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NEISD Improves Sex Ed, Conservative Christian Group Flips Out: “Where is the rolling eyes reaction button?” – Mary Neal Black Lives Matter Activists Plan Protest Over San Antonio Police Union Contract: “Hope there’s a big turnout...in support of our police.” – Stephen David Why We Love (and Hate) Hatch Chile Season: “Hatch chile season is the only good thing about August.

Hatch peppers absolutely have a distinct flavor, ask anyone who grew up in the region or near it. They require an almost ritualistic preparation and for those of us that like spicy peppers, it’s a nice change from serranos and jalapeños. The writer hasn’t had a proper Rajas con crema.” – Laura J. Vela Archeologists Find Sword Tip That May Have Been Used in Battle of the Alamo: “Or a steak knife from Rio Rio cantina...” – Mario Martinez • Send your thoughts, comments, kudos or tips to letters@sacurrent.com

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Monkey Business Feds give $40 million to local primate research center accused of animal mistreatment Provider Problems Meet the anti-abortion group Texas just gave $1.6 million to “facilitate” healthcare for poor women

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ARTS + CULTURE

Getting to Know Richard Aste The McNay’s new director on growing up between cultures and telling stories with art

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COVER Restaurant Week is back enticing weathered gourmands and new-to-the-city culinarians with more than 100 menus from across San Antonio. Be it familiar chains, over-the-top steakhouses or the latest eateries to open in The Pearl, there’s something for everyone to nosh on.

Look inside for your best bets, picks from local foodies and tips on navigating your way through San Antonio Restaurant Week.

Cover photo by Liz Warburton Art direction by Rick Fisher and Sarah Flood-Baumann

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Lights Out Photographer and conservationist Danté Fenolio dives deep to illuminate Life in the Dark

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Home Brew Branchline becomes brewpub, can now sell take-home beer onsite Booze Cruise San Anto will get more party bikes later this month Remix The good ol’ gin and tonic gets the slushy treatment for summer

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Hungry Games A Survival Guide to San Antonio Restaurant Week

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Our top picks for the week

Best Bets Visit these star chefs, seek out these best menu items, and other tips for a successful Restaurant Week Foodie Picks Local food-lovers share where they’re eating this #SARW

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CELEBRATING THE MOST ICONIC, UNIQUELY AMERICAN AMUSEMENT PARK

This exhibition was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 has been generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence, the Henry Luce Foundation, and The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Reginald Marsh, Wooden Horses (detail), 1936, tempera on board, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, The Dorothy Clark Archibald and Thomas L. Archibald Fund, The Krieble Family Fund for American Art, The American Paintings Purchase Fund, and The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 2013.1.1. © 2016 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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"After I came to Christ, I couldn't kill babies anymore." – Carol Everett

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Last week a list out of the state comptroller’s office revealed that one of the largest recipients of state funding for a new program meant to give lowincome women in Texas basic reproductive healthcare is a conservative Christian-based nonprofit that has said it “sets women free from abortion.”

According to comptroller’s records, the Round Rock-based Heidi Group will get a $1.6 million chunk of the $18 million the state has earmarked for its “Texas Healthy Women” program, making it one of the largest recipients of state funding for the program (behind only the Harris County public health department, which will get $1.7 million this year).

The news was unsettling to reproductive rights advocates who have closely monitored the nascent program, which is basically a re-tooled version of a Medicaid-waiver program the state killed off four years ago when the feds wouldn’t let anti-abortion lawmakers in Texas boot Planned Parenthood as a provider from the program; the state defunded PP anyway and gave up millions of dollars in federal assistance to uninsured Texas women.

The Heidi Group isn’t exactly a “healthcare provider” in the commonly-understood sense, but rather has a history of anti-abortion activism that includes setting up so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” that steer pregnant women away from abortion, often with misleading facts (see our previous coverage of those state-funded 12 CURRENT • August 17—23, 2016 • sacurrent.com

centers). In fact, the group’s $1.6 million award lists the address of its San Antonio crisis pregnancy center, Life Choices, which, according to its website, “exists to save the lives of unborn children, minister to women and men facing decisions involving pregnancy and sexual health, and touch each life with the love of Christ.”

So what exactly will the Heidi Group’s role be in the new state-funded healthcare program for low-income Texas women? When we reached Heidi Group founder and director Carol Everett by phone last week, she told us the Heidi Group will be a “facilitator” that conducts outreach and works with health clinics to connect women to some 25 clinics that will provide services for women through the program. “We’re going to be doing brochures, we’re going to go to the natural places, like WIC offices, Salvation Army, places that poor women are shopping and are going,” she told us. The money, she insisted, will all go toward outreach and expanding services. “I can honestly tell you that there is not one cent of rent in this for the Heidi Group,” she said. “There’s no administrative money, this is for direct services, for our outreach directors.”

Everett herself told us she has a long history of involvement in the fight against abortion. After working at an abortion clinic decades ago, a religious conversion put her on the path toward being an antiabortion activist, she says. “The truth of the matter is I came to Christ,” Everett said in a phone interview. “I

was searching and I came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And after I came to Christ, I couldn’t kill babies anymore.” Everett said that by the mid-1980s she was testifying before the Texas Legislature urging greater restrictions on abortion providers.

Just last week Everett testified at a state hearing over a new rule that would require abortion providers cremate or bury fetal remains, even in the case of miscarriage. She even warned that the current way clinics dispose of fetal tissue (via hird-party special waste disposal service) could somehow expose the public to STDs and HIV. “What if one day something horrible escaped into the sewer system?” she said, eliciting chuckles from some in the crowd. She later reiterated her concern to an Austin Fox station.

Naturally, reproductive rights advocates have bristled at Everett’s well-funded role in the state’s new women’s healthcare program. “It’s very inappropriate that the state would contract with an organization that has never performed the services required by the contract,” Heather Busby, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said in a statement last week. “The Heidi Group is an anti-abortion organization; it is not a healthcare provider.” That state funding, Busby argues, should be going directly to medical providers who have experience providing family planning and preventive care services, not to “crisis pregnancy centers that already receive millions in state funding to coerce,

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shame and lie to Texans considering abortion care.”

Jeffrey Hons, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Texas called the Heidi Group’s award “outrageous.” He sent us this prepared statement: “The state of Texas has a terrible record on women’s health, making lousy decisions that have devastated women’s access to birth control and shut down family planning clinics across the state. Now this same Texas leadership is giving $1.7 million in family planning money to an organization that has never provided family planning AND is led by a woman who thinks you

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The feds have given a local research center with a history of Animal Welfare Act violations enough money to continue its tests on primates for the next five years.

This month, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute announced that the National Institutes of Health had awarded its Southwest National Primate Research Center more than $40 million “to continue research programs using nonhuman primates” through 2021. That’s despite a federal inspection report just earlier this year that cited the center in the death of an infant baboon and the injury of another female baboon. The center

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can get HIV or STDs from ground water because of fetal tissue disposal from abortions. This is happening at a time when half of Texas women have no access to OBGYN a new report shows and while the looming threat of Zika makes the need for real providers of family planning more urgent than ever. This is lunacy.”

When we asked the Texas Health and Human Services Commission what made Everett’s group qualified for such work, we got this response from spokesman Bryan Black: “Those who may be awarded grants include local health departments, medical schools, hospitals, private

was also cited for improper euthanasia methods, exceeding animal use limits for two projects, and filing incomplete reports with the USDA. Allegations of animal mistreatment have plagued the research center for years. In 2006, the center was cited for an incident in which veterinarians performed a necropsy on a baboon they didn’t know was still alive. Another USDA inspection in 2011 revealed incidents like a monkey escaping and dying of hypothermia during winter and baboons slipping their enclosures and injuring employees.

Animal welfare groups like the Humane Society of the United States have long argued there’s little incentive for labs like Southwest to clean up their act because the feds issue paltry fines for violations that appear to have no impact on the awarding of multi million-dollar research grants.

In 2011, the feds fined Southwest about $26,000 for three violations; that same year, the research center won a five-year $19 million NIH grant just for chimpanzee research alone.

The most recent violations cited in the USDA report earlier this year seem to underscore lingering problems the Humane Society noted in an undercover investigation in 2014. After a five-week investigation, an HSUS employee who worked as an animal caretaker at the lab claimed to have seen monkeys pulling out their hair, mothers separated from but housed near their infants (resulting in “constant cries from the infants and significant stress to the mothers”), and “stressed and underfed” baboons that had taken to eating rocks and feces.

HSUS also alleged “extensive fighting” within groups of primates resulting in serious injuries.

non-profit agencies and community and rural health centers. The Heidi Group has partnered with healthcare providers across the state to offer quality women’s healthcare services including family planning and birth control. The group’s proposal was one of the most robust of any of those who applied for the grants. The group’s services will cover more than 60 counties in seven regions through approximately 20 clinic sites.”

When we asked for a copy of the group’s proposal, Black kindly asked us to file an open records request (which is now, of course, pending approval by the agency).

The USDA then followed up with its own investigation and issued two citations against the lab. One was for a young male baboon who was “emaciated at the time of death and had multiple scabs from bite wounds on the body and a large abscess on the leg and ankle.” According to the June 2014 inspection report, the baboon was healthy before he was thrown into a new enclosure with “a large number of male baboons” three weeks before his death. Months later, according to another USDA inspection report, another juvenile baboon at the center was crushed to death by a cage door.

