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Busting the Pirates’ Shipbuilder Grande Communications is fighting the recording industry’s demand that ISPs banish Internet users suspected of illegal downloads BY SANFORD NOWLIN
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ocal telecom company Grande Communications is going toe-totoe with the music industry over its demand that Internet service providers, or ISPs, become copyright-enforcement cops and blacklist customers accused of illegal downloads. Last year, 18 music labels, including UMG, Warner and Sony, sued San Marcos-based Grande for allowing users to download copyrighted works over its fiber-optic lines, claiming it had helped facilitate “more than one million infringements.” But in a filing this month in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, Grande called bullshit and urged the judge to reject the claim. According to the filing, the recording industry backed Grande into a corner, forcing it to pick between kicking off customers over questionable piracy claims or being stung by stiff copyright penalties. Grande officials declined comment, but the filing spells out an alarming shift in the beleaguered recording industry’s anti-piracy strategy. Instead of going after individual downloaders and the websites they use, it’s
now targeting broadband providers and expecting them to permanently blacklist people accused of illegal downloads. “Having given up on actually pursuing direct infringers due to bad publicity, and having decided not to target the software and websites that make online file-sharing possible, the recording industry has shifted its focus to fashioning new forms of copyright liability that would require ISPs to act as the copyright police,” Grande’s filing states. The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the music labels, said it’s not waging war on ISPs but going to court with Grande over the company’s willingness to turn a blind eye to piracy. Under current law, the RIAA sends notices to ISPs when it suspects user are making illegal downloads, and the providers are expected to reprimand the repeat offenders. Some Grande users had spurred hundreds such letters and faced no penalties, RIAA spokeswoman Kara Duckworth said. “They saw the information, and they chose to do nothing,” Duckworth said. “It’s a clear example of putting profits before following the law.”
The Grande case isn’t the industry’s first time to target an ISP. Earlier this month, music group BMG Rights Management announced a “substantial settlement” with cable provider Cox Communications in a similar digital-copyright battle. With that victory in hand, consumer advocates worry RIAA smells blood in the water. And that could prompt intrusive monitoring of Internet users’ accounts — whether or not they know a BitTorrent site from a BitCoin. “The incentive would be for an ISP to kick suspected infringers off the network before the record companies become aware of them,” said Meredith Rose, policy counsel for D.C.-based consumer group Public Knowledge. “That would lead to a pervasive monitoring of Internet traffic I don’t think anybody’s OK with.” In its filing, Grande also questions whether the music labels even have the necessary evidence to accuse its customers of illegal activity. After all, RIAA relies not on legal authorities to make that call but Rightscorp, a private company whose technology zeroes in on pirates’ IP addresses when they download. The problem, critics say, is that Rightscorp’s system presumes guilt by linking an IP address to a person who simply may not have used it. Pirates frequently “piggyback” onto neighbors’ Wi-Fi systems to hide their activity, and who knows what your roommate is doing on your computer when you’re at work. “An IP address is like a phone number,” Rose said. “There could be any number of people on it.”
Shaking ’Em Down The suit also begs the question why the music industry hasn’t yet challenged the online industry’s biggest players, namely AT&T, Charter and Comcast, whose subscriber numbers dwarf those of a regional player like Grande, who serves San Antonio, Austin and a few other Texas cities. “The big telecom companies really are just law firms with phone antennas on top of the building and cable boxes at the bottom,” said Roger Entner, founder of Boston-based tech research firm Recon Analytics. “If RIAA went after the big guys, their lawyers would just laugh and say, ‘Sure, hump my leg.’ So, instead they’ll go after the smaller companies and try to shake them down.” RIAA disputes that Grande’s small size has anything to do with its lawsuit. The number of incidents on its network simply showed it to be a “particularly egregious offender,” Duckworth said. Whichever the case, the Texas company’s fate in court is likely to have a big impact on whether the music industry keeps after that strategy – and what that means for our online privacy.
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et’s just dispense with this now: Next year, Greg Abbott will still be governor of Texas, barring credible evidence that he’s a serial killer or a seriously depraved pervert surfacing between now and the November 6 election. By “credible,” I mean video-recordings of his heinous acts, perverted and/or murderous. Democrat Lupe Valdez, the former Dallas County sheriff who’s running against Abbott, will still be brooding about her missing service weapon and trying to figure out how it ended up in her department’s property room. Dan Patrick will still be convinced that fewer entrances are the only sane way to prevent mass school shootings. He’ll also still be lieutenant governor with godlike power over the Texas Senate. Whoever is currently running against Patrick will be back doing whatever he or she did before. And his or her co-workers will ask, “Did you go anyplace nice for vacation?” With that out of the way, I’d like to introduce several policy initiatives for Abbott and Patrick to consider as they compile their 2019 legislative agendas for continuing to make Texas more like the miracle that is Mississippi.
So, ta-dah: • Change the name of Welfare, Texas, for obvious reasons, to Self-Reliance. The town has had 138 years to adopt a better name but has failed to act. You know why? Because it’s lazy. • Require women seeking abortions to write letters of explanation to their fetuses. • Shut down zoos’ pro-homosexual agendas in Texas. Most people aren’t aware, for example, that politically correct zookeepers at the San Antonio Zoo are housing three adult female elephants together — without any males. How much longer can these elephants remain just friends? • Initiate a state takeover of Texas 8
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pawn shops, auto-title and payday loan companies, and plasma centers – the components of our state’s robust poverty industry. Use the profits to fund property tax cuts. In years in which property values go crazy, lawmakers can provide additional relief by raising the interest rates on the state’s customers and maybe trimming what it pays for plasma. I pitched these measures in a TribTalk.org piece ahead of last year’s special session of the legislature. However, there was also some speculation in Austin that Abbott and Patrick may have been too busy to read it. Patrick probably doesn’t read much, anyway. Or maybe they had been unaware of my efforts.
