AltWeeklies Wire
San Antonio Dissident Plays Advisor to the Libyan rebelsnew
Before he fled Libya 30 years ago, Mansour El-Kikhia remembers driving past bodies strung up in town squares across Benghazi.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-31-2011 |
International
I can haz No Kill?new
No-kill by 2012? No way.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
08-31-2011 |
Animal Issues
San Antonio’s New Smoking Ordinance Explainednew
Smoking, according to City Code, is “inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant, or other combustible substance in any manner or in any form.”
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-22-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: smoking ban
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
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
Hyatt Protests Escalate in San Antonionew
When I first started here, it was better,” says Elvia Claudio, reflecting on her three years cleaning rooms at downtown’s stately Grand Hyatt hotel.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
07-28-2011 |
Business & Labor
Will Efforts to Revitalize San Antonio's Core Draw Locals Back?new
Justin Arecchi remembers brainstorming with local developers and pioneers like Hap Veltman and downtown jazz staple Jim Cullum for hours at a stretch at the long-since shuttered Kangaroo Court restaurant and bar along the River Walk.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
07-27-2011 |
Economy
Tags: san antonio riverwalk
In pursuit of a ‘better’ city, less tangible values become paramountnew
Travel magazines thrive on tourist recommendations that puncture popular myths about seemingly familiar places. In San Antonio’s rapid transformation across a number of sectors, today’s mapmakers can be excused for mostly missing the boat.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-25-2011 |
Economy
Business Owners Reflect on the Difficulty of Operating in the Shadow of King Williamnew
Agosto Cuellar, owner of Jive Refried Vintage, hung up his antique phone, a replica of a ’70s Budweiser can. Calls were pouring in while Cuellar prepared for his last First Friday in the Southtown space he’s called home since 1999.
San Antonio Current |
Natalia Ciolko |
07-14-2011 |
Features
‘Clean’ Coal Sticks Its Snout Under San Antonio's Tentnew
In the slow-motion planetary train wreck that is fossil-fuel-derived climate disruption — whether you call it global warming, global ‘weirding,’ or a worldwide conspiracy of the labcoat class — no one factor ranks higher in the blame game than coal.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-14-2011 |
Environment
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
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
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