Texas Biomedical Research Institute spokeswoman Lisa Cruz told us the lab continues to look for ways to “enhance our facilities” for the sake of both animals at the center and the quality of the research programs there. “We work closely with regulatory agencies to determine best practices, and the Center has a long-standing commitment and track record of treating its animals humanely and with the highest regard for their well-being,” Cruz said. “That’s primary to having the NIH grant renewed.”

Still, Jennifer Ball, a senior program manager for animal research issues at HSUS, told the Current she’s “disappointed” the feds continue to fund a center that as recently as January 2016 was accused of multiple animal welfare violations.

“We would like to see the USDA take meaningful enforcement actions against Texas Biomed, especially given the severity and long term nature of the problems there,” she told us via email. “Just a slap on the wrist is clearly not going to fix the problems. Thus far, no enforcement actions have been taken but we are continuing to push for them.”

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Even the most seasoned foodies can lose sight of what’s important during Culinaria’s San Antonio Restaurant Week.

One big, wine-filled dinner at the beginning of the week could easily derail what should be two weeks’ worth of lunching and dining at new/favorite eateries for a good cause.

Background for the newbies: Held twice a year, Restaurant Week serves as one of the major fundraisers for Culinaria, which uses the funds for The Farm, a soon-to-be-completed educational farm that’s tricked out with several growing practices. Planting will start in two weeks with help from the MIT City Farm and the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

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which will share new planting and growing techniques.

Restaurants participating in Restaurant Week donate either $1 for lunch and $2 for dinner from each meal sold.

But before you get to eatin’, you’ll need a game plan. Here’s a few ways to make the most of #SARW. Do Your Homework: According to Culinaria President / CEO Suzanne Taranto Etheredge, chefs will likely test new menu items during these two weeks. Lüke’s John Russ shared his staff has been tweaking recipes for SARW for a few weeks now.

Familiarize yourself with the restaurant’s regular menu and then study the 100-plus options on Culinaria’s website.

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Set a Schedule: Maybe you love steak, but it’d be foolish to eat regularly sized portions of beef at Bob’s Steak and Chop House, Fogo de Chao Brazilian Steakhouse, J-Prime Steakhouse, Texas de Brazil, Kirby’s Steakhouse, Morton’s Steakhouse, Perry’s or all three Ruth’s Chris Steak House locations participating in a matter of nights.

Instead, plan for variety.

Grab vegan eats at La Botanica one night, or über locally sourced fare at The Clean Plate the next. Don’t limit yourself to New American, either.

There’s Mexican, Southern, seafood, sushi, Italian, and more to try.

Reservations are Key: Just as you’re putting in the work

of combing through menus, and budgeting for three-course lunches and dinners, chefs have been planning for Restaurant Week for, well, weeks. Call in reservations and shorten your wait time at popular joints, especially during Friday and Saturday nights. Waiting only makes people hangry.

Expand Your Footprint: The best part of Restaurant Week is that it allows for exploration without an expensive investment. With Tier 1 restaurants offering a $15 lunch and $35 dinner and Tier 2 joints keeping things downright cheap with a $10 lunch and $25 dinner, patrons can feasibly enjoy several lunches or a few dinners without breaking the bank.

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cracklin’ chicken with corn cakes and sweet peaches.

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Do San Antonio Restaurant Week right by visiting the Alamo City’s star chefs, finding the best menu items or scoring the best three-course savings.

Lüke's tuna and eggplant starter

Loopland, there’s something in here for you, too. Sustenio’s modern Texan menu looks formidable and the Eilan as backdrop make this a fabulous dinner.

Four words: Pimento cheese and chicharrones.

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J-Prime Steakhouse

▶ Bliss

Definitely file this one under special night out. Chef Mark Bliss, a San Antonio staple, and his staff bring out restaurant favorites including the hamachi tostada and George’s Bank sea scallops. Don’t miss the flourless chocolate cake with sweet corn gelato.

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Boiler House Texas Grill & Wine Garden

▼ Kimura

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A regular visit to Kimura will usually set us back at least $20 and that’s not counting parking. During these magical weeks, you can sneak in for lunch and order cucumber sunomono, charred edamame and spicy miso ramen with bok choy for $15. It’s a metropolitan lunch on a budget. Don’t miss the katsudon for dinner.

152 E. Pecan S., Suite 102 (210) 444-0702 • kimurasa.com

▶ Lüke San Antonio

There are several reasons we chose Lüke SA as our cover restaurant.

Namely, chef John Russ usually pulls all the tops when it comes to restaurant week. Stop in for choice of chargrilled eggplant with blackfin tuna (we tasted the dish during our cover shoot and it’s a winner) or Texas white potato gnocchi with Louisiana crab (and truffles!), Nola-style barbecue shrimp or jambalaya-stuffed pork chop and their legendary desserts a la mode.

125 E. Houston St. • (210) 227-5853 lukesanantonio.com

Perry’s Steakhouse You better take it easy during the day because you know you want to try that famous pork chop for dinner. If you’re not feeling the swine, choose from the 6-ounce filet Perry with jumbo lump crabmeat or the grilled salmon.

15900 La Cantera Pkwy., Suite 2200 (210) 558-6161 • perryssteakhouse.com

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Whether you’re going for lunch or dinner, chef Jeff White is likely going to wow you with what’s on deck. The dinner menu features your choice of crispy pork risotto, catfish and grits or

An off-shoot of Chama Gaucha, this local steakhouse can be filed under the Total Steal category if you’re planning to go during Restaurant Week. The menu includes lobster bisque, filet mignon and chocolate torte as options.

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Restaurant Gwendolyn Whatever’s on the three-course menu at Gwendolyn will likely be a hit. The restaurant takes recipes from the 1800s, updates them with modern techniques and no electrical appliances for an outstanding experience every time. 152 E. Pecan St., Suite 100 (210) 222-1849 restaurantgwendolyn.com

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FOODIES PICK ≥ Shuck Shack Seafood is expensive, y’all. Any way you slice it, an awesome time at Shuck Shack will cost you. Make it out for dinner for your choice of oysters, hushpups or deviled eggs, chilled corn and lobster bisque, Shack salad or shrimp cocktail and choice of half a lobster roll, market fish and chips or lump crab salad sandwich. You’re making off like a pirate.

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Chef Emiliano Marentes has wowed us before during Culinaria’s Festival Week with tiny quail egg sliders and

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No, the parrillada isn’t on the menu, but you’re still getting a great deal at El Machito with its $10 lunch for its ensalada de la casa, cecina or chicken torta and pastel de elote with guava sauce and berries. For dinner, the menu features a mini tuna ceviche tostada, double-cut

Frenched pork chop enchilada with the pastel de elote.

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Smoke The Restaurant Do you love mini chiles rellenos?

Do you love burgers? Are you into floats? These questions basically answer themselves. Lunch at Smoke will set you back all of $10 and the $25 dinner includes a chicken and apple sausage corndog, smoked beef rib with Texas barbecue glaze, burnt end beans and coleslaw and finally a whoopie ice cream sandwich with cream cheese ice cream. Check out the new Sunset Station location while you’re at it.

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The kitchen staff at Southerleigh doesn’t disappoint. Their firstweek menu includes choice of gulf Bluefin tuna in a jar, smoked meatloaf with roasted tomato jam and jalapeño grits or long-stewed chicken and dumplings for lunch.

At dinner the choices get even more luxurious with choice of panfried pork schnitzel with brewery sauerkraut mushroom gravy, lightly grilled gulf grouper with smoked green tomato butter or blackened grass-fed beef culotte.

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legitimately delicious vegan (gasp) tacos. The menu includes several odes to Hoppy Monk's Mexican heritage with a tlayuda (black garlic tortilla with black bean puree, crispy shimeji and hen of the woods mushrooms, roasted calabazitas, quesillo Oaxaca, grilled avocado and dehydrated grasshoppers) along with choice of half roasted chicken on ‘shrooms or lamb belly porchetta. Pair these great dishes with equally awesome brews available at the pub.

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How do you train for Culinaria’s Restaurant Week? Well, start by eating at all of the city’s best eateries on the regular like the Instagram foodies featured here. We asked where they’re heading this #SARW and here’s what’s on their lists:

@safood.e: Def Alchemy because I love how creative they get with their menus and I can’t wait to see what they dish out for rest week. Also Sukeban because I’m going through this weird phase where all I want is sushi, and I’ve never been here, so it just feels neccessary @sanantonioexplorer: Always @Brigid @satx_eats: Pretty excited to experience Botika!

Haven’t been yet, looking forward to it. @detiveaux: Def Alchemy, Nectar and Luke will be visited by me! @kimmyluvsfood: This is hard... it’s like picking a favorite child... I imagine La Frite for lunch because it’s such a good deal and the mussels are always on point and Luke because I like that chef always makes something really special for RW @eat_it_b: We use Restaurant Week for two purposes: to try a someplace new or to hit up a place our wallets otherwise usually keep us away from.

