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African American Art Spring 2018 Something to Say The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art

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Rubell Family Collection FEBRUARY 8 | MAY 6, 2018 Lead funding for Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art and 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection is most generously provided by Jane Stieren Lacy; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; USAA, Guillermo Nicolas and Jim Foster; Metropolitan Methodist Hospital; Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation; and San Antonio (TX) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.

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The Next Chapter MARCH 1 | MAY 6, 2018 Lead funding for Haiti’s Revolution: Jacon Lawrence’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Series and 4 Texans: The Next Chapter is most generously provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Exhibition Endowment and the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions.

Bob Thompson, Untitled (detail), 1960-61.Oil on canvas. The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts © Estate of Bob Thompson; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.

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On Pasta from the Heart: In the Kitchen with Battalion's Pasta Chef // Great story, great food, great place and great prices, your winning – Tim Calderon On Gang Members Will Uphold "Penitentiary Rules" If Rapper 6ix9ine Plays San Antonio Tonight // Bar 23 should be held accountable for whatever violence or mayhem happens as a result of this show. They were informed months in advance about this guy and his record and that it was inappropriate for him to play an all ages show, but they didn’t care. The owner literally told me ‘it’s business, if you don’t like it don’t let your kids come.’

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Prosperity for Some Records show Centro’s spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on lobbying, private events

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COVER As we prepare to dive into Contemporary Art Month (CAM), the history-focused Tricentennial exhibition series “Common Currents” (which unites six venues and nearly 300 artists) stands out as a 2018 highlight we’ll be talking about for years to come.

Currently on view at Blue Star Contemporary, photographer Josh Huskin’s contribution to “Common Currents” employs a goat named Carla to reference the 18th-century landmark known as Rancho de las Cabras.

Art direction by Carlos Aguilar.

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Job Security After his felony conviction, state Sen. Carlos Uresti’s job is at risk. But his pension is safe.

Seduce & Destroy Red Sparrow is a provocative spy story but never truly takes flight

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Food Court Range makes Texas Monthly’s best new restaurant’s, and first thoughts on Buddy V’s La Cantera Restaurant

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Cultural Currents, Historical Legacies and Contemporary Art CAM 2018 celebrates local art, nods to the Tricentennial

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Tipple Test The Bottling Department’s all day happy hour should be on your radar

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Watch List What artists to check out during the inaugural Botánica Music Festival Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

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Prosperity for Some Records show Centro’s spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on lobbying, private events ALEX ZIELINSKI | @ALEX_ZEE

>Centro’s money drama is far from over.

In November, Centro (the nonprofit that contracts with the city to support downtown development) announced a supposedly recent discovery: a former staff accountant had embezzled nearly $300,000 in a blend of city and privately-donated dollars. Centro CEO Pat DiGiovanni immediately resigned, claiming he knew nothing about the financial mishaps.

But, while he may have been in the dark about the accounting scheme, we now know he was very much involved in other unchecked ways the organization handled taxpayer dollars. According to a records request by the San Antonio Express-News, Centro spent tens of thousands of city dollars on parties, lobbying, fundraisers, last-minute trips, and festivals outside of downtown. All of this took place under DiGiovanni’s watch — including a $281 check to his son for social media work and $586 to cover him and his wife’s plane tickets to Chicago.

It’s important to note that Centro is split into two different nonprofits: The Centro Alliance, a downtown developer advocacy group that’s entirely funded by private donations, and Centro San Antonio, which manages the downtown “public improvement district” (also known as PID) for the city using taxpayer dollars. Each month, Centro sends invoices to the city to cover PID-applicable costs, and the city complies. Since October 2013, the city has given Centro $18.9 million, according to records obtained by the paper. But, as the Express-News’ Richard Webner reports, that money hasn’t solely been used to

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improve public spaces downtown.

Webner found that $89,000 of those taxpayer bucks went to pay for the party Centro held downtown when it got a new logo ($775 went to a stilt walker hired to work that event).

Centro also spent no less than $163,000 in PID dollars on consulting work to help the nonprofit convince the city to hand over a significant chunk of the year’s $850 million bond. Essentially, the nonprofit used city dollars to lobby the city itself. And it was successful. The city gave Centro $140 million in dollars for bond projects they lobbied hard for — expanded lanes on the Broadway corridor, development along San Pedro Creek and the adjacent area dubbed Zona Cultural, and development in Hemisfair Park.

Centro wasn’t the only organization to benefit from this use of public funds. According to DiGiovanni, members of the bond committee who chose these projects “were asked to leave their own agendas and preconceived notions at the door.” But most of its members, including Pete Cortez (owner of Zona Cultural’s Mi Tierra) and Madison Smith (with Overland Partners, the architecture firm designing the $200-million Hemisfair project) all worked for companies that would benefit immensely from the bond — far more than the average San Antonian they were supposedly planning for.

Centro’s mission is to create a “vibrant and prosperous downtown that benefits the entire San Antonio community” and “mobilize people and

resources to build a more prosperous downtown.”

I guess spending thousands of dollars to help out development friends could fall into the “prosperity” category — but only for a select few.

Webner found the nonprofit also used PID funds to sponsor festivals that fell outside of downtown. Like $7,500 for the 2016 Mala Luna Music Festival at the Lone Star Brewery and $1,500 for the 2016 Richter Fest music festival held at Broadway News.

Centro also spent $3,274 on a last-minute trip to Chicago to meet with executives of Entertainment Cruises, another group Centro lobbied the city to manage the River Walk’s barges. A whopping $2,337 was spent on plane tickets, and the rest on high-end hotel rooms, dinners, and drinks.

Altogether, Webner reports, Centro used taxpayer dollars to cover over $12,000 on meals and $12,000 on flights and hotels during fiscal year 2017. A hefty slice of the meal expenses came from events where Centro was fundraising for the Centro Alliance.

Trish DeBerry, CEO of the DeBerry Group, a public relations firm, and Centro board member told the Express-News there was an obvious lack of financial oversight in the nonprofit — but board members weren’t aware of it until now.

“You see what we see as a board,” she said.

“It’s disappointing, and there’s a reason why Pat (DiGiovanni) tendered his resignation.”

DiGiovanni sees it differently. He told Webner: “I have not taken one dime from Centro that I wasn’t entitled to.”

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Job Security EMMA PLATOFF, FOR THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

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After his felony conviction, state Sen. Carlos Uresti’s job is at risk. But his pension is safe.

apply to crimes committed before June 2017, according to Mary Jane Wardlow, spokeswoman for the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

The 11 crimes Uresti was convicted of on Thursday — and the separate bribery charges he’ll go on trial for in May — took place before the law went into effect.

Uresti isn’t up for re-election until 2020, but he’s already been relieved of some of his Senate duties. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, announced yesterday that he’d remove Uresti from his Senate committees.

And his Senate colleagues might have the option to remove him from the upper chamber before his term ends, though the procedures for such a step are murky and rarely used. The Republican Party of Texas and the Senate Democratic Caucus have both called on him to resign.

The Texas Constitution allows each house of the Legislature to “expel a member” with a two-thirds vote. That provision also appears in the Texas Senate rules.

But it seems that that hasn’t happened since 1927, according to Ana Martinez of the Legislative Reference Library. In that case, Francis Dale and H.H. Moore were tossed out of the House on bribery charges.

Off-Label ≥ JOLIE MCCULLOUGH, FOR THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

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It didn’t take long for the rebukes to start pouring in after state Sen. Carlos Uresti was convicted of 11 felonies Thursday.

Colleagues on the left and right called on him to resign.

But the San Antonio Democrat insisted after the verdict that he had no immediate plans to step down and pledged to appeal his convictions. A day later, the Republican Party of Texas asked in a press release, “Why has Carlos Uresti not resigned?”

But Uresti has at least one big reason to stay in his seat: money.

State legislators draw a puny salary — just $7,200 per year, with an additional per diem during legislative session. But their government pensions can grow as large as $140,000 per year.

Uresti would still be able to draw his sizable government pension after he leaves office, despite his felony fraud and money laundering convictions. And with every month that he remains in the Senate, it just gets bigger.

The Employees Retirement System of Texas can’t confirm whether individual lawmakers elect to receive government pensions, but all state legislators are eligible — and it’s an attractive package.

The size of a government pension is determined by a legislator’s years served. Since Uresti has served nearly 21 years in the Legislature — combined with potential additions for his four years of active service as a U.S. Marine and other optional service credits — his pension could already be as large as $89,000 per year.

Felons are ineligible to serve in the Texas Legislature, but Uresti can keep his seat while he appeals. If he serves until the end of his current term in January 2021 his pension could grow by more than $9,000.

And that money won’t go away even if Uresti is finally convicted.

A law passed last year renders certain felons ineligible to receive government pensions. But that law isn’t retroactive, meaning it doesn’t

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas case Monday that questioned the constitutionality of the state’s execution process.

The lawsuit dated back to 2013, when multiple death row inmates sued the Texas prison system claiming its lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional in part based on the drugs used in executions. Texas uses pentobarbital compounded at a pharmacy in secret to put inmates to death.

The inmates claimed in part that the lack of additional testing of the dose before an execution and the use of old drugs could cause them severe pain. In the last year, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has seemingly pushed back the expiration dates on the compounded drug used in executions twice.

Texas argued that the prisoners did not present an alternative option for use in executions and has only speculated that the drugs could cause pain. The case had gone back and forth in lower federal courts since then, and had largely been rejected by judges.

Maurie Levin, a lawyer for the inmates, said after the decision that the relevance of the rejected litigation is limited to the drugs used when the lawsuit was filed in 2013 and Texas’ “insistence on dodging accountability and transparency.”

“Texas’ current drug supply is so old using it to carry out executions amounts to scientific experimentation, on human beings,” she said in an email. “Unfortunately, I expect we will see increasingly problematic executions - which will only highlight, again, the consequences of Texas’s commitment to secrecy above all else.”

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LOST & FOUND A signature initiative of San Antonio Poet Laureate Jenny Browne This exhibition is grounded in the history of San Antonio, featuring community poems and artworks that pay tribute to the known and lost history of our City by examining the personal, social, and historical connections to the land, people, and cultures that make up the City’s landscape in 2018.

selected readings & film screening Jenny Browne will speak about the St. Anthony Lost and Found project and introduce the film produced

by Joey Fauerso and Paul Fauerso for the exhibition.

John Phillip Santos, Rosemary Catacalos, and Guests will share selected readings from De Unos Lugares Perdidos, or Of A Few Places Lost in Time and Cuentos de San Antonio/Stories from St. Anthony.

Trinity University students will read ekphrastic poems inspired by the exhibition.

date Thursday, 1 March 2018 where Culture Commons Gallery 115 Plaza de Armas SATX 78205 time 6pm – 8pm

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Can’t Beat Love Sponsored by Family Violence Prevention Services and the National Council of Jewish Women, among other community partners, the Can’t Beat Love youth film contest aims to give local teens a platform to creatively address an array of difficult issues. Having WED previously challenged high schoolers with tackling themes such as peer pressure, bullying and substance abuse, Can’t Beat Love sets its sights on the troubling topic of teen trafficking. Responding to an open call for submissions, more than 200 local filmmakers created brief films (between 30 seconds and five minutes) falling in the categories of Public Service Announcement and Short Film (documentary, animation or foreign language). Emceed by WOAI news anchor Amanda Weber, Wednesday’s Awards Night screening will honor six standouts with prizes ranging from $125 (third place in PSA category) to $700 (first place in short film category). The evening also includes a local dance team performance, games and music by DJ Switchblade. Free, 7pm, Santikos Silverado 16, 11505 N. Loop 1604 W., (210) 695-5279, cantbeatlovesa.org. — Lori Salazar

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In conjunction with Trinity University’s Mexico, the Americas, and Spain (MAS) program and its Álvarez Seminar (a series combining lectures, readings, performances, films and workshops), Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz presents a selection of excerpts from her poetry and song collection The Canción Cannibal Cabaret. Inspired by the current political climate and issues of social injustice, the experimental project fuses elements of radio plays and concept albums into what’s described as “a refugee, POC, feminist, LGBTQ call to action.” A theater arts instructor at SAY Sí who was recently named Artpace’s inaugural performing artist resident, Ortiz has appeared on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and her book Rant.

