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On Community Struggles to Fund Rainbow Crosswalk on Main St. // I think a lot of people would be more willing to donate to this if the budget was better explained. After looking at the Kickstarter page, I can't help but assume the $30k figure is completely arbitrary and includes funds for indefinite "future maintenance." Can you help us understand where that number comes from and what the actual construction costs are?

— Ryan V. Cox On Houston-Area Sheriff Wants to Talk to Trump-Hating Driver // Meh, if i had to explain, Grab her by the Pussy, to my kid. Republicans can explain, fuck trump, to their kids.

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Up in the Air San Antonio’s ozone levels are too high — but the EPA isn’t paying attention. Now what?

Camera-Ready Trial begins for San Antonio photojournalist arrested in D.C. Inauguration Day protest

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Post-war politics Filmmaker Richard Linklater takes audiences on heartbreaking road trip in Last Flag Flying

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Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

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Clear to Partly Glowing Welcome to Night Vale brings eldritch weather to San Antonio Occupy Christmas Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn wants to push the spirit of Buy Nothing Day through the holidays

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Food Court More Shake Shack, a tamalada for kids and more Pizza Party We put sizes and unlimited toppings to the test at 1000 Degrees Pizza Friendsgiving Survival Guide SA’s best hosts share tips for nailing your holiday party

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On Thin Ice Texas DACA recipient with disability is inexplicably being held by ICE

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n 2015, the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency made a sweeping change in the amount of smog counties were permitted to simmer in. Counties needed to reduce their ozone levels from 75 parts per billion to 70 ppb — an infinitesimal amount in human-scale, but big enough to make a serious dent in the public health and environmental woes linked to high ozone levels. EPA officials gave counties an October 2017 deadline to lower ozone levels before they’d begin handing out costly penalties.

San Antonio was already the biggest metro region in the state with the lowest ozone levels — well below both Dallas-Fort Worth at 80 ppb and Houston at 79 ppb.

Still, by June 2017, Bexar County’s air quality monitors were stuck around 73 ppb.

On October 1, city and county officials braced themselves for an EPA-sized smackdown (in the form of stringent regulations and costly permits) for not meeting the 70 ppb standard.

Nothing came. November 1 — still not a peep.

As almost an afterthought, the EPA casually released a list of counties that met the 2015 standards on November 6, 2017.

“The letter came out, and we were all very excited,” says Doug Melnick, San Antonio’s chief sustainability officer. “We all started looking at it, and didn’t see us.”

Bexar County wasn’t on the list. But according to the EPA, that doesn’t necessarily mean the county’s out

San Antonio’s ozone levels are too high — but the EPA isn’t paying attention. Now what? of compliance. In the words of EPA spokeswoman Enesta Jones, “the agency intends to address all other counties in a separate future action.” Whatever that means.

“The cloud of uncertainty is unnerving,” Melnick says.

In the absence of any obvious federal guidance from the new administration’s EPA (and reeling from recent state-level cuts to air pollution monitoring), Bexar County and San Antonio city officials seem to be the only ones left to hold themselves accountable. But with the overall health and welfare of the region’s quickly-growing population at stake, they’re not waiting around for the federal government to take action.

•••• There are two types of ozone — the good kind and the bad kind. The good kind, also known as stratospheric ozone, is the naturally-formed, protective bubble that shields the earth from ultraviolet rays. The bad kind, called tropospheric, or ground level ozone, is created by a chemical reaction between certain pollutants and the sun — we usually call it smog.

In Bexar County, the majority of ground level ozone pollution comes from power plants, cement factories and vehicle emissions. To be more specific, most of our ozone pollution comes from the nearly dozen cement manufacturing plants in Bexar County, CPS Energy’s multiple South Side coal and natural gas energy plants, the oil and gas drilling in the Eagle Ford shale region

that sweeps just south of Bexar County, and traffic — a lot of hot, congested traffic.

According to Mario Bravo, Texas outreach specialist for the Environmental Defense Fund, ozone usually travels through Bexar County in a predictable path based on the way wind travels through the region. Fossil fuel emissions from Eagle Ford fracking drift through southeast San Antonio, picking up emissions from CPS’ coal fire plants on Calaveras Lake along the way. By mid-day, this ozone melting-pot drifts to downtown San Antonio, picking up truck and car exhaust fumes. Finally, this ozone-rich plume settles over Camp Bullis and the Dominion neighborhood. According to the region’s ozone level monitors, this area is where the levels are often the highest.

Bexar County has three regulatory ozone level monitors that are operated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state’s environmental agency. The Alamo Area Council of Governments, which works closely with TCEQ, also oversees 12 additional monitors scattered throughout the county, which they use to gather information to assess the county’s status.

While the region’s still teetering above the 2015 EPA standard, AACOG Director Diane Rath says it’s nowhere near what ozone levels in San Antonio used to look like — despite the city’s population increasing by 1 million, San Antonio’s ozone levels have gone down from 91 ppb in 2003, to 73 ppb today.

When rating ozone levels across the

country, the EPA gives counties one of three labels: attainment, nonattainment, or unclassifiable. “Attainment” means ozone levels are below the federal limit of 70 ppb, and all is well. If ozone levels are higher than 70 ppb, a county can may be dubbed “nonattainment.” The higher the ozone levels are in a county, the worse a nonattainment ruling can be, and ozone regulations become more stringent. “Unclassifiable” means the EPA needs to collect more data from a county before issuing a designation.

By the 2015 standards, Bexar County is technically a “nonattainment” region, but the EPA hasn’t officially called it — yet.

But while local government has taken the initiative to improve air quality and lower ozone levels to improve public health and keep San Antonio’s economy intact, they’ve been hard-pressed to find support from the state or federal government.

After the EPA set the new ozone standards in 2015, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the EPA on behalf of the TCEQ. Paxton called the new 70 ppb level “inappropriate and unrealistic” saying the new standard would “impose a serious financial burden on the Texas economy for the dubious public health benefit.”

Then there’s the funding cuts. In July, Governor Greg Abbott cut $6,000,500 from TCEQ’s biennial budget — money designated to help reduce ozone in levels in near-nonattainment areas. The cuts caused AACOG, which relies on a yearly $750,000

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from TCEQ’s cut funding, to shut down six of its air quality monitors. Local environmental advocates, however, rushed to find a way to flip them back on — and secured $135,000 from CPS Energy to get them back up by August. San Antonio and Bexar County each pitched in $125,000 to fund AACOG’s planning activities to remain in attainment.

•••• Dr. Colleen Bridger likes to compare ozone exposure to a bad sunburn.

“It’s an irritant — it can inflame the lungs, it can reduce lung function, and over long term exposure, it can permanently damage the lung tissue,” says Bridger, the director of Metro Health.

Like a sunburn, ozone exposure is the worst when the sun’s at its peak. By then, pollution from the morning commute or nearby power plants have had enough time to combine with sunlight and turn into ozone.

On sunny days when the wind’s particularly stagnant, people especially vulnerable to respiratory problems (like children, people with asthma or lung disease, and the elderly) are advised not to leave their homes Even the average, healthy adult can have difficulty breathing and chest pain on high-ozone days.

In an October presentation to City Council, Bridger said that if the San Antonio region saw a 2.2 percent increase in ozone, an estimated 19 more people would die from respiratory-related issues every year. In 2016, a study conducted by New York University and the American Thoracic Society found that an estimated 52 preventable deaths occur annually in the San Antonio metro area because of unsafe ozone levels.

Many residents, however, don’t need to see the numbers to know the area’s air quality is life-threatening.

Shortly after Krystal Henegan moved to San Antonio in 2012, Tanner, her toddler, developed severe asthma that only subsided when they left city limits. Less than a year after moving to the city, Henegan was packing again — she now lives on a ranch just north of Government Canyon. Tanner, now 8 years old,

breathed easier for a while, Henegan says, but he missed 12 days of school last year because of his respiratory problems. He now has problems breathing through his nose, on top of his asthmatic wheezing.

“It’s absolutely still a problem,” Henegan says. “I won’t let him play outside on high-ozone days. But he’s a kid, and we now have all this land to play on, so it’s frustrating for him.”

Henegan, now the Texas chapter head for the Moms Clean Air Force, says it’s “irresponsible” for the EPA to leave the public waiting.

“They’re just kicking the can further down the road,” she says. “As a mom with an asthmatic son, I want to know what’s going on.”

It’s unclear what the financial cost of greater health problems linked to high-ozone levels in Bexar County looks like, but it’s not hard for public health experts to estimate.

“Poor respiratory health makes our city

economically vulnerable,” says Dr. Adelita Cantu, a associate professor at UT Health San Antonio with a focus in environmental health issues. “That means low productivity in the workplace, employees missing work … higher health insurance costs for employers.”

For taxpayers, a higher rate of people rushing to the emergency room with an asthma attack or a decrease in public school funds due to chronic student absenteeism adds up. And for employees who miss work to take their kid to a doctor’s appointment or stay home sick, it could mean lost wages — or worse, a lost job.

“Some people say, ‘Okay, I’ll have a cough for a couple of days and I’ll get over it.’ But it’s not like that for everyone,” Cantu says. “This could be a long-term problem.”

•••• San Antonio is the largest city in the country to still be marked as “in attainment” when it comes to ozone levels — a point local leaders like to drive home when they stress the economic importance of the looming, potential “nonattainment” designation.

“The only reason we have the Toyota plant is because Dallas was in nonattainment,” says AACOG director Rath. “So we are fortunate to have the entire complex settled here with all of those high-wage jobs. If you’re in nonattainment, that’s an example of what you lose.”

According to Rath, San Antonio is projected to lose $1 billion each year we are classified as “nonattainment” — and local studies show it could be until 2020 before Bexar County ozone levels are at 70 ppb.