Bliss, Silo Oyster Terrace, and Restaurant Gwendolyn are on our list for the latter reason, and this year we’re trying out Botika, Sukeban, and Smoke at Sunset Station for the former! @s.a.vortooth: I will be eating at La Frite. Their mussels and fries are amazing. This is a great chance for foodies to try their offerings. With so many great things about Citrus, i will be trying it out. The Pork Tomahawk and the duck sound delicious from their menu. sacurrent.com • August 17—23, 2016 • CURRENT 19

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The Foreigner

◀ Likened by theater critic Ben Brantley to “a Beverly Hillbillies or Green Acres episode with a social conscience,” The Foreigner is one of two enduring farces left behind by Larry Shue, a playwright and actor who died in a 1985 plane crash at age 39. Only slightly lesser known than his slapstick, dinner-party comedy The Nerd, the Obie Award-winning play follows tragically shy British proofreader Charlie Baker to a rural fishing lodge in Georgia where he masquerades as a foreigner from an exotic locale. Although introduced by his pal “Froggy” LeSeuer in hopes of sparing him from having to talk to strangers, Charlie’s purported otherness only gets him closer to the assembled oddballs and rednecks, their dark secrets and a plot to convert the lodge into a stomping ground for the Ku Klux Klan. Ken Frazier and Dylan Brainard co-direct Jared Stephens and Michael Burger in The Vex’s production. $16-$22, 7:30pm Thu, 8pm Sat, 2:30pm Sun, Barshop Jewish Community Center, Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Hwy. (210) 302-6835, vexler.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

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◀ Presenting a fresher and more feminine aesthetic than the other sweaty bros over at the totally bodacious Burger Records, The Aquadolls, fronted by founder Melissa Brooks, is a totally Orange County, grunge-glam/surf-pop outfit — and most likely the exact thing that’s been missing in your life. Though the group hasn’t released any new music since 2013’s raunchy, fun and fuzzy Stoked on You, Brooks and company come to San Antonio as part of their first national tour and, presumably, in preparation to take over the whole world. If you like your garage rock with a Cali sheen and a poppy wink, all stressed out on tie-dye, then you’ll wanna catch Melissa Brooks and the Aquadolls. Local grunge punk outfit Whatever? and young Chicago electro-indie artist Storm Calysta round out the bill. $10, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersa.com. — James Courtney

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Jayme Lynn Blaschke ◀ Hailed as “the best account of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ever written,” Jayme Lynn Blaschke’s Inside the

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Texas Chicken Ranch delivers much more than its title suggests — diving into the history of prostitution and brothels in the Lone Star State in the process of building a compelling portrait of “that home out on the range” immortalized in ZZ Top’s 1973 classic “La Grange.” Informed by oral histories, extensive research and interviews the author conducted with legendary madam Edna Milton Chadwell, the 336-page book debunks myths and rumors that swirl around the iconic brothel and its origin story, yet presents them as vivid little folktales. Although it devotes an entire chapter to Marvin Zindler, the KTRK consumer affairs reporter who eventually brought the Chicken Ranch to a halt in 1973, no one can upstage Chadwell, whose disarming wit shines through everything from her official Chicken Ranch Rules and Regulations for Boarders to the bawdy jokes and raunchy rhymes she employed to break the ice and cut through “testosterone-fueled tension.” On Friday, The Twig hosts a reading with Blaschke, who directs the Office of Media Relations at Texas State University. Free, 6-8pm, The Twig, 306 Pearl Pkwy., (210) 826-6411, thetwig.com. — BR

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◀ Afro-Cuban often serves as a catchall, a placeholder to describe any advertently Latin or particularly rhythmic sound. Pedrito Martinez, as it turns out, is exactly who the term exists for. Born into Havana’s Cayo Hueso neighborhood, he adopted the West African bata drum in service of the conga and rumba rhythms churning throughout the city’s streets. Since relocating to New York, he’s expanded even beyond that blend, working his percussion touch into the bands of Paul Simon, Eddie Palmieri and even Bruce Springsteen. Since striking out on his own with the Pedrito Martinez Group, he’s further pushed the limits of the Afro-Cuban sound, blending jazz, blues, flamenco and a whole list of other styles that would make NPR commentators swoon. Now the percussionist, bandleader and occasional vocalist will bring his Grammy-nominated group to the the Guadalupe’s stage on Saturday, playing behind their excellent sophomore release Havana Dreams from earlier this year. $19-$79, 7:30pm, Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 226-2891, artssa.org. — J.D. Swerzenski COURTESY OF SARAH COLONNA

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◀ In the foreward for comic Sarah Colonna’s first book Life As I Blow It, Chelsea Handler calls Colonna (who worked for several years on Chelsea Lately) “probably the funniest person I know.” In a blurb for that same book, Juno and Young Adult scribe Diablo Cody calls Colonna “one of the best comic storytellers we’ve got.”

On the other hand, Colonna, not two pages into said memoir, calls herself “a fucking mess,” a perspective that seems not to have changed much, judging by the literal cry-for-help titles of last year’s follow-up Has Anyone Seen My Pants? or stand-up special I Can’t Feel My Legs. Oprah fans looking for the secret to a life well-lived should probably look elsewhere, but Chelsea Lately fans looking for tales from a life lived interestingly are in for a crazy night full of stories about significantly crazier nights. $16, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, 7pm Sun, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, lolsanantonio.com. — Jeremy Martin

◀ It has been over a year since Texas-born comedian Cristela Alonzo’s self-titled ABC sitcom Cristela was cancelled after only one season. Not only was Alonzo the star of the show, she was also the creator, writer and executive producer, so the cancellation was extremely personal. “Since the show was named after me, the first thing I thought about was how I let the cast and crew down,” Alonzo wrote in her blog a few days after she found out her series was cut. “I thought to myself, ‘I should’ve done more to promote the show. I could’ve done more.’”

Alonzo, however, had done plenty, including becoming the

first Mexican American woman ever to create, produce, write, and star in her own U.S. network TV show and doing it on her own terms. “Whether this show fails or succeeds, I want to do it my way and make sure I did everything I could to keep it authentic,” Alonzo told the Current in 2014 prior to the show’s debut. Since then, Alonzo has released her first stand-up CD through Comedy Central, guest hosted on The View and voiced an avian grandma in The Angry Birds Movie. $29.75, 7pm & 10pm, Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 226-5700, majesticempire.com. – Kiko Martínez

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▶ By nature of being generally older Cuban-born musicians, both Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa are often grouped as ambassadors of the classic Cubano sound most popularly kept aflame by Buena Vista Social Club. What might separate the two is sheer duration. Many Buena Vista members had to come out of retirement to perform again, and, as a result, their style often represented a time capsule of a once forgotten era. Yet both Portuondo and Ochoa have been performing steadily since the outbreak of WWII, resulting in a wonderfully wide-reaching body of work adopting more steadily to different eras of the Cuban sound. Portuondo has lent her works to jazz, son cubano, and, most famously, boleros, as captured on her best-known song “Donde Estabas Tu?” Ochoa’s guitar work and rich baritone have best served to spread the son cubano sound worldwide. Together, there are perhaps no better tour guides to showcase the sound of Cuba past and present. $34.50-$150, 8pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — JDS

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▲ The 1967 graduating class of Inglewood, California’s Morningside High School voted Vicki Lawrence “Most Likely to Succeed,” but they couldn’t possibly have guessed the form this success would take. After Lawrence sent San Antonio-born comedian Carol Burnett a local newspaper article pointing out the resemblence between the two women, Lawrence was cast to play Burnett’s younger sister on the now-classic Carol Burnett Show, which she did for years, but Lawrence most famously played Burnett’s

mother in a series of sketches that was later adapted into the TV show Mama’s Family. That’s of course leaving out the part in 1972 when Lawrence topped the music charts with “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” a musical murder mystery penned by her then-husband Bobby Russell. Considering the career she’s had, a solo “two-woman” show makes about as much sense as anything else, but Lawrence, in a press release, cautions: “My show is not a retrospective. It is a mixture of standup comedy, music and my observations about real life ... new material with a more modern and cutting edge.” She also says to “expect the unexpected” but the seniors at Morningside High could’ve told you that. $24.50-$49.50, 7pm Sun, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 2238624, tobincenter.org. — JM

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San Antonio Reggae Festival ▲ Fun fact: before Oprah and Deepak Chopra, people just smoked weed and listened to reggae music when they were searching for self-help. Anyway, that’s only kinda related to the San Antonio Reggae Festival (not to be confused with BobFest, fka Marley Fest) because the devil’s grass isn’t legal in Texas and everyone always follows the law because it always makes total sense. At any rate, the fest promises family-friendly fun centered on reggae music and the rich cultural heritage that surrounds it. The musical lineup, featuring several prominent reggae and dancehall acts, is topped by Jamaican veteran Sister Nancy and extremely promising Dominican artist Aima Moses. Rounding out the bill are Jahdan Blakkamoore, Shanead (pictured) and The Skunk Brothers, among others, including DJs between sets. The event will also feature food trucks, assorted vendors, and a special children’s area. Canned donation benefit the San Antonio Food Bank. $15-$20, 3-11pm, Rosedale Park, 340 Dartmouth St., (210) 980-5634. — JC

◀ Launched by Tokyo-based architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in 2003 and now a global phenomenon practiced in 900plus cities, PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) follows a simple premise: creative professionals show 20 slides for 20 seconds each during presentations lasting six minutes and 40 seconds. Active since 2011, the local chapter returns to the Empire Theatre for its 23rd program, presented in partnership with the Las Casas Foundation. Emceed by Emmy-winning news anchor Randy Beamer, the enlightening evening shines a light on the endeavors of poet Barbara Ras, auctioneer Robert Vogt, “birth guy” Brian Salmon, urban farmer Lorie Solis, “yogipreneur” Kristal Cuevas, musician Kory Cook, chef Zach Garza and visual artist Jeremiah Teutsch. $5 suggested donation, happy hour with small bites and cash bar at 6:30pm, presentations at 7:30pm, Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 226-3333, pechakucha.org/cities/san-antonio. — BR

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FILM SAY Sí Student Film Showcase Young

filmmakers enrolled in SAY Sí’s Media Arts Studio showcase three short narrative films along with a series of digital shorts created in partnership with Project Papalote, a global initiative that connects students from creative organizations around the world. $5, 7-9pm Wednesday; Santikos Northwest 14, 7600 I-10 W., (210) 212-8666.

