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52 Nightlife
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River Fun With a cheap and satisfying happy hour, decent lunch and pleasantly mixed weekend crowd, Moses Rose’s Hideout just might cure your River Walk blues
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Cityscrapes If SA wants to retain and add jobs in the high tech sector, education must become the city’s first priority
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Op-Ed Frederick Williams on what Ivy Taylor’s potential mayoral bid says about the deep divide between black and LGBT community leaders
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25 Pride Between Two Worlds Three members of San Antonio’s transgender community share thoughtful looks into their lives The Ultimate Performance Artists Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez share life, love and creative pursuits with each other and San Antonio Pride in Perfect Harmony SA’s newest LGBT chorus, the Live Oak Singers, features men, women and karaoke bar recruits—but no tuxedos
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A Home of One’s Own The San Antonio AIDS Foundation’s Carson House provides transitional housing and services to HIV-positive individuals, regardless of gender identity Just Happens to Be LGBT Is Pride Month still the political event that sparked its very existence, or has it morphed into a community showcase of LGBT culture? Young, Gifted and Queer Queer musicians Saakred and Pink
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Leche are forging a new path in the SA music scene Gayzing at the Stars Make room for another music festival, Austin: The inaugural Stargayzer Fest this September will celebrate LGBT artists of all kinds
41 Arts Story Time Artists capture moments familiar, frightening and epic in Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum’s “Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers” Like a Virgin The final installment of SA-author Karen Ranney’s historical romance trilogy gives us a creative heroine, an erotic angle and lots of “cock”
45 Screens Pretty but Stupid If you can get past the nonsensical plot and dumb protagonist, The Grand Seduction spins a fun, sweet story of one Canadian town’s bait and switch
47 Food Shack Attack At the Smoke Shack, Broadway’s newest barbecue joint, tasty sliders, sides and, of course, lots and lots of meat are worth the wait Lunchtime Snob Go ahead, use an 18th napkin—the Station Café’s tasty, affordable sandwiches will make you forget the mess Flavor File The Monterey gets a new chef, the Cooking Channel’s Man Fire Food features grill master Johnny Hernandez,
On the Rocks Texas takes on Scotland in this singlemalt whisk(e)y smackdown, and the winner may surprise you
58 Music Cosmic Cowboy Damon McMahon channels cosmic connectivity and cowboy worship as Amen Dunes on his meditative new LP Love Trailer Park Fiction Singer-songwriter Brandy Clark takes a playful jab at the beer swillin’, pill poppin’, illegitimate kid birthin’ life on her debut album 12 Stories Aural Pleasure Big Freedia’s new LP reaches some creative highs, Tom Krell finds his R&B stride with his third How to Dress Well release, Vancouver punk quartet White Lung erupts with powerful fuck-offisms on Deep Fantasy Music Calendar What to see and hear this week
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This year, transgender community issues have, at long last, stepped into the spotlight for Pride related-events (in keeping with the joke that SA is constantly behind trend, our biggest Pride events happen after Pride month ends). Our cover story looks at three very different expressions of the transgender self. Photographer: Louie Preciado; models: Grace Tyson and Bryan Sullivan; cover by Eli Miller.
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Last week, a longtime University of Texas—San Antonio tech staffer stopped by my classroom to say goodbye. She announced that she was leaving UTSA for a better job with much better pay. In the tech sector. With a private employer. In Austin. Her story is by no means unique. A number of tech folks have left recently for better jobs in Austin. It’s a situation that many local commentators and business leaders have long observed. But as we consider the kind of San Antonio we want to build over the next decade with new mayoral leadership, it’s vital that we think about where we stand in terms of high tech employment, and why we keep losing valued folks to Austin. Let’s start with the “jobs” part. A December 2012 report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute compared metro areas in terms of high tech employment. Not surprisingly, the San Jose-Sunnyvale, Calif., metro—the home of Silicon Valley—ranked number one in high tech jobs as a percentage of the overall market, at 28.8 percent. The Cambridge, Mass., area came in at number four, with 20.3 percent, immediately followed by metro Seattle at 18.2. And Austin, the top Texas metro area, made the list at
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number 14, with 10.7 percent of its overall employment in high tech for a total of more than 67,000 jobs. As for San Antonio, we placed number 56, with just 5 percent of our employment in high tech for 34,200 jobs—half of Austin’s total. We’re behind Dallas at number 20, and Houston ranked 45th. That employment picture puts us even with Detroit and Anchorage, and a bit ahead of Kansas City. In August 1982, San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros unveiled his so-called Orange Book: “San Antonio’s Place in the Technology Environment: A Review of Opportunities and a Blueprint for Action.” There was indeed action. Cisneros and the Economic Development Foundation traveled widely to California and Asia in search of new employers and succeeded in bringing some to town. But most of those new high tech employers, such as chipmaker VLSI (later Phillips Semiconductor), didn’t stick. And even some homegrown firms, notably Datapoint, found they couldn’t manage the dramatic pace of innovation and change. The constant evolution of the tech sector also makes it risky to rely on a successful local firm like Rackspace as the lone vehicle for achieving future job growth and success. However valuable Rackspace may be to San Antonio today, examples of how quickly and dramatically the situation of individual firms can and will change can be see in Compaq in Houston and Dell in Austin. The difference between Austin and us isn’t some grand geographical
endowment, beaches or mountains. It’s not the climate or water supply or available land. Simply put, it’s the nature of our respective labor forces. In a globally competitive environment, the cities and metro areas that succeed are those with the best educated populations. That’s where San Antonio falls behind Austin, and a host of other areas. Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas as of 2010, Washington, DC, leads the list with the highest proportion of its population holding college degrees at 46.8 percent. Next comes the San Jose metro and Silicon Valley with 45.3 percent. San Francisco ranks fourth, right behind the Connecticut suburban cities of Stamford and Greenwich, followed by Madison, Wis., and Boston. Austin places eighth at 39.4 percent, just above Denver, Minneapolis and Seattle. Dallas comes in at 35th, about on par with the Los Angeles metro area. And San Antonio? We rank number 80 of the 100, just below Greensboro, N.C., and just above Memphis. But, some might argue, aren’t we getting better? Hasn’t our college educated population grown in recent years? The answer to that is indeed yes. Our percentage of college-educated adults has grown by just over 15 percent since 1970. Still, where we’ve done better as a community, the metros at the top of the list have grown even faster, leaving San Antonio far behind. Why is the community’s overall level of education important? Well-educated
communities offer the greatest job opportunities and the greatest possibilities for advancement all across the education spectrum. As Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution put it in May 2012, “A mixture of powerful economic phenomena are boosting the value of living around other college graduates … Living in a highly educated metro area boosts one’s own acquisition of human capital and earning power, and leads to better employment outcomes for workers across the education spectrum.” Far more than investing in the quest for more visitors or a “decade of downtown,” education needs to be at the top of the next mayor’s “six point program.” That focus on education needs to be embraced by the city council, the county judge and commissioner’s court. And it needs to be kept as a top public priority year after year. Mayor Castro made some real strides in a community-wide education focus, with his Café College initiative and the Pre-K for SA program. Our next mayor needs to build on those, in a far broader and more comprehensive scope, covering everything from efforts to reduce our dropout rates to keeping teen mothers in school and easing the pathways from high school to community college and universities. Such an effort need not require a significant tax increase or some new initiative similar to Pre-K. Rather, the new mayor has a unique opportunity to advocate the importance of investing in educating all San Antonians. We can’t afford to stay at number 80. C
confirming his decision to trade the Pink Dome for a shot at City Hall, meaning he will resign from the Legislature to campaign for mayor. While that bold decision may spell victory for some, it’s worth remembering that Villarreal has hardly faced a contentious race since winning a special election for his District 123 spot in 2000. His general election percentages have sat at above 60 ever
since. While Villarreal would almost certainly pursue Castro’s education and Downtown focus, voters tired of big ticket center city projects may be tempted by District 8’s Ron Nirenberg. Unlike Villarreal, Nirenberg recently emerged from a hard-fought 2013 election to become a thoughtful and energetic city council member. While his centrism is unlikely to get the blessing of Manuel Medina’s
Bexar County Democratic Party (though City Council positions are technically non-partisan, Medina recently laughed that off in a column written by Express-News’ Brian Chasnoff), his skeptical stance on the streetcar plus his determined work to save the Bracken Bat Cave and to close SA’s so-called digital divide might sway voters looking for a less “establishment” candidate. —Callie Enlow sacurrent.com • July 2-July 8, 2014 • CURRENT 11
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Don’t deny Ivy Taylor’s chance to ‘evolve’ The San Antonio City Council may gain a major accomplishment in the city’s already progressive history in race relations. When Julian Castro announced his intentions to step down as mayor in order to serve in the Obama Administration as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, speculation began as to who on the council would take his place. One of the names that surfaced early was District 2 Councilwoman Ivy Taylor. Her consideration for the interim position triggered a great deal of excitement in the black community, many members of which believe she is both competent and knowledgeable enough to lead the city because she has done an exemplary job as the District 2 representative. However, this opinion is not shared by a critical segment of the city’s population. Some residents from the LBGT community have publicly made it known that they oppose Taylor’s consideration by the council to serve as mayor in the interim before May’s general election. Their opposition is based primarily on her 2013 vote against the ordinance that bans discrimination in city contracting based on sexual preference and gender expression. Political activist and former chairman of CAUSA, a gay and lesbian organization, Dan Graney has stated his strong opposition to Taylor. In an interview with the Express-News, he said, “While it would be historic for the first AfricanAmerican woman to become mayor of San Antonio, Ivy Taylor is not that person because she does not meet the test of being a leader who will fairly represent the interest of all San Antonians.” Community activist William B. Johnson believes that the councilwoman was wrong in her vote against the ordinance. However, he does not believe that one vote means she will not represent the entire city. Taylor has made it quite clear that if the council votes her into the mayor’s office for the interim, she will uphold all laws and ordinances
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passed by the council, to include the anti-discrimination ordinance. Political Science professor and longtime resident of District 2 Margaret Richardson also believes that Taylor should have supported the ordinance, but like Johnson, is in favor of her elevation to the mayor’s office. Taylor’s situation is comparable to that of President Barack Obama, who originally opposed gay marriage. But as civil rights attorney Chris Pittard of Forte and Pittard points out, the president finally came around to supporting that and other constitutional rights for the LBGT community. This potentially damaging division between the two communities could lead to Taylor being denied this historic opportunity due to opposition from LBGT groups. Johnson and Richardson have it right when they argue that her one vote should not outweigh the significance of a black woman serving as mayor of the seventh largest city in the country. If the LBGT community is held responsible for her failure to become mayor, it could give the homophobes in the black community even more ammunition to oppose LGBT citizens’ quest for equal rights, something they definitely deserve. —Frederick Williams
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Often credited with introducing acid house to Ibiza (and helping establish the island as a global clubbing destination) British DJ/producer Paul Oakenfold is also an architect of trance music and has remixed tracks for dozens of high-profile artists (Madonna, U2, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, etc.). With his third studio album Pop Killer (promising collaborations with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley and others) still in its finishing stages, the Grammy nominee is touring in support of Trance Mission—a conceptual covers album designed to introduce revamped trance gems to younger audiences. $15$20, 10pm, Club Rio, 13307 San Pedro, (210) 403-2582, club-rio.net. —BR
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Launched in 2000 and now a certified Green Event, the San Antonio Parks Foundation’s July 4th Celebration returns to energize Woodlawn Lake Park with patriotic fanfare. Kicking off with a petfriendly 4K run/walk (register at 8 a.m.), the fun-filled day boasts a diverse musical lineup (featuring the USAF Band of the West, T-Rod & the Renegades, Josh Milan and others), a Kids Zone with carnival rides and a Salute to the Red, White and Blue Parade (costumes encouraged; 11:30 a.m.). The evening portion culminates with the H-E-B Fireworks Extravaganza and a set by Tejano outfit Artie V y Grupo Suave. Free, 8:30am11pm, Woodlawn Lake Park, 1103 Cincinnati, saparksfoundation.org. —BR
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Putting a rainbow spin on Stars and Stripes weekend, the Pride San Antonio block party is set to deliver a full day and wild night fueled by “fabulous community spirit.” Besides a parade (9 p.m.) and performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Shangela Laquifa Wadley (above), acoustic pop singer Tom Goss and Information Society frontman Christopher Anton, the fest includes such unusual highlights as Pride Championship Wrestling’s outdoor battle (showcasing Zane Xena and “The Exotic Playboy” Justin Vain; 3 p.m.) and the Krystal Kelly Running of the Queens High Heel Race (heels must be at least three inches high; 8:45 p.m.). $10, 11am10pm, Crockett Park, 1300 N Main, pridesanantonio.org. —BR
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The popular Austin band Quiet Company plays a quirky brand of power-pop that excels on the versatility of its five members and the diversity of the sound they’re able to create, throwing melodica, harmonica, trumpet, saxophone and glockenspiel into the mix. On Saturday, the quintet will treat us to a full performance of an album that no doubt helped shape their sound—Weezer’s 1996 magnum opus Pinkerton, which contains the beloved songs “El Scorcho,” “Tired of Sex” and “The Good Life.” It promises to be a hell of a show, boasting a perfect match of band to material. $10-$40, 9pm, Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E Grayson, (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com. —James Courtney
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If you’re a music nut in Texas, you might think you’d know a guy who was named the state Music Ambassador in 2007. Sadly, however, country songwriter Gary P. Nunn—also a 2004 inductee into the Texas Hall of Fame—doesn’t get the attention you might expect, based on his résumé. Nunn, a father to the Outlaw Country movement, has played with and written for a veritable who’s who list of Texas’ finest, as well as releasing a wealth of solo material. Catch him live and experience living Texas history in the best way. Essential song: “London Homesick Blues.” $12-$15, 9pm, Floore’s Country Store, 14492 Old Bandera (Helotes), (210) 695-8827, liveatfloores.com. —JC
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Second only to Rush in selling prog-rock to the American working man, Kansas probably only has two kinds of fans in 2014: people who yell “You’re my boy, Blue!” during “Dust in the Wind” and people who wish those people were dead. The second category includes hardcore “wheatheads” stoked to see drummer Phil Elhart, guitarist Richard Williams and vocalist/keyboardist Steve Walsh tearing through “Dust,” “Carry On Wayward Son” and other highlights from 40 years’ worth of blue-collar fiddleand-synth symphonies, from their 1974 debut to their 2012 return to form Freaks of Nature. $27-$50, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N St. Mary’s, (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. —JM
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Don’t let the name fool you: Sweet Peach Collective is not all “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Founded in 2013 by Amanda Bartlett as a means to highlight “the perspective of local artists that identify as female,” the collective has grown from 13 to 60 members and champions an irreverent, street-smart aesthetic that’s equal parts glittery nostalgia and morbid irony. Building on the success of its inaugural outing in February (which provided guests with “cute vagina cupcakes” among other Valentine’s Day offerings), Sweet Peach returns to High Wire with a 28-artist showcase informed by a “resounding sense of sisterhood.” In addition to macabre graphite drawings by Bartlett, expect to find works by Valerie Brown (a 3D animation student who’s found her niche drawing cyclops girls); Vanessa Salinas (of the alternative crochet crew Sisters of Yarnage); old-school horror enthusiast Natalie Sauceda; Nicole Gonzalez (who parlayed a pair of cupcake earrings into a full-fledged line of Sweet Craft Jewelry); DIY fashionista Wildhoneypot; and Malice in Chains, whose latest collection of wearable chainmaille pieces benefits The Trevor Project—a nonprofit providing lifesaving and life-affirming services to LGBTQ youth. To sweeten the deal, the “multi-sensory” reception features an eclectic live music lineup uniting Saakred, Pussywillows, Pink Leche, Wholly Vible and Jessica & the Pajama Blues. Free, 7pm-midnight, High Wire Arts, 326 W Josephine, (210) 827-7652, facebook. com/SweetPeachCollective.
