• 'The Angels' Share,' an Inverted Morality Play 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... | 5/22/2013
• Yellowfish Sushi Creates "Japamex" Cuisine Opening last February in a tiny building on Wurzbach that has housed a number of businesses, most recently an auto inspection station, Yellowfish... | 5/22/2013
• San Antonio's Theater Scene is Long on Space, Short on Productions 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... | 5/22/2013
• Rex Hausmann: Cats/Donuts/Starships/Ideals Rex Hausmann, local artist and arts advocate, recently opened his latest exhibition in the massive showrooms of Gallery Nord with a cohort... | 5/22/2013
• Homebrewing Has Gone Far Beyond Bathtub Beer Some craft beer aficionados take the go-local movement to an extreme. Not content to seek out the latest seasonal brew from a Texas... | 5/15/2013
• Stella Public House takes pizza and beer to the next level The terms “wood-fired” and“brick oven pizza” have longbeen bandied about as guarantors of quality, though sadly they seldom ring true. What may arrive out... | 5/15/2013
• Michael James and Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga at Southwest School of Art The twin exhibitions now on view at the Navarro campus of the Southwest School of Art could serve as a self-portrait of the school that began... | 5/15/2013
• Life in the studios at South Flores and Lone Star Founded almost 20 years ago when artists Andy Benavides and Alberto Mijangos bought an old, dilapidated building at 1906 South Flores, just south of... | 5/1/2013
• Will alternative art return to Blue Star? Two weekends ago, it almost seemed like First Friday was back at the Blue Star Arts Complex. For months, foot traffic at the Complex, which relied on... | 4/17/2013
• Generosity is the norm at Sparky's Pub Weekends offer an abundance of entertainment, but for daily relief, nothing beats everyone’s favorite British export — the pub. With roots stretching back to... | 4/17/2013
• Interview with Laurie Ann Guerrero Laurie Ann Guerrero’s collection Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying won the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and was published February 15 by University of... | 4/10/2013
• From Waffles and Milkshakes to Cigars and Absinthe at Halcyon In the food and beverage biz, location is not, as they say, everything. Finding a niche and delivering the expected should also be at the forefront of any... | 4/10/2013
• Interview with Nan Cuba You Can’t Go Home Again: Fiction about Family Secrets with Nan Cuba and Andrew Porter | 4/10/2013
• Jung-hee Mun Searches for Presence at Fl!ght Gallery Since graduating from UTSA with a BFA in printmaking in 2008, Jung-hee Mun has established a reputation for using realistic figuration to uncanny effect... | 4/5/2013
• Luminaria 2013 at Instituto Cultural de Mexico If you missed Luminaria this year because you were out of town, stayed home because you thought it would be rained out, or just hate crowds... | 4/3/2013
• International-artist-in-residence Exhibition 13.1 One of the most anticipated shows in town is the international-artist-in-residence exhibition at Artpace, on view three times a year at... | 3/27/2013
• Caterer Partridge in a Pie Tree delivers Raised off the grid (no electricity or telephone) in a log cabin in Arkansas, Tonya Ellen Bates learned the gritty basics of deep-country life at... | 3/13/2013
• Luminaria 2013 brings ecstatic changes Luminaria, San Antonio's version of the Nuit Blanche (White Night) art event that began in Paris in the 1982, is happening again this Saturday... | 3/6/2013
• MOCK/BITE: Bling, guns, and greed Ceramics, with its base in utilitarian objects — cups, bowls, and other vessels — has long been regarded as a stepchild to the arts, a craft. | 3/6/2013
• Gary Sweeney: Forty years of wit on display at Blue Star The CAM opening party last Thursday had decent attendance, about the same as the usual previews at Blue Star the night before the First Friday... | 3/6/2013
• Martinez Barbacoa & Tamales In Britain, "the local" is the neighborhood pub that you know can be relied on; here you might have an ice house or local bar that delivers the... | 3/6/2013
