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ON THE COVER It’s that time again: summer in Texas. Why not take a day trip to the Hill Country or the beach? Jessica Clark models a handmade vintage-inspired bathing suit by local designer Crissy Baker of Nerd Alert Designs. Hair styling by Cindy Pham. Photo by Josh Huskin. Summer Guide starts on page 13.
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Editor’s Note, Letterbox / 9 Shekels for Shekinah / 10
SUMMER GUIDE Daytrippin’: Get out. Do stuff. / 13 Plastic Beach / 20 Urban chilling stations / 23 Buggy summer, pickup basketball / 24 Summer camps roundup / 26
CALENDAR Live arts and event listings / 34
Arts & Culture REVIEW The Pillowman / 47 REVIEW Artifacts / 50
Food & Drink Grilling with the pros / 53 Fast Foodie: Vida Mia, Chisme y Chicle / 55 Flavor Listings / 58
Screens & Tech Summer movies, Movies by Moonlight / 65 Total Recall vs Total Recall / 66
Nightlife
Calimocho: Summer Drink of 2012 / 69 Last Call listings / 72
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Third Root: Mixed race, mixed sounds / 75 PREVIEW Vans Warped Tour / 76 PREVIEW Summer concert picks / 78 Summer album releases / 81 Aural Pleasure / 83 Music Listings, Critic’s Pick / 84
ETC. ¡Ask a Mexican! / 94 Free Will Astrology, Jonesin’ Crossword, Open Letters / 96
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Cityscrapes: Brain Drain Great article! It really sheds light on how there must be a balance between growing our city and educating our young people. It seems that SA is more concerned with luring new “creatives” when we should also be focusing on developing the educational potential in our own youth. — Rigsysad To stop the brain drain you have to have incentives like will I have a decent paying job in SA? If I get a degree, how much will this degree cost? Will the cost of this degree be commiserate to my pay and benefits. I have cousins that drive 18 wheelers and never went to college and they make twice as much as I do and they are not in debt for $50,000 in school loans like I am. Unless you teach, work in civil service, or are in the medical field, there is nothing else here, well maybe Toyota or H-E-B, that is if you want to work for $8 to $10 an hour. Yeah, right! — Papiduquino67 Pushing every 18-year-old to university (that they must pay for as individuals) is ruining university and is turning higher education into a form of conscription/debt slavery for young people. University education has more than an economic value; society should not coerce all young people to pursue it by making the most likely alternative to completing a degree military service and/or prison. The sooner the U.S. moves away from the mindset/trap of absolutely every young person — from the dumbest dolt — needing a four-year degree in
order to live a decent life, the better. — Guest
Green Party Staying silent and accepting the lesser of two evils has resulted in a country continually obsessed with war and a government that has no idea how to run an economy. As someone once said, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” How much longer do we stick with Republicans and Democrats before we realize we’re getting nowhere, if not going backwards? — Thegreengrass The problem is that under the current system a liberal/progressive third party can only take votes away from Democrats and make it even easier for Republicans to win. For a third party to prosper proportional representation is necessary, but there isn’t a snowball-in-hell’s chance of either major party supporting such a switch. — Eccles Smith
Open Letter to Patti Smith Dear Gregg, Thank you for your review of Banga. It made us all smile. We are packing up for a long tour and appreciate the support and energy. All good wishes. — patti smith
Primal: Palin So people who have had nose jobs and been on DWTS can’t have family values? Kind of a stretch don’t you think? I mean, there’s plenty of other things you could have cited to support your argument but that was just silly. Quippiness does not equal good journalism. — Mandy McMoy Skogebo Collapse Each week, the Current will collect and republish the best commentary we receive through parcel post, email, and our Facebook and Twitter accounts to allow more diverse points of view to see print in our pages. While we may accept user IDs, twitter handles, or stage names, we save a special place in our collective, inky heart for those who sign off under the names their birthing official gave ’em.
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DREAMers: Don’t file any paperwork before you read Mike Barajas’ roundup of Obama’s directive to U.S. Immigration; next: Watch for Beyond Paychecks to check in with the SA2020 website to “get involved” with volunteering this summer; finally, Star Crazy interviews actress Bitsie Tulloch (TV’s Grimm, above) for the DVD/Blu-ray release of the Oscar-winning film The Artist on June 26. All this and more, only at blogs.sacurrent.com.
As a former Democratic precinct chair, I am proud to be an active Green. Those Dems who continue to blindly follow Obomber and his corporatist DNC are only deluding themselves. Obomber and the DNC betrayed labor in Wisconsin and the rank and file union members are pissed off and rightly so! Eventually the six-figured labor bureaucrats will see the error of their ways or face having a “Come to Jesus meeting” with their own members. I for one will welcome that day! — Pancho Valdez
Can’t say as I blame you, San Antonio. It was Father’s Day. Surely you were all pinning your daddies deep into the cushions of their squeaky recliners with chocolate cake, football videos, and caramel-colored suds. It was also church day, and there were probably important after-church social mixers to be mixing in. And — maybe this was a minor consideration in your ultimate decision not to join me on the Mission Reach hike/bike trail Sunday afternoon — it was 96 degrees out. I know many of EDITOR'S NOTE my fellow two-wheelers have long since turned their attentions to the dusk and darkness rides as Scott Andrews would suggest in his tips for staying cool in a city with a toggle switch for a climate (scorching/not yet scorching), but reciting poetry by moonlight while tempting the guttermouths? I must confess, the roundup (page 23) provided me with some new insights on local culture. As did Joshua Hughes’ trip to Luling for our Daytripping collection of close-in adventures for those with a dash of derring-do (page 12). Local designers factor into both our cover shoot as well as the two-page fashion plate by Bryan Rindfuss (page 20). And obligatory reference to the Vans Warped Tour. Somewhere. Inside. What else is there? Oh, yeah. Another church, another misappropriated tax dollar. Thank Barajas for rubbing your nose in that. Sigh. So, like: Get outside. Do something with the lighting of the scorch. Me? I’m already planning another mid-day hike into the waterless Government Canyon. Because Texans crave punishment. Isn’t it obvious by now? — Greg Harman
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Shekels for Shekinah
Church-state watchdog claims local taxpayer-funded charter school more parochial than public by Michael Barajas
“Because God has positioned me and put me in this garden called San Antonio, he has given me the jurisdiction to operate with dominion in San Antonio, amen?” – Cheryl Washington In late January, Cheryl Washington spoke to the local KROV-hosted radio show Rhema Gospel Express outlining her God-given mandate to change San Antonio and ultimately the state of Texas. Washington, a pastor at the Universal Citybased Shadrach Temple International, spoke with conviction, saying God had given her “dominion,” power, and authority to fertilize and grow the Almighty’s garden here in San Antonio. “That garden for me seems to be the education system that he has me in.” After moving from New York to San Antonio in 1987, Washington in 1996 established and became the superintendent of Shekinah Learning Institute, an educational umbrella that’s grown to cover 13 taxpayer-funded charter schools across Texas, many of which are located in and around San Antonio. Shekinah’s two districts on file with the Texas Education Agency, the Shekinah Radiance Academy District and the Radiance Academy of Learning District, drew just over $15 million in state funds and another $2.3 million in federal cash for the 2009-2010 school year to educate some 2,000 Texas students, according to agency filings, which list both districts as academically acceptable. But national watchdog Americans United for Separation of Church and State began sniffing around complaints over Shekinah’s finances earlier this year, concerned Washington’s schools had begun to either tacitly or outright approve religious pedagogy, making Shekinah more parochial than public, and all on the taxpayer dime. Americans United first sent complaints to the TEA this February after receiving allegations of school-sponsored religion at Shekinah’s suburban Dallas campus, referred to as the institute’s Truth Campus. “They were doing things that were so clearly off-limits for a publicly funded institution,” said Americans United attorney Greg Lipper, who has his own history with Texas church-state battles, having served as lead council on the highly charged Medina Valley prayer-in-schools federal court battle last year. Americans United pointed to the Truth Campus’ now-shuttered website, which boasted of “a weekly optional Chapel service for students” along with a promotional video featuring Truth Campus parents describing how those services taught students “about all the wonderful things that God is doing for them in their lives.” The website also promoted an after-school Bible study class at the campus. Offices for both Washington and Shekinah’s San Antonio-based attorney Joseph Hoffer rebuffed calls for comment from the Current this week. Hoffer, however, wrote to Americans United and the TEA in April denying charges that Shekinah had violated the First Amendment’s firewall between government and religion, saying Truth
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Campus’ landlord had created the website on his own, without the knowledge or approval of the district, to offer and promote the religious classes and services. Hoffer wrote that Shekinah “recognizes the seriousness of the allegations raised by Americans United for Separation of Church and State,” but that at the Truth Campus problems appeared to stem from a “misunderstanding by the Landlord of SLI’s public school nature and of the relevant legal requirements placed on SLI.” He added that the Dallas-area campus ordered the landlord to take down the website and halt any chapel or Bible services aimed at students. But Lipper says Americans United is equally troubled with what he calls pattern of church-state blurring at Shekinah. The organization summarized in another letter to the TEA this April: “the Academy’s promotion of and entanglement with religion is more systemic than we previously understood.” Americans United complains that several of the Academy’s campuses are located inside active churches — two campuses share the name of their host church. One, bookended by the San Antonio State Hospital and the NuStar refinery on South Presa, is Shekinah’s Abundant Life Academy, housed out of the Abundant Life Church. Beneath the house of worship’s roadside billboard is a Shekinah sign declaring the institute’s mantra: “A New Generation of Public Schools with the Heart of a Private School.” Washington’s own Shadrach Temple International hosts the Radiance Academy’s Daystar campus. When the Current called the number listed for Shadrach Temple this week seeking comment from Washington, the line went straight to Daystar staff (an unnamed staffer insisted over the phone, “We’re the school, but we’re not affiliated at all with the church here,” before passing us on to another extension inside the building.)
Lipper points to Shekinah’s 2010 graduation commencement speech, delivered by religious and motivational speaker Christopher C. Herring, titled, “God’s Exciting Plans for YOU,” in which he calls faith “a fundamental prerequisite to living an abundant life.” Americans United also claims the name Shekinah itself is inherently religious — Shekinah, meaning “dwelling” in Hebrew, is also used in a religious context to connote the divine presence of God. Washington started Shekinah just as Texas began to fan the charter school movement in the 1990s under then governor George W. Bush, the premise being that schools independent of local boards and union contracts would be more free to focus on educational achievement. Though Texas charters must meet core curriculum standards set out by the State Board of Education, they can specialize and emphasize areas like math, science, technology, or bilingual education. Charters also don’t have to adhere to public school calendars or hours, and can even pay below state-mandated salary levels for teachers. According to the TEA, Texas in 2011 had some 200 charter school operators running nearly 500 charter campuses. “The TEA staff that administers the charter school system in Texas is whittled down to the bone,” said Trinity University professor and SBOE member Michael Soto. There are seven TEA staffers working the division tasked with keeping watch over the state’s charters. “They have to provide oversight for hundreds of schools across the state and they really don’t even have time to conduct paperwork audits, let alone to perform site visits and do the other kind of immediate oversight that we would expect in a public school system.” Soto insists that while effective charters have a role to play in the state’s education system, the TEA needs additional staffing and resources to better monitor, repair, or close down wayward
charters. In February, Soto testified before the Texas House Public Education Committee insisting all charter schools are not created equal. Of the 15 ISDs in Bexar County, the TEA lists four districts, serving nearly half of the region’s student population, as recognized, while the other 11 are listed as academically acceptable. Of the 26 charter holders operating in Bexar County, none are exemplary or recognized, 15 are academically acceptable, and other 11 are considered academically unacceptable. This lack of oversight is amplified by the fact that charter school boards of trustees are essentially self-appointed, Soto said. Shekinah’s website does not list the board members charged with overseeing the institute’s 13 academies. When asked for a list Monday, the institute told the Current to file an open records request (they have yet to supply a list as of press time Tuesday). Washington herself has been at the forefront of pushing for Texas to expand its charter school system since starting Shekinah. In 2009, she testified before the state Senate’s Education Committee asking for the Texas legislators to eliminate its cap on charter schools. Washington also serves on the Texas Charter Schools Association’s advocacy committee. She’s also no stranger to controversy. Last year WOAI Troubleshooter Brian Collister dug up complaints from anonymous district workers claiming Washington was using school money for personal use, like gifts, travel expenses, and payments to her son. WOAI also found that Washington, who readily attaches the prefix “Dr.” to her name, has no Ph.D. from an accredited university — she claims to have two degrees, one from World Mission Outreach Bible College and another from World Vision University, neither of which are accredited institutions. TEA spokeswoman Suzanne Marchman this week confirmed the agency has an open investigation into Shekinah’s finances, but offered few details. It’s unclear whether that investigation stems from complaints filed by Americans United or other complaints already on file with the TEA, records Lipper dug up in his investigation on Shekinah. The complaints range from accusing Washington of using state money to pay for upkeep of her church sanctuary at the Shadrach Temple, to charging that she pays non-degree school employees who happen to be church members more than teachers with degrees. Another complaint alleges that Washington put church members who didn’t work for the school on Shekinah’s payroll. The TEA says it drafted a preliminary report on Shekinah in February, but agency officials won’t discuss the report’s findings. That same month, Washington appeared again on Rhema Gospel Express, calling herself a “kingdom entrepreneur” who had a “double anointing” from God — both as a pastor and as a local school administrator. “God directed me toward the youth, he directed me into education,” she said. “I consider this to be a marketplace ministry.”
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CURRENT | CALENDAR | top picks by Bryan Rindfuss Pink Flamingos
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GET REEL FILM: BLUE ALCHEMY
film In conjunction with Atlanta artist Radcliffe Bailey’s “Memory as Medicine,” the McNay screens films that echo the traveling retrospective’s themes of water, blues, and blood. Shot in India, Japan, El Salvador, Nigeria, Bangladesh, the U.S., and Mexico, Mary Lance’s Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo explores the complex history of Indigofera tinctoria: the botanical source for a hue Isaac Newton introduced as a spectral color in the mid-1660s. Once a global cash crop and the world’s only source of blue dye, indigo all but disappeared in the late 19th century when a synthetic variety was introduced. Referencing the “magical” transformation that occurs when the plants are soaked, fermented, and laboriously beaten into a froth, Blue Alchemy spans centuries to cover everything from the dawn of denim to a recent resurgence of projects embracing the cultural — and even spiritual — heritage of the first dye to capture the depth of skies, oceans, and Earth itself. Presented by the McNay Contemporary Collector’s Forum, the GET REEL Film is preceded by Wilfred Shipley’s 2012 short Mule. Free; wine reception at 6pm, film at 6:30pm; Chiego Lecture Hall, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N New Braunfels, (210) 8245368, mcnayart.org.
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film Long before his Hairspray got Broadway singing about racial integration and cheering for portly protagonist Tracy Turnblad, John Waters was making scandalous films like Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living. The diamond of this glorious trash heap is 1972’s Pink Flamingos, possibly the cultiest film of all time. Littered with perverse sexual acts (including a flasher who ties sausages to his penis and a man with a “singing” anus), an egg-obsessed granny who lives in a baby pen, chicken abuse, meat theft, saliva vandalism, and convictions of first-degree stupidity and “assholism,” the movie was banned in Australia, Norway, and parts of Canada, and made a star out of Waters’ late drag-queen muse Divine in the process. Summed up by IMDb as “Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie and Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as ‘The Filthiest Person Alive,’” Pink Flamingos culminates with a gag-inducing scene in which its grotesquely made-up star scoops up a pile of poodle poop and eats it to the tune of “(How Much Is) That Doggy in the Window?” Some claim the very real sequence inspired the term “shit-eating grin.” Hosted by the local group The Cult Movie / TV Danger Zone in celebration of Pride Month, the free screening features prizes, games, plus gifts for
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the first 40 guests. Free; 7pm; Alamo Drafthouse Park North, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500, drafthouse.com; cultmovietvdangerzone.com.
