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16 NEWS Newsmonger Updates on Rosie the pitbull and other news you should know A Cap on Craft Good luck buying beer straight from the source

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31 ARTS & CULTURE West Side Murals San Anto Cultural Arts boss on why graffiti matters Artist on Artist Gary Sweeney chats with Korean minimalist Jon Lee

39 SCREENS Lost Boy Fantasy prequel Pan falls short of the mark The Best Comedy You’re Not Watching Pay attention as Nathan for You enters its third season

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Just Cheesin’ Three new fromage boards to try around town Nocturnal Finds The People’s Nite Market packs in an eclectic mix of vendors Culinary Calendar Six ways to get your drink/grub on this week

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Flavor File So. Many. Oktoberfest. Parties.

60 NIGHTLIFE Beer Summit A round-table discussion on SA’s beer present and future Beer Secrets Where to pick up esoteric brews around town Go-Go Gadget What’s more Texan than a koozie?

Brews in The ’Burbs Mad Pecker brings craft beer to the far Northwest Side Keeping Tabs Local ’tenders get creative with booze and brews Hecho en Tejas?

Our hopes are dashed for Texan hops The High Life Long live the cheap beer!

85 MUSIC Curtain Call for Cubanos Buena Vista Social Club bids adiós to San Anto According to Our Records A new column exploring SA’s overlooked music history Music Calendar What to hear and see this week

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Rosie the pit bull recovers after being doused with acid in July.

NEWSMONGER Planned Parenthood, Pasta and a Pit Bull Let’s Talk About Pasta Opposition against San Antonio City Councilman Rey Saldaña’s proposal to designate October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day may boil down to a popular spaghetti dinner.

During last Thursday’s meeting, Saldaña used a point-of-privilege before proceedings to publicize the plan to designate the day Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World as Indigenous Peoples Day. Both Councilman Alan E. Warrick II and Mayor Ivy Taylor indicated support for the measure.

And then there was Councilman Roberto C. Treviño, who says he supports the proposal, as long as it doesn’t exclude anyone — namely the Christopher Columbus Italian Society, which holds an October 11 spaghetti dinner each year.

Something Treviño made a point to bring up during the discussion, before inviting the society’s chair, Frank Monaco, to address City Council.

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their tradition and tradition is important to history,” Treviño said, adding that that is how the Christopher Columbus Italian Society built its hall, church and neighborhood through its 100-plus year history.

Since San Antonio doesn’t celebrate Columbus Day, an Indigenous Peoples Day would have no impact on the society or its annual dinner.

Monaco said Columbus Day is a celebration of Italian heritage, adding that he, too, supported Indigenous Peoples Day as long as no one is shut out.

“I think in some ways [Columbus] may have gotten a raw deal in history, because he was actually working for Ferdinand and Isabella and he was just captain of the ship. He was an employee,” Monaco said.

Saldaña said City Council will vote on the measure at its October 29 meeting.

Not in My Backyard An anti-abortion group that is known for showing up at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march on San Antonio’s East Side with crazy signs, emblazoned with things like “abortion is a tool of black genocide,” or banners

attacking same-sex couples, is really upset.

That’s because one of Texas’ remaining 18 abortion clinics — there were 41 before the state implemented strict new regulations in 2013 — is near Dreamhill Estates, which is apparently a neighborhood bastion of pro-life sentiment.

The San Antonio Family Association has been protesting the Planned Parenthood facility at 2140 Babcock Road, which opened last October. The group accused the City of ignoring zoning laws to allow what they call an “abortion megacenter” to expand its service in the Alamo City.

In response, Mayor Ivy Taylor hired Mark White, a Kansas City-based lawyer and planner, to conduct an independent review of the zoning process, which found that the Planned Parenthood location on Babcock Road followed the law.

Naturally, that didn’t sit well with the group.

“White is not licensed to practice law in the State of Texas yet he issued a legal opinion about Texas Law. The City’s Unified Development Code (UDC) is Texas Law. White has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and SAFA will file complaints with the State Bar of Texas [sic],” the association said in a press release.

Good News for Rosie In late July, a pit bull named Rosie was doused in hydrochloric acid.

A man named Ignacio Sanchez Alvarez, 45, allegedly poured the caustic substance over the dog, burning 100 percent of her face. Unlike many animal cruelty cases, however, things are starting to look up for Rosie.

Animal Care Services announced last week that the 5-year-old pit bull will no longer need restorative eye surgery as originally anticipated. Rosie’s veterinary team says her eyes have healed so much that the surgery isn’t medically necessary. The vets also treated her for heartworms and other medical issues.

In the last two months Rosie has spent recovering at ACS, the community — and animal lovers from around the globe — have donated money, toys and treats to help Rosie out.

The pup is in foster care pending adoption. As for Alvarez, he’s accused of felony animal abuse and if convicted could be fined and sentenced to prison. mreagan@sacurrent.com

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GO SPURS GO The season opener is 14 days away

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY Bexar County recognizes it, and San Antonio may follow suit

RICK PERRY The state’s highest criminal appeals court takes up the former governor’s criminal case

KEN PAXTON Texas’ top lawman tried to subpoena records from the grand jury that indicted him

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In a drab building that used to house a tile shop, amidst the ticky-tack warehouse maze between Loops 410 and 1604, it’s brewing day at Branchline Brewing Company.

Owner Jason Ard, head brewer Paul Ford and cellarman Derrick Rutledge – the brewery’s only full-time employees – mix and meddle with a new batch of brew, peering into steaming vats and taking measurements for quality control.

As they work, people occasionally filter into the brewery’s tasting room to buy a six-pack or to get a keg or a growler filled. But to the potential customers’ astonishment, and the brewers’ dismay, Ard turns them away. He’s required to by law.

Texas’ inconsistent and arcane liquor laws forbid many breweries from selling their goods for off-site consumption – although distilleries, wineries and even other beer makers can.

Under current Texas law, production breweries – those with manufacturer’s and brewer’s licenses that brew their own beer for distribution – are not allowed to sell directly to consumers for off-site consumption. But beer makers with a brewpub license can both sell beer for later consumption and brew up to 10,000 barrels of beer per year for distribution. That cap scares off some craft brewers from classifying themselves as brewpubs.

Manufacturers rely on a middleman to get their product to retailers, empowering the state’s distribution companies.

“We would easily double or triple [the tasting room’s business] if we were able to do on-site sales,” Ard said.

“It sucks. It’s not fair. If brewpubs, wineries and distilleries can do it, why can’t production breweries?”

The situation creates a confusing conundrum for consumers and producers.

Local beer and whiskey maker Ranger Creek Brewing and Distilling is in a particularly odd position. Customers are free to purchase whiskeys from the “brewstillery” for off-site consumption, but they can’t do the same with beer. Being able to sell both would benefit the business and beer lovers alike, according to one of its founders Mark McDavid.

“A small local brewery like us can grow quicker and over time that will start to reveal itself in more local options on your grocery story shelves,” McDavid said. “That’s a good thing for most consumers. They want to buy local, they want to buy fresh, and they want to have different options.”

Few breweries flout the law, according to Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission spokesman Chris Porter. Those that do face fines of up to $300 a day, and TABC can revoke the license of repeat offenders.

The law is a conspicuous outlier in a state that advertises itself as a utopia for deregulation and small government.

Craft brewers have lobbied the state legislature to change it, but their efforts have been stymied in part by the well-funded beer distributor lobby, which opposes such a change because it would cut into their business.

This may seem like small potatoes (or hops, oats or rye, for that matter), since craft beer is booming both in Texas and nationwide. It’s a $3.7 billion industry in the Lone Star State, with the number of registered craft breweries nearly doubling between 2011 and 2014, according to the Brewers Association, a national craft beer trade group.

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SA brewers hope to change Texas’ liquor laws, but they’re divided on how to do it.

even illegal double standard. The arrangement is so untenable that on September 14 one brewery, Deep Ellum Brewing Co. from Dallas, filed a federal lawsuit in Austin against TABC claiming that the system was “arbitrary and discriminatory.”

“The Texas liquor laws ... violate Deep Ellum Brewing’s constitutional rights to Equal Protection and Due Process,” Deep Ellum’s complaint states. “They also harm Texas residents and visitors – not to mention the Texas economy – by impeding, if not totally precluding, their right to choose where they can buy certain alcoholic beverages for home or off-premises consumption.”

Although San Antonio brewers agree that the law needs to change, they’re split on whether a lawsuit is the best path forward.

“I like seeing it settled in the court rather than by the money funded to our legislature by lobbyists,” said Eugene Simor, president of Alamo Beer Company. “I think a court system is a much more fair procedure to put all players on an even playing field.”

Ard supports it too. Although he couldn’t financially justify joining Deep Ellum in the lawsuit, he’s offered his support to the brewery’s founder, John Reardon.

But McDavid and others see little chance of victory in court and prefer to focus on the 2017 legislative session.

“I’m not sure what [the lawsuit] is going to achieve,” McDavid said. “The legislation got written to where it was very clear that production breweries cannot sell beer to go. Even though I don’t like that, to me there’s not much interpretation in that law. What we need to do is change the language of the law.”

But that’s easier said than done, since it would require moving the distributor lobby monolith. Groups such as

the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas, Silver Eagle Distributors and the Beer Alliance of Texas spend millions each year on campaign contributions and well-connected lobbyists to represent their interests at the Capitol.

Calls to local distributors and distributor groups were not returned by press time.

Distributors spent more than $7 million in political donations and lobbyists between 2009 and 2012, according to the non-partisan watchdog Texans for Public Justice. And that investment typically pays off, according to McDavid.

“My interpretation is [distributors] are definitely big and powerful, but they want to protect what they have worked hard to build,” he said. “Direct sales to consumers is a big scary thing for them not because craft brands are going to sell some beer, but if one of the big guys found a loophole.”

Until the law changes, production brewers must seek other options. If Deep Ellum’s lawsuit is unsuccessful, Ard plans to reclassify as a brewpub when his license is up for renewal next year, since his brewery still has a long ways to go before hitting the 10,000 barrels per year ceiling.

