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12 NEWS Survivor’s Tale A college student who escaped a mass kidnapping in southern Mexico recounts his story in SA Gone But Not Forgotten Remembering Pete Gonzales, the owner of 210 Kapone’s, who was shot to death outside his club 46
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Teenagers dressed in black with neon-colored hair and studded belts lined up at 210 Kapone’s a week ago to check out the sounds of the personal project from My Chemical Romance’s rhythm guitarist. Drums rattled, the bass pulsed and electric guitar riffs blasted out of the same club where, just three days earlier, a patron who was kicked out shot the club’s owner — 45-year-old Pete Gonzales — in the back, killing him. Standing in stark contrast to the lively night were two memorial wreaths — one with yellow flowers and the other red — placed on two chairs. Three candles sat watch at the base of the chairs, burning bright. A San Antonio police officer stood nearby, quietly keeping guard. Arturo Alderete, who worked for Gonzales for three years at the Psycho Asylum, a haunted house just steps away from 210 Kapone’s on East Houston Street, said his boss will always remain a legend in the Alamo City music scene. “We’re all going to miss him. He left a huge legacy, from Backstage Live to 210 Kapone’s,” Alderete said. The club was Gonzales’ latest venture, but it was just one in a long list of projects in which he played a key role, from Slinging Ink Tattoo Expo to the River City Bike Fest and South Texas Rock Fest. Sylvia Fernandez, Gonzales’ former girlfriend as well as business partner, worked with him on nearly all of his ventures and the couple had three children, a boy and twin girls. Gonzales also has a 28-year-old daughter who helps operate 210 Kapone’s. “It was amazing how everything unfolded,” Fernandez said between deep breaths and occasional sobs, reminiscing about when they organized their first event in 2003, a motorcycle rally at Camargo Park. But before rallies, events, bars and clubs, Gonzales and Fernandez made 12 CURRENT • March 25-31, 2015 • sacurrent.com
Pete Gonzales, a staple of SA’s entertainment scene, was murdered outside his music club, 210 Kapone’s. Friends and fans put together a memorial.
money in construction and highway mowing. Eventually, however, Gonzales wanted something other than state contracts and lucrative construction deals. “And so the passion part came into play and Pete’s passion was always motorcycles, music and tattoos,” Fernandez explained. Between 2003 and 2009, the couple formed Nikita Productions, which organized concerts and events: Slinging Ink Tattoo Fest, the now defunct River City Bike Fest, Salsa Fest and South Texas Rock Fest, among many others. “Pete was an entrepreneur at heart,” Fernandez said, while composing herself after tearing up. But music was always a burning fire in Gonzales’ soul and he was an avid concertgoer while growing up. And so in 2009, Gonzales and Fernandez found an old warehouse at the intersection of E. Houston and Cherry — just a block up the street from 210 Kapone’s. “The place was a dump,” Fernandez said. “But Pete was a collector of memorabilia and from every concert we did, he’d have all this stuff and it was accumulating in our house. He was like, ‘we can hang all this
shit up and it would be bad ass.’” About a month after their twin girls, now 5, were born, Backstage Live — now Alamo City Music Hall — opened its doors to the masses. “That was a very successful grand opening and it started making the precedent for everything,” Fernandez said. “We got busy with that and stopped doing so many events. This was easier.” By 2013, however, the couple split — on friendly terms — and Gonzales concentrated on Psycho Asylum, now one of SA’s most popular haunted houses. The following year, Gonzales was ready to open up a new venue, which Fernandez said was his vision. “He built that from the ground up. That place was just a shell. Backstage was a cosmetic, but 210 Kapone’s was a full build-out,” she said. “Unfortunately, that’s where his life was taken.” San Antonio Police captured Faustino Martinez, 34, also known as Celestino Martinez or “Kasper,” last week in Converse. He’s accused of killing Gonzales. According to a police report, Martinez rented a VIP room at the club on March 14 but Gonzales later kicked him out for
creating a disturbance. Martinez left but quickly returned with a gun, shooting Gonzales in the back while the owner was dealing with other unruly patrons. Vazquez allegedly pulled up in his car on E. Houston in front of 210 Kapone’s, stepped out and fired three shots from a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol, striking Gonzales in the back shoulder and elbow, according to police. He was not responsive when paramedics showed up and he died at the hospital, records show. Vazquez is a registered sex offender, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. He was convicted of indecency with a 4-year-old child in 2003 and sentenced to seven years in prison. The murder brought grief to Gonzales’ family, friends, co-workers and the SA music scene, particularly the metal crowd. Juan Ramirez Jr., who worked with Gonzales at Psycho Asylum, said he last saw him a week before the shooting. “I remember telling him I’ll see you next week, and when are we going to start setting up the haunted house for CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 ►
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this year,” Ramirez said. “And he just laughed and smiled. Then we shook hands like always.” With Gonzales, a job wasn’t just a job, though, Ramirez pointed out. “He was taken from his family and the haunted house family. Yes, we worked for him but it didn’t feel like work, it felt like a fun place and like you were working with family,” Ramirez said. While Gonzales is remembered for his entrepreneurial spirit and love of tattoos, motorcycles, haunted houses and music, he could also be gruff. But those who knew him fully accepted that side of him. “When I first met this guy he was quite intimidating. He had that mean look,” Alderete recalled. Fernandez said sure Gonzales had his prickly side. He was prone to colorful language. “He wasn’t eloquent and polite when speaking. He used a lot of crazy words, but that was just him,” she said. The club is sure to stay in operation because Gonzales had partners running the show, including his eldest daughter. The future of other ventures are more up in the air, though those involved expect to stay open. “Hopefully, we get to continue the haunted house and make him proud,” Ramirez said. Fernandez is barely getting used to
talking about Gonzales in the past tense. “He knew so many people and so many different communities, parts of towns, trades, just different people,” she said. “He couldn’t go somewhere without someone saying hello.”’ His impact on the community was palpable from online posts to posts on the San Antonio Current website and Facebook page. “Always worth the drive from out of town and always worth the money. You gain so much of an appreciation for music at a show and a lot of it goes to the venues and staff who let you live that experience,” Amy C. Molina wrote. “He was a major contributing factor to the live music experience and to learn of his passing is simply heartbreaking.” Margie Marshall chimed in thusly: “Thank you for all you did for the SA community. Rest in peace My Dear Friend. It’s obvious God has greater plans for you.” Dayna Renae’s post spoke to Gonzales’ no-fronts personality. “Rest in peace Pete. No judgment here. You always took care of us. Never forgotten. We love you. Nobody’s perfect,” she wrote. “And you are yourself. That was never a show. It was you being you. Truly will be missed my friend. Thank you for everything you gave and did for us. Till we meet again.” mreagan@sacurrent.com
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SURVIVOR’S TALE He Escaped Mass Kidnapping In Mexico That Made Global Headlines MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN
The only reason Omar García is alive is because he stayed behind to guard the bus. More than three dozen fellow college students may not have been so lucky that mid-September night in rural southern Mexico. “All of us were on our way to Iguala. We were going to collect funds for our organization, but in the process we were attacked by the local police,” he said. García, who describes himself as a peasant farmer from Ayotzinapa, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, survived a mass kidnapping last year that made international headlines. The whereabouts of his colleagues, 43 students abducted by police in Guerrero, remain unknown, though they are presumed dead. They were all studying to be teachers and were in Iguala to raise money for their college. García is now traveling throughout the U.S. with the “Ayotzinapa Caravan,” a group of activists, survivors and parents of the abducted students. They’re making several stops, including last week in SA, to raise awareness about the case and the need to end violence stemming from the ongoing drug war. Their destination is Washington, D.C., to take their case against the Mexican government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — an
international organization that takes up and issues non-binding rulings on human rights violations across the Americas. María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello, the mother of one of the abducted originally slated to be in San Antonio, was detained by U.S. border agents in the Rio Grande Valley. Her travel documents were eventually confirmed and she later rejoined the caravan. At the Guadalupe Theater and Trinity University last week, García recounted in detail that awful night in Guerrero. “As we were guarding our vehicles, around midnight, men with masks showed up, shooting at random,” he said. “In that exchange of fire two of our brothers got killed.” The following day, he said, they found one of their friends who went missing during the nightmare — a grisly discovery. “We found his body defaced. They pulled off his skin from his face,” García recalled. Nine were killed that night and two others remain hospitalized, he said, one of them in a coma. The Mexican government claimed the students are dead and the mayor of Iguala and his wife are accused of ordering the abduction. García, however, doesn’t trust the government’s investigation or its conclusions. “We believe the mothers and the fathers of the 43 students that disappeared — deep in their hearts they believe they are still alive,” he said. García also believes his colleagues remain alive. Those students, however, represent but a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall count of abductions and killings in the drug war in Mexico, which has deep U.S. ties. “Tens of thousands of people have been disappeared. Tens of thousands that have been killed and that is a climate of fear and violence in Mexico,” García said. And that toxic atmosphere isn’t just a product of Mexico.