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Art opening: Hiromi Tsuji Stringer: “As a Manner of Fact ... Graffiti for Civilized Tranquility” Inspired by the
“possibility of language” and the often humorous results of miscommunication, locally based Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuji Stringer’s latest series comprises mixed-media drawings layered with pages from Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. Free, 6-9pm Saturday; REM Gallery, 219 E Park, San Antonio, (210) 224-1227.
Art opening: Jenelle Esparza: “Ancestral Archetypes” Although
primarily a photographer, Corpus Christi native Jenelle Esparza works in multimedia installation and creates abstract photo-based pieces. Seeking to tell the stories of women “subliminally through their enigmatic shadows,” Esparza’s new solo show “Ancestral Archetypes” is composed of silhouetted figures paired with gardens, plants and natural surroundings near their homes. Free, 6-8pm Wednesday-Thursday; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, (210) 227-6960.
Art opening: “Sour Grapes: From Street to Studio” Demonstrating a
range of inspiration from Renaissance portraiture to conceptual abstraction and the international history of graffiti, Dallas-based street art collective Sour Grapes produces murals for public commissions (including Neiman Marcus
and the Dallas Contemporary Museum) along with independent projects. Recently the subject of a feature article in Juxtapoz magazine, the sevenmember crew takes over the UTSA Art Gallery with individual and collective works along with a site-specific installation. Free, 6-8pm Wednesday; UTSA Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 N Loop 1604 W, San Antonio, (210) 458-4391.
Art opening: “Lost Pines & The Dying Words” FL!GHT Gallery’s latest pairs
projects created by Houston-based artist Tommy Gregory and local writer and artist Ben Judson. Gregory’s “Lost Pines” is a sculpture of the top of a roof with a steeple. The piece was fabricated from raw pine and then burned. Judson’s contribution is a series of excerpts from last statements given by people on Death Row before their execution by the State of Texas. A web developer by trade, Judson wrote a program to scrape the statements from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website and repost the excerpts to a Twitter account (@ LastStatementTx). Free, 7-10pm Thursday-Friday; FL!GHT Gallery, 134 Blue Star, San Antonio, (210) 872-2586.
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A wide-ranging and easily digested component of Texas Public Radio’s Cinema Tuesdays series, Oscar Shorts rounds up all 10 short films nominated in the 86th Academy Awards. Likened by Variety to a “global sampler” crafted by “the next generation of feature directors,” the live-action program deals with a number of heavy issues including terminal illness (Anders Walter’s Oscar-winning tearjerker Helium), escaping an abusive marriage (Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras’ Just Before Losing Everything) and child soldiers in Africa (Esteban Crespo’s That Wasn’t Me). Providing a welcome dose of comic relief, the animated shorts drop in on an obsessive-compulsive hermit and his robot dog (Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares’ Oscar-winner Mr. Hublot, above), iconic Disney characters on a musical hayride (Lauren MacMullan’s Get a Horse!), a dilapidated shrine inhabited by goblin spirits (Shuhei Morita’s Possessions) and a high-flying witch and her cat (Max Lang and Jan Lachauer’s Room on the Broom). $10-$15, 7:30pm, Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg, (210) 614-8977, tpr.org. —Bryan Rindfuss
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master Henri Matisse and the richness of his exterior world. $15-$25 (timed ticket reservations required), 10am-5pm Wednesday-Thursday, 10am-9pm FridaySaturday, 10am-6pm Sunday, 10am-9pm Tuesday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W Jones, San Antonio, (210) 978-8100.
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Blue Star hosts an intimate lunchtime chat with Mexico City-born, Dallas-based artist Gabriel Dawe, whose intricate installation “Plexus no.26” creates a visual effect with sewing thread that plays with the viewer’s perception. Space is limited; RSVP to jack@bluestarart. org. $10, noon-1pm Tuesday; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, (210) 227-6960.
First Sundays for Families: C’est Magnifique Inspired by the colorful
world of Henri Matisse, SAMA invites families to participate in an Eiffel Tower building contest and create paper cutouts, wall collages and life-size sketches. $5-$10, noon Sunday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W Jones, San Antonio, (210) 978-8100.
“Muralismo De San Anto” Presented
in collaboration with the Westside Development Corporation, San Anto Cultural Arts’ “Muralismo de San Anto” puts a collection of “mini murals” up for auction in an effort to “pair interested parties, be it wall owners or those interested in Westside real estate.” While it showcases nine emerging artists (Evan
Wagoner, Matt Ritchie, Philip Luna, Alberto Ramirez Jr., Blair Wilson, Ashley Mireles, Cecilia Santos, Robin Arthur and Adriana Abundis), the public event also features light refreshments and a rare peek inside the 1930s-era Escobedo Creamery. $5, 6:30-8:30pm Wednesday; Escobedo Creamery, 2211 W Salinas, San Antonio, (210) 226-7466
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If It Ain’t Baroque Film Series: Moulin Rouge! In conjunction with the
exhibition “Beauty Reigns,” the McNay screens Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 Oscar winner about a love affair between an English poet/writer (Ewan McGregor) and a doomed cabaret actress and courtesan (Nicole Kidman). $10-$15, 2pm Sunday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N New Braunfels, San Antonio, (210) 824-5368.
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Breather In Sophia Bolles’ mysterious
new play Breather, protagonist Jennifer Owens evolves into something different and dangerous after losing everything— leaving it up to detectives and scientists to answer the question: What happened to Jennifer? $10-$14, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday; The Little Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden, (210) 557-7562.
Glen or Glenda Directed by Edward Wise, the Overtime’s adaptation of Ed Wood’s semi-autobiographical oddity Glen or Glenda works within the film’s theme of cross-dressing but packs some extra
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Tarzan, the Musical The Woodlawn’s
artistic director Greg Hinojosa and choreographer Eric Mota team up for the SA premiere of this musicalized adaption of the Disney film about an infant boy raised in the jungle. $15-$23, 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 738-1117.
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San Antonio in the Great War Author
and former Fort Sam Houston Museum director John M. Manguso signs copies of his new book portraying the growth of local military facilities and infrastructure during World War I that started San Antonio on the road to becoming “Military City USA.” Free, 2pm Saturday; Barnes & Noble, 15900 La Cantera Pkwy, San Antonio, (210) 558-3903.
COMEDY
Bil Dwyer Not to be confused with
late mobster “Big Bill” Dwyer, William Michael “Bil” Dwyer is an LA-based comic and TV personality who’s hosted a number of game shows (including Extreme Dodgeball, I’ve Got A Secret and Dirty Rotten Cheater) and makes regular appearances on MTV and VH1 roundup shows such as I Love the ‘90s and 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops. $16, 8pm Wednesday-Thursday, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, (210) 541-8805.
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hosts a three-day festival with food booths, arts and crafts, and an eclectic live music lineup featuring the Spazmatics (4-6pm Saturday), Ramiro Villareal, La Cima, Erica Gonzaba, the Stan Wayne Band, Los Amiztades and Kopia. Free, noon-6pm Friday-Sunday; Market Square, 514 W Commerce, San Antonio, (210) 207-8600.
Mercado O’liva Chef and restaurateur
Chuck Hernandez’s new open-air market returns with a unique array of offering including folkloric dancing, live music, fresh local produce and a cooking demo courtesy of Uncommon Fare’s Melissa McDiarmid. Free, 10am-3pm Saturday; Plaza de Armas, 119 Plaza de Armas, San Antonio, (210) 207-6000.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey: Built to Amaze! Ringmaster Andre
McClain takes the Ringling Bros. reins to lead this super-sized circus with 95 exotic and domestic animals and more than 110 performers representing 17 countries. $15-$80, 7:30pm WednesdayThursday, noon & 4pm Friday, 11:30am, 3:30pm & 7:30pm Saturday, 3pm Sunday; AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, San Antonio, (210) 444-5000.
Stars & Stripes Over San Antonio The
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s third annual Stars & Stripes Over San Antonio event encompasses a naturalization service (approximately 20 service men and women will be sworn in as new citizens), live music by the Klocks, gourmet food trucks, inflatable castles, bungee runs, obstacle courses, face painters, balloon artists and the city’s “largest and longest fireworks display” (9:30pm). Free, 6-10pm Friday; Alamodome, 100 Montana, San Antonio, (210) 207-3663.
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Puentes de Poder: What are the “Rights of Mother Earth”? Nina
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“Proud to Be An American” Cave
Without a Name, the Allegro Stage Co., Tom Masinter and the Codger Band and Jack Edmonson (as John Wayne) team up to present an uplifting program of patriotic favorites and classic pop. $7.50$20 (free for kids under 6), 2pm Saturday; Cave Without A Name, 325 Kruetzberg, Boerne, (830) 537-4212.
