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NEWS

Echo Chamber Meet “Team Miller,” the growing Facebook fan club for Texas’ brashest politician Dead End South Texas inmate killed in shootout following Christmas Eve escape Spoiler Alert Medina’s making the mayor’s race sound an awful lot like a Democratic primary

Sound City 20 SA bands you should pay attention to in 2017

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ECHO CHAMBER

Meet “Team Miller,” the growing Facebook fan club for Texas’ brashest politician

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In his rise to statewide office, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has become the kind of brash, politically incorrect and culture war-crusading politician that’s made him a favorite among the hard right. At the tail end of a largely forgettable, decade-long tenure in the Texas House, it was Miller who authored the state’s 24-hour sonogram law forcing doctors to force women to listen to audio of the fetal heartbeat and a detailed description of the image, a medically-unnecessary law that, as one federal judge put it, “compels physicians to advance an ideological agenda with which they may not agree.” (Some of Miller’s other major legislative accomplishments include creating special license plates for Bronze Star soldiers and legalizing the practice of hunting wild Texas hogs from helicopters.) While running for agriculture commissioner, historically a stepping stone for politicos like Rick Perry, Miller made Ted “Jailbait” Nugent his campaign treasurer and insisted on calling the Civil War the slaveryignoring “War of Northern Aggression.” As a statewide politician, he has openly joked about dropping a nuclear bomb on “the Muslim world,” compared Syrian refugees to a pit of venomous snakes, and called Hillary Clinton a “cunt” via Twitter. It’s the brand of politically-incorrect, fact-ignorant politics that Donald Trump, who was reportedly set to meet with Miller last week for a possible cabinet appointment, surfed into the

White House – which is probably why it’s worth paying attention to “Team Miller,” the name our state ag commissioner gives his ever growing Facebook following. As with Trump and Twitter, Facebook seems to be a compulsion for Miller. He often posts dozens of times a day, and regularly engages with and responds to followers, critics, and critical stories via social media. He spreads “fake news,” newspeak for blatantly false bullshit, like that a group of Muslims encircled Oklahoma police while shouting “praise Allah” after attending “a press conference on beheading,” or the non-existent terrorist training camp in suburban Houston and Lady Gaga’s promise to cover her face until Trump’s impeachment (he called that one “breaking news from the land of fruits and nuts”). “Team Miller” fixates on the kind of inconsequential, flash-in-the-pan stories you might’ve never even heard of — like how some reality TV homebuilder couple from Waco got some pushback because they attend a megachurch whose pastor openly promotes the barbaric practice of gay conversion therapy. They make fun of the “snowflake generation,” mock “safe space liberals,” and vehemently agree with Trump when he says he wants to jail people who exercise their right to burn the American flag. They say young Democrats might as well leave the state, that Mexicans “hate whitey and you better not forget it,” and that the government should jail journalists

who are, in their words, “spreading lies.” They lament and trash the lamestream media even as they share information via the New York Times and Washington Post . They consider Miller “an awesome child of God!!! ” They call the middle-of-the-road Texas Tribune the “alt-left ambassador” of Texas media. And caps lock. Lots of caps lock. It’s that curious kind of piety that will give you a “Bible verse of the day” and call Hillary Clinton a cunt, that weird breed of social conservative that agrees (for moral, not misogynistic reasons, of course) that women who have had abortions should be “punished” but also doesn’t mind electing a man to the White House who admittedly used his power and wealth to grab women “by the pussy.” The kind of person who lambasts the wait staff because he didn’t like his steak that much. Miller is the kind of guy who, when you write something critical about him, his response is I’ve got more friends than you. Early this month, after the Texas Tribune produced a not-at-all exhaustive list of “fake news” stories the ag commissioner spread to “Team Miller,” his reaction? “Perhaps what they really don’t like is that fact that I’ve got almost 350,000 Facebook followers while they have less than 75,000.” Actually, Miller’s social media audience keeps on growing. As of last week, the members of “Team Miller” are north of 365,000.

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An escaped inmate died in a police shootout last week, just three days after he mysteriously slipped out of a sheriff’s car transporting him to the Live Oak County Jail. The county sheriff’s office said 36-year-old Jake Childers was killed by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in Campbellton, a town 50 miles south of San Antonio — and Texas Rangers are currently investigating the incident. How Childers got that far while avoiding the eye of actively searching officers — and managed to shed his heavy leg irons, acquire an arsenal of weapons, and get a new wardrobe in the meantime — is a question that’s left local law enforcement stumped. According to Sheriff Larry Busby, Childers was returning to the jail from a doctor’s appointment when he somehow climbed out of an unlocked window in the caged backseat of a sheriff vehicle — while his hands were cuffed and legs shackled. “[The officers in the front seat] heard a noise back there...but they thought it was just him being restless,” Busby told Corpus Christi’s KRIS6 News last week. “But they drove in to the compound, and when they looked back, he was gone.” Busby blamed the officers’ misstep on bad visibility from the metal caging and the time of day. “But they still should have checked better,” he added. Childers’ escape came a day after he took an officer hostage (using a broken piece of plastic as a weapon) in the jail’s recreation room. Childers badly injured three officers before they wrangled him back behind bars. After his escape, officers and a pack of hound dogs spent the entire night — Christmas Eve — trying, unsuccessfully,

to track down the inmate. Childers had better luck. Shortly after hopping out of the car, Childers, still in shackles, ran across an acquaintance working on his truck, and asked him to borrow his phone. The man refused, but abandoned his unlocked truck, telling Childers he was going to “find a phone” (Busby said the man was looking for an excuse to get away from the inmate). Still, the acquaintance had conveniently left bolt cutters, a kitchen knife, overalls, and a hat inside his truck. When the guy returned, he found Childers’ broken handcuffs on the ground. Next, Busby said, Childers stole four shotguns and three handguns from a nearby hunting camp. Then he headed to his own house. It seemed the officers were always 15 minutes or so behind Childers — in some cases, almost comically missing him. Despite the fact that many officers were watching Childers’ house the evening of his escape, he somehow managed to open the front gate, go inside, and take a shower that evening without their knowledge. Officers even hopped in a helicopter to try to locate Childers, who was initially arrested for illegally fishing on private property. Busby said he had a history of escaping county jails — and was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. “He’s hard to describe,” Busby said, prior to his death. “He’s just determined not to return to prison.” According to KRIS6, a combination of K-9 units, helicopters, and on-foot officers finally found Childers hiding in thick brush near Campbellton around 9 p.m. Tuesday. Childers reportedly shot at the SWAT team with a revolver, prompting the officers to fire back, killing the former inmate.

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Manuel Medina might say he’s still weighing whether to run for San Antonio mayor, but he talks about his presence in the race with near certainty. He’s already pledged a quarter million of his own dollars to the effort, held a big, public event earlier this month naming his campaign treasurer, and when he dishes public transportation policy, which he clearly wants to be his marquee issue, the Bexar County Democratic Party chairman says things like, “I want Manuel Medina to be considered the transportation mayor.” And, even though he hasn’t “officially” announced his run (he promises that final decision could come as soon as this week), it’s clear who Medina considers his main competition at this point: District 8 Councilman Ron Nirenberg, who earlier this month became Mayor Ivy Taylor’s first official challenger. That’s because Medina and Nirenberg will be likely be scrapping for the same slice of the electorate — the progressive, liberal and Democrat-leaning voters who fit squarely in the anti-Taylor camp. Both say they care about ethics reform at city hall, want greater transparency, and are either overtly critical or deeply skeptical of the city’s near-billion-dollar Vista Ridge water pipeline project. Both lament that a largely working-class city the size of San Antonio has such a crummy public transportation system. Each delivers similarly fiery (if not vague) denouncements of the special interests guiding development and public policy at city hall. To be fair, Medina is quick to say “this isn’t a partisan election” (which, is technically true; mayoral candidates don’t run with party affiliation). He just quickly follows it up with a barrage of plainly partisan political appeals. “The truth of the matter is Ivy Taylor has aligned herself with the far right of San Antonio, and Ron Nirenberg has never voted in a Democratic primary in his life,” he told us. So much for nonpartisan. Many have already pointed out the spoiler effect Medina could have on the race, potentially leading to a repeat of the last mayoral election when two former Democrat state lawmakers jumped in, split the anti-Taylor vote, and triggered a runoff that Taylor ultimately won. Medina’s response? “Everyone should stop drinking the Kool-Aid.” He insists Nirenberg’s support among progressives and liberals is overblown, and that he could lock in and turn out the vote in the Democratic strongholds of the west and south sides. “There’s only one Democrat in this race, only one true progressive and that’s why from day one Manuel Medina has been considered a serious candidate,” he says. (Medina likes to refer to himself in the third person – a lot.) “At the end of the day, Ron’s a centrist,” Medina says. “Why pick a centrist who’s going to be forced to carry your progressive values when there is one who has been the champion of those public values for years?” Sounds an awful lot like a pre-runoff primary in a supposedly nonpartisan race.

