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Coalition Calls Proposed Mexican American Studies Textbook Inaccurate and Offensive “Welcome to Texas, where people forgot they were the immigrants, here as guest of Mexico.” – ­­Albert Layva Julián Castro Passed Over for VP Pick “I think it was a good move not to burn him in this shitty loaded election when he is still young and with a great potential career in front of him. BTW texas is not turning red, probably purple with some brownish tones from all the crap the GOP is dumping on us.” – Jorge Amodio Four Suicides in Four Weeks at the Bexar County Jail “Maybe it’s time for Sheriff Pamerleau to start looking for another job.” – Ray Ganceras Dan Patrick Calls For Federal Investigation Into Black Lives Matter Movement “I kinda wish Patrick could have a ‘Freaky Friday’ where he switches places with a black man living in the south who has to live with prejudices like you’ll find here on this thread.” – Michael John Marcinik Were Lawmakers Intentionally or Unintentionally Racist When They Passed Texas’ Voter ID Law? “It was not racist but it was meant to keep poor people or in the case of restricting voting hours working people from voting. Yes, it is true you have to show your id at other times. The purpose was to disenfranchise voters who were not Conservative or Republican. Calling it racist divides in some case the wrong people to the advantage of people hindering Americans voting rights. Any real American would be wanting to make it easier to vote not harder. Very simple and obvious. Everyone knows why they did it.” – Gary Torrence

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Bomb-Thrower At RNC, Ted Cruz boot-stomps any chance of party unity

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Juégala Fría Playing it cool with multitasking muralist David “Shek” Vega

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Sky High HDRC wonders: Should the new Frost Bank tower be taller?

“Discriminatory Intent” Were lawmakers intentionally or unintentionally racist when they passed Texas’ voter ID law?

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If last week’s news that the federal Fifth Circuit appeals court struck down Texas’ Voter ID law felt like deja vu, there’s a pretty good reason for that.

Ever since the Republican majority rammed the law through the legislature in 2011, what’s been widely considered the strictest voter ID law in the nation has made more than one brain-twisting trip up and down the legal ladder. Wednesday marked the second time judges on the notoriously conservative Fifth Circuit court echoed a lower ruling that called the voter ID requirements in Senate Bill 14 an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote that carries an “impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African Americans.”

Most of the Fifth Circuit judges agreed last week that Texas’ law currently violates the Voting Rights Act, sending the case back down to a lower court with instructions to tweak the state’s rules ahead of November’s presidential election. But in a flood of concurring and dissenting opinions, the Fifth Circuit judges also vehemently argued over another question central to the case: Did lawmakers pass the law knowing, even hoping, that it could suppress the black and brown vote?

The latest challenge to the voter ID rules ultimately went before Corpus Christi federal district court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, who after a 2014 trial issued a 147page opinion that condemned the law as a discriminatory, unconstitutional modern day poll tax. As Ramos wrote: “The Court holds that SB 14 creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African Americans and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose. The Court further holds that SB 14 constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax.”

To support her finding that the law was passed with a “discriminatory purpose,” Ramos leaned heavily on Texas’ long track record of voting laws that discriminated

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against people of color, such as all white primaries until 1944, poll taxes until 1966, or literacy tests and secret ballots until the 1970s. Ramos also honed in on Waller County for more recent examples of official racism. For instance, a local law prohibiting people from voting unless their families’ owned land in the county was apparently enforced until the early 1990s, when the local district attorney came under fire for prosecuting a student from Prairie View A&M, a historically black school, for “illegally voting” (charges were dropped after the U.S. Justice Department stepped in).

Last Wednesday, Fifth Circuit basically punted on the question of whether lawmakers intentionally passed a law that discriminated against minorities. The plurality opinion, cobbled together from no less than six separate dissenting and concurring opinions by various judges on the court, sent the issue of “discriminatory intent” back down to Ramos’ court, saying she got it wrong the first time but that there’s still too much evidence that lawmakers knowingly passed a racist law to completely ignore the issue.

“We recognize that evaluating motive, particularly the motive of dozens of people, is a difficult enterprise,” wrote Judge Catharina Haynes. “We acknowledge the charged nature of accusations of racism, particularly against a legislative body, but we must also face the sad truth that racism continues to exist in our modern American society despite years of laws designed to eradicate it.”

In her opinion, Haynes says the precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court requires that judges look at a number of factors when determining whether a law was deliberately passed for the purpose of discrimination — like the legislative history of a bill, any contemporaneous statements from lawmakers supporting the bill, and whether lawmakers took any extraordinary steps to pass it.

Ramos’ ruling appeared to check most of, if not all, of those boxes. Lawmakers passed the voter ID

requirements despite repeated warnings from opponents that Senate Bill 14 would disenfranchise poor and minority voters, something some proponents of the law even publicly admitted would probably happen. The GOPdominated legislature passed Senate Bill 14 in order to solve something that wasn’t a problem in the first place (out of 20 million votes cast in the decade leading up to the bill’s passage, there were only two convictions for in-person voter fraud in the entire state). Hanyes’ opinion also says the bill’s supporters went to extraordinary lengths to pass the voter ID restrictions — then-Gov. Perry labeled it an “emergency item” for quick consideration, the state senate suspended a longstanding rule to pass it, and both chambers bypassed the normal committee process to rapidly bring the bill to a vote. “Such treatment was virtually unprecedented,” Haynes wrote.

In addition to outlining the state’s history of racist voting laws, the lower court ruling had also pointed to other times Texas has run afoul of the Voting Rights Act, particularly in the area of redistricting. In her opinion Wednesday, Haynes even acknowledged that in every redistricting cycle since 1970, Texas has been found to have violated the Voting Rights Act with racially gerrymandered districts.

Of course, some judges on the most conservative appeals court in the country think the question of racist intent is absurd and should have been completely tossed by the appeals court. Among them is Judge Edith Jones, who has herself come under fire for past remarks about blacks and Hispanics being “prone” to commit acts of violence.

In her lengthy dissent, Jones wrote that by keeping the question of discriminatory intent alive, “the majority fans the flames of perniciously irresponsible name-calling.”

She then compared judges who disagree with her to “Area 51 alien enthusiasts who, lacking any real evidence, espied a vast but clandestine government conspiracy to conceal the truth.”

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Only time will tell whether Ted Cruz’s speech at the Republican National Convention last week was one of the best or worst moments of his political career.

Not only was Cruz booed off the stage in Cleveland, but his wife was whisked away by security as Donald Trump supporters began to heckle her before the senator had even finished his speech to the party. It quickly became the biggest story of the night, overshadowing what was supposed to be the primetime debut of Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Trump’s relatively obscure pick for VP. CNN awkwardly declared that Cruz had “sensationally withheld” his endorsement of Trump, a reminder that Cruz shares Trump’s uncanny ability to harness controversy to highjack the news cycle.

It was always unlikely that Cruz, who has built a political career off being the bomb-thrower of his party, would play nice on the convention stage after a bitter primary battle that devolved to the point where Trump had begun to suggest Cruz’s father had something to do with the President Kennedy assassination. But as the New York Times put it, Cruz “has all but declared that he wants to run for president again in 2020,” so maybe he’s betting that buyer’s remorse will kick in sooner or later.

Which might also explain why the Tea Party senator’s

straight, the Bill of Rights protects the rights of all of us to live according to At RNC, Ted Cruz our conscience.” boot-stomps But whatever tone he was aiming for, somewhere around the time Cruz any chance of began to beg citizens not to stay home party unity in November, the crowd of delegates before him started to grow impatient.

MICHAEL BARAJAS | @MICHAELSBARAJAS While some chanted, “Vote for Trump!” others just yelled, “Say it!” Cruz grinned and kept plugging away at his speech, urging voters to “stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”

Things went downhill quickly, and eventually this smarmy retort slid out of Cruz’s mouth: “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation.” speech last Wednesday night struck somewhat of a As the booing got louder, Cruz’s speech veered toward different tone, at least at first, than the typical Cruz lecture as he told anyone who was still listening that the scorcher. Much of the first half seemed geared toward GOP must work hard to bring in wary voters. calming anyone in the party royally freaked by Trump’s That could be even more difficult for the party now rise within the GOP. “Like you, I want to see the that Cruz has highlighted the deep divisions that still principles that our party believes in prevail in November,” exist within the GOP in the Trump Era. The question is he said before running through a list of bread-and-butter whether Cruz effectively boot-stomped any chance of conservative causes that didn’t include tracking down and forcing all Muslims to register in a national database. party unity Wednesday night because he’s eyeing some long game. Or maybe the bomb-thrower finally wants to When Cruz talked about religious freedom, he even just sit back to watch his party burn. added this very surprising line: “Whether you are gay or

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HDRC wonders: Should the new Frost Bank tower be taller? > San Antonio’s newest skyscraper just isn’t tall enough, at least according to city Historic and Design Review Commission Vice Chair Michael Connor.

