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The Mix Ain’t Dead Yet Our favorite dive takes a dive, resurfaces
Honored and Remembered at La Villita The rain couldn’t stop Muertos Fest
The Halloween Music Roundup 5 must-see Halloween concerts
Reclaiming the Sonnet Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero on her influences and writing through grief
Music Calendar What to see and hear this week
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35 SCREENS Films to Fear 8 films to get your Halloween fix He Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost Radio personality Russell Rush investigates Gunter haunting
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Flavor File There’s a new concept coming to Five Points
Haunts The spooks don’t stop around SA
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NEWSMONGER Unreasonable requests, jailing families and Amazon’s delivery service Texas Pummels Planned Parenthood Leadership in the Lone Star State continued its assault on women last week by axing Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and serving abortion clinics in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston with subpoenas. Texas Health and Human Services Commission investigators delivered the subpoenas last Thursday, but as of deadline, refused to explain why. Planned Parenthood South Texas CEO Jeffrey Hons said the state sought records about employees, procedures and fetal-tissue donation, giving the organization just 24 hours to produce thousands upon thousands of documents. Despite the state’s refusal to explain itself, reading between the lines here isn’t hard. Earlier that week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he terminated Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, citing “the gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood.” Remember the heavily doctored videos Abbott is referring to? The ones that accuse Planned Parenthood of harvesting babies for profit? You know, those videos that wouldn’t even stand up
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in a court of law? Well, Planned Parenthood in Texas has never participated in the fetaltissue donation program, which despite Abbott’s “harvesting” assertions, actually fuels research in vaccine development. So maybe the anti-vaccine camp is really behind the assault on Planned Parenthood? Nope, just Texas’ extremist leaders.
For one, it’s actually trying — and is close — to getting licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services so it can legally hold children. The federal government also shipped five to seven families out of the state to circumvent that California judge’s order about adhering to the Flores Agreement, RAICES, an immigrant advocacy organization, reported.
Keeping Kids Incarcerated Despite the fact that immigration is at an all-time low in the United States — and that Americans claim to be humane and empathetic — the federal government still feels compelled to jail entire families who cross the border illegally. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has two “familydetention” jails in Texas, one in Karnes County and another in Dilley, that imprison nearly 2,000 immigrant families, according to the San Antonio ExpressNews. These are asylum seekers, many of whom rode La Bestia — a train from Central America to the border — to escape rampant and bloody gang violence. The families then cross the Rio Grande and turn themselves in to Border Patrol. However, and this shouldn’t be hard to believe, a federal judge in California ruled that ICE is violating the Flores Agreement — a 1997 settlement that set national standards for the detention, release and treatment of all children in federal custody. Basically, kids can’t be kept in a jail and must be released without unnecessary delay. ICE’s response?
Welcome to the Jungle Megacorporation Amazon announced last week that it will provide one-hour delivery in San Antonio on “tens of thousands of daily essentials through a mobile app.” This can be anything from paper towels to ice cream — or whatever. Let’s get lazy, San Antonio. We’re the 17th metropolitan market in the entire world, according to a press release, where delivery through the app, Prime Now, is available. “Amazon has four fulfillment centers in the state of Texas, employing thousands of individuals in full-time jobs, and has established four Prime Now hubs to fuel superfast delivery in the state,” according to a press release. This is code for we’re gonna hire lots and lots of cheap labor and run them into the ground at our warehouses — a constant subject of investigative journalism. So before you hop on the Prime Now bandwagon, consider that criticism before throwing money at Amazon because you want macaroni and cheese and sparkling water delivered to your doorstep. mreagan@sacurrent.com
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NEWS
THE HOLY DEATH Searching for Santa Muerte in SA MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS
Casa Guajardo is cluttered but tidy. Inside the shop, a botánica on the South Side along South Flores, veladoras are stacked from the floor to the white tile ceiling along one wall, with rows of garlic drooping between the different sections. Incense packets, each with a specific purpose, sit in old bins on the opposite side of the store. A handful of statues are scattered across Casa Guajardo where people have made offerings to the saint known as Santa Muerte. One, cloaked in a thick, billowy black slab of concrete, stands about 4 feet high. Several more are lined up behind a glass case like toy soldiers. Another is about the size of a nutcracker and sits on a throne, jeweled scythe in hand. Pennies and dimes are stacked and scattered around each of them, and rolled-up dollar bills are taped to their cloaks. Folded up notes sit at their feet, the paper not quite transparent enough to read the scrawled message inside without opening them up. “Those are all the things she likes,” Annette Guajardo, whose family owns the shop, said of the offerings. “People have just started praying to her like crazy. Some people, they’re scared of her.” The divisive religious icon, which draws from Catholicism and more mystical faith traditions but is officially condemned by the church, is associated with protection. She attracts the downtrodden and dangerously ambitious alike, and her dry and bony hand has reached up from Mexico and grasped South Texas. Millions of people pray to her, and the devotion surrounding Santa Muerte is now the fastest-growing religious movement in the Americas – San Antonio included. It’s no surprise that Santa Muerte has taken hold in San Antonio, given the city’s deep Mexican heritage and the saint’s appeal to the working class. Her followers aren’t looking for redemption or a moral code; they turn to Santa Muerte because they’re desperate. They need something, and they believe she can give it to them – for a price. Maígorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio who’s studied Santa Muerte, attributes the saint’s surge in popularity to increased desperation by people looking for answers to the problems in their lives. “Nothing works for them – no governments, no churches effectively protect them. It is a saint of last
Santa Muerte is the fastest growing religious movement in the U.S.
resort. Nothing else works, so who can be more powerful than death?” said Oleszkiewicz-Peralba. Devotion to Santa Muerte isn’t a religion in and of itself. It’s a transactional relationship – strictly business. In exchange for something – a raise at work, a new truck, a cured ailment – devotees promise to do something in return for Santa Muerte. The offering could be as simple as a candle or a piece of fruit at her feet. Others give cigarettes or money, or promise to get a tattoo of her or wear a piece of jewelry in her image. “The devotions are geared toward survival on a daily basis, not for salvation after death,” OleszkiewiczPeralba said. “She’s very jealous. If you promise something and you don’t deliver, then she will punish you.” The punishment could take various forms, but devotees take the repercussions seriously. “She has a reputation for retribution. Sometimes in Mexico you hear if you don’t fulfill your end of the bargain, she might take your entire family as an act of retribution,” said Andrew Chesnut, a professor of Latin American religion at Virginia Commonwealth University who wrote one of the first books in English on Santa Muerte. “She’s death. She can visit death upon whom she chooses.” Death Be Not Proud Santa Muerte’s rise began in Mexico in the mid-2000s. She has steadily crept past the border since then, and interaction between devotees on social media has extended her influence. Santa Muerte devotees in San Antonio cluster on the city’s South and West Sides, where a constellation of botánicas stock statues, spell books, candles and other
necessary items. She’s so popular that she’s supplanted Our Lady of Guadalupe as the female religious icon of choice in some places. In Mexico, there are public temples where devotees can come together and worship. They persist even after the Mexican army destroyed dozens of public shrines in March 2009, portrayed as an effort to quell cartel activity by demolishing signs of their chosen patroness. Devotion to Santa Muerte is an exceptionally malleable following. There is no governing institution or central code. People adapt her to their own needs, and she’s become a patroness for a cadre of diverse groups: the LGBT community, the poor, people in dangerous professions, healers, bartenders and others count her as a protector. To ask for help, a small statue, a book of prayers or spells and a YouTube tutorial is more than enough to get started. “There’s a fair amount of people on both sides of the border who are not interested in organized religion, and this is disorganized religion,” Chesnut said. But Santa Muerte also has a more malevolent reputation. She has an intense following among the drug cartels, whose members cling tightly to the belief that she’ll protect them from death or arrest. Over the past decade, Santa Muerte iconography has become inextricably linked with violence. Wearing Santa Muerte jewelry has been used as probable cause to make arrests along the border. But most of her followers distance themselves from Santa Muerte’s associations with the cartels. They say she unfairly gets a bad rap. “A lot [of devotees] will protest vociferously, saying ‘It’s not fair that the media paints us as narcos and criminals,’” Chesnut said. sacurrent.com • October 28–November 3, 2015 • CURRENT 13
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Santa Muerte items are hot sellers in San Antonio.
