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The Apoca-List: Babies with syphilis, Guld Cartel leader captured, Anonymous hacktivist arrested in Dallasnew
Babies with syphilis, Guld Cartel leader captured, Anonymous hacktivist arrested in Dallas
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
09-20-2012 |
Features
Newsmonger: Congress will hold Lackland hearingsnew
The House Armed Services Committee announced last week it will hold hearings on the sex abuse scandal that has continued to widen at Joint Base San Antoinio-Lackland over the past year, following the committee chairman's much-criticized visit to the base just three days prior.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
09-20-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: sex scandal
What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention Systemnew
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: jail, criminal justice
'Wild Horse, Wild Ride' misses chance to examine deeper Mustang storynew
Before the dust settles, debut filmmakers Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus need to pitch their documentary Wild Horse, Wild Ride as a reality TV series to CMT.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
Should the Gong Shorts Film Competition be gonged out?new
The Gong Shorts is the film industry's version of a high school student council election: those with the most friends, the coolest title, and the thickest (blemish-free) skin win.
San Antonio Current |
Jordan Gass-Pooré |
09-16-2012 |
Commentary
Keith Morris' mission: get rid of bands that sucknew
Nearly 34 years after the release of Black Flag's definitive hardcore EP Nervous Breakdown, frontman Keith Morris is still churning out raw, incendiary music.
San Antonio Current |
Matthew Stieb |
09-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Los Super Seven are back, and they start herenew
I see nothing wrong with the word "supergroup" (a band with its members being well-established soloists or coming from other, well-established bands), and that's exactly what Los Super Seven are. The only thing they are not is, precisely, seven, but many more.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
A cheater's guide to lovenew
Despite all the TV jokes about New Jersey, it has long been the bedrock for our best writers — from Dorothy Parker and Philip Roth to William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg — and don't forget the Boss, Bruce Springsteen. Now add Junot Díaz to that illustrious list.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
09-16-2012 |
Books
A Triad of Intangible Territoriesnew
Unless dealing with outright metaphysics, much nonfiction is mere map-making, stencil patterns, or instruction. And it really has something to do with the approach: how much song is given to each subject.
San Antonio Current |
RoberTO ONTIVEROS |
09-16-2012 |
Books
J.J. Abrams' 'Revolution'new
J.J. Abrams’ series plunges you into an alternate reality. Ben (Tim Guinee) hurries home to tell his wife (Elizabeth Mitchell), “It’s happening.”
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
09-16-2012 |
TV
Matchbox 20: 'North'new
I'll make this as quick and painless as possible. First of all, Matchbox 20 still exists (yes, the “push you around” guys).
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
Original Blues Brother still baring his soulnew
Sam's Burger Joint may have likenesses of The Blues Brothers overlooking its stage, but soon the sculptures will be overshadowed by the man who influenced the famous duo.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Carlson |
09-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Deerhoof: 'Breakup Song'new
Deerhoof has always felt like the little band that could: a bit too eccentric to reach wide notice, but charming enough in their weirdness to stay on the radar.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
Bob Dylan: 'Tempest'new
Time Out of Mind (1997) started the best chapter of Bob Dylan’s late career, thus setting a new, unbelievable standard for himself and his contemporaries — that of the rare legend who keeps getting better with time.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
Cat Power: 'Sun'new
There are a few things we've come to expect from Cat Power, indie rock's most reliably miserablist singer-songwriter this side of Elliott Smith. Suffice to say, when she caps her new electro-pop album with an 11-minute "I Wanna Live!" mantra ("Nothin' But Time") it's pretty goddamn shocking.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
