AltWeeklies Wire
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matternew
Gamers are typically no sufferers of hardship.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-19-2011 |
Nonfiction
Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Thronenew
Watch The Throne is easily the most anticipated rap release in 2011.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-19-2011 |
Reviews
Glambilly: White BBQ Saucenew
What makes Glambilly so great isn't in a song, but a monologue.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-19-2011 |
Reviews
Lamar Smith’s Push to HALT the DREAM Actnew
Two bills snaking their way through Congress, both with equally catchy names, show just how polarized the debate over immigration has become.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-19-2011 |
Immigration
Falling in Love With Anne Hathawaynew
Anne Hathaway sadly swims. Anne Hathaway sadly rides her bike. Anne Hathaway sadly signals a left turn.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
08-19-2011 |
Reviews
Indie-Rock Group Takes Arts Advocacy on Tournew
Let’s play which one of these ones isn’t like the other ones.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
08-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ sets a new standard for troubled franchisenew
Poor James Franco. First, he loses an arm after it got trapped by a boulder; then he hosts the Oscars.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2011 |
Reviews
Remembering ‘El Parche’ a Year After His Deathnew
August 13 will mark the first anniversary of the death of accordion legend Esteban “Steve” Jordan.
San Antonio Current |
Pedro Villarreal |
08-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Beats, Rhymes & Life doc plumbs the tortured creativity of A Tribe Called Questnew
Haters, brace yourselves.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-15-2011 |
Reviews
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Rick Perry’s Political Revivalnew
Before a throng of 30,000 faithful, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a message that was anything but apolitical. Amid the calls to defend marriage from homosexuals and end abortion, an even more fundamental refrain kept repeating: a call for the “faithful” to drive the nation and her leaders “back to God.”
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-10-2011 |
Politics
Methodist pastor opts for life of protest on the streetnew
After a week living on the street, Lorenza Andrade-Smith’s focus is drifting.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-08-2011 |
Civil Liberties
The QueQue: State murder? Nothing to see herenew
If history is any indicator, we should have known state officials would never willingly settle a years-long investigation into one of the state’s most contentious executions
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
08-05-2011 |
Civil Liberties
The Apoca-Listnew
Papaya recalls, drought and political candidates bring world closer to Armageddon.
San Antonio Current |
Staff |
08-01-2011 |
Disasters
Tags: Mitt Romney, Environment, Health, Weapons, Drought, Nuclear War, Rick Scott, Recalls, Republics
How Luna’s sub-par Amounting to Nothing eventually turns the tablesnew
Amounting to Nothing, the first feature written and directed by San Antonio’s Johnny Luna (and starring some of our city’s top comedians) is one of those projects that seem to be always arriving, with endless email updates and a sole, poor “unofficial trailer.”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2011 |
Reviews
Mega Man Celebrate 8-Bit While Calling it Quitsnew
Here’s something you may not expect from the members of synth-rock video-game cover outfit Mega Man.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
07-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
