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NEWS

Newsmonger Homes for vets // SAPA bailed out // Shaky platform

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SCREENS

Our top picks for the week

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FOOD

Big Moves?

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Quotes from the Underground Underground hip-hop artist Sage Francis on Vonnegut, math and MacGruber

Pickin’ for a Purpose Local music stars rally for children of comatose SAPD officer Music Calendar What to see and hear this week

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ARTS + CULTURE

Pros to Know A look at SA’s leading architectural firms Local Treasures Old and New Architectural gems through the lens of photographer Siggi Ragnar

Inheriting Legacy HBO’s All The Way offers a glimpse into the embattled presidency of LBJ

Spinning San Anto’s Soul SA’s Alamo City Soul Club celebrates four years

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CALENDAR

Whither the Woolworth?

The historic building’s fate is unknown

Serious Game The beloved music of Zelda makes its Master Quest to the Majestic

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Culinary Calendar 5 ways to get your drink/ grub on this week

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NIGHTLIFE

Game Time Is Ticket Sports Pub the best around?

Know Your Bartender We sit down with Park Social’s Cody Cruz

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NEWS

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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julían Castro, with Mayor Ivy Taylor, announces the end of veteran homelessness at City Hall.

NEWSMONGER Homes for Vets // SAPA Bailed Out // Shaky Platform Homes for Vets San Antonio’s push to end veteran homelessness hit a major milestone on Friday, March 13, when Mayor Ivy Taylor announced that the city had effectively done so.

With Taylor’s predecessor on hand, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, she said that 1,300 homeless veterans had been moved into permanent housing, including 123 who were chronically homeless. But Taylor also stressed that hitting this mark represented “a milestone rather than the completion of an initiative.”

The benchmark doesn’t mean that there are no homeless veterans in the city. Instead, it indicates that San Antonio has adequate systems and infrastructure in place to rapidly house any veteran who wants off the street.

The City had set a deadline of ending veteran homelessness by March 31.

Officials submitted the paperwork to HUD by that date, and had since been going through a “negotiation” with the agency, explaining the city’s system of care.

San Antonio now joins cities such as Houston, New Orleans, Phoenix and Philadelphia, which

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have also effectively ended veteran homelessness.

SAPA Bailed Out San Antonio Pets Alive, the no-kill shelter that houses thousands of animals each year, is in dire financial straits.

Failed fundraising efforts led the group to ask the City of San Antonio for $500,000 to keep its doors open while the organization recalibrates its operations.

Last week, San Antonio City Council opted to give the group a portion of that amount, with some strings attached.

During its mid-year budget review, City Council voted in favor of a $375,000 bailout for SAPA. The cash comes with conditions: SAPA must give the City a seat on its board (likely the new Animal Care Services director, once one is hired), hire a CEO within 60 days (its last one left the group after just five months), raise $150,000 (it’s already picked up $125,000 from the Hurd Foundation) and submit a request for proposals to operate its Brackenridge kennel facility.

City Council figured it had little choice but to help SAPA out. ACS announced in January that it had reached no-kill status, meaning over 90 percent of the animals that enter its care leave alive. As a major ACS partner, SAPA played a huge role in reaching and maintaining that benchmark. To allow the group to close its doors would likely mean a lower live release rate, and a departure from no-kill.

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Shaky Platform Lone Star State conservatives at the 2016 Texas Republican Convention did not decide to secede from the union (a proposal that had a not-microscopic amount of traction). But they did adopt an official platform with the structural integrity of Lincoln Logs. Maybe that’s too generous — our 16th president wouldn’t want anything to do with this tire fire of a document.

Among other things, the platform supports abolishing half of the president’s cabinet, plus the Internal Revenue Service. It states that “climate change” (yes, the document uses quotation marks for the term) is “a political agenda promoted to control every aspect of our lives,” and calls for getting rid of the Environmental Protection Agency. It favors complete deregulation of firearms and ammunition.

Perhaps most disturbing is what’s said about the LGBT community. The platform calls homosexuality “a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nation’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans,” and that homosexuality “must not be presented as an acceptable alternative lifestyle.”

The platform also supports conversion therapy, a practice that has been banned in some states for minors because of its potentially destructive consequences. mmarks@sacurrent.com

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NEWS

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WHITHER THE WOOLWORTH?

Historic building’s fate unknown MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS

At the corner of Alamo Plaza and Houston Street, the Woolworth Building offers few outward clues to its historic past. The 45,000-square-foot structure was once the oldest standing Woolworth’s branch in Texas — a formerly ubiquitous fiveand-dime store that carried just about everything. It is a key symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. And it sits within the borders of San Antonio’s most sacred site: Misión San Antonio de Valero, also known as the Alamo.

Today it seems like just another Downtown building.

Sandwich couriers on bikes stream in and out of the building’s Jimmy John’s location. Tourist attractions take up most of the space. A man in a ghostly costume standing next to a fake electric chair (dubbed “Shocker”) tries to lure people into buying a ticket to Ripley’s Haunted Adventure.

The building was purchased by the state’s General Land Office (GLO) in late 2015. The agency is preparing a new master plan to re-envision Alamo Plaza that will likely mean another new chapter in the building’s story. But what that will be is unknown.

Symbol in the South The Woolworth’s at Alamo Plaza first opened around 1921. Before that, it was the site of Maverick Bank, at one point the tallest building in San Antonio.

The store shuttered in October 1997. The corporation closed hundreds of locations in the late 1990s, including three in San Antonio, as its specialized retail stores became more profitable. Foot Lockers or Champ’s Sports replaced many Woolworth’s locations.

When it was open, Wooloworth’s became a touchstone of the Civil Rights Movement. Until 1960, itslunch counters were segregated. Black customers could shop at the stores (though they were sometimes barred from trying on clothes), but couldn’t sit at the lunch counters. That began to change on February 1, 1960, when four black students staged a sit-in at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The demonstrations rippled all the way to San Antonio. Local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People such as Harry Burns and Rev. Claude Black warned on March 15 that protests like the ones in North Carolina would occur if lunch counters weren’t desegregated by March 17. Although a few stores lagged, by March 16, San Antonio was the first city in former Confederate territory to integrate its lunch counters.

“The Woolworth’s, of course, became ... kind of a symbol ... in the South,” said Martin Kuhlman, a history professor at West Texas A&M University who studies the Civil Rights Movement in Texas. “Woolworth’s was going to say ‘Oh,

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The Woolworth building in the 1920s (left) and today.

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Preservation Texas, a cultural resource advocacy group, included the Alamo Plaza Woolworth Building in its 2016 Most Endangered Places, an annual list of “cultural, architectural and historic places that are at risk.”

The group noted that the building’s significance is due largely to its Civil Rights roots.

“In San Antonio, the Woolworth Building is the site of the first successful desegregation of a lunch counter resulting from such direct action, but it’s [sic] future is questionable,” the entry on the endangered places list reads. “Its preservation should stimulate a greater awareness of the importance of preserving the legacy of the modern Civil Rights era.”

Dictated by History Davis Phillips, general manager and president of Phillips Entertainment, oversees the attractions in the building: Ripley’s Haunted Adventure, Tomb Rider 3D and the Guinness World Records Museum. He thinks the building landed on the list because of the uncertainty surrounding their future, and rumors that it may be torn down. But he thinks that’s unlikely.

Although the GLO is now his landlord, Phillips Entertainment still has over a decade left on its lease and can’t be forced to move. Phillips is now working with the GLO and other Alamo Plaza planners on the building’s long-term future.

“We’re good neighbors here. We don’t want to be impediments to this [new plan], we just don’t want to be steamrolled and thrown on the trash heap. Our businesses are important to us and they’re important

to the city,” Phillips said.

The Woolworth and neighboring Palace and Crockett buildings, which the GLO also purchased, sit within the mission’s original borders. The headquarters of William B. Travis, who commanded the Alamo during the 1836 siege, were located close to them. He was likely there when he wrote his famous “Victory or Death” letter before the battle asking for aid.

Even though there’s no plan for them yet, procuring the buildings was essential for the long-term Alamo Plaza plan, according to Becky Dinnin, director of the Alamo.

“The plan is going to be based on ... the importance of telling the whole story of the mission and of San Antonio, too, that was built up around this important piece of our history,” Dinnin said. “What’s possible with [the Woolworth Building] will be dictated to us by history.”

The plan is still in its infancy, but stakeholders will have to work fast, Dinnin said. She hopes to have concrete ideas by 2017 to present to the Texas Legislature and to the City of San Antonio for the bond election. Phillips suggested that the building could be a museum, perhaps to house musician and Alamo enthusiast Phil Collins’ vast collection of Alamo artifacts. His and the other attractions near Alamo Plaza could then relocate and potentially create an “Alamo Entertainment District.” Whatever happens, he hopes that the area’s historic significance is presented in a way that will engage visitors.