“We would like the people of the states to understand that many of the things occurring in Mexico, of which we are victims, the violence, etc., they don’t start in Mexico,” García said. “They start as a result of the foreign policy the United States has toward Mexico.” Katsuo Nishikawa, a political science professor at Trinity University, is also critical of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Merida Initiative. Since 2007, the program has given the Mexican government more than $2 billion to combat drug cartels. “It’s empowering the authoritarians,” Nishikawa, who was born in Mexico, explained. Those funds are used to buy weaponry and military equipment, which is then used by soldiers and police to commit summary executions and enforced disappearances. Yet leaders in Washington remains mostly mum these days on Mexico while the drug war continues to tear the country apart with violence often spilling to the U.S. side of the border. “Why is the U.S. government so silent about these shenanigans happening just next door?” Nishikawa asked. “Was there a deal here?” One reason might coincide with Mexico’s plan to privatize its oil industry. During World War II, Mexico nationalized all foreign oil companies. “At the time the U.S. didn’t do much because it was fighting a two-front war,” Nishikawa explained. “Ever since then, they’ve been fighting to get back into that market and this president has given them what they wanted.” President Enrique Peña Nieto announced the privatization plan in 2013. The Mexican government is notoriously corrupt. Its attempts at democracy have continued to face scandals CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 ►
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ranging from bribery, kick-backs, cover-ups and murders to prostitution rings and attacks on transparency and attempts to silence the press. “I think the government is not a narco government. It’s not a government that is in the business that cartels are in,” Nishikawa said. “It’s complicit in a sense that it looks the other way, but it has its own kind of racket.” And it’s a mistake to think that corrupt politicians are just pocketing all the stolen cash. That is also how they are elected and stay in power. “The money is not just extracted for themselves. They use it in a perverse Robin Hood-esque way,” Nishikawa said. “The government steals from itself to help peasants. As Omar said, people switch their votes for goodies.” That desperately needs to change. “Voters aren’t doing their job … so that mechanism is broken in Mexico,” he said. But there has to be hope, and that’s where García and the Ayotzinapa Caravan step in. Joaquin Muerte, an organizer with SA’s Southwest Workers Union, said García left quite an impression here, inspiring local activists to want to do more. Organizers from Ferguson, Missouri, Mississippi and Alabama visited the
caravan in Texas, too, Muerte said. In his talks in SA, García repeatedly referenced how a white police officer in Ferguson shot an unarmed black man who was a person of interest in a robbery last August. “The police brutality here in the United States is very similar to Mexico, especially in some segments of the population. Therefore, we have to be [in] solidarity,” he said. Muerte agreed, saying Ferguson has shed light not just on issues with race relations but also with police brutality and unnecessary militarization. “State violence is very real and it’s happening all over,” Muerte said, referencing San Antonio, Ayotzinapa, Ferguson and Palestine. “It’s a terrorism on the people.” For García, his U.S. experience has also proven educational, but he knows he’ll soon have to return to the stark reality back home. And that may come with consequences, including possibly having to give up his life. He’s prepared for it, should it come to that. “Are we peasants? Yes. Are we poor? Yes. But we are not forgetful,” he said with fire in his eyes. mreagan@sacurrent.com
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In keeping with the unrealistically proportioned dolls she emulates and satirizes, Milwaukee-based drag performer Trixie Mattel champions a “life-in-plastic aesthetic,” and even has her own Barbie-esque coloring book. Born Brian Firkus and introduced to the camp-loving masses on season seven of the Logo reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race, Mattel takes such an exaggerated approach to makeup contouring that the blog Feast of Fun likened her to a “demented cartoon character.” Rey Lopez Entertainment brings Mattel to the Heat for a live performance hosted by local drag star Tencha La Jefa. $10-$20, 11:30pm, Heat Nightclub, (210) 386-4537, heatsa.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
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What’s all this “luck of the Irish” stuff when there’s a curse that warns “red nose, short hose” (aka big time boozers with tiny wankers). First produced in 2011 at Trinity, AtticRep revisits The Irish Curse: A Comedy About Guys with a Tiny Problem with a new vision. Chronicling a support group for under-endowed IrishAmerican men, the play picks up steam when a young member challenges their beliefs about the curse that plagues them. Directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo and Seth Larson, the comedy also tackles serious issues of masculinity and body image. $18-$28, 8pm Wed-Sat, 2:30pm Sun, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, atticrep.org. — Murphi Cook
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TV made Roger Ebert into America’s most famous film critic, especially when he jousted with colleague Gene Siskel on their long-running show. But he was a writer first, winning a Pulitzer for his Chicago Sun-Times criticism. After Ebert published his 2011 memoir, Steve James began interviewing him for this doc on his life and career — including his prickly friendship with Siskel. Along with clips from their series and the talk show appearances that cemented their status as cultural icons, the film interviews Ebert’s widow Chaz and such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog. Free, 6:30pm, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Michael Barrett
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It’s time to rejoice for fans of the accordion. With Fiesta and the Tejano Conjunto Festival just around the corner, Texas Folklife presents — for the ninth year — The Big Squeeze, a contest/concert for young squeezeboxers. The event is open to the public and is designed to encourage inter-generational dialogue and to function as a vehicle for cultural preservation. Those in attendance can expect to be treated to some of the best young accordion players in town, competing in three categories: polka, zydeco and conjunto. The local winners will go on to compete in the statewide finals. Free, 7pm, Gallista Gallery, 1913 S. Flores St., (210) 212-8606, gallistagallery.com. — James Courtney
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If you’ve been keeping up with Contemporary Art Month’s 30th year, it’s time to cast your vote in the 2015 CAMMIE Awards. Recognizing outstanding works in seven niche categories — from the Alchemic Reactions Award for Collaborating Artists to the I Am Not Spock Award for Doing the Unexpected — the CAMMIES are announced during a wrap party at the Linda Pace Foundation’s serene CHRISpark. And don’t let the ticket price dissuade you: Entrance to the event includes beer and wine, one ticket to redeem at Ay Papi’s Puerto Rican food truck, good vibes and eclectic grooves spun by DJ Agosto Cuellar. $15, 7-10pm, CHRISpark, 111 Camp St., (210) 2266663, contemporaryartmonth.com. — BR
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For the first time, Ballet San Antonio will perform a work by prolific George Balanchine. “Donizetti Variations” debuts as part of Balanchine, an evening of works that spotlight the work of the legendary choreographer. In order to be eligible to perform the late artist’s work, a company must work with a repetiteur, a seasoned Balanchine performer that helps the artistic staff and dancers achieve the jaw-dropping athleticism and speed hallmark to the “Father of American Ballet.” Balanchine closes BSA’s inaugural season as the Tobin’s resident ballet company. $29-$93, 8pm Fri-Sat, 2pm Sun, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, balletsanantonio.org. — MC
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What started as a trio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side grew into a cultural phenomenon that has doused the world in blue. The Blue Man Group returns to SA for five performances of their family-friendly fusion of music and comedy. With 25 years under their belts, chances are you’ve seen their bald blue antics before, but their message remains necessary today. Through interactions with the audience, the group hopes to help theatergoers “reconnect with their own sense of wonder and discovery” — a bold undertaking for our techno-driven society. $45-$95, 8pm Fri, 2pm & 8pm Sat, 2pm & 7:30pm Sun, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 2263333, majesticempire.com. — MC
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Making recreational use of closed-off streets since 1976, Colombia’s cycle-centric concept “ciclovía” has inspired adaptations across the globe. Launched in 2011, SA’s own Síclovía was an instant hit and is now considered the Alamo City’s “largest free health and wellness event.” Expected to draw more than 60,000 participants, Síclovía’s latest chapter is set to turn Southtown into “a safe, fun place for walking, bicycling, jogging and enjoying outdoor activities.” Those planning to attend the car-free, kidfriendly event are encouraged to take a safety pledge online at ymcasatx.org. Free, 11am-4pm, S. St. Mary’s St. at S. Alamo St. to Mission Concepción, ymcasatx.org/siclovia. —BR
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A key figure in New York’s 1990s-era “culture jamming” scene (a guerrilla-style form of “subvertising” involving the reconfiguration of logos, signs and billboards), Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada has made a name for himself with monumental portraits informed by vector graphics, land art and GPS technology. Possibly best viewed via helicopter or satellite, the individual portraits in his Terrestrial Series can cover up to 11 acres of land with strategically placed tons of soil, sand and gravel. In conjunction with Contemporary Art Month and the redevelopment of San Pedro Creek, Rodríguez-Gerada is installing a large-scale portrait in the parking lot of the Christopher Columbus Italian Society. Cameras, drones and web-based technology will offer “grounded” visitors an aerial perspective of the finished project. Free, 3-6pm, Christopher Columbus Italian Society, 201 Piazza Italia, (210) 2238284, contemporaryartmonth.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
Driven by his own family’s experiences toiling in the fields of Arizona, labor organizer César E. Chávez employed nonviolent forms of protest (including marches, boycotts and hunger strikes) to fight for fair wages and humane conditions for farm workers across Texas, Arizona, California and Florida. Synonymous with his motto “sí, se puede” (it can be done), the Mexican-American icon founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become United Farm Workers in 1966. A fitting choice, Grammy-winning tejano musician Little Joe steps up as grand marshal for San Antonio’s 19th annual César E. Chávez March for Justice, which steps off from Avenida Guadalupe and culminates at the Alamo. Subject of the forthcoming documentary Recuerdos: The Life and Music of Little Joe, the native Texan not only supported and raised funds for Chávez, but his rendition of “Las Nubes” (a song about oppression, hope and liberation) is the UFW’s official anthem. Free, 10am, Avenida Guadalupe, 1301 Guadalupe St., ceclef.org. — BR
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Hosted in the Jack Guenther Pavilion, the Briscoe’s Night of Artists features a cocktail reception, dinner and live entertainment, and continues with a month-long exhibition showcasing more than 60 of the nation’s top Western artists. $200, 5-11pm Saturday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, 210 W. Market St., San Antonio, (210) 299-4499.