• Molly is Not a Hipster: Miguel Paredes and Kyle William Harper at The Paint Yard Growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side was an advantage for graffiti kids in the early '80s, but the street action seldom built fine art chops. | 3/6/2013
• Luis Moro paints a message at Gravelmouth Though we might mention dead insects when speaking of overpowering forces ("squashed like a bug" and "smashed like a fly on a windshield" come... In "Micr | 3/6/2013
• Art-spectacular! Selections from this week's CAM calendar Now in its 28th year, Contemporary Art Month presents over 100 exhibitions, performances, and art happenings in March, getting a few extra days... | 2/27/2013
• Artists of SAMOMA play with the viewer Arts nonprofits and artist-run spaces abound in SA now, support for the arts is strong, with municipal funds spreading public art throughout the... | 2/20/2013
• Review: Pete's Tako House Founded in 1978, Pete's may have received celestial assistance a decade latter when Pope John Paul II passed by in his motorcade during the 1987 papal visit... | 2/20/2013
• Texas whisky beats Scotland's finest in London blind tasting It seemed like history repeating itself last December when Balcones Single Malt Whisky beat out the competition in a blind tasting in... | 2/6/2013
• Hand-crafted cocktails at The Brooklynite A wise driver doesn't give her mechanic instructions when taking the car to the local garage, or specify medical treatment when visiting a doctor. | 1/30/2013
• Live art smackdown at Artslam 7 with Buff Monster, Lamour Supreme, and Japanther ARTSLAM! 7, this year's edition of SA's one-day art and music phantasmagoria, promises to be a high/low mix of art in chaos that will embarrass... | 1/23/2013
• Reviews: 'Dirty Dozen' at Blue Star Contemporary Museum, 'Hieroglyphs' at Linda Pace Foundation Every day we make choices that are so habitual we barely notice them. Tacos or tuna for lunch might warrant a moment of thought, but that job you're not... | 1/23/2013
• Brahms and Beyond launches SA Symphony Brahms Festival The San Antonio Symphony's Brahms Festival presents a series of 25 performances with 19 musical partners that will explore the works of 19th century... | 1/16/2013
• Mummies of the World at the Witte Museum Mummies of the World, the world's largest collection of real mummies and related artifacts, is a must-see exhibition now open at the Witte Museum... | 1/16/2013
• Vincent Valdez witnesses for combat veterans "America's Finest" and "Excerpts for John," the sweeping double-exhibition by Vincent Valdez now on view at the McNay Art Museum, gives confirmation... | 1/2/2013
• The year in Art Town, Texas San Antonio is known for its small town feel — and that's not publicity hogwash, but a compliment we insist on paying ourselves... | 12/26/2012
• A harvest of new restaurants The emphasis now is on casual dining, but that doesn't mean casually thrown together food is passing muster. On the contrary, chef-driven restaurants with... | 12/26/2012
• Our dearly departed: People who died in 2012 | 12/26/2012
• Bar Belles One of the most honored bartenders of all time is Ada "Coley" Coleman, who began tending bar at The Claridge in New York City back in 1899 at the... | 12/19/2012
• Deep Eddy's Honey Pot Though the beer-slinging icehouse is a family tradition in San Antonio, we generally don't encourage mixing children with booze. There are, however, exceptions. | 12/19/2012
• The Granary: First looks at the Pearl's new gastropub Only weeks old, The Granary 'Cue & Brew has successfully passed their shake-down period and is smokin' along with two menus. The new... | 12/12/2012
• Richard and Maria Mogas at REM Gallery Looking at art made by a couple — in this case Richard and Maria Mogas — can be problematic. Of course, you know there is a hidden conversation. Currently... | 12/12/2012
• Krisanne Frost (1951-2012) San Antonio lost a bright light in the local art scene last week. Krisanne Frost, well-known local artist and gallery liaison at... | 12/12/2012
• Linnea Gabriella Spransy's generative art Raised in the Midwest in a multilingual family speaking English, Swedish, and German, Linnea Gabriella Spransy received her MFA at... | 12/5/2012
