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WHEN MINUTES TURN TO YEARS

•Supporters of Marquise Jones still try to bring attention to his killing.

As the family of a San Antonio man shot to death by police mourns, the family of Marquise Jones still seeks justice MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN

When 36-year-old Antroine Scott arrived home just after 6 p.m. on February 4, he parked his 2008 Mercedes-Benz in the parking lot of his apartment complex, just as thousands of San Antonio residents do at the end of every day.

What Scott probably didn’t know was that two undercover police detectives “were in the area,” according to a police report, and spotted the Benz as it pulled into the Wood Hollow Apartments, just north of Loop 410 and a bit west of Highway 281, where Scott lived. It matched the description of a wanted man’s vehicle, according to police.

The undercover San Antonio Police Department detectives were looking for Scott. He was a wanted man who had two active felony warrants: one for felony possession of a firearm and another for manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance, less than one gram.

After Scott parked, the detectives requested that two uniformed police officers be dispatched to make the arrest. SAPD officers John Lee and Brian Bilica arrived at the scene at 6:10 p.m. Less than two minutes later, Scott’s wife would watch him die. “[Lee] exited his vehicle and approached the driver side of the [vehicle],” a preliminary police report states. “[Lee] drew his service weapon and ordered [Scott] to ‘show me your hands’ at approximately the same time the [suspect] swung the drivers [sic] door open and spun to his left.”

According to the police report, Lee noticed a black object in Scott’s hand. Assuming it was a gun, Lee feared for his life and fired one shot at Scott, striking him in the chest. Scott died in the parking lot.

Scott, a black man, was unarmed. He was holding a cellphone. The time was 6:12 p.m.

Lee, an 11-year veteran of the force, is on administrative duty while the shooting is investigated by the SAPD and Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

Scott’s family is, as can be expected, in shock. They hope that an investigation will give them answers, but if things go as they did for the family of another local man shot by police, Marquise Jones, they may never get the satisfaction of seeing justice. Scott’s shooting comes just a few weeks before the second anniversary of Jones’ shooting. Jones’ family is still grappling with that tragedy while seeking justice through a civil case against the City of San Antonio.

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A Vicious Cycle Scott was not the first person killed by a police officer in San Antonio this year.

On January 17, at 1:45 p.m., an as of yet unidentified SAPD officer shot and killed 27-year-old Ashton Lane Morris, a white man.

San Antonio media outlets reported that police were responding to a car theft in progress when Morris opened fire on them. He was shot several times.

Unlike Morris, Scott was unarmed. Although there were warrants out for Scott’s arrest, he had not been engaged in a crime in progress when police arrived at his apartment complex. He was simply a black man who had just arrived home with his wife.

Mayor Ivy R. Taylor, who hasn’t publicly spoken much about police-related killings, issued a statement on the Friday after Scott was shot, saying she met with SAPD Chief William McManus and discussed the incident.

“The chief assures us that a full investigation is already underway by the Internal Affairs Unit and that the shooting will be reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office,” the mayor said in a statement. “I trust in the process and, as always, urge anyone with information to please come forward.”

Scott’s mother, Diane Peppar, told the San Antonio

Express-News that Scott and his wife had just bought the Mercedes and recently moved into Wood Hollow Apartments with their 11-year-old son. The child was in the apartment when Scott was killed, the daily newspaper later reported.

The man’s uncle, Jesse Scott, told the paper his nephew was not violent.

“Yeah, he was a little hardheaded … But he was just starting to turn his life around,” his uncle told an ExpressNews reporter at the scene of the shooting. “Now he’s been denied that chance.”

Jones’ aunt, Deborah Bush, knows what Diane Peppar and Jesse Scott are going through.

On February 28, 2014, SAPD officer Robert Encina, who was in full uniform working security at Chacho’s on the city’s Northeast Side, shot and killed the 23-year-old Jones. In 10 days it will be two years since Jones died in that parking lot — a death his sister witnessed.

Bush has worked nonstop since that day to keep her nephew’s story alive in hopes that Encina, who was “no billed” by a Bexar County grand jury on December 16, 2015, will face punishment.

“We are not going away that easily,” Bush said. “Now we have another shooting of another black male, and I will be speaking and standing with this family against this corrupt and crooked system here in San Antonio.”

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Jones was a passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a fender bender at the late-night Mexican restaurant’s drive-thru around 1:30 a.m. The SAPD says that while Encina was questioning the vehicle’s driver, Jones got out of the passenger seat and displayed a handgun. Encina then shot and killed Jones. Initially, police told media that Jones turned around and ran after being shot, before collapsing. At a January 27 City Council B Session meeting about the SAPD’s use-of-force reform efforts, Chief McManus told councilmembers that Jones turned toward Encina with the gun, before the shooting.

“The autopsy report is consistent with that statement,” McManus said.

An autopsy conducted by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, however, states that Jones died from a gunshot wound to his mid-left back. “The wound is back to front, left to right and upward,” according to the autopsy report. The medical examiner found no evidence of close-range firing. Bush said this is why Jones’ family believes the man was running away from Encina when he was shot in the back.

Jones’ family members have alleged that the gun that supposedly belonged to the 23-year-old was planted and lacked fingerprints.

McManus said Jones carried a revolver, which, generally speaking, is a difficult weapon to extract a print from.

“You have embossed surfaces, you have different rough surfaces and small surfaces that don’t hold the full fingerprint on a revolver,” McManus told City Councilman Rey Saldaña, who questioned the chief during the meeting about claims of missing fingerprints. “Just a fact.

Not defending it. But it’s not unusual to not be able to draw a fingerprint from a revolver.”

Daryl Washington, a lawyer representing Jones’ family in their civil case against the city and police department, questions whether authorities ever even tried to obtain fingerprints from the weapon in the first place.

“Did they even test the gun?” Washington asked. “Did they even dust it? It’s one thing to not get it sometimes and another thing to not dust the gun at all.”

Ever since Jones’ death, questions about the revolver and the fingerprints have lingered, which is why McManus said he brought the case up at the City Council B Session.

“I’ve not spoken out on this before, amidst the rumors and chatter in the community, but I’m speaking out on this now, and these are the facts in the investigation,” McManus said.

He said if he thought the shooting was a “bad one,” or if it was against policy, or if he doubted whether Jones had a gun or thought it wasn’t justified, he would have filed charges against Encina.

McManus did not address the allegation that police never even checked the gun for prints during that public meeting, and as of press time, the San Antonio Current was waiting for police to respond to a request for comment about the matter.

“Mr. Jones had a gun. The officer saw him with a gun.

An independent witness saw him with a gun,” McManus

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Two years later, Cheryl Jones and Blake Lamkin still mourn the loss of their son Marquise Jones.

said. “The driver of the vehicle that Mr. Jones had been in prior to the shooting said in his statement to the investigator that when the shots were being fired, he believed that Mr. Jones was the one shooting.”

The chief said the investigator on the case is one of the best at the SAPD. “The case was independently reviewed by the Bexar County ADA, assistant district attorney, and then taken before a grand jury where it was ‘no billed,’” McManus said.

McManus’ tone did not sit well with Bush, who watched archived video of his comments.

“We were very upset. I couldn’t believe that he said those things. Some organizations have spoken to him about that article, and he said that it was taken out of context, he didn’t mean it that way,” Bush said, referring to an Express-News column about the meeting. “He is a liar, just like all of the city officials here in the city.

Wounds were reopened on that day. It just showed us that they do not respect us as a family, just like in the beginning.”

Washington also disputes the assertion that the grand jury process was fair.

“There is evidence in this case that was not presented to the grand jury, key evidence that was not presented, such as, there was no note made to the grand jury that the gun was not dusted for fingerprints,” he said. “There were eyewitnesses who were not allowed to testify. So based on this, we are seeking to reconvene [the grand jury].”

That’s what the Jones family wants, too.

“No matter what, we’re going to do everything we can to get justice for my nephew,” Bush said earlier this year, flanked by family and friends while at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march where she participated in direct action

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with Black Lives Matter activists calling for Encina’s arrest. “Even though he didn’t get indicted, we’re going to try to get a rehearing, and that’s exactly what my family is trying to do now.”

Unsettling Outcomes It’s not completely unheard of for a rehearing to happen.

In late January 2014, a Mecklenburg County grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, reconvened to hear a voluntary manslaughter case against 28-year-old Randall Kerrick, who fired 10 bullets at former Florida A&M football star Jonathan Ferrell in September 2013, The New York Times reported.

Ferrell lost control of his car on a dark stretch of road and drove off the street. He went to the nearest house and knocked on the door seeking help. A white woman who lived at the residence called police, and Kerrick shot and killed Ferrell, saying he aggressively charged at him, according to the article.

In that case, however, the grand jury reconvened just one week after the previous grand jury declined to indict, recommending that prosecutors return and present a lesser charge. According to The New York Times, prosecutors presented two more witnesses and empaneled a full grand jury of 18 jurors – only 14 jurors sat on the original grand jury – who indicted Kerrick on charges of voluntary manslaughter.

However, during the 2015 trial, jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict and the judge declared a mistrial, The Charlotte Observer reported. The city eventually settled with Ferrell’s family for $2.25 million.

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He said that the fact that Encina was not indicted should not have an effect on a civil case.