Chant. Chisme. earned the 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Discovery Prize. Free, 5:30-7:30pm, Trinity University, Northrup Hall 040, One Trinity Pl., (210) 999-7011, new.trinity.edu. — LS

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We’re already 150 years deep in “Common Currents,” the farflung Tricentennial exhibition series that unites nearly 300 artists and six cultural institutions (Artpace, Blue Star Contemporary, Southwest School of Art, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Carver Community Cultural Center and the Mexican Cultural Institute). Assembled in a “chain letterinspired” format, the sprawling project invited each participating venue to enlist two artists; that initial group of 12 followed suit, with each artist inviting two peers — and so on until 300 creatives were on board. With each of these exhibition chapters encompassing 50 years of San Antonio history, there’s already an abundance of truly creative interpretations that range from fascinating to fearful to funny. Fourth up to bat in the series, the Guadalupe is set to unveil a wide-ranging group show focused on years falling between 1868 and 1917. Gathering more than a few familiar names — Anita Valencia, Louis Vega Treviño, Ansen Seale, Mark and Angela Walley, Kristel OrtaPuente and Soomin Jung among them — “Common Currents” chapter four encompasses painting, mixed-media, drawing, ceramics and installation … not to mention unexpected references to everything from Dante to 20th Century Fox. Free, 6-9pm, Progreso Building, 1300 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org. — Bryan Rindfuss ART

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Doe Paoro in Celebration of the Opening of Confluence Park and in support of Las Casas’ performing arts educational programs

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George Washington Carver once said, “Start where you are, with DANCE what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied.” After working with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson formed Complexions as a way to strip boundaries from contemporary dance. More than 20 years later, their revered New York company has inspired audiences around the globe with its “continually evolving form of dance that reflects the movement of our world — and all its constituent cultures — as an interrelated whole.” The fusion-minded troupe returns to San Antonio for a presentation of Star Dust, a movement-based tribute to irreplaceable icon David Bowie, to be followed by a Q&A session. $20-$64.50, 7:30pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — Murphi Cook

Coco

Three days after Pixar’s Coco is released on Blu-ray/DVD, Slab Cinema will hold a special outdoor screening of the award-winning animated film for families to enjoy. Coco, which is FRI basically a lock to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature the night after the Slab Cinema screening takes place, tells the story of Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), a young, aspiring musician who journeys to the Land of the Dead to find the truth behind his family’s musical history. The Current put Coco at No. 4 in its Top 10 Films of 2017 and called it, “the standard-bearer of what a positive Latino experience can look like on the big screen for years to come.” Last week, the Current spoke to Gonzalez and demanded an apology for making us ugly-cry at the end of the movie. “That’s the first thing people tell me — that the movie made them cry,” Gonzalez said.

“I think it’s amazing because that means it touched so many people. I’d probably say 70 percent of the people that watched Coco cried.” So, yes, take a box of Kleenex, but more importantly, take your grandma(s). Free, film screens at dusk, Crockett Park, 1300 N. Main Ave., (210) 207-7275, slabcinema.com. — Kiko Martinez FILM

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Josh Wolf A standup who’s toured with both Chelsea Handler and Larry the Cable Guy; appeared in Raising Hope and My Name Is Earl; written a New York Times bestseller titled It Takes Balls: Dating Single Moms and Other Confessions from an Unprepared Single Dad; and hosted Fox Sports’ The College THU-SAT Experiment, Trinity University alum Josh Wolf performs comedy from the sweet spot in the middle of several concentric Venn diagrams that wouldn’t ordinarily be connected. The former Chelsea Lately writer and panelist and Last Comic Standing contestant has also worked as a Nintendo spokesperson, hosted a shark-themed talk show and made multiple appearances on the web series Getting Doug With High (in case you still didn’t think you had any common interests). Wolf’s laid-back goofs fit in just about everywhere, so God knows who’s going to be in the audience — but chances are they’ll be laughing. $20, 8pm Thu, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, lolsanantonio.com. — Jeremy Martin COMEDY

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SPECIAL With a name that references its location at the meeting point of the EVENT San Antonio River and the San Pedro Creek, Confluence Park smartly rises from a city-owned lot formerly used to store construction vehicles.

Commissioned by the San Antonio River Foundation (SARF) and designed

by Lake Flato Architects, Matsys, and Rialto Studio, the park features an education center with an eco-friendly roof, gardens dedicated to native plants, a dramatic, 30-foot-tall concrete pavilion that doubles as a massive water catchment system, and easy access to hiking, biking and kayaking along the Mission Reach. On Saturday, the San Antonio River Authority joins SARF for the unveiling of the “landmark project where culture, education, ecology and recreation meet.” Free, 11am-12:30pm, Confluence Park, 310 W. Mitchell St., (210) 224-2694, confluencepark.sariverfound.org. — BR

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The Devil on the Wall JAMIE CAMPBELL

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Confluence Park Grand Opening Celebration

COMEDY Alternatively titled That Time I Got Kidnapped, comic Jamie Campbell’s one-person storytelling show is based around SAT a true tale of child abuse, bullying, juvenile delinquency and hair metal — parts of which, obviously, are funnier than others. The blog posts detailing the story on Campbell’s site open with a plea to his family members not to look at them, which makes for a pretty good indication of how serious some of Campbell’s childhood recollections can get: “ If you stay here and read this,” says one such disclaimer, “that’s fine, but we’re not talking about it. Cool?

Cool.” But, one post also includes the line, “This was a whole different type of Boner City, and I most certainly was not the mayor.” Named one of the “Best of Fest” shows at the Kansas City Fringe Fest, Devil on the Wall begins a national tour with a two-show stop in San Antonio (March 3 and 10). Campbell, who’s appeared in Chicago Fire and in the feature film Sex Ain’t Love, straddles the line between comedy and personal tragedy with a story that’s only his to tell. $10, 8pm, Bexar Stage, 1203 Camden St., (312) 971-7252, bexarstage.com. — Jeremy Martin

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Spurs vs.

Lakers SPORTS Once regarded as one of the most dynamic rivalries in pro basketball, Spurs versus Lakers lost much of its luster when Los Angeles regressed from playoff contender to lottery team. Currently standing outside the post-season picture, the Lakers have primarily made headlines for moves made off the court. Los Angeles recently traded San Antonio standout Jordan Clarkson and high-flyer Larry Nance Jr. to the Cleveland Cavaliers for two-time All-Star Isaiah Thomas and stretch-four Channing Frye.

San Antonio unsurprisingly stood pat at the trade deadline, electing to wait on the return of injured forwards Kawhi Leonard and Rudy Gay to impact the NBA roster for the second half of the season.

Prior to the All-Star break, Leonard appeared in only nine contests, and the Spurs fielded their full lineup for just one game. A healthy squad is paramount for San Antonio as they jockey for position in a crowded Western Conference playoff race. $74.75-$1,579, 8pm, AT&T Center, One AT&T Center Pkwy., (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com. — M. Solis

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An example of a charitable idea that truly caught on, Empty Bowls brings together potters, educators, caterers and chefs in an effort to combat hunger. Devised in a Michigan high school in 1990 and now under the umbrella of the North Carolina nonprofit Imagine Render Group, the “international grassroots effort” follows a similar format in events across the nation: members of the community are invited to purchase a an artist-made ceramic bowl and enjoy a simple meal of soup and bread, with proceeds benefiting organizations working to end hunger and food insecurity. Launched in 2000 by the San Antonio Potters Guild, the local chapter has raised more than $500,000 benefiting SAMMinistries. The 18th annual event brings an array of handcrafted ceramic bowls, silent-auction items and soups from area eateries to the grounds of the Southwest School of Art. $25 (includes bowl, soup and bread), 11am-2pm, Southwest School of Art, 300 Augusta St., (210) 200-8200, sanantoniopottersguild.com. — BR SPECIAL EVENT

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ART Art opening: “Artflix: A Netflix Originals-Inspired Group Show”

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Karen Rios (Nouveau Nostalgic) and Eddy Rios (Taco Boy Designs), the married duo behind the Creative Creatures Gallery and Shop at Blue Star, draw inspiration from the Netflix Originals universe (films, series, etc.) for a group show featuring works by more than 40 artists — including Ant Lopez, Catherine Collier, Claudia Peña-Martinez, Connie Chapa, Israel Rico, Regina Morales and Zane Thomas. Free, 6-11pm Friday; Creative Creatures, 1420 S. Alamo St., #106B, (210) 441-8491.

Art opening: “K Space in the House”

In an effort to “promote one another, build relationships, create new exhibition opportunities, share ideas, gain new insights, and bridge communities through the arts,” Presa House Gallery welcomes 30 Corpus Christi-based artists, including current and former K Space Studio and K Space Contemporary members and friends, many of whom are exhibiting in San Antonio for the first time. The First Friday opening reception features music by Ernest Leonard, aka DJ Lenyrd Spinyard. Free, 6-11pm Friday; Presa House Gallery, 725 S. Presa St., (210) 913-5842.

Art opening: Kitty Fisher & The Arañitas Cinnabar hosts a solo show for

local artist Sarah Fox, whose latest body of work employs images of women hybrids to explore “the idea of female sexuality and the struggle for control.” Free, 6-9pm Thursday; Cinnabar Art Gallery, 1420 S. Alamo St., Suite #147, (210) 557-6073.

Art opening: “New Works” Revered local

sculptor Danville Chadbourne’s latest body of work comprises “simple organic forms in suggestive conjunctions that elaborate metaphorical issues of ambiguity, morality, accident/intention, contradiction, or existence itself.” Free, 6-9pm Saturday; REM Gallery, 219 E. Park Ave., (210) 224-1227.

Art opening: Photography of Linda Rogers Vivenza Local artist Linda Rogers

Vivenza presents a series of whimsical, staged still-life photographs in observance of Contemporary Art Month. Free, 6-10pm Friday; Art Matters, 1420 S. Alamo St.

Art opening: “Tell Me What It Feels Like” Flax Studio showcases female-

focused photography and a video installation by Texas artist India Treat.

Free, 6-9pm Friday; Flax Studio, 1906 S. Flores St., (909) 518-2245.

Art opening: “Unheimlich” Taking its

name from the German word for “uncanny,” Unheimlich explores dichotomies between the home and the taboo, the normal and

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the unspeakable via collaborative and individual works by Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger. Free, 6-9pm Thursday-Friday; Anthem Gallery, 1420 S. Alamo St.

Art opening: “Versus” Focused on “the

violence of visual systems,” Houston Fryer’s MFA thesis exhibition takes shape in an extremely graphic installation of paintings, props, green-screen technology, and interactive digital projections that transforms the gallery into equal parts theater and playground (viewer discretion is advised). Visitors are invited to play with the exhibition’s interactive features. Free, 6-9pm Thursday-Friday; Terminal 136, 136 Blue Star, (210) 758-6246.

Oh, What A Night! In celebration of

Contemporary Art Month, Choice Goods Gallery unveils Birds of a Feather, an 89-foot mural created by Robert Tatum in collaboration with Scotch!, Andy Benavides, Zane Thomas and more than 20 other artists. Following the mural viewing, Brick hosts an after party featuring work by contributing mural artists and music by Dolphin Dilemma and Verisimilitude. Free, 6pm-midnight, Choice Goods Gallery, 1420 S. Alamo St., #103, (210) 441-8491.

“Shrinking Island” A traveling exhibition

space showcasing wee works of art (viewable through a magnifying glass), the Mini Art Museum pops up at Choice Goods Gallery with “Shrinking Island.” Curated by Jason Reed, the group show features four artists (Lucia Carbajal, Benjamin Powell, Sarah Sheafe and Claudia Salinas) who “use photography to probe at the social, cultural, and political constructs of our contemporary landscape, indexing and translating the symbols, places, and people of a changing world.” Free, noon-6pm Friday-Sunday; Choice Goods Gallery, 1420 S. Alamo St., #103, (210) 441-8491.

