Blogs

Latest Story

• Sunday Comic: The Adventures of Pizza and Myrtle

  May 19, 2013

  By Carlos Aguilar
  

  Click image to enlarge.  
  Read more »

• Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Hellcab

  May 19, 2013

  By Bryan Rindfuss
  

  In Hellcab, playwright Will Kern explores the thrilling randomness of the whole taxi experience. Originally performed as the unlikely holiday offering Hellcab Does Christmas, the dark comedy introduces all walks (obnoxious sports fans, drunks, druggies, and born-again Christians included) in roughly two dozen vignettes as a Chicago cabby struggles through an endless shift. Revived...
  Read more »

• Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Bamako Airlines

  May 18, 2013

  By S.A. SOUND
  

  Austin-based Bamako Airlines has just released their self-titled EP —an engaging collection of mostly solid AfroPop covers from Algeria, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Mali. What I’m really looking forward to is their next album, which reportedly will be more centered on their promising originals (listen to Bamako Airlines’ “Desséché” for clues). Singer Meera Chandy, trumpeter...
  Read more »

• Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Epic New Rollercoaster

  May 17, 2013

  By Isis Madrid
  

  The Iron Rattler is no joke. This ridiculous new hybrid coaster (made of both wood and steel) opens to season pass holders this weekend and then to the public on Saturday, May 25. The Rattler is the world’s steepest and fastest hybrid coaster, boasting a terrifying/awesome 81-degree fall from a height of 180-feet, so...
  Read more »

• Spurs vs. Grizzlies Conference Finals Tickets On Sale

  May 17, 2013

  By Isis Madrid
  

  Straight from the Spurs’ mouth: Tickets to the San Antonio Spurs’ first two home games of the Western Conference Finals (Games 1 & 2) against the Memphis Grizzlies are on sale now on Spurs.com or ATTCenter.com.  The Spurs will host the Grizzlies at the AT&T Center for Game 1 on Sunday, May 19 at 2:30 p.m. Spurs tickets...
  Read more »

• Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Spring Awakening

  May 17, 2013

  By ARTSLUT
  

  With music by Duncan Sheik (best remembered for his 1996 single “Barely Breathing”), this provocative musical combines a sexy book with even sexier, alt-rock based songs like “The Bitch of Living,” “Touch Me,” and “Totally Fucked.” Unlike a lot of musical theater, this isn’t a safe bet for a first date or a matinee...
  Read more »

• Spurs Advance to Conference Finals

  May 17, 2013

  By Mike Seely
  

  If you, a Spurs fan, were told that Tim Duncan sat on the bench during the final four minutes, that Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker combined to shoot 4-22 from the field, and that the Spurs were playing a Game 6 against a desperate–and supremely talented–team in one of the most hostile road arenas...
  Read more »

• Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: New Directions in Conjunto Music

  May 16, 2013

  By S.A. SOUND
  

  If San Antonio is the mecca of conjunto, then the Tejano Conjunto Festival serves as the genre’s hajj — a chance to pay homage to accomplished bands and musicians, bask in the energy of fresh talent, and, mostly, shuffle to the squeezeboxes.The TCF is oomping through its third decade of existence, and this year’s...
  Read more »