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theater “With a nod to the past and an eye to the future,” playwright Raul Garza’s Dos Pocitos paints a post-apocalyptic portrait of the U.S./Mexico border circa 2026. Named after the fictitious town of Dos Pocitos, the bilingual play is set in Texaco, a lawless territory between Texas and Mexico long abandoned by the United States. Subtitled Saints and Sinners in a Border Wasteland, the bleak comedy (presented by Atta Girl Productions) stirs gangsters, drug runners, a well-armed store owner, a cranky beekeeper, and a mysterious chupacabra into an kooky plot that’s equal parts border politics and Mad Max. An adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University as well as a writer for Austin’s Latino Comedy Project, Garza is best known for 2007’s Fantasmaville, a debut that earned him a National Latino Playwriting Award. $8-$10; 8pm Thu-Sat; 3pm Sun through July 1; SAY Sí Black Box Theatre, 1518 S Alamo, (210) 212-8666; dospocitos.com.
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convention Marvel, DC, and Idea + Design Works (IDW) writer and artist Larry Hama is the Guest of Honor at this year’s Texas Comicon, “The State’s
Premier Pop Culture Event.” Best known as writer of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic series, Hama played an integral role in developing the Hasbro action figure into a character that captivated fans from 1982 to 1994. Using his Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff Fury Force as a platform, Hama penned action-packed storylines peppered with Eastern philosophy, military strategies, and historical references and even won over female readers with strong characters like Lady Jaye, Cover Girl, and Scarlett. Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk, Hercules), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Saw), and Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, Tomcats) are among the celebrities who’ll join Hama and more than 60 other comic book creators at the three-day con. In addition to Q&A sessions and photo ops, Texas Comicon features a Geeks Who Drink Comic Quiz, costume contests for kids and grownups alike, a Self-Publishing Panel, a performance of After Midnight’s “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” and 100-plus exhibitors and vendors, including Bean Pot Toiz, Kawaii Plush, Zombie Response Team, The Bag Lady, and Nightmare Pro Wrestling. One day tickets: $7-$15; weekend passes: $15$30; noon-6pm Fri, Jun 22; 10am-6pm Sat, Jun 23; 10am-5pm Sun, Jun 24; San Antonio Event Center, 8111 Meadow Leaf, (210) 528-0434, saeventcenter.com; texascomicon.com.
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hip-hop pioneer Bocafloja (born Aldo Villegas) has sampled from an array of genres to back his politically charged lyrics. A vocal critic of capitalism, imperialism, and Mexico’s political and religious powers, Bocafloja (which roughly translates as “loose-lipped”) uses elements of jazz (2004’s Jazzyturno), soul (2005’s A Titulo Personal), and mainstream urban music (2007’s El Manual de la Otredad) while raising awareness about colonialism, social and political oppression, and institutionalized racism. Based in Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco, the emcee, poet, and outspoken “social communicator” won Hip-Hop/ Rap Album del Año at the 2010 Indie-O Awards with Existo: Matriz Preludio al Pienso. Influenced by early hip-hop and jazz, the album contains collaborations with such global artists as Afu-Ra, Velco, Hache ST, and Cambio. As an extension of his music, Bocafloja founded QuilomboArte, a collective that uses hip-hop as an educational tool for transformation via concerts, conferences, spoken word sessions, open community dialogs, and the magazine Palabreando. To learn more about Bocafloja and QuilomboArte, visit emancipassion. com. Also on the bill: Chisme and Third Root. $5; 10pm; Hi-Tones, 621 E Dewey.
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get the expected acrobatic dancing, the visual effects, the music, the magic. But, unlike shows like The Beatles LOVE, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour is a hybrid between usual jaw-dropping Cirque Du Soleil stuff and a rock concert. You have a 12-piece rock band complete with three back-up singers, two horn players, and the voice of Michael himself. “We don’t have a fake Michael,” musical director Greg Phillinganes told the Current. “We don’t have someone trying to be Michael — it’s Michael.” What Phillinganes — a veteran from Stevie Wonder’s band who was musical director in the Bad and Dangerous tours and who played on Jacko’s key albums like Off the Wall and Thriller — means is that the music you hear in this show is based on the original Jackson recordings. Extra tracks and arrangements were added, but the core of the sound is all Michael. The show is a tribute to the inspiration behind Jackson’s biggest hits, but also touches on his darker side. “The constant battles between him and the press, his need for privacy, as well as his need for love and acceptance, that’s touched on a bit,” said Phillinganes. “There’s a little bit of everything from his career, going all the way back to early Jackson 5 stuff.” That means the spectacle got it right and honors what Jackson should only be remembered for: the amazing — and immortal — power of his music and dancing. $64.76-$196.95, 8pm, AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, 1-800-745-3000, ticketmaster. com. — Enrique Lopetegui
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music Next week, when Scorpions roll through town on the last leg of their “Final Sting” tour with late ’80s rock revivalists Tesla in tow, it would be sorely tempting to dismiss the show as yet another tired nostalgia act looking to cash in one last time. Tempting, but entirely mistaken. Scorpions are big enough here in the states — best known for their early ’80s metal hits “No One Like You,” “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” and “Still Loving You” — but internationally, they’re practically an institution. They’ve won almost every music award imaginable, performed over 5,000 shows in dozens of countries (including several that no longer exist), and have been graced with such diverse honors as a postage stamp, a street name, and a hockey team. The band can stake a legitimate claim to having invented the shredding solo that has since become a hallmark of arena rock. And, most of all, they’ve maintained the ability to deliver reliable live shows and enjoyable, if not essential, studio albums for longer periods of time than some of their peers have been alive. Consider this: when Scorpions were first formed, the Beatles were still a touring band. When they released their first studio album (featuring singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker, both of whom are still in the band), Richard Nixon was president and the Berlin Wall was still a symbol of the division of their homeland of Germany. And that’s not a randomly selected
historical image: Scorpions are also known for their last top 40 hit in the U.S., “Wind of Change,” which became a musical emblem of the fall of the Berlin Wall — not at all inappropriate for a band that’s been in existence for more than half the duration of the Soviet Union. So what? So they’re old. OK, yes, sure, they’re old. (That’s a point that shouldn’t be undersold — the average age of this current and final iteration of Scorpions is 55 years old, and that’s just because their rhythm section, both relative whippersnappers in their mid-40s, throw off the numbers.) But, more importantly, unlike so many of the dinosaur acts currently cluttering up our nation’s arenas and fairgrounds, they’re not just old. They’ve never broken up, and their stage show — packed with pyrotechnics and still quite flashy for a group of near senior citizens — is not only fun to watch, but features the kind of dynamic playing and high-energy showing off that people have come to expect from hard rock bands, but didn’t really exist until Scorpions started doing them. Seeing as this is their last time around the dance floor, Scorpions will surely be bringing their A game to their show in San Antonio. The set list, too, will likely be all wheat (mostly stuff from 1979’s Lovedrive through 1990’s Crazy World) and no chaff. If a band kissing off this massive a legacy isn’t worth your concert-going dollar, what is? $36.75-$56.75, 7:30pm, Illusions Theater at the Alamodome, 100 Montana, 1-800-745-3000, alamodome.com. — Leonard Pierce
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7pm Saturday; R Gallery, 110 E La Chapelle, San Antonio , (210) 793-8899. Joey Fauerso: “Drama” Male figures and waterfalls dominate Fauerso’s “Drama,” a series of new paintings paired with a single-channel video. Free, 9am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-4pm Sunday, 9am-5pm Monday-Tuesday; Southwest School of Art, 300 Augusta, San Antonio, (210) 224-1848. “New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2012” Juried by the University of Cincinnati’s Kate Bonansinga, the third installment of this biennial project features works by Ricky Armendariz, Jill Bedgood, Angela Carbone, Sarah Castillo, Rodolfo Choperena, Madison Cowles, Francisco Delgado, Rebecca Dietz, Leslee Fraser, Michael Anthony García, Raul Gonzalez, Julia Barbosa Landois, Marilyn Lanfear, Benjamin H. McVey, Juan de Dios Mora, Lindsay Palmer, Efraín Salinas, Kasey Short, and Lana Waldrep. Free, 1-4pm Wednesday-Friday, 1-4pm Monday-Tuesday, UTSA Art Gallery, Arts Building, UTSA Main Campus, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, (210) 458-4391, utsa.edu. “New Works Now” Texas-based former International Artists-inResidence Alex de Leon, Katrina Moorhead, Katie Pell, Juan Miguel Ramos, and Lordy Rodriguez present recent work inspired by the importance of place and its relationship to nostalgia, identity, and our evolving sense of community. Also on view: Window Works: Thomas Cummins. Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday; Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., San Antonio, (210) 212-4900. “Queers, Presente! 25 Años ~ 25 Artists” “Queerated” by Penelope Boyer, “Queers, Presente! 25 Años ~ 25 Artists” features both new and historic works by Laura Aguilar, Bernice Appelin-Williams, Sabra Booth, Rolando Briseño, David Zamora Casas, Jose Chapa, Agosto Bianco Cuellar, Ana Fernández, Ester Hernández, Lisa Mellinger, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz, Franco Mondini Ruiz, Antonia Padilla, Kristy Pérez, Martha Prentiss, and Liliana Wilson. Free, 10am-7pm Wednesday-Friday, 10am-7pm Monday-Tuesday; Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 922 San Pedro, San Antonio, (210) 228-0201. Radcliffe Bailey: “Memory as Medicine” Water, blues, and blood are the themes in Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey’s “Memory as Medicine.” For Bailey, memory is an active struggle to rediscover, and make personal, the journey called the Middle Passage — the forced exodus millions endured during the centuries of the slave trade — and the lands linked by imposed migration. Working in an expanded collage technique that utilizes painting, sculpture, and found photographs and objects, Bailey uses water and boat imagery to recall travel, with African music, a foundation of modern music, remembered in sheets of notation and tribal sculpture. $5-$8, through Sept. 2. 10am-4pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon8pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., San Antonio, (210) 824-5368. “San Antonio Collects: Contemporary” Located in SAMA’s Crowden Gallery, this exhibit recognizes the roles local collectors have played in SA’s evolution into a premier art destination. Also on view: “The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K.H. Lee Collection.” $5-$8, 10am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6pm Sunday, 10am-9pm Tuesday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W Jones, San Antonio, (210) 978-8100. “San Antonio Painters” ARTNews Deputy Editor Barbara MacAdam curates works by Andrew Anderson, Roberta Buckles, Marcus Garza,
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Cinema Culinaria Thursdays: Chocolat In collaboration with the Culinaria Wine& Culinary Arts Festival, EZ’s screens outdoor “foodie flicks.” This week’s feature is Lasse Hallström’s 2000 film Chocolat, starring Juliette Binoche as a young mother changes lives with the chocolates she makes at La Chocolaterie Maya. Free, 7pm Thursday; EZ’s Brick Oven & Grill, 6498 N New Braunfels, San Antonio, (210) 828-1111. Free Movie Night: Of Mice and Men Wonderland of the Americas screens the 1992 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, telling the story of two displaced workers (John Malkovich and Gary Sinise) in Depression-era California. Free, 7pm Thursday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 734-4552. Movies by Moonlight: Open Season Boog, a 900lb. domesticated Grizzly Bear, befriends a mule deer who helps defend him against hunters after accidently getting caught in the woods during open season. Pre-show entertainment begins at 7:30pm, film starts at 8:30pm; free parking at City-operated parking garages including the Alamo Lot near HemisFair and the Durango Lots across from the Federal Courthouse. Free, 7:30pm Tuesday; HemisFair Park, 200 S Alamo (at Nueva), San Antonio, slabcinema.com. San Antonio Film Festival: Wednesday at Bijou Featured films include Forbidden Kiss (12:30pm) Uniformed Consent (3pm), and Trash Dance (7pm). Directed by Fen Tian, Forbidden Kiss follows Jake, a young American architect in search of a mysterious stranger who saved his life. Uniformed Consent is directed by Shea Carney and documents the hazardous side effects of SSRIs, a type of antidepressant prescribed for conditions outside the realm of mental heath. In Trash Dance, director Andrew Garrison follows choreographer Allison Orr as she attempts to convince sanitation workers to collaborate with her in a unique dance performance. A series of shorts beginning at 9:15pm includes This is Your Life, My Liscense, Death is an Unknown, Echoes of Exxon, Burn Spark, Plugged In, Cempasúchiles, Crumbs, The Perfect Self-Deception, Billy Lesko Cromwell: The Water Bottle, Kill Me Slowly, COMmunication, Why Should I Care?, Alone Together, and Cardiac Arrest. $10-$15, 12:30-11pm Wednesday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 734-4552. San Antonio Film Festival: Wednesday at Palladium Featured films include A Schizophrenic Love Story (12:30pm) and Supporting Characters (7pm). Directed by Glenn Levy, A Schizophrenic Love Story follows a schizophrenic hermit who consults his three delusions (Mary, Mother of Jesus, Albert Einstein, and a vampire) for love advice when a new neighbor moves in. Supporting Characters, directed by Daniel Schechter, focuses on two film editors from New York as they try to balance their personal relationships while reworking a film in jeopardy. Two series of film shorts will be shown: Mothers of Pearl: The San Antonio Dress for Success Story, Fuzz Feud, ANOTHER F***KING.., Site 13, Joey, Un Buen Hijo, Welcome to San Antonio, Spirit of Life, and Run (starting at 3pm) and Los Espiritus de San Antonio, DOUBLE OR NOTHING, Lowland Mountain Gorilla vs. Giant, Election Day, The Goods, The Graveyard Shift, The Lepidoctor, Traps, and Wallenda. $10-$15, 12:30-11pm Wednesday; Santikos Palladium, 17703 IH-10 W, San Antonio, (210) 558-1012. San Antonio Film Festival: Wednesday at Rialto Featured films include The Art of Flight (12:30pm), Bat City USA (3pm) and Into the Wake (7pm), and Searching for Sonny (9:15pm). Directed by Curt Morgan, Into the Wake shows snowboarder Travis Rice and friends redefining what kind of tricks can be executed in the mountains. In Bat City USA, director Laura Brooks documents Austin’s relationship with a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats living under the downtown Congress Avenue Bridge. Into the Wake, directed by John Mossman, is a psychological thriller about a man who is lured from the city to the remote river banks of his past by a strange phone call. $10$15, 12:30-11pm Wednesday; Santikos Rialto Cinema Bistro, 2938 NE Loop 410, San Antonio, (210) 422-8810. San Antonio Film Festival: Thursday at Bijou Featured films include Searching for Sonny (12:30pm), Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit (3pm), and Grid Iron Heroes (9:15pm). Directed by Andrew Disney, Searching for Sonny follows Elliot as he teams up with old friends to search for his missing friend, Sonny. Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit, directed by Mark Jeavons, chronicles the plight of a man trying to rebuild his life after being stuck in a mid-life crises. Featured shorts (7pm) include The Birth of Saint Eliseo - Protector de las Esposas, Worlds Apart, Abuelas, Steal Away, Barriers, Madly
Unto Eternity, Latte Moms, The Plan, and Easy Street. $10-$15, 12:30-11pm Thursday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 734-4552. San Antonio Film Festival: Thursday at Rialto Featured films include Five Hours South (12:30pm) and LAID: life as it’s dealt (7pm). Five Hours South, directed by Mark Bacci, is about a young Italian policeman with a passion for break dancing who’s coping with a dark secret. Directed by Andrew Rodriguez and J.D.Stimson Jr., LAID: life as it’s dealt follows Jason, a man leading an unhealthy existence who finds himself caught between to colliding worlds when he meets a woman who offers him love and support. Two series of film shorts will be shown: BALLOON GOON, Other, Shacharit - A Morning Prayer, Trial of Ben Barry, Writing on the Wall, Show Me, Life According to Penny, and Mossadegh (starting at 3pm) and A Walk in the Park, Mayonnaise in a Jar, The Assignment, The Carolyn Jackson Story, Mission of Mermaids, Besos, Wrigley and King and Unknown Caller (starting at 9:15pm). $10-$15, 12:30-11pm Thursday; Santikos Rialto Cinema Bistro, 2938 NE Loop 410, San Antonio, (210) 422-8810. Texas Public Radio Cinema Tuesdays: Thunder Soul Members of the Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert honoring their old music teacher Conrad O. Johnson. Johnson was inspired in the late 1960s to transform the struggling jazz band into a funk powerhouse. The Kashmere Stage Band produced 8 albums in total. Narrated by Jamie Foxx, this feature-lengh documentary captures the historic reunion between a music professor and his band. All proceeds from the Cinema Tuesdays series benefit Texas Public Radio. $10-$12, 7:30pm Tuesday; Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 734-4552. The Mayor’s Fitness Council Screening of The Weight of the Nation Obesity in America has reached a catastrophic level. Almost every aspect of our lives is threatened. The first step toward ending the damage is learning how to fight back. Bringing together the nation’s leading research institutions, The Weight of the Nation is a presentation of HBO and the Institute of Medicine. Free, 1pm and 6pm Thursday, 1pm and 6pm Monday; Tripoint, 3233 N St. Mary’s St, San Antonio, (210) 733-6201.