“It has no impact whatsoever. In fact, we are moving forward with the case, and we are going to be able to show the killing of Marquise was definitely unjustified,” Washington said. “There was no need to shoot Mr. Jones. There is absolutely no evidence that Marquise had a gun in his hand, that anyone’s life was in danger, but there is evidence that Marquise was shot in the back as he was attempting to run away from the restaurant.”

The SAPD hasn’t directly addressed Jones’ family suspicions, outside of McManus’ comments during the recent public meeting.

Like Jones’ family, Scott’s family has already hired representation from the law firm Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys.

“To say this is disappointing is an understatement. This has become a serious concern in San Antonio,” Henry said in a statement released to the Express-News. “This is now the second family my firm represents who had a family member unjustifiably killed at the hands of law-enforcement agents.”

Henry also represents Gilbert Flores’ family. In a cellphone video seen ‘round the world, Bexar County Sheriff’s Department deputies Greg Vasquez

and Robert Sanchez shot and killed the 41-year-old Flores while responding to a domestic violence report on August 28, 2015. Flores, who had threatened suicide by cop and held a knife in his hand, appeared to be surrendering when the officers opened fire. A Bexar County grand jury declined to indict Vasquez and Sanchez last December, a week before another grand jury did the same with Encina.

While Scott’s family is just starting down a long road, one that Bush and the rest of Jones’ family has been traveling for nearly two years, that pain and loss doesn’t go away.

“The family’s life has not been the same,” Washington said, speaking to the toll of the death, the ensuing media coverage and legal proceedings have inflicted on Jones’ family.

Reliving the loss through the media and legal proceedings won’t be any different for Scott’s family. Neither will the effect of seeing his mug shots on the news instead of cherished family photos. Rumors and accusations about Scott and his personal life will surely make the rounds. Rash judgments will be made and activists will likely take up Scott’s cause, just as they have taken up Jones’.

And, in all likelihood, the probability that the officer who killed Scott will face any time in jail for taking an unarmed black man’s life in less than two minutes won’t change, either.

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NEWSMONGER Vista Ridge Pipeline’s Financial Woes // Corruption in Crystal City // Justice Antonin Scalia Dies in West Texas Water Bills Abengoa, the company responsible for the 142-mile Vista Ridge Pipeline, is leaking cash. And it’s causing headaches for San Antonio officials trying to make the $3 billion water spigot a reality.

Abengoa can’t pay its bills. It’s selling off other assets, such as solar panels and ethanol production, and seeking outside investors to buy 80 percent of its share of the water pipeline.

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Mayor Ivy R. Taylor said in a news release on Tuesday, February 9, that despite Abengoa’s financial difficulties, the pipeline “remains an exciting, viable project,” and that the San Antonio Water System board of directors will play a role in vetting new investors.

The next day, Councilman Ron Nirenberg requested that any alteration to the city’s agreement with Abengoa undergo a public briefing and City Council vote, which earned the support of five other councilmembers. Any change to the contract would currently be approved by the SAWS board, whose members are appointed by City Council.

In November, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved rate increases that would fund the pipeline and other projects. Supporters argued that the pipeline is necessary in order to support

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San Antonio’s population, which is projected to grow by over a million people by 2040.

Big Trouble in Small Town Texas What is going on in the Spinach Capital of the World?

That’s the nickname of Crystal City, the South Texas town where five current and former public officials, including the city manager, mayor and a city councilman, were indicted on federal bribery charges last week.

Each of them “used their official positions to enrich themselves by soliciting and accepting bribes from persons seeking to do business in Crystal City,” according to a news release from the FBI. The ringleader of the alleged bribery appears to be City Manager William James Jonas, who also served as the city attorney. The FBI alleged that Jonas accepted a bribe from an attorney seeking a contract with the city. In exchange for doing the dirty work, other public officials approved his contract to serve as city manager and city attorney. Jonas earned an annual salary of nearly $220,000 – an enormous sum for a city that struggled to make ends meet.

If convicted, each person indicted could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Now the city is trying to regain its footing. On Tuesday, February 9, District Judge Amado Abascal instructed the city clerk to verify signatures petitioning for a recall election to depose officeholders who were indicted.

Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead at West Texas Ranch Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in his room at the Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa on Saturday, February 13.

Scalia was at the ranch to hunt quail.

When he did not show up for breakfast on Saturday morning, the ranch’s owner checked on him. He was found dead on the bed.

Scalia’s death will have a profound impact on the presidential race and on cases pending on the Supreme Court’s docket. The court is set to rule on cases involving Texas’ 2013 anti-abortion law, redistricting in the state and on President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. mmarks@sacurrent.com

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With its big weekend rained out and its shine severely blocked back in October, Luminaria looks to let its light shine anew this Friday with Luminaria Take Two. An augmented and downsized version of the original slate of artists, the lineup features local disco-punk duo Hyperbubble, 210 neo-soul MVP Alyson Alonzo, Austin rhythm visionaries Rattletree Marimba (pictured), the San Antonio Film Festival, Chicana art collective Más Rudas, Convergent Media Collective, filmmaker and artist Ronnie Cramer and many others, in an immersive and artistically illuminated environment.

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

— JC

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Anjunabeats MUSIC

Despite what naysayers may claim, trance music can sway in myriad directions and isn’t always insipid or soulless. More than most, Grammy-nominated London trio Above & Beyond have challenged the trance stereotype by approaching it from a singer-songwriter (and even acoustic) perspective. Launched by Above & Beyond in 2000, the imprint Anjunabeats represents nearly 30 artists, DJs and producers. Having recently released its 12th compilation, Anjunabeats’ largest North American tour to date touches down at Club Rio with sets by Grum (Glasgow), Jason Ross (Los Angeles, pictured) and Ilan Bluestone (London). $10-$20, 9pm, Club Rio, 13307 San Pedro Ave., (210) 403-2582, club-rio.net.

— Bryan Rindfuss

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How I Learned to Drive THEATER

Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Paula Vogel’s Pulitzerwinning How I Learned to Drive puts the girl behind the wheel. Told through a series of driving lessons, the memory play follows a disregarded girl through her strained sexual relationship with her aunt’s alcoholic husband. First produced nearly 20 years ago, the play, with its cartoonish Greek chorus, jumbled chronology and driver’s manual references, continues to stir new questions about power and blame. Sarah Tipton and Dallas Akins star in Trinity’s production. $6-$12, 8pm Fri-Sat, 2:30pm Sun, Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Theater Building, One Trinity Pl., (210) 999-8515, trinity.edu. Through February 27. — Murphi Cook

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Can’t Get With It Zine Release MUSIC

With their second zine release in as many months, Can’t Get With It shows equal parts ambition and attitude in their homeprinted pages. With Raymond Pettibonstyle covers and a populist bent, the zine lines itself with Sharpie-drawn classics of the DIY genre and promises the “best in rock ‘n’ roll, punk and all around rad shit.”

Performing at the release party, OBN IIIs (pictured) definitely check off all those requirements. On a pair of 2014 releases, the Austin band oozes rock ‘n’ roll from their bleeding, shredding fingers — HBO’s Vinyl ain’t got shit on these Beerland favorites. With Detonate, The Bolos. $5, 10pm, Hi-Tones, 621 E. Dewey Pl., (210) 785-8777, hitonessa.com.

— Matt Stieb

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Nosferatu

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Drawing inspiration from classic film score composers as well as loud, abrasive rock ‘n’ roll bands, Austin’s Invincible Czars recreate the soundtracks to a prestigious list of cinematic classics, the most recent being F.W. Murnau’s silent vampire flick Nosferatu. The instruments utilized by the quartet include violin, glockenspiel, organ, flute, bass clarinet, vocals, music box, electric guitar, bass, singing bowl, tambourine and other hand percussion.

They will also incorporate Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances into the performance — a shout-out to Count Orlok’s spooky-scary Eastern European place of origin. $10, 9pm, URBAN-15, 2500 S. Presa St., (210) 736-1500, urban15.org. — Travis Buffkin

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Joe Budden

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Hailing from Jersey City, Joe Budden is a stalwart East Coast emcee with ties to Eminem’s Shady Records.

An adroit lyricist, the 35-year-old Budden has consistently maintained street cred by sticking to gangsta themes and street dreams, with occasional forays (see his Slaughterhouse collaboration with Royce Da 5’9” and others) into darker shock-rap elements. Through his eight albums, two EPs and smattering of mixtapes, he has charted solidly and never disappointed in terms of hip-hop fundamentals. He’s also known for being a workhorse on the touring circuit, so you know his live show is tight. $20$75, 8pm, Alamo City Music Hall, 1305 E. Houston St., alamocitymusichall.com. — JC

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On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour

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Founded by Bihl Haus Arts director Kellen McIntyre, the On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour unites more than 80 artists — including painters, sculptors, photographers and metalsmiths — living and working in and around the Deco District. In addition, more than 200 musicians, poets and theater and dance groups help make “Fred” one of the most diverse studio tours in the region. “It’s the only time of the year that these art studios are open in such large numbers in one weekend,” McIntyre said. Attendees can purchase advance copies of the catalog — consisting of a map, artist bios and images — for $10. $10-$15, 11am-6pm Sat, noon5pm Sun, (210) 383-9723, onandofffred.org. — Rudy Arispe

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‘My Royal Past: Cecil Beaton and the Art of Impersonation’

Arguably best celebrated as a fashion and portrait photographer who brilliantly captured 20th-century luminaries — Queen Elizabeth, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Mick Jagger, the list goes on — Cecil Beaton proved himself a Renaissance man during a career that encompassed everything from war photography to Oscar-winning costume and set designs. As a diarist, Beaton espoused a brutally honest voice that earned him the nickname “Malice in Wonderland,” courtesy of fellow multitasker Jean Cocteau. Deemed “one of Robert L. B. Tobin’s quirkiest gifts to the McNay,” a collection of black-and-white photographs Beaton published under the pen name Baroness von Bülop comes to light in “My Royal Past,” a spoof memoir that casts theater stars of the era (and even Beaton himself) in elaborate scenes exploring gender, identity, status and style. Also on view: “Dressed to Kill: Glam and Gore in Theatre,” an exhibition of costume drawings celebrating “stylish seductresses and fashionable fiends” of the musical stage. $15-$20, 10am-4pm Wed, 10am-9pm Thu, 10am-4pm Fri, 10am-5pm Sat, noon-5pm Sun, 10am-4pm Tue, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

Art

Art opening: “In/Outside: Portrait of a Woman” Emerging female art collective

The Wednesdays present a collaborative pop-up exhibition exploring “many contentious themes such as mental illness, identity and empowerment.” Free, 7:3010pm Saturday; Jerry’s Artarama, 1717 San Pedro Ave., (210) 366-0719.