If Bexar County were in nonattainment,

businesses would see hurdles other nonattainment cities already deal with, including being required to report their emissions to TCEQ. A strenuous permitting process for any new or existing projects would also kick in: Businesses would have to apply for special permits if they wanted to expand, and prove that the expansion won’t impact local air quality.

“Being in attainment as long as we have been, I think we’ve seen a lot of benefit, because we don’t have those additional regulatory requirements,” says Melnick. “It also means having comparatively good air quality compared to other large metro areas.

We have that public health benefit.”

•••• EDF’s Mario Bravo, who used to sit on AACOG’s now-dissolved “Air Advisory Committee," believes AACOG is overestimating the economic impact nonattainment status would bring to the region. “They’re using it as a tool to complain against the standard,” Bravo says.

He suspects AACOG’s trying convince the government that the cost of getting companies to comply with the 70 ppb standard (like investing in new technology and equipment) aren’t worth the health and environmental gains.

“I don’t have confidence in AACOG being able to improve our air quality,” Bravo says. “For them, it’s all about avoiding nonattainment and focusing on the economic damage. No one is talking about the people.”

In July, shortly after Gov. Abbott pulled funding from the region’s air pollution monitoring, AACOG announced that

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local cement companies and the oil and gas industry (specifically producers in the Eagle Ford shale) will begin funding new studies on the emissions that impact San Antonio’s air quality.

“Optics aren’t great right now,” Bravo says. “We shouldn’t have the companies that produce the emissions paying for these studies. Where’s the accountability?”

Rath, however, says that funding from private stakeholders doesn’t impact the information in studies conducted by

AACOG. “We’re totally independent, and they have no control over the information or the release of those reports,” Rath says.

•••• “When I was first elected, my son Jonah asked me to take care of the bats,” says San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, addressing a room full of local business owners in October. “Then, Jonah asked me to take care of the trees and the water — included in that is the commitment to clean air.”

Nirenberg was speaking at San Antonio’s first-ever Air Quality Summit, hosted by the San Antonio Business Journal, a few days after the awaited EPA designation had failed to materialize. He was there to ask business leaders to take a voluntary pledge to cut back their emissions.

“People argue, ‘well there’s no federal mandate, there’s no federal backstop,’” Nirenberg told the crowd. “Remind them that the medical professionals in the room must be uncompromising about your children’s health. Remind them also that where we have set the federal standard is not where we need to be. We need to be better than that.”

Unlike state and county officials, Nirenberg appears to be less concerned with the designation itself than he is with the health of his residents. One of his first acts after being elected mayor in June was joining nearly 400 cities in pledging to uphold the Paris Climate Accord’s goals after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the global climate change agreement. It’s a move previous mayor Ivy Taylor had noticeably avoided.

“We have resolved to move forward on improving our air quality, regardless of what happens at the state and federal level,” Nirenberg told the Current in October. “What’s refreshing is that we don’t need to wonder, we don’t have to wait around to find out if we’re designated or not. We’re just gonna move forward because it’s the right thing to do.”

Dr. Cantu says she’s “very optimistic” with the way local leaders are handling air pollution. But there’s one group of people she says needs the most attention.

“We must educate our youth … get them to understand what’s going on when they’re young,” Cantu says. “Because this is what we’re leaving them.”

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Trial begins for San Antonio photojournalist arrested in D.C. Inauguration Day protest

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It’s been nearly a year since 37-year-old Alexei Wood traveled from San Antonio to Washington, D.C. to witness events surrounding Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. But unlike the hundreds wearing pink knitted hats or dressed in head-to-toe black that weekend, Wood wasn’t in D.C. on January 20 to protest. He’d gone as a freelance photographer to take photos of the numerous protests and capture some of the action on video.

On Monday, Nov. 20, Wood began his long-awaited trial in a D.C. court, facing charges punishable by up to 61 years in prison, for doing just that.

In the first group of hundreds charged with “inciting a riot” on Inauguration Day to go to trial, Wood’s worried that the feds will use his case to set an example for those to follow.

Wood began Inauguration Day by live-streaming the socalled “J20” protest, made up of anti-Trump activists wanting to disrupt and distract attention from the Inauguration Day events by exercising their First Amendment rights. However, when a faction of the protest began smashing windows and throwing rocks, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department

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scrambled to control the situation (with little success).

Instead, MPD turned to a tactic called “kettling” — trapping an indiscriminate group of protesters in a police-made circle.

Wood, who was live-streaming the protest on Facebook, was arrested with 230 other people who happened to be roped into the kettle. His 42-minute video stream only ended after he was pepper sprayed by MPD — and has become a key piece of evidence in both sides of the court.

The federal government (who runs D.C.’s court system) charged nearly everyone in that roundup with conspiring and inciting a riot “to facilitate violence and destruction” and destroying property. All of them face the unusually high punishment of 70 years behind bars.

Since the arrest, Wood was offered a plea deal of 1 1/2 years of probation and a $1,000 fine — which he promptly declined. He and other J20 defendants have made their own solidarity deal to not accept a plea or testify against one another in the case.

Since there are hundreds facing the same charges, the court's made the uncommon decision to try the defendants in groups, rather than one at a time. Wood's group of seven is the first to see their day in court. Earlier this year, when the D.C. court asked if any of the defendants wanted to be the first to go to trial, Wood volunteered. Now, he suspects the federal government (who oversees the D.C. court system) will use his case to set an example for the defendants to follow.

Days before his trial, Wood discovered that the group of defendants following his — with a December 11 court date — had their charges dropped to misdemeanors, meaning they wouldn’t have to face a full jury. The feds gave no explanation, aside from “prosecutorial discretion.”

But Wood has a hypothesis.

“My guess is they want to focus all their resources on our group to prove a point, they have to show that innocence is not an option,” he told the Current on Thursday, Nov. 17.

“The prosecution is out for blood.”

Wood, however, had volunteered to go to trial first. He knew it wasn’t the "conservative option," but has no regrets.

“I wanted to go first. I wanted the biggest fight. I know I am righteous in my innocence,” he said.

The outcome of Wood’s case could paint a clear picture of what press freedom looks like under the agressively antimedia Trump Administration.Press freedom advocates, like the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, have repeatedly argued against Wood's charges, claiming that his right to record a protest from the sidelines shouldn't be attacked. "Being near a newsworthy event is no crime for anyone, reporters included," the RCFP wrote in a letter to the U.S. Attorney in Wood's case.

However, advocates see how some parts of Wood's Facebook video could be misinterpreted. Like when Wood yells "Whoo!" while showing protesters breaking things or when he flips the camera around to capture his own facial reactions to the escalating events.

“I could see someone at the [Department of Justice] saying this is what a protester does,” said Gregg Leslie, the legal defense director for the RCFP told the New York Times.

For now, Wood said he’s not trying to get attached to any of the highs or lows that come from the trial’s first days — or the media surrounding it.

“You can beat the charges but you can’t beat the ride,” he said. “And right now, I am on the ride.”

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On Friday, Nov. 17, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant who had been inexplicably held in a South Texas detention center for over a month was released on bail. Felipe Abonza-Lopez’s release sparked momentary celebration, especially since the San Marcos man had been suffering from untreated leg pain while in detention.

But for Abonza-Lopez, his new freedom is just the start of an long fight to remain in country legally.

That’s because Abonza-Lopez has lost his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status (a temporary protection against deportation) while in detention, simply because he was investigated for a crime he was found not guilty of committing.

Abonza-Lopez was originally picked up by Uvalde County sheriff’s deputy on Oct. 12. The deputy had said the car Abonza-Lopez was a passenger in “looked suspicious” — and arrested Abonza-Lopez, the car’s driver (Abonza-Lopez’s cousin Javier) and three other passengers on the suspicion they were involved in a human smuggling operation. All five of the men arrested were undocumented immigrants.

The Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office never charged any of the suspects with a crime and dropped the investigation into the smuggling allegations. Regardless, the sheriff handed Abonza-Lopez and his cousin over to U.S. Border Patrol instead of letting them walk free.

Abonza-Lopez’s time in the South Texas immigrant detention center was punctuated with physical pain, fear, and embarrassment. Abonza-Lopez’s left leg was amputated when he was a child and it’s since been replaced with a prosthetic leg. Cold nights in detention triggered aching leg pain. But when he tried to seek medical help, he was bullied and made fun of by

detention center staff.

In a November 11 letter obtained by RAICES, the immigrant rights group helping advocate for AbonzaLopez, he said that when he went to the center’s clinic, a staffer said, “This is the prosthetic guy, he doesn’t need any medicine.” A nearby guard laughed and added, “You can put a broomstick in his leg and he can use [it to] sweep.” It was clear the staff didn’t think Abonza-Lopez could understand them, since they were speaking in English. They were wrong. He was given a pill for the pain and sent on his way.

“I have not returned to the clinic because of the bullying,” Abonza-Lopez wrote in the letter. “I am suffering. Please get me out of here. I don’t deserve to be treated so inhumanely.”

Felipe was released November 17 on a $7,500 bond. But he’s lost his critical DACA status — a two-year temporary work permit for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

His DACA staus was expected to sheild him from deportation until its May 2019 expiration date. While it’s common for the federal government to revoke a person’s DACA status if they’ve been convicted of a crime, Abonza-Lopez has a clean criminal record and hasn’t been charged with a crime since entering (or leaving) federal detention.

It appears Abonza-Lopez’s only crime is that he was briefly investigated for human smuggling— despite being found innocent. And it’s lost him his one protection from deportation.

“Felipe’s case shows the very tricky situation the people with DACA are put in on a daily basis,” said Amy Fisher, RAICES policy director. “When simply being investigated for something, not charged, can cost

you your protections.”