The criticism came last week as the design team for Weston Urban, a developer the city has handed some $1 million in fee waivers for the project, gave commission members their first look at the design concept for the new Frost Bank Tower, which would be the first major change to the city’s skyline in 27 years. After about an hour of grilling representatives from Alamo Architects and the firm Pelli Clarke Pelli, which created the current design, the commission signed off on plans for the new tower, but not without stipulations. This is the first regulatory hurdle the 23-story building has had to pass since City Council approved the project last June.

During the meeting, Connor wondered whether the tower would be tall enough to be the city’s newest, iconic skyscraper. Sure, there’s financial risk in building as high as possible, Connor said, but this is an opportunity to forever change the city’s skyline.

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better if it was a little bit taller,” Connor said. William Butler, of the Pelli Clarke Pelli firm, told the HDRC during his presentation that the height of the building reflects economic realities.

The HDRC also criticized the base of the 400foot tower that will be at the corner of Houston and Flores Streets. Commissioners were also underwhelmed by the Camaron Street side of the building, which is right next to the massive San Pedro Creek renovation project.

The new skyscraper is part of a public-private partnership City Council approved last year that included spending $51 million to buy the old 22-story Frost Bank Tower at 100 W. Houston Street, where a currently scattered city staff will consolidate. That building is a $6.7 million fixer-upper as half the building needs to be renovated.

Alamo Architects and Pellie Clarke Pelli will have to appear before the HDRC again as designs for the Frost Bank Tower continue to develop. Construction on the new building is supposed to start this winter and be complete by 2018.

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David “Shek” Vega is a man possessed of a perpetually molten creative core.

At 35 years old, Vega, who got his real start and earned his deepest lessons as a graffiti artist on San Antonio’s South Side, is a sought-after muralist, a successful contemporary artist who has adroitly carried his San Anto street art style to fine art fruition, a noted gallery owner and curator, and an important mentor and friend to artists who lack proper support, space and respect for their work. Opened in 2011, Vega’s Gravelmouth Gallery, in which he displays his own creations and curates increasingly excellent group and solo exhibitions, has turned plenty of heads, including those of San Antonio Current readers, who often place the gallery in the top tier during our annual Best of San Antonio poll.

This year, amid celebrations for the gallery’s fifth anniversary, and several other projects, Vega has worked with his longtime friend, mentor and frequent collaborator Nik Soupé on murals for the San Antonio Spurs and guest curated the 21st annual incarnation of Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum’s esteemed Young Latino Artists exhibition (YLA 21: “Amexican@”). Vega also contributed a bright and cheeky, Spanish-English mural to Mexic-Arte’s outer wall, reminding passersby to “juégala fría” (“play it cool”) as temperatures and tempers heat up this summer.

Thoroughly impressed by the Vega-curated YLA 21 exhibition — which exports the San Anto aesthetic to ATX via seven SA-affiliated artists among the group’s eleven — we came to the conclusion that this is the moment to tell Shek’s story. It’s a San Antonio story about the view from the outside and how, even when it pisses you off

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Playing it cool with multitasking muralist David “Shek” Vega

(probably, especially when it pisses you off), it can be your most powerful weapon. Recently, I spent a late morning at Gravelmouth with Vega and we talked about all that’s poppin’ for him and his affiliates; we talked about graffiti and biases and cops; we talked about art and college and heart; we talked about the future. But first, we talked about the spark — the spark of his creative passion and how he eventually taught it to blaze. I found the artist candid, passionate and warm, with a decided air of the type of wisdom that cuts through the bullshit.

Drawing and art were always a part of Vega’s life, for as long as he can remember. But, in third grade, when a teacher who’d noted his talents handed him a Pablo Picasso book, “as cliché as that might sound,” he was ignited in a certain special way, enamored with how “different, odd and unbelievably free” the precocious modern master’s work felt. Driven to express himself in the visual arts, yet feeling under-challenged and underserved by the opportunities to grow as an artist in his school setting, Vega turned to graffiti at age 13, seeking to show his heart, and thus establish his own identity and presence, on the gallery walls that are the city itself.

And from that point on, even as he honed his craft late at night, waiting for a perfect moon-washed canvas, Vega began to feel, without being wholly conscious of it at first, the class lines that have traditionally divided the art of the people from the art of the establishment. Let’s put it this way: Even though his parents, who worked hard

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for him and his sister, were always supportive of his art, “they couldn’t know really just how much experience and practice [he] was getting.” For Vega, this kind of vigilante street art was a way to grow and, as he saw it in his teen years, a way to “do something that mattered, something to make a name for yourself,” figuring “you might not live past 25.” And, as an impossibly young graffiti artist, Vega certainly did make a name for himself.

Shortly after the year 2000, Pepsi released a graffiti in action-style commercial featuring Vega and Soupé at work (for their Pepsi Sí campaign) and Vega, at Soupé’s behest, took his first forays into canvas work for gallery exhibition. Though things looked up for the young and ever more skilled Vega, the next 10 years were fraught with the kind of things associated with a slow climb up unfriendly slopes. While a solo show (2004) along with work featured in Contemporary Art Month (2005) and a Vice magazine group show in Austin (2006) bolstered Vega’s confidence and profile, it was, and is still, hard for artists with street art roots to be accepted by the broader art establishment.

“Graffiti artists deserve respect,” Vega complained, “they are literally risking their freedom to create these works of art. That deserves respect from people who love art.” He added, “Graffiti is homegrown, it grows inside our communities and individuals.”

Taking a broader view of the San Antonio art establishment, Vega continued, “I mean, there’s a lot that you have to dismiss if you’re only looking for artists with

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degrees.” (Which is apparently a real thing.) “There are a lot of artists just like me, doing graffiti-inspired canvases, street art-inspired canvases, unique stuff, and being rejected by the street art community because it’s not on the walls and by the art establishment because it’s not considered fine art.”

As he’s become increasingly successful, Vega has received some pressure to distance himself from that street laboratory where he performed his most important experiments. “People try to get me to teach classes and tell people not to do graffiti,” he explained, “but I really can’t tell people not to do graffiti, because if it wasn’t for graffiti I wouldn’t be where I’m at today.” Instead, Vega wants to show young graffiti artists that there is a pathway to eventually do something different with their art “when they’re ready.” Still, regarding any possible clandestine art adventures in his own present life, Vega was quick to dismiss: “No, no. I’ve done my time out there. It’s someone else’s turn.”

Since founding Gravelmouth in 2011, Vega has enjoyed a well-deserved upswing in popularity and critical respect. He’s also developed his style into a rambunctiously refined fine art-street art hybrid that seems to emerge from his canvases and desecrate the white gallery walls with colorful reminders that the streets are still right here, and no one should get to feeling too complacent.

His art is always clever, always forward-thinking, in turns bright and loud or muted and subtle. He’s not always looking to make a political statement with his works, but when he does, he hits his mark hard. At the moment of our visit, one of the striking figures haunting Vega’s gallery walls, in the 2015 painting Identify Yourself, is a shirtless vato borracho, paper bag-encased poison in hand, sporting devotional tattoos to consumerism’s siren call (Mickey Mouse), to the Catholic faith (Our Lady of Guadalupe), to a distant indigenous identity (pre-Columbian pyramid), and to his beloved home state (Texas, writ in shaky Old English font). Behind him, like a wall of brightlycolored city noise, are scrawled the words in which the man has failed to find a complete identity, the socio-linguistic constructions whose boundaries he’s been unable to stay within: “Mexicano,” “Latino,” “Hispanic,” “Tejano,” Chicano,” “Americano,” “Mestizo,” “Other.”