Hopefully twice is a charm. The first three items are straightforward. If our lawmakers can’t agree that the name Welfare is a hideous coffee stain on our state map, that fetuses are owed an explanation or at least a heads-
up, and that our zoo animals shouldn’t be forced to be gay, we are lost. My fourth proposal, however, is going to take some work. It’s visionary, though it does kind of pick up where the Texas Lottery leaves off. And like anything that tosses out the old thinking, it will be wildly controversial. There’s no getting around the fact this would be a huge government intrusion into the free market. But we have an opportunity here to finally deliver real relief to Texas taxpayers and to adequately fund public education, including any future school-voucher program. All we have to do is get up the gumption to take this step. It’ll help to begin thinking about the poor and the working poor in this way: The people of the state of Texas – the real ones, with decent jobs – have the strongest claims on the poor because their tax dollars pay for welfare programs, Medicaid and public schools. Those claims include the opportunity to make a buck or two – a return on their investment. As the private-sector poverty industry learned decades ago, Texas is a booming market. Nearly 16 percent of
our population lived below the poverty line in 2016, according to the U.S. Census. That’s a ton of opportunity. Just look at auto-title and payday loans. In 2015, Texas customers took out $1.7 billion in new loans, and refinanced $2.4 billion in debt, Texas Appleseed, an advocacy group for socalled vulnerable Texans, reported in 2017. They paid $1.58 in fees for every dollar they borrowed. And that’s just one part of the industry. Think about the lakes of plasma the poor sell every year, and all of the iPads, laptops and jewelry they pawn. Under my plan, profits from these businesses would flow to everyday Texans instead of corporations, most of which are smart enough to figure out other ways to make money. The fate of my proposal will come down to whether our state lawmakers are willing to take bold, unprecedented action to finally lighten the little guy’s load. I’ve studied our state’s progress under the inspired leadership of Abbott and Patrick. So, let’s just leave it at this: I am extremely optimistic about our chances come 2019.
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’m sitting across from H. Drew Galloway at Estate Coffee Shop on the city’s East Side. As the executive director of MOVE Texas, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to civic education and leadership development, Galloway sees his work “as giving young people a voice in our democracy.” When he says “young people,” he is usually referring to millennials, the folks who fall between the ages of 18 to 35. He compares his job to turning the knobs on a radio. “We’re not here to, like, change the channel,” he says. “We’re here to turn up the volume.” Galloway is hopeful that November’s election will be “a pivotal moment” for his generation. “This is our time to get involved,” he says. At 36, Galloway describes himself as an “older millennial” and feels he can still relate to the younger people that MOVE Texas aims to serve. If it wasn’t for the gray on the edges of his beard, one would think he was still in his twenties. He believes the time has come for candidates, politicians to “listen and learn” from young adults. Galloway grew up on a farm in Thomson, Georgia. In 2000, he graduated high school with a passion to study wine. Too young to enter culinary school, he moved to London to get a head start on his chosen field. During his two years in Europe, he traveled to vineyards in Spain, Italy and France before beginning his formal training period at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. After graduation, he found success on the retail side of the wine business. A job with Spec’s brought him to San Antonio in 2011. He was almost immediately drawn to local politics, starting with his support of the city’s non-discrimination ordinance. As Galloway got involved, he met then-Councilman Diego Bernal, who approached him and asked how the ordinance would affect him. “I told him I’m a gay father, and [that] I can be kicked out of my house – that’s why I believe in this. He listened to me,” Galloway says. Galloway then threw himself into the “millennial hustle.” While holding down his full-time job, he went back to school to study public administration
at UTSA and interned for then-County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson. One day, Galloway confided in Adkisson about how he felt that he’d “wasted” over eight years in retail and wished he’d discovered politics sooner. “[Adkisson] looked at me and said, ‘All politics is retail.’ The commissioner compared the two professions. ‘You have to go door to door to get elected. You have to talk to people and, in some ways, you’re trying to sell a product to them. You’re selling ideas. You’re serving the needs of the person in front of you. [Sometimes], you have angry customers so you’re defusing situations and figuring out a way to solve [problems].’” Galloway immediately applied this philosophy to community organizing. After an internship with then-Councilman Ron Nirenberg and a semester working at the White House, Galloway accepted the position as executive director of MOVE Texas in 2016, completing a six-person team. MOVE is an acronym for Mobilize, Organize, Vote, Empower and is a “voting-rights organization at its core.” In his first year on the job, the organization registered 8,568 people to vote through face-to-face conversations. Galloway saw an opportunity to keep the momentum going with a “healthy impatience.” He notes that MOVE Texas has to work harder than other “grown-up organizations” in an effort to prove itself. “The day after the election isn’t the day that we should say, ‘Oh, we should have blocked walked [that area],’” he says. The political landscape has evolved with velocity, and millennials seem increasingly difficult to ignore. The strategy is “targeting the non-voter,” with a pointed emphasis on young people, women, people of color and the LGBTQIA community. “Those are our people,” Galloway says. “Our people [are those] who don’t believe their vote matters.” Galloway has also learned more about the Latino community. “The impact of a series of federal decisions has created a tremendous amount of fear in the Latino community, especially here in Texas,” he says. “I think it started with the [Trump Administration’s] travel ban. It went to DACA being endangered. Then it went to family detention.”