John, a Santa Muerte devotee from San Antonio, wouldn’t allow us to use his real name in this story because he feared how his family would respond if they knew he prayed to her. John is in his mid-20s. He dresses in red from his T-shirt to his sneakers. It’s the same color as the Santa Muerte sculpture he’s prayed to for just over a year. John says he mostly prays for protection from the police, and he’s convinced it works. But he asks for other things too: a new car, for one. He’s also asked Santa Muerte to help his sister regain full custody of her kids from Child Protective Services. If Santa Muerte delivers, John plans to repay her “with a tribute of his body.” “I’m going to devote part of my body to her with a tattoo,” he said, marking the spot on his upper thigh where he plans to get the tattoo, and gesturing all the way down to his foot. John is already heavily tattooed, with the stylized names of loved ones peeking above the collar of his T-shirt. Although John said he wasn’t involved with drugs, he disagrees with other followers who protest the cartel connection. “We’re asking for the same thing,” he said. “We both want protection.” 14 CURRENT • October 28–November 3, 2015 • sacurrent.com
The business of muerte Devotion in San Antonio is more private compared to Mexico. There are no public temples, and people tend to restrict offerings and contemplation to their own homes or at botánicas. People construct altars around the saint to conduct prayers and offerings. They range from simple miniature stages to ornate structures. At Casa Guajardo, Santa Muerte items have become one of the shop’s top sellers. Annette Guajardo said that Santa Muerte products now make up about half of the shop’s total sales. She recently sold several giant statues to another shop in town for over $600 apiece. So much money stacks up around the statues in the shop that it eventually topples to the floor. When that happens, they use it to buy roses for devotees to offer to her. Guajardo said that people come to pay their respects in a steady stream. They do so, she says, because they get results. “I respect her, but I don’t pray to her. People pray for their job, for money, for health,” Guajardo said. “That’s why she’s become so popular – they get what they ask for.” mmarks@sacurrent.com
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Billed as a “scary dollhouse Halloween party show,” Rey Lopez Entertainment’s latest combines the over-the-top talents of RuPaul’s Drag Race grads Trixie Mattel and Delta Work. Allegedly safe for “ages three and up,” season seven starlet Mattel (born Brian Firkus) favors a “life-in-plastic aesthetic” possibly best suited for Barbie’s stepmonster. Despite her role in the bitchy “Heathers” clique alongside Raja Gemini, Manila Luzon and Carmen Carrera, plus-size pin-up Work (born Gabriel Villarreal) somehow still got pegged as the “sweetheart” of season three. $10-$25, 11:30pm, Heat, 1500 N. Main Ave., text (210) 386-4537 for table reservations, heatsa.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Pub quizzes are typically pretty intense just by pitting two of nature’s oldest, bitterest rivals against each other: Brains vs. Booze. But when the topic is The Walking Dead – featuring a zombievirus outbreak, self-destructing Centers for Disease Control and characters routinely forced to kill friends and family members — we have a feeling the atmosphere will be more Dawn of the Dead than Jeopardy! Especially since participants are encouraged to play in costume. Grab your favorite brand of flesh-rot makeup and check the website for rules and regulations. (Drunk nerds are still nerds, after all.) $5, 8pm, Lion & Rose, 8211 Agora Pkwy., (210) 5473000, geekswhodrink.com. — Jeremy Martin
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Founded by Artist Foundation grant winner Julia Langenberg, Aerial Horizon is a company dedicated to bridging the gap “between the jawdropping stunts of contemporary circus and the emotive power of aerial dance.” Having recently drawn inspiration from the McNay’s Miró exhibition and collaborated with Opera San Antonio on “airborne arias and aerial bartending,” the troupe is poised to put a dramatic spin on Day of the Dead with its Cirque de los Muertos. Directed by Langenberg, the “celebration from beyond this world” showcases acts incorporating silks, lyra, rope, trapeze and cyr wheel. $20-$25, 8pm Wed-Fri, Brick, 108 Blue Star, (210) 908-7816, aerial-horizon.com. — BR
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Described as “visceral … unflinching and dark” by critic John Townsend, 2012’s Blood Cousins seems like a weird choice for a film debut for Comedia A Go-Go. But the local stand-up collective has been combining scares and laughs for years: Their gore-riffic riff L.A.R.P. was chosen by Robert Rodriguez to win Fantastic Fest’s Bloodshots 48-hour horror film competition in 2007. Featuring freelance exorcists, their new short Get the Hell Out looks to be a similarly smart mixture of blood, guts and belly laughs. Catch this and other CAGG shorts for free, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Free, 7pm, Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org. — JM
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Ah, indie rock: a fickle musical vessel for paradoxically expressing, at once, universal themes of love and alienation, and for insisting that you’re special. I’m not even sure what the term means, but I know that it applies perfectly to Athens, Georgia five-piece Reptar. (Yes, the band is named after that Rugrats character.) Two albums deep in a career that started in 2009, Reptar is wildly fun, cheekily emotive and admirably gifted at being catchy without being cheesy. The band’s most recent effort, Lurid Glow, is dynamic, twee-leaning, alt-rockish goodness from start to finish. Live, Reptar roars. $12, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersa.com. — James Courtney
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New York-based artist Erin Hinz describes her latest paintings as “joyful acts of disobedience about what it means to be a female right here, right now.” Sun-soaked, surreal and rendered in a girly palette, these works dissect and rebuild the human form in curious and disquieting ways. Evoking sensations of staring up at the sky or down into the ocean, Hinz’s playfully titled canvases (Mermaid Pinch, Sparkle Motion in Liquid Form!) suspend reconfigured bodies in dreamlike environments inhabited by flora, fauna, bubbles and clouds. According to Hinz, it’s “a place where men can only dream of going.” Free, 6-9pm, Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047, saladiazart.org. — BR
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Before he dropped the badass contemporary hip-hop parody track “No Words” earlier this month, LA rapper Hopsin was mostly known as a kind of forerunner to Tyler, the Creator’s growling, horrorcore style. Part gangster rap, part shock-value shit-show, Hopsin’s catalog, which stretches back to 2001, is hamstringed by its inconsistency and reputation as narrowly niched. However, when it comes to the best rappers to catch on Halloween night, Hopsin has to be at the top of that list. And, when he really hits his mark, Hopsin’s got lyrical chops and twisted imagination enough to best most any rapper. $25, 8pm, Alamo City Music Hall, 1305 E. Houston St., alamocitymusichall.com. — JC
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October 30, 1938. Just as families snuggled by their radios to listen to The Mercury Theater on the Air’s Halloween episode, a live news broadcast broke, alerting citizens across the nation of an in-progress alien invasion. Panic ensued, and narrator and future filmmaker Orson Welles went down in history. The Company Theatre serves up the sci-fi camp of War of the Worlds with a side of meatballs for their All Hallows’ Eve installment of the Dinnerbox Series. Actor Damian Gillen flies solo in this production, so come prepared to create end-ofthe-world sound effects. $30-$40, dinner at 6pm, show at 7:30pm, Little Italy, 824 Afterglow, (210) 646-4284, thecompanytheatre.org. — Murphi Cook
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Halloween at the McNay The Lone Star
State’s first museum of modern art welcomes ghosts and goblins of all ages for an evening of pre-Halloween festivities including an exhibition tour of “Miró: The Experience of Seeing” (5:30pm), trick-ortreating and art-making activities on the grounds (6-7pm) and an outdoor screening of Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (7pm). Free, 5:30-10pm Thursday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.
Film
The Exorcist The Bijou hosts a free screening of the director’s cut of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic starring Linda Blair as a teenage girl possessed by satanic spirits. Free, 7pm Thursday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 785-3500.
Theater
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 FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.
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
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Paul Rodriguez and the Latin Kings of Comedy
Paul Rodriguez is the current, reigning Godfather of Latino comedy. He broke into standup after a career in the U.S. Air Force (including a stop here in S.A. at Lackland AFB). After starring in the first television show about a Mexican-American family on mainstream American television (a.k.a. Pablo), he has gone on to star in numerous feature films including Beverly Hills Chihuahua, A Cinderella Story, Ali, Rat Race, Bloodwork, Chasing Papi and many others. “It was never really my goal to be a movie star or a television star,” Rodriguez told the San Antonio Current. “I did all these things to build a name for myself so people will buy a ticket to come see me. I’m a comedian and stand-up is what I love to do.” In 2002, Rodriguez was part of The Original Latin Kings of Comedy tour, which brought Latino humor to the forefront. Now, over a decade later, he’s back on tour with the next generation of Latino talent. Costarring with Rodriguez are comedians Alex Reymundo and Manny Maldonado. “I wanted to put together something with this tour that was new and funny but still kind of like what we did before,” he said. “This time around there’s this new batch of young, up-and-coming comics that I found. My role right now at my age is to do what my good friend Rodney Dangerfield did and that’s to introduce the next who’s who of stand-ups.” $29.50-$49.50, 8pm, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — Eric Moreno
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, 2pm Sunday; Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St., (210) 227-2751.
The Rocky Horror Show With just a jump to
the left and a step to the right, John Watersapproved 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.