THEATER Evita The Woodlawn brings Andrew Lloyd

Webber’s award-winning musical Evita to its stage under the direction of Christopher Rodriguez and Josh Pepper. Controversially immortalized in a film starring Madonna in the title role, Evita chronicles the life of the charismatic first lady of Argentina, Eva Perón, who rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful voice for change in Argentine politics. The musical follows her trajectory from a young starlet in Buenos Aires to a vice presidential candidate, underpinning her story with a score inflected by jazz, pop and Latin music. $17-$26, 7:30pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

Ghostbears Set in his home state of

Wisconsin, Eric Appleton’s Ghostbears follows Ted Meriwether, a “burly, bearded” guy who ditches his condo and buys an old house in the middle of “rural nowhere” after getting dumped by his longtime boyfriend. Beyond the distractions of a pregnant pizza delivery girl and a potential new bear boyfriend, Meriwether’s newfound country life gets disrupted when paranormal investigators barge into his purportedly haunted house in search of an axe-wielding ghost and a “devil baby.” $10-$15, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden St., (210) 557-7562.

Menopause the Musical Billed as “a

celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived The Change,” Menopause the Musical follows four women who meet by chance at a lingerie sale and form a sisterhood after bonding over hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles and weight gain. $21.20-$74.50, 8pm Friday; Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624.

COMEDY Mitch Fatel Likened to the bastard spawn of

Howie Mandell and Steven Wright, stand-up Mitch Fatel is known for sex-centric comedy that balances perversion and childlike innocence. $20, 8:30pm Thursday, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Improv Comedy Club, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 229-1420.

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Ballet Folklorico de Navarro The beloved

local troupe’s 26th annual recital showcases traditional dances from across Mexico set to live music by Mariachi Los Galleros de San Antonio. $10, 7-10pm Saturday; La Villita, Arneson River Theatre, 418 Villita St., (210) 286-6924.

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only ReDo series returns with a summer camp-themed evening combining s’mores, cocktails, a photo booth, an open mic for ghost stories, campy crafts and nostalgic activities like “pie in the face.” $18-$20, 6-9pm Friday; The DoSeum, 2800 Broadway, (210) 212-4453.

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Two Sisters and a Piano Set in Cuba circa

1991, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz’s Two Sisters and a Piano focuses on siblings Maria and Sofia as they adjust to a sentence of permanent house arrest, exploring the subtleties of how life and love are affected by a suffocating regime. Omar Leos directs Maria Ibarra, Ailyn Duran, Victor Trevino and Paul Ramos in The Playhouse’s production. $12$30, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

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Published in April by Johns Hopkins University Press, Danté Fenolio’s Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth reads like an unlikely cross between a deeply informative — yet easily digested — textbook and a slick coffee table book of obscure wildlife photography. With chapters dedicated to the deep sea, freshwater habitats, fossorial wildlife and subterranean life, the book represents collaborations with ecologists, naturalists, biologists, conservationists and others who’ve facilitated Fenolio’s worldwide expeditions in search of some of the planet’s most elusive inhabitants.

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most bizarre examples are female anglerfish and dragonfish — otherworldly specimens that deftly attract prey with a fishing-polelike apparatus comprised of a long dorsal protrusion that dangles a lure filled with bioluminescent bacteria. Also known as “cold light,” the phenomenon of bioluminescence and photophores (light-producing organs that facilitate hunting, recognition and even hiding in plain sight) is perhaps the most visually fascinating aspect of how certain fish have evolved and adapted to life in lightless habitats.

After captivating readers through six photofilled chapters, Fenolio gets to the heart of his work — conservation. “I have struggled mightily to understand why so many humans cannot see the irreparable damage we are doing to the environment,” he writes. “It should come as no surprise … that many of of the species depicted in this book are encountering serious problems. Deep-sea species face contamination from things like oil spills, a never-ending rain of human trash, and damage from destructive fishing practices.” For those not concerned by environmental destruction and vanishing species, Fenolio makes a case for the importance of biodiversity in the future of modern medicine: “While I’d much prefer not to express the value of biodiversity in terms of human gain, it is the only argument some

people will accept.” Likening poison frogs to a “pharmaceutical treasure chest well worth keeping around,” Fenolio explains the promising role amphibian skin secretions could play in treating human disease, including antibioticresistant bacterial strains, cancer, HIV and chronic pain. Although some of these froggy secretions are already in testing and trial

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phases, creating new medicines from natural extracts is a lengthy, costly process, and at least one-third of the world’s amphibian species are in decline or have disappeared.

In his closing passage, Fenolio explains that Life in the Dark is not just a showcase of the biodiversity of darkness but an urgent call to action: “My closing message is a request, a plea really, that we not only marvel at life’s wonder, but also do our part to preserve it. Your contribution to conservation, whatever it may be, will pay dividends for generations to come.”

Facing page, clockwise from top left: three varieties of firefish; the predatory Fangtooth; the lizard-like Waryfish; the Orchid Dottyback and the Bicolor Dottyback. This page from left to right: the Royal Gramma, the Blue-Striped Dottyback, the aptly named Dumbo Octopod; the Cockatoo Squid; Johnson’s Abyssal Seadevil.

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Raised among wildlife enthusiasts and armed with degrees from University of California Santa Cruz, University of Oklahoma and University of Miami, Fenolio worked as an amphibian conservation scientist and curator at the Atlanta Botanical Garden before signing on as vice president of conservation and research at the San Antonio Zoo, which helped fund some of the work collected in Life in the Dark .

Rather than presenting itself as an exhaustive examination of every creature living in a lightless environment (“A more comprehensive undertaking would be beyond the scope of a book of photographs,” the author admits), Life in the Dark relies on succinct passages and the strengths of Fenolio’s captivating — and at times haunting — images.

Through crystal-clear visions of creatures clad in both flamboyant neon skins and prehistoric-looking camouflage getups, biodiversity takes center stage in a dramatic fashion — even if readers ignore the words and absorb the images simply as an impressive body of artwork. And while it digs deep into caves, termite mounds, cracks in the earth and even under our own skin to shed light on everything from parasites to subterranean salamanders, deep-sea dwellers emerge as the beautiful, strange and even terrifying stars of the show. Standing out among the

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RICHARD ASTE

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As previously reported, the McNay Art Museum has concluded its year-long effort to replace retiring director (of 25 years) William J. Chiego.

In selecting Richard Aste — who comes to us with 15 years of curating experience from the Brooklyn Museum and the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico — the McNay has put itself in a great position to continue the impressive and community-uplifting growth it enjoyed under Chiego’s tenure.

Aste, a third-generation Latin American whose family emigrated to Miami when he was very young, got his PhD in art history the City University of New York and has earned a reputation as an inclusivity-minded, socially conscious curator, art historian and cultural leader. He’s studied psychology, he’s taught college classes, he’s curated ground-breaking exhibits, he’s spearheaded successful community outreach programs (particularly in Brooklyn), he’s lived the immigrant experience, he’s been a part of a minority-majority (in Miami), and he’s been a part of a minority (as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor). In short, Aste is a dynamic individual, uniquely suited for an important cultural position in a world breaking apart at the seams from ignorance, intolerance and a lack of empathetic (or critical) thinking.

We recently sat down with Aste at the McNay and, as if he didn’t have an extremely involved and important job to be preparing for, asked him all about his past, his passions, and what he hopes to bring to the museum. > Tell me a bit about your childhood, especially ways in which it ties into your endeavors in the art world. I grew up in between cultures, in between worlds. I descend from Europeans who crossed the

Atlantic in the 19th century and came to Latin America.

And there, they redefined themselves as Peruvian or Chilean or Bolivian. I’m third-generation Latin American.

Then my family and I emigrated from Peru to Miami when I was only 1 [year old]. At that point, my brother and I added a third culture to our identity: the United States. And, we just lived somewhere in between these three cultures. We learned early on that the world is very broad and expansive and that identity is really complicated. I had moments growing up of feeling excluded, feeling other or exotic. And that is something that really informs what I do today ... I don’t come from privilege; my parents were both airline industry people.