FILM Pop Up Happy Hour Cinema The Tobin celebrates CAM with weekly screenings of short films by and about San Antonio artists. Free, 5:30-6:30pm Friday; Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, Will Naylor Smith Plaza, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624.

THEATER Bless Me, Ultima Dogeared copies of

Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima adorn many a bookshelf, and now San Antonians have an opportunity to see it rendered live on stage. For the next installment of The Classic Theater of San Antonio’s 10th anniversary season, director José Ruben Dé León turns the spotlight on

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Latinx culture with an adaptation of Anaya’s Park (10am) for a blessing (10:30am) before groundbreaking portrait of the Chicano stepping off at 11am. The day culminates experience in America. Growing up in rural with a SAIWD After Party & Fundraiser at The New Mexico in the 1940s, Antonio Márez Bang Bang Bar ($5, 9pm, 119 El Mio Drive) must navigate the divide between his featuring music by Lloronas, Polly Anna, mother’s religiosity and father’s aggressive Zigtebra and Chulita Vinyl Club. Free, 10am masculinity. While Dante had Virgil as a Saturday; Columbus Park, 500 Columbus St. guide, Antonio has Ultima, a curandera The No Sleep Podcast “Brace yourself for (or folk healer) that comes to live with his The NoSleep Podcast” host/showrunner family during his childhood. Under Ultima’s David Cummings’ deep voice cautions at protection, Antonio comes of age in a town the beginning of an episode of the popular fraught with conflict, waging the battle of horror show. The downloader is about to good and evil in the microcosm of his small hear terrifying tales delivered in character community. $17-$32, 8pm Friday-Saturday, by voice actors and punctuated with creepy 3pm Sunday; Classic Theatre of San ambient sound effects and unsettling Antonio, 1924 Fredericksburg Road, (210) musical cues (with potentially upsetting 589-8450. topics flagged with helpful trigger warnings), but fans of more traditional theater might Wit Margaret Edson’s Wit, which won her the get the shivers at the idea of a stage show Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999, is part adapted from a podcast adapted from a savvy literary journey and part intelligent, forum on the sometimes-dicey reddit.com. touchingly humorous end-of-life saga.

But take heart, gentle listener, for NoSleep When Vivian Bearing, a highly regarded — web 2.0 trappings and occasional NSFW professor of English, is diagnosed with language aside — is really a throwback to terminal cancer, she, like so many in her the covers-over-your-head radio horror position, looks to the work that has filled anthologies like Inner Sanctum, Lights Out her life. As she evaluates her life’s work, and The Witch’s Tale, often recorded live particularly focusing on John Donne’s for broadcast years before TV took viewers metaphysical poetry, she both reveals and to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. recreates herself through the complexities Hundreds of thousands of listeners tune of the English language — finding in to hear NoSleep’s tales of evil incarnate, perspective, hope and a surprising amount but by introducing so many ears to a new of ... well ... wit in the process. $10-$40, generation of horror writers and helping save 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 2pm Sunday; the short story from extinction, Cummings’ The Public Theater of San Antonio, 800 W. and co. are really doing the Lord’s work.

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SPECIAL EVENTS International Woman’s Day March & Rally As proposed by German activist Clara

Zetkin, the first ever International Women’s Day took place in 1911 and brought together more than a million people to campaign for women’s rights to work, vote and hold public office. Now a global celebration that takes shape in thousands of events, IWD recognizes the “economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.” Organized by Mujeres Marcharán as a means to uplift the voices of all women and girls, the 28th annual San Antonio International Woman’s Day March & Rally gathers in Columbus sacurrent.com • February 28-March 6, 2018 • CURRENT 19

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FEATURE: ARTS ARTS + +CULTURE CULTURE

Cultural Currents, Historical Legacies

& Contemporary

Art CAM 2018 celebrates local art, nods to the Tricentennial

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Michael Menchaca, “Vignettes from San Antonio” (Brackenridge Park)

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Contemporary Art Month (CAM), the beloved, month-long art bonanza that lends visibility to local artists and promotes the San Antonio art scene to the world, will mark its 33rd run this March, as San Antonio continues its Tricentennial celebrations.

CAM began in 1986 as a means to bring the art-loving/art-buying community together with a large and diverse pool of local artists and their work. Over the years, it has evolved into a citywide art buffet. CAM, the name of the event and the nonprofit organization that puts on several special events and hosts a calendar compiling a bevy of March exhibitions, became an independent entity in 2003 and has continued to expand its scope ever since.

Officially, CAM exists to “promote and raise the national profile of San Antonio contemporary art and artists by organizing and facilitating a monthlong celebration of contemporary art, providing marketing support, and by organizing and facilitating public programs.”

CAM’s biggest areas of focus are organizing, facilitating and promoting, not event planning. Nevertheless, the organization hosts a few choice events and educational initiatives of its own during local art’s big month.

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From left: Jeffrey Dell, “Future Castles” and Jeremiah Teutsch, “Two Heads Are Better Than One”

networking/CAM-itinerary-strategizing opportunity (6-9 p.m. Friday, March 2 at Blue Star Contemporary); the CAM Perennial Exhibition, which brings a visiting curator to town to curate a local show that serves as something of a centerpiece for CAM (March 22 through May 6 at Artpace); and the CAMMIE Awards, a capstone event in which local arts organizations and the art-loving public are invited to celebrate the standout art and artists of the month (6-8 p.m.

Friday, March 30 at CHRISpark).

Interested in the ways in which CAM has sought to answer the call of the Tricentennial with this year’s programming, we talked with CAM Co-Chair Chris Sauter.

Sauter explained that, in light of the Tricentennial, the board selected a CAM Perennial curator, Canary Islander Adonay Bermudez, to help shed light on a very special and formative group in our city’s history. In 1719, a group of settlers was selected to relocate from the Canary Islands to San Antonio, and their legacies (and descendants) are still a part of the Alamo City today (Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain is also one of San Antonio’s 11 sister cities.)

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and their community, which is especially poignant in terms of the Tricentennial.”

This year’s Perennial, different from years past, will feature works from both San Antonio artists and artists from the Canary Islands. After showing here, the whole exhibit with then travel to the Canary Islands and perhaps beyond.

“Our local artists are very interested in the history of our city,” Sauter said.

Insofar as one of the roles of artists is to “mine culture and history” and present their findings “through contemporary forms and a contemporary lens,” Sauter sees contemporary art as an important vehicle through which we, as a city, can understand and interrogate our past.

Sauter noted that a great example of what this looks like are the ongoing “Common Currents” exhibition series, which finds a host of local artists offering their unique excavations/explications of (sometimes overlooked) aspects of our far-flung and knotty history. For more info on those exhibits, including the three slated to open during CAM, visit commoncurrents.org.

We know the sheer number of happenings on the CAM calendar can seem daunting (in the best possible way), so below, and elsewhere in this issue, we have compiled some exhibitions and events that we are particularly jazzed about.

But, the true beauty of CAM is that no two people can (or should) experience it in the same way — there’s something for every taste and then some. For a dizzyingly full slate of events look to the complete calendar in this week’s print issue — or visit CAM’s website at contemporaryartmonth.com.

Jeremiah Teutsch: “Two Heads Are Better Than One” In “Two Heads Are Better Than One,” illustrator, sculptor and occasional Current contributor Jeremiah Teutsch presents a collection of striking, three-dimensional works inspired by traditional death masks. Teutsch’s statement about these large-scale sculptures sets the somber, reverent tone of the exhibit as a whole: “The idea of this show came about after my father passed away. I started drawing enormous Big Giant Heads sinking into the ground, as mountainous monuments of grief. These are scaled-down monuments of grief. They’re similar in form and function to death masks. The day before my father died, he asked me to make a death mask of him. He was cremated before I got to see him. So, now I’m making these big giant heads as recompense for not being able to make his.” Opening reception 7-10pm Thu, Mar. 1, on view by appointment through Mar. 25, Hello Studio, 1420 S. Alamo St., Building B #203, (210) 291-8640, hellostudiosa.com.

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Monseau’s consistently solid pop-up gallery, this new exhibition from artist/ educator Jeffery Dell takes aim at the tricky relationship between human perception and desire. Throughout his often surreal works, Dell draws on “pre-digital populist art histories ranging from ukiyo-e prints to U.S. national park posters and sci-fi novel cover art.” The resulting graphic screenprints are striking in imagery and alive with thought-provoking symbolism.

Opening reception 7-10 pm Sat, Mar. 3, on view by appointment through Mar. 24 (webinquiries7@gmail.com), Three Walls Gallery, 1160 E. Commerce St., facebook. com/threewallsgallery.

“Art of the Sacred Texas Springs” This exhibit is a visual continuation of the Clockwise from left: Annette Messager, University of Incarnate Word’s (UIW) efforts Mes voeux sous filets (from “Reclaimed”); to shed light on the historical, cultural and Catalina Sour Vasquez, “Projets Dissolvants”; spiritual significance of The Blue Hole and Glen Franklin, Grandma’s Kitchen (from — the natural spring, located on UIW’s “Not So Invisible 7%: San Antonio’s Peoples premises, from which the San Antonio River of African Descent”) flows. A locus of practical and ceremonial significance since long before Europeans Catalina Sour Vasquez: “Projets first came to the region, The Blue Hole (and Dissolvants” other major springs in Texas) takes center Featuring the stunning (sometimes stage in this collection of works in various startling) photographic abstractions of French/Chilean photographer Catalina Sour mediums. Visit the website listed below for a schedule of cultural events associated with Vasquez, this exhibit curated by Hillarey this timely show. Opening reception 6-8pm Jones melds the surreal and fantastic with the mundane, the joyful with the tragic, and Fri, Mar. 9, on view 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, the whimsical with the poignantly critical. In 1-5pm Sun through Apr. 8, University of the Incarnate Word, Kelso Art Center, 4301 her smart critiques of our culture of mass consumption, Vasquez masterfully captures Broadway, headwaters-iw.org/exhibition. the viewer with her meticulously beautiful “Thread” mise en scène work, only to confront Guest-curated by Alana Coates, the them with deeper, darker truths. Opening group show “Thread” is “centered on artists reception 7:30-9:30pm Thu, Mar. 1, on using needle and thread in contemporary view 2-5pm Mon-Fri through April 26, The techniques, narratives and conceptual Gallery at MBS, 1115 S. Alamo St., (210) practices.” By highlighting this medium, the 412-0398, mbsfitness.net. exhibit strikes a balance between traditional artistic practices and contemporary art, as “Not So Invisible 7%: San Antonio’s well as between the realms of art and craft, Peoples of African Descent” which are often seen as distinct from one Presented by S.M.A.R.T. in partnership another. “Thread” features work from Bianca with San Antonio Ethnic Art Society, Alvarez, Linda Arredondo, Sara Barnes, this exhibit seeks to “honor some of the Sarah Castillo, Martha Elena Flores, Sarah moments, people, and places in San Fox, Abby Hinojosa, Sol Kesseler, Justin Antonio’s African-American community in Korver, Michael Martinez, Nicole Tovar photography, paintings, and sculpture.” and Jose Villalobos. Opening reception The exhibit’s title, which alludes to Ralph 7-10pm Fri, Mar. 9, on view by appointment Ellison’s seminal book The Invisible Man, through Mar. 31, closing reception and refers to the problem that the show itself embroidery workshop 6-10pm Sat, Mar. 31, combats: “African American people feeling that they [are] visible only when it [suits] the Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery, 1704 interests of the majority.” Opening reception Blanco Road, Suite 104, (401) 580-6852, clamplightsa.com.

6-9pm Fri, Mar. 2, on view through Mar. 2, 2019, Cevallos Lofts, 301 E. Cevallos St., (844) 310-9758, smartsa.org.