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Offering a reflective counterpoint to the ghosts, goblins and zombies that haunt Halloween, the pre-Columbian tradition of Día de los Muertos pokes fun at death with folkloric fanfare while celebrating the dearly departed with altars both reverent and whimsical. An increasingly popular observance in the Alamo City, Día de los Muertos takes shape this year in everything from readings and exhibits to concerts and fireworks. Moonlighting as Carnaval de los Muertos, the drummers and dancers of URBAN-15’s Carnaval de San Anto rise to the occasion by parading through Hemisfair Park dressed as skeletal characters reminiscent of La Catrina and others made famous by iconic Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada (free, 7:30pm Sun, Instituto Cultural de México, 600 Hemisfair Plaza). Music and poetry combine in the heart of the West Side courtesy of the Esperanza’s kid-friendly affair featuring performances by Los Olvidados, Las Tesoros de San Antonio and Azul, and readings of literary ofrendas and calavera poems to be enjoyed with tamales, pan de muerto and hot chocolate (free, 3-9pm Sun, 16 S. Colorado St.). Touted as the “biggest and oldest Día de los Muertos celebration in San Antonio,” Centro Cultural Aztlán’s “Altares y Ofrendas” exhibit rounds up dozens of local artists for an eclectic installation of altars (adorned with marigolds, incense, keepsakes and food favored by lost loved ones), an “Avenida de los Artesanos” stocked with handcrafted wares, and a performance by Carnaval de los Muertos ($3 suggested donation, 6-9pm Mon, 1800 Fredericksburg Road). Encouraging attendees to “pray for the dead” and “fight like hell for the living,” Texas smoke shop Planet K rings in the holiday with a parade around Woodlawn Lake before lighting up the sky with fireworks (free, parade at 6pm, fireworks at 8:30pm Mon, 1103 Cincinnati Ave.). — Bryan Rindfuss
The Raven as well as original poems, stories, parodies and modernized versions of horror classics. Free, 2-4pm Saturday; Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road (inside the gates of Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments), (210) 383-9723.
Creepy Friends Los Angeles-born UTSA grad
Ronnie Stich visit The Twig to sign copies of Creepy Friends, a YA novel following an unlikely pair of middle-schoolers who team up for a paranormal investigation. Free, 11am-1pm Saturday; The Twig Book Shop, 306 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 106, (210) 826-6411.
Las Animas de los Muertos (The Souls of the Dead) Drawing inspiration from
the Latin American tradition of el Día de los Muertos, this bilingual performance by San Antonio Storytellers Association member Carolina Quiroga-Stultz honors the dearly departed by bringing their stories to life. Free, 10am, noon & 6pm Friday; UNAM-USA San Antonio, 600 Hemisfair Park, (210) 222-8626.
Comedy
Gary Conrad Likened to an “erotic springbreak burlesque-style show,” comedyhypnotist Gary Conrad’s R-rated offering promises to titillate participants and spectators with unusual scenarios based on the hit TV show Pants-Off, Dance-Off,
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Broadway’s The Vagina Monologues, a visit with Dr. Ruth and a Tupperware party for adult toys. $16, 10:15pm Friday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805.
Special Events
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 undersized picnic tables, a plant sale, pumpkincarving demos, fortune telling and a “Mad Science House” presented by the Texas A&M University–San Antonio Biology Club. $7-$10, 9am-3pm Sunday; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Pl., (210) 207-3250.
lakeside screening of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters and a fireworks finale — costumes encouraged. Free, 4-9pm Thursday; Northwest Vista College, 3535 N. Ellison Dr., (210) 208-8099.
Monster Mash Pumpkin Smash UTSA’s
Psycho Asylum Haunted House From
monsters to mentally unstable patients, the Psycho Asylum brings all your greatest fears to life in 20,000 square feet of space. $28-$35, 7-11pm Wednesday-Thursday, 7pm-midnight Friday-Saturday, Psycho Asylum Haunted House, 1201 E. Houston St.
Engineering Student Council hosts this STEMthemed festival with pumpkin-launching Temple of Temptation: A Halloween Dance catapults, engaging hands-on science Party The Aztec hosts a decadent Halloween activities for kids, a costume contest and party with Top 40, hip-hop and Latin beats other family-friendly activities. Free, 2-4pm spun by DJ Tone, hourly ticket giveaways for Saturday; UTSA Main Campus (Valero Way the best costumes and appearances by TV Parking Lot), One UTSA Circle, (210) 458-4490.
personality Marco Cruz and the Cruz models. $15-$30, 9pm-2am; Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355.
Voices from the Grave: A Historic Halloween Cemetery Tour Costumed
docents from Sisters Grimm Ghost Tours bring the city’s past to life while escorting guests through the final resting place of many of San Antonio’s eternal “residents.” $10-$15 (reservations required at sistersgrimmghosttour.com), 11:30am & 11:45am Saturday; City Cemetery, 517 Paso Hondo St., (210) 638-1338.
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Cosmic Costume Mission Scobee Education
Center invites costumed explorers ages 21 and up for an extraterrestrial evening featuring a simulated space mission aboard a haunted module followed by a Black Holes planetarium show. $40, 7-10pm Friday; Scobee Planetarium, 1300 San Pedro Ave., (210) 486-0100.
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Día de los Muertos altars survive the rain, shine bright on Sunday MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN
On a cloudy day last Friday when the sun periodically peeked out from the sky, artists were busy at La Villita preparing altars for Muertos Fest’s contest. Completed altars were tightly wrapped in plastic and held together with strategically placed strips of tape. It was a race to beat the rain, which would shut the festival down on Saturday. However, by Sunday afternoon the clouds parted, the temperatures dropped and it finally felt like fall was in the air as San Antonio’s first Día de los Muertos celebration captured the city in La Villita. This year’s winners include Diana Arguelles, who took first place in the cash competition for her altar honoring her late great-grandmother Candelaria Zuñiga. Griselda Flores took the second place spot with a seven-leveled altar honoring actor and comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, aka Chespirito, who died in November 2014. In the student category, the Anne Frank Inspire Academy took top honor for an altar remembering grandparents. Lastly, Stevens High School Art Club won the popular vote in the public online competition by featuring “The Queen of Tejano Music,” Selena. However, there was no shortage of beautiful altars this year and it’s wonderful that the event wasn’t completely rained out so people could enjoy the hard work and thought all the participants put into their altars. What follows is a selection of photographs of altars taken Friday afternoon before the weekend rain rolled through the Alamo City.
HONORING SELENA
By: Stevens High School Art Club Featuring a wooden dance floor with white roses formed from sheet music, framing a glittering Selena, the Stevens High School Art Club created an interactive altar serenaded by “The Queen of Tejano Music.” The piece encourages onlookers to bust a move while celebrating Selena’s life, memory and the joy she brought into the lives of millions. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 ►
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HONORING MAESTRO VATICANO SOTO BRIGHAM
By: Liz Soto Brigham After returning from a pilgrimage to Vatican City, Liz Soto Brigham received a Christmas present that changed her world perspective. Maestro, a holiday gift from years past died in March. “The little guy taught me that everything can be redone, repurchased or replaced,” she said, after placing jasmine at the base of several bamboo columns — a plant in her backyard that Maestro enjoyed playing in. The altar incorporates all the elements of Maestro’s recipe for life and has gifts of thanks to all those who knew Maestro. With an array of twinkling lights representing angels in heaven flickering, Brigham said, “Now he’s our guardian angel.”
HONORING THE 200 DEFENDERS OF THE ALAMO
By: Monica Ramos This one is a shout out to the world. Prominently featuring a skeleton Davy Crocket next to a cannon, Monica Ramos’ altar was impacted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization granted World Heritage status to the Alamo and four other San Antonio missions, the first in Texas and 23rd in the U.S. Ramos — last year’s winner — said in her entry summary that it was only fitting to celebrate Día de los Muertos with an altar dedicated to the defenders of the Alamo.
HONORING THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF THE ALAMO
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RECLAIMING THE SONNET Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero mourns, heals with latest book JAMES COURTNEY
Laurie Ann Guerrero’s latest honors her late grandfather.
