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How Abstract Expressionism makes for great basketballnew
The modern athlete is the physical artist who’s expected to produce a nightly masterpiece. His or her greatness hinges upon their ability to creatively navigate within the game’s fluid constraints.
San Antonio Current |
Ryan Sachetta |
01-26-2012 |
Sports
Tags: san antonio spurs
A double-dip of 'Grosse Fuge'new
The San Antonio Symphony's Beethoven Festival just finished its first week, with performances sponsored by the San Antonio Symphony, Camerata San Antonio, SA International Piano Competition, and more festival partners.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Performance
Saying 'No' to the Spursnew
A primer for San Antonio's business and political leaders.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
01-19-2012 |
Sports
Tags: San Antonio Spurs, SAISD
Who the #$&% is Thomas Hoving?new
Tony Feher likes plastic. In Thomas Hoving, his new exhibition at Artpace, strands of iridescent red, orange, and purple nylon string sweep from the ceiling in the middle of the Hudson (Show) Room, twisting in a dramatic arc.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Art
Top guac sought by Olé Avocadonew
With the Super Bowl on the horizon, some of you are perfecting your tailgating hors d'oeuvres. If you think your guacamole can't be beat, now's your chance to prove it.
San Antonio Current |
Lauren W. Madrid |
01-19-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Olé Avocado, Making guacamole
Earth isn't always what we try to make of itnew
Land is not necessarily rural, and despite urbanist claims, place need not be a built environment or opportunity for development. "Land Portrait," curated by Brian R. Jobe, brings works by 11 artists of the Culture Laboratory Collective to UTSA Satellite Space that consider land as something much more familiar: known through collective memory or daily habit, but often strangely other.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-11-2012 |
Art
Smart Wines from 2011 ... for 2012new
Although it has always seemed a little like cheating, recapping an entire year is useful for critics feeling the end-of-year time crunch.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
01-11-2012 |
Food+Drink
Spurs Still Searching for a Working Road-Trip Recipenew
The San Antonio Spurs began the new year on the hardwood feeling Minnesota. Along the way to suffering a 96-106 defeat at the hands of Ricky Rubio and the Timberwolves, the Spurs lost starting shooting guard Manu Ginobili for six weeks to a fractured fifth metacarpal in his left hand.
San Antonio Current |
Manuel Solis |
01-11-2012 |
Sports
Nutmeggy Parsnips Provide Long-Term Benefitsnew
Parsnips are hardly a secret. Unlike celeriac or rutabaga, most have at least heard of parsnip, even if they can't remember what it looks like. The fragrant taproot that resembles an ivory-white carrot was once a big deal in the old country.
San Antonio Current |
Ari LeVaux |
01-04-2012 |
Food+Drink
Weaving African-American DNA into Confederate 'Black Hair Flag'new
There is nothing more common than a haircut. Curly, straight, or woven in braids, the way we wear the fibers that sprout from our heads tells the world who we are; more than social signifier, it's sculptural material, too.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-04-2012 |
Art
That Hairy Guy in the Movienew
Brant Bumpers is our own Steve Buscemi — he's one of the most recognizable faces (scratch that: bodies) in San Antonio film.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-04-2012 |
Art
Tags: san antonio film
Dont Take Fashion — or Yourself — Too Seriously.new
Photographs and fashion styling by Bryan Rindfuss.
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
01-02-2012 |
Fashion
Tags: new years fashion
How sports-rich San Antonio could capitalize on fields of battle in 2012new
During the Sweet Sixteen this past March, hordes of blue-shirted University of Kansas fans strutted along the River Walk like Midwestern Huns, having conquered the city for the second time in three years.
San Antonio Current |
Brandon R. Reynolds |
01-02-2012 |
Sports
Tags: san antonio stadium
How Steve Jobs even changed Mexicans with Gunsnew
As is the case whenever someone dies, all Steve Jobs’ personal shortcomings were forgotten on October 5. The day that Apple’s co-founder and top brain succumbed to cancer at age 56 all most of us could remember was how Jobs revolutionized every single arena he entered.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-30-2011 |
Tech
Wine With Wordsnew
Time Warner struck again the other day. I’ve been having problems, but this was a neighborhood-wide outage, taking with it the land line (no biggie), the computer (much more of an issue) and, of course, the TV. Which meant no CSI, no Law and Order SVU, no Criminal Minds, Zombieland, or Warehouse 13. What’s a guy to do?
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-30-2011 |
Food+Drink
