AltWeeklies Wire
Public Enemy’s Chuck D — Still Angry After 24 Yearsnew
Anytime I receive a second-rate demo by a third-rate rapper, my first reaction is to grab him by the throat and ask, “Have you heard about Mandela? Have you read Malcolm X? Have you ever listened to Public Enemy?”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-02-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Public Enemy, Chuck D
The QueQue: Pearl Railroaded, ACLU Sues ICE, CCA over Hutto Assaults, TCEQ Exposednew
Despite a no vote from District 10 Councilman Carlton Soules and District 5 Councilman David Medina’s no show, San Antonio’s Council bravely vaulted fringe objections from the Homeowner Taxpayer Association (“Mayor Castro, do not railroad us!”) and Tea Partiers (“We don’t need a Solyndra in San Antonio”) to course down the tracks toward a “multimodal” future and our first urban rail project.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
10-27-2011 |
Commentary
Pro-Lifer’s War on the EPA a Morally Bankrupt Casenew
In the nearly 40-year war that has been the battle over abortion in the United States, liberals have frequently complained about the hypocrisy of those who prostrate themselves before medical clinics and yet fail to turn out for a single state-sanctioned execution or war protest.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-27-2011 |
Environment
Daniel Lee’s Modern-Day Chimera Haunting SAMAnew
It is comfortable to think that we are a species apart from the animal world. Deep in your heart, you know better. Daniel Lee’s retrospective “Animal Instinct” at SAMA presents digital manipulations by the Chinese-born photographer that meld human with beast to form chimeras, hybrids that seem to have appeared from the realm of myth, or last night’s broken sleep.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-27-2011 |
Art
A Child's View From a Hot Place Fails to Escape the Pitnew
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place, either the cascading trauma of lost relations in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, or the clammy cochlea of torture tunnels in the those too-loud Pinhead movies inspired by his quite novella.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
Fiction
Solid Cellar Production of ‘Time Stands Still’ Seeks Proper Response to Sufferingnew
It’s easy to underestimate playwright Donald Margulies, even with his Pulitzer Prize (for the delicious Dinner With Friends) and his influential post as professor of playwriting at Yale. For starters, it’s because, on paper, his dramas might seem slender, improbably tidy, and — depending on your tastes — somewhat bourgeois: oh-so-middle-class professionals with oh-so-middle-class problems.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
10-27-2011 |
Theater
Iconic Girl in a Coma Exorcises Their Demons to Deliver Their Best Album Yetnew
Girl in a Coma broke my heart. Jenn Alva (bass) and Phanie Díaz (drums) are eating meat again. “Oh, c’mon…” says Phanie. “It’s hard when you’re on the road.” Jenn tries to make me feel better: “We’re still not eating beef… We’re not there yet.”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-27-2011 |
Music
Girl in a Coma: Exits and all the Restnew
While Trio B.C. (2009), the ladies' last collection of originals, had some grit and punch, it also had elements of an identity crisis as it danced between punk and rockabilly influences.
San Antonio Current |
Kelsey Valadez |
10-27-2011 |
Reviews
Daniel "Tatita" Márquez: Haribolnew
Márquez's Haribol (a Hare Krishna greeting roughly translated as "chant the name of God") may remind some EDM fans of the Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu collaboration Miles-Gurtu
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
10-27-2011 |
Reviews
Reasons to Watch the Scariest Films You’ve Never Seennew
Halloween, outside of being the one time of the year you can show up to work dressed like a cat and take out your office aggression through competitive pumpkin carving, affords the opportunity to watch disturbing and/or outright revolting movies and not seem like a sociopath.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
TV
Pa Negre (Black Bread)new
This is the movie that nearly swept the Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscar), and the first film to represent Spain in the race for Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2012 that is not spoken in Spanish (the original is in Catalan, but San Antonians will see a version dubbed into Spanish with English subtitles).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-27-2011 |
Reviews
Bring Out Your Deadnew
Día de los Muertos celebrations are being held throughout the city this week, and though the public events began at Centro Cultural de Aztlán in 1977 and at the Instituto Cultural de México shortly thereafter, the festivity’s roots go deep into Mezoamerican culture.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
10-26-2011 |
Art
The Exorcist Novel Turns 40new
Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-26-2011 |
Fiction
Tags: The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Man vs. Beastnew
Truth be told, the title American Hoggers didn’t fill me with anticipation for this new reality series. But it turns out to be a fascinating look at boar hunters in Texas, where the feral beasts are terrorizing landowners.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-26-2011 |
TV
Sting: 25 Yearsnew
Even if Sting never went solo, his place in the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame was secure thanks to the glorious way he mixed punk, reggae, and pop with the Police.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-26-2011 |
Reviews