Local breweries claim that selling directly to consumers is critical for their long-term growth, and that’s especially true for Branchline. Ard hopes to move to an area with more foot traffic in the next few years, and direct sales are a big part of his business plan. “[Distributors] are worried that people are going to come here instead of going to a Spec’s … which is not the case,” Ard said. “It’s a very small amount of people who will come here versus going to a liquor store or H-E-B. But that small piece helps us out immensely.” mmarks@sacurrent.com

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‘Echoes of Mexico’ ART

If one were to imagine the American pop-art movement cultivated south of the border, the translation might look something like “Neo-Mexicanidad,” a genre championed by Guadalajara-born painter Ismael Vargas. In his vibrant canvases, Vargas puts a kaleidoscopic spin on iconic Mexican fixtures — sombreros, masks and ceramics seem to repeat ad infinitum — while presenting everyday objects in oddly compelling arrangements. On Thursday, Ruiz-Healy Art unveils Vargas’ aptly titled “Echoes of Mexico” and a companion catalog featuring an essay by esteemed local author John Phillip Santos. Free, 6-8pm, Ruiz-Healy Art, 201-A E. Olmos Drive, (210) 804-2219, ruizhealyart.com.

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The Rocky Horror Show THEATER

With just a jump to the left and a step to the right, John Waters-approved RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and self-described “glamour toad” Ginger Minj slips into Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets for the Woodlawn’s latest take on The Rocky Horror Show. No stranger to the theater, Minj recently set out on tour with her original show Crossdresser for Christ and is also fine-tuning a forthcoming album likened to a hybrid of Jennifer Holliday and Meatloaf. Artistic director Greg Hinojosa’s 2015 vision for Rocky adds ’80s-inspired touches to the absurdist classic that feeds on audience participation. $35-$50, 8pm Thu, 11pm Fri-Sat, Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 2678388, woodlawntheatre.org. — BR

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Parallelephants Album Release MUSIC

Easily the best-dressed band in San Antonio, Parallelephants brings that same sense of muted style to their tailored popfunk. Composition Fantastic, the band’s debut record, is a carefully arranged thing, with nary a hair or a riff out of place. Taking notes from Brit-pop, new wave and g-funk, Parallelephants get loose on ridiculously tight compositions. As the title boasts, most of them are quite fantastic. Over nine cuts, the band crafts dancing music for those who are looking to get laid without scuffing up their Gucci loafers. With The Native Roar, Shiny Penny, Ravenhill. $10, 8:30pm, Jack’s Bar, 3030 Thousand Oaks Drive, (210) 494-2309, jacksbarsa. com. — Matt Stieb

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Since its appearance in 18thcentury France, the fairytale Beauty and the Beast has sparked myriad adaptations (crafted by everyone from Jean Cocteau to Philip Glass) but none with quite the punch of the billion-dollar musical. Planted on Broadway from 1994 to 2007, the musicalized Beauty expands on Disney’s animated blockbuster via new songs by Alan Menken and Tim Rice. Belle, her beastly prince and his castle filled with enchanted household items invite you to be their guest at a limited run presented by NETworks and Broadway in San Antonio. $35-$95, 8pm Fri, 2pm & 8pm Sat, 2pm & 7:30pm Sun, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — BR

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Montage Dance Party SPECIAL EVENT

Locally owned modern and vintage retailer Montage has earned a solid reputation with its stock of unique clothing and stylish jewelry, but the store’s mixers place it far ahead of the competition. In addition to cocktails, beer and hip-shaking tunes (curated by Ben Luhrman), the latest installment of Montage’s Moonlight Dance Party series features giveaways from Paper Tiger and Transmission Events, and a photo booth

by Anthony Ibarcena to help you remember the night. A portion of the proceeds benefits CASA (Child Advocates of San Antonio). $20 donation, 9pm-2am, Montage, 423 W. Grayson St., (210) 324-0157, montagestyle.com.

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Mini Maker Faire SPECIAL EVENT

Maker Faire, billed as the “greatest show (and tell) on Earth,” is a celebration of maker culture and ingenuity. Maker culture, a term denoting a wide swath of new-age inventors and tinkerers who often specialize in robotics, 3D printing and various electronics, has exploded since the mid-2000s. The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, California, and, in 2014, celebrated its ninth annual show with some 1,100 makers and 130,000 people in attendance. Now, all you San Antonio inventors, amateur engineers and technology-based seekers can get in on the action. Free, 11am-4pm, Central Library, 600 Soledad St., (210) 207-2500, makerfairesanantonio.com. — James Courtney

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Urban Bush Women DANCE

Founded in 1984 by Missouri native Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the all-female, NY-based troupe Urban Bush Women has employed contemporary dance as a medium to explore subjects ranging from the Gnawa musical traditions of Morocco to the work of African-American activist W.E.B. Dubois. Known for its dedication to issues surrounding social justice and the African diaspora, UBW — which has performed on five continents and earned accolades from the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of State and the Bessie Awards — lands in SA as part of the Carver Community Cultural Center’s 2015-2016 season. $35, 8pm, Jo Long Theatre, 226 N. Hackberry St., (210) 207-7211, thecarver.org. — BR

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It has always seemed like Brooklyn’s Small Black — which early on in the late-2000s chillwave surge was mixing acoustic and synthetic instrumentation into a delightful, aqueous murk — was way better than most of the acts out of that micro-genre. This show at 502 Bar, just two days after the slated release of the group’s exquisite third LP Best Blues, provides a great opportunity to look at what the act has done and where it is now. However, fans can expect no major departures here. Small Black just keeps getting more fluent in its own electro-emotive parlance, and churning out rad, synth-driven dream-pop. $8-$12, 9pm, 502 Bar, 502 Embassy Oaks, (210) 257-8125, 502bar.com. — JC

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For better or worse — most likely for the much better — the San Antonio Missions have officially been named a World Heritage Site by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). What this means is that, alongside more than 1,000 other sites around the world (in 163 nations), our beloved smattering of Spanish missions has been deemed important in UNESECO’s admirable quest “to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world, considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.” This weekend, at and around the historic sites, all of San Anto is invited to celebrate and engage with the missions and their historical/cultural heft. Highlights of the family-friendly bonanza known as the San Antonio Missions World Heritage Celebration Weekend include a lecture on the life of the missionaries at Alamo Hall (Thursday), student art exhibits at Espada and San Juan (Friday), an art- and song-filled evening at Concepción (Friday), an archeology festival and the Official World Heritage Inscription ceremony on at Mission San José (Saturday), guided tours of Yanaguana trail and Acequia trail with the San Antonio River Authority at Mission San Juan (Saturday) and an outdoor mass with Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller at Mission San José (Sunday).

Free (some events require RSVP), various locations (see website), (210) 207-0221, missionsofsanantonio.org/celebration-weekend. — James Courtney

Art

Art opening: “XVII Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition” The University of Texas at San Antonio department of art and art history showcases works across all media (from traditional techniques to new, interdisciplinary methods) created by 30 faculty members, including Ricky Armendariz, Buster Graybill, Ken Little, Michele Monseau, Katie Pell and Hills Snyder. Free, 6-8pm Wednesday; UTSA Main Gallery, One UTSA Circle, (210) 4584011.

”28 Chinese” Launched in 1960s-era New

York on a budget of $25 per month, The Rubell Family Collection is now among the largest privately owned contemporary art collections in the world. Between 2001 and 2012, the Rubells conducted 100-plus studio visits in China, buying works by 28 artists. Encompassing everything from a two-legged table by Ai Weiwei to a 50-foot paper and bamboo “boat” by Zhu Jinshi, the resulting bounty comes to light in a SAMA exhibition that “asks us to question any preconceived ideas about what art from China looks like.” $15-$20, 10am-5pm Wednesday-Thursday, 10am-9pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday-Sunday, 10am-9pm Tuesday, San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100.

”Miró: The Experience of Seeing” Born

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abstracted series Constellations (19391941) and immersive triptych The Hope of a Condemned Man, Miró employed his own visual vocabulary to address the political landscape and illustrate the atrocities of war. Culled from the permanent collection of Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and highlighting the artist’s later years (from 1963 to 1981), the traveling exhibition “Miró: The Experience of Seeing” brings together more than 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures said to “plumb the process of making art.” $15$20, 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-9pm Thursday, 10am-4pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday, 10am-4pm Tuesday; McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368.

Film

Latino Americans: “Foreigners in Their Own Land (1565-1880)” As one of

203 organizations awarded with a Latino Americans: 500 Years of History grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, Texas A&M University–San Antonio screens “Foreigners in Their Own Land (1565-1880)” (the first episode of the PBS series Latino Americans), to be followed by a discussion with history department faculty members Dr. Francis Galan and Dr. Amy Porter. Free, 11am-1pm Monday; Central Academic Building–Vista Room, Suite 402, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, One University Way, (210) 784-1500.

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Everyone gets a chance to be a critic during the sixth annual, one-night-only film festival created by event producer and local filmmaker Kimberly Suta. The rules of the fest are pretty simple: watch a few minutes of a San Antonio filmmaker’s short film and then vote on whether or not the movie should continue to play or if it should get gonged out of the competition with a swift swing of a mallet. There will be 20 shorts screened (or stopped), none of which went through the traditional weeding-out process most film festivals follow before creating a lineup. It might sound like a cutthroat way to end a film, but Suta says she appreciates audiences being respectful and coming out for some “lighthearted fun.” Plus, with a Q&A at the end of the evening, moviegoers and directors get a chance to share their viewpoints with each other. “It gives [filmmakers] an opportunity to get immediate feedback,” Suta told the Current. “I think the audience enjoys interacting directly with them, too.” Despite the Alamo Drafthouse hosting the event for the last five years, the festival’s new home for No. 6 is at the Alamo Street Eat Bar where the event will take place outdoors. “The weather should be perfect, so I’m looking forward to a change in venue,” Suta said. Local actor/comedian and Current contributor Jade Esteban Estrada (pictured with 2013 winner Dane Berkshire) returns to emcee the show. $10-$15, 7pm, Alamo Street Eat Bar, 609 S. Alamo St., (210) 725-2339, eventbrite.com. – Kiko Martínez river’s connection to the rich history of the San Antonio Missions via screenings of The Mission Reach: Restoring the San Antonio River and Gente de Razon: People of the Missions. Free, 6:30-8pm Wednesday; REI, 11745 I-10 W., Suite 110, (210) 877-2329.

Theater

American Idiot Green Day always knew

their Grammy-winning rock opera would be more than just a record. Developed by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong with director Michael Mayer, American Idiot translates the concept album into a rock musical unlike any other. Following three disillusioned suburban youths trying to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, the show includes very little dialogue, relying instead on the band’s lyrics to tell its story. Kurt Wehner directs the Woodlawn’s production. $17-$26, 7:30pm FridaySaturday, 3pm Sunday; Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 267-8388.

