AltWeeklies Wire
The Big Pink: Future Thisnew
Expectations are tricky things. Follow too closely and you're boring, not at all and you'll alienate your audience.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Saying 'No' to the Spursnew
A primer for San Antonio's business and political leaders.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
01-19-2012 |
Sports
Tags: San Antonio Spurs, SAISD
Why your local folk singer could become your folk heronew
I imagine interviewing Nick Mery is something like dealing with national acts. He schedules me on a Sunday just before his #goodjobtexas radio program, held at Studio 14 Hundred on West Avenue and broadcast on KROV 91.7 HD2.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gauchistenew
Well, ain't this a great way to get the new year started?
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo E. Pozo |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Who the #$&% is Thomas Hoving?new
Tony Feher likes plastic. In Thomas Hoving, his new exhibition at Artpace, strands of iridescent red, orange, and purple nylon string sweep from the ceiling in the middle of the Hudson (Show) Room, twisting in a dramatic arc.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Art
Crtitic's Pick: Shamenew
Over the span of a year he's played iconic comic-book villain Magneto in X-Men: First Class, classic literary character Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, and groundbreaking Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, but it still took Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) showing off a little more than his acting ability to get some serious consideration this awards season.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Top guac sought by Olé Avocadonew
With the Super Bowl on the horizon, some of you are perfecting your tailgating hors d'oeuvres. If you think your guacamole can't be beat, now's your chance to prove it.
San Antonio Current |
Lauren W. Madrid |
01-19-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Olé Avocado, Making guacamole
Valero Working Overtime to Stop Climate-Change Legislationnew
Move over Koch Brothers, San Antonio's Valero Energy wants to keep the future oily.
San Antonio Current |
Robert Crowe |
01-18-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Valero, Oil industry
Reserve Space in Your Playlist Now for These Anticipated Albumsnew
The music industry showed signs of life in 2011: Adele sold 14.5 million copies of 21, and Apple, Spotify, Google, and others launched music cloud services in what may prove to be the biggest turning point for music since iTunes dropped in 2001.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Tags: new music in 2012
Third Root’s ‘Winter in America’new
Though the year is just getting started, one of the most ambitious and original local collaborations of 2012 is bound to be Third Root, a project by Mojoe's Easy Lee (poet, author, and emcee) and Mexican Stepgrandfather (Marco Cervantes, an emcee who also teaches Mexican-American and Afro-Chicano history at UTSA).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-13-2012 |
Music
With doomsday fast approaching, here are the films you can take refuge in this yearnew
According to analysts from BTIG, a strategic research company that predicts trends including those in the entertainment industry, movie attendance is headed for a significant decline in 2012.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-12-2012 |
Movies
Roman Polanski's 'Carnage' more torture chamber than chamber piecenew
With a title like Carnage, even if the weapon of choice is words one might expect to see some type of intellectual bloodbath.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Political Boundariy Fight May Delay Texas Primary Electionnew
With the high-profile Texas redistricting case hitting the U.S. Supreme Court this week, there are still no legally approved maps to guide the state's April 3 primary, which continues to edge closer.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-11-2012 |
Elections
Tags: Elections, 2012 texas primary
Common: The Dreamer, The Believernew
Common has always walked a tightrope. His "I Used to Love H.E.R." is a love song (a rap rarity in '94) that charted his love's spiritual and moral decline (his betrothed being the genre, not a woman).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factorynew
2011 was a tough year for alt-rock nostalgics: R.E.M.'s break-up, Sonic Youth's expected split, even Pavement's reunion tour turned bittersweet on news that there would be no formal reunion or forthcoming release.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
