Music:
“What’s up with Nina?” I asked Faith Radle, Girl in a Coma’s manager, looking at the band’s lead singer, Nina Díaz. It was pouring rain that...
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
“When you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities,” West recently told...
By M. R. Brown
6/18/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Guitar god Omar Rodríguez-López and drummer Deantoni Parks 86ing the Mars Volta to hook up with frontwoman Teri Gender Bender and keyboardist Nicci Kasper from...
By Jeremy Martin
6/18/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Three years after Surfer Blood took the indie-rock world by pleasant surprise with their wonderful debut, Astro Coast, the Floridian foursome is back with a more...
By James Courtney
6/19/2013
Music:
Dear Ke$ha, It’s important that you know this comes from a place of love. You are, by far, the most interesting female pop star working right now...
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Music:
Even though singer Paul Meany comes from openly Christian (and short-lived) outfit Earthsuit, New Orleans’ Mutemath is not the type of band that flaunts...
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
On paper, the pup-centric concept behind Charlie Wants a Burger sounds great: a dog-friendly River Walk restaurant specializing in all-American chow, with a...
By Callie Enlow
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
By Jacob Coltrane Burris
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
Halcyon. Drink: Lagunitas Brewing Co., Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’. The xylophone standing in the entryway of Halcyon is the first clue something...
By Jacob Coltrane Burris
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
Gardening is a sport best undertaken with a sort of live-and-let-die attitude. The recent glut of rain has left a list of victors and victims in...
By Diana Lyn Roberts
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
Rosario’s Mexican Restaurant is opening a second location on San Pedro sometime this fall. For those of us that love Rosario’s but hate First...
By Lauren W. Madrid
6/19/2013
Food & Drink:
Viola Barrios opened her first restaurant on Avenue B in 1979, the year I first started reviewing restaurants. We share an anniversary. Here’s to you Viola...
By Ron Bechtol
6/19/2013
Screens:
The Merciless Book of Heavy Metal Lists ranks 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap as second in a list of “5 Awesome Heavy Metal Movies” (after Heavy Metal Parking Lot). I completely disagree, and this goes beyond heavy metal: This Is Spinal Tap is the best rock ’n’ r
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Screens:
Once and for all, here’s the meaning of “the right to keep and bear arms.” “They’re mine, you can’t have them, and I got some on me right now — and...
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Screens:
Richard Linklater has all but assured himself a spot in film studies syllabi forever more with his trilogy of films Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and...
By Callie Enlow
6/12/2013
Screens:
“Bill, this isn’t you,” she says as he holds the vile of sacred blood. “What the fuck do you know about me?” he responds...
By M. R. Brown
6/12/2013
Screens:
When it comes to comedy, is there such a thing as too much? Is it OK to play soccer with a decapitated head and for five guys to discuss “a rapey vibe” in...
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/12/2013
Screens:
It’s a tough gig being a San Antonio filmmaker. Take Kevin and Robin Nations, for example. The filmmaking couple and their cast and crew let the sweltering...
By Kiko Martínez
6/12/2013
Arts & Culture:
When I sit down with Hong Kong-based artist Pak Sheung Chuen, he opens a small black notebook filled with scrawled Chinese script and abstract drawings...
By Ben Judson
6/19/2013
Arts & Culture:
The Current is pleased to partner with Artpace to present a weekly series of work by International Artist-in-Resident Pak Sheung Chuen. Read more about...
By Pak Sheung Chuen
6/19/2013
Arts & Culture:
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. By Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman. It Books. 718 pp., $32.50
By Enrique Lopetegui
6/19/2013
Arts & Culture:
Lurking on the edge of the neo-burlesque self-empowerment movement is another tradition that pushes tastes for a little lace into darker territory...
By Scott Andrews
6/19/2013
Astrology:
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’ve seen that meme circulating on the Internet: “My desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain...
By Rob Brezsny
6/19/2013
ASK A MEXICAN:
Dear Mexican: Recently, a coworker turned me on to a website that features many videos of unspeakable atrocities the drug cartels are committing...
By Gustavo Arellano
6/19/2013