”Corita Kent and the Language of Pop”

Corita Kent was a Roman Catholic nun, the beloved art director at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and a prolific pop artist. Her works in printmaking offer multiple entry points as they fuse issues of faith and social activism. Encompassing more than 60 works by Kent, SAMA’s latest rightly places the artist alongside contemporaries like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. $15-$20, 10am-5pm Wednesday-Thursday, 10am-9pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday-Sunday, 10am-9pm Tuesday, San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

”Made in Germany” Organized by the

McNay’s René Paul Barilleaux, “Made in Germany” highlights contemporary German works from the Rubell Family Collection. The exhibit, which features paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper, collects pieces from such notables as Anselm Kiefer, Katarina Fritsch and Bernd Becher. $15-$20, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

”Texas Draws” The Southwest School of

Art’s biannual exhibition series “Texas Draws” showcases Texas artists who “extend the traditional definition of drawing and apply both traditional and non-traditional approaches to this time-honored discipline.”

Free, 9am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-4pm Sunday, 9am-5pm MondayTuesday; Southwest School of Art - Navarro Campus, 1201 Navarro St., (210) 224-1848.

Film

CineFestival: Opening Night: Mi Familia

Gregory Nava’s epic, three-generation story of a Mexican-American family in East LA earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination for Best Make Up and is CineFestival’s greatest bet in the bring-on-the-stars department: cast members Esaí Morales, Jacob Vargas and Elpidia Carrillo will be present to talk about the film, in a chat moderated by local acting hero Jesse Borrego. $15, 7pm Friday; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151.

CineFestival: Las Tesoros de San Antonio

With all due respect to Mi Familia and other films, Las Tesoros de San Antonio is the movie to watch at this year’s CineFestival.

There is nothing technically impeccable about this film, an obvious labor of love by director Jorge Sandoval, but he did get the most important thing right: the story and ranchera-fueled music of Las Tesoros: Rita Vidaurri (“La Calandria,” 91), Beatriz Llamas (“La Paloma del Norte,” 79), Blanca Rosa, and Janet Cortez (“Perla Tapatía,” who passed away in 2014 at age 83). The movie has each tesoro (treasure) telling their story,

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Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

John Williams is the Mozart of movie scores. Or maybe the Michael Jackson. Really, no matter how you order your musical deities, there’s no getting around the fact that the composer is a big deal. By simple virtue of writing most of the film soundtracks you can hum — Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, Harry Potter — he’s guaranteed his place at the top of the heap. And yet we know Williams almost exclusively for those hummable themes, mostly ignoring the fact that there’s another two hours of music written for all of those films. All of which makes the San Antonio Symphony’s upcoming performance of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark such an enticing opportunity, providing a chance to explore one of Williams’ greatest scores beyond the “Bum-Ba-BUM-BAAA-Bum-Ba-BAAA” you’ve probably got in your head right now. Under the direction of visiting conductor Emil de Cou, the orchestra will showcase the score’s full range, including the eerie “In the Jungle,” the rousing “Airplane Flight” and the literally face-melting “The Miracle of the Ark.” Beyond all that, the chance to see Steven Spielberg’s 1981 classic in a space like the Majestic is almost as good as hearing the live symphonic soundtrack. $25-$65, 8pm Fri, 7pm Sat, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, sasymphony.org. — J.D. Swerzenski and the big climax comes with amazing footage of their historic show at the Guadalupe in 2011, superbly accompanied by local all-female Mariachi Mujer Internacional. In an era when we remember broke or neglected legends after they die, it is refreshing to see the three surviving Tesoros with passion, sacred inner fire and vocal ammunition intact. This screening offers us another opportunity to see (three of) them in action, on and off the screen: they’ll perform a short concert after the movie. $8, 5pm Sunday; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151.

CineFestival: Maracaná You don’t have to

be a soccer fan to enjoy the sport’s ultimate triumph-of-the-underdog story. On July 16, 1950, Uruguay stunned heavily favored Brazil in the World Cup final’s biggest upset ever. The Brazilians had built the Maracaná, the world’s largest stadium, and everything was ready for a big carnival following the game. Instead of a carnival, there were tears and even suicides. The game changed the countries’ fortunes forever: Two-time champion Uruguay never won another World Cup, and Brazil would finally win it eight years later, the first of five World Cups. The Brazil/Uruguay co-production, co-directed by Sebastián Bednarik and Andrés Varela, features never-before-seen, remastered HD footage of games, interviews with players and the political context of it all. $8, 1pm Sunday; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151.

Native Film Series: Smoke Signals The

Briscoe’s Native Film Series brings together three films highlighting diverse Native voices,

perspectives and stories. The first feature film to be written, directed and co-produced

by American Indians, 1998’s Smoke Signals follows a young man from Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene reservation on a journey to Phoenix to collect the ashes of the father that abandoned him when he was a boy.

Free, 6:30pm Tuesday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., (210) 299-4499.

Theater

Jesus Christ Superstar After finding

surprise success with their 1970 concept album Jesus Christ Superstar, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice developed the rock opera into a spirited Broadway production based loosely on the last week of Christ’s life. Sung through in slang-infused show tunes — including the groovy “What’s the Buzz,” title track “Superstar” and torch ballad “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” — the groundbreaking musical presents Christ as something of a celebrity sell-out while shining a forgiving light on his betrayer Judas Iscariot.

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

Magic Men Live! Designed with “the desires

of contemporary women in mind,” this highenergy, Magic Mike-inspired production combines hit music, original compositions, thrilling choreograpy and themed acts. $22.50, 8pm Tuesday; Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355.

Rock of Ages Humorously summed up by

The New York Times as a “karaoke comedy

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about warped-vinyl dreams,” Chris D’Arienzo’s jukebox musical Rock of Ages employs ’80s radio hits such as “Waiting for a Girl Like You” (Foreigner), “We Built This City” (Starship) and “Don’t Stop Believing” (Journey) to conjure campy scenes straight out of the glory days of MTV — replete with big hair, Spandex and Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers. Christopher Rodriguez directs the Woodlawn’s production. $17$26, 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

The House of Bernarda Alba The UIW

Department of Theatre Arts opens the doors to Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca’s all-female play set in the tension-filled household of a domineering matriarch obsessed with family honor and respecting her recently departed husband. $8-$10, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 2pm Sunday; University of the Incarnate Word, Coates Theatre, 4301 Broadway, (210) 829-3800.

The Seagull Set on a lakeside Russian

estate, Anton Chekhov’s 19th-century tragicomedy The Seagull weaves a tangled web crawling with the likes of playwright Konstantin, his neurotic mother Arkadina, her younger lover Trigorin and aspiring actress Nina. Once summed up by critic Charles Isherwood as “a play about misfired loves and misbegotten lives,” The Seagull lands at The Classic Theatre in a production directed by Allan S. Ross. $10-$25, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; Classic Theatre of San Antonio, 1924 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 589-8450.

The Vagina Monologues Local actors

and community members unite for two staged readings of Eve Ensler’s empowering 1996 Off-Broadway play The Vagina Monologues, with proceeds benefiting the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, Rape Crisis Center and Battered Women’s Shelter. $15, 7pm Wednesday (in Spanish), 7pm Thursday (in English); Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 208-5740.

Comedy

Kyle Kinane Known for “wonderfully

grim anecdotes filtered through his own optimistic lens,” actor/writer/Comedy Central alum Kyle Kinane has loaned his talents to everything from Drunk History and Conan to The Nanny and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. $12-$15, 7pm Monday; Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St.

Talks Plus

CineFestival: Roundtable Discussion and Master Class CineFestival director

Jim Mendiola and filmmaker John Jota Leone shed light on alternative approaches to documentary filmmaking, followed by Colombian filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez’s Master Class exploring “tried and true storytelling principles applicable to documentary projects, narrative films and short web-based videos.” Free, discussion at noon, class at 2pm Saturday; Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., (210) 271-3151.