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FEATURE

SA Bands You Should ion Pay Attent The Freebiez to in 2017 thefreebiez.bandcamp.com

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All morbid jokes about 2016's record wretchedness aside,

Topo Chica

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Formed just this year, with an all-girl lineup, most of whom play in other rad local bands too, Topo Chica has a sound that is, on the surface at least, just as bubbly as its namesake. The five-piece’s lo-fi, dream-punk vibe, as revealed on the single “Leonardo,” the group’s first and (so far) only release, is bright and confident in a refreshing and endearing way. With an increasing live presence around town, and a series of indications that the chicas spent the end of 2016 doing some recording, Topo Chica seems poised to develop into one of SA’s most interesting bands this year.

Baby Bangs babybangs.bandcamp.com

SA bubble-punk duo Baby Bangs may be a side project times two — singersongwriter Elena Lopez’ main band is the indie rock band Octahedron and drummer Dane Rousey holds it down in experimental rock act The Freebiez — but there’s nothing about the new band that feels extraneous. If anything, Baby Bangs’ quickly developed chemistry gains in whimsy and insight where it cedes pressure to more established other projects. The two-piece dropped its first EP, huh?, in 2016 and is already at work on more music. Meanwhile, the flippant immediacy and wistful emotiveness of huh? made it one of our favorite releases of last year. 14 CURRENT • January 4-10, 2017 • sacurrent.com

the year did see a lot of activity and great work from local musicians of all types. No matter your genre of choice, there's a good chance that plenty of stuff you would like was done by local artists last year. As a way to help you kick start your new year, and hopefully invigorate your zest for the local music scene, we offer a list

The Freebiez are all over the place. And, we’re at least almost 100 percent positive that this is a good thing. When we tell you that the young two-piece (sometimes three) has a sound that ranges from doom-folk meanderings to goof rock noodling, from straight up noise worship to garage rock, from wild experimental rock to pretty (if depressive) lo-fi pop — we are not kidding, and we’re also just talking about one LP: December’s rad Nervous McGervous. Following up the excellent Two EP, released in February 2016, The Freebiez dropped the awesomely-titled Nervous McGervous and promptly hit the road to spread its strange and dark gospel. Watch for more unholy badassery from these guys in 2017, and get yourself to one of The Freebiez's punishing live shows with the quickness.

We Leave at Midnight

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of 20 acts that you'll want to start paying close attention to immediately. Choices were made based on recent, notable activity (especially the release of new music) and anticipated activity in 2017. To be sure, this list could have easily been at least twice as long, in a city so packed with diverse talent. But, as it stands, we're pretty proud to submit this list of worthy artists, as a fine (at least initial) representation of the best of what San Antonio music has to offer. By the way, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the fact that you can catch damn-near all of these folks at Paper Tiger's Free

Seven years into its existence as a band, We Leave at Midnight (WLAM) has been one of the most inventive bands in San Antonio for a minute now. While the group, led by mad pop genius and tempo change enthusiast John Dailey, hasn’t gigged with much frequency of late, WLAM celebrated the triumphant release of its second LP back in December. The LP, The Holy Rolling Flower Band, demonstrates marked growth for the group’s gently psychedelic, endlessly inventive, and complex sound. You’ll want to be on the lookout for a chance to hear WLAM play this thing live in the new year.

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Islands & Tigers

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One of the most fun bands in town to catch live, Islands & Tigers serves up some seriously catchy and gnarly grunge pop, with a punk attitude and an occasionally melodramatic flair. Last year's superb, self-titled release collected the best songs from a number of EPs that the young band has already put out (since forming in 2012). While the album perfectly highlights the band’s great potential, high energy, and lead man Bobby Rivas’ knack for writing engaging and memorable songs, it also acts as a sort of summation of Islands & Tigers work to date, clearing the way for new stuff in the new year.

While White Elefant — the local indie rock four-piece led by singer-songwriter Josh Mathis — had a quiet 2016, due to an unplanned hiatus resulting from essentially losing bassist Cass Grady to more pressing demands, we can expect that to change in 2017. The sharp and consistently interesting indie post-grunge group has found a new bassist in The Rosedale Highs’ Dustin Olinick. Mathis told the Current that the band will be playing more shows soon and is even (slowly) back at work on new material to follow up 2014’s understated gem of an LP Nights & Weekends.

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FEATURE

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CLOCKWISE: MORE EAZE, THE FREEBIEZ LONELY HORSE

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Lonely Horse lonely-horse.bandcamp.com

High octane spirit-rock duo Lonely Horse has had a bumpy yet charmed ride. In the last three years, the band has released two staggeringly good LPs (and one EP) of its bluesy, fiery, and propulsive brand of garage rock and rocked a slew of off-the-hinges shows. Lonely Horse has also recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in West Texas, been courted by major labels, been fucked over by a glad-handing industry would-be or two, and generally held it together miraculously in the face of disappointment and unplanned restarts. This year will see the band free of previous obligations and back to focusing on continuing to perfect its singular sound.

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy

More Eaze

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (TGLH) is an experimental metal band for people who don’t like metal. But, TGLH, perhaps the loudest band in town, is also for metal lovers, so don’t get it twisted. Essentially the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter/composer James Woodard, the band makes droning, ambient and artful sludge that brandishes raw power and surprising subtlety at once. TGLH’s last release was in 2014, the group’s masterful sophomore album All Sadness, Grinning into Flow, but, in addition to touring nationally, the band plays local shows regularly. Woodard told the Current that 2017 will see a few split releases, plus some other goodies, from the group.

Alright, alright... We know damn well that San Antonio singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Marcus Rubio—who is currently recording and performing (sometimes accompanied) as More Eaze — lives in Austin now. He moved there a couple years back, after finishing up a Master’s Degree in Music Composition at California Institute of the Arts. But, Rubio still performs here frequently and works with a variety of local organizations and artists, so we think its fair for us to go on claiming the insanely prolific artist, who works in styles as seemingly disparate as long-form drone, folk-pop, orchestral indie rock, deconstructed R&B, experimental electronic, and sound collage, just to name a few. He released no less than three odd, lingering and excellent albums in 2016, and 2017 is already looking even busier for Rubio, who mentioned to the Current that as many as nine new releases may see daylight this year.

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If you were paying attention to San Antonio music from the midaughts onward, chances are you took note of Chris Maddin. The lead singer and principal songwriter in the now-defunct cinematic indie-rock band Blowing Trees, who has also released one excellent solo album ( The Tiago Splitters ) and two albums of solid electro-singer-songwriter stuff (as FILMSTRIPS), Maddin’s knack for writing memorable, inventive, and deceptively simple songs, his electric stage charisma, and his huge honey-hued voice set him apart from many of his peers. After a few years of relative inactivity, Maddin will return with a solo album (called Sterequiem ) in 2017.

Alyson Alonzo alysonalonzo.bandcamp.com

Alyson Alonzo, who helms the illusive, big soul band Sugar Skulls and works solo on some next level R&B shit, is one of the biggest talents in town. Her voice alone, with its range, power, warmth and tremendous gift for movement, would be argument enough to prove this statement true. But, Alonzo’s winning persona, brash and vulnerable all at once, and the way it shines through in her songwriting and her performance presence, is also a part of what makes her great. Updates on new music are few and far between, though Alonzo performs fairly often and has made reference to solo and Sugar Skulls recording sessions. So, we’ll just have to wait and see and be content to catch her at Youth Orchestra of San Antonio’s sure-to-be-awesome Purple Rain Live show (March 13 at The Tobin Center).

Third Root

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Look: Third Root is the best hip-hop act in San Anto. Pure and simple. Rappers Easy Lee and Mexican Stepgrandfather (who’s also an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio) ride gritty and world music-infused beats from DJ Chicken George with a hip-hop alacrity and message-centered tenacity that puts them in a category of their own. The group’s finest work Libertad, released in October 2016, is a great distillation of Third Root’s sound, politics and penchant for making good music at the intersection of the two. The year ahead should see more live shows from the woke trio, which means more chances to witness just how powerful real hip-hop can be.