“inspireD Gala” Inspire Community Fine
Art Center’s fundraising gala includes an exhibit juried by Pamela Gardner and Sidney Sinclair, hors d’oeuvres, musical entertainment and visual art demos. $50, 6:30-8:30pm Thursdsy; Radius Center, 106 Auditorium Circle, (210) 829-5592.
International Artist-in-Residence Exhibition As guest curator for the first
IAIR exhibition of 2015, Los Angelesbased Cesar Martinez tapped Londonbased Colombian art star Oscar Murillo, theatrical Houstonite Autumn Knight and LA-based painter Henry Taylor. Dubbed by fans as a “21st-century Basquiat,” Murillo has been known to paint with a broomstick and scrawl words like “burrito” on his canvases. A trained drama therapist, Knight combines elements of performance, video and sculpture in multimedia projects that encourage discourse about emotional, racial and geographic boundaries. Honored in 2012 with a mid-career retrospective at MoMA PS1, Taylor has depicted prostitutes and drug dealers in his folky paintings, but
does not identify as an “outsider artist.” Free, noon-5pm Wednesday-Sunday, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900.
”One Way Trail” Pittsburgh-based artist
Kim Beck’s Art in the Garden installation offers a plethora of alternatives to the “predictable” or “official” trail. Complete with phone-accessible snippets of audio from interviews the artist conducted with 16 “tour guides” — a motley crew that includes SAY Sí students, two dogs, a Buddhist priest, a Texas rancher and a 95-year-old SA native — her “One Way Trail” envisions our stories, our preferences and our desires as integral parts of our experience in the park. $5-$8, 9am-5pm daily; San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, (210) 207-3250.
“Small Scale” Fundraiser and Silent Auction SAY Sí’s largest annual
fundraiser, “Small Scale” culminates this week with a silent auction featuring works by more than 200 artists, plus libations and bites from an array of local restaurants and bars, including Hot Joy, Aldaco’s, Liberty Bar, Vegeria, Concrete Jungle and Bohanan’s. $50-$65, 7-10:30pm Friday; SAY Sí, 1518 S. Alamo St., (210) 212-8666.
”Tooky Jelly” Revered local artist James
Cobb’s new solo exhibition features work created digitally and printed on metal — “labor intensive, though untouched by human hands save for the firm grip on a mouse.” Free, 2-7pm Thursday-Saturday, Sala Diaz, 517 Stieren St., (972) 900-0047.
Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields In
preparation for the César E. Chávez March for Justice, San Anto Cultural Arts hosts a poster-making session and screening of part two the PBS series Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement. The Struggle in the Fields examines the importance of Chávez and delineates the various components of his nonviolent strategy for farm worker self determination. Free, 6-8pm Wednesday; San Anto Cultural Arts, 2120 El Paso St., (210) 226-7466.
Hysteria Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh
Dancy and Jonathan Pryce, director Tanya Wexler’s 2011 film Hysteria recounts the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the peak of Victorian prudishness. Southtown’s Sexology Institute screens the historical rom-com in its education center. Free, 7-10pm Friday, Sexology Institute and Boutique, 727 S. Alamo St., (210) 487-0371.
Vertigo Initially dismissed as “farfetched
nonsense” (The New Yorker) and “another Hitchcock-and-bull story” (Time magazine), Vertigo is now counted among the greatest films of all time. Set in San Francisco, the 1958 psychological thriller stars James Stewart as an acrophobic ex-detective who becomes obsessed with a mysterious blonde (Kim Novak) after rescuing her from the waters below the Golden Gate Bridge. $10, 7pm Monday; Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes, 1255 SW Loop 410, (210) 677-8500.
Theater
An Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show Funded in part by the Jim Henson
Foundation, locally-based artist Zach Dorn Dorn’s latest “live-action comic book” recounts mysterious tales surrounding a lonely puppeteer, a vertically challenged ghost and an opera-singing landlord. $15, 8:30pm Friday-Saturday; Miniature Curiosa’s Toy Theater Parlor, 1906 S. Flores St., (813) 843-3722
Crime and Punishment Curt Columbus
and Marilyn Campbell’s fast-paced theatrical adaptation of Dostoevsky’s classic tasks three actors with portraying an array of characters. David Rinear directs the Playhouse’s production. $12$30, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.
GLAAD To Know You Set in a Hollywood
hotel, Chadd Green and Lee Hurtado’s original new comedy surrounds a pair of gay lovers who’ve been living a lie in the name of stardom. $10-$14, 8pm ThursdaySaturday; The Overtime Theater, 1203 Camden St., (210) 557-7562.
Serpientes y Escaleras Erik Bosse and
Laurie Rae Dietrich’s play Serpientes y Escaleras unfolds on the set of a TV show and invites lucky members of the “studio audience” on stage to compete in a game of “virtues and vices, successes and setbacks.” $10-$15, 8pm Friday-Saturday, Jump-Start Performing Arts Center, 710 Fredericksburg Rd., (210) 227-5867.
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speculated about what Obama’s pillow talk might sound like, but Jay Phillips takes the premise further by imbuing his impression with pseudo-inspirational come-ons eerily similar to the man himself’s actual State of the Union seduction lines. But Phillips — whom readers might recognize as Scootsie Double Day from Semi-Pro or Boo-Boo Buster from Baby Mama — seems less interested in making political points than in being really funny, a feat he manages to pull off while showing little, if any, of his work. $18.50, 8pm & 10:15pm Friday-Saturday, 8pm Sunday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805.
Special Events
7th Annual RiverTini Pour-Off The
San Antonio River Foundation’s annual RiverTini Pour-Off features some of San Antonio’s top restaurants and bars mixing specialty martinis that reflect the fresh and lively spirit of the San Antonio River. $65, 6-8:30pm Thursday; Wyndham Garden River Walk Museum Reach, 103 9th St., (210) 224-2694.
Resistance is Futile: A Star Trek Quiz
Geeks Who Drink pay homage to Star Trek with a new pub quiz promising to “seek out new questions and new answers and boldly go where no quiz has gone before.” $5, 5-7pm Saturday; Firehouse Pub & Grill, 5380 Walzem Rd., (210) 946-9600.
Texas Tattoo Jam Hosted by Crazy
Alexander the “Ink Pimp,” the inaugural Texas Tattoo Jam unites more than 100 artists along with special guests Megan Massacre (NY Ink) and and Kyle Dunbar (Ink Master) for an expo featuring a tattoo contest, vendors, a cash bar and performances by Screamin’ Ink Sui Side Show, tattoo icon The Enigma and Texas rockers Point Blank. $10-$35, 3-10pm Friday, 11am-10pm Saturday, noon-6pm Sunday; San Antonio Event Center, 8111 Meadow Leaf Dr., (210) 528-0434.
highlight Castañeda’s new book Three Decades of Engendering History as well as excerpts from the documentary Antonia: A Chicana Story. Free, 7pm Saturday; Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, 922 San Pedro, (210) 228-0201.
Meditation 101: Taming the Mind with Joy and Compassion In
addition to working with indigenous Mayan and South Texas folk healers, Witte Museum anthropology curator Bryan Bayles has studied and practiced meditation for more than 15 years with renowned monks and scholars. Drawing upon these teachings, Bayles will answer questions and guide visitors through several different styles of focus, visualization and relaxation. $5-$10 suggested donation, 6:30-8:30pm Wednesday; Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, (210) 357-1910.
