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Numbers Game
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‘Keeping First’
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That Rocks/That Sucks Ninety of the evacuees quarantined at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland received a clean bill of health last week and were cleared to go home. (Another 144 brought to the base from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan remain under quarantine.) Construction crews last week tore down what remained of the iconic underground music venue Taco Land. Clearly, the dive’s Pearl-adjacent property is a hot commodity. Even so, it’s sad to see gentrification claim another cherished local landmark. They’d better leave the site’s ancient oak tree alone. Communities in Schools apparently figured out what many in San Antonio already know: former four-term councilman Rey Saldaña is a tireless education advocate. The DC-based nonprofit hired Saldaña as its new CEO, which means he’ll step down as chairman of VIA Metropolitan Transit. Turns out, Paul Pogue, the Texas businessman included in President Trump’s surprise clemency blitz, is also a big GOP donor. Over the years, Pogue, who went to the pokey for tax evasion, flowed cash to Republican officeholders including former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, current state Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Sen. Angela Paxton, the AG’s spouse. — Sanford Nowlin
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ou’d think men running for office in Texas would have learned from gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams’ “relax and enjoy it” comment that making rape analogies is a dumb fucking idea. Apparently not. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Republican congressional candidate Jamie Berryhill claimed a country with weak borders was like a woman whose value as a human being has been stolen by sexual assault. “A nation without borders is like a woman raped and defiled, her precious value pillaged and taken,” read the post, captured via
screenshot by a TV station in his hometown of Odessa. Businessman Berryhill is — pardon us, was — among the more credible candidates in the 10-way GOP primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway. Berryhill told Odessa’s CBS 7 he’d refrain from making the analogy again. But he just couldn’t help himself. The next day, he took that great tool of assclownery known as Twitter to defend the comment. He informed “anyone who wants to question whether or not my initial statement is offensive” that the real offense is that Americans have to live in a country with open borders. Good luck with women voters, assclown. — Sanford Nowlin
T Health San Antonio has landed $7.2 million in state funding to oversee a statewide program to treat opioid addiction that will provide “compassionate, evidence-based” care regardless of patients’ ability to pay. Much of the funding for the new Texas Medication for Opioid Use Disorder program will cover the cost of meds for paTwitter @JCisnerosTX tients unable to afford treatment. The initiative will also manage a network of trained health providers and
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ocal officials, including Mayor Ron Nirenberg and County Judge Nelson Wolff have asked federal officials to stop taking evacuees quarantined at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to local hospitals for medical tests that could be handled on-site. In a letter sent to U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s office last week, Wolff asked the congressman to request the Department of Defense stop its policy of carting evacuees to hospitals, which he said puts health workers and residents at increased risk of exposure. — Sanford Nowlin Co
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how much it budgets for trash collection or how to expand its water system, said Lloyd Potter, Texas’ state demographer. But when it comes to understanding whether a city has enough mass to be considered for an NFL expansion team, be in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters or even whether it will be a tour stop for particular musical performer, it’s the MSA that’s all-important. “If you want to look at a city and its surroundings as an economic system, then the metropolitan statistical area is the best way to do that,” Potter said. In the end, calling San Antonio the seventh-largest city makes a good marketing gimmick for local leaders, Potter said — something that offers a leg up as they vie for corporate relocations or tourism dollars. “If I were in their position, I’d be doing the same thing,” he added.
Decades of Failure
Melissa McHenry
Numbers Game
Calling San Antonio the seventhlargest city has a nice ring, but it doesn’t reflect reality BY SANFORD NOWLIN
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ive in San Antonio long enough and you’ll hear somebody pose the following question: “If we’re the seventh-largest city, why don’t we have an NFL team?” Or maybe you’ve heard a variation of that query where a lyric opera, direct flights to Europe or some other shiny object subs in for a sports franchise. At first, it sounds like a reasonable line of inquiry. After all, city leaders and local media have repeated the seventh-largest tag frequently enough that it’s stuck. As such, it can sound odd — maybe even shameful — that a top-10 city like SA doesn’t boast the same cool stuff as nearby Dallas or Houston. But experts caution that our seventh-ranked status — determined by the estimated 1.5 million people living inside our municipal boundaries — paints a false picture. The size of a city’s metropolitan statistical area, or MSA, is far better barometer for a city’s heft, economists argue. That designation, created by the U.S. government, refers to a region consisting not just of a city proper but its suburbs and surrounding communities. Count the population the Alamo City plus its outlying burbs, and our status slides — correction, plummets — from
the top 10. Ranked by our MSA population of 2.5 million, we’re 24th on U.S. Census’ 2018 rankings, sandwiched between Charlotte, N.C., and Portland, Oregon. No. 7 on the federal MSA list is the sprawling Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, home to 6.2 million people — or two and a half times metro SA’s population. “The seventh-largest city description of San Antonio is a fig leaf — a fiction,” said Char Miller, a professor at Pomona College in California who’s made a career of studying our city. “Partly, it reflects a lack of willingness by our leaders to be nuanced in their evaluation of where the city actually stands.”
Critical Mass Part of the issue here is that cities in more densely populated regions, such as the East Coast, had their boundaries constrained by nearby growth. San Antonio, meanwhile, annexed land at a brisk pace starting in the early part of the 20th century. (See this issue’s CityScrapes column for a look at why that happened.) Christine Drennon, an urban studies professor at Trinity University, often uses the disparity between San Antonio’s city population and the size of its MSA to make a point to her introductory classes. Look at SA by city population alone, and we’re bigger than Atlanta, for example. Consider the size of the MSAs, though, and the Atlanta area’s 6 million residents leave us in the dust when it comes to buying power. “When people wonder why San Antonio doesn’t have an opera or sports teams, it’s because we don’t have the critical mass in our surrounding suburbs to support those kinds of things,” Drennon said. Knowing the population within a city’s limits is important when it comes to evaluating administrative issues such as
But Pomona College’s Miller, who’s written several books on San Antonio, is troubled by the way leaders continue to trumpet its status as a top-10 market. The tag creates a false impression among residents about our successes and shortcomings. What’s more, local media’s willingness to repeat it without question reeks of boosterism. “When I moved to San Antonio in 1981, it was the same conversation,” Miller said. “The numbers were different then, but the implications were the same: ‘The symphony should have more money because we’re the 10th-largest city.’” In the end, Miller is troubled less by the mythmaking than the lack of vision it embodies. While long eager to pursue growth and outside investment, San Antonio leaders showed an unwillingness to tackle the city’s deep, troubling problems with generational poverty and poor educational opportunities. “My worry is less with the rhetoric itself but what lies beneath it — our unwillingness to deal with the social ills that hold the city back,” he said. “If the strategy is that we can grow ourselves into world-class status, we’ve failed pretty miserably. We’re still having the same conversation we could have had four decades ago.”
Largest U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas Rank/Name
Population (in millions)
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2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
13.3
3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
9.5
4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
7.5
5. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land
7
24. San Antonio-New Braunfels
2.5
Source: U.S. Census
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San Antonio’s obsession with size distracted it from solving real problems BY HEYWOOD SANDERS Editor’s Note: The following is CityScrapes, a column of opinion and analysis.
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preoccupation — indeed, an obsession — on the part of San Antonio’s business and political leadership with the size of the city is nothing new. For generations, they have sought to portray it as large and important: a great city. That “great city” language led the editorial page of the San Antonio Express almost daily beginning in 1922. And by mid-1928, “greatness” had a very particular meaning. San Antonio had long been the largest city in Texas, a distinction widely repeated by city leaders. By 1920, its population of 161,379 put it barely
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ahead of Dallas, which had 158,976 residents. The ’20s were a decade of boom for San Antonio and South Texas, with the Census Bureau putting the city’s population at 218,100 as of July 1, 1928. And with the headline “Growing Sturdily— and Keeping First,” the Express voiced the editorial opinion that “in Texas as in many another states, each large city is stimulated to put forth its best effort toward every sort of development, hoping it will be found first in the 1930 [Census] enumeration.” While the newspaper argued that “San Antonio must await that count with every confidence,” it noted the city’s lead “has thus far been accomplished without resort to extending the corporate area, as
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most other cities have done.” Indeed, San Antonio was still the same 36 square miles it had been in 1856, while Dallas and Houston had each carried out vigorous programs of annexing suburban areas. If San Antonio was to continue “keeping first,” it was time for the city to reach out and annex the suburban ring encircling it. The Express’ clarion call came at a time when city officials were already considering annexation. Earlier in the year, city commissioners had begun to consider an annexation program “to assure San Antonio its leading position among Texas cities when the government census is taken in 1930.” “If it is necessary to keep first, however, I am for it,” Commissioner Paul Steffler told his colleagues. “That is, where there is no serious objection.” But Steffler’s colleagues were less certain about the value of a major annexation effort, particularly for areas that would produce less taxable property value or require substantial new public spending. By the end of the year, there was sufficient support on the city commission to put a charter change on the ballot
that would permit annexation of outlying areas. The charter change passed overwhelmingly on December 1, and Mayor C. M. Chambers set about selling the virtues of joining San Antonio to the residents of Harlandale, Hot Wells, Los Angeles Heights and Terrell Hills. Chambers promised citizens of Los Angeles Heights that annexation would bring an extension of the city sewer system, new water lines, a fire station and branch library — and the possibility of joining the San Antonio school district. What’s more, Chambers argued that while the charter change allowed San Antonio to take in all of Bexar county, “it was his intention merely to acquire enough suburbs to keep San Antonio the first city in the state in population. … Dallas and Houston had now acquired all the suburbs surrounding those cities to swell their population and that San Antonio was going to do likewise.” The annexation plan ultimately adopted by the city commission more than doubled the city’s land area, to a total of 81 square miles, seemingly assuring enough new residents to keep San Antonio in its top ranking. And to bring the promised new facilities and services to the suburban areas, the commissioners put a major bond issue on the ballot in April 1930, calling for public support of the spending needed “to keep San Antonio first in Texas.” The bond issue succeeded at the polls. But some residents of the newly annexed area — “a few rich people,” Chambers claimed — sued to block the annexation, and won. With the annexation ruled void, the 1930 Census figures neatly put San Antonio in third place, well behind Houston and Dallas. The city wouldn’t attempt an annexation for another decade. The quest to “keep first in Texas” can appear both quixotic and petty today. City leaders could have, and should have, been dealing with the real issues the city faced at the onset of the Great Depression. It was a time when much of the local population was plunged into abject poverty and desperation. The community also faced a host of severe public health problems. But then, much as now, the symbolism of being a “big city,” growing and on the move, was what entranced and motivated local boosters. The imperative today shouldn’t be “bigger,” it should be “better.” Heywood Sanders is a professor of public policy at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Charlie Brown’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill $8 210 Burger
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Chris Madrids $5 Tostada Burger
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Chunky’s Burgers $5 Monterrey Burger
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1/2lb Angus beef patty with carne poblano sauce, stacked with a crispy tostada, black beans, pico, avocado, chipotle aioli, sliced white american cheese and a roasted poblano on a jalapeno bun. Served with parmesan fries 1806 N Loop 1604 W | Cover-3.com
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Mark’s Outing $8 Batter Up Bacon Burger Big, fat, juicy 8oz bacon cheeseburger 1624 E. Commerce St. | MarksOuting.com
Orderup $5 Jalepeno Popper Burger
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Sam’s Burger Joint $8 The King Burger
Grape jelly bacon cheddar cheese 1/2lb angus beef with creamy peanut butter 330 East Grayson St. | SamsBurgerJoint.com
Sangria on the burg $5 Fried Avocado Burger
Smoked beef shoulder and brisket patty, seared panela cheese, crisp avocado, lettuce, tomato and aji amarillo aioli
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Slider Provider $8 The Goobster
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Southtown 101 $5 St. Mary’s Swiss Burger
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The Broadway 5050 $8 Pimento Cheese Burger
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The Cove $8 09er
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The Lion & Rose British Restaurant & Pub at the rim $8 Beefeater’s Burger
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The Well Restaurant $8 Jameson Blue Cheese Burger
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The Winchester Pints and Plates $8 The Winchester Cowboy Burger
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Tripoli’s Mediterranean Grill and Coffee Shop $5 The Lamburger
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Tired of cynical, cash-grabby comic-cons that offer little beyond overpriced merch and long-ass lines for celeb photo ops? Pop Con’s gotchu, fam. The free, one-day celebration of literary and artistic geekdom returns to the San Antonio Public Library for its third year with a stacked lineup of authors and artists working in science fiction and fantasy. Sookie Stackhouse fans can hear the good word from Charlaine Harris herself, the author behind the books that became the HBO series True Blood, while The Magicians addicts can look forward to a panel by executive producer Sera Gamble, who was instrumental in adapting Lev Grossman’s novels for TV. For those whose taste runs to ’50s kitsch and pin-up fare, artist Coop — widely recognized as a defining force in underground rock poster art — will make an appearance. (See the Q&A with Coop in this edition’s Arts section.) Those of us who do judge books by their covers will also be amply rewarded: award-winning cover illustrators Jeffrey Alan Love and San Antonio’s John Picacio also will be on hand. But wait — there’s more. The event features a full schedule of guest panels, a cosplay contest, two escape rooms, themed areas for anime and gaming, a kids-friendly section and the now-obligatory food trucks. Free, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Central Library, 600 Soledad St., (210) 207-2500, mysapl.org/popcon. — Kelly Merka Nelson