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PechaKucha vol. 21 Active since 2011, the

local chapter of PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) takes a rock ’n’ roll dive with an evening of “art, brews and tattoos” on the St. Mary’s Strip. Emceed by Emmywinning news anchor Randy Beamer, the 21st edition features fast-paced PowerPoint presentations by eight creative professionals: restaurateur Chris Cullum; tattoo artist Kelly Edwards; Barbaro bar director Elisabeth Forsythe; artist/musician Phil Luna; Youth Orchestras of San Antonio music director Troy Peters; curator/artist David S. Rubin; chef Brooke Smith; and musician/San Antonio Current music editor Travis Buffkin. $5 suggested donation, happy hour at 6:30pm, presentations at 7:30pm Tuesday; Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St.

Siqueiros and Internationalism in the 1960s As part of Trinity’s 2016 Álvarez Seminar, Syracuse University professor Luis Castañeda discusses the murals of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of concepts and movements beyond the borders of Mexico. Free, 5:30-6:30pm Wednesday; Trinity University, Northrup Hall 040, One Trinity Pl., (210) 999-8826.

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From left to right: Bobby "B. Smitty" Smith, Larry Garza, Chandra Murthy and Jeff Stone

Comics compete for Funniest in South Texas title MICHAEL MARKS/@MICHAELPMARKS

Standing on stage at the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club in front of an average-sized Wednesday night crowd, Chandra Murthy is fiddling with the base of the microphone, trying to remove it from the stand.

The balding, bespectacled 71-year-old India native hasn’t told a joke yet. He’s squirming now, trying to wrestle the mic free. It finally pops forward like a Champagne cork, bopping Murthy on the forehead in the process.

“Oh!” he exclaims as the mic hits him, and the crowd titters nervously, unsure if Murthy is doing a bit or if they’re about to sit through six minutes of Mr. Magoolevel bumbling.

The former is true. Murthy searches for something on the stage like a contact lens. After a few seconds, he peeks his head up.

“I lost my dot!” he says. The crowd laughs, almost relieved, and they’re in. Murthy’s set for the Funniest in South Texas (FIST) competition is off and running.

FIST is an annual contest to crown the funniest comedian in the area, now in its 11th year. This year 96 comedians are vying for the top prize — $500, weeklong residencies at both Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club and The Improv — San Antonio Rivercenter, a spot in the statewide Funniest in Texas competition and, perhaps most important, the cachet of holding the title of “Funniest in South Texas.”

“More than the cash prize, they want the bragging rights. They want to say ‘I was the Funniest in South Texas,’” said Robert Castoreno, vice president of operations for the comedy clubs.

Everyone competing in the contest must have some comedy experience, Castoreno said, but few are fulltime comedians. Most of the contestants are open mic night veterans or up-and-comers looking for a big break.

And the FIST competition — which runs from the end of January through the second week of March — could be just that.

The contest includes eight preliminary rounds in which a dozen comedians perform six-minute sets. The winner — as decided by a panel of judges that include club regulars from a variety of professions — advances directly to the semi-final round. Three runners-up advance, too, but have to make it through an additional set to make it to the semi-finals.

With 96 competitors, comedians from all walks of life flock to the event. But Murthy might be the most unique — or at least the person in the club you’d least expect to be a comedian. He’s performed stand-up for about

three years after spending 35 years as a mechanical engineer.

“After the retirement I said this is one of the good hobbies, to make people laugh,” Murthy said. “I hang out with young people, it keeps my mind sharp. You write new comedy, you have to remember a half hour without any paper.”

With a thick Indian accent, Murthy is straight from central casting, and he knows it; dressed on stage in slacks and a tucked-in, drab, button-down dress shirt, creases in his sleeves visible in the back row, he looks like an out-of-town conventioner who wandered into the club on a whim. He plays that up, at one point taking a fake phone call as a tech support specialist, identifying himself with the anglified moniker “Charles Morgan.”

Murthy calls everyone “sir” or “ma’am,” eager to shake hands with any willing passerby at the club to thank them for coming.

Although Murthy takes comedy seriously and he hopes to perform for more people, it’s ultimately a postretirement hobby for him. For Bobby “B. Smitty” Smith, it’s more of a job. Smith runs Comedy Defensive Driving

by B. Smitty, which advertises “comedy and free food while getting a discount on auto insurance and your ticket dismissed.”

Smith has been performing stand-up since 2006.

He’s ambitious. In addition to his defensive driving business and stand-up sets, he just finished writing a semi-autobiographical screenplay. He said that winning the FIST competition could be a boon for his defensive driving business, and he’s taking the opportunity more seriously than in the past.

“Other years, I didn’t really care. This year is the most important year. I want [2016] to be my year in comedy,” Smith said.

If he won, he’d put the money into his business and into getting his movie made. Getting laughs out of all the hard work, he said, is “the greatest feeling in the world.”

“It makes you feel good. If I had a rough, rough day and you get a pop, people explode laughing — even if it’s not a joke I thought would get a laugh — it just takes all that stress away,” Smith said.

During his set at the FIST competition, the pops kept coming for Smith. Wearing a black sweater with the San Antonio skyline set amidst a Fiesta-colored sunset, the

Arkansas native joked about calling the cops on three white people to celebrate Black History Month.

“I felt good about it. Until I got arrested,” Smith joked.

As Smith, Murthy and the 10 other comedians who performed on February 10 walked off stage, they were greeted by fist bumps and hugs from their competitors.

After the last act, a guest comedian took the stage while the votes were tallied. Comics took seats in the audience with their friends and family, anxiety for some of them seeping through smiles, handshakes and back slaps.

In the end, both Murthy and Smith advanced, with Murthy taking the top prize. After the show, Murthy was ebullient, unable to suppress a grin or deny handshakes and pictures with well-wishers.

“I didn’t know I was going to win,” he said. “Everyone else was so good.” mmarks@sacurrent.com There’s still over three weeks left in the Funniest in South Texas competition. Here’s the schedule for the remaining rounds:

Preliminary Round 6

$10 8pm Wed, Feb. 17 Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club 618 NW Loop 410, Suite #312 (210) 541-8805 lolsanantonio.com

Preliminary Round 7

$10 8pm Mon, Feb. 22 Improv Comedy Club at Rivercenter 849 E. Commerce St. (210) 229-1420 rivercentercomedyclub.com

Preliminary Round 8

$10 8pm Wed, Feb. 24 Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Playoff Round 1

$10 8pm Mon, Feb. 29 Improv Comedy Club at Rivercenter

Playoff Round 2

$10 8pm Wed, Mar. 2 Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Semi-Finals

$10 8pm Mon, Mar. 7 Improv Comedy Club at Rivercenter

Finals

$16 8 pm Wed, Mar. 9 Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

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In the growing litany of throughout the country reconceived atrocities, West Nickel Mines the play as an ensemble effort by seven — like Columbine and Sandy actors. AtticRep’s version of The Amish Hook — evokes a special horror, the Project is also a solo performance, and massacre of young innocents. On Sarah Gise’s impersonation of all seven October 2, 2006, a psychopathic characters is a wonder to behold. She intruder took control of a one-room moves rapidly and seamlessly from an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, angelic young Amish girl to a cynical, Pennsylvania. After allowing the teacher embittered widow to a college professor and her male pupils to flee, he shot all to the ghost of a killer to a sassy the girls, ages 6-13, and then himself.

Puerto Rican teenager, often linking Since mass murder has become a characters through the beginning and dreadful commonplace, what was completion of a gesture, segueing via most remarkable about this gruesome a sort of bodily rhyme. The professor, incident was the response of the Amish who serves to frame the story, explains, community. Somehow managing to “The Amish give up individual needs to sublimate their rage and grief, they the community.” If so, Gise’s ability to reacted with compassion, forgiving the embody seven parts demonstrates the dead shooter and consoling his widow vitality of collective identity. and her sons.

The play downplays the coerciveness Jessica Dickey reacted by writing of an insular culture that encourages a theater piece that is not so much a corporal punishment, discourages formal representation of the West Nickel Mines education and shuns technology. But, as School massacre as it is a meditation counterpoint to Carol Stuckey’s nihilistic on it. She reimagines the incident by shriek: “It’s all bullshit!” it offers Amish creating seven fictional characters empathy. Following the slaughter, the connected to it. They include: the bereaved families make their way to the shooter (renamed Eddie Stuckey); Carol Stuckey home with food and sympathy Stuckey, Eddie’s widow; 6-year-old (the reality was even more striking; Velda and 14-year-old Anna, sisters and the Amish established a fund to cover victims; Bill North, who teaches religion expenses for the killer’s family). The at a local college; Sherry Amish do not assign blame.

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If there is a thesis that permeates the work of writer/director sibling duo Mark and Jay Duplass, it’s that adult life is messy. Not only are the problems of adolescence and early adulthood still present during middle age, but the stakes are higher and the drama, therefore, more intense. It’s been a running theme throughout their careers as beloved independent filmmakers and was a thread through the impressive first season of their HBO show Togetherness.

The debut season accentuated the strengths of the Duplasses and served as an exploration of complex adult relationships. Like many of their projects, the relationships were messy, complicated and rarely ever ended happily. This is, of course, all part of the Duplasses’ signature mindset of taking a look at life from a realistic lens.

As first and foremost a relationship and character study, season one also served as an acting showcase for the little known Steve Zissis, a Duplass film veteran who came into the series as a virtual unknown. Zissis stole the season, using vulnerability and sweetness to be, by far, the most empathetic and “good” character of the series.

In season two, relationships get even more complicated as we find our foursome in the midst and aftermath of an extramarital affair.