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From left to right: Cathy Cunningham-Little’s light sculpture Architectural Tectonic and Karen Mahaffy’s rice-paste installation Poster/Pattern.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS San Antonio Artists Come ‘Back From Berlin’ DAN R. GODDARD
During her three-month residency in Berlin, San Antonio artist Karen Mahaffy toured a prison used during World War II by the Nazi secret police, the Stasi. No telling what unspeakable horrors the walls may have witnessed, but Mahaffy found the tacky, brightly colored, ornately-patterned wallpaper and linoleum flooring to be more revealing. The crummy
decorations seemed a symbolic illustration of what the German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.” Mahaffy took pictures and upon returning home, she used editing software to animate her images, creating a three-channel digital video, Untitled (Berlin Shift), that causes the flowers in the wallpaper to slip and slide across the walls like gentle, golden snowflakes. It’s now being exhibited in “Back from Berlin,” on view through May 10 at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. “Berlin struck me as a very formal city and that formalism in everyday life is what interested me,” Mahaffy told the San Antonio Current last week in a phone interview. “Some things from World War II had been left to decay and provided a stark reminder of the place’s history and what happened during the war. But I also had a lot of people tell me that Berlin is not Germany — it’s become more of an international art center with people from all over the world.” Longtime San Antonio art patron Angelika Jansen has been working since 2010 to organize the Berlin Residency Program. Jansen, who divides her time between the
two cities, set up a partnership with the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, a nonprofit residency and exhibition center in the heart of Berlin’s art scene that provides studios and other accommodations year-round for 25 international artists. Jansen garnered enough support so that each year four artists living in Bexar County will have the opportunity to spend three months living and making art in Berlin. “Back from Berlin” is the first exhibit resulting from the project, showcasing artists from the inaugural cycle, July 2013 to June 2014. Along with Mahaffy, the artists are Cathy Cunningham-Little, Ricky Armendariz and Vincent Valdez. Blue Star’s smallest gallery features a short documentary about the residency program and video recordings of the artists talking about their residencies. “Künstlerhaus Bethanien is the biggest and most famous of the artists’ residences in Berlin,” Jansen said during a tour of the exhibit at the Blue Star. I wanted to give San Antonio artists a window to the world. Berlin has become a magnet for contemporary artists, and I thought it would help local artists to get away from their focus on CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 ►
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San Antonio and see what the rest of the world is doing.” Cunningham-Little compared Berlin’s art scene to New York in the 1950s, when American-created abstract expressionism turned the city into the world’s art capital. “There are so many young artists flocking to Berlin, it’s just amazing,” Cunningham-Little said in a phone interview. “I was there from October to December so I was able to experience the holidays. It was a fabulous place to walk around and the museums were fantastic.” Cunningham-Little creates amazing, boldly-colored light sculptures using white LED lights and dichroic glass, made by stacking layers of glass and micro-layers of metals or oxides to produce brilliant colors similar to a prism. With the lights off, all you can see are pieces of glass attached to the wall. But with the lights on and shining through the dichroic glass, stunning colors and patterns appear. Resembling a stained-glass window, Architectural Tectonic was inspired by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, a 19th-century structure that was badly damaged in a 1943 Allied bombing raid. “Angelika has an apartment that overlooks the church,” Cunningham-Little said. “They’ve left the bombed-out part standing as a memorial and built new buildings around it. There’s so much history around every corner of Berlin. I didn’t start out to make a stained glass pattern, but when I worked on it I was thinking about the church and the stained glass effect just happened naturally.” Colors and patterns are more dramatic and sharply defined in her other works, such as Mitosis, JuJu and Ascent, shown in Blue Star’s darkened Project Space Gallery. “When I went to Berlin, I thought I would find all kinds of newfangled high-tech equipment,” Cunningham-Little said.
“The language barrier made it difficult until an Israeli artist “For example, in the Greek myth of Zeus and Callisto, who was in residence at Künstlerhaus told me about a he is usually depicted as a bull and she’s a bear,” place with a clerk who spoke English. But when I got there, Armendariz said. “So you see a bull and a bear, but it’s all I found was the exact same equipment I could buy in not clear if they are fighting or making love. In another San Antonio. Globalization had struck again.” work, I use the coyote to stand in for Phaeton, who Since his Berlin residency, Armendariz has been borrowed Zeus’ golden chariot to drive the sun across trying to go back as much as possible. Recently, he the sky, but messed up, and Zeus had to kill him with a tagged along with Ron Binks, who has been taking his thunderbolt. I wanted to give some of our American myths University of Texas at San Antonio students to Germany a classical spin.” for years. Armendariz plans to take over the program In Coyotes (Phaeton, Remix), you see the underside of when Binks retires. a coyote falling out of a sky filled with stormy clouds and “I went to Berlin with the intention of dealing with wracked by lightning. border issues, but once I got there I realized it didn’t Valdez kept a visual diary of his experiences in Berlin, matter,” Armendariz said in a phone interview on his way small notebook-size drawings recording the famed U.S. back from Berlin. “The Germans have a different attitude Army “Checkpoint Charlie,” a symphony orchestra, a jazz about their border than we do. We’re in the zealous musician, a crumbling portion of the Berlin Wall and a phase of keeping people out, but they want people to sign at a train station near the Künstlerhaus. He is also come and try to make a better Germany. They don’t showing two giant paintings – much larger than any he’s spend a lot of time worrying about the past.” shown in San Antonio before – of the folded body of an However, World War II tanks can still be found eagle and a man with a tattooed face, Metanoia. around the city and Armendariz created woodcut prints “My time in Berlin was invaluable,” Valdez said in his combining tanks with the ubiquitous graffiti that’s artist’s statement. “My mere approach to painting has everywhere in Berlin. been greatly affected after obsessively studying closely “Every wall from about six feet high down was the paintings of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Anthony covered with graffiti,” Armendariz said. “But right behind Van Dyke, Neo Rausch, Christian Schad, Otto Dix and the graffiti artists were the wheat paste artists, who George Grosz. As seen most specifically in Metanoia, would paste stuff over the graffiti. So my tanks look like a work in progress, my physical approach to applying they could be wheat paste designs and I paint to the canvas has been altered. The asked a San Antonio artist, Christopher layering and mark-making process are now “Back from Berlin” Montoya, to ‘tag’ my prints.” becoming as important as the portrait itself.” $3-$5 For most of the work in the show, In his video interview, Valdez said he has Noon-8pm Thu, noon-6pm Fri-Sun Armendariz used his distinctive carved spent years trying to “paint like he draws,” Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum plywood panels and oil paint, although he but after studying the European masters 116 Blue Star 227-6960 drew from the classical myths that inform during his Berlin residency, he wants to bluestarart.org much of the public artwork he saw in Berlin. “paint like a painter.” Through May 10 sacurrent.com • March 25-31, 2015 • CURRENT 31
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DELICIOUS REVENGE
The Twisted Glory Of Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales DANIEL BARNES
If 2013 was the year of the American Dream film (The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Spring Breakers, Pain and Gain, The Bling Ring, Nebraska), then 2014 was most definitely the year of the revenge film. The quest for righteous vengeance in a world devoid of moral centers spurred the plots of studio blockbusters (The Equalizer), mid-level genre pictures (John Wick), foreign films (the excellent Hungarian movie The Notebook) and indie releases of the major (Calvary), minor (Blue Ruin) and virtually invisible (Heli) variety. Even the two most popular films at the domestic box office in 2014 — American Sniper and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 — were about characters struggling with and paralyzed by their urge to dole out some good old-fashioned payback. All of those films were just appetizers to the main course of Wild Tales. Argentinean writer-director Damián Szifrón’s black comedy anthology, which played festivals throughout 2014 and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars, is the godfather of modern revenge films, the granddaddy, the boss, the great pumpkin. Wild Tales is the revenge film to end all revenge films, a glorious and bonkers blast of visual creativity and storytelling energy, and one of the most purely entertaining films of the year. If the naughty-boy, early-1990s ouevres of Pedro Almodovar (who coproduced the film with his brother Agustín Almodóvar) and Quentin Tarantino were somehow able to copulate, then Wild Tales would be their sick and beautiful sextuplet offspring. A mostly juvenile sensibility reigns in Wild Tales, but it’s perfectly pitched, as though the funniest kid in your high school became Scheherazade for two hours, regaling you with darkly humorous stories of corruption and retribution. Like a vicious predator, the film sinks its claws into your neck before you even see it coming — the opening story, a hilariously evil chamber comedy set aboard an in-flight airplane, is one of the great pre-credits “grabbers” in recent cinema history. Szifrón lures us into a defenseless posture by focusing on banalities — a rolling suitcase, a question about airline mileage points, the roar of the airplane engine, an older professor making time with a young runway model across the aisle — until a casual conversation 32 CURRENT •March 25-31, 2015 • sacurrent.com
The mother of all revenge films? See Wild Tales and decide for yourself.