Bad Jews Mark McCarver directs the Vex’s

production of Joshua Harmon’s lacerating comedy Bad Jews. Summed up by The Hollywood Reporter as “a family fight of biblical proportions that brims with bile and belly laughs,” the play concerns a trio of 20-somethings brawling in the wake of their grandfather’s death. $16-$22, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday, Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Hwy., (210) 302-6835.

Evil Dead: The Musical In 2006 The New York Times suggested, “Evil Dead: The Musical wants to be the next Rocky Horror Show, and it just may succeed.”

While those are some big fishnets to

fill, Evil Dead has made quite a splash since its 2003 debut in the back room of Toronto’s Tranzac Club. A campy mashup of all three films in Sam Raimi’s horror franchise, Evil Dead even acknowledges its debt to Richard O’Brien’s cult musical from 1973 with a shout-out in “Do the Necronomicon” — a devilish dance number that name-drops “The Time Warp” along with other pop oddities like Henry Winkler and Bell Biv DeVoe. $20-$40, 8pm Friday, 7:30pm Saturday; Cameo Theatre, 1123 E. Commerce St., (210) 212-5454.

Flashdance – The Musical As street-tough

Pittsburgh teen Alex Owens, Jennifer Beals made sweatshirts sexy — among other improbable feats — in Adrian Lyne’s 1983 film Flashdance. Thanks to a theatrical adaptation by Tom Hedley and Robert Carey, Owens is back in leg warmers and dancing like a maniac in Flashdance – The Musical.

A blue-collar Cinderella story fueled by the liberating power of dance, the musical mixes hits from the film’s Grammy-winning soundtrack with 16 original songs penned

by Robbie Roth. BMW of San Antonio brings the guilty pleasure to the Tobin for one night only. $31.02-$89.50, 7:30pm Tuesday; Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624.

Red Promising a (slightly) kid-friendlier

counterpart to such previous spectacles as Moon City and Tonight a Clown Will Travel Time, multimedia puppet troupe Miniature Curiosa’s new collab with the Magik re-envisions Little Red Riding Hood as a troubled teen navigating a forest that’s as much John Hughes as it is Brothers

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So You Think You Can Dance Modeled

after Season 12 of TV’s So You Think You Can Dance, this national tour pits Team Stage against Team Street in a highenergy show featuring “sizzling, one-ofa-kind dance routines” performed by Top 10 finalists. $45-$65, 8pm Thursday; The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333.

The Midtown Men A sharp-dressed

band comprising original performers from the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, The Midtown Men (Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer) deliver a blast from the past by reinterpreting classics by the likes of the Beatles, the Rascals, the Turtles, the Beach Boys and the Four Seasons. $29.50$74.50, 7:30pm Wednesday; Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624.

The Music Man The Playhouse revives

Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey’s 1957 Tony winner The Music Man. Inspired

by Willson’s boyhood in Iowa, the musical follows con man extraordinaire Harold Hill as he poses as a bandleader and falls for the town librarian and piano teacher. $12-$30, 8pm Friday-Saturday, 3pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

Words

Azar Nafisi Best known for her 2003

memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, The New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi reads from her book The Republic of Imagination in conjunction with the Public Library Foundation’s forthcoming fourth annual San Antonio Book Festival (April 2, 2016). Free, 5pm Sunday; Rosenberg Sky Room, University of the Incarnate Word, 4301 Broadway, (210) 225-4728.

Friday-Saturday; Masonic Lodge, 212 City St., (210) 316-2177.

San Antonio Photo Tournament Billed as

the “instant gratification photographer’s challenge,” this third annual event invites shutterbugs of all skill levels (ages 12 and up) to test their DSLR skills in a timed tournament encompassing a variety of categories to be announced during registration on Sunday morning. For details, visit meetup.com/photosa. $20$40 per person (pre-registration required), 8am-2pm Sunday; Dominion Country Club, One Dominion Drive, (210) 241-4920.

Hope on the Runway/Beneath the Stars Nonprofit organization Fa-Boob-

Licious teams up with the Priest Holmes Foundation for a runway event featuring fashions modeled by breast cancer fighters and survivors of all ages, a preshow presentation from designers Angelin de Carlo and Rebecca Medina, live music

by Finding Friday and an afterparty at Paramour. $35, 6:30pm Thursday; Riverwalk Plaza, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624.

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A Close Look At Vista Ridge Water Pipeline The Alamo Group of the Sierra

Club welcomes Save Our Springs Alliance director Bill Bunch for a presentation shedding light on SAWS’ 2012 water management plan and the Vista Ridge pipeline deal. Free, 6:30-8:30pm Tuesday; William R. Sinkin EcoCentro, 1802 N. Main Ave., (210) 829-5632.

Architecture as Rendered Society

The UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, in partnership with AIA San Antonio’s Latinos in Architecture welcomes architect Andrés Jaque as part of CACP’s 2015-16 Speaker Series. Founder of the Office for Political Innovation, Jaque seeks to explore architecture that connects the city, the domestic, the infrastructural and the natural. Free, 5:30pm Wednesday; UTSA Buena Vista Theater, 501 W. César E. Chávez Blvd., (210) 458-2000.

Carrie Fountain & David Liss Gemini Ink

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WEST SIDE PRIDE San Anto Cultural Arts' new executive director talks public art, funding MARK REAGAN/@210REAGAN

For more than two decades, the communityfocused San Anto Cultural Arts impacted the near West Side through public art in an effort to foster community and human development in one of the poorest, least educated areas in the city.

The arts organization, which is housed in what used to be a butcher shop on El Paso Street, is known for colorful murals that can be found throughout the near West Side.

However, 2015 will be special for San Anto Cultural Arts as it will dedicate its 50th mural later this year.

San Anto Cultural Arts’ new executive director Pablo Miguel Martinez, who took the helm in June, will usher the milestone in. Martinez is the latest in a series of directors to run San Anto after longtime executive director Manny Castillo died in 2009.

He’s not Castillo and will never be Castillo, which he readily admits, but Martinez cares about the neighborhood, the arts and the people who live there.

Last year, 527 young people and 161 adults took part in San Anto programs.

The San Antonio Current sat down with Martinez last week to talk about the challenges San Anto Cultural Arts faces as a small nonprofit while also closing in on its 50th mural.

Can you talk about public art in San Antonio, particularly on the West Side?

So, I get very defensive about it, and here’s the reason why. I think when you talk about public art in San Antonio, and it’s fortunate to be in a city that’s supportive, murals are far down on the list. When people talk about public art, they think large-scale sculpture and Downtown. And the truth is, San Anto Cultural Arts is the single largest maker of public art in San Antonio. To date, we have created 49 murals in the near West Side. My theory is, because the people who determine these lists (about public art) rarely make their way to the near West Side, it’s not on the radar. It’s forgotten about.

What’s your reaction to tagging or graffiti?

Do I get upset if one of those murals are tagged?

Sure. We don’t have any kind of funding to maintain the murals, but there’s also no conservation and no restoration [funds for] murals. But here’s my feeling about tagging ... So there’s an older mural [the Peace

and Remembrance Wall off South Trinity Street] a few blocks from here that was tagged. Some of it is sophomoric or it’s vulgar or about body parts, but sometimes there is something that is making a statement. This one that was tagged recently said “Cops Kill.” I like that people were offended. Because if it truly is a form of public art then I think to be offended by that mural being tagged, is you’re not treating it as public art. This is part of dialogue Top: Muralist Ruth Buentello works on Piedad in 2003. Bottom: San Anto's first mural with a community. This is a community Educacion (1994). that is economically impoverished and historically oppressed. I would actually And it’s interesting to me that when I look at some of the be upset if every mural remained pristine. I love that a documents that there are increases for other agencies, work of public art becomes a place for someone to say but for some reason, San Anto comes out dead last. So something. You can’t do that other places. my job has been to find out why that has been the case.

Does San Anto face funding challenges?

I wish in terms of murals we would look at Philadelphia, which has an amazing mural program that’s funded by the city. Los Angeles has a mural conservancy project, which is amazing and really well funded. We don’t have that.

And the other thing to remember is, we’re not the only game in town. There are a lot of organizations that put up murals. We don’t own, in any way, the whole mural game in this city. So we do all of this on a really tiny budget.

Can you talk about El Placazo?

I hear all the time, go digital. Well, the digital divide runs right down this neighborhood. The teen pregnancy rate is two to three times the national average in this census tract. So it presents a challenge. The opportunity is, in small part, we get to be a voice for people who are voiceless. So that gets back to the issue, I love the tagging. That’s your voice and that’s what is on your mind right now. I love that.

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Jon Lee is a master printmaker and a professor at Trinity University. I remember my first reaction upon seeing an exhibit of his work: The prints were so subtle, dreamy and transparent that they seemed barely there, and yet their craftsmanship and complexity were unmistakable. I had the pleasure of meeting him later; and despite his quiet demeanor, he’s actually warm and friendly, with a very droll sense of humor. His wife, who also teaches art at Trinity and the Southwest School of Art, is the perfect counterbalance to his reserve, and together they make a very impressive art partnership. We sat down and talked over Mexican food.

When you were growing up in Korea was most of your impression of America formed by the movies?

Any movie in particular?

I learned most of it in school: that without America we were doomed and that America was important in keeping the peace in East Asia. Then my older siblings had very different opinions about that, and for a long time I was not sure what to think. So I guess I had to come here to figure it out.

Were you raised in an artistic household?

No. However, my brother went to art school and my sister married an artist. I’m not sure why that happened.

Was there a moment or piece of artwork that made you want to become an artist?

I was always drawing as a child, all the time, and I was always questioning the older culture. I was rebellious — when somebody told me to do something, I would do the opposite. And I also knew I wanted to help people, though at the time I didn’t know what that meant.

Why did you decide to come to America?

I was working as a professional printmaker in Korea.

I wanted to be more proficient at lithography, so I came to study at the [internationally renowned print studio] Tamarind Institute.

What was the most startling difference you noticed when you began your stay here?

In Korea, the culture is that you must respect your elders no matter what. While I do not think this is a bad thing, it also applies if a fool is a year older than you — you can’t say anything to them, just obey. Or that students or children cannot question their elders. So I guess you would say I like that there are perhaps less restrictions, in that sense.

How would you describe your artwork?