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San Antonio’s transgender community shows its pride Jade Esteban Estrada
Despite the common belief that it was transgender activist Sylvia Rivera who sparked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement by flinging her high heel shoe at the cops during a 1969 police raid of the now-famed Stonewall Inn, the transgender community has clung to the letter “T” in the backseat of the “LGB” tour bus of gay history. However, as San Antonio prepares for its annual LGBT Pride celebration, there seems to be a luminous feeling of promise that legislation of late may finally result in real-time recognition and long-awaited social change for gender expression. Sitting across from me in her mother’s “coffee and magazine room,” which is decorated like a tribute to the early 1890s, Toni Sauceda gracefully circles her wrists as she explains how, inside, she’s always felt that she was a girl. “There’s always that conflict when people don’t understand,” she begins. Her piercing green eyes widen as she continues. “Just because I don’t have the genitalia doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m not that person. I’m a firm believer in just being who you are.” Biologically male, Sauceda is a selfinitiated 23-year-old transgender person who’s seemingly found her way sans the counsel of the established trans community. In 2009, she came to San Antonio by way of Brownsville and caught a performance of the play Miss America: A Mexicanito Fairy’s Tale which starred the late Erica Andrews. “I didn’t know she was a trans woman. I thought she was a beautiful woman. It was then I thought, ‘I can do this.’” Since then, Sauceda’s been “fulltime dressed” including “day drag,” a term which was explained to her as “when a queen goes out during the day
with lighter makeup.” She’s not offended when referred to her as a drag queen, but she does make a distinction. “I’m not impersonating a woman for show,” she says. “I’m sure that there are things we all have in common with night drag queens. We all love makeup. We all love to be beautiful.” San Antonio holds a special meaning for Sauceda, as the place where she first outed herself, even though she doesn’t fit into conventional labels in such a way strangers at once understand. “You go to the store and it’s almost like you’re speed shopping because you don’t want people to stare long enough to question your gender,” she says. A self-described “Netflix junkie,” Sauceda keeps up with documentaries on transgender issues, so she’s aware that there are others like her who know “the ugliness of not feeling understood.” “Deep inside? There are still things that make me a man,” she says candidly. “I like to keep it real. I like identifying as a woman but I don’t plan on getting rid of my penis. Why? Because it’s part of me. I love my penis.” However, body hair is an issue. “It’s hard,” she murmurs with tearful, downcast eyes. “Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and sometimes I’m just a boy with a wig and a dream.”
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Between Two Worlds
•••••••••• Angela Weddle is a 31-year-old trans/ queer activist who uses her legal name in everyday life but prefers to be called Alex. He feels he’s both male and female and identifies with the Native American concept of two-spirits. “I feel that trans is a modern, Western concept, and while there is no one way to be trans, I think when you say you are transgender, which I do, the first thing people think of is sex change, and not gender fluid,” he says via Facebook message. Weddle is comfortable with both feminine and masculine pronouns to describe herself. Weddle has wrestled with depression since early childhood and, as a biracial gay person, has endured physical and verbal bullying. After two suicide attempts over the last two years, Weddle is convinced that he’s “supposed to be here” after he recently jumped off an I-35 overpass and landed, fully conscious. Weddle is sadly not alone in attempted suicides; a broad
Toni Sauceda in character as Janie la Transie for the play Jotos del Barrio
2011 study found that 41 percent of the transgender respondents had tried to kill themselves. In 2014, researchers from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at University of California—Los Angeles School of Law confirmed that transgender community members are at “exceptionally high risk” for suicide. Unlike Sauceda, Weddle would like to one day have her female breasts removed if insurance would cover it. It so happens that in a landmark decision in May, the Department of Health and Human Services overturned
a longstanding rule that prevented Medicare from covering the costs of gender reassignment surgery. “I have hated my breasts since I developed at age 10. I tried binding. But with a 40 D cup, it was very painful. I felt it wasn’t healthy to do long term.” Weddle feels he owes a bit of gratitude to Chaz Bono’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars. “[The show] allowed me to open up the dialogue with my 70-yearold black mom,” he says. “She doesn’t fully understand, but she tries to call me Alex and she buys me men’s clothes sometimes.” sacurrent.com • July 2-July 8, 2014 • CURRENT 25
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Philosophically, Weddle embraces what makes him different. “I feel the LGBT community is a community of incredibly gifted, sensitive people, which is why hate is directed towards us,” he says. “Historically, I’ve read that we, and the trans community in particular, were looked to as shamans and people of wisdom in some societies [and had] the ability to walk between two worlds.”
•••••••••• If a matriarchal symbol of the local transgender family exists, it could be Lauryn Farris, former president of SAGA, the San Antonio Gender Association. I’m sitting across from her at Local Coffee at the Pearl Brewery. When she leans in toward me and says, “‘gender nonconforming’ is the term I prefer,” I notice that she’s dressed in the same shade of pale blue that matches her eyes. Farris prefers feminine pronouns, unlike Weddle. She identifies as trans, and in the past, bisexual—but “never gay.” She’s schooling me on the nonword ‘transgendered.’ “It’s not past tense,” she says warmly, although with no expression on her face. “It’s not a verb. ‘Transgender’ is an adjective. It modifies a noun. [Transgendered] is not a word.” This month, she and her partner Kerry will celebrate 32 years of marriage. “Kerry knew that I was trans before we were married,” she says. “She thought that I’d change.” Farris, who’s open about almost everything but her age, affirms that the word “tranny” is considered a slur and is “used and abused by some people like RuPaul” who, with unapologetic hauteur, intend it that way. “The pronoun for RuPaul is ‘he,’” Farris says with a glint of steel in her eye. “He doesn’t identify at all as female. He’s a gay man.” She cautions that drag entertainers share similar issues. “When [drag performers] leave that club at three ‘o clock in the morning, if someone pursues them as gender nonconforming, they’re under the same risk I’m at everyday,” she says, noting that often hate crimes committed against the LGBT community have
less to do with sexual expression than gender expression. “Maybe it’s safer for me ‘cause I’m out in the light of day. Every gay issue is a trans issue.” Farris touts that President Barack Obama has done more for the trans community than any other president and has a passport to prove it. “I have employment protections under gender that have never been recognized before, because of President Obama,” she says referencing the 2012 expanded protection implemented by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to transgender status and gender identity by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Unsurprisingly, it’s difficult to not take the anti-trans rhetoric personally. “I used to say that I was an activist ... but activists are bulletproof,” she says. “I’m not.” These days, she calls herself “merely an advocate.” For a long time, Farris admits she blamed God. “‘Why did you have to make me like this? Different?’” she spits out in a whisper. “When I came to grips with the fact that God loved me just the way I am ... it was the first day of the rest of my life.” My inquiry as to what makes her feel beautiful is met with genuine surprise. “I’ve never been asked that question,” she utters. “Well, a lot of trans people have a real need to ‘pass.’ We need to get rid of the concept of passing and find the beauty within.” When asked what the trans community looks like in 2064, her vision is clear. “It ... doesn’t ... exist,” she says in measured tones. “There’s not really a need for it anymore. I think the whole concept of gender differentiation becomes much more blurred. But ... one of the biggest things that will prevent that is war. War perpetuates machismo.” Farris believes that if she can make a difference in the life of just one young person, all of her advocacy will have been worth the pain and struggle. “I used to want to change the world,” she says. Her eyes begin to water and her voice becomes almost inaudible. “Now, I’m content with changing just one piece at a time.” She looks out the window and says, “We are far from there.” Then, Farris turns to me and smiles. “But, yeah, we have a lot to celebrate.” C
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The Ultimate PERFORMANCE Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez on their five-year collaboration in art and life SARAH FISCH
An illustrative story about Kristy Perez: She exhibited her sculptural work this year as part of “Bruit rose” at Maison Populaire, a contemporary art center in Paris. Her piece Fight! began when she found an old crutch on a trash heap near her Southtown studio. She decided to reify the crutch by covering it in 24-karat gold leaf. After she gilded this crutch, though, she hated it; she then attacked the gilded crutch with a kind of anticraft, laying waste to waste, physically removing each layer of built-up material, reverse engineering down to the wood, which is itself burled and complex and beautiful. The process was a huge pain in the ass, but she bent to it, and it eventually represented in Paris, where she devised a stand installed into the gallery floor so that the crutch appeared to stand on its own. Perez’s partner Britt Lorraine grew up, in part, tending cattle on her grandmother’s ranch in East Texas, where at the age of seven or eight she also aided her dad, a football coach, by acting as “waterboy” during hometown matches. She loved the players, the tension and excitement of the games, and working hard doing something physical alongside her dad. After a time, her father informed her that she could no longer do her job, and by way of reason, explained that she couldn’t be a waterboy but that she could be an off-field mascot; no girls on the field. It’s a slightly baffling, slightly abstract story with absurdist reasoning—the triangle of girl-mascot-waterboy, what their overlap was and what taboo she’d be breaking. As an adult, Lorraine has decided it was 28 CURRENT • July 2-July 8, 2014 • sacurrent.com
Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez
his way to obfuscate the in-your-face sexism within small-town community disapproval. Nevertheless, Lorraine continued to embrace physical work and abstract ideation, studying dance at Southern Methodist University, earning an MFA from the University of Iowa and founding the dance company Saintlorraine in 2007. Eschewing traditional costuming and virtuosic solos, Lorraine’s choreography and performances take on the repetition of physical labor and finesse it with a staunch, strong shouldered-femininity. She performs in specialized street clothes, draped to support her gestures, her choreography also making daily toil a kind of prayer, unfussy, relatable, easy to internalize,
hard to forget. Together, Perez and Lorraine have created several performance installations. Perez assists in the concept and execution of the visual components like the set, while Lorraine choreographs and performs. On her website, Perez writes, “As artists it is imperative that we create confrontational spaces in order to make room for pause so that there exists the potential for beauty to be uncovered in places and in moments that would normally go unnoticed.” They made such a moment with us at Liberty Bar, in celebration of Pride. How conscious are you of yourselves as a couple in public?
Britt Lorraine: I feel like the act of being together—although we like to stay in with the curtains drawn—the minute you open the door and walk outside, you are being “loud.” The act of us deciding to be together and live together and walking out the door is loud and it does bring the private public. Kristy Perez: I think that we are aware of that, aware of it completely. And for me personally, I recognize and respect the fact that every LGBT person that is out and taking part in this crazy world is doing that, you know, with everything they do. And we don’t always speak about that—but we give each other a little cheer before we go out the door; “Alright, are you ready to do this?”
