AltWeeklies Wire
Atari Teenage Riot: Is This Hyperreal?new
“It’s time to act; it’s time to fight through,” says Nic Endo in the title track for Atari Teenage Riot’s first album in 11 years.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronad |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvestnew
Gillian Welch has often said that she does her best work when she's miserable, so one can assume that the eight years since she released her last album, Soul Journey, have not been pleasant ones. Happily for her fans, her melancholy has contributed to what may be the best album she's ever made.
East Bay Express |
j. poet |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
International Artists on the Dalai Lamanew
Good endings are important. “The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama,” on view at SAMA to July 31, is finishing a five-year international tour at a location well suited for the exhibition.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
07-08-2011 |
Recreation
Tags: Dalai Lama
Black Pus: Primordial Pusnew
Black Pus is Brian Chippendale’s personal pugilistic playground.
San Antonio Current |
Ray Cummings |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pantsnew
The Broward Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's Terminal 1.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Matthew Hendley |
07-08-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Nelson Santiago, TSA Theft
Colony of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats Gaining a Followingnew
At dusk under the I-35 bridge at Camden Street a small crowd lingers. They bob their heads between wristwatches and cell phones and something above not yet visible.
San Antonio Current |
Patricia Portales |
07-08-2011 |
Recreation
Brian Eno: Drums Between the Bellsnew
In his 40-plus years of recording, Brian Eno — ex-Glam God and innovator emeritus of ambient music — has exhibited an other-worldly panache for pitting unlikely sonic assemblages against one another.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Eno
Ram Ayala’s Son and His Quest to Take Over What — He Says — Belongs to the Familynew
“I’m taking over the Ram Jam thing, there’s no doubt about that,” said Eddie Cruz, the son of murdered nightclub owner Ram Ayala.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-08-2011 |
Music
Moby: Destroyednew
The tenth studio album from the electronic architect constructs clean, sophisticated landscapes while displaying an illuminated sense of emotional desolation.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Death of a Yoginew
The battle for a corporate empire, hundreds of millions of dollars and the meaning of a faith.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-08-2011 |
Features
Taylor Swift Show is Worthy Spectaclenew
Scrawled down her left arm in thick, black felt pen during a June 30 performance at the Greensboro Coliseum, Swift brandished a lyric from the Ingrid Michaelson tune “Breakable,” itself released only a few months before Swift’s debut album.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Can a Grieving Poet's Movement for Peace Save Mexico?new
On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his fellow grieving Mexicans. The crowd applauded wildly as the soft-spoken, 54-year old poet began to speak in measured tones about creating a national movement to “save our Democracy.”
The Texas Observer |
Melissa del Bosque |
07-08-2011 |
Drugs
Wet Hot Art Summernew
An insider’s guide to the best (and worst) of Santa Fe’s art scene
Santa Fe Reporter |
Rani Molla |
07-08-2011 |
Art
How to win friends and influence people—21st century stylenew
Rule #1: Your contemptible unchecked vanity is now your greatest asset!
Pacific Sun |
Scott Barry Kaufman |
07-08-2011 |
Culture
Woman on a Missionnew
Standing an easy 6 feet tall in her fashionable beige wedge sandals, Center for Violence Prevention executive director Sandy Middleton is a cool mix of southern elegance and graciousness and resolute determination.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-08-2011 |
The War on Women