I really enjoy simplicity and straightforwardness. Most importantly, I consider that everyday objects hold a unique

beauty, and I take the time to see that simple beauty and bring that to my artwork. It all started with a tiny 16thcentury bowl made by a peasant in Korea for everyday use. Although small and crude and insignificant, it is now, in Japan, enshrined and worshipped as an object of perfection. The way it was experienced and handled and used is a big part of what it is now. We have many such interactions with objects every day. Those simple interactions with simple objects are what my work talks about. Each series is different. I take everyday objects or movie credits as subjects, and I print them on handmade paper. I also use a rather pale, muted palette — I like to use natural colors. Now that I am older, I realize that my art also helps me know myself. Leo and I talk about that a lot: how much we personally benefit from being artists because we get to explore and talk about ourselves, the world around us, how we feel about it and work all that stuff out, as our job. That is pretty cool. And every artist does it. Just like your work is not about you but also all about you and could only be made by you.

What is it about printmaking that draws you in?

It fits in with my personality. I’ve always really liked the concept of original multiples. It is very democratic. Unlike paintings, you can make work that is affordable and shareable. Print technology had huge effects on society, especially movable type, which democratized knowledge.

I also love the process. Printmaking requires you to invent things. I make my own tools, my own paper and I build and work on the presses. And I also love paper. Paper is beautiful. If I could get away with it, I might just make paper and exhibit that! Prints and paper go hand in hand, and technically evolved hand in hand.

Your prints are amazingly complex, yet that quality might seem lost on the average viewer. Does that bother you?

A little. There’s a video that accompanied my exhibit at the McNay Art Museum, and it shows the process.

Although my art is about the simple things in life, it may not be understood as simply, at least not at first.

Talent: Do some people have it and some don’t?

Yes. Everyone has some kind of talent. And everyone has potential. Each person has to figure out what their talent is and nurture it.

What’s the best advice you give your students?

Actually, I listen to them a lot. I approach each student as an individual, and together we determine the best way for them to proceed through the art process. I also tell them to go out and experience different things and to trust themselves.

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Yes, there are things I would recognize as 100 percent Korean and I’m sure they would recognize those elements in my work.

figurative, we complement each other.

We’re very good at making books together because I’m good with angles and straight lines and she’s very good at the sewing end, which I am not.

Mostly we just support each other and take turns juggling our children, work and art.

What’s the biggest change you’ve noticed in students over the course of your teaching career?

“Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!” That’s what they think about. It’s a sad thing, but I understand given the cost of education. Especially in the arts there are few well-paid jobs, and it is hard to justify spending all that time and money when you don’t later earn lots of money. That is a problem with society though; that education is not a valid enough reason, but a higher salary is.

If you could own any piece of artwork what would it be?

I’m really not interested in museum artwork. To be honest, my favorite artists are unknown craftsmen.

Your wife Leo is also an accomplished artist. Are there certain challenges to having two creative people in the household?

Doesn’t one of you have to be normal?

We are completely non-competitive and since one of us is an abstract minimalist and the other is a narrative

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Of course, we know where this is headed. Peter (Levi Miller) and Hook (Garrett Hedlund) go on to become enemies, just not in this movie. This is a story about how Peter gets to Neverland, meets fairies, learns he can fly and attempts to defeat the evil pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman). Hook and Peter meet as child laborers forced to mine for fairy dust in Blackbeard’s cordoned-off section of Neverland. Hook and Peter strike up a symbiotic bond, eventually escaping and meeting Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara), princess of the Lost Children, and learning a series of revelatory truths about Peter.

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A word on the performances: They’re terrible.

Jackman snarls his way through playing Blackbeard and looks like a circus clown geisha with hideous makeup and costumes. His appearance is too ridiculous to be fearsome or intimidating. He also resorts to the crutch of yelling when trying to be scary, which is almost always a mistake. He’s a good enough actor to know being truly intimidating comes through the eyes and body language, not projection of the voice. Any idiot can yell, after all. Then again his clothes are so baggy it would’ve been hard for him to use much body language at all.

As for Hedlund, he plays Hook like a cross between Indiana Jones and Karl Urban’s Dr. McCoy from the new Star Trek movies (especially with the voice). By the end we’re supposed to like Hook, but I didn’t care about him one way or the other. As for Tiger Lily, poor Rooney. The talented, rising actress has nothing but boring dialogue and ridiculous costumes, makeup and headgear to wear.

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There are other inexplicable moments as well, the biggest of which is the singing of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” when we first meet Blackbeard.

This isn’t Kurt Cobain on a soundtrack, this is the children in the mines, pirates and Blackbeard himself singing the song. It takes a while for it to register, but when it does it makes you smile. It’s fun. Then you realize the meaning of the song has no relevance here, is completely anachronistic and makes no sense at all to use. Also, Pan is rated PG and targeted toward kids – what’re the odds the little ones are going to recognize a song from 1991? And parents, if they do ask about it have fun explaining to your 5-year-old how Kurt Cobain died.

Pan is no atrocity. It’s an origin story nobody asked for made by Joe Wright, a director whose films often feature creative decisions that make no sense.

Remember the theatrical setting of Wright’s Anna Karenina? Ugh. Yet, it will keep the kids engaged and there are certainly worse ways to pass the time.

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The premise behind Comedy Central’s Nathan for You doesn’t sound particularly funny.

It’s about a comedian with a business background who takes ideas to small companies to try to improve them. But, when you take a gifted comedian like Nathan Fielder and a perfect grasp on the absurd and subtle, a hilarious experience emerges.

By design, Fielder’s suggestions are often spectacularly bad, or at the very least entirely impractical. Some are outright ridiculous, like creating a pooflavored frozen yogurt to help a struggling store. The genius of Fielder, however, is that some suggestions, while outlandish and sometimes downright stupid, actually make sense in terms of publicity. Hooking your mechanic up to a lie-detector test to see if he is cheating you is really kind of smart. More laughs come, of course, when Fielder tests the polygraph and is interrogated about his porn-watching habits.

Nathan for You wouldn’t be as successful without some luck, which Fielder and company have enjoyed in their two seasons thus far. Though the show is somewhat structured, it is mostly improvised and utilizes real businesses.

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has secured at least 30 regular vendors Yes, you can always come that go outside the usual scope of what back home … but it’s great qualifies as market fodder. when returning means goodies Produce baskets ($10 for a really for hometown friends. For Valeria great mix) are curated by the pair Hernandez and Jovanna Lopez, adding from River City Produce, homemade an accessible and eclectic market was salves and fragrant soaps come via almost necessary. These days, you can Soap Addicts, and San Anto bling and shop for household goods and more at décor’s made an appearance via Sweet The People’s Nite Market.

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Hernandez, an actress and And attendees can’t go hungry at The community organizer, left San Antonio People’s Nite Market either. The women to pursue acting in LA more than 15 pair Cocina Heritage, which created a years ago. Lopez, dining and marketing new vegan tamal for the market, with manager for O’liva Healthy Local Cubanos from Ay Papi Puerto Rican Cuisine & Tasting Room, shared a truck and both meat- and veggie-filled similar story. The SA native moved plates filled with spongy injera flatbread to New York in the early 2000s with via Berbere Ethiopian Cuisine.

Americorps, where she learned to “Both of us were familiar with live on a tight budget and worked on Ethiopian and we didn’t want to drive an community outreach that included hour up the road to get it from Austin,” planting gardens, working on murals said Lopez, who was introduced and establishing literacy programs. to the fare by a former beau, while “I think we connected because we Hernandez’s daughter had an Ethiopian were both depressed,” Lopez said. “I nanny when she was growing up. don’t know about LA, but when you ask “One thing we spoke about a lot was people that have moved away from New that we missed the diversity of these York, it’s like a drug that you have left bigger cities,” Hernandez said. “When behind and you’re always craving it and I was homesick, I found the other side you always want to go back in some way of 410 where I could get my threadings … I created my own little world of things and my Moroccan food. We wanted and I brought it back with me.” to include that international That means establishing a community of vendors to get The People’s cross-cultural night market held Nite Market people to know the other side 418 Villita St. every other Tuesday through of San Antonio.”

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Thursday, October 15

Mole Throwdown: The Centro Cultural Aztlan is packing in all the moles you can taste for its seventh annual culinary fundraiser. Sample more than 25 varieties from across regions of Mexico, paired with cold beer and more. The event will also include a silent art auction so come prepared to take a few prints home. $40, 6pm, 1800 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 103, (210) 432-1896, centroaztlan.org.

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Craft Beer Tasting: The Hangar Bar & Grill is acquiescing to your pumpkin beer cravings with a Halloween-themed tasting. Stop in for a dozen pumpkin-filled brews from Utah Brewer’s Cooperative, No Label Brewery, Harpoon Brewery, Alaskan and Southern Tier Brewing. Admission includes 12 samples, light snacks and a raffle ticket for door prizes. $5, 7-9pm, 8203 Broadway, (210) 824-2700, facebook.com/thehangarsa.

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Greek FUNstival: I don’t know about y’all but I could eat baklava for days. Flaky phyllo layers, rose water-tinged honey and crunchy nuts should be a part of your diet while at the 55th annual Greek FUNstival at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church.

Stop by for plate smashing, kebabs and more. $3, 6-11pm Friday, noon-11pm Saturday, noon-6pm Sunday; 2504 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 735-5051, stsophiagoc.org/funstival.

Saturday, October 17

San Antonio Beer Festival: Celebrate 10 year’s worth of excellent porters, stouts, pilsners, ales, wheat, Belgians, ciders and lager (more than 250 total) with your favorite alt-weekly. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the San Antonio Food Bank so your drinking won’t be for not. Don’t forget your lawn chairs and get ready to enjoy a crisp fall day at Maverick Park. $35-$80, 1:30-6:30pm, 1000 Broadway, sanantoniobeerfestival.com.

Pre-release Party: Dom’s Chop Salsa is showcasing its first batch of grilled and seasoned salsa with a spicy bash. The Cinderleaf will perform as part of their 20th anniversary celebration at Rebar, there will be plenty of salsa sampling to go around and attendees will get a chance to sign up for the first-ever Salsa-as-a-Service delivery shipping model. No cover, 7pm-2am, 8134 Broadway, facebook.com/ chopsalsa.

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Oh, did you put away your lederhosen? Fool. The Oktoberfest parties continue into this weekend (and that should be it, no?) with oompah jams and authentic Bavarian food. The DoSeum (2800 Broadway, 210-2124453) kicks off the weekend with its third adults-only party since opening its doors this summer. The Oktoberfest-themed ReDo Recess includes access to the 100,000-square-foot museum, along with beer-making demos and brewer chats.

Snack on sausage wraps from Kiolbassa and beer floats by The House Boozy Ice Cream and Brews. Tickets ($15) are available at thedoseum.org.