Jeffery Dell: “Future Castles” Hosted by Three Walls, artist Michele

“Reclaimed” Featuring 25 monochromatic works from the Linda Pace Foundation’s permanent collection, this exhibition represents some

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Clockwise from left: Michael Menchaca, “Vignettes from San Antonio” (SAC); Sol Kesseler, Presencia (from “Thread”) and Justin Korver, Maybe Camouflage Is a Masculine Floral (from “Thread”)

of the most important female artists of our day. Thematically, “Reclaimed” is concerned with “the notion of ‘reclaiming’ what’s ours, from our lands and governments to our physical bodies and basic human rights.”

As such, it fits perfectly (if slyly) into the context of cultural/historical interrogation that the Tricentennial has, in the best of cases, helped foster. Organized by local artist Kelly O’Connor (Head of Collections & Communications at the Linda Pace Foundation), “Reclaimed” brings together works by Lara Schnitger, Laura Aguilar, Dorothy Cross, Judy Dater, Annette Messager, Lorraine O’Grady, Robyn O’Neil, Tracey Rose, Kiki Smith and the late Linda Pace herself. Opening reception 7:309:30pm Fri, Mar. 9, discussion with artist Lara Schnitger, curator Justine Ludwig and journalist Sarah Fisch noon-2pm Sun, Mar. 18, on view noon-5pm Wed-Sat through Jan. 26, 2019, SPACE, 111 Camp St., (210) 227-

8400, lindapacefoundation.org.

Michael Menchaca: “Vignettes from San Antonio” When it comes to celebrating and commenting on San Antonio’s present and recent past, artist and printmaker Michael Menchaca is one of our sharpest, most nuanced artistic minds. In this exhibition, Menchaca, who has a special knack for combining the profound with the crude and often juxtaposes images from pop culture with traditional Mesoamerican iconography, offers up large- and smallscale works that speak to San Antonio’s cultural landscape and reference such recognizable landmarks as San Antonio College and Brackenridge Park. Opening reception 6-8pm Wed, Mar. 21, on view 11am-4pm Tue-Sat through May 21, RuizHealy Art, 201-A East Olmos Drive, (210) 804-2219, ruizhealyart.com.

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FEATURE SCREENS

Seduce

& Destroy

20TH CENTURY FOX

Red Sparrow is a provocative spy story but never truly takes flight KIKO MARTÍNEZ

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While the French term “femme fatale” can be traced back to the early 20th century, the archetype — a dangerous woman who uses her beauty, charm and sexuality to tempt her lovers into deadly situations — has been around for centuries. From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery graves, to Biblical figures like Delilah, whose betrayal led to Samson’s enucleation and ultimate death, the femme fatale has taken on many forms in literature, art and other mediums.

In cinema, however, is when the typified seductress has really shined over the last century. Whether she is defined for audiences by Rita Hayworth as the hair-flipping title character in the 1946 noir Gilda or by Scarlett Johansson as an irresistible, ethereal being in the 2013 sci-fi drama Under the Skin, male film characters have had plenty to concern themselves over when a potential love interest starts batting her eyelashes or — as Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) does in her new spy thriller — bares all for the uncomfortable assignment at hand.

In Red Sparrow, which is adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name by former CIA operative Jason Matthews, Lawrence stars as Dominika Egorova, a Russian prima ballerina who experiences a career-ending injury, which puts her sick mother at risk since no job 28

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equals no health insurance. In steps Dominika’s slimy, well-connected uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) who forces her to join an intelligence program known as “Sparrow School,” so she can train to become a spy and learn how to weaponize her body and sweet-talk secrets from unsuspecting men. Her main mission: to cozy up to CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton), who is caught up in some Trump administration-level Russian-American relations, and — ahem — persuade him to reveal the identity of a mole with whom he has been working.

Lawrence reteams with filmmaker Francis Lawrence, who directed her in three of the four Hunger Games movies, and depicts her provocative albeit exploited character with realism and sexual prowess. Although she’s had a chance to stretch her man-eating muscles in the past as Mystique in the X-Men franchise, her role as Dominika is the most audacious of her career and one that she puts some definite enthusiasm behind.

Lawrence owns the role as a honey trap and takes it as far as she’s allowed.

The major problem with Red Sparrow, however, is the slow-burning script adapted by screenwriter Justin Haythe (A Cure for Wellness) that desperately wants to be a sexually charged version of a John le Carré story.

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing,

smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today’s 24-hour news cycle.

One of the segments that works is the time Dominika spends inside the Sparrow School, where she is humiliated by a ruthless schoolmarm (Charlotte Rampling) and told that her body now belongs to the state. To call it a nightmare scenario is an understatement, and director Lawrence captures the disturbing nature of the school with authenticity.

Actually, his take on the full world Dominika inhabits is noteworthy, too. The fi lm is set in present time, but the Cold War-era ambiance fi lls each scene with an unsympathetic and disconnected quality that’s as thick as the snow in a Moscow winter.

Still, the film’s deception and manipulation, even while between the thighs of J-Law, is somewhat of a dull affair and one that is running counter to the idea that using sex as an element of female empowerment only works when the character isn’t forced into the position to survive.

Sure, the style and skin might be present, but without any sociopolitical thrills, Red Sparrow never really takes flight.

EVENT GUIDE About Contemporary Art Month Started in 1986, CAM is 32 years old.

We are a 100% volunteer-run, 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. We exist to promote and raise the national profile of San Antonio contemporary art and artists. Every year, we feature more than 100 FREE individual exhibitions, performances, parties, sales, studio tours, and other events happening throughout the city.

International, national and local artists exhibit in pop-up galleries, non-profit spaces, artist studios, and world renowned organizations.

EVENTS FREE & PUBLIC!

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SAT • FEBRUARY 17 – SAT • MARCH 31 HOLD MY BEER Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren St saladiazart.org Works by Nicholas Frank & John Riepenhoff. Both born and raised in Milwaukee, it’s fitting that this exhibition is centered around beer as a social catalyst, lubricant and agitator.

TUE • FEBRUARY 20 – SAT • MARCH 31

MOMO & POMPA AT GALLERY 237 Gallery 237 • 237 W Travis St Whimsical contemporary paintings by Maureen Brown & Charles Harrison Pompa.

TUE • FEBRUARY 20 – SAT • MARCH 31

SAN ANTONIO FANDANGO: ART BY MOMO & POMPA San Antonio Central Library Gallery 600 Soledad St • (512) 638-3483 Promoting SA heritage through whimsical inquisitive colorful mixed media contemporary art with paintings, photography, sculptures, coloring books and games (including an exhibit scavenger hunt).

EVERY TUE • 7 PM – 10 PM

THU • FEBRUARY 22 • 6:30 PM – 8 PM A PLATICA WITH TOMAS YBARRAFRAUSTO AND BRYCE MILLIGAN San Antonio Public Library, Latino Collection & Resource Center 600 Soledad St • geminiink.org Scholars Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and Bryce Milligan for one of several platicas, public conversations considering San Antonio’s rich, multi-cultural literary history.focused on wellness guidance and tools.

EVERY SUN • 12 PM – 5 PM

PING PONG TOURNEY Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Signup/warm up 5pm. Beginners $3 • Advanced $5 • Doubles $5

THU • MARCH 1 – SAT MARCH 31

CRUZ ORTIZ, JOSE SOTELLO, AND EVA MARENGO SANCHEZ AT FELIZ MODERN Feliz Modern • 110 W Olmos Dr felizmodern.com Local shop with local and international design and gifts, featuring rotating local artists. Visit our website for store hours.

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SMALL IDEAS TWO ARTISTS Mockingbird Handprints 1420 S Alamo St #108 mockingbirdhandprints.com Paco Felici’s “Small Ideas” is the collection of ongoing photographic works using a vintage Polaroid camera to capture images from the past and present. Actor Peter Gonzales Falcon, of Fellini’s autobiographical movie, Roma, plays a central role in these works.

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THE TOBIN CENTER ART INITIATIVE The Tobin Center for the Perf. Arts 100 Auditorium Cir • tobincenter.org The Art Initiative connects with community partners to introduce Tobin guests to local artists working at a nationally and internationally recognized level of achievement.

Works can be viewed during your next visit to any other Tobin Center offering.

THU • MARCH 1 • 12:30 PM – 1 PM

ART TO LUNCH: WOMEN ARTISTS San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave • samuseum.org Take an art bite out of your lunch hour with a two-object tour and learn the back story about art you may have missed. Celebrating Women’s History Month and CAM, this talk will focus on contemporary women artists.

BRICK SUNDAY MARKET BRICK at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Sip on wine, mimosas, champagne and lots of craft beer selections — Shop for rare Vinyl Record finds, Custom Art, Photography, Vintage Clothing, Pet Goods, Groovy Jewelry, Artisan Soaps and Oils, plus out of the blue art performances… You never know what’s going to happen!

THU • MARCH 1 • 5 PM – 7 PM

WED • FEBRUARY 28 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

R. TATUM PRESENTS: BIRDS OF A FEATHER Choice Goods Gallery Hallway 1420 S Alamo St #103 tatumoriginals.com R. Tatum, Scotch!, Rubio, Andy Benavides, Eva Sanchez, Paul Garson, Daniel Anguilu, Evil Dave, Christina Sparrow, Rooster, Linda Monsivais, Zane Thomas, Chris Montoya, Rachael Oelsen, James (Werds) Rose, Manny (Squid) Garcia, Carol Martelle, Taco Boy, Cassidy Fritts, A/S/L, Craig Patterson, Courtney Davis, Gerardo Garza, Stevan Zivadinovic, Izzy Tatum & Isabella Humphries.

MURDERESSES AND MORE: AN EVENING DISCUSSION OF MARGARET ATWOOD’S ALIAS GRACE Gemini Ink • 1111 Navarro St Gemini Ink members and others from the literary community discuss Margaret Atwood’s crime fiction thriller, now a popular Netflix series. UTSA Librarian William Glenn, Noir fiction expert Eusebio Diaz, and Literature Prof. Patricia Portales will be leading the discussion. Wine reception included in price of ticket.

EXACT CHANGE San Antonio College VISUAL ARTS CENTER GALLERY 950 Lewis St • (210) 486-1030 Daniela Cavazos Madrigal and Norbert Clyde Martinez Jr. explore the ontological through the inquiry in the fondness and aversion of media choices and revelatory content.

THU • MARCH 1 • 6 PM

THU • MARCH 1 • 6 PM – 9 PM

THU • MARCH 1 • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

KITTY FISHER & THE ARAÑITAS Cinnabar Art Gallery 1420 S Alamo St #147 •cinnabarart.com Sarah Fox will have a solo show exploring the idea of female sexuality and the struggle for control by employing empowering images of women hybrids reclaiming their bodies.

CATALINA SOUR VASQUEZ PROJETS DISSOLVANTS CURATED BY HILLAREY JONES The Gallery at MBS • 115 S Alamo St Vasquez’s series is the catalyst for what has become her own unique, surrealist style. She allows the viewer to focus on one specific, if not subconscious, component of the photograph – often addressing the social impact of our mundane everyday lives and the toll that it infiltrates on our mental and physical well being.

THU • MARCH 1 • 6 PM – 8 PM

OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH: THE VANISHING ART OF DISAPPEARANCE VOL 1 South-Alamode Gelato and Panini Co. 1420 S Alamo St Daniel Armstong takes over the walls of South Alamode Gelato and Paninni Co in the Bluestar Arts Complex. The show presents a number of fantastic space narratives set against the backdrop of some of San Antonio’s forgotten architectural marvels.

Open throughout March.

THU • MARCH 1 • 7 PM – 1 AM

MUSIC FOR ADVANCED LISTENERS Dorćol • 1902 S Flores St dorcolspirits.com Pretentious selectors, DJ Novasoul & Darby play music you’ll surely enjoy. Food by Swine House, paired with new craft beers and cocktails by the Dorćol boys.

THU • MARCH 1 • 6 PM – 9PM & FRI • MARCH 2 • 6PM – 9 PM

FRI • MARCH 2 • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

UNHEIMLICH Anthem Gallery • 115 Blue Star Collaborative and solo works by Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger. This relation between the home and the taboo, the normal and the unspeakable, infuses the works within the exhibition — a fever dream domicile where symbolism is made flesh and invisible dynamics of power take palpable shape.