With Soupé, and occasionally a few other artists, Vega founded the muralist group Los Otros (the others or the outsiders) when, upon being commissioned to paint the mural adorning the Current headquarters, he realized he needed help he could trust to dig his vision and match his execution. Since completing that first one, Los Otros has created more than 20 murals in San Antonio

and elsewhere (Detroit, D.C., Houston), basically averaging nearly a mural a month. Surely you’ve seen the Luminaria mural featured on this week’s cover, or one of the Spurs murals (on TV, all fancy), or the one at The Mix or Bottom Bracket Bicycle Shop.

The opportunity to curate the YLA 21 show at Mexic-Arte, and that show’s overall excellence, is just the latest in a string of wins for Vega, who maintains his cool through an “anxious” need to hurl himself into new work — dude also works 40 hours a week at the party supply wholesale shop his family owns, no big deal. By staying busy bringing new talent to Gravelmouth and doing his own work, he’s able to overlook the fact that he still feels “like an underdog” and to channel any anger that may arise into feeding his valiant work ethic.

Vega explained his curatorial aims with the YLA 21 show like this: “These are young artists from different places, working in different mediums, with different types of educations and they come at the same questions of identity in wild ways. The question is where do we stand now? How far does [Latin@ identity] spread out and how many ways are there of telling your story and doing your work? Did you cook tortillas with your mom or abuela? Good. Did you watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Well, good. People are finding new ways to live and express themselves.”

With regard to constraints on his curatorial process, Vega was pleased with his freedom in choosing the artists and pieces he really wanted for the exhibition, further proof of the trust the museum has in his vision and taste.

If the whole San Antonio art community isn’t paying attention by now, it’s becoming increasingly less of a worry for Vega.

When I asked about the near future for Vega, he predictably seemed flabbergasted by the mere task of mentioning all that’s going on with the everimproving gallery and his own projects. So, I asked him how he curates for Gravelmouth and what he wants to see happen there. His answer pretty much sums up why this is a guy you’ll want to start paying attention to: “The gallery is an extension of myself really, to put it in kind of a selfish way. I want to bring light to street art and artists from where I am from, but I also just want to display innovative things that catch my eye or that I think might be something San Antonio needs to see. I do want to ruffle feathers and surprise people. It’s like getting dressed in the morning. What speaks to me? How do I want to represent myself and my community to the world? Also, I try to pick up some of the pieces that the rest of the local art community finds a reason not to showcase.”

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aken as a whole, YLA 21: “Amexican@” is dizzying (in a giddy way) in scope, featuring light installation, video, portrait photography, photo-collage, fashion and various paintings/compositions of mixed media, all from artists under 35 and all centered around Vega’s desire to highlight “younger artists, who grew up in a digital United States, who can build a bridge to young audiences of all different backgrounds, sometimes expressing disconnect from their culture or nostalgia for it, but it’s fresh and of the moment, so all kinds of people can easily relate.”

Purposely branching out from art that focuses purely on the Chicano movement as a one-size mode for exploring the increasingly varied Latin@-American experience, Vega’s selections here present multiple, often highly-individualized, representations of the Latin@-American identity struggle, often approached through the consumerist debris of the digital age combined with certain traditional touchstones of heritage. Here’s a quick look at a few of the San Antonioaffiliated artists in the exhibition.

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◀ “Country-western music is about love and loss,” says Reformed Whores guitarist Katy Frame to the audience at Gotham City Comedy Club in New York. Ukelele player Marie Cecile Anderson adds “Folks we know this is a comedy show, but … we’re gonna play y’all the saddest country love song ever written.”

Then the duo launches into “Hump-A-Lot Bear” a low-tempo number about forbidden love between a young girl and the stuffed Care Bear her parents callously throw away after they catch her … well you get the idea. As their name, not to mention the title of their latest album Don’t Beat Around the Bush, would indicate, the Whores don’t waste blood blushing at their own sexuality. Songs like “Whorny,” “Raw Hide (The Waxing Song)” and “Southern Cumfort” feature double entendres only in that they sometimes repeat themselves. Anderson and Frame spice up all that sex talk with feminist PSAs like “Girls Poop Too” and “Douchebags” and make a conscious effort to be less heteronormative with “Eating Out.” This is outlaw country circa 2016. $17, 8:30pm Thu, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, 8pm Sun, Improv San Antonio Rivercenter, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 229-1420, rivercentercomedyclub.com. — Jeremy Martin

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◀ While many have used the reality WED competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race as a career launchpad, few have done so as drag Carmen memorably as Carmen Carrera Carrera, a Jersey girl who first reached the masses via stints on season three and RuPaul’s Drag U (a spinoff hosted by the “Supermodel of the World” alongside an array of “drag queen professors”). Since leaving the show and coming out as a trans woman, Carrera has proven herself as an actress and model, making

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appearances in W and Glamour magazines as well as the Meryl Streep vehicle Ricki and the Flash and the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful. Represented

by New York’s esteemed Elite Model Management, Carrera has grabbed headlines for speaking out against transphobic language (coming from the likes of Chelsea Handler, RuPaul and Bianca del Rio) and a 2013 petition that garnered nearly 50,000 signatures in the name of making her the first transgender model to walk the Victoria’s Secret runway. Carrera returns to the Alamo City for a performance at Heat courtesy of Rey Lopez Entertainment. $10-$25, 10:30pm & midnight, Heat Nightclub, 1500 N. Main Ave., (210) 227-2600, reylopezentertainment.com. — Marco Aquino

◀ If the $10 surcharge has deterred you from taking in all religious splendor and gilded extravagance of the San Antonio Museum of Art’s “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art of the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection,” take a look at the bells and whistles of this summer date night. Besides two-for-one admission and enlightening tours of the exhibition, the evening includes live acoustic world music from local husband-and-wife duo Jorge & Nicole, a cash bar stocked with sangria, gourmet tacos for purchase from the Mr. Meximum food truck and an outdoor screening of Brazilian director Walter Salles’ Ernesto “Che” Guevara biopic The Motorcycle Diaries. Based on a memoir that’s been likened to a cross between Karl Marx’s seminal work Das Kapital and Dennis Hopper’s road-trip classic Easy Rider, the 2004 film stars Gael García Bernal as Guevera in the midst of the pivotal 1952 journey that transformed him from medical student to Marxist revolutionary. $15-$20 per couple, 7-11pm, San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100, samuseum.org. — Bryan Rindfuss

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◀ Celebrity appearances and photo ops, panel discussions and a host of other special events take center stage at Texas Comicon, a three-day celebration of sci-fi/horror, comic books, gaming, exhibitors and artists. The motley crew of actors scheduled to attend include Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf from the Star Trek franchise), Tony Todd (the title character from Candyman), Spencer Wilding (Humbaba from The Legend of Hercules) and Erik Estrada (Officer Ponch from TV’s CHiPs). Panel discussions during the event include “Superheroic Science,” an examination of “the real life implications and scientific issues of having superpowers” and a Q&A with actors Steve Cardenas and Yoshi Sudarso, who star in separate Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series. Also on the slate: trading-card gaming, model building, costume contests, dance performances and lightsaber and parkour demos.

And while it’s not on the agenda, there’s sure to be some major Pokémon hunting taking place outside the venue. Here’s hoping there are a few Snorlax hanging around. $15-$55, noon9pm Fri, 10am-9pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun, San Antonio Event Center, 8111 Meadow Leaf Drive, (210) 528-0434, texascomicon.com. – Kiko Martínez

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◀ If you’re only familiar with Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor,” culture up and attend at least one of these five concerts where some of the 18thcentury composer’s most beloved work will be performed by musicians from across Texas. Hosted by the University of the Incarnate Word, the first of two weekends

showcases the talents of cellist Douglas Harvey, pianists Toby Blumenthal, Younggun Kim (pictured) and Rick Rowley and Austin’s Artisan String Quartet. $25-$30, 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun, University of the Incarnate Word Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway, (210) 829-6000, uiw.edu/ mozartfestival. — KM

◀ The Playhouse San Antonio brings a Two Sisters music lesser-known play penned by Pulitzer and a Piano Prize winner Nilo theater Cruz to its Cellar Theater this month.

Cruz’s Two Sisters and a Piano is set in his native Cuba in 1991, under Castro’s regime just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unlike blockbusters such as Les Misérables, political turmoil is not at the forefront of this drama. Instead, the play focuses on sisters Maria and Sofia as they adjust to a sentence of permanent house arrest, exploring the subtleties of how life and love are affected by a suffocating regime. Omar Leos directs Maria Ibarra, Ailyn Duran, Victor Trevino and Paul Ramos in The Playhouse’s production. $12-$30, 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun, The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258, theplayhousesa.org. — Kelly Merka Nelson

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▶ In addition to providing preventative health services and serving as a “one-stop shop for individuals with immediate basic needs,” the nonprofit Martinez Street Women’s Center makes a positive impact through Girl Zone — a free empowerment program geared for elementary and middle school students who lack opportunities “simply because of the zip code that they live in.” Presented as an opportunity for Girl Zone summer campers to “get engaged and entwined in the fabric of their community,” the group exhibit “Girl’s Eye View” tasked participants with capturing the essence of San Antonio’s East Side through photography, film and poetry. As Girl Zone summer camp art director, Ernesto Olivo sees the project as “a way to amplify where they are coming from, what they are going through and how they are seeing that growth within themselves here in this community.” $6-$8, 9am-5pm Fri-Sat, noon-5pm Sun, 9am-5pm Mon-Tue, Institute of Texan Cultures, 801 E. César E. Chávez Blvd., (210) 458-2300, texancultures.com. — BR

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◀ Now an elder stateswoman of post-country with both Juno and Grammy awards to her credit, gender-bending Canadian chanteuse k.d. lang teams up with like-minded musical nomads Neko Case and Laura Veirs. Since first reaching indie airwaves as a vocalist with the Canadian alt-pop-rock outfit New Pornographers, Case has proven herself as a powerful singer-songwriter with a distinct voice and eclectic range that spans from alt-country to folk noir and beyond. As for the dark horse of the bunch, Portland-based Veirs got her start in the all-female punk band Rair Kx! but has since challenged fans’ expectations via everything from intricate string arrangements to the well-received children’s album Tumble Bee. The trio performs at the Tobin in support of their recently released collaborative LP case/lang/veirs. $43.50-$104, 7:30pm, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — Don Mathis

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▲ This film won Mexico’s Ariel Award for Best Picture in 2015 and takes place during the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, yet it feels like a lost product of the 1960s French New Wave, as admitted by director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Shot in black and

white, it’s a “day in the life” road trip full of exuberant, self-conscious, playful, mock-improvised moments that show a love for cinema. At one point the characters discuss the screenplay: “It’s a chase movie.” In other words, it bursts with youthful vitality and confusion, as scored by a gorgeously nostalgic soundtrack while three teens search all over the city for enigmatic Mexican folk rocker Epigmeneo Cruz. Texas Public Radio screens the unrated Spanish-language film as part of its Cinema Tuesdays series. $10-$15, 7:30pm, Santikos Bijou, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 614-8977, tpr.org. — Michael Barrett

The Cult ▲ British rockers The Cult have built a reputation on transcending the metal genre. Since their 1983 debut, original members/songwriters Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy have delved into a crucible of influences combining post-punk themes and hard rock arrangements into a sound that managed to stay relevant as rock music progressed from the ’80s to the ’90s.

They perfected this on their fourth album, Sonic Temple, fueled by the hit single “Fire Woman.” Astbury’s broad vocals, reminiscent of a more theatrical Jim Morrison, are a perfect complement to Duffy’s steamy guitar riffs, provoking tenderness within the aggressive sound. $30-$55, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 8124355, theaztectheatre. com. — Erik Casarez

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Museum of Art’s Amy Moorefield acts as juror for the Southwest School of Art’s “All School Exhibition,” which showcases recent works by students and studio artists who have participated in SSA workshops, classes and programs. Free, 9am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm Sunday, 9am-5pm Monday-Tuesday; Southwest School of Art - Navarro Campus, 1201 Navarro St., (210) 224-1848.

International Artist-in-Residence Exhibition Selected by guest curator

Dominic Molon, Andy Coolquitt (Austin), Juan William Chávez (St. Louis) and Rachel Maclean (Glasgow) present site-specific exhibitions in conjunction with Artpace’s International Artist-in-Residence program.

Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday; Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.

”Vacancy” Nodding with its title to the

absence of people — and sometimes life in general — in her gouache and graphite works, “Vacancy” sees California-based artist Sara Frantz acting as “the architect of a fake utopian commune of trailer homes.” Free, 2-7pm Thursday-Saturday; Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047.

FILM He Got Game The McNay’s Get Reel film

series revisits Spike Lee’s 1998 drama starring Denzel Washington as a convict who’s secretly released from Attica in an effort to lure his basketball star son onto the Governor of New York’s favorite college team. Free, wine reception at 6:30pm, film at 7pm Thursday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

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teenage girls and interviews with Gloria Steinem, Margaret Cho, Condoleezza Rice, Rachel Maddow and others, writer/ director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 film Miss Representation explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America and

challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

Free, 6-8pm Wednesday; Movement Gallery, 1412 E. Commerce St., (210) 299-2666.

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in Texas partner with the Esperanza for a screening of Bertram Verhaag and Claus Biegert’s documentary focusing on the life and work of Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabe activist who studied economics at Harvard University and later returned home to northern Minnesota’s White Earth reservation to help restore the local land base and traditional culture. $5, 6:308:30pm Saturday; Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Ave., (210) 227-4940.

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staying in business for well over 50 years, when La Grange’s Chicken Ranch brothel was finally closed, it wasn’t relegated to be a footnote in local history. Instead, the ramshackle operation that allegedly accepted chickens as payment for “services rendered” became immortalized in the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Fittingly, The Playhouse has brought the musical back to the stage a mere stone’s throw from the original locale, giving numbers like “The Aggie Song” and “The Bus from Amarillo” a little extra oomph. $12-$30, 8pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

TALKS PLUS Flashback Foodways Casa Navarro offers a workshop on using recipes sourced from historic Mexican cookbooks. Free ($3 suggested donation), noon-1pm & 6-8pm Tuesday; Casa Navarro State Historic Site, 228 S. Laredo St., RSVP requested at (210) 226-4801.

Restaurant Readiness: What You Need to Know Designed for hopeful restaurateurs,

this informational session touches on start-up forms, locations, restaurant concepts, licenses, permits, equipment and menu pricing. Free, 11:30am-1pm Friday; UTSA Downtown Campus, Small Business Development Center, 501 W. César E. Chávez Blvd., RSVP requested at (210) 458-2460.

DANCE Jazzed on Tap Third Coast Rhythm Project’s 19th annual tap dance showcase promises an evening of “show-stopping rhythm” with performances by the likes of Max Pollak, Martin “Tre” Dumas, Sarah Savelli and the Mark Rubinstein Jazz Trio. $25$29, 8-10pm Friday; Carver Community Cultural Center, Jo Long Theatre, 226 N. Hackberry St., (210) 207-2234.

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PROPORTIONS Ahead of its August 1 publication date, author Jayme Lynn Blaschke’s Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch comes hailed (by former Texas Lieutenant Governor William P. “Bill” Hobby Jr.) as “the best account of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ever written.” Preceded by a 1978 Broadway musical and a 1982 film (both titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and based on a story by Larry L. King) and Jan Hutson’s 1980 book The Chicken Ranch: The True Story of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Blaschke’s update delivers much more than its title suggests — shedding light on the history of prostitution and brothels in the Lone Star State in the processing of building a compelling portrait of “that home out on the range” immortalized in ZZ Top’s 1973 classic “La Grange.”

Informed by oral histories, extensive research and interviews the author conducted with legendary madam Edna Milton Chadwell, the 336-page book debunks myths and rumors that swirl >

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around the iconic brothel and its origin story, yet presents them as vivid little folktales. Credited by the misinformed as the landmark’s founding madam, a piggish-looking New Orleans transplant nicknamed Mrs. Swine did not in fact arrive in the frontier town of La Grange circa 1844 with a trio of “soiled doves” in tow. And as for its name and alleged practice of accepting livestock in exchange for sex (aka the “poultry standard”), Chadwell’s account explains that her predecessor Jessie Williams (aka Aunt Jessie) bought 100 chicks to disguise her operation as a chicken farm in the midst of a grand jury investigation: “‘Chicken Ranch’ was just a nickname, made up for bullshit reasons … There’s more hockeypoo about that place than anything else.”

Although it devotes an entire chapter to Marvin Zindler, the KTRK consumer affairs reporter who eventually brought the Chicken Ranch to a halt in 1973, no one can upstage Chadwell, who’s affectionately referred to as “Miss Edna”

On Friday, August 19 (6-8 p.m.), local bookseller The Twig will host a reading with Blaschke, who directs the Office of Media Relations at Texas State University.

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throughout. Born in Oklahoma in 1928, Chadwell turned to prostitution in her teens (“If you’re a teenage girl with not much education and no trade, it don’t take long to learn you can make more money on your back than on your feet”) and wound up in 1950s-era La Grange after stints working in Houston and Ft. Worth brothels. After living and working there for years, Chadwell purchased the nine-bedroom Chicken Ranch for $28,500 from an ailing Aunt Jessie in 1961 — a particularly rowdy year that ended in temporary closure.

Following a quiet period during which she was one of only two women working there, Chadwell brought the illegal but tolerated brothel to a heyday populated by public officials and more than a few students from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. Presented in stark contrast to Aunt Jessie’s strict discipline, Chadwell’s disarming wit shines through everything from her official Chicken Ranch Rules and Regulations for Boarders — reprinted as a thoroughly amusing insert — to the bawdy jokes and raunchy rhymes

she employed to break the ice and cut through “testosterone-fueled tension.”

Clockwise from top left: the Chicken Ranch, circa 1973 ( William P. Hobby Sr. Family Papers). Edna Milton in the parlor of the Chicken Ranch (courtesy Edna Milton Chadwell).

Trixie was abandoned near the Chicken Ranch and became the brothel's unofficial mascot (courtesy Edna Milton Chadwell). A 2013 view of the front of the Chicken Ranch ruins (author photo). The May 1971 issue of Men in Adventure claimed the Chicken Ranch was a place where customers were regularly drugged and robbed (author collection). The Chicken Ranch never produced brass tokens, but that didn't stop entrepreneurs from creating modern versions to sell (author collection). A set of cardstock images depicting the Chicken Ranch, Sheriff T.J. “Big Jim” Flournoy at the Fayette County Fairgrounds, and five topless women purported to be former employees of the brothel.

Two old whores, walkin’ down the street No hat on their heads, no shoes on their feet Too old to fuck, and too proud to suck Just two old whores, shit outta luck. > Adding further intrigue to the storied locale and its colorful history are 95 eloquently captioned photographs, several of which are reprinted here courtesy of the author and The History Press.

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Kicked off on Monday with an opening night reception and screening at the historic Pearl Stable, the 22nd annual San Antonio Film Festival takes over the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (100 Auditorium Circle) with a weeklong program comprising panels, shorts, features, documentaries and a record 29 entries by San Antonio filmmakers. Highlighted below, nine films to consider checking out before SAFF wraps on July 31. For tickets ($15 per film, $129 for a festival badge) and a full schedule of events, visit safilm.com.

Amir • 5pm Wednesday Starring first-time actor Jorge Guevara as the title character, this black-and-white drama from Tijuana, Mexico, follows a musician who must decide between staying with his pregnant girlfriend Ely (Tania Niebla), who he no longer loves, or Jeanette (Lirio Karina), a young singer who could restore his passion in music.

Requiem for a Running Back • 7pm Wednesday Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Carpenter seeks the truth behind the death of her father, former Green Bay Packers running back Lewis Carpenter, who is found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a

degenerative neurocognitive disorder linked to head trauma in athletes.

Mile End • 5pm Thursday A chance meeting between a London executive (Alex Humes) and a friendly American (Mark Arnold) leads to murder in this crime thriller by director/writer Graham Higgins. Mile End won the Best Narrative award at this year’s New York City Independent Film Festival.

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Battling a rare form of bone cancer since he was 13, Corpus Christi native and Rice University golfer James Ragan faces life head-on and inspires others when he decides to create a foundation to raise money for cancer research.

Upstairs Inferno • 7pm Thursday Filmmaker and San Antonio native Robert Camina’s documentary tells the tragic story of a gay nightclub in New Orleans that was set on fire in 1973, killing 32 people. Before the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last month, it was considered the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history.

Nathan East: For the Record • 7pm Friday Director Chris Gero invites viewers behind the

scenes with Nathan East, who is considered one of the most recorded bass players in music history.

Musicians East has jammed alongside include Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Daft Punk and Herbie Hancock, just to name a few.

▲Hell or High Water • 7pm Saturday

Two Texas brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) are tracked by a Texas Ranger (Oscar winner Jeff Bridges) after they rob a bank to save their family’s home. The crime drama is directed by David Mackenzie ("Starred Up') and written by Taylor Sheridan ("Sicario").

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Filmmaker Anne Goursaud (editor of "The Outsiders" and Bram Stoker’s "Dracula") explores the life and career of Hollywood trailblazer and San Antonio native Marcia Nasatir, who became the first female vice president of a major studio in 1974 and went on to help champion films like "Rocky" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."

The Teacher (Uchilka) • 4pm Sunday A desperate history teacher holds her entire class hostage at gunpoint in this Russian thriller from firsttime director/writer Alexey Petrukhin.

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Last week, Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corporation announced it is seeking proposals for two properties within the urban park district after Revolucion Coffee + Juice and San Antonio Brewing Company both amicably ended agreements with the HPARC due to timing and brewery strategy, respectively.

As of right now, Paleteria San Antonio, which opened in May, is the only full operational spot until Con/Safos Fruteria y Bar opens later this fall. Though the shops were announced in late 2015, construction on the historic homes has been predictably slow. HPARC delivers tenants a blank slate, updated within State Archeological Landmark restrictions, which businesses have to turn into fully functional restaurants. Plus, it isn't exactly easy to toss a kitchen into a home built in 1883.

The city started seeking proposals on July 16. Proposals are due August 21 at 11:59 p.m. and the tenant selection process (interviews, site visits, reference checks, etc.) will run through August 22-28. More information for prospective businesses can be found at hemisfair.org/rfi.

Ideally, the two businesses chosen to lease the OK Bar building and The Koehler House would be “park activators” that would ideally attract more people to the area and Yanaguana Garden. The businesses — be it restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries, bookstores, craft shops — would be in place as Hemisfair keeps growing to include more parks, apartment buildings, offices and whatnots.

Which got us wondering: If you could cherry-pick the two new tenants for Hemisfair, who should they be? Here are a few ideas. flavor@sacurrent.com

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▲ Freetail Brewpub 2.0 Pizza and beer go together like, well, pizza and beer. The Loopland crowds were the first to get a taste for both Freetail’s enterprising, funkified brews and their scratch-made flatbread pizzas. Sure, all beerdrinking adults can enjoy Freetail brews by simply picking up a sixer from their closest H-E-B now that they’re pumping out beers out of the South Presa brewery. Wouldn’t a satellite location make sense? Toss in a brick oven, add a handful of taps and build out a massive patio? It’s a win-win-win. ▲ Taquitos West Ave. 2.0 Hear me out on this one: Taquitos West Ave. is a magical place that delivers trompo on weekends at hella cheap prices. What better way to activate a park than with addictive street tacos? The kitchen could even be outfitted outdoors (much like at the original location) and Downtown denizen and visitors can get a taste for asada, barbacoa, tripa just a hop-skip away from the Convention Center.

Mexican Cokes all around! ▲ Viva Villa 2.0 Owned by the same family behind Mi Tierra and La Margarita, Viva Villa Taqueria at Market Square exemplifies new San Antonio as it holds onto delicious traditions while accommodating to a younger audience that’s used to cafeteria-style Chipotle-ish operations. We want our food and we want it now, so we can go have

picnics at the adjacent parks. Make it a quicker line with just a few heavy-hitter menu items, add the Big Red soft serve for the kiddos and you’re done.

A Diner Literally, any diner that stays open 24-hours and gives us all breakfast food options after a night out on the town. Think Pancake Joe’s meets Kerbey Lane meets Waffle House.