Mockingbird Express mockingbirdexpress.bandcamp.com

Mockingbird Express is the far-out, throwback psych-rock project from longtime SA musician and champion of psychedelia Marc Smith. The three piece has already built up something of a buzz around itself for its unhinged and trance-inducing live shows, full to bursting with musical invention and the wild magic of improvisation. Now, with work on its debut album coming to a close, the group has slowly started to reveal what its recorded incarnation will sound like. And, it is glorious, indulgent, sticky, garage-psych with spiritual tones and vibrations culled from the eternal frequency. Be on the look out for the full record in 2017.

Volcán

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Volcán is a young, contemporary, indie orquesta Latina, comprised of 13 members all rallying around dazzling lead singer Jose Huizar and principal songwriter Jaime Mejia. The group’s sound is kinetic as hell, combining elements of cumbia, Latin pop, jazzy big brass, Chicano rock, and indie rock for an arresting amalgamation that works far better than it seems like it might. While the group’s sizzling debut EP, Ritmo, Cultura y Amor, will delight you, our recommendation is that you catch Volcán live, when the band’s brilliance is on full display, if you’re looking to become an instant devotee.

Something Fiction somethingfiction.bandcamp.com

Experimental-electro/shamanwave act Something Fiction, led by producer/songwriter Matt Humble, has forged a truly unique and ever-blossoming sound for itself, over the course of a few EPs and two singles. The somewhat hermetic group has been busy of late running Timewheel, the label they founded, and laying the groundwork for an exciting 2017. While details have been slow to emerge (being cryptic is a part of the act’s mystical bent), Something Fiction is finishing up work on a new album, due sometime in the spring, and planning to play more live shows. sacurrent.com • January 4-10, 2017 • CURRENT 19

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Fea

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Riot grrrl revivalist crew and Chicana power punk posse Fea, helmed by Girl in a Coma members Phanie Diaz and Jenn Alva, released its scorching debut last summer, to wide acclaim. Naturally, the group’s sound immediately caught hold in San Antonio, since the music seems to have the city in its very DNA, but the four-piece, who has already been touring nationally, has also won over fans and music critics around the country. Fea’s song “Tragedias” was even named a Top Song of 2016 by NPR. With Girl in a Coma still waiting in the wings while band leader Nina Diaz tours her rad solo album, expect more chances to catch Fea and maybe even more new music in 2017.

You don’t have to be stoned at all to enjoy the party-punk/grunge-pop stylings of young SA band Junkie — but we’d imagine it certainly wouldn’t hurt. The group has released quite a smattering of instantly enjoyable music in a pretty short time, culminating with 2016’s W/E, the band’s most fully realized effort, and there’s no indication the guys will be hitting the brakes anytime soon. In fact, Junkie has already announced plans to released a new LP, entitled FELIZ, this spring. Just try to keep up. And, nevermind all that talk about how weed kills your productivity.

Filthy

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There’s a remarkable balancing act that happens in the music of noise-punk outfit Filthy, one of the best new SA bands to emerge over the last few years. While there’s an unsettling and jarring aspect to the band’s tunes, there’s also an almost pretty and beautifully eerie pop element to them. This balancing act makes for music that maintains a kind of taut raptness from the listener, who rightly expects that, especially in the live setting, anything could happen around the next corner. Check out 2016’s excellent, if criminally brief, Cure It EP and make it your business to follow Filthy this year.

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CLOCKWISE: THIRD ROOT, PIÑATA PROTEST, WAYNE HOLTZ

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A longtime local favorite, Alvaro Del Norte’s furious, accordion-anchored, Tex-Mex-punk band Piñata Protest (PP) has slowly gained the attention of a much larger national and international audience. And, in the type of political and social climate we are living in these days, it’s easy to see why people might be thirsty for aggressive music with powerful cultural touchstones and progressive rage aplenty. The band hasn’t released any new albums since 2013’s star-making El Valiente, but, with the national spotlight on, as PP continues its tour with extreme metal favorite Brujeria, the time is certainly ripe to be hearing a lot more from Del Norte and company.

Wayne Holtz wayneholtz.bandcamp.com

Wayne Holtz is out there. And, we mean that both as an expression of his truly individual and over the top sense of style and his uncanny penchant for literally seeming to be everywhere in 2016. As a social gadfly and style icon, Holtz is pure, unmatched fabulousness. As it turns out, he’s also a delightful songwriter and performer, with a sugary and doomy 1980s sound to his high-drama songs. In the live setting, Holtz offers an event and not just a show, but even on record, the songs on his 2016 debut Post-Plexi feel quite alive and of the moment, despite stylistic nods to bygone times. sacurrent.com • January 4-10, 2017 • CURRENT 21

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◀ Established in 2013 with a mission to advance voices of tolerance, equality and diversity, DreamWeek is a citywide summit filled with discussions, screenings, concerts, exhibits and mixers rooted in 12 key topics: city, sports, cuisine, health, environment, technology, education, arts, youth, spirit, justice and business. Spread across 15 days and anchored by the Martin Luther King Jr. March on January 16, the fifth annual observance kicks off this week with an array of early highlights — including a reception for local artist Veronica Castillo’s “Trees of Life” exhibit (free, 6pm Wed, Forest Hills Library, 5245 Ingram Road); a talk between artists Robert Langham III and Casey James Wilson about the works they contributed to the group show “Hold Still” (free, 6pm Thu, Blue Star Contemporary, 116 Blue Star); “Foreign by Land, Native by Heart,” an exhibit examining the refugee experience from the perspective of four San Antonio-based families who fled their homes in Malaysia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran ($8-$10, 9am-5pm Fri, Institute of Texan Cultures, 801 E. César

E. Chávez Blvd.); Delta Rho Lambda Chapter (of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.) and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s interactive panel discussion “The Election is Over, Now What?” (free, 4-6pm Sat, New Creation Christian Fellowship, 700 Fourwinds Drive); a reading from Anne Moody’s autobiography Coming of Age in the Mississippi (free, noon-2pm Sat, Carver Branch Library, 3550 E. Commerce St.); the opening of BritishNigerian photographer Juliana Kasumu’s solo show “From Moussor to Tignon: The Evolution of the Head-Tie” (free, 5-7pm Sat, Musical Bridges Around the World Gallery, 23705 I-10 W.); keepHer San Antonio’s community-building discussion “keepHer Dream Alive: Celebrating the Long Legacy of Women of Color (free, 2:30pm Sat, Launch SA Auditorium, 600 Soledad St.); and an LGBT & Ally Safe Zone Training session led by Pride Center San Antonio (free, 11am-3pm Sat, Westfall Branch Library, 6111 Rosedale Ct.). For a complete schedule of DreamWeek events, visit dreamweek.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

▶ Beyond offering early exposure to the steady stream of students emerging from UTSA’s department of art and art history, the university’s offsite Terminal 136 occasionally showcases the work of faculty members — some of whom are nationally (and even internationally) recognized artists. Kicking off its 2017 programming on a promising note, the Blue Star outpost’s two-man THU-FRI show “Locations” pairs assistant professors Buster Graybill and Humberto Saenz. Employing sculpture, installation, video and photography as “an all-terrain vehicle to traverse the rural landscape and reconnect with often-overlooked places,” Graybill made a splash back in 2010 with his Artpace exhibition “Tush Hog” (which involved sculptural hog feeders that were released on a ranch and monitored with infrared cameras) and recently took over Sala Diaz with a solo show exploring “the conceptual potential of objects and materials often tucked away in garages, found on the shelves of sporting goods stores or loaded on the bed of a truck for a weekend vacation.” A widely exhibited artist specializing in printmaking, Saenz creates work designed to “empower the viewer with knowledge about immigration issues which have affected and segregated Mexican immigrant communities.” Often addressing contemporary immigrant issues, the objectification of minorities and the appropriation of mythological stories, his prints have depicted reimagined pre-Columbian themes and scenes, along with the “piñatafication” of familiar figures. Free, 6-9pm Thu-Fri, Terminal 136, 136 Blue Star, (210) 458-4391, art.utsa.edu. — BR

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‘17 Pelicans Along the Banks When I’m 64’ ◀ For even casual followers of the local art scene, a new exhibition by James Cobb is something to get excited about. Since the mid-1980s, Cobb has notched over 25 solo exhibitions and experimented wildly, with a creative abandon and pesky curiosity that makes him truly magnetic, in the realms of painting, drawing, digital media and music. His restlessness is an abundant and odd territory of generous fertility — whereas, for so many, restlessness just leads around in circles. For his new exhibit at FL!GHT, which collects work from the