THU • MARCH 1 • 6 PM – 9 PM

VERSUS Terminal 136 136 Blue Star • houstonfryer.com Houston Fryer’s artwork is focused on the violence of visual systems. An installation of paintings, props, green screen technology, and interactive digital projections that transforms the gallery into equal parts theater and playground. Viewer discretion advised.

THU • MARCH 1 • 7 PM – 10 PM

JEREMIAH TEUTSCH: TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE Hello Studio 1420 S Alamo St • hellostudiosa.com Large-scale sculptures inspired by traditional funeral death masks. A death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following their death, often by taking a cast or impression directly from the corpse.

THU • MARCH 1 • 7 PM – MIDNIGHT

R. TATUM PRESENTS: BRICK’S CAM KICK-OFF! Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star • brickatbluestar.com Live Music by Verisimilitude & Dolphin Dilemma, DJ, Visuals (that document the mural’s development process) and Art Show that will include the Local Artists that contributed to the mural project. This will be one evening not to be missed!

FIND ADDITIONAL INFO ON ALL OF THE ARTISTS, EVENTS, UPDATES, AND MORE! CONTEMPORARYARTMONTH.COM

POP UP HAPPY HOUR CINEMA WITH SAN ANTONIO ARTISTS SHORTS The Tobin Center for the Perf. Arts Will Naylor Smith Plaza 100 Auditorium Cir Celebrate Contemporary Art in San Antonio!

Join us on the Will Naylor Smith Plaza every Friday night for an hour of short films by and about San Antonio Artists!

CAM OFFICIAL

SEÑOR RODEO Liberty Bar • 1111 S Alamo St Señor Rodeo performs Ken Little’s original songs, and covers of other artists including: Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Terry Allen, Billy Joe Shaver, and David Byrne.Indigo, Optic Arrest, Doral Club, & more.

WED • FEBRUARY 28 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 9 PM

CAM KICK-OFF PARTY Blue Star Contemporary 116 Blue Star • (210) 630-0235 Do not miss this event! Join the fun and help us start off Contemporary Art Month 2018 at our annual kick-off party. Music provided

by DJ Novasoul (Labkids), with delicious eats provided by Ay Papi’s Food Truck. Free and open to the public!

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 10 PM

AY PAPI’S FOOD TRUCK CAM KICK-OFF Blue Star Contemporary 116 Blue Star • (210) 907-2241 Ay Papi’s Hector Faberlle & Nick Monda will be cooking up some great Puerto Rican & Caribbean eats. Vegetarian options.

FRI • MARCH 2 – FRI • MARCH 30

THE MINI ART MUSEUM PRESENTS SHRINKING ISLAND Choice Goods at Blue Star Arts Complex 1420 S Alamo St #103 miniartmuseum.org Curated by Jason Reed, four artists use photography to probe at the social, cultural, and political constructs of our contemporary landscape. Ana Lucia Carbajal, Benjamin Powell, Sarah Sheafe, and Claudia Salinas.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 11 PM

CREATIVE CREATURES PRESENTS: ARTFLIX – NETFLIX ORIGINALS Creative Creatures 1420 S Alamo St #106b • (210) 441-8491 A collection of works from over 50 Local & Regional Artists that are inspired by NETFLIX Originals.

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FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 10 PM

FOLKSONOMY: #ART#SCIENCE #EVOLUTION#REVERSE#SEX #UNIVERSE#DARKMATTER#CHAOS FL!GHT Gallery • 134 Blue Star New Work from FLIGHT old home favorite Patrick Visentin of Montreal, Canada in celebration of Contemporary Art Month.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 9 PM

NOT SO INVISIBLE 7%: SAN ANTONIO’S PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT Cevallos Lofts • 301 E Cevallos St Curated by Aissatou Sidime-Blanton, San Antonio Ethnic Art Society (SAEAS) members and a guest artist honor some of the moments, people and places in San Antonio’s 400+ year-old African American community through photography, paintings, and sculpture.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6 PM – 9 PM

TELL ME WHAT IT FEELS LIKE Flax Studio • 1420 S Alamo St flaxstudiosa.com A solo show by Texas-based photographer India Treat that challenges the male gaze and disrupts a tired narrative.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 6:30 PM

NESA VISUAL ARTS SPRING SHOW Hijole SA (Upstairs Studios at Blue Star) 1420 S Alamo St Three art shows a year for the visual arts students at North East School of the Arts.

Come check out their amazing budding talents in their Spring Show.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 7 PM – 10 PM

GO AHEAD, SUPERSTAR, STEP ON ME: CLOSING RECEPTION Revenant Gallery • 1913 S Flores St Megan Solis strives towards a forceful intimacy with viewers, persistently questioning our communal pursuit of happiness.

FRI • MARCH 2 • 7 PM – 10 PM

MURAL SHOW Carbon Bloom • 1420 S Alamo St Presenting Cassidy Fritts, Paul Garson, Ramon Martin, and Jesse Guevara, each showcasing their work at a larger scale.

SAT • MARCH 3 • 6 PM – 9 PM

DANVILLE CHADBOURNE: NEW WORKS REM Gallery • 219 E Park Ave remgallery.com Simple organic forms in suggestive conjunctions that elaborate metaphorical issues of ambiguity, morality, accident/intention, contradiction, or existence itself.

SAT • MARCH 3 • 7 PM – 10 PM

FUTURE CASTLES BY JEFFREY DELL Three Walls • 1160 E Commerce St michelemonseau.com Continuing Jeffrey Dell’s focus on the confluence of perception and desire, “Future Castles” draws upon pre-digital populist art histories ranging from ukiyo-e prints to US national park posters and sci-fi novel cover art. Exhibition runs from March 3–24.

SAT • MARCH 3 • 7 PM – 10 PM

CLOSING EXHIBITION: COLORES E IMÁGENES; ARENA Y SANGRE Dorćol • 1902 S Flores St. In this latest series, A.J. Rodriguez works to inspire each observer to suspend judgment of the activity and outcome of this centuries old event and rather focus on the spectacle of the colors, movement, grit and illumination of the intimate relationship and final dance between man and bull.

MON • MARCH 5 • ALL DAY

CAM • VARIOUS BRANCH LIBRARIES See Website For More Info Feat. Lauren Riojas, Mark Menjivar, Josh Huskin, Yoko Misu, Emily Verkamp, Jimena Marin, and multiple artists from St. Philip’s College.

MON • MARCH 5 • 5:30 PM – 7 PM

STICKS AND STONES: ARTIST TALK WITH SOPHIA AND NICOLE Parchman Stremmel Gallery 7726 Broadway St Join artists Nicole Geary and Sophia Healy for a guided tour/ lively talk about their new works that grace our walls. This discussion will be an inside look as well as an open forum for questions.

TUE • MARCH 6 – APRIL 30

MOMO & POMPA AT CANDLELIGHT COFFEEHOUSE Candlelight Coffeehouse 3011 N St Mary’s St • (210) 738-0099 Enjoy newly created contemporary art, including paintings, sketches, digital and traditional photography, by local San Antonio artist couple, Maureen ‘Momo’ Brown and Charles Harrison ‘Pompa’ in a fun cozy relaxed atmosphere while sipping coffee, tea or wine and enjoying yummy comfort food

TUE • MARCH 6 • 10:50 AM – 12:05

DANIELA CAVAZOS MADRIGAL ARTIST LECTURE San Antonio College VISUAL ARTS CENTER GALLERY 950 Lewis St • (210) 486-1030 Cavazos Madrigal’s work reflects her interest in socio-cultural issues along the U.S./ Mexico border from the perspective of a woman and mother.

TUE • MARCH 6 • 6:30 PM – 7 PM

BREAK IT DOWN: ONE OBJECT, 30 MINUTES San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave Spend some quality time with Museum favorites in this slow-looking gallery conversation.

Each session will focus on breaking down the formal and informal elements of one work of art through discussion, games, and other gallery activities.

EVERY WED • MARCH 7 • 4:30 PM – 6 PM WEE ART WEDNESDAY CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Mission Branch Library 3134 Roosevelt Ave For the month of March, the Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM’s exhibiting artists will lead Wee Art workshops inspired by our 2018 CAM exhibition “Shrinking Island.”

There will be DIY screenprinting, a mini zine make project, exquisite collaging and more.

WED • MARCH 7 • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

POP UP HAPPY HOUR CINEMA WITH SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL The Tobin Center for the Perf. Arts Will Naylor Smith Plaza 100 Auditorium Cir Every Wednesday in March: An expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for highly experimental and interdisciplinary forms, this unique festival exposes diverse audiences to a variety of film, video, and performance possibilities.

WED• MARCH 7 • 9 PM – 11 PM

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RECLAIMED: PUBLIC OPENING Space Gallery • 111 Camp St lindapacefoundation.org 25 monochromatic works by some of the most influential contemporary female artists working today, all drawn from the Foundation’s diverse collection. Artists include Laura Aguilar, Dorothy Cross, Judy Dater, Annette Messager, Lorraine O’Grady, Robyn O’Neil, Linda Pace, Tracey Rose, Lara Schnitger and Kiki Smith, with works spanning 1975 through 2009

FRI • MARCH 9 – SUN • APRIL 8

ART OF THE SACRED TEXAS SPRINGS Kelso Art Center, University of the Incarnate Word Art Galleries 4301 Broadway St Complementing the beautiful pieces in the exhibition are several special events, including music, film, and renowned local speakers. Each event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

BRICK BY BRICK OPEN MIC NIGHT – HOSTED BY JOHN TUTTLE Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Comics, poets, musicians, story tellers and friends! Our inaugural Brick by Brick Open Mic night is hosted by John Tuttle.

FRI • MARCH 9 • 6 PM – 11 PM

THU• MARCH 8 • 4 PM – 5:30 PM

FRI • MARCH 9 • 7 PM – SAT • MARCH 31 • 10 PM

STEFANI JOB SPEARS PRESENTS PRINTS, PAINTING, PASTELS St. Mary’s Blume Library Gallery 1 Camino Santa Maria (210) 473-8331 Please joins us for an art exhibition reception in celebration of Women’s History month with artist Stefani Job Spears.

Stefani will be presenting her works in the Blume Library Gallery and light refreshments will be served.

THU • MARCH 8 • 5:30 PM

CONTEMPORARY TEXTURES IN ART AND TILE OPENING RECEPTION Travis Tile Design Center on Main 2420 N Main Ave • travistile.com Travis Tile Design Center and the San Antonio College Art Guild collaborate to present a visual feast of art and design.

Paintings and sculptures are paired with a variety of materials to extend the art works into the surrounding environment.

THU • MARCH 8 • 7 PM – MIDNIGHT

COTTON AND PAPER / ART INSTALLATION AND POP UP Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Showcase of art and clothing from local artist in San Antonio.

TUE • MARCH 6 • 7 PM – 8:30 PM

WORTH REPEATING: AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Honoring our luckiest holiday, St Patrick’s day, with stories of luck, both good and bad.

Join TPR as we bring you the stories of San Antonio on March 6 at Brick at Blue Star.

Music and a couple of free beers makes it the best deal of your week.

FRI • MARCH 9 • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (RUNS MARCH 10 – JAN 26 2019)

ENLIGHTENMENT High Wire Arts • 326 W Josephine St (210) 378-3354 Featuring Jonathon Davis, Randy Gay, Paige Holland, Cindy Plamer, Bill Simons, Steve Smith, and Resa Wohlrabe.

THREAD Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery 1704 Blanco Rd • clamplightsa.com Centered on artists using needle and thread in contemporary techniques, narratives, and conceptual practices. Guest curated by Alana Coates and featuring artists from across Texas and beyond.

FRI • MARCH 9 • 8 PM – 11 PM

AIDAN FAY Wolverton Home Gallery • Atwater Dr Aidan Fay will show drawings in the Wolverton Home Gallery in tandem with a house concert by Walter Salas-Humera and Buttercup.

