AltWeeklies Wire
Torche: 'Harmonicraft'new
Torche's newest brings their mastery of incredibly catchy, poppy, heavy rock into new realms of melody and tight songwriting.
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
05-10-2012 |
Reviews
Value Vino: Malbec and Manifest Destinynew
Argentina has done such a thorough job of coopting malbec, that you'd think the grape to be autochthonous. (I have always wanted to use this word, basically a fancy form of "indigenous.")
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
05-09-2012 |
Food+Drink
Satisfying geekdom's love affair with 'The Avengers'new
It happens in the second half of the highly-anticipated Marvel comic-book movie The Avengers, a precisely planned superhero assemblage that has been culminating since 2008's release of both Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk reboot
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
Norah Jones: 'Little Broken Hearts'new
Norah Jones has tried branching outside the pop-jazz that made her so very successful a decade ago before, calling on the likes of Dolly Parton, Ryan Adams, and key pieces of Tom Waits' crew...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
The Dandy Warhols: 'This Machine'new
By all logical accounts, the Dandy Warhols shouldn't still exist.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
Outernational raises the red flag over Alamo Citynew
The revolution may not be televised, but it'll definitely have its own music anthology.
San Antonio Current |
Jeffrey Wright |
05-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why the foot-furious musical Singin' in the Rain still demands attentionnew
In 1927, The Jazz Singer burst into the Hollywood silent-film scene, breaking the sound barrier and trumpeting doom and gloom for mute motion pictures everywhere.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-03-2012 |
Reviews
Sherlock Holmes tackles the sexy dominatrixnew
Last year, Masterpiece Mystery's "Sherlock" did Sherlock Holmes a favor by plunking him down in our own time.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
05-03-2012 |
TV
LaJIT: 'Black Sun'new
LaJIT is John Isaac Torres, a 21-year-old SA resident who spent his high school years on fixed income living with with an alcoholic uncle after his parents divorced.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-02-2012 |
Reviews
Jack White: 'Blunderbuss'new
For those who think of Jack White as a rock god turned eccentric music mogul peddling odd (and awful) one-off collaborative singles from a gaudy yellow taco truck, this album might come as a bit of a surprise.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
05-02-2012 |
Reviews
Jane's Addiction: Still F***ing With You After 27 Yearsnew
Jane's Addiction is credited as being the granddaddies of the Alternative Nation, and for good reason.
San Antonio Current |
Jaime Monzon |
05-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
As Border Apprehensions Fall, a Serious 'Minor' Problem Emergesnew
Soon after the number of undocumented immigrants nabbed at the border plummeted in 2011 — 340,000 caught compared to highs upwards of 1 million annually — we got news from the Pew Hispanic Center that migration from Mexico to the U.S. has essentially stopped, and maybe even reversed.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-02-2012 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration, Border Apprehensions
Q&A with Eric Lane, president of the San Antonio Chapter for Americans United for Separation of Church and Statenew
When Americans United was founded in 1947, some in power were pushing to fund certain private religious institutions with public tax dollars.
San Antonio Current |
Bárbara Renaud González |
04-26-2012 |
Policy Issues
'Don't Trust the B---' script smells of desperationnew
With their greed, brutality and lust — not to mention their Italian Renaissance duds — the Borgias make the Sopranos look practically modest.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
04-26-2012 |
TV
A father and son duke it out in 'Footnote'new
Two men sit side-by-side in the front row of a throng of people, listening to the introduction of one Professor Shkolnik, who is being accepted into the National Israel Academy of Sciences.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
04-26-2012 |
Reviews