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women warriors of the Mexican Revolution — the Adelitas — but it also tells a narrative through contemporary and classical ballet. The corridos, or ballads, sung by revolutionaries and embodied in folklórico picture the Adelitas as both the badasses they were and as feminine beauties desired by imperiled men. $15-$200, 8 p.m., Guadalupe Theatre, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, guadalupeculturalarts.org. — Trevor Flynn
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Even though DeRay Davis is best known as Cookie Lyons’ cousin and hitman in the FOX show Empire, it’s unlikely he’ll be engaging in any gunplay when he comes to town. Comedy is his weapon of choice. Davis specializes in taking the “hood” out of Hollywood in standup specials such as his 2011 hit Power Play and 2017’s How to Act Black. He’s also made appearances in movies such as
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The Fog and 21 Jump Street. He’ll hit up the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club for a full weekend of shows, so even though he’s not packing, some San Antonians could die laughing during his set. $35$45, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 N.W. Loop 410, (866) 468-3399, improvtx.com/ sanantonio. — Brianna Espinoza
FRI | 2/28 DANCE
BALLET NEPANTLA: VALENTINA 5 If you think you know baile folklórico, you haven’t seen Ballet Nepantla. Raised near the Texas border town of Edinburg, company founder Andrea Guajardo followed her ballet ambitions to New York. After finding success as a classically trained dancer, she rediscovered the heritage she previously took for granted and decided to expand upon it, founding Ballet Nepantla in 2017. The company’s latest show, Valentina, features the whirling skirts and twirling rifles of traditional dances about the
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If adventure has a sound, it’s John Williams’ music. The San Antonio Symphony will whisk away the audience with a performance featuring two of the film composer’s most famous scores — Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman. The still-working octogenarian can be credited with a rise in respect for movie music from the academic world, and his work also helped spur the demand for film music concerts such as this one. But Williams isn’t the only luminary whose work is featured on the program. The audience will also hear selections from Max Steiner’s Gone With the Wind, which represents the unabashed romanticism of Golden Age Hollywood and features leitmotif character themes that would influence Williams’ work, Elmer Bernstein’s iconic score for The Magnificent Seven and Henri Mancini’s “Moon River,” which is the only reason Breakfast at Tiffany’s tacked-on happy ending works. $12-$100, 8 p.m., H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — TF
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SPURS VS. MAGIC
Orlando Magic high-flyer Aaron Gordon put on an impressive show earlier this month in a Slam Dunk Contest for the ages at NBA All-Star weekend in Chicago. Despite falling short against eventual winner Derrick Jones Jr., Gor-
don further endeared himself to fans outside of Orlando, courtesy of some questionable judging toward the tail end of the competition. Gordon and the Magic head into their showdown with the Spurs Saturday night in search of consecutive playoff appearances for the first time in seven seasons. Following a disastrous 1-5 start to the annual Rodeo Road Trip, expectations have somewhat tempered in San Antonio, with the end of a historic 22-season postseason streak potentially in sight. When the two teams met in Orlando back in November, the Magic held on for a tight
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UNITED WE BRUNCH 2020: BATTLE OF THE BLOODY MARYS It’s dangerous to chant “Bloody Mary” three times in the bathroom at home, but San Antonians may find themselves throwing
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two-point win. Expect another close contest between prospective trade partners presumably pursuing a playoff bid. $10-$1436, 7:30 p.m., AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway, (210) 444-5140, attcenter.com. — M. Solis
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caution to the wind and uttering the phrase well over the three-count limit at the fifth annual United We Brunch, which this year debuts the largest Bloody Mary challenge the city has ever seen. Come for the savory cocktails and stay for the brunch samples, beer and bubbles, live music and more. $45, noon-3 p.m., Sunset Station, 1174 E. Commerce St., unitedwebrunchsa.com. — KMN
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Turns out, San Antonians are down to chill with tantalizing baddies. Villains Night Out is returning by popular demand for an encore of the evil — and sexy! — burlesque special. Iconic fictional evildoers including Ursula, Maleficent and the Queen of Hearts will bring dastardly deeds to the stage with performances by Miss Taint, Lita Deadly, Stella Belle and more. The villains may be Disney-friendly, but the show is definitely not family fare, so it’s best to leave the kiddos with a babysitter. $12-$50, 8 p.m. Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, 108 Blue Star, (210) 262-8653, facebook. com/BrickatBlueStar. — Brianna Espinoza
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Texas independence. The show promises a fresh take on the famous 1836 battle from the perspectives of five key figures: Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and William B. Travis. Remember stars Ben Jones as Travis and Michael Dailey as Austin, and the show’s composer and music director Brett Strader will make his debut with the San Antonio Symphony at the premiere. $29.50-$103.50, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — Steven Hargis
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The new musical An American in Paris is coming to the Tobin Center for one night as part of its ongoing national tour. Based on the 1951 film of the same name, the 2015 musical opened on the West End in Paris, and its Broadway run garnered four Tony Awards. The romance follows the bohemian exploits of an American G.I. who stays in Paris after the German occupation to pursue a career in painting. That rough sketch of a plot was mostly an excuse for Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron to dance their pants off in the richly awarded MGM picture, setting the stage for a generation of Hollywood musicals to follow. This version hones in on post-war trauma but still delivers nostalgic backdrops and shuffling feet. Who could ask for anything more? $39.60-$89.50, 7 p.m., H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter. org. — TF
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Plenty of people are familiar with the story of the Alamo, but how many have heard the tale told through song? Well, now’s our chance, because the Alamo and the Tobin Endowment are presenting the world premiere of Remember, a musical honoring those who gave their lives in the battle for
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Pee-Wee Herman is returning to San Antonio, but he’s not looking for his bike this time around. This year marks the 35th anniversary of wacky film classic Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, which cemented Herman as a household name, marked macabre auteur Tim Burton’s directorial debut and was the first major motion picture with a score by Oingo Boingo frontman-turned-sought-after-composer Danny Elfman. The movie led to the enduringly popular Pee-Wee’s Playhouse TV series, indelibly linking actor Paul Reubens to his zany character. To celebrate the occasion, Reubens has kicked off a cross-country tour. Each stop consists of a screening of the film followed by Reubens sharing behind the scenes stories about Pee-Wee’s movie magic. And yes, y’all, he still remembers the Alamo. $39.50 (Sold Out), 7:30 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — C. Mason
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and remarriage, anything and everything is fair game for Kramer. Attendees can expect an open and personal experience, plus a hefty dose of audience interac-
tion with the couple as they share their experiences and advice. And if any fans are hoping to hear Kramer sing — keep your fingers crossed for a showstopper ending. $35-$100, 7:30 p.m., Carlos Alvarez Studio Theatre, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — SH
Potter? Don’t worry, the next best thing is headed to San Antonio: The Illusionists, a touring magic show that has captivated audiences worldwide. While the titular Illusionists don’t have actual magical powers, they make up for it with a variety of skill sets. See “The Mentalist” Chris Cox’s powers of deduction as he reads peoples’ minds. Scrutinize Hyun Joon Kim’s disciplined sleight of hand techniques. Want to see someone who’s hung by their toes from a helicopter? Jonathan Goodwin has you covered with his innovative daredevil stunts. Along with all the mind-blowing magic, audiences can expect witty humor and boundless devotion from performers that fans of all ages can enjoy. $39.50-$89.50, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston Street, (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — SH
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Not satisfied with starring in One Tree Hill and becoming a popular country singer, Jana Kramer turned to podcasting, and now she’s taking the show on the road. Whine Down, the pod Kramer cohosts with her husband Michael Caussin, is headed to the Tobin Center for an intimate evening with San Antonio fans. But don’t worry, it won’t be recorded! Instead, the live show will stay between the hosts and the audience. From her time as a singer and actor, to her divorce
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As a tie-in to this spring’s five bookthemed exhibitions, Blue Star Contemporary is hosting the Novel Ideas Book Fair, aptly timed to match up both with Contemporary Art Month’s First Friday as well as the influx of authors and publishers coming to town for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The two-day fair gives local readers a chance to get their hands on books, monographs, zines and more directly from the artists who make them — some of whom rarely sling their wares in San Antonio. In addition to two of the artists featured in Blue Star Contemporary’s spring exhibitions — Sarah Welch of Mystic Multiples and Rand Renfrow — the fair will showcase artists and publications including Clare Drummond (Austin), Animal Facts Club (Wimberley), Trilce Ediciones (Mexico City), Hellen Jo (Los Angeles) and Soberscove Press (Chicago) as well as San Antonio’s Cattywampus Press, Feral Editions, French & Michigan, St. Sucia and
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Sybil Press. Attendees can also look forward to talks, pop-up workshops and a slammin’ afterparty at Paper Tiger on Saturday night. $15-$40, 5-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Blue Star Contemporary, 116 Blue Star, 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 2276960, bluestarcontemporary.org. — KMN
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Consistently changing up the game, the Agarita Chamber Ensemble is performing music from Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Béla Bartók, Krzysztof Penderecki and Dmitri Shostakovich to accompany an exhibition of sculptures of Bryan-born, San Antonio-based artist Danville Chadbourne. The ensemble has a penchant for finding new settings for chamber music, and its latest collaboration is sure to be right up Contemporary Art Month’s alley. The wide-ranging program, which features selections from the Classical period to the present, is meant to be in response to Chadbourne’s colorful clay and wooden sculptures, and it should be intriguing to see the blending play out. Free, 7:30 p.m., Seddon Recital Hall, University of the Incarnate Word, 4301 Broadway St., agarita.org — Anthony Dean-Harris
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SPURS VS. MAVERICKS
In only his second season with the Dallas Mavericks, point guard Luka Dončić has taken the NBA by storm, drawing comparisons to basketball icons Larry Bird and LeBron James. A gifted playmaker, Dončić continues to jockey with James for the most triple-doubles this season. After a pair of losses in Dallas, the Spurs look for their first win against Dončić and the Mavericks on Tuesday night at the AT&T Center. Dončić was the difference-maker in Dallas, dropping 42 points and 24 points on San Antonio’s young backcourt. In what has become a familiar refrain in a disappointing campaign, DeMar DeRozan paced the Spurs in both losses with 36 points and 21 points respectively. The daunting task of containing Dončić likely falls upon Dejounte Murray and Derrick White, San Antonio’s premier defenders. $18-$1,686, 7 p.m., AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway, (210) 444-5140, attcenter.com. — MS
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THE OFFICE! A MUSICAL PARODY
Restock the copier paper, because The Office! A Musical Parody is rolling through town. The so-called “unauthorized parody” takes fan favorite moments from the show and mixes them together into a musical that goes through a usual day at “the office.” With songs like “That’s What She Said,” “Marry Me Beesly” and “We Have Fun Here,” be prepared to hear the vocal chops of everyone from Michael and Dwight to Pam and Jim. $21.20-$49.50, 7:30 p.m., H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — BE
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hile the official Contemporary Art Month Kick-Off Party doesn’t go down until March 6 at Blue Star Contemporary — where CAM was born back in 1986 — the 34-year-old San Antonio tradition is already in full swing at the McNay in the form of the CAM Perennial. Built around a formula that invites a guest curator from outside San Antonio to select Bexar County-based artists from an open call, the Perennial offers a portrait of our local art scene from a fresh perspective. Having previously handed over complete creative control to curators from Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Mexico City and the Canary Islands, the Perennial this year landed in the hands of Lee Hallman, an associate curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. From the 2020 open call, Hallman shortlisted 16 applicants for studio visits and ultimately narrowed her roster down to nine artists — Jimmy James Canales, Anthony Francis, Nicholas Frank, Raul Gonzalez, Mari Hernandez, Megan Harrison, Buster Graybill, Jasmyne Graybill and Amada Miller. Titled “Topographies of Truth,” the exhibition is intriguingly couple-heavy: Buster and Jasmyne Graybill, Amada Miller and Nicholas Frank, and Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison are all respectively partnered. During a media preview, Hallman said she chose each artist based solely on the strength of their work and that the connections between them were coincidental. Although peppered with works art scenesters may recognize from previous exhibitions, “Topographies of Truth” cleverly brings together disparate and complementary elements to
evidence “truths about the political, cultural, and environmental topics of our time.” As viewers enter the McNay’s Frost Galleries, they’re greeted with pensive, large-scale portraits by photographic artist and educator Anthony Francis; Raul Gonzalez’s poppy yet personal paintings documenting slice-of-life scenes that celebrate fatherhood and the artist’s colorful “werking” life; and an untitled series of layered black-andwhite photographic self-portraits that shed light on Mari Hernandez’s process of transforming her appearance with makeup, prosthetics, wigs and costumes. Things get significantly more organic in the middle gallery, where Megan Harrison’s surreal interpretations of the natural world share the walls with a naturally dyed fiber collage Amada Miller created during a residency in Trinidad and Tobago — don’t miss the video of it being paraded through the streets of Port of Spain. Also on hand are an assortment of well-worn tools Jasmyne Graybill enhanced with intricate polymer clay configurations inspired by molds, lichens and fungi. Thanks to lighting and strategically arranged white surfaces, shadows come into play in the back gallery, where Nicholas Frank presents a slightly dangerous-looking “room divider” rendered in shards of broken
glass and Jimmy James Canales reprises two key elements from his 2017 solo show “Para Chrome” — a dangling, armor-like sculpture made from metal tubing, rear-view mirrors and low-rider bicycle parts, and a short film of the artist wearing the contraption while combing his hair to the tune of Roberta Flack’s classic “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Although teased in a video trailer housed in the middle gallery, arguably the biggest wow factor of “Topographies of Truth” isn’t inside the McNay but parked on the lawn in front of the museum. An ongoing project that nods to everything from Marcel Duchamp’s iconic porcelain urinal Fountain to doomsday anxiety and DIY survivalism, Buster Graybill’s fully functional R. MUTT: Renegade Modernist Utility Travel Trailer is a bizarre sight to behold that comes complete with a mobile kitchen, outdoor shower, first aid kit, tools aplenty, fine art books, a flotation device, “emergency whiskey” and even an escape hatch. $10-$20 (free from 4-9 p.m. on Thursdays and the first Sunday of the month), 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday through May 17, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Bryan Rindfuss
San Antonio artist Buster Graybill stands in the doorway of his R. MUTT: Renegade Modernist Utility Travel Trailer, one of the highlights of this year’s CAM Perennial exhibition.