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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change What the title doesn’t tell you, the tagline will: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change confirms “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.” Performed as a series of vignettes, the musical comedy employs four actors to portray 20 characters in an array of stand-alone scenes with titles such as “Men Who Talk and the Women Who Pretend They’re Listening,” “I’ll Call You Soon (Yeah, Right),” “The Very First Dating Video of Rose Ritz,” and “Funerals are for Dating.” $15-$33, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3:30pm Sunday; Cameo Theatre, 1123 E Commerce, San Antonio, (210) 2125454, cameocenter.com. The Pillowman The Woodlawn ventures into a dark alley for an encounter with The Pillowman, a black comedy stemming from fairy tales director Martin McDonagh wrote early in his career. Set largely in a courtroom in a nameless totalitarian state reminiscent of a Kafka novel, the Olivier- and Tony-winning play centers around the predicament of Katurian, a writer of gruesome stories detailing violence against children, and his brother Michal, whose history as a victim of child abuse has rendered him “slow to get things.” When actual murders begin to resemble Katurian’s grisly tales, the brothers find themselves at the mercy of good cop Tupolski and bad (and even brutal) cop Ariel. Likened in the play to a how-to guide of “101 ways to skewer a five-year-old,” Katurian’s fictional works — including The Little Apple Men, The Tale of the Town on the River, and The Little Jesus — come to life onstage through reenactments complete with severed body parts. With elements The New York Times described as “appallingly funny,” The Pillowman presents a “puzzle without a solution” while ultimately warning of the powers and dangers of storytelling. $15-$19, 7:30pm Thursday, 8:15pm Friday-Saturday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg, San Antonio, (210) 738-1117. A Story of Frida Kahlo Horwath Productions presents Frida, A Song of Sorrow, a three-act show that includes dinner and sangria. Reservations required. $30, 7:30pm Saturday, 10pm Saturday; Carmens de la Calle Café, 720 E Mistletoe, San Antonio, (210) 737-8272. Bye Bye Birdie New Braunfels Theatre Company proudly presents the 1960 musical satire inspired by Elvis Presley’ and the draft notice he received in 1957. $10-$15, 8pm Friday, 2pm and 8pm Saturday, 2pm Sunday; New Braunfels High School, 2551 Loop 337, New Braunfels, (210)710-8672, newbraunfelstheatrecompany.com. In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) When an intimate relationship is nothing more than clinical, the Doctor himself must be schooled. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room concerns the early history of the vibrator, when doctors used it as a clinical device to bring women to orgasm as treatment for “hysteria.” $15-$25, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday; Cellar Theater, San Pedro Playhouse, 800 W Ashby, San Antonio, (210) 733-7258, sanpedroplayhouse.com. Jurassic Farce: The Loster World The sequel to Jurassic Farce features actors dressed as dinosaurs. $10-$12, 7:30pm Friday-Saturday; The Rose Theatre Company, 11838 Wurzbach, San Antonio, (210) 360-0004, therosetheatreco.com. Ryan Bonn in Concert Singer and pianist Ryan Bonn returns to the
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Alma Flamenco Featured artists include Jackie Rodriguez, Sonya Jimenez, Steve Arispe, and Yiyi. Wear a Carmens T-shirt for free admission to the 10pm show. $10, 8:30pm and 10pm Friday; Carmens de la Calle Café, 720 E Mistletoe, San Antonio, (210) 737-8272. Family Night & Free Dance with the Wilburn Brothers Free, 6-10pm Sunday; Floore’s Country Store, 14464 Bandera, Helotes, (210) 695-8827. InishFree Celtic Jam Summer Recital InishFree’s recital features dance, fiddle, and vocal performances and also includes a silent auction and dessert fundraiser to support 15 qualifying members headed to the nationals in Chicago. For advance tickets, email beach.pierce@gmail.com. $10-$15, 7pm Saturday; St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 11 Saint Luke’s, San Antonio, (210) 828-6425. Jesse Borrego: Cabaret Voltaire Night In conjunction with the exhibition “SAMOMA LIVES,” film and stage star Jesse Borrego transforms R Gallery into an avant-garde cabaret evocative of the dada performance spirit. “Performance artists will call up experimental sound art, ancient divinations and smokin’ hip hop dance.” Free, 7pm Saturday; R Gallery, 110 E La Chapelle, San Antonio , (210) 793-8899.
WORDS
Luis Jimenez Book Signing Luis Jimenez signs copies of his new autobiography, Moyeboy 51. Free, 10am-noon Saturday; The Twig Book Shop, 200 E Grayson, San Antonio. The BlahBlahBlah Poetry Spot: Open Mic New and experienced poets and storytellers are invited to share the mic. Free, 7-11pm Wednesday; Red Square Bar, 11851 Bandera, Helotes, (210) 236.
COMEDY
Comedia A Go-Go Presents: “Public Axis” Local award-winning comedy troupe Comedia A Go-Go’s “Public Axis” is a new late-night talk show hosted by Latino stand-up comedy duo Larry & Regan. In
addition to entertaining panel discussions featuring various guests from the arts, political, media, and comedy communities, each show will include late-night standards such as a comedy monologues and skits satirizing current events. “Public Axis” also invites audience interaction via Twitter, Facebook, and Skype. Free, 10pm Thursday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, (210) 541-8805. Erin Jackson A season 6 finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Jackson has made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. Dee McNary hosts and Jay Whitecotton emcees. $15, 8:30pm Wednesday-Thursday, 8:30pm and 10:30pm Friday-Saturday; Rivercenter Comedy Club, 849 E Commerce, San Antonio, (210) 229-1420. Joey Kola Kola has performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout his career in the US, Canada and England. His highenergy, spot-on punch lines, and fast delivery assault an audience like a comedic freight train. Gayla Johnson features and Blair Thompson emcees. $15, 8pm Wednesday-Thursday, 8pm and 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, (210) 541-8805. The Oxymorons Much like TV’s Whose Line is it Anyway, The Oxymorons perform interactive improv comedy based on audience suggestions. $10, 8:30pm Tuesday; Rivercenter Comedy Club, 849 E. Commerce, San Antonio, (210) 229-1420.
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Community Bizarre Bazaar The community Bizarre Bazaar features art, hand-made jewelry, gifts, hot food, and sweets., 10am Saturday; San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity, 4616 San Pedro, San Antonio, (210) 738-0020. Good Saturday Market Garage of Good’s Good Saturday Market brings together local artisans and vendors to showcase their collections on the fourth Saturday of March, April, May, June, October, November, and December. Free, 9am-3pm Saturday; Josephine Street Cafe parking lot, Under 281, one block east of Pearl Brewery. Firefighter BBQ Off To Benefit Texas Burn Survivor Society Back by popular demand, local firefighters will participate in the ultimate BBQ throwdown in hopes of claiming the title for best recipe. As part of the day’s events, Sparky the Firedog will be on hand to share safety tips. Kids can try firefighter helmets, suits, and boots on for size and experience fire safety education on an antique fire truck - all while our real firefighters gear up for a unique barbeque
competition as spectators look on. Free, but donations accepted, 2-5:30pm Sunday; Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, 123 Losoya, San Antonio, (210) 222-1234. Goodwill City-Wide Computer Donation Drive Thanks to donations of used computer equipment from individuals and businesses in the San Antonio area, Goodwill keeps more than 2 million pounds of computer hardware out of area landfills each year. Bring computers of any brand, in any condition, to any Goodwill store or donation station in San Antonio, Seguin, or New Braunfels. Goodwill also recycles peripheral equipment such as monitors, keyboards, printers and scanners. Donors are asked to erase their computer hard drives before donating; programs are available online to do this. Enter to win a 2-night stay at the Hotel Contessa upon donation. For more information or to find your nearest Goodwill location, visit www.goodwillsa.org or call (210) 924-8581. Through June 24. Songs & Stories: C-Rock Band The C-Rock Band rocks the house at this family-friendly outdoor concert series amid the oaks and the evening stars. Proceeds benefit nature-education programs at the non-profit CNC. Bring lawn chairs or blankets, picnics, kids, grandparents and nice dogs on leashes. $5-$10, 8pm Saturday; Cibolo Nature Center, 140 City Park, Boerne, (830) 249-4616, cibolo.org.
TALKS PLUS
!MPACT: A Music Discussion About First Impressions First impressions are everything in the music industry. Few instances present an open opportunity for a first impression like “the interview.” KSYM 90.1FM and Local 782 collaborate to deliver an informative perspective on media relations with a focus on making an impact in those limited on-air seconds and/or column inches. Whether you are a musician or aspiring DJ/journalist, this discussion provides insight into the world of earned media with tips from professional guest speakers. Attendees are invited to bring in fully labeled CD copies of their original music for cataloguing and to tour the KSYM studios after the discussion. Free, 6pm Wednesday; Longwith RTF Building, San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro, San Antonio, ksym.org; local782.org . Non-profit Event Spotlight: Live Music & Family Friendly Fun Floore’s hosts a fundraiser to benefit JOVEN. Featured bands include J.R. Castillo, Mario Flores & the Soda Creek Band and Jonathan Moody. Free, but donations accepted, 11am-5pm Sunday; Floore’s Country Store, 14464 Bandera, Helotes, (210) 695-8827.
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Grind Friday nights at Heat offer a “HotBoi Contest,” a PopRocks show at 11:30pm, and after-hours dancing till 3am. 9pm Friday; Heat, 1500 N Main, San Antonio, (210) 227-2600. Karaoke Night 9pm Wednesday; Bermuda Triangle, 10127 Coachlight, San Antonio, (210) 342-2276. Project Embrace “Community Meeting” Project Embrace is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth support and empowerment organization., 4pm Saturday; Landa Branch Library, 233 Bushnell, San Antonio, (210) 732-8369.
KIDS
Children’s Play Garden Bring the kids out for a fun workshop that educates parents about designing and planting an exploratory, play garden for the whole family to enjoy, while the children engage in planting seeds and making nature crafts. Topics include the essential components of a play garden and basic gardening techniques. The workshop also includes a discussion about creating a safe outdoor haven, beneficial insects and pesticide-free gardening. $30 (includes one adult and one child), 9am-noon Saturday; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, San Antonio, (210) 829-5100. Lego Building Parents and children ages 4 and up are invited to join the Lego Building fun. Free, 7pm Thursday; Barnes & Noble (La Cantera), 15900 La Cantera Pkwy., San Antonio, (210) 558-3903.
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The perils of telling tales
Fiction leads to murder in The Pillowman by Steven G. Kellman
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onald Ibbs, Maureen Halligan, and David Bowen once bestrode the boards of San Antonio stages. Trinity and Incarnate Word hosted professional productions, and spunky troupes such as Off-Stage, Inc., Church Theatre, and the 24th Street Experiment mounted challenging productions. But, with a few notable exceptions, for the past two decades Stage One in San Antonio has most often meant drought. Relief has finally come. Contemporary San Antonio will never be mistaken for Elizabethan London, but, like desert flowers, several local companies — AtticRep, Cellar, Classic, Overtime, Proxy — have burst into glorious bloom. Black is not a common floral color, but the Black Box of the Woodlawn Theatre is the latest addition to the city’s theatrical bouquet. An Art Deco structure on Fredericksburg, the Woodlawn has been put to many uses since opening in 1946. The most quixotic, until now, was probably its turn as an art insists that they are only stories, without political house multiplex that screened wonderful, rare cin- or moral significance. “The only duty of a storyematic fare from January-April, 1986, before go- teller is to tell a story,” he says. “I’m not trying to ing broke. To complement the Woodlawn’s main say anything at all.” However, Michal, Katurian’s stage, a venue for conventional live theater, cur- brain-damaged brother, confesses to having murrent owners Kurt and Sherry Wehner have carved dered three children in grotesque rituals inspired out a black-box space on the first floor. Its inau- by Katurian’s lurid tales. gural production, Irish playwright Martin McThe Pillowman is a play about the uses and Donagh’s The Pillowman, opened June 14. abuses of storytelling. Each of the characters spins While the audience takes its seats, out narratives, though only Kaa man sits blindfolded in a dark, bare turian writes them down. When room. He is a writer named Katurian, The Pillowman one of the detectives attempts to and as the play opens, in an unnamed $15-$19 draw conclusions from one of Ka7:30pm Thu, 8:15pm totalitarian state, he is grilled by two turian’s gruesome fairy tales, its Fri-Sat detectives, Tupolski and Ariel. Tupol- Woodlawn Black Box author warns: “It’s a puzzle withski seems the “good cop” to Ariel’s “bad 1920 Fredericksburg out a solution.” The same could cop,” but each is intent on extracting (210) 267-8388 be said of McDonagh’s eniga confession from Katurian, who pro- woodlawnblackbox.com matic work, in which the truth claims his innocence. Though almost Through July 7 of any statement is never certain. all the stories he has written contain Throughout the three acts of a sadistic violence against children, he play that runs three hours, stories
You have the right to remain blindfolded: Pillowman cast members Tyler Keyes, Rojer Alvarez, and Michael Burger.
are recounted, dramatized, and improvised, but it is not clear what bearing, if any, they have outside the locked and windowless interrogation chamber. An excellent cast endows each character with similar ambiguity. Michael Burger’s Katurian is a hapless writer and beloved brother — or is he a lethal psychopath? Bryce Jeter’s Michal is a sweet and harmless man-child — or is he, as Katurian, in an angry moment, calls him, “a sadistic, retarded little pervert”? Jeter seems to fall out of character when, during an overly long second act, Michal spews grown-up rage at his brother. Tyler Keyes portrays Ariel as a government thug who revels in torture, but he has more in common with Katurian than either will admit, and he cannot entirely repress a spark of humanity. As Tupolski, Ariel’s partner and antagonist, Roger Alvarez affects detached control to compensate for his anxieties. While on stage, Alvarez commands attention through speech and gesture, from other characters but also from the audience. A play in which stories
are recounted is obliged to make the proceedings dramatic, not just a public recitation of written prose. While the cast generally succeeds in bringing Katurian’s fictions to life, Alvarez’s rendition is electric. Beginning with the fact that its protagonist is named Katurian Katurian Katurian, The Pillowman is an exercise in absurdist comedy. However, director Kevin Murray downplays the humor in favor of a stark meditation on universal guilt, opting for Dostoyevsky over Looney Tunes. Despite a wild — and depraved — imagination, Katurian lacks literary talent. Only one of his 400 foolish stories has ever been published, though he counts on immortality through his witless manuscripts. It is preposterous that the state should single him out for inquisition and deliberately ludicrous that McDonagh should choose to model him as a portrait of the artist. This is a disturbing production, not least because it misses the joke — black comedy to fill the Woodlawn’s new Black Box.
