largest metropolitan newspaper in South Texas, hoping to get her big break while simultaneously going through a gnarly quarter-life crisis. Months from turning 25, I’d yet to find my tribe. Sure, I had and still thankfully have a handful of great college pals, but I yearned for a group to call my own. Like the early adopters who filled the twinkly patio, I took to The Monterey within months. Sitting outside on a patio and eating panna cotta dusted with crushed Flamin’ Hot Cheetos was a common pastime to the detriment of my wallet. But it didn’t matter because I’d found a group of people who wanted to nerd out about ingredients as much as I did. Yes, service was always cooler than thou, but the staff had a secret — we were sitting in this enchanted urban oasis with food that tasted good and was inherently different from what we were used to eating. While on the topic of coolness, the service staff has had to endure plenty during their stays. Here’s a fun one from a recent Yelp review: “The workers look a little dirty but I get it. It’s a hipster type place, what do I expect?” Lest we forget we’re sitting outside … Here’s another from 2013, “The Monterey is a tryhard hipster hut, that being said, it isnt all bad. [sic]” Yes. It was a hipster restaurant. Everything about it is ironic, but it was also feverishly different, rabidly irreverent and much-needed in a town that’s boomed culinary since

then. Why else would a gooey grilled cheese have made such a splash if it wasn’t a) delicious and b) unlike others you’d put in your mouth? Or why would they introduce us to bone marrow only to sucker us back in with a $5 burger on Tuesdays? Monty, you kept us on our toes. We’ll miss the food. I can speak for other food enthusiasts (don’t call us foodies, please) who needed to try the latest dish shared on Facebook. Anyone remember the rice bowl with perfectly drippy egg, bright kimchi and pickled daikon? That was my jam for weeks on end. Or that first sip of Jester King’s Black Metal shared over a bowl of those Brussels sprouts? Who didn’t learn to appreciate pickled everything from the staff at The Monterey (which created insane menu items — some winners, others not so much — inside a 250-square-foot kitchen)? We’ll miss the booze. Chad Carey, whatever you may think of the dude and his Yelp responses, puts together one hell of a wine list. The bubbles on the patio, the Mr. Darcy with watermelon juice and Lillet Blanc, the solid mezcal list that followed later were all part of the joint’s je ne sais quois. Let’s not get sappy (tears will make our fried chicken soggy). Let’s not overthink this. We had fun while it lasted. Carey had a blast and is moving on to other projects. Cooks who toiled on the wee line have gone on to work at Austin’s Qui, NYC’s Momofuku, San Francisco’s SPQR and Houston’s Coppa Osteria and other fine dining joints. We’ve got two weeks to eat up, wine down and say goodbye. Get in there before the sliding door closes on The Monterey one last time. Hasta luego, Monty.

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WORDS FROM FANS: The Monterey is where I went when I wanted something different, and also when I just wanted a crapload of french fries and cava. It’s where I ate fried goat balls and the best burger ever. It’s been the scene of a thousand fun memories and the start of many a buzzed night, and I’ll miss it like hell. — Lauren Madrid, food blogger

The SA eating scene has come so freaking far since November 2010, though we find ourselves defaulting to a select handful of restaurants. It’s hard for new places to crack the everyday, gotta-eat-please-make-a-decision lineup. Life is too short to be disappointed in your food, and blame El Monty for helping to raise flavor standards in this city. The shutdown sucks, but I think going bye-bye after only five years will embellish the legacy of the place. Like Camelot, it can be seen as that one, brief shining moment (most) everyone viewed as something awesome and unparalleled in its own tasty way. — Brett Thacker, neighbor and fan