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ROBERT L. B. TOBIN: COLLECTOR, CURATOR, VISIONARY January 9 – April 26 McNay Art Museum 6000 North New Braunfels Avenue Through this exhibition, the McNay hopes the world-renowned collection continues to educate and inspire future generations of theatre-makers for years to come. 210-721-1670. SELENA FOREVER/SIEMPRE SELENA January 15 – July 5 McNay Art Museum Selena Forever/Siempre Selena is organized by the McNay Art Museum, curated by Kate Carey, Head of Education. “EXTRA TEXTURE EXPLORATIONS” January 23 – March 1, 2020 Mockingbird Handprints 1420 S. Alamo Bldg B, Ste 108 Mockingbird Handprints presents ceramic works by Mark T Hansen. RUIZ-HEALY ART PRESENT EXHIBITION JESSE AMADO & ALEJANDRO DIAZ: DOUBLE PLEASURE January 29 – March 21 Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 4 PM Ruiz-Healy Art 201-A East Olmos Drive Ruiz-Healy Art present exhibition Jesse Amado and Alejandro Diaz: Double Pleasure at our San Antonio and New York City galleries. The exhibitions will highlight their work in painting and a shared interest in post-conceptual art practices that are grounded in their Mexican American heritage and South Texas aesthetics. FASHION NIRVANA: RUNWAY TO EVERYDAY January 30 – May 17 McNay Art Museum From gowns to grunge, Fashion Nirvana: Runway to Everyday marks the first largescale fashion and video art exhibition in McNay history. Set in the wake of the Cold War, in a decade of great hope and freedom ushered in by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the innovative installation celebrates the fearless designers, photographers, and video artists who made the 1990s iconic and worthy of its current revival. Fashion Nirvana features over 60 runway to everyday garments by famous designers Dior, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carolina Herrera, Patrick Kelly, Isaac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham, Oscar de la Renta, Vivienne Tam, Gianni Versace, Vera Wang, and more. “SOL LEWITT: WALL DRAWING 353” EXHIBITION AT THE TRINITY UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY January 30 – March 28 1 PM - 5 PM Tuesday – Saturday Michael And Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery, Dicke Art Building • Trinity University One Trinity Place Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was a leading figure of Minimalism and a pioneer of Conceptual Art. He helped redefine art in the 1960s with his belief that “the idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
“EXTRA TEXTURE EXPLORATIONS” February 6 • Artist Reception 6 PM - 8 PM Mockingbird Handprints 1420 S. Alamo Bldg B, Ste 108 Mockingbird Handprints presents ceramic works by Mark T Hansen. TEXAS WOMEN: A NEW HISTORY OF ABSTRACT ART February 07 – May 03 Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun • 10 am – 5 pm & Tue, Fri • 10 am – 9 pm San Antonio Museum of Art 200 West Jones Ave Texas Women presents the first large-scale exhibition to focus on Texas women abstract artists who made significant and distinct contributions to the development of abstract art, expanding the narrative of American abstraction. The exhibition celebrates Texas as a vital art scene where women’s unique artistic visions continue to thrive.
2020 CAM PERENNIAL: TOPOGRAPHIES OF TRUTH February 13 – May 17 McNay Art Museum Frost Galleries 6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
“XICANX: NEW VISIONS” AND “LOS MAESTROS: EARLY EXPLORERS OF CHICANO IDENTITY” February 13 – June 28 Daily: 11 AM – 6 PM Centro de Artes Gallery 101 South Santa Rosa Avenue This exhibition focuses on three of the founders of San Antonio’s Chicano arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Jesse Almazan, Jose Esquivel and Rudy Treviño and will highlight their unique contributions and histories as individual artists. “Los Maestros” is curated by San Antonio arts organization Centro Cultural Aztlan. HAUSMANN MILLWORKS: A CREATIVE COMMUNITY SHOWING February 13 – March 31 Plaza Club San Antonio 100 West Houston Street Rex Hausmann, Louise Vega Trevino, Paul Martin & Sarah Hornberger Palmer have a show up from The Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community. Enjoy a great view of the city at The Plaza Club with great art. “WITH/WITHOUT PARADISE” AN EXHIBITION BY ALFONSO ESPRONCEDA February 20 • 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM San Antonio College Visual Arts Center Gallery 950 Lewis Street Site Specific Mixed Media Installation by Alfonso Espronceda Artist and Adjunct Faculty at San Antonio College Opening Reception for Students and Public.
UIW DEPARTMENT OF ART SONGS OF CONTINUITY RECENT WORKS BY DANVILLE CHADBOURNE Opening Reception • Feb 21 6 PM – 8 PM UIW CONCERT HALL AND GALLERIES 4301 BROADWAY STREET In conjunction with Contemporary Art Month, the Art Department of University of the Incarnate Word presents a solo exhibition by San Antonio sculptor Danville Chadbourne feat. over 50 works. WILD FLOWERS FLORES SILVESTRES JESUS TORO MARTINEZ Opening Reception • February 27 6 PM - 9 PM Mexican Cultural Institute 643 East Nueva Street FAMILY DAY SEE + DO: AWESOME ABSTRACT ART March 1 • 12 PM – 3 PM San Antonio Museum of Art Get to know abstract artists of Texas with family-friendly tours and activities. Make your own 3D collage, create a souvenir viewfinder, and paint an abstract design on canvas. A CREATIVE COMMUNITY PRESENTLY SHOWING “NEW WORKS” March 2 – May Mon 10 AM – 6 PM, Tue 10 AM – 7 PM, Wed – Fri 10 AM – 6 PM, Sat 9 AM – 12 PM Credit Human Southtown 812 South Alamo Street Catalog on site, 100% of sales goes to artists. ARTFULL WEDNESDAY: ART-MAKING FOR ADULTS: TRUE BLUE CYANOTYPE FABRIC March 4 • 12 PM - 1 PM McNay Art Museum Exercise creativity in a series of hands-on activities—no art experience necessary. This week we’ll be making drypoint prints. “FANDANGO 2020: ART BY MOMO & POMPA” Opening Reception, Wine March 4 • 5 PM – 8 PM Candlelight Coffee House 3011 North Saint Mary’s Street Exhibition of paintings, sculptures, digital art, & coloring books. SA 2020 MEET UP: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT March 4 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. 1902 S Flores Street Join us for our first SA2020 Meetup of the year! Connect with community leaders, meet SA2020 Partners, learn about San Antonio’s progress and challenges, and help us reaffirm and strengthen the Community Vision for the next decade.
“PRECARIOUS LIFE” BY HOLLIE LYKO March 5 • 6 PM – 8 PM 1414 South Alamo Street,Unit C112A Blue Star Arts Complex Mockingbird Gallery presents Hollie Lyko “Precarious Life” A continuation of her work with repurposed vintage souvenir plates, this exhibition explores erasure, absence and loss within the collective American consciousness. MOSAIC SENIOR EXHIBITION FIRST THURSDAY • MARCH 5 & FIRST FRIDAY MARCH 6 6 PM - 12 AM BRICK AT BLUE STAR ARTS COMPLEX 108 BLUE STAR • #1223 An exhibition of the Seniors in Bluestar Contemporary Mosaic Program. “MOSTLY PAPER” JENNIFER SEO MFA THESIS EXHIBITION March 5 * 6 PM – 9 PM Terminal 136 1414 South Alamo Street “Mostly Paper” includes large and small scale paper sculpture installations with soft drawings. The show’s elaborate recreations of memorable foods and objects of the past attempt to capture things that no longer exist through absurd levels of replication. In remaking these objects, the way we remember them is also reshaped. ALICE JAMES BOOKS & PERSEA BOOKS AWP OFFSITE READING March 5 • 6 PM – 8 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. Join noted indie publishers Alice James Books and Persea Books for an all-in, no-holes barred, rapid-fire poetry reading by Cameron Awkward-Rich, Molly McCully Brown & Susannah Nevison, Philip Matthews, Sandra Meek, Alexandra Teague, Valencia Robin, Carey Salerno, Sara Wainscott Amy Woolard, and others. JOHN GUZMAN IF IT DOESN’T PICK UP, LETS SPLIT March 5 & March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM Southwest School of Art Pop-up Show at Blue Star Complex • 134 Blue Star RACHEL COMMINOS: CONNECTION/TRUE AFFECTION March 5 & March 6 • 6 PM – 12 AM Brick Gallery AT Blue Star 108 Blue Star A solo exhibition featuring the textile work of South Texas artist Rachel Comminos. MUSIC FOR ADVANCED LISTENERS March 5 • 6 PM - 12 AM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. 1902 South Flores Street Hosted by DJ Novasoul & Darby. Food for sale by Mister Diablo.