Abonza-Lopez moved to the U.S. when he was 5, and graduated from Del Valle High School in 2016.

Fisher said that he was “in good spirits” when she spoke with Abonza-Lopez the day after his release. But he still has to return to immigration court to fight the non-charges that cost him his DACA status.

“It’ll be possible to challenge the revocation [of his DACA protections], but it will obviously be an uphill battle,” Fisher said. She’s unsure when he’ll be expected to return to court.

She said this case highlights the urgent need for Congress to act on the Dream Act, a bill that would cement DACA’s short-term promises and give undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. Those eligible for the Dream Act’s promises have claimed the nickname “Dreamers.”

Since hearing about Abonza-Lopez’s case, San Antonio Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s been investigating how to reinstate his DACA status.

“There’s no basis for his claim getting revoked,” Doggett told the Current November 17. “Clearly, we can’t defend a Dreamer who’s charged with illegal conduct. But there’s no evidence that they were doing anything wrong.”

Doggett, who successfully intervened in the February detention of San Antonio DACA recipient Josue Romero, said that he’s vigilant in searching for answers in Abonza-Lopez’ case — as vigilant as he is in returning protections to DACA recipients in Congress.

“We need to push forward with DACA so this kind of thing doesn’t keep happening,” he said. “Dreamers cannot be used as bargaining chips.”

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by Frida Kahlo, lotería and familiar dichos), Black Friday at Brick has one simple request this holiday season: “Shop small y’all.” Likely to offer something of a preview of the third annual Brickmas Holiday Market (December 22 and 23 at Brick), the one-day market brings 20 distinct vendors together under one roof (including Desert Flower Designers, In The Weeds Natural Skin Care, Asher and Gray Designs, Karma Candle Makers and Smokin’ Beards) along with kid-friendly holiday movie screenings (complete with popcorn and hot cocoa) and a dedicated “Mothers’ Room” for nursing and diaper changes. Free, 10am-6pm, Brick at Blue Star, 108 Blue Star, (210) 262-8653, brickatbluestar.com. — Bryan Rindfuss

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All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 THEATER As the country heals from one of the most divisive presidential elections in modern history, The Playhouse will present Peter Rothstein’s musical All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, in collaboration with local men’s a cappella group The Marcsmen. Based on actual events that took place during World War I, All Is Calm tells the story of the English and German soldiers who emerged from their trenches into no man’s land on December 24, 1914. There, the soldiers exchanged gifts, sang Christmas carols and buried their dead. It was an unofficial Christmas truce frowned upon by officers, but one in which thousands of soldiers partook. Although the war would resume the following day and continue until the general armistice of November 1918, for the surviving soldiers, the Christmas truce of 1914 would be remembered as nothing short of miraculous. $20-$35, 7:30pm Fri-Sat, 2pm Sun, The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258, theplayhousesa.org. — MA

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THEATER After the passing of her mother, playwright and director Alicia Mena was moved to write Las Nuevas Tamaleras, a play that honors her mother’s legacy and preserves her family’s rich cultural traditions. Since its premiere in 1990 at Houston’s Latino Playwright Festival, Las Nuevas Tamaleras has become a holiday favorite performed around the state. The one-act comedy centers on three Mexican-American women who try their hand at making tamales for the very first time. Things don’t go as planned, however, when the ghosts of the legendary tamale experts Doña Juanita and Doña Mercedes decide to pay the three tamaleras a visit. This year’s production, staged at Our Lady of the Lake University’s Thiry Auditorium, will star Mena as Doña Mercedes and Ruby Nelda Perez as Doña Juanita. The tamaleras will be played by Patricia Zamora, Sonya M. Rodriguez and Kristina Keller. $20-$25, 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun (through Dec. 10), Our Lady of the Lake University, Thiry Auditorium, 411 SW 24th St., (210) 223-2009, lastamaleras.com. — Marco Aquino

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This exhibition is organized by the McNay Art Museum. Lead funding for Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too is most generously given by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation; Rick Liberto; National Endowment for the Arts;Linda Pace Foundation; Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation; Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation; and Carolyn and Allan Paterson.

Additional support is provided by H-E-B; Whataburger; Smothers Foundation; Chris Cheever; Mitcham Partners, LLP; Patricia and Charles Marcus; Patricia and Juan Ruiz-Healy; Katy and Ted Flato; Christopher C. Hill; Penelope Speier and Sonny Collins; Melissa and Kelton Morgan; Lisa Nichols; Ann Griffith Ash; Caroline Alexander Forgason; Molly and Bill Asher; Jim and Dolly Poteet; Emma and Toby Calvert; Lara Flynn and Donnie Thomas; Thomas F. Hogan III; Wendy Atwell; Muriel F. Siebert Foundation; Patty Ortiz and Dwight Hobart; Amy and Chase Smiley; Therese McDevitt; the Director’s Circle; and Exhibition Sponsors.

Chuck Ramirez, Louis (Linda) (detail) from Purse Portraits, 2002. Digital print. © Estate of Chuck Ramirez, courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas

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MUSIC Drawing inspiration from singing cowboy icon Roy Rogers and his yodeling band Sons of the Pioneers — a group that appeared in nearly 90 films and still remains active today — the witty Western quartet Riders in the Sky famously favors comedy over country in the old C&W equation. As one might guess by their names and roles alone — Ranger Doug (“Governor of the Great State of Rhythm”), Too Slim (“Upright Bunkhouse Bass”), Joey the CowPolka King (“Stomach Steinway Accordion”) and Woody Paul (“King of the Cowboy Fiddlers”) — the Nashvillebased band boasts a particularly kid-friendly following. And despite an impressive catalog of nearly 30 nostalgia-fueled albums, the comedic cowboys might be known best by today’s audiences for their Grammy-winning Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. tie-ins — Woody’s Roundup: A Rootin’ Tootin’ Collection of Woody’s Favorite Songs (2000) and Scream Factory Favorites (2002). Armed with numerous awards and a resume that includes performances at the Hollywood Bowl, the Grand Ole Opry and the White House, the fun-loving outfit lands at the Tobin to celebrate “Christmas the Cowboy Way.” $45, 4pm & 8pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — BR

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Rene Paul Barilleaux, the McNay’s Chuck Ramirez career retrospective brings together a comprehensive selection of the late local artist’s large-scale photographs (depicting wilted bouquets, cuts of meat, destroyed piñatas, empty chocolate boxes and other curiosities). $5-$20, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

Art in the Garden On view through

February 18, the San Antonio Botanical Garden’s latest artistic foray brings the sculptures of local ceramics master Diana Kersey to the Lucile Halsell Conservatory. Presenting an array of objects large and small, Kersey is one of the most imaginative potters around, somehow commanding clay with the playful precision of a brilliant painter. $9-$12, 9am-5pm Wednesday, 9am-5pm Friday-Tuesday; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Pl., (210) 536-1400.

Closing reception: “La Ciencia Avanza Pero Yo No” FL!GHT Gallery hosts a

closing reception for the Presa House Pop Up Series exhibition “La Ciencia Avanza Pero Yo No (Science Advances But I Do Not),” a collection of works (involving performance, photographic documents and sculpture) created by Houstonbased artist Ángel Lartigue. Free, 6-11pm Saturday; FL!GHT Gallery, 134 Blue Star, (210) 872-2586.

Free Day at the Museum SAMA invites

“weary cooks, eager shoppers, art lovers and underfoot relatives” to explore the museum free of charge the day after Thanksgiving. In addition to taking in the exhibitions “Antinous, the Emperor’s Beloved: Investigating a Roman Portrait” and “The Latino List,” guests can take advantage of discounts in the Museum Shop and check out sketchpads, pencils and Silk Road activity backpacks. Free, 10am-9pm Friday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

THEATER A Christmas Carol In Killer Productions’

inventive adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, a company of traveling players casts the stage manager in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge after one of the lead actors abandons the tour. $15-$20, 8pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Pointe, 702 Donaldson Ave., (210) 480-5786.

A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen’s “modern

tragedy” from 1879 digs into gender roles and marriage as it follows the story of a woman whose attempt to help her husband goes terribly wrong. Kelly Roush directs The Classic Theatre’s production, which sets the play in 1950s American “with a Mad Men flair.” $17-$32, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Classic Theatre of San Antonio, 1924 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 468-3900.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Based on the

beloved 1968 film version of Ian Fleming’s children’s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a high-flying, fun-filled musical adventure featuring an unforgettable score by the Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins). Christopher Rodriguez directs the Woodlawn’s production. $18-$29, 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

Like Stars, Moonie Seen through the

experiences of one turbulent American family, writer/director Morgan Clyde’s original new play explores many manifestations of longing and loss, and the damage that can be done by wounds left unhealed and dreams left unfulfilled. $10-$15, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Overtime Theater, 5409 Bandera Road, (210) 557-7562.

Peppa Pig’s Surprise Bringing the hit

TV series to life on stage, this interactive theatrical experience follows Peppa and her brother George as they attempt to guess what special surprise Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig might have in store. $15-$49.50, 3pm & 6pm Friday; The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Adapted for the stage from Barbara Robinson’s beloved book, this holiday favorite follows the outrageous antics of the Herdman siblings, or “the worst kids in the history of the world.” $13.50, 11:45am Wednesday, 2pm SaturdaySunday; Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St., (210) 227-2751.

COMEDY Jay LaFarr Since launching his stand-up

career in 2003, San Antonio native Jay LaFarr has performed in 43 states and five countries, often drawing comedic inspiration from failed relationships, numerous jobs and his experiences growing up with a British mother and Native American father. $17, 8:30pm Wednesday, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Improv San Antonio, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 229-1420. sacurrent.com • November 22-28, 2017• CURRENT 21

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drive-thru tunnels and holiday displays along a two-mile path and Santa’s Village, a rustic barn filled with holiday flavors and activities. $27 per vehicle, 6-10pm Thursday-Tuesday; Don Strange Ranch, 103 Waring Welfare Road, (210) 434-2340.