Laurie Ann Guerrero, current San Antonio Poet Laureate and 2016 Poet Laureate of Texas, is a badass of poetic proportions: a poetess, a mother of three, a teacher, a community advocate for literacy and a feminist. She married right out of high school, had kiddos, struggled to balance life and learning, and, all the while, her determination to pursue her writing only grew. Now, still only 37, she’s got a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and has published three excruciatingly exquisite books of poetry. She’s recently been named literary arts director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. She’s one hell of a nieta too, but we’ll get to that. Guerrero, a name which quite aptly translates to “warrior” in English, is San Anto born and raised. It was in Harlandale schools and in her South Side home that the fire to create and record her personal history was kindled. A graduate of McCollum High School, where she was recognized as a singular talent by a devoted English teacher, Guerrero finished school with hard-won and formative experiences at Duke and Lewis and Clark University writing workshops under her belt. Already a published poet, Guerrero also had some strong influences in Sylvia Plath and, for her cultural relatability and her empowering voice, Sandra Cisneros. In a recent sit down with the San Antonio Current, at Joey’s on St. Mary’s of all places, Guerrero commented on Plath’s influence:
“With Sylvia Plath it was the voice as much as wheeled out under the red and early sky. Until you find me, I build a house: carve anything. I was like, “What kind of a woman gets to talk boulders with your chisel, sweep fire and air like that? Because if I talked like that or my mom talked aside with sage, dig tunnels with my hands.” like that, it wouldn’t … you just don’t talk like that. But, I – from A Crown for Gumecindo, “13. The Work: wanted to be able to have that kind of voice.” Blueprints for the Body” Of Cisneros, Guerrero said, “She showed me In form, the collection is a heroic crown of sonnets: an that stories like mine and families like mine belong in intricate, meticulous set of 15 interwoven sonnets, where literature.” And she’s hoping that her own work, and the the final sonnet is comprised entirely of the first lines of profile afforded by her laureate appointments, can have the previous 14. It’s an old form, the sonnet, and one that the same effect on young Tejanas today. Guerrero previously felt repelled and marginalized by, due Her latest effort, A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre to its Anglocentric and male-centric connotations. Press), from which she will be reading this Sunday as But, in an act of reclaiming, of re-colonizing, Guerrero part of the Guadalupe’s Día de los Muertos celebration, came to see the sonnet as a vessel, as a place to build. is about an even bigger influence for Guerrero — her She knew that she had to keep moving, or risk being abuelo Gumecindo Martínez Guerrero, a man she overcome by her sadness. If the sonnet is like a room, describes as “the first and greatest poet [she] ever met.” Guerrero knew that she should be the one to take her A carpenter and all-around handyman by trade, history, to take her Gumecindo into that room. Thus, Gumecindo worked his poetry with his hands and she settled in and channeled her pain and genius, in through the stories he took the time to share with his equal measure, into this heartbreaking and gorgeous granddaughter. He called Guerrero his “right-hand man” deconstruction of grief. as opposed to mija and was always quick to encourage She explained: “I couldn’t function for shit … I mean her curiosity and her writing. As such, A Crown he was my rock. I was paralyzed, thinking for Gumecindo, begun a few months after his ‘What am I going to do?’ And then I thought, Laurie Ann death in 2013, can be seen as a lament and a ‘What would he do?’ You go to work. We are Guerrero celebration at once. The following excerpted a working family. When I lost him, I had to $10 lines, serve to show both the raw, innocent hurt gather all of my resources and use what was 3-5pm Sun, Nov. 1 Guadalupe Theater and the mystical metaphors of overcoming that accessible to get the work done, just like he 1301 Guadalupe St. are hallmarks of the collection. always did. So what are my resources? My (210) 271-3151 “One hot day in July, my king, you were gone– guadalupeculturalarts.org education. The sonnet.” sacurrent.com • October 28–November 3, 2015 • CURRENT 27
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Since 2012, Tony Harris has been the local face of Fashion Week, taking the reigns as producer of the annual weeklong event after Fashion Group International disbanded; it’s easy to wonder whether he’s grown weary of the gig. Harris, however, swears his excitement hasn’t waned. “I tell people all of the time, it’s really a brand new experience for me every single year because our programming gets bigger, the participants and sponsors and support that we have get so much bigger,” he explains. And it’s true, the week’s international roster keeps growing, with shows from Colombia-based Jorge Duque Velez, Mexico-based Alexia Ulibarri, and Demestiks New York’s Reuben Reuel (whose demand recently skyrocketed following a shoot where Beyoncé and Solange Knowles wore his garments); Fashion Week San Antonio (FWSA) marks the U.S. premiere for Velez and Ulibarri, and the San Antonio premiere
for Reuel. Acting as the sole curator of the young festival (“It’s very important for me to streamline a process that gives focus to what fashion is really about”), Harris prides himself on his balance of both local and outside designers that capture the unique spirit of San Antonio; but, of course there is bound to be a certain degree of personal subjectivity to his process. Following a social media outcry over his omission of local designer Leighton Whittington, Harris stood by his program. He emphasizes, “When we developed Fashion Week San Antonio, it was all about recognizing the local talent and the local industry as a whole. The strategy first and foremost is to really recognize talent locally that is worthy of recognition.” The following are a few hometown highlights, many of which can be found inside Texas A&M-San Antonio’s Centro de Artes, known during FWSA as Showspace.
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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS MASQUERADE BALL: #FWSA Kick-Off Pull the sugar skulls out of your closet and kick off FWSA in high fashion. “Last year we were very impressed with how many people just got it beyond right with how far they went out for these garments, and I’m excited to see what they’re going to come up with this year,” says Harris. And as always, these threads count, with prizes awarded to the top three best-dressed attendees. The night includes the reading of the FWSA’s official proclamation by Mayor Ivy Taylor, complimentary cocktails courtesy of El Jimador Tequila, and nonstop sounds by DJ Jarvis. $30-$40, 8pm Sun, Nov. 1, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, fashionsa.org.
ARTE OF FASHION GALLERY Now in its second year, the Arte of Fashion Gallery gives artists the chance to develop visual art with a sartorial flair. The exhibit marks the beginning of what Harris hopes will be a long, exciting artistic partnership with contemporary artist Cruz Ortiz. Also featuring Estela Aguirre from Mexico, the gallery celebrates the intersection of fashion and art for a good cause. Thirty percent of the proceeds from each sale will benefit Girls Inc., the official charity of FWSA 2015. Free, 10am-4pm Tue, Nov. 3-Sun, Nov. 8, Showspace, 101 S. Santa Rosa St., fashionsa.org.
MODA NEXT: FASHION’S FORTHCOMING Tony Harris created the Moda Next showcase back in 2012 as an emerging designer competition. Today, with support from the City of San Antonio and the Department for Culture & Creative Development, the program exists as an incubator for local talent, providing not only a platform during FWSA, but also mentoring and business support throughout the year. Harris promises this will be the best Moda Next yet, with returning designers Joey Ramirez, Valerie Perez, Christian Alonzo, Blanquita Sullivan and Bruno Horwath tearing up the runway with a “more secure and confident” aesthetic. Tessa Guerra, owner of the Pearl’s Roo & Me, also joins the lineup with her line of children’s clothes. “It’s always about showing what’s next, showing what’s cutting-edge, showing what’s fashion-forward. These emerging designers are exactly what that is. Fashion Week is really centered around the young talent and what they have to show,” says Harris. $25-$35, 7pm Thu, Nov. 5, Showspace, 101 S. Santa Rosa St., fashionsa.org.
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Ryan Auld. Known for his definitive shapes and bold fabric selections, the fan favorite saw the Alamo City as the perfect spot to finally set down roots after his whirlwind competition experience; now, he’s ready to wow his new hometown audiences with his premiere FWSA presentation, The Darkness and the Light. “A new world. A new chance. A different adventure … One never knows what danger lies lurking in the wood,” teases Ryan of the upcoming collection. $25-$55, 7pm Fri, Nov. 6, Showspace, 101 S. Santa Rosa St., fashionsa.org.
SAMANTHA PLASENCIA In San Antonio, the name Samantha Plasencia is synonymous with fashion. From her first place win at University of the Incarnate Word’s Cutting Edge Fiesta fashion show, to the Moda Next showcase, to a stint on Project Runway, to numerous showings at FWSA, her “urban chic with a bit of edge” looks have consistently been in line with the fashion world at large. Constantly evolving, her upcoming collection combines her signature streetwear aesthetic with experiments in non-fabric materials for waterproofing and sustainability. Expect to see more men’s designs this time around: “I got inspired for this line by a lot of hiphop artists that are taking fashion to a more simplistic yet still cool look,” Plasencia explains. $25-$55, 8pm Fri, Nov. 6, Showspace, 101 S. Santa Rosa St., fashionsa. org. sacurrent.com • October 28–November 3, 2015 • CURRENT 29
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226 N. Hackberry - 210.207.7211 Hey, San Antonio: The Raiders just aren’t that into you. The Alamo City continues to play the will-they-won’t-they game with the Oakland Raiders, but let’s be real: they won’t. San Antonio’s long-held dream of hosting a sustainable pro football franchise may not be completely dashed, however, as a proposed pro league name-dropped the Alamo City as a potential spot for operations, along with Portland and Orlando. All they need to do is raise a half a billion dollars. That league in question is the United States Football League (USFL), a possible spring development league with teams in eight cities and a 14-game schedule. Earlier this month, the USFL issued a press release announcing the organization’s intention to choose “cities that do not have an NFL or a Major League Baseball team but have demonstrated an appreciation of football.” Given our city’s previous and current pro league dalliances, the mere mention of “San Antonio” and “football” in the same sentence should muster nothing more than cautious optimism. Longtime residents may recall the ill-fated USFL of the ’80s, which brought the San Antonio Gunslingers to Alamo Stadium. That team dissolved after just two seasons because its owner couldn’t pay players. Today’s USFL shares no association with its predecessor. And the current USFL is still a business proposition, rather than an operating business.