The second annual Oktoberfest Celebration at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa (9800 Hyatt Resort Drive, 210-767-7999) will go down on October 17 from 4-8 p.m. with access to the hotel’s pools and waterparks. Admission also includes food, entertainment, one drink ticket and parking. A cash bar will be available for additional German and Texas craft brews.

Breakfast options are expanding across the city (and not just with all-day breakfast at McDonald’s). Orderup (999 E. Basse Road, Suite 193, 210-824-9600) launched a new breakfast menu served until 11 a.m. on weekdays and noon on weekends with scratch-made cinnamon rolls, four different breakfast pizzas, breakfast tacos and five breakfast bagelburgers along with smoothies, coffee and parfaits.

The guys at Mezcalería Mixtli (5313 McCullough Ave., 856-630-5142) are hosting their fellow Break Fast & Launch cohort, Bombay Salsa Co., for a takeover on Sunday, October 25. From 5 p.m. to midnight, stop by for Indian-Mexican fusion including chicken papdum tacos, masala chaat and more.

Halloween is coming up fast. On Wednesday, October 28, Geeks Who Drink will host “Stupid Gets You Killed: A Walking Dead Quiz” at the Lion & Rose British Restaurant & Pub Forum location (8211 Agora Pkwy., #112). Brush up your chops — there’s a ton of characters that have gone the way of the zombie. Teams must be no bigger than six members and each player must fork over a $5 admission charge.

Finally, Freetail Taproom (2000 S. Presa St., 210-625-6000) will screen Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, a cult classic starring Tyler Labine and El Paso native Alan Tudyk, which clocks in at 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Stop in on Thursday, October 29 at 8:30 p.m. for a costume contest and La Muerta prizes. flavor@sacurrent.com

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BEER SUMMIT

A round-table discussion on SA’s beer present & future LANCE HIGDON

From left to right: Kevin Hobbins, Seth Weatherly, Rebecca Rivera, Hannah Gomez and Bryan Merriman

In the lull weekend between the Great American Beer Festival and the San Antonio Beer Festival, I met up with a clutch of brewers, drinkers and craft beer evangelists to grip some brews and shoot the breeze. This round-table (or, as it turned out, picnic table) summit convened at the recently made-over Hills And Dales, where conversation ranged from the reverent to the raunchy, fueled by numerous pints of Freetail’s Soul Doubt IPA. Ranging from a 12-year brewing veteran to a recent craft-beer convert, each of these people embodied the passion, exuberance and hometown pride they repeatedly ascribed to our city’s ascending beer scene. What follows is a digest of that conversation (and, thanks to some faulty recording tech, some subsequent phone calls), featuring the following participants:

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Hannah Gomez: co-president, Girls’ Pint Out Kevin Hobbins: San Antonio sales representative, Ranger Creek Brewery and Distillery Bryan Merriman: bartender and assistant brewer, Southerleigh Fine Food and Brewery Rebecca Rivera: member-at-large, Girls’ Pint Out Seth Weatherly: brewer and owner, 5 Stones Artisan Brewery 60 CURRENT • October 14-20, 2015 • sacurrent.com

ON THE GROWTH OF SA’S CRAFT COMMUNITY KH: When I moved back here from the Pacific Northwest [around 2011], there were two or three breweries. There was really nothing down here. I’m not trying to push my own brand, but trying [Ranger Creek’s] OPA for the first time really made me excited. It’s such a well-made, great-drinking beer and I knew that SA was going to start bringing that to the table.

HG: Girls’ Pint Out originally started in San Antonio under Lara Pearson, who is a good friend of mine.

She’s from Colorado, and so when a natural-born San Antonian heard about this lady from Colorado starting a San Antonio chapter about beer, it kind of pissed me off [laughs]! How did she think of it first? Eventually, Lara decided that she wanted to focus more on her personal life, and I was like “this is too awesome to let die!” So Tracy [Hungate, GPO’s other co-president] and I met up with her at Big Hops one day and she turned over the books. We took over in January 2015 and have been going balls to the wall (so to speak) ever since.

RR: I started out just drinking ciders and wine. Quite frankly, I hated beer. About a year and a half ago, my

husband and I went out to [Pflugerville brewery] Rogness’ tap room. They had a pineapple sour on tap, and I loved it. From then on out, I was just sticking to sours — there wasn’t anything else I was finding a taste for. A little over a year ago now, I was invited to a GPO event that paired beer with Girl Scout Cookies. That really changed things for me. I was able to taste those notes that beer drinkers would talk about. Slowly I started with the darker stuff and little by little I tried more things, and here I am today.

ON SA’S CRAFT BEER PERSONALITY KH: San Antonio is a laid-back city, and we like it that way. Some say we are a couple years behind on things, but because of that, we do it right. The craft beer scene has been growing for quite some time and now that San Antonio is up above five breweries [Editor’s Note: The total tally of breweries is closer to 10 at this point.] the support is amazing to see. This is obviously a light beer town, so each brewery does have a lighter beer that fits this need. Ours is the Love Struck Hefe, which ties into the German heritage here in South Texas very well. That being said, a good amount of local beer enthusiasts have really taken to the eclectic beers that each brewery puts

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I would think any young craft brewery town, it’s this brotherhood. Let’s beat the street and preach the same message. We see a lot of the same craft beer drinkers at each of our events. It’s become, I don’t know, just more of a family. Everybody’s rooting for each other to get San Antonio on the map. We’re right on the edge of some pretty cool things.

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out. Between oyster stouts, pumpkin porters and [Ranger Creek’s] own Small Batch series, we do have more experimental beers we produce.

BM: We have a love not just for our city but what we do inside of it. It’s kind of why I think SA has always been behind the times — we don’t want to rush into big gaudy things and skyscrapers that could quite possibly fail. We want everything we do to strive — to thrive, I should say.

RR: There’s a really good sense of community in the beer scene here. You don’t get that sharing in other cities — that idea that if I do well, we all do well. As a consumer, I’m trying to take that stigma away from craft beer as snobbish — that if you’re a craft beer drinker, you drink with your pinky up.

HG: A willingness to grow is what sets us apart.

Here, every year, all the local breweries make beer together during San Antonio Beer Week. You can’t say that [happens] a lot in other big cities. People drive hours to come taste San Antonio beer, which to me is like “WHAT?” I guess I’m spoiled, because it’s right down the street at my local pub. But I think that says a lot about the work that Kevin and Mark [McDavid] at Ranger Creek and Paul [Ford] at Branchline and the guys at Busted Sandal and everybody are putting in. Their attitude is what really sets us apart — like I said before, being a lady in the beer industry, one would think “Oh, beer. This is a man’s world.” But now, because of their openness and willingness to teach and not be judgmental, it’s awesome.

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BM: A lot of [SA] brewers are going to conferences, reading books, keeping up with the beer magazines.

Five Stones just celebrated their second anniversary — you’re telling me he got Silver at GABF in his first year ever? Every one of our [Southerleigh] beers placed in the top 10 of their categories in our first year. If we’re doing that, we’re on the right track. We’re starting about five or six years behind the curve, but I can guarantee that in the next five years SA is going to be one of those cities that people go to for good beers.

We want people visiting here saying, “Yeah, you’ve got the Alamo, you’ve got the River Walk, but the beer scene is amazing.”

KH: Long lines at each event make us feel like we are really reaching out to the community to let them know we are here. Although running out of product stinks, it means the demand is there, and we work hard to try and not let that happen! At Ranger Creek we are always pushing education as much as we can. The more you know, the more you really appreciate what this town has to offer.

SW: Of all the major Texas markets, we’re probably the one with the most work to do — but with the most opportunity. I think there’s still plenty of room for more growth and more unique breweries that can bring their gifts to our community, but I think we’re off to a good start. It’s just getting the beer across [people’s] lips — when they get a taste of the local craftsmen, they’re going to land on something they like.

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RR: I’ve definitely met people that, as [a] naturally introverted person, I wouldn’t have otherwise, just going [to] different events — made some connections, made some friends. I wouldn’t have met Hannah otherwise. This last week I went to an event at Brick for a figure drawing class. I don’t know how to draw, but I was there to support some friends (and they have a bar full of craft beer).

BM: Our culture is so eclectic down here. You’ve got Les [Locke, of Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery] blasting reggae while we’re making a Russian Imperial Stout, brown ales with roasted poblanos, cantaloupe saisons — just trying to have fun with it but make great beers at the same time.

BM: We do pepper beers so well. It’s a huge part of our culture. You have the Piñata Protest from Freetail.

I enjoyed the heck out of that beer. You’ve got Seth’s Aloha Piña. San Antonio might pioneer that, like Northern California did with all the pale ales and IPAs that we all know and love. Stouts were real awesome in the Midwest and East Coast. I think we’re going to be putting out lighter body beers that have a nice little kick like the type of things we enjoy eating.

SW: The expression through creativity will be a constant thread through 5 Stones. It started with the beer and the labels that Haley [Householder, 5 Stone’s long-term label designer] does, but as we move forward, our whole vision is to have artisans be involved at the brewery, whether that’s artwork, music, food, woodworking, whatever the case may be. We want to provide another avenue for it. Some of what we want to do with 5 Stones is even beyond beer — maybe taking some of those flavors we do in beer and creating something additional with them.

HG: Girls’ Pint Out’s three main pillars are women,

craft beer and education, by any means — and when we say any means, we mean any means. One of the most fun events we did was at the Sexology Institute and Boutique down in Southtown. That obviously was ladies only — we had a bottle share, a sex talk/ masturbation class, and it was the greatest thing ever.

There were saddle things and strappy things and at one point the whole table was vibrating … it was a fun night [laughs].

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BEER SECRETS 6 Shops with Eclectic, Varied Craft Lineups LANCE HIGDON

You can hardly swing an empty growler without hitting a specialty beer store in SA these days. Whether your tastes run toward bombers, tall boys or growlers to go, River City is a land flowing with milk stouts and honey kolsch. There are several parties who warrant praise for this outpouring, be they venerable institutions (Spec’s, Total Wine) or plucky innovators (Big Hops, Missions Untapped, GS 1221) bringing craft beer to the masses. And yet there remain a few places that, while not entirely under the radar, occupy the margins of the average beer map, discoverable only through careful research or dumb luck. What follows is a short list of some of the beststocked and least-expected bottle shops in town.

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2395 NW Military Hwy., (210) 348-5507 There are six coolers and five shelves packed tight with an impossibly well curated selection of brews in this little food store, more than a few of which are San Antonio exclusives (they had bombers from Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Brewing earlier than anybody in town).

