AltWeeklies Wire
An Unofficial History of San Antonio's Struggling Gay Theater Scenenew
Take a clue from this year’s Tony telecast as Neil Patrick Harris broke into song: “If you feel like someone that this world excludes, it’s no longer only for dudes who like dudes. Attention every breeder, your invited to the theater. It’s not just for gays anymore!”
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
06-29-2011 |
Theater
Tags: LGBT
Best Thing About Latest Transformers Is That It Should Be the Lastnew
Textbooks be damned. The use of alternative histories has been such a go-to fad in cinematic curriculum recently that no one should be surprised if impressionable movie-going kids really start believing vigilante superheroes helped earn America a victory in Vietnam (Watchmen) or that young mutants saved the country from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (X-Men: First Class).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Editionnew
It's arguably the finest soul album ever recorded. After a decade as Motown's premier hit maker, Gaye wanted to tackle themes of urban decay, war, and our mortgaged future.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
Bad Teachernew
Bad Teacher’s one joke is right there in the title.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Chucha Santamaría y Ustednew
Representing Oakland by way of Puerto Rico and New York, Sofía Córdova and Matthew Kirkland (aka Chucha Santamaría y Usted) are all about the mezcla.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Artist Wesley Harvey on Homoeroticism, Dinnerware, and Bunniesnew
In the last two years, locally-based ceramic artist Wesley Harvey — who hails from Van Buren, Ind., the “popcorn capital of the world,” and has work in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction — has made a splash by exhibiting (and selling quite a bit of) china and porcelain adorned with decals made by appropriating raunchy drawings by Touko Laaksonen (better known as Tom of Finland) that take gay male sex fantasies to a place that’s larger-than-life, giving the gay art collector the perfect excuse to throw a dinner party with a happy ending.
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Wesley Harvey
RX Bandits Guitarist Steve Choi Reflects on 16 Yearsnew
To hear Steve Choi of RX Bandits tell it, there was never a proper sit-down about changing the sound of the SoCal third-wave ska group formed in 1995.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
06-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: RX Bandits, Steve Choi
Cars 2new
After 16 years of smooth sailing down a highway of animation bliss, the check engine light is officially blinking at Disney/Pixar with their newest feature film Cars 2.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Preteen Lightning Rod to Lead San Antonio’s Gay Pride Paradenew
A simple act of classroom disobedience turned 11-year-old Will Phillips into one of the country’s youngest — and targeted — gay-rights advocates.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights, Will Phillips
Ozploitation in the Outbacknew
Does anyone really think of Mel Gibson as being Australian at this point, or is he just a talented and offensive Hollywood madman with extremely bad taste?
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Time (and Public Opinion) is on the Side of Equality in Texasnew
At the start of this year’s legislative session, LGBT groups braced themselves for a bumpy ride. With an overwhelming Republican majority in the House and the Senate’s conservative edge, advocates knew prospects weren’t rosy.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas & Greg Harman |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights in Texas
On Coming Out and Staying Strong in a Not-Always-Welcoming Culturenew
The queer subculture that exists within San Antonio and other heavily concentrated Latino communities maintains itself despite cultural stigmas associated with being gay.
San Antonio Current |
Christine Garza |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Pretentiousness the True Leading Role in The Art of Getting Bynew
While one could argue about where the line between brilliance and bullshit starts to blur with films like Richard Linklater’s 2001 mindbender Waking Life, Darren Aronofsky’s 2006 mystical sci-fi drama The Fountain, or anything from the conceptual mind of director Terrence Malick, the creative weight they carry should be considered when deciding whether you ultimately deem the work profound or phony.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
Chilly Gonzales: The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzalesnew
After setting a world record for the longest performance by a solo artist and starring in a quirky feature film, Canadian emcee Jason Charles Beck, aka Chilly Gonzales, returns from the laboratory with what his PR team calls "the planet's first all-orchestral rap album."
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
SMOD: SMODnew
While he was producing Amadou & Mariam's brilliant Dimanche à Bamakoem, Manu Chao got to meet Sam, the son of the legendary Malian couple.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