Tiger welcomes comics Kat Ramzinski, Christina Parrish, Joey Mccormick and George Anthony for an evening of stand-up inspired by true stories. $7, 10pm Friday; The Blind Tiger Comedy Club, 902 NE Loop 410 (inside Magic Time Machine), (210) Feria de Santa Cecilia Market Square plays 828-1470. host to three days of live performances celebrating the Patron Saint of Musicians Pre-Turkey Comedy Slam Laugh Out Loud along with food booths and artists on the invites comedy fans to “ward off the preplaza. Free, noon-7pm Friday-Sunday; turkey blues by kickstarting the holiday Market Square, 514 W. Commerce St., (210) with some of the top comics in Texas.” $10, 207-8600.

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Ford Holiday River Parade Charlie’s Angels star Cheryl Ladd serves as grand marshal for this holiday favorite, which this year adopts a theme of “Christmas at the Movies.” $25, 6-9pm Friday; San Antonio River Walk, (210) 227-4262.

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Welcome to Night Vale, a podcast styled as community radio of the weird, takes listeners to a mythical desert town in which all conspiracies are real and enigmatic disasters seem to strike every other week.

Each episode is narrated by radio presenter Cecil Palmer (voiced by Cecil Baldwin), who provides community updates on hooded figures in the dog park, the secret police, the faceless old woman secretly living in your home, and — most terrifying of all — street cleaning day.

Night Vale returns to San Antonio for its third live tour, featuring an all-new production entitled All Hail. The show is centered on the Glow Cloud, an eldritch horror that hypnotizes Night Vale’s citizenry and drops dead animals on its streets (and also happens to serve as President

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of the Night Vale School Board). The show will feature Baldwin alongside several guest stars, and musician Mal Blum will perform as “The Weather.”

Meg Bashwiner — who reads the credits and proverb at the end of each episode of Welcome to Night Vale and plays the recurring character Deb, a sentient patch of haze — took some time before the show to chat about all things Night Vale, live theater, and the show’s expansion into other forms of media.

According to Bashwiner, Night Vale co-creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor decided to up the ante for the actors in the latest live show, which led to a final product that includes “several instances where actors are playing more than one character at once.”

“The theater of it is in the switching from voice to voice and character to character in front of your eyes,” says Bashwiner, who will demonstrate this on stage herself as she plays both Deb and a new character, Caitlyn, who is also a sentient patch of haze.

The newest production also features more physical theater and weaves in a hefty dose of audience participation, allowing the Night Vale cast to showcase their physical comedy and live performance chops.

“Because we’ve toured several shows,” says Bashwiner, “we’re really in a place now where we very much know what the show is and are exploring new ways to present it.”

The latest tour comes on the coattails of the release of the second novel in the Night Vale universe — It Devours!

Cecil Baldwin and Meg Bashwiner photographed by Whitney Browne

The bright-yellow book, adorned with an illustration of a gaping maw, begins with a Beetlejuicean cold open that is sure to satisfy both longtime fans and newcomers to this peculiar little burg.

“It really ratchets up its work of character [and] its work of storytelling,” Bashwiner notes. And if the first chapters are anything to go by, the book is certain to be seen clutched in the hands of many a weary traveller this holiday season.

Ultimately, despite the high casualty count across its many episodes, Night Vale in all its forms celebrates “love, community, family” and, of course, “weirdness.”

Whether or not you’re already a listener, the live show is a can’t-miss for optimistic weirdos of all stripes.

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For what seems like it must have been forever now, as the cold weather really sets in across most of America, we make our holiday shopping lists and check our budgets twice. It’s tradition and, having been insidiously (and gradually) married to many of our deepest emotional connections to the season, it seems on face like a considerate, loving, even noble act. And perhaps, in the best of cases, there’s a little of those things there as we max out our credit cards and swap time with loved ones for an assortment of unnecessary stuff to give them. But mostly — we just buy as a kind of senseless habit, an attempt to fill a

void, a conditioning that tells us that money has got to move for something to matter.

This is the underlying line of thinking behind Buy Nothing Day, a kind of activist holiday whose participants, pockets of woke folks in more that sixty countries around the world, commit to (you guessed it) buying absolutely nothing for 24 hours. Begun in Canada in 1992, and popularized by the pro-environment, anti-consumerism, anticorporate magazine Adbusters (with more than 60,000 worldwide print subscribers and over 115,000 Facebook followers), Buy Nothing Day coincides with Black Friday in the U.S. and Canada. Thus, it functions as a kind of cognitive dissonance on the biggest shopping day of the year.

The anti-consumerism day of observance, which is meant to be honored with the defiant jubilance that attends the desire to return to authentic human fulfillment, has experienced waxing and waning popularity over the course of its history.

This year, however, Kalle Lasn — former documentary filmmaker for the Documentary Film Board of Canada and PBS, co-founder of Adbusters Media Foundation, author, and one of the minds behind the Occupy Wall Street movement — feels Buy Nothing Day is ready for a boom, because people are hungry for alternatives. He even thinks we should try to go one step further now: a Buy Nothing Christmas.

The 75-year-old Lasn, who was kind enough to speak to the Current from his home in Vancouver, isn’t fucking around with this.

“We have this idea that somehow we

the people can take back our own holidays and turn it back into a much more spiritual season where, instead of buying useless junk for each other, we hike with each other, we kiss each other, we have fun and do things with people we care about, and we very consciously realize that the solution to our problems is us,” Lasn said.

Lasn, who says beautiful but vague things like “we need to fight to put this human experiment of ours back on track,” thinks that the “growing awareness of global environmental crisis” can help inspire people to take decisive action.

“After a while, Buy Nothing Day felt like it might not be enough, because people would do it and then later still go out and buy a lot of stuff,” Lasn lamented. “But,” he quickly added, “if it’s for the whole holiday season, then it is a more profound thing.”

Lasn may be a tad optimistic for some, a tad radical for others, but he’s under no illusion that everyone will warm to this idea or that these campaigns, from the bygone Occupy movements to Buy Nothing Day and Buy Nothing Christmas, provide some sort of fix-all.

The holidays are a time when, in Lasn’s estimation, “Everybody is striving to be better and to recapture some sort of spiritual magic or special connections to people.”

As such, he says, “We can’t allow the commercial forces and corporations to continue to hijack Christmas from us and turn it into this ugly consumer fest.”

“If we can take Christmas back from these fuckers that have stolen it from us, then I think we can start to get somewhere,” Lasn

said, coining a catchphrase that I nominate for next year’s Starbucks holiday cup.

“If we can do this, then we can start to strike out at other consumer fests throughout the year and then we the people can start to feel more in control again of our own destiny again, which really is the larger picture,” he explained.

First, Lasn argues, “It has to arrive as a sort of epiphany that one of the roots of our ecological, psychological, and even military and terrorism problems is actually overconsumption.” And, it’s movements like Buy Nothing Day, Buy Nothing Christmas, and even Occupy that can, according to Lasn, generate these epiphanies.

Discussing Occupy Wall Street in this context, Lasn noted that “people like to complain that nothing really happened” as a result of those demonstrations.

“But I don’t agree with that interpretation,” he said, “I think that it helped politicize millions of young people around the world; they slept in parks, they pioneered some new ways of talking to each other about their values, and these people are ready for the next round. And as this human experiment slowly descends deeper into the quagmire, those people will have yet more moments in the sun.”

“For real revolutionaries, Occupy Wall Street and things like Buy Nothing Day are seen as steps along the way rather than magic solutions to all our problems,” Lasn said.

“The question is this: What is next for the growing number of people around the world who feel that the future does not compute?”

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As divided as the nation is today on the political spectrum, five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Slacker) hopes his latest film, Last Flag Flying, finds a balance and shows audiences from opposite sides of the aisle that a majority of Americans love their country and that patriotism doesn’t have to be defined under one set of guidelines.

In Last Flag Flying, Linklater tells the story of three Vietnam veterans on a heartbreaking journey. After his son is killed in the Iraq War, Doc Shepherd (Steve Carrell) tracks down his two old war buddies, Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), and asks them to attend the funeral with him. Plans change, however, when Doc decides he wants to bury his son in their hometown and not at Arlington National Cemetery.

The trio set off on a road trip up the East Coast where they reminisce about their time in the military and attempt to exorcise demons from their own past.

The Current caught up with Linklater, 57, to talk about his new film, why there now seems to be a litmus test for patriotism, and the need for a transparent government.

Normally, movie audiences will get the war film, but very rarely the post-war film. Do you think it’s harder to sell heroism when you can’t see it on the battlefield?

Yeah, it’s a different notion, isn’t it? [Post-war films] don’t take the hero and sacrifice him for his buddies. I think we have to understand what went on [in these wars]. We have to respect what they lived through. They put their asses on

the line. [Last Flag Flying] isn’t about traditional heroism, which I wasn’t interested in at all. I don’t really trust that.

We know what heroism is. That’s what soldiers do. They’re there for their buddies.

of expression and other people’s views about what it means to be a patriot. Patriotism has a lot of different forms. There’s a political divide — blind patriotism versus a more critical patriotism.

Did you try to stay balanced with some of the more polarizing issues the film presents or did you want to take the opportunity to inject some personal opinions as a filmmaker?

It is kind of a balance — a tonal challenge. It’s a bit of a minefield of politics when you talk about war and committing American citizens to battle and the toll it takes on the people involved. It’s a tough subject. I think the film ultimately expresses that a lot of people come out of the military with their own love/hate relationship with it.