Through both their film and TV projects, the Duplasses operate best as creators of singular moments. Many of their films and episodes of Togetherness can meander a bit before coming together in raw and emotional scenes. Season two is no different, with many episodes pushing the plot forward or developing character until special moments happen. Some are subtle, such as an impromptu dig for a time capsule, and some provide explosive dramatic fireworks.

Whereas season one was a platform for Zissis to shine, season two gives most of its dramatic heft to the performance of the criminally underrated Mark Duplass. Throughout the season, Duplass’ Brett is shown in different states. His character is taken through a journey of pain, rediscovery and regrowth, and Duplass handles each phase impressively. It’s a true study in the pain of infidelity that never feels forced or inauthentic. The new directions for Zissis’ Alex, however, feel like a bit of a step down. As the moral center of season one, the aftermath of his career leap makes sense for the character, but causes the show to lose a little bit of its grounded-ness.

Between its female leads, Melanie Lynskey’s Michelle feels a little trapped in a storyline that is simultaneously

given a lot of time and underdeveloped. Much of the season is spent on the relationship strain put on Brett, therefore Michelle feels a little neglected. Amanda Peet’s Tina, on the other hand, approaches the crisis of the ticking biological clock in a way that is explored maturely, even though it wraps up a little quickly.

As alluded to earlier, one of the strongest points of the Duplasses and Togetherness is an unflinching and realistic look into relationships. Their trademark “realness” is present throughout the season, especially as relationships fall apart. Most of its moments have that sense of sincerity. However, the season wraps up in an unusually tidy way for the duo. It is a testament to their growth as creative forces that it is still executed in a way that feels emotionally satisfying.

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I think it’s a collective problem.

You can’t point the finger and just say, “Hey, Academy, you’re not doing this or that.” There’s a bigger problem. We’re so busy entertaining as African-American filmmakers. The stuff the Academy likes is entertaining, but it’s something different. We ain’t trying to make no art movies until the audience can come support us no matter what movies we do.

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The venerable St. Anthony seems to be slowly coming to terms with its nip-tuck facelift, programming events to keep proud-again Peacock Alley active. Tuesday night’s Jazz on the Rocks at The St. Anthony Club bar just off the Alley is only one way to help populate a place that looks way better with people in it — preferably beautiful people.

In the evening, the lighting level at Rebelle, the hotel’s flagship restaurant, is such that a wrinkle here or there thankfully won’t be noticed — but that doesn’t mean that diners shouldn’t dress up to the glamorous surroundings.

The menu, too, deserves a degree of sartorial respect.

Yes, an $89, 48-ounce côte de boeuf will taste the same whether one is in a tank top or Tom Ford, but think of this as an opportunity.

That menu has remained essentially the same since last fall’s opening, but cuts of steak have been adjusted, “chem-free” Gulf shrimp have replaced lobster in the excellent green curry preparation and roasted duck breast takes the place of a duck leg confit. It must be working. Nevertheless, I would still be reluctant to reprise the Pernod-cured salmon — not so much for the salmon as for the accompaniments. The texture of veal carpaccio also failed to thrill. But I would leap on the ground goat kebabs again in a heartbeat. And I found the recently tasted char-grilled Spanish octopus appetizer to be triumphant in almost every sense.

My only issue with this handsome dish was structural: cutting the coiled and grilled tentacle atop the slightly

slippery/soupy Corona beans. But once that hurdle is overcome, it’s clear sailing. The octopus is spice-crusty and tender, the beans are perfect in their bath of basil pistou and everything comes together in rare harmony.

Recalling my just-after-opening experience with entrées, I found the cassoulet Rebelle quite good as a collection of parts, though as a traditionalist, I still prefer the beanier, cook-it-all-together original, and had praise for the then bone-in short rib braised with mushroom duxelles. The revisit yielded another winner, rosemary and red pepper spiced goat shank.

One enthusiastic server suggested that its flesh fairly bounded from the bone. Not so, but also not important.

First impressions here were of the “this must have been from a very large, very old goat” sort; the shank was that prodigious. But it had no old-goat toughness or gamy taste — far from it. And the bedding of lemony polenta (the lemon actually matters — taste the polenta on its own first) with lusty tomato sofrito is an excellent backdrop for the just gutsy enough goat.

Lunch is a different animal at Rebelle. The setting that is sexy and sultry by night is not quite as successful in the light of day. Red-lamped sconces and suspended fixtures

seem especially out of place. At 12:30 on a Thursday, the place was hardly bustling. And at first glance, the morecasual noonday menu seems like less of a fit than it does at dinner.

But then you order the oysters. I can see sitting here all afternoon with just an order or two of these delicately battered beauties, pausing occasionally for a few strands of pickled radish, a discreet dip into the spicy aioli … and a few glasses of bubbly.

If you must order something sturdier, there’s a burger and a deliciously anachronistic French dip, but I’d head straight for the pulled duck confit salad. It’s a simple but expertly dressed plate in which all parts, the candied hazelnuts as much as the rye croutons or the duck, pull equal weight. And if something more filling is on the agenda, then consider the de-boned short ribs served, along with tender, twisted, Cara Nonna brand pasta, in a basil-accented ragu any nonna would be proud to claim.

More than with complex dishes, depending on exotic ingredients or preparations for their appeal, this is where a kitchen shines.

It shines here night or day.

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Experience” before grabbing a bite, Though crepes aren’t usually served or if you’re only on an hour-long break on weekdays (and instead reserved from work, Sketch should be in your for an idyllic brunch on weekends repertoire, if only for the fine use where you can overlook all the joggers of space. Housed inside the Hops and tourists from the patio), I was Building behind the museum, the tiny able to try the ham and cheese variety café has used its interiors expertly. during a second visit. Though a bit Because there isn’t an honest-to-god doughier than I’ve previously enjoyed, kitchen inside the building, the eatery is the crepe will set you up for a fun instead outfitted with small appliances afternoon through the museum or that handle the bulk of the menu. Baked keep you sated through dinnertime. goods, of the French variety, naturally, If Sketch keeps up this “Ladies are created off-site.

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To fill the beer-shaped hole in your heart that Big Hops left, The Growler Exchange is now open in its place. Owned by Joseph O’Hare, the shop has undergone some aesthetic changes, but will still feature 24 taps curated to include local-first wares, as well as craft ales and lagers from across the U.S. The Growler Exchange is open 3 p.m. to midnight Monday-Thursday, noon to midnight FridaySaturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.

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Texas Monthly will host another round of their Fire & Smoke dinner series presented by 44 Farms and Porsche. Last year’s dinner was a wild and delicious rumpus with Jason Dady and Stefan Bowers taking charge. In 2016, John Brand (Supper) and Tim Rattray (The Granary ’Cue & Brew) will take over as chef and pitmaster, respectively, inside Supper (136 E. Grayson St.) on March 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. Barbecue buffs should note this dinner is hosted by the magazine’s Barbecue Editor, Daniel Vaughn. Tickets, $150, can be purchased through tmbbq.com.

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Mezcal, the more inclusive kin to tequila, is having a moment — a moment that San Antonio is only too happy to share before it fizzles out. And along with our all-things-agave awareness, comes an appreciation of other Mexican spirits.

Damiana, an herbal liqueur from Baja California (the damiana leaf is said to have aphrodisiacal qualities), has yet to hit it here, but Ancho Reyes (no libidinous effects claimed) is coming on strong.

It might come as no surprise that one of the creators of this Pueblan aperitivo, Ivan Saldaña, first made his mark with mezcal, Montelobos Mezcal Joven, to be precise. Saldaña was in town for the recent San Antonio Cocktail Conference, and we sat down after a seminar he conducted at Mezcalería Mixtli to discuss his newer creation.

Ancho chiles, the dried form of the chile poblano, are at the heart of Ancho Reyes — and so is the city of Puebla in its artistic and intellectual golden era.

“We wanted to make chile a flavor as popular in the spirits world as it is in the culinary [arena],” said Saldaña.

While researching historic spirits, he and his partners came across reference to a seminal liqueur, especially popular in Puebla’s freethinking Barrio del Artista in the ’20s.

“We thought it was probably sweet and savory, but there was no recipe, no [bottled] remnants, so we had to reinvent it,” he said.

The reinvention also meant searching for a reliable source of traditionally grown anchos and eventually finding a farmer whose fields are irrigated with water from the volcanic slopes of Popocatépetl.

Saldaña’s poblanos hang on the plant more than a month longer than normal in order to deepen flavor, and they’re sun-dried and

turned by hand for 10-20 days.

“We use some other chiles as well, but they are minor ingredients,” he said.

The now-anchos are scissor-sliced by hand and all chiles are separately macerated in cane syrup so that they may be combined as required to maintain a consistent product, given that heat level and other qualities tend to vary from year to year.

“We also figured that the original must have been [an edgy] digestivo, so we involved ‘some food guys from California’ in helping us round out the formula for cocktail use,” Saldaña said.

A cane spirit “that doesn’t have much character” from Veracruz makes up the rest of the recipe, of which lack of character would never be claimed. Think sweet/savory/ hot (and maybe even a little chocolate and hazelnut) all at once in shot form — a form that’s encouraged, by the way, either chilled or at room temperature.

Cocktails are where Ancho Reyes really comes into its own.