• IAIR 12.3: Is there truth in photography? Artpace's current International Artists-in-Residence presents works by three artists who share a common interest: photography. Indeed, the residency's guest... | 11/28/2012
• Exotic brews highlight first SA Coffee Fest Coffee aficionados have heard tales that the rarest beans aren't picked by hand. Like Monkey tea from China's Fujian Province, kopi luwak — civet coffee... | 11/28/2012
• Winter cocktails at The Brooklynite that sing holiday The snows are falling again up north, and it's time to go a-wassailing. Remember the song? | 11/20/2012
• Vincent Valdez brings Veterans Day to the McNay Bronze statues of warriors have gone out of fashion and it's a rare day that Big Art acknowledges those who serve in the military and that after... | 11/7/2012
• Four SA artists to be selected for Berlin-based residency Artpace has its celebrated International Artist-in-Residency program. Sala Diaz has its new Casa Chuck Residency Program for critics and... | 10/31/2012
• Albert Alvarez: Every day is Halloween Albert, every time I see you, you're such a cheerful guy. You look like you're having a great time. Then I look at your artwork and think — maybe not. Are we... | 10/24/2012
• Not a killer fish, charcuterie is hand-made treats for carnivores During the worst years of the recession, chef-driven restaurants dropped like flies in the hardest-hit regions; bereft of the corporate credit cards that... | 10/24/2012
• Jenelle Esparza's large format photographs capture prehistoric memories Inspired by Mesoamerican imagery, Jenelle Esparza's first solo show since graduating from UTSA is an impressive debut. Shot on a large format film camera... | 10/15/2012
• Peter French's photography crosses the line in Connecting Moments The horizon is not a line. It is a zone that extends in width beyond the edges of vision, rising and falling with the land, becoming incredibly thick in... | 10/17/2012
• Go ahead, chalk it up Painting in pastels (dry pigments mixed with a binder to make chalk), goes way back — Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) mentions the practice in his... | 10/10/2012
• Blue Star Brewing's new talent in the kitchen causing more than First Friday commotion Since 1996, the beer has been the main pull at Blue Star Brewing — with burgers, fries, and the like offered to soak up the suds. Not bad food... | 10/10/2012
• Gwendolyn gets friendly Since opening a year and a half ago, Gwendolyn has firmly held her ground: a circle of land precisely 150-miles in radius from the small... | 10/10/2012
• Caught between home and the mainland, characters of 'Traveler's Rest' writhe From the political strife of the 1920s to a hurricane in 2005, Traveler's Rest, by San Antonio-based author and editor Jonathan Marcantoni, offers a series of... | 10/10/2012
• InterPlay: Mechanical Objects "Don't touch the art!" It's a caution we've heard since childhood, along with admonitions to speak softly while visiting museums, where — in seeming paradox... | 10/3/2012
• Fall Arts Preview: Museums Artpace alumna and zingmagazine editor Devon Dikeou exhibits her art trove in the Hudson (Show) Room: "Swap Meet: Artpace and the Dikeou Collection... | 9/26/2012
• Taste This: Sausage & Queso Platter, $5.95 Sliced South Texas sausage, sautéed chunks of onion, and blister-fried chips. What more could you want? | 9/26/2012
• Fuerza Unida launches fashion line on Southside Two decades after 1,150 garment workers lost their jobs when Levi Strauss closed its San Antonio factory, a handful of the original craftswomen — aided by some of... | 9/26/2012
• Fall Arts Preview: Festivals, food, drink & outdoor fun Oktoberfest. One of the most popular expressions of German kultur is Oktoberfest, a two-week long party filled with beer, polkas, and piles of food. Founded in... | 9/26/2012
• Fotoseptiembre at Rendon Photography Local photographer Scott Martin and Massachusetts shooter Lance Keimig are masters of moonlight. Their haunting Fotoseptiembre... | 9/19/2012
• Adad Hannah encounters our intimate city Though many art works declaim loudly about the acts of perception, Canadian photographer Adad Hannah's exhibition sited within the small gallery | 9/12/2012