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An example of MOVE’s approach to thinking outside the taco shell: Galloway believes DACA students can have a powerful voice even though they can’t vote. “They just have to exercise it in a completely different way,” he says energetically. “We show them ways to organize on their campus and in their community, outside of the electoral system.” MOVE relies on “deep canvassing” to reach potential voters, Galloway explains. “When you approach someone on a campus or at their doorstep, you ask them, ‘What is keeping you up a night? What would you like to see changed in your neighborhood?’ And then we just listen,” he says. “That’s deep canvassing. It’s emotionally harder. It takes longer.” But it gets results. Galloway believes the best messenger for getting young people to vote is other young people. “If you get somebody who shows up at your doorstep who looks like you, who goes to your same school, that has the same cultural experience that you do, then you’re gonna listen to them,” he says. “That’s authenticity.” Galloway has been with his partner, Martin, since 2011. He has two sons, ages 12 and 14, from a previous marriage. “I’m a gay dad in the city with the largest number of gay families in the United States.” “We have to create moments that capture the attention of the unengaged,” he says. “How do you create this moment where everybody perks up and goes, ‘Whoa! What’s happening there?’ In some ways that’s fighting for issues that young people care about – issues like paid sick time and the Free Speech Coalition.” A good example of MOVE’s approach was last year’s San Antonio Night Live, a candidate forum where
candidates and officeholders took part in a Saturday Night Live-inspired variety show. “Ron Nirenberg sang a cappella and John Courage did this crazy, like, striptease-type thing,” Galloway recalls with a chuckle. Well, his last name is Courage. “But it, like, humanized them. It was like, ‘Look, they’re normal people. Like us.’” Stripteasing for the common man. Sorry. I’m still thinking about that. “Our role in civics here is to make sure that candidates and politicians understand that they’ve got to come down to a much more authentic level with us,” he says. When I ask him to define integrity, he thinks for a moment, then says, “Being true to who you are and to what you say. As a person who was married, and then came out... Now I’m living as a gay man. I think I’ve found that authenticity – that integrity. I grew up in the country in rural Georgia [where] you had to hide that part.” “The wine business has taught me how to do politics,” he says. “There’s this idea of like, ‘You don’t know anything about politics [so] just stay out of it.’ That’s a very wine industry-thing, too.” How are wine and politics similar? I ask. “Well, you have to drink wine to love it. So you have to participate,” he says. “There is a type of wine for everybody, so if you try a wine and say, ‘Oh, this is gross,’ you just have to try another one. And your taste is gonna change. Nobody drinks the same wine all the time.” But one does have to show up and choose, “red or white, sweet or dry.” Here’s to election season, I offer. “Yes,” he says with a youthful, confident smile. “November is upon us.” sacurrent.com | September 5–11, 2018 | CURRENT
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While A Midsummer Night’s Dream may or may not be Shakespeare’s best comedy — shout out to all my fellow Much Ado About Nothing peeps — it has certainly, over the years, been his most beloved and oft-interpreted. The fantastical Midsummer, a damn clinic in Shakespeare’s wit as well as his knack for misdirection and absurdity, follows the interwoven stories of Theseus and Hippolyta (Duke and Queen of Athens); Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius (four young and gullible lovers); the Mechanicals (a hilariously bumbling group of tradesmen tasked with putting on a play of their own); and Oberon, Titania and Puck (the unforgettable and mischievous woodland fairies). Through a barrage of fumbles, false starts and trickery, the play provides a lighthearted and surreal meditation on the fickleness of love and the romanticism of fools. This weekend, the Classic Theatre opens its new season with a month-long run of the famous play in a production guest directed by Joe Goscinski. $18-$33, 8pm Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun, The Classic Theatre of San Antonio, 1924 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 589-8450, classictheatre.org. — James Courtney
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Comedienne Poppy Champlin is headed back to San Antonio with her unique comedy revue, the Queer Queens of Qomedy, for a one-night-only gig at Laugh Out. Champlin’s sidekicks on this four-city tour are two of the funniest women in Texas: Sandra Valls from Laredo and Crist Guzman from Dallas. Champlin has been producing the revue for several years now, featuring a rotating cast that’s included Vickie Shaw, Carol Leifer, Julie Goldman and Gina Yashere, among many others. Once crowned by Joan Rivers as “America’s Funniest Real Woman,” Champlin has had a long and stellar career that includes appearances on LOGO, Showtime, HBO, VH1 and Comedy Central. Los Angeles-based Valls has been featured in two Showtime specials, The Latin Divas of Comedy and Pride: The Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam. Curve Magazine has boasted that Valls is “one of the top badass comics to watch for.” In June, Valls performed here at the Pride Bigger than Texas Festival. Guzman got her start in radio, working behind the scenes at Power 108 in Waco where she developed her own show, This & That. According to Champlin, Guzman’s act recounts hilarious tales of LGBT marriage and family situations that “almost” everyone can
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If you’re only familiar with Jay Mohr the comedian and not Jay Mohr the actor, at least know about his best cinematic role. Mohr was the two-faced sports agent who fired Tom Cruise in 1996’s Jerry Maguire, a move that sent the title character into a downward spiral and forced him to reevaluate his life. Without Mohr, there wouldn’t be a “You had me at hello” or “Show me the money!” While Mohr was never able to top the success of that particular film, he has been keeping busy
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over the last 20 years. These days, he hosts his own podcast, Mohr Stories with Jay Mohr, where he talks about everything under the sun, interviews special guests and answers emails from fans. He even finds time on the show to peddle sponsorship underwear using his famous Christopher Walken impersonation. Then, of course, there’s his stand-up, which the ex-Saturday Night Live cast member has been doing since he was a teenager. He’s also a huge sports buff, so, if you go to one of his performances this weekend, ask him how he thinks the Spurs will do this season. $30$40, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, 8pm Sun, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 541-8805, lolsanantonio.com. — Kiko Martinez
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Created by New York comedy troupe the Tenderloins (Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano), TruTV’s Impractical Jokers is sort of like America’s Funniest Home Videos if you replace the toddler whacking his dad in the groin with a whiffle ball bat with a Candid Camera feed of the dad hitting himself in the junk in front of perplexed passersby while his Jackass best friends (minus the druggy, punk menace) giggle and tell him to do it harder. That’s too reductive of the improvised prank show, but one bit did require a Joker to shoot free throws until he sank a basket; when he missed, a little girl hit him in the shin with a plastic bat. How many times do you laugh? If the answer is “every time,” seeing the Jokers performing stand-up and sharing behind-the-scenes stories and clips on their Cranjis McBasketball World Tour will no doubt be a hoot. Just keep an eye out for hidden cameras and whiffle ball bats. $57, 7pm & 9:30pm, The Majestic Theater, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire. com. — Jeremy Martin
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The freewheeling work of Cali-born, SA-based photographer Mark Horvatich is tethered to nothing save his own eye and the splendid fecundity of chance. Described as the “result of 25 years of roaming, spontaneity being the only constant,” this exhibit offers a glimpse of the valuable ephemera of life as it happens, replete with reflections on culture, travel, place and identity. Free, opening reception 6-9pm Sat, on view by appointment through Sept. 22, Lone Star Art Space, 107 Lone Star Blvd., (210) 884-8100.
