Last week, with much of City Council stuck in campaign season crunch time, downtown Council member Diego Bernal sought to deliver on a promise he made to the LGBT community nearly two years ago. Bernal, who went uncontested in Saturday’s election, met with members of CAUSA , a coalition of local LGBT rights...
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El Valiente, Piñata Protest’s brand new recording, officially comes out May 21, but you don’t have to wait that long — it has been streaming since May 12 on NPR’s First Listen. The nine-song EP includes Piñata-styled conjunto-norteño-punk covers of immortal classics like “Volver, Volver” and “La Cucaracha,” plus new hits like “Vato Perrón.”...
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Hi, my name is Bryan De La Garza (everyone calls me Brain) and I’m a photographer here in San Antonio. There are still a lot of photographers that shoot film, and I’m one them. I have always wanted to do a photoblog where only analog photographs were shown and can still be beautiful. For...
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For every angry letter, online petition, or sofa rant spilled over a cancelled show, one thing is true: the reason many viewers’ favorite bits of home cinema disappear, is because they aren’t Mad Men. With recent news of network and cable’s cancellations and re-ups for next season, it comes as no surprise that Mad...
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Happy Mother’s Day from the NBA! We gave every conference semifinalist the night off on Thursday so we could plop a key playoff game right in the middle of your day, just for you. Chicken wings and beer are great brunch items, aren’t they? And surely you’d rather spend your afternoon at a sports...
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Israel “Cachao” López was the father of mambo, but it was fellow Cuban Dámaso Pérez Prado who turned mambo into a world craze, thanks to his stirring live performances and recordings in the ’50s. Fast-forward 63 years, and Tucson, Ariz.’s Sergio Mendoza (Calexico, DeVotchKa) and his seven-piece big band honor mambo fever with 2012’s...
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Less than 7 percent of San Antonio’s registered voters turned out yesterday and during early voting. To be fair, most races were pretty uninspiring: popular incumbent mayor without a serious threat; an unchallenged D1 council member; only one open seat on council, with all but two races going handily to incumbents. Most of us...
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Dear Aliyah, My fiancé and I are happily engaged and actively planning a fall wedding for this year. Earlier this spring, we attended my fiancé’s brother’s wedding. It was a large, lavish affair at a local high end, arts destination. While I am so happy for my BIL, I can’t help but think of...
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¡Ask a Mexican! 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
2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List Best of 2012: 2012 Best of San Antonio Food Winners List 4/25/2012
'The Flu Season' 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
Flaco Jiménez: Will the 'King of Conjunto' finally play with his brother Santiago Jiménez Jr.? Music: The 31st annual TCF has attractions for all tastes: the young, the old, and the fusion-minded. But none of those attractions shine more than the potential for three, five, 10, 15 minutes, or whatever... By Enrique Lopetegui 5/16/2012
Monk's Toolbox: A Local Start-Up Helps Craft Brewers Handle Their Biz 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
Icehouses Cure What Ails Ya Nightlife: San Antonians know that icehouses, those uniquely Texan structures, are “the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems” to paraphrase Homer Simpson... By Callie Enlow 5/15/2013
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