Nobody thinks about the military more than the military itself. They sign onto this big, abstract mission and then they can’t predict what exactly is going to come out of it.

What led you to the trio of Cranston, Carrell and Fishburne? Did you cast for each character individually or was is more about the ensemble?

We just tried to get the best person for the part. You float a script out there and you hope you get a response. I was just blessed that these three guys were available and that they wanted to do it. They really wanted to work with one another. Working with three guys at the top of their game is what it felt like. I couldn’t be happier. They left everything on the battlefield.

We live in a society now where people are defining what patriotism should be. What’s your take on these kinds of litmus tests?

Who are we to judge someone’s patriotism or what their experience is? I think from the start, everyone is a patriot and loves their country. After we realize that, we can have these kind of differing opinions about how to proceed through certain issues. Everybody wants to judge so quickly these days. They don’t even take the time to inform themselves. It’s always a typical discussion about freedom

We’re inundated with the 24-hour news cycle, however, we still don’t get the full story about what is happening in the wars the U.S. is fighting in. What is it going to take to get answers?

Honesty and transparency go a long way. Families need their answers and we need our answers, too. We’re paying for [these wars]. We have the right to know what our country is doing around the world and why. Then, we can decide if that’s really what we want to be doing. But once you find out you’re being lied to, it all changes. This subject deserves our deepest, truest inquiry and scrutiny. But there’s always a big force against that. It’s painful. Each life is very precious and everyone deserves full disclosure. sacurrent.com • November 22-28, 2017 • CURRENT 29

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Shake Shack’s goes for No. 2

You’ll want to take the Brackenridge train to San Antonio’s next Shake Shack, which is opening at Mulberry and Broadway (because traffic isn’t crazy at this intersection to begin with, just sayin’).

Reddit user ImagesofNetwork first shared the renderings on Images of Texas subreddit, and the second location was later confirmed by Shake Shack’s local PR firm, Giant Noise.

The location is almost finalized, but they are waiting on city approvals and should know later this week whether it’ll be a definite go.

Though no size details are available at this time, the second location is expected to open in summer 2018. San Antonio’s first Shake Shack opened this August at Park North with its signature menu of burgers, crinkle cut fries and concretes.

We’ll share more info as we get it. — JE

Earth Burger is growing

Eating healthy will soon be a tiny bit easier for those on the Northeast side of San Antonio.

Earth Buwrger, the first vegetarian fast food restaurant

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in Texas, is opening a second location off of Nacogdoches and Loop 410 in the spring of 2018. The plant-based menu items include burgers (with 61 percent less calories than the leading fast food patty), wraps, corndogs, chicken tenders, desserts, organic sodas and some gluten-free items.

If this Nacogdoches isn’t close enough to you, their first location, which opened in June 2014, is located off of 410 in the Park North shopping area.

2501 Nacogdoches Road, eatearthburger.com. — AE

Pico de Gallo hosts tamal class

Start ‘em young and help your kiddos perfect their masa spreading technique during this year’s kid’s tamalada at Pico de Gallo.

Hosted by chef Cariño Cortez of Viva Villa Taqueria, the December 16 class will feature storybook reading, a tamale lesson, tamales and hot chocolate to eat during class and tamales to take home. The class is recommended for kids 5 and up.

“I started to put on the kid’s workshops because I thought it was really important to pass down our cultural traditions that make our Hispanic heritage unique,” said Cortez about the workshops via email. “Kids, by far, are my

More Shake Shack, a tamalada for kids and more favorite to teach, their excitement to come to the workshop and enthusiasm to learn is so fun to see, I feel like I end up having a blast also.”

The class runs 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 16. Tickets, $27.03 per child, are available through eventbrite.com.

111 South Leona St., (210) 225-6060. — JE

New Saturday market

Truckin’ Tomato is moving shop and will settle down close to the airport. Additionally, organizers will now be offering a farmers market every Saturday.

The produce warehouse, which has relationships with food producers and vendors, is giving San Antonians a chance to browse and buy local products beginning Saturday, November 18. Truckin’ Tomato will be having an open market every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — AE

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It’s party season. Sure, we can say that about any month in San Antonio (save for maybe August when we all hide out in the comfort of our HVAC homes and apartments), but November and December mean constant planning, hosting and partying whether you’re going to a dessert-lover’s paradise, a photo fest or your friend’s place for Friendsgiving (and the newly minted Friendsmas or Friendsnukkah).

To that point, we’ve tapped some of the city’s best party hosts for a few tips on how to make your next soiree especially lit and as painless as possible. Read on if you’re tackling hosting duties (or even if you want to be a courteous guest).

Sophie Covo, Paper Tiger/Empty Stomach • Everyone LOVES a photo-op, set up a simple back drop or get a couple props and watch the IG posts flow. Great way to engage your guests.

• FINGER FOODS and informal dinner arrangements are great because they are easier to execute, they encourage mixing and mingling and no one gets too full to party. Food comas are not fun at parties.

• If you want an upbeat party, play upbeat music. No one has fun listening to Bright Eyes.

• Unless you are doing something super intimate for a reason, the more, really is the merrier.

• Work smarter. I have so often gone over the top on little details that no one noticed or cared about. Do less, and do it really well. Instead of having six kinds of assorted cheese, have two really good options.

John and Elise Russ, of the upcoming Clementine We’ve learned that: • A badass cheese platter with great bread and crackers will destroy your guests appetite, so if your worried about supper, nail the cheese platter and vice versa.

• A great host is able to toe the line on sobriety; its easy when you start after the last guest arrives.

• If you are unsure of the cooking skills of your guests at a potluck, ask them to bring booze or bubbles.

• Plan on clean up, when guests ask if there is something the can help with, don’t be afraid to ask them to chip in. Guests, CHIP IN! • Since it's the holidays, plan on someone over serving themselves. It’s OK, it happens.

Be kind, gracious, and call them a cab.

• Be safe. Take keys, make strong suggestions, whatever works; above all, be safe. It's the holla-days.

Sarah and Olivia Hinojosa, Honeysuckle Tea Time • Charcuterie is queen in our house. We always lay a spread out so our guests can munch while we work out the final dinner preparations. Liv makes amazing jams and we usually have a ton of cured meats and cheeses on hand. We like to serve both bread and crackers, nuts and dried fruits, figs and grapes are staples. I love making cranberry walnut bread! We love honeycomb from Gretchen Bee Ranch!

• Set a calm mood. Friendsgiving is about relaxing and appreciating friends and food. We light candles and have nice music playing. We make this stovetop concoction that makes the house smell nice and festive. It’s usually cloves, star anise, ginger and cinnamon set on a simmer.

• Ditch the turkey, but keep it simple! Everyone already ate turkey for Thanksgiving and are probably still trying to get rid of leftovers, so we like to do duck or pork loin.

Something that is still able to be served family style is always fun. Sometimes we like to throw in surprise elements to the spread or try out new recipes. The year we did duck, we made scallion pancakes and ginger rice.

• Set the table and serve family style. Layer linens! Pretty platters and natural wood for serving. Throw everything on the table and let your guests choose what they do and don’t like (we all have that picky friend!) Plastic is okay for easy cleanup, but make sure it’s a nice hard plastic! Drop a few extra bucks at Ace Mart for the disposable ware that looks almost too good to throw away. Friendsgiving comes but once a year.

Mariah Delaye Lange, former Culinary Concierge at Hotel Emma • I would say to not worry about cooking a whole turkey, it’s complete overkill... stick to a good size breast, or even better get one from Whole Foods or Central Market already cooked.

• Assign one to two side items per friend/guest, but someone has to organize so no one doubles up.

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Fast casual dining has hit the pizza landscape and San Antonians are no strangers to it. Quicky Wood Fired Pizzas opened early this year, and Urban Bricks has been been adding locations since 2015 across the nation, with more than 100 franchise locations in the works throughout the U.S. and Canada.

And just like its fast casual brethren in Chipotle and the like, fast casual pizzas aim for speed at a generally inexpensive price point, but where burritos can be cobbled together in less than a minute, fast-casual pizza asks you to wait on baking times and, well, other customers. We all know my feelings on knowing your pizza topping order.

The newly opened 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza, which also launched in 2015 in New Jersey, is giving San Antonians more options in a bumpin’ area, and so far, local franchisee Ashley Andres has a winner.

We stopped by for a weekday lunch and the former home of Fattboy Burgers is nearly unrecognizable. The bones are there, but the location ditched a kitchen in place of a massive wood-fired oven that makes the namesake pizza in less than two minutes. Unlike Urban and Quicky, 1000 Degrees features several sizes to choose from: a Roman flatbread, along with 10-inch and 14-inch options.

The menu features a handful of pre-designed pizzas, and a DIY option (and unless you KNOW what you’re getting on your pie, don’t hold up the line).

I chose The Philly, topped with a balsamic onions base, mozzarella, and thinly sliced rib-eye and added green bell peppers and black olives (toppings are unlimited!). The pie could have used a drizzle of cheese sauce to keep in line with a true Philly cheesesteak it was emulating, but the balsamic added a touch of tartness and sweetness, which helped balance the pie. And my pizza builder from across the glass handled the pie efficiently even though it was her second day on the job. The sausage pepperoni build-your-own pie option my lunch companion created was a classic take. Both pizzas nailed the crispycrunchy crust with a good char.

A true highlight came via the pesto fire-roasted wings, also available in Buffalo, smokey bourbon barbecue, and garlic. Juicy and with a suitable crunch, the wings were coated with enough pesto to distinguish themselves, without getting soggy.

We’ll have leftovers for days, but if you’re smart, you’ll order a pie while at neighboring Big Hops and share with friends. Pizza and craft beer, what more do you want?