• Fotoseptiembre offerings ignite the Instituto Cultural de Mexico "Mixed Metaphors," a suite of seven exhibits curated by Fotoseptiembre's founder and director Michael Mehl, presents elaborately constructed works... | 9/5/2012
• Nutty for coconut water A recent blurb in the food files mentioned that coconut water is one of the trendiest ways to spend money this season. We've been picking up... | 9/5/2012
• A restaurant pocket book that works There are many restaurant guides in print, but this one loses the often snarky tones and flippant comments of entertainment writers, replacing the effulgence of... | 9/5/2012
• Critics of Animal Care Services say our drive to humane care misses the big picture In 2006, the City Council took on Mayor Phil Hardberger's challenge to become the country's largest "no-kill" community. At the time, ACS was gassing 50,000... | 8/22/2012
• From neglect to colony member: cat companionship in several halting steps Don't feed the stray cats!" they told me. Who? Everyone, it seemed — neighbors, acquaintances, the mail man. They're feral, an infestation. If you feed them... | 8/22/2012
• Team Better Block takes on Alamo Plaza This Friday and Saturday an experiment will be held in Alamo Plaza. The street will be closed and food stalls and a pop-up wine shop will be erected. | 8/15/2012
• A conversation with Green Chef and co-owner Mike Behrend How did you make the transition from Lulu's to this establishment? | 8/15/2012
• Rabbi Chaim Block on Cafe Aroma certification What does eating kosher mean? Eating kosher means that all of the ingredients that go in to the preparation of the foods are approved and confirmed by a rabbi. | 8/15/2012
• Off the cow for now: Green Vegetarian Cuisine's restorative power As a devoted omnivore and newcomer to San Antonio, I passed on familiar garden greens for many a month in favor of exploring the many meat-vending outlets here... | 8/15/2012
• Taste this: Pain aux abricot: $3.75 Don't let the figure-eight shape of this apricot delight fool you — this is no Danish, but a French puff paste wonder, a mille feuille pastry made with beaucoup... | 8/8/2012
• Jessica Battes and Erin Stafford tour their muses Jessica Battes' ceramic works quote underwater forms; Erin Stafford's paintings present pearls immersed in petroleum jelly. Both are recent MFA grads from UTSA... | 8/8/2012
• Queen of Burlesque Coco Lectric on teasing the audience, sexuality, and 'stank face' Named 2010 Queen of Burlesque at the influential New Orleans Burlesque Festival, founding member of Austin's Jigglewatts Burlesque and headmistress of The Austin... | 8/1/2012
• Hide the children (but not the women), burlesque is in town The New York nights were sultry when H. L. Mencken coined the term "ecdysiast" to describe Gypsy Rose Lee, a star of Minsky's Burlesque during the Great Depression. | 8/1/2012
• Taste this: Jalapeño cheeseburger: $5.95 The name might remind you of roadkill, but Armadillos Texas-Style Burgers are worth a try if you've developed wallet fatigue from the over-priced patties now... | 8/1/2012
• Radcliffe Bailey discusses memory, biennials, and home Radcliffe Bailey's retrospective "Memory as Medicine" opened at the McNay Art Museum in June and will be on view to September 2, 2012. Last week, the artist returned to SA... | 7/25/2012
• Taste this: Huevos Rancheros y Barbacoa: $4.99 Muffins and latte are fine for a quick bite, but if you want to tuck in to a real breakfast ditch the coffee shop and head up Fred for some serious fare: two eggs covered with... | 7/25/2012
• Sergio Hernandez woodcuts display deft straddling of worlds Small works under glass line the walls of the exhibition's first room, their deft lines and bold pools of dark colors laid down with a sure hand. Several pieces depict the bullfight, an honored Spanish... | 7/25/2012
• In and out of place at Artpace IAIR 12.2 All three shows in Artpace's second 2012 International Artists-in-Residence Exhibition use, or make comment on, photography. But that wasn't an intent in... | 7/18/2012
• Sarah Lewis on curating Artpace Sarah Lewis, the curator of Artpace IAIR 12.2, is a scholar, writer, and curator who resides in New York City. She has taught at Yale, curated at the Tate Modern... | 7/18/2012
