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DIY Valentine's Daynew
Because nothing's sweeter than home-cooked romance.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
02-09-2012 |
Food+Drink
Air revisits Georges Méliès' 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune'new
Sixty-seven years before Americans set foot on the moon, French filmmaker/magician George Méliès imagined the final frontier in 1902 with the premier of Le Voyage Dans la Lune.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
The Tragedies of Andy Warholnew
There is nothing more banal than death — it happens to everyone. But for collectors, death is the best career move an artist can make. It limits supply, driving prices up. And being dead, the artist is not able to diminish his legacy by making unacceptable art.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
02-08-2012 |
Art
MLK: The Assassination Tapesnew
This doc re-creates the days before and after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination using TV and radio reports from the time, most not broadcast since 1968. It gives you the feeling that you’re living through the civil rights leader’s last minutes.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
02-08-2012 |
TV
Tony Parker's trade-in value just went upnew
On the eve of sport's grandest game, San Antonio's longtime quarterback Tony Parker cemented his legacy as the premier point guard in the annals of Spurs' lore. History arrived for Parker in the third quarter of Saturday's 107-96 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder when he notched career-assist number 4,475 to become San Antonio's all-time dime king.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
02-08-2012 |
Sports
Tags: san antonio spurs, tony parker
Anvil frontman Steve 'Lips' Kudlow talks shopnew
The Canadian band Anvil has enjoyed renewed interest since the release of the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil in 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
02-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Of Montreal: 'Paralytic Stalks'new
On Of Montreal's last full length (2010's False Priest) there was a moment when the oversexed funk let up for an emotionally arresting (and dissonant) piano-and-strings ballad.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
Shiner's Wild Harenew
The good folks at the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner have explored many German and Czech lagers since they launched their annual anniversary brew series seven years ago, but on the occasion of their 103rd year of making beer for Texans the brewery has made its first ale.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
02-08-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: beer, shiner beer
Machine Head swarm drummer's hometownnew
Machine Head drummer and native San Antonian Dave McClain often contemplates his band's endurance. "The writing and touring cycle for our last album took over five years," he says. "That's longer than most careers."
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
02-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Leonard Cohen: 'Old Ideas'new
It's a wonderful thing when artists you love surprise you with just how good they can still be, and that's exactly how I felt upon first hearing Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
Critic's Diss: 'The Woman in Black'new
There's a reason why censorship boards cut the scene in the 1931 horror movie classic Frankenstein, where the Monster tosses a happy little girl into a lake and drowns her.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
Jack DeJohnette: 'Sound Travels'new
Since making a name for himself as the backbone of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew-era band, drummer Jack DeJohnette has solidified a reputation as one of jazz's most accomplished and versatile artists, a seasoned technician equally at home playing fusion, free or hard bop.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
The Foreign Film Manifestonew
As Steven Kellman rightfully says, San Antonio is a hellhole for foreign films.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
02-08-2012 |
Movies
Tags: foreign film
Paul McCartney: 'Kisses on the Bottom'new
Let's get all the obvious stuff out of the way first: Kisses on the Bottom, Sir Paul McCartney's new LP of famous and forgotten American standards, is well-produced with obvious reverence for its source material.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
02-08-2012 |
Reviews
Actor Jason Mewes on podcasting with Kevin Smith, beating addictionnew
At 37 years old, actor Jason Mewes, best known as the talkative half of the drug-dealing duo Jay and Silent Bob (Clerks, Chasing Amy), admits he no longer has the stamina to rollerblade long distances or the metabolism to scarf down pizza without remorse like he could in his 20s.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
02-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