FRI • MARCH 9 • 8 PM

H-E-B CINEMA ON THE PLAZA – LOVING VINCENT Tobin Center for the Perf. Arts, Will Naylor Smith Plaza 100 Auditorium Cir This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind — explores the life and unusual death of Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks. Directed

by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.

Wolverton Home Gallery in tandem with a house concert by Walter Salas-Humera and Buttercup.

FRI • MARCH 9 • 8 PM – 11 PM FIND ADDITIONAL INFO ON ALL OF THE ARTISTS, EVENTS, UPDATES, AND MORE! CONTEMPORARYARTMONTH.COM

JUAREZ VR PREMIERE Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Br8kthroo Media premieres Juarez VR, a web series full of action. Get ready for an intense 10-minute scene. VR goggles will be available to use and for purchase. Explicit language and violence in Virtual Reality 3D.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM – 9 PM

BEHIND THE CURTAIN Lone Star Studios 107 Lone Star Blvd Artist Robert Wurzbach will be exhibiting satirical paintings of San Antonio’s annual Fiesta Coronation.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM – 9 PM

ENTRE SERES (BETWEEN BEINGS) Lone Star Art Space 107 Lone Star Blvd Featuring Flor Ameira Parada Villarreal and Ashley de la Montaña Casillas.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM – 9 PM

AND NOW: NEW WORKS BY 10 ARTISTS Freight Gallery & Studios 1913 S Flores St Feat. Ernesto Ibanez, Juan De Dios Mora, Rhys Munro, Carmen Oliver, Ricardo Ruiz, Martín C. Rodriguez, Joel Salcido Ruiz, Humberto Saenz, Raul Servin, and Ana Hernández Vela.

SAT• MARCH 10 • 6 PM – MIDNIGHT

AY PAPI’S FOOD TRUCK SECOND SATURDAY Dorćol • 1902 S Flores St. Ay Papi’s Hector Faberlle & Nick Monda will be cooking up some great Puerto Rican & Caribbean eats. Vegetarian options.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM – 11 PM

FEAR: SECOND SATURDAY Hijole SA • 1420 S Alamo St Last month we brought you Hope…this month we bring you our Fears. In a group showing of local artists, discover the varied things that send us shivers and make our hearts drop in terror like that moment you miss a step heading downstairs.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 7 PM

THE MUSEUM OF POCKET ART (MOPA) PRESENTS ARTISTS ELAINE BRADFORD & REBECCA L. MARINO Dorćol • 1902 S Flores St. The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday, March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. at 7:00 pm and end at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. at 10:00 pm.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 7 PM – 10 PM

TOM TURNER OPENING RECEPTION Dorćol • 1902 S Flores St. Resurrection, a collection of waveform photographs, explores the representation of landscape as a way of seeing. Using topography, the photographic frame creates a trompe l’oeil, generating ambiguous, or even alien, perceptions with little or no anchorage. Terraforming the land in their mind’s eye, the viewer generates mountains, valleys, and impact craters in an attempt to understand and transform wilderness into landscape.

SUN • MARCH 11 • 8 PM – MIDNIGHT

GNAR WORLD ORDER, BLAST DAD, CURSUS Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Gnar World Order and Blast Dad are coming through San Antonio. Local music support

by Cursus.

TUE • MARCH 13 • 8 PM – 10:30 PM

KIMURA RAMEN POP-UP Freight Gallery & Studios 1913 S Flores St

LEDERHOSEN LUCIL SOIRO BIZARRO: SAN ANTONIO JAAA EDITION! Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex 108 Blue Star Freundlings! Lederhosen Lucil ist BACK to electro pop San Antonio! This night features Krista Muir (Montreal – Psych Folk), dreambored band (San Antonio – Dream Pop) and Lederhosen Lucil (Saturn – Yamahaha Electro Pop Country Rap Garage R&R Disco).

Please note this will be FUN! ALL AGES!

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM

THU • MARCH 15 • 12:30 PM – 1 PM

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM

OM DOCK PACE GALLERY 107 Lone Star Blvd Artists Kim Bishop and Luis Valderis will be presenting their exhibition “OM”.

Their artwork will consist of paintings, prints and sculpture.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 6 PM – 9 PM

THE LIGHT THAT REMAINS Mantle Art Space 714 Fredericksburg Rd Join us for Second Saturday – Mantle is proud to present “The Light That Remains” from artist Dana Lynn Harper.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 7 PM – 9 PM

INHALE UNDERWATER TO VIEW YOUR BENEVOLENT BROTHER Studio Fantomas • 1906 S Flores St New work by Alejandro Augustine Padilla.

SAT • MARCH 10 • 7 PM – 10:30 PM

8/8: WORKS ON PAPER Revenant Gallery • 1913 S Flores St Join Revenant Gallery for an opening reception featuring works on paper by UTSA’s Bon A Tirer Print Guild.

ART TO LUNCH: WOMEN ARTISTS San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave • samuseum.org Take an art bite out of your lunch hour with a two-object tour and learn the back story about art you may have missed. Celebrating Women’s History Month and CAM, this talk will focus on contemporary women artists.

THU • MARCH 15 • 6 PM – 11 PM FEAR: CLOSING RECEPTION Hijole SA • 1420 S Alamo St

THU • MARCH 15 • 6 PM – 9 PM

FUEGO DE ESPAÑA: CELEBRATION OF SAN ANTONIO FLAMENCO ART The Art Institute of San Antonio 10000 IH-10 W • Ste 200 artinstitutes.edu/san-antonio Saul Sandoval is a Media Artist with strong family ties to Flamenco dance. This inspired him to create a collection of art patterned after San Antonio’s great Flamenco dance traditions and artists. In addition to the gallery showing the evening will include live performances by Flamenco dancers, Spanish tapas, and a several Flamenco dresses.

FRI • MARCH 16 • 6 PM – 9 PM

SOON WARREN & KIM COLLINS OPENING RECEPTION Art Gallery Prudencia 2518 N Main Ave

FRI • MARCH 16 • 8:30 PM – MIDNIGHT

PLEIN AIR Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren St Included in Hold My Beer is a work from Riepenhoff’s En Plein Air series, paintings of the sky created outside in the dark of night.

This uses the furthest light we can see with our naked eyes as a still for objectifying ego in the creation process. Please bring your own materials and meet us in the back yard.

SAT • MARCH 17 • 11 AM – 12:45 PM

ART JOURNAL WORKSHOP Venus Springs Advocacy for Community Enrichment 1380 Pantheon Way #150 Hollywood Park, TX 78232 venussprings.org A creative workshop to expand personal or professional skill set on self expression.

Learn key benefits of art journaling, identify various techniques for self discovery, become inspired by creative prompts. Art journaling as a therapeutic process (CE for licensed professional counselors)$35 includes materials, $50 with materials & 2 LPC CEU • Register: 210-531-6492

SAT • MARCH 17 • 11 AM – 1 PM

SAT • MARCH 17 • 5 PM – 1 AM

ST. PADDY’S DAY BEER RELEASE Dorćol •1902 S Flores St. dorcolspirits.com The easy-drinking, Irish-style red ale is full of dark and roasted malts that create a rich malty sweetness with accents of toffee and toast. English hops varieties – UK Fuggle and East Kent Goldings – provide an earthy, balanced bitterness to a traditional ale that finishes dry.

SUN • MARCH 18 • 2 PM – 6 PM

SALA DIAZ CHILI COOKOFF! Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren St Chefs: Nate Cassie, Chris Sauter, Reagan Johns, John Riepenhoff via Amada Miller, Brooke Summers Smith, Niles Chumney.

Meet us in the back yard! $10 donations support Sala Diaz’ programming.

TUE • MARCH 20 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

ARTIST TALK: MAIDER LÓPEZ San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave Spanish artist Maider Lopez will share insights into her work and a possible site specific installation to be shown concurrently with the exhibition Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museum’s of Madrid and San Antonio’s Tricentennial.

Lopez’s work frequently interrupts norms in space and architecture, inviting the viewer to experience common spaces in new ways.

BERLIN BRUNCH FEATURING ETHEL SHIPTON & JARED THEIS Liberty Bar • 1111 S Alamo St bluestarcontemporary.org Join BSC Berlin Residency Program Alumni as they discuss their experience at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien as the sole US residents. This small intimate setting is an opportunity to get unfettered access to the artists and residency program while joining the international art dialogue in San Antonio.

Reserve your spot now.

TUE • MARCH 20 • 6:30 PM – 7 PM

SAT • MARCH 17 • 1 PM – 5 PM

WED • MARCH 21 • 7 PM - 10 PM

RAUL GONZALEZ & MEGAN SOLIS OPEN STUDIOS Raul Gonzalez Studios • 211 Sheila Dr ArtistRaulGonzalez.com Raul Gonzalez will have just completed a 2-week artist studio residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. See what he created as he prepares for his upcoming solo exhibition at Revenant Gallery in April. Megan Solis will have just completed a solo exhibition at Revenant Gallery. Check out her process as she continues to create new mixed-media paintings and performances.

FRI • MARCH 2 6 PM – 9 PM

BREAK IT DOWN: ONE OBJECT, 30 MINUTES San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave Spend some quality time with Museum favorites in this slow-looking gallery conversation.

Each session will focus on breaking down the formal and informal elements of one work of art through discussion, games, and other gallery activities.

LIBERTY HAPPY HOURS: 10% OF COCKTAIL AND FOOD SALES TO BENEFIT CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH! Liberty Bar • 1111 S Alamo Liberty Bar is graciously donating 10% of all cocktail and food sales during the hours of 7–10 pm to benefit Contemporary Art Month.

Come show your support in the most delicious way possible!

You may end up meeting a few of our Canary Island artists while they’re visiting too!

WED • MARCH 21 • 6 PM – 8 PM

MICHAEL MENCHACA: VIGNETTES FROM SAN ANTONIO Ruiz-Healy Art • 201 E Olmos Dr ruizhealyart.com Menchaca is known to juxtapose images from popular culture with Mesoamerican iconography. Vignettes from San Antonio is a new series of work that is inspired by the artist’s hometown. Large collage works speak to the cultural landscape of San Antonio and are made in honor of the city’s Tricentennial. sacurrent.com • February 28-March 6, 2018 • CURRENT 33

WED • MARCH 21 • 7:30 PM – 10 PM WINE AND CRITIQUE Mantle Art Space 714 Fredericksburg Rd mantleartspace.com Come hang out at Mantle, bring anything you’re working on – any medium, any subject, any stage! Drink wine, talk about art, ask questions, get suggestions. Meet other artists, be involved with your local San Antonio art community.

THU • MARCH 22 • NOON – 1 PM

BLACK BOX LUNCH WITH WENDEL A. WHITE Blue Star Contemporary 116 Blue Star A lunch conversation featuring artist Wendel White as he discusses his exhibition Manifest, on March 22nd at 12 PM. This lunchtime chat gives guests the opportunity to interact and converse with the exhibiting artist in a relaxed and intimate setting. This program is free and a light lunch is provided. Registration is required, as seating is limited.

THU • MARCH 22 • 6 PM – 9 PM

ARTPACE MAIN SPACE OPENING FEATURING JOHN MEDINA Artpace San Antonio 445 N Main Ave Featuring John Medina. The Sunset Belongs to Us.

THU • MARCH 22 • 6 PM – 9 PM

ARTPACE SPRING 2018 INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-INRESIDENCE OPENING Artpace San Antonio 445 N Main Ave Kapwani Kiwanga (Paris, France), Rafa Esparza (Los Angeles, CA), & Carlos Rosales-Silva (Austin, TX). Curated by Risa Puleo.

THU • MARCH 22 • 6 PM – 10 PM

CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH PERENNIAL EXHIBITION 2018 Artpace San Antonio 445 N Main Ave contemporaryartmonth.com Artpace & Contemporary Art Month (CAM) are excited to announce their partnership for the 2018 CAM Perennial Exhibition. The 2018 CAM Perennial pairs artists in a cross-cultural exchange between San Antonio and the Canary Islands. The artists were chosen by Canary Islands-based guest curator Adonay Bermudez for an exhibition in Artpace’s Hudson Showroom.