But, they were committed to taking advantage of the traveling opportunities that offered. We were able to travel for free all over the world and my mother in particular, who is a real culture vulture, was very keen on educating my brother and me through immersion into world cultures. So, every summer, when my brother and I really wanted to go to summer camps with all of our friends, we instead spent the summers in Africa, or in Europe, or Latin America. As a result of that, we spent a great deal of time in museums and I never felt unwelcomed. > What do you see as the biggest value for people in viewing and engaging with art in our contemporary world? Engaging with a work of art is getting to know yourself. When you stand in front of a work, you aren’t just seeing material; you are seeing social deposits of everything that came before. A work of art is very powerful because it has a life. It is a two-way conversation that we have with artworks. It is important to slow down and witness that moment

firsthand, because we are constantly bombarded by too much stimuli. That’s why art in an art museum can be so powerful and transformative. And, I think, generally speaking, we all need to slow down sometimes. > What do you see as your foremost intellectual quest in your work? I really want for the visitor, in particular, to be able to think big as a result of coming here and engaging with the work we have up in the galleries ... I want to combine scholarship with accessibility, without ever having to sacrifice scholarship. What I find the most thrilling is taking something very complicated and historical and making it relevant today. Bridging that gap is a thrill ... For 15 years as a curator, I have had the privilege of telling stories with great works of art. I have been engaging in narratives that were politically driven, that were socially responsible, and that were aesthetically excellent. There are so many stories one can tell as a curator. I was most passionate as a curator, and I will bring this with me to the McNay, about back-dating globalization and reminding our visitors and this city that it wasn’t the internet that brought us together for the first time, that we’ve been interconnected as global cultures since the late 15th century. > What are some of your goals as director of the McNay? My very first goal is to build on [Chiego’s] legacy and continue to expand on his (our) core value, which is making these world-class collections at the McNay accessible and breaking down social barriers so that no one coming into this building, or even onto this campus, ever has to ask, “Is this place for me?” I want to make sure everyone feels at home here and that everyone feels welcomed and positive about their experience here. That sincere desire will drive me, as it did [Chiego], in all that I do here. I want to bring in exhibitions that are culturally relevant and speak to the interests of every San Antonian. This is an incredibly diverse community, which is, in fact, one of the reasons I came here. > Do you see yourself as in this for the long haul, like your predecessor? Absolutely. For the great ideas that any director brings to an institution, it requires years and years of planning and execution. To come and have a very brief tenure in a position like this is not productive, it’s not valuable and it’s not inspiring to the visitors. I am very committed to a long-term investment here. And, I pretty much felt at home in this museum and this city as soon as I first came. sacurrent.com • August 17—23, 2016 • CURRENT 31

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Though he’s been gone for more than 22 years, there hasn’t yet been an authorized expository documentary about iconic 20th-century musician and composer Frank Zappa. It’s a surprise; Zappa selfdocumented thoroughly and won over rabid fans, not to mention a cult following equally divided among rock, jazz and classical musicians.

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words is not that expository documentary. (Look for Alex Winters to potentially get there first with his forthcoming crowd-funded Who the F*@% Is Frank Zappa.)

Instead, German documentarian Thorsten Schütte briskly and chronologically edits Zappa’s interviews to create a doc that’s closer to a DVD commentary track than a rounded-out artist’s story. But if you are a Zappa freak, plan a visit to the Bijou this week.

Zappa was a bankable fly-in-the-ointment interview whether on radio, television or, most famously, in Congressional testimony. As a TV-watching child, I remember worrying that Muhammad Ali was going to cause grievous bodily harm to Howard Cosell during their contentious late-’60s interviews. But from an adult’s perspective, it’s clear these were two fine theater actors at work, displaying a genius symbiosis. The same could be said of Zappa’s televised and broadcast interviews of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Zappa shows up, the cameras roll and an almost inevitable pugilism between interviewer and interviewee proceeds. The interviewers are either

incapable of corralling the friction and volatility of Zappa’s answers or they are, with some guile, lighting the fire just as Cosell did, poking at the societal defaults that predictably made Zappa contort and report. Many of the interviews play like conversational grindcore — truculence branded with a scowl and an iconic mustache, soul patch and stringy black hair. It’s a good show for everyone.

So why would a musician who largely invented a new branch of the rock family tree try to explain his singularity to interviewers? At the beginning of the movie, Zappa states, “In order to do press, there’s no way that I can sit here and be a normal human, because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition.”

The possible answer to why he submitted might appear when Zappa speaks in the early 1980s about traveling abroad to realize his self-funded classical recordings with Kent Nagano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. It required cash on the barrelhead for him to produce these noncommercial works, and he needed to do press as both the invested producer and the talent. If the outcome of Zappa’s near-Inquisition experiences were fraught and often funny, so be it — more of a chance the recordings might be purchased by a wider audience made curious by this turbulent weirdo.

A highlight: Zappa’s statements at the 1985 Parents

Music Resource Center hearing in the U.S. Senate.

The man who mainstreamed a fusion of rock, R&B, 20th-century classical, jazz, advanced improvisational schemes and musique concréte-styled tape editing also wrote some of the era’s rawest descriptions of the athletic exploits of the 1970s sexual revolution. These were florid operating manuals firing the imaginations of primarily young men not yet fully in the game. But obscenity was a construct of religious leaders, in Zappa’s view. His appearance at the PMRC Senate hearing, humorously squaring off with Senator Paula “The Battling Maitland Housewife” Hawkins (as well as with one Albert Gore Jr.) made for good product placement for all involved.

Without any added narration, director Schütte still manages to offer commentary on both the mainstream and the wide-open counterculture of three differently turbulent decades in Eat That Question. And look out for his editing in what seems to be the lone emotional glass-jaw moment for Frank Zappa, when the musician goes HAM on the false fans of his early, revelatory Mothers of Invention albums who didn’t follow his later rock band-centric works. That one is for the fans.

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> I hate waiting. I especially hate waiting for cookies, but like most Girl Scout cookie-obsessed humans, I’ll have to wait until next year to get my hands on the latest from all those mini boss girls.

To celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Girl Scout Cookie Program, the largest girl-led business on the globe (side note: who run the world?), the organization is introducing a new s’mores cookie during the 2017 cookie season. The sandwich cookie will feature creamy chocolate and marshmallow fillings.

Coincidentally, campfire must-have s’mores were first introduced in the 1927 Girl Scout Handbook, so really it’s all coming full circle.

If you can’t wait to eat s’mores and would rather not mess with packing up a tent and all that mess, you can enjoy s’mores at Halcyon, Piatti (both of which you can fire up your own using a mini hibachi grill), Chocollazo (which carries s’mores on-the-go), Delice Chocolatier (which carries them in cookie form) and Grayze, which offers s’mores in a jar for dessert.

the Denver-based restaurant chain, which also has locations in California and Arizona, has signed a lease in the Quarry for a 4,700-square-foot space. This marks the restaurant’s third location in Texas, with recent openings in Austin and Houston.

You can expect to find the classics like omelets, breakfast tacos and pancakes, as well as sweet A.M. dishes, morning cocktails and lots and lots of coffee.

Oh, and the best part? Breakfast is served up all day.

An opening date has yet to be announced, so stay tuned and stay hungry.

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More breakfast

> Get ready for a new breakfast spot, San Antonio.

Snooze: an A.M. Eatery is about to hit the scene and they’re bringing all the brunch favorites with them.

First reported by the San Antonio Business Journal,

> Fans of Chocollazo Chocolate Trolley will be pumped to know that the popular food trailer now has a brick-and-mortar home to call its own at the Boardwalk on Broadway. Chocollazo was previously featured in an episode of Cooking Channel’s Eat St. Housed inside a former hair salon, Chocollazo’s new location is just over 1,000 square-feet of sweet goodness enveloped in a bright white boutique feel.

There’s a small seating area, a wall’s worth of assorted candies (there’s a gummy rat and a gummy personalsize pizza among other things), a Häagen-Dazs ice cream case, truffle case and baked dessert display.

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Goodbye, Gallo

> Sad news, pizza lovers. Gallo Pizzeria (164 Castroville Road, 210-264-0077) will close its doors next month.

The West Side shop which opened in 2011 is known among other things for it’s insanely hot ghost pepper pie, and it’s funky topping art. In 2011, critic Ron Bechtol was able to handle the heat. Here’s what he had to say: “The ghost chile is the piccolo over the bassoon of bready crust and melty cheese, and, yes, it’s picoso. But I didn’t really notice the Diablo sauce — or the other chiles, for that matter — and finished all 16 square inches without embarrassing myself.”

Owner Stephanie McMillan says the pizzeria will remain open for a few more weeks through early September when they’ll host a farewell party. We’ll keep you posted on a date for the last pizza bash.

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CHARLIE’S LONG BAR “TAP OUT” EVENT: AUGUST 18, CHARLIE’S LONG BAR AT THE HYATT REGENCY HILL COUNTRY RESORT AND SPA (9800 HYATT RESORT DR.), 5 – 8 P.M. You are invited to join us for a “Tap Out” event in Charlie’s Long Bar at Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa! Enjoy locally crafted Texas beers on tap from our partners Independence and Ranger Creek Brewing Companies. Plus, enjoy no cover, $5 drafts, complimentary warm fresh pretzels with delicious beer cheese, an enter-to-win drawing and free self-parking.