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NEW WORK BY RAINEY AND ZANE THOMAS March 5 & March 6 • 7 PM – 9 PM Choice Goods® Gallery & Tx Grown® 1420 S. Alamo, Space 103 Blue Star Arts Complex OS FEST SAN ANTONIO AT SALA DIAZ March 5 • 7 PM - 11 PM Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren Street AMALGAM March 5 & March 5 * 7 PM - 10 PM Hijole SA at The Upstairs Studios 1420 South Alamo Street, Bldg B 205 The resident artists of Híjole SA present a creative amalgam of their individual and unique perspectives. “WHO NEEDS ENEMIES” March 5 & March 6 • 7 PM – 10 PM FL!GHT Gallery 112R Blue Star ‘SOUNDS OF RECOGNITION’ March 5 & March 6 • 7 PM – 11 PM Un Grito, Upstairs Studio 212 Blue Star Arts Complex Experience an interactive performance and sound installation with Verena Gaudy and Martín C. Rodríguez
CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH 2020 ANNUAL KICK-OFF FIRST FRIDAY • MARCH 6 116 BLUE STAR 6 PM – 9 PM Join us for this year’s Contemporary Art Month Annual Kick-off at Blue Star Contemporary. Music by DJ Novasoul Puerto Rican fare by Ay Papi’s. 12X12 ARTISTIC ENDEAVOR OPENING RECEPTION March 6 • 10 AM – 12 PM Parks and Rec • Lions Field Adult and Senior Center 2809 Broadway Street Sign up and pick up your board at the office. Create your artwork and return the finished piece by Friday, February 28, for display from March 6 - 27. Join us at the opening and closing receptions. Limited to members artists. Closing reception open to public. PHILIP LUNA’S LOVESICK March 6 • 5 PM – 7 PM Raw Hair Studio 3126 North Saint Mary’s Street Featuring artwork by Phillip Luna at Raw Hair Studio, an Aveda Lifestyle salon at the corner of N St Mary’s Street and 281. “INSPIRATIONS & MEMORIES: A REMEMBRANCE” MBS GALLERY’S PRIVATE COLLECTION OF KATIE PELL ARTWORK March 6 • 6 PM - 10 PM MBS Gallery • 1115 South Alamo Join us as we celebrate Contemporary Art Month. MBS Gallery’s private collection of Katie Pell artwork will be on display, plus pieces on loan, and new works inspired by her memory.
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“AN OPEN DOOR” PAINTINGS BY JAMES COBB & JAMES W. JOHNSON 6 • 6 PM – 10 PM SPACE C7 • 2450 ROOSEVELT AVENUE BEHIND THE LENS: LIGHT OF THE EASTSIDE March 6 • 6 PM – 9 PM Cevallos Lofts • 301 East Cevallos S.M.A.R.T., NRP Group, Cevallos Lofts, and Light Catchers Society are proud to present “Behind the Lens,” a collection of work showcasing individual strengths of 11-12 year old photographers representing the Eastside (Harvard Place/ Eastlawn neighborhoods). Known together as the “Light Catchers Society,” these eleven young artists provide excerpts from their visually-based storytelling in order to shift the narrative of their community. Their works highlight community, complex individuals, gentrification, overlooked beauty, and the effects of deeply rooted issues. BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION | MORE FINDINGS FEAT. ARTIST RAND RENFROW First Friday March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM February 7 – May 3 Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION | PUBLISHING AGAINST THE GRAIN First Friday March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM February 7 – May 3 Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION | NOVEL IDEAS First Friday March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM February 7 – May 3 Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star The Novel Ideas group exhibition provides a platform for artists whose practices are dedicated to books. BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION | GIVETH AND TAKETH • FEATURING SARAH WELCH First Friday March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM February 7 – May 3 Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION | SECRET PASSAGE FEAT. CANDACE HICKS First Friday March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM February 7 – May 3 Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star NOVEL IDEAS ART BOOK FAIR March 6 – 7 • 6 PM – 9 PM Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star Novel Ideas Art Book Fair is a two-day art book fair organized by Blue Star Contemporary featuring artists’ books, monographs, zines, printed ephemera, and more. JOHN GUZMAN IF IT DOESN’T PICK UP, LETS SPLIT March 5 & March 6 • 6 PM - 9 PM Southwest School of Art Pop-up Show at Blue Star Complex • 134 Blue Star
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THE HOUSE COLLECTION: “NEW DECADE” March 6 • 6 PM – 9 PM Cinnabar Art Gallery Bldg B • 1420 South Alamo Street #147 Come over during the CAM kick off and view artists from San Antonio and around the globe as Cinnabar presents the house collection “New Decade.” BIG CHICKEN & BABY BIRD’S March 6 • 7 PM – 10 PM 1704 Blanco Clamp Light Studios and Gallery is proud to present Big Chicken & Baby Bird’s exhibition, Step Into the Water and You Remember Everything. Nat Power and Tsz Kam form the collective Big Chicken & Baby Bird where they investigate themes of fantasy and escape through the framework of queer folk art. The artists seek to preserve the ritual of creating and collecting artifact and animal icons as sentimental figures. NOVEL IDEAS ART BOOK FAIR March 7 • 10 AM – 6 PM Blue Star Contemporary • 116 Blue Star Novel Ideas Art Book Fair is a two-day art book fair organized by Blue Star Contemporary featuring artists’ books, monographs, zines, printed ephemera, and more. MCNAY PRINT FAIR 2020 March 7 • 10 AM – 5 PM, March 8 • 12 PM – 5 PM McNay Art Museum Leeper Auditorium Over the years, the McNay Print Fair has placed high-quality art in the homes of our community, providing us with a solid and growing collector base. We look forward to welcoming you to our 24th annual event! PUBLIC GUIDED TOURS BY ARTPACE TEEN COUNCIL: VISIBILITIES: INTREPID WOMEN OF ARTPACE March 7 • 1 PM – 3 PM Artpace • 445 N Main Avenue Visit our current exhibition, Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace, and enjoy a free guided tour provided by Artpace Teen Council. Tours begin at 1pm and 2pm. MARCH HARE: DO NOT BE LATE! Opening Reception March 7 • 6 PM – 9 PM High Wire Arts 326 West Josephine Street High Wire Arts is pleased to present Contemporary Art Month 2020 Exhibition“March Hare: Do Not Be Late” Featuring artists Cindy Palmer, Ray Palmer, Alexandra Nelipa, Daniel Rodriguez and Mark Crutsinger. SPECULATIVE NONFICTION SWEET & BELLINGHAM REVIEW: LET’S GET REAL-ISH March 7 • 6 PM • 7:30 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. 1902 S Flores Join Speculative Nonfiction, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Bellingham Review for an AWP 2020 off-site event. Readings will begin at 6:00 pm.
BUSTED SANDAL & SOUTHTOWN ART GALLERY CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH CELEBRATION GROUP EXHIBITION March 7 • 6 PM • 10 PM Busted Sandal Brewing Company 7114 Oaklawn Drive Busted Sandal and Southtown Art Gallery have come together to put on a group exhibition. “UNTITLED LANDSCAPES” CLOSING EXHIBITION BY CARL SMITH March 7 • 7 PM • 10 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. 1902 S Flores “SYNERGY: MUSIC AND SCULPTURE” AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS March 7 • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM UIW Concert Hall and Galleries * 430 Broadway Street With repertoire selected in response to the sculptures. Artist reception to follow the concert in Kelso Art Center Galleries. MCNAY PRINT FAIR 2020 March 8 • 12 PM – 5 PM McNay Art Museum Leeper Auditorium Over the years, the McNay Print Fair has placed high-quality art in the homes of our community, providing us with a solid and growing collector base. We look forward to welcoming you to our 24th annual event! SANDRA CARREON GRIFFIN CAM 2020 ARTIST March 9 • 10 AM – 6 PM, to May 9 SAPL Mission Library 3134 Roosevelt Avenue INGRID TEGNÉR CAM 2020 ARTIST March 9 • 12 PM – 8 PM, to May 9 Great Northwest Branch 9050 Wellwood Street LAUREN RIOJAS-FITZPATRICK CAM 2020 ARTIST March 9 • 12 PM – 8 PM, to May 9 SAPL Encino Library 2515 East Evans Road ASHLEY MIRELESS CAM 2020 ARTIST March 9 • 12 PM – 8 PM, to May 9 SAPL Bazan Library 2200 West Commerce Street ELIZABETH CAMILETTI CAM 2020 ARTIST March 9 • 12 PM – 8 PM, to May 9 SAPL Forest Hills Branch 5245 Ingram Road TRINITY ART LEAGUE March 10 • 5 PM – 8:45 PM Parks and Rec Lions Field Adult and Senior Center 2809 Broadway Street See a demo from Mary Campos Lopez, a founding member of the Texas Pastel Society. Each month, you can network with other artists while watching a demonstration from a guest artist.
20/20 A CREATIVE REUSE WORKSHOP W/ MARY ELIZABETH CANTÚ March 10 • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM SAPL Parman Branch Library 20735 Wilderness Oaks Spare Parts and its Mini Art Museum in partnership with Parman Branch Library will engage teens in a global conversation on art and the environment.
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March 10 • 6 PM – 8 PM McNay Art Museum Frost Galleries 6000 North New Braunfels Avenue The McNay, in collaboration with Contemporary Art Month (CAM) San Antonio, presents 2020 CAM Perennial: Topographies of Truth, featuring works by nine San Antonio-based artists. Selected by guest curator Lee Hallman, this exhibition celebrates the diverse and compelling artwork emerging from the region. Hallman is also Associate Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Free general admission every Thursday from 4 to 9 p.m. and the first Sunday of every month. Artists included in the exhibition are Jimmy James Canales, Anthony Francis, Nicholas Frank, Raul Gonzalez, Mari Hernandez, Megan Harrison, Buster Graybill, Jasmyne Graybill, and Amada Miller. MCNAY ART MUSEUM SECOND THURSDAYS March 12 • 6 PM – 9 PM McNay Art Museum Join on the second Thursday of each month from March through October for live music, art, food, and drinks. Enjoy FREE general Museum admission courtesy of H-E-B during this family-fun event. Bring your blanket and lawn chairs to lounge on the grounds. Experience local talent and themed art workshops at the McNay Fountain. Pets on leashes are always welcome on the grounds. In the event of inclement weather, the concert moves indoors to the Leeper Auditorium. HAPPY HOUR TOUR: FIERCE FEMALES March 13 • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM San Antonio Museum of Art $3 for members | $5 + Museum admission for non-members. Enjoy a glass of wine then take a snappy, chatty tour of the galleries. JOE HARJO: THE ONLY CERTAIN WAY POTLUCK CLOSING March 13 • 7 PM – 10 PM Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren MODEL TALKS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PAMELA DEAN KENNY March 13 • 8 PM – 9:15 PM Jump Start Theater 710 Fredericksburg Road
THE ART GALLERY AT MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD PRESENTS WITHIN AND WITHOUT ARTIST RECEPTION March 14 • 5 PM – 7 PM 23705 Frontage Road #101 The organic paintings of Norma Jean Moore (San Antonio) and the metal sculptures of Brian Wedgworth (McAllen). Both artists have experienced the intersection of artmaking and the capacity for the human body to heal itself, exploring forms that are simultaneously molecular and cosmic in nature, collapsing the space between interior and exterior.
THERE IS NO SAVIOR (TEASERS OF A LONG-MENTIONED SUPERMAN PROJECT) ARTIST DAVID ALCANTAR Opening Exhibition March 14 7 PM - 10 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. This exhibit shows the products of an art project that explores the iconography of Superman as an avatar and metaphor for American heroism and exceptionalism.