reveals that the disparate passengers are all linked by a malevolent figure from their pasts. It’s a sublime sequence, like Lost without all the ghosts and angels bullshit, and culminates in an uproarious freeze frame that assures the viewer that they’re in completely lost hands. If you’re not rooting down in your seat in anticipation of a great time after that opening sequence, then you’re not on this film’s wavelength and you never will be, and the remaining five stories will have little to offer you. The miracle of the scene, and of Wild Tales as a whole, is that despite the reprehensible and inhuman behavior on display, the film is always more funny than stomach-turning. Nothing else quite matches the impact and concision of that first sequence, but the stories progressively expand the film’s notions of justice while redefining its position on the righteousness of revenge. Szifrón keeps finding new variations on the same theme, and although the film lacks the moral fiber and narrative overlap to form a grand “idea,” most of the stories are rooted in the concept of Argentina as a hotbed of corruption and class war that burns everyone it touches. The final story, a
delirious tale of a joyous wedding reception that becomes a hell on Earth, seems to offer a ladder into a world of reconciliation and acceptance, but not without smashing a few mirrors first. I know very little about the 39-year-old Szifrón or his future prospects — contrary to many reports, Wild Tales is actually his third feature film, not his debut, though it’s his first since 2005, and he has spent most of his career working in Argentine television — but it seems that Wild Tales heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent. It may be that Szifrón blew his creative wad with this ambitious film, and if that turns out to be the case, at least it’s a wad to remember. Wild Tales (R) Dir. and writ. Damián Szifrón; feat. Dario Grandinetti, María Marull, Julieta Zylberberg, Rita Cortese, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Walter Donado, Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Maria Onetto, Osmar Núñez, Erica Rivas, Diego Gentile, César Bordón, Nancy Dupláa, Alan Daicz, Germán de Silva Opens March 27 at Santikos Bijou
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It’s not every day the restaurant I’m scheduled to review ends up being a victim of a break-in. Such was the case at Dignowity Meats, which opened in early January inside the former Blind Man’s Kitchen. An unidentified suspect burglarized the eatery the weekend of March 14. Though the cops have yet to find a link, the items and products stolen have the modus operandi of a certain meaty mugger. Again, we’re not saying it’s THE Brisket Bandit, but the casing of the joint, the way the culprit carved his way into the back patio using wire cutters and how he made off with more than $1,000 worth of corned beef (while accidentally leaving several bundles of brisket untouched) is just a little too suspicious. Having said that, my first visit to the joint was on a flawless spring day. There’s no indoor seating to be found, so make note of that. Instead, there are half a dozen picnic tables and a handful of wooden two-seaters made out of giant spools and wooden pallets. The large carport covering provides plenty of shade, and there’s more than enough parking for to-go orders and sit-down eaters. Dignowity Meats operates similarly to barbecue joints — when the food runs out, they’re done. But for someone who’s been harping about finding readily available
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stacks of meat served in famous New York delis, Dignowity Meats pastrami is less intimidating, but just as rich and delicious. Get it Reuben style with sauerkraut and homemade Russian dressing on fresh rye bread. The Turkey Caprese, which also made the drive home with me, is one of the few menu items grandfathered in from Crazy Carl’s (which is still open)menu and it’s easy to see why as Cajun-rubbed smoked turkey meets house pesto, fresh greens and balsamic mayo. Good flavors,
no mess and it won’t put you in a meat coma come 3 o’clock. You’re going to want to pick up these sandwiches for lunch. There’s no unnecessarily lengthy menu to choose from or gimmicky items to distract from the task at hand. If recent press coverage due to the burglary has changed anything, it’s how long you might have to wait to get your order. Regardless, these sandwiches are worth standing in line for. flavor@sacurrent.com
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Arcade chef-owner Jesse Perez has been a busy bee lately and it’s paying dividends. The San Antonio native recently teamed up with Daihwan Choi (the dude responsible for taking the Pinkberry chain to NYC) to create Óxido, a fast-casual eatery in the Big Apple’s Flatiron District that’s giving Chipotle a run for its money and has already received props from the likes of The New York Post. The eatery, which comes in at around 1,600 square feet, is mainly a grab-and-go concept that’s taking Modern Mexican cuisine to NYC. “These guys did their research and they’ve been wanting to get Arcade’s Jesse Perez (right) is spreading Modern Mex. into this cuisine because it’s hot,” Perez said in a meeting over coffee of the area’s newfound love for everything Mex. The menu includes choice of burrito, bowl or two tacos with grass-fed grilled garlic steak, chicken poblano, chile lime pork carnitas, New Mexican beef curry and red chile mushroom with choice of comino rice (also available with brown rice), vegetables a la plancha, chipotle black beans, charro pinto beans and sweet corn relish to fill up the menus. Expansion is already in the works, as the team looks for its second space, but Óxido will likely stay in the East Coast for the time being. San Antonio fans of Arcade need not worry – Perez is committed to his first eatery, now in its third year in operation. Whole Foods Market (multiple locations) is stepping up its Passover game. The healthy eats grocer will feature more gluten- and dairy-free options by using the Kedem Food Products line, including biodynamic grape juice, certified by Demeter USA as reaching the highest level of farming and organic standards; gluten-free brownie brittle, blondie crunch, cookies and a chocolate-frosted Passover donut; Zeta oil made from ancient orchards on the Jerusalem Mountains; gluten-free Cajun panko; cashew butter and handmade Matzo from the Holy Land. Meanwhile, Easter brunch menus are rolling out in advance of Sunday’s Easter celebration. Citrus at Hotel Valencia (150 E. Houston St., 230-8412) will offer a family-style brunch buffet with artisanal charcuterie, oysters, lobster bisque, panseared red fish Veracruz, along with French macarons and that tasty caramelized white chocolate custard. Reservations for the $59.95 buffet are strongly encouraged. Hotel Contessa’s Las Ramblas (306 W. Market, 298-8040) will have four separate seatings ($62 per person, $22 for children 6-12) at 10:30, 11 a.m., 12:30 and 1 p.m. with carving stations, an extensive seafood station, fresh salads and made-to-order omelets along with a dessert and pastry display. Las Canarias inside Omni La Mansion Del Rio (112 College St., will serve brunch 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at $72 per person ($36 for kids 6-12) with an assortment of quiche, waffles and eggs Benedict along with chilled selections, shellfish paella and treats from the pastry shop. Visit sacurrent.com for more Easter brunch options. flavor@sacurrent.com
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Picture this: Two local chefs leave town in their mid-20s to hone their culinary skills, work with at a slew of prominent eateries and then they make their way back to SA, open up a small place and make fun bar snacks and drinks. That’s the plan chefs Josh Cross and Rick Frame have in opening Toro Taco Bar at the intersection of Brooklyn and Austin. The joint is fashioned after icehouses of yesteryear and popular watering holes in the area that make for fun hangs come summertime. “We wanted to take back the space to what it once was,” Frame said during a break from building the patio’s wooden furniture. “There were restaurants down here, bars down there and then it became industrial.” As the fourth business to move into the Dignowity Hill neighborhood (Dignowity Meats, Alamo Beer Company and Big Hops Growler Station “The Bridge” have all opened within the past three months), Toro Taco Bar is looking to add to the landscape with simple fare and drinks. Cross and Frame’s story goes way back, much earlier than their March opening. The two young chefs met while working inside the original Restaurant Biga on Locust Street. For Cross, his culinary path took him to a café with Damien Watel (now the home of Paloma Blanca), and Polo’s at the Fairmount under chef Mark Collins. Cross then spent eight years in New York City, working in kitchens like Gramercy Tavern and JeanGeorges, while also working under James Beard Award winner Alain Ducasse. After moving back to San Antonio in 2006, Cross helped open The Grill at Leon Springs under Thierry Burkle and Armand Obedia before rejoining Bruce Auden at Biga’s new location on the River Walk. He left to open Oloroso in 2008, and when it closed its doors, Cross made his way to 40 CURRENT • March 25-31, 2015 • sacurrent.com
They did it their way: Josh Cross (left) and Rick Frame teamed up to open Toro Taco Bar.