“History by itself doesn’t sell. … That’s where the [tourism] industry can bring in the pixie dust,” Phillips said. “If the only person who enjoys this is the 75-year-old history professor, we’re going to be in a world of hurt.” mmarks@sacurrent.com sacurrent.com • May 18—May 24, 2016 • CURRENT 17

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Ought, Priests MUSIC

Tim Darcy, Ought’s slim, aquiline lyricist, has an enviable ability — seen in David Byrne and Prince before him — to take daily language and graft it seamlessly onto his art. On the title cut from the Montreal punks’ wiry debut More Than Any Other Day, Darcy celebrates the simple contact between strangers and “the decision between two percent and whole milk,” reveling in the small victories of the ordinary.

Katie Greer, of D.C.’s excellent Priests, is an earworm punk lyricist herself. On “Doctor,” Greer calls out an intrusive MD: “You put your fingers in other people’s mouths all day, don’t you doctor?” $8, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersa.com. — Matt Stieb

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Culinaria Festival Week SPECIAL EVENT

For a food festival that’s morphed with SA’s growing culinary scene, Culinaria is unveiling a new menu with its retooled 2016 festival week. Start with the Farm Dinner at Culinaria’s upcoming educational facility; followed by the re-introduction of Back to Bubbles, a decadent and glitzy event with sparkling wine and Champagne on Friday night; Tacos and Talk fills your Saturday with boozy seminars and a taco throwdown by local chefs; cap off your Saturday night with a re-imagined grand tasting and the city’s best chefs; and Sunday’s family-friendly Burgers, BBQ & Beer adds smokygoodness to end the festival. $50-$100 in advance, $75-$125 at the door, La Cantera Resort & Spa, 16641 La Cantera Pkwy., culinariasa.org. — Jessica Elizarraras

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Modern English MUSIC

A mainstay of ’80s compilations and nostalgic movie soundtracks, British new wavers Modern English have maintained quite the cult following since their global hit “I Melt With You” dropped in 1982. Reunited in 2013 with four out of five original members intact, the Essex-formed outfit is currently working on a new album (the first since 2010’s Soundtrack ) and touring in support of the 25th anniversary re-release of their 1981 debut Mesh & Lace. To be performed live in its entirety, the album channels a more aggressive post-punk sound than its poppier follow-up After the Snow. $10-$15, 10:30pm, The Amp Room, 2407 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 320-2122, facebook.com/theamproom.

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The Robert Glasper Experiment MUSIC

Pianist Robert Glasper couldn’t have picked a better title for his Black Radio series; listening through the pair of albums is like tuning into some imaginary and glorious late-night station versed in the essentials of African-American music, from Fats Waller to Parliament and J Dilla. After Don Cheadle picked Glasper to soundtrack the bio-fiction feature Miles Ahead, the 38-year-old will drop Everything’s Beautiful, a reimagining of the Miles Davis songbook, on May 27.

Celebrating the trumpet revolutionary’s 90th birthday, Glasper channels Davis’ collaborative spirit with a wrecking crew of cross-genre talent. $38-$42, 8pm, Trinity University, Stieren Theater, One Trinity Pl., (210) 999-8917, krtu.org. — MS

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The Supper Hour in Hell THEATER

Written by Tess Light, the two-act comedy The Supper Hour in Hell is set in an upscale restaurant filled with shallow, witty, unpolished, aspirational, indecisive and sophisticated characters entangled in complicated relationships. We bounce from table to table listening in as the café’s snarky waiter chimes in on conversations. If you’ve ever sat through an uncomfortable meal with someone, pull up a seat, order the sturgeon and share in the awkwardness. Morgan Clyde directs the local premiere at The Overtime, where your table “will be ready in eleventy-five minutes.” $10-$15, 8pm Fri-Sat, The Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden St., (210) 557-7562, theovertimetheater.org. – Kiko Martínez

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Brews and Blooms SPECIAL EVENT

Somewhere in the process of creating any great beer, there’s at least one point when botanical knowledge is of paramount importance — choosing the perfect grains and hops isn’t merely a matter of chance. Thus Brews and Blooms, a craft beer event hosted by the Botanical Gardens, makes sense.

It’s the botanists who bless the brews with their distinct hues. Enjoy a variety of local beers (some special editions), food booths and music to boot. There’s even a special designated driver price, for those content smelling the roses and doing their friends a solid. $15$25, 6:30-9:30pm, San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Pl., (210) 536-1400, sabot.org.

— James Courtney

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Barbacoa & Big Red Festival SPECIAL EVENT

At this point, it’s a San Anto cliché to reference how well Big Red pairs with barbacoa. But, that doesn’t change the magnitude of the experience one bit. In its sixth year, the Barbacoa & Big Red Festival understands this.

And, as if sampling goods from an array of contestants in a barbacoa cook-off weren’t enough, attendees are also treated to a solid offering of live music

by Texas country charmer Natalie Rose, Southern rock/country outfit Mario Flores and The Soda Creek Band (pictured), and SA music legend Ernie Garibay and his band Cats Don’t Sleep. $5-$15, 10am-8:30pm, R & J Music Pavilion, 18086 Pleasanton Road, (210) 628-6200, barbacoabigredfest. wix.com/bbrfest. — JC

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Ana Castillo WORDS

Xicana feminist Ana Castillo is a novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, playwright, mother and activist.

Her work — especially her novels So Far from God and Sapogonia , and collection Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma — has been lauded over the years for its treatment of race, class, gender and socio-political histories. On Tuesday, Castillo visits the Guadalupe to read from her new memoir Black Dove, which takes an honest look at her life as a daughter of immigrants in Chicago and as the mother of a troubled Chicano youth in a nation full of racism, police brutality and mass incarceration. Free with RSVP, 7pm, Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151, gemeniink.org. — JC

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Up Close and Curvy

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After kicking off their 2016 season back in February with The Film Strip (a sultry evening of striptease and cinema at Alamo Drafthouse), the lovely ladies of Stars and Garters Burlesque somewhat unsurprisingly went on to nab their fourth consecutive win in our annual Best of San Antonio readers’ poll.

Promising a “360-degree view of shimmying and shaking,” Up Close and Curvy sees the long-running troupe bringing their “sensual, smart and sexy assets” to Southtown for an intimate engagement in the round. In addition to routines by S&G all-stars Suki Jones, Pystol Whips, Black Orchid, Coco Simone, Candy Kane and Lucky Strike, the “sexy, stripped-down all-femme floor show” features audience participation games and a performance by retro jazz vocalist Ruby Alexander. $10-$25, 8pm, Brick, 108 Blue Star, (210) 262-8653, starsandgartersburlesque.com. — Bryan Rindfuss

Art

Art opening: “Principles of Elements”

Mercury Project unveils an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by local artist Larry Graeber. Free, 6-9pm Saturday; Mercury Project, 538 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 478-9133.

Film

Ernest & Celestine SAMA and Slab Cinema’s

collaborative Family Flicks series continues with a free outdoor screening of 2012’s Ernest & Celestine, a French animated film about an unlikely bond between a bear (voiced by Forest Whitaker) and a young mouse (voiced by Mackenzie Foy).

Lawnchairs, blankets and picnics welcome.

Free, 8pm Friday; San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

Art opening: “Starships, from A-Wing to X- Wing” David Blancas presents

paintings and prints inspired by the Star Wars universe. Free, 5:30-8:30pm Thursday; Debra Benditz Art Studios, 237 W. Travis St., (512) 588-2606.

Trudell For its 11th annual Native American

Film Screening, the nonprofit American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AIT-SCM) revives director Heather Rae’s 2005 documentary chronicling legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell’s travels, spoken word performances and politics. A labor of love 12 years in the making, the film gathers interviews with Trudell as well as friends and colleagues including Robert Redford, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard and Val Kilmer, among others. Free, reception at 6:30pm, film at 7pm Thursday; URBAN-15, 2500 S. Presa St., (210) 227-4940.

”Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008” Organized by

Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, this touring exhibition explores Coney Island not just as a place but as “an idea” that courses through more than 140 objects — from circus posters and sideshow banners to carousel animals and photographs by the likes of Diane Arbus and Walker Evans. $10-$20, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

”Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed” Suitable for archaeology buffs of all ages, the immersive exhibition “Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed” combines interactive displays with a plethora of artifacts to educate visitors on the civilization’s major cultural accomplishments and provide a glimpse into the lives of ancient Mayans via authentic examples of both everyday objects and finely crafted works of art. $15-$20, 10am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-5pm Monday, 10am-8pm Tuesday; Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, (210) 357-1900.

