News:
Maria Anna Esparza fears she’s losing her son, again. In November 2011 the Current chronicled the story of Adan Castañeda, a 27-year-old sniper who...
By Michael Barajas
5/22/2013
News:
Each summer our local weathermen look at the Doppler and tell us to disregard a cloud hanging over the Hill County. No, it’s not sign of some impending...
By Michael Barajas
5/22/2013
News:
Just one more hotel, and the city will boom. That has long been the mantra of this city’s business and political leaders. With her decision to support a new hotel...
By Heywood Sanders
5/22/2013
News:
During the height of Medieval barbarism, as Mayan civilization hit the skids, Scandinavian Vikings plundered rocky European coasts, and Arabian armies...
By Isis Madrid
5/15/2013
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...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/22/2013
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 track...
By Jeremy Martin
5/21/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Fresh off shattering Spotify streaming records, Daft Punk return with their dance music history lesson, Random Access Memories. Rooted in the slick grooves...
By M. R. Brown
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 Anthrax...
By Gonzalo E. Pozo
5/22/2013
Music:
Ask Alex Maas to define “psychedelic,” and he’s got an answer ready...
By Jeremy Martin
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 the...
By Jeffrey Wright
5/16/2013
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
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 Sushi brother...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Nightlife:
By Jacob Burris
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 a Confederate...
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 notice...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Astrology:
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Tarahumara Indians of northwestern Mexico are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover...
By Rob Brezsny
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 of...
By Scott Andrews
5/22/2013
Arts & Culture:
A quarter of the way through The Flu Season, Will Eno’s 2003 absurdist exercise set in a psychiatric hospital, patients in the TV room watch a report on how an entire family fell through early-winter ice and died. Skating on a thin dramatic surface, the pla
By Steven G. Kellman
5/17/2013
ASK A MEXICAN:
Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the “Fast and Furious” scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of...
By Gustavo Arellano
5/19/2013
Arts & Culture:
Some craft beer aficionados take the go-local movement to an extreme. Not content to seek out the latest seasonal brew from a Texas...
By Scott Andrews
5/15/2013