The USFL has not spoken with city officials about a league franchise, USFL CEO Jim Bailey told the San Antonio Current, adding no discussions are planned. Right now the focus is on raising cash. “We want to launch as soon as we can. But we want to make sure we are fully capitalized before we begin,” Bailey said. “Fully capitalized” translates to $500 million, the amount Bailey says is needed to build a financial foundation to sustain the early years until the league is profitable. Currently, the USFL is seeking a strategic partner willing to invest $5 million, which combined with previously invested capital, would be used to secure an additional $500 million in private- and public-investment dollars. The reincarnation of the USFL is not an overnight development. Efforts to revive the league date back to 2008, and USFL ownership has changed hands three times. Bailey’s Touchdown Management, LLC acquired the USFL rights in 2013, after Jaime Cuadra, Bailey’s predecessor, resigned amid a $1 million embezzlement scandal. Cuadra was convicted and sentenced to four years for his crime. While promoting the USFL, Bailey is careful not to over-promise and underdeliver and stops short of guaranteeing a local USFL team. “Our objective is to make ourselves known. We need to have people of aware of us,” he said. asalazar@sacurrent.com
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transvestite with the deepest mean streak is one for the ages, and go-go cages. Susan Sarandon’s rendition, alongside mute Frank-N-Furter-built Adonis, “Rocky,” of “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me” could bring any red-blooded American male’s blood to a cauldron-level boil (via beefcake Rocky, or the innocently, luscious Janet — Ms. Weiss, if you’re nasty). $14, 9:30pm, Alamo Drafthouse Stone Oak, 22806 Hwy. 281 N., drafthouse.com Army of Darkness (R) Saturday, October 31 The third installation in the Evil Dead trilogy, and the second offering from writer-director Sam Raimi after the original two’s ascension into classic cult-status, Army of Darkness takes place in the Middle Ages and pulls from such luminary literature as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by none other than San Antonio-devotee Mark Twain, and Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Army of Darkness begins with Ash — our formidable, shotgun-wielding, chainsaw-appendaged hero — doing the time warp back to 1300 AD, only to be captured and held by King Arthur, whose subjects fear Ash’s “boomstick.” In order to return to modern day — the glorious nineteen-hundred and ninety-two — Ash must first retrieve the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and recite a three-word magical phrase. Having forgotten the last word necessary to release the Book of the Dead and return Ash to the time of parachute-pants and rat-tails, he unearths the Army of Darkness — “Deadites” — who attempt to destroy all living creatures, unless the people can unite under Ash’s lead and banish the Army of Darkness back to Hell. $10.50, 9:30pm, Alamo Drafthouse Park North, 618 NW Loop 410, drafthouse.com dtbuffkin@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • October 28–November 3, 2015 • CURRENT 35
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In his new documentary 636, local radio DJ Russell Rush, and creator of the Emmy-winning web series The Russell Rush Haunted Tour, decided he wanted to dig deep into the alleged 1965 murder at the downtown Gunter Hotel in Room 636. Armed with paranormal investigation equipment, an FBI psychic and a team of paranormal investigators by his side, Rush and his crew set out to solve what he considers “the biggest unsolved mystery in San Antonio history,” and to get to the truth of what happened in that hotel room 50 years ago. He spoke to the San Antonio Current last week about how this particular filmmaking experience continues to disturb him. Have you always been interested in the paranormal? I would always talk about ghost stories at another radio station I worked at. When I got to San Antonio, I realized the city was a very superstitious place. People talk about the legends here and build them up. I started going out with local paranormal groups who were [investigating] this stuff. What was it about the Gunter Hotel that resonated with you? I’ve loved this case ever since I learned about it when I first moved to San Antonio. Who wouldn’t be fascinated about an unsolved murder and a man who butchered [his victim]? Was the purpose of the documentary to retell the story or did you want to solve the case? Every little piece of forensics technology available has been tried.
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What they haven’t tried is some sort of paranormal research. We thought there might be a way to use the knowledge we’ve been given over the years and communicate with someone to find information and solve the case. Were you happy with where your research took you? I’ve been happy and a little disturbed by the journey. With the paranormal, you sometimes involve yourself with things, and you put yourself in places you really shouldn’t be. For whatever reason, the man who is still in [Room 636] can still hold some weird power over you, as strange as it sounds. Throughout this journey, we’ve experienced that at times when we’re not even at the hotel. That’s a little bit scary and not something I’ve ever had to deal with before. What experiences have you had with this entity outside the hotel? This entity has been able to control dreams. It was something we were warned about but didn’t take seriously. Are you having nightmares? This part is definitely personal. I kind of glazed over it in the documentary. This entity is always around and listening, so I’m not going to grant him any more power over me than he already has. 636 will make its online debut Oct. 29 at therussellrushhauntedtour.com.
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I could blame it on a ghost tour at the Institute of Texan Cultures for my fascination with all things spooky. Until then, I hadn’t really put much thought into the afterlife. Even if you fancy yourself a logical, scientific being, like I often do, it’s plain fun to suspend belief and let adrenaline rush at the thought of something otherworldly hanging around your hallway … or favorite restaurant. The Sister Grimm dinner tour gave me my first taste for ghoulish dinners — the women behind the company can really set a scene. During a tour inside the Menger Hotel in 2013, the leaders let ghost enthusiasts chit chat in low whispers inside a sprawling banquet room that was filled with our small group of 40 or so participants. At $65 for adults, ghost fans can enjoy a history lesson and three-course dinner inside the Colonial Restaurant (wear comfortable shoes — the ghost tour portion through downtown is quite the hike). Outside of the planned tours, the haunted eats continue. Much like The Cadillac Bar, which sits on South Flores (read more about it on page 47), Taps y Tapas also sits along El Camino Real. Now known as Kings Hwy. Brew & Q, the eatery has its fair share of history. “When we were researching a name for the new place, we learned that the whole area of North Flores was one of the main ways to get into downtown in the 1800s. Major routes went through Five Points and San Pedro Creek — the history of the area lends itself to being kind of spooky,” owner Denise Aguirre said. Aguirre and partner Noel Cisneros have heard multiple accounts from staff as to what’s inside the former home of Charles Ochse. Originally built in 1883, the house has had its fair share of tenants. Whether it was the feeling of something standing behind her while she worked on her computer, or particular employees feeling picked on by a spirit, she’s heard and seen it all. “Little things would fall off the counter, the alarm would go off or not set,” Aguirre said of the activity. “He used to say ‘I know there is a ghost here, I know it’s fuckin’ with me.” Over in Helotes, Grey Moss Inn has tallied up plenty of lore. Former owner Mary Howell is still seen and
Photos of Charles Ochse and wife Dora (inset); and signage at Helotes’ Grey Moss Inn.
even smelled from time to time, along with her staff and custodians, according to an article by Cynthia Leal Massey, available on Grey Moss Inn’s website, which details the restaurant owner’s life. Investigations have taken place through the years both inside the eatery and in the cottage out back with similar results. “What is most interesting about the results of the investigation is that there appears to be several spirits, in addition to that of Mary Howell, residing at the restaurant. While mostly benign, some are rather mischievous,” Massey notes of a 2007 investigation. Along Broadway, the staff at Vegeria Vegan TexMex hasn’t been immune to paranormal happenings. According to restaurant owner Fred-Anthony Garza, the activity started early on. “Pretty much when I signed the lease, I kept hearing someone call my name,” Garza said. Servers, and even Garza’s mother, have felt a hand touch their shoulder and have heard toilets go off on their own, but the eerie activity hasn’t always been so ordinary. Garza recalls working until the late hours of the morning a few years ago and hearing “pacing in the breezeway.”
After he got up to check out the noise, the owner, who was alone at the time, heard both toilets flush. “I was freaked out but had lots to do,” he said. Garza only left after a light bulb hanging over the bar exploded. The “freakiest” incident to date, as he recalls, took place when a boiling pot of water was thrown on the kitchen floor by an unseen force. Hot Wells ruins caretaker and artist Justin Parr had to get used to a few unlikely visitors when he first moved into the property. “I had a bunch of people show up, various ghost hunters, drove me crazy,” Parr said. Though he doesn’t come out and call himself a believer, he’s also not completely opposed to the idea of ghosts. After this year’s Harvest Feast, Parr shared an image from local ghost hunter and paranormal buff Russell Rush that featured a hazy figure hanging out along one of the ruin’s windows. “When the hot springs were still open, it’d be midnight on a full moon, and I’d walk around the property hearing things banging around and clanging, so you never really know,” Parr said. flavor@sacurrent.com
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6 Ways to Get Your Drink/Grub on This Week Wednesday, October 28 A Night of Nocturnal Treats: Freetail Brewing Co. is helping out their namesake pals by hosting a fundraiser for Bat Conservation International. The evening includes bat-themed bites via Blue Star Brewing Co., The Granary ‘Cue & Brew, Rio Rio Cantina and the Freetail brewpub, along with the release of Nocturnal Nectar, a Belgian-style blonde ale brewed with ingredients that rely on bats to spread their seed. $25, 6-9pm, 2000 S. Presa St.; find tickets at eventbrite.com. Thursday, October 29 Long Table Dinner: Cocina Heritage Catering will host its final dinner of the series with a celebration for Dia de los Muertos. Stop in for handcrafted cocktails using Dorcol’s Kinsman Rakia paired with a four-course gastronomical journey through Mexico. $75, 6:30pm, 1902 S. Flores St., info@cocinaheritage.com.
