AltWeeklies Wire
Pastured Eggs in San Antonionew
"Organic" conjures up images of healthy animals and grounds, but organic eggs are nothing more than birds fed organic feed and not given antibiotics or hormones.
San Antonio Current |
Liz Schau |
03-04-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: organic eggs
The Chieftains Celebrate 50 Years in Orbitnew
With six Grammys, 22 nominations, and 51 albums in 50 years, the Chieftains — playing the Lila Cockrell Theatre on Wednesday, February 29 — are one of Ireland's most beloved musical institutions.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-04-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
School of Seven Bells: 'Ghostory'new
Growing up as a child of the '90s, I think, makes School of Seven Bells.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
03-02-2012 |
Reviews
Earth: 'Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II'new
Tracked at the same recording sessions as its predecessor, Earth's latest retains the more open
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
03-02-2012 |
Reviews
Questions Over Testing Stall Bartee Executionnew
The night of August 16, 1996, gunshots rang out from David Cook's East Side home shortly before neighbors heard someone take off down the street on Cook's prized red Harley.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-02-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Anthony Bartee execution
Napalm Death: 'Utilitarian'new
Iconic grindcore pioneers Napalm Death's newest foray into the fray takes some brave steps into new musical territories.
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
03-02-2012 |
Reviews
Getting 'Jerseylicious' with Jason Isaacsnew
This new drama rivals The Twilight Zone with its reality-bending premise. Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) wakes up from a family car crash to find that his wife (Laura Allen) has survived and his son (Dylan Minnette) has died.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
03-01-2012 |
TV
Tags: Jason Isaacs, Jerseylicious
Placenta Shampoos, BPA, and Monsanto's Genetic Empirenew
We are experimental people. By that, I don't mean we like to tinker. Though tinker we certainly do.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-29-2012 |
Environment
How to Navigate the Flavored Vodka Boomnew
In another sign of our complexifying times, vodka, whose virtue was once that it tasted like nothing, now tastes like everything.
San Antonio Current |
Brandon R. Reynolds |
02-29-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Flavored vodka
Like Heather Go Psycho's EP? You ain't heard nothing yetnew
It's hard not to compare or think of Girl in a Coma when writing about Heather Go Psycho: they're both all-female trios, GIAC booked them and gave them early advice in their careers, and both bands have amazing singers.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-28-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Girl in a Coma's documentary 'Jammin'' shows their early yearsnew
Since 2006's Jammin', a TV documentary of the early years of Girl in a Coma, the band's circumstances have changed a bit.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Jammin', Jim Mendiola
Cloud Nothings aren't "the new" anythingnew
Comparisons are fucking stupid. The immediate impulse when listening to Cloud Nothings' new post-hardcore (whatever that means) opus (whatever that means) Attack on Memory is to compare young frontman Dylan Baldi to another soft-spoken-though-undeniably-charismatic 20-something songwriter who channeled his love of angry hardcore bands (Wipers, Hüsker Dü, Black Flag, etc.) into inexplicably populist rage, but this isn't then.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Ginobli tweets about Jeremy Lin on Valentine's Daynew
When Manu Ginobili took to Twitter on Valentine's night, he didn't tweet about the Spurs victory over the stalled Detroit Pistons.
San Antonio Current |
Ryan Sachetta |
02-27-2012 |
Sports
The Panic Division: 'Eternalism'new
The Panic Division's first album since the Sleepwalker EP (2009) feels like a second Colton Holliday solo album in its continuation of a mix he's grown comfortable with: synth-rock, layers and layers of guitars, strong hooks and melodies, and that type of sweet darkness Interpol is — or used to be — good at.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Bexar County Roller Girls Complete a Derby Triumviratenew
When it comes to roller derby, don't be fooled by the fishnets. "It's an actual sport," says CJ Herrera, a new Bexar County Roller Girls member. "It's work. It's competitive.
San Antonio Current |
Miranda Koerner |
02-27-2012 |
Sports
