AltWeeklies Wire
Henry Rayburn: Gone, Far Too Soonnew
The loss of Henry Rayburn — artist, architect, activist, volunteer, world traveler, and world-class charmer — is a shock to the art community, the LGBT community, as well as his many family members and friends.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
02-04-2009 |
Art
Tags: visual arts, Henry Rayburn
2008 Riesling Reduxnew
My editor hates lists -- or so she says. So this will be a list disguised as a resolution: I hereby resolve to learn more about German and Alsatian wines in 2009. Yes, I'm as daunted as you are.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-18-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Omniboire: Washington Merlotsnew
A long growing season with warm daytime and cool nighttime temperatures gives Washington merlots from both banks of the Columbia River a certain advantage over Bordeaux, with its notoriously fickle weather -- though the two regions are located at the same latitude.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
10-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Value Vino: Fine Wines for Hard Timesnew
It's ironic, given the recent massive bailout of Wall Street in the guise of making nice to Main Street, that some of the best advice on inexpensive wines should come from The Wall Street Journal.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
10-22-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, economic issues
Is Simplicity and Efficiency Behind the Rise of Texting?new
Why are text messages becoming more popular than voice communications? Being a scientist, the concept of parsimony -- in a general sense, following the path of least resistance -- came to mind.
San Antonio Current |
Carlos Bergfeld |
10-08-2008 |
Tech
Homemade Pozole is Time-Consuming, but Worth the Effortnew
Being a huge fan of grits, it came as no surprise to me that when I finally sat down in front of a bowl of pozole, I pigged out -- as if it and I had known each other our whole lives and were not meeting for the first time, but rather old friends catching up. With recipe.
San Antonio Current |
Burgin Streetman |
10-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Art and Propaganda of World War Inew
Together with Frank Faulkner, Allison Hays Lane has been assembling The Winds and Words of War for more than two years. The exhibition travels on to Chicago at the end of October, and will be memorialized in a book from Seattle's Marquand Press.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
10-01-2008 |
Art
Wines of the Southern Cotes du Rhonenew
Red wines of the Cotes du Rhone, especially those from the southern end of the valley, have long been personal favorites, but I didn't know why until I read the following recently: Wines of the Rhone "offer an animalistic sort of pleasure" and "put us in touch with our primitive selves."
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
09-24-2008 |
Food+Drink
Spittin' Game: Too Human and Rock Band 2new
Too Human is friendly to role-playing newbies while Rock Band 2 adds a few tracks for everyone.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-24-2008 |
Video Games
Clothes-minded: Ryann Wayke Denimnew
The return of fall is the return of denim.
San Antonio Current |
Leigh Baldwin |
09-24-2008 |
Fashion
San Antonio's Best-loved Burgersnew
Soldiering through the city to profile 25 burgers.
San Antonio Current |
Staff |
09-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Science and Force of Ass-kickingnew
A title like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed treats power like the gaming equivalent of $57 million in pure Palin Alaskan pork barrel--an unexpectedly generous switch for a developer like LucasArts.
San Antonio Current |
Aaron R. Conklin |
09-17-2008 |
Video Games
Montezuma's Sweet Revengenew
Or, how I ate my way through San Miguel and only died once.
San Antonio Current |
Burgin Streetman |
09-10-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Traditional Vietnamese Noodle Soup is Easy to Fake at Homenew
Pho, a brothy soup of rice noodles and beef, was created about 100 years ago in northern Vietnam. It's pronounced like "fur" without the "r," though it's often mistakenly called "faux."
San Antonio Current |
Ari LeVaux |
08-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
Spittin' Game: Unreal Tournament 3 and Guitar Hero: Aerosmithnew
Exploring space marines and the white-trash version of the Rolling Stones.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
07-30-2008 |
Video Games