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Friday, October 30 Pumpkin Beerfest: The Hoppy Monk is throwing a beer festival celebrating all things pumpkin. If you can’t get enough of the classic fall gourd, stop in for this first-ever shindig, which will feature 20-different pumpkin beers, pumpkin ice cream, a pumpkin cocktail and pumpkin mac ‘n’ cheese. The three-day festival runs through November 1 and includes a Halloween costume contest for your pooch. Prices vary, 11:30am-2am, 1010 N. Loop 1604 E., (210) 545-3330, facebook.com/ thehoppymonksanantonio.
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Saturday, October 31 All Hallows’ Eve: Brunch doesn’t get any spookier than a special all-vegan menu paired with ghoulish drinks at Señor Veggie, which will open with earlier hours. Prices vary, 10am-3pm, 620 S. Presa St., (210) 228-0073, facebook.com/senorveggie.
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Dia de los Muertos: Mezcaleria is helping you honor your dead with pozole, pan de muerto and tamales, along with tequilas, Saint Arnold’s Santo and Calavera cervezas, and themed-cocktails made using Siembra Valles Tequila and Siembra Metl Mezcal. Prices vary, 5pm-2am, 5313 McCullough Ave., (856) 630-5142, mezcaleriamixtli.com. Bootleg Simpsons Pop-up: The Simpsons-loving cooks at Crossroads Kitchen are hosting “Tree Faust of Horrors,” an homage to Halloween episodes of everyone’s favorite jaundiced family. Get your three-eyed fish sandwiches, tomacco grilled cheese or Krusty Burgers for one night only. Prices vary, 5pm-2am, 517 E. Woodlawn Ave., (210) 257-0628, facebook.com/crossroadkitchen. Hell On Wheels: Barhop safely from The Brooklynite, The Last Word and Stay Golden Social House for free. The Boulevardier Group will host special menus for this Halloween’s bus tour, along with a costume contest and tunes by DJ Nugget and Steven Lee Moya. Free rides, 10 pm, 516 Brooklyn Ave., (210) 444-0707, facebook.com/thebrooklynite.
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Taps y Tapas is no more. The casual Modern Mexican eatery traded its huitlacoche fries this week for South Texas-style barbecue with pit-master Emilio Soliz at the helm of the kitchen at King’s Hwy. Brew & Q (1012 N. Flores). The menu will include some favorites from his Sweet Christi’s BBQ days, but will add more sides such as rice, beans and potato salad, along with street tacos and tortas to pair with the plethora of brews on tap. The name harkens back to the 1800s, due to the restaurant building’s proximity to El Camino Real, a major vein into downtown San Antonio. Max’s Wine Dive (340 E. Basse Road, (210) 444-9547) is celebrating five years in the Alamo City with a Hollywood-style celebration and wine tasting on Wednesday, October 28 from 6 p.m. to close. Guests will enjoy eight wine samples, passed appetizers, cake, live music and a Champagne toast from 7 to 9 p.m. along with specials on wines by the glass and bottle. Dress the part (i.e. as your favorite Hollywood actor) and take $5 off the $30 ticket price. Still don’t have plans this weekend? Find a complete list of Halloween and Día de los Muertos parties at sacurrent.com, including celebrations at GS 1221 (1221 Broadway, (210) 251-3184), which will host a costume bash on Saturday night at 8:30 with food trucks, great beer and prizes for best costume. Nurse that spooky hangover at The Old Main Assoc. (2512 N. Main Ave., (210) 562-3440) on Sunday, November 1. The bar will host a special brunch menu, booze from Alamo Beer and more during Día de los Borrachos. flavor@sacurrent.com
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SPOOKY CHIC
A haunting at the St. Anthony Hotel ALEXIS BARNHART
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San Antonio’s sizzling heat won’t stop the rest of us from getting into the Halloween spirit. Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, I visited the newly opened Haunt, a small bar located in the historic, and reportedly haunted, St. Anthony Hotel. Haunt’s relatively new happy hour, coming on the heels of its recent opening, is every weekday from 4-7 p.m. My friend and I arrived at about 5:30 on a Wednesday for a hump day pick-me-up. Haunt is easily accessible off the street, but take advantage of the hotel’s valet parking (for free! Just have a bartender verify your ticket before you leave) and walk in through the St. Anthony’s lobby. Honestly, a trip to Haunt is worth it just because of how stunning the St. Anthony Hotel is. One of the oldest hotels in San Antonio, the St. Anthony was once the most magnificent hotel in the River City. After years of slow decline, it was recently bought and revitalized by a new owner. Transformations have been swift, and now calling the St. Anthony anything other than grand is an understatement. The short walk from the lobby to Haunt puts pristine white marble floors, floor-to-ceiling windows and massive dangling chandeliers on display. This grandiose decor continued into Haunt, only with a more contemporary flair. The lounge looks like a slightly moodier Z Gallerie catalog come to life. Funky zebra print make a delicious one), so don’t be afraid to branch chaises and white-tufted leather couches were clustered out and try something new. around the majority of the bar to create intimate lounge Happy hour prices are on the more expensive areas, and hip abstract sculptures reminiscent of ice side — $2 off all cocktails and wines, with regular sculptures peppered the floor. pricing averaging around $10 apiece. After sidling up to the bar, we noticed that we were By the time we’d sampled almost half the menu the only patrons except for one woman at the other end (the Veuve de Vernay was also quite good) and of the bar. For most of the evening, Haunt remained left at around 8 p.m., Haunt was a little more lively. almost entirely empty. This didn’t stop us from having a While the bar was far from packed, it was certainly good time, of course, and it was rather relaxing to have busier than it had been during happy hour. I paid the bar to ourselves. my tab, gave my prime bar seat to a stranger and The bartenders were friendly and efficient throughout picked up my car from the (free!) valet. Only the the evening. We never waited more than a couple minutes next morning did I notice that I’d been charged full to get a drink, and when my friend requested a liquor price for all of my drinks. By then it was too late to substitution in her cocktail, other options were readily say anything, but the price difference was returned offered. The drinks themselves were visually pleasing and a few calls later. served in unique glasses, from tall champagne flutes to Haunt is still relatively new, and there are a metallic martini glasses. few kinks to work out before I would call it a truly Haunt’s drink menu is concise, with 15 wine options phenomenal happy hour spot. However, its fun and seven specialty cocktails. Each cocktail has a cocktails and modern decor make it a hip hotspot whimsical name — I ordered “The Pixie,” a gin-andin downtown San Antonio, and that is more than blackberry-liqueur drink, and later “The Lavender Lady,” a enough to warrant a visit. charming cocktail combining prosecco with, you guessed While I didn’t spot any ghostly figures, I’m it, lavender gin. Both drinks were sweet, but not looking forward to another happy hour at too sweet, and were unique enough that I was Haunt Haunt for the spooky-chic ambiance … and interested until the last drop. This is definitely not 300 E. Travis St. to try out another wine or two. a vodka-tonic kind of bar (although I’m sure they 4pm-2am daily
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This is Halloween and we’re fans of getting spooked, be it through actual lore or decorative gore. Thankfully, San Anto is replete with ghosts and they like to get their drink on. By now we know The Menger’s bar played host to Teddy Roosevelt as he recruited the Rough Riders cavalry and visitors can still hear a swinging pendulum often kept at the bar by TR himself. Traipse on over to The Cadillac Bar on South Flores where an angry female ghost is prone to chuck glassware. The building’s been investigated by Mix 96.1’s Russell Rush’s Haunted Tour and features a slew of other ghouls. Over in Tobin Hill, Danny Delgado’s opened two bars that come equipped with ghostly features. Delgado and partner Andrea Vince pay their respects to the ghosts by really hammering home that eerie feeling and filling the space with original posters of the macabre, not one but two Ouija boards and several African masks. This is the vibe you’ll find inside Faust Tavern. Delgado named the bar after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s two-part German piece of literature that tells the story of Faust — who sold his soul to the devil — and staff members and customers often share stories of hearing noises or seeing things. “They either hear noises or see people as they make their way between
the bar and kitchen … it’s just creepy at night,” Delgado said. The shadows, if you choose to believe such a thing, could belong to a previous owner’s wife. Before it was Faust or Web House, the building at 517 E. Woodlawn Ave. was known as Café Camille where staff members believed the “deceased wife of the former owner” was responsible for opening and closing doors and picking items off walls, according to Spirits of the Border V: The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State. At Phantom Room, Delgado’s newest bar, the décor keeps in line with its sister watering hole. Antique fixtures and whatnots, found by Vince’s mother, add an uncanny touch that’s doubled once you hear about the ghostly female visitor that’s been reported by the staff, landlord and other previous tenants. If your taste for horror leans on the George A. Romero side of things, Zombies Bar at 4202 Thousand Oaks is for you. No specters here, but you will find a persistent theme complete with Virus vodka, faux-decomposed body parts, general gore and mad specials during The Walking Dead viewings on Sunday nights ($1 Bud Light, $2 zombie shots and free Frito Pie is more delicious than scary).
