AltWeeklies Wire
How Warships and the Floating World Led us to Art Nouveaunew
While politicians and pundits continue to rail about the need to secure our border to the south, offering helpful suggestions like an alligator-infested moat paired with a big, big fence, perhaps we should all just stop for a moment and remember that other gate we left wide open.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Tags: art nouveau, border control
Guadalupe Helps Keep Day of the Dead Thrivingnew
The day of the dead — which has one foot in ancient Aztec culture and another in the exploitation of Misfits T-shirts — is all about being alive. At its most secular dia de los muertos, with its sugar skulls, sweet day of the dead bread, and those colorful paper offerings to the underworld, may easily be written off by the uninitiated as about as spiritual as that Tim Burton claymation movie Corpse Bride.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
11-03-2011 |
Art
Remembering the Remarkable Mr. Starckenew
We lost a genuine San Antonio original with the passing of 90-year-old author, Broadway producer, New Age lecturer, confidante to stars and scalawags alike, world traveler, bon vivant and raconteur sans pareil Walter Starcke on October 25, 2011.
San Antonio Current |
William Jack Sibley |
11-03-2011 |
Commentary
The New Terrordome: Why Public Enemy Still Mattersnew
Things have cooled somewhat for Public Enemy, the self-proclaimed “Prophets of Rage.” They made five albums post-2000, all of which failed to match the impact of their first turn-of-the-’90s dynasty.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Gospel According to Kirk Franklinnew
I know, I know. The Christian music scene has made great advancements in the area of production, the religious albums sound great and now go toe-to-toe with the seculars, and blah blah blah.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
White Denim: Takes Places in Your Work Space EPnew
Standard EP recipe: Add album rejects, studio scraps, perhaps one or two über-experimental tracks, stir for 15-30 minutes, and serve quickly to fans impatient for the next full-length.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Tom Waits: Bad As Menew
On his latest release, Tom Waits channels both prison junkies and disabled vets bitterly spouting out their frustrations and temptations.
San Antonio Current |
Jay Whitecotton |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Justice: Audio, Video, Disconew
Like the Strokes in 2001, Justice's 2007 arrival signified a paradigm shift in their genre.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Paul Simon: Songwriternew
Paul Simon is America's greatest living pop songwriter. There, I said it. I can already hear my editor shouting "What about Dylan?!" but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
A Short History of Pre-Blair Witch Handheld Mockumentariesnew
“Two years later, their footage was found.” That come-on, from the opening titles of The Blair Witch Project (1999), evokes as much anticipation among horror hounds as, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
San Antonio Current |
Charles Cassady Jr. |
11-03-2011 |
Movies
George Romero Meets National Geographic in The Deadnew
The Dead, which opened October 28 at the Bijou and Santikos Mayan 14, is a unique film in many respects. For starters, it is set in Burkina Faso and Ghana, instead of the usual L.A., New York, or London.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-03-2011 |
Movies
Margin Call elevates financial crisis drama above the blusternew
The 2008 financial collapse was so large in scale, and so unfathomable to most, that it practically begged for Hollywood’s blustery mythmaking.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Johnny Depp Delivers a Tame Origin Story for a Gonzo Legendnew
The Rum Diary, a freewheeling tropical cocktail based on Hunter S. Thompson’s long-unpublished novel of the same name, bears an infectious sense of liberation.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
The Director of Independence Day is a Natural Fit for Elizabethan Intriguenew
Director Roland Emmerich’s new film opens and closes at a modern theater. The curtain draws and, before a polite crowd dressed in their Sunday best, a narrator sets the scene.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Occupy San Antonio Prepares for the Long Haulnew
A homeless man crushed inside a city garbage truck Monday on the city’s Southside provided the rallying cry for Occupy San Antonio protestors gathered in HemisFair Park. As drums began to ring through the night air, the group of about 30 took to the streets in yet another show of insult and outrage in this Age of Austerity, as Republicans and Democrats negotiate major cuts in federal assistance programs to rein in a skyrocketing national debt.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-02-2011 |
#OCCUPY