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Broadway is booming by the Pearl. Still, the famously long street struggles out of downtown where seedy hotels and bus stations dot the cityscape. “We’re taking back LoBro,” says Rob Stephens, who, along with his wife Rachel, recently opened Nectar in the long-neglected Calcasieu building. Nectar is a wine bar. Yep, you read that right. But Nectar is not alone in this unlikely sounding endeavor: Rob cites French-owned Saveurs 209 and La Boulangerie, right across the street, and Schakolad Chocolate Factory, only a few steps away, as culinary cohorts. And, he says, “We’re three blocks from the Tobin and the Majestic,” a location that encourages singers from the San Antonio Opera to come in after performances (apparently still in fine voice), where they might mingle with toffs in tuxedos and kids in cutoffs — a blend that is reflected in an environment that mixes white picnic tables with antique-ish chairs upholstered in velvet. The Stephenses met in San Diego at age 19 but didn’t get married until both were 34. “She made me chase her 15 years,” says Rob. During the chase, both got multiple degrees in topics as diverse as early childhood education (“Useful in managing a bar,” says Rachel), chemical engineering and computer science. Both worked the service end of fine dining at various upscale hotels. And together they were lured to Seattle by the aerospace industry. Finding the soggy city too big a change from San Diego, the pair jumped at the chance to move back to the sun when Boeing began its San Antonio operation. Boeing and Bordeaux would seem to have little in common — except that when the day job began to slow, the old passion began to re-emerge. “We asked ourselves ‘Where do we want to live?’ and decided we didn’t want to go anywhere else.” The next question was “What are we going to do to stay here?” And in what might seem like clichéd, hey-gang-let’s-put-on-a-show fashion, the couple decided that if they felt the need for a place where they could sit at a table with a good but unfussy bottle of wine, they couldn’t be the only ones. And thus began the search for a space on an artery out of downtown. “We looked from Blue Star to Alamo Heights, but nobody would call us back,” they say. Fast forward to the Calcasieu building (designed as an office building in 1914 by famed local architect Atlee B. Ayres, converted to apartments in the ’40s and now being revitalized by new, nonprofit owners) and a deal was finally made on a space that hadn’t been used in years.

The Stephenses wanted a chill joint to sip some wine, so they started Nectar.

There was no plumbing, of course no air-conditioning, all the electrical [wiring] needed to be redone … “Everything that didn’t require a license, I did myself,” says Rob, and that includes the rustic bar tops and tall tables. To be honest, some of that shows. The fact that some of the walls simply crumbled when approached by a paint brush isn’t glossed over. The lighting may not be the most sophisticated … but when you have a glass of sauvignon blanc in hand and the late-afternoon sun slants through the generous windows at the street, all is right with the world. Especially on a Tuesday when much of the by-the-glass wine list of 18 or so selections changes and prices are discounted 20 percent. “I had been drinking primarily Bordeaux for years, so I had to retrain myself,” says Rob — to which Rachel adds, “We tasted more than 500 bottles before we opened, and rejected more than 400 of those.” The current selection lining the walls totals about 130, including chilled whites, and the shoot-for goal is 300. Prices start at around $12, and bottles may be consumed there or taken home or to a hotel room. In addition to being able to sample a rotating selection by the glass, the

couple hosts a weekly, thematic wine tasting (rieslings were a recent topic) for free — complete with hors d’oeuvres. It’s apparent from looking at the food menu, that cheese enjoys an almost equal status with wine. “I get really excited thinking about cheese,” says Rob, who admits he was initially disappointed with local wholesale selections. They finally settled on San Antonio’s Gaucho Gourmet and Antonelli’s from Austin as suppliers for both cheese and charcuterie. The offerings on one week’s cheese menu ranged from an Herve Mons French camembert to a goat’s milk cheese from Waco. In a display of neighborly solidarity, breads come from La Boulangerie, desserts from Schakolad. And in an attempt to keep Nectar and downtown in the minds of potential customers, the couple hosts a monthly First Friday wine walk to nearby bars such as Haunt. Consider it educational or just a way of owning the street. “We saw all kinds of crazy stuff when we were under construction,” says Rachel, “but now not so much.” Maybe LoBro will become just highbrow enough in time. sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 51

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LAND THAT TIME FORGOT William Basinski hits Luminaria with arresting tape-loop work MATT STIEB/@MATTHEWSTIEB