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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL COMES IN SPURTS The King Khan & BBQ Show is ba-ack L. KENT WOLGAMOTT
The King Khan and BBQ Show is back together, correcting a massive error in judgment that took place on a Sydney, Australia stage five years ago. That’s where a spat between Arish Ahmad “King” Khan and Mark “BBQ” Sultan led to a split-up in which the duo didn’t speak much with each other for years. “I’ve got two little daughters,” Khan said. “They’d listen to King Khan and BBQ all the time and go, ‘Why did you break up, it’s so stupid.’ To hear your children tell you, you know you made a stupid mistake … now, Mark and I are stronger than ever.” Reunited last year, the duo did a string of shows with the Black Lips and have just released Bad News Boys, their fourth studio album on In The Red Records. The King Khan & BBQ Show is now back on the road — they’re men with a mission. “The world has to relearn the merits of chaotic, basic rock ‘n’ roll and we’re the best professors to do that,” Khan said. “We’ve always celebrated chaos and we still do. But kids today don’t get that. They don’t even know who The Beatles are.” Khan and Sultan have spent two decades earning their professorial credentials, first coming together in 1995 in a Montreal garage band with, for some publications, an unprintable name (The Spaceshits). After that band broke up, Khan and Sultan got together in the early 2000s to make the scuzzy two-man brand of rock ‘n’ roll that fuses garage, punk, doo-wop and ’50s rock into a catchy propulsive mix. “We’ve been doing this since we were teenagers,” Khan said. “We’re honed in and we’ve got this weird connection. We can make the sound of 10 people using the most primitive equipment. We’ve got this real primitive magic. I don’t know how else to describe it. Because we’re so interconnected, there are all these boundaries we’ve been able to cross.” Bad News Boys, which takes its title from the name that almost became the duo’s moniker, captures Khan and Sultan at their loose, noise-making best. “Me and Mark just did it,” Khan, who lives in Berlin, said. “We recorded it in his basement and some in my living room. It was one of the best times. I had so much fun I didn’t remember what we’d done the night before, just like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins said after he did ‘I Put a Spell On You.’” Khan, who peppers conversation with references to the 52 CURRENT • October 28–November 3, 2015 • sacurrent.com
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pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll greats, was quick to agree that he and Khan do just that. and Sultan are also aiming to bring fun back to rock, which, “What makes the magic on stage is we feel like we’re 12 he said, got serious and boring in the late ’60s. years old and that kind of youthful indiscretion preserves us “I think it had a lot to do with sexuality,” Khan said of like a fine pickle,” Khan said. rock’s loss of fun. “This whole male chauvinist thing that Khan and Sultan will each continue to pursue their other took it to cock rock and took over. The best rock ‘n’ roll is the projects. Sultan has a solo record coming out soon, while gayest, most sexually free rock ‘n’ roll. I remember early on, The Shrines, Khan’s big R&B band is “on hold because we the rockabilly guys didn’t go near me because they thought have four new babies in the band. If you look at that, there I looked too effeminate, but their girlfriends were right there must have been a long tour that came to an end. That’s how in the front.” its works. Rock ‘n’ roll comes in spurts.” “It’s like the difference between the Stooges and the That said, Khan reiterated that he and Sultan won’t make MC5,” he said. “I like the MC5 and some of their songs, the break up mistake again. For as long as they can, he said, but they had this whole Viking attitude — with their the King Khan and BBQ Show will continue to women cooking and all that — toward rock ‘n’ roll. bring chaotic rock ‘n’ roll to the world. The King Khan & Then you have the Stooges and Iggy Pop, who’s “We do it in such a pure way, it feels like a bloody in the bathroom with Playboy bunnies taking BBQ Show magical thing,” Khan said. “ When we were hanging $13 care of him. I know which one I’d choose.” with Lou Reed, he said he really appreciated that 8pm, Tue Nov. 3 Paper Tiger That philosophy extends to the duo’s wild stage about our music. The Velvet Underground had the 2410 North Saint shows. It’s not every band that can hold its own same things. It wasn’t about some commercial thing Mary’s St. opening for the over-the-top Black Lips, but Sultan or selling records. It was pure. It was real.” papertigersa.com
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THE MIX AIN’T DEAD YET The Strip staple loses its leader but lives on D.T. BUFFKIN
The Mix has always been two bars: a professional-friendly happy hour spot that caters to folks that need to be home in time to get a solid eight before they’re back to the grind — Monday through Friday, ad nausea — and the late-night dive that is always hopping at last call, no matter what band is playing — and always sans cover. It’s the joint where, truly, no one is not accepted because there’s never a majority of a certain group or crowd there to discourage you from getting sloshed while shooting pool, throwing darts, shooting the bull or just scoping out the bands that run the gamut from complete and total shit to impeccable and solidly crafted (the only two kinds of bands there should ever be). It’s a hub of activity for any kind of mess you want to get into. Former-owner Daniel “Danny” Clift and his staff have played host at one time or another to any band in this town that has ever been worth a damn in the last 20 years, and a few that haven’t been. Opened in 1996 by Clift and former partner Theresa Mankins, The Mix has changed very little since its early days. Clift, who handed over the keys to the new owners on October 15, has always considered the bar his second home and the bar staff his children, many of which have, collectively, put in decades behind the L-shaped altar where the woes of thousands of patrons — artists and scholars, bums and the bourgeois — have been drowned. As San Antonio prides itself on being a workingclass town — a city of reputable grit with a lack of pomp and affectation — The Mix is a perfect edifice for the people it serves. Unlike our great white neighbor to the north (Austin), in which you’d be hard-pressed to find a business older than the 20-something free spirit taking your order from behind the counter, The Mix has regulars that remember where they were the day Lennon, Kennedy or even The Kingfish, Huey Long, was shot. So, who exactly is taking over and what is the impetus for Danny Clift taking a backseat? “There was a combination of things. I’ve been doing [The Mix] for 18 years and I’ve been in the business for 29 years, so, one is it’s just kinda taken a toll on me, just doing it so long, and it’s not that I don’t love what I do, because I do, but the rent went up substantially, which happened to everyone surrounding me, as well,” Clift said. “My rent went up over 50 percent a couple years ago, that and there being 12 bars within four blocks and no more parking … A lot of those bars would come and go … they’d have crazy drink specials and I would kinda have to match it and it would hurt my bottom line. There
The Mix, which recently changed ownership, “isn’t going to be a cocktail bar.”
were a lot of things I wanted to do in the bar,” which, Clift explained, included raising the ceilings, putting in a kitchen, fixing the bathrooms, expanding the patio, etc., “but just didn’t have the money to do it. I have always been into rock ’n’ roll bars, y’know, barebones, straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll venues. I could continue to go as I am, but there’s no way to know if I could continue to make it work with the additional hike in rent and the continuing competition.” So, what of the new guys taking over? “These guys came in and they’re keeping everybody on staff and keeping the bar going the way it is, so, they’re going to keep the heart and soul of The Mix the same. At least that’s what they’ve told me, and I believe it to be true.” Eric Hanken is owner of The Local Bar and operates Bauhaus Media Group and will oversee the finances and other boring stuff at The (New) Mix. Steve Mahoney, no stranger to bar operations as he already owns and operates Blue Box, George’s Keep and the recently opened Francis Bogside, will oversee day-to-day operations, and Blayne Tucker, attorney and founder of the Maverick Music Festival, will function as the promotions, marketing and booking manager.
