AltWeeklies Wire
Hair of the Dognew
El Perrito, a small but growing brand, is becoming known for high-agave-content in its tequila.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-06-2010 |
Food+Drink
The Chicken's Husbandnew
No other farm animal is as adaptable to small-space living as is the chicken. Chickens are easy, chickens are fun and chickens are in.
San Antonio Current |
Jeffrey John Jungbauer |
08-11-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Chickens!
Trippy Visuals From the Department of Whoa, Dudenew
SAMA’s Psychedelic art exhibition — years in the making by David Rubin, SAMA’s Brown Curator of Contemporary Art — is well worth seeing. It’s a surefire psychoactive mood enhancer, at the least.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
03-17-2010 |
Art
AtticRep Event Needs Spectators and Spect-Actorsnew
It’s a chilly, rain-slick evening soon after Valentine’s Day, and members of the AtticRep Theatre Ensemble have gathered in a small conference room in the Ruth Taylor Fine Arts Center on Trinity’s campus to talk marriage.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
03-10-2010 |
Performance
We Wish it Were Fishier, but the New Sandbar is Still Topsnew
In its new Pearl Brewery location, the Sandbar is still the best seafood restaurant in town, and one of the finest San Antonio restaurants, period, even though it’s suffering from a sort of identity crisis.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
03-03-2010 |
Food+Drink
Not Just Another Roadside Attraction, World's Biggest Cowboy Boots Turn 30new
According to TxDOT, every day an estimated 182,000 cars pass by Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s Giant Justins sculpture in front of North Star Mall. When I explained to the TxDOT public-relations employee why I wanted to know, she gasped, “Oh, I love those boots!”
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
01-13-2010 |
Art
Indulge in the Culinary Triple-Threat at Restaurant Insiginianew
Salt, sugar, and fat: They’re the one-two-three punch of 21st-century food. In coming up with a menu for Insignia in the Fairmount, his new globally influenced American restaurant, Jason Dady unabashedly makes use of all three. Chicken and waffles are a case in point.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
01-13-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Insignia, Jason Dady
It was a Low, Dishonest Decadenew
Throughout the decade, while Osama bin Laden remained out of reach, gloating, Americans channeled their resentments by turning against one another. You heard it on the talk shows, where loathing gained the highest ratings.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-30-2009 |
Commentary
Calorie Restriction Advocates Continue to Gain Tractionnew
Given that the average American consumes more than 3,700 calories per day, and that much of it comes from junk food, some calorie restriction would probably be a good thing for many of us. But if you’re not fat, does it make sense to starve yourself from thin to bony?
San Antonio Current |
Ari LeVaux |
08-26-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Disturbing Pleasures of Edward Goreynew
If you weren't watching PBS with your parents back in the early '80s, then this San Antonio exhibition is a fine introduction to Gorey's singular oeuvre.
San Antonio Current |
Gillian Fassel |
06-10-2009 |
Art
The Puzzling Dilemma of an Artist Who Rejects the Imperative of the Contemporarynew
Danville Chadbourne doesn't want to be a contemporary artist, but he has no choice if he wants to be an artist who continues to matter.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
05-20-2009 |
Art
Tags: Danville Chadbourne, visual art
San Antonio's Own Buffalo Exchangenew
It's not often that when you leave a stable 9-to-5 to open your dream business, you hit the zeitgeist of the times so cleanly. Luckily, this is exactly what happened to Crystal Palmer and Sandra Huizar when they opened Stitch to Wear, a "recycled fashion" boutique in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Leigh Baldwin |
04-01-2009 |
Fashion
Cygnet Lake: Dancing with Young Starsnew
Dear young dancers of the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas:
Hello, girls! Thank you for inviting us, the audience at your performance Poetry in Motion, to glimpse your development as dancers and artists.
San Antonio Current |
Courtenay Martin |
03-04-2009 |
Performance
'No. 5''s Alterations Are an Awkward Fitnew
No. 5 is new, and as such it deserves the kindness offered to new things, but an audience can make only so many allowances for poor construction. A departing patron said it best, to no one in particular, en francais: "It is a good thing she is dead."
San Antonio Current |
Courtenay Martin |
02-25-2009 |
Theater
Cabernet Francnew
Without cabernet franc, Bordeaux blends on both banks would lose much of their complexity.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
02-04-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine
