AltWeeklies Wire
Critics of Animal Care Service Say Drive to Humane Care Misses Big Picturenew
In 2006, the City Council took on Mayor Phil Hardberger's challenge to become the country's largest "no-kill" community.
San Antonio Current |
Andrew Oxford and Scott Andrews |
08-23-2012 |
Animal Issues
Tags: humanity, Animal care
Texas Republican Party The Real 'Extremist' in Climate Fightnew
Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Matthew McConaughey dressed more likely to impressnew
It might be a tired subject, but there's a running joke in Hollywood that actor Matthew McConaughey is allergic to shirts.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Killer Joe
Chilling docudrama 'The Imposter' plumbs the depths of the human psychenew
Stare deep into the eyes of French-Algerian criminal Frédéric Bourdin and it is evident he has no conscience.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Director Bart Layton confronts "The Chameleon"new
Getting to the truth wasn't going to come easy for director Bart Layton. He knew this even before he turned on the video camera and gave serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin a platform to do what he does best.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Semi-losers and 'Inbetweeners' checking the British pulsenew
Based on a British series, The Inbetweeners puts its finger on high school’s “in-between” cohort.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
08-16-2012 |
TV
Revisiting the great Convention Center black holenew
There we go again. Or rather, there they go again. Local leaders keep spending hundreds of millions on our Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, and on its next-door Grand Hyatt hotel, in the hopes that the local convention business will boom.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
08-16-2012 |
Housing & Development
The return of Café Tacuba, Mexico's artsy roots rockersnew
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the self-titled debut of Café Tacuba, the band that turned the world of Latin alternative music upside down with an unusual early format of a drum machine, acoustic guitar, stand-up bass, and a high-pitched charro-sounding singer wearing guarache sandals and a straw hat.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Ruby Sparks' fizzles behind Zoe Kazan's tweepulsive screenplaynew
Vanity Fair had the right idea late last year when it started recapping episodes of the comedy series New Girl by categorizing each of Zooey Deschanel’s idiosyncrasies as either “adorkable” (a personality trait described as dorky and adorable) or “tweepulsive” (the same trait, but at a more cloying level).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Incubus: 'Incubus HQ Live'new
To celebrate both the release of 2011’s If Not Now, When? (their first studio album in five years) and the fact they’ve been together for 20 years, Incubus invited its fans to six free, intimate nights at a storefront on La Brea in West Hollywood.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Girl in a Coma returns to TMA on their own termsnew
OK, the Tejanos haven't done much to attract the rockeros, but the rockeros haven't given too much of a damn about the Tejanos either.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Last Nighters: 'Animal Room'new
Animal Room, the debut LP by San Antonio’s Last Nighters, plays like something of a concise history of modern Southern indie music.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Last Nighters
Joss Stone: 'The Soul Sessions Vol. 2'new
For someone so musically addicted to re-introductions, Joss Stone is pretty damn bad at them.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Stone
Crosby, Stills & Nash: 'CSN 2012 (Live)'new
Time hasn't been kind on CSN, judging by their first live performance in 20 years.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Crosby, Stills & Nash
Carly Garza: One of San Antonio's best voices still searching for herselfnew
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt," wrote Bertrand Russell, and a variation of that quote is (wrongly, I think) also attributed to Charles Bukowski. No matter who said it, the quote reminds me of Carly Garza.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-13-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