The prices are average to high depending on your taste, but fear not: there’s invariably some insane sort of deal on cases of really decent suds (I don’t believe Keystone themselves could beat the $3.99-a-case deal NFM ran on Atwater’s Ruta Maya Schwarzbier back in June), so you can still bring your roomies back something tolerable after blowing your budget on Mikkeler (again).

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1110 S. Presa St., (210) 532-7830 If you’ve ever washed a week’s worth of grody laundry in Southtown, you’ve probably caught sight of Pik Nik. Look past that gnarly neon buzz and the, shall we say, disheveled status of its snack and toiletry aisles and turn your eyes to the coolers. There are beers in there, good ones: I once personally gripped a Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA while my darks were tumble drying low across the parking lot. Price tags are not readily visible so let the buyer beware of potential sticker shock at checkout. In all events, taking a tasty

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9238 N. Loop 1604 W., (210) 682-0165 It’s unsurprising that the biggest H-E-B in the state of Texas would also boast the biggest beer section.

What does shock the first-time shopper is just how many kinds of beer there are. Beer and wine manager Carol Kelly puts the precise number at 983, including an entire freezer dedicated to Texas suds, where Ranger Creek, Real Ale and Shiner rank among her top sellers.

An insane number of rare brews populate the aisle too, often at eminently reasonable H-E-B prices. I scooped up Prairie’s most recent shelf whale, the rum-barrel-aged Pirate Noir, for a song.

CANYON GOLF MARKET

26180 Canyon Golf Road, (210) 490-3388 In an area now packed with beer-buying opportunity, Canyon Golf Market keeps things on a more intimate scale. Sitting a little north of the Canyon Springs Golf Course, it’s an unassuming brew-geek paradise. You can buy proper groceries there if you wish, but chances are you’ll be distracted by endcaps comprised of Rogue bombers and four-packs of Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch. With reasonable prices and a helpful staff, it’s a must for Stone Oak’s the discerning drinkers.

GABRIELS SUPERSTORE

1309 N. Loop 1604 W., Suite 109, (210) 492-8585 Gabriel’s is likely the most well known store on this list, and, along with Northwest Food Mart, the only one with a Twitter presence. Beer manager Robert Johnson tweets every few days to keep his followers abreast of what’s hitting the shelves, which has recently included an oak-aged St. Bernardus, half a dozen Evil Twin bombers, and the latest in Stone’s “Enjoy By” IPA series. Brewery reps drop in frequently for demos. Take a leisurely stroll through the Belgian section while sipping a St. Arnold sample — and be sure to inquire about any rare stock lingering about in the back.

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491 S. Main St., Boerne, (830) 249-2546 Out in San Antonio’s westernmost suburb, there is a gas station that pulls triple duty as a barbecue joint of some note and a totally unsung repository of quality beer. The selection is narrowly focused but geographically eclectic — Detroit’s Atwater Brewery, Salt Lake City’s Squatters Craft Beer and the hometown Boerne Brewery dominate the refrigerators.

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Condensation is the bane of my existence. True story. I hate the god-awful feeling of crappy beer label sticker glue as it peels off the bottle due to my icy cold beer being exposed to scorching South Texas temperatures. The guys at Freaker, a company based out of North Carolina, know condensation sucks and that you have to keep your beer cool. They manufacture a knit koozie that insulates and keeps your hands dry. For $10.95 at Leighelena at the Pearl (303 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 101, 210-224-6666), the Freaker can be found bearing several styles, but we’re prone to this Lone Star rendition (football laces are a close second).

Also found at Leighelena, which honestly has just about every novelty gift you could ever want, was The Red Cup Drink Kooler ($10.95). I won’t talk this one up much more than I need to.

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The guys at Big Hops Growler Station (multiple locations) have you covered with their lime green Ray-Ban-esque shades that double as bottle openers.

Pick some up before they’re gone because we all need cheap shades ($8), and a church key.

This one’s for the beer drinker with a love of all things Bexar County.

The Bexar MiiR Growler ($59.99 through bexargoods.com) will keep your Freetail Soul Doubt chilly long after it’s been filled. The double-wall vacuum and stainless steel shell will keep liquids cold for more than 24 hours.

Finally, Etsy, cycling and beer aficionados should visit Pedal Happy Design’s store. Their sleek bicycle mounted leather growler carrier with stainless steel growler lite comes in at $35 and is available in dark brown, light brown, mahogany (to match your leather-bound books!) and black.

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The Mad Pecker Is Friendlier than Name Suggests KEVIN FEMMEL

San Antonio’s craft beer scene has exploded in recent years. If you haven’t noticed you’re likely loyal to big brand beers or you’ve been living under a rock. Or perhaps, you’ve just been living on the far West Side of town, where spots that serve thirsty craft beer enthusiasts are as patchy as a teenager’s beard.

Mad Pecker Brewery Company “tempt[s] the taste of those willing to try,” and due to its location on 6025 Tezel Road, it will need to convert locals to succeed. If you’re like me and live 10 minutes from a Freetail or Big Hops, driving 20 plus minutes sounds like a groan-inducing task. Mad Pecker is surrounded by road construction, dim street lighting and its entrance faces Timber Path, not Tezel Road, making your first trip there a bit of an adventure. Mercifully, the beer selection justifies the trip even if it lacks anything new.

Its website describes the “Mad Pecker” character as “shunned by society” and sent away to “live in solitude,” which can easily describe the location. Inside and out, the Pecker looks more like a neighborhood bar than most of its counterparts. It certainly has a more approachable vibe for those unacquainted with the craft scene and boasts a friendly staff.

Don’t let my description fool you, it’s a stylish setting for a night of drinking. A classy-looking, eye-catching chandelier greets you next to the bar, with the entire place decked out in red, black and gold. Not to mention a Chicago Cubs flag hung on the entrance wall, which

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indicates to me that the Mad Pecker’s owner must be after my heart.

I started out with their poutine fries and the Wick For Brains Pumpkin Ale from Nebraska Brewing Company, both good choices that helped pass time during a longish wait for one of the artisan pizzas. Patrons will debate whether Pecker’s take on pizza stands up to Freetail’s proven selection, but the two are different enough to warrant giving the Mad Pecker a shot. I ordered the Hawaiian and veggie pizzas, both filled with fresh toppings and a crispy crust that tastes homemade in all the right ways. A 12-inch pizza will set you back $8 and is more than enough to satisfy your hunger.

If you’re reading this you’ve probably said to yourself, “I’m not driving past Ingram unless they’ve got a good beer selection.” Well, all of your favorites are here: Alamo, Branchline, Freetail, Guadalupe, Independence, Live Oak, Ranger Creek, Stone and Real Ale. Their list of breweries from the Lone Star State just keeps going, with Texas beers dominating the tap list. You certainly get a wider selection of beer with your pizza than you would get at Freetail, since the Mad Pecker doesn’t have any original brews to promote, yet.

It is hard to not compare the Mad Pecker to all of its competitors, due to the increase of craft beer bars that offer food in SA. The atmosphere is friendlier and more easy-going than other bars, and the selection of brews is deep, varied and highlights many of Texas’ best breweries.

Many of Mad Pecker’s brews are priced a bit higher than the competition, which is likely due to there not being a whole lot of drinking and dining options close to it.

Competition is a good thing and with San Antonio’s craft beer scene expanding more than ever, random neighborhood bars like the Mad Pecker will start popping up. Mad Pecker Brewing Company is proof that there is demand for craft beer bars in parts of town you wouldn’t have expected. With tasty pizza and an extensive list of brews, the Mad Pecker definitely deserves a spot in your pub rotation. You’ll just have to spend a bit more on gas and beer if you don’t live nearby.

Pizza and a chill space ­— what more do you want?

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Beer Cocktails: Because Booze and Brews Should Be Friends RON BECHTOL It all began — and this is pure speculation — with the boilermaker, that everyman’s after-work combo of beer and a shot. From there, it seems entirely possible that, as in fashion, the trickle-up process began its work: first, we get fancier combinations of suds and tipple, such as an Imperial Stout chased

by Fernet-Branca, then the urge to combine the two in the same glass becomes overwhelming.

However this actually happened, today’s ‘tenders are finding new ways to put the brewer and the distiller in bed together. Mashups of the Mexican bulldog or Dos-a-rita sort are entirely too unnatural to be considered here.

Some legitimate pairings are more like marriages of convenience in that the beer doesn’t get down with the spirit but is floated on top in the way that Champagne tops a French 75. Upping the ante on this concept, Stephan Mendez, Jeret Peña’s Boulevardier Group Beverage Manager, now frequently found at The Last Word, created this drink while at 1919 (and also trotted it out at Esquire and the Blue Box).

He calls it The Almost Collins:

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Shake with ice, strain into a Collins glass filled with ice, top off with a hoppy IPA beer and garnish with a slab of grapefruit peel.

Taking a different approach, Nick Kenna, formerly at Dorcol but now managing much of Steve Mahoney’s expanding empire, uses beers, boiled down with sugars and spices, in concentrated syrup form for drinks such as Blue Box’s What the Hefe? in which he uses Live Oak Hefeweizen with cardamom and banana. The Irish Old Fashioned at Francis Bogside is another with Guinness Extra Stout reduced with demerara sugar added to Irish whiskey with orange bitters.

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menu at The Hoppy Monk on 1604, the intrepid investigator can find a schoonerload of drinks bolstered with beer — some also with syrup reductions. But there are also a few with deconstructed beer components. Ricardo Ruiz, a manager who came to San Antonio from the original location in El Paso, says HM’s cocktails are a collaborative effort and that hops tinctures (powerful when tasted straight, but judiciously dispensed with an eye dropper) are among the ordinance in their arsenal. You’ll find this, and house IPA syrup, in Pliny’s Daiquiri with white rum and thyme. If you order it, check out the beautiful bubble structure the beer gives the drink.

The bubbly build happens because, unlike many, Ruiz is not afraid to put beer straight into the shaking tin. “You have to be careful as it is carbonated,” he says — and I admit that I was hoping for an explosion. But the only fireworks were in the glass.

Ruiz’s Pale Horse, with a peaty scotch and a pilsner, was unexpectedly cinnamon-and-clove spicy. His Cemetery Gates, with barrel-aged IPA and gin, moved beer to the front and the De Peche Mode, employs Dorcol’s Kinsman rakia and a Belgian peach lambic, which counters the drink’s sweetness with a touch bitterness.