EVERY GIRL WANTS TO BE QUEEN: AN INSTALLATION OF WORKS BY MIRA HNATYSHYN Opening March 14 • 6 PM – 9 PM Outrider Art + Objects at South Side Living + Maker Spaces 2450 Roosevelt Avenue
PATH TO PATTERN CASEY GALLOWAY CLOSING RECEPTION March 14 • 7 PM – 11 PM Freight Gallery & Studios
“LOS WIERDOS TEXINOS: THE ART OF CARLOS HERNANDEZ AND THE AMAZING HANCOCK BROTHERS” March 14 • 6 PM – 10 PM Space C7 • 2450 Roosevelt Avenue “EXTRACTION ECONOMY” ARTIST CHRIS SAUTER March 14 • 6 PM – 10 PM Dock Space Gallery 107 Lone Star Blvd Presents the work of Chris Souter. Extraction Economy is a meditation on the landscape of Oklahoma. The exhibition is built around ideas rising from a video shot (by the artist) along the Oklahoma panhandle. “DECONSTRUCTION OF A RECONSTRUCTION” March 14 • 6 PM – 10 PM Dock Space Gallery 107 Lone Star Blvd SECOND SATURDAY AY PAPI’S FOOD TRUCK MARCH 14 • 6 PM – MIDNIGHT DORĆOL DISTILLING + BREWING CO. Join us for an evening of Live Music, Local Vendors, Highwheel Beerworks, Kinsman Craft Cocktails, Art by David Alcantar and Puerto Rican Caribbean food including vegetarian options. Good people, good food! ALL HANDS ON DECK SKATE DECK ART SHOW March 14 • 7 PM – Midnight Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex Featuring The Fleming Bros along with special surprise singer guests will be performing And Kung Fu Sound System DJ Vinyl Spins. BRITTANY HAM AND MICHAEL CARNES “VESSELS” March 14 • 7 PM – 10 PM Rojo Gallery • 1906 S Flores Join us for the opening of Vessels, featuring work by Brittany Ham and Michael Carnes. This inaugural show opens a platform for visual discussion surrounding the unique and multifaceted experience of existing in a human body.
EDIFICE March 14 • 7 PM – 11 PM Freight Gallery & Studios 1913 South Flores
BODY OBJECTS NEW WORKS BY JAMES SUPA MEDRANO March 14 • 7 PM – 10 PM Flatlines Gallery 1906 South Flores MUSEUM OF POCKET ART (MOPA) FEATURING ARTIST JADE WALKER March 14 • 7 PM – 10 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. The Museum of Pocket Art began sixteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons. SECOND SATURDAYS AT LONE STAR ART SPACE March 14 • 7 PM – 10 PM 107 Lone Star Make us your First Stop! Open Studios every Second Saturday of the Month. Join us for an evening of fun with art, music and cocktails. MODEL TALKS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PAMELA DEAN KENNY March 14 • 8 PM – 9:15 PM Jump Start Theater 710 Fredericksburg Road
“OPEN CHAT ABOUT ART WITH MOMO & POMPA” March 18 • 5 PM – 8 PM Candlelight Coffee House 3011 North Saint Mary’s Street Exhibition of paintings, sculptures, digital art, & coloring books ONE SIZE FITS A HOST OF VISIONS ONE PEOPLE, MANY PATHS: SACRED ART OF ALTARS March 19 • 4 PM – 9 PM Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex Sixty handcrafted altars hanging in one large open room. It’s a dazzling display of contrasts in variety and unity. Each piece has an identical shape and the same 10” x 14” size, yet each shrine is decorated differently, in an eye-popping array of colors and media, including paint, wax, glass, metal, fabric, ceramics and more. Subject matter ranges from sublime to temporal, and from spiritual to satirical. SPRING 2020 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIN-RESIDENCE EXHIBITION OPENING March 19 • 6 PM – 8 PM Artpace • 445 North Main Avenue Artpace will unveil new exhibitions by our Spring 2020 International Artists-inResidence. Carlos Castro Arias (San Diego, California / Tijuana, México / Bogotá, Colombia), Milagros de la Torre (New York, New York), and Daniel Ramos (Sandy Oaks, Texas) have been in-residence at Artpace since January exploring San Antonio and creating new work. SAN ANTONIO FLAVOR 2020 March 19 • 6 PM – 10 PM San Antonio Museum of Art Tastier than ever, San Antonio Flavor returns to the San Antonio Museum of Art. Sample bites from 30+ local restaurants in various cuisines, enjoy beer and wine, signature cocktails and the live Culinary Showdown, starring top chefs.
CAM HAPPENING 2020 SAN ANTONIO FLAVOR March 19 • 6 PM - 10 PM San Antonio Museum of Art This year, CAM Happening IS curated by Martín C. Rodríguez & Verena Gaudy. Featuring Artists: Angelica Raquel Martinez, Jessica Smith, John Dalton Atkins, Braydon Gold, John Webb, Sarah Fox and Augustine Chavez.
LUMINARIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL ARTIST INFO SESSION March 15 • 12 PM – 1 PM Schultze House at Hemisfair Park 434 South Alamo Street MODEL TALKS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PAMELA DEAN KENNY March 15 • 4 PM – 5:15 PM Jump Start Theater 710 Fredericksburg Road LECTURE: AFTER JACKSON POLLOCK: PAINTING IN THE 20THAND 21ST-CENTURY WITH JOHN YAU March 17 • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM San Antonio Museum of Art Doors open at 6:00 PM, seating is limited. Take a critical look at Pollock’s innovative artistic vision and learn a reframed history of painters since Pollock with art critic, essayist, and award-winning poet, John Yau.
“THE KNOT” A POP-UP EXHIBITION BY SARAH FOX March 20 • 6 PM – 11 PM The Good Kind Southtown 1127 South Saint Mary’s Street For one day only at The Good Kind located in the blue container on this beautiful Southtown oasis property.
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JOHN PHILLIP LUNA PRESENTS 24 HOURS OF FLOWERS March 20 • 6 PM – 9 PM 419 McKay Avenue Join Phillip Luna in his home studio as he live paints flowers for 24 hours as part of his popular series, Love Sick. “SOLID REMEMBERING” AN EXHIBITION BY EMILY FLEISHER March 20 • 7 PM – 10 PM Sala Diaz • 517 Stieren Street A C M ART COLLECTING MIXER EVENT March 21 • 4 PM – 10 PM 7126 Eckhert Road Our mission is to provide a fresh visual art experience in order to cultivate a new wave of collectors, while providing networking opportunities for artists and existing collectors. SPRING FEST! March 21 • Noon – 5 PM Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. We’re celebrating all things outdoors and spring with local nature organizations, parks and more from our presenting partner REI!
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36TH ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION & AWARD PRESENTATION March 25 • 5 PM – 7 PM UTSA Main Art Gallery • 1 UTSA Circle The 36th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is a juried competition featuring recent work by UTSA undergraduate and graduate students. 12X12 ARTISTIC ENDEAVOR CLOSING RECEPTION March 25 • 6 PM – 8 PM Parks and Rec Lions Field Adult and Senior Center 2809 Broadway Street MORE THAN WORDS; TEXT-BASED ARTWORKS II • ARTISTS RECEPTION March 25 • 6PM – 8 PM 201-A EAST OLMOS DRIVE Ruiz-Healy Art is delighted to present More Than Words: Text-Based Artworks II at our San Antonio and New York City galleries featuring works by Richard Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Andrés Ferrandis, Katie Pell and Ethel Shipton in both exhibitions. In addition, works by Cisco Jímenez and Gary Sweeney. “WITH/WITHOUT PARADISE” CLOSING EXHIBITION BY ALFONSO ESPRONCEDA March 26 • 10 AM – 3 PM Visual Arts Center Gallery San Antonio College 950 Lewis Street “ANIMAL KINGDOM” BY PHOTOGRAPHER RANDAL FORD March 26 • 6 PM – 9 PM Cinnabar Art Gallery Building B 1420 South Alamo Street #147 A special “black and white” show featuring large format prints of black animals on a black back ground and animals on a white back ground. ARTIST ANITA BECERRA March 26 • 6 PM – 9 PM Mercury Project 538 Roosevelt Avenue Anita Becerra presents a ceramic installation probing the complexities of corporate colonialism through the history of the banana fruit. Intricate and fragile sculptures explore the vulnerability of the banana in its current agricultural state, and the disparate connections between economies and communities that depend on its vitality. ARTIST TALK: CINDY MORAWSKI March 26 • 6:30 PM – 8 PM Parks and Rec Lions Field Adult and Senior Center 2809 Broadway Street Meet pastel artist Cindy Morawski, one of our Art on Broadway artists, as she discusses her work and inspirations. She will have new work on display leading up to the talk. Refreshments served and the adult public invited.
CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH CAMMIE AWARDS 2019 Friday • March 27 • 6 PM – 8 PM Chris Park at Ruby City 111 Camp Street Every year, CAM recognizes excellence and diversity throughout the city’s rich landscape with the presentations of the CAMMIE Awards. We are excited to announce the following cultural organizations as judges for the 2020 CAMMIE Awards • Artpace San Antonio • Blue Star Contemporary • Carver Community Cultural Center • Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival • McNay Art Museum • Mini Art Museum • Ruby City • San Antonio Museum of Art • Southwest School of Art • The Best of CAM – People’s Choice (online) CAMMIE Award designed and created by Heavy Heavy. Camp Street Closing Exhibition for the Mini Art Museum.
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The artist who fueled the ’90s rock poster boom headed to library’s Pop Con BY SANFORD NOWLIN
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he artist known as Coop — real name: Chris Cooper — burst onto the scene in the ’90s via rock posters that stirred girly art, retro kitsch and dark humor into a colorful cocktail. Acts ranging from Soundgarden and Nirvana to the Rev. Horton Heat and Lords of Acid made use of his instantly recognizable imagery, including a trademark cigar-chomping devil. From that base, he launched a fine-art career that includes painting, printmaking, and more recently, pin-up photography. His work has been collected in books including 2001’s Devil’s Advocate: The Art of Coop and 2004’s The Big Fat One. Idle Hands, published in 2012 by Baby Tattoo Books, focuses on his fine art from 2001 to 2012. Coop, who recently relocated from Los Angeles to Austin, will make an appearance Saturday, February 29, at the San Antonio Public Library’s Pop Con event. We caught up with him by phone to see where his career is taking him these days, besides SA’s downtown library. Early in your career, you were labeled a “lowbrow artist.” With respectable galleries showing retrospectives of hot rod art and graphic novels winning the Pulitzer and National Book Awards, does that distinction still exist? A guy named Greg Escalante who’s done a huge amount for the art scene in Southern California came up with the term. He was one of the people involved in creating Juxtapoz Magazine and cast a huge shadow over the scene. I’m pretty indifferent to the term at this point. I mean, it makes sense, but it’s also one of those things where I don’t think any of the artists it’s been used to describe necessarily
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would have come up with it. On the other hand, I and photographic styles. I never really stopped doing haven’t heard anybody come up something better. stuff for bands, but I don’t get nearly as much work I’ve heard things like “pop surrealism,” which sort from the record industry, which has a lot to do with of fits, but it is what it is. You usually don’t get to the fact that it stopped paying people to do work. It’s pick what you’re known for, and you usually don’t part of a larger problem in the music industry, the get pick the term your work is way streaming has overtaken sales known by. I think everybody’s of records and CDs. Of course, San Antonio Pop Con just sort of made peace with it. artists and photographers are just another group of people waiting Saturday, February 29 Your early visibility came in line to make money from an inSan Antonio Public Library through the underground dustry that’s not paying anymore. rock world, which seems to So, that’s kind of why I don’t do it 600 Soledad St. have moved away from that as much. (210) 207-2500 kind of visual aesthetic. Is guides.mysapl.org/sapopcon there still enough work there How did you adapt to that to sustain a career? change? The event is free I still do stuff for my friends. Most Part of what’s been happening of those bands I was doing work with me, with my own work, for in the ’90s were also people I was friends with. over the last 10 years is I’ve been moving away from They were part of my social circle, although some having to rely on commercial work — as far as ilof them became huge acts later on. When you see lustration work or whatever. The money isn’t there, posters for bands now, the style is very different. I and it isn’t reliable. I’ve moved into a mode where think part of it is there’s broader variations in style. I’m publishing my own posters, and I’m working There’s more room for different illustrative styles on another book that I’m going to self-publish. I decided at a certain point that I was the most reliable person that I was in business with, so I should be giving all my business to myself. It’s taken a while to kind of rebuild in that way, but I’m really happy with where I’m at right now. Was your move from Southern California part of that decision? Well, it’s related to it, I should probably say. A lot of it for me is that LA has changed so much in the 30 years I’d been there that it just started to feel like a completely different place, and of course, it was getting more and more expensive every day. For the last four or five years, I’d been talking to my wife and saying, “You know, Austin’s really nice, and it’s a lot cheaper than LA.” I’d come out here once or twice a year — I’d come out for the Lonestar Roundup [hotrod event] — and at 43 6
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I’m sure the reduced expenses made that worthwhile. I have more money now to pursue the projects I want to pursue. Like, I’m going to be doing a new book of art, and I’m also going to be doing a book of photography. I’m not sure which one is going to come out first, but I’m working on them both. Now, I have an assistant full time, which I could never afford in Los Angeles. It’s been a good deal.
