Blogs: Staff Blogs

By Michael Barajas mbarajas@sacurrent.com The Bexar County Democratic Party gathered Tuesday night in a relative calm, some trying earnestly to break away from the bitter atmosphere that has gripped the party since its explosive January meeting. The group let local lawyer and former State Rep. (and former County Judge and County Commissioner) John Longoria...
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Contemporary Art Month is March, but dear artist, if you are planning on participating this year,  you’ve only hours left to sign up for the print calendar — deadline is midnight tonight. The San Antonio Current publishes the hardcopy edition of the CAM Calendar each year, but if you don’t register today, you’ll miss...
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After blindly speculating last Sunday that the bandit knitting covering a light pole near Blue Star might be the work of outside agitators — neither Artifacts nor Blue Star Contemporary had a clue as to who really left the pole-warmer next to the Riverwalk pathway — readers informed us that the graffiti knitting was the...
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Grammy-winning, Emmy-nominated comedian Lewis Black will perform at the Majestic on Friday, February 4. Last week, he spoke with Enrique Lopetegui on the phone from New York. I hate to use the word “joke,” because what good comedians do are not jokes. But … is it true that you don’t write your “jokes” down?...
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Bexar County Democrats Chair Dan Ramos reportedly delayed a weekend mediation with 379th District Judge Ron Rangel intended to start bridging the very solid divide separating warring factions of the Bexar County Democratic Party that has brought the party’s business to a standstill these past two months. (We’ve been cautioned not to use the...
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Since 2003, some Texas drivers running afoul of the state’s traffic laws have been subject to not only fines, but to additional charges levied to discourage reckless driving even further. The additional cost is part of DPS’s Driver Responsibility Program, which imposes the surcharges on drivers who have racked up too many tickets or...
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Scott Andrews sandrews@sacurrent.com Over the last decade or so two domains in the art world that were previously thought of as rather dull have taken on a new air of glamour. Fiber arts, once considered craft tradition and therefore (like anything with a folk or feminine heritage) not high art, are becoming the media...
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Scott Andrews sandrews@sacurrent.com Reading last week’s Spuriosity, I was happy to see a point being made by a sports writer that should have come from the art world. Appreciating sports or art demands similar engagement by the viewer. The two endeavors aren’t so different, though they seem to mark two sides of a cultural...
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By Michael Barajas mbarajas@sacurrent.com The head of the Environmental Protection Agency made her rounds through San Antonio Friday, defending the agency’s rare decision to take over greenhouse gas permits in the state — a move that some GOP lawmakers have dubbed the agency’s “war on Texas.” Lisa P. Jackson, the EPA’s top administrator, visited...
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Texas lawmakers are pushing hard to kill plans by the U.S. EPA to further ratchet down on air pollution from industrial sources around the country. If you read the previous post from Sonya Harvey, now you know one major battle CPS Energy staff are watching that will help determine whether or not our “Dirty...
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Sonya Harvey sonyaharveytx@gmail.com A new report from Environment Texas titled “Dirty Energy’s Assault On Our Health: Mercury” released this week suggests CPS Energy’s coal-fired plants housed at Calaveras Lake are the 11th dirtiest in the state. With an estimated 16,350 pounds of mercury emitted in 2009 in Texas alone, the state ranks number one...
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By Michael Barajas mbarajas@sacurrent.com It’s no surprise a simple Bexar County Democrats planning meeting turned sour last night, given the raucous show the last time the group met in full. The small conference room in a downtown Luby’s began to simmer as the group began discussing the removal of the party’s treasurer, Joseph Nazaroff....
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