The Sound & the Fury:
It's hard to keep up with so many local bands releasing new (and good) albums. This week you can't miss The Rafiki Project's CD release party for...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Consisting of tracks compiled from 7-inches, splits, compilations, and live bootlegs, this reissue presents a cross-section of early- to mid-career Harvey Milk; and while some of the...
By James Woodard
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
The latest record from this legendary San Antonio expatriate collects four haunting piano pieces that are largely characterized by the dichotomy between space and sound. Gene has always...
By Marcus Rubio
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
In Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi (recording as Cloud Nothings) has made his most refreshing — even prescient — work. From blistering yet beautifully trance-inducing opener...
By James Courtney
2/1/2012
Music:
In 2009, Sufjan Stevens told Paste Magazine, "I no longer have faith in the album anymore. … Can't an album be eternity, or can't it be five minutes?"
By Adam Villela Coronado
2/1/2012
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Music:
When I first saw Marcus Rubio perform, he was a skinny, beardless teen whose one-boy orchestra blew me away at Blue Star in 2004. He was 16, and there was no Gospel Choir of Pillows then...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/1/2012
Nightlife:
In John O'Brien's novel The Assault on Tony's armed alcoholics lock themselves in a bar while a race riot destroys the city outside.
By Brandon R. Reynolds
2/1/2012
Taste This:
The latest addition to the eateries fast emerging at the mini mall on the south side of Basse Road opposite the Quarry, Piranha Killer Sushi, is part of...
By Richard Teitz
2/1/2012
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Food & Culture:
Yee haw, another steak house for San Antonio! Please excuse the outburst; reviewers, you understand, are frequently looking for the next new thing, and steak just ain't it.
By Ron Bechtol
1/31/2012
Taste This:
Mixing seafood with dairy is a dicey trick, but there's nothing fishy about this crab quiche. Spinach, and the slightest dash of garlic, provide the savory hint that...
By Scott Andrews
2/1/2012
Chisme y Chicle:
Food & Wine has good reason to come to Texas (as they announced they will with a fest in April in, yawn, Austin) — we have so many great chefs in this area. StarChefs.com agrees.
By Lauren W. Madrid
2/1/2012
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Screens & Tech:
What is man's most primal fear? Losing everything he loves? Dying alone? The unknown? These are only a few of the themes explored in The Grey, a surprisingly...
By Kiko Martínez
2/1/2012
Screens & Tech:
At 37 years old, actor Jason Mewes, best known as the talkative half of the drug-dealing duo Jay and Silent Bob (Clerks, Chasing Amy), admits he no longer has the stamina to...
By Kiko Martínez
2/1/2012
Screens & Tech:
These filmmakers are busy people. Some do music videos, some do shorts, and some do commercials. Others specialize in feature films or webcasts. Some do it all.
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/1/2012
Primal Screen:
This is a new series that crosses Heart of Darkness with The Blair Witch Project, to good effect. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) was beloved for his TV nature series, in which...
By Dean Robbins
2/1/2012
Screens & Tech:
When it comes to cross-dressing and film, male characters color coordinating handbags and heels are typically played for laughs (Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, The Birdcage).
By Kiko Martínez
1/25/2012
Arts & Culture:
The Proxy Theater Company opens its first full season with Mark Schultz's genuinely unsettling Everything Will Be Different, an unblinking examination of...
By Thomas Jenkins
2/1/2012
Arts & Culture:
Finally, Artpace has a new executive director. Since past-director Matthew Drutt left suddenly in January 2011, interim managing director Mary Heathcott has run the...
By Scott Andrews
2/1/2012
Fashionation:
I met Sofia Davis, personal shopper and New York Fashion Week stylist, to talk shop — shopping, that is. Specifically, I wanted to know what to wear in the new year.
By Desiree Prieto
2/1/2012
Arts & Culture:
Steve Wiman's installation lines the walls of the back room at Sala Diaz with running piles of debris that form bands of red, yellow, green, and blue. It is visually stunning...
By Scott Andrews
2/1/2012
Astrology:
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don't have and not wanting what they actually do have.
By Rob Brezsny
2/1/2012
ASK A MEXICAN:
Dear Mexican: My cousin had put a picture on Facebook that said, "I will not be forced to learn a foreign language to accommodate illegals in my country."
By Gustavo Arellano
2/1/2012
