AltWeeklies Wire
Spurs (promotions) comes busting out of the gatenew
It worked like clockwork last season. As the San Antonio Spurs came out of a fourth-quarter timeout, 2 Unlimited's ubiquitous "Twilight Zone" would pound throughout the AT&T Center as a scoreboard barometer "measured" fans' applause.
San Antonio Current |
Ryan Sachetta |
12-30-2011 |
Sports
A Turning Point for San Antonio Film?new
Whether the topic is music, film, or any of the arts, really, it’s always easy to put down a small market, especially if you live in close proximity to a big market like Austin.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-22-2011 |
Art
Tags: El cine
Casual Champagne and Cognac Cocktailsnew
Champagne and cognac are dress-up drinks in most people's minds. But snifters and smoking jackets are not always required to enjoy brandies and sparkling wines. There are cocktails that may even benefit from using the more generic product.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-22-2011 |
Food+Drink
Area Distilleries Putting Texas Flavors on the Mapnew
When President Jimmy Carter made home brewing legal in 1978 the newly legitimated hobby spawned fledgling brewmasters across the country.
San Antonio Current |
SCOTT ANDREWS |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Two Current Critics Choose Their Favorite Drinking Songsnew
There’s a whole cannon of Holiday’s material we could choose from, but it’s her rendition of the standard “One More For My Baby (And One More For the Road)” that’s top shelf, an aching last-call confession to her bartender on a love affair gone awry
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker and J.D. Swerzenski |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Bands Are Not the Only Thing on Tour at Ten Elevennew
Ten Eleven is well known for putting on some of the best indie/hardcore/unclassifiable shows in SA, but lately the Ave. B venue has been courting a different crowd: beer aficionados.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew
As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Brave Resident Tasters Put Several Especial Bottles to the Testnew
'Tis the season when booze meets billboards all over town and flossy liquor images fill the pages of consumer magazines.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
What SA’s Bartenders (Slash Therapists, BFFs, Secret Crushes) Wish You Knewnew
Four Aggie fans are sitting in a bar, sipping beers, and spending an afternoon being ornery over a football game against their most bitter rivals, the Longhorns.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Micro- to Middle-Brew Pubs Kicking Up Dust Need to Cling to that Vision Thingnew
Those who have caught the fever for brewing beer often become like little kids picking what they want to be when they grow up. And like most youngsters who want to be firefighters, ballerinas, astronauts, or benevolent dictators, home brewers aren’t quite sure what it takes to achieve the dream until they are in deep.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
One Part Perspiration, One Part Experimentation = Beers that Hit, Miss, Bewitchnew
It's not unusual for beginner home brewers to make a few mistakes even when playing it safe, but experienced brew-kettle commandos intentionally pushing the envelope have their own tales of woe and victory to share, too.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Contempt, Desire Boil Over in Weller’s ‘Fifty Words’new
Why do couples stay married? Love? Devotion? Obligation to children? Or are they held together by habit reinforced by the fear of being alone?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
‘Codename Doomsday’ Makes a Splash (and Other Curiosities)new
There’s something about a single-painting show that drives people nuts. When Albert Alvarez’ Codename Doomsday was shown for the first time last Friday at Sala Diaz the crowd on the front lawn chatted and drank beer as usual, but a steady stream of viewers continued to pour through the tiny gallery’s door till late to see the new work.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Art
Spotlights Fail National Theatre in ‘Collaborators’new
The good news is that the National Theatre Live's broadcasts of selected theatrical performances — analogous to the Metropolitan Opera's popular broadcasts in HD — have now arrived in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
12-08-2011 |
Art
Christmas Lights, Cameras, Actionnew
Whether you consider yourself secularly illuminated, spiritually attuned, or a runaway developer of your own personal holiday mashup, here are some of the Current's not-to-be-missed Christmas-themed events coming down the pike.
San Antonio Current |
Yvonne Zamora |
12-08-2011 |
Culture