Rise Up Beverages A solid replacement for the juice bottle-sized hole Revolucion’s exit left in our hearts, Rise Up Beverages is gaining a steady stream of followers at 2202 Broadway, pseudomobile location that shares a lot with a few other vendors. Not only are açai bowls so hot right now, but they’re relatively healthy and chock-full of fruits and veggies. Perfect for noshing on before you take a walk through the park or after you return your bicycle to its station. ▲ A New Concept By Steve McHugh James Beard Award finalist Steve McHugh needs to do us all a solid and spread his wings ... all the way to Hemisfair Park. A huge supporter of all things local, McHugh’s Cured is well-regarded but it needs a little sister. Give tourist a taste for what SA can do well besides the awesome San Anto-inspired flavors they’ll get at Con/Safos. Chicken sandwiches, wings, a simple but awesome sandwich concept — we’d be up for whatever McHugh’s got cookin’.

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> After announcing their opening this March, Hop & Vine has finally opened in the Alamo Ranch area. The shop specializes in craft beer, wine and modern comfort food as designed by owners Angelo and Kelly Cavazos.

Open 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, the shop carries snacks like crostini and caprese skewers, Antonelli’s cheese boards, fondue for two, catfish and chips, shrimp and grits, beef sliders, poutine, fried chicken and a pair of salads with local greens.

“This area of town is booming. I have lived in this community most of my life, and have seen it change over the years,” says owner, Kelly Cavazos via press release. “Neighborhoods are popping up left and right, yet it seems like our dining options are limited.

We were constantly looking for that awesome neighborhood restaurant vibe that this area is missing.”

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> You’ll want to head to your area Wing Stop on Friday, July 29 as they celebrate National Chicken Wing Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Patrons will be treated to five free wings with the any wing purchase from the wing experts.

You can use those wings as practice for Hot Joy’s — gulp — wing-eating contents on Wednesday, August 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. The restaurant will celebrate the start of the 2016 summer Olympics with the first-ever contest. Contestants will vie for wings for a year, four tickets to a Paper Tiger show of their choice, braggings rights and probably a stomachache. Those interested in in entering can buy in at the bar the day of the contest.

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> You’ll want to cool down with brews and ice cream at The Granary ‘Cue & Brew this August, which will host an ice cream social with pastry chef Christopher Jara of Café Dijon on August 7 from 1 to 5 p.m. The all-ages event will also include kidfriendly root beer floats for the kids. Tickets, $20, include four pairings of house-made craft beer from co-owner Alex Rattray and small-batch artisan ice creams by Jara.

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> If there’s ever a bar more on-trend in San Antonio, I’m still hard-pressed to find one that isn’t The Hangar Bar & Grill. After hosting Shark Week viewing parties and Pokemon GO lure parties, the local bar now features another way to decompress with adult coloring books.

All tables include a variety of adult-themed coloring

books from sexy cartoons to curse words, coloring pencils and a pencil sharpener. But you won't be coloring for not — completed works of art are then submitted to your bartender for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate each week.

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a renaissance in American brewing. As a sour beer, gose has the trademark low alcohol percentage, pétillant effervescence and vinegary tartness of other spontaneously fermented brews, but distinguishes itself by being brewed with salt and coriander. Though as ingredients, sea salt and the seed that produces cilantro may seem like they’re jumping the craft beer shark, consider how common it is for drinks to come “dressed,” making the gose just the German version of salting the rim of your margarita.

As a tart, sessionable beer, the drink is primed for summer consumption; the only problem is its relative scarcity.

Aside from the Southerleigh, there are only a few other places in town to grab a gose (for now).

Lucky for you, I tracked them down.

REAL ALE GOSE ABV: 4.4 percent IBUs: 5 Brewery: Real Ale (Blanco, Texas) Available at: GS 1221, the Friendly Spot, Stella Public House

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One of my stupidest hobbies is pronouncing various things the “The [insert thing] of the summer,” such as saying “Whitney’s Light Upon the Lake is the album of the summer” or “Tim Duncan highlight videos are the emotion porn of the summer.” So last Wednesday when I tried Southerleigh’s Koalas, Cockerel Spaniels and Unicorns, a cucumber and tamarind-laden riff on the German “gose,” it was inevitable that I indulged in my vice, whispering to myself, “Gose is the beer of the summer.”

To condense the Erik Larson-esque history of the 1,000-year-old beer, gose (pronounced goes-uh) is a sour beer that was born in Goslar, Germany, moved to Leipzig, became popular, became unpopular, and now is enjoying

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KOALAS, COCKEREL SPANIELS AND UNICORNS ABV: 4.5 percent IBUs: 4 Brewery: Southerleigh (San Antonio, Texas) Available at: Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery > The brainchild of brewmaster Les Locke, the raspa-leaning gose adds pureed cucumber, tamarind and chili to the traditional Leipziger recipe. Do yourself a favor and drink this at least once this summer. Its smell enough is swoon-inducing.

OAKEMON SOLERA SAISON ABV: 6.4 percent IBUs: 20 Brewery: Southerleigh (San Antonio, Texas) Available at: Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery

> Of all the goses in the city, Real Ale produces the most quintessential, baseline version of the German delight. Though they sacrilegiously add lime, the Real Ale hums with vinegary notes. Light, distinct with the lemon-rind of coriander, and sharp, it best reflects the citric side of gose.

> Full disclosure: Though this is not technically a gose, it is still kind of a gose.

“Solera” refers to the process of combining alcohols of different ages, allowing the developed beverage to impart its fermenting agents to the younger one. In the Oakemon, Southerleigh used their Steady As She Gose as a starter, then added their Belgian Saison, introduced some lacto-bacillus for sourdoughy twang, before then soaking it with oak chips. The result has gose DNA, but the vanilla and oak notes of a chardonnay.

SIXPOINT JAMMER ABV: 4 percent IBUs: 16 Brewery: Sixpoint (Brooklyn, New York) Available at: GS 1221, the Friendly Spot, Stella Public House

HERE GOSE NOTHIN’ ABV: 5 percent IBUs: 12 Brewery: Destihl Brewery (Normal, Illinois) Available at: Central Market

> With its strong mineral notes and aggressive effervescence, the Jammer reminds of a LaCroix or fuller-bodied champagne. The most traditional in its ingredients, Sixpoint’s gose rides heavily on its salinity, brackishly refreshing like a beachside breeze.

Sold in a 4-pack for $9, this gose from tiny Illinois brewery holds the distinction of offering the funkiest, most yeasty of the bunch. Light on the salinity and herb, heavy on the sour depth, imagine a drinking vinegar with body.

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Ranger Creek will be serving special themed cocktails, and will have a food truck on site.

REAL ALE 20 FOR 20 – 20 YEARS WITH 20 TAPS: JULY 29, THE BRASS TAP CRAFT BEER BAR (17619 LA CANTERA PARKWAY), 11:00AM-2:00PM Celebrating Real Ale Brewing Company’s 20th anniversary, the Brass Tap will have 20 of its taps “taken over” by the craftsmen from Blanco. All day long, some of Real Ale’s signature flavors will be on tap, including a selection of some of their limited editions.

VIVA TACOLAND/ALAMO BEER SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: JULY 29, VIVA TACOLAND (103 W. GRAYSON ST.), 6:00PM-2:00AM Viva Tacoland will continue their summer music series, partnered with Alamo Beer Company with two concerts beginning 9:00pm with Lonely Horse followed by Think No Think at 10:30pm. With your $7 ticket you get an Alamo Beer.

FRANK BEER BUST JULY 30, FRANK HOT DOGS (1150 S. ALAMO ST.), 2:00PM-6:00PM San Antonio Beer Festival and Current present Frank Beer Bust.

No cover and free pint glasses to the first 300 folks. Screen of Brewed in the 210 starts at 4pm. Come meet Filmmaker Marco Ortega and some of the folks who make delicious brews from Blue Star, Branchline, Alamo Beer, Freetail, Southerleigh, Busted Sandal & Ranger Creek.

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It’s been awhile since I last played were delicious, the margarita was good, Loteria, and I have to say, I forgot and they had plenty of options to choose how popular the game is. Viva Villa from. Though I decided to forgo one of Taqueria has been hosting a Wednesday their most popular items this time, I’ve Loteria Night for the past couple of been told that the Big Red soft serve at months, since May. this place is a must-have. And if you’re If you plan on going to Loteria Night, really a fan of the vanilla-laced crimson get there early for three reasons. Parking favorite, order the Big Red float with Big around the market area is sparse, Red Soft serve and Big Red — what’s especially if you are looking for free better than that? parking, which is available on the streets Though loteria technically starts at after 6. Otherwise the restaurant does 7, the game doesn’t start going until have parking starting at $2 per hour.

