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Mayor Castro Bets Granary ‘Cue on Spurs

Texas Monthly’s BBQ Twitter sparked a rivalry of the meatier sort between Memphis and San Antonio this week, and San...
San Antonio Current  |  05-20-2013  |  Current Blogs

Simon Pegg Talks ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

In “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the second film of the series directed by J.J. Abrams, actor Simon Pegg (“Shaun of...
San Antonio Current  |  05-20-2013  |  Current Blogs

Video: Piñata Protest’s “La Cucaracha”

The Piñata Protest team doesn’t do anything in a conventional way, so even though the first single of El Valiente,...
San Antonio Current  |  05-20-2013  |  Current Blogs

Does ‘The Office’ Belong in the NBC Hall of Fame?

As the last call for tears and laughs slowly fades away, The Office becomes another generational NBC program. The media...
San Antonio Current  |  05-20-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Bloc Party

Fronted by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kele Okereke, guitar-driven British rockers Bloc Party struck a major chord with Silent Alarm,...
San Antonio Current  |  05-20-2013  |  Current Blogs

Ask Aliyah: Gifts From Exes and Long Distance Best Friendships

Dear Aliyah, Last year, my boyfriend gave me a watch that I know is valued at a few hundred dollars...
San Antonio Current  |  05-19-2013  |  Current Blogs

The Spurs Play Perfect Game Against the Grizzlies as Matt Bonner Resurfaces

The Spurs played nothing short of a perfect game Sunday, throttling Memphis 105-83 while holding Grizzlies’ star Zach Randolph to...
San Antonio Current  |  05-19-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Hellcab

In Hellcab, playwright Will Kern explores the thrilling randomness of the whole taxi experience. Originally performed as the unlikely holiday...
San Antonio Current  |  05-19-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Bamako Airlines

Austin-based Bamako Airlines has just released their self-titled EP —an engaging collection of mostly solid AfroPop covers from Algeria, Madagascar,...
San Antonio Current  |  05-18-2013  |  Current Blogs

Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Epic New Rollercoaster

The Iron Rattler is no joke. This ridiculous new hybrid coaster (made of both wood and steel) opens to season...
San Antonio Current  |  05-17-2013  |  Current Blogs

Spurs vs. Grizzlies Conference Finals Tickets On Sale

Straight from the Spurs’ mouth: Tickets to the San Antonio Spurs’ first two home games of the Western Conference Finals...
San Antonio Current  |  05-17-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Spring Awakening

With music by Duncan Sheik (best remembered for his 1996 single “Barely Breathing”), this provocative musical combines a sexy book...
San Antonio Current  |  05-17-2013  |  Current Blogs

Spurs Advance to Conference Finals

If you, a Spurs fan, were told that Tim Duncan sat on the bench during the final four minutes, that...
San Antonio Current  |  05-17-2013  |  Current Blogs

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

If San Antonio is the mecca of conjunto, then the Tejano Conjunto Festival serves as the genre’s hajj — a...
San Antonio Current  |  05-16-2013  |  Current Blogs

Why We Won’t Help the GEO Group Avoid a Lawsuit

Last July, GEO Care, a wholly owned subsidiary of the private prison behemoth GEO Group, submitted a proposal to the...
San Antonio Current  |  05-15-2013  |  Current Blogs

Letters From the Editor: On Vaginas

Introducing a weekly opinion column about vaginas, penises, and everything in between. Why yes, there is some sand in my...
San Antonio Current  |  05-15-2013  |  Current Blogs

The Lydia Mendoza Commemorative Stamp is Here

Few times has the Teatro Guadalupe been as packed as it was in the morning of May 15, when the...
San Antonio Current  |  05-15-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: The Fruit Hunters

Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) spent two years following fruit-obsessed horticulturalists, pomologists, and backyard enthusiasts to...
San Antonio Current  |  05-15-2013  |  Current Blogs

Spurs Win Game 5, in Spite of Tiago

Have you ever seen a vagina walk down the street? Not in the midsection of a woman, but an entire...
San Antonio Current  |  05-15-2013  |  Current Blogs

Mistaken Identity Brings on SWAT Raid

A mistake by law enforcement put Miguel Montanez inches away from death. Driving to his job at a metal shop...
San Antonio Current  |  05-14-2013  |  Current Blogs

A Great Gatsby NES Game Exists and it’s Awesome

While I’m still a little skeptical about Baz Luhrmann’s 3D film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great...
San Antonio Current  |  05-14-2013  |  Current Blogs