Oregon to do some consulting. Frame, the slightly more outspoken of the two, worked as sous chef for Mark Bliss at Silo Elevated Cuisine for a couple of years before taking on NYC, where he worked at the recently shuttered WD 50, a lower eastside institution for modernist foods. Frame eventually made his way to Hawaii to work under celebrity chef Roy Yamaguchi. The pair reconnected recently after Cross’ return during the Wicked Night at Wickes feast, with mutual friends Robbie Nowlin and Jeff Wiley of Citrus at Hotel Valencia. “It’s kind of double trouble, man. We kind of agree on everything, which is great,” Frame said of the serendipitous partnership. The gelled vibe works especially well in the kitchen as the duo works to create a simple menu of tacos (look for streetstyle pork), quesadillas (a huitlacoche and calabaza was mentioned) and a goat pop tart (cabrito with mushroom and poblano). “We’re going to try and make the most delicious snacks as possible, but serve them in paper plates and cups to keep things affordable,” Frame said. The joint features an ordering window and more than a dozen seats along the indoor bar. The outdoor furnishings were mostly built by Frame, this includes what will be a planter garden and stage, which will serve as more seating when bands
aren’t featured. On the drink side of things, patrons can expect to find a selection of rum and agave-based drinks (all fashioned by Cross and Frame). Beers include South American, Mexican and Texan craft brews. Cross will curate a small and revolving wine list — dictated by what people are drinking and area weather patterns, so plan to get your rosé on come summer. And as for jams, Cross and Frame will only feature San Antonio and South Texas artists on their sound system. “We’re trying to create a really
comfortable atmosphere — keep it San Antonio, keep it South Texas and make it accessible for everybody,” Frame said. Don’t expect the vibe to be anything other than chill — both chefs are wearing shorts behind the kitchen doors. “We’ve always had to work playoffs and now I’ll get to watch from behind the bar,” Cross said. “The bar’s on our terms — we’ve both opened up other places here in town with help,” Frame said. “This is ours and we’re swinging for the fences.” flavor@sacurrent.com
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In a blue and gold veil borrowed from the Virgin Mary, San Antonio artist Ray Scarborough’s vision of Selena Quintanilla may be the most forthright worship we have of the madonna of tejano pop. Since her death two decades ago, the commemorative tone for Selena throughout South Texas has been one of uncompromised reverence. Post street art of the singer and there’s never a worry about tagging or removal by the property owner. Staple a tribute gig poster with her smile in Chanel Brick and the bill is stolen in no time, likely relocated to a safe frame at the thief’s home. As Scarborough’s portrait suggests, South Texas’ treatment of Selena borders on the religious. “People do see her as a religious icon,” Scarborough told the San Antonio Current. “Not necessarily that they pray to her, but that in the admiration for her, that she was a saint.” For Selena followers, Corpus Christi and San Antonio are the respective Mecca and Medina of this pop culture devotion — where the singer grew up and where she launched her campaign for national attention. As the world’s tejano music capital, San Antonio offered pivotal momentum for Selena as she cleaned up at the Tejano Music Awards between 1986 and 1997, amassing 36 in her career. Even though it has been 20 years since Selena Fan Club president Yolanda Saldívar murdered her, the singer’s iconographic presence is still felt all over San Antonio. In death, SA mourned her with the pain of a close friend and the pride of a cultural figure, lighters up, blasting “Dreaming of You.” In the deep library of karaoke machines, the material from Selena’s Amor Prohibido and Dreaming of You albums elicit some of the strongest responses. And for good reason. Without the arresting melodies and addicting cumbia rhythms of those two albums that sent her into the pop 46 CURRENT • March 25-31, 2015 • sacurrent.com
stratosphere, her legacy may not have held on with such a tight grip for so long. Released in 1994, Amor Prohibido contains almost every one of Selena’s best-known tunes. The buoyant title cut, the overwhelming sadness of “No Me Queda Mas,” the four-on-the-floor smash “El Chico del Apartamento 512,” the hip-hop touches of “Techno Cumbia” and the fluttering-heart patterns of “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” — Amor Prohibido is the desert island album for Selena fans. The overlooked hero of Selena’s music is her older brother, A.B. Quintanilla. The producer of her five solo albums, A.B. established the tone for her crossover from straight tejano into pop. Sure, some of the keyboard settings sound cheesy in time; a contemporary producer using A.B.’s orchestra hits and Daytime TV horns would be like wearing M.C. Hammer pants now. But A.B. did wield a timeless ear for arrangement. Cumbia patterns and Tex-Mex upbeats repeat on lock, providing a strong background for dancing. At key points in the melody, he boosts Selena’s voice with harmony on keys and background vocals. And countermelodies flutter around like grackles in the springtime. Songs like “El Chico del Apartamento 512” are occupied with horns and keyboard tenants, but never feel overcrowded. “When you listen to a Selena song these days, like ‘Amor Prohibido,’ it still sounds like it was recorded yesterday,” A.B. Quintanilla told Noche Latina in 2010. This infectious production — a touch of corny syrup, but universally fun — helped Selena’s music pervade car stereos and party soundtracks in the ’90s. The Quintanilla family did not respond to the San Antonio Current’s requests for comment. “I grew up with it in the household,” Nina Diaz, singer of SA’s Girl in a Coma, told the San Antonio Current. “I
Local artist Gilbert Duran’s painting of Selena in front of the Alameda Theater on Houston Street.
remember being really young and having Selena contests with my friends who would sleep over.” While Selena’s music seeped into life in South Texas, female performers around the country began paying attention as she created a bona fide crossover phenomenon. Beyoncé, J-Lo, Shakira and Katy Perry all cite her as an inspiration. “Definitely growing up in Texas, I
heard her on the radio,” Beyoncé told MTV tr3s in 2007. “And listening to her album, even though I didn’t actually know what she was singing, it helped me in the studio with my pronunciation.” Selena continues to have influence over other known and up-and-coming performers. Born in 1992 near Dallas, Disney bopper Selena Gomez, now a pop star of her own, was named after the queen of tejano (during Selena’s
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From left to right: Al Rendon’s Selena portrait is part of the Smithsonian’s collection; Chris Montoya’s mural on South Flores Street is a vivid reminder of how much SA still loves the tejano music diva.
1991-1995 reign, her name skyrocketed from 780 to 91 in the rankings of most popular baby names in America). Casual onstage and confident with her hips in rhythm, Selena’s comfortable and commanding presentation made thousands of little girls aspire to be just like her. “She was one of the first to wear those outfits for full-figured women,” said Diaz. “Me, being a Latina with a big butt, watching her dance around and be comfortable with her body, it makes me feel more comfortable with my body.” But it wasn’t just Selena’s musical chops that had a lasting impact on her legion of fans. Perhaps even more influential was her contagious no-fronts, down-to-earth demeanor. “She was such a sweet, humble person,” Diaz said. “That’s something that follows her as well, not just her music, but her as a person.” If there’s an award for creating and defending a wholesome, money-making brand, the Quintanilla family deserves a lifetime achievement award. Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., set the
tone for his family’s career in music, billing the family band name Selena y Los Dinos as an anodyne but electric form of entertainment. Skeptical of the now-iconic bustier, Abraham guarded his family from over-sexing, bad press and public shame. In his daughter, Abraham found a conduit for his family’s success and a shining example of morality. The one “scandal” that befell Selena was her elopement with her band guitarist, Chris Pérez — a noncontroversy if there ever was one. But with a bullet in room 158 of a Corpus Christi Days Inn, a young life and still-rising career suddenly ended. On March 31, 1995, over a dispute about embezzlement, San Antonio native and Selena Fan Club president Yolanda Saldívar shot Selena in her right shoulder, severing an artery that would cause her to bleed to death. She was just 23. Immediately after her passing, Hollywood wigs reached out to the Quintanilla family to option Selena’s story as a biopic. Amid tragic loss, the Quintanilla family stepped up,
determined to tell the story as they thought Selena would want it told. “What we didn’t want to happen was to have a misrepresentation of a great artist like Selena and a family member and a family and a culture,” said A.B. Quintanilla, in the documentary The Making of Selena: 10 Years Later. “It kinda forced the family to make a hard decision, which was making the movie.” After saying no to a flurry of producers, they found a friend in Moctesuma Esparza, an activist responsible for the 1968 Chicano Blowout in Los Angeles and producer of Gettysburg and PBS’ Villa Alegre. By August 1995, just five months after her death, Gregory Nava (El Norte) was announced as director for Selena.“The pain and the loss and the grief was palpable,” Esparza told the San Antonio Current. “And we were sensitive to that. From that point of view, it was a constant remembering that there were real people who were here who suffered tremendously and had real pain that we needed to respect and honor.”
Filming began for Selena a year later, with then-unknown Jennifer Lopez as adult Selena and a young girl from Harlingen, Rebecca Lee Meza, as the childhood singer, picked at a casting call in San Antonio. “I did some research and had the idea that what was possible was to make a movie about an American family that was seeking the American dream,” said Esparza. “And was devoted and committed and worked together and managed to achieve that success.” The movie takes a long retrospective look at Selena’s life, the type of macroscopic biopic that is now out of vogue. Beginning with Abraham Quintanilla’s teenage music career flickering out at Lerma’s on the West Side, Gregory Nava walks the audience through Selena’s childhood and meteoric rise, ending on a montage of loss set to “Dreaming of You.” One poignant scene sparked the enduring catchphrase of Selena culture.