Theater

A Chorus Line In 1975, A Chorus Line marked

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a turning point for Broadway — it’s one of the first shows to broach homosexuality — and paved the way for other groundbreakers like Rent. Set at a dance audition, the musical spotlights the individuality of dancers vying to become part of a homogeneous chorus. This contrast demonstrates that even the background players have struggles and dreams, and the show as a whole is a cathartic experience for the audience and performers alike.

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When Tribes premiered in London in 2010, award-winning playwright Nina Raine explained that her comic drama drew creative inspiration from both a documentary about a deaf couple hoping to have a deaf child and echoes of tribalism within communities, religious groups and families.

Enhanced with creative elements that address hearing and listening (including projected supertitles and classical music interludes), the play surrounds an eccentric, dysfunctional family comprised of mom Beth (a writer struggling through a “a marriage-breakdown detective novel”), dad Christopher (an academic yet foul-mouthed critic), daughter Ruth (a hopeful opera singer who gigs in pubs) and sons Daniel (a grad student plagued with auditory hallucinations) and Billy (who’s deaf and learning sign language from his girlfriend Sylvia). Described by The Wall Street Journal as “the best-written, best-plotted, deepest, most daring — and funniest — new play in recent years,” Tribes lands on The Playhouse’s Cellar Theatre stage in a production directed by John O’Neil. $12-$30, 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun, The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258, theplayhousesa.org. — BR

production. $12-$30, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

Born Yesterday Premiering onstage

in 1946, Garson Kanin’s comedy Born Yesterday was among the era’s longestrunning plays. The narrative follows a sugar daddy millionaire who hires a journalist to teach his mistress proper etiquette when her lack of social graces starts to affect his business. Two films were also made: an Oscar winner in 1950 and a Razzie nominee in 1993. Matthew Byron Cassi directs The Classic Theatre’s production. $10-$25, 8pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Classic Theatre of San Antonio, 1924 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 589-8450.

One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean’s

knockabout comedy One Man, Two Guvnors invites theater-goers to 1960sera England to meet Francis Henshall, a hapless fool who gets himself simultaneously employed by two bosses — a local gangster and a high-class criminal.

What could possibly go wrong? $16-$22, 7:30pm Thursday, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday; Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Hwy., (210) 302-6835.

Words

Gemini Ink at Viva Taco Land Gemini Ink’s

casual outdoor reading series continues with an evening of readings from J. R. Helton, Billy Taylor and Todd Wright, to be followed by an open mic. Free, 6:30pm Friday; Viva Tacoland, 103 W. Grayson St., (210) 734-9673.

In Dylan Town: A Fan’s Life In conjunction with Pruitt Library’s week of “Dylan Days” (celebrating Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday),

Southwestern University associate professor David Gaines signs copies of his memoir examining Dylan fandom.

Free, 2-4pm Tuesday; Pruitt Library, 5110 Walzem Road, (210) 650-1122.

Comedy

Nick Griffin Known for a smart, sarcastic

style New York-based Kansas City native Nick Griffin boasts a resume that includes a half-hour Comedy Central special, 11 appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and writing credits on The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show. $16, 8pm WednesdayThursday, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 7pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805.

Special Events

Kids to Parks Day In collaboration with

a diverse group of organizations, the Parks and Recreation Department invites kids and families to connect with nature through an afternoon of learning, hiking and multisensory activities. Free, 10am-2pm Saturday; Eisenhower Park, 19399 NW Military Hwy., (210) 207-3782.

Practical Magic Holistic Faire Wonderland

of the Americas plays host to a small gathering of vendors, artists and healers offering a magical mix of crystals, minerals, beads, jewelry and more. Free, 10am-7pm Saturday, 10am-6pm Sunday; Wonderland of the Americas, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 300-7237.

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American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions’ family-friendly spring market promises Native American arts and crafts, jewelry, drumming, storytelling and performances by the American Indians

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Vagabond Revolution Organized by The

Crimson Vagabond, this variety showcase and workshop series combines live music, bellydancing, burlesque, vendors, raffle prizes and a “Moving with Props” dance workshop led by ms.YET. $5, 7-10pm Saturday (showcase); $20-$30, 3-5pm Sunday (workshop); Southwest Workers Union, 1416 E. Commerce St., (210) 299-2666.

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Ollas, Berms, and Swales Work(ing) shop Designed for community gardeners

but open to hobbyists and backyard gardeners, Green Spaces Alliance’s hands-on “Work(ing)shop” sheds light on gardening techniques, alternative irrigation systems and ways to help reduce city water usage and increase garden productivity. Free, 9am-noon Saturday; Olmos Park Terrace Community Garden, 201 W. Mandalay Drive, (210) 222-8430.

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Beyond the missions and the Tower of the Americas, San Antonio is brimming with architectural gems — far too many to fit on two pages. Albeit condensed, our mini architecture tour comprises 16 monumental locations that help define San Antonio’s distinct landscape: San Fernando Cathedral (1738; 1868); Fairmount Hotel (1906; 1985); Lucile Halsell Conservatory at the San Antonio Botanical Garden (1988); Central Library (1995); The DoSeum (2015); Hotel Emma (1894; 2015); The Lambermont (1894); Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower (1929); Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (1926; 2014); Thomas Jefferson High School (1931); Arneson River Theatre (1939); Tower Life Building (1927); Sunset Station (1902); McNay Art Museum (1927; 2008); Villa Finale (1876); Hays Street Bridge (1881; 1910)..

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Architectural firms that have changed our city’s landscape RON BECHTOL

Much to the consternation of those in the architectural profession (to which this writer has belonged for more years than he might care to mention), the vast majority of Americans won’t ever come into close working contact with an architect.

Speaking for the fraternity (and, despite some notable exceptions, it has been mostly that — though times are changing), this is a shame. Yes, it may be our collective fault that the image of architects has been formed by the more extreme among us (I’m thinking here, as you might be as well, of the Imperious Architect exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Flawed Genius that is Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark in The Fountainhead), but allow me to affirm that most of us aren’t scary characters swooping about in capes or secretly plotting to blow up offending buildings. We truly care about people, the environment, our collective hopes and dreams.

And we want you to have a sense of curiosity about buildings and their surroundings — to develop an “I wonder who did that?” mentality, in other words. The following is a short, “Oh, they did that” list of local firms whose work you might already have noticed — or now will.

It’s not comprehensive, but it’s a start.

ALAMO ARCHITECTS • alamoarchitects.com “We’re a bunch of middle-class kids, and we still have that idea of ‘How can you do something [that works] for most of the people?'" says founding partner Irby Hightower of himself and his cohorts at Alamo Architects.

“There’s a middle range,” he adds, “that doesn’t get that much attention … ” Over the years, AA has focused that attention on making the most of often tossed-off projects such as shopping centers and parking garages — the city garage on North St. Mary’s Street being a good example of making a fun experience out of a necessity. Current, people-centric projects include master planning for Civic 24 CURRENT • May 18—May 24, 2016 • sacurrent.com

Park, the new entrance to H Park (as Hemisfair Park is now known); the corner of South Alamo and Market is to become a “highly programmable” space for yearround public activities. But the firm also has a hand in educational, institutional, multi-family and even historic projects. Two apartment complexes designed near the firm’s SoFlo offices are the 252-unit Cevallos Lofts and the soon-to-be-completed Big Tex apartments on the river south of Blue Star. If these are the kinds of projects that aren’t always big attention getters, don’t feel too sorry: The firm was also responsible for the much media-hyped (and Guinness-recorded) move to its current location of the historic half of what became, after additions and renovations, the Fairmount Hotel.

FISHER HECK ARCHITECTS • fisherheck.com Lewis Fisher and Jim Heck, founding partners of Fisher Heck Architects, have their roles pretty much figured out: “Jim does the religious work and I concentrate on preservation,” says Fisher. Except, maybe, when the two coincide as they did at the firm’s restoration of the interiors of San Fernando Cathedral and the design of the adjacent San Fernando Cathedral Centre. As is the nature of preservation, the architect’s hand is often less seen — Fisher is currently working on restoring 10 houses in Hemisfair Park that “are in various degrees of completion” and will eventually house such functions as a micro-brewery and a paleta shop, following in O’Neil Ford’s footsteps he has had a hand in continuing work at La Villita, and the firm recently completed extensive work at The Landmark Inn in Castroville. Heck, on the other hand, occasionally gets clients whose intent is to stand out — even at highway speeds. Such is the case with Concordia Lutheran on 1604. If you have ever wondered who was responsible for the three-dimensional cross/tower west of Blanco, this is who. Culturally prominent, of course, is work

the firm has done at The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower on the West Side.