Ruiz is continuing to experiment with beer-booze interactions, lately with some of his nitrogen-delivered taps. Expect smaller bubbles, a creamier texture … beer nerds and booze hounds alike will find common ground here.

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Sorry Locavores: Texan made brews carry a tiny asterisk

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With the probable exception of toilet paper, Texans will pay a premium for anything branded by the Lone Star State. Be it pocket knives, baby onesies or pickup trucks of unusual size, we’re a people who drop serious cash for the sake of regional pride — and it’s doubly true when it comes to our beer. Yeah, the macros have moved a lot of units by plastering their cans of fizzy yellow swill with that beautiful flag, but in these (hop) heady times, real Texans are keeping their cold ones in-state.

But one nagging question persists for the locavore/state supremacist in me: Are these brewskis 100 percent TX? They’re hecho en Tejas, clearly. Many sport the “Go Texan” logo somewhere on their label. When I check out the grain bills and the hop lists, however, the malt comes from Germany and the hops hail from New Zealand. It made me wonder if it’s possible to brew without ever leaving the Republic.

Water, I learned, is the easiest ingredient to source, recent drought notwithstanding; moreover, the moderate hardness of our aquifers contributes to our flavor profiles. Employing native yeast requires a degree of surrender to the whims of nature, but it can be done.

Jester King seems to have had pretty good luck with it.

It’s the other two basic beer ingredients that complicate matters. Malt

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comes from grain, primarily barley, which was only grown for cattle feed here until a few years ago. Today, Blacklands Malt have homesteaded a native malt provider up in Leander, where proprietor Brandon Ade oversees the overturning of small mountains of moist, germinating grain. It’s a very promising venture, but it will take many Blacklands to meet Texas’ demand.

Hop prospects are even worse. As Vera Deckard, brewmistress of The OK Brewery And Eishaus, told me, “there is no such thing as Texas hops. Hops don’t grow here, unless they are babied, and then the yield is small.” There are several reasons for the dearth, but the chief culprit is that inescapable heat — hops thrive in cool, wet regions, and that just ain’t gonna happen here.

The German freethinkers who settled Central Texas also didn’t have hops, but they found a decent alternative in the fruit of the wafer ash, aka the hop tree. It still grows here.

Perhaps some enterprising young brewery will try it out, pitching the native shrub with some hydroponic Centennial cones (are you reading this, Planet K?) and some pure prairie two-row malt from Alpine or Fredericksburg. Sure, nobody’s used the hop tree in a commercial beer before, but Texans are nothing if not enterprising. If you have the chance to brew a beer that’s nose-to-tail native, I say come and take it.

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Our music editor’s ode to cheap beer MATT STIEB/@MATTHEWSTIEB

I’m a lucky man, for most often, my wallet and taste buds agree with each other.

With beer, my alcoholic vice of choice, the pair votes unanimously in favor of the cheap stuff.

There’s never been a miserly joy like the fool’s gold hue and feeble head of a $2 tallboy cracked open at an arctic temperature. Plus, a dollar tip on a $2 beer is a big-ass tip, percentagewise. Someday, that’s the type of logic that will make me a good dad.

At the opposite end of the taste/price matrix, there lies the villain of this shoddy op-ed — craft beer. In 1979, in the most important amendment in alcohol law since Prohibition, Jimmy Carter deregulated the beer industry, opening up the marketplace for microbreweries.

The field maintained steady growth until the new millennium, when demand and ABVs skyrocketed.

According to the Brewers Association, craft beer had an economic impact of $3.8 billion in Texas last year.

I’m no craft prohibitionist — arguing against a multibillion dollar business in Texas is op-ed suicide.

However, these small, seasonal batches with quippy names and gorgeous cans have been riding the hype for too long. A couple years ago, I decided to quit purchasing fancy beers because I was sick of this low-stakes game

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of Russian Roulette with my taste buds. Rarely could the dense flavors compensate for the sticker price, so my wallet told my brain to shut it down.

More so than the taste, it’s the culture of the microbrew that I’m not fond of. I don’t care about unique coriander tones — the smell that I associate with craft beer is a roommate’s home-brewing efforts that harassed the kitchen with the yeasty aroma of a YMCA locker room. I don’t want to talk about beer. Surely, there’s more compelling topics of conversation. Like my choice of bicycle, I’m in it for the utility. Something fast, cheap and mass-produced.

Something that’s not a talking point as much as a vehicle to a destination.

Give me a Mexican beer, a cold, salty and beautiful thing.

Like with food, our neighbors truly got it right even with cheap stuff. Lime is the great equalizer of Mexican beers — drench that Carta Blanca or Tecate in citrus and it can Pepsi challenge against a Pacífico any day of the week.

I don’t need your crowlers and flavor profiles and small batch double IPAs and those little Jell-O shots to sample beer in. Sampling? This is a bar, not a supermarket bread aisle. So, enjoy your craft festivals and $5 beers, nerds.

I’ll be in the basement pounding cans of High Life with your dad, making up words to Steely Dan songs and mispronouncing athlete names while yelling at the TV. mstieb@sacurrent.com

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CURTAIN CALL FOR CUBANOS

Once-silenced Buena Vista Social Club bids adiós J.D. SWERZENSKI

The release of the Buena Vista Social Club’s eponymous album in 1997 was something of a musical equivalent to uncovering the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Cuban sound had been ubiquitous in American culture through the 1940s and ‘50s, be it through Dizzy Gillespie’s famed Afro-Cuban Orchestra or Desi Arnaz’s portrayal as bandleader Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy, then with the embargo in 1960 … nothing.

The signal went silent.

It was easy to imagine, at least from an American perspective, that all the musical, artistic and cultural energy emanating from Cuba just stopped cold with the rise of Fidel Castro and communism. This made the Buena Vista Social Club all the more special: Here was a vanished form, assumed lost for good, suddenly rebroadcasting, and sounding more vibrant than ever.

That the voices behind that record — bandleader Compay Segundo, singer Ibrahim Ferrer, pianist Rubén González — were the same musicians that had captured American audiences before the embargo, made the LP’s impact that much more substantial.

“We perform timeless songs, that are a fusion of genres and styles,” says Barbarito Torres, laúd player and one of Buena Vista’s founding members. “We sing in Spanish, we have some French influences with danzón and above all we perform with our heart. We love what we do and I think this the audience can feel.”

Nearly two decades have passed since Buena Vista emerged from Havana, and those audiences have kept feeling their sound in sold-out shows the world over.

But the band has changed plenty during that time: Founders Segundo, Ferrer and González passed away at 95, 78 and 84, respectively (gotta respect that Cuban healthcare system). To maintain the vitality of the band, Buena Vista has invited a cast of modern Cuban musicians into the fold to further push the sound.

“They are very talented artists, and we are happy to have them in the group,” Torres says of the Orquesta’s newest members, who include pianist Rolando Luna and singers Carlos Calunga and Idania Valdes. “We are a big family. Look, even [trumpeter Manuel ‘Guajiro’ Mirabal’s] grandson plays with us!”

Family does seem an apt way to describe the warmth Buena Vista emits from the stage. Captivating as their debut album was, it’s in the live atmosphere where the rhythmic and emotional energy of their sound is most apparent (an energy nicely showcased on the 1998 Live in Madison Square Garden). Despite the band’s

many senior members, they’ve never failed to come alive in concert, a tradition that’s continued from their historic first appearances in Havana up through their upcoming show this Saturday at Laurie Auditorium.

The expanded lineup — now fleshed out to a 13-piece — have added an extra dynamic with their eclectic musical backgrounds: Singer Omara Portuondo recently lent her vocal talents to reggaeton artist El Micha’s latest album, while Amadito Valdés has lent his percussion talents to numerous salsa and charanga recordings.

The Social Club and their self-titled platinum 1997 album.

It’s been an exciting development for the band in recent years as they’ve worked to incorporate the more flowing again, for better or worse. modern Cubano styles of the new In many ways it makes sense for the Buena Vista players into the traditional Buena Vista sound.

Social Club to end their historic run with this current “Influences [have] been a great part of music tour. There’s always a cultural mission, a needed bridge evolution,” says Torres. “Influences mean movement, new between two estranged, closely related nations. In sounds and learning, and this is all good for the music. All the wake of their trailblazing influence, perhaps a new kind of music is important because it’s a representation of Cuban sound will captivate the world again. our culture and music is a way of communication, As for what the band has lined up beyond their many things indeed.”

Orquesta Buena farewell tour, Torres claims they plan to enjoy Like the band, the world has also changed Vista Social Club their adiós to the world for as long as it lasts. plenty since 1997. The past year has seen an $29-$110 “We have a long tour for this year and some unprecedented thaw in U.S.-Cuban relations.

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MUSIC

We all know the highlight reel of San Antonio’s sterling musical tradition — Augie’s reverse-color organ, Flaco’s gold tooth, that Selena music video filmed on the River Walk where she eats B-grade Tex-Mex and gets dumped in a letter by some unknown fool.

Our newest column, “According To Our Records” dives head first into the obscure, exploring the styles, songs and artists that slipped through the cracks of time and mass appeal. Something of an SA archivist, Rae D. Cabello brings us seven-inch singles and LPs from his crate-digging exploits, reopening avenues of the city’s winding past.

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A Taste of the Bass In the late ’80s, when gangster rap and new jack swing groups dominated the urban radio airwaves in San Antonio, two Northeast side teenagers known as Reality produced two gems that helped build the early foundations of San Antonio’s underground hip-hop scene.

Ron “M.C. 14K” Kelley and Thaddeus “GQ” Crum met each other as honor students and youth members of the Second Baptist Church (one of the city’s more conservative black churches at the time).

“We were the smart kids in school,” Kelley said. Both students shared a large interest in hip-hop, particularly the East Coast school for its lyrical depth and unique Five-Percent Nation terminology (a movement that was largely associated with hip-hop). Heavily influenced by the likes of Public Enemy, the duo decided to form Reality and include not only dancers, but “security” as well.

After school, the group recorded in Kelley’s bedroom on a Sears department store sampler — the Casio SK-1 and a Yamaha multitrack recorder. Produced in 1988, the group released “A Taste of the Bass” and “Righteous Revolution” (1989) on their DIY label Divine Records. At

the time, Joey Records (Now El Zaz Music Inc.) didn’t know how to press rap or hip-hop records — the result was a muffled lo-fi sound that blanketed both songs, which at the time the group didn’t enjoy. Today, that sound is the happy accident some producers and emcees hope to achieve.

