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What San Antonio Auteurs Have in Store for 2012new
These filmmakers are busy people. Some do music videos, some do shorts, and some do commercials.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-01-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Wolf, Ya'Ke Smith
Sn Antonio chefs honored by StarChefsnew
Food & Wine has good reason to come to Texas (as they announced they will with a fest in April in, yawn, Austin) — we have so many great chefs in this area. StarChefs.com agrees.
San Antonio Current |
Lauren W. Madrid |
02-01-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: san antonio chefs, StarChefs
2012 Style Updatenew
I met Sofia Davis, personal shopper and New York Fashion Week stylist, to talk shop — shopping, that is. Specifically, I wanted to know what to wear in the new year.
San Antonio Current |
Desiree Prieto |
02-01-2012 |
Fashion
George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach for the Tea Partynew
The mostly elderly, mostly white Tea Partiers inside the Northside sports bar sit with eyes trained on the wall of TV screens as a conference call organized by right-wing lobbying group the American Action Network is spinning rebuttals by an assortment of GOP all-stars and conservative thought-leaders to President Obama's "liberal tax-and-spend agenda" over the bar's loud speakers.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-01-2012 |
Politics
Tags: san antonio tea party
Jesse Beaman gaining international audience without traditional album-makingnew
In 2009, Sufjan Stevens told Paste Magazine, "I no longer have faith in the album anymore. … Can't an album be eternity, or can't it be five minutes?"
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
02-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: My Empty Phantom, Jesse Beaman
Victoria Celestine leads tomorrow's music scenenew
When I first saw Marcus Rubio perform, he was a skinny, beardless teen whose one-boy orchestra blew me away at Blue Star in 2004.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
02-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Victoria Celestine
Critic's Pick: 'The Grey'new
What is man's most primal fear? Losing everything he loves? Dying alone? The unknown?
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memorynew
In Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi (recording as Cloud Nothings) has made his most refreshing — even prescient — work.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Detoursnew
The latest record from this legendary San Antonio expatriate collects four haunting piano pieces that are largely characterized by the dichotomy between space and sound.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Blue Gene Tyranny
Harvey Milk: The Singlesnew
Consisting of tracks compiled from 7-inches, splits, compilations, and live bootlegs, this reissue presents a cross-section of early- to mid-career Harvey Milk
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
Ani DiFranco: ¿Which Side Are You On?new
Folk queen (and Queen of the Independents) Ani DiFranco returns with a delectable treatise of protest anthems and feminist discourse. In "Which Side Are You On Now?"
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Anne Salinas |
02-01-2012 |
Reviews
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew
Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
San Antonio Group Pushes to End Corporate Personhoodnew
Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that wrenched open the spigot on corporate cash, drowning us in breathless campaign-season attack ads.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-27-2012 |
Politics
Albert Nobbs elevates Glenn Close, but aims low with storynew
When it comes to cross-dressing and film, male characters color coordinating handbags and heels are typically played for laughs (Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, The Birdcage).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-27-2012 |
Reviews
Obama Administration touts rule change to aid undocumented familiesnew
This month the Obama Administration announced plans to tweak a long-standing immigration rule, rolling out the newest partial fix that, if implemented, could help thousands of mixed-citizenship families caught in immigration limbo. With Obama moving into campaign mode, needing support from a booming Hispanic population largely disappointed with first-term record on immigration, the announcement served as a well-timed hit — the National Immigration Forum declared it a “tremendous victory.”
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-27-2012 |
Policy Issues