FORD, POWELL & CARSON • fpcarch.com This venerable firm’s founder, O’Neil Ford, who came to San Antonio in 1939, immediately began work on the restoration of historic La Villita and barely slowed down until his death in 1982. Ford’s early work was largely residential, for which he developed a reputation for designing with the climate and with respect for local building materials and traditions. A reputation for planning at a larger scale was launched with the design of the Trinity University campus in the late ’40s — a project for which the firm eventually designed more than 50 buildings, including the iconic campanile and Laurie Auditorium. A specialty in historic preservation reemerged in the mid-’60s; since that time, the firm has had a hand in such local landmarks as Sunset Station, The Pearl Stable, all of the missions, including the Alamo ­— and the Texas State Capitol building. Competing only with the Tower Life Building for skyline status is the Tower of the Americas. Serving as stylistic bookends are two museum projects, the earth-bound Cowboy Artists of America in Kerrville and the sleek, glassy South Texas Heritage Center at the Witte. Prowess in landscape design and planning is exemplified by the Museum Reach segment of the River Walk — yes, this didn’t just happen. FPC has long been, and continues to be, an incubator of young architects who have gone on to display their own talent.

LAKE FLATO • lakeflato.com Even casual observers of architecture in San Antonio might be excused for thinking that this 30-something firm is doing all the new work in town: the DoSeum, The Tobin Center, the Witte expansion and reordering … and it’s true that theirs is a high profile. But like many once-fledgling architects, David Lake and Ted Flato first came to our attention with a residence, a three-part rural structure that managed to embody in a single stroke many of the precepts the firm would go on to develop in much larger work. (Houses remain a focus, however, each of them evincing an “I’d like to live there” response.) And from the almost-delicate Government Canyon Visitor’s Center to the ultra-urban Pearl Brewery Redevelopment, the firm has maintained and nurtured an abiding interest in local vernacular and universal sustainability. That two of the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Environment Top Ten Projects for 2016 went to Lake Flato is no accident. You’ll have to make a specific visit out of town to experience the eco-tourism site that is the World Birding Center in Mission, Texas — but you may already have been several times to the AT&T Center/Spurs Arena. Consider cheering on the architects and their staff with the “superhuman work ethic” at the same time; this is the AIA’s national Firm of the Year for 2004, after all.

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live and to influence the world through the practice of architecture.” This could easily seem grandiose (though most architects would secretly, if not openly, acknowledge similar leanings) if it were not for the firm’s work, both built and unbuilt. The firm’s Haven for Hope is “the largest and most comprehensive homeless facility in the United States,” and its campus was “designed to be an open, welcoming facility integrated into the city and the neighborhood.” Influencing our cultural lives are projects such as SAMA’s Asian Art Wing and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin; impacting our spiritual side are the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in San Antonio and, for those of us who equate art and spirituality, the completion of the late Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, a kind of contemplative chapel to art that has been compared to the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Other buildings you might have seen include the billboard-like South Texas Blood & Tissue Center on I-10 and the former Clear Channel office building near the Quarry.

FYI, Overland’s staff includes an especially large number of women, a commitment to influencing the practice as it, in turn, influences the world.

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MUÑOZ & COMPANY • munozandcompany.com Muñoz & Company is the current iteration of a grand old San Antonio firm dating back to 1927; it has recently been called Kell Muñoz and before that, JonesKell. The firm’s website reveals the company to be more politically engaged and diversity-centered than many (see the Mestizo Deluxe blog); its recent building portfolio exhibits a wide range of building types and approaches — from foursquare and civic (the Paul Elizondo Tower at the Bexar County Courthouse) to brilliantly graphic (a fine arts center in the borderland city of Edcouch-Elsa, Texas, near McAllen). Libraries tend to stand out (Southsiders will appreciate the Mission Branch Library, suburbanites the dramatic public library for Schertz). Academic buildings are another focus, with a project for SAISD’s historically African-American Douglass Elementary on the

East Side inspiring this statement: “Muñoz & Company believes that architecture should provide a rich variety of spatial experiences that encourage every student to explore in a safe and fun environment.” The notion of exploration, we can assume, will equally inform the San Pedro Creek Improvements Project for which Muñoz & Company is the Lead Architect of Record, supported by Alamo Architects and Ford, Powell & Carson.

If the prominent firms above get much of our limited architectural attention, several smaller (and often younger) firms are already impacting us on a finer-grained daily level.

Kristen Wiese Hefty’s Dado Group (dado-group.com) provides both design and construction services; you may have seen their work on the now-closed The Monterey restaurant in Southtown and The Granary ’Cue & Brew on the Pearl campus. Also at Pearl can be found works by Urbanist Design’s Jonathan Card. A Lake Flato veteran, Card, who has just joined forces with Austin’s Clayton & Little Architects (claytonandlittle.com), is responsible for designs at Cured, Local Coffee and the now-shuttered Arcade. By all means check out the informative and inspirational website of Brantley Hightower’s Hi.Works (hi.works); somehow Hightower found time to publish “The Courthouses of Central Texas” while doing projects such as the Keystone School’s Central Quad. And while much work appears to be unbuilt or purely theoretical, we suspect it won’t remain that way for long.

Also keep your eyes on Jay Louden and his firm, Work5hop (work5hop.com). His is another website that is at pains to explain the process of working with an architect; his firm, in collaboration with Hi.Works, recently won a design competition for a new control tower at Stinson Field. Though much of his output is residential involving both restorations and new construction in and around Lavaca and in Marfa, architect Candid Rogers, who also teaches at UTSA, is responsible for the sensitive repurposing of an old service station into Bliss restaurant in Southtown, and we expect to see more of his work as well.

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HBO’s All The Way weighs LBJ’s conflicted first term TRAVIS BUFFKIN/@DTBUFFKIN

All The Way, starring Bryan Cranston as the embattled 36th commander-in-chief Lyndon Baines Johnson, is, at its core, a story of inheritance. A dramatic documentation of Johnson’s ascension to the presidency while the country tears itself apart over the South’s legacy of Jim Crow laws.

Johnson also inherits a country whose black citizens are subject to discrimination, segregation and terrorism, bequeathed second-class citizenship at birth. He inherits an escalating war for sovereignty in Southeast Asia, a war that would further divide the country along generational, moral, social, economic and political lines.

Directed by Jay Roach and based on the Robert Schenkkan play of the same name, HBO’s All The Way affords not only Cranston a fine opportunity to display his prodigious acting chops (and some state-of-the-art facial prosthetics), but a sincere depiction of two men’s struggle with the fulfillment of their dreams.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Anthony Mackie) is this second man. Mackie’s portrayal of King is paramount to the film in that the values and goals, motives and means of these two central figures, Johnson, a career politician, and King, a southern preacher fighting for equality, are illustrated, weighed and considered to great extent.

One man is fighting from his guts, head and heart, and the other is mired in the egotistical struggle, not just for power but the righteous brandishing of it — caught up in his own talking head, if you will.

In affirmation of the old adage about politics making for strange bedfellows, it is the inherited prejudice

of Dixiecrats like Georgia’s Democratic senator and Johnson’s “Uncle Dick” Richard Russell, Jr. (Frank Langella) that makes them the flipside to MLK, his Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the folks fighting for a nation of equity and equality. Russell, his compatriots and all that he stands for are diametrically opposed to King and his more radical allies Stokely Carmichael and Robert Moses. Johnson, however, is balanced precariously on the edge of that coin; both sides pressing in on him, leaving no room for a man with a conscience to exercise it and still maintain his prestigious post as president. Johnson’s greatest battle is maintaining not just the nation’s peace and his peace of mind, but, most importantly to himself, the privilege he so desires and equally loathes as the most observed and scapegoated man in politics. “People think that I want great power. But, I want great solace … That’s all I want,” states Cranston as the conflicted Texan.

However, where LBJ is interested in solace and tranquility for himself, MLK is interested in solace and tranquility for an entire people. And where LBJ is painted as a moral cavalier, fighting not just for what’s right but for the soul of America’s white population, he’s also positioned as the lynchpin that holds the entire American political process together, the same one holding back its black citizens.

