San Antonio Current

Public Access' Public Axisnew

Now that the City Council has approved the testing of AT&T's U-Verse, it's a waiting game for public-access producers, and in the meantime they're gearing up for a battle.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-25-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Haley Scarnato's Cometnew

Our favorite Idol flew by the seat of her hot pants.

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 04-18-2007 | TV

Tags: TV

The Artist Formerly Known as Smog ... and (Smog)new

By any name, Bill Callahan is a major indie-pop auteur.

San Antonio Current | Chris Parker | 04-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bill Callahan

Pending Death of a Salesmannew

Mark Fergus' first film asks the big questions, provides no answers ... in a good way.

San Antonio Current | Ashley Lindstrom | 04-18-2007 | Reviews

Tags: First Snow, Mark Fergus

Go With the (Free) Flownew

The Free Flow of Info Act: Keeping journalists off the witness stand (and protecting anonymous sources).

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-18-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Lone Gunman, Media Mob at Virginia Technew

Imagine a world in which Alberto Gonzales' upcoming Congressional testimony was accorded the same drama and intense, layered coverage as the shootings, while the Virginia Tech victims' friends and families were left to mourn in private.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 04-18-2007 | Media

Tags: media

There's (Some) Sex in Your Violencenew

Thoughts on misogyny, exploitative films and ratings.

San Antonio Current | Ashley Lindstrom | 04-12-2007 | Movies

A Horny, Insecure King Makes for Fun Historynew

If anything, high-school students are going to enjoy the hell out of The Tudors as a teaching aid.

San Antonio Current | Ashley Lindstrom | 04-12-2007 | TV

Tags: TV

Polocrosse's Sticks and Studsnew

The U.S. team trains for this month's World Cup showdown.

San Antonio Current | Alexis Souza | 04-12-2007 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness

Cutting Death-Row Inmates Offnew

As if they weren't already isolated enough: Activists allege that Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees are applying death-row mail and visitation policies arbitrarily, and in some cases, using the rules as a form of punishment.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-12-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Texas Lege Makes Case for Teaching the Bible in High Schoolnew

With help from academia, conservatives shifted the debate from the constitutional issue of church-state separation to whether or not Texas public school children can adequately understand Dante's Inferno or Melville's Moby Dick without knowledge of the Bible.

San Antonio Current | Vince Leibowitz | 04-12-2007 | Education

Tags: Education