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We don’t like to go around living our lives like “Oh, we’re the victims.” But the fact is, you’re going to run into confrontational shit sometimes. Do y’all feel like, with a new relationship, you navigate gender roles? Are there certain arenas that are thought of as masculine or feminine that you negotiate? KP: I think we like to role-play, but I think it’s pretty even as regards to who wears the pants. The way you visually present, in particular through social media, as a male-female gender dynamic, that’s very interesting. KP: Well, we love that. We embrace that. Plus, it’s sexy to each other, for each other. BL: I’ve always felt that getting dressed, living is the ultimate performance. So that when I choose to look a certain way, it’s not by accident. What you wear is a choice, and relates to your life [as] a performative act. That said, I hate dance costumes. [Laughs.] Your collaborations, there’s an intimate side; how do you allow for the inevitable conflicts that come with working together as artists? Can it mess with your personal life? BL: It isn’t always easy; I was just recently watching the video Kristy did of a performance. And it was so perfect, and had so many elements of her visual work in it, which, of course, it is. But the preparations take everything out of me, and then there’s the money issue. [Turns to Perez], maybe you’d be better [at] talking about me. [Laughs.] KP: In terms of her preparation, she’s really kind of like an athlete training, right up until it’s the moment to perform. About our work—it’s really an experiment. Which is why it’s so stressful. I try my darndest to make it look like an installation I would do in a gallery space. Then add the love of your life who is also a powerful artist coming in there … Her own elements, it’s just really nerve-racking. But being with someone who has her kind of
confidence, it’s so rewarding. Do you talk about marriage? Is it a plan that you think about pursuing? BL: It should absolutely be legal. Once the action is legal, culturally, things will start to change. On the other hand, though, I don’t feel like we’ve got anything to prove. KP: I’m ambivalent about it because the institution itself was founded in patriarchy. And I’m sensitive to becoming part of the homogenized culture. I can’t imagine being more committed than we are. I’m not going anywhere. On the other hand, there would be legal advantages, financial advantages, and for our kid. Did you have any hesitation about becoming involved in a relationship with Britt [since] a child is part of the equation? [Ava, now 13] KP: I knew everything would change for me. But then I said to myself, “Who are you fooling? You’re so in love with this woman, you can deal with anything that comes to the table.” Is there anything unexpected about parenting that you’ve encountered? KP: Our kid, she’s just a great kid. She’s kinda genius. BL: Everybody says that about her child, but she really is. [They both laugh.] KP: And I don’t want to be one of those gushing parents, and when parents do that it kinda makes me want to throw up. This is going to sound weird, but sometimes I feel more maternal than Britt. BL: I would totally agree with that. And Ava and I are getting closer as we’re both getting older. [Early on, when she was really little] it was very important to me to model for her that you don’t live your life in order to please other people, including me. But the best way to teach her that wasn’t to tell her that, but to do it. That’s in art, in life. Through action. C sacurrent.com • July 2-July 8, 2014 • CURRENT 29
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When Ron Casola hands me a business card for the Live Oak Singers, San Antonio’s latest LGBT chorus, the logo of a multicolored tree trunk leaning demurely into its right hip above the frisky font of his name doesn’t go unnoticed. Hoping to fill the artistic void left by the now dissolved Alamo City Men’s Chorale, Casola appears to be on a mission to usher in a new era of local appreciation for the choral arts. An antecedent figure to the choral community in Phoenix, Casola moved to San Antonio in January after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis brought him to live with his The Live Oak Singers rehearse “Hallelujah” last month nephew, the son of his “Bible thumping” twin brother. With a robust enthusiasm, tradition. “[This] chorus wears all he explains how his storytelling bright, solid polo shirts, bright-colored presentation as a spokesperson for the tennis shoes with khaki slacks and wild National Alzheimer’s Association is, socks … Even though we’ll do serious in part, through song. “A lot of people music, I don’t know that we’ll ever wear think that we’re all crawled up in some tuxedos,” he says. corner in diapers at a nursing home,” Another new facet are the fresh faces. says Casola, now 66. According to Casola, the chorus sent Keeping in step with the age of out emails early in the year to the former gender inclusivity, the Live Oak Singers members of the ACMC, the all-male are not just a musically mixed SATB group that lasted 26 years, but just (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) choir. “It’s “three or four” have signed on. “[Ours] also LGBT and family,” he says. is a mixed chorus,” he says. “Some guys This familial attitude may have taken just don’t like women and don’t want root when he coordinated a chorus them in their lives. One of them told me comprised of Valley of the Sun-area that. He may not be the only one.” Ever breast cancer survivors. The experience the optimist, he initiated plan B and hit brought him close to his singers. In fact, the karaoke bars to recruit voices. some of the women felt so comfortable Casola says when they as to “hold up their blouses to show him came up with the name, no one their scars.” informed him that there was a Live It’s an ongoing aspiration of his that Oak community nearby. “It was too late through their musical ventures, which to change [it],” he says with a chuckle. promise “pop, Broadway and some “Besides, I think it has a ring to it.” madrigal,” the Live Oak Singers will The first of their three yearly concerts be able to help audiences “escape the is scheduled for mid-December— stress of their everyday lives.” Casola tuxedos not included. leads the 28-member group through a –Jade Esteban Estrada two-minute meditation session every rehearsal. “You would not believe what Interested singers age 16 and older a difference that makes,” he says. can contact info@liveoaksingers.org for Casola also plans to part ways with more information. the James Bond tuxedo look, a chorus
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A Home of One’s Own SAAF provides transitional housing for homeless HIV-positive Elaine Wolff
It’s raining ... well, cats and dogs ... outside the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, and I say so to the clients who are chatting in one of the hallways. “Is it raining men?” a gentleman in a wheelchair retorts, and waves disappointedly at the answer. The residents at the SAAF house are here for skilled nursing care and still in many cases, hospice. But as the disease has changed with earlier detection and new drug regimens, so has SAAF’s mission, which includes outpatient care, prevention and education, and mobile testing. And a few blocks from SAAF’s Grayson Street headquarters, the organization operates Carson House, a transitional residence for homeless HIV-positive individuals. “These are the healthier HIV patients,” says SAAF Executive Director David Ewell, but they have no place to live and often come with heavy baggage: addiction, poor or no work history, criminal records, mental-health issues. The program’s goal is to enable residents to move into their own homes by helping them save money, budget expenses and get jobs or Supplemental Security Income for disabled adults. “Nobody judges here,” Regina Villalobos, SAAF marketing director, says. “That makes anybody feel good.” Residents must sign a contract and are allowed to stay only 90 days—once discharged, they can’t return for at least a month. While they live at Carson House, they can eat three meals a day at SAAF and use other onsite services. Case workers visit regularly, and nursing staff are just around the corner. SAAF also runs a tenant rental-assistance program through the City of San Antonio, which can provide up to 30 months of financial support while a former Carson House resident is building a new life. The doors lock at 9 p.m. each night, and drugs are not allowed on the property, but SAAF won’t evict addicts who can’t get sober. Ewell says SAAF is a “harmreduction agency. We’re going to meet them where they’re at.” “We’re realistic,” Villalobos adds. “We would like to get people off of drugs ... but you can’t change people overnight.” Manager Mark Castillo recalls an
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especially inspiring client, who came to Carson House “determined to quit those drugs as soon as he walked through the door.” The man had been employed at a daycare center, but was reluctant to return to his old job because his two front teeth had been knocked out, remembered Castillo. “I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Most of [the kids] probably don’t have front teeth.’” SAAF helped him replace his teeth through its oral-health program, and he found a place at Oxford House, a soberliving community. He also got his job back. Ewell estimates that even though Carson House residents face significant hurdles, 60 percent of its clients have been able to find housing. The two-story house is wrapped in a generous front porch and balconies, and the yard is filled with well-tended palms, small trees and rose bushes. It’s located between Fort Sam and the Pearl residential and retail development, just outside historic Government Hill, and those balconies provide a leaf-framed picture of Downtown to the south. The impersonal front door is the only obvious clue that this house is different from its pretty neighbors. “The home is beautiful,” Ewell says. “It should really provide empowerment.” It’s mid-morning and the residents ought to be out working or looking for a job, but it’s still raining (almost men, at this point), and a couple clients are sleeping in (one had worked an overnight shift). A few others are working on laptops or watching TV. Except for a few unmade beds, the house is orderly and neat. The residents are required to clean the house each day and take part in household chores, overseen by Castillo. SAAF acquired the facility in 2009 in a perfect storm of dire need and crazy luck. That spring, the comprehensive social-services center Hope Action Care lost its funding. With HAC’s demise came the closing of Casa Martin, which provided housing for people who were HIV-positive and homeless. SAAF moved five Casa Martin residents who had nowhere to go into its Grayson facility, and began looking for a more permanent solution. As providence would have it, a
Carson House’s homey exterior
large two-story house was in foreclosure a short walk away. SAAF acquired the entire package for $170,000: fresh paint, five full bathrooms, furniture, art and handicap-accessibility features (an elevator!) that would have cost thousands of dollars to install. Carson House can house up to 20 individuals at one time. It’s currently configured for 15 men, three women, and two transgender residents, but can be reorganized to meet demand. The facility serves as a temporary home to roughly 110 clients each year, at an annual cost of approximately $190,000. Financial support comes from the federal program Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, as well as SAAF general and private funds. Part of Carson House’s unique value is that it houses transgender men and women according to their gender identification, with private bedrooms and access to private bathrooms. But residents must be HIV-positive as well as homeless to qualify for Carson House. “There are a lot of transgender [homeless people] that aren’t,” Ewell says. “And that’s a gap here in SA.” According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in five transgender individuals has been homeless at some point, and almost 30 percent say they have been turned away from a shelter. San Antonio’s homeless-services campus, Haven for Hope, has been criticized for its treatment of preoperative and transitioning transgender clients, who have reportedly been housed based on
their anatomy or their official identification documents rather than their gender identity. But Haven says it no longer follows “a blanket policy,” but assesses and meets each individual’s needs on a case-by-case basis. “Since early 2013, Haven for Hope has adjusted services to meet the different needs of the transgender population,” Haven Director of External Relations Laura Calderon wrote in an email. According to Calderon, Haven will house transgender individuals in accordance with their gender identity, “unless accommodating them would jeopardize their safety.” This can include separate rooms when space allows. (There is currently at least one transgender client at Haven, but Calderon said the privacyprotection rules in HIPAA prevent them from saying where she or he is housed.) Calderon added that Haven also provides advocacy for clients who are looking for housing. “A transgender person may have difficulty securing housing when their identification documents do not reflect their physical appearance,” she wrote. “In these instances, Haven for Hope also advocates on behalf of the transgender person to help them secure housing.” Still, so few beds, so much need. At Carson House the rain has stopped and the sun is already turning the puddles into steam. Time to clean the rooms and start the job search. “It’s one-of-a-kind for transitional housing,” Castillo says as we stand in the shade of the upstairs balcony. “So homey.” C
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Pride Month. What exactly does this month mean for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender est the very limits of (LGBT) people? Is it primarily a time for a e literally. On a Saturday ne unexpectedly community and cultural celebration, or is it a political action of sorts? A reminder to anges the young couple’s take it to the streets? San Antonio’s own only to romantics, butPride “Bigger than Texas” takes place this weekend on July 5 at Crockett Park. oul energy that is Last week marked the 45th anniversary foundation of thorough of the Stonewall Riots (or Stonewall ty, and by using his Rebellion, as GLAAD and some other sed in the novel, Dr. he horrors of that night organizations call it—perhaps not inaccurately), in which many LGBT people owing up as a minority in fought back against being targeted unfairly by police at New York’s Stonewall e story. Inn. Even though the average circuit where he has a private kid may not know it, Pride celebrations taking care of his patients, wife Elizabeth, and they were created as unofficial ways to commemorate this political spark of the ascinated by the historic modern LGBT rights movement. In fact, countries all over the world have adopted June as the de facto opportunity to celebrate queer culture. But is that what Pride celebrations are these days? Are they political in the same way as the event that sparked their very existence? Or have they morphed in more cultural and community events that showcase LGBT culture? James Poindexter, president of Pride San Antonio, which puts on the parade, acknowledges that political apathy is an issue, but says, “I don’t know if engaging people during Pride is the answer to the problem. It is definitely a place where many are all together, so it at least creates an opportunity to have discussion.” In political activism, people sometimes trade stories about what “activated” them—the defining moment when they realized they would take a stand and work diligently towards the cause they support. Much has happened since last year’s Pride with the September 2013 passage of San Antonio’s LGBTinclusive non-discrimination ordinance, and I witnessed many people get activated—visiting city council chambers or even learning for the first time who represented them on council. I’ve been politically inclined for as long as I can remember. A lot of that came from my parents, who would often discuss
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elected officials or ballot measures at the dinner table simply as a standard topic of conversation. But even though politics was fair game for our family, I didn’t get activated until many years later when I came out and wanted to do something to support my local LGBT community. However, politics can be draining. It’s a process that is often compared to the wonderfully nasty culinary task of “sausage-making” because, well, it ain’t pretty. As Chad Reumann, the area representative for the Human Rights Campaign, says, “People get apathetic about politics because it’s such a longterm investment. You don’t see what you want to happen right away, so most people quit before the job is done or they get bored because they keep having to work on the same issue cycle after cycle before it ever gets voted on or considered.” He’s not wrong. Most people (gay or straight) would rather do something social and—at most—talk lightly about politics over dinner or drinks than actually go to a place where policy is made to speak truth to power. Frankly, I’ve often wondered if many of the “rebels” at Stonewall would have taken the fight to the NYC government if the fight hadn’t come to them at the bar. This isn’t to disparage the memory of Stonewall or those who were there—it’s simply to acknowledge that most people are reactive rather than proactive, opting not to take part in the process unless they feel personally pushed or threatened. Dan Graney, who has long been involved in state and local politics and is past president of the Texas Stonewall Democrats, reflects that a lack of political involvement is really not unique to San Antonio or to LGBT issues. “It’s really a nationwide problem,” he observes. “But in San Antonio, I attribute the lack of involvement to the three Cs: closetedness, compartmentalization and complacency. While many LGBT people may be out to themselves, they are not yet out to family members, friends or co-workers—[in other words] selectively out. If we’re not fully out, we tend to compartmentalize that aspect of our lives as something we only trot out to the bars, online dating
Local and state LGBT activists in front of City Hall during the NDO debates last year
sites or private dinner parties rather than integrate that aspect into the whole of our lives. This leads to complacency about the struggles we still face. It is easier and more comfortable to celebrate hard-fought victories rather than get involved in the trench warfare that is waged to achieve those victories.” Graney’s comments perfectly illustrate the interrelatedness and never-ending loop between the political and the cultural/ communal aspects of Pride month celebrations. If Pride allows us to come out as an LGBT community, that removes—to some degree—the closetedness for even a little while. But it’s a matter of breaking out of the closet and the compartmentalization for longer than one celebratory weekend or even one month. It has to be full-time. Elena Guajardo, also a leader with Stonewall Democrats of SA and former District 7 city councilperson, irons this point out by saying that it’s the “little victories that are not always visible to others but that change hearts and minds. These involve finding small ways to come out to everyday people in everyday situations.” To her point, Guajardo tells the story of how she got to know a handyman who was fixing up her house. The man, who was vocally conservative and seemed very traditional in his beliefs, later told Guajardo that he searched for her on the internet and “discovered” that she was lesbian. In that split second, she braced herself for anything, but he then said how much he respected her work and that his daughter was lesbian. It led to a humbling conversation and open discussion for both. “I counted that as a little victory—not in
terms of winners and losers, but winwin for us both. It wasn’t about ‘political’ actions, but a real personal connection. Usually, I’m about as out as they come, but I hadn’t been with him. He reminded me, though, that we are all challenged every moment of every day to be authentic and open. It may take a while, but those sorts of conversations are what later transform to policy and affect political futures. If Pride can’t be a flashpoint every year to build on these sorts of connections and authentic moments, then it is a political event.” Going back to his comment about most people not wanting to be involved in politics because of the long-term investment, Reumann elaborates, “What I always hope people will eventually realize is that there’s nothing like working on something and seeing it to completion, especially when an elected official that you supported actually votes on something that betters lives. In our instant gratification world, the time it takes for that to happen may not be appealing, but it’s a great payoff for those willing to put in the hard work.” Both Poindexter and Guajardo end their interviews with a call for more localand state-level officials, especially city council members, to participate in Pride events, which is a much more common occurrence in other major cities than it is here. Poindexter says that while some, like state senator Leticia Van de Putte and councilman Ray Lopez are regular attendees, there could be more participation from others. As Guajardo says, “It’s true that the people have to get into the politics, but the politicos also have to get out to our people.” C sacurrent.com • July 2-July 8, 2014 • CURRENT 35
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Hit the bars where SA music makes its home and who do you see on stage? Dudes unlimited, on every instrument, of every genre and playing on every evening. Of course, women represent a good take of the creative musical space in San Antonio, but as Melissa Ruizesparza Rodriguez of Saakred says, it’s largely a hetero male space. As Saakred, Rodriguez produces dark, abrasive electronica and heartstring rock ‘n’ roll, products of her creative search as a queer musician. Along with Pink Leche, a producer of raspa-sweet electro art-pop, the pair are some of the most visible and imaginative queer musicians active in SA. We sat down with the artists to discuss queer music in San Antonio in all its shortcomings and proud progress. Would you identify as a musician or a queer musician? Pink Leche: My music and my identity are super tight, so connected. My music, my background in music and the people I grew up listening to have made me the queer person that I am. And now it’s engrained. I’m fucking proud to be a queer musician, I’m proud to be queer.