If LBJ would have refused the mechanics of politics altogether, going with his heart fully, he would have avoided the stress and bitter conflict that resulted in his own dismissal from the 1968 presidential race. Had he, like King or Russell, been fighting for his principles alone

rather than perpetuating his stay in the White House he would’ve been much more at ease in the Oval Office. He also may have never passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As for the potential of All The Way to alter the public’s perception of its subjects, Paul Stekler, founder of the Center for Politics and Governance at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs and department chair of UT’s Radio-Television-Film program, recently told the San Antonio Current, “I’m not sure how much Johnson’s image, one way or the other, is affected by any of these things. I don’t know how much this stuff affects popular culture.”

This sentiment was echoed by his colleague, Victoria DeFrancesco Soto of the UT Austin Department of Government: “I do think that there has been a growth in interest in political TV, small screen, big screen … The people who are flat-out not interested in politics, they might watch House of Cards, but they’re not going to be like ‘Oh! Well, I need to vote or I need to get into politics!’ If anything, I think it might make them a little more apathetic.”

Is that apathy part of our national inheritance? The result of years of struggle for what’s “right and true?” If so, it’s one we should greatly consider exorcising, if we could just muster the courage to care — all the way. dtbuffkin@sacurrent.com

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Because there’s a food festival for just about anything these days — Luling’s Watermelon Thump (June 23-26), Texas Folklife Festival (held June 11-12 and basically a giant excuse to eat everything under the Texan sun) and Barbacoa & Big Red (this weekend) — said food lovers are harder to impress. How do event organizers keep things fresh, fun and fabulously Instagram-worthy?

Those were some of the questions at hand as Culinaria’s organizers sat down to reinvent 2016’s festival. The biggest change this year is the festival’s main location, now at La Cantera Resort & Spa (16641 La Cantera Pkwy.).

“In our strategic plan all along, we wanted to move the festival to one location,” said Culinaria president & CEO Suzanne Taranto Etheredge.

“We were waiting for development in some of our venues, but it was always going to be this year. I think the river that ran through last year really helped propel us forward in wanting one location where everything could be, including production.”

Sitting on 550 acres that glimpse a peek of the Hill Country, the resort is fresh off its first anniversary after being completely upgraded. Now sleeker, modern and with almost too many highdef flat screens in their poolside cabanas

(like that’s ever a thing), La Cantera Resort & Spa will help showcase San Antonio’s booming culinary scene.

Funds from the festival will go toward the Culinaria Farm, the nonprofit’s project that was announced earlier this year.

At the corner of Huebner and Research Road, next to Magnolia Pancake Haus’ second location, sits the Culinaria’s Farm, which will host chefs, food professionals, farmers, volunteers sponsors in educating San Antonians on growing practices and food production systems using healthy food. The Farm will partner with two universities to help promote said mission.

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology City Farm is a first of its kind controlled environment agriculture system, a ‘food computer,’ that can duplicate any climate for growing food. This process maximizes the nutrition and flavor of the produce and minimizes the water, energy and space used. University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management will be installing an indoor aquaponics system,” per Culinaria’s website.

You’re expanding your waistline, if briefly, as Culinaria moves toward opening The Farm this fall.

Aside from the location, the festival is shaking things up with the reintroduction of an old favorite and a complete revamp of its Saturday programming. Here’s a quick breakdown of what to expect during this year’s Culinaria Festival Week. flavor@sacurrent.com

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BACK TO BUBBLES • $75 in advance, $100 at the door • Adult Pool 7-10pm, Friday Once a stand-alone event, this bubblecentric party was ushered into the fold as part of the Grand Tasting. But the people missed that joyous pop of corks. To that effect, Culinaria presents Back to Bubbles with high-end bubblies and bites from local chefs at the resort’s adult infinity pool, which will feature a chandelier-decked patio. Muy fancy.

TACOS AND TALK (AND TASTING) $50 in advance, $75 at the door • $10 for minors, free for children 5 and under Plaza San Saba • 11am-4pm, Saturday Let’s not forget this event is based in the taco capital of the state (calling it). Gone is Best of Mexico, and in its place is a daylong celebration of all things food and booze with a taco slant, of course. Visit for tempranillo tastings, whiskey seminars, boozy coffee cocktails, a fine wine seminar and quick mixology course while snacking on tacos in Taco Town, where local and visiting chefs whip up their favorite tortillaclad goodness. Oh, did we mention queso fountains and salsa bars?

THE GRAND TASTING (RE-IMAGINED) $100 in advance, $125 at the door • San Antonio Ballroom • 7-10pm, Saturday Serious and newbie food lovers can all get a taste for what San Anto has to offer with this event that combines the best in wine and the city’s food. Taranta Etheredge encourages attendees to really get the most out of their experience by chatting up the chefs. “I think you should talk to your chef.

You should talk to them about that dish, and feel like you can appreciate the experience,” she said. “Ask them questions, find out what’s in the dish that you like, explore your own palate. Find out what you like and don’t like.” And don’t forget to pace yourself.

BURGERS, BBQ & BEER • $50 in advance, $75 at the door • $10 for minors, free for children 5 and under 1-4pm, Sunday The barbecue is back on the bill this year.

Perhaps the most gluttonous of the week’s events, BB&B is the perfect event to bring several friends. Sharing is caring and those not-so-tiny sliders add up quick. No one can eat that many burgers in a three-hour period.

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THURSDAY, MAY 19 Culinaria Festival Week: You might not recognize the latest iteration of this food-lover’s festival, and that’s a good thing. The week starts off with Underground Kitchen dinners on May 19; The Farm Dinner at Culinaria’s upcoming educational facility the same evening; a sold-out Becker Luncheon at Becker Vineyards Lavender Haus on Friday; followed by the re-introduction of Back to Bubbles, a decadent and glitzy event with nearly free-flowing sparkling wine and Champagne on Friday night; Tacos and Talk fills your Saturday with boozy seminars, wine wind downs and a taco throw down by your favorite chefs; a re-imagined grand tasting will cap off Saturday night, with tasty bites from the city’s best chefs; and Sunday’s family-friendly Burgers, BBQ & Beer adds smoky-goodness to end the festival. $50-$100 in advance, $75-$125 at the door, La Cantera Resort & Spa, 16641 La Cantera Pkwy., (210) 822-9555, culinariasa.org.

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FRIDAY, MAY 20 Tim Doi Backyard #StreetEats: Pop-ups don’t get any more street than Tim Doi’s final showing in San Antonio. Prepared by chefs Jerald Head (currently with New York City’s An Choi) and Kane William Sorrells (Austin’s Qui) both formerly with Arcade Midtown Kitchen, this Southeast Asian kitchen delivers delicious street food flavors. Visit with Head and Sorrrells before they head to New York City. Prices vary, 9pm-midnight, Friday-Saturday, Stay Golden Social House, 401 Pearl Pkwy.

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SUNDAY, MAY 22 Barbacoa & Big Red Festival: Somehow the sixth annual celebration of San Antonio’s most puro combination is once again upon us. Sample barbacoa from previous winners, including Rio’s Barbacoa, Pepe’s Barbacoa, Celorio Tortillas y Barbacoa and last year’s victor, Tortilleria del Barrio. Enjoy music, and, of course, chingos of Big Red to wash down all the barbacoa. $5-$10 in advance, 10-$15 at the door, 10am-8:30pm, 18086 Pleasanton Road, (210) 6286200, barbacoabigredfestival.com.

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As a Jack Daniel’s billboard on my commute to work insists, the Spurs have made consistency exciting (a quality I am supposed to infer could also be said of Jack Daniel’s).

As a result, here in San Antonio, predictability has become something of a virtue. Success is highly prized, as is reliability, but their sum is much, much greater than their parts. And if there’s any establishment in town with a snowball’s chance of challenging the Spurs’ sameness of greatness, it’s Ticket Sports Pub at 420 E. Houston Street.

Since 2009, Ticket has been the Silver and Black of the sports bar universe, winning the The San Antonio Current’s “Best Sports Bar” in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Considering the nightlife industry’s notoriously high shutter rate, most bars would be happy just keeping their doors open that long, let alone spanking the competition so soundly.

Now, you don’t have to be Warren Buffet to find financial success catering to out-of-towners in one of the most tourist-friendly cities in the country. And, in fact, when I walked into the bar, I heard first the chatter of an English family. As I was trying to understand how a sports bar festooned so deep in townie territory could repeatedly win “Best Sports Bar,” their presence supported my hypothesis that giddy tourists had so regularly left glowing reviews that the bar had backdoored its way to the top.

Upon second thought, I realized that while tourists could well keep a bar afloat, they would be ineffectual when it came to a crowd-sourced peoples’ choice award like The Current’s Best of San Antonio yearlies. And by brilliant power of deduction, I realized that there had to be some explanation, someway, somehow, that honest-to-goodness puro citizens are patronizing, enjoying and voting for a bar housed in an area riddled with non-locals.