With a jaw cut from granite and a roster of unkempt, leonine haircuts, a subway-stop look at William Basinski might not give the impression that he’s in the one-name club of American art music. Most people record to tape, using the black plastic strips to document their work on other instruments. Basinski plays the tape itself, manipulating his reels to create new work from old sounds. A Basinski joint is a long and gorgeous thing, with meaning and emotional resonance coming from the repetition of his tape loops and piano tinkering. Like many budding Texan musicians, Basinski enrolled in the ’70s at the University of North Texas after graduating from high school in Richardson, an exurb north of Dallas. Intending to study jazz, he soon found out that his chops couldn’t cut it in the lab band. “There were all these amazing cats, professional musicians that had come off the road,” said Basinski. “Woody Herman and all the other big bands just wanted to hang out in Denton and play music and smoke weed and shit. And they were monsters. I was never a good auditioner. I was always really nervous. And I was so freaked out hearing what I was hearing that I totally fucked up the audition. So I didn’t get into any of the bands. But I promptly changed my major to composition.” In this new path, Basinski quickly bonded with the work of John Cage, the great liberator of classical music. Taking the art form out of its 12-tone obsessions, Cage introduced the Western canon to chance, silence and the prepared piano — its strings pockmarked with nails or screws to create a more rhythmic instrument. “That was so freeing for me, to realize there were so many things you could do that didn’t involve putting pencil on paper,” he said. “Using tape, using prepared piano, radio, anything. That was a very important first step.” In 1978, Basinski dropped out and headed west, settling in San Francisco with partner and visual artist James Elaine. In the Bay Area, and later in New York, Basinski developed the library of tape recordings that he would later manipulate into his loops of great acclaim. Ambient recordings and background Muzak filled the composer’s tape library, a vault he later called the “Land That Time Forgot.” In a New York apartment,

Basinski recorded the overpowering signal of a smooth-listening station that would pipe in uninvited music to “all the wires we had going around the loft to the speakers. It just came in.” For the remainder of the century, Basinski worked in relative obscurity, developing a name among the art crowd and a fruitful collaboration and friendship with Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. By September 2001, William Basinski’s looping work changed how artists think about tape. Basinski had found the sample for his opus, but was flat broke and without distribution. for an extended time, it evokes deep and unpredictable “There were points of emotions. despair,” he said. “Right before 9/11, on September 10, Since the release of the four-part series in 2002 and that night before, I was losing it. Calling James [Elaine] 2003, Basinski has enjoyed a tremendous reception in California and saying ‘I’m broke, I don’t know what in the art world, something of a karmic retribution for to do. I’ve got this masterpiece I don’t know what to do his years of obscurity. The Disintegration Loops have with, nobody’s ever gonna get it.’ But he talked me out tenure on the critic’s lists of the decade and have seen of it.” several comprehensive reissues. The Met and the Venice The next morning, Basinski pulled out his tapes Biennale have brought the pieces to life, transposing and and a digital transfer device, working from his loft in arranging the loops for live orchestra performances. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the reel fed through the “It’s incredible, really a dream come true,” said tape head, the decades-old strips began to crumble, Basinski. “I don’t have to do anything except get up and breaking down in the new recording. New rhythms came take a bow!” to life as the triumphant tone of the loop was battered In the past decade, Basinski has continued his into oblivion. As he finished, across the East River, astonishing work with tape, exploring the joy and “deep American Airlines Flights 11 and 175 hurled into the melancholy” of his loop library. Performing at Luminaria, North and South towers of the World Trade Center. it’ll be interesting to see how such a large audience will The most memorable story in all of process music, respond to music that relies frequently on silence. The Disintegration Loops have become a “A lot of my stuff is very drone-like,” said touchstone piece of the tragedy. Unlike more Basinski. “So when you finally have the silence William Basinski narrative approaches like Nic Cage movies Free — I’m famous for my long fades, I like to let the (World Trade Center) and Jonathan Safran 8pm ear get used to the volume level as the fade Foer novels, The Disintegration Loops serve San Antonio Museum of Art Auditorium goes down until you honestly don’t even know as a meditation, an opportunity to slow down, 200 W. Jones Ave. just when it’s finished. It’s just gone.” reflect and let the waves of decay wash over (210) 978-8100 — mstieb@sacurrent.com you. Like staring into the eyes of a loved one samuseum.org sacurrent.com • October 21-27, 2015 • CURRENT 57

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THE YOUNG THUG DICTIONARY What did he say? A guide to the Young Thug idioglossia MATT STIEB/@MATTHEWSTIEB