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Har Mar Superstar Fri, Oct. 30 Listening to Minnesota soul junkie Sean Tillman, it’d be easy to mistake his work as Har Mar Superstar for a forgotten B-side from Memphis or Detroit. Looking at Har Mar Superstar, it’s clear that the whitey-tighty performer is out there for the laugh, the music and body positivity. This is a Halloween party for those who think the costume is an outlet for humor, not sexualized visions of pop culture references. With Rivers Want, Whatever?, Galacticat. $15, 8pm, K23 Gallery, 702 Fredericksburg Road, facebook. com/k23gallery Patricia Vonne Fri, Oct. 30 San Anto chanteuse Patricia Vonne returns to her hometown with works from her latest, Viva Bandolera. Like Vonne’s career, the evening is a multimedia event, with a postperformance screening of Vonne’s Sin City-inspired short film Zorro Girl and a midnight showing of her brother Robert Rodriguez’s cult gore-fest From Dusk Till Dawn. $15, 10pm, Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org Night of the Creeps Sat, Oct. 31 Usually with these Halloween cover-athons, one band doesn’t get the memo, drops in a choice out of left field and disrupts the aesthetic hex of the evening. For Paper Tiger’s first trickor-treat, the venue gathers seven San Anto bands interpreting the dark music of their choice. Thank Mictecacihuatl for Paper Tiger’s affiliation with Transmission Events, for the Best
Dressed patron wins two free tickets to Fun Fun Fun Fest next weekend. With Massiver as Joy Division, Coolers as The Misfits, Cannibal Bitch as GG Allin, De Palma as Suicide, Cock in the Pocket as The Stooges, The Bolos (with special guest) as The Cramps and Sex Piss as Sex Pistols. Free, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersa.com Stevie Wonder Sat, Oct. 31 The pop-soul superstar is currently on tour pimping his impeccable 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. But the 65-yearold boy Wonder wouldn’t be an American icon, or even a halfway decent performer, if he didn’t pull out “Superstition” on Halloween night. My apologies to the piano bar players who have to tread on the tune while Stevie’s in town. $27.50$147.50, 8pm, AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Pkwy., (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com Halloween Spooktacular Sun, Nov. 1 The San Antonio Symphony treats Dia de los Muertos with a family-friendly performance of Mexican composers Manuel Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas and Jose Moncayo. Before tip-off, the Symphony hosts an instrument petting zoo, inviting kids to see and pluck the unique instruments of the orchestra. Just don’t let your kid get too close to a bassoon and doom them to an inevitable run of band geek sex in their undergraduate years. $5, 2pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org
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On Desert Sons, Nick Long (Lonely Horse) and Travis Hild (Heavy Foot) get in rhythmic fisticuffs with their axes and skins. Playing each other as much as they play their own instruments, the duo has been poised to drag S.A. pop music into the 21st century for several years. The loogey-fuzz of Long’s guitar and the Keith Moonmeets-Cherokee-drum-circle powder keg of Hild’s foot and right hand could grind maize into flour, or mota into keef. Lonely Horse would probably have a steady growing catalog of panties and unmentionables if they used their conjuring for typical rock ’n’ roll spoils — the sex and the drugs — but Long’s lyrics just aren’t vacuous enough. As Chuck Berry, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jagger/Richards could make the most shallow, frivolous topics seem like aural molly so, too, can Long make the genocide of the planet, its native peoples and the resulting helpless depression equal parts inflaming and humbling. If they get any bigger, surely, much of their sincere shamanism will be lost in the shutter of the burgeoning crowds’ iPhone clicks, but it can’t capture their souls. $5, 9pm, Hi-Tones, 621 E. Dewey Pl., hitonessa.com — dtbuffkin@sacurrent.com
Wednesday, October 28
Blank Side Playing at our reader’s pick for
the best DIY venue in the city. With Social Trauma, Lemmings. Imagine Books & Records, 8pm
Bring Your Own Vinyl Revel with friendly vinyl-heads over the best wax in each others’ collection, or slam pickle shots in the corner and seethe over that one dude with an original run of Dopethrone. Hi-Tones, 10pm
Bruk Out! A term of celebration in
dancehall culture, Bruk Out! visits the legendary reverb and airhorns of the Jamaican genre. Concrete Jungle, 10pm
The March Divide As The March Divide,
SA’s Jared Putnam effortlessly inflates intimate coffeehouse lyrics with power pop choruses and hooks. Think of it like an intimate diary given the rock ‘n’ roll treatment with a good dose of punk to kick it up a notch. With The Sisters Sweet. 502 Bar, 9pm
The Royal Concept The Swedish quartet
— David Larson, Filip Bekic, Magnus Robert and Frans Povel are returning to North America for a 2015 Fall Tour! Their latest EP, Smile, includes five tracks that bristle with an unshakable energy and swaggering charm. Hit single “Fashion” straddles the lines between funk, indie, and pop, converging on atmospheric refrain. Paper Tiger, 7pm
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Pepsi, disco/new wave-inspired artist Skylar Spence plays SA in support of his debut LP Prom King. With Mark Redito, Ernest Gonzales. Paper Tiger, 7pm
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Friday, October 30
Cody Canada & The Departed Kinda like
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a lot while “gettin’ ‘er done.” Sounds a lot like Steve Earle. With Mike Mcclure Band. Sam’s Burger Joint, 9pm
Hell on Hallow’s Eve Fire-twirling and
White Zombie-dreadlocks abound. The Genitorturers distorted zipper-rock combines the industrial sounds of drummachines played with glow-sticks and Garbage’s Shirley Manson with a laser beam. With Bozo Porno Circus. The Korova, 8pm
I Love A Piano Dazzling pianist and
arranger Rich Ridenour takes you on a musical journey featuring some of the greatest pieces ever written for piano. The program will feature the “Warsaw Concerto” from Dangerous Moonlight, Malagueña, and songs from Henry Mancini, Elton John, Scott Joplin and Billy Joel. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm
Reptar Reptar is best known for their
spirited live show, which has earned them slots opening for bands like Yeasayer, Cults, The Faint, and Foster The People. Live, their danceable synthpop is paired with an undeniable and infectious energy. With Holiday Mountain and Breathers. Paper Tiger, 7pm
Stoney Larue Earnest music from an
earnest man, Stoney Larue doesn’t bother with crafting golden turds for the Top 40 FM listener, but simple and sincere songs for those with slightly deeper musical needs. Cowboys Dancehall, 7pm
Todd Snider From the Jerry Jeff Walker
school of songwriting, Todd Snider combines good-ol’-boy-humor and dive bar anecdotes with cool-clever tunes about beer, drugs, beer, girls and beer. I will be boycotting the show due to Snider’s unabashed love for Jimmy Buffett. It’s the principle. Gruene Hall, 7pm
Villela & DJ Plata All Hallows’ Eve Bash It is All Hallows’ Eve & the Villela
Band will be spooking things up for all you ghouls & gals with some ghoulish grooves, brews and a Halloween costume Party like no other. (Despite this corny press release, Plata spins
monster shit. Dude is dope). Bar America, 9 pm
Saturday, October 31
Adam Zuniga Join guitarist Adam Zuniga
for an instrumental journey across styles and genres. His dazzling guitar work echoes such other masters as Ottmar Liebert, Acoustic Alchemy, The Gipsy Kings, ambient internationalist Govi and more. Rosario’s, 8pm
Rebel Flesh Album Release Party Austin
punk rock ‘n’ roll outfit Rebel Flesh surf the crimson wave of horror punks past and have leather jackets for every color of the rainbow in the dark. With spooky, sci-fi-surf brood The Sandworms and one of the few listenable skarevivalists Harvey Mclaughlin and the Bottomfeeders. The Mix, 9pm
Sell Your Soul Saturday DJ Smoak and
Serge & Destroy bring the best and most righteous punk, psych, doom and rock ‘n’ fucking roll every Saturday night at Faust. The Cutthroats will be doing a drunken Misfits’ set at midnight, unless you’re too scared, in which case, ABBA is always on rotation in your sister’s room. Blood will be drank and the moon will be torn out of the sky! Faust Tavern, 10pm
Sunday, November 1
Prong Pioneers of the urban metal scene, Prong’s influence upon monumental metal bands is only matched by their influence upon terrible metal bands. Korova, 8pm
Monday, November 2
Hip Hop 101 at Southtown 101 Every
Monday, Southtown 101 presents Hip Hop 101, San Antonio’s longest running hip hop night. Southtown 101, 9pm
Tuesday, November 3
Wolverton Wolverton will release a new
EP, Things Left On Earth, during the first night of their third Liberty Bar Residency. The new CD features one song from each of the four members and comes in a gatefold slipcase which includes a lyric booklet. Liberty Bar, 7:30pm
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My boyfriend of two years and I broke up because I found out that he was having sexual relations with anonymous men he contacted through Craigslist. My ex will not admit to being bisexual. He claims that he has these urges only when he smokes marijuana. But through our computer history, I caught him watching gay porn at times when I knew he had not smoked marijuana. I check CL periodically, and he is still posting ads regularly, even though he denies this and insists that he has the situation under control. Disturbingly, he is also dating women. I think this is dangerous because there is such a strong chance that he will give these women an STD, such as AIDS, and destroy both of their lives. Since I am the only person in his life who knows his secret, I feel some sort of responsibility. I am very emotionally troubled by this knowledge and I don’t feel right about ignoring this. Anxiety Infuses Distressing Situation Your ex is obviously bisexual — or if not, AIDS, then his heteroflexibility is downright acrobatic. But policing your ex’s sexual identity, his love life, and his Craigslist presence is Not Your Job. Knocking dicks out of his mouth is not your responsibility, and you are not responsible for alerting other women to the porn, the personal ads, the dicks, and the laughable excuses. (Contrary to an infamous Reddit thread, marijuana does not make men “temporarily gay.”) You could, however, speak to your ex as a friend — a creepy friend who cyberstalks him, but still a friend. You could urge him to accept that, even if he isn’t bi, he needs to own up to not being entirely straight, either. If he’s going to engage in risky sex practices with men — and you don’t know that he’s doing that (he could be using condoms correctly and consistently) — he should talk to his doctor about getting on PrEP, aka pre-exposure prophylaxis, aka Truvada. Then, having said your piece, you can butt the fuck out his life with a clear conscience.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn’t have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring yourself to be a little less attractive — if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down — please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): In the last ten days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wildcard interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks
erupt with an outbreak of pronking. “They are dancing for joy,” Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippetyhopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when clues about the real key’s location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.
costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.
one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.
shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who.
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LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween
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