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After the family’s tour bus gets stuck in a ditch, a pair of cholo stereotypes pitch in to help, bashfully offering “Anything for Selenas!” Aside from rocketing Jennifer Lopez to stardom, those three words may be the most memorable impact of this movie on Selena’s life. By establishing the narrative to the tune of $60 million at the box office, Selena widely cemented the legacy of the tejana icon. Richard Harris, who researches the relationship between media and memory at Kansas State University, describes the blurring of fact and biopic fiction in the brain. “Research on this kind of thing shows that dramatic accounts of real events — in people’s memory — get very muddled in the memories of the real event,” Harris said. “It’s hard to keep the details straight. For people not old enough to remember the events, that movie becomes reality in
their memories.” A quick experiment in memory: Picture Selena at the 1994 Grammys, trophy for Best Mexican-American Album in hand. Bright red lipstick, a tower of hair, shimmering white neck strap dress — are you thinking of Selena or J-Lo as Selena? Harris also cites a relevant phenomenon known as the “parasocial relationship” — the way in which individuals feel connected to celebrity figures they’ve never met. “All of us have relationships with real people, but what isn’t as widely known is that we develop relationships with media figures,” said Harris. “People have close relationships with characters on Friends and they’re not even real. That’s the basis for the really strong reaction that people show particularly to the death of a beloved figure.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 53 ►
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Immediately after Selena’s murder, a culture of mourning swept over San Antonio. Vigils popped up at South Park Mall and Sunken Garden Theatre. At San Fernando Cathedral, a bilingual morning mass was held for the fallen star, complete with mariachi choir. Al Rendon, a San Anto photographer who shot the cover to Selena’s ’92 album Entre a Mi Mundo, recalled a palpable collective sense of loss. “People were asking for images. It was a blur. It was so tragic and disheartening, I didn’t know what to do,” Rendon told the San Antonio Current. “You just want to grieve for a while. And it was hard because I was getting approached by newspapers and people wanting interviews, people wanting images.” Along with mourning came the economic impact of remembering Selena. Rendon sent out photos that made their way to People En Español and The Smithsonian. In San Antonio, supporters flocked to the Selena Etc. boutique on Broadway (now a CD Exchange), picking up goods from the Quintanillas’ salon and clothing store. Shirts and record sales skyrocketed in the morbid, reliable sales bump that eerily accompanies celebrity death. Released in July of 1995, Selena’s crossover English album Dreaming of You was the first posthumous release to top the Billboard chart, selling a white-hot 175,000 copies on its first day. Selena’s bright career and tragic death at 23 offered a form of immortality in pop culture iconography and fan memory in SA. On South Flores, Chris Montoya’s 2012 mural of Selena combines the singer’s face and flowing hair with the patterns of Mexican serape blankets. “For MexicanAmerican kids, listening to Selena is a memory that almost everyone shares here,” Montoya told the San Antonio Current. “Having that, I knew I needed something to tie in the community and have the community feel something for what I was gonna paint.” Ray Scarborough’s work plays with the reverent theme more boldly, merging the tejano queen with Cadillac grills, tattoo sleeves and other images of street art. “I grew up as a punk rocker, but in our household
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It’s hard to say how the Rich Hands fit in to SXSW. In theory, the three-piece band is exactly who the festival was built for: up-andcoming, young, with no shortage of talent – fitting for the festival’s goal of providing “a launching pad for new creative content.” But as anyone who’s walked down 6th Street during SXSW over the past few years knows, there’s a definite disconnect between this message and what’s happening on the ground. Is there still a place for a new artist emerge from all this noise? I’m sitting with guitarist/singer Cody Mauser, drummer Nick Ivarra and bassist/singer Matt Gonzales at a picnic table, openly pondering this question. They’ve just finished playing their second of three shows last week, a 7:15 p.m. slot at the Burger Records showcase. The Rich Hands have played SXSW every year since they formed in 2011, and for the time being, they share none of my cynicism about the experience. “Every year we’ve done this, it’s gotten better and better,” said Mauser. “Like this year, we’ve got a better timeslot, we’re playing with some great people and I feel like people are really catching on.” I see what he means. After starting their set to a smattering of faces, the band’s sing-along choruses and propulsive energy gradually lured listeners. The trio clearly progressed immeasurably since first making waves as winners of the San Antonio Music Award’s most underrated band in 2011. I can easily see the band casting a similar spell over audiences at the Mohawk, Parish or any of the other venues hosting more high-profile showcases throughout SXSW. Of course, we’re a good distance from the fest’s epicenter, perched at the Spider House Cafe just north of the UT Campus. I ask what the guys think about potentially playing one of the more hyped downtown showcases. “I feel like these are the better shows,” said Gonzales. “It’s just more fun, with the camaraderie between all the bands and all.” “We did an official showcase last year,” added Mauser, “And it was one of these shows on 6th Street, and it was just really weird: the crowd, the vibe.” The camaraderie theme is one all three members come
SA’s Rich Hands tearing up Austin’s Whip In at SXSW. The band’s unsure how much it gets out of the fest but goes back for the fun.
back to consistently when I ask about their motivation for playing SXSW. “That just makes playing these kinds of shows that much better, that there are people we’ve toured with or that are our friends,” says Mauser. “It’s really all a big family.” Ivarra, who’s taken the lead in organizing Burger Fest last weekend in San Antonio, talks about the strength of these connections. “Now it feels like we’re all over the map, like we can make a push nationally or even globally. That’s the great thing about having this network.” If the Rich Hands see the payoff in SXSW, they’re a rare breed in the San Antonio scene. Just about a dozen SA-based acts are participating in the festival this year, pretty staggering considering the quantity of SA bands and how close the festival is to the Alamo City. The following day, I’m back with the band at the Whip In, an excellently eclectic spot just off I-35. The setting may be different, but otherwise not a lot has changed. Like the Spiderhouse, the crowd here is sporting the same Bart Simpson-chic of backwards caps, skateboards and worn-to-shit Vans. Even the bands, pulled from the heavily overlapping Fountain and Burger records lineups, are mostly the same. Perhaps most importantly, we’re again a couple miles from the SXSW epicenter, and there’s not a badge or
press credential in sight within the crowd. Just as the band takes the stage at 7:30 p.m., I get a message from organizers about Miley Cyrus’ surprise appearance at Fader Fort, further highlighting our disconnect from the festival proper. I ask Mauser how he’s feeling right before they close things out – see if the vibe has changed for the band. “Every year I feel like I don’t wanna do SXSW,” says Mauser. “It’s a clusterfuck of bands and people and traffic. But in the end, we get everything going and I always have a good time with it.” So in the end it’s worth it? “You know the first few times we played, there was no gradual growth,” said Ivarra. “We’ve played to empty rooms or half-assed rooms multiple times. It’s bigger now, but for me … is to figure out why it’s like that. How you get the crowds out there, how to build a scene.” It’s still hard to tell how successful this fourth SXSWS outing was for The Rich Hands. Certainly they had a good time, played some great shows and solidified their network of contacts. But for a new band it’s hard to see how these satellite showcases or any other platform the festival offers can lead to their big break. If anything, the Rich Hands offer a lesson in persistence, in how making great records, playing killer shows and building a network can slowly but surely pay off. sacurrent.com • March 25-31, 2015 • CURRENT 55
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Blues guitar journeyman Buddy Guy wants you to feel something. His performances range from soft ballad whispers to bursts of ferocious bluesrock energy, often within the same tune. Born in Louisiana in 1936, Guy made the Windy City his home in the early ’60s, marking his place as a father of Chicago Blues with the 1965 Chess Records release Hoodoo Man Blues featuring Junior Wells. Guy’s guitar playing is virtuosic, emotional, extraordinary, disapproved by critics for being over-the-top and so much more than just the blues. If it weren’t for Guy, guitar greats like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton might’ve stayed home. Later, Eric Clapton helped revive Guy’s career in the 1990s with an all-star performance of top guitar players at London’s Royal Albert Hall. In the hippie-folk-rock documentary Festival Express, chronicling a 1970 train tour across Canada, Guy sets the stage ablaze with electric guitar power to an afternoon audience of jaw-dropped stoners waiting for Janis Joplin. His performance in San Antonio 45 years later should be no less incendiary. $35-$60, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 201 E. Commerce, 760-2196, theaztectheatre.com — Kory Cook
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Recently signed to SA label Texas Is Funny, We Leave at Midnight’s self-titled 2012 debut is an exercise in clean-cut rock‘n’roll and Brian Wilson harmonies projected through a sepia lens. Chris Maddin — operator of Filmstrips, Tiago Splitters and Blowing Trees — seems to recreate his songwriting approach every few years, honing in with each successive project. With Walker Lukens. 502 Bar, 9pm
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borrows its name from a lovely and overlooked adjective that MerriamWebster defines as “of a happy lighthearted character or disposition.” This must be an instance where the band name sounds better than its meaning, ’cause there’s little about Blithe’s EP False Sense of Entitlement that feels lighthearted or carefree. The inaugural release reeks of anxiety, pounding over flickering dance-punk rhythms and tightly-wound guitar riffs. Houston’s Moths creates beautiful and longform expositions in droning rock and thrash metal, casually stepping between genres. With Collective Dreams, Pinko. Bottom Bracket Social Club, 10pm
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Countdown City The Korova hosts a local revue of producers trafficking in EDM, house and trap. With DJs Exillin, Kidd Groove, Davey Jones, Kray, Kardiac. The Korova, 7pm
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Future Museums With Tapestry of Time
and Terrain, Austin’s Future Museums cut an EP of lovely, underwater textures. But like many submerged sounds, it’s difficult to figuring out the source. Their guitars, keys and computers blend together with gestaltic beauty. With Pussywillows, Hypersleep. Paper Tiger, 9pm
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The Dead Barons San Antonio’s The Dead Barons sing of Tex-Mex fashion with a rockabilly attitude on “Guayabera.” With Harvey McLaughlin & the Bottom Feeders. 502 Bar, 9pm