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For some time now sweet potato Jameson and other Irish whiskey have been popular in bars all over San Antonio. Since its conception in Southtown’s Bar 1919, it quickly spread as far north to bars like Edison Experiment and the Green Lantern. The slightly sweet, slightly earthy shot is perfect for keeping warm during colder months and its flavor profile pairs well with the savory menus that come out around the holidays.

The shot was just the beginning. It’s now dropped into Guinness or a similar stout creating a sweet potato bomb that’s chugged by industry folk and bar newbies alike.

Cocktails with a similar sweet, savory profile started filling menus in bars across the city, too. From pop-ups and craft cocktails bars in the downtown area, to restaurants as far as Boerne, all have a flavorful drink featured on their menu. Even pop-ups have gotten into the savory cocktail idea. The “Girl Gang” which hosts pop-ups every month at different bars around the city recently featured a drink called the Relax It’s Only Magic, which included Treaty Oak rum, lemon, and an ube (a purple yam) simple syrup.

If you are craving an earthy purple cocktail now, head over

to La Roca Cantina, the menu features the Beet El’ Juice, a combination of reposado tequila, fresh lime and orange juices, and beet syrup for $9. Pro-tip: switch the tequila for mezcal to get a smoky flavor. For another earthy drink with a different flavor profile, try the Rocksteady (Jamaican rum, Cynar, oregeat, peach, and lemon). This cocktail is $12 and while it does take on a bit of a tiki profile, the artichoke of the Cynar gives it a savory and bitter taste at the end to balance the drink.

Craving more Cynar? That thirst can be satisfied with Lights Out in Marfa, one of the more popular drinks at Cured in the Pearl Brewery. The Light Out in Marfa (with Del Maguey Vida Mezcal, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur and Cynar) is a smoky, sweet, and bitter cocktail that is perfect for sipping on while enjoying rich charcuterie or eating a diverse Thanksgiving dinner. The drink will set you back $15, but going during happy hour knocks it down to $7.50 though, and as long you have these ingredients at home, the drink is fairly easy to make. It takes 2 ounces of mezcal, ¾ ounce of maraschino, and ¾ ounce of Cynar; stir and then garnish with an orange rind.

If you can’t make it downtown that often, and tend to stay

on the Northern side of town, you can head over to Peggy’s on the Green, just a short trip up I-10 and get the Old Timer (Punt e Mes, Cynar, Old Forester, lemon, sugar, soda, and angostura). The drink is a bitter twist on an Old Fashioned, since it features whiskey it’s the perfect option for someone who wants the flavor profile of the drinks the other bars have, but might not be too fond of mezcal and rum drinks.

If you want another savory whiskey cocktail to sip on during your own holiday meal, the Spruce, a lifestyle site, has a great recipe that is easy to make. Take 1 ½ ounces of Scotch, 1 ounce of red beet juice (score some at Revolucion Coffee + Juice), ¾ ounce honey and ¾ ounce of lemon juice, throw them into a shaker and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. You can use a sprig of tarragon for garnish and it’ll really up your cocktail game impressing that grouchy relative you have to deal with over the holidays.

Erin Winch writes about boozin’ in the Alamo City on her blog Drinking In SA. Follow her on Instagram at @drinking.in.sa for more.

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Patrons: While the crowd might vary on a Friday or later into the night when they offer all night happy hours, the daytime happy hour is host to groups of mompreneurs and PTA higherups who gather and gossip over ceviche and inexpensive margaritas.

into the bar area, and can either sit yourself or wait for a server to come and seat you in the actual restaurant. It doesn’t matter which you choose, as the specials are available throughout the joint and, save for the group of ladies sipping on flavored margaritas, the seating is ample.

While you wont be greeted with a big grin and a loud “Welcome!” at the door, the service at Costa Pacifica is decent.

The servers know the menu well, they are kind, and they know how to give a table and a patron space. The menu has a wide variety, featuring different dishes focusing on fish, with nachos for the non-adventurous types.

The drink menu only consists of bottled beers, wells, and frozen margaritas, but they are very decently priced, and if you are interested in spending more, Costa Pacifica does have a couple of craftier cocktails.

Costa Pacifica offers a cheap alternative to the pricey Stone Oak area. It’s a great place to pull over and kill an hour while waiting for traffic on 1604 to die down, or to just meet a big group for a quick bite.

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Happy Hour: Happy hour runs Wednesday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. then all day Monday and Tuesday. It features food specials for $5.99, wells, margaritas, and beer bottles for $2.99 along with a discount on premium spirits and shots. Up your house margarita to a flavored one for an extra dollar.

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For the third year in a row, the award-winning Kinsman rakia will replace Cognac and make for a fun holiday tipple across San Antonio at bars such as Bar 1919, Biga on the Banks, Bite, Brooklynite, George’s Keep, Hoppy Monk, Juniper Tar, Liberty Bar, Piatti, Rosella at the Rand, and Signature. The self-guided tour starts November 23 and ends December 31, with each bar presenting their take on this boozy classic. Tour responsibly.

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Organizers, along with the San Antonio Cerveceros and San Antonio Beer Magazine are hosting a mid-year soiree on December 7 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Brick with food from Botika, Southerleigh, Weathered Souls and Blue Star, and beers from more than a dozen area breweries, each bringing rare pours.

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A conversation with Third Root’s Charles “Easy Lee” Peters

The hip-hop community in San Antonio is thriving. Although pockets of hip-hop culture have always existed in and around the city, lately those areas have started to bleed into each other to a point that folks outside of the rap scene are starting to take notice. From venues like Paper Tiger, Limelight, Ventura and Fitzgerald’s steady curation of rap shows with the help of numerous promoters of the genre throughout the Alamo City, it’s not hard to happen upon a hip-hop event happening in town on any given week throughout the year. Even Brick at Blue Star will host a Wu-Tang member time and again like when Killah Priest showed up a few weeks ago to bless a mic at the art space/venue.

But not every rapper or group is alike. And seldom artists, even beyond the 210, are able to match the fierce delivery of revolutionary lyrics, and hard-hitting beats for a sound that has made Third Root a regional favorite – garnering numerous performances at SXSW, and grabbing the attention of folks like Grammy Awardwinning producer and musician Adrian “AQ” Quesada who produced the group’s third record Libertad (released in October) and has also worked with bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout.

A collaboration of Easy Lee (MoJoe), Dr. Marco Cervantes (Mexican StepGrandfather) and DJ Chicken George, Third Root doesn’t really need introduction.

Since forming in 2011, and with three albums out now, the group has been active in mobilizing the black and brown communities in San Antonio and the region by tackling themes of racism, flawed education systems and police brutality in their lyrics.

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at some point. I think it’s happening with the core of artists coming up, the young people coming up, I feel like there’s more awareness going on in the city for sure.

What is different about this album from all your other records?

Knowing each other’s voices before even hearing it on the tracks. Knowing each others writing habits, knowing how folks respond to different songs at our shows …

We started writing in a way that we know “this will work in a show." All of that stuff’s happening the more that you record but then also with the first album, we took my background from Mojoe which was a soul/ hip-hop band and we took Mex-Step’s background as kind of the traditional DJ and MC with a revolutionary message, and we kind of mixed it up on the first album in 2012’s Stand For Something. Then in 2014, we said let’s find one producer that can give us one sound and let’s see if that progresses the conversation, and it did.

Greg G gave us the soundtrack for the second album Revolutionary Theme Music.

Then we went to use Adrian Quesada’s studio to record something totally different.

He heard what we were doing and he said, “I wanna cut some music with ya’ll.” That turned into [Quesada] being the musical supervisor for the the third album and I think that we found the right sound for the message for our voices. And I think that’s the biggest thing. We’ve [had a message], but you gotta have the right soundtrack for people to actually hear it.

The Current caught up with Charles "Easy Lee" Peters who, while continuing to pen brilliant rap verses, is actually now teaching ninth grade high school English in Zone 1 over on the west side of Atlanta.

Do you think that it’s happening in San Antonio?

I feel like it’s definitely taking place in the city. The programs that are in the universities … I’ve seen the marches down in the city … the tolerance for everybody’s lifestyle ... I just feel like San Antonio is coming into its own as far as revolutionary thinking. And I think it’s really been set in tradition – intentionally. But it has to evolve

“Justice Or Else" is probably my favorite track on this album. It’s got

Whoa. That’s tight!

That was even before we recorded the whole album. So, we put it out there as a single ‘cause it was early, kinda like we did with this new Kawhi song, just to let people know we were working and it ended up being a song that we’d have to do at our live show. Like, people love that song, so I’m glad that it stuck.

It makes you move! I think that’s one thing with art. You can have a dope message, but when you have a song that matches the lyrics with the same intensity, that’s makings for a hot track.

Exactly.

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Y’all have been on this conscious rap thing for a minute. What’s it like watching people become increasingly aware of social injustices as an artist whose part of a group that’s been doing this for so long already?

We talk about that all the time as far as mass consciousness happening or mass wokeness going down right in front of our eyes. It’s been gratifying, in one sense, to know that we saw that moment coming.

‘Cause you know Third Root is based on the idea of black and brown overlap. All the research that Mex-Step has done with his position at UTSA. When we first started, he

presented books and texts for me to look at. It became very obvious to me that with the population growing in the United States of Mexicans and people with immigrant backgrounds, that this country is changing, there’s no getting around it. So, with that change is going to come resistance and then there’s going to be resistance to the resistance. [Consciousness] has been our premise from the beginning.

that old school boom-bap edge to it.

What’s that sample on there from?