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otoseptiembre is the ultimate something-for-everyone arts event in San Antonio — even for those who may not think they dig photography. Interested in history? There’s always a bevy of historical/documentary work. Like seeing creative, diverse representations and presentations of culture? You’ll have trouble seeing all of them. Are you a sports fan, a sci-fi geek, a visual artist with a thirst for painterly photo work, a lover of fantasy, a mom? Are you tuned in? Feeling tapped out? Fotoseptiembre, the month-long celebration of photography in all of its forms and foci, has seriously got you covered — and then some. Plus, it’s all free. Now in its 24th year, Fotoseptiembre, founded and run with adamant alacrity by San Antonio’s Michael Mehl (and a surprisingly tiny cast of collaborators), is a sprawling and loose festival of sorts, with a massive list of participating galleries and other venues. As a curator, overseer and gatherer, Mehl coaxes Fotoseptiembre into occurrence each year, calling upon photographers from all over the world to submit work and organizing showings and more with local entities. That it all comes off, each year, with such a strong sense of order and unimpeachable (though easygoing) refinement of artistic taste is a testament to Mehl’s vision. The fact that the event has become so popular, on the other hand, is also a testament to our city’s engage-
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ment with the arts. With Fotoseptiembre 2018 officially underway, here is just a tiny taste of the shows we plan to check out right off the bat. Of course, as Fotoseptiembre goes on, be sure to come back for ongoing coverage and more exhibitions that we think you won’t want to miss. Head over to fotoseptiembreusa.com for the full calendar of Fotoseptiembre events.
AL RENDON, ‘EDIBLE IMMIGRANTS – FRUITS & VEGETABLES OF MEXICO’ q
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ED MALCIK, ‘SELLING THE ALAMO AND OTHER PHOTOS’ q In the conceptually loaded image that gives its title to this exhibition, photographer Ed Malcik captured the reflection of the Alamo in the glass of a retail storefront for sale. Malcik, a former photojournalist and diplomat who lives in Austin, has a keen eye for commentary via context that shines through in this and the other assorted works in this exhibit. Free, opening reception 6-8pm Thu, on view 11am-8pm Thu, 11am-6pm Fri-Sun through Sept. 30,
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DOMINIQUE BELTRAN AND KIMBERLY HOPKINS, ‘WHAT THE STREETZ GAVE US’ L
In this retrospective exhibit, two longtime street photographers take their gritty, unpredictable subjects to new levels, trying to make meaning and cull lessons from the word on the street (if you will). As women taking photos in the streets of our city, Dominique Beltran and Kimberly Hopkins necessarily see their material from a certain perspective, but their work invites the viewer to form their own ideas — an important act, considering the often overlooked nature of much of their subject matter. Free, opening reception 5:30-7:30pm Thu, on view 9am-5pm Mon-Fri through Oct. 31, LiftOff, 2014 S. Hackberry St., (210) 374-2170, liftoff.liftfund.com.
In light of all the ugly rhetoric about immigration lately, veteran San Antonio photographer Al Rendon, who is arguably known best for his iconic portraits of Selena, has turned his attention to immigrants that no one seems to have a problem with: Mexican fruits and veggies. His artist’s statement explains, “Like their human counterparts, some [of these fruits and vegetables] have been here so long, they are considered local,” while “others are such newcomers, they haven’t yet found their place in American society.” Using these edible items as powerful symbols, Rendon is able to look closely at what it means to fit into American society and what some of the barriers to peaceful acceptance of diversity might be. Free, opening reception 3-6pm Sun, on view by appointment through Nov. 18, Rendon Photography & Fine Art, 733 S. Alamo St., (210) 288-4900, alrendon.com.
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Formed in 2007 by educator Ryan Sprott and artist Jason Reed in the tiny Texas town of Big Lake, Borderland Collective identifies as “a long-term art and education project that utilizes collaborations between artists, educators, youth and community members to engage complex issues and build space for diverse perspectives, meaningful dialogue and modes of creation and reflection.” Over the past decade, the ever-evolving group has worked with hundreds of participants on challenging, enlightening and format-busting projects such as “Wurzbach Manor” (which shed light on three displaced families — one from Burma, one from Tanzania and one from New Orleans — living in the same San Antonio apartment complex), “Border-land” (which enlisted students from the International School of the Americas to unpack serious issues surrounding
the U.S.-Mexico border via oral histories, journaling, photography and various forms of creative expression) and “Northern Triangle” (a still-touring 2014 exhibition exploring the Central American refugee crisis, the war on drugs, human trafficking and deportation — all through the historical lens of complicated relations between the U.S. and El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras). Led by artists Mark Menjivar, Molly Sherman and Jason Reed, Borderland Collective’s new Artpace exhibition “One to Another” is centered around migration stories collected across the country but also assembles forensic archives, sound and video installations, United Nations hearings and an actual refugee housing unit (created by the nonprofit Better Shelter) to encourage viewers to “contemplate their own familial migration stories within the context of larger migration narratives.” Free, opening reception 6-8pm Thu, on view 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, noon5pm Sat-Sun through Dec. 30, Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., (210) 212-4900, artpace.org. — Bryan Rindfuss
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With the convergence of Fotoseptiembre, First Friday and Second Saturday, San Antonio art scenesters have no shortage of options this weekend. And if the extended forecast is to be believed, we’ll still be hot and bothered to the tune of 95 degrees (“thunderstorm possible”), so don’t bother pulling out your fall fashions just yet. Our suggested First Friday plan of attack begins with a revisitation of the outgoing (read: last chance!) summer exhibitions — namely Gary Sweeney’s “A Manhattan Beach Memoir,” Thomas Georg Blank’s “Veo Mis Huesos,” Mila Hundertmark’s “As Far as the Eye Can See” and the group show “From Underfoot: Breaking Through Surface and Ground” — in the (well-air-conditioned) confines of Blue Star Contemporary (free, 10am8pm Thu, 10am-9pm Fri, 116 Blue Star). Around the corner at FL!GHT Gallery, “Tiny Topography” presents the fruits of an intriguing endeavor organized by Houston transplant David Salinas, aka the “Johnny Appleseed of Analog Photography.” Known for thoughtful, nostalgic and wildly experimental approaches to a medium that’s been bastardized in the digital era, Salinas passed out 35-millimeter film cameras to more than 40 artists — Mark Greenberg, Erik Jon Gufstason, Rebecca Dietz, Antonia Padilla, Joan Frederick, Anelle Spector and Ed Saavedra among them. Their photographic findings are presented as contact sheets, best viewed with the help of a magnifying glass (free, 6-9pm Thu-Fri, 112R Blue Star). Down the
