AltWeeklies Wire
San Antonio woman recounts time at birthplace of Agent Orangenew
When Diana Quintanilla Montoya and her husband Thomas left San Antonio for their new post at Fort Detrick, they’d been married for just two days. Touring the military installation for the first time, they noticed signs across the base warning: “Don’t ask questions, don’t take pictures, what you see here stays here.”
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-13-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Questions Linger Over Kelly AFB Contaminationnew
Purple wooden crosses that dot this south San Antonio community are starting to age, their paint chipped and faded. Planted in lawns next to mailboxes, fences, and trees, they point to a battle with cancer for someone inside.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-13-2011 |
Environment
Occupiednew
Almost everyone likes a party in our fiesta town (though not necessarily every party). Give this one a try? The next Occupy San Antonio rally is a 6 p.m. Wednesday drum circle at HemisFair Park. Then on Saturday, a larger rally is planned from noon to 3 p.m. at South Alamo and Caesar Chavez. More info online at various FB pages, including Occupy San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
10-12-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Poor, Minorities Magnets for Industrial 'Sacrifice Zones'new
Grappling with how to own up to the toxic legacy of uranium mining and nuclear weapons processing in the United States, government officials coined the cold term "sacrifice zones" in the 1980s.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: steve lerner
Sonic Youth: Hits are for Squaresnew
Not everyone has the benefit of a cool older brother/sister to introduce them to influential, innovative bands like Sonic Youth.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Misfits: The Devil's Rainnew
It has been nearly a decade since the Misfits released a full-length anything, and decades still since legions of fiends declared they were "Teenagers From Mars and we don't care."
San Antonio Current |
Sonya Harvey |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Lydia: Paint it Goldennew
Lydia's candid melodies paint a glittering picture of a dream-like sequence often seen in films.
San Antonio Current |
Collette Orquiz |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Eat Me: An Invitation to a Zombienew
Local filmmaker Daniel Maldonado, 31, says that while he’s not a zombie aficionado, he has seen enough ’80s zombie cult classics and played enough Resident Evil to know in advance he could handle directing the walking dead in his first feature The Killing Strain, an independent horror film shot in south San Antonio in 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-12-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Delivering the Malenew
I usually wince when a network sitcom panders to the 18-49 male demographic (see this year’s Last Man Standing, last year’s Traffic Lights). But the new Man Up hits this demographic where it hurts. It’s a brilliant satire of male pretension and pride, so painfully on target that it might drive away the very viewers it seeks to attract.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-12-2011 |
TV
Film Review: The Ides of Marchnew
As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Film Review: Sennanew
You might already be burned out on movies about automobiles, what with Transformers 3, Cars 2, and Drive, among others. Forget all those. There is only one truly essential movie this year about the relationship between man and machine, and that's Senna.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Film review: Real Steelnew
Its metaphors are shallow and its plot predictable, but Real Steel is still fun in a fighting-robots-movie kinda way.
San Antonio Current |
Ben Gifford |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
The QueQue: Occupy San Antonio and Morenew
Taking a cue from the ambitious, ongoing protest in New York City aimed at shaking the foundations of the corporatocracy, a group of local activists have been gearing up for the past week hoping to catch a fire in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
10-06-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Tax Breaks Wealthier Institutions Keep Schools Running Low on Pencilsnew
In their last legislative session, Texas lawmakers cut $4 billion from the education budget to balance state coffers, sending school districts scrambling to make up for financial shortfalls.
San Antonio Current |
Tony Cantú |
10-06-2011 |
Policy Issues
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-06-2011 |
Commentary
