AltWeeklies Wire
Baby-Bucks Bordeauxnew
If fine wine prices are an indicator of economic health, then here’s the correlation: after reaching a peak of $3,500 per bottle in mid 2008, the price of a bottle of Bordeaux’s 1982 Chateau Lafite Rothschild dipped to a mere $3,300 or so in June of 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
11-30-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, value wine
Debora Kuetzpalin Vasquez Takes on Domestic Violencenew
The inside of the Bihl Haus gallery has been transformed into a house filled with color. Everywhere you look, bright, happy paintings cover the walls. Most are portraits of women, often paired with photographs. Between them is furniture, sometimes painted, too.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-30-2011 |
Art
Rescued tom turkey enjoying pampered days before release to wildlife sanctuarynew
At small farms around greater San Antonio, some adventurous souls were picking out turkeys for slaughter.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-29-2011 |
Food+Drink
Chris Cornell: Songbooknew
Grunge veteran Chris Cornell just can't be stopped. After calling it quits with Soundgarden in 1997 and Audioslave in 2007, a reunion Soundgarden tour, and slew of solo shows, he's released Songbook, a three-part EP with tracks taken from the best hits of his career to date.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Anne Salinas |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Film Review: Like Crazynew
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and newcomer Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, two attractive college kids who meet during class and immediately fall head over heels in love.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
San Antonio Poet Laureate goes to...new
Luminaria is next March 10, but artists who want to participate in San Antonio’s big art night only have till December 9 to submit proposals.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-28-2011 |
Art
The Essential Phil Spectornew
Ever since a 17-year-old Spector produced his own composition, "To Know Him Is To Love Him," for the Teddy Bears in 1958, record production has never been the same.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Phil Spector
'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooneynew
Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or dropping Jack Nicholson and a naked Kathy Bates in a hot tub for About Schmidt, or setting a pair of wine snobs loose in his last movie, 2004's Sideways, the writer-director doesn't see people in their 40s as well-adjusted men and women contributing to society.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bryan Hamilton: Welcome to Dreamlandnew
Local producer Bryan Hamilton has described Welcome to Dreamland as a "bunch of angels talking to each other.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Victoria Celestine: From the Outsidenew
You may have heard of 15-year-old Victoria Celestine. When she was 14 (and known as Victoria Zaleski), she recorded a handful of tracks with producer Gordon Raphael and did a few well-received acoustic shows here and there.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Record shops will need to up their game to weather the substanceless future of musicnew
When San Antonio vinyl enthusiast Gene Hopstetter plays me Frank Sinatra’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, he pulls three pressings from his collection of roughly 700 albums, indicating the differences in each.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-28-2011 |
Culture
Tags: vinyl, record stores
School Districts Report Upswing in Homeless Studentsnew
Kristina Martinez is well dressed, articulate, and passionate about her chosen profession. As a newly minted teacher with a certificate in special education from Texas A&M University - San Antonio, she had high hopes for herself and her daughter, now eight years old.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-23-2011 |
Homelessness
Tags: Homelessness, Homeless Students
Kim Kardashian Karries Onnew
I got caught up in the excitement of Kim Kardashian’s whirlwind romance with basketball player Kris Humphries, which played out on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
11-22-2011 |
TV
The Muppets Charms With Nostalgia, but Feels Far From Freshnew
After 12 years without a theatrical release, The Muppets is in many ways both a charming return to form and a surprising letdown.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
11-22-2011 |
Reviews
For Someone Living — and Dying — with a Terminal Illness, Options for a Dignified Death are Scant and Pitilessnew
When my beloved 17-year-old Persian cat was in pain, suffering from multiple diseases, I gave him the ultimate gift of love. I had him put to sleep, euthanized or, I suppose — semantics be damned — you could say I asked the vet to kill him, and she did.
San Antonio Current |
Anne M. Johnson |
11-17-2011 |
Civil Liberties