In terms of photography, the pin-up stuff, seems to be a comparatively new thing for you. How’d that come about? My dad was a photographer, and when I was a kid, he taught me the basics. But I never really did anything with it for a long time. Then, about 2007, I was in an auto accident and I broke my leg, so for about three months I wasn’t able to paint, because at that point I was working on these big canvases and had to stand up. I had been getting more and more interested in photography, so I bought a camera and started shooting again. I really fell in love with it. I think when I was young, when I was a teenager, I didn’t really have the patience to be a photographer. Whereas, as an adult that kind of comes to you easier. The photography has actually changed how I paint and how I approach my illustrating and painting work. The two things have fed each other in a really good way.
Revolutionizing Representation Panel on American Dirt controversy stokes important conversation but no easy answers BY CAROLINA HINOJOSA-CISNEROS
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rompted by the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’ novel American Dirt, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center recently hosted a panel discussion on Latinx underrepresentation in U.S. publishing. The lengthy, sometimes-uncomfortable exchange raised more questions than it answered. American Dirt, a 2020 Oprah Book Club pick, is a fictional narrative about a mother who flees the threat of drug cartels in Acapulco, Mexico to the U.S. with her 8-yearold son. One of the book’s fiercest critics, educator and author Myriam Gurba formed a grassroots campaign #DignidadLiteraria after publishing her response to the book. That campaign advocates for greater Latinx inclusion in the U.S. publishing industry. Prominent members of the San Antonio’s Latinx and Chicanx communities joined Gurba on a panel moderated by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez Saturday, February 22 at the Esperanza. The capacity audience also included U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro, scholar John Philips Santos and Alexandra van de Kamp, executive director of San Antonio’s
Gemini Ink. The panel — comprised of authors, educators and illustrators — spoke about the lack of Latinx voices at New York’s “Big Five” publishing houses. Carmen Tafolla, president of the Texas Institute of Letters, recounted how Chicanos and Chicanas historically created their own presses in response. Early on, it became clear the discussion was less about American Dirt than it was about the responsibility writers have to each other if they want to survive in an Anglo-dominated industry. When it was Gurba’s time to speak, she opened with an icebreaker. She asked members to turn to someone else and utter their favorite curse word in Spanish. Giggles ensued. During the question and answer session, a Honduran immigrant in the audience who identified herself as Alba said she
didn’t want to be a subcategory in a Chicanx-dominated conversation. She wanted to know how the publishing industry could include her as well. After the panelists could offer no solid answer, she lingered a few minutes before heading out the door. Erick Fierro, a Chihuahuan immigrant, asked how many recent immigrants were in the crowd. Few raised their hands. Sparking the night’s first significant conversation Macmillan Publishers on American Dirt, he told the panelists that the immigrant narrative depicted in the book mirrored much of his own. He asked what it was about the novel that didn’t ring true. Gurba responded that the story “perpetuated stereotypes,” adding that the characters were written like “paper dolls.” Fierro wanted to ask another question, but the moderator moved on. It was refreshing to hear Chicanx authors advocate for representation in publishing and use their privilege to uplift immigrant narratives. But the exchange suggested that we can sometimes unintentionally marginalize the very voices we want to uplift. The controversy surrounding American Dirt is critical in a time when migrants are
struggling to be humanized both in print and in reality. The panel missed a grand opportunity to learn alongside our migrant community and discuss what panelist Denise McVea offered as two theories surrounding underrepresentation: revolution and censorship. In response to an audience comment about San Antonio-tied author Sandra Cisneros’s endorsement of American Dirt, McVea — a writer, publisher and educator — urged everyone to understand the pressures of the publishing world. She asked the audience not to assume someone has a certain level of power when our own community is the one assigning that power. “We either want Latinos to be published or we don’t,” McVea said. “Consider the cost of entrance to publishing.” The comment drew verbal pushback from male panelists. Likely, many who came to listen to the panel did so to find their own place in the conversation — including insight on how to break into the publishing industry. While the discussion was worthwhile, many questions remained unanswered. Where do we go from here? How do we hold one another accountable for missteps in representation? Whose voices are being heard? Does an objective point of view of the border exist? If a book resonates with some immigrants, is that book still a gross misrepresentation of the migrant experience? The almost three hours of dialogue didn’t offer enough time to figure those out, and in the end, underrepresentation of Latinx voices persists. While it’s not a new conversation, it’s one that must continue. Our current political climate demands it.
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Dizzying Dichotomies
Castes, codices and cats coalesce in the socially driven work of San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca BY: BRYAN RINDFUSS
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ike many of us, San Antonio native Michael Menchaca grew up with a fondness for the electronic escapism offered by video games. Visits to the arcade were a regular treat after church on Sundays, and he felt drawn in by the digital graphics and quirky storylines that played out on the screen. As a student at San Antonio College, he found his footing in art by way of graphic design and went on earn a bachelor’s from Texas State University and a master’s from the Rhode Island School of Design. The visual vocabulary of video games wormed its way into his work, which is rooted in printmaking but also includes digital animation, painting, drawing and installation. Boldly colorful, intensely patterned and often beyond busy, his prints take stylistic cues from Mesoamerican codices, or illustrated manuscripts, and employ anthropomorphic animal characters and modern-day deities to illustrate serious, real-world issues. As such, they’re dichotomous — creative collisions of ancient and contemporary ideas that are undeniably fun to look at but in fact explore immigration, oppression, border violence, the Trump era, the Black Lives Matter movement and other social concerns. Over the past decade, Menchaca has exhibited his work throughout Texas and across the U.S. while regularly land-
ing in residencies including the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Studios at MASS MoCA. His work is represented in 25 public collections — including the McNay, SAMA and the Smithsonian American Art Museum — and he’s received more than a dozen grants and awards. Outside his individual artistic endeavors, Menchaca lectures, teaches workshops and collaborates with partner Suzy González under the moniker Dos Mestizx. Introduced to many via ¡Adelante San Antonio! — an ambitious public art project at San Antonio International Airport anchored by a sprawling indoor mural celebrating local history — Dos Mestizx is the curatorial team behind “XicanX: New Visions,” an impressive new Centro de Artes exhibition encompassing more than 70 works by 34 artists from across the nation. As any working artist will tell you, such pursuits and accomplishments don’t come easy, and hustling comes with the territory. Which makes it even more of a head-scratcher that Menchaca recently unplugged. Sparked by the creeping ramifications of surveillance capitalism, data collection, targeted advertising and other forms of digital persuasion, he traded in his smartphone for a basic flip-phone and removed himself from the social media equation save for a Dos Mestizx Instagram page Gonzalez manages. “I feel like I’m a grandpa now, an abuelito of my time,” Menchaca said of the change. But he also feels “more grounded after letting go.” Rather than racking up screen time, he’s been reading books like Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, which presents Silicon Valley as the “Big Other” bent on modifying and monetizing our behavioral patterns, and Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, which tackles pitfalls of the so-called attention economy.
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Fittingly, these and other information-age conundrums have influenced his artistic output. Over coffee, Menchaca shed light on recurring motifs in his work as well as recent developments and projects on the horizon.
SYMBOLIC BEASTS
Menchaca struck a local chord with his 2018 show “Vignettes from San Antonio” at Ruiz-Healy Art. Timed with San Antonio’s Tricentennial, it celebrated Alamo City landmarks and traditions including SAC, Easter in Brackenridge Park and the Battle of Flowers Parade — complete with a feline version of Prince performing on a float. During a gallery talk, Menchaca explained that his mother used to feed wayward neighborhood cats and that his gut reaction — fear that the strays would become dependent on his family for survival — mirrored anti-immigration narratives. “I realized this could be a way to talk about immigration policies, human rights issues, and my own cultural heritage through this cartoon image,” he explained. “So I continue to associate different cultures, different people’s histories, with different animal archetypes in the tradition of the Mixtec codices.” While felines have represented mestizos and Dreamers in Menchaca’s work, canines have embodied menacing border patrol agents. Riffing on Spanish Colonial casta paintings illustrating the blending of races, Menchaca’s 16-print suite “La Raza Cósmica 20XX” brought together cats, birds, elephants, humans and hybrids — many clinging to their smartphones — for outlandish family portraits that defy place and time.
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Valley Codex)” took shape in a 2019 exhibition at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center exploring the tech industry’s impact on “the social fabric of Latinx families.” A layered affair that conjures street art, wheat-pasted posters and internet iconography, the show’s key image stars urban felines wielding iPhones amid a poppy landscape peppered with the affirmative “thumbs up” of Facebook fame, data clouds, website menus and Wi-Fi signals.
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While there’s already a lot going on in Menchaca’s prints, he often exhibits them in immersive environments tied together with screen-printed wallpaper and punctuated by dizzying digital animations. For his 2019 exhibition “Dioses Nuevos” at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, he took that format in a new direction by drawing visual inspiration from its collection of Mesoamerican objects — including a jaguar and a creepy, wide-eyed stone baby. During the show’s run, Menchaca brought some of his contemporary deities to life
Things to Look Forward To A Preview of What’s to Come During Contemporary Art Month BY NEIL FAUERSO
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lthough Contemporary Art Month doesn’t launch until March, the local showcase got a running start with openings including the CAM Perennial at the McNay Art Museum that are open now. With a packed schedule all the way through the CAMMIEs at the end of March, we’ve rounded up a few additional shows to mark on your calendar. Looking for something to do a bit sooner? Check the Calendar section for events that are happening over the next two weeks.
“JOE HARJO: THE ONLY CERTAIN WAY” CLOSING POTLUCK
This show offers a last chance to see Harjo’s staggering, conceptually brilliant exhibit. Harjo’s exploration and indictment of colonialism — including the “merciful” Christian variety — is starkly unsentimental and rigorously intellectual. Harjo uses the small space of Sala Diaz to great effect. Free, 7-10 p.m. Friday, March 13, Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047, saladiazart.org.
“LOS WIERDOS TEXINOS: THE ART OF CARLOS HERNANDEZ AND THE AMAZING HANCOCK BROTHERS” Benevolent eccentric Jeff Wheeler has turned a corporate, antiseptic gallery space in a new condo development on the south side into a reliably daring, fun, and yes, freewheeling environment. In addition to the revolving exhibits, the gallery hosts permanent pieces by Cruz Ortiz, Robert Crumb and others. For this opening, beloved local folk-pop duo Demitasse will perform as will the uncompromising per-
in Mitología Danza de Cristal, a costumed performance produced in collaboration with the Chrysler’s glass studio and presented as an homage to his late Chihuahua Winnie. Menchaca hopes to continue working with — and directing attention toward — Mesoamerican collections and collaborating with organizations to add performative aspects to his exhibitions.
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Besides his curatorial work with Gonzalez on “XicanX,” which remains on view through June 28, Menchaca has many irons in the fire. Several of his prints are included in the International Print Center New York exhibition “Homebody: New Prints 2020/ Winter,” he’s collaborating with a theater troupe in Ohio on a performance tied to his contributions to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s forthcoming group show “A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America,” he’ll be unveiling a Contemporary Art Month show on March 23 at Northwest Vista College’s Palmetto Center for the Arts, and moving into Artpace this summer in conjunction with its International Artist-in-Residence program.
formance artist Christie Blizard. Free, 6-10 p.m. Saturday, March 14, SPACE C7 @ South Side Living + Maker Spaces, 2450 Roosevelt Ave., (806) 392-1915, thesouth-side.com.