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▲MAKE LIKE A TREE Maybe you’ve been wondering what those silver things are that seem caught in the branches of the live oak trees at Main Plaza. Well, they’re not alien egg pods, downed weather balloons, or guerrilla art. Presented by the Main Plaza Conservancy, “Emotion in Containment” is a temporary public art installation by Emilio Flores. His work, says the artist, expresses “the contradictions of human nature.” Flores, who has studied in Spain and Canada, is now based in SA. He learned the basics of art production from his father, a sculptor who owned and managed a bronze foundry outside Monterrey, Mexico. Carved in plastic and covered in water-proofed aluminum foil, the forms are attached to the branches with aluminum wire, and will remain at the Plaza until year’s end. — Scott Andrews
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Last week, in “Batteries not included,” Current theater critic Thomas Jenkins doled out some scalding comments about the San Pedro Playhouse production of “In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play.” In Sarah Ruhl’s script, the character Elizabeth is described as an African American. The San Pedro, however, had her part played by Julya Jara, an actress originally from Russia. To ameliorate the identity switch, the Playhouse changed original dialogue that mentioned the character’s identity. Not surprisingly, Mr. Jenkins called them on it. To get an update on the issue, Artifacts spoke with Asia Ciaravino, the new president of the Playhouse.
How is the audience receiving the play with a white actress playing a black character’s part? Isn’t there some confusion? I think some of the lines could be confusing, because they refer to her in a specific way — the words indicate, obviously, that she is different, she’s an outsider from what the rest of the characters are. That can be very confusing. But because the woman cast [as Elizabeth] is an immigrant and has an accent, I think there is some forgiveness from the audience on that part. The actress is from Russia originally, and that’s her native tongue. … I think the most ironic part of all this is that she is the person most people talk about, how much they enjoy her performance.
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What is the status of the play now? I spoke with the director [Mindy Fuller], and she was very responsive and helpful and the cast was helpful in getting the lines added back in. They have restored the play to its original form, which I am very excited about. At this point, the actress is not replaced; we have the same actress that has been doing the part, so we are doing our best on that, that is where we are in the process. Are you searching for a black actress to play this part? We have looked for people to play this role, and that is an ongoing quest.
How is this fracas affecting the Playhouse? A few nights, we sold out the house. I appreciate all of the feedback from Thomas, and his approach, and I appreciate being able to restore the script. I think that is really important. My objective, and my goal is to make high quality theater in SA in a quality manner. So all feedback that comes into play is always positive. You were at the Classic; any thoughts of a collaboration? The Overtime is the scrappy new kid on the block. I’d like to collaborate with them, they have some incredible energy. — Scott Andrews
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Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine June 6 | September 2 The most comprehensive presentation of works by Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey, this exhibition celebrates both the greater African American story and the artist’s personal discoveries about his family origins. Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine takes its title from sets of “medicine cabinet” sculptures. These containers allude to Bailey’s ancestors and function as medicine as the artist reaches for memory to restore himself.
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The other trick is to not over-flip when grilling. First, oil the meat or vegetables lightly so it won’t stick, but not so much that it will drip and cause flares that can cause charring. Then go for the fence marks that not only make the food presentable, but also are signs of caramelization. “Everyone of my staff that I’ve had in my career, I’ve had to teach them that they’re going to touch the food on the grill only four times,” said Fillo. Once the fence marks are achieved, meat can go into the smoker to stay moist, or into a 350-degree oven to finish off, an especially good way to serve a large group
from one grill. Mike Connor, part of the award-winning Cinco de Guyos barbecue competition team, has spent a lot of time thinking about how to cook the perfect chicken outdoors. In fact, the group formed because “we were tired of going to rubber-chicken dinners,” said Connor. There are ways to avoid that rubbery mess and still keep the chicken moist. Connor’s technique is to brine the chicken for six to 12 hours in cold water with a cup of salt, half cup of sugar, bay leaves, and two to three tablespoons of poultry seasoning for every gallon of water.
This will allow the chicken to cook for up to an hour and a half and still stay juicy while picking up more smoky flavors from the grill. “Season under the skin, then pin the skin back in place with toothpicks to keep the juices intact,” said Connor. “When it comes time to hit the flames, move the chicken to the cool side of the grill when flare-ups start, and then rotate it back over the hot coals several times.” The reward for your efforts is a smokey-savory delight.
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BBQ and safety from the fire department Cooking can be a dangerous sport. Knife cuts, scalding water splashes, oven burns, you name it. But by far the most dangerous practice is barbecuing — literally setting your food on fire. To help you not kill yourself, your kids, or your pets this summer with your grill, the San Antonio Fire Department is giving out fire safety and Chisme grilling tips on Sunday, June 24 at the second annual Firefighter Q Off. Teams of y Chicle firefighters will be competing for best barbeque at the Hyatt Regency downtown (foodie gossip) starting at 2 p.m. Attendees get to try the barbecue samples, learn about grilling safety, and enter to win prizes. Sales of raffle tickets, cookbooks, and sundry cooking items will benefit the Texas Burn Survivor Society. Rumor has it that the Blue Star Brewery is shaking things up a bit. With new head chef Charles Clark (formerly sous chef at Restaurant Gwendolyn) and sous chef Chris Cullum (owner of the Attaboy Burgers food truck) in the kitchen, Blue Star will be serving house-cured meats, dishes with beer pairing suggestions, and possibly a tasting menu. Keep an eye out for big changes. — Lauren W. Madrid
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AMERICAN Alamo Street Eat-Bar Good food, cold beer, reasonable prices and portions. Food trailers have finally come to Southtown, and it was worth the wait. 609 S Alamo, (210) 227-2469, alamostreeteatbar. com. (4/12) $-$$ Big Bob’s Burgers Go for the crunchy, beer-battered onion rings and stay for the bacon cheeseburger — or any other burger iteration of your choice. The fries are also good, the chili needs a little more moxie, there is occasionally pulled pork smoked on the back patio … and all of this is from a CIA-trained chef. 447 W Hildebrand, (210) 734-BOBS. (2/12) $-$$
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Q at the Hyatt For all of the faults of its if-this-is-Thursday-it must-beenchiladas rotating cast, the buffet is at least better than ordering a la carte. Yet even there, only the guacamole and shrimp stood out. 123 Losoya, (210) 222-1234, hyatt.com/gallery/qriverwalk. (9/11) $-$$ RoMo’s Café Appearances can be deceiving. Though stuck in a stripmall, RoMo’s comfort food, enhanced by skills honed at the Culinary Institute of America, is sure to please. Opt for the ribeye, pulled pork, or take the chef’s advice: a trio of specials appear daily on the blackboard. 7627 Culebra, Ste 107, (210) 521-7666, romoscafe.com. (3/12) $-$$
Donnie’s Italian Beef Donnie’s brings pure Chicago meaty goodness to San Antonio. Vienna beef dominates the menu, but the Italian beef is the star — though their large hot dog selection also deserve thumbs up. 4939 NW Loop 410, (210) 562-3661, donniesbeef. com. (11/11) $
Stone Werks Big Rock Grille The new Werks location makes for a convenient get-together spot for those inside 410. Come real hungry, plan on sharing portions (pulled pork sliders, salmon rolls, and ahi tuna burgers are huge), and you’ll still likely take a doggie-box home. 999 E Basse, (210) 828-3508, stonewerks.com. (2/12) $-$$
Drew’s American Grill Drew’s is still finding its way in the deli/American mode, but talented chefs and hospitable hosts suggest there will eventually be much to celebrate beyond pastrami and NY Style cheesecake. 18740 Stone Oak Pkwy, (210) 483-7600, drewsamericangrill.com. (11/11) $-$$
Sustenio Sustenio is actually an oasis of restraint in the midst of a Disneyesque Tuscan fantasy. Texas superstar chef Stephan Pyles has set the Southwestern direction, but executive chef David Gilbert will eventually make the place his own. Ceviches shine, the bar does great drinks, and local produce is a focus. 17103 La Cantera Pkwy, (210) 598-2950, eilanhotel.com (6/12) $-$$
Fattboy Burgers & Dogs Fattboy makes up for lack of visual charm with badd-ass burgers and hott rings. Be sure to order the “fatt” size and to take your toppings All The Way; your momma’s not watching. 2345 Vance Jackson, (210) 377-3288, fattboyburgers.com (8/11) $-$$ Feast Feast serves elevated American fare in small-plate form to Southtown. The chic club atmosphere inside may strike some diners as pretentious, but the food is worth it. 1024 S Alamo, (210) 3541024. (10/11) $-$$ Little Aussie Bakery & Café The fare of The Little Aussie needs no qualifier; it’s not “good for gluten-free food,” it’s just plain good. Innovative additions like Seafood Pizza, Spinach Alfredo Pizza, and the Lamb Big Bloke Sandwich will appeal to friend and foe of gluten alike. 3610 Ave B, (210) 826-7877, thelittleaussiebakery.com. (12/11) $-$$ Magnolia Pancake Haus Magnolia’s is a morning tradition for San Antonians. Food is prepared from scratch, start to finish, from the batters to the syrup. Here you will discover breakfast with character, like the Sarkis-inspired omelette, the German puffed pancake, and crab cake eggs benedict. 606 Embassy Oaks Suite 100, (210) 4960828, magnoliapancakehaus.com (10/11) $-$$ The Malt House Malt House has kept ‘em coming at its Westside location since 1949. Can’t be the food, so it must be the prices, the camaraderie, the service, the convenience … the community. 115 S Zarzamora, (210) 433-8441, themalthouse.cc. (11/11) $
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Oro At lunch, Oro’s selection is cautious: Think chorizo corn dogs and Angus burgers. But the Oro flame-grilled Angus burger, while pricey, is one of the best in town — buttery bun, Angus and aged Swiss, with sweet onion and chopped lettuce providing just enough crunch. The Emily Morgan Hotel, 705 E. Houston, (210) 225-5100, emilymorganhotel.com. (9/11) $$-$$$
McCullough Avenue Grill MAG’s chef has the creds to turn this place into a destination if only the menu becomes more adventuresome — not an easy task in conservative Olmos Park. For now, go for anything seasonal. 4230 McCullough Ave, Ste 2, (210) 822-6644, mcculloughavenuegrill.com (12/11) $-$$ The Monterey The Monterey is fast maturing into more than a hip backyard playground: The food, every inventive small-to-large-plate of it, is becoming the real destination driver. Chef Quealy Watson and crew aren’t afraid to play either, but the kitchen’s early urges to throw in everything but the sink have been curbed. You will like the brussels sprouts. 1127 S St. Mary’s, (210) 745-2581, themontereysa.com. (3/12) $-$$
Two Step Restaurant & Cantina Going back in time: Classic Texas recipes served up in a 1860s stone home, where everything from chicken, fish, to brisket is done right. 9840 W Loop 1604 N, (210) 688-2686, twosteprestaurant.com. (5/12) $-$$ Tre Trattoria Downtown Jason Dady’s Power Lunch menu pushes the envelope with a selection of cheffy-sounding pastas and a price of $12.50 (pan-seared gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce; tagliatelle with thyme and wild mushrooms). Beyond the Power Lunch selections, there are entrées and pizzas (from the city’s first wood-burning display oven) in the $11-$16 range. 401 S Alamo, (210) 223-0401, tretrattoria.com (4/12) $-$$ BAKERY Bird Bakery A moist, red velvet cake paired with a just-sweet-enough buttercream is a model of equilibrium. But it’s the take-no-prisoners versions that made me reevaluate the importance of cupcakes to life: the chocolate/chocolate chip with peanut butter cream frosting was killer, and the “prize-winning” carrot cake, like many of the products, made from a recipe from Elizabeth Chambers’ grandmother, redefines the genre. 5912 Broadway, (210) 804-2473, birdbakery. com. (6/12) $-$$ The Cakery Bakery and Café Cakery Bakery does boffo brownies (avoid the orange whities, however) and a truly heart-warming chicken noodle soup. So far, sandwiches haven’t achieved the same heights, with the tuna being somewhat sloppy and Doreen’s Favorite panino somewhat strange. 152 E Pecan, (210) 226-2253. (3/12) $-$$ CAFÉ Café Green Tea Café Green Tea serves up Japanese-influenced lunch fare in the Medical center area. The brown rice burger (with chicken or veggies) is a must-have. 7460 Callaghan Rd, Ste 300, (210) 3401410, cafegreentea.samsbiz.com. (11/11) $ CUBAN Ocho Handsome, well-oiled bar with aspirational lunch and dinner fare, including the Havana Cubano torta and shrimp and crab campechana. Special touches sometimes exceed the kitchen’s reach, but much to
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meze platter, and Turkish flan. 8507 McCullough, Ste B13, (210) 3991645, kmturkishgrill.com. (3/12) $-$$
DELI Sandwich De Paris The establishment is off the radar (“in the burbs” as some would say), but maintains a steady clientele of Medical Center professionals. Try one of three top selections — California Club ($7.50), French Ham (cured in house, $7.25), and the hot selection, the Avocado Chicken ($7.95). 7220 Louis Pasteur, Ste 142, (210) 692-3429. (3/12) $-$$
MEXICAN & TEX-MEX Bahia Azul Nayarit invades San Antonio: Mexico’s Pacific coast brings zesty seafood dishes to Artisans Alley. Don’t miss the ceviche and mesquite-grilled fish in regional chili flavors. 555 W Bitters, (210)5492623, bahiaazulsa.com. (2/12) $-$$
Zito’s Deli Since 1974, this family-owned deli has prided itself on classics like the flagship Serious Sandwich (salami, two types of ham, provolone, cheddar, olives, onions, tomatoes, and lettuce). Suggestion: go with the Italian on white. 8800 Broadway, Ste 108, (210) 8264793, zitosdeli.net. (3/12) $-$$
Barriba Cantina Barriba’s colorfully chaotic space seems designed to appeal primarily to the tourist trade. Menu items and drinks also stretch local norms, both in price and in sometimes overwrought composition. Service and setting hold up their end, but we’ll wait for the place to mature a little before returning. 111 W Crockett St, Ste 214, (210) 2289876, facebook.com/BarribaCantina (11/11) $-$$
EUROPEAN Little Gretel Czech and German influenced restaurant serving up homestyle cooking for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A loose English translation of sauerbraten is a pickled, slow-braised meat so good that you don’t want to share with dining companions. That definitely translates here. 518 River Rd (Boerne), (830) 331-1368, littlegretel.com. (11/11) $-$$
Los Agaves Though Los Agaves has a dedicated Tex-Mex section on the menu, most of the remaining selections, ranging from coctel de camaron to cabrito and enchiladas de mole, will also seem familiar to locals. But even standbys such as tortilla soup take on new dimensions. And tostadas de tinga are a welcome surprise. 7115 Blanco Rd, (210) 524-2416, losagavessa.com (1/12) $-$$