Saldaña’s personal favorite is a daiquiri consisting of one part Ancho Reyes, one part fresh lime juice and half part rich simple syrup (two parts sugar to one part water) shaken with ice, double-strained into a chilled coupe and garnished with a lime wheel. While there’s still a little chill in the air, the Coco Caliente, two parts Ancho Reyes to five parts hot chocolate, garnished with grated cinnamon, sounds like a good idea.

And especially in summer (read: April), consider the Smoke & Fire Paloma with half-part Ancho Reyes, half part Montelobos Mezcal, three-parts

grapefruit soda and a squeeze of lime over ice in a tall glass — with a salted rim, if desired. Ancho Reyes also makes for a welcome variation on the classic margarita, subbing it for Cointreau.

Mezcalería Mixtli uses Ancho Reyes in its Humo Empiñado, a drink composed of joven mezcal, aforementioned liqueur, grilled pineapple and piloncillo syrup and grilled lime juice, all calculated to punch up both the hot and the smoky; it’s probably easiest just to have that one there.

Given that you will have to purchase a bottle of Ancho Rreyes for any of the others, here’s a partingshot drink you might at least have everything else for already, the Ancho Old Fashioned: one part Ancho, one part reposado tequila, one fourth-part rich simple syrup, and three shakes each Angostura and orange bitters. Stir with ice, strain into chilled Old Fashioned glass with the biggest ice cube you can muster, garnish with rolled orange and lemon peels, and think thoughts of bohemian barrios in post-revolutionary Mexico.

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The end of every year is rife with trend stories, especially in the food and drink press, and so it was that I learned that port is 2016’s Next Big Thing in the cocktail world.

It’s not a new assertion, but also not a surprising one. Port is available in a wide range of varieties, each with its own flavor profile — tawny ports are nutty and dry, ruby ports fruity and rich, white ports crisp and zippy, and there are several more types to explore.

The Portuguese wine (technically fortified wine, with an ABV around 20 percent) has in recent years shed its fussy reputation and slipped onto cutting-edge cocktail menus — rather than quaffing a glass with the other gentlemen in the library after dinner at Downton Abbey, you can enjoy it now at trendy Winerave events in Los Angeles or at cocktail joints in Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and Portland, Oregon.

So far as Remix goes, there are a few classic cocktails that incorporate port — and the best one I’ve tasted by far, despite its unfortunate name, is the Suburban. (It’s named after a horse race, not a supporter of urban flight.)

It’s a strong, rich, classic 1:2:3 recipe that demands to be sipped, every bit as muscular as a Manhattan.

If I may make my own trend prediction, I forecast a rise in bartenders mixing Suburbans in 2016. They’ll probably put their own twist on the recipe. The inspiration to look for a port cocktail was my luck in being able to try a bottle of Angel’s Envy over the New Year’s holiday.

It’s an 86-proof bourbon aged in port barrels named for the “angel’s share,” the

liquor that evaporates through the wood of the barrels while aging.

The port-barrel aging lends a figgy overtone to the silky-smooth bourbon.

Combining it with Hum Botanical Spirit, a hibiscus liqueur with complex cardamom overtones, makes for a ruby-toned cocktail similar to the Suburban, though there’s no actual port involved. Maybe that’s safer for now, for city dwellers.

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(Bend the peel over the top of the drink to express the oils before dropping it in.)

Remix 1 1/2 ounce Angel’s Envy bourbon 1 ounce Hum Botanical Spirit 1/2 ounce aged rum (I used Brugal 1888) I prefer to shake rather than stir, but the only true difference is that a shaken drink tends to be a bit cloudier. Whichever you choose, this drink is all liquor, so give it a good long stir or a 10-count shake to infuse a bit of water. (Serving it over ice really does affect the flavor, so unless you’re going to drink quickly, don’t. But if you have a gulper on hand, use one large piece of ice.)

Stir or shake all ingredients with cracked ice and strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel, expressing the citrus oil as above.

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While the country music America gold. Lord knows the mainstream continues Willies, Waylons, Merles and to set its sights on Georges of the world have dominating the popular music traveled that road in their time milieu with a sound as slick as well. Plus, Johnson’s vocal (and a message as vapid) as chops are a marvel all their own. any boy/girl band who has ever That said, Johnson’s biggest stormed the Top 40, singersongs to date, “The Dollar,” songwriter Jamey Johnson may “In Color” and “Playing the be torn between the bright lights Part” stand alongside his two of superficial success and the latest offerings as proof that Stetson brand laurels of the the man is more honky tonk venerable cowboy bard. than badonkadonk. Taken On the one hand, Johnson together, these three older songs is a deservedly well-respected showcase Johnson’s talents songwriter in Nashville, having well and lay bare his everyman written (and/or co-written) songs concerns. How do I stay real and that worked well for the likes of happy? What’s really valuable in George Strait, Trace Adkins, life?

Jessie James and Joe Nichols Is he sentimental? Yes, but before his own performing career just enough to be relatively took off. On the other hand, one universal. His songs, rewardingly, of those songs was the artistic are wrapped up in the great and cultural black hole known heartbreaks of contemporary as “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” American life. He’s not performed by Adkins. That song, judgmental, he doesn’t have a the biggest hit Johnson has been savior complex, he just knows the a part of, is irredeemable as spots that hurt and how to pick at anything other than a crude joke. them in plain but inventive song.

And then, generally speaking, At the beginning of 2015, there are sappy, Hallmark-card Johnson released two singles, qualities to some of the songs his first new original music on Johnson’s three official solo since 2010, in rather quick outings. That, however, is succession. It seemed probably to be expected like he was ramping Jamey Johnson when you’re trying to up to a new album $31-$51 toe the line between announcement at 7pm Sat, Feb. 20 Aztec Theatre solid country gold the time, but after a 104 N. St. Mary’s St. and actual Recording year we’re still left merely (210) 812-4355 Industry Association of to take these songs as theaztectheatre.com

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The first of these two songs — the aching song of self-centering and nostalgia “Alabama Pines” is akin to “Oklahoma Sunshine,” the Hal Bynum and Bud Reneau joint that Waylon Jennings knocked out of the park on his 1974 album The Ramblin’ Man. Details of “Pines” heroically deflated delivery aside, you know the narrative: I used to be there, but now I’m here, but I’ll always be there in spirit. It’s a fine song and one that showcases the gritty and emotive capabilities of Johnson’s powerful voice, if not the freshness of his subject matter.

The second of two latest singles, on the other hand, is a total doozy. The song “You Can,” a lost B-side from the mid-aughts, is a laidback hillbilly swing of a love song. In it, Johnson croons about a woman who can do the unthinkable, like making an Eskimo sweat or making ends meet in a difficult time or taming our wily speaker.

It’s a touching song and one can’t help but wonder if, like his protagonist, Johnson can do the seemingly impossible by carving out a contemporary country career for himself that is as commercially successful as it is artistically respectable.

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ROYAL JESTER Knight of the round tables Prince Paul plays SA M. SOLIS

Prince Paul can’t recall the last time he was in San Antonio, but after 30 years in the music industry you really can’t blame him.

Regarded as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop, Paul Huston started collecting records when he was 5-years-old and was spinning wax by age 10. His skills on the deck landed him a DJ gig with Stetsasonic, who released their first album in 1986, fit. It’s opening the door to production. gonna “I’ve been collecting since I was so little and I’ve sound like been analyzing records since I was so young that by it belongs the time it came for me to sit in the studio, I already together.” knew what I wanted to do,” says Prince Paul from With Paul at New York City via telephone. “It was just figuring the helm, the group out technically how to do it. Especially the early continued constructing days which was strictly looping and programming.” vibrant aural soundscapes on Paul’s critical breakthrough arrived three years their follow up album, De La Soul Is Dead, later with De La Soul’s seminal 3 Feet High receiving a coveted five-mic rating in The Source and Rising. Along with Public Enemy’s It Takes for their efforts. After parting ways with De La a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, and the Soul following their slept-on Buhloone Mindstate, Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, the De La Soul Paul went on to focus on his own work, including debut represents the gold standard of hip-hop the ambitious A Prince Among Thieves, and other sampling. Paul toured with Public Enemy as a collaborations. As the founder of Gravediggaz, he member of Stetsasonic, so the group’s influence taught The RZA how to program an SP-12, and comes as no surprise. went head to head with Dan the Automator on “The Bomb Squad was a serious inspiration for a couple of MPC drum machines as one half of me when I was making 3 Feet High and Rising,” Handsome Boy Modeling School. recalls Paul. “It Takes a Nation of Millions, Public More recently, Paul joined forces with his son P Enemy. License to Ill, Beastie Boys. Eazy Duz It. Forreal to create Negroes on Ice, a quirky concept To me the production on those records was just piece that showcases his trademark humor. He phenomenal. I was like ‘If I’m gonna make a record is currently putting the finishing touches on a I need to make it on this caliber, if I can.’” collaboration with Sacha Jenkins and J-Zone A sprawling sound collage blending elements called Super Black, and is particularly proud of of James Brown, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin and a forthcoming hip-hop Brazilian fusion project Michael Jackson — among others — 3 Feet High and featuring Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets Rising was a game changer in the industry creating fame. When he’s not channeling his inner the blueprint for how samples could be used and Kanye, Paul marvels at how far the culture compensated for in recordings. According to Paul, has come. the album was made for $25,000, which was split “I’m just surprised that we made it out between Paul, De La Soul and studio costs. The LP of the '80s,” admits Paul. “Being in hipis also credited with introducing the hip-hop skit and hop, especially an artist in the '80s, was was dubbed the “Sgt. Pepper of hip-hop” by like being in the civil rights the Village Voice. movement because you had Prince Paul w/ DJ “I think the key that we had for De La to fight for the music so it Jester the Filipino Fist, 45 Friday DJs Soul is we would put our samples in key,” could exist. I think a lot of and Midnight Swim kids today take that fight for Paul says. “If were gonna multi-sample $10-$12 something and make a record with layers granted. How rock and roll 9pm Sat, Feb. 20 The Phantom Room of music, we’re not gonna just throw music was in the '50s, it was the 2106 N. St. Mary’s St. on top of each other. We’re gonna make it same thing.” sacurrent.com • February 17—February 23, 2016 • CURRENT 45

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Politics is a motherfucker. Governments are the worst. Power blows and those that seek it blow super hard. Human beings do terrible things to human beings. We cut each others' genitals off and drop bombs on one another, hoping it will convince folks that we’re really not bad people. We strip each others' rights away in the hopes it will make a “free-er” world.