Saakred: It’s hard to separate, it’s us making music and we’re queer people. I think it’s all about whether you’re into visibility or not. Or if you understand the importance of visibility. Both of your stage names speak volumes about your music. What do they mean to you? PL: Pink Leche is actually from the [Rio Grande] Valley. It’s a raspa. It was one of my favorites growing up. Being an educator, we’re always being warned—“don’t use your name online”—so I always had to go by an alias. Pink Leche to me is where I come from, it’s totally the Valley. And pink is queer, but also, milk reminds me of Harvey Milk. S: In music, there’s something that you connect to when you’re creating, when you’re singing. For me, this is a sacred thing, what I’m doing here. It’s the idea that everything is sacred. People started calling me that and it’s become my identity too, which has been cool because it’s gender neutral and something that I dig. Has the SA scene been a receptive outlet for your music and message? S: I don’t think that outlet is there. Us
as queer musicians are paving the way for other queer musicians to do that. Being a woman who’s non-conforming, it’s fucking hard. Because the women that exist in this music scene further patriarchy, playing the game in a way that sexualizes themselves. I would argue that there aren’t many spaces that are available. PL: We as queer musicians need to find those spaces that allow us to be who we are and do what we want to do. S: I think you’re right. As a queer performer in a heteronormative space, when I play, women come to the front and queer people come to the front ... It’s existing in heteronormative environments and changing the spaces from within. Do your performances and music help shine a light on queer SA? PL: I think it’s very refreshing as a queer person, seeing a performer like that. Especially since we don’t have very many in San Antonio. If a queer person hasn’t seen you before and goes to your show, they’re like “oh shit, this is happening in San Antonio.” I think it’s cool we’re doing this. S: I’m sure we’ll continue to see young,
queer artists come up in San Antonio. I believe that we’ve helped make a way for that. I know we have. There was nobody doing it when I started, and Pink Leche came along and I’m psyched we’re doing it together. There are other artists that are doing it too, but I don’t think they’re out in the same way or as visible. Things are starting to happen that are indications of progress, but they exist in bars. Pink Leche, could you break down your song “Young, Gifted and Gay”? PL: It started off building up my song bank by using some covers, including Nina Simone. I was thinking about “(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black” and I thought it’d be rad to do “Young, Gifted and Gay.” A friend was listening and said, “What you’re doing is badass. But you need to be powerful. This song is power. And the way you’re singing it is timid. You need to bring it.” So I did a different beat to it and sang much louder and it came across how I wanted it to. You can hear the pride in that song. It shows my journey as a person. And singing to others, it’s like “guys, it’s our time.” For an extended interview and music, visit sacurrent.com; see them live at High Wire Arts on Saturday, details on p. 19. sacurrent.com • July 2-July 8, 2014 • CURRENT 37
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Here’s something you don’t hear much: “Austin needs another music festival.” Between the behemoth SXSW, the exponentially growing ACL, the quirky Fun Fun Fun, the tripped-out Psych Fest and several smaller fests in Austin’s orbit, one might well presume that the city’s music festival market is already quite saturated. But if you ask Stargayzer Fest producer and talent booker Brett Hornsby, it becomes clear that there’s room for more. In this fall’s inaugural Stargayzer Fest, Hornsby and his co-conspirators have put together an exciting lineup and ethos for a festival that focuses on spotlighting LGBT artists/ performers and celebrating the thriving, stateside LGBT music community. Stargayzer features such diverse acts as Cody Critcheloe of SSION New Orleans bounce rapper Big Freedia, Kansas City art-popper SSION, Canadian darkwave synth-poppers Austra, Cali artrockers Xiu Xiu, NYC rapper Cakes Da Killa and San Antonio punk foursome Fea, among other stellar acts. I caught up with Hornsby via email from a tour in London, and we talked about the what, the who and the why of Stargayzer.
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This exhibition is organized by the McNay Art Museum.The Semmes Foundation, Inc. is generously providing lead sponsorship. Major supporters are Mary Beth and Jack Williamson (a gift of the James Family Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation), the Flora Crichton Visiting Artist Fund, the Ewing Halsell Foundation Endowment for Visiting Artists, the Director’s Circle and the Host Committee. Additional funding is generously provided by members of the Beautiful People. Beatriz Milhazes, Canela (Cinnamon), 2009. Woodblock, woodcut, and screenprint. Edition of 40. Courtesy of the artist and Durham Press, Durham. Photo courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York.
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the photograph, Bloxham (the redhead in question) and the shadowy figure. All else in the scene is superfluous from the packing peanuts to the dumpster. The story is about the fear our protagonist is feeling at the moment the image was made. The story is told and we understand—the Sandman will come for us all. Ashley Feagin, on the other hand, takes a slightly different tack in constructing narratives; she shows body parts representative of the whole scene. In Being Martha (2010), Feagin delivers us a view of the kitchen floor, covered in white flour, a white eggshell cracked where it fell, a pair of white high-heeled shoes, female Tom turner legs obscured by falling flour and a white knee-length dress with a green and lacy apron that comes to the top There are fuzzy, house-shaped monsters hiding right edge of the frame. Feagin tells the viewer a tale of under bedroom furniture, a shadowy ghoul perfection shattered, the striving toward nostalgia and stalking a redheaded gentleman and modern the ever-present disappointment when the actuality falls torture devices shown in the exhibition “Spinning short of the destination. Her images aren’t discouraging Yarns: Photographic Storytellers,” on view at Blue Star but rather they are whimsical and light. They speak to that Contemporary Art Museum through August 3. Curated which is in us all: the desire for a moment of perfection by Anne Leighton Massoni and Libby Rowe, the within a world of chaos. traveling show builds upon the idea of narrative Feagin, like many of the photographers in “Spinning storytelling through the photograph. Yarns,” constructs her narrative around familiar Throughout “Spinning Yarns,” photographers construct storylines. Co-curator and University of Texas—San scenes compressing multiple elements into singular and Antonio assistant professor Rowe uses our familiarity multiple images to tell stories. This practice dates way with the home and the structures we inhabit to bypass back in art history and has its influences most notably in narratives in favor of us filling in our own experiences the 18th century. Think of it this way: You take the most and memories. In Dust to Dust (2008), Rowe reveals momentous part of your favorite film, the moment that the largest dust bunny in history underneath what decides which way the plot will move (like in 300 when looks like a dresser. This house-shaped dust bunny King Leonidas kicks the messenger into the pit), and you could be the key to the whole exhibition. The desire paint that moment. You paint the guy flying backwards, for home and safety, nostalgia and heart permeates the King’s cloak flowing behind him, the other guards the exhibit. The leading lines of the floorboards take us slaughtering all of the messenger’s party, and you focus directly into the home’s front door. This isn’t a house on this one moment in time. we want to enter; it is dirty and full of cat hair and pet Many of the artists in the exhibition employ this form dander. But it is a home and the ugly truth about our of tableau photography, using figures to act out a story. homes is what makes us want to come back. Rowe is The use of the figure allows for the viewer to be a bit trying to tell us that home is not where the heart is— more reflexive in how they approach the work. We are home is where the desire, the craving, the yearning and quite comfortable these days with deciphering stories our memories take us. and themes with people in them. Take Andy “Spinning Yarns: Photographic Bloxham’s Beta 34 (2008). Here we have Storytellers” builds narratives through the Spinning Yarns: a frightened, redheaded young man, hiding use of symbolism and metaphor. These Photographic Storytellers from what appears to be a ghoulish zombie tableaus range from bears dreaming of $3-$5 version of Christopher “Kid” Reid with his Twinkies to the communication between Noon-8pm Thu, noon-6pm Fri-Sun high-top fade haircut. This scene fills the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum two people with nautical flags. Throughout 116 Blue Star viewer with anxiety of all the things that go these images are stories of peril and (210) 227-6960 bump in the night. The dramatic lighting security, risk and reward, fantasy and reality, bluestarart.org highlights the two important elements within Through August 3 all dealing with human desire, need and
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The Virgin of Clan Sinclair by Karen Ranney | Avon Books | 2014 | 338 pp It’s summer, and even the most literary of us are sighing at the thought of lugging The Goldfinch to the beach, Pulitzer Prize notwithstanding. When the temperature rises and the brain starts to melt, we want a small, simple paperback that provides adequate shade when placed over our eyes while lying on a lounge chair—what I call airport books but are actually referred to as genre literature: romances, spy thrillers, mysteries, Westerns and the new super-popular supernatural scene. I particularly love romances, ever since reading Harlequin bodicerippers right alongside Wuthering Heights as a tween. San Antonio author Karen Ranney is well known for her Scottish historical romances (25 to date) and her latest, The Virgin of Clan Sinclair, ends a trilogy of
“Clan Sinclair” stories all set in Scotland in the 1870s. Although a standard romance novel in many ways, I found the protagonist refreshing and unique. Let’s dispense with the obvious first. Our heroine is a shy but headstrong virgin (it’s right there in the title) with an overbearing mother worried about her unmarried state. She thinks she is incredibly plain but is actually beautiful. A hasty marriage with a dashing stranger is arranged based on a flimsy excuse. The hero is a strong, silent type with a dark secret that renders him unable to be truly vulnerable and admit his love for his new wife. Ultimately, he is redeemed by her goodness and innocence. She is fulfilled by a happy marriage and pregnancy. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—those are the standard romance novel tropes for a good reason. But where The Virgin of Clan Sinclair distinguishes itself is in its deviation from the norm. Ellice Traylor, the heroine, while the titular virgin, is also an amateur eroticist. Influenced by the scandalous novels of the time, Tom Jones and Fanny Hill, Ellice pours all of her sexual frustrations into a wanton novel centered around Lady Pamela, her bold, adventurous, licentious foil (and possibly a knowing nod to the real-life steamy, forward-thinking 1740 novel Pamela). Her dream is to have the novel published so she will be financially independent. Instead, she has to sacrifice the novel and marry to avoid a political scandal. When she encounters problems in her marriage, she works them out in writing, through Pamela. However, it is only when she claims Lady Pamela’s spirit and experiences as her own that she finds real agency. She makes true choices about the marriage, her book and even her virginity. The idea of a woman using her creativity to explore her sexual awakening, and to be in control of it from the outset, is an exciting advance in historical romances. It was an enjoyable read, perfect for the lounge chair. P.S. Also a welcome improvement over past romances: Ranney’s straightforward use of “cock.” I remember when “member” was all the rage. —Leigh Baldwin
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The Grand Seduction is cute and smart and loves its characters, but one thing will nag at the back of your brain over and over throughout viewing it: Why would anyone want to hire a doctor who’s as dumb as Dr. Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch)? Sure, the town at the center of The Grand Seduction is desperate for a doctor in residence in order to get a big-swingin’-dick factory built so that jobs will return to the area and the locals can stop living on welfare. But Lewis is a bona fide dum-dum. How else can you explain bringing enough cocaine to kill a bull elephant through Canadian Customs? Or an American loving cricket? Or that he’s never suspicious of finding exactly the same amount of cash in the same spot each night as he walks home from the bar? Any audience member will have to make a choice to throw in and go along with the scam—the grand seduction, if you will—at the center of The Grand Seduction. The whole thing is so cockamamie that to look at it through the lens of normal suspension of disbelief is a fool’s errand, much like the scam itself. Tickle Cove is a once-robust, now dilapidated, fishing village north of the border. The men were once fishermen, and the women, whatever they used to do, are tired of caring for the depressed men. There is a glimmer of hope. A large oil company is
