AltWeeklies Wire
Q & A With Latin Alternative Pop Superstar Juanesnew
Latin alternative pop superstar Juanes presents his new album in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Exene's Brave New Worldnew
Punk godmother Exene Cervenka releases a country album and predicts the return of “real” rebellion.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Casino Jack' and the Art of the Stealnew
Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff’s biggest crime was getting caught.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-25-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Casino Jack, George Hickenlooper
SXSW 2011 Movie Guidenew
The San Antonio Current picks the key U.S. and world films of SXSW 2011.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-11-2011 |
Movies
Chaplin and Keaton, Take Twonew
Embracing the genius of film’s two greatest comedians.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-18-2011 |
Movies
Rich Men Also Crynew
'The Company Men' shows the effects of downsizing in the corporate world. Like we care.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-18-2011 |
Reviews
Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdownnew
Lewis Black on why we need liquor in the White House and more comics in law school.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-08-2011 |
Comedy
Tags: Lewis Black
Slash on GNR, Lemmy, & Why San Antonio is a Great Rock Townnew
Slash, the former guitarist for Guns N’Roses, Slash’s Snakepit, and Velvet Revolver, spoke to the Current‘s Enrique Lopetegui from his home in L.A.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Life Ain't Beautifulnew
'Biutiful' director Wants You to grow up and face the facts (and the subtitles).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cake: Showroom of Compassionnew
Grunge may be dead, but Cake is still alive, serving up their first album of originals since 2004’s Pressure Chief.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Cake
Los Cenzontles, a Group at the Cutting Edge in Latin Musicnew
I find it particularly sad and absurd that a band like California’s Los Cenzontles (sehn-SONT-less, Spanish for “mockingbirds”), except for a private event here in 1995, are busier and more appreciated in Scotland and Ireland than they are in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-06-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Health, Lies and Videotape: The Attempted Hijacking of the Health Care Debatenew
Unlike bottom-up organizations such as Moveon.org that take no corporate donations, most of the organizations behind this right-wing "grassroots" movement are directly or indirectly related to the guys poised to lose big bucks if Obama's plan passes.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-26-2009 |
Politics
Is the Hutto Decision Really a Victory for Immigration-Rights Advocates?new
The government announced earlier this month that no more undocumented-immigrant families (especially families with small children) will be imprisoned at the for-profit T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. How big -- or small -- a victory this is for immigration-reform advocates is still a matter of debate.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-12-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Argentina's Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Release Their First Studio Album in 10 Yearsnew
In the modern history of Latin alternative music, no other band has been more successful and influential in mixing different rock streams with Afro-indigenous rhythms than the Argentine now-six-piece combo.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
El Moz: The Mexican Morrisseynew
Thanks to his ability to soothe an immigrant’s heart without even trying, in the world of rock no one is more Mexican than Morrissey.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