“A Taste of the Bass” opens up with a crunchy, pulsating low-end that goes right into a heavy drum break and features vocals by friends Marius Williams and Louis Myers. Both Kelley and Crum trade off on vocals in a Beastie Boys fashion, letting its audience know that “SA, Texas is our hometown” while bringing in obscure samples and more vocals throughout the track. In “Righteous Revolution,” the group’s anti-drug and anti-gang stance is approached in a near battle rap form — “On the subject matter of just who’s badder, who’s number one serving suckas on a platter.” The group did some shows around town with other acts such as PKO (Pounds, Keys and Ounces), a group who also contributed early on to SA’s

rap scene with more of an NWA persona.

The two teens eventually moved on to college, but still stayed closely connected to the hip-hop scene. Kelley interned at 96.1 FM alongside PKO’s DJ AK and helped bring acts to town like Outkast, Jay-Z, Houston legends UGK and The Notorious B.I.G. Crum moved to LA and pursued a music career with another local, Mad One (Brandon Morgan). Today, Kelley is the CEO of an educational company based in Texas while Crum enjoys a career in the auto industry.

Kelley played a major part in the discovering and signing of Mad Decent rapper Riff Raff and is currently working with GZA on an educational project.

These days, you can find their record in the hands of international collectors and online for around $200.

However, Reality is worth much more than that. Aside from being pioneers in San Antonio’s hip-hop scene, they played an important role in its development — a contribution that can’t be measured. sacurrent.com • October 14-20, 2015 • CURRENT 87

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The Internet doesn’t sound like an Odd Future Records joint. Fronted by Syd the Kyd and The Martian, the sextet makes songs of love and lust that tread more along jazz and R&B than Odd Future’s jarring confidence and braggadocio. Purple Naked Ladies (2011) had Syd baring a softer, innocent side backed by Erykah Baduizm-era soul and funk that would shadow them under the umbrella of alternative R&B. Two years later, Feel Good found Syd more confident with the sensual “Don’tcha” as her pillow-soft vocals exposed a newfound swagger still coupled with her innocent come-ons of “starstruck on all of you.” Feel Good also found Syd latching onto hooks, ditching aimless jazz-for jazz’s sake jam sessions in favor of melodies only Pharrell could possibly produce. No longer the innocent romantic, in Ego Death the Kyd is the lovelorn paramour reminiscing on jealous lovers and old flames while fantasizing of “kilos in the back seat” with girls of “cigarettes and sex on [their] breath.” Her syrupy falsettos are meshed with the warmth of ’70s soul and lush reverb, drawing out bedroom vibes on a Sunday morning. $20, 8pm, Alamo City Music Hall, 1305 E. Houston St., alamocitymusichall.com —Alejandra Ramirez

Wednesday, October 14

Go!Zilla This Italian combo is a big ol’ meatball of a band, who, in their finest and fuzziest moments, make other acid-dripping groups look like Chef Boyardee. With Flower Jesus, The Back Bones. Limelight, 9pm

Riverboat Gamblers Known for their obnoxiously energetic live shows, Riverboat Gamblers are a punk rock ’n’ roll band hailing from our great, white neighbor to the north (Austin) who never needed the peanut butter, broken glass or razor blades of punk provocateurs past to impress. On skateboard company Volcom’s Entertainment label, The Gamblers are perfect for the skatepark: loud, fast and built for 14-­year-­olds.

Think a skinnier, soberer, slightly poppier Murder City Devils sans Farfisa. With The Heroine, Signalman. The Korova, 8pm

Seryn Moving from their home in Denton to Nashville, Seryn is a pop-folk nonet with impeccable harmonizing cred. With Octahedron. Paper Tiger, 7pm

Thursday, October 15

Samantha Fish Kansas City’s Samantha Fish sings of southern barrooms and blues traditions on her 2015 album Wild Heart. Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm

The Cutthroats Local, self-­proclaimed

“good ol’ fashioned punk band” The Cutthroats have literally invested blood, sweat and thousands of beers into their

15-year existence. With no interest in any fancy frills, expensive thrills or being defined as any sort of core, Joe, James, Kid and Travis are post­-fuck you! With No Gods, DJ Smoak, DJ Ely Bat. The Mix, 10pm

Friday, October 16

Amplified Heat, Maneaters of Tsavo, Foxmoor Express The San Antonio Current kicks off GRSFD, our newest, off-the-cuff concert series. Hosted in the garage on the side of our big blue headquarters, GRSFD is a low-key, high octane celebration of the music we love.

We begin on a shit-kicking foot with Austin trio Amplified Heat. Composed of brothers Jim, Gian and Chris Ortiz, the Austin trio takes cues from ’70s Detroit in fashion, facial hair and unrelenting blues rock. On their effort On The Hunt, once the brothers pick up on a rhythm, they don’t stop ’til it’s soaked in beer, kicked to the ground and dragged through the mud. San Antonio Current, 8pm

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Drive-by Truckers The Athens, Georgia band that anyone who I ever engage in Southern rock conversations with steers me toward, DBT clearly know their roots.

But, when aiming as high as The Stones, Neil Young, The Band or Tom Petty, you’re bound to face an uphill battle.

Their most compelling artistic offerings seem to be their song titles.

Gruene Hall, 8pm

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Los Callejeros de San Anto Piñata Protest accordionist Alvaro Del Norte takes a break from the punk outfit of his acclaim and gets in on some puro tejano. With The Lucky Odds. The Mix, 9pm

The Octopus Project, Crooks on Tape Austin’s Octopus Project play out to the modern Devo, high on kitsch and actually rockin’ pop songs. Sharing the bill is the equally quirk-out pop-electric group Crooks on Tape. Hailing from LA, Crooks on Tape’s music is high-concept silliness built for the hotel room. Paper Tiger, 8pm

Yo-Yo Ma French-born Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is one of the few contemporary classical performers to enter the conversation of pop culture.

From his work with John Williams and Ennio Morricone to his Presidential Medal of Freedom and 18 Grammys, Ma might be the greatest to ever pick up the instrument. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 8pm

Saturday, October 17

Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath It’s been over a year since Brownout first transformed into Brown Sabbath, and they haven’t looked back since. Their 2014 record of latin funk-infused Sabbath covers Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath was picked up by NPR as one of the top 50 releases of the year, going on to be the most high-profile release in the band’s decade-deep catalog. With Think No Think. Paper Tiger, 8pm

Elliott Smith: A Tribute to the Life & Music October 21 marks the 12th anniversary of Smith’s death, a time to celebrate the music he left behind with 18 singer-songwriters and two full bands including local favorite Buttercup covering his catalog of songs. Period Modern, 6:30pm

Holy Wave With their 2012 album Knife

Hits, Austin’s Holy Wave dropped the best drug reference as an album name

since Spacemen 3’s Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To. With Lake of Fire, Sunjammer. K23 Gallery, 9pm

Insane Clown Posse It would be an easy blow to sum-up and judge the entirety of the horrorcorists’ career based on “Miracles,” the internet-infamous, memegenerating music video that gave birth to the line “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” That’s a little unfair given the group has their own religion, gatherings, clothing brand Hatchet Gear and a cult that goes by the name of “Juggalos,” a collection labeled as a gang by the FBI. Alamo City Music Hall, 9pm

Mixfest 2015 feat. Austin Mahone SA native and teeny-bopper Austin Mahone returns with his boy band shimmer. On his new single “Dirty Work,” Mahone and his PR homies have crafted up a slick new look a la 2013 Bieber. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm

The Cinderleaf San Anto alt-rock quartet The Cinderleaf celebrates their 20th anniversary as a band, riding through several waves of genre decay and revival.

Rebar, 9pm

Sunday, October 18

Howard Jones A British musician who took the synth to the top of the ’80s charts, Howard Jones visits the Tobin Center for one of those “An Intimate Evening” gigs.

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 7pm

Monday, October 19

Promised Land Sound This Nashville quintet slices effortlessly through folkrock like 2009 Tony Parker cut through the lane. Limelight, 9pm

Tuesday, October 20

Pop Pistol 10th Anniversary Concert

The magnanimous trio of Alex Scheel, Jorge Gonzalez and George Garza celebrates 10 years together at the final Lone Star Live concert of the season.

With Octahedron, The Black Market Club.

Arneson River Theater, 7pm

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I am a 23-year-old Italian girl and I have been in a long-distance relationship for one year. We love to have sex, and when we are far away, we send each other hot pictures and videos.

At least two times per week, we masturbate on Skype. There is something that confuses me about the way I masturbate when I am alone. My boyfriend watches pornos daily when we are far away. This is something I don’t like, but I have not asked him to give up watching pornos. I think there is nothing wrong in pornos by themselves: Sometimes I watch them, and when we are together, it’s me who suggests to watch them together or I let him watch them while I’m giving something to him. However, I’m not a fan of him watching pornos when he is alone. But when I masturbate, I think only about him watching porno alone. What’s wrong with my sexual fantasies?

Confused Italian Asking Obviously

There’s nothing wrong with your sexual fantasies, CIAO, you’re just experiencing a little cognitive dissonance and residual sex-negativity — and that particular tension can both distress and arouse. But seeing as your boyfriend is going to look at porn (and other women) whether you want him to or not (just as you look at porn and other men), and since you enjoy porn together, I would advise you to err on the side of embracing your fantasies.

And don’t feel like you have to overcome the cognitive dissonance.

The naughtiness of it, the transgression, and the symbolic betrayal — all of that turns you on.

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“It’s HA-MA Time!” — 2 legit to solve ACROSS 1 Fizzling firecracker 4 Aquarium growth 8 Crumbly coffeehouse buy 13 “Cheerleader” singer 14 Fishing line holder 15 James Cameron blockbuster film 16 Another name for #, before it became a “tag” 18 Certain VWs 19 Event for someone who displays a “13.1” bumper sticker 21 “Dr. Mario” platform 22 Air France destination 23 Dix + dix 26 Writer Kesey 28 Pet advocacy org.

32 ___ En-lai 33 Crankcase container 35 The Sugarhill Gang’s genre 36 Highbrow monthly that’s the second-oldest continuous publication in the U.S. 39 William McKinley’s First Lady 40 Deletes 41 Baseball’s Vizquel 42 Result of rolling in the dough, maybe?

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances.

See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes. With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV min-series set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy.

Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him.

Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental — meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes.

Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional.

Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): You would be wise to rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few

slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.

head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished. What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): While

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19):

still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called Scribbler Moon.

But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.”

The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s

why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times. Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no.

Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels — less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.

THIS MODERN WORLD by Tom Tomorrow

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, sixfoot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its

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