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◀ Mad caricaturist extraordinaire Mort Drucker famously captured the essence of his subjects by focusing as much on details like their posture, hands, the spaces between their eyebrows, etc., as he did their facial features. That eye for minutiae was what differentiated his classic movie parody illustrations from street-fair souvenirs. And so it is with Mad TV alum Pablo Francisco, whose best-known bit as a stand-up comic is an impression of the movie-preview guy, a voice so popular with comics that odds are good it’s being imitated at an open mic somewhere while you’re reading this sentence. Francisco might be the only comic, however, to take the voice out of the context of a movie preview and put it into daily life, vividly illustrating its ridiculousness in a high-energy vivisection. Everybody’s got an Ahhnold Schwarzenegger impression, but hardly anybody thinks to imitate the way he blinks. $20, 8:30pm Thu, 8pm & 10:15pm FriSat, Improv San Antonio Rivercenter, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 229-1420, rivercentercomedyclub.com. — Jeremy Martin

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past two years, details are somewhat scarce. What we do know is that the exhibit, titled “17 Pelicans Along the Banks When I’m 64,” combines three distinct (though not necessarily separate) bodies of work, all of which veer to the realms of surreal geometry, digital layering, dense symbolism and rich colors/textures. Some of the initial images are truly stunning. And, with Cobb, we’d be remiss not to also expect some surprises. Free, 6-9pm Thu-Fri, FL!GHT Gallery, 134 Blue Star, (210) 872-2586, facebook.com/flightsa. — James Courtney

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◀ Back at least as far as her 2013 solo exhibit “Interludes,” artist and educator Anabel Toribio-Martinez has been concerned with exploring intimacy (or lack thereof) and communication (or its breakdown) within domestic spaces, often depicting subjects as too distracted or preoccupied to experience anything approaching domestic bliss. In her latest exhibit, “Disquiet,” Toribio-Martinez comes at unease and disaffection in a more abstract way, removing her subjects from the implicationladen context of home life. In fact, the new series often removes subjects from all contexts, seeking instead to depict outward manifestations of inner struggles and epiphanies. Free, 7-10pm, Rubio Gallery–South, Southtown Flats, 111 Probandt St., (210) 793-8899, facebook.com/rubiogallerysouth. — JC

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◀ Carra Garza and Kari Englehardt are San Antonio-based artists who share a studio and a common interest in the melding of natural and non-natural elements. Speaking of their latest work, Englehardt described the inspiration as “a cataloguing and visual appreciation of the tiny meadow we created in front of our studio.” While Garza begins with lumens, a type of camera-less photography that uses sunlight to transfer an image to a surface, and Englehardt begins with ink and rust relief prints, both artists arrive at an encaustic process, wherein layers of wax are smoothed over

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◀ Far from an astrological icebreaker, Galveston-born Bill Engvall’s signature bit “Here’s Your Sign” (from his platinum-selling comedy album of the same name) suggests a system for clearly labeling people so you know instantly whether you want to talk to them, and fittingly few comics can boast so clear of a connection between their list of credits and the content of their comedic character. Whether you’re looking at his biggest successes — the “Here’s Your Sign” hit single featuring Travis Tritt, the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” and sketch show, his own self-titled sitcom — or one of his earliest TV appearances

playing Blanche Devereaux’s son on a short-lived Golden Girls spinoff, what you see is what you’re gonna get. Engvall seems to’ve strayed furthest from his specific wheelhouse when he cut a fourth-place-finishing rug on Dancing With the Stars, and our bet is you could tell just by watching him tango whether you’ll think he’s funny or not. Much like Tony Danza, Engvall is rarely seen on TV playing a character with a different first name. His own sign would most definitely just read “Bill.” $45-$90, 7pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 2238624, tobincenter.org. — JM

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▲ This weekend, the Briscoe Western Art Museum kicks off an exciting new program entitled Sounds of the West: Music Salon Series. The series seeks to illuminate the rich cultural history of the old (and not so old) West through song and the exploration of various aspects of songcraft. For its opening number, Sounds of the West offers “Settling the West in American Popular Songs,” to be presented by music scholar Michael Lasser with some assists from vocalist/pianist Alan Jones and vocalist Cindy Miller. The show, which should make for a unique afternoon combining history, art and music, specifically centers on “popular songs about the West from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century.” Free, 3pm, Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499, briscoemuseum.org. — JC

▶ Heading into the New Year, the San Antonio Spurs find themselves in a familiar position, chasing the Golden State Warriors for the best record in the NBA. While neither team is currently matching last season’s torrid pace, which yielded historic albeit disappointing results for each franchise, 2017 brings the promise of another title. After losing out on the league’s All-Star Game due to anti-LGBT state legislation, the Charlotte Hornets have been one of the surprises in the Eastern Conference. Bolstered by a starting backcourt featuring Kemba Walker and Nicolas Batum, Charlotte boasts a top-10 defense, and is primed for a return to the postseason. Following their first-round exit in last year’s playoffs, the upstart Hornets will be looking to test their mettle against an elite opponent. $30-$1,600, 7:30pm, AT&T Center, One AT&T Center Pkwy., (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com. — M. Solis

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the piece, giving it the depth of an oil painting. Englehardt’s prints are intensities, filled with shifting color and bold shapes, reflecting the rusted metal canvas underneath. Garza’s photographs are shadowy yet light, exemplifying an elegance through the wisping flowers and plants she uses to create line, form and contrast. Describing her work, while also conveying the catalyst for their collaborative exhibition “Rooted,” Garza explained, “It is the essence of a wildflower.” Free, 6-9pm, REM Gallery, 219 E. Park Ave., (210) 224-1227, remgallery.com. — Zephyrine Parten

‘Let Me Introduce Myself’

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▼ Founded in the summer of 2013 by certified Master Reuser Mary Elizabeth Cantu and collaborator/educator Gabriela Santiago, the Spare Parts Mini Art Museum functions as a mobile art gallery that showcases wee works of art (most measure 4” x 4” or smaller) in maquette-type displays that employ hardcover books or binders as “museum” walls. Having collaborated with guest curators, celebrated local artists and most recently Los Angeles-based artist and activist Mario Ybarra Jr. (on the traveling exhibition “Chicos Pero Locos”), the award-winning museum continues its commendable outreach efforts with “Let Me Introduce Myself,” an exhibit showcasing residents of the Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center. Uniting young artists Amador, Britney, Damien, Daniel, Isaiah, Jason, Jose, Marcellus, Terrance, Xavery and enrichment coordinator Ms. Maupin, the show packs big themes into small packages, exploring everything from faith and freedom to gender and geography. As with all MAM offerings, magnifying glasses will be provided to enhance the viewing experience. Free, 4-5:30pm, Andy Mireles Juvenile Probation Center (public waiting area), 301 E. Mitchell St., miniartmuseum.org. — BR sacurrent.com • January 4-10, 2017 • CURRENT 25

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ART Art opening: “Perception” Presenting

works that are “slightly different from what they usually show,” photographer George Krause, multimedia artist Bonnie Maygarden, holographer August Muth and photographer Ansen Seale examine how our perceptions of reality can become twisted or challenged. Free, 6:30-9pm Thursday, Cinnabar, 1420 S. Alamo St., Suite 147, (210) 557-6073.

Art Fit: Art + Exercise Explore SAMA’s

galleries, then switch gears with kettlebell exercises and a run down the river led by professional coaches from Run Wild Sports. Free, 6-7pm Tuesday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

”Jive Town” A man of many wild, weird

and wonderful hats, Agosto Cuellar has won over fans as a fashion designer, the producer/curator behind Runway en la Calle, a refreshingly fun DJ and proprietor of Jive Refried — a bygone emporium he’s described as “a labor of love that encompassed everything I found beautiful: contemporary art, vintage clothing, DIY creations, curios and home décor.” Aiming to recreate some of the strange magic of Jive Refried, Cuellar’s new exhibition “Jive Town” takes shape in a six-week installation organized by Alejandro Diaz, the San Antonio-born, New York-based founder of Sala Diaz. Free, 3-7pm Thursday-Saturday; Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047.

”Our Comida. Our Culture” A creative

exploration of San Antonio’s long tradition of Mexican, Mexican-American and Tex-Mex food culture, Centro de Artes’ new group exhibition “Our Comida. Our Culture” features photographs, paintings and other two-dimensional works created by artists Rolando Briseño, David Casillas, Chuck Ramirez, Jimena Marin, Destiny Mata, Arlene Mejorado and Mark Menjivar. Free, 11am-6pm Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-6pm Tuesday; Centro de Artes, 101 S. Santa Rosa Ave., (210) 207-4526.

”Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography” Organized by René Paul

Barilleaux, the large-scale photography survey “Telling Tales” comprises 50-plus images by 17 revered photographers, including such contemporary masters as Nan Goldin, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Jeff Wall. Encompassing purism and digital manipulation alike, the assembled photographs construct suspended stories that address everything from class differences and marginalized communities to social justice and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. $15-$20, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

Winter Exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary Blue Star Contemporary’s

winter exhibitions include “Hold Still,” a photography exhibit by Robert Langham III and Casey James Wilson that flips mundane artifacts of daily life in Texas into objects of mass (and personal) significance; “Beneath Metropolis,” a group show featuring national and international artists who have contributed work that encapsulates the multi-varied emotional responses to city living; “Flexible Foundations,” an exhibit of work by BSC Berlin Residency alum Leigh Anne Lester that takes an artful, mixed-media look at genetic modification; and “Reclaimed by Nature,” a group show curated by Claudia Arozqueta that ruminates on the important and fraught relationship between humans and the natural world. $3-$5 (free on First Thursday and First Friday), noon-8pm Thursday, noon-9pm Friday, noon-6pm Saturday-Sunday; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, 116 Blue Star, (210) 227-6960.

FILM Amadeus In conjunction with the San Antonio

Symphony’s Mozart Festival, Texas Public Radio hosts a special Cinema Tuesdays screening of the three-hour Director’s Cut of Miloš Forman’s 1984 Oscar winner Amadeus, starring Tom Hulce as 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as his rival Antonio Salieri. $10-$15 in advance from tpr.org, 7pm Tuesday; Santikos Palladium, 17703 I-10 W., (210) 496-2221.

WORDS ArtFULL Wednesdays: Short Story Study English professor Coleen Grissom sheds light on American author and poet Raymond Carver’s classic short story “A Small, Good Thing,” from the collection Cathedral. $15-$20, noon-1pm Wednesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

Wendy Barker & Sarah Cortez The Twig

hosts a reading with award-winning poets Wendy Barker (One Blackbird at a Time, Poems from Paradise) and Sarah Cortez (Cold Blue Steel, Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance). Free, 2-4pm Sunday; The Twig Book Shop, 306 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 106, (210) 826-6411.

COMEDY Damien Lemon Boasting a list of credits

that includes Hip Hop Squares, The Amazing Spiderman and Russell Simmons Presents The Ruckus, New York-based stand-up, social commentator and “professional shit talker” Damien Lemon delivers material “from nowhere and everywhere” with a flair that’s been described as an “all-inclusive bug-out session.” $16, 8pm Thursday, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 7pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805.

TALKS PLUS 210|West Gallery Talk: “Near Death Experiences and the Ex Voto” Ex votos

— objects left as offerings to a religious saint or deity in fulfillment of a vow — are often a manifestation of gratitude for a life-saving act. Focusing on examples from the museum’s collection, the Briscoe invites attendees to investigate the stories and symbolism behind these Mexican folk art paintings. Free, 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499.

SPECIAL EVENTS Imaging USA Expo Dating back to 1880,

Imaging USA is hailed as “the longest-running national photographic convention, expo and image exhibition in the United States.” Set to bring together more than 10,000 industry pros, the 2017 program includes three trade show days, parties, presentations and an array of classes covering business skills, photographic repertoire and technologies. Using the promo code sanan17, members of the general public can obtain a free Imaging USA Expo Pass, which grants access to both the “International Photographic Exhibit” (featuring thousands of award-winning images) and The Drone Zone (offering classes on the ins and outs of drone photography). $35-$399 (use promo code sanan17 for a free Imaging USA Expo Pass), 11:30am-5pm Sunday-Monday, 11:30am-3:30pm Tuesday; Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 900 E. Market St., (800) 786-6277.

Public Hike Friends of San Antonio Natural

Areas kick off 2017 with a two-hour fitness hike covering approximately 3 miles of picturesque trails across canyon tops

and through meadows and woodlands. Suggested donation of $3 per person, $6 per family (registration required at fosana. org), 10am-noon Saturday; Friedrich Wilderness Park, 21395 Milsa Drive, (210) 207-3782.

San Antonio Coffee Festival A celebration of all things coffee, this annual festival with workshops and live entertainment invites attendees to learn about coffee, taste locally roasted coffees from all over the world, meet local coffee artisans and “appreciate the many people who pilot a coffee bean from crop to cup.” Free, 10am-5pm Saturday; La Villita, 418 Villita St., (210) 207-8614.

South Texas RV Supersale Beyond

showcasing toy hauler units, traditional fifth wheels, travel trailers, tent trailers, motor homes, motor coaches and camper vans, this expo and sale offers a variety of seminars on RV ownership along with insight from industry leaders. $12, 10am-6pm Thursday, 10am-8pm FridaySaturday, 10am-6pm Sunday; Freeman Coliseum Expo Hall, 3201 E. Houston St., (512) 327-4514.

LGBT The Prince and Princess Ball The nonprofit Royal, Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Alamo Empire welcomes Princes and Princesses of the International Court System of Texas for a charitable evening of performances following the theme “United We Stand.” $3-$10, 9pm-midnight Saturday; Silver Dollar Saloon, 1814 N. Main Ave., (210) 550-9975.

DANCE Dance in the Park! San Antonio Dance

Umbrella (SADU) and Yanaguana Gardens’ First Friday collaboration continues with an evening of performances and free dance lessons covering a variety of styles. Free, 6:30-9pm Friday; Hemisfair, Yanaguana Gardens, 434 S. Alamo St., (210) 212-6600.

SPORTS San Antonio Sports All-Star Football Game An annual tradition for 39 years and

counting, the San Antonio Sports All-Star Football Game brings together more than 100 seniors representing 56 San Antonio area high schools. Presented by H-E-B and broadcast on The CW 35 and ESPN Radio, the game takes over the Alamodome after the U.S. Army All-American Bowl (broadcast on NBC). $20, 5pm Saturday; Alamodome, 100 Montana St., (210) 207-3663.

San Antonio Spurs vs. Charlotte Hornets $37-$1600, 7:30pm Saturday; AT&T Center, One AT&T Center, (210) 444-5000.

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Autor desconocido, Frida y Diego conversando en la Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, 1943

Autor desconocido, Diego Rivera con Frida Kahlo en una manifestación del Socorro Rojo, Ciudad de México, noviembre 20 de 1931

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Guillermo Kahlo lamented “an elephant married a dove” after the 1929 wedding of his 20-something daughter, Frida, to the famous Mexican artist and womanizer Diego Rivera, almost twice her age. But he also warned the groom that she was “un demonio,” a devil. “Tempestuous” is a barely adequate description of their rocky relationship marked by separations, divorce, remarriage and a celebrity life in the world’s spotlight long before reality TV. Rivera had many affairs, including Frida’s younger sister and Hollywood star Paulette Goddard, while she responded with affairs of her own, including the Communist leader Leon Trotsky and numerous women. To a friend, Frida admitted, “I have suffered two serious accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar ran over me … The other accident is Diego.” Icons, legends and role models for generations of politically active artists, “Diego y Frida: A Smile in the Middle of the Way” spans the lives of Mexico’s best-known aesthetic provocateurs through the eyes of family, friends, admirers and photojournalists. The nearly 100 black-andwhite photographs are on view through January 29 at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Hemisfair. A German Jew of Hungarian descent, Frida’s father, a professional photographer, married a part-Indian and devoutCatholic Mexican woman. He took Frida’s portrait as a young girl in a frilly dress. Shortly before her birth in Coyoacán outside Mexico City, he built the family home, Casa Azul, which serves as the backdrop for many of the photographs. It’s now the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, where this exhibit originated in 2002.