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Joe Ely With an adjunct gig singing backup for The Clash and his tenure with Los Super Seven, cowboy rock ‘n’ roller Joe Ely already has an unrivaled resume among Texas Music Hall of Famers. With his 1982 recording B4 84, Ely separated himself from his Lone Star peers with a musical and technological anomaly: an album made on the Apple II computer, recorded over a decade before the idea of personal computers took off. Gruene Hall, 9pm
Keeper, The March Divide Austin trio
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The Elias String Quartet After completing their ambitious Beethoven project, recording the collected works of the iconic composer, the Elias String Quartet tours on the compositions they’ve sharpened in the practice room. Temple Beth-El, 7pm
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Small World Led by drummer Kyle Keener and guitarist Polly Harrison, Small World places world music in the jazz setting. The band features music from the Great American Songbook and bossa nova sung in the original Portuguese. Olmos Bharmacy, 7:30pm
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): The term “jumped the shark” often refers to a TV show that was once great but gradually grew stale, and then resorted to implausible plot twists in a desperate attempt to revive its creative verve. I’m a little worried that you may do the equivalent of jumping the shark in your own sphere. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not at all worried that you’ll jump the shark. It’s true that you did go through a stagnant, meandering phase there for a short time. But you responded by getting fierce and fertile rather than stuck and contrived. Am I right? And now you’re on the verge of breaking out in a surge of just-theright-kind-of-craziness.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): If you happen to be singing lead vocals in an Ozzy Osbourne cover band, and someone in the audience throws what you think is a toy rubber animal up on stage, DO NOT rambunctiously bite its head off to entertain everyone. It most likely won’t be a toy, but rather an actual critter. APRIL FOOL! In fact, it’s not likely you’ll be fronting an Ozzy Osbourne cover band any time soon. But I hope you will avoid having to learn a lesson similar to the one that Ozzy did during a show back in 1982, when he bit into a real bat -- a small flying mammal with webbed wings -thinking it was a toy. Don’t make a mistake like that. What you think is fake or pretend may turn out to be authentic.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): In the spring of 1754, Benjamin Franklin visited friends in Maryland. While out riding horses, they spied a small tornado whirling through a meadow. Although Franklin had written about this weather phenomenon, he had never seen it. With boyish curiosity, he sped toward it. At one point, he caught up to it and lashed it with his whip to see if it would dissipate. This is the kind of adventure I advise you to seek out, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. I don’t really believe you should endanger your safety by engaging in stunts like chasing tornadoes. But I do think that now is a favorable time to seek out daring exploits that quench your urge to learn.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): Novelist L. Frank Baum created the makebelieve realm known as Oz. Lewis Carroll conjured up Wonderland and C. S. Lewis invented Narnia. Now you are primed to dream up your own fantasy land and live there fulltime, forever protected from the confusion and malaise of the profane world. Have fun in your imaginary utopia, Cancerian! APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now would be a good time to give extra attention to cultivating vivid visions of your perfect life. But I wouldn’t recommend that you live there full-time.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): “The national anthem of Hell must be the old Frank Sinatra
song ‘I Did It My Way,’” declares Richard Wagner, author of the book Christianity for Dummies. “Selfish pride is Hell’s most common trait,” he adds. “Hell’s inhabitants have a sense of satisfaction that they can at least say ‘they’ve been true to themselves.’” Heed this warning, Leo. Tame your lust for self-expression. APRIL FOOL! I was making a little joke. The truth is not as simplistic as I implied. I actually think it’s important for you to be able to declare “I did it my way” and “I’ve been true to myself.” But for best results, do it in ways that aren’t selfish, insensitive, or arrogant.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): No matter what gender you are, it’s an excellent time to get a gig as a stripper. Your instinct for removing your clothes in entertaining ways is at a peak. Even if you have never been trained in the art, I bet you’ll have an instinctive knack. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should be a stripper. But I do recommend you experiment with a more metaphorical version of that art. For instance, you could expose hidden agendas that are causing distortions and confusion. You could peel away the layers of deception and propaganda that hide the naked facts and the beautiful truth.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): Give yourself obsessively to your most intimate relationships. Don’t bother cleaning your house. Call in sick to your job. Ignore all your nagging little errands. Now is a time for one task only: paying maximum attention to those you care about most. Heal any rifts between you. Work harder to give them what they need. Listen to them with more empathy than ever before. APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard there. It’s true that you’re in a phase when big rewards can come from cultivating and enhancing togetherness. But if you want to serve your best relationships, you must also take very good care of yourself.
and eager to have sex for nine hours straight. If you were a pig, you’d be capable of enjoying 30-minute orgasms. If you were a dolphin, you’d seek out erotic encounters not just with other dolphins of both genders, but also with turtles, seals, and sharks. Since you are merely human, however, your urges will probably be milder and more containable. APRIL FOOL! In truth, Sagittarius, I’m not so sure your urges will be milder and more containable.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): “The past is not only another country where they do things differently,” says writer Theodore Dalrymple, “but also where one was oneself a different person.” With this as your theme, Capricorn, I invite you to spend a lot of time visiting the Old You in the Old World. Immerse yourself in that person and that place. Get lost there. And don’t come back until you’ve relived at least a thousand memories. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. While it is a good time to get reacquainted with the old days and old ways, I don’t recommend that you get utterly consumed by the past.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Some Aquarian readers have been complaining. They want me to use more celebrity references in my horoscopes.
They demand fewer metaphors drawn from literature, art, and science, and more metaphors rooted in gossipy events reported on by tabloids. “Tell me how Kanye West’s recent travails relate to my personal destiny,” wrote one Aquarius. So here’s a sop to you kvetchers: The current planetary omens say it’s in your interest to be more like Taylor Swift and less like Miley Cyrus. Be peppy, shimmery, and breezy, not earthy, salty, and raucous. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I wouldn’t write about celebrities’ antics if you paid me. Besides, for the time being, Miley Cyrus is a better role model for you than Taylor Swift.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Annie Edson Taylor needed money. She was 63 years old, and didn’t have any savings. She came up with a plan: to be the first person to tuck herself inside a barrel and ride over Niagara Falls. (This was back in 1901.) She reasoned that her stunt would make her wealthy as she toured the country speaking about it. I recommend that you consider out-of-the-box ideas like hers, Pisces. It’s an excellent time to get extra creative in your approach to raising revenue. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now is a favorable time to be imaginative about your financial life. But don’t try outlandish escapades like hers.
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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): It’s after midnight. You’re half-wasted, cruising around town looking for wicked fun. You stumble upon a warehouse laboratory where zombie bankers and military scientists are creating genetically engineered monsters from the DNA of scorpions, Venus flytraps, and Monsanto executives. You try to get everyone in a party mood, but all they want to do is extract your DNA and add it to the monster. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a lie. I doubt you’ll encounter any scenario that extreme. But you are at risk for falling into weird situations that could compromise your mental hygiene. To minimize that possibility, make sure that the wicked fun you pursue is healthy, sane wicked fun.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): If you were a ladybug beetle, you might be ready
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Clinical Research Opportunity for Women Do you suffer from uterine fibroids? DO YOU EXPERIENCE?
UTERINE FIBROIDS
• Heavy or abnormal periods
• Negatively impact your quality of life
• Abdominal pain and pressure
• Doctors in your area are looking for women to participate in a clinical research study.
• Increased need to urinate with your periods
• All investigational medication and study-related care is provided at no cost. Compensation for time and travel may be available.
To see if you qualify, visit
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(800) 216-3885
Join Our Team Plasma Donors Needed Now
WE ARE CURRENTLY RECRUITING BOTH HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES FOR A CLINICAL STUDY. DIABETIC PATIENTS MAY QUALIFY IF YOU: Please help us help those coping with rare, chronic, genetic diseases. New donors can receive $60 today and $120 this week! Ask about our Specialty Programs! Must be 18 years or older, have valid I.D. along with proof of SS# and local residency. Walk-ins Welcome. 66 601SanAntonioCurrent4.95x5.3.indd CURRENT • March 25-31, 2015 1 • sacurrent.com
Biotest Plasma Center 711 Broadway St. San Antonio, TX 78215 210-224-1749 www.biotestplasma.com 6/25/11 10:46 AM
• Are 18 to 70 years old • Have type 2 diabetes • Have an HbA1c between 7.0% and 10.0% Study participants may be reimbursed for time and travel.
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San Antonio’s Entertainment Destination Movies • Laser Tag • Mini Bowling • Atomic Rush • Ballocity • Clip ‘n Climb The BEST birthday parties in San Antonio • The LARGEST Laser Tag Arena in town!
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Check out the FREE Classic Car Show Saturday, March 28th W/ Mission City SRT!
Blast into Laser Tag at Game On! Prepare for battle! Gear up and grab your blaster to put your skills to the test in Game Onís laser arena. Get into the action as you run through the dark, fog-filled corridors, dodge incoming blasts from your ìenemiesî, and donít forget to take cover behind the custom course walls. Challenge your family and friends to see who will be the last one standing and become master of the arena!
4/03
Located in the City Base West Shopping Center SE Military & New Branfels Avenue 210.531.3000 | citybasecinema.com
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The San Antonio premiere of the legendary
BALANCHINE March 27–29 | Tickets at tobincenter.org | (210) 223.8624
Still Life Photography by Alexander Devora
and new contemporary works by Gabriel Zertuche