7:30. The community that you witness Happy hour specials run 5 to 7 p.m. with at the event is really astounding: discounts on margaritas, cerveza, wine, families, friends, young, old, all varieties along with select appetizers and street of people came together in this small taco plates. Reason No. 3, Viva Villa gets restaurant to enjoy the game. The pretty packed and cards and tables can manager on duty would call out the be hard to find. cards, and patrons in the store would That’s what happened to me when I laugh with one another and have a first arrived at 7. There was no space good time, whether they knew each inside at the restaurant and all the loteria other before the event or not. cards had been passed out. However People do get a bit competitive, and management was very accommodating of course, there are prizes to be won. and they went out of their way to go and The prizes vary from round to round, purchase more loteria cards and even but for the most part they consisted of set up extra tables for me and another margaritas on the house, free pan dulce couple that wanted to play the game. (for those under 21), and Viva Villa swag.

Ecstatic that even though I was Whether you’re familiar with the game late, I would be able to or it’s your first time, Viva Villa participate, I ordered some serves as a swell venue to take food: the chicken Adelita taco, Viva Villa Taqueria in a marg, win some prizes and 905 Dolorosa St. guacamole and a margarita. most importantly, gain bragging (210) 987-8482 The food here is spot on. Both Loteria Night runs 7 to 9 rights. Just remember to make it of the food items I ordered down there before 7 p.m. p.m. every Wednesday

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If you fit in the “goth” category, nothing’s more tragic than being invited to a pool party. But even though the macabre things in life might be more appealing than orange spray tans and harsherthan-sunlight florescent colors, there are still ways to be more aesthetically pleasing than the dark lord himself, Marilyn Manson.

In preparation for “Blackout the Sun,” the goth beach dance party going down at Paper Tiger this weekend, here are a few tips to stay cool and look hot in this Texas summer swelter. >

5. Slather on sunblock Even though the stereotypical goth has a basement dweller complexion, everyone who dabbles in the Gothic subculture needs to protect their flesh from UV rays, ‘cause melanoma equals melancholia, and not the poetic kind. If you want to go next level goth, lacy black parasols will make you look more ghastly than an Edward Gorey illustration. Plus, who wants to melt like the Wicked Witch of the West while showing off your Victorian garb?

4. Waterproof makeup, or else. The sun is a ruthless bully, so stock up on waterproof foundation, mascara, dark lipstick and, more importantly, eyeliner. Don’t let sweat define you. Mainstream pop queens Beyoncé and Taylor Swift made running mascara in the 00s less Alice Cooper and more basic than a Snapchat dog filter. Invest in a 24-hour lipstick, because smudged lipstick is “uncool.” Unless you’re Robert Smith, ultimate goth idol, it can’t be pulled off.

5. Locks of misery Hair is moodier than LiveJournal accounts and middle school poetry, so goths with elaborate hairstyles might have to tone it down. You don’t want your freshly dyed

black tresses to leave an inky trail behind you in the neighborhood swimming pool or bleached snow white hair turning toxic waste green, as brooding as that sounds. And if you have cybergoth hair pieces, leave them at home, they might be mistaken for pool toys. Keep your colored hair healthy from chlorine with advice found here.

2. Style more on point than goth dreamboat Edward’s scissor hands. Even if your personal goth style requires more layers than garlic, you might have to conform to the weather’s demands without compromising your love for darkness. New age goth fashion includes bizarre conjunctions, such as pastel goth, health goth, tribal goth, geek goth and tropigoth. If you’re wanting a quick style dissection, take the obligatory BuzzFeed quiz to find out your true goth identity. For the aspiring beach goth, look for a mix of the most anti-goth article of clothing ever - the loud flamboyant Jimmy Buffet patented Hawaiian shirt - and completely destroy the stereotype by pairing it with anything black, don’t forget the appropriate attitude. It’ll be an opposites attract situation, but it will pay off at the Gothic beach party, because the goth way is finding solace and beauty in darkness.

1. Have fun. Whether you’re catching a wave on a *preferably* black surfboard, getting doused with the dreaded Nerf Super Soaker (hoping for the best that your dark attire won’t fade) or trying to dance to music other than dark wave to post-punk, there’s no shame in enjoying yourself doing the unexpected.

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In the past few years, it has become exponentially easier to buy a record in San Antonio. Hogwild, that purple citadel of punk and metal on North Main, continues to thrive as the city’s capitol for shit-talking glitzy metal and bad pop. Lerma’s, on the West Side, is the tejano store of note this side of the border. When they’re not hosting all-ages, rock ‘n’ roll gigs, Imagine Books & Records challenges Half Price as the crate digger’s preferred used book/record depot. And, earlier this year, Southtown Vinyl joined the fray with a clean, industrial-leaning space and a specialization in dance music and DJ equipment.

With a soft opening last Saturday, Friends of Sound makes the next move, trekking down from the vinyllusting city of Austin to open a San Antonio location.

At 700 Fredericksburg Road, the store hopes to capitalize on SA’s growing taste for the medium when they open for good on Saturday, July 30.

In 2004, Dave Haffner opened Friends of Sound on the bustling South Congress strip south of downtown.

In such a saturated music market — Austin has over a dozen full-time record stores — Friends of Sound needed a niche to set it apart from the crowd.

“At our Austin store, we like to think we carry the stuff that’s hard to find—spoken word, Bollywood” says George Mendoza, a long-time employee and coowner of the San Antonio outpost. “We cater to record heads. But at the same time, because we’re on South Congress, we still carry for the casual record buyer,

the person who comes in and wants a Fleetwood Mac record.”

A San Antonio native, Mendoza helped spearhead the San Antonio location, working with Rambo Salinas of the Alamo City Soul Club to find the right spot.

Located in the former Uptown Studio, Friends of Sound will share the building with Nite Lite and K23 Gallery — two of San Antonio’s bestbooking DIY locations. Turning this Fredericksburg block into a destination for music lovers only sweetens the move to SA — a longtime dream for Mendoza.

“When I started working at the store, Dave asked me, ‘what do you want out of working here?'” Mendoza says.

“Honestly, I told him I wanted to open a store in San Antonio. I wanted to bring something that I care about to the city I’m from.”

In San Antonio, Friends of Sound will follow the model of their Austin avatar, selling hard-to-find gems alongside reissues of desert island classics. Already, their deep selection of 45s will draw serious nerds from across the city. “There’s tens of thousands of records,” says Rambo Salinas, who will serve as store manager. “Too many to count.”

With two record stores debuting in the city this year, San Anto’s vinyl uptick is consistent with larger industry trends. Vinyl sales are currently at a 28-year high, with sales last year reaching $416 million. As

Last week, The Last Bandoleros played a Tex-Mex scorcher on Jimmy Kimmel Live, making their late night debut with “Where Do You Go.” Featuring San Antonio natives Jerry Fuentes and brothers Diego and Emilio Navaira IV, the band’s appearance may be the first time SA and tejano-rock has been featured so prominently on a major network since the Texas Tornados sat in with Paul Shaffer’s band in 1990.

On “Where Do You Go,” The Last Bandoleros certainly owe a great deal to Tex-Mex stars Doug Sahm and the Tornados. Anything with a backbeat that prominent and an accordion that rippin’ is going to be rooted in the tradition of San Anto legends Doug, Augie and Flaco. The young quintet also adds a major touch of early-Beatles harmony, pulling a page from the “Twist and Shout” school of candycoated group vocals. >

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Forbes has recently reported, vinyl sales in 2015 were higher than those of ad-supported streaming services, like YouTube, Vevo and Spotify’s free streaming service, which together added to $385 million. That’s the good news. On the flip side, the bulk of those sales goes to artists like Jack White, Lorde and The Beatles, musicians that are already swimming in it.

Because these high-profile records equal high sales, they take priority at the dozen-or-so pressing plants still functioning. For young bands and small labels, this means that they can wait weeks or months in line, at the mercy of canonical rock ‘n’ rollers.

But, for the record store, like the Church, all is well if there are people in the aisles. And for Friends of Sound, the store has avoided a cardinal sin of outfitters from the state capital — expanding to a new city and maintaining a distinctly Austin vibe. Over their selection of 45s, an aerosol mural by Mez Data bears the likes of two patron saints of San Antonio music: Doug Sahm, in full denim regalia, and Selena, in Mac lipstick and that classic mauve suit.