in trouble with the Canadian government, and to make amends for some kind of toxic dumping (or something equally reprehensible), they’ve agreed to build a refinery in a small town. Tickle Cove wants to be that small town because a refinery equals jobs. But because factories are a place where workers can lose an arm or a leg or a life, the Canadian government and the oil company agree that a doctor must reside in the town where the factory is constructed. Unfortunately, Tickle Cove has no doctor. But necessity (and Frank Zappa) is the mother of invention, and Murray French (Brendan Gleeson, delightful in a light role) has an idea: Trick a doctor into falling in love with their town, get him to move there permanently, and then sign the papers with the oil company. Then everyone earns money, and all the men get laid (that rather crude subplot is played for laughs, but it’s decidedly tacky in an otherwise gentle film). Enter the coke-snortin’, cricket-playin’ Dr. Lewis, who gets nabbed at the airport for possession en route home to New York after a huge cricket tournament (why not?). It just so happens that the former mayor of Tickle Cove is working in customs, and he pulls some strings—how, at an entry-level position, is never explained—and Dr. Lewis is stuck in Tickle Cove, population Jack Shit, for 30 days. The Grand Seduction wants to be a screwball comedy, and it has elements of that, but there’s an undercurrent of sexism in it—Murray feels abandoned by his wife when she takes a job “in town,” but he’s too proud to follow her there, though it’s played off as his love of Tickle Cove. Plus, and, this bears repeating, Dr. Lewis is downright stupid. But this is a movie, and movies need something to thrust the narrative forward. One man’s stubbornness
and one man’s apparent lack of smarts is as good as anything, I guess. Murray gets the local banker to go in with him on the gag, and he cons the switchboard operators into listening in on Paul’s calls (no cell service, natch), and before long they’re seducing the hell out of this guy with an M.D. And really, who gives a shit if Paul’s stupid? He can wield a scalpel, and he genuinely begins to care for the residents who don’t have regular medical attention. Plus, he’s better than nothing, even if his specialty back in New York is cosmetic surgery. The conceit at the cynical heart of The Grand Seduction is laced with sugar (and not a little bit of cyanide). Let’s face it: If this story happened in real life, there would be lawsuits and prison time and lots kicking old dudes in the nuts for retribution. However, it’s surprisingly sweet. Despite the absurd premise and the hiding-behind-buildings and lies-uponlies gags (the bit when Murray makes the town’s 150 people look like 300 is funny, if hackneyed), it’s all done with such good humor, you can’t help but smile. There’s even one character, Kathleen (Liane Balaban), who acts as audience surrogate; she won’t take part in the shenanigans and therefore takes the curse off the silliness. Make the decision to have fun, and The Grand Seduction will be fun. Just don’t let someone who looks like Taylor Kitsch be your doctor. The guy’s an idiot. C The Grand Seduction (PG-13) Dir. Don McKellar; writ. Michael Dowse, Ken Scott; feat. Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent
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This is Texas–barbecue doesn’t have moments, it has never-ending eras. But it seems business owners are zeroing in on the current ’cue movement as of late. And the good ’cue is moving closer to Downtown: Dady stretched his legs with B&D Ice House, Augie Cortez (of Augie’s Barbedwire Smokehouse) is staking his spot on Broadway with Augie’s Alamo City BBQ this summer and two buddies are opening Alamo Ice House off North Alamo in the coming weeks. So it’s really no surprise that a visit to Conger’s Smoke Shack’s first brick-and-mortar location means waiting in line amongst other ’cue-hungry patrons. That’s been the case since day one. Owner, chef and ’cue connoisseur Chris Conger originally catered to the ’09 set out of a trailer parked on Nacogdoches inside Loop 410 since 2011. The trailer took a short break just before this review, but Conger expanded the operation in late March at 3714 Broadway, smack dab in front of the Witte. It parallels Augie’s proximity to the San Antonio Zoo and makes for an interesting scene on weekends. Although employees at the counter are chipper and the kitchen is quick to ring up those massive orders, you are in for a lunchtime wait, even on weekdays. Again, there’s a reason for such madness–the ’cue is good and the digs are comfortable. The Smoke Shack kept meals and meats on the menu while adding snacks and more sandwiches inside a clean and friendly environment (the Mason jar lighting is an interesting choice, but I’ll let it slide), and prices aren’t bad either. For my first visit, maybe a day or so after opening (can you blame me?), I stuck with my usual pick of sliders. Available in two options (one slider and two sides for $8, two sliders and two sides for $9), the not-so-mini sandwiches come with your choice of brisket, turkey, pulled pork or sausage. My chosen meats, turkey and brisket, were smoky and moist, and the dinner roll was buttery and toasted just so. One is more than enough, but you’ll definitely reach for the other … that is unless you start taking down that mac ’n’ cheese.
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Made using a corkscrew noodle, the mac is matched with a luscious cheese sauce that covers each bite and the occasional bit of sausage. It’s great and all, but the okra is a must-have. Lightly coated and fried, the okra retains its vibrant green color without any of that signature goo. And if you’re looking to head in a slightly healthier direction, the bright vinegar slaw is probably your best bet (leave the garlicky mashed potatoes for a cheat day). Yes, the menu does include larger sandwiches … but I’m not Man vs Food’s Adam Richman, especially considering the $10 Big Dog offering with a link of sausage, brisket, pulled pork and slaw. They’re ginormous meals made with the same ingredients used in the sliders. On my next visit, I decided instead to go big with a threemeat barbecue plate of brisket, chicken and ribs, and an
additional sausage link ($2 per link), which served as three meals over the course of a few days. The Smoke Shack doesn’t skimp on portions–that’s for sure. At $14, the plate is downright daunting. My chicken was seasoned well, albeit just a bit dry. As a fan of lean brisket, I loved not having to navigate my way through chunks of fat; the sausage was flavorful and abundant, but the ribs stole the spotlight. Just a step away from falling off the bone, the pork offering was peppery and tender, while the bark is just sticky enough and sweet. Your next visit could get messy. If the packed parking lot and dining room are any indication, Conger and his growing staff have picked up a few more fans since the days at Nacogdoches, and you should add your name to the list. C
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Instead I ordered the jalapeño roast beef–near identical to my favorite sammie save for the jalapeño-cilantrolime sauce slathered inside the top bun. At $5.75, the sandwich is worth every penny, with its hearty amount of warm beef, fresh mixed greens, melty provolon, creamy sauce and soft-yetrobust house-made bread. It’s almost embarrassing how much sauce I got on my face, but that’s how good these sandwiches are. (Side note: I went through about 18 napkins … clearly something for me to improve on.) I’m usually confident in my lunch orders, but my partner’s Station Reubenation gave me second thoughts. The extra-cheesy sandwich was laced with a rye-laden sauce and loaded with sauerkraut. I quelled my lunch-envy with my $3 Greek salad with organic baby greens, a serving of feta, Kalamata olives, thin cucumber slices, tomato and a few slivers of red onion. Balsamic, ranch, red wine vinaigrette and a jalapeño dressing were available on the side. Though we opted for no dessert this go around, the big-as-your-face chocolate chip cookies and individually wrapped slices of coconut cream pie have a pretty solid track record. Knowing they’re there is comfort enough already. –Jessica Elizarraras flavor@sacurrent.com
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It’s not often that we head back for re-do nightlife reviews. But our initial 2011 write-up about Moses Rose’s Hideout isn’t quite applicable these days. Back then, Alamo history (the bar is named after Louis “Moses” Rose, a famous battle deserter) and loud local jams were the bar’s bread and butter, but things have changed. Moses Rose’s Hideout still retains some of its original makeup and the unfortunate tricky vestibule where would-be patrons are tasked with goofy activities before attaining entrance. Protip: I often circumvent that by entering through the side door. Yet the space has seen the natural ebb and flow that comes with being a downtown bar. My three recent visits drew wildly different experiences, each playing to a different part of my persona. On a recent Thursday evening, I joined 52 CURRENT • July 2-July 8, 2014 • sacurrent.com
a friend for happy hour. The space—which still houses the plethora of mounted animal heads, electronic dart board, pool table, several TVs, a sizable stage and a dance floor—was empty except for a few rowdy Spurs fans (this was days before the Finals began) and a handful of chill happy hour attendees. The offerings were simple, but enticing: $3 for most drafts and wells along with $2.50 bites (homemade pickles, deviled eggs with bacon, and many fried things) and bigger bites ($4 for a basket of hot wings and $3.50 for nachos with brisket). The deviled eggs were the victors—creamy and laced with just enough paprika and bacon—while the nachos could have benefited from a sturdier base. The paper-thin tortilla chips proved no match for the generous cheese, fresh pico de gallo and house brisket. We washed them down with Shiner’s Belgian white ale, White Wing, paid our ridiculously low tab and went our separate ways home. Come Saturday night, Moses Rose’s played to a different crowd and it worked surprisingly well. The local live music ensemble was stashed away when we arrived at 10:30 p.m. A VJ took its place
but the joint could still benefit from a into South Texas territory with a chile-lime few carpets or curtains to soak up the rim. Not bad, but I should have stuck to high decibels as pointed out by previous my trusty White Wing. While the kitchen reviewer Chuck Kerr in November 2011. stays open until 1 a.m., we followed the Yet no one seemed to mind thanks to the example of most around us and decided great mix that included just about every to drink our calories instead. ’90s R&B and Top 40 jam. Even so, While Moses Rose’s clearly caters we made use of the outdoor, fenced-in to the touristy crowd, locals don’t shy patio—a recent addition—and took in the away from the bar either. Just as many scene. downtown denizens and River Walk I always say the sign of a good VJ servers could be found milling amongst the is whether he/she can read a crowd, out-of-towners waiting for their turn at the and Saturday’s was no slacker. When random claw prize machine in the back. Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” proved a The allure of the bar’s full menu dud, he quickly turned things over to reeled me back in during daytime hours V.I.C’s “Wobble,” and kept the dance to try the hefty, sweet and savory brisket anthems going with a cumbia remix of tacos and to watch a soccer match. At Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop.” $6.99 with hand-cut fries and a drink, The bar was busy, but not packed; the tacos were more than filling, but ordering and receiving a drink took no I might indulge in one of the loaded more than five minutes. This time I took burgers, ordered by at least four other a peek at their specialty drink and shot folks near me, next time. list, filled with concoctions such as If The Ticket takes in all the sport “Samoa Girl Scout Cookie” and “Orange diehards, Moses Rose’s is a threefold Creamscicle,” and came up refuge for chill conference-goers with an Eddy’s Texas Tea ($6). and downtown employees looking Moses Rose’s Made with Deep Eddy’s sweet for a decent and inexpensive Hideout tea vodka and fresh-squeezed lunchtime bite, a quiet place to 516 E Houston limeade, the drink was sweet unwind after work and a come(210) 775-1808 mosesroseshideout.com and refreshing, but took a turn one-come-all party on weekends. C
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In September, Scotland will vote on this proposition: Should the land of Bobby Burns leave the UK? In this regard, Texan would-be secessionists are no doubt green with envy; here, we only talk the talk, but the Scots may actually walk the walk. In the interest of acknowledging maverick tendencies in both countries (make that “political entities”), OTR staged a taste-off to see whose singlemalt whiskies had the moxie to match their political bluster. Conventional wisdom would have it that Texas is at a significant disadvantage here: There aren’t that many Texas single malts to begin with, and our legitimate distilling history is insignificant compared to that of Scotland. And yet, the Texas singlemalt whisky made by Chip Taylor at Balcones in Waco was proclaimed “The finest new whisky in the world” in a recent article in Forbes, so a matchup didn’t seem necessarily all that one-sided. The Macallan Fine Oak 15 Year Single Malt is also no stranger to double-gold medals, and it retails for around the same (in the range of $80—when you can find them), so that was it: The Scottish Slugger versus the Texas Tornado. For the blind tasting (the spirits were poured by a neutral referee in another room), OTR pulled together a high school English teacher (who’s also the front man for a rock band), an insurance broker and a real estate developer—plus YT. Just your ordinary band of Scotchloving brothers. We tasted first neat, mostly in specially shaped Glencairn Scotch tasting glassware, and then with drops of water. At the final bell, it was Balcones, strictly by the numbers. (Most of us had thought the Texan was Scottish and vice versa.) The Macallan seemed bold, even “hot,” to many on the nose, and its finish was deemed short; one taster did correctly pin down “a Highland maltiness,” and others found pear, honey, even plum and lychee (really), on the palate. Water helped this one tame its heat. The Balcones, on the other hand, was