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Autor desconocido, Diego firma el acta del segundo matrimonio con Frida, San Francisco, California, E.U.A., 8 de diciembre de 1940

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Juan Guzmán retrata a Frida y Diego ante el mural Pesadilla de Guerra y Sueño de Paz, Palacio de Bellas Artes, ciudad de México, 1952

Her right leg shriveled by polio when she was six, Frida was in a bus/ streetcar accident when she was 18 that caused her pain for the rest of her life. The nationalism of the Mexican Revolution inspired her to wear native Mexican costumes, but even after it became unfashionable, she continued to wear the long, flowing dresses to hide her thin leg and orthopedic shoe. Beginning with their wedding day portrait by Ernesto Reyes, the press obviously loved the dramatic image she created — a dark, slender beauty in exotic Mexican dresses and elaborate jewelry standing next to her towering husband in rumpled suit and broad-brimmed hat. In photos from the early 1920s taken by Enrique Díaz and Augustín Victor Casaola, the couple leads protest marches on behalf of the Union of Revolutionary Sculptors, Painters and Engravers. And in her last public appearance on July 2, 1954, a pale, sickly Frida participated in a rally protesting the United States’ intervention in the overthrow of Guatemala’s leftist president. Beside

the Mexican artist Juan O’Gorman, Frida sits in her wheelchair and holds a placard declaring, “Por la paz,” for peace. On her first trip out of Mexico in 1930, Frida accompanied Diego to San Francisco, where he was commissioned to paint two murals at the Pacific Stock Exchange Luncheon Club and the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). Edward Weston and Ansel Adams were among the famous American photographers enraptured by the famous couple. There’s also a shot of the pair taken two days after Diego’s mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York was yanked because it included a portrait of Lenin. The most beautiful portraits of Frida were taken by one of her lovers, Nickolas Muray, a well-known Hungarian photographer. After breaking off their affair, he wrote, “Of the three of us there was only two of you. I always felt that. Your tears told me that when you heard his voice. The one of me is eternally grateful for the happiness that the half of you so generously gave.”

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a fantastical character. Or perhaps it’s not so much immense talent, especially in his use of imagery and concoction as mystical intervention. art direction, compared to Weaver, who is miscast. Director J.A. Bayona has dealt with loss and grief Lacking the requisite English air and vocal pattern in mother-son relationships before, in The Orphanage (though her basic sounds are OK), she is also and The Impossible. A Monster Calls is not quite as physically wrong for the grandmotherly part. (Replace strong as those, but it’s close – and just as deep. her with Judi Dench or Fionnula Flanagan, and you’d Particularly memorable is the way Bayona and writer really have a film!) Kebbell is also unimpressive, but, Patrick Ness (who based the screenplay on his 2011 thankfully, Neeson, Jones and Lewis MacDougall novel) balance fantasy and reality while blending (Conor) are asked to do most of the heavy lifting, and traditional fables with modern truths. The merger of they are all up to the task, especially Jones, who is animation styles is even more impressive, with CGI becoming an acting powerhouse. (And watch carefully working alongside traditional 2-D watercolors, the for a brief appearance by Geraldine Chaplin.) latter being used to bring alive two of the three fables The film has some scary moments befitting its that the giant imparts to Conor. (Those fables tackle mature themes. One would expect no less from the topics ranging from adhering to one’s principles to the director of The Orphanage. But if Guillermo del Toro’s ambiguity of good and evil.) Pan’s Labyrinth was a fairy tale strictly for adults, A The film’s weaknesses lie in its Monster Calls is one that both adults and brave performances, pacing and the children over, say, 10 years of age should sense that Bayona, who is see, despite the PG-13 rating. Spanish, can’t quite capture Most movie creatures are better left A MONSTER CALLS the story’s peculiarly English alone. But this is one monster call you Opens Friday, Jan. 6 sensibility. Still, Bayona shows should answer.

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I don’t want to bury the lede: I really like Max & Louie’s. But if you indulge me in a bit of selfexploration, I want to try and get to the bottom of why. Maybe it’s my fascination with New York City as this glitzy, whirlwind place. Maybe I’m into crowded eateries that boast stacks of meats sandwiched between slices of rye. Maybe it’s my love of Norah Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally and my secret desire to recreate that diner scene one day. Maybe it’s about damn time San Antonio finally received a diner for food lovers that want legit pastrami and lox. Maybe, as NYC’s Carnegie Deli closes this month after 80 years of business, I’m just looking for comforting, reassuring nostalgia. Maybe it’s just plain good. Opened by native New Yorker, Drew Glick and business partner Ron Acosta of Las Palapas fame, Max & Louie’s is a homage to east coast diner traditions. North side foodies might recognize Glick from his previous effort, Drew’s American Grill inside the former Brasserie Pavil. Unlike that spot, which seems to be cursed for restaurants that continuously try to open and end up ultimately failing, Max & Louie’s has charm and staying power. Styled as a tried and true diner, Max & Louie’s holds a sprawling, but tight dining room, with tables, booths and counter seating. There’s a smattering of neon, with namesakes Louie Glick and Max Braverman (Glick’s paternal grandfather and great uncle, respectively) commanding attention from their yellow cartoony perch. Both were businessmen, Glick was a butcher, and through this eatery, Glick (the grandson) is paying his respects to traditions past. My objective during my first visit a few weeks after their opening was getting my hands on a bagel and lox platter, which meant combing through an overwhelmingly long menu. Still, was I trying to recreate a breakfast at Russ

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& Daughter’s? Yes, obviously. And the smoked salmon delivered (Glick ships it in from Brooklyn daily). My friend ordered the fluffy challah French toast (arguably the only bread that should be used for this breakfast classic) and we happily noshed on a black and white cookie (a NYC staple) on the drive back to the office. Later visits had more of the same. Be prepared for a wait during lunchtime, as north siders have understandably taken a liking to this joint. For this lunch, I ordered the Matzo ball soup and was pleasantly surprised with the offering. A large, soft Matzo ball took up most of the bowl the delicate broth contained the perfect amount of large-chop onions, tender — not mushy — carrots and celery, along with roasted chicken. I’ll definitely be back for that. And my Reuben brought back memories of yes, Carnegie Deli, but also Drew’s American Grill in its heyday. Here’s a sizable tower of hot pastrami, bright sauerkraut, Swiss and Thousand Island dressing all snuggled into fresh rye that can hold its own and not leave you with a delicious mess. The cheese blintzes (or farmer and cottage cheese-stuffed and folded crepes), though a bit sweeter than I’m used to, kept my sweet tooth sated. I didn’t reach for another black and white cookie. Maybe next time. I should also note, the back of Glick’s head was the only glimpse I caught of the co-owner, as he spent the entire lunch hour expediting plates from the kitchen window. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention breakfast, served 7:30 to 11 a.m. The French toast is a must, though you should ask for crispier potatoes in the hash and eggs (which comes with corned beef and pastrami). Spring for the Brooklyn egg cream milkshake with milk, carbonated water, chocolate syrup — no eggs or cream are actually used — and let that 1800s NYC feel settle in. Because Max & Louie’s.

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> With just five weeks under its belt, Tacoart has closed its doors. The restaurant concept launched by owner Adriana Llano in place of Urban Taco (which she brought to San Antonio) first opened its doors on November 19 at the The Quarry Village. In a letter to customers released on Monday, December 26, Llano briefly explained the sudden closing as having “fallen short of [their] projections.” Having stopped by for the soft opening, I had only one more visit to Tacoart before this closing. Regardless of the conditions for their closing, the food was good and will be missed by those who had a chance to try it. The pila blanca taco with poblano peppers, Oaxaca cheese, corn and pepitas was an early favorite of mine I’ll have to recreate at home.

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> Taco Palenque, which opened a second location in late August, has added a mobile kitchen to help keep its foothold in SA. Originally from Laredo, Texas, the fast-casual Mexican eatery is known for its tacos piratas, caseros, Matamoros or al pastor as well as its fideo and chip and salsa bar. The truck will park outside of Palenque

Grill’s (also under the Taco Palenque umbrella) original location at 389 N. Loop 1604 W. The truck will carry a similar menu as its brick-andmortar counterparts, and will also include a new Guerita taco, which combines a quesadilla with al pastor meat. The truck will 5 to 11 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. The truck’s regular hours will run 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily.

Trinity’s Saturday Farmers Market Is Being Discontinued

> In a message posted to their Facebook page, the Trinity Farmers Market announced it is now discontinued. The market, which was first announced in early 2016 was made possible through a grant that is now completed, per the announcement. Though relatively lowkey especially when compared with its Pearl counterpart, the market had a variety of vendors and producers from around the area. Where else could you find Ethiopian food and rice pudding bowls at the same spot? The university shared the following in its message. “The Trinity Market team has now decided to turn its attention inward to the Trinity community to pursue its mission and discontinue the market. The Saturday component was funded by a USDA grant and is now completed. Throughout the year, we’ve

established great partnerships with vendors and the community - we are proud of each of their contributions to the Saturday market days and are looking forward to seeing what the future holds as we turn our efforts to the Trinity internal community.”