I’m being a little flip, but that is precisely because of bearing witness to the inhumanity and degradation that we inflict upon our neighbors, ourselves and the planet.

The crushing weight of all the ugliness in the world can be paralyzing and it manifests itself in cavalier humor, particularly when one feels like they’ve been beating their head up against the wall, taking one step forward and two steps back, i.e. losing Bush and Dick and gaining Trump and Cruz.

Anti-Flag has been playing aggressive, antiauthoritarian punk rock for over two decades now and they have taken this debilitating burden on. They have, night after night, tour after tour and record after record, been on the frontlines railing against the System. Fighting the good fight. Keeping hope alive. All that positive shit.

Although the righteous progressiveness of their message is inspiring, what I really wanted to know from lead singer Justin Sane is how does a group, so embroiled in the shitty state of affairs, keep from burning themselves out?

How, particularly as a mid-level band, do you keep the fire burning to try to right some of the wrongs in which we find ourselves and our country involved?

“There are definitely times when I’m burnt out on the serious issues of the day, because no one person in the world can all of the time, their entire life, just feel like, ‘Hey, today I wanna tackle the world’s problems.’ At some point, people need to take a break,” remarks Sane.

I also wondered if Sane, personally, ever feels like they are clocking in to fight the man? In the small spectacle that is the punk rock scene, does caring ever feel forced?

“Every night when I go out and sing ‘Die For the Government,’ it might mean more to me one night than it

does another night … Y’know, some nights I really react power ever forced into a constricting role of punk rock counselors or Sunday School seditionists, thus turning to it and other nights not as much,” he states. “But, I feel the egalitarian philosophy of the band and the scene like the meaning is still important because, hopefully, on its head and turning off the band members in the maybe it’s touching someone on an emotional level that is process? helping them to think.”

“Well, I will say that I really get a lot of my inspiration As the punk rock community can coincidentally be for doing the band, at this point, two decades in, from one of the most idealizing groups of individuals — a playing the live show, talking to people after the show particularly dangerous position because many consider who are telling me, ‘This band means a lot to me,’ and themselves above hero-worship and conformity, thus … ‘Please never stop.’ And I will say that that definitely shying away from self-reflection and objective judgment helps motivate me,” Sane says.

— it begs the question, does Anti-Flag find themselves In essence, as corny or naive as it may seem to on some sort of radical pedestal, gazed upon by adoring those that have had their fill of political involvement, it’s fans as heroes, archetypes of the American radical commendable to be in a band that will most likely never experience? be comfortable millionaires resting on their political “We’re not what [fans] expect. We’re not political laurels. robots, and they’re like, ‘Wow! Man, I thought all you guys And this is precisely because of the radical political did was sit around and talk about politics all day’ ... It’s element of the group. The essential politics — easy to get a perception of who a person is from beyond the Human Rights Campaign booths at their art or from their music because our music shows and the petitions for political prisoners Anti-Flag w/ War tends to be so intense, and there’s so much on Women, The — are the politics of fighting often unwinnable passion being put into it when it’s created that it Homeless Gospel battles, not because it’s sexy and you may get Choir and Knockin’ can give an impression to people that the artist to meet Brangelina, but because somebody’s Chucks is that person, or that thing, all the time,” Sane got to stave off the jaded cynicism and teach $15-$18 said.

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forever after referred to as the “West Her hair is teased tall and Side Sound.” coiffed into a hive. His shoes “For us, now that we look back shine and his carnation smells on it, it was like our Apollo Theater,” sweet as she rests her rouged cheek says Sunny Ozuna, frontman for the upon his shoulder. The band plays Sunliners and later the Sunglows. smooth and crisp, like a gentle breeze “Out of [Patio Andaluz] came not blown upon a breath of spring. The only our childhood for all the baby young couple sways in time, arms boomer generation here in town and aching to hold more than just the San Antonio’s oldest teenagers, but palpitating bodies confined within the we kinda developed … our own little satin of her blouse, the polyester of his sound for San Antonio.” coat. The band ambles to a stop and In true DIY fashion — long before it thanks the crowd, taking their bows. The was a kitschy catchphrase or a portent youthful couple moves their aching lips political philosophy — San Antonio’s toward each other, eyes closing as they teenagers were cobbling together embrace for the sweet release. the tune of their tears, the sounds The place to be in San Antonio on of a sigh reverberating through an a Friday night from the late ’50s to the emptying school gym, the mixtape to mid-’70s was Patio Andaluz, ground a young generation turning past the zero for the city’s baby boomers and foreword in the weathered pages of their perpetuation of the lustful world the Book of Love: the music of San of rock ‘n’ roll and teenaged sin, bobby Antonio and its children. socks and broken hearts. Any number The teenage lovers open their eyes. of happenin’ bands — Sunny and the It’s 50 years later and they are once Sunglows, the Royal Jesters, Charlie again back within the broad expanse and the Jives, Rudy and The Reno of a hall full of dreamy Bops, The Dreamliners, music and starry-eyed Sonny Ace or Little Henry Patio Andaluz Reunion w/ lovers, those old feelings & the Laveers — were Sunny Ozuna, Archie Bell, Rudy dancing across the unknowingly becoming Tee Gonzales, Jimmy Charles, room upon a song. The the soundtrack fo SA's Sonny Ace, Little Henry & the musicians are older, youth, their warm nights Laveers and tributes to the Dreamliners, Randy Garibay, aged with the inevitable spent sailing across the Royal Jesters and Dimas passing of time, but the dance floor, and the Garzas the music is still just as rest of their lives. The $29.50-$74.50 powerful as before. The 7pm Sun, Feb. 21 ensembles that played Tobin Center for the Performing Arts couple closes their eyes the now-famous locale 100 Auditorium Circle once more … dtbuffkin@ built their own brand of (210) 223-8624 sacurrent.com music in the process, tobincenter.org

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Portland has been known to churn out a number of interesting bands and Radiation City is definitely among them.

Starting as a relationship between singer/ keyboardist Lizzy Ellison and guitarist Cameron Spies, Radiation City had a quiet, quaint beginning getting a push start from DIY record label Apes Tapes. However, soon after, the West Coast outfit were signed for their “Jetsons-era doo wop,” dreamy pop fluorescents and nostalgic bossa nova leanings. Even their harmonies can hold a candle to some of the best harmony-based groups as Ellison’s voice ricochets between an earnest croon and wistful timbres to slow-burning vocal leads.

Now, a few albums in, their newest effort Synesthetica proves that they are able to coalesce their ’90s Stereolab influences without losing their pop flare. Each song radiates with glistening synths and lush choruses, all accompanied by ’60s-era harmonies. Songs like “Juicy” and “Fancy Cherries” boast sheets of vocal melodies, while “Come and Go” has bossa beats mixed in with sinuous jazz solos. While The Hand that Takes You and Animals in the Median returned with lackluster results, Synesthetica proves Radiation City is more confident and wily than ever. With Deep Sea Diver and Pop Pistol. $7-$12, 9pm, Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 735-7775, thelimelightsa.com – Alejandra Ramirez

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Hi-Tones, 9pm

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PRCA Rodeo with Billy Currington

The nicest thing for me to write about Currington would be that we both like women and beer. Only one of us makes millions singing rudimentary tailgate anthems about 'em, however. AT&T Center, 7:30pm

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brings that same sense of muted style to their tailored pop-funk. With West Without, Sioux & Fox and Lowly Servants.

Limelight, 9pm

Saturday, February 20

Blackbird Sing and Michael J & the Foxes One of the city's hardworking

honky tonk 'n' roll bands sets the stage for another. With Ohioan. Limelight, 9pm

Fuck Cancer: A Tribute to Lemmy

Motörhead-influenced rock 'n' rollers Over the Top, Eagle Claw, Hotzi, Cosmic Behemoth and Motörhead cover band Martyrhead pay tribute to the baddest motherfucker in rock 'n' roll ever. Yes, ever.

Paper Tiger, 8pm

Go Betty Go All-female Chicano pop-punk

band Go Betty Go should fit right into SA's thriving scene. With SA riot grrrl reboot Fea. The Korova, 8pm

Noche Azul: Romance Gitano Azul

Barrientos will take her audience through a journey of Romani culture with a blend of music and multimedia story-telling.

Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 8pm

Operation Mindcrime with Geoff Tate

The former Queensrÿche frontman performs the records that made the band a household name, 'til they fired him. Hard to find good help these days, aye, Geoff?