That’s Louis Farrakhan in the middle talking about “We’ll talk about justice and we’ll talk about what else?” You know, like what else is coming? The thing about “Justice or Else” is we were asked by Farrakhan’s granddaughter Queen YoNasDa (Yonasda Lonewolf Hill) – she’s actually on the album. I invited her to the studio one night here in Atlanta to listen to the album. And we just got into a conversation. I said, “You mind if I pull a mic into the room?”

She said, “Sure,” so I took a small piece of that conversation and put it on the end of the song called “Village for the Truth.”

So [Queen YoNasDa was the one] who actually asked us to make a song for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.

“Justice or Else” was the theme they had for the march, so I went up to DC and they used our song on the website as the theme song for the march.

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If someone was going to listen to just one track from this record what would you want them to hear? Would it be “Justice or Else” or a different one?

When we recorded “Reflection of the Times,” we knew that we had what we needed for the album. The statement of what we do is we write music that puts whatever year we’re recording in into a time capsule. But also, Reggie Coby on the hook [made it] melodic. We always come up with a lot with forceful rap and a lot of our hooks sometimes are spoken or chanted, but we had the melody with it. I just think it’s a wellrounded song and it sums up the themes of the album.

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What’s your view on hip-hop today? Commercial rap has been around since the beginning, but lately it seems like there’s more mumble rap and trappers now than there are people who actually write bars. What’s your take on the state of the genre?

I just came up with a song with this concept: you’re not a rapper / you might be a trapper / you might be a money-maker / but there’s heroes out here. There’s heroes on these mics. So let’s separate the two. But I think that hip-hop though, as a culture, even with the music that’s going on now, I love where we are because now we have OGs; we have elder statesmen. Like, we have Bun B at Rice University, and you have 9th Wonder at Duke, and you have Questlove at NYU, and you have Mex-Step at UTSA, right? That doesn’t happen if these young people aren’t doing what they’re doing. And I know that’s a weird way to look at it, but they keep the conversation of rap going for the masses. While the masses are entertained, that’s allowing the people who do have something to say and something to offer the culture, room to work.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying.

We have a generation to touch, so we need them to keep expressing themselves. ‘Cause all they can really do is express what’s going on. Hip-hop is a reflection of what’s going on, so guess what? There’s a lot of fuckery going on out here, so guess what these rappers gonna sound like, you know? There’s a lot of people without backbones out here. There’s a lot of racist people who get on TV and talk about nothing and the rappers are gonna reflect that. I think [mumble rap/trap rap] has its place.

That’s almost like light can’t exist without darkness (laughs). (laughs).

Like how do we know what to compare good rap to if there isn’t bad rap?

Exactly, and you know what, to be honest with you, the rappers that are at the top, that are touring and grossing the most, have Hot Sauce Sundays: something to say. There’s always that bar of greatness. I don’t Third Root Vinyl think it’s ever gonna waiver. No matter how much bullshit comes Release & In-Store out on the radio. Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Joey Badass, School Performance, Boy Q, these guys are out here winning the biggest and they Free actually have something to say; they actually look at [hip-hop] as 1pm-4pm Sun., Nov. 26 an art, and execute it at a higher level. I think we will always have a Friends of Sound 700 Fredericksburg Rd, bar set that will reflect what this culture is really all about.

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I’m not telling you that you should probably go to this show stoned out of your mind, but – no, nevermind I am. Not that you would need THC to enjoy this lineup of stoner rock and doom metal, but it may enhance your experience if you already partake of the devil’s lettuce. Hailing from Austin, Texas, stoner rockers Green Beard blend a mix of psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll and metal in the vein of bands like Black Sabbath, and they do it really well, I mean, well enough for us to write about since it’s rare we write about a band you can check out in Austin anytime. Also on the bill is San Antonio’s favorite doom two-piece Cursus who sound like they’re opening a portal to the Upside Down when they get down on stage. Free-$5, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com. – Chris Conde WED

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“My music is just saying reckless shit on a song but going with the flow so they’re still going to fuck with it,” Lil Pump told Noisey in an interview last month. When I hear rappers like Lil Pump and a bunch of these other self-proclaimed “ignorant” trappers like the ones that showed up at Mala Luna, I can’t help but think this is our fault. We did this. America doesn’t want substance anymore, we want a quick fix; so spouting out nonsense lyrics with tired references to pills and strippers over cadences that actually could have thoughtful lyrics are preferred ‘cause these rappers know we’re just trying to vibe. Hip-hop is dead, welcome Lil Pump ... OK, hip-hop isn’t dead, but this ain’t hip-hop, and I know I just sound old but this mumble rap shit reminds me of how corny nu-metal got in the early 2000s after exhausting all their own sounds. I promise, we’re gonna look back 15 years from now and be embarrassed that this shit was in our Spotify playlists. But if you dig this stuff, you’re gonna have a blast at this show. $30-$105, 9pm, 1305 E. Houston St., alamocitymusichall.com. – CC WED

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Easily one of the biggest rap duos to blow up recently, New Orlean’s $uicideboy$ are continuing the trend of trap rap but like, doing it well. And that’s sort of the whole thing with this genre. The world of fast hi-hats and triplet rapping is so utterly saturated that unless an artist or group can really bring something fresh and new or consistently pump out highquality content, the shit sounds played the fuck out. But $lick and Ruby Da Cherry manage to set themselves apart from their trap counterparts, rapping with vibe similar to early Bone Thugs N Harmony and it’s honestly pretty good. Take it from someone who hates most of this style of rap, that’s saying something. $58-$165, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. – CC WED

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RANDAL BRAVERY + SB THE MOORE In an era of time where hip-hop listeners are being asphyxiated by this plague of trap music sweeping the planet, there are the few and the mighty lyricists. Artists who write bars, with substance, perspective, and with some actual shit to say. And also producers who don’t safely lean into the current of rapid-fire hi-hats and 808 kick drums, but instead venture outside the box and push hip-hop into previously unreached territories. Randal Bravery, SB The Moore, Chisme, Satin Hooks and Apaso are all artists who fall into this category, preserving the real artistry and grit fans of the genre were attracted to in the first place. Check out this show if you need to be reminded of what real hiphop is supposed to sound like. $3-$5, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com. – CC THU

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THANKSGIVING DAY DANCE For those looking for a special Tex-Mex outing on Thanksgiving Day, look no further than Cowboys Dancehall. Cowboys will host a special holiday event with a number of legendary Texas artists from the world of Tejano, Tex-Mex, and country. MultiGrammy award-winning accordionist, David Lee Garza will be one of the featured artists at the concert. Hailing from Poteet, Texas, Garza is a legend in Tex-Mex and country music with his hit producing group Los Musicales. One time vocalist for both Garza and San Antonio’s own, Latin Breed, Jay Perez is also on the bill. Lastly, former Mazz vocalist and Grammy award-winner, Jimmy Gonzalez will also be performing with his Grupo Mazz making this a treasured event for the gente of San Antonio. If the family is in town or if you are looking for a Thanksgiving date night of Tex-Mex music, this might the Thanksgiving concert to attend. Pre-sale tickets $15/$20 at the door, 7pm, Cowboys Dancehall, 3030 NE Loop 410 @ I-35, 210-646-9378, cowboysdancehall.com. – JJ Lopez

What I love about folk music and singer songwriters in general is the absolute freedom it sounds like those folks (pun intended) have in their genre. There’s literally no rules – I mean, besides playing music or singing; well, sometimes you don’t even really need to sing (see old Bob Dylan).

And though they get lumped together, people like Dylan, Paul Simon or even Johnny Cash (a stretch, I know, but hear me out) don’t exactly sound the same but still can be considered folk based on their storytelling prowess. Austin’s Slaid Cleaves is perfect example of this, sounding like he probably could show up on a mix with the aforementioned Dylan, Cash and Simon while possessing his own distinct sound. $22-$90, 7:30pm, Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830. – CC FRI

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BLUE OCTOBER Originally formed in Houston in 1995, Blue October grabbed the attention of Kid Rock’s former manager early in their career and eventually signed to Universal Records, launching the band into the deep pools of mainstream rock. While the Texas boys have a heavy mainstream radio rock sound, traces remain of Americana and even post-rock – that is, along with the kind of heavy production that just goes with the territory of being a huge rock ‘n’ roll band. With numerous releases, countless tours, and a few member changes, Blue October isn’t going anywhere. 9pm, $49.50, $65, $75, Aztec Theater, 104 N. St. Mary’s St. – CC SAT

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The Lavens Family band playing Americana originals and covers. Free. The Cove, 6:30-8:30pm

Bru’s Tunes Live acoustic music. Free. La Hacienda De Los Barrios, 6-9pm

Lesti Huff Band Local roots rock act.

Free. The Cove, 9-11pm

Greenbeard Stoner rock band from Austin, joined by local acts Cursus and Hiawatha. Free-$5. Limelight, 9pm

L&M Kings Honky-tonk act at Luckenbach.

Free. Luckenbach Dance Hall, 4-7pm

Primetime Jazz Orchestra John Magaldi’s Primetime Jazz Orchestra.

Free. The Cove, 8-10pm MON-THU : 4PM-2AM | FRI-SUN: 2PM-2AM

JJ Garrett Texas county rock act. Free.

Rolling Oaks Golf Club Bar and Grill, 8-11pm

Madonna Celebration Madonna tribute with DJ Danny-D. Free. Jack Rabbit, 9pm

MadonnaLanaRama DJ JustAngel & Boi Of Doom spin Madonna and Lana Del Traditional Music of the Middle East Rey tracks along with 80s, 90s and indie An evening of Arabic, Greek, Turkish and dance. Free. The Mix, 10pm Persian music. Free. Naara Cafe and Micky and The Motorcars Americana Hookah, 9-11pm rock band joined by John Baumann.

Wade Bowen Texas country singer/ $12-$15. John T Floore’s Country songwriter joined by The Mismatch. $25.