As I sat at the bar, looking at the bartenders, customers, décor, menu, TV and patio area, another thought began to dawn on me. It may very well be that while Ticket played a role in the tourism industrial complex, its location might not necessarily make it party to the highway robbery of modern tourism. Another way of putting it, to paraphrase someone famous, is that while the Ticket may be in the Downtown area, it is not of the Downtown area. In fact, I began to realize, the bar felt more like an oasis in a desert than a dune in a wasteland. It was like a life raft of sorts, a tiny, alcohol-serving dinghy of reality floating amidst the 38 CURRENT • May 18—May 24, 2016 • sacurrent.com

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Downtown area’s trash island of artifice. More succinctly: 15 screens!) as my Ticket Wings ($9.95) were being People don’t love the Ticket because it’s Downtown, prepared, although my michelada — like me — almost people love the Ticket because it’s Downtown. didn’t survive the wait. As I had arrived an hour before the The Sunday I visited, I arrived an hour before the Spurs started, the bar staff seemed distracted, working Spurs game. Three times in a row a bartender greeted a with a grim forbearance similar to what I imagine our prenewcomer by name before asking what they were drinking. game hoopers look like — physically present and going Conversations were had, niceties were exchanged, layman through the motions, but mentally in a different place sports analyses were proffered and not one bit of it felt prepping for the game. like a tourist bar, dripping as they always are in saccharine As a result, I languished unserved for nearly 20 smiles and subtle extortion. minutes, this despite the bar being nearly empty at And with food like the Ticket’s, you’ll begin to wonder the time. It’s no serious knock on the servers — as the who, if given the choice, would choose immunity anyway? game neared the bartenders awoke — but I was a little When it comes to beer, domestics start at $3, imports at frustrated at the time. $3.50 and drafts range between $3-5; most mixed drinks When my food arrived I found myself once again stay within the $5-$8 zone. Come at night or after a win at peace with the world. Eight assorted wings and and try one of their half-dozen composed shots, $4-$7, if drumettes arrived in a basket nestled against slivered you’ve been itching to find out what Jameson tastes like celery and two sauces, ranch and bleu cheese. Piping when chased with McClure’s Pickle Brine. hot, fresh and tender, the wings were delicious I ordered and received a perfectly balanced and paired perfectly with my drink. Food in my Ticket Sports Pub Michelada ($5), the bright tang of the lime belly, beer in my heart and the Spurs in my line 420 E. Houston St. (210) 222-9722 counteracting the toothy umami of the house of sight, I began to understand the hype. Who ticketsportspub.com Bloody Mary mix. knows — maybe the Ticket really is the best 1pm-2am Mon-Fri; My drink watched TV with me (on one of sports bar in the city.

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Cultural lag aside, video game stories, music, vocal acting and artwork have enjoyed a steady climb in sophistication and critical consideration this side of the year 2000. In many ways, video games, their characters and their universes stand alongside comic books and cinema to jointly comprise a sloppy, incomplete but utterly compelling mythology for our time. Producer Jason Michael Paul, who brings his Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses to town Saturday, has both been a beneficiary of and contributor to the serious consideration that game franchises are enjoying. I spoke to Paul last week, over the phone from a tour stop in Chile, about his career, video game music and Symphony of the Goddesses.

Paul recalls a time in 2004, while working on live productions for folks like The Three Tenors, when he first envisioned a video game symphony as an epic production.

“I was listening to a Final Fantasy: One Wing Angel CD on the PA before a show in Costa Rica, and I had an epiphany that I could really make something fantastic out of this music. It wasn’t entirely new, I had heard of people doing video game symphony productions in Japan before, but there really was never a visual aspect to them.”

Following that vision, Paul soon triumphant, all at once — was found himself touring behind the originally composed for the Dear Friends and, later, More games chiefly by Koji Kondo Friends productions, which and has long been one of the featured orchestra and choral most endearing aspects of the performances of the music from franchise. Paul considers this Final Fantasy with representative music “every bit as compelling visuals. Capitalizing on the and artistic as any other non-video success of these shows and game music can be.” For these their marketability to classical productions, Paul works with local music audiences as well musicians’ unions all over the as gamers, Paul ended up world to bring in players unique producing Play! A Video Game to each city. That’s a 66-piece Symphony, which was met with orchestra and a 24-person choir considerable acclaim. to be hired in each city on the In 2011, Paul and company were tour, a task more difficult than the invited to plan a series of one-off infamous Water Temple in Legend shows for the music of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. of Zelda, one of Nintendo’s most When I asked whether he beloved franchises, to coincide felt he had contributed to the with the game’s 25th anniversary. critical acceptance that video The shows — in New York City, game music has slowly started to Tokyo and London — were so enjoy, he was humble but aware popular, that they “are basically, of his contribution. over 150 shows later, still touring “We stay true to the franchise, them.” Now, 2016 marks the 30th which appeals to fans of the anniversary of the Zelda franchise, games. The way we use the and fans have a chance to see a orchestra is truly first rate, the reworked and expanded version musicianship is on par with the of Symphony of the Goddesses best you can find, the conducting (called Masterquest), which as well. I think I have includes material from more contributed tremendously of the post-2000 games to people taking this music The Legend of and, most notably, Tri Force Zelda: Symphony seriously, with, of course, of the Goddesses the huge support from Heroes, the most recently - Master Quest released Zelda game. these gaming companies. $47.50-$127.50 The show is a spectacle 8pm Sat, May 21 Music is vital to any story, Majestic Theatre of sound and visuals. and it’s no different than 224 E. Houston St. The music — beautiful, video games. It was only a (210) 226-5700 haunting, dreamlike and matter of time.”

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Pitted against the monotonous rhetoric of mainstream music and the mindless consumption of pop culture since the early 2000s, Sage Francis has made a name for himself in the indie hip-hop scene.

Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, the underground rap monarch and prominent slam poet has built his reputation on introspective, intricate lyrics, biting social commentary and an unassuming disposition. After suddenly declaring retirement from touring in 2010 to focus on his record label, his cats and recording new material, Francis has decided to show his face in only a handful of cities this year, including San Antonio.

We recently had the chance to pick Francis’ brain via email about his most recent album, Copper Gone, building a selfsufficient subculture and honesty … here’s what happened. > Sage – can I call you Sage? Mr. Francis?

Both work well for me. Could I please call you Mrs. Robinson? This would help fulfill a lifelong dream of mine.

I’m going to call you Mrs. Robinson. > On the blog for your label Strange Famous Records you noted that you are only accepting “select shows” in 2016. San Antonio, of all places, somehow found itself on your extremely short touring list … why was humble ol’ San Antone so lucky?

I played several Texas shows in 2014 and 2015, but none of them were in San Antonio. An artist named Progeny contacted me last December to let me know that San Antonio is upset about that and it’s time to make things right. I agreed.

combination of where I am, what I’m experiencing, who I’m interacting with, how I’m feeling, how that makes me feel and a lot of other variables that can never be contained into a magical red button to push. I just try to stay open to the feeling and make the most of it …

Either that or I watch the MacGruber movie, but that’s kind of like using a cheat code.

>You are one of the few hip-hop artists I’ve heard > How do you think your music has evolved over the mention notable authors in their tracks (Bukowski, years? What does Copper Gone symbolize for you?

Vonnegut, Ginsberg, etc.). Which author or poet is What were you trying to say within its 14 tracks? a mainstay on your bookshelf?

My music has gone through an interesting journey of Tom Robbins. Hands down my favorite for the past its own. I feel it started off as guarded, which few years. Full disclosure: I’m not as well read helped it fit in. Then it became unguarded, and as I’d like to be, but, yeah. Tom Robbins is my then it learned that, for its own well-being, it had motherfucking dude. I buy his books in bulk and Sage Francis w/ Chisme, Third Root, to become a bit more guarded again ... without hand them out to people I like. I’d like to thank the Ghost Palace and the desire to fit in. fan in California who threw Fierce Invalids Home Chris Conde Copper Gone said what it needed to say From Hot Climates at me while I was on stage. $14-$20 the way it needed to say it. I don’t mean for 9pm Sat, May 21 That was a fine introduction to Robbins’ work.

502 Bar that to come across as a reluctance to answer 502 Embassy Oaks your question, but the album quite literally says > From where do you derive inspiration?

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Hopefully it engages, involves, entertains and provokes the listener. > You faux retired in 2010 but came back strong because the game needed you. What’s next?

Ha, well ... I fake retired from touring in 2010. That wasn’t me using a broad retirement brush to paint the final quit picture. The final quit picture is going to take a bit more time. I came back to buy myself the time I need to complete it. That’s what’s next. And it’s coming to you live in 3D. > How important is honesty in your music and in music in general?