“MUSEUM OF POCKET ART (MOPA) + ARTIST JADE WALKER”
Roberto Jackson Harrington is a ceaselessly creative individual — drawing every day, making sculptures and prints, curating and collaborating. Perhaps his cleverest endeavor is the Museum of Pocket Art, where Harrington wears a special pair of tailored trousers and carries an art show on his person. You just have to go up and ask him. Free, 7-10 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., 1902 S. Flores St., (210) 229-0607, dorcolspirits.com.
SPRING 2020 INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EXHIBITION
Arpace’s quarterly Artist-in-Residence Exhibitions are reliably some of the most interesting shows in San Antonio. The format of one international artist, one national artist and one Texas artist usually produces remarkable confluences and connections as if the artists were working in concert. This exhibition includes Carlos Castro Arias (San Diego, California / Tijuana, Mexico / Bogotá, Colombia), Milagros de la Torre (New York), and Daniel Ramos (Sandy Oaks, Texas). Free, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, March 19, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900, artpace.org.
“INSPIRATIONS & MEMORIES: A REMEMBRANCE,” MBS GALLERY’S PRIVATE COLLECTION OF KATIE PELL ARTWORK Katie Pell’s passing last fall was a massive loss for the
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New Emma adaptation stays true to source material and leaves room for more artistry BY KIKO MARTINEZ
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confidant and personal pet project. Others like friend and landowner George Knightley (Johnny Flynn) and the manipulative Frank Churchill (Callum Turner) bob in and out of the period piece as usual. Besides Taylor-Joy and Goth, who allows Harriet to expose her naiveté, veteran actor Bill Nighy (Love, Actually), in his small role as Emma’s doting father, captures the novel’s biting tone perfectly in his few scenes. Controversial New Zealand novelist and firsttime feature screenwriter Eleanor Catton is the latest scribe to take on one of Austen’s classic narratives. In Emma., she allows the title character to keep the overall spirit of Austen’s literary heroine but also gives Taylor-Joy room to make it all her own. In this case, the character feels just as spoiled but more playful than Gwyneth Paltrow’s take in the last theatrical version of the film 24 years ago.
Cold Steel Documentary Tread examines personal truths to tell strange story of revenge
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he independent documentary Tread starts with a series of frantic 911 calls and video footage of what looks like a war zone. The setting of filmmaker Paul Solet’s stranger-than-fiction doc, however, isn’t in a battered Syrian city or even in an American metropolis during a riot. This small town is Granby, Colorado, and it’s being destroyed brick by brick. Responsible for the total destruction is Marvin Heemeyer, a 52-year-old master welder and muffler shop owner who moved from South Dakota to a town just outside of Granby in 1992 and immediately felt like everyone was against him. After 12 years of zoning disputes with the town council and arguments with neighbors over land he purchased to build a muffler shop, Marvin was at his wit’s end. He’d also planned ahead for his revenge. On June 4, 2004, Marvin got behind the
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wheel of a massive bulldozer he secretly modified to include layers of extra impenetrable steel and concrete. It looked like a tank — if one was designed for the movie Death Race. Inside this monstrosity were video cameras and monitors so Marvin could see where he was driving. He also had plenty of firearms to shoot out of specialized gun ports built into the dozer. Once Marvin got the armored vehicle moving, he spent the next two hours smashing through the walls of businesses, homes and buildings owned by the people he felt had wronged him. “God bless me in advance for the task I am about to undertake,” Marvin recorded himself
Where Emma. separates itself from past interpretations is with the vision of debut filmmaker Autumn de Wilde. His aesthetic as a music video director for artists including Beck, Rilo Kiley and Florence and the Machine lends itself well to Austen’s witty dramedy in a way that doesn’t smother it in British stuffiness. From the production design and cinematography to the lavish and, at times, purposefully overdone costume design by Oscar winner Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Emma. prevails with its beautiful, all-inclusive pageantry. Emma opens exclusively at the Santikos Bijou Cinema Bistro February 27 and expands to more theaters March 5.
saying before the rampage. “I am at peace with what I am about to do.” Through Marvin’s audio recordings, news footage and reenactments of the events leading up to the attack, writer-director Solet gives audiences the opportunity to understand Marvin’s side of the story and how he reached the point of no return. Solet then counters the rampager’s narrative by conducting interviews with the men at the center of his “righteous anger.” What audiences are left with is a mixed bag of opinions, personalities and intentions that crash into each other as hard as Marvin’s dozer does with the façade of City Hall. It all makes for an intriguing setup as we analyze each character and their personal versions of the truth. Who viewers choose to believe doesn’t matter. Marvin loses all credibility when he puts people’s lives in danger. Solet realizes this but still allows him to speak his mind via his recordings. The more he talks, however, the less sense he makes. Still, there is value in the way Solet frames Tread — with balanced and compelling storytelling. Tread hits VOD platforms February 28. – Kiko Martinez
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San Antonio Burger Week serves up food deals to benefit the Food Bank BY LEA THOMPSON
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dar Single, made with applewood smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, special sauce and lettuce, tomato and onion, for just $5. Also count on offers from local dining icons such as Sam’s Burger Joint, which is serving up an $8 King Burger, which combines the beloved flavors of childhood snack PB&J with a half-pound of angus beef and cheddar cheese. Since Burger Week promises big meal deals, it’s typically a busy time for local restaurants. Diners are advised to call ahead or arrive early to avoid long lines, be patient with servers and tip generously. Hungry diners can pick up Burger Week passports at participating restaurant locations and receive a stamp for each meal. Those who collect at least four stamps get a chance to win a special grand prize drawing. For more information, visit satxburgerweek.com.
Five Spicy Burgers to Enjoy During San Antonio Burger Week BY LEA THOMPSON
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NAME: Benjamin De Los Santos JOB: Chef and owner of Benjie’s Munch food truck and restaurant BIRTHPLACE: Fairfield, California YEARS IN FOOD SERVICE: 42 LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Benjie’s Munch has won 1st place in the San Antonio Grilled Cheese Festival Each Year since the event launched in 2018. MONEY QUOTE: “Every bite needs to be the best bite it can be.” What’s great about your job? The fact that it allows me to be creative and play with food. We offer New American, global comfort food — grilled cheeses, salads, sandwiches — but it’s not traditional. We hit a lot of different flavor points and different diets with gluten-free or keto-friendly items. It’s all scratch-made and unique. What makes the burgers at Benjie’s Munch stand out from the pack? We take choice Angus chuck and grind it ourselves in-house. All burgers are a half-pound, but they’re lean, juicy and fall apart tender. My go-to order is a patty melt, and it’s above and beyond anybody else’s in San Antonio. What’s your favorite ingredient to cook with and why? Probably pork and pork belly. We started with
a slow roasted Porchetta on the truck. At the restaurant, we have a pork belly banh mi, a pulled pork grilled cheese sandwich and the Cuban sandwich. It’s fun and I really like bacon. We put bacon on everything. Tell us about your background and how you got where you are? I started working in restaurants at 15 as a dishwasher, worked my way into prep and eventually got a culinary degree from St. Philips College. I worked a lot of corporate jobs, including my position with Sodexo, where I would work 10 days at a time, traveling throughout the country. Things changed when my wife took me to a movie called Chef. After the movie, my wife turned to me and said, “You need to do that. Your son is going to be a high school senior, and you need to be around for that.” I cashed out one of my 401ks and opened a food truck with unique menu items. People think running a food truck is easy and cool and glamorous, but I was hustling and working hard. I opened the food truck in April 2015, and that led to the brick-and-mortar opening in October 2017. What’s your secret weapon? I have a very supportive family and staff. Most of my staff has been with me for over a year. I have a little army behind me that I can call for help with catering and special events too. What drives you to continue cooking and creating? If you’re going to make something, it needs to be good. I don’t want to waste food or people’s time. Every bite needs to be the best bite it can be. We’re not cheap, but we make everything from scratch and in-house
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n the recent remodeling of The Cookhouse –– it’s now all chic shades of grey and white with new seating and lighting –– chef-owner Pieter Sypesteyn has also taken a stab at modernizing the New Orleans-based menu. Good thing he didn’t toss the beignets out with the bathwater. There’s still a gumbo at The Cookhouse, and the utterly addicting fried boudin balls with slaw and house pickles remain. However, the classic red beans and rice underwent a transformation. While I enjoyed the rounds of andouille and a smoldering, earthy gravy flecked with thyme, my one thought was the dish could present the beans a tad less trendily al dente. Even so, that won’t keep me from ordering it again. As part of the reimagining of the menu, several small plates explore life outside New Orleans’ wards. One such offering is the blackened Hamachi crudo, also to be found on the Happy Hour menu. The sauce that holds it all together — soybeans, avocado slices, an unexpected green papaya salad, barely cooked Hamachi — is Filipino, a blend of soy with lemon,
a confused one. Pork cutlet doesn’t usually grab my attention, but it was on both the regular menu and the one Cookhouse stirred up for Restaurant Weeks, so duty called. Wham, bam, alakazam! Thin, tender and beautifully crusty, I’ve never had a better example of this time-tested warhorse. The cutlet was bedded in an appropriately deferential tomato sauce and topped with a bouquet of light and lovely warmed crab salad. The idea that less is more could benefit many chefs observing plates at the pass. But not here. The combination was simple, stunning and brilliant, and nothing needed removal. At $30, the not-notably New Orleans smoked duck breast is one of the bigger splurges on the menu, clocking in just below New Orleans BBQ shrimp and right above a single beef short rib. Yes, it’s worth it. The light smoking makes the duck look overcooked, but it doesn’t taste that way at all. True, the double whammy of unapologetically curried squash and toasty, tandoori-spiced gnocchi comes across as a challenging mouthful, but take solace in the mild and toasty pepitas. They bring it all together. Dessert is another resounding yes. If stools too low for the dining counter don’t bother you, I’d suggest sitting there just for dessert and a low- or no-alcohol cocktail. I almost didn’t miss the gin in my mock Martinez, but I would have hated to miss the buzz of the staff behind the counter, a sign of a well lubricated cooking machine at work. On one occasion the open kitchen turned out a bread pudding that was so light and ethereal that it seemed to dance with its superb blueberry compote and lemon curd partners. On another, it was hard to decide whether a fig tart with a buttermilk glaze or the accompanying toasted almond ice cream was better. Fortunately, you get both. And, yes, for the traditionalist, there are indeed still beignets.
green onion and chile. But it’s so discreetly applied you’d hardly know it was there. There’s less success with the sweet potato ravioli, a dish that could be thought of as combining both the African and Italian influences on the Crescent City. My serving was embarrassingly small and was dominated by sweet amaretto. The morsels of house-made, charred marshmallow were cute but only reinforced the sense of sweetness. I had also hoped for a little more from the Mexican street squash. Blackened butternut is not something I’d expect to find on a street anywhere in Mexico, but a combination of herby, spicy blackening — a technique made popular by the late New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme — and street culture might have been rewarding. Yet the pico de gallo, which included halved cherry tomatoes with micro cilantro, tried a little too hard to be cool, and the advertised lemon cream was so subtle as to be undetectable. This left dabs of cotija cheese to wave the Mexican flag and a simply grilled squash to speak for NOLA. I don’t suggest that this is in any way a bad dish — just
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Lonesome Rose’s expanded booking policy fills a live music niche BY CHRIS CONDE
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ing of the Hill plays on the Lonesome Rose’s TV as the St. Mary’s Strip bar fills up with patrons waiting for Tex-Mex rockers Michael Guerra & The Nights Calling to kick off a Friday night gig. Tattooed bartenders serve the room filled with 30- and 40-somethings, a crowd slightly older than the ones at strip staples Hi-Tones and The Mix. But the age of the patrons isn’t the only standout feature. The bar also sports an old-school saloon vibe that’s decidedly different from the rest of the nightlife district. A jukebox spins tunes by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Chris Isaak, and advertised drink specials include the Cowboy Breakfast, consisting of a Miller High Life Pony, a shot of whiskey and a Slim Jim. The Lonesome Rose opened in November 2018, billing itself as the “oldest honky tonk on the St. Mary’s Strip. After a year in operation, it’s now regularly hosting performers from well outside of the country and Americana scene it opened to serve. For example, avant-metal act The Grasshopper Lies Heavy recently took the stage there, as did queer Southern rock outfit Thelma and the Sleaze. So, what gives? Is the spot that once billed itself as a classic C&W hotspot forsaking its original mission? Not so. The wider musical offers were all part of the plan, said Garrett T. Capps, the bar’s talent buyer and part owner. “Until the Rose was open, I was throwing my own parties,” said Capps, a performer whose own music merges country with spacey psychedelia. “There was no place that
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made sense for me to throw a rock-slashhonky tonk show.” On top of just booking bands with country in their DNA, Texas Public Radio and the Rose have teamed up to showcase bands from an array of genres for their Lonesome Lounge Sessions, an intimate and largely acoustic showcase for touring acts. What’s more, the club may free up a night for hip-hop, Capps said. Considering the runaway success of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” last year, the idea of beatboxes and turntables in a country bar may not be too far-fetched. For bands like Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, which combine elements of rock, country and punk, the Lonesome Rose seems is a perfect fit for a mix of vintage vibes and modern grit. “We had a blast at our [Lonesome Rose] show,” Shook told the Current. “The audience was wonderful.” And that explains the niche Lonesome Rose is now fills: providing a space where folks from a variety of backgrounds can enjoy live music in an era where traditional notions of genre are eroding fast. Capps says he’d love to see the tables moved aside after 8 p.m. so folks can dance. And that dancing music need not be limited to the boot-scootin’ variety. “I personally go out of my way to book punk shows and metal shows,” Capps said. “We like hard-edged music here in San Antonio, but the vibe can be fun for anyone, and I think if you go to the Rose and see who hangs out there, that makes sense.”