way, UTSA’s offsite gallery Terminal 136 unveils “Mars: Memories to Forget,” a collaborative undertaking that involved art history/criticism grad student Aurora Berrueto documenting an “intervention” staged by Mexican multimedia artist Federico Jordán. Conducted in “the ruins of a ghost town in the middle of the Northeastern Mexican desert,” the project follows Jordán as he “paints and builds over walls, soil and debris” while Berrueto uncovers “the epic narrative behind the symbols” (free, 6-9pm Thu-Fri, 136 Blue Star). Off the Blue Star campus and up the way, Presa House Gallery opens a trio of solo shows connected by diverse photographic practices and the documentation of personal experiences and expressions. A multidisciplinary artist who was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and is currently pursuing her MFA in New York City, Tere Garcia brings photographic slides and a carousel projector into a sculptural realm via “Traces,” an installation that simultaneously exposes and obscures intimate images of performances and the artist in the realm of her studio. A mixed-media San Antonio artist whose work “largely focuses on the exploration of topical and topographical histories of identity, culture and spaces,” Xavier Gilmore also turns to analog processes for “Head S P A C E,” a series of autobiographical and experimental photographs (mostly captured with a 35-millimeter camera) paired with “reflections and reactions, which come in the form of paintings, drawings and collages.” In his artist statement, Gilmore describes this new body of work as an “opening up” since it exposes aspects of his life that are “usually only seen by friends and family.” And finally in “Culturas,” Houston-based artist and curator Maureen Penders trains her lens on “material culture” as a means to explore Central American identity and the visual vocabulary of her native El Salvador (free, 6-11pm Fri, 725 S. Presa St.) — BR
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Two Men, a Dog, a Van and a Baby A San Antonio couple’s trans pregnancy journey BY GEORGINA CORTINAS
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tephan Gaeth sings, “Two gay men and one bus travelling around the country with a baby and a doggo! Ba-bum, ba-bum, yeah!” This is how Gaeth, 27, sums up his future with fiancé Wyley Simpson, 27. He belts out their theme song so casually because, to him and Wyley, it really is that simple. To most outside observers, however, their story is complicated: Wyley is a pregnant trans man, and Stephan and Wyley will both be biological parents to their son, Rowan Fox. They are also tiny-home dwellers, vegans and artist-travelers who plan to raise their baby on the road. Children of their generation, their love story began on the dating app Grindr. About 20 dates later, Stephan, a yoga and dance teacher, and Wyley, a veterinary technician, made it official and became a couple. Not long after, the Winnebago Stephan called home caught fire. The loss was a shock, but it proved to be a blessing in disguise. “It burned down and gave us room
to be together. The fire pushed all this junk out of the way and made space for us,” Stephan says. The couple soon moved into a short shuttle bus along with their dog, Cyrus. They were on track to becoming a tiny-home-dwelling pair of travelers when Wyley started experiencing morning sickness. He initially chalked it up to his body finally rejecting cigarettes after years of smoking, but the morning sickness persisted even after kicking the habit. Neither the Pride Clinic for the LGBTQplus community nor the couple’s OBGYN could offer any explanation for it, but after five pregnancy tests, it was confirmed that despite having been on testosterone for six years, Wyley was pregnant. The thought of going through with a biological process that would transform his body into something he had been working so hard to distance himself from was terrifying. “I’d been transitioning for six years, and I’d have to stop taking testosterone, for one. Two, I had come to a point where I was
okay with my body, and I didn’t want to regress. Pregnancy is considered a feminine thing to do. It was something I was trying to get away from.” Unsure of what to do, he contemplated abortion and adoption, with Stephan in full support of whichever choice he made. But when an ultrasound revealed arms, legs and a heartbeat, Wyley realized his choice was to become a father, something he’d always wanted. And so the couple officially embarked on a pregnancy journey that most people never consider. Both the Pride Clinic and the couple’s OBGYN admitted that Wyley was their first pregnant man. “There are no resources. I had no one to go to. I had to figure out everything on my own. There are online groups, but nothing physical,” Wyley says. Facebook groups were crucial to the couple, however, because going online was the only way to connect with a small group of other trans men in the same situation. In addition to support for trans fathers, the couple has been collecting resources on homeschooling, vegan children and raising a child on
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the road. Stephan says, “Thank goodness for the Internet! A thousand first-hand experiences for us to learn from.” Although the pregnancy has been one huge learning curve, Wyley and Stephan have taken everything in stride. They remain overwhelmingly positive and confident. Wyley says he no longer views pregnancy as an explicitly feminine experience. “Not once going through these whole eight months have I seen myself as less of a man,” he says. “It’s been tough. I have my good and my bad days. Sometimes you have to give up something you love for something great.” Both men are eager to serve as advocates for pregnant trans men, sharing their story on social media as it unfolds. When Rowan arrives, Stephan and Wyley will spend time with both of their parents before finally hitting the road, teaching workshops, participating in art shows and taking tours of farms and permaculture. Raising and homeschooling a vegan child on the road are all unconventional choices, but the couple is unfazed. “People say kids are expensive. Besides diapers and formula, all they care about is attention and having physical experiences with their parents,” Wyley says. There’s no doubt Rowan will have an abundance of both. sacurrent.com | September 5–11, 2018 | CURRENT
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The real Ron Stallworth explains how Spike Lee’s film speaks directly to the ‘White Supremacist in Chief’ BY KIKO MARTINEZ
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n BlacKkKlansman, filmmaker Spike Lee tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, a black undercover cop with the Colorado State Police Department who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1979 with the help of a white officer. In 2014, Stallworth released his memoir, Black Klansman, on his experience investigating the KKK. The book was adapted into Lee’s new joint, which stars John David Washington (TV’s Ballers) as Stallworth. During a tour stop in San Antonio last week, the real Stallworth sat down with the Current at Alamo Drafthouse to talk about the new film, how it speaks to today’s race issues and a surprise phone call he received last month.
of the fact that [the KKK was] dead serious about the burning of crosses, domestic acts of terrorism and furthering their agenda.