▲ You Can Now Find Rise Up Acai in Alamo Heights

> Açaí bowls are so hot right now. And one of SA’s top purveyors of berry-filled and ornately topped bowls has found a new home. Rise Up Açaí, owned by John Farnel, is now operating out of a brick-and-mortar location in Alamo Heights. The new 3,200-square-foot space will allow Farnel and his team to whip up more bowls, cold-pressed juices, and soon coffee (Rise Up will carry Merit Roasting Co. beans) along with food items by Pharm Table and graband-go breakfast options such as vegan kolaches. Hours will remain the same as before (8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday) through New Year’s Eve, but Farnel is hoping to launch earlier morning and later evening hours in the new year. 6401 Broadway, (210) 268-8009. Send food- and nightlife-related events and news to flavor@sacurrent.com.

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With more cocktail bars than ever, San Antonio’s penchant for things shaken and stirred is still going strong. To celebrate that ongoing love affair, this year’s San Antonio Cocktail Conference is making some changes to its signature lineup. For those unfamiliar with the SACC, here’s a quick catch-up: Hosted by Houston Street Charities helmed by executive director Cathy Siegel, downtown SA is flooded with all manners of cocktails for the better part of a week. Paired dinners feature spirit brand representatives combining forces with restaurants such as Lüke San Antonio, Chisme, Botika, Rebelle and The Well, while spirit-fueled parties, such as meat fest at Two Bros. BBQ Market's Bourbon and Barbecue (Tuesday), Opening Night and Waldorf on the Prairie are hosted throughout the city. But changes are afoot, and here’s what to expect. All tickets can be purchased through sanantoniococktailconference.com. Women Shaking It Up: Though technically a part of last year’s lineup, this year’s female-centric soiree will ditch the film aspect for a night of cookie-inspired pairings. Heather Nañez (Bohanan’s), Brooke Smith (Esquire Tavern), Lisa Astorga (Bite), Diana Barrios Treviño (Los Barrios), Laura Loomis (Jason Dady Restaurant Group) and Cariño Cortez (Viva Villa) are pairing dishes with desserts inspired by your favorite Girl Scout cookies such as Do-Si-Dos, Savannah Smiles, Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils and Tag-Alongs. $65, 7:30-10:30pm, January 11,Plaza Juarez at La Villita. Regarding Cocktails: In 2015, the cocktail world lost a visionary with the passing of SACC’s co-founder Sasha Petraske. This year, before the traditional daiquiri toast to the late barman, beverage enthusiasts and pros alike will get a chance to meet his widow Georgette MogerPetraske, who published Regarding Cocktails, a definitive guide to her husband’s repertoire, this October. Books will be available for purchase at Bohanan’s Bar. Admission is free, 2-4pm, January 12, Bohanan’s Bar. Opening Night: Ben Stiller probably won’t make a cameo as hundreds of San Antonio adults tap into their

inner kid at Opening Night’s new venue. After being held at the Majestic Theater for at least three years, the opening festivities will be held inside the DoSeum. Those familiar with the ReDo Recess, the venue’s adult-only evening, can expect more of the same — an air of whimsy (stilt walkers and balloon artists were mentioned) with dozens of cocktails to sample. $85, 7:30-10:30pm, January 12, The DoSeum. Waldorf on the Prairie: Some of the city’s best eateries will converge for a night of luxury, decadence and tipples throughout the St. Anthony’s bottom floor. Friday night’s event means sweets via Choicolate and SA Pops along with savory bites from Noble Sandwich Co., Zinc, Restaurant Gwendolyn, La Frite, Grayze, Jazz, TX, Smoke, Max’s Wine Dive, Rebelle, The Friendly Spot and new addition Sichuan House. Here’s hoping Jason Dady delivers breakfast tacos as the party winds down again. $100, 7:30-10:30pm, January 13, St. Anthony Hotel. Stroll on Houston Street: The entrance for the Stroll has shifted to IBC Plaza on Navarro, but the Houston Street corridor spanning at least two city blocks will feature a live orchestra and pop-up locations throughout. Dress for chic comfort as you’ll want to work your way through bites from The Hoppy

Monk, Boiler House, Sukeban, Il Forno, Folc, Frank and, of course, The Original Hot Dog House. $85, 7:30-10:30pm, January 14, Houston Street. Pop-Up Bars: Based on the success of last year’s pop-ups, cocktail lovers who might not want to commit to a party ticket can still enjoy what SACC has to offer. Stop by on January 12 for a taste of Presidio Chicago, inspired by Presidio of San Francisco and the Bay Area. On January 13, make like Woody Allen and visit Dear Irving, inspired by Midnight in Paris. This sleek speakeasy serves classic cocktails with whimsical and fun twists. No ticket required, 10pm-1am, Studio 109, 109 Travis St. After Hours: Much like this year’s Luminaria, the SACC can’t deny the east side’s appeal. Saturday’s after-party will take on a laid-back vibe at Alamo Beer with draft cocktails, late night snacks and a live band. $50, 10pm-1am, January 14, Alamo Beer, 202 Lamar St. Brunch In Old San Antonio: Like NIOSA but better, and with less drunks. Enjoy a bloody mary or mimosa as you wander the courtyard of the historic Spanish Governor’s Palace. $55, 11am-1pm, January 15, Spanish Governor’s Palace, 105 Plaza de Armas. sacurrent.com • January 4-10, 2017 • CURRENT 37

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Even as 2016, a year full of major losses in the music world, finally settles in the rear view, the healing must go on. In that spirit, 2017 will likely be even more chock full of commemorative/ tribute shows and rock vigils for the array of dearly departed talent. This Friday at Limelight, just such a tribute show will be dedicated to the memory and music of David Bowie. The show, which goes down just two days before what would have been the avant-pop icon’s 70th birthday, will feature performances from The Flying Buttresses, Captain M.A. Zing, Ma & God, and Mount Pressmore. Proceeds from the small cover charge will go to fund cancer research in Bowie’s honor, in the form of a donation to the Cancer Therapy and Research Center. $5, 9:00pm, Limelight, 2718 N St Mary’s St, (210) 735-7775, thelimelightsa.com — JC FRI

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obviously as hot as their name suggests. Their hyper-funky punk-inspired and sometimes psychedelic rock and rollers released an album earlier this year with the help of a new producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, which really brought a cool and refreshing edge to their sound. With lots of uncertainty on the horizon, one thing is for sure: The Red Hot Chili Peppers aren’t making an exit from the limelight anytime soon. With Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jack Irons, 7pm, $51$101, ATT Center, One AT&T Center — Chris Conde

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Crooning lush Appalachian harmonies like the best of them – think Mumford and Sons or Fleet Foxes, here – Mighty Brother is steeped in the life-affirming attitude that courses through NOLA’s French Quarter. The folksy band teases some coffeehouse sensitivity in chiming choruses like “save your sleepless soliloquy,” but cranks up the volume enough in their acoustic ballads to warrant stage time in traditional rock venues. Fresh out of the recording studio, eight-piece group Invision Love shares the stage with Mighty Brother, writing wobbling beats into brassy orchestral numbers. The Hollow Ends (a spooky crew of St. Louis rockers) draw the red curtain on the night with heaps of swelling “oohs” and “aahs.” It’s the perfect musical mix for lovers of everything indie. 8pm, $5, Limelight, 2718 N. Saint Mary’s — Abby Mangel

If you can’t Name That Tune within a couple guitar notes of “Under The Bridge” by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, you either were born after 2010 or have been living under a rock since forever. So if you’re the latter and if you’re reading this, welcome. Shit’s all fucked up out here at the moment but there’s some damn good music to kinda help us through it all, so take heart. With 80 million records sold, six Grammy’s, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2012, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are THU

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The members of Islands & Tigers are still so young that it’s hard to believe that the local grunge-pop outfit has already put out a handful of good albums and has undergone a few lineup changes, but such is the case. Led by singer-songwriter Bobby Rivas, Islands & Tigers’ sound is both sunny and sardonic, with a winking and snarling 1990s obsession and some serious hooks and pop grooves. If the band’s music has always also been adorned with a youthful punk fervor (or naivete), that’s just been another part of the charm of watching Rivas grow through music. Joined by the talented San Marcos, poprock three-piece The Flying Buttresses and Baltimore, Maryland experimental/progressive rock group Cannibal Boom. $5, 8:00pm, Imagine Books and Records, 8373 Culebra Rd, (210) 236-7668, imaginebookstore.com — James Courtney WED