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ven though Processions’ Blush marks the post-punk band’s recorded debut, it boasts the kind of maturity and dynamic songwriting one would expect from a more seasoned band. Released at the tail end of 2019, Blush makes a mighty introduction to the San Antonio four-piece, made up of vocalist and guitarist Phil Alfonso, bassist Christopher Agold, keyboardist Artemi Gutenberg and drummer Michael Schriner. The album opens with “Runaways,” a brisk and echoey adventure pairing emotive guitar chord progressions with a minimalist yet driving beat. And while Processions identify as a postpunk act, they have no aversion to treading into other sonic territories. Take, for example, the song “Solipsist,” where the bassist creeps into the high frets of his instrument around the 3:44 minute mark and leads the band into an explosive, proggy breakdown. It’s this kind of shifting dynamic that makes the 10-song debut a joy to get lost in. Altogether, the album is a solid first fulllength release likely to leave listeners waiting to hear what’s next from this young band.
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Husband and wife Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley make up the Denver-based indie-pop outfit Tennis, named, well, after the sport. Tennis combines elements of lo-fi bedroom pop with psychedelic surfrock vibes for an amalgam that’s a great soundtrack to drifting off to sleep or taking a long summer drive to the beach. The band’s mix of vintage and modern elements gives it a timeless quality that’s not easy to pin to the current decade. $20-$23, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Chris Conde
slowed-and-throwed vibe, he should fit in just fine here. $15–$20, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Lance Higdon
Friday, February 28
CANCIONES: TISH HINOJOSA, STEPHANIE URBINA JONES, PATRICIA VONNE
The Pearl’s intimate showcase for local talent, dubbed Canciones, will focus on the trio of singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa, country artist Stephanie Urbina Jones and singer Patricia Vonne — all known and respected on their own. Free, 7:30 p.m., Pearl Park, 312 Pearl Parkway, atpearl.com. — Chris Conde
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TUATHA DEA
Even in an era of cross-genre melting pots, the band Tuatha Dea turn some heads. Its origin story includes a “family drum circle” and an appearance in Alex Bledsoe’s fantasy novel Long Black Curl. And the music runs the gamut from Celtic to riff-rock to country and Americana. $10-$40, 8 p.m., Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com. — Mike McMahan
JOSEPH, DEEP SEA DIVER
This trio consisting of three sisters, none of whom is named Joseph, hit the charts with a pop-meets-folk sound. The band is continuing that airy, largely acoustic approach in support of its latest album Good Luck, Kid. Along for the ride is the colorful indie-pop act Deep Sea Diver. $25-$100, 8 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — Brianna Espinoza
MAOLI
Margin Walker is bringing Maoli all the way from Maui, where the trio started honing its roots reggae sound when its members were still in high school. Sidestepping the cringe pitfalls that pock the contemporary reggae landscape, the band absolutely nails the ’70s Kingston
sound. The three-part harmonies weave together with the power of classic Studio One vocal groups like the Abyssinians. South Austin roots reggae group the Contrabandits will open the show. $16-$20, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Lance Higdon
Thursday, February 27
CESCHI, GREGORY PEPPER
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, DIY post-punk rapper Ceschi (pronounced “CHESS-key”) traverses the liminal space between left-field hip-hop, folk punk and indie rock, accessing bracing emotions about race, religion, politics and the intangible realms of the inner life. He’s gathered similar-minded artists on his label Fake Four Inc., and frankly, it’s the sort of 21st-century genre-splicing we need to help navigate our hyperreal cultural landscape. $8, 8 p.m., Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com. — Lance Higdon
GWAPMIZZLE
More raincloud than Soundcloud, Gwapmizzle plumbs the murky grayscale depths of feeling, rapping over beats that roll along like a car slowly running out of gas. Biographical information is scant on Gwapmizzle, but he rocks some Leatherface cosplay in at least two of his music videos. Between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre love and
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MXPX, one of the pop-punk genre’s most celebrated bands, is returning to San Antonio to whoop it up with hook-heavy, skating-inspired music. While the band’s sound also draws on elements of hardcore, don’t fret if you end up in the mosh pit. Chances are you’ll make it out with few to no scrapes. With a total of 12 albums under its belt, including a 2018’s eponymous release, the band doesn’t appear ready to hang up its Vans, even if the genre isn’t as big a deal as it once was. Skate punk stalwarts Teenage Bottle Rocket are also on the bill. $29.50, (Sold Out) 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Chris Conde
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OVERKILL, EXHORDER, HYDRAFORM
Wednesday, March 4 Although part of the same thrash metal wave that gave rise to Metallica and Slayer, New Jersey’s Overkill never reaped the same level of success. That’s for no fault of its musicianship or work ethic. Plenty of the albums it cranked out over a three-decade career are absolute scorchers, a few even undeniable genre classics. And while some of the band’s contemporaries have run out of steam (Metallica) or hung it up (Slayer), Overkill seems to be in the midst of a renaissance. Since signing with Nuclear Blast, the band’s unleashed a string of throttle-down releases, including 2010’s Ironbound and 2019’s Wings of War, that prove old dogs may not learn new tricks, but they can still bite. $25 (Sold Out), 7 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — Sanford Nowlin
Friday, March 6
DAN DEACON
Baltimore-based experimental composer Dan Deacon reaches into a grab bag of electronic elements to craft his offbeat and often absurd tunes. His music is comparable to indie-rock icon Sufjan’s Stevens’ electronics-heavy tracks but with plenty of added invention. $15-$18, 8 p.m. Friday, 9 p.m. Saturday (Sold Out), Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Chris Conde
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Friday, February 28
SHINYRIBS
Boasting multiple vocalists and a horn section, Shinyribs imbues its Americana with grooves deep enough to earn the “ribs” in its name. $20, 9 p.m., John T. Floore’s Country Store, 14492 Old Bandera Road, (210) 695-8827, liveatfloores.com. — Mike McMahan
VOICE OF ADDICTION, KNOCKIN’ CHUCKS, DOWN NOT OUT
Defining its genre as “politically charged and socially conscious punk rock,” Chicago’s Voice of Addiction veers from the conventional loud-fast rules with breakdowns and melodic fills. Mosh pit-inducing local acts Knockin’ Chucks and Down Not Out have the rest of the evening covered. Free, 9:30 p.m, The Mix, 2423 N. St. Mary’s St., themixsa.com. — Brianna Espinoza
CRYSTAL THOMAS AND THE EASTSIDE KINGS
Got a thing for big, emotional vocals and the sound of old-school blues? Thomas and her Eastside Kings bring out the brokenhearted and down-and-out vibes, but the expressive guitar work and Thomas’ dynamic voice bring real catharsis to the experience. $10, 9:30 p.m., Luna Music Bar and Lounge, 6740 San Pedro Ave., lunalive. com. — Brianna Espinoza
SANTIAGO JIMENEZ JR., KELLY DOYLE TRIO
When a living legend like conjunto pioneer Santiago Jimenez performs at an intimate venue like the Lonesome Rose, you just don’t pass it up. Kelly Doyle Trio’s charming amalgam of math rock and jazz makes an impressive, if a little incongruent, pairing with the Tex-Mex icon.
$5, 9 p.m., The Lonesome Rose, 2114 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 455-0233, thelonesomerose. com. — Chris Conde
Sunday, March 1
CITY MORGUE
It’s shaping up to be a great week for weird rap, and New York outfit City Morgue’s local appearance will cap it off nicely. CM charges right over the flattened barrier between hardcore punk and hardcore rap, beefing up minimal Memphis-style beats with caveman guitar riffs and needles-in-the-red synths, over which they rap about sex, violence and other horrorcore staples at throat-shredding volumes. $17-$20, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Lance Higdon
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THE RED PEARS
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SHANE SMITH & THE SAINTS
Soulful rock meets heartfelt folk and Americana in Shane Smith & The Saints’ music. The band harnesses a variety of textures from multiple genres but somehow make them all sound cohesive. Smith and company will also play a second Gruene date on Saturday, March 7. $18, 7 p.m., Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene Road, gruenehall. com. — Chris Conde
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KONINGSOR
Austin quartet Koningsor makes a good sweep of the last two decades of American metal and hardcore. The band’s got brootal-guy breakdowns and emo-adjacent melodic chorus wails, not to mention impeccable pinched-harmonic riffs and double-bass-drum workouts. That bag of tricks has earned the act slots alongside Coheed & Cambria and Mastodon, but you can see it in a more intimate — and slam-worthy — environment when they play the Limelight. $8, 9 p.m., Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com. — Lance Higdon
REINA DEL CID
Folk-rocker Reina del Cid is bringing a full-band show to SA. The Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter and bandleader has built a considerable following on YouTube with her relatable covers of classic rock tunes. $12, 8 p.m., Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue, 437 McCarty Road,
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HARRY CONNICK, JR. Friday, March 6
Touring in support of his most recent release True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter, composer, actor and performer Harry Connick Jr. is returning for a performance at the Majestic Theatre. The pianist and vocalist will sing songs from True Love as well as classics from earlier works. Hailing from New Orleans, the musician helped rekindle a love for Big Easy-style jazz, stride and swing thanks to accessible-yet-authentic releases including his soundtrack to the 1989 film When Harry Met Sally. $74–$489, 8 p.m, Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., majesticempire.com. — Chris Conde sacurrent.com | February 26–March 10, 2020 | CURRENT
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MOTHERSHIP, EVEN IT UP
Some rock acts are more deserving of the tribute-band treatment than others. Given Led Zeppelin’s iconic status and the fact that it’s unlikely to ever perform another gig, the group is certainly one for the “worthy” category. And Mothership has earned props for its approximation of the hard rock pioneers’ live show. So, why the hell not? $17-$20, 8 p.m., Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 2232830, samsburgerjoint.com. — Sanford Nowlin
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YOSA PRESENTS VIVA SELENA Monday, March 9
Known for amazing symphonic renditions of songs from artists as varied as the Eagles, Prince and Radiohead, Youth Orchestra of San Antonio will return with a tribute to iconic Tejano performer Selena. The orchestra will be accompanied by local singer Isabel Marie Sanchez to perform classic tracks including “Como La Flor,” “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” and “Dreaming of You.” $22.50–$65, 8 p.m., H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624 tobincenter.org. — Chris Conde
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UNIFORM, THE BODY
Tuesday, March 10 Sacred Bones Records label mates Uniform and The Body are headed back to San Antonio for a co-headlining show that will shake the Paper Tiger with electronic noise. For those not in the know, Sacred Bones Records prides itself in signing some of the gnarliest, darkest noise rock and harsh electronic acts. Both Uniform and The Body certainly fit that bill, although each has its own take. Uniform embodies a classic noise rock sound, while The Body leans more toward doomy industrial. $12-$14, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Chris Conde
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