• Daniela Riojas, The Arts United, and exploring our scars Daniela Riojas still has a year to go to finish her English major at UTSA, but when her nose isn't buried in a book she's likely looking through a camera's viewfinder. | 7/11/2012
• Radcliffe Bailey searches for life beyond the Middle Passage Wrenching percussive sounds, like something very large breaking up, emanate from a conch shell. The gratings of a ship ripped by an ocean storm, perhaps. Nearby, the floor swells... | 7/3/2012
• Ana Fernandez: Painter as chili queen Ana, you have a huge painting in "¡Queers, Presente!" you painted this year. It reminds me of your other recent works, but is different somehow. | 6/27/2012
• ¡Queers, Presente!: Art show as historical document at Esperanza Peace & Justice Center Group art shows are notoriously fickle in their outcomes. When curated as a collection of themed works, the results may express a single attitude or aesthetic as part of a... | 6/27/2012
• Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Bluebonnets and camp There is a 1990 painting of yours in "¡Queers, Presente!," the current show at the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center. It is a retablo-like triptych. Since then you have... | 6/27/2012
• How to survive the summer: bunkering lessons for locals Why we haven't figured out yet that even with air-conditioned rooms and air-conditioned cars it's just plain whacked to get up with the sun and stay awake through the heat of... | 6/20/2012
• New Playhouse president on fixing 'Vibrator Play' malfunctions Last week, in "Batteries not included," Current theater critic Thomas Jenkins doled out some scalding comments about the San Pedro Playhouse production of... | 6/20/2012
• SAMA keeps it personal with 'San Antonio Collects: Contemporary' | 6/13/2012
• Taste this: Sitges, $3.89 The empanadas at Horno Misión San José are some of the best meat pies in town, but their more exotic fare is also worth a taste: round boules... | 6/13/2012
• Why San Antonio's missions won't clear the UN's World Heritage List The San Antonio Franciscan missions' likelihood of making the prized World Heritage List — which includes cultural and natural sites such as the... | 6/6/2012
• 'San Antonio Painters' at Blue Star Contemporary Shows with open calls for submission tend to create a sense of foreboding among artists, especially when the entrants are limited by geography. | 6/6/2012
• Americans for the Arts lands in SA This week San Antonio hosts another conference — and it's a big deal in art land. Americans for the Arts offers a series of presentations from Thursday through Sunday... | 6/6/2012
• Salvaging a symphony Contrary to what my father used to say, you don't always get what you pay for. Sometimes you get much more. The SA Symphony — and San Antonio — are getting... | 5/30/2012
• Habitable Spaces' new artist residency program goes deep woods outside Kingsbury GUADALUPE COUNTY — The turquoise gate on the west side of Farm to Market 1104 near Kingsbury is all that marks the entrance to Habitable Spaces, the newest artist... | 5/30/2012
• Taste this: Pulled pork sandwich, $6 Cheap eats at locavore heaven Restaurant Gwendolyn? Yup. Their three- and five-course dinners are legend, but the same zealously sourced local ingredients are present at... | 5/30/2012
• Public lured by a more open Linda Pace Foundation will find tragedy, magical reflexivity in 'Ten Thousand Waves' In 2004 British artist Isaac Julien heard of the drownings at Morecambe Bay. Misled by incompetent gang bosses, Chinese migrant workers were caught in... | 5/23/2012
• Helton's 'Drugs' doesn't demand destruction or redemption Books about drug use appear regularly on publisher's lists, and whether written as fiction or biography, their plots usually follow a pattern that culminates in... | 5/16/2012
• Al Souza delivers more fundamentals at Shelton Gallery show Books, magazines, and newspapers are migrating to computers, phones, and tablets; the glowing screen's triumph over paper seems certain. | 5/9/2012
• An open letter to Luminaria Dear Luminaria organizers, Congratulations on successfully rescheduling and staging Luminaria, the city's largest art fest, at HemisFair Park last weekend after the... | 5/9/2012

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