AltWeeklies Wire
Los Texmaniacs: 'Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds'new
When it comes to condensing everything that's great about Tex-Mex into a CD that pleases both the people and academia, nobody does it better than the Texmaniacs and the Smithsonian.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
Verisimilitude: Teen marvels ditch angst for musical aptitudenew
A Verisimilitude show is like sitting in on a low-key band practice. Somewhat awkward and pleasantly unrefined, each 30-minute set boasting personality and charismatic dance moves.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Public Enemy: 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stampnew
Despite their storied place in the hip-hop pantheon, it’s been a long time since Public Enemy has been relevant.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
Sohns: 'Ripe/Rot' EPnew
Gloomy sounds of struggle and organ washes open up this EP from Sohns, a quartet of local racket-raisers, but it jumps right into some rewarding noise on track two, the wonderfully titled "Soul Train Blues of the Broken Skull."
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
'Bent' plumbs Nazi Germany's pink triangulationnew
In 1979, when Bent premiered in a London production starring Ian McKellen, homosexuality was still actively persecuted and prosecuted as a sin and crime.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-29-2012 |
Performance
The top five Batman villiansnew
The top five Batman villians
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
07-29-2012 |
Movies
Five Finger Death Punch is just doing its jobnew
Jason Hook sounds like a businessman.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-27-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
MTMTMK: 'The Very Best'new
The marriage of London-based production/DJ duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, The Very Best has yielded both deeply soulful and intoxicatingly carefree moments through two mixtapes and one album before MTMTMK.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
Reviews
Nas: 'Life is Good'new
Though universally considered one of the greats, Nas has worked, to some extent, in the shadow of Biggie and 2Pac since his rapturous emergence in 1994.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
Reviews
Zombies at the Olympics?new
The whole two-week package for the London Olympics promises drama galore for U.S. fans.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
07-27-2012 |
TV
Radcliffe Bailey discusses memory, biennials, and homenew
Radcliffe Bailey's retrospective "Memory as Medicine" opened at the McNay Art Museum in June and will be on view to September 2, 2012.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-26-2012 |
Art
Turbulence undergirds offerings by these Texas authorsnew
Never let anyone try to tell you what a Texas writer is supposed to be. Here are three Texans that cover everything from the skin trade to cautionary schoolyard YA fiction.
San Antonio Current |
ROBERTO ONTIVEROS |
07-20-2012 |
Fiction
Microlender Acción Texas steps in when big banks stallnew
More than ever, the big banks are averse to providing loans to the nation’s small businesses — even while data show this to be the nation’s genuine job-producing sector.
San Antonio Current |
Tony Cantú |
07-20-2012 |
Economy
'SSX' proves innovation and adrenaline can go hand in handnew
Sports games are one of the most tired genres of the video games industry.
San Antonio Current |
Grayson Hamilton |
07-20-2012 |
Video Games
San Antonio man sues feds, state to get God out of court (and off the bills), Real ID wrasslin' continues in D.C., New documents show where DPS wanted drones in South Texasnew
David Dornak wants to kick God out of court. Hell, he’d deport Him from the country if he could, for all Judeo-Christian religious belief has done for the county (not to mention the poor and starving of the world, kept poor and starving in part by “well-meaning” self-professed Christians in Congress denying aid for family planning, but don’t get him started).
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
07-20-2012 |
Commentary