2018 CAM PERENNIAL ARTISTS San Antonio-based artists: Hayfer Brea (Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1975) Barbara Miñarro (Monterrey, Mexico, b. 1994) Ethel Shipton (Laredo, Texas, b. 1963) Canary Islands-based artists: Luna Bengoechea (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1984) Francis Naranjo (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1961) PSJM, Cynthia Viera & Pablo San José (Spain b. 1973. & Spain, b. 1969)

FRI • MARCH 23 • 7 PM – 10:30 PM

CAM HAPPENING TAKE 3 AT SAN ANTONIO FLAVOR San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Ave CAM is excited to participate in this year’s San Antonio FLAVOR at San Antonio Museum of Art. Curated by Christie Blizard. Featuring, Carol Cunningham, Tom Turner, Justin Korver, Eden Collins, Verena Gaudy, Martin Rodriguez. $70

SMALL SCALE • BIG CHANGE 2018 SAY Si • 1518 S Alamo St 501auctions.com/smallscale The exhibition and month-long silent auction features the region’s most esteemed artists with over 200 unique artworks – all up for auction in support of SAY Sí’s tuition-free creative youth-development programs. Small Scale continues to be the organization’s single largest money-raising campaign. $60 Presale, $75 at the Door.

THU • MARCH 22 • 7 PM – 10 PM

FRI • MARCH 23 • 7 PM – 11 PM

SAN ANTONIO FLAVOR San Antonio Musuem Of Art (SAMA) 200 W Jones Ave • sacurrentflavor.com Sample bites from 30+ local restaurants in various cuisines, enjoy Shiner Beer, wine, signature cocktails and a live Sprouts Farmers Market Culinary Showdown, starring four top San Antonio chefs and celebs. Live music, beats by SoundCream, Contemporary Art Month art installations, and more. San Antonio Flavor is a charitable event benefiting Culinaria 501c3.

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THU • MARCH 22 • 6 PM – 9 PM

HOMEBASE Hijole SA • 1420 S Alamo St An interdisciplinary event series that provides the pop-up gallery experience to those interested in new media art and experimental music practices. Featuring the work of Megan Solis, Rousay/Zwetkof Duo, Magaly Cantu, and Angelo Salgado.

FRI • MARCH 23 • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

GEMINI INK AT VIVA TACOLAND Viva Tacoland • 103 W Grayson St Readings by Jesse Cardona, Fernando Esteban Flores, Pablo Miguel Martinez and Mobi Warren at Viva Tacoland! Open mic to follow readings. Free.

SAT • MARCH 24 • 6 PM – 8 PM

DEBATE TEAM Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren St Inspired by the arguing beer cans in Nicholas Frank’s I Think I Can, currently on view at Sala Diaz, we invite local personalities to debate contentious issues of the day such as comedy, belief systems, activism, and epicurean lifestyles.

SAT • MARCH 24 • 1 PM – 7 PM

THE “WILD WEST” CAMPUS The Sculpture Ceramics Compound UTSA • 1 UTSA Circle Eden Collins, Artist, MFA Candidate UTSA Department of Art; “Look at Them Bounce” 2016 (film still). Please join us on the “West Campus” of the UTSA (Main 1604) campus, for “Wild West” Open Studios/Exhibition by the students and Faculty of the UTSA Department of Art and Art History.

SUN • MARCH 25 • 2 PM – 6 PM

THE 12TH ANNUAL OFFICIAL DIGNOWITY HILL PUSHCART DERBY Lockwood Park • 800 N Olive St (210) 643-9178

WED • MARCH 28 • 7 PM – 9 PM

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Opened late last month, here are some >Range, Chef Jason Dady’s things to consider in case you’re up for newest venture, was named in Texas Monthly’s 2018 list of best new restaurants trying the Cake Boss’ restaurant. in Texas.

Pace yourself While Houston and Dallas dominated Our lunch included four courses: the list, Range, which opened in September 2017, was the only San appetizers, salads, entrees and desserts.

Antonio restaurant to make the cut.

Even if you don’t go for the works like Patricia Sharpe, the magazine’s executive we did, take your time to truly enjoy the editor and restaurant critic, commented flavors. Cheesy focaccia bread is served on the aesthetic of the chophouse, with from a tray and not left on the table for a its leather-clad menus, but also noted the reason. surprises at Range.

“But what you might not expect at Don’t hesitate to stick to the basics Range is a dish like wagyu shabu-shabu, While you might talk yourself out of thin-sliced beef that you cook yourself in a ordering simple dishes like spaghetti or bubbling soy broth and then roll up in napa lasagna at any regular Italian restaurant, cabbage leaves,” Sharpe writes. “Likewise, don’t do so here. We sampled the you might be surprised to see a superb signature dishes (meals range from $11 classic from the nineties, miso-marinated to $46), but Nonna’s Lasagna Al Forno baked black cod.” outshined them all. The sauce wasn’t Of course, Sharpe made sure to mention the restaurant’s blueberry muffins meat-heavy, allowing for the herbs to shine. Really, all of the sauces (freshly with pink-peppercorn butter and cotton made in-house) made for original flavors candy at the end of the meal. worth the drive out to La Cantera.

Though they didn’t make the top 10 list, Battalion (a joint effort from Andrew Goodman and Stefan Bowers) and Chef Luca Della Casa’s Nonna Osteria both received an honorable mention.

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Chinese New Year is upon us and it’s the Year of the Dog. Or because it’s 2018, it’s the year of the doggo.

And celebrations across San Antonio are as varied as the city itself, ranging from intimate feasts to raucous ragers, and for three San Antonio women, it’s a bit of both. Check out ur list of how you can celebrate the Lunar New Year across SA. Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin, realtor and coowner of Tenko Ramen, has been meeting with artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk every Friday for the past several weeks. The impromptu Joy Luck Club turned into sessions where the friends would chat about what it was like growing up as Chinese Americans, having Chinese mothers and white fathers and all that comes with it.

The two met after Dobbertin returned from teaching English in Thailand for six years.

“The trip was very influential on how I consider my ethnicity as an Asian person,” Dobbertin said. “In the states, I was never fully American. I was the half-Asian girl that couldn’t speak Chinese, and couldn’t fit in any specific box, but in Thailand I was the American and that left me with a weird kind of identity crisis that I didn’t realize at the

time when I was there.”

“We immediately connected when [Jennifer Ling Datchuk] and I first met,” she went on. “We’re both half Chinese, half white; we use our mothers' maiden names as our middle names and Germanic fathers' names as our last names.”

The similarities of being a Third Culture kid, a term used to refer to children raised in a culture other than their parents’, only grew for the two women. Both had complicated relationships with their mothers.

“As a young girl, I was taught to be a dutiful daughter and young woman. This meant I was to be seen and not heard,” Ling Datchuk said on an Instagram post.

As the lunar new year approached on February 16, the pair decided to celebrate it their own unique way that focuses on that tension felt from withholding “tiger moms,” a fraught identity as the antithesis to quiet, submissive women and food they grew up with, and so Best Quality Daughter, a pop-up dinner series was born. The first dinner took place on Sunday inside Ivy Hall, but the trio is already planning more dinners and events.

“We’re also in this moment that’s very particular to women,” Dobbertin said. “The

climate in our country right now, voting in a man like Donald Trump, the 'me too' movement. It just makes you want to be loud and claim our voices back.”

The menu for the family-style Chinese New Year celebration will feature dishes the women remember from their childhoods.

They invited Anne Ng of Bakery Lorraine, who’s family also fled Communist China like Ling Datchuk’s mother, who came to the U.S. as a refugee after finding British controlled Hong Kong still too close to the turmoil of the ‘70s. For Ng, being part of the pop-up meant learning traditional Chinese pastries, which she never attempted before.

“They were always available, and I never thought to learn how to make them,” Ng said.

Careful not to heavy-handedly “reinvent” or “elevate” the food , the menu was comprised of Chinese charcuterie (Hainese chicken, Sichuan beef tendon, tea-smoked salmon, sesame marinated jellyfish, century duck eggs, soy-braised peanuts, assorted pickles; mains (xiao long bao or soup dumplings, fish fragrant sticky eggplant, Taiwanese pork noodles, gai-lan with oyster sauce and crispy garlic, and teochew-braised duck with garlic chili vin and jasmine rice; and dessert (silken ginger curd with kumquat preserve

and black tea pearls, snow skin moon cakes with green tea and red bean ganache fillings, and black sesame nougat). Guests were gifted red envolopes, staples of Chinese New Year celebrations meant to bring good luck — or in this case Lotto scratch offs.

“The one thing that moms always knew how to express their love for us was through cooking and nourishing,” Dobbertin said.

“We celebrate Year of the Dog as Year of the Bitch because we have powerful voices and intentions. Like dogs, best quality daughters are loyal, honest, stubborn and respect other perspectives. We believe as long as we work hard, we’ll make it,” Ling Datchuk’s post continued.

Ling Datchuk’s solo October exhibit, “Girl You Can” utilized that conflict between cultural appreciation, appropriation and reappropriation, and used “porcelain, blueand-white patterns, stereotypically Asian motifs, textiles, video and photography” and guests at the dinner will explore that further with centerpieces of Mao and commemorative ceramic plates by the artist to take home.

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Bottling Department is the most diverse. There are families that visit with the kiddos in tow to grab a doughnut while the Background: The Bottling Department opened in summer parents sip on a half-priced Merlot. There are students that of 2017 and houses five different eateries and a wine bar stop in to grab a beer and a bite to eat while studying. There within its walls. The location started a happy hour not too are friends from work meeting for a quick drink and snack long after it became a favorite of weekenders visiting the hall before battling traffic for the day. No matter who it is — they after the farmer’s market closed down. will find something at the Bottling Department.

Happy Hour: Visit any time between open and close on Monday and you can grab a glass of wine or a beer for half price with a food purchase. Beverages you can choose from range from $1.50 to $7 and most of the establishments have special menu items that run from $3 to $6. Happy hour is all day Monday, and Tuesday through Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m.

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Experience: I came into the food hall on Monday around lunch time for their all day happy hour and the place was packed. After debating between Tenko’s $5 katsu chicken sandwich, Fletcher’s $4 melted fries, or the Good Kind’s $6 paninis — I was drawn to the aroma of Bud’s rotisserie chicken and their $5 sliders. After ordering food and getting my buzzer I ran over to the wine bar where I purchased a $4 glass of red wine from the suggested wines to pair with the food vendor of my choice. Shortly after receiving a glass,

the buzzer indicated that the food was ready for pick up.

It was one of the fastest happy hour services I have ever experienced. Within 10 minutes of arriving I had a drink and my food in front of me. The wine was great and the sliders, even better. Served on a simple white bun Bud’s loads their pulled chicken and bread and butter pickles onto the bread. What you’re left with is a delicious snack that is big enough to be subbed as a dinner. With so many different establishments offering a special it’s the perfect happy hour to keep coming back to.

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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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Originally set to take place at the Six Flags Fiesta Texas parking lot on March 3 and 4, Botánica Music & Arts Festival announced that event would be scaled down to one day and would be losing headliners like Major Lazer and Blackbear. To make up for the loss, the folks behind the fest are now granting ticket-buyers full access to the park and have added more artists to make up for the loss. If you’ve stuck with Botanica through the changes and controversy (critics took umbrage with the name, etc.), and because Deftones are still Deftones, then here’s a few artists you should definitely check out in between riding the Iron Rattler and Batman: The Ride.

Deftones ▲ 9:30-10:45 Main Stage 2 - Picnic Grove Does this band really need any more introduction to our city? Probs not. You know who Chino and the boys are. Yeah, since the ’90s we’ve been blasting their blend of distorted guitar grooves and emotive crooning

so much that there probably should be a White Pony Drive somewhere.