Do you consider BlacKkKlansman an angry film? It depends on what you mean by angry. If you look at any of Spike Lee’s movies, I think an argument can be made that there appears to be anger. You never know what is in the mind of the director. I didn’t see [BlacKkKlansman] as an angry movie. I saw it as a good portrayal of the actual events that took place. It happened exactly as it was portrayed, with some minor creative license.
What kinds of conversations did you have with John David about how he would portray you? John David and I had about three or four phone conversations during filming, and we texted a lot. He had a lot of questions about character development. Spike told him not to “copy Ron.” He said what he was going to try to do was channel my essence. The only criticism I had was that I didn’t have an afro like they display in the film. My afro was only about an inch high.
Can you give me some examples of that creative license? Well, some of the timeline was changed, which always happens in movies. Some of the humor was downplayed. We laughed more during this investigation than what is portrayed in the movie. Some of the stuff that was happening was hilarious. We just kept saying, “What a bunch of bozos!” But as much as we laughed, we never lost sight
Was writing your memoir a cathartic experience for you? Going back to your question about this being an angry film, it’s funny because when I finished the manuscript, I gave it to a [police officer] friend to read, so he could give me his professional opinion. The first thing he asked me after he read it was, “You were pretty angry, weren’t you?” I didn’t think I was angry, but as I reread it, I could see where my anger toward certain people came out.
How do you think the film speaks to the racial tension we are currently experiencing in America? It speaks to the idiot in the White House who is responsible for a lot of the racial tension in this country. Spike did a wonderful job weaving the historical context from the confederacy to The Birth of a Nation to Alec Baldwin’s character [in BlacKkKlansman], which was a
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play on the White Citizens’ Councils from the ’50s and ’60s, to David Duke to Charlottesville to Donald Trump. He used that historical thread very well. Would you agree that Charlottesville was a turning point for people on the fence about whether or not Donald Trump is a racist? Donald Trump had the opportunity to be the moral conscience of this country over that horrific act and he failed miserably. He failed to denounce the [white supremacists] like he should have. He winked and nodded at them. As far as I’m concerned, he’s nothing more than the White Supremacist in Chief. He’s their ideological guide. He’s allowed them to come out of the shadows. I think Spike definitely points this out in the movie.
Have you spoken to David Duke in the last 40 years? He actually called me three weeks ago. I was in New York, and my phone rang. He said, “Ron, this is David Duke.” I said, “Hi, David. How are you doing?” It was the first time we had spoken in 40 years. The only difference was that 40 years ago, I was the one doing the calling. It was a surprise to hear from him. He followed it up with another phone call two days later. What did he have to say? He told me that he was concerned how he was going to be portrayed in the movie. He was concerned about his image. He wanted me to know he read my book, and that he liked it and respected me for telling the truth. He also told me he respected Spike Lee’s work. When I told Spike that, he was like, “That’s the kiss of death! I don’t want it!”
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Glenn Close delivers one of her best performances yet in the thought-provoking drama The Wife BY KIKO MARTINEZ
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ix-time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) has portrayed many powerful women in her career — from the commander of an intergalactic military in Guardians of the Galaxy to a puppy-hating villainess in 101 Dalmatians to the vice president of the United States in Air Force One. Close, however, has never possessed as much control — although veiled — over another character as she does in The Wife, a thought-provoking yet sometimes all-too-theatrical drama that features her in one of her best performances ever. Set in 1992, The Wife stars Close as Joan Castleman, the loving and supportive title character who curtails her emotions when news breaks that her writer husband Joseph (Jonathan Pryce) will be presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Both she and Joe are grateful, but there is a secret Joan has been harboring for decades that could affect their trip to Stockholm to accept the award. This twist in the story, which comes around the halfway point of the film, is an obvious one if audiences are paying close attention. Swedish director Björn Runge (Happy End) and screenwriter Jane Anderson (How to Make an American Quilt) don’t seem too concerned with concealing it or making the big reveal hit particularly hard. Instead, what makes The Wife noteworthy is how Close depicts her own limits of restraint between the first and second halves of the film as the couple attend events leading
up to the prestigious ceremony. As well regarded as Joseph is as a writer in his professional life, getting a glimpse of him as a husband exposes everything audiences need to know about his character. He’s unfaithful and almost childlike. Without Joan, he’d forget to put on his pants before walking out the door. The dynamic shifts incredibly well as Runge and Anderson balance the present-day narrative with flashbacks to the 1960s of Joan and Joseph’s relationship in its early stages. During this time, Joseph was a married writing professor and Joan was his smitten student. When Close and Pryce share the screen, it’s impossible to look away, even when things get a bit melodramatic. It’s much easier to lose interest in the secondary storylines, which aren’t fleshed out nearly enough to make much of an impact. These include scenes with an insistent biographer (Christian Slater) jockeying for a position with Joseph and the Castleman’s adult son (Max Irons), a writer who broods like a 14-year-old boy and craves his father’s approval. Nevertheless, Close is nearly perfect as a long-suffering wife who decides she’d rather not take on that role any longer. Witnessing that realization and seeing the pain, resentment and humiliation that comes with it — and then to watch Close repress those feelings — is something special to behold.