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Damon McMahon sheds self as Amen Dunes Matt Stieb
“The best way I can describe Love is as a cowboy worship record,” says Damon McMahon, explaining his newest output as Amen Dunes. “Literally, in, like, the character I aspired to as a little kid and cowboy worship [as] a way of being in the world.” When I hear the phrase “cowboy worship” in music, the sound of Amen Dunes doesn’t immediately ring the cowbell, at least not in the way the bombastic work of Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western soundtracks do. Love, the third Amen Dunes LP, sounds more underwater than set in the American West, its reverb-drenched instruments coming in waves of mantric repetition. But Clint Eastwood’s Dollar Trilogy isn’t exactly the image of cowboy life that Love is trying to channel. “It’s music about beautiful failure, which has a long history in rock music,” McMahon continues. In that light, Amen Dunes’ cowboy portraits are closer to the stuff of Cormac McCarthy’s dark worlds or Jon Voigt’s character in Midnight Cowboy, churning forward in the face of perennial loneliness and failure. Operating out of New York, McMahon has had some creative letdowns in past musical endeavors to inform Amen Dunes. Riding the hype of Interpol- and Strokesstyle rock from NYC, McMahon’s prior band Inouk crashed hard. “It was in the age of excitement and money, in 2000 and ’01, and I blew my load on young musical expectations,” says McMahon. “I had a lot of good things happen and had it all fall apart and I learned that lesson early on. It really helps now ‘cause I know what not to do.” In a complete 180-degree turn from the formula of revivalist post-punk, the music of Amen Dunes is wildly unique and structure-averse. It’d be damn hard to confuse McMahon’s current work with any other artist, except perhaps a slow, unreleased Neutral Milk Hotel tune. Like Jeff Mangum’s college radio-defining NMH material, Love is a sonically dense record, despite being driven by acoustic guitar. The complementing instruments—French horn, vibraphone, sax and violin—are carefully poised to blend into the washed out guitar, never distracting from McMahon’s simple, notable melodies. “We went up to Montreal and recorded it with some of the guys from Godspeed You Black Emperor!,” says McMahon. “We had four people in the studio at a time and a lot of those elements are still on the record. There are rough mixes with multiple string parts, cello parts, extra guitars—a whole shitload of stuff.” But listening to the polished result, little of that maximal 58 CURRENT • July 2-July 8, 2014 • sacurrent.com
mindset comes through. “It’s totally stripped down,” says normal people.” McMahon. “I listen for what is necessary. And what’s the Whatever self is at the helm, Love is an incredible most resonant. Not literally, but figuratively. You can tell piece of work. Album-opener “White Child” kicks when a part is just not necessary.” off with an eye-opening pair of out-of-rhythm guitars, As his best album yet, Love is something simultaneously shortly settling into Arcade Fire-contributor Colin dear and aloof to McMahon. He described Amen Dunes Stetson’s barry sax, stomping drums and the record’s content as “always about self and being human or nonstrongest melody. On “Lonely Richard,” over Velvet human.” Confused, I asked him to expand: “You’ve got Underground-style strings, McMahon drops barfly your obvious self and all your extended selves. It could be advice on the title character, singing “have yourself a literally that kind of connection to another self in the form of good time,” only to switch to a more sage expression: a character I’m singing about, or a reflection on the past.” “you’ve known yourself for all time.” A passionate In writing and performance, McMahon separates record, Love is loner music with a sense of himself from the “non-human” identity of Amen cosmic connectedness. Dunes. “It’s definitely not me,” says McMahon. On display at the final Mondo Nation pop-up “I try to ultimately separate myself from that. show this summer, Love’s long rhythms and Amen Dunes feat. Axxa/Abraxas, Because if you make yourself too much like McMahon’s arresting voice help bring the music Flower Jesus your art and performances I think the music to a meditative headspace, a place McMahon $5 and performance becomes a little more considers to be richly creative. “I think I have 8pm Weds, July 2 bullshitty. You get your ego super wrapped to get to that place before making music, or it Silkwörm Studio up into it. Because how interesting am I? Not 1906 S Flores happens simultaneously,” he says. “I definitely very much. Anybody, any musician, they’re just (210) 607-1322 make music to quiet my mind.” C
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Nashville’s Brandy Clark explores the low life on 12 Stories There’s a new girl’s club living week to week but never feeling poor in Nashville writing with cause that’s how everyone lived. a refreshing, honest and provocative no-holds-bar agenda about “Crazy Woman” trailer park life: gold-diggers, pill-popping, Every crazy woman I know, there is illegitimate children, murder and all. Their some man making her crazy. It’s vice-atalent is turning depressing subjects into versa too. road-tripping, sing-along anthems with an upbeat country twang. “Stripes” The leader of these renegade women It’s a daydream song. I think a lot of is singer-songwriter Brandy Clark. Her hit people in prison are there because of single “Stripes” tells the other side of that temporary insanity. old country adage of a man drowning the sorrows caused by a woman that left him. “Take A Little Pill” In Clark’s version, that man is just lucky to I hear everyone start complaining that be sitting in that bar … and not graveyardtheir husbands drink too much and I think, dead after what he did. is there any difference between that and “I think life is a black comedy with a your glass of wine and your Xanax? lot of sad truth out there. The only way to really swallow it is to make it a little “Hungover” bit funny,” Clark told the Current. Her That’s about someone who has aptly named debut 12 Stories is a witty, enabled someone for a long time and quirky tribute to her upbringing and the then they decide, “you know what, I’m Nashville music milieu. As a writer, she gonna live my life and move on, all while has graced the albums of Reba McEntire, you are hungover.” Keith Urban, Darius Rucker, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, The Band Perry and “Illegitimate Children” Kasey Musgrave’s Grammy-winning A lot of marriages and a lot of shared album Same Trailer, Different Park with custody situations really stem from one her signature satirical wordsmithing. drunken night. “If I write a song about divorce and someone responds to it who “The Day She Got Divorced” has been divorced or if I write I song When my mom heard it, she said, about cigarette smoking and a smoker “Before the day you get divorced, you responds to it, then I know I hit the nail kinda think about it as a huge day but it on the head,” Clark said. “That’s really is just like any other day! how I like to write.” Life goes on.” Brandy Clark feat. We asked Clark to give a Jennifer Nettles glossary of some of the trailer “Just Like Him” $27.25 park fiction of 12 Stories. It’s about having a parent as 7:30pm Thur, July 3 dysfunctional as that father in Whitewater Amphitheater “Pray To Jesus” the song … and how that chaos 11860 FM 306 I grew up in a trailer and my feels like love to you. (New Braunfels) parents playing the lottery and –Brenda Matamoros whitewaterrocks.com
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AURAL PLEASURE Big Freedia | Just Be Free | Queen Diva | HHHH For years, Big Freedia’s ass-shaking, high BPM spectacle has been the sleeper, must-see act of big-name festivals’ daytime hours, a space that helped expose the Queen Diva’s raucous bounce to huge swaths of new fans. With Just Be Free, the rapper who brought New Orleans’ bounce music and twerking to the national stage is looking to mainline into an even greater audience via the all-encompassing force of EDM. But where Lil John cashed his remaining chips on dubstep conventions for the success of “Turn Down for What,” Freedia’s betting conservatively, only slightly turning up the rises and drops that would hook an EDM audience. Mostly, she sticks to her guns: voice modulation and delay, explosive snares and enough repetition to keep azzes everywhere moving through Just Be Free’s 33 minutes. But when she steps out of her comfort zone, incorporating NOLA frontline horns on “Jump on It” and Drive soundtrack synth on “Lift Dat Leg Up,” the Queen Diva reaches new levels of creativity. —Matt Stieb
How to Dress Well | “What Is This Heart?” | Domino | HHHH Tom Krell cut his first record as How to Dress Well in 2010, back when he seemed to typify the burgeoning movement of indie R&B (read: white guys singing falsetto). At the time Krell and his counterparts James Blake and Justin Vernon didn’t seem to have much pull outside of Pitchfork-concerned circles, but it turned out that their weird, deconstructionist take on R&B proved exactly what the stagnant genre needed. It wasn’t long before the mainstream followed suit: Kanye West collaborated with Vernon, Frank Ocean won a Grammy, Beyoncé made Beyoncé. Four years on, Krell is back with his third record “What Is This Heart?,” an appropriately hearton-the-sleeve declaration proving that, whatever the hell indie R&B is at this point, he’s clearly better at it than anyone. That’s not to say “What Is This Heart?” is at Channel Orange level. But it’s damn good, and by no small stretch the best How to Dress Well record yet. Start with the cover: a bracing close-up of Krell’s face that, in addition to proving his uncanny resemblance to Manu Ginobili, sets us up for just how close he plans on getting over the following 12 tracks. That emotional candor and desire to stretch his voice to R. Kelly-level vocal acrobatics results in some alternately moving and embarrassing moments. But it’s hard to stay cynical in the face of something as sweeping as “Pour Cyril,” as crippling as “See You Fall” or as captivatingly epic as closer “House Inside.” —J.D. Swerzenski
White Lung | Deep Fantasy | Domino | HHHH In 2014, White Lung sounds like what Iggy Pop’s body looks like: snarling muscle, a gnarly, leathered surface and not an inch of room for excess bulk. In the 22 minutes of Deep Fantasy, the Vancouver quartet punches through 10 songs of perfectly crafted punk, leaving nothing to waste on their third LP. Drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou and bassist Hether Fortune are coiled with energy, while guitarist Kenneth William puts on a six-string master class, briskly switching out pounding chords for tire-screeching SST solos. In tandem with William’s talent, frontwoman Mish Way affirms Deep Fantasy’s status as one of the best punk records of the year. Way’s at her best on “Face Down” and “Sycophant,” when she isn’t singing as much as pouring out fuckoff-isms and language of empowerment. It’s clear that Deep Fantasy is a positive release of negative energy, meant for stereo-blasting, limb-flailing emotional discharge. I just pity those on the receiving end of White Lung’s no-prisoners March to the Sea. —Matt Stieb 62 CURRENT • July 2-July 8, 2014 • sacurrent.com
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When I saw The Grasshopper Lies Heavy debut the stuff from their sophomore album All Sadness, Grinning Into Flow, it was the first time I’d felt the pain receptors in my fake, nerveless tooth. It’s that loud. Current contributor James Woodard and his quartet create huge, instrumental textures of doom with the infrastructure of gear nerds and the aesthetic sense of metal kids with a penchant for art music. To complement TGLH’s touring away party, Ghost Police and Spokesmodel add their visceral rock modes, vying with each other for the status of SA’s best pure punk band. Along with the Smokey Robinsons, a sample-based, doo-wop-drone offshoot of Flower Jesus, Saturday evening’s Ten Eleven bill is an enviable display of SA’s heavy music. $5, 9pm, The Ten Eleven, 1011 Avenue B, (210) 320-9080, theteneleven.com. —Matt Stieb
Wednesday, July 2
Amen Dunes, Axxa/Abraxas. Flower Jesus Out on the Sacred Bones label,
Amen Dunes’ Love is a gorgeous loner record, the best output yet from the solo project of Damon McMahon. Fronted by Ben Asbury of Athens, Ga., Axxa/Abraxas embodies lo-fi’s free spirit. As a collage of the decades from administrations LBJ to Obama, Axxa/ Abraxas twists the retrospective music into a whole new animal, and a groovy one at that. SA’s Flower Jesus’ crossgenre style, or, self-described “spooky alien pop,” is fascinatingly lo-fi and almost supernatural in nature. The quintet transports cassette culture into the modern age with surf, psychedelic and even hip-hop jammed onto their recent cassette Cosmic American Music. Silkworm Gallery, 8pm
Drew Kennedy and Josh Grider New
Braunfels’ singer-songwriter Drew Kennedy is a busy dude, recently busting out a new record (Wide Listener) and a novel (Fresh Water in the Salton Sea). Though we can’t vouch for his letters, the new tunes are a tight representation of Southern songwriting. Born in Las Cruces but operating out of Nashville, Josh Grider will perform the material from his new record Luck & Desire, a collection of his meditiations on the music industry. Gruene Hall, 1-5pm
San Antonio Youth Wind Ensemble’s Patriotic Concert 2014 The SA Youth Wind Ensemble and the Academy of
Fine Arts Jazz Band present “Celebrate America,” an oppurtunity to catch the highlights of the patriotic songbook in wind and brass. The Watson Fine Arts Center, 7pm