20 YEARS OF REAL ALE: AUGUST 20, THE HOPPY MONK (1010 N. LOOP 1604 E.), 4:20-11:00PM Blanco’s Real Ale Brewing Company will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at a sweet party hosted by The Hoppy Monk. All the brewery’s hits will be offered. Live music from The Spiders will begin at 7:00pm and patrons will have the option of purchasing a flight of Real Ale’s Sisyphus line of brews.

HATCH CHILE COOKOUT: AUGUST 21, THE GROWLER EXCHANGE (8313 BROADWAY ST.), 2:00-5:00PM It’s that time of year where the hatch chili has come out to play! Few things go better with the chili than beer, so that is why The Growler Exchange will be hosting a hatch cookout (loaded potatoes, burgers, sandwiches, and more) and pairing the grub with No Label Brewing Company’s What the Hatch What pale ale.

YOGA. BEER. BASEBALL: AUGUST 26, NELSON W. WOLFF MUNICIPAL STADIUM (5757 W. US HIGHWAY 90), 6:00-9:00PM The San Antonio Missions baseball club teams up with M.I.X. Fit SA to provide a fun and unique BACK 2 SCHOOL Yoga + BEER + Baseball experience to close out the summer break. Join the party as the Missions take on the Frisco RoughRiders. This pre-game, on-field yoga session followed by UNLIMITED beer and a ballpark buffet in the reserved seating Corona Cantina. The cost is $55 for a single ticket and $95 for a pair of tickets.

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San Antonians and tourists alike will soon be able to book a ride on one of the city’s first party bikes (the Local Crawler had a quiet launch earlier this year) when CycloSocial Co. launches in late August.

Set for an August 20 launch at Alamo Beer Co.’s beer hall, the company owned by friends and business partners Rafa Veraza and Juan Leon, who first had the idea in November.

“I had been on one in Nashville and thought it’d be cool to bring the concept to San Antonio,” Veraza said.

The pipe dream turned into reality after city council approved a new article in the City’s Code of Ordinances under transportation.

Under Chapter 33. Vehicles for Hire, Article III Group Cycle Services, CycloSocial Co. and Local Crawler are able to operate legally for a probationary six months.

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builds the group rides. The ride is pretty sweet, even for this non-cyclist. It features a driver’s seat, 10 cycle seats, two lazy seats (for people like me) and a bench in the rear that easily fits three more riders. The 20-foot-long bike, picked up from St. Paul Minnesota this July, is equipped with cupholders, a keg-holder, tap system, bluetooth sound system and an e-assist electric motor in case the peddlers grow weary.

For now the service will be BYOB, but Veraza and Leon are hoping to work out sponsorship deals with local breweries. Tours will be two hours long, with stops at up to three bars.

Routes are still being tweaked but expect tours through Midtown, Southtown, Downtown and Dignowity Hill (which is an uphill climb, so happy cycling). Tours will likely start at $35 per person, but attendees who make it out to the launch will receive discounts on their first ride.

The official launch will take place Saturday, August 20 at Alamo Beer, 202 Lamar St. at 8 p.m.

2013 proved to be a landmark year for Texas breweries marking the first significant changes to the state’s beer laws since 1993 when brewpubs became legal. While production breweries, like San Antonio’s Branchline Brewing Co, gained the luxury of selling their brew onsite, under state law, visitors still couldn’t buy beer at the brewery and then take it home.

This week, Branchline Brewing announced that it had become the latest Texas production brewery to change to a brewpub license. This now common loophole in the State’s beer laws will allow Branchline to have onsite sales and “to-go sales” — that is, Branchline will now be able to sell their wares at the brewery as usual, and consumers can now take that beer home.

Branchline Brewing Co was founded in 2012

by Corpus Christi native Jason Ard, with brewing operations headed up by head brewer Paul Ford. They just celebrated their third official year this past January.

The brewery has its core linup: Evil Owl Amber, a malty American Amber Ale; Woodcutter Rye IPA, a hoppy, spiced IPA; and Shady Oak Blonde, a light and crisp Blonde Ale. But Branchline often treats its fans with small batch one-off beers, such as its Third Anniversary Cherry Tripel, at its open houses and regular tap room hours.

And with the change in licensing, comes a change in Branchline’s tap room hours. To commemorate this change, Branchline will be celebrating their new tap room with a grand opening on August 20 from 2 to 9 p.m. with special cask releases, as well as other small batch offerings. A special tap room exclusive bottle release will also make its debut on August 20. According to a statement from the brewery, “The beer, kept secret until the week before the launch, will be available to take home in 16.9-ounce specialty bottles, crowlers, and growlers. It is a new beer for Branchline, and is an addition to the River City Series of sour, specialty, and barrel aged beers.”

For those eager to take advantage of the change, you need not wait until the release and can head down to the brewery to purchase cans, bottles, growlers, and crowlers (large cans) to go, as well as still grabbing a seat and enjoying a pint or two in the tap room on Fridays from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 2 to 8 p.m.

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There’s a reason gin and tonic is the quintessential summer drink, and it’s not just the crisp, refreshing flavor: It prevents malaria.

Well, so thought the 19th-century British officers stationed in India who took to mixing their prescribed quinine (in the form of “tonic water”) with their daily ration of gin to make it more palatable.

It’s since been found that, though quinine is an effective prophylactic against malaria, the amount found in a typical cocktail or three’s worth of tonic water isn’t enough to be effective.

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I got around the problem of blending carbonated tonic water (not a good idea) by using a tonic syrup, commonly used by finicky mixologists who want to adjust bitterness levels to their exacting requirements. I added some simple syrup because frozen things always need the flavors bumped up (the colder the liquid, the less you can taste it, which is why you should definitely be suspicious of anything labeled “always serve chilled”).

And if you dread cleaning the blender jar after a party, remember: A standard Mason jar will fit right into your blender’s blade assembly, and serve as a classic summer glassware choice besides.

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Arranged by date (from early-September to earlyDecember), these shows are all in Texas (save one) and, taken as a whole, should provide something in line with almost everyone’s musical taste and on hand stash of gas money. (Note: yeah, we know we left off Austin City Limits Festival. You’ll be there. We know you will, for the love of Kendrick and Radiohead.)

Drake and Future

September 3 and 4 Toyota Center, Houston, TX Distance: 197 miles Why it’s worth it: Real talk: Drake can barely sing and he’s only a little bit better at rapping. However, like almost no one else before or since, Mr. Aubrey Graham has managed to parlay his charisma, style, and impeccable sense of who/what’s hot into one of the most massive pop careers in recent memory. And, what’s more to the point, dude is an outstanding showman, whose arsenal of undeniable hits could amplify the party in any drab arena. Drake, and his like-minded, similarly-styled tour mate Future, already stopped in Austin and Dallas on their Summer Sixteen Tour, but if you didn’t make it out to those shows, or simply must see the Canadian Casanova in the flesh again, we recommend a short jaunt to H-town. Get tickets at houstontoyotacenter.com.

Sun City Music Festival

September 3-4 Ascarate Park, El Paso, TX Distance: 552 miles Why it’s worth it: The Sun City Music Festival, held in El Paso’s scenic Ascarate Park, caters to fans of electronic dance music.

This year’s line-up, which boasts EDM heavyweights like Skrillex, Kascade, and The Chainsmokers (among plentiful others), is easily one of the best in the festival’s

six year history. It may be a bit of a hike, but if EDM music is your thing, this may be the shortest distance you could travel to experience such a gathering of talent and fandom alike. Go to suncitymusicfestival.com to find out more.

Dixie Chicks

September 10 Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, LA Distance: 544 miles Why it’s worth it: The Dixie Chicks are back damn it. Ten years after the formidable country trio said adios with its Grammywinning album Taking The Long Way, the girls have been playing shows and are rumored to be at work on new material. The Chicks, who famously experienced an incredible (and ridiculous) amount of flak for criticizing then-President George W. Bush, are consummate performers, world-class songwriters, and one of the most dynamic and important country music acts of all time. Also, as if the show itself isn’t motivation enough to journey out of state, this could be an ideal chance to cross New Orleans off your list of badass American cities to visit. Check out dixiechicks.com and find out all the pertinent info.

Oaktopia Festival

September 22-24 The Square, Denton, TX Distance: 304 miles Why it’s worth it: With a line-up that reads like a veritable who’s-who of recent-ish college radio charts, Oaktopia Festival is nestled in the heart of downtown Denton. The stacked musical bill—which features Best Coast, Beirut, Wavves, White Denim, Rae Sremmurd, Cat Power and many more —will be complemented by “an eclectic bounty of events during the festival that exude the enthralling and vibrant culture of Denton.” So, if you’re looking for a laidback and artsy alternative to some of the massive festivals headed our way this fall, Oaktopia Festival is probably your bag. Head to oaktopia.com for more.