Logic 10-11:30pm Main Stage 1 - Lone Star Lil’s You know Logic, bruh. He’s that rapper that wrote that song about suicide and aptly titled the track with the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline “1-800-273-8255.” Hailing from Gaithersburg, Maryland, Logic, born Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, has been hitting it hard releasing music since his 2009 debut, Logic: The Mixtape. Arguably one of the biggest hip-hop acts to blow up in the past year or so, with his contemporary sing-rap sound, it’s not a huge surprise the 28-year-old is a headliner.

Alessia Cara 8:30-9:30pm Main Stage 1 - Lone Star Lil’s You might not recognize her name, you’ve most likely heard the song she did with Grammy-winning

producer Zed, “Stay.” At 577 million views on Spotify, this Canadian singer is making waves in the pop and R&B world. Starting out just doing acoustic covers of popular songs, in 2015 Cara signed to Def Jam Recordings and released her debut single, "Here", which reached No. 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart.

Ookay (Live) 5:45 - 6:30pm Main Stage 1 - Lone Star Lil’s We recently saw Ookay up in Dallas when he rocked a set at the EDM festival Lights All Night.

Dude did not disappoint, and if you dig heavy-hitting, melodic EDM with all the drops to make your booty pop, then you’re not gonna want to miss his set on the main stage. The California-based DJ exploded onto the scene when his first two records in 2014, making him one of the young leaders in the world of trap music. Since then, Ookay’s (pronounced “okay”) sound has evolved and hits all aspects of of the EDM genre.

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The Los Angeles singer/songwriter and dancer gets her stage from the slang word “dojo," which means “weed” (as in marijuana), and her love for cats.

House of Kenzo 4-4:30pm Stage 3 - Sundance Theatre Local performance art collective House of Kenzo have been opening portals to other dimensions all across Texas the last few years with their punk rock blend of late ’80s NYC ballroom vogue aesthetic and ferocious performance energy. Recently signing to Houston's experimental club-music label Halcyon Veil, the group released their debut EP Bonfires of Urbanity. Incorporating conceptual dancing and original music into their performances, it's safe to say that you don’t watch a House of Kenzo show, you experience it.

Wayne Holtz ▲ 2-2:30pm Stage 3 - Sundance Theatre If you’re not familiar with local indie-pop artist Wayne Holtz, you really haven’t been paying attention to the San Antonio music scene. Punctuated by costume changes and choreography, Holtz' live set is all about the details and it reflects at every one of his unique performances. If you live outside Loop 410, this will be a rare ocassion to see Holtz work his magic in a non-downtown setting.

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Easily one of the dopest local lineups happening this week, this show features three of arguably the best indie rock outfits to come out of San Antonio over the last 10 years. Featuring the desert rock duo that’s been turning heads since 2009, Lonely Horse is known for smacking audiences across the face with distorted rock ‘n’ roll and soulful vocals that will make you feel some shit. Also on the bill are indie rock orchestra Deer Vibes, who easily could be labeled SA’s answer to Canada’s the Broken Social Scene. Lastly, RMRS’ sound matches post-hardcore and indie rock with punctuations of post-rock throughout their catalog. It’s spacy, heavy, and it’s not a surprise they’re local favorites. $5-$7, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com.

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Sort of sounding like slowed down (and stripped down) tracks from Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms, and with lyrics like “Cuando veo esos ojos / ahí es donde quiero vivir / Si me besan esos labios / ahí si quiero morir” (lol, calm down mijo), Omar Banos, better known as Cuco, has a catalog of tracks that are raw, soulful and bleeding edge contemporary. $17-$60 (sold-out), 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com.

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“People want to box me in so bad,” said K. Michelle in an interview with Billboard this past December. “They want me to be one thing. I’m learning that my complexities make me.

That’s why this song speaks on who I am. It’s controversial because it’s saying everything I love: God, sex and a little bit of drugs.” Born Kimberly Michelle Pate, K. Michelle is talking about her song “God, Love, Sex, and Drugs” from her latest album KIMBERLY: The People I Used To Know, which, is about, well, God, love, sex and drugs. The track is a great example of the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star’s personality, vocal range, and unique style. $32.50-$59.50, 7pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., theaztectheatre.com.

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If you listen to punk rock, and have been living here long enough to know how special the original Taco Land really was, you know how important and awesome and exciting this show is. If you’re new to Taco Land’s history though, The Dead Milkmen is a band from the ’80s who have made lasting contributions to the punk rock and indie rock world. They even wrote a song about the amazing San Antonio local punk rock venue, Taco Land (not the new one – I still haven’t gone to it because I still have feelings about gentrification), owned by the late Ram Ayala who was murdered outside of the bar in July of 2005. Anyway, they’re coming back to San Antonio and everyone should go because, punk rock and San Antonio go hand in hand. Also on the bill are bands that were important to shaping the scene during the days of Taco Land: protopunkers White Heat, rock ‘n’ rollers Sons of Hercules, and cow-punk boys The Hickoids. For a blast from San Antonio’s past, this is a show you need to be at. $20-$22, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com.

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Venus Takes SA Celebrating a year after their launch in Austin, Venus is a collaborative online publication dedicated to empowering selfidentified women and non-binary folk by showcasing their diverse achievements and perspectives. Their first San Antonio showcase features the music from Blushing, a dream-pop and shoegaze band from Austin, as well as indie alt-rockers Born Again Virgins whose sound is sort of Rufus Wainwright meets ’90s alternative, and emotive, electronic pop artist Polly Anna. Free, 9pm, The Bang Bang Bar, 119 El Mio Drive, (210) 320-1187, facebook.com/ thebangbangbar210.

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Heavy, brooding and slightly psychedelic, Big Business is a two-piece (in the past, a threeand four-piece) heavy rock ‘n’ roll band that meld elements of punk, metal and indie art-rock in a way that’s unique to many metal acts in the genre. The band was signed to Hydra Head Records earlier in their career, a label that’s nurtured post-metal bands like Isis and Russian Circles, which makes sense on account of their full, atmospheric sound that the band is able to match with heavy grooves and grittiness. Also on the bill are noise-rockers Buildings and local sludge-rock favorites HÖTZI. $10, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com.

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Dead Meadow Formed in 1998 in Washington, D.C. from the remnants of other local bands The Impossible Five and Colour, Dead Meadow combined ’70s heavy metal with ’60s psychedelic rock and explored themes found in the writings by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft. Their music is heavy, echoey and probably some of the best psychedelic rock out there, which is sort of saying a lot considering there are a million psych-rock bands in the industry. The D.C. band will be joined by local San Antonio psychedelic rockers True Indigo, who have been making a name for themselves in the region the last couple of years. $12, 7pm, Period Modern, 4347 McCullough Ave., (210) 9021217, facebook.com/k23gallery.

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Magic Men Live The Aztec Theatre presents Magic Men Live, a live stage production of lights, sounds, and dancing men. $24.99-$99.99. Aztec Theatre, Thu-Sat 8pm Salsa Night Mainstream Latin jazz artist Jose Amador performs with the NATIAO Latin jazz group. $10. Jazz, TX, 8:30-11:30pm.

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Brett Young Country singer-songwriter from Orange County performs freshly written originals. $15-$30. Cowboys Dancehall, 7pm.

GlobalFEST The New Golden Age of Latin Music Indie mambo band Orkesta Mendoza mix a multitude of Latin styles like cumbia, merengue and ranchera through psychedelic mambo and post-punk. Joined by alternative Chicano band Las Cafeteras. $16.50$65. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm.

Jason Boland & The Stragglers Jason Boland has a reputation of being a modern day country music outlaw.

Both he and his band have been leaders in the Texas and Oklahoma music scene for years. $25. Gruene Hall, 8pm.

Krista L. L. Muir Montreal artist mixes pop, folk and psych to perform an original sound with local punk band Lloronas, dream pop band Dreambored and experimental indie group Eye of the Day. $5. Imagine Books and Records, 8pm.

La La Land in Concert The San Antonio Symphony is bringing the score of La La Land to life. The film has won six Academy Awards including Best Original Score and Cuco Young Chicano singer-songwriter Best Original Song. $25-$65. The makes his way from L.A to perform live.

Majestic Theatre, Fri,Sat 7:30pm. $17-$60. Paper Tiger, 8pm.

Mike Love Mike Love is one of reggae Doc Watkins and His Orchestra music’s rising stars. His debut album South Texas jazz musician Brent “Doc” The Change I’m Seeking is inspired Watkins and his orchestra perform by his reggae roots. $13-$60. Sam’s upbeat jazz live. $30. Jazz, TX, 8:30Burger Joint, 9pm.

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Nekrofilth & HRA The Guillotine is hosting a live performance by death metal band Nekrofilth. $6-$8. The Guillotine inside the Silver Dollar Saloon, 8pm-2am.

Martin Sexton Studio Session Americana singer-songwriter and music producer Martin Sexton performs live originals at The Tobin in the Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater. $29.50-$50. Tobin Center for the RMRS Local indie band RMRS performs Performing Arts, 8pm. live with indie-pop group Deer Vibes and desert rockers Lonely Horse. $5.

Matthew McNeal McNeal returns to Limelight, 9pm-2am.

San Antonio after a month-long string of Americana road shows to celebrate Sam Pace and the Gilded Grit Austin the release of the new LP Good Luck. based heavy soul and Rock n’ Roll Free. The Rustic, 7-10pm. music artist performs live with his band. Free. The Amp Room, 9:30pm- POPS: God Save the Queen (Tribute 12:30am. to Queen) The San Antonio Choral Society will feature popular hits by SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Queen and other '70s British rock bands. $20. Charline McCombs Bingo Night Local instrumental rock Empire Theatre, 7-8:30pm. band performs their debut EP live with Melancholia and The Walled Garden.

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Memphis performs with Statik G, OmegaSin, Southkross, Money Animal, Doc Watkins and His Orchestra FTW, Mic Murderers, The Kid Bootz South Texas jazz musician Brent “Doc” and Magadino Tha Chemist. $17-$20.

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I recently stumbled on an Instagram account of a young woman who’s a “knife play” enthusiast.

I consider myself sex-positive, but I must say I was disturbed by the images. I was also shocked that I didn’t know this was a thing! But of course it’s a thing cuz everything is a thing, right? I don’t want to outlaw it, and everyone has a right to their kinks, I guess, but I’m so wigged out!

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marriage means and my husband and I shouldn’t have gotten married at all if we were going to be having sex with other people. Just before my mother died she confided in me about an affair she’d had and asked me to retrieve and destroy some letters and cards, which I did. I’ve had three screaming fights with my dad about monogamy in the last two weeks. Can I tell him his marriage wasn’t monogamous?

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying ... or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago ... or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you ... or transform your relationship with an old wound ... or all of the above.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps — to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment, and abundant slack.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one can be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please.

Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines, and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New

York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle.

You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2. You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.”

5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns — places where people once lived, but then LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written to be as I expected it would be for you? Have six books documenting these places. He’s you become more accepting of yourself an expert on researching what remains of and further at peace with your mysterious the past and drawing conclusions based on destiny? Are you benefiting from greater the old evidence. In accordance with current stability and security? Do you feel more at astrological omens, I suggest you consider home in the world and better nurtured by doing comparable research into your own lost your close allies? If for some reason these and half-forgotten history. You can generate developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw vigorous psychic energy by communing with from every lesser concern and turn your focus origins and memories. Remembering who you to them. Make sure you make full use of the used to be will clarify your future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you. appointments in the coming months, you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find quite a revolution that’s in the works. But During those years, all the dates fell on the intimacy — you can’t find home — when it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating same days of the week as they do in 2018. you’re always hiding behind masks,” says developments may test your ability to adjust On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot gracefully. Quickly-shifting story lines will ask learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed exposing your fragmented, contradictory long as you treat it as an interesting challenge with comparable illusions. On the other self to someone else. You running the risk of instead of an inconvenient imposition. My other hand, it might help for you to recall the having your core self rejected and hurt and advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow detours you had to take back then, since you misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better your range of expression, but rather to be like may thereby figure out how to avoid having advice to offer you as you navigate your way an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is to repeat boring old experiences that you through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will your word of power. don’t need to repeat. have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow candid and unshielded.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truthtelling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.”

American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic.

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