Alamo City Music Hall, 8pm

PRCA Rodeo with Trace Adkins The

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Noise. The answer is noise. Paso Hondo Noise Compound, 7:30pm

SWMRS If I never again see another indie

janglerock band with no vowels in their name it wll b t sn. With The Frights and The Turnaways. The Korova, 8pm

Vikki Carr & Mariachi Aztlan Sultry San

Antonio chanteuse Vikki Carr handpicked Mariachi Aztlan to accompany her for this memorable occasion. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm

Will Owen Gage and Friends The meta-

dexterous savant who has been given the stamp of approval by numerous Texas blues greats hosts his own blues bash featuring San Antonio legends Spot Barnett, Frank Rodarte, Sauce Gonzales, Lil Roger, Mike Zeal and Ernie Durawa.

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Sunday, February 21

Double Eagle Vintage & Record Fair

Double Eagle Vintage hosts Exponential records, Holodeck records, Saustex records, Texas is Funny records and Yippee Ki Yay records in a Sunday flea market for audiophiles. Paper Tiger, 1pm

Las Tesoros de San Antonio: A Westside Story The world premiere of four of South Texas' gifted female musicians is told in this documentary directed by Jorge Sandoval. Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 5pm

PRCA Rodeo with Old Dominion The

Family and Faith Sunday theme returns to Shitkicker Palace. AT&T Center, 1pm

PRCA Rodeo with La Maquinaria Norteno It's Latin Night at the Rodeo!

Seriously, it's called "Latin Night." AT&T Center, 7:30pm

San Antonio Symphony Plays BaroqueVivaldi’s L’estro Armonico Be dazzled by the music of Vivaldi and Veracini, two Italian baroque composers whose rivalry inspired them to create an abundance of delightful and exuberant works. San Fernando Cathedral, 7pm

Shinyribs KSYM 90.1 Third Coast Network

celebrates their birthday with Ark-La-Tex bayou crooner Shinyribs. Sam’s Burger Joint, 9pm

Monday, February 22

PRCA Rodeo with Alan Jackson The don'trock-the-jukebox country icon comes through to rock the Spurs' house. AT&T Center, 7pm

Tuesday, February 23

PRCA Rodeo with Brad Paisley Continuing in the picker-sanger tradition of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and Vince Gill, Paisley is simply on the wrong side of the '90s for being just as respected by fans of the former talents. AT&T Center, 7pm

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My husband is Native American. I’m white. We’ve been together 16 years, raising a couple kids. We love each other very much, so this isn’t a deal breaker. I’ve got a thing for his long black hair. He’s a drop-dead gorgeous man, and while I gave up asking that he wear leggings or a breechcloth once in a while, I wish he would grow out his hair. I’m willing to wear (and do) anything he asks. He’s somewhere to the left of Sherman Alexie when it comes to this stuff, but could you tell me why I’m so wrong?

He keeps his hair short, and the one time I made enough of a fuss, he grew it out and never washed it just to spite me. A long time ago, he participated in a sun dance, and he looked incredible. So I guess that makes me a blasphemous pervert, but really? Is asking for a couple of braids really so wrong?

Whitey McWhite Wife I forwarded your e-mail to Sherman Alexie, the award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, and filmmaker. Your question must have touched a nerve, WMW, because Alexie’s response arrived while my computer was still making that woooosh-sending-e-mail sound. Now I’m going to step aside and let Alexie answer your question …

“What does ‘to the left of Sherman Alexie’ mean in this context? I doubt there are very many Native dudes more leftist than me! And long hair on Indian men is more conservative and more tribal, anyway — more ceremonial. More of a peacock thing, really. And a lot of work! My Native wife certainly misses my long hair. But I don’t miss the upkeep and I don’t miss answering questions about my hair. I mean, I cut my hair 13 years ago (more than 25 percent of my life ago), and some people still ask me about it! Thirteen years! Also, Native men tend to cut their hair as they age. Long hair is generally a young Indian man’s gig, culturally speaking.

“I would venture that Native dude is tired of being romanticized, ethnocized,

objectified. We Indians get enough of that shit in the outside world. Maybe this dude doesn’t want that in bed. Or maybe he just likes the way he looks with shorter hair.

Because I am getting so gray, long hair would make me look like a warlock having a midlife crisis. Maybe this Indian dude is just sick of all the sociopolitical shit that comes with long hair. Maybe it kills his boner. Talking about it has certainly killed my boner.”

Why would you call blumkins “sexist”? Are you excluding the idea that gay, bi, and trans people might participate? There are many sexual practices that are degrading.

If the partner consents, how is it “sexist”? Lastly, have you considered that a heterosexual female may want a blumkin of her own? I’m a heterosexual male, and I have no idea how you could defecate and remain erect — but to each his own! Your answer was irrational and sexist!

The Problem Isn’t Always Sexism Go to Urban Dictionary and read every definition for “blumkin,” TPIAS. There are nine of them. We’ll wait.

While almost all of the proposed definitions — including the top one — are gendered (“Taking a nice shit while your woman is sucking your cock”), even definitions that aren’t gendered (“Getting a blowjob while taking a stinky shit”) include examples of usage that are gendered (“Anthony really enjoyed it when Christy gave him a blumkin last night”). While a gay dude could suck his man’s cock while he was taking a stinky shit, and while a trans man could go eat his cis girlfriend’s pussy while she was dropping a deuce, the whole conversation about blumkins — and since blumkins are mythical, TPIAS, the convo is all we’ve got — isn’t about consensual degrading sex play. It’s about the symbolic degradation of women.

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EXAMPLE A NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT PROPOSED AIR QUALITY PERMIT NUMBER 135958 APPLICATION National Oilwell Varco, L.P., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for issuance of Air Quality Permit Number 135958, which would authorize construction of an Oilfield Sucker Rod Reclamation Facility located at 4612 County Road 430, Pleasanton, Atascosa County, Texas 78064. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=28.913994&lng=98.469125&zoom=13&type=r. The facility will emit the following contaminants: organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on December 23, 2015. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ San Antonio regional office, and the Pleasanton Public Library, 115 North Main Street, Pleasanton, Atascosa County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the San Antonio regional office of the TCEQ. The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application.

CHANGE IN LAW The Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 709, effective September 1, 2015, amending requirements for comments and contested case hearings. This application is subject to those changes in law.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING You may submit public comments, a request for a public meeting, or request a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments is 30 days after newspaper notice is published.

The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If only comments are received on the application, the response to comments, along with notice of the executive director’s action on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted comments or is on the mailing list for this application.

The executive director will complete the technical review, issue a preliminary decision on the application, and a Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision will be published and mailed to those who are on the mailing list for this application. That notice will contain the final deadline for submitting public comments. If a hearing request is timely filed in Response to this Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain Air Permit, the time period for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to thirty days after the mailing of the executive director’s response to comments.

After the final deadline for public comments following the Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments.

If comments are received, the response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application, will then be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or is on a mailing list for this application.

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OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application.

A contested case hearing will only be granted based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission’s decisions on the application. Further, the Commission will only grant a hearing on issues submitted by you or others during the public comment period and not withdrawn.

A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing”; (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or an association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.

Following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.

MAILING LIST In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive future public notices for this specific application mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk by sending a written request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www.tceq.texas.gov/about/comments.html, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. If you communicate with the TCEQ electronically, please be aware that your email address, like your physical mailing address, will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from National Oilwell Varco L.P., 7909 Parkwood Circle Drive, Houston, Texas 77036-6565 or by calling Ms. Jenny Moyers, HSE Officer Environmental at (713) 375-3722.

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23 Green beginning 24 Some journalism 25 Concert souvenir 28 Just fine 30 Opportunity, in metaphor 31 Particle from a weekend coffee server?

36 Conservatory focus 37 Snooze 38 Shoot the breeze 40 Jennings sends packages when there’s no mail service?

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59 Ashcroft and Holder, for short 60 Cedars-___ Medical Center 61 “Hand over the money!”

63 “Chi-Raq” director 64 Say “prob’ly,” for instance 65 Wombs 66 Drug for Hunter S. Thompson 67 Coup ___ 68 Labwork

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): “Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent,” said playwright Lillian Hellman. “When that happens, it is possible to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea.” Why does this happen? Because the painter changed his or her mind. Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life. Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view. But now those older possibilities are reemerging for your consideration. I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Let’s talk about your mouth. Since your words flow out of it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences. Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities. With its help, you sing, moan, shout, and laugh. It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus. It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Coloring books for adults are best-sellers.

Tightly-wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up blackand-white drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and pretty fishes. I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): The Old Testament book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field, or eat snails, prawns, pigs, and crabs.

(It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian:

Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about — even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate self-knowledge.

Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): You are entering the inquisitive phase of your astrological cycle. One of the best ways to thrive during the coming weeks will be to ask more questions than you have asked since you were five years old. Curiosity and good listening skills will be superpowers that you should you strive to activate. For now, what matters most is not what you already know but rather what you need to find out. It’s a favorable time to gather information about riddles and mysteries that have perplexed you for a long time. Be superreceptive and extra wide-eyed!

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do?

One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio.

Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion.

“It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): Asking you Sagittarians to be patient may be akin

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to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable?

Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.” French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Ann Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.”

I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”

Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal, and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now.

To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19):

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20):

“If you ask for help it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from — even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number.

In the long-running TV show M*A*S*H*, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care.

He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow