Blogs: Staff Blogs

The Confederations Cup, which every four years unite the continental soccer champions one year prior to the World Cup, started in Brazil on Friday with an easy victory by the host team 3-0 over Asia champion Japan. On Sunday, Italy beat Mexico 2-1 thanks to a late goal by Mario Ballotelli, who dedicated the...
Read more »

Four years after Modern Guilt, Beck returns with not one, but two albums, according to Rolling Stone. Sources told the magazine one of the albums will be acoustic, and the other the “proper” follow-up to Modern Guilt. Though no set release dates were announced, first single “Defriended” is out: He will also be touring...
Read more »

After Judge Nelson Wolff gave his State of the County speech Friday at the Omni Hotel, the Current got him and other key players of the San Antonio music scene to expand on an old dilemma: how can San Antonio become a viable music destination without being swallowed by Austin? The participants: Judge Wolff...
Read more »

The winning poster of the Tejano Conjunto Festival 2013, by Bart Thomas. Here’s some highlights (in order of appearance) from the 2013 Tejano Conjunto Festival that ended Sunday at Rosedale Park. SA’s own Los Nahuatlatos kicked off the “New Directions in Conjunto” night Thursday at the Guadalupe Theater. Their final song was a new...
Read more »

Want to Foster now?  Sara and her pups need a loving foster home to grow up in. She will do all the work for her 4 week old puppies. She is a calm and sweet dog but like any mother she is very protective of her puppies and needs to be kept completely separated from any...
Read more »

Watch the video of "Ingenue," the first single off Atoms for Peace's 'Amok.'
Read more »

  Low-risk, non-violent immigrant detainees released from ICE detention centers?! Cue the outrage from Congressman Lamar Smith in 3, 2  … “Spending cuts are no excuse for releasing thousands of criminal and illegal immigrants into our streets,” the local GOP rep told the daily. “The (Obama) administration is either incompetent and unable to prioritize...
Read more »

Today only: go to Café College, 131 El Paso, and take a recording workshop on The John Lennon Educational Bus.
Read more »

The Current talks to Emilio Estefan, who will produce the upcoming People En Español Fest in late August-early September.
Read more »

Texas is a red state. There’s no denying that. But this lovely shade of crimson has not always graced our fair state. Throughout the 1960s Texas was deep blue. Congress didn’t see a Republican Senator from 1877 to 1961. But things slowly changed. More Republicans won at the State House and in Congress. It...
Read more »

Watch live streaming video from nowcastsa at livestream.com After a year of pumping his lofty, transformative vision of SA2020, Mayor Julián Castro attempted to define his legacy as something more fundamental at last year’s State of the City address: early childhood education. “Let me be very frank, it’s the initiative in my tenure as...
Read more »

“It is deeply disappointing to see a representative of the United States resort to this base tactic more than a decade into the 21 st century," Sotomayor wrote.
Read more »