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THE BIG SPOON
Journalists need to stop claiming tacos, and mayors need to stop championing the wrong thing
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t started with a headline: “How Austin Became the Home of the Crucial Breakfast Taco” And just a few sentences in, one single line – “Austin is the birthplace of the phrase breakfast taco” – derailed an already sloppy article on the history of the breakfast taco. And like clockwork, San Anto reacted by sharing the article and throwing down. The whole thing snowballed into a weird Tex-Mexican stand-off, with Johnny Hernandez challenging any Austin chef to a taco throwdown – but without any Austinites taking the bait. Because why should they? They benefit from all the news outlets clamors to cover Austin City Limits and South by Southwest. Cue the cameras, cue the mayors’ speeches and Twitter spats, cue the media circus. As a member of said media, I refused to touch the damn thing. This Valley native knows there are great tacos within inches of the border and throughout Texas. There are also really great tacos in Corpitos. In San Antonio. In Austin. Gustavo Arellano, formerly the editor-in-chief at the OC Weekly and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, squashed the whole thing by digging deep: “The earliest reference I could find for the term ‘breakfast tacos’ occurred in the July 23, 1975, food section of the Arizona Republic, in which their correspondent described eating “Breakfast Tacos” (capitalized in the original, signifying it as a curio) during a culinary tour of San Antonio – not in Austin.” For journalists, that means eyeballs on websites, quippy reader tweets quoted, and more engagement and impressions on not-apublisher-but-plays-one-on-TV Facebook. That was 2016. I thought we were done with all of this and had safely returned to eating awesome tacos throughout the city. But then Mayor Ron Nirenberg recently tweeted a snarky “LOL” to editor Tim Roger’s
sneak peek of the new D Magazine cover, and we went right back to it. Nirenberg thumped his swoll chest, nearly every publication in the city picked it up as click bait and we collectively puffed out our chests, once again claiming San Antonio as the only Taco City. Can we not? First of all, the whole brouhaha over the magazine’s cover eclipses an honest and methodical package by one of the best and most earnest taco scholars in the game right now. José R. Ralat eats, breathes, lives tacos. He studies tacos. HE IS TACOS. I beg you to buy the issue if you stumble on it. All Ralat wants is peace and understanding. “I appreciate Texans’ taco passions. The seriousness with which we hold and care for the perfect food, speaks to how fundamental the tortilla – corn or flour – is in our daily lives,” he said in an email. “A city’s residents ought to take pride in their hometown tacos. If not, why are they even living there? That another city takes great pride in its tacos doesn’t detract from another city’s relationship with a food or any object. My hope is that we recognize that tacos are a force for good, that tacos unify more than divide, that there is more to the taco experience than your immediate experience, and that, whatever Texas town you find yourself in, a great taco is not far out of reach. Even in Dallas.” Secondly, surely there are better things to do as a city than argue with another city in the Lone Star State over who has better tacos. This just in: Dallas has chingos of Mexicanos. As Peter Simek points out for D Magazine: “Between 2010 and 2014, 70.9 percent of the population increase in the DFW [metro area] has been driven by foreign-born immigrants, the majority of them Hispanic, while only 40 percent of the increase of the San Antonio-New Braunfels [area] has been driven by foreign-born immigrants. From 1970 to 2010,
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the Hispanic population in Dallas grew from 7.5 to 42 percent of the city’s population. By comparison, in 2010, Hispanics in San Antonio made up 63.2 percent of the population. In other words, Dallas is catching up to the former Spanish presidio.” To deny other cities in Texas the claim to great tacos is to deny the ingenuity of Mexicans who are bringing their sabores to the states. And to champion the city’s tacos over another city’s, as our mayor did, only highlights our inferiority complex. Champion the city’s Mexican restaurants and its Latin American immigrants (you know – the ones that the mayor couldn’t be bothered with tweeting about, save for a few retweets when family separation was brought to the foreground). Maybe educate a growing population that doesn’t know we hold the rightful claim to the puffy taco. And by the way, LA and Mexico are totally lapping this up this bizarre fight between two of Texas’s biggest cities. – Jess Elizarraras
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Another coffee shop hit San Antonio this week with the opening of Don Martin’s Coffee at 540 S. Presa. Owned by Brian Correa, Janet Correa and family friend Daniel Gonzalez, the coffee shop is serving espresso-based drinks and cold brew using beans from White Elephant Coffee Co. “Daniel chose White Elephant because he wanted to stay local, and we wanted to carry a great product,” Correa said. The shop also carries pan dulce pastries from Cinderella Bakery, opened by Brian’s grandfather in 1960. The 1,300-square-foot shop was formerly used as storage for Bar America, which Correa also owns, and was a boarding house before that. The shop features dark wooden tables and metal chairs, and comfortably fits 48. Don Martin’s also serves beer and wine, with local breweries on tap and in can. Don Martin’s Coffee, named after Correa’s grandfather and original Bar America owner, Martin Ramirez, tries to capture a San Antonio vibe and Ramirez’s casual demeanor. “My grandfather was a blue-collar guy, just a downto-earth pachuco,” Correa said. Don Martin’s Coffee Co. will open Tuesday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. 540 S. Presa St., (210) 223-1285.
SINGHS OPENS ON THE ST. MARY’S STRIP
Vietnamese fare is the latest to land on the St. Mary’s Strip. After announcing their first location outside of a food truck in January, Singhs Vietnamese has opened its doors between TBA and Slackers. For now, the menu is made up of drinks, sides and entrees with favorites like the eggroll, banh mi, rice, bun and goi available with choice of protein (pork, brisket, chicken, pulled pork, shrimp and veggies). Prices range from $2 for an order of eggrolls to $9 for an entree. A beer and wine bar will come along eventually, according to co-owner Louis Singh, as will lunch. Open hours are 5 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; and 5 p.m. to midnight on Saturday.
PRESS COFFEE OPENS IN NEW LOCATION
The little coffee shop on French has relocated its digs almost 10 months after leaving its original carriage house location. Now found in the Boardwalk on Broadway inside a sunlit greenhouse space, PRESS Coffee opened officially on September 1. Though owners Bronson Holbrook and Natalie Nazarewicz had teased out a mobile location after closing the location on French, the couple found the new spot almost by happenstance.