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September 23-24 Lakeside Park and Pavilion, Marble Falls, TX Distance: 86 miles Why it’s worth it: While us San Antonians might bristle a bit any time some other city appropriates the word fiesta for its own, Marble Falls’ FiestaJAM gets a pass because it’s got Texas treasure and country music royal Joe Ely on its side. As much a wine festival as it is a music festival, FiestaJAM goes down on the picturesque banks of Lake Marble Falls and will feature a variety of family friendly events, all culminating with Ely’s performance on Saturday September 24. Oh yeah, there will be a battle of the bands competition as well, which should provide ample opportunity to check out young talent or, alternately, to get legendarily wine drunk. Dig fiestajam.org for more.

Utopia Fest

September 29-October 2 1555 Lemond Rd, Utopia, TX Distance: 85 miles Why it’s worth it: It’s really no surprise that utopia is in Texas. But, it’s hard to believe it’s so darn close. For the eighth year in a row, Utopia Fest will fill a gorgeous space between Garner State Park and Lost Maples with music and music-loving campers. This year’s festival features Ratatat, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, White Denim, Man or Astroman, and others. One special draw for this event is the ease of securing camping spots and the ideal nature of the locale for camping. In late September-early October, it may still be hot and bug-ridden out there, but it will also be a prime opportunity to enjoy a beautiful slice of Texas Hill Country. Visit utopiafest.com for tickets and more information.

Conor Oberst / Deerhunter

October 7 and 8 Granada Theater, Dallas, TX Distance: 292 miles Why it’s worth it: This one is actually two separate events that just happen to be occurring on consecutive nights at one of Dallas’ best venues. First off, on Friday October 7, indie folk luminary Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos) brings his new, stripped-down material to the Granada. With his tenth solo album Ruminations dropping in mid-October, expect to hear some new stuff alongside older Oberst and (probably) Bright Eyes favorites. After a night’s stay, you can dig Bradford Cox’s seminal indie rock band on Saturday October 8 at the same venue. Always excellent on record, Deerhunter’s frontman, nevertheless, has earned a rep as something of a cantankerous performer. But a chance to see Cox live, in any incarnation or state of mind, is a chance to see one of our finest and least compromising musical minds at work. See granadatheater.com for tickets.

Sound on Sound Fest

November 4-6 Sherwood Forest, McDade, TX Distance: 118 miles Why it’s worth it: Essentially the new reboot of Fun Fun Fun Fest, Sound on Sound continues in the stellar vein of that festival’s reputation.

This really is a music lover’s music festival, as snobby as that probably sounds. Presented amid the medieval vibes of Sherwood Forest (no lie), the inaugural Sound on Sound boasts an eclectic selection of largely hip-hop, electronic, and indie rock, eschewing some of the metal and comedy acts that Fun Fun Fun often featured. The headliners alone are convincing as hell: Beach House (drowzy dreampop masters), Explosions in the Sky (ATX post-rockers extraordinaire), Run the Jewels (one of the most important and provocative hip-hop acts of our day), Courtney Barnett (the lyrical and fiery grunge-pop wizkid from down under), and that’s not even all. See soundonsoundfest.com for full line-up and tickets.

Fischer Fest

November 11-13 Fischer Hall, Fischer, TX Distance: 51 miles Why it’s worth it: This one’s a bit of an outlier on this list, with no big names.

Held in the ideal and historic Fischer Hall and environs, Fischer Fest nevertheless boasts a few names that fans of roots, Americana, and country music should be familiar with: Marcia Ball (zydeco-rock creole), Ray Bonneville (Texas folk storyteller), and The Black Lillies (progressive Americana).

Apart from that, the festival offers a unique chance to get to know a new place and new artists, working in the timehonored tradition of folk-based songcraft. It’s a short drive and seems like it may prove something of a hidden treasure.

See fischerfest.org for more details.

Jerry Jeff Walker

December 9 and 10 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels, TX Distance: 32 miles Why it’s worth it: Every December now for quite a spell, Texas transplant (we call him our own) and outlaw country troubadour par excellence Jerry Jeff Walker has put on a couple of holiday shows at historic Gruene Hall. Best loved for his bonkers 1970s output—songwriting, recording, touring, boozing y todo—the man has continued to make great music with a kind of nonchalant brilliance that defies description. His repertoire of timeless originals (“Mr. Bojangles,” “Gettin’ By,” etc.) and of songs he’s made his own over the years (“LA Freeway,” “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” etc.) are enough to fill even his notoriously long concerts; but these holiday shows at Gruene Hall are special. Imbued with a sense of the mystical power of song to uplift, Jerry Jeff’s holiday shows, which naturally feature a smattering of heart-warmingly wholehearted seasonal covers, feel like family reunions for all those who have wandered with him through his remarkable career.

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Eve 6 With ample pop punk trappings, Eve 6 still sharpens the dull blade even when they’re in the heat of a sticky pop chorus. Forever trapped in a Los Angeles state of mind, Eve 6, like princes of 1990s pop punk Blink-182, use their SoCal roots to the point of lyrical overkill. Despite this, Eve 6’s breakout hit “Inside Out” is a “forget you” post-breakup anthem, but still edgier than the Kelly Clarkson classic “Since U Been Gone” (thankfully). Even with chief songwriter Max Collins’ threat of pursuing his solo career, Eve 6, as a whole, is aging gracefully. With Oz, The Taking, Fader Friend, Christina Holmes.

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Bayonne Born Roger Sellers, adapted into stage name Bayonne - due to his frustration towards constantly being falsely labeled as a DJ - brings his one-man show towards a hint of greatness, at least on a Pitchfork. com critic’s choice list level. As with most do-it-yourself concerts, Austin’s Bayonne plays all instruments while also taking singing duties, but according to live videos, does it with smooth professionalism and comfort. With a reputation as a electronic artist, Bayonne’s serene compositions mesmerize instead of bringing on exhaustion. With Verisimilitude, Voodoo Boogaloo, Garrett T. Capps.

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Burning Circle with Sourtown Free, 21+, 9pm, Fitzgerald’s Bar and Live Music

An Evening with Eric Johnson $25 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Sam's Burger Joint

EDM Thursdays $5 for 21+, $7 for 18+, Free for Ladies, 9pm, Club Rio

Firestarter & Capstan with 40% Dolomite, BlankSide $7, All Ages, 7pm, The Korova

Kevin Nabors Quartet $10, 21+, 7:30pm, Carmens De La Calle

Funk, Oldies and R&B with DJ Plata Free, 21+, 8pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner

Let’s Go Retro Thursdays with DJ Mighty Iris Free, 21+, 8pm, Bonham Exchange

Jeremih $30-45 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Aztec Theatre

Marcy Grace Free, All Ages, 7:30pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 10pm, George’s Keep

Mike Kropp Free, All Ages, 7pm, The Pigpen

Midtown Jazz Sound Free, 21+, 10:30pm, Soho Wine & Martini Bar

Monolord, Beastmaker, Sweat Lodge $12 Presale 15 Door, All Ages, 8pm, The Korova

Open Mic “Tribute Nights”: The Grateful Dead Free, All Ages, 8pm, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex Prime Time Jazz Orchestra Free, All Ages, 8pm, The Cove Propaganda with DJ Ely Bat Free, 21+, 10pm, The Mix Rockwave Videos with VJ Andreas Free, 21+, 7pm, The Amp Room The Hump-Off Wednesday Nights with DJ Donnie Dee Free, 21+, 10pm, Southtown 101 Touché Amoré, Ceremony, Gouge Away $16, All Ages, 7pm, Paper Tiger Wayne’s World Wednesdays Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Wet Wednesdays with Midnight Swim (Front Room) and Karaoke (Back Room) Free, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room You Spin Me Right Round Wednesdays with DJ Mighty Iris Free, 21+, 9pm, The Bang Bang Bar

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ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience $15 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Aztec Theatre

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 Anthony Wright Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Pigpen Austin Jones, Trophy Wives, Run 2 Cover, Curses $16 Presale, All Ages, 530pm, The Korova Bad Funky Bones Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Cove Black Tiger Sex Machine $15 Presale 18 VIP, 18+, 10pm, Club Rio Dignan, The Rocketboys, Fishermen $10, 18+, 8pm, Ventura

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Sawyer Fredericks: A Good Storm Tour with special guest Mia Z $25 Presale, All Ages, 730pm, The Tobin Center Souls of Redemption, Force of Rage, D-Reil, Mushroom Honey $5, 21+, 9pm, Zombies Bar and Live Music Steve Wariner with Seth James $20+Presale +5(Minors), 18+, 7pm, John T. Floore Country Store The Entourage Free, 21+, 9pm, The Well The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Tour Kickoff w/ Haunter, Murdered Out $5, 21+, 9pm, Hi-Tones The Merles All Ages, 8pm, Luckenbach Dancehall The Thyroids, Michael J & Dray, Junkie Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Tony Rodriguez Band Free, 21+, 9pm, Barriba Cantina Valentino Khan $15 Presale +5 (minors), 18+, 9pm, Live Ultra Lounge Wicked Flamenco Luis Linares $15, 21+, 830pm, Carmens De La Calle Will Hoge with Levi Parham $20 Presale, 21+, 8pm, 502 Bar