Depending on what you intend to achieve, it can be none. None important in music. > Do you consciously try to speak the truth? If not the whole truth, what percentage?

Haha. What percentage? I mean, if I cared THAT much about truth I suppose I would have done better in statistics. I do my best to engage others with truth. Math is hard, though.

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For all of the searching, headlined by area legends like Archie digging, scrimping, saving and Bell and Ernie Garibay, seeking in their listening that Rambo Salinas numerous DJ nights around town to turn and his crew of 7-inch scourers have on those who may not know about the done in their lifetimes, the wealth of icons of yesteryear. obscure knowledge collected puts the “I would like more people to ask local quartet, a sextet if you include questions. Like, if people are curious, their satellite members in Oakland and fucking ask us, that’s what we’re here Houston, in the same company as some for … We’re like our own little library ... of history’s finest folklorists.

We’re the Indiana Jones, we go look for Much like John and Alan Lomax, who that shit, we find that shit, we bring it had the ears and foresight to record back home … A ‘Smile Now, Cry Later’ Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie cover belongs here in San Antonio. and Lead Belly; Harry Smith and his That’s where it needs to be played Anthology of American Folk Music; or … These are becoming … these are Arhoolie Records’ Chris Strachwitz, fossils, these don’t exist everywhere, who has been instrumental in the vast not everyone can have them anymore. dissemination of legends like Lightnin’ And just like those blankets and that Hopkins and Flaco Jiménez, the pottery and the Mayans and all that members of Alamo City Soul Club have shit, it’s ours and we gotta keep it as browsed ’til their fingers blistered for much as we can here.” the songs that, as Salinas says, belong Like a rare first edition of Hemingway’s back here “at home,” often dropping The Old Man and the Sea that finds its several hundred dollars on a single way into the hands of a Cuban fisherman coveted piece of wax. with a penchant for classic American The obsessed collective of literature or a 70mm reel of Psycho that Salinas, Eddie “Plata” Hernandez, is picked up for a song at an estate sale Hector Gallegos, Brian Poust, Jeff by an impoverished radio-televisionBlaggard (Oakland) and Alex LaRotta film student, the audiophiles of ACSC (Houston) have spent enough time have done all the heavy lifting, the bin in stuffy storage units and littlebrowsing and shop searching to find known shops studying and these diamonds in the rough seeking the country’s most and bring them back to the city Alamo City Soul underappreciated artists to and area from whence they give any doctoral student a run Club’s Four Year An- came, years later but right on niversary feat. Josh for their research money. time. Come see what’s spinning.

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Around 11:15 p.m. on New San Antonio resident, has organized Year’s Eve of last year, while a benefit for Vasquez’s four children most of us were surrounded that will feature some of the region's by loved ones, enjoying a spirit or two, biggest talents in country, blues, soul, shooting off fireworks and toasting the Tex-Mex and rock ‘n’ roll. Included on growing pains of another year, Ernesto the bill will be Tejano star Patsy Torres; Vasquez was involved in a hit-and-run Sir Douglas Quintet organist and Texas accident that left him in a medically Tornado Augie Meyers; the swinging induced coma. Vasquez, a San Antonio Bobby Flores & the Yellow Rose Band; Police Department officer who was rockabilly honky tonkers Two Tons of off-duty at the time, was struck by Steel; classic country band The Lone a red SUV that eyewitnesses claim Star Pickerz; and more. his wife, Diana Marileen Lopez, was The concert, which will only cost driving, according to the San Antonio $10 and is free for children under 12 Express-News. Vasquez is still receiving with all of the proceeds going to aid in treatment at a local rehabilitation center.

Vasquez’s medical expenses and the Lopez was later arrested in Laredo remaining contributions placed in a trust and charged with failure to stop and fund for the kids, will also feature several render aid, a third-degree felony. She thousand dollars in items up for bid at a currently awaits trial. What silent auction, including nearly matters at this point, however, $500 in Yeti merchandise is the future of Vasquez’s and $500 in upcoming Tobin Benefit for Ernesto Vasquez feat. Patsy children, ages 5, 7, 9 and Center concert tickets.

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Josh Homme’s place in the rock 'n' roll industry, for many, is one of a nuanced rock messiah; from being a lucrative member in a number of bands, including Queens of the Stone Age, the Desert Sessions and Eagles of Death Metal, to collaborating with a plethora of artists, his most recent being the ubiquitous pre-punk provocateur, Iggy Pop. But, none of his groups seem as humorous or off-kilter as the irreverent Eagles of Death Metal. Spanning over the past decade with the bizarre Peace Love Death Metal, pop-sensible Heart On, cock-rocked Death by Sexy and sleazy Zipper Down, the group has a penchant for endearingly juvenile tongue-in-cheek lyrics with a swatch of ZZTop and Rolling Stones pastiche. The duo of Homme and Jesse Hughes, who survived last year’s horrific terrorist attacks on the Bataclan in Paris, are the least bit serious, ripping off from classics like the bombastic Led Zeppelin and boisterous New York Dolls, with a childlike and “give-no-shits” attitude. Beneath all the rock shtick and cheeseball puns belies a dark sense of self-awareness that’s nonetheless thoroughly entertaining. $25-$35, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre. com. –Alejandra Ramirez

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53 Million & One This one-man show

featuring Gerardo "Jerry" Ascencio chronicles his journey from immigrant to entrepreneur via multiple characters and mariachi. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7pm

Cumbia Fest 2016 Featuring

performances by Celso Piña, Fito Olivares and Massore, celebrate the courtship dance inspired by the African diaspora in Latin America. San Antonio Event Center, 9pm

Livingstone Even though Livingstone calls

France home, there's nothing Eurocentric about their American-bred style of rock.

Limelight, 9pm

Thursday, May 19

2016 Live Music Series Officially titled the "Ancira Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram 2016 Live Music Series," (isn't corporatocracy fun?) the weekly showcase is back with The Damn Quails. County Line, 7:30pm

Abacaba With a little bit of something for

everyone, Abacaba's sound can be found in the great junk drawer of rock 'n' roll.

With Pearl & Earl. The Mix, 9pm

Patricia Vonne, Rick Del Castillo and Javier Escovedo Three of the region's

notable artists, ranging from Latin cantina jazz to gritty punk rock 'n' roll, team up for a trifecta of talent. Sam's Burger Joint, 7pm

¡Perrea, Mami, Perrea! DJs

Cumbiaxauhqui, Noriyuki and Pequenobaile will be spinning cumbia, sonidero, reggaeton and tropical beats.

Hi-Tones, 9pm

Swimming With Bears Fronted by Joe

Perry, not the Aerosmith guitarist, the four hunks in SWB play danceable pop rock at their May residency. With Jaik Yanez. 502 Bar, 9pm

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Friday, May 20

The Blasters Had the exceptionally executed

blues-punk of Downey, California's Blasters come out at the turn of the century we very well may have never heard the names Jack White or Dan Auerbach. With Mitch Webb & The Swindles and Harvey McLaughlin & The BottomFeeders. Paper Tiger, 8pm

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School of Rock

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Capyac, Pink Leche and Voodoo Boogaloo The perfect trio of feel-

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CJ Ramone Amicably taking over bass

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The Deadly Vipers Detroit doesn't fuck

around and The Deadly Vipers follow in that crowded vein of Motown garage rockers: Iggy, MC5 and The Gories. With Crown and The Purtells. Limelight, 9pm

Empires EP Release Culling inspiration

from '80s East Coast hardcore, ex-Piñata Protest and Sudden Death members release their first EP, Annihilation of Self, on tape. With Shadow of Doubt, Hardside and Bloodhound. Nite Lite, 9pm

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At the tender age of 31, he's got plenty of time and plenty of soul to spare. Sam's Burger Joint, 8pm

The March Divide Album Release

Saturdays, the newest release from Jared Putnam, contains 14 impeccably recorded songs that dance between pop, emo and bar-room rock. 502 Bar, 8pm

San Antonio Symphony: Sarah Chang Bruch Violin Concerto Violin

superstar Sarah Chang Bruch performs Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 1, which, like numerous radical premieres, was first met with trepidation but is now heralded as a symphonic triumph. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm

Voivod Merging prog rock, thrash metal

and punk, Away, Snake, Chewy and Rocky tour in support of their newest, Post Society. With King Parrot and Child Bite. The Rock Box, 7pm

Saturday, May 21

Angelic Upstarts One of the few

legendary skinhead-associated punk bands to get past the surface requisites of boots, braces and beer, Angelic Upstarts embody the best of antiauthoritarian rock 'n' roll: snotty, pissed and thoughtful. The Korova, 8pm

Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio presents: A Minimal (Re) Composition With Alabama Symphony

Orchestra Music Director Carlos Izcaray at the podium and COSA's concertmaster Francisco Fullana as the soloist, the ensemble tackles Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 3 and Max Richter’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm

Insane Clown Posse: The Riddle Box Tour "Fuckin' magnets. How do they

work?" Detroit's horrocore hip-hop group roll through on a tide of Faygo. Alamo City Music Hall, 7pm

Little John Straight from Kingston, reggae legend Little John has kept the spliff burning for Jamaica's soul music since he was 9 years old. One Drop Reggae Shop & Juice Bar, 9pm

Sunday, May 22

Abigail Williams Named for one of the

principle accusers at the Salem witch trials, the black metal group has given so many members the axe you'd think there was something supernatural going on.