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When one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dwight Yoakam, decides to record music that you’ve written, ya sorta might know a thing or two about song and verse. Growing up in California and checking out blues and rockabilly shows with his brother, Dave Allin has been playing and releasing roots rock-inspired music since the late 1970’s. After stints in several bands through his career the “King of California” would eventually discover solo success as a strong Americana-folk singersongwriter. Spanning multiple genres and releasing several books of poetry over the years, Dave Allin remains an important and fascinating tone in the story of American rock music. With Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 7pm, $20-$90, Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St. — CC

May the Lucky Odds ever be in your favor. A trio of greasy bobbers and rat rods from San Antonio, their rockabilly sound shreds through the dusty southwest like the rotating blades of Leatherface’s bloody chainsaw. Armed with nothing but thumping bass lines, twangy electric guitar slides and a trusty drum kit, the happed-up band reprises the hip rolling raunchiness of Bill Haley’s undying “Rock Around the Clock.” Nuclear Juarez echoes the Lucky Odds’ spartan instrumentation, breathing new life the campy flair of psychobilly rockers like the voodoo-inspired Cramps. Rounding out the swingin’ lineup is Pavel Demon and the Revenant. Throwing back to the basics, this wild night of rhythm and blues begs a certain question – you feeling lucky? 9:30pm, Free, The Bang Bang Bar, 119 El Mio Dr — AM FRI

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Making moves at an early age, Kate Voegele was just 17 when she performed at Farmaid in 2004 next to acts like Neil Young and Willie Nelson. With an EP released the year prior, the country twinged pop singersongwriter released another collection of music which would gain the attention of (I swear to god i’m not making this up) Tom from Myspace (Tom Anderson). ‘Member him? Oh yea, I ‘member. Securing a spot on Myspace Records, a branch of Interscope, Kate Voegele would go on to release a few more albums, become a regular cast member on One Tree Hill and solidify her ranking among the talented female singer-songwriters of today. With Tyler Hilton. 8pm, $15-$75, Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St — CC FRI

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MUSIC CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 Bru’s Tunes Live Acoustic Music by Bru’s Tunes. Free. La Hacienda De Los Barrios, 6-9pm Islands and Tigers | The Flying Buttresses | Cannibal Boom Cannibal Boom (Baltimore, MD) will be performing at Imagine Books & Records with The Flying Buttresses and Islands and Tigers. $5. Imagine Books and Records, 8pm-midnight

experience. Bowie would have turned 70 on January 8th, 2017. Celebrate Friday at Limelight for the second annual David Bowie tribute and benefit event. Performances by: Mount Pressmore The Flying Buttresses with special guests Victor Bustos and Mwah! The Mime Ma & God Captain M. A. Zing. Proceeds will be donated to the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) in Bowie’s honor. $5. Limelight, 9 p.m.-midnight

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Punk Takeover Punk bands After 9, Solitary Runaway, Given A Chance, Great Texas Riff and The Ghost In The Machine play Bond’s. $5-$8. Bond’s 007 Rock Bar, 8pm Repeat The End Stoner rock band Repeat the End play the Mix. Free. The Mix, 9pm Shelby Lanterman & Marie Manning Shelby Lanterman plays rock at the Cove with support by Marie Manning. The Cove, 9-11pm Ska Implosion Vol. 6 The Korova hosts volume 6 of Ska Implosion, featuring Matamoska, The Skatastrophics, Crucial Riddim, The Skams, and Young Costello. $12-$15. The Korova, 8pm

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Bru’s Tunes Live acoustic music in every genre. Free. Kirby’s Steakhouse, 7-10:30pm

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Hallows End Heavy rock band Hallows End is joined by Shadow of Whales and Fly CoCo at Limelight. $5-$8. Limelight, 9pm

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 210 Blues Band Every Thursday & Sunday night SoHo Martini Bar features the R&B sounds of San Antonio’s own 210 Blues Band. Free. SoHo Wine & Martini Bar, 10pm Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Dave Alvin plays with support by Jimmie Dale Gilmore. $20-$90. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm Jeffery Ryan Vaughn Jeffrey performs laidback, feel good classics. Free. The Phoenix Saloon, 3pm The Mismatch Americana tunes by The Mismatch. Free. The Phoenix Saloon, 7pm Mozart at the Cathedral This concert will feature Mozart’s “Hunt” String Quartet and Haydn’s String Quartet in D major. 25-$50. San Fernando Cathedral, 7pm Nag Champa Nag Champa plays cumbia at Limelight. Limelight, 9pm Patric Johnston Singer/sonwriter Patric Johnston plays the Cove. The Cove, 8:30-10:30pm Sunday Jazz at the Witte Join the Witte every second Sunday of the month to enjoy an afternoon listening to jazz. Food and beverages are available for purchase from Picante Grill. $7-$10. Witte Museum, 3-5 p.m.

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Meat and Metal Mondays Zombies Bar hosts a metal night while serving meat and drink specials. Free. Zombies, 5pm

Mozart’s 40th Symphony The Mozart Festival’s first concert features his penultimate symphony and one of only two written in a minor key. $15-$85. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm

Old Skool 90s hip hop/R&B vids with VJ Wooly Bully. Free. The Amp Room, 9pm

The Peterson Brothers Smooth blues duo the Peterson Brothers play Sam’s Burger Joint. $8-$40. Sam’s Burger Joint, 9pm Rich Hands Local three-piece rock outfit Rich Hands play Limelight with Trouble Boys, Cheap Fur, and Whatever. $3-$5. Limelight, 9pm Sol Patch Acoustic music by Sol Patch. Free. Luckenbach Dance Hall, 7-11pm Sounds of the West: Music Salon Series: Settling the West in American Popular Songs From popular standards of the past to the diverse melodic traditions of our region, this series highlights the musical arts of the American West in an intimate gallery setting. Free. Briscoe Western Art Museum, 3pm Think Lizzy Thin Lizzy Tribute band, Think

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Light, electricity, and magnetism are different expressions of a single phenomenon. Scottish scientist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the first to formulate a theory to explain that startling fact. One of the cornerstones of his work was a set of 20 equations with 20 unknowns. But a younger scientist named Oliver Heaviside decided this was much too complicated. He recast Maxwell’s cumbersome theory in the form of four equations with four unknowns. That became the new standard. In 2017, I believe you Aries will have a knack akin to Heaviside’s. You’ll see the concise essentials obscured by needless complexity. You’ll extract the shining truths trapped inside messy confusions. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): “The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road,” wrote Franz Kafka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions. Did Kafka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, instead, take matters into your own hands — douse the thornbush with gasoline and throw a match into it? Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the whole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): The fictional character Scott Pilgrim is the hero of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. He becomes infatuated with a “ninja delivery girl” named Ramona Flowers, but there’s a complication. Before he can win her heart, he must defeat all seven of her evil ex-lovers. I’m sure your romantic history has compelled you to deal with equally challenging dilemmas, Gemini. But I suspect you’ll get a reprieve from that kind of dark melodrama in 2017. The coming months should be a bright and expansive chapter in your Book of Love. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): The creature known as the short-eared elephant shrew is typically four inches long and weighs a little more than one ounce. And yet it’s more genetically similar to elephants than to true shrews. In its home habitat of southern Africa, it’s known as the sengi. I propose we regard it as one of your spirit animals in 2017. Its playful place in your life will symbolize the fact that you, too, will have secret connections to big, strong influences; you, too, will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t resemble you.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “When I look back, I see my former selves, numerous as the trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an experience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about shaping your relationships with all the people you used to be. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): “’Life experience’ does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone ... without any help from life.” So said Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti, who was born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship, and wrote in German. Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am presenting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of reality -and firsthand “life experience” alone won’t be enough to ensure that. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): I am rooting for you to be flagrantly unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about expressing your deepest, rawest, hottest inclinations. In this spirit, I offer the following four rallying cries: 1. “Don’t be addicted to looking cool, baby!” - my friend Luther. 2. Creative power arises when you conquer your tendency to stay detached. - paraphrased from poet Marianne Moore. 3. If you want to be original, have the courage to be an amateur. - paraphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” - Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): I hope you will seek out a wide range of intoxicating experiences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies, and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these highs will NOT be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, singing, yoga, lucid perceptions, and vivid conversations. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): I thought of you when I read a tweet by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy as long as you are?

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as arctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In the course of a lifetime, a single bird may travel as far as 1.25 million miles -the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius. May the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid water and start new lives abroad? No one knows. Law enforcement officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve? In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): “There is a desperation for unknown things,” wrote poet Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst from time to time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make you sexier and smarter than ever — especially if you regard it as a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever.

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