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Music-astute Northside Club Aspires to be More Than Just Another Strip Venuenew
You’ve probably heard about Endless Music’s recent format change. In September, the club (formerly Scout Bar at Hwy 281 and Redland) was acquired by Sugar’s/Perfect 10 Clubs.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-10-2011 |
Recreation
Thanksgasm at Ranger Creeknew
Texas Girls’ Pint Out (self-described as “Gals into grolsch. Ladies into lagers. Princesses into pilsners. Angels of ale,” etc.) and Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling Co. have teamed up for a second year to give thanks for beer and food ... and food made with beer.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
11-10-2011 |
Food+Drink
Life Lessons from San Antonio Designer Adrienne Yungernew
You need to be precise," says Adrienne Yunger, the featured designer of San Antonio Fashion Week and winner of this year's Fashion Group International Rising Star Award for her men's ready-to-wear clothing. "You've got to make sure you measure twice and cut once. It's all about starting right."
San Antonio Current |
Desiree Prieto |
11-10-2011 |
Fashion
NPR vs Lisa Simeone: politics, opera, and Occupynew
While musing on this week’s review of “The Orient Expressed,” the large survey show now at the McNay that focuses on the congruence of Japanese and Western art known as Japanisme, a recent quote by music critic Lisa Simeone — recently punished by National Public Radio for her involvement in the Occupy DC protests — jumped to my attention.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-03-2011 |
Art
How Warships and the Floating World Led us to Art Nouveaunew
While politicians and pundits continue to rail about the need to secure our border to the south, offering helpful suggestions like an alligator-infested moat paired with a big, big fence, perhaps we should all just stop for a moment and remember that other gate we left wide open.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Tags: art nouveau, border control
Guadalupe Helps Keep Day of the Dead Thrivingnew
The day of the dead — which has one foot in ancient Aztec culture and another in the exploitation of Misfits T-shirts — is all about being alive. At its most secular dia de los muertos, with its sugar skulls, sweet day of the dead bread, and those colorful paper offerings to the underworld, may easily be written off by the uninitiated as about as spiritual as that Tim Burton claymation movie Corpse Bride.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Remembering the Remarkable Mr. Starckenew
We lost a genuine San Antonio original with the passing of 90-year-old author, Broadway producer, New Age lecturer, confidante to stars and scalawags alike, world traveler, bon vivant and raconteur sans pareil Walter Starcke on October 25, 2011.
San Antonio Current |
William Jack Sibley |
11-03-2011 |
Commentary
Daniel Lee’s Modern-Day Chimera Haunting SAMAnew
It is comfortable to think that we are a species apart from the animal world. Deep in your heart, you know better. Daniel Lee’s retrospective “Animal Instinct” at SAMA presents digital manipulations by the Chinese-born photographer that meld human with beast to form chimeras, hybrids that seem to have appeared from the realm of myth, or last night’s broken sleep.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-27-2011 |
Art
Solid Cellar Production of ‘Time Stands Still’ Seeks Proper Response to Sufferingnew
It’s easy to underestimate playwright Donald Margulies, even with his Pulitzer Prize (for the delicious Dinner With Friends) and his influential post as professor of playwriting at Yale. For starters, it’s because, on paper, his dramas might seem slender, improbably tidy, and — depending on your tastes — somewhat bourgeois: oh-so-middle-class professionals with oh-so-middle-class problems.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
10-27-2011 |
Theater
Bring Out Your Deadnew
Día de los Muertos celebrations are being held throughout the city this week, and though the public events began at Centro Cultural de Aztlán in 1977 and at the Instituto Cultural de México shortly thereafter, the festivity’s roots go deep into Mezoamerican culture.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-26-2011 |
Art
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Evoke a Sense of Trespassnew
During the 15 years that Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have been in collaboration, sculpture has come into new prominence.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-20-2011 |
Art
Advice to the Children’s Museum from a Past Directornew
Last Friday the Express-News broke the story that the San Antonio Children’s Museum had received $20 million from Charles Butt, CEO and chairman of H-E-B, to build a new facility on Broadway in Alamo Heights. Butt’s gift provides almost half of the $45 million needed to construct the new complex that will almost double the museum’s size, from 40,000 to 70,000 square feet.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-20-2011 |
Art
The Classic Transports to the House of Bernarda Albanew
Matriarch Bernarda Alba runs a tight ship in Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba as she seeks to preserve her five daughters for marriages that suit her landed-gentry bloodline — though, as becomes clear as we watch that control unravel, no one can contain the passions of such willful women.
San Antonio Current |
Katrina Bondari |
10-20-2011 |
Performance
KRTU celebrates its first decade with a whole ‘Year of Jazz’new
Aaron Prado was there nine years ago on the day KRTU 91.7 FM decided to go jazz. “We had no idea if it would be a flash in the pan or take off,” Prado told the Current. “Would [listeners and jazz fans] support it? Was San Antonio ready for a jazz station?”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-20-2011 |
Media
How the Quest for Fire Led Me to the Punishing Four Horsemennew
More than 6,000 years ago, fledgling civilizations from Peru to the Bahamas were cultivating chili plants alongside such staples as maize and yam.
San Antonio Current |
Brandon R. Reynolds |
10-20-2011 |
Food+Drink