Since the embryonic days of the genre, lasting success in rap means locating your own idiolect, navigating through the language in a way no one else can. Atlanta phenom Young Thug bailed on this step, opting for a private, constructed language in his bars. Like Finnegan’s Wake or the Furby, The Young Thug idioglossia is an impenetrable code at first, cracked by Supposedly, this is Young Thug’s passport photo. repeat listens and self-guided tours of Atlanta on Google Maps. For now, before he morphs again, here’s a quick, with Hy!£UN35, which translates back Rosetta guide to the language of Young into English as HiTunes. Thug. Miley Cyrus noun Boolin’ verb At its core, slang is displacement Chillin’, hangin’, lampin’. Derived from from a word’s original meaning. You’re Blood culture, which generally avoids cool if you can connect meaning A to the letter “C” due to a rivalry with the meaning D by inferring B and C, or Crips. I would do bad things to see just by asking Urban Dictionary for Young Thug host the “Brought to you directions. When Young Thug refers to by the letter ‘C’” episode of Sesame MDMA as Miley Cyrus, he’s transferring Street. the cocaine/white girl dynamic over to Use in a sentence: “Catch me boolin’ Molly. Also, Miley Cyrus broadcasts her with them slimes, they my youngins.” drug use like a teenager who took three Slime noun Jell-O shots at a party one time, so that Friend, homie, confidant. Also derived connection is pretty direct. from Blood culture. Explains Thugger’s Use in a sentence: “I sell Miley Cyrus, use of “Snake Life” and Slime Season. ain’t no meeting Miley Cyrus. You Use in a sentence: “I really love my get Miley Cyrus can’t eat nothing for slime and my slime love me.” weeks.” The Blanguage noun The Ad-lib noun Young Thug enjoys taking The improvised hype-track other rappers’ songs or at the end of a bar. Think of album titles and changing it as being both Chuck D Fuhk College and them ever so slightly. See and Flavor Flav on the track. Galactic Stadium Presents Young Barter 6, adapted from A$AP Ferg, Lil B and Young Thug Lil Wayne’s The Carter Thug are the most creative $35-$80 series or “The Blanguage” ad-libbers not in jail right 9pm now. I miss you, Gucci Mane. borrowed from Drake’s “The Thurs, Oct. 22 Club Rio Use in a sentence: “Ju-juLanguage.” For his studio 13307 San Pedro Ave. jee! Woop!” debut on Atlantic, he’s taking (210) 403-2582 — mstieb@sacurrent.com flavorus.com/youngthug a step outside this routine 58 CURRENT • October 21-27, 2015 • sacurrent.com

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This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Tejano Music Awards. Held in San Antonio since its 1980 inception, the ceremony boasts an attendance of 90,000 to its assorted events and fiestas. The 11 categories presented at this year’s award ceremony include Song of the Year; Male/Female Vocalist of the Year; Entertainer of the Year; Album of the Year (Conjunto, Norteño and Tejano) and Best New Male/Female/ Group Artist. Performers for this year’s show include Shelly Lares, one-time bandleader of Selena’s widower Chris Perez and heir apparent to the dearly departed’s crown; Emilio Navaira, who may be the most popular performer to gringo viewers with his 1995 crossover country hit “It’s Not the End of the World,” and my personal favorite Da Krazy Pimpz, whose chafa-ass video for “Cumbia De Los Pimpz” makes any Insane Clown Posse video look like a multimillion-dollar Hype Williams joint. Look for hometown maestro Flaco Jiménez and bajo extraordinaire Max Baca to take home Best Conjunto Album of the Year with Legends & Legacies as well as a special tribute to the late great Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla. $28-$100, Red Carpet 5:15pm, Pre-show 6:30pm, Award Ceremony 7pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, tobincenter.org. —D.T. Buffkin

Wednesday, October 21

Elliot Smith: A Tribute to the Life & Music The bard of rainy whisper-indie,

and one of the few singer-songwriters who wrote well enough to get it across with just vocals and guitar is honored and remembered by some of SA and Austin’s folk, rock ‘n’ roll and indie royalty, including Buttercup, Hills Snyder, Marcus Rubio’s More Eaze, Slomo Drags, Michael Carrillo, Emilio Navaira IV, yes, Emilio’s son, and more. Period Modern, 6:30pm