The Korova, 7pm

M.U.S.I.C. Project iPod Drive and Fundraising Concert Support the

commendable efforts of the SA nonprofit to provide local assisted-living facilities with music for their patients.

With The Voice semi-finalist Nakia, The Foreign Arm, Laura Marie and more.

Sam's Burger Joint, 2pm

Pleasure Leftists The brooding

soundtrack for knitting while watching Eraserhead, Pleasure Leftists sound like a rainy day rendezvous with Ian Curtis and a tank of helium. Paper Tiger, 1pm

Studio Sessions: John Waite The Bad

English frontman and "Missing You" author plays an intimate studio set. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7pm

Monday, May 23

Arabrot, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy and Encrypted Soak in a sauna of crushing sound — scalding, roaring rock — with these eardrum pounding noise fanatics. Paper Tiger, 6pm

Peter Frampton From grade school

with Bowie through Humble Pie and Frampton Comes Alive!, the 66-yearold has built an impressive career much larger than his mom-approved soft rock hits. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm

Tuesday, May 24

Dance Frenzy Tuesdays DJs Mess

Muerte, Stereyo and Adam Madrigal prove that there's still nothing wrong with a little bump and grind, even on a Tuesday. Phantom Room, 9pm

Otep Lead singer and bandleader Otep

Shamaya chronicles the rise of the New World Order at the helm of her nü-metal band. The Rock Box, 5:30pm

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48 “Return of the Jedi” fuzzball 50 Be the author of 51 Photogenic finish?

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12 Dashboard dial, for short 13 Find out (about) 21 One at the Louvre 22 “Spenser: For Hire” star Robert 27 Vicki Lawrence sitcom role 28 Americans, to Brits 29 Prefix for morph or skeleton 30 Do some major damage 31 Anjou relative 32 “... butterfly, sting like ___” 33 “And that’s the way ___” 34 Mars Pathfinder launcher 36 Oceanic 38 Prefix before space 40 Had pains 41 Ivies, particularly 47 Bit of progress 49 “Fists of Fury” director Lo _ _ _ 50 Limericks and such 51 AOL giveaway of the past 53 “___ of Two Cities” 54 Canasta combinations 55 Fence feature 56 It’s so hot 57 Legal tender since 1999 58 Sphere intro 59 Civil rights figure Parks 60 Peach part

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): “An oar moves a boat by entering what lies outside it,” writes poet Jane Hirshfield. You can’t use the paddle inside the boat! It’s of no value to you unless you thrust it into the drink and move it around vigorously. And that’s an excellent metaphor for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, my friend. If you want to reach your next destination, you must have intimate and continual interaction with the mysterious depths that lie outside your known world.

at least one of each, Leo. And if you don’t, I encourage you to go out and look for some. It would be great if you could also get access to alliances that resemble dancing lessons, colorful sanctuaries, lion whisperers, prayer flags, and the northern lights. Right now you especially need the stimulation that synergistic collaborations can provide. The next chapter of your life story requires abundant contact with interesting people who have the power to surprise you and teach you.

that?” I bring this tease to your attention because it may serve as a helpful riddle in the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase when you will have an enhanced ability to tinker with and refine and even revolutionize your best intimate relationships. I’m hoping Dillon’s provocation will unleash a series of inquiries that will inspire you as you imagine how you could supercharge togetherness and reinvent the ways you collaborate.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): The

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22):

Fifth-century Christian theologian St. Jerome wrote that “it requires infinite discretion to look for gold in the midst of dirt.” Ancient Roman poet Virgil on one occasion testified that he was “searching for gold in dung.” While addressing the angels, nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire bragged, “From each thing I extracted its quintessence. You gave me your mud, and I made gold out of it.” From what I can tell, Caprciorn, you have been engaged in similar work lately. The climax of your toil should come in the next two weeks. (Thanks to Michael Gilleland for the inspiration: tinyurl.com/mudgold.)

short attention span is now enshrined as the default mode of awareness. “We skim rather than absorb,” says author James Lough. “We read Sappho or Shakespeare the same way we glance over a tweet or a text message, scanning for the gist, impatient to move on.”

There’s a problem with that approach, however.

“You can’t skim Shakespeare,” says Lough. I propose that we make that your epigram to live by in the coming weeks, Taurus: You can’t skim Shakespeare. According to my analysis, you’re going to be offered a rich array of Shakespearelevel information and insights. To get the most out of these blessings, you must penetrate and marinate and ruminate.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): “There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise,” said Friedrich Schiller.

The coming days may be one of those times for you. I therefore advise you to dodge any tendency you might have to be impressed with your sophisticated intelligence. Be suspicious of egotism masquerading as cleverness. You are most likely to make good decisions if you insist on honoring your raw instincts. Simple solutions and uncomplicated actions will give you access to beautiful truths and truthful beauty, especially if you anchor yourself in innocent compassion.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): To prepare you for the coming weeks, I have gathered three quotes from the Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti. These gems, along with my commentary, will serve you well if you use them as seeds for your ongoing meditations. Seed #1: “He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?” Here’s my addendum: No later than your birthday, you’ll be ready to start from scratch. In the meantime, your task is to find out where scratch is, and clear a path to it. Seed #2: “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” My addendum: Monitor your dreams closely. They will offer clues about what you need to remember.

Seed #3: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.” My addendum: Go in search of the miraculous.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries,” said writer Vladimir Nabokov. I hope you have

“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible,” says author Rebecca Solnit. She is of course implying that it might be better not to beat the possible, but rather to protect and nurture the possible as a viable option — especially if perfection ultimately proves to have no value other than as a stick. This is always a truth worth honoring, but it will be crucial for you in the weeks to come. I hope you will cultivate a reverence and devotion to the possible. As messy or maddening as it might be, it will also groom your powers as a maker.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): An invigorating challenge is headed your way.

To prepare you, I offer the wisdom of French author André Gide. “Through loyalty to the past,” he wrote, “our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s joy makes way for it.” What this means, Libra, is that you will probably have to surrender your attachment to a well-honed delight if you want to make yourself available for a bright new delight that’s hovering on the frontier. An educational blessing will come your way if and only if you clear space for its arrival. As Gide concludes, “Each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding wave.”

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19):

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): “At this time in my life,” says singer Joni

Mitchell, “I’ve confronted a lot of my devils.

A lot of them were pretty silly, but they were incredibly real at the time.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius, you are due to enjoy a similar grace period.

It may be a humbling grace period, because you’ll be invited to decisively banish worn-out delusions that have filled you with needless fear. And it may be a grace period that requires you to make strenuous adjustments, since you’ll have to revise some of your old stories about who you are and how you got here. But it will also be a sweet grace period, because you’ll be blessed again and again with a visceral sense of liberation.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): More than halfway through her prose poem “A Settlement,” Mary Oliver abruptly stops her meandering meditation on the poignant joys of spring’s soft awakening. Suddenly she’s brave and forceful: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.”

Now would be a perfect moment to draw inspiration from her, Pisces. I dare you to say it. I dare you to mean it. Speak these words: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.”

THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, and now I’m passing it on to you just in time for a special phase of your long-term cycle.

During this upcoming interlude, your main duty is to FEED YOUR SOUL in every way you can imagine. So please stuff it with unpredictable beauty and reverent emotions. Cram it with mysterious adventures and rambling treks in the frontier. Gorge it with intimate unpredictability and playful love and fierce devotions in behalf of your most crucial dreams. Warning: You will not be able to rely solely on the soul food that has sustained you in the past. Be eager to discover new forms of nourishment.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): “Here’s how every love letter can be summarized,” says Russell Dillon in his poem “Past-Perfect-Impersonal”: “What is it you’re unable to surrender and please may I have

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