Poor Man’s Guide to Culinaria 2013

Look out, San Antonio, Culinaria 2013 is upon us. It’s time to put on your party pants. Maybe the stretchy...
San Antonio Current  |  05-14-2013  |  Current Blogs

The 2013 800 lb. Film Festival

For the last 16 years, students at the North East School of the Arts have been creating and screening their...
San Antonio Current  |  05-14-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: The Golden Age of Homebrewing

Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling, Alamo Beer Company, Freetail Brewing Company, and other brewing enthusiasts join forces for San Antonio...
San Antonio Current  |  05-14-2013  |  Current Blogs

Reviving La CAUSA

Last week, with much of City Council stuck in campaign season crunch time, downtown Council member Diego Bernal sought to...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

Hear The New Piñata Protest Album

El Valiente, Piñata Protest’s brand new recording, officially comes out May 21, but you don’t have to wait that long...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

Analog Is Not Dead: First Friday at J&O’s

Hi, my name is Bryan De La Garza (everyone calls me Brain) and I’m a photographer here in San Antonio...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

Is Mad Men Untouchable?

For every angry letter, online petition, or sofa rant spilled over a cancelled show, one thing is true: the reason...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

The Spurs Lost Sunday but Moms Lost Bigger

Happy Mother’s Day from the NBA! We gave every conference semifinalist the night off on Thursday so we could plop...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta

Israel “Cachao” López was the father of mambo, but it was fellow Cuban Dámaso Pérez Prado who turned mambo into...
San Antonio Current  |  05-13-2013  |  Current Blogs

2013 Elections: Your Vote Actually Counts

Less than 7 percent of San Antonio’s registered voters turned out yesterday and during early voting. To be fair, most...
San Antonio Current  |  05-12-2013  |  Current Blogs

Ask Aliyah: Nervous Bride & Stressed Out Mom

Dear Aliyah, My fiancé and I are happily engaged and actively planning a fall wedding for this year. Earlier this...
San Antonio Current  |  05-12-2013  |  Current Blogs

Sunday Comic: The Adventures of Pizza and Myrtle

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San Antonio Current  |  05-12-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Scapin

The word “zany” comes from Zanni, notorious tricksters introduced in 16th-century commedia del’arte. Among the Zanni family is Scapin, a...
San Antonio Current  |  05-12-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Little Shop of Horrors

Before he founded New World Pictures in 1970, Oscar-winning Hollywood rebel Roger Corman was launching actors’ careers (including those of...
San Antonio Current  |  05-11-2013  |  Current Blogs

Tim Duncan Shines in Spurs’ Game Three Win

Isn’t it amazing what happens when the San Antonio Spurs decide to run their offense through Tim Duncan and move...
San Antonio Current  |  05-11-2013  |  Current Blogs

Spotlight on Southtown: Jack of All Trades

It’s 8:00 a.m. at Sam Houston High School and the words, ‘hello,’ sleepily escape from peoples’ mouths.  The quiet energy...
San Antonio Current  |  05-10-2013  |  Current Blogs

Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Sweet and Tender Hooligans & Mariachi Mystery Tour

The spring portion of the Pearl’s Échale! Latino Music Estyles series wraps up Friday with a playful bill pairing two...
San Antonio Current  |  05-10-2013  |  Current Blogs

Addams Family 2.0 at the Majestic

We might think of the Addams Family as, say, creepy and ooky, but the one thing that doesn’t come to...
San Antonio Current  |  05-09-2013  |  Current Blogs

The Webbys Swell Again: Part 1

SURF is a new column featuring transcendent, collaborative practices of art and tech on the Web. Nowadays, professing you don’t...
San Antonio Current  |  05-09-2013  |  Current Blogs

CPS Energy delays ‘SunCredit’ program

CPS Energy and local solar installers have struck a compromise, at least for now. According to Solar San Antonio director...
San Antonio Current  |  05-09-2013  |  Current Blogs

Short and Sweet, No Longer Obsolete

Whether it's coercion from record companies or an imperfectionist's stance on music crafting, bands have a tendency to blend the bad in with the good.
Jackson Free Press  |  Micah Smith  |  05-20-2013  |  Music

My Mother, the American Dream

My mother and her family left Lithuania during the last year of World War II. Small but feisty, she carried her potty as the family wound their way through the country into Poland and on to Germany until arriving in a displaced person camp, where she lived until immigrating to the United States in 1950.
Jackson Free Press  |  Deirdre Danahar  |  05-10-2013  |  Culture

The Mother's Day Shootings

The week following a bloody Sunday in New Orleans.
Gambit  |  Alex Woodward  |  05-20-2013  |  Crime & Justice