AltWeeklies Wire
SA's first poet laureate Carmen Tafolla on literature, literacy, and the music of bus stopsnew
Named by Mayor Julián Castro as San Antonio's first poet laureate, Carmen Tafolla is truly one San Antonio's greats.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
04-05-2012 |
Commentary
Air revisits Georges Méliès' 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune'new
Sixty-seven years before Americans set foot on the moon, French filmmaker/magician George Méliès imagined the final frontier in 1902 with the premier of Le Voyage Dans la Lune.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew
As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Revamped Footloose is a Rebel with a Dancin’ Causenew
So this is a question I know you’ve asked yourself time and time again: How can they remake an ’80s pop culture classic like Footloose? What’s next? A CGI Back to the Future remake starring Zac Efron? I’m hoping not in my lifetime.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
10-20-2011 |
Reviews
Thenewno2: EP002new
This four-track EP from Dhani Harrison’s band is an English mélange of folk, electronica, hip-hop, and indie rock.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
10-06-2011 |
Reviews
'Crime After Crime' Chronicles One Battered Woman's Struggle for Freedomnew
Debbie Peagler has been in prison for the past 27 years for the first-degree murder of her boyfriend Oliver Wilson, a man who forced her into prostitution while she was a teenager, a man who beat her and then molested their children.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
09-29-2011 |
Reviews
Moby: Destroyednew
The tenth studio album from the electronic architect constructs clean, sophisticated landscapes while displaying an illuminated sense of emotional desolation.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
DVD Explores Le Tigre’s Informed Electro-Punknew
Who Took the Bomp? follows feminist electro band Le Tigre (Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and gender-bending mustachioed JD Samson, now lead singer of MEN) on their 2004-2005 final tour across four continents and 10 countries after the release of This Island.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
07-01-2011 |
Reviews
Smith Westerns: Dye it Blondenew
The Smith Westerns have youthful indie panache sure to get your loafers twitching, complete with catchy guitar riffs and sweet lyrics.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
01-20-2011 |
Reviews