Mesón European Dining Mesón has a place with grandparents (or those who equate European cooking with heavy, oily food) when they want a fancy night out. The problem is balance of flavor — everything on the menu is cheesy, or oily, or meaty, but nothing else. 927 North Loop 1604 East, (210) 690-5811. (10/11) $-$$
Palenque Grill Authentic Mexican eatery serving up traditional dishes, including lengua, and coastal creations inspired by the Pacific Mexican coast that are worth a try. Don’t get bogged down in the overly saucy high-dollar dishes, though, what Palenque does best is the basics. Pass the house-made tortillas. 389 N Loop 1604 W, (210) 545-7600, palenquegrill.com. (1/12) $-$$
INDIAN Mustafa Cuisine Mustafa’s only moderately exotic in décor (much of which comes from the TV tuned to Bollywood faves), but it more than delivers with both familiar dishes and others seldom seen in SA. Breads are fine, curries vary, but goat and cauliflower take two often neglected ingredients and elevate them to exalted status. 4085 Medical Dr, (210) 615-7861, mustafarestaurant.com (10/11) $-$$ ITALIAN Gallo Pizzeria Gallo touts it über-spicy Diablo pizza with ghost chiles, but can more easily crow about the better-balanced Gallo pizza, the good Greek salad, and exceptional brownies. 164 Castroville Rd, (210) 264-0077, gallopizzeria.com. (12/11) $
Zpizza Zpizza could easily slide into California caricature, but stops just short in most cases with some pizzas (the Italian, the Casablanca) that work, others such as the Rustica with curry chicken and “yam” that don’t, but very good salads that put the place into the plus column. Barely. 700 E Sonterra, Ste 1103, (210) 402-1500, zpizza.com. (1/12) $-$$
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Piccolo’s Italian Restaurant With a deliciously formless lasagna and a shrimp pasta that seems oddly reminiscent of other offerings in town, Piccolo’s is one of those restaurants that provide an Italian experience at a very reasonable price, if the diner is willing to meet the kitchen halfway. 5703 Evers Rd, (210) 647-5524 (9/11) $-$$
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Si Señor Grill & Cantina Si Señor could easily be a breezy, Mexican chain wannabe with nothing but décor to recommend it. But if they hold their ground against reluctant gringos, there will be much on the menu to investigate, including duck breast in herbal pipian, parchment-wrapped mixiotes, and perhaps even raviolis filled with earthy huitlacoche. 19239 Stone Oak Pkwy, Ste 101, (210) 4041700, facebook.com/SiSenorGrillandCantina. (2/12) $-$$ Taqueria Vallarta Seafood is far from the emphasis at the Broadway TV; carnes asadas and fajitas abound. We nevertheless recommend that you dive into the shrimp cocktail and quesadillas de camaron. 8234 Broadway 78209, (210) 829-0180. (10/11) $-$$ MIDDLE EASTERN Jerusalem Grill Long skewers of lamb and chicken beckon, but try the Syrian-style kibbeh instead, with sides of both hummus and baba ghanoush. Though the portions are uncommonly small — and perhaps overpriced — the cost of going without such delicacies would be higher still. 3259 Wurzbach, (210) 680-8400, jerusalemgrill.net. (8/11) $$ SEAFOOD Fishland Fish Market The place is plain but the fried fish is fine; don’t go looking for broiled or sautéed. Oysters also rock — fried, of course. 4941 Walzem Rd, (210) 655-3232. (11/11) $
KOREAN Takoriya “This is the best Korean taco truck in world,” proclaims J.K. Song’s menu. There are three choices of filling — beef, chicken, and pork — all encased in small flour tortillas and garnished with lettuce and the inevitable “special spicy sauce.” Spicy pork with kimchee is the most successful of the three. Facebook.com/takoriya, twitter. com/takoriya. (4/12) $
STEAK Myron’s Prime Steak House Owner Bill Been may have imported this sleek new steakhouse from New Braunfels, but he cut his teeth here in town. The place distinguishes itself by pulling back on the pretentiousness — no plastic-wrapped cuts are presented for your inspection, no aggressive sizzle announces your steak. Good wine list. 10003 NW Military, Ste 2101, (210)493-3031, myronsprime.com. (2/12) $$-$$$
Texas Brisket Barbecue Texas Brisket Barbecue holds out the promise of pairing Korean barbecue with the all-American kind, but it’s up to you to put them together on the same plate. Bulgogi, for its part, comes only on an OK po’ boy, Texas pork ribs are good, peppery, and lean. Brisket is uneventful, sides are more rewarding than at many Q joints, and the house cornbread rocks. 2456 Harry Wurzbach, (210) 444-9102, texasbrisketbbq.com. $-$$ (5/12)
SUSHI Kai Sushi Quality sushi and Japanese comfort food served with passion, with all-you-can-eat Sushi Rolls (Fri-Sun). Best bets: Shrimp Tempura, Sake-Rita. 2535 NW Loop 410, (210) 340-6688. (12/11) $-$$
MEDITERRANEAN Albustan Mediterranean Restaurant San Antonio’s first all-you-caneat Mediterranean restaurant impresses with value and variety. With guaranteed fresh ingredients and a family-run atmosphere, Albustan is a buffet worth returning to for thirds. 4841 Fredericksburg Rd, (210) 525-1231. (1/12) $-$$ Counter Culture Café and Patio Located inside Gold’s Gym just north of US 281 and Evans Road, Counter Culture is nothing if not diverse; you’ll find traditional Moroccan and Mediterranean food offered alongside raw vegan entrees and desserts, salads, and breakfast items. High-protein and vegetarian dishes made by multiple chefs express the beauty behind this untraditional concept and location. 21044 US Hwy 281 N, (210) 489-6318, counterculturesa.com. (6/12) $-$$ Mediterranean Turkish Grill Uptown location for Turkish food; most affordable prices lunch-only. Check out the lamb shank, donner kebab,
Piranha Killer Sushi Snuggled into still-growing Quarry district, Piranha serves respectable assortment of sushi (easy on the digestive aid escolar!) and lunchtime bento boxes. Young crowd, bright colors, reasonable prices. 260 E Basse Rd, Ste 101, (210) 822-1088, piranhakillersushi.com. (2/12) $-$$ THAI Sawasdee Thai Cuisine Sawasdee Thai gets everything right — except the meats. But their attention to detail in their sauces makes it a vegetarian heaven. 6407 Blanco, (210) 979-9110, sawasdeesa.com. (8/11) $$ VIETNAMESE Cajun Seafood & Sandwiches Po’boys meet banh mi at this hybrid place featuring things fried and Cajun alongside Vietnamese noodle soups. The po’ boys are decent, but the banh mi beat them out by virtue of better taste and the illusion of healthier ingredients. 6019 Rittiman Plaza, (210) 8328814. (3/12) $-$$
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Movies by Moonlight’s kid-friendly fourth year The popular Movies by Moonlight series, presented by the City of San Antonio, has returned to HemisFair Park, with films screened weekly through August near the grassy area by the Magik Theatre. Viewers are encouraged to bring blankets or chairs. This year, the Tuesday night screenings are part of Downtown Tuesdays, when free parking is available in city-operated parking garages, lots and meters after 5 p.m. This includes the Alamo lot near HemisFair Park and the César Chávez lot across the street from the federal courthouse. — Lauren Silva June 26 : Open Season (2006) July 3: Zookeeper (2011) July 10: Happy Feet 2 (2011) July 17: Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) July 24: The Lion King (1994) July 31: Over the Hedge (2006) August 7: Tangled (2010) August 14: Alice in Wonderland (2010) August 21: Tale of Despereaux (2008) August 28: The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Summer catches
Most, if not all, of these movies will open in San Antonio either as part of the same nationwide release. But, as is the case with anything studiorelated, dates may change. So cross your fingers and be ready for the summer movies you don’t want to miss.
Anderson style: unexpected magic and a terrific cast. prised if San Antonians have to wait for this one.
6 Sparkle (Aug 17) Dir. Salim Akil; feat. Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, Whitney Houston The plot involves a Motown girl group in the ’60s, but that’s the least important part of this 10 Neil Young Journeys (Aug 10) movie. What matters is that this is Whitney’s Dir. Jonathan Demme; feat. Neil Young posthumous film, and she shines. Let us rememIn May, Neil Young played a show at the ber her as Emma. Massey Hall in Toronto, his birthplace, and Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) followed 5 Brave (June 22) him around. Young’s music is reason enough Dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve to see this, but Demme’s work with the Talking Purcell; feat. the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Heads (Stop Making Sense) and Spalding Gray Connolly, Emma Thompson (Swimming to Cambodia) makes this a must-see. Pixar/Disney’s latest animation marvel couldn’t be further away from the old Snow 9 The Campaign (Aug 10) White/Cinderella characters: Princess Merida Dir. Jay Roach; feat. Will Ferrell, Zach won’t take crap from anyone. Galifianakis Ferrell and Galifianakis running 4 The Dark Knight Rises (July 20) against each other for a seat in the U.S. Dir. Christopher Nolan; feat. Christian Bale, Michael Congress and directed by the guy who Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway did the Austin Powers movies? We’re in. Bale’s Batman, the most human of superheros, returns to battle Bane, a bad guy mixing elements 8 The Possession (Aug 31) of Anthony Perkins’ Hannibal Lecter and Heath Dir. Ole Bornedal; feat. Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Ledger’s Joker. The last in the Dark Knight trilogy. Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick Produced by Sam Raimi, this horror flick was 3 Red Hook Summer (Aug 10) slightly watered down in order to earn its PG-13 Writ. and dir. Spike Lee; feat. Jules Brown, Thomas rating, but it still should scare the hell out of you, Jefferson Byrd, Toni Lysaith especially if you have a daughter who likes little The good news: Shot in only three weeks with boxes. less than a million bucks, this marks Lee’s return to guerrilla-style filmmaking. It is the story of a 7 Moonrise Kingdom (Aug 22) young Atlanta kid who spends a summer in Red Dir. Wes Anderson; feat. Bruce Willis, Edward Hook (a Brooklyn neighborhood) with the grandNorton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Bill father he never met. Spoiler: there’s Mookie (first Murray seen in Do the Right Thing)! And yes, he still deAnderson’s best movie since The Royal Tenen- livers for Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. The bad news: baums involves a case of runaway teen love made this is not a wide release, so I wouldn’t be sur-
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2 To Rome with Love (July 6)
Writ. and dir. Woody Allen; feat. Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig He did London (Match Point), he did Barcelona (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), he did Paris (Midnight in Paris), and now Allen does Rome. A heavenly ensemble cast with a Cruz much more sane than in Barcelona, but even sexier.
1 Beasts of the Southern Wild
(July 27) Dir. Benh Zeitlin; feat. Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly The big winner of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize and Best Cinematography), this is the first feature by Zeitlin, who cites John Cassavetes, Emir Kusturica, and Terrence Malick among his influences. Go figure. Set in Louisiana, Beasts is a visually stunning magic realist story shot in super 16mm and held together by a then-6year-old force of nature named Quvenzhané Wallis. This is the movie of the summer.
Also opening:
The Watch (the new comedy by neighborhood watchers Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, July 27), Hope Springs (Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep trying to restart the pilot light of their marriage, August 10), Ice Age: Continental Drift (things are moving fast, literally, for animals on an iceberg, July 3), and the biggest guilty pleasure of all: The Expendables 2, with every single bad motherfucker that ever appeared on screen in our generation (Schwarzenegger, Willis, Li, Norris, Stallone, Van Damme, Statham, and others, August 17).
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Clone wars
Total Recall (1990) vs. Total Recall (opening Aug. 3, 2012)
Both versions of Total Recall are adapted from the 1966 short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by American sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick about a working-class man out to discover why his memory has been erased and implanted with another’s. — Kiko Martínez
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SCI-FI HERO
As brawny construction worker Douglas Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger could sure blast a bullet into someone’s brain without a second thought.
Colin Farrell has the edge on Mr. Universe’s acting chops, which may or may not help him as he fires off a semiautomatic with style.
Arnie. Muscle mass goes a long way, whether you’re battling interplanetary henchmen or Stormtrooper wannabes.
LEADING LADIES
As Lori Quaid, Sharon Stone gets in a few cheap shots to the groin, but can’t take a punch square to the face. Rachel Ticotin as Melina has a wicked roundhouse kick.
Kate Beckinsale kicks major ass in her Underworld franchise, so taking on the role of Lori seems fitting. Jessica Biel as freedom fighting Melina is workable if you bought her as a fighter pilot in 2005’s Stealth.
Beckinsale and Biel. What warmblooded, straight male in their right mind wouldn’t already be anticipating their inevitable cat fight?
BAD DUDES
As Vilos, Ronny Cox might have the “greatest job in the solar system,” but before his eyes burst from his sockets he’s all growl and no bite.
If Bryan Cranston brings the same intensity here as he does in TV’s Breaking Bad, there’s no telling how crazy things will get.
Cranston. Something tells me if he dukes it out with Farrell, the brawl won’t be so one sided.
ACTION!
After following Robocop with Total Recall, it’s too bad Paul Verhoeven never hit pay dirt again. But, oh, what a great couple of years he gave us.
After a few Underworld movies with his wife Kate Beckinsale, Les Wiseman’s remake is likely to go down in flames trying to top the original.
Verhoeven. His 1990 take on Philip K. Dick’s ideas of virtual reality were a big reason the original is considered a scifi movie milestone.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Won a Special Achievement Oscar for visual effects.
Looks CGI heavy, as usual these days. Wiseman, however, says you’d be surprised at some of the scenes they were able to create without the aid of computers. We’ll see.
1990. The Siamese character Kuato will be hard to top even with the most expensive CGI effects.
OUTER SPACE OR BUST
Quaid takes a virtual vacation to Mars.
Quaid stays on Earth.
Mars. Where else are you going to see a threebreasted mutant prostitute?
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Two beers, Indio and Third Shift, have launched in San Antonio in advance of national rollouts proving once again that our beer demographics are much beloved by those selling certain types of beer. Just out on shelves is Indio, a Mexican beer from a company recently purchased by global beer giant Heineken. Indio is a smooth amber lager with a little more character than some of its brother beers in the portfolio such as Dos Equis, Tecate, and Sol. No doubt bringing this brew to the seven markets in Texas and California has a lot to do with the successful launch of Victoria in those same markets last year. They are primarily targeting young Hispanic males who also happen to be urban and acculturated — about one in five, according to the company. “Seemingly nobody can resist the siren call to capture the stomach share of Hispanics or Millennials, and especially Hispanic Millennials,” writes Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of San Antonio-based Beer Business Daily. “With both contingencies’ growing number and the latter’s fondness for beer over other (alcoholic beverage) categories, it’s no wonder.” MillerCoors Brewing Co. also has set its sights on San Antonio as a rollout market for its new brew Third Shift. The aim of the beer is to capture the taste buds of a beer drinker that primarily drinks mainstream, but is looking for some additional flavors. The amber brew is still easy drinking, but has some caramel notes and more hop character without going into the deep end like a stout or bitter IPA.