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10pm, La Botanica

Dwight Yoakam $30+ Presale, All Ages, 730pm, Whitewater Amphitheatre

Steady Legend, Daniel Eyes & The Vibes 18+, 9pm, 502 Bar

Hayes Carll $25 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Gruene Hall

SOHNS (Reunion Show), The Reptilian, Innards, Two Knights All Ages, 8pm, Paper Tiger

Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner Josh Thompson $15-30 Presale +5 (minors), 18+, 8pm, Riverroad Icehouse Latin Roots Music & Food Fest $10 Presale 15 Door Free for Minors, All Ages, 1pm, La Villita Historic Arts Village Lesti Huff Band Free, All Ages, 630pm, The Cove Michael Martin & The Infidels Free, 21+, 9pm, Barriba Cantina Noche Azul: Sor Juana $7, All Ages, 8pm, Esperanza Peace & Jutice Center Omara Portuondo & Eliades Ochoa $35-90 Presale $150 VIP, All Ages, 8pm, The Tobin Center

A Classic Summer Rockfest with Joe Lynn Turner and Special Guest Blackfoot $25 Presale, 530pm, Cadillac Bar

Saturday’s w/ Dj Malik 10pm, Stone Street Pub

Camila $45-125 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Aztec Theatre Clayton Gardner All Ages,

Scream Out Loud, The Offer Free, 21+, 9pm, The Mix Sub.Culture ft. special guests GUI.dance & DJ Darth Vena Free, 21+, 9pm, The Mix Sell Your Soul Saturday’s presents The Stovebolts & Over the Top 10pm, Faust Tavern SPROUT ft. JJ Lopez + Kinn / Gabe Free, All Ages,

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Adam Hood + Jake Martin All Ages, 1pm, Luckenbach Dancehall

Marks Brothers Free, All Ages, 4pm, The Cove

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Saturdays with Midnight Swim Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club

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Third Eye - A Live Tribute to TOOL with special guest Chasca $10 Presale 15 Dorr, 18+, 8pm, The Rock Box

Pedrito Martinez Group $19-80 Presale, All Ages, 730pm, Guadalupe Culture Arts Center

“1964”...the Tribute $3550 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Majestic Theatre

Back To School Bash with Wayne Holtz, Fader Friend, Voodoo Boogaloo, Spell 27 $5, All Ages, 8pm, Imagine Books and Records

The Reed Brothers, The New Offenders $8+ Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Family Night & Free Dance with Texas Rimshot Free, All Ages, 6pm, John T. Floore Country Store

Sam Riggs with Austin Meade $12 Presale 15 Door +5 (Minors), 18+, 7pm, John T. Floore Country Store

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The Last Hurrah of Summer Concert featuring Will Parker Free, All Ages, 1030am, The Twig Book Shop

Parker McCollum + Kaitlin Butts: Dancehall Show $10 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Luckenbach Dancehall

80s, New Wave, Pop Saturdays Free, 21+, 930pm, Jack Rabbit

Adam Johnson Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Pigpen

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Mobley with The Peach Kings $5 Presale 8 Door, 18+, 8pm, Limelight Songwriter Sundays with Walt Wilkins & Friends All Ages, 1pm, Luckenbach Dancehall

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 2Play Tuesday: Langton Drive, Wayne Holtz & more $2, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room

Open Jam Session with Small World Jazz Free, All Ages, 7pm, Olmos Bharmacy

Gen-X Tuesdays: ’80s Night Free, 21+, 8pm, The Amp Room

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Sound Gallery with Deep South Collective Free, 21+, 8pm, Paramour

Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Bohanan’s

Industry Night with Derrick Rage and VJ Necio Free, 21+, 10pm, Moses Rose’s Hideout

Swing Nite with The Bellfuries $10, All Ages, 7pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner

The Atomic Bitchwax, Lo-Pan, Dirty Streets $10 Presale 12 Door, 18+, 9pm, Limelight

Sunday Funday with Rollin Rollin Free, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room

Marley Mondays with DJ FantasticDan Free, 21+, 8pm, J&O’s Cantina Maxo Kream All Ages, 8pm, Paper Tiger Monday Night Picker Circle

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Sunday Funday with DJ Shawn Jackson Free, 21+, 8pm, Leaky Barrel

Trapped Out Mondays with DJ Burlo Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Wurd of Mouth Mondays with DJ Gibb Free, 21+, 10pm, Blue Box

KRTUesday Live: Bayonne with Verisimilitude, Voodoo Boogaloo, Garrett T. Capps Free, 21+, 830pm, The Mix Throwback Tuesdays with DJ Ammunition Free, 21+, 9pm, Retox Bar

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Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single, and living in London.

Dan Savage got his professional start working in promotions at the legendary London nightclub G-A-Y. He’s now 10 years into a career in theater arts marketing and currently works for some of the West End’s biggest hit musicals. Dan has never written a sex-advice column before, but he occasionally gets angry tweets that were meant for me.

A quick word about qualifications: Advice is defined as “an opinion about what could or should be done.” We’re all entitled to our opinions — but only Dan Savage, theatrical marketing exec, is entitled to share his opinions in my column this week. Take it away, Dan!

> I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys.

I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not had any gay experiences. He is so passionate.

Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Very submissive and insatiable. Of course I use condoms. I asked him what he gets out of this. He said he gets an intensity he can’t explain over pleasing an older man that he doesn’t get from sex with a female.

Being a sub makes him rock hard,

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and with a woman, he has to be the performer. He considers himself straight, since he is attracted only to older men and is only a bottom.

In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have never had an STD. I don’t want to get one now.

I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they thought it was funny and would not do it. I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age.

This Old Pop I think it’s great — if you don’t mind me saying — that in your advanced years you are able to embark on this new sexual adventure and experimentation, TOP! And you have a hot 23-year-old visiting you for regular sex — something a lot of people much younger than you would kill for!

As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. Maybe just don’t go around picking up boys off street corners who look like they need a good wash.

My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-year-old straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral” and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere” — that sounds to me like someone who knows what they’re doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation.

Regardless, he is soon to leave, TOP, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an OldTOP: Go with the flow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it! (And to older gay gentlemen who think you can’t get any: TOP is! You can!)

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15 Patton of the “Comedians of Comedy” tour 16 Disc in a tabloid photo 17 Like a piccolo’s range 18 17-mission space program 19 Min.’s opposite 20 Levels of command 22 Rookie’s teacher 24 Quattro minus uno 25 Setting for many movies, for short 26 Rapper/actor ___ Def 28 Adjusted letter spacing, in printing 32 Bubble tea thickener 36 Rio Grande stuff 38 Auto dealership offer 39 Dosage unit 40 Flippant 41 Pumpkin spiced beverage, usually 42 Noteworthy times 43 “Take ___ Church” (Hozier song) 44 “___ Witch” (2016 horror sequel) 45 Muse’s instrument 46 Geometry class calculation

47 Never-before-seen 49 Striped blue ball 50 Risque 52 “Huh??”

54 “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice 57 Highbrow highlights of some festivals 62 One of four of 52 63 Orman who played Gordon on “Sesame Street” for over 40 years 65 Osso buco meat 66 Dispenser that might have a headphone jack for the blind 67 Priced to move 68 “Como ___ usted?”

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9 Permit tractor pioneer John?

10 Absolut rival, familiarly 11 Get visibly startled 12 “Bearing gifts, we traverse ___” 13 Psychobilly rocker ___ Nixon 21 Albanian currency 23 Put to rest, as a rumor 25 Hyatt alternative 26 Igneous rock’s source 27 Lascivious looker 29 Kay, if you do the math?

30 “Is that so?”

31 Birth-related 33 Ethereal author of “Honor Thy Father”?

34 Piercing look 35 Mary-Kate or Ashley 37 On a cruise liner, e.g.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Can you imagine feeling at home in the world no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won’t distort your relationship with yourself. No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what’s best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): As I tried to meditate on your horoscope, my nextdoor neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some high-quality silence.

When I arrived at the trail head, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you are done.” I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you. You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It’s still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously. But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here’s my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days.

The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb — both from me and from everyone else you listen to.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): Have you been drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that rejuvenate you?

Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing?

I hope you’re reverently attending to these fluidic

needs. I hope you’re giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold. Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear. Stay very, very wet.

way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you’d spend on champagne and caviar, and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): In my

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21):

opinion, you need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm -- preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens? How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity.

Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties.

And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.”

Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse — especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks.

Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): When you were a child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way.

Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: 1. “How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death.” 2. “How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter.” 3.

“How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity.” 4.

“How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People.”

For extra credit, Capricorn — and to earn the

right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one — write about all four subjects.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): I suspect that in the coming months you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown. Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered to be off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully be yourself.

Got all that? Now here’s the kicker. In the coming weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Are you interested in redefining and reconfiguring the ways that togetherness works for you?

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): If you’re playing the card game known as bridge, you’re lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let’s apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I’m guessing that you will benefit from what may seem to be an inadequacy or deficit.

An absence will be a useful asset.

THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): When you were born, you already carried the seeds of gifts you would someday be able to provide — specific influences or teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world. How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Here’s what I suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace. Whether they actually do or not may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities ­— interesting responsibilities, to be sure — but bigger than you’re used to.

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