The Georges Hailing from San Marcos, the Georges worship the Fab Four sound, integrating a Southern twang into their pining for Paul, John, George and Ringo. Gruene Hall, 7-11pm
Jon Wolfe, Bonnie Lang Backed by B-3
organ and slide guitar, Jon Wolfe sings of denim jackets, cowboy attire and the finer cliches of Texas livin’. Bonnie Lang does pretty much the exact same thing on her LPs I’m There and Where Have You Been? Admission to the show is free, but those who attend are asked to make a food or monetary donation to the San Antonio Food Bank. County Line, 6:30pm
Thursday, July 3
10th Annual Tonyc Summer Jam After
each major EDM show of the summer, there’s almost guaranteed to be a few MDMA/dehydration casualties. The most recent occurrence was at Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden, when an Avicii show resulted in 36 hospitalizations and a “Level 2 Mass Casualty” (luckily no deaths). Though the Tenth annual Tonyc Summer Jam ain’t on the scale of the shows that send droves of OD’d, dehydrated youth to the ER, with SA’s summer heat, EDM fans should be wary. This year’s DJ Tonyc-produced show is the biggest Summer Jam yet, with Tonyc,
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Alex Peace, Bad Boy Bill, Danny West, Heavygrinder, Nick Ferrer, Sno White, Trentino and tributes to Michael Jackson and Daft Punk all on the bill. And EDM flower children: Learn to take your drugs like adults or don’t take them at all. La Villita Historic Arts Village, 4pm-midnight
Fighting the Villan Turns out the
annoying, elongated vowels of pop-punk are gender neutral, as singer Caitlyn Mae Blink 182-bends her a, e, i, o and u’s all over Fighting the Villain’s self-titled debut EP. The Korova, 6pm
Jennifer Nettles Most famous for being
the lead singer in the popular country pop group Sugarland, country queen Jennifer Nettles is now touring with the spotlight all to herself. With hit singles “That Girl” and “Me Without You,” Nettles will have you dancin’ in your rhinestone cowgirl boots and bedazzled jeans. And who could forget her No. 1 hit duet with Bon Jovi on the country-infused rendition of “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?” With Brandy Clark. WhiteWater Amphitheatre, 7:30pm
Paula Maya Backed by guitarist Art
Carvajal, Brazilian keyboardist, singer and songwriter Paula Maya will perform her world music originals and Jobimstyle Bossa Nova favorites. Speisen European Cuisine, 7pm
Ray Wylie Hubbard On New Braunfels’
KNBT, Ray Wylie Hubbard hosts “Roots and Branches,” investigating and hosting the roots music created in and touring through South Texas. He’s well-suited for the job too, with 16 albums, 40 years of experience and some ghostwriting for Jerry Jeff Walker under his belt. River Road Icehouse, 9:30pm
The Dirty River Boys With their roots in
El Paso, the Dirty River Boys seem to have made Austin their musical home, performing often in ATX and recording their 2012 album Science of Flight at South Austin’s Yellow Dog Studios. “This time, we made a record. We build it, recording the parts ourselves,” says singer Nino Cooper on the band’s website. “This is a band record. We are really excited about it.” And they should be. Science of Flight has an impeccable studio feel to it, but with the integrity of a home-recorded Americana effort. Gruene Hall, 8pm
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Casey Hubble SA native Casey Hubble
belongs to a small tier of University of Texas alumni who were cheerleaders in their undergrad, halycon years and graduated to a career in slow-burning
Southern rock. Luckenbach Dance Hall, 6-9pm
Cody Jinks ”They don’t write about me
in their magazines,” says Fort Worth country crooner Cody Jinks on “Hippies and Cowboys.” Your move, Jinks. Gruene Hall, 8pm
Eli Young Band, Chase Rice University of
North Texas’ music school has cultivated an impressive number of successful musicians: Norah Jones, Andrew Savage, Don Henley and Roy Orbison, among prestigious others. Go ahead and add the Eli Young Band and their 2013 Billboard Country No. 1 hit “Drunk Last Night” to the prestigious list. Mike Eli, James Young and company’s newest LP, 2014’s 10,000 Towns, hit No. 5 in its debut week and is currently hot on the heels of gold status. Although he’s yet to make it big on his own merits, Chase Rice was a runner-up on Survivor Nicaragua in 2010 and helped speed up the Clock of Culture Apocalypse by penning the hit “Cruise” for Florida Georgia Line and Nelly, in which involved parties sing about butts and trucks. WhiteWater Amphitheatre, 7:30pm
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Sandpaper Sally Instrumental blues-
rockers Sandpaper Sally promise you won’t miss the vocals. The Mix, 10pm
The Heart of Texas Concert Band presents “Let Freedom Ring!”
Conducted by Dr. Mark Rogers, SA community band Heart of Texas will play the patriotic hits in celebration of America’s 238th’s birthday. The Alamo, 1:30pm
Saturday, July 5
FiFi and the Virgins These days, it’s
pretty difficult to have no web presence whatsoever, but FiFi and the Virgins party like the days before dial-up. Because of this, we know literally nothing about them. Our guess? Charming indie rock with jangly guitars and backbeat snare; a band that uses their lack of e-presence as a statement. Or, like, a weird dad and his kids. The Mix, 11pm
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“Skajunto, hip hop cumbia, Surfer polka rock, reggae y huapango.” Like a oneband retrospective of San Anto’s musical heritage, Los Nahuatlatos effortlessly cruise through the West Side sound, Tejano and Norteño, sounding versed in each genre. With DJ Neto. Dorcol Distilling Company, 9pm
Matt Adler “Ever since the tender age
of 14,” begins the ReverbNation bio of singer-songwriter Matt Adler, in the creepiest use of the word “tender” I’ve ever come across. Recommended if you like Christian soft rock, vanilla soft serve, Christian Mingle. Jack’s Bar, 8pm
Skyline Swing Channel your inner flapper girl at KRTU’s Skyline Swing series, as Jim Cullum and the band churn through toe-tapping hits from the trad jazz and swing eras. Trinity University, 7pm
Spazmatics Like a musical episode of
VH1’s I Love the 80’s, the Spazmatics roll through the rock and new wave hits of the ’80s, thankfully leaving out the B-celeb commentary. The quartet’s Reagan-era hits will be part of the city’s weekend-long Freedom Fest. Market Square—El Mercado, noon-6pm
Texas Tornados The Tejano supergroup of
organist Augie Meyers and accordionist Flaco Jiménez play the venue where their best live recordings were made in the Doug Sahm days. Though singers and SA Legends Sahm and Freddy Fender are up in the great Tex-Mex gig in the sky, Doug’s son Shawn Sahm and Nunie Rubio have stepped in to continue the Tornados tear across South Texas. Gruene Hall, 9pm
To Hell and Back Benefit for WWP
Featuring an eclectic variety of styles in the lineup, this Wounded Warriors benefit won’t have a dull moment. Deguello will get the groove going with their fast and furious brand of southern rock, Death’s Embrace will kick some serious ass, Kingdom Collapse will induce fatal head banging, and Numb
to the Blow’s in-your-face attitude is an onslaught of sludge metal. Bond’s 007 Rock Bar, 8pm
Turnpike Troubadours, Jerry Jeff Walker Red dirt up-and-comers the
Turnpike Troubadours made a solid Billboard debut with 2012’s Goodbye Normal Street, reaching No. 14 on the country charts and No. 57 on pop. Most famous for writing the blues standard “Mr. Bojangles,” Jerry Jeff Walker has recorded 33 albums in his 47-year career as a Texas legend. WhiteWater Amphitheatre, 7:30pm
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A.J. Croce The son of legendary singer-
songwriter Jim Croce (“Time in a Bottle,” “Bad Bad Leroy Brown”), A.J.’s began his touring career at 18, opening for B.B. King. Born two years before the ’73 plane crash that took his father’s life, A.J. Croce has been featured on Leno, Letterman, Conan O’Brien and performed at Austin City Limits. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your urge to merge is heating up. Your curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it’s time to conduct jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here’s what I propose: Let your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don’t be attached to the outcomes. Some of your research may lead to permanent arrangements, and some won’t. Either result is fine. Your task is to enjoy the amusing bustle, and learn all you can from it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The American painter Ivan Albright (1897-1983) was a meticulous creator. He spent as much time as necessary to get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect one square inch of a painting, and some of his pieces took years to finish. When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush composed of a single hair. That’s the kind of attention to minutia I recommend for you—not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be careful and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you maximum freedom of movement later this year.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue that’s over 2,100 years old. Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess of love, beauty, and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost -- buried underground on the Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will uncover a source of beauty, love or pleasure—or perhaps all three—that has been missing or forgotten for a long time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) :
According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just before he reaches the
top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started and makes another effort to roll it up again -- only to fail again. The myth says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I’m happy to report, Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a certain uphill task, you will not be forever frustrated. In fact, I believe a breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be due to your gutsy determination or your neurotic compulsion or both? It doesn’t matter.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of America’s founding fathers believed slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t invent hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In comparison, the hypocrisy that you express is mild. Nevertheless, working to minimize it is a worthy task. And here’s the good news: You are now in a position to become the zodiac’s leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ideals into practical action.
iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga means “I should try not to become an alcoholic.” I encourage you to have fun saying that a lot in the coming days. Why? Now is an excellent time to be playful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive tendencies you might have. Whether it’s booze or gambling or abusive relationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive selfsaboteur, you have more power than usual to break its hold on you —especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here’s one: Gazing at Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a central hub on the planet’s surface. But we now know that Venus is shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no surface features are visible. So what did Lowell see? Due to an anomaly in his apparatus, the telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of Venus. The “spokes” were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let this example serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Don’t confuse what’s within you with what’s outside you. If you can clearly discern the difference, your
closest relationships will experience healing breakthroughs.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” So said British writer G. K. Chesterton. Now I’m passing his advice on to you just in time for the Purge and Purify Phase of your astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will generate good fortune for yourself whenever you wash your own brain and absolve your own heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sexual feelings. As you proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious choice to undergo a trial by fire.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I awake in a land where the lovers have seized power,” writes Danish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful poem “The Lovers.” “They have introduced laws decreeing that orgasms need never come to an end. Roses function as currency. . . The words ‘you’ and ‘I’ are now synonymous.” A world like the one he describes is a fantasy, of course. It’s impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial romance. Dare to put love at the top of your priority list. And be inventive!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the last two decades, seven Academy Award winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Oscars. By contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio executive Harvey Weinstein. Who would you acknowledge as essential to your success, Libra? What generous souls, loving animals, departed helpers and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive? Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your appreciation. For mysterious reasons, doing so will enhance your luck and increase your chances for future success.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have permission to compose an all-purpose excuse note for yourself. If you’d like, you may also forge my signature on it so you can tell everyone that your astrologer sanctified it. This document will be ironclad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, escape small-minded influences and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-strength excuse note will free you to seek out adventures you have been denying yourself for no good reason.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the Inuktitut language spoken in northern Canada, the term
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Arcade Midtown Kitchen
Green Lantern
Bite
Rio Rio Cantina