Music:
Ask Alex Maas to define “psychedelic,” and he’s got an answer ready. “Eighteen grandmothers in a yellow polka-dot bikini, playing...
By Jeremy Martin
5/22/2013
Music:
“It might get a bit loud,” Álvaro del Norte tells me, as I proceed to sit in the middle of Piñata Protest’s 8 x 10 rehearsal space at a secret storage...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/22/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Fresh off shattering Spotify streaming records, Daft Punk return with their dance music history lesson, Random Access Memories. Rooted in...
By M. R. Brown
5/21/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
When some trendy new atrocity/has brought you to your knees/come with us/we'll sail the Seas of Cheese,” promises Les Claypool in the introductory...
By Jeremy Martin
5/21/2013
Music:
It's no secret that the Texas metal scene of the ’80s kicked all sorts of New York, SoCal and Bay Area’s ass. But for whatever reason, bands like...
By Gonzalo E. Pozo
5/22/2013
Music:
Five new hall of famers will be inducted into the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Conjunto Music Hall of Fame during the festival, bringing...
By Jeffrey Wright
5/16/2013
Nightlife:
It is the first of the 90-plus-degree days. The sun beats down on already sunburnt skin and it is too hot to be hung-over and to simultaneously suffer an allergy attack. I’m walking the dog, wondering where all these pigeons came from, when somehow a fire a
By Jacob Burris
5/22/2013
Arts & Culture:
Opening last February in a tiny building on Wurzbach that has housed a number of businesses, most recently an auto inspection station, Yellowfish...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Nightlife:
It’s easy to get worked up with nostalgia about a place, particularly one you got wasted in a lot. That seems to go doubly true on the St. Mary’s Strip, where...
By J.D. Swerzenski
5/22/2013
Food & Drink:
With the first few days of truly warm weather, when leafy greens go into a full-tilt wilt in the afternoon sun, the time has come to discuss some realities...
By Diana Lyn Roberts
5/22/2013
Food & Drink:
That beer goes with barbecue is a Texan article of faith, but as smoked meat purveyors gain cult status and the craft beer culture explodes, a Shiner...
By Miriam Sitz
5/15/2013
Food & Drink:
Cold beer is a staple in Texas. As the mercury starts its inevitable climb into sizzling summer heat, beer’s indelible association with barbecue and other...
By Diana Roberts
5/15/2013
Screens:
Perhaps only in Scotland could the appreciation of fine whiskeys be touted as a path to redemption, but that’s the improbable road taken in veteran...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Screens:
She was a woman who disguised herself as a man. She was an immigrant who believed that “in thought and manner” she was an American. She was...
By Patricia Portales
5/22/2013
Screens:
This exceptional TV movie tells the story of country singer June Carter Cash (Jewel), from her childhood stardom with the Carter Family through her...
By Dean Robbins
5/22/2013
Screens:
We all mourn the TV masterpieces cut off in their prime — shows like My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks, which could have offered so much more pleasure...
By Dean Robbins
5/22/2013
Screens:
Most police procedurals tease you with “whodunit,” only unveiling the perp at the end. Motive takes a different approach, brazenly identifying the...
By Dean Robbins
5/22/2013
Screens:
Behind the Candelabra assembles high-quality artists to tell the story of a low-quality one: the glitzy piano player Liberace. Steven Soderbergh directs...
By Dean Robbins
5/22/2013
Arts & Culture:
If you think there is little to no serious theater in San Antonio, you’re not alone. Even business travelers dining at Bohanan’s must...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Arts & Culture:
Rex Hausmann, local artist and arts advocate, recently opened his latest exhibition in the massive showrooms of Gallery Nord with a cohort...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Astrology:
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “I’m still learning,” said Michelangelo when he was 87 years old. For now, he’s your patron saint. With his unflagging...
By Rob Brezsny
5/22/2013