PINTS FOR PROSTATES
Summer drink pick of 2012 by Ron Bechtol
M
ayor Michael Bloomberg is mothering Manhattan again by proposing a ban on sugary drinks in containers over 16 ounces. So he can’t be entirely happy that cocktail eminence and historian David Wondrich has proposed adding insult to injury by suggesting that the Calimocho, or Calimotxo, or Kalimotxo is the perfect drink to lug to the beach this summer. Say Coney Island. Or, we guess, South Padre. Not that he’s ever been to South Padre. Calimocho, by its various spellings, would be the name in Spain, in Chile it would be Jote, and in Hungary, the term for a fifty-fifty mix of Coke and red wine (presumably bull’s blood) would be Boros kóla. “Coke and red wine make a perfectly delightful combination when mixed about 50-50 and well iced. The wine cuts the sweetness of the Coke and the Coke adds zing to the wine.” So sayeth Wondrich, adding “and it travels.” His instructions are simple: Take a 1.5 liter bottle of Coke, pour out half (your choice as to where), pour in a .75 liter bottle of cheap, dry red wine, pour over lots of ice in a red Solo Cup. Repeat. When queried on the topic, local bartenders tended to get a bemused, WTF look. “I’ll try anything” — with an implied “once,” said Don Marsh, proprietor of the newly opened 1919 bar at Blue Star, who respects and has actually met Wondrich. (They bonded over a mutual dislike for Patron tequila.) “He knows more than I do,” said Marsh, still looking skeptical. “California reds often have a cola quality already, and I guess Coke couldn’t hurt pinotage,” replied Bronson Ketchum, head bartender at Biga on the Banks. (Pinotage is a South African red wine grape that many, Ketchum apparently among them, tend to deride for what are often called Band-Aid qualities.) These were not exactly encouraging responses, so it was clear what had to be done next: try the sucker. There was no problem rounding up a bottle of cheap red. Whole Foods often has good specials on modest wines, and I happened on a 2010 Groundswell red table wine from California — made from organic grapes, no less. It was on sale for $5.99. On its own, the wine was a tad tutti-frutti, but really not bad,
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The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, including the San Antonio location at Huebner and I-10, is helping raise money for the national awareness program Pints for Prostates with a month of Belgian beer specials and glasses on “Brewery Night.” For a month of Wednesdays starting June 27, the Flying Saucer will raise money from the sale of a signature Belgian beer glass specific to that brewery. The first 144 people each of those nights also get a deal on the beer that goes in the glass. Proceeds from the glass sales go to support the cause and come with a raffle ticket for a chance to win a trip for two through BeerTrips.com to Belgium in September. The drawing for all 15 Saucer locations will be on Belgian Independence Day at Charlotte, N.C., July 21. “It is great to be working with The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium because they will help us reach thousands of men with a lifesaving message about the importance of early detection,” said Rick Lyke, a beer journalist who had successful prostate cancer surgery in 2008. “Men are 33 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than women are to have breast cancer, yet few men know about the critical importance of early detection.” Travis E. Poling is beer writer for the Current and is co-author of Beer Across Texas: A Guide to Brews and Brewmasters of the Lone Star State. Reach him at travis@beeracrosstexas.com.
and it was perfectly happy to have you toss in a few ice cubes. The problem was with the Coke. Apparently, in the everything-is-bigger-in-Texas world, two-liter, and even five-liter, containers are more the norm. (Who has refrigerators big enough to stock this stuff? And where’s Bloomberg when we really need him?) But it was cheaper to buy the two-liter than a six pack or a chilled single from the cooler, so I went with it. I also cheated by measuring out 3/4 of a cup of each into a tall glass, being fresh out of red Solo cups. The ice I was cool with. And the result? Meh. The color was slightly muddy, and there was no reason to get all wine geeky about one flavor boosting another, but the drink was at least reasonably refreshing. It tingled. Yet I couldn’t help but think that with very little additional effort, a really good drink might be concocted. A Sprite ’n’ white, for example. Here again I cheated, not wanting to go through the super-sized soft drink saga once more. I happened to have single, small bottles of Mexican Topo Sabores grapefruit soda in my refrigerator, so I went with that. Then I picked up a bottle of Portuguese Santola Vinho Verde from Central Market for around $7 or $8, as I remember. This is a non-vintage white wine that is crisp and citrusy with a little spritz of its own; again, you could toss in some cubes and suck it down with no regrets — especially as the alcohol content is a modest 9 percent. But mixed half and half with the Topo (I squeezed a quarter of lime into the glass and dropped in the cask), the effect was lighter, even friendlier — and certainly more beachy than the Coke model. This I would drink. And I suspect it would be good as well with the Sprite. Or with a cheap Kiwi sauvy.* But why stop here? The mind races with other possibilities. How about a Pepper ’n’ pinot? The herbal qualities of each should play well together. (I’m only somewhat kidding here.) Then there’s the quintessential South Texas cooler: Big Red ’n’ rosé. Or white zin. OK, this time I really am kidding, but at least the colors sorta match, and a lot of lemon might help. Probably not enough, though.
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CURRENT | NIGHTLIFE | last call listings The Current’s Bar Tab listings are culled from recent reviews published in our paper and online. 2015 Club A neighborhood bar that’s LGBT-friendly (and friendly in general), and a great place to unwinding after a long workweek before getting your groove on. 2015 San Pedro Ave, (210) 733-3365. 502 Bar Live music venue with possibly the best acoustics in town and an impressive beer menu and nightly drink specials. Best use: Anytime live music is onstage; typically no cover during the week, while weekend covers stay under $10. 502 Embassy Oaks, Ste. 138, (210) 257-8125, 502bar.com. Area 31 Imagine a Cee-Lo song with more humidity and you have Area 31. So dress up, dance hard, and arrive before things start picking up at 11 p.m. Thu-Sat; otherwise you’ll have to park in the dirt and bribe the doorman. 4553 W Loop 1604 Ste 1229, (210) 867-AREA, areathirty-one. com. Betty’s Battalion James Jonesian weekend pass getaway for the reveille set meets comfy grandpa bar in sweet, wood-paneled decay. Spend a night tossing horseshoes in Betty’s starry backyard while sipping cool, cheap drinks. 1524 E Grayson, (210) 227-9255, bettysbn.com Carmens de la Calle Café Carmens has the romantic, casual feel of a well-worn European haunt, emphasis awarded to Spain. It’s a great Fridaynight date destination, so indulge your craving for homemade sangria while listening to hot jazz and world music. 720 E. Mistletoe, (210) 737-8272, carmensdelacalle.com. Club Sirius Sirius feels like a block party where the game is always on and someone is always yelling over the music. The Chamoy margarita is highly recommended. 228 Losoya, (210) 223-3722, drinksirius.com. COCO Chocolate Lounge and Bistro Intense, loud, sexy, and as dark as its chocolate, Coco scores as a salsa club, a dessert haven, and as a place to get wasted on chocolate-based drinks. 18402 US 281 N, Ste. 114, (210) 491-4480, sa-coco.com Copa Wine Bar Wine cellar meets unpretentious rec room with snacks and cleverly named flights, like “Pinot (Noir) Envy” and “Call Me a Cab.” It makes a great date night for any demographic. Oeno-phobic? Check out “Wine 101” on Saturday afternoons. 19141 Stone Oak Pkwy, (210) 495-2672, thecopawinebar.com. Cowabunga A typical downtown hole in the wall turns into an indie disco dance party most weekends. If you’re there during the week, be sure to bring quarters for the jukebox. Drinks are cheap. Maybe that’s why we keep going back. 402 E Travis St, (210) 226-1338. Endless Music Club North side topless club offers low-pressure lounging, promising future variety — great for a saucy happy hour (free wings from 6-9pm, half-priced drinks every Tuesday) or a relaxed, but stimulating mixer. 19314 US Hwy 281, (210) 404-9282, endlessmusicnightclub.com. Esquire Tavern If you’ve been longing for the only-in-Texas charm once offered by the Esquire Tavern, rejoice: The Esquire’s once 79-foot-long bar top has gotten even longer in its old age, now boasting “108 feet of beersoaked wood rubbed smooth by the elbows of a zillion tipplers.” But don’t expect to sit at it — no bar stools, just ample seating and “farm-to-table” (but fried) cuisine. 155 E Commerce, (210) 222-2521, esquiretavern-sa. com Evil Olive Elixir Lounge/Phil’s Texas Diner The smoke-free, modern casual environs are sleek, but the laid-back atmosphere beckons to a mixed Northside crowd. Check out the Texas BBQ, diner fare, and homemade desserts served until 2 a.m. 2950 Thousand Oaks #5. Fiasco Cocktails A go-to for bar gamers, with pool, shuffleboard, video golf, and darts, plus the regular tournaments for shuffleboard and Texas Hold ’Em. And better than being at home. 2250 Thousand Oaks, Ste 108, (210) 490-2651. Freetail Brewing Co. A local brew pub devoted to all things Texan. Utilizing copper tanks from the venerable East Coast John Harvard’s Brew House chain, Freetail features house recipes such as the nutty, chocolatey Torpor Porter and the cedar-inflected Freetail Ale, plus Texas wines in a sportsfriendly setting on the edge of the Hill Country. 4035 N Loop 1604 West, (210) 395-4974, freetailbrewing.com. The Friendly Spot A relaxed, family-friendly, indoor-outdoor icehouse, this King William hangout serves more than 80 international craft beers and Texas standbys, plus outstanding appetizers influenced by interior Mexico cuisine. Playground for the kids; widescreen TVs for the Spurs fans. 943 S Alamo, (210) 224-BEER, thefriendlyspot.com. Hidden Tavern Tacky, but friendly — it’s not a “place to be seen,” but a good place to get heard on the karaoke stage and to relax with good friends. Check out karaoke on Tuesday and Friday-Sunday, and be sure to put your name in with the host early. 11407 West Avenue, (210) 541-0001, hiddentavern.com
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Highlander Bar & Grill Coyote Ugly meets the Regal Beagle at this former fern bar in the Medical Center. Highlander’s varied happy hour rush is a Northwest microcosm of med students and old timers, and the vibe is charged and upbeat. 5562 Fredericksburg, (210) 340-4577. Martini Ranch Punk-rock attitude overdosed on Christmas cheer… plus pickles! Check out Monday night open mics with Nina Diaz (Girl in a Coma). 4904 West Ave, (210) 341-1717, facebook.com/martiniranch Moses Rose’s Hideout Follow Moses to this downtown bar unafraid to poke at Alamo traditions, loosen its tie, and indulge in good food, cold beer, and too-loud music. The Hideout does both “bar” and “grill” pretty well, but the atmosphere careens wildly depending on who’s onstage. 518 E Houston St, (210) 775-1808 On the Half Shell Poet’s living room with a cozy upper level and some of the cheapest drinks downtown. PuroSlam on Tuesdays, DJs and live art on Wednesdays, Reggae on Thursdays, hip-hop on Fridays & Saturdays. Rent the entire upper level for $450, or a section that seats 10-15 for $175 (prices are based on bottle service). 202 Navarro, (210) 222-2171, onthehalfshell.net. Papa Woody’s Roadhouse A rowdy but homely roadhouse with a killer sound system, featuring a variety of live music on the weekends attracting revelers from all necks of the woods. 8902 S Presa, (210) 534-6000, papawoodysroadhouse.com. The Phoenix Saloon A highly authentic Tejas melting pot resurrected and restored in old New Braunfels, with 15 beers on tap and ungovernable music tendencies: outlaw country, rock, honky-tonk, punk, Tex-Mex, etc. 193 W San Antonio St., New Braunfels, (830) 299-4150, thephoenixsaloon.com. Raffles Restaurant & Bar Dance yourself young — the crowd youthens and diversifies as the night goes on. Still great for an older crowd, but not bad for a younger one. 1039 NE Loop 410, (210) 826-7118, rafflesrestaurantandbar.com The Raven Hookah Lounge Dazed and confused meets Victorian era, come for the hookah but BYOB. 1255 SW Loop 410, Ste 133, (210) 6733650, ravenhookah.com Rebar This Broadway staple is always full of might owls ready to hoot and holla. Best Use: Live music Thurs-Sat and karaoke on Mondays. 8134 Broadway, (210) 320-4091, rebarsatx.com. Redland Roadhouse A good-looking place that attracts cowboys and people who like cowboy music (and bull riding). Pick a night when drinking and physical exertion (or exhibitionism) are on tap. 19314 U.S. Hwy 281 N, Ste. 107, (210) 845-1077. Revolution Room Upbeat atmosphere with a focus on live music and lots of DJs. Hang out in the tunnel, dance to Top 40 hits in the blue room, or take advantage of drink prices before 11 p.m. ($1.50 beers, $2 wells). 8123 Broadway, (210) 320-4567, revolutionroom.com. Salud Tequila Bar Salud has a cozy living room feel with an extensive selection of tequila (80 of them to be exact). Venture into unknown tequila territory during happy hour on Thursday, when even Gran Patron Burdeos ($85 a shot) is half price. 8123 Broadway #D, (210) 320-6034. Sir Winston’s Pub Sir Winston’s fares well in a post-tobacco bar scene with a brand-new patio and continued excellence as an unpretentious neighborhood nightspot. Inside feels like your dad’s old basement game room, but with more TVs (and now with less smoke). 2522 Nacogdoches, (210) 829-5933. Sparky’s Pub Ye olde tyme Gayrish pub your uncle warned you about, replete with historic community photos, pints, and cheeky T-shirts. Designed by the winning Main Strip makeover team Randy Cunniff and Peter Becker, this is officially the most straight-friendly gay bar in town, and a great place to catch the game with a mixed crowd. 1416 N Main, (210) 320-5111, sparkyspub.com. South Town Tavern Everybody really will know your name at this oldfashioned Tejano bar. Best use: unwinding after work with $1.75 longnecks (Tuesdays and Thursdays) or dancing to live music on Fridays. 1603 S Presa, (210) 429-4896, southtowntavern.com. The Thirsty Camel The Camel is “Truly unique,” but desperately needing bodies. There’s rarely a cover, even for Electro Fridays; “The Dark Zone” feat. DJ Hans 242 on Saturdays; themed-karaoke on Wednesdays. 5307 McCullough Ave., (210) 277-0979. VFW Post 76 Historic building, prehistoric patrons — but the patio on the river is perfect for cool-weather beer guzzling and one of the best in town, period. 10 10th St, (210) 223-4581, vfwpost76.org.
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Marco “Mexican Stepgrandfather” Cervantes and Charles “Easy Lee” Peters are Third Root.
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Here and there Third Root duo connects mixed race with mixed sounds in new LP by Adam Villela Coronado
usic calling for the unification of mi- black under the one-drop rule (including many SA norities is not new, but few projects residents). Damn, near all of us may qualify bemanage the sublime marriage of schol- cause of what’s called the “third root.” arly research and Afro-Latino musical“There’s the indigenous, the European influity that Third Root achieves. Marco ence, and then African influence,” Peters said, dis“Mexican Stepgrandfather” Cervantes and Charles cussing the genealogy of Mexico and Central and “Easy Lee” Peters believe that Africans were pres- South American cultures. “Academically, Africa is ent in Central and South America long before considered the third root. Third root is where we the arrival of the conquistadores in the 15th cen- meet up in the middle: black and brown.” tury, insinuating that many Latin Americans have Separately, both Cervantes and Peters have some sort of black ancestry. The idea is inspired rocked mics under different projects — the forby research from Ivan Van Sertima in 1976’s They mer as a solo rapper and the latter as part of live Came Before Columbus. Sertima’s ideas polarized hip-hop band Mojoe. When both artists agreed to academia, and the legitimacy of his claims are still pursue Third Root’s debut Stand for Something, debated today. they decided that the project would embody a “Given the patterns of history and power rela- manicured vision and celebrate regional sound, if tions, it makes more sense to me that Europeans not also regional talent. This is why Greg G. prowere responsible for theft and erasure duces opposite stic.man of dead of histories from both Africans and prez on “Call Me Black.” While Native Americans,” Cervantes said by Third Root with Mojoe, Greg G. chops up samples of email recently. “This is why Sertima’s Mexican StepgrandfaSmokey Robinson and funky ther, DJ Ninja and DJ argument is more convincing to me.” horn blasts, stic.man celebrates Notion Cervantes teaches Mexican-AmeriNubian hips and disses Ameri$5 can and Afro-Chicano history at UTSA. 9 pm Thur, June 21 go Vespucci. Alternately, CerHe points to researchers Van Sertima On the Half Shell vantes and Peters wax on Sunny and Jack Forbes having piecemealed 202 Navarro & the Sunliners and the defunct African presence in Latin America (210) 222-2171 Scout Bar’s financial troubles through artifacts, cultural practices, onthehalfshell.net over a laid-back Latin groove on and correspondence. Bluntly put, many “Bendición/Down in SA.” NatuLatin Americans can call themselves rally, the project features col-
labo’s that are puro San Antonio, such as Alvaro Del Norte’s squeezebox-and-hook cameo on the album’s title cut. “I think having MexStep, Mojoe, and Piñata Protest represented on one song was a first in San Antonio music history,” Peters said. Cervantes describes the concept of black and brown unity as close to his heart, particularly because of his Houston upbringing. “Growing up as a dark, English-dominant Chicano in a neighborhood that was black and brown, African-American culture was a big part of my identity,” he said. “As I studied more about the African presence in Mexican history, I felt I had been cheated out of knowing about my culture. This album has allowed me to explore this history and share with others.” For Peters, Third Root is an educational opportunity for SA’s current generation of musicians. He sees older acts like the bluesy, Tejano Sunny & the Sunliners or the grittily soulful Spot Barnett as exemplifying SA’s overlap of black and brown cultures. “Somewhere along the way, the hip-hop generation growing up in San Antonio lost the fact that these cultures make great music,” he said. “We’re trying to get that out there. San Antonio has a sound for hip-hop that needs to be embraced. If we do that, then who knows what the future will hold for younger artists?”
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From the lilting sampled opening riffs of “Brother, Brother,” the first tune on Third Root’s sterling debut disc, the listener is immersed in a timeless sonic space, Third Root pulsing forward in an Stand for old school deep R&B Something groove, cascades of (Self-released) keys swirling all about, HHHHH the mix held together with cannonades of propulsive righteous wordplay that connect rap to re-telling the history of brown and black peoples “from Africa, to Mexico, to San Antonio and back.” Stand for Something is an exemplar of consciousness-raising hip-hop as popular pedagogy. Luxuriantly produced, Third Root’s disc runs from R&B and blues grooves, to mestizo mixes of accordion and brass in hiphop settings. There’s even room for bicephalic experiments that evoke Portishead and Radiohead. As they announce at one point, “so many dope styles it’s like lyrical graffiti.” A San Anto original and a mind-clearing antidote to the nonsense politics of our presidential campaign season. — John Phillip Santos
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After the Burial, one of the 70+ bands of Warped Tour.
Summer’s hottest tour The 18th annual Warped Tour is bouncing back by Alan Sculley
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hree years ago, Warped was a summer fesIn a nutshell, Lyman determined that the tival tour in transition. Devoted to all styles Warped tour draws two major age groups — kids of modern rock, Warped had celebrated its from 13 to 19 (which makes up about 70 percent of 15th year in 2009 and had become the lon- the audience) and young adults around 24 to 30. gest running festival tour in U.S. history, but even The 90-plus acts that will play all or portions of the tour’s organizer, Kevin Lyman, admits there this summer’s tour — which began June 16 in Salt was good reason to wonder if Warped was close to Lake City and wraps up August 5 in Portland, Orehaving run its course. gon — skew towards one fan base or the other. For “Brett Gurewitz [of Bad Religion and head of those entering their teens and high school years, Epitaph Records] told me one day, ‘I didn’t know the lineup features such buzz-worthy emerging if you could do it. I thought it was over,’” Lyman acts as Ballyhoo, Breathe Carolina, Machine Gun recalled in an early June phone interview. “And Kelly, Miss May I, Skinny Lister, and We Are The two years ago he walked up to me and said ‘You In Crowd. For the slightly older young adult fans, totally did it.’” the bill includes established bands such as In 2010, Lyman began to reinvent Warped Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Tour, hoping to revitalize it and keep it relevant The Used, Yellowcard, Senses Fail, and and successful for the future. ToAnti-Flag. day, it appears he’s succeeded. “They’re not the What Lyman realized was that kids anymore,” Lyman 2012 Vans Warped Tour some acts that had been mainstays feat. After the Burial, said of the latter acts. — groups like Bad Religion and Of Mice and Men, “They’re the legends of NOFX — were no longer right for Streelight Manifesto, Warped Tour.” Warped. Those groups had grown The Used, Dead Sara, The tour still features its origiolder, as had their fans. But the ear- and 74 more bands nal core genres of punk and ska ly Warped following hadn’t stayed $33-$40 (plus charges) with acts like Streetlight Manifesto, Noon Sat., June 30 with the tour as they aged. I Am Avalanche, and New Found “Hey, the average 45-year-old AT&T Center Glory. But fans can also find sevOne AT&T Center doesn’t want to stand in a parking eral varieties of metal (Vampires (800) 745-3000 lot for nine hours through Pierce attcenter.com Everywhere!, Every Time I Die), The Veil to see Bad Religion,” Lyhardcore (They All Float, Falling In man said. Reverse), reggae/rock (Tomorrow’s
Bad Seeds, Ballyhoo), and hip-hop (the Constellations and Machine Gun Kelly). This year’s tour also has a new “Acoustic Basement” tent for unplugged performances and a new “Silent Disco” tent for electronic acts. The improved health of the Warped Tour is re-
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flected in the ticket sales for the past three years. In its glory years, the tour usually moved about 600,000 tickets. That number, according to Lyman, dipped to 480,000 in 2010. “Last year we were back up over 500,000,” he said. “And this year I think we’re going to be better than that, even.”
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Girl in a Coma will be at Korova July 6.
The sounds of summer
My concert picks for the next three months by Enrique Lopetegui
Along with the summer swelter comes a rolling heatwave of local and touring shows you’d be crazy to miss. While you can count on a few sizzling surprises, here’s what we know so far...
June
The latter part of June is all about the locals. On the 20th, Nina Díaz and Vincent Vega (Jeff Escamilla and Alyson Alonzo) will have a free show at Havana Hotel’s Ocho Lounge (1015 Navarro, 7pm) in a unique night pairing Nina and Alyson, arguably the two best female vocalists this town has; on the 30th, The Panic Division (presenting Eternalism), The Heroine and others will rock the 502 Bar ($8, 7pm, 502 Embassy Oaks), and Viet-Ruse will present its solid second album, Para Bellum, at Hi-Tones ($3, 9pm, 621 E Dewey). But don’t forget ZZ Top at the Whitewater Amphitheater on the 23rd. Other shows: June 28: Puscifer ($51.26$63.53; Lila Cockrell Theater; side project of Tool’s Maynard James Keenan)
at the Majestic ($30-55, 8pm, 224 E Houston). On the 7th, Willie Nelson and Jamey Johnson will be at the Whitewater Amphitheater and Glen Campbell (who’s back with the critically acclaimed Ghost on the Canvas) will be at the Majestic. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, this is Campbell’s last tour and album. On July 13, Nicolette Good is releasing Monarch, her first full-length album; Austin’s Collin Herring and SA’s Pillow Talk will also be on the bill at 502 Bar. On the 17th, Sublime with Rome (Rome Ramírez being the singer who replaced the late Brad Nowell) will be at Sunken Gardens, and Ghostland Observatory, the band that started the LiveIn210 run as the top concert promotion company in the city, will return to Whitewater Amphitheatre on the 21st. Other shows: July 13: 311 w/ Slightly Stoopid; Whitewater Amphitheater; Dejando Huella Tour w/ Joan Sebastian and Pepe Aguilar ($61.60-$173.74; Freeman Coliseum)
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On the 5th, KISS and Mötley Crüe at the AT&T Center need no introduction; tickets are on sale for $52.89-$175.92 at attcenter.com; Iron Maiden and Coheed & Cambria will be at the same venue on the 15th ($51.62), and Crosby, Stills and Nash will be at the Majestic on the 17th ($46-$126) (if you don’t know who they are, shame on you: go to YouTube and look for “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” immediately, or rent the original Woodstock; hell, if you’re serious about vocal harmonies, go buy their 1969 eponymous first album). One more: The 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards return to the home of its glory days August 18 at the Alamodome. OK, it’s actually at the Illusions Theater, but that’s pretty darn close Nicolette Good (tejanomusicawards.com). Other shows: August 6: Big K.R.I.T. $20; The White Rabbit August 19: B.B. King $60-$75; MaNina strikes again with a rare Girl in a jestic Theatre Coma gig at the Korova (107 E Martin) on the elopetegui@sacurrent.com 6th, the same day that Dream Theater will be
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Hacienda’s third album came out June 19 and it’s “a perfect lead-off for summer driving in the city … that owes as much to Doug Sahm’s rollicking Tex-Mex as it does to neo-electric blues,” according to the Leonard Pierce review you can read on page 83. The Tiago Splitters will finally present their Farewell the Analogue album with a free June 27 show at Broadway 5050 (5050 Broadway, duh). The album was actually recorded almost two years ago by Chris Maddin and Current Art Director Chuck Kerr under the production of Buttercup’s Joe Reyes, who will be playing with them at the must-see 5050 show. Yes Inferno will release their own new CD on July 11 and Nicolette Good will present Monarch, her first full-length album, with a show July 13 at 502 Bar (502 Embassy Oaks).
Another long-delayed album arrives on the 31st: July 10: Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged and rapper Rick Ross’ God Forgives, I Don’t. Communist Daughter’s Lions & Lambs EP. July 17: Soul Asylum’s Delayed Reaction AUGUST and Jimmy Cliff’s Rebirth (first album in seven My single pick for August is Ry Cooder’s years by the reggae legend). Election Special, which includes “Mutt Romney July 25: Deadmau5 w/Chris James’ The Blues” as an opener. Commenting on the song on Veldt EP (James, a fan, took the instrumental track, his label’s website, Cooder said: “Where did Mitt wrote a melody and lyrics, and uploaded his own Romney learn that hollow laugh of his? A corre- version. Deadmau5 loved it, and the rest is history). JULY spondence course on how to scare your dog shitJuly 31: The newno2’a thefearofmissingout Tentatively, on July 3 the new 50 Cent album, less? He sure scares me, I don’t mind telling you.” and Toadies’ Play.Rock.Music. 5 (Murder by Numbers), will be out, even though August 28: Wiz Khalifa’s O.N.I.F.C. and there is no single yet. On the 17th, System of a OTHER (mostly recommended) Alanis Morissette’s Havoc & Bright Lights. Down’s Serj Tankian returns to his heavier side SUMMER RELEASES after freaking everyone out with an orJune 26: Linkin Park’s Living Things and BEST REISSUES chestral mix of electronica and jazz in Beto Cuevas’ Transformación (Cuevas is the July 10: Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie 2010’s Imperfect Harmonies. The lead of major Chilean rock band La Ley). Centennial Collection and Muddy Waters and new album is Harakiri, his third. July 3: Flo-Rida’s Wild Ones. The Rolling Stones’ Live at the Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981. July 31: Charles Mingus’ The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection (10 CDs), Thelonius Monk’s The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (6 CDs), and Frank Zappa’s remastered albums from 1966’s Freak Out to 1972’s Just Another Band from L.A. August 21: Los Lobos’ Kiko (20th anniversary remastering plus bonus tracks).
Don Cherry (Neneh’s father), the Stooges, and more. Fiona Apple’s long-overdue album finally arrived on the 19th, so grab a pen and paper because you need to write this down: the name of the album is The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do (that’s her secret: catchiness). Read the review on page 83.
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The following albums already came out in June and are highly recommended: Rush’s Clockwork Angels (yes, the Rush), Hot Chip’s In Our Heads, the Cypress Hill x Rusko EP (Rusko being Christopher Mercer, the British DJ and producer), Pat Metheny’s gorgeous Unity Band (with Chris Potter, Ben Williams, and Antonio Sánchez), and Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s The Cherry Thing, with covers of
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Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
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In the fourth coming of Fiona Apple, with its darkly philosophical title that sounds as though Emily Dickinson could have written it, the listener is — at once — therapist, friend, and nemesis. Apple oozes a belligerent and supremely hopeful charisma, while laying down characteristic lines about the shaky psychology of the modern relationship: writ large and with a personal blush. The colorfully chaotic flux that we find the speaker caught in is echoed and heightened by jazzy yet sparse piano progressions and broodingly spastic percussion. The peculiarly unsettling perfection of “Every Single Night,” “Werewolf,” and “Anything We Want” — each saturated in emotive piano textures and the mellow fever of Apple’s haunting voice — is all the evidence of her genius anyone should need. Then there’s the frighteningly neurotic album closer “Hot Knife,” anchored by an impeccable and tempestuously multi-layered harmonic chorus. Apple, some might say, hasn’t grown that much as a musician or branched out enough in her songwriting — she hasn’t needed to. Nothing, as she continually rediscovers in song after song, is wrong with Fiona Apple — she’s just got a big, big fire to burn. — James Courtney
LOCAL REVIEW
Hacienda Shakedown (Collective Sounds)
The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s influence is clear on Hacienda’s third album; his production hallmarks stand out, as when he pushes the drums to the forefront and puts the vocals and guitars down in the mix to give the songs a rowdy live feel. But Hacienda has a sound that’s all their own, a poppy stomp with a throwback feel on songs like “Veronica,” the unabashedly retro “Let Me Go,” and the loopy lead single “Savage” that owes as much to Doug Sahm’s rollicking Tex-Mex as it does to neo-electric blues. A perfect lead-off for summer driving in the city. — Leonard Pierce
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If reports in the press can be believed, the reunited Van Halen (pictured) are already not speaking to one another. That’s a drag, but it’s no reason not to see them — it only means this probably really is your last chance. After all, the band that virtually defined arena rock hated each other most of the time they were making some of their best music. CRITIC ,S Why should now be any different? David Lee Roth is still a hell of a showman, Eddie Van Halen can still play guitar like a demon, the new album is solid, and the band is one of the few whose songs absolutely demand a live hearing. Now’s the time to spend half your paycheck on a ticket before they do something rash like coax Sammy Hagar back into the fold. It’ll be good for the economy, and you’ll get to say you saw one of the best hard rock bands of all time play live somewhere other than on YouTube. Opening up are the even more venerable Kool & the Gang, still touring (with four original members) their distinctly funky R&B after almost 50 years in existence. Check the full Robert “Kool” Bell Q&A at the Sound and Fury blog at blogs.sacurrent.com. $49.50$149.50, 7:30pm, AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, (800) 745-3000, attcenter.com. — Leonard Pierce
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CLUBS/VENUES DJ Fell’s Rockin Karaoke (Karaoke) Martini Ranch, 10pm Feel the Groove: DJ Dyvinsol (DJ) The Falls, 10pm-2am Johnny P. & the Wiseguys (Jazz) Paesano’s (1604), 7pm Karaoke Wednesdays (Karaoke) Zombies, 9pm-2am Lovelust (Rock/Pop) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill Old School Night (Rock/Pop) Retox, 9pm Reggae Wednesdays (DJ) The Reggae Bar, 8pm Hank Harrison (Blues) Olmos Bharmacy, 7-10pm These Droids Attack (DJ) Nightrocker Live, 9pm Wacky Wednesdays Karaoke with VJ Detroit (Karaoke) Crazy J’s Sports Bar, 8:30pm-2am
Thursday, June 21
CONCERTS King William Jazz Collective featuring vocalist Joan Carroll Carmens de la Calle Café, 8:30-11:30pm Concert Under the Stars: Strings Attached Contemporary jazz/ roots outfit Strings Attached is known for re-creating the classic music of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and others. Concert-goers may bring lawn chairs and blankets; food and drinks available for purchase onsite; call (210) 368-8699 to reserve a box supper from Central Market; outside food and beverages are not permitted. San Antonio Botanical Garden, 7pm Cool Down: Jeff Wood Main Plaza, 6-9pm Deer Vibes Tour Kick Off with Jonah Vin, Marcus Rubio, Tetra, The Gospel & The Wolf, & Alejandro Esquivel’s “432” The Ten Eleven, 9pm Milkdrive & Mike Kelly Sam’s Burger Joint, 8:30pm Ready Revolution & Parabelle Jack’s Bar, 10pm Sexto Sol Saluté International Bar, 7pm CLUBS/VENUES Alamo City Soul Club (Soul) Limelight Music + Drinks, 10pm Ezzencia Musical Band (Latin) Chacho’s, 8pm-midnight Flipside (Rock/Pop) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill Iron 60 (Rock/Pop) Stonewerks Big Rock Grille at the Rim, 9pmmidnight Karaoke on the Patio with VJ Detroit (Karaoke) Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, 9pm-1am Open Mic Night (Open mic) Retox, 9pm VJ Vision (DJ) The Falls, 10pm-2am
Friday, June 22
CONCERTS Austin Ladd Roberts Dog and Pony Grill, 6pm Blake & Fallon Kirby’s Steakhouse, 7-10:30pm Darwin’s Finches Boneshakers Bicycle Pub, 9pm Don Williams WhiteWater Live Music Amphitheatre, 7:30pm Frankie Martinez CD Release Party Big Sam’s Grill and Bar, 9pm Gary P. Nunn Floore’s Country Store, 9pm George Acosta Club Rio, 9pm Great Soul Jack’s Bar, 11:30pm Larry Joe Taylor Gruene Hall, 8pm Love Hate Affair Limelight Music + Drinks, 10pm
Ryan Bonn in Concert Singer and pianist Ryan Bonn returns to the Josephine with special guests Byrd Bonner, Joan Bryson, Tommy Miller, and Stephanie Troilo performing an eclectic mix of pop standards with an emphasis on the work of Stephen Sondheim. For reservations, call (210) 734-4646; full bar available onsite. Josephine Theatre, 8pm Soul Track Mind 4th Anniversary Party: The Mighty Orq $10-$14 Sam’s Burger Joint, 9pm The Lost Project, Microphonic, Crown, The Gentlemen Swank The Ten Eleven, 9pm The Offbeats, Education, Advance Cassette 502 Bar, 8pm Van Halen & Kool and the Gang AT&T Center, 7:30pm CLUBS/VENUES Adam Zuniga (Acoustic) Paesano’s (1604), 7pm Albert & Extasy (Latin) Matamoros Restaurant y Cantina, 10pm-1am Becky & The Bev’s (Rock/Pop) Speedway Sports Bar #1, 9pmmidnight DV8 (Rock/Pop) Tripp’s Humor Bar, 9pm Ernie Garibay & Cats Don’t Sleep (Rock/Pop) Firehouse Pub & Grill, 9pm-midnight Five Star Fridays with DJ Uniq (DJ) Blu Bar & Nightclub, 10pm-2am Grupo Oro (Latin) Perico’s Bar & Grill, 7pm GTB (Rock/Pop) Roxy Sports Bar, 9pm-midnight Henry + the Invisibles (Rock/Pop) Rebar, 10pm Higher Ground (Rock/Pop) The Trap, 9pm Mind’s Eye (Rock/Pop) Brooks Pub, 9pm Mish Mash (Rock/Pop) Conroy’s Pub, 9pm Music For Your Soul (Rock/Pop) Fiasco Cocktails, 8pm N’Somnia (Rock/Pop) Lone Star Bar, 9pm Ron Young & Kevin Lewis (Acoustic) Scenic Loop Cafe & Bar, 7:30pm The Flipside (Rock/Pop) Boozehounds, 9pm The Max (Rock/Pop) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill, 9pm The S.A. Blue Cats (Blues) Olmos Bharmacy, 7:30pm VJ Vision (DJ) The Falls, 10pm-2am Wilbert Beasley & The Soul Review (Soul) Rolling Oaks Sports Bar & Grill, 9pm-midnight
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CONCERTS Asteroth, Grind, No Remorse, Reecluse Zombies, 9:30pm Blake & Fallon Kirby’s Steakhouse, 7-10:30pm Dean Seltzer Moses Rose’s Hideout, 9:30pm Garland Jeffreys & Jon Dee Graham Sam’s Burger Joint, 9pm InishFree Celtic Jam Summer Recital InishFree’s recital includes dance, fiddle, and vocal performances plus a silent auction and dessert fundraiser to support 15 qualifying members headed to the nationals in Chicago. For advance tickets, email beach. pierce@gmail.com. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 7pm Jeff Strahan Gruene Hall, 1pm Jonathan Richman The Korova, 8pm Lesti Huff Band Oma’s Secret Garden, 6-10pm Los De Esta Noche Saluté International Bar, 7pm Luke Huggins Band, Great Soul, Richard Thurman 502 Bar, 9pm Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil AT&T Center, 8pm Ms. Underground 2012 DJ Hans 242 says farewell to the Thirsty Camel with the annual Ms. Underground, a contest that allows each hopeful 30 seconds onstage to win over three judges and the audience with their personality and outfit — certificates and prizes will be awarded. In addition to music by DJ Hans 242 and Ken Gerhard (Bozo Porno Circus, Monster Hunter), the event
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◄ MUSIC LISTINGS, 84 includes an underground art show and a “naughty dungeon” administered by Texswitch. The Thirsty Camel, 8pm Rock School Showcase Sam’s Burger Joint, 1pm Unscene Records The Ten Eleven, 9pm ZZ Top & The Casey Donahew Band WhiteWater Live Music Amphitheatre, 7:30pm CLUBS/VENUES 21 Black (Classic Rock) The Park Sports Bar, 10pm Albert & Extasy (Latin) Matamoros Restaurant y Cantina, 9:30pm-2am Barefoot (Rock/Pop) Roxy Sports Bar (1604 & Kitty Hawk), 9pm-midnight Barefoot Larry & The Tradition String Band (Americana) Boehler’s Bar & Grille, 7:30pm Brothers Medina (Rock/Pop) Tripp’s Humor Bar, 9pm-midnight Craving Amy (Rock/Pop) Rolling Oaks Sports Bar & Grill, 9pm-midnight Ernie Garibay & Cats Don’t Sleep (Rock/Pop) Stonewerks Big Rock Grille at the Rim, 9pm-midnight Four Count (Rock/Pop) House Yo Body with DJ Chacho (DJ) Revolution Room, 10pm Karaoke with Rob (Karaoke) Texas Spirits Saloon, 9:30pm-1:30am Live Wire (Rock/Pop) Caliente Harley-Davidson, 2-6pm Mark Waldrop (Acoustic) Scenic Loop Cafe & Bar, 7:30pm Mind’s Eye (Rock/Pop) Boozehounds, 10pm Radioactive (Rock/Pop) The Trap, 9pm Rhythm & Rose (Rock/Pop) Conroy’s Pub, 9pm Scratch (Rock/Pop) Speedway Sports Bar #1, 9pm Soul Sensation (DJ) Limelight Music + Drinks, 10pm Televators (Rock/Pop) Charlie Brown’s, 9:30pm Texas Nutz (Rock/Pop) Fiasco Cocktails, 8pm The Q (Rock/Pop) Roxy Sports Bar, 9:30pm-1:30am Velcro Pygmies (Rock/Pop) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill VJ Vision (DJ) The Falls, 10pm-2am
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CONCERTS Jazz Sessions with Jim Cullum’s Off the Riverwalk Jazz Tucker’s Kozy Korner, 7-10pm Swing Nite with The Texas Pianoman $10 Sam’s Burger Joint, 8:30pm Wolfmouth, Illustrations, The Measure Of The Ten Eleven, 9pm CLUBS/VENUES Meat & Metal Mondays (Metal) Zombies, 9pm Metal Mondays (Metal) Beyond the Dark Horizon presents the best local and regional heavy metal acts. Nightrocker Live, 10pm The Max (Rock/Pop) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill Voodoo Vinyl with Smartypants (DJ) The Mix, 11-2am
Tuesday, June 26
CONCERTS Anybody Killa & DJ Clay $16-$18 The White Rabbit, 7pm Cool Down: Campbell & McKenna Main Plaza, 6-9pm Midtown Jazz Sound with Gabriel Pintor Tucker’s Kozy Korner, 7-10pm Mike Gonzalez & Bobby St. John 502 Bar, 10pm Sound Museum with DJs Dtronik & Tiva, SAAKRED, & Underground Burlesque The Ten Eleven, 9pm Two Tons of Steel Gruene Hall, 8:30pm CLUBS/VENUES BMW Acoustic Jam (Acoustic) Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill Havana Hi-Fi DJ Nights with Adrian Quesada (DJ) Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma, Ocote Soul Sounds, Brownout!, The Echocentrics) spins his favorite psychedelic soul, funk, and Afro-Latin sounds at Havana’s Tuesday night DJ series. Hotel Havana, 7-10pm Tattoo Ladies Night (Rock/Pop) Nightrocker Live, 10pm The Velcro Underground: DJs Smartypants and Rindfuss (DJ) Limelight Music + Drinks, 10pm-2am VJ Vision (DJ) The Falls, 10pm-2am
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my nomination for one of the Ten Biggest Problems in the World: our refusal to control the pictures and thoughts that pop into our minds. For example, I can personally testify that when a fearful image worms its way into the space behind my eyes, I sometimes let it stimulate a surge of negative emotions rather than just banish it or question whether it’s true. I’m calling this is to your attention, Libra, because in the weeks ahead you’ll have more power than usual to modulate your stream of consciousness. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says, “Don’t believe everything you think”? Make that your mantra.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture yourself moving toward a building you haven’t seen before. Trust the initial image that leaps into your imagination. What type of path are you on? Concrete or dirt or brick or wood? Is it a long, winding way or short and direct? Once you arrive at the front door, locate the key. Is it under a mat or in your pocket or somewhere else? What does the key look like? Next, open the door and go inside to explore. Where have you arrived? See everything in detail. This is a test that has no right or wrong answers, Leo -- similar to what your life is actually bringing you right now. The building you’ve envisioned represents the next phase of your destiny. The path symbolizes how you get here. The key is the capacity or knowledge you will need. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My first poetry teacher suggested that it was my job as a poet to learn the names of things in the natural world. She said I should be able to identify at least 25 species of trees, 25 flowers, 25 herbs, 25 birds, and eight clouds. I have unfortunately fallen short in living up to that very modest goal, and I’ve always felt guilty about it. But it’s never too late to begin, right? In the coming weeks, I vow to correct for my dereliction of duty. I urge you to follow my lead, Virgo. Is there any soul work that you have been neglecting? Is there any part of your life’s mission that
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the hands of a skilled practitioner, astrology can help you determine the most favorable days to start a new project or heat up your romantic possibilities or get a tattoo of a ninja mermaid. Success is of course still quite feasible at other times, but you might find most grace and ease if you align yourself with the cosmic flow. Let’s consider, for example, the issue of you taking a vacation. According to my understanding, if you do it between now and July 23, the experiences you have will free your ass, and — hallelujah! — your mind will then gratefully follow. If you schedule your getaway for another time, you could still free your ass, but may have to toil more intensely to get your mind to join the fun. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What is your most hateable and loveable obsession, Sagittarius? The compulsion that sometimes sabotages you and sometimes inspires you? The longing that can either fool you or make you smarter? Whatever it is, I suspect it’s beginning a transformation. Is there anything you can do to ensure that the changes it undergoes will lead you away from the hateable consequences and closer to the loveable stuff? I think there’s a lot you can do. For starters: Do a ritual — yes,
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Vacuum Truck Driver Class A CDL with tanker endorsement and Hazmat certification or will acquire Hazmat upon hire. Two years CDL driving experience. Drive truck according to TX Dot rules and regulations. Drive tanker truck to well location, hook up a 4” hose to trailer and pull loads of water and mud. Drive to designated disposal sites and off load trailers. Follow dispatcher’s directions. Must be able to lift 75 lbs.
MALES ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
Diesel Mechanic must have their own tools. 3yrs experience as big rig diesel mechanic, Mack’s preferred. Must also have vacuum trailer experience. Must be able to work without supervision.
HOME CARE ATTENDANTS CERTIFIED NURSES AIDES RNs AND LVNs PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON: Pride PHC Services 12500 San Pedro, Suite 315 San Antonio, TX 78216
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WE OFFER: Health insurance, Dental and Vision Insurance, Company paid life insurance, 401K Retirement, Paid Vacations, and Holidays.
Positions available in Gillett and Dilley, Tx. If interested contact the Corporate Recruiter at 817-829-1724 or visit our website at hlienergy.com
COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION PACKAGE Includes health insurance, individual retirement savings account w/ employer match and great opportunity for advancement within the company. For more info, contact Betsy at 830.372.9000 or Fax to 830.372.9035
TRUCK DRIVERS Gold Spur Trucking is now hiring full-time TRUCK DRIVERS with Class A CDL with Hazmat and Tanker Endorsements, DOT Card and Long Form. Load, transport and unload crude oil from customer locations to disposal sites. Drivers average 55hrs/wk. Company runs 11 to 12-hr shifts stating at 6a and 6p. Schedules are 6 days on/3 days off.Starting wage is $19/hr with $1.50 differential for night shift, plus $30/day stipend: $12.50 sub for pre and post trip inspections.
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painful menstrual cramps? If you have painful cramps from your period, you may be eligible to participate in this study. Local doctors are evaluating an investigational botanical product that may help make your periods less painful. To participate you must: • Be a woman between the ages of 18 and 35 • Otherwise be healthy with regular menstrual cycles • Not have used no contraceptive injection, implant or IUD within the past 6 months Qualified participants will receive study-related evaluations and care at no cost. Reimbursement for time and travel may also be provided.
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