The Last Bandoleros formed in 2014 after the Navaira brothers and Jerry Fuentes moved from San Antonio to Brooklyn. (In SA, the Navaira pair played in the pop-rock band Ready Revolution, while Fuentes gigged under his own name.) As they told Billboard earlier this summer, “Where Do You Go” was the song that brought it all together. “It started as a writing project,” said Emilio Navaira IV. “As soon as that happened, it was like, ‘This is something else.

It’s special. It’s a band.’”

In San Antonio, the Navaira name is most closely associated with their father, Grammy-winner Emilio Navaira. Known for his tejano and country records of the ’90s, the late Emilio earned a Grammy for Best Tejano Album with 2002’s Acuérdate. So when The Last Bandoleros call themselves “San Antonioforged,” that’s a boast they can back up.

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Where a Bieber or Mahone spun early Youtube clicks into a recording career, for stars of the Digitour sphere, those clicks are the final goal — just more of them. It’s doubtful that anyone over 19 will recognize the names on the bill, but know that this is an exciting and slightly horrifying development in digital media. $25, 5:30pm, Alamo City Music Hall, 1305 E. Houston St., alamocitymusichall.com WED

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▲ Purple Rain Prince was an artist so talented, so ahead of the curve, so sexually transcendent that it was hard to believe that he was a human, let alone a mortal being. It was as if some purple god dropped a changeling upon the earth to melt bodies and drop melting, funky guitar licks into his progressive, intense pop. To celebrate his life, what better way than to screen Purple Rain, Prince’s all-everything-purp rock drama.

Released in late July of 1984, the movie tells the story of The Kid, his bitchin’ motorcycle and his rise to fame thanks to that unforgettable, titular ballad. Free, 10pm, Brass Monkey, 2702 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 480-4722, facebook. com/brassmonkeytx FRI

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Watch the Throne: Jay-Z vs. Kanye West Watch the Throne, the 2011 collab between Jay-Z and Kanye West, served as a challenge to every lesser lord in rap: just try to look this good at the top of the game. But if there can only be one, who would sit at the top? Jay-Z has a longer span of a career, more industry power, and a whole lot more dough — though his new look as a meme after Lemonade has weakened his case. Meanwhile, Kanye will “pop a wheelie on the zeitgeist” with every new release. As this squabble with Taylor Swift proves, Yeezy’s cultural capital has long surpassed the Hova. At this career retrospective, DJs ask the listener to claim their allegiance in the heroic battle. Free, 10pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersa.com

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Paper Tiger invites its partiers to wear their beachiest, gothiest attire; bestdressed will win two tickets to the inaugural Sound on Sound Fest outside of Austin. For the soundtrack, there’s a little King Pelican for the surf-rock crowd, a little Street Sects for the punks and a little Xander Harris to cast a moody fog over the whole shindig.

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Blink-182 Blink-182, oh how we’ve missed you. With the new album California sans guitarist Tom Delonge (he’s out, calling in that pop-punk croon, to prove the existence of aliens), Blink-182 rushed to the top of the chart, knocking Drake from the top spot. It’s no surprise given the long shadow of their influence — every kid born after Reagan who likes to play three-chord guitar has learned a Blink-182 song at some early, fumbling point while picking up the instrument.

On the new record, Blink-182’s poppunk production is a little too squeaky, though bassist Mark Hoppus hasn’t reformed in middle age. Consider the only lyrics from the 30-second “Brohemian Rhapsody”: "There’s something about you that I can’t quite put my finger in.” $25-$80, 7pm, AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Pkwy, (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com SAT

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Mixfest 2016 The Mix 96.1 returns with its annual showcase of talented, young names in pop. From Memphis, 18-year-old Jacob Whitesides sounds like John Mayer dropped into the blue-eyed, Southern soul tradition — very clean, very detail-oriented and ready to break hearts. First-generation Albanian-American star Bebe Rexha charted a major hit with “Me, Myself and I,” a solipsistic banger with G-Eazy. A followup with Nicki Minaj, “No Broken Hearts,” proves that her club-pop style isn’t going anywhere soon. Danish boy band Lukas Graham’s “7 Years” takes the audience through the perspective of a young man looking forward in life, checking in every decade or so to see where he’s at.

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Shinyribs $25, All Ages, 8pm, Luckenbach Dancehall Soul’d Out Saturday with DJ Gibb Free, 21+, 10pm, Groove Lounge Strangeways 101 with DJ Charlie Free, 21+, 9pm, Southtown 101 The Grim Folks Free, 21+, 9pm, The Mix

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Kyle Park $15, All Ages, 7pm, Gruene Hall Le Strange Sideshow ft. music by Chasca & BlackWater $10, 18+, 9pm, Fitzgerald’s Bar and Live Music

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MONDAY, AUGUST 1 Annual Swingin’ Summer Luau with Devan Jones & The Uptown Stomp $10, All Ages, 7pm, Sam’s Burger Joint Industry Night with Derrick Rage and VJ Necio Free, 21+, 10pm, Moses Rose’s Hideout Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner Marley Mondays with DJ

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

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

Trapped Out Mondays with DJ Burlo Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club

Goldbloom 11pm, La Botanica

Wurd of Mouth Mondays with DJ Gibb Free, 21+, 10pm, Blue Box

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In New Terrific Erotic Romance “We all have to make decisions about what we disclose to partners or potential partners and when we disclose it,” said Alice Dreger, historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, and author.

Dreger, for readers who may not be familiar with her, is the founding board chair of the Intersex Society of North America and the author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice. Intersex, for readers who may not be familiar with the word, is an umbrella term covering dozens of different inborn conditions.

“They all involve someone having something other than the standard male or standard female body as those are defined by doctors,” explained Dreger.

“There are lots of different ways to be intersex, including some so subtle that you might never even know you had that particular variation of development.”

So that chill hetero boy you’re thinking about disclosing your intersex-ness to, INTER? He could be intersex himself and not know it. But you do know it, and does “knowing it” obligate you to disclose?

“Lying is a bad idea, of course, but she’s not lying by presenting herself as a woman and identifying as a woman,” said Dreger. “She is a woman, just one whose body came with some parts that aren’t common to most women,

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or maybe lacking some parts that are common to most women (depending on her particular intersex condition).”

Dreger suggests making a mental list of the things a long-term partner might want, need, or a have a right to know about your history and your body. Then using your best judgment, INTER, decide what to share with him and when to share it.

“For example,” said Dreger, “if this chill hetero guy talks about wanting kids someday, and the letter writer is infertile, she might want to mention sooner rather than later that she was born with a condition that left her infertile. Do her genitals look or work differently than he might be expecting? If so, she might think about when it would be best to give him some guidance about how her body is a little different and what works best for her.”

Each of us has to balance our partner’s legitimate right to certain information, INTER, with our right to medical privacy as well as our physical and emotional safety.

“There’s no reason for her to feel like she has to announce, ‘I’m an intersex woman.’ She could opt to say, at some point, ‘I was born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia,’ or ‘I was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome,’ or whatever her specific condition might be, and then answer his questions,” said Dreger. “If the label ‘intersex’ were part of her core identity — a critical part of who she feels she is — then she might want to tell him early on, just as someone might talk about her ethnicity if that’s really important to her. But otherwise, she can disclose just like non-intersex people do with regard to fertility, sexual health, sexual sensation, sexual preferences, and sexual function — at a pace and in a way that promotes a good relationship and makes you feel honest and understood. And no one can tell her she has to use term ‘intersex.’

That’s entirely up to her.”

Follow Alice Dreger on Twitter @ AliceDreger.

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15 Surname on the sitar 16 Decorate with frosting 17 1967 hit by The Doors 19 Unpaid bill 20 Just meh 21 A bit of 22 “A Change is Gonna Come” singer Redding 23 Possesses 26 Hammer or sickle, e.g.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful.

Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you.

Celebrate its fierce animal elegance.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): The people of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): An Interesting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong — you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): [Editor’s note: The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?”, or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a t-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.”

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before

eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary.

Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation.

You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): You have just begun your big test. How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, “If it doesn’t make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life.” In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): For many years, my occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs — scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night, and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.

just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”?

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh, and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned, and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing.

Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): “Where is everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3.

Humbly ask — out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination — for precisely what you want.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma.

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