One-Eyed Doll Austin duo One-eyed

Doll look and sound like a walking Hot Topic ad. Their comic-horror-punk style is no stranger to SA audiences. They have been playing here for almost a decade and were a staple of The White Rabbit when it was still booking bands that looked like walking Hot Topic ads. Fitzgerald’s, 6pm

Shelley King Playing her own brand of

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Ground Up Fresh off the release of

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Froth If you are familiar with Lollipop or

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bro-country craze. If you aren’t going, steer clear of the surrounding areas if you have an aversion to be-dazzled jeans or trucks with rubber testicles hanging from them. With Randy Houser, Dustin Lynch. Alamodome, 7:30pm

Motion Theatre One thing that is

absolutely necessary if you’re going to perform music that has no potential to reach the masses via mainstream, commercial outlets is sincerity. Surfing the wave of post-Y2k alternative rock, what they lack in commercial viability in 2015, they make up for in well-crafted melodies and song stuctures, even if they are best suited for the ‘tween Warped Tour crowd. 502 Bar, 9pm

Toadies Still riding on the success of the

off-kilter “Possum Kingdom” and “Tyler” from Rubberneck, my favorite album as a grade-schooler, Fort Worth’s Toadies have made a career out of being one of the most tolerable ‘90s alternative bands still on the circuit. Gruene Hall, 8pm

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Monkz, BBSC’s third installation in their TDSACT show series. Bottom Bracket Social Club, 10pm

The Generators L.A. punks The Generators appeal to the if-it’s-not-broke mentality of 90s California punk. Not breaking any new ground, their commitment and loyalty to the sound is evident in their 2014 release Live Gives-Life Takes. With The Booked. The Korova, 8pm

Friday, October 23

Baby Jesus LP Release Ever had sex with

a teenager? You have? Then this show is for you. Sweden’s Baby Jesus sound pissed and horny, like every teenager should. Leather Girls, which includes members of now-defunct San Anto band Low Times, the best garage band from Taco City in the last decade, sound like Buddy Holly on molly, which is my next band name, dibs. With Leather Girls, Teenage Cavegirl, Filthy. Nite Lite, 9pm

Chad Valley To be clear, I generally

cannot stand music that is referred to as synthpop or chillwave, but Valley’s marriage of Justin Timberlake-falsetto and ‘90s emo is undeniably catchy and vulnerable. With Stranger Cat. Limelight, 9pm

Chase Rice See Luke Bryan preview. This

is the son of a bitch that helped pen Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise,” and who unabashedly refers to himself as “brocountry.” In regards to his live show, Rice’s press release states “You’re gonna be mine and I’m gonna be yours for an

hour and a half. We’re gonna be in each other’s face. If you don’t like that, walk out the door.” Fortunately, Cowboys has numerous exits. With Cadillac Three. Cowboys Dancehall, 7pm

Cody Jinks With Sturgill Simpson, Jamey

Johnson, Chris Stapelton and producer Dave Cobb’s recent attempts to wrestle that steer of mainstream country to the ground and smother it in the dirt of sincerity, blues and heartbreak from whence it came, Cody Jinks’ chances of making it beyond the jukejoints, chitlin’ circuit and dive bars have never been better. Gruene Hall, 8pm

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Lee Bains III, The Bolos, Garrett T. Capps This is one where the openers may just steal the show from the headliner if all involved are on point. 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.” Blues-rockers The Bolos make being in a blues-rock band punk, again. Paper Tiger, 8pm

Tauk This four-piece instrumental band

seamlessly unites melodic rock, fusion, swampy funk, progressive rock, ambient, classic rock, hip hop and jazz just like marijuana unites Tauk with being listenable. (They’re really not that bad). Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm

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Gang of Four Marxist music for the

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Paper Tiger, 8pm

Gooch Palms Co-ed duo from the land

down under jam playground punk that will leave you saying “Band? That’s not a band. This is a band,” all Dundeelike. With Boytoy, Cigarette Bums, Los Chilaquiles. Hi-Tones, 9pm

Strange Talk Sing-along choruses and clicky, bleep-bloops abound in Strange Talk’s brand of Australian synthpop. Music for exercising, or commercials about exercising, come to mind. With Intergalactix. Limelight, 9pm

Sunday, October 25 Fates Warning Fates Warning is a

progressive metal band, formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase and Steve Zimmerman in Connecticut, USA. The band directly contributed to the establishment of the progressive metal genre. Their early works are considered by many as very important works defining the genre itself. The middleperiod works are considered as a progress in songwriting and musicianship as the band evolved. Recent works, since 1997, are in a heavy-progressive, more mature style. Alamo City Music Hall, 7pm

Murs Ever wish you could satisfy your lust for hip-hop without overlooking messages that degrade women, glamorize gun and drug culture, and are willfully un-empathetic? Whether you are a casual fan or a longtime student of the game, MURS (,“Making the Universe Recognize and Submit” or “Making Underground Raw Shit”) is a force you must contend with if you’re thinking of putting hip-hop in a box. With Red Pill, King Fantastic. Paper Tiger, 7pm

Peelander-Z Peelander-Z puts on the most

insane show possible. The Japanese punk band is renowned for this and have been for 15 years now. Thus, the anything-goes ideals are ratcheted up even more with this group that may have changed personnel over the years, but have never changed their flavor of crazy. This is one of those acts you need to see at least once in your life or

feel some hole in your soul until you do so. Best get on that. With Otonana Trio. The Korova, 8pm

Tricot An all-female math rock band from Kyoto, Japan, on their two EPs and two fulllength albums, Tricot commit to wax what Rolling Stone describes as “Adrenalized math rock sped up and given pop’s candy coating”. With Bright Like the Sun, Televangelist. Hi-Tones, 9pm

Monday, October 26

Clair Reilly-Roe Not the lovechild of Oscarnominated Tim & Eric muse John C. Reilly and half of the landmark abortion case, Vietnam and the Spurs’ 2012-13 season finish to the GOP. From the Jack JohnsonSheryl Crow school of songwriting. Paper Tiger, 7pm

Hands Like Houses Warped tour-alums and heartthrobs of jailbait the world over, Hands Like Houses have been playing shows and cluttering teenage girls’ bedroom walls since 2008, and all the while working with one of the worst names in the game. With I The Mighty, Lower Than Atlantis, Brigades, Too Close To Touch. The Korova, 7pm

More Eaze, Freebies Ex-pat Marcus Rubio’s More Eaze provide the jack-of-all-trades with an outlet for his more Appalachian proclivities. With Kevin Greenspon, Porridge Fist. The Ten Eleven, 8pm

Open Mic with Nina Diaz Girl in a Coma’s frontwoman and chantueseextraordinaire hosts this weekly opportunity to slang your best tunes. Limelight 9pm

Tuesday, October 27

Primetime Jazz Orchestra On the fourth Tuesday of the month the Prime Time Jazz Orchestra, led by saxophonist and world traveler John Magaldi, features jazz standards and pieces composed by members and local musicians. Blue Star Brewing Company, 8pm

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end (they don’t have enough money for lawyers or two households, one depends on the other for income/health insurance/caregiving). So which kind of idiot are you? The most common kind, I’m afraid. I’m going to take a break from questions like these— from questions like yours, HUBBY—because I’m sick of the subject and my regular readers must be, too. But for you, HUBBY, and one last time, here’s my advice for people in your situation: Do what you gotta do to stay married and stay sane. Have a convo with the wife about the accommodation you require—permission to get it elsewhere—to stay in the marriage. Reassure her that you’re prepared to spend the rest of your life with her while emphasizing that you refuse to be celibate for the rest of your life. So every now and then, for your own sanity, and for the greater good, you’re going to have sex with other women. You’ll do it discreetly, rarely, and NSAly, but you’re gonna do it. If this isn’t something your wife can accept, HUBBY, then your only other option is divorce. I’m a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We’ve had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together—we do love each other, and the economics and child-rearing favor it. After I asked for a divorce, she fucked the shit out of me for the first time in 10 years. That was the last time she fucked me. She’s “broken”—her word, not mine, and her final answer. When the subject of affairs came up in the past, she said, “I wouldn’t blame you.” I could jack off only so many times before I cracked. I went online and met a very sexual woman with a strictly NSA thing for married men, and we fucked. I plan on doing it again. I know this could go all kinds of bad ways, but divorce just isn’t realistic. We had that one conversation, but we do not have an explicit understanding. I don’t want to head into my 50s with 10-plus years of celibacy behind me and decades of celibacy ahead of me. But I want to keep my marriage. Which kind of idiot am I? Help Understanding Boundary-Breaking Yearnings If I were required to answer particular types of questions based on the percentage of the mail they constitute, I would answer two questions like yours every week, HUBBY. The majority of the mail I receive is from unhappy people in sexless marriages they either don’t want to end (they have kids, they do love each other, everything besides the sex is working) or can’t afford to 68 CURRENT • October 21-27, 2015 • sacurrent.com