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“We found it last November, and waited for it to become available,” Holbrook said. The space will feature 26 seats inside, along with almost another 30 spots of patio seating available. PRESS will feature baked goods from Bakery Lorraine (savory), pastries by The Bread Box, and galettes and cake pops by Annie Vu of Annie’s Petite Treats. Featured coffees will include Southtown’s White Elephant Coffee Co., California’s Caffe Luxxe, Houston’s Amaya and Barrett’s out of Austin. PRESS joins Brew’s Lee Tea Station, Chocollazo, Organically Beauty Inc. and Hargrove’s at the Boardwalk, which lost long-time tenant Tre Trattoria earlier this summer. Hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. 4035 Broadway, (210) 602-6590.
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It’s a sad day for the Five Points neighborhood: Kings Hwy. Brew & Q will close its doors this September 29. Per a Facebook post, pitmaster Emilio Soliz and
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Grayze on Grayson is giving breakfast another shot starting Tuesday, September 4. The eatery offered the most important meal of the day when it first opened in early 2016, but that was long before it was joined by several nearby apartment complexes teeming with potential customers. Breakfast will be served from 7 to 11 a.m. Tuesday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The weekday menu, created by chef Lionel “Butch” Blache, will feature items that are a “little less indulgent and more geared towards helping you start your workday off right,” said partner Micah Harper via email. But don’t expect whole wheat toast and runof-the-mill oatmeal. Items include beignets; drop biscuits and gravy; a Hollidaze sandwich with a 4-ounce “The Cure” patty; pancakes;
There’s another poke shop in San Antonio as of this week with the opening of Koi Poke Sushi & Burrito by the family behind Koi Kawa Sushi. Koi Poke will feature the same Chipotle-style DIY bowl situation most other shops feature, with choice of base, proteins, addons and crispy toppings. Two proteins start at $9.95 and three proteins start at $11.95. Poke is available over rice, as a sushi burrito, over kale noodles, and, in the near future, over green-tea rice. Koi Poke is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. 7211 Green Glen Drive, Suite 102, (210) 451-0050.
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If you’re anything like us, you’re still not over Manu Ginobili’s retirement. But the AT&T Center has just announced a new addition to the arena that might could help alleviate the pain of losing one of the team’s pillars. The East Concourse on the Balcony Level will be home to two of chef Johnny Hernandez’s concepts this season. The new area, which opens this November, will feature bites from both Burgerteca and La Gloria, as well as a specialty bar, and will be open to all fans (so you don’t have to spring for those terrace-level tickets). “In recent years I have seen venues across the country incorporate their local chef community in the interest of elevating the guest experience for loyal sports fans,” Hernandez said in a press release. “There is nothing more exciting for us than to be partnering with a beloved local organization like Spurs Sports & Entertainment to enrich the culinary experience at the AT&T Center for the San Antonio community.” The noted chef first opened La Gloria at the Pearl in 2012, and followed it with another in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas as well as an outpost in the San Antonio International Airport and The Dominion. He also added the Fruteria, Burgeteca and Villa Rica within the last year, and has plans to open another restaurant at La Villita in the near future.
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In the tradition of forerunners like The Shins and Bright Eyes, Slaughter Beach, Dog takes folk, country, punk and rock sounds and adds a knowing pop smirk and an indie-rock quirkiness. The side project of Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald, Slaughter Beach, Dog, which has put out two fine albums since 2016, makes music with a light-hearted and diaristic take on some pretty heavy shit. It’s that glorious kind of stuff that makes it feel good to feel bad, and happy to be sad. The act will be joined on this bill by fellow Philadelphia-based band Gladie, which has a dramatic and ghostly indie-pop sound. This show is highly recommended for all you grown kids out there who still hanker occasionally for the early-2000s indie glory days when you liked the Garden State soundtrack before anyone else. Check these bands out at slaughterbeach. bandcamp.com and gladie.bandcamp. com respectively. $12-$14, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx. com. – James Courtney
DRU HILL & SISQO Thursday, September 6
Did everyone from the ’90s just decide to go on tour the last couple years or what? With Ja Rule and Ashanti gracing SA last year and Marcy Playground, Candlebox and Local H making their way through the Alamo City, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Dru Hill is next on the list to hit up San Antonio. Yes, you read that right. The “Tell Me” singers themselves – with frontman Sisqo, who’s best known for – yes, you
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The indie onslAUGHT continues: With bands like Fleet Foxes, Dead Meadow and Cold War Kids rocking SA earlier this year, it really feels like an indie revival is upon us. The Mountain Goats formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, and is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. Even though the band got their start in the ’90s, the Mountain Goats gained even more popularity in the indie folk-explosion of the early aughts, which gave us notable artists like Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Jose Gonzalez and Joanna Newsom. $21-$26, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. – CC
cialist in Los Angeles to rest his voice. The band said, “[We] truly hate to disappoint our fans and hope to come back to America soon, but this time we have no choice [but to] cancel.” Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine (whose band was on tour with the Scorpions) tweeted how grateful he was to get to play some shows with the band, saying “My deepest gratitude to the Scorpions for taking us on tour. Talk about a boyhood dream coming true. My best wishes and we’ll be waiting.” Now, the only drawback is that Megadeth has been replaced by Queensryche this go-round. $49$129, 8pm, Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St., freemancoliseum.com. – CC
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Gary Numan is a pioneer, a perpetual and often rewardingly perplexing force in electronic music. Having helped direct where the genre goes in terms of popular music way back in the 1970s and ’80s, Numan is still putting out good music and still working with some of the best contemporary practitioners of the genre. The man’s staying power and ability to keep his ideas (mostly) fresh is impressive. But you certainly don’t have to be familiar with Numan’s latest work to know that a chance to catch the legend down on the St. Mary’s Strip is not to be missed. Fans can expect a focus on the newer material for this show, but there is no way Numan will miss the chance to remind us of his considerable legacy by busting out plenty of crowd-pleasing oldies. $43-$405, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., seatjewel.com. — JC
avant-garde indie-rock music with elements of folk, jazz, noise, blues and pop. The band’s unique and penetrating sound is intricate but not complicated, emotive but not melodramatic, smart but not academic. We can’t wait to hear what this group sounds like in the live setting, where its members cut
their teeth and made an early name for themselves. Preview the band’s songs at ohmme