Store, 9pm Gruene Hall, 8pm Mushroom Honey Local hard rock band Wednesday Evening Picker Circle plays their CD release show, joined by Acoustic circle with Brent Ryan. Free.

Konvxtion. Free. Zombies, 8pm Luckenbach Dance Hall, 5-9pm Pat Green Texas country musician at THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Gruene Hall. $35 (Sold Out). Gruene Hall, 8pm David Lee Garza y Los Musicales American Tejano act joined by Jimmy Rust In Peace Local heavy metal band Gonzalez and Jay Perez. $15-$20. performs a Megadeth tribute set and Cowboys Dancehall, 8pm covers other metal classics. Free. Bond’s 007 Rock Bar, 9:30-11:30pm Thursday Night Picker Circle With Ben Beckendorf. Free. Luckenbach Dance The Peterson Brothers Blues act at Hall, 5-9pm Gruene Hall. Free. Gruene Hall, 12-4pm FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 The Aaron Prado Trio Texas act performing jazz music. Free. Jazz, TX, 5:30-7:30pm Big Band Christmas 17-piece jazz and western swing band performs their Christmas show. $30. Jazz, TX, 8:3011:30pm Black Celebration DJ Ely Bat spins new wave, dark wave and goth music. Free.

Paper Tiger, 9pm

VHT Van Halen tribute band. $7.75-$20.

Aztec Theatre, 8pm.

West Kings Highway Blues, jazz and Americana at their Friday night residency.

Free. Sancho’s Cantina, 7-9pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 14th Annual Local Disturbance Live musical performances by rock acts Dirty Fat Sewer Rats, Ammo For My Arsenal and more. $10. Jack’s Bar, 6:30pm

Cody Johnson Texas country musician Adam Johnson Band Blues trio at The Cody Johnson performs in support of his Cove. Free. The Cove, 6:30-8:30pm latest album release $20-$50. Cowboys Bad Funky Bones Classic and current Dancehall, 7pm Motown, soul, funk and R&B. Free. The Dia Del Musico Feria De Santa Cecilia Cove, 9-11pm hosts three days of live music to Big Band Christmas 17-piece jazz and celebrate the Patron Saint of Musicians. western swing band performs their Free. Historic Market Square, noon-7pm Christmas show. $30. Jazz, TX, 8:30Friday Afternoon Picker Circle With 11:30pm Hayden Whittington. Free. Luckenbach Community MESSIAH - Sing! The Dance Hall, 1-4pm San Antonio Choral Society invites its Hyperlight Driveship Psych-rock band audience to sing the Christmas portion joined by 16 the Olympus, Phantom of Handel’s Messiah with soloists and Chatter and more. $5. Imagine Books orchestra. $15. Travis Park United and Records, 8-11:45pm Methodist Church, 7-8:30pm

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David Selbo Pop, jazz, blues, folk, and soul. Peggy’s on the Green, 6:30-9pm Eric Tessmer Band Blues rock guitarist and singer/songwriter from Austin. $10$50. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm Dia Del Musico Feria De Santa Cecilia hosts three days of live music to celebrate the Patron Saint of Musicians. Free. Historic Market Square, noon-7pm Flat Top Jones Country act at Gruene Hall. Free. Gruene Hall, 1-5pm Flatland Cavalry Country/Americana band from Lubbock, joined by Kaitlin Butts. $12. Gruene Hall, 9pm Grownhop Music Experience Hosted

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Free. The Cove, 1-3pm Downtown Local Sounds Featuring local musicians This Is Where Two Oceans Meet, Formative Fire and River Baron.

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Will Owen Gage Roots rock and blues act. $10-$45. Sam’s Burger Joint, 6pm MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Bret Graham Country musician at Gruene Hall. Free. Gruene Hall, 6-10pm

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your boyfriend (if he’s game) to do much less horrible things to an imaginary third person to entertain yourselves.

But why limit this to fantasy? Why not fuck your fiancé’s brains out after flirting with and subsequently humiliating a living, breathing, willing third?

But first, MEAN, give some thought to what exactly turns you on about this and then discuss it with your fiancé. It turns you on to see your partner through another’s eyes for obvious reasons — when someone else wants to fuck him, you see him with fresh eyes and want to fuck him that much more. As for the power-play aspects of your fantasy, does your turn-on evaporate if your victim is a willing participant? And how do you feel about threesomes? Threesomes don’t have to involve intercourse or outercourse or any other sort of ’course, of course.

Bringing someone else in — someone who gets off on the idea of being humiliated — counts as a threesome, even if all your third “gets” to do is be ditched in a bar.

You could even work up to letting your willing third watch and/or listen while your fiancé gets to do what he will never get to do — fuck your amazing brains out — which would allow for the humiliation games to continue all night long.

Once G is on board, MEAN, you can start with a little role-playing about this scenario. Then, once you’ve established that this is as exciting for G as it is for you, advertise for your willing third. The internet is for porn, first and foremost, but it’s also pretty good at bringing likeminded kinksters together. As long as your third consents to the play and gets off on it, you aren’t poisoning the well or doing harm. And if you’re worried it won’t be as much fun if your victim is a willing participant, MEAN, remember there will be witnesses, i.e., other people in the bar who won’t know it was a setup, and in their eyes you will be cruelly humiliating this poor schmuck.

Not into threesomes of any sort? Well, flirting is just flirting — it’s not a binding contract — and there’s no law that requires all flirtations to be strictly sincere and/or immediately actionable. A little We watch imaginary people being harmed casual flirtation with someone else before your fiancé rolls into a bar is permissible — much more grievously harmed — in — but you’ll have to let the other person movies and on television and read about imaginary people being harmed in novels. know right away that you have a fiancé and that this flirtation isn’t going Think of poor Barb in Stranger Things or anywhere, and then you can’t go too crazy poor Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones with the PDA once your fiancé arrives. or poor Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey. If it’s okay for the Duffer brothers mail@savagelove.net and HBO and E.L. James to do horrible @fakedansavage on Twitter things to these imaginary people to entertain us, MEAN, it’s okay for you and ITMFA.org I’m a twentysomething straight woman. About a month ago, I had a really vivid dream in which I was at a party and engaging with a guy I had just met. We were seriously flirting. Then my fiancé showed up — my real, flesh-and-blood, sleepingnext-to-me fiancé — who we’ll call G. In the dream, I proceeded to shower G with attention and PDA; I was all over him in a way we typically aren’t in public. I was clearly doing it to get a reaction from the guy I’d just spent the last dream-hour seducing. It was as if it had been my plan all along.

Last night, I had a similar dream. This time, the guy was an old high-school boyfriend, but otherwise it was the same: flirty baiting, followed by the use of G to reject and humiliate the other guy. I was really turned on by these dreams. In real life, whenever another woman has flirted with G, I get aroused — conscious of some feelings of jealousy but drawing pleasure from them. And when other men have flirted with me, I get similarly aroused for G. There is definitely a component in that arousal that wants to tease and mock these other men with what they can’t have, even though the teasing is just in my head. I would NEVER use another person like I do in these dreams/ fantasies, because it’s cruel. But could this become a healthy role-playing outlet for me and G? Are there ethical implications to hurting strangers (albeit imaginary ones) for sexual pleasure? From what little I know of degradation/humiliation kinks, it’s important that the person being degraded is experiencing pleasure and satisfaction. Is it healthy to make someone’s (again, an imaginary someone’s) unwilling pain a part of our pleasure? If G is into it, this would be our first foray into fantasy/ role-playing/whatever. But I worry that I might be poisoning the well by pursuing something so mean-spirited.

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2. “So much depends on what you are expecting.” 3. “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” 4.

“The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.” 5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your longterm financial plans. It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

even close to being half-true! Here’s my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit.

Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness, and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success. You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Journalist James A. Fussell defined “thrashing” as “the act of tapping helter-skelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist. You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command. You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy? It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them. You have license to be saucy, sassy, and extra sly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A snail can CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s observe slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained a moment of silence for the illusion that is experts, specialists in the art of mind over in the process of disintegrating. It has been matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of a pretty illusion, hasn’t it? Filled with hope VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What exactly is the and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. hot coals without getting burned. According epic, overarching goal that you live for? What to my analysis of the astrological omens, But then again — on second thought — its is the higher purpose that lies beneath every Pisces, you now have the metaphorical prettiness was more the result of clever one of your daily activities? What is the heroic packaging than inner beauty. The hope was equivalent of powers like these. To ensure identity you were born to create but have not they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must somewhat misleading, the gusto contained yet fully embodied? You may not be close to believe in yourself more than you ever have more than a little bluster, and the fuel was GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I used to have a knowing the answers to those questions right an inefficient source of motivation. Still, before. Luckily, life is now conspiring to help girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The now, Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of you do just that. let’s observe a moment of silence anyway. poor woman had been raised in a fanatical meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow profound solace and pleasure from rebelling the corner. Be alert for it. In a metaphorical against that religion’s main holiday. One of her sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals tree and hang it upside-down from the ceiling. lucid answers to the questions I posed in the She decorated it with ornamental dildos she beginning of this horoscope. had made out of clay. While I understood LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We all need her drive for revenge and appreciated the teachers. We all need guides and instructors entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the and sources of inspiration from the day enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy world, each of us would always have a have been much better spent inventing new personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect in our learning and keep us focused on the time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have to the negative emotions that arose in that personal mentor, we have to fend for response to past frustrations and failures. ourselves. We’ve got to be proactive as we Focus on the future. push on to the next educational frontier. The CANCER (June 21-July 22): So begins the next four weeks will be an excellent time for “I Love To Worry” season for you Cancerians. you to do just that, Libra.

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