AltWeeklies Wire
Norman Mailer: Death of a Titannew
Norman Mailer, one of the last surviving 20th-century literary lions, is dead.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
11-14-2007 |
Books
Value Vinonew
Sipping into the holidays with champagne tastes and a beer budget.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthynew
Evans' book is the latest in a revisionist school of thought that casts McCarthy, not the people he investigated, as the true victim.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Seltzer Addict's Lamentnew
I'll admit it: I'm an addict. My friend calls it liquid crack, and I personally have a 12-can-a-day habit.
San Antonio Current |
Burgin Streetman |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
Ron Paul's Apostlesnew
Armed with bumper stickers, DVDs, literature on civil liberties, a few Bush-bashing marketing tools, and copies of the United States Constitution, local supporters of the 2008 presidential hopeful aren't acting like their candidate is a long-shot to become the next leader of the free world. They actually think he can win.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
11-14-2007 |
Politics
Terry George on Oscar Nods and Irish Prisonnew
The filmmaker behind Reservation Road gets chatty at the Austin Film Festival.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
Crescent Dragonwagon's Obession Leads to 'The Cornbread Gospels'new
Dragonwagon is no stranger to tracing a cuisine down to its roots and working her way back up again, taking readers along for the ride. She returned overflowing with cornbread stories, quotes, anecdotes, and history -- and a couple hundred recipes as well.
San Antonio Current |
Lisa Petty |
11-07-2007 |
Food+Drink
'I'm Not There' Soundtrack is for the Bob-ologistsnew
The covers on the soundtrack for the defiantly eccentric Dylan biopic are positively reverent, all the more curious because they're coming from such an irreverent collection of indie rockers.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Various Artists
Say Anything Throws Emo Caution to the Wind with Follow-upnew
Upping the ante is the fact that In Defense of the Genre is a dreaded double CD, and a concept album to boot.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Fred Claus': Like 'The Santa Clause,' Only Less Clevernew
I'm watching Fred Claus wondering about the cast of Paul Giamatti, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey: Did they actually read this script before accepting?
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
Robert Redford's Well-Meaning Movienew
This earnest film poses the questions that ought to be posed in this, the sixth year of the American occupation of Afghanistan -- about the responsibilities of leaders, educators, journalists, soldiers, and citizens. But this is canned theater of ideas, and the tin has made the mind grow rusty.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
Vijay Vaitheeswaran on the Car of the Futurenew
In Zoom, Vaitheeswaran and Iain Carson argue that the solution is to clean cars up, not scrap them, and use technological innovation to end Detroit's steel grip on U.S. transportation policy.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
An Early Look at Election 2008 in Texasnew
In less than a year, voters will be going to the polls to elect 150 state representatives, 32 Congressmen and women, a handful of state senators, a United States senator, and a smattering of judicial and administrative statewide offices in Texas -- here are some key races to keep your eye on.
San Antonio Current |
Vince Leibowitz |
10-31-2007 |
Politics
Ben Harper Finds His 'Lifeline'new
"The hardest thing any musician will ever do is follow an album that's decent," Ben Harper says of his 2006 release, Both Sides of the Gun. "To avoid self-adulation, I'll just use the word 'decent.'"
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Indie-Pop Phenom Creates Uncomfortable Intimacynew
Marcus Rubio's songs are invariably simple and repetitive, and most of the musical action comes from the painstaking arrangements, the way he layers violin, piano, glockenspiel, and the rest of the kitchen sink onto his adolescent musings.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcus Rubio, The Life of Pillows