These are things I (28, gay, male, single) did last night, and they show how fucked up I am. (1) I hooked up with a guy off Craigslist. It was lame, he wasn’t cute, I was bored. (2) I came home and went on Tinder (which says I’m looking for an LTR, despite that hookup). I saw a guy from the gym— but he didn’t swipe right, and I was devastated. (3) I went online and sold a pair of my used undies. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. I could use some advice. I’m sure what you say won’t be nearly as bad as what the voice inside my head is yelling at me. What Is My Life? 1. I hooked up with this dude once, and it happened so fast—and it was so sleazy—that I had to fish his driver’s license out of his wallet when he was in the shower because I couldn’t remember his name. And that sleazy hookup led to a relationship so good that I wound up marrying sleazy hookup dude. Twice. So in my experience, WIML, and the experiences of millions of other people in LTRs with people they fucked the first time they met, hooking up isn’t proof that someone isn’t looking for an LTR. So that underwhelming hookup doesn’t make you a hypocrite, okay? 2. Gym dude isn’t into you—just like you weren’t into the dude you hooked up with last night. Are you into every dude you see at your gym? No. Do you swipe right on every dude you see on Tinder? No. So last night you got rejected quickly and impersonally—Tinder-style—but you’ve dished out that kind of rejection too. Don’t be a hypocritical baby about it, okay?

3. You made an underpants perv very happy, WIML, and you made yourself a little money. Nobody was lied to or misled, no one got hurt, and the total amount of joy in the world ticked up slightly. You have nothing to be ashamed of, okay? One eventful night does not an out-of-control sleazebag make. But if you feel out of control, WIML, take things slower. Resolve to be a bit choosier about who you hook up with, remind yourself to be grown-up about rejection when it comes your way, and refrain from kink-shaming yourself the next time you make an underpants perv’s day. I’ve come into professional contact with a respected and successful artist. She is a woman in her 60s; I am a man in my 40s. I’m really attracted to women who are strong, talented, and smart. She’s all that, and funny. I’ve never been attracted to someone that much older than myself. Nobody bats an eye when a guy gets with a woman who is 20 years younger, but how do I pursue her without her thinking I have some creepy fetish? Am I a creep? I don’t think so. I’m pretty average, I have an unusual but boring job developing woodworking tools, and I don’t have any kinks or fetishes to speak of. I’ve gone out of my way to make her feel special on several occasions, but it has only caused her to remark on my great customer service—and not in a flirty way. How can I let her know that I want to move into something else besides a professional relationship without creeping her out? She Makes A Real Turn-on Set aside the age difference, and how you met, and those sexist and dehumanizing double standards. (An older man with a younger woman is an attractive guy with game, an older woman with a younger man is a fetish object with no self-respect.) Set all that aside, SMART, and what do we have left? Person A is attracted to Person B; Person A doesn’t know how Person B feels, so Person A has to hit on Person B. Even if Person A does their best to mitigate the risks of creeping out Person B—Person A is polite, respectful, and does their hitting on by “asking out” not by “lunging at”—the risk cannot be entirely eliminated. Your best bet, SMART, is to be unambiguously direct with her (“I think you’re great, and I’d love to take you out on a date”) and to invite her to be unambiguously direct with you (“If you’re not interested, just say no—I’m a grown-up and I can handle rejection”). And if she’s squicked out by the age difference or wonders if you’re a fetishist, urge her to google the term “sapiosexual.” mail@savagelove.net

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19):

According to the online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.” I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is.

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of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20):

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22):

Terence was a comic playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): In the coming weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what’s really important and what’s not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows. You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off-balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.

consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18):

Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first

line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20):

When I advise you to GET NAKED, I don’t mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you’re willing to experiment with brave acts of selfrevelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don’t actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Are you an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to long-standing dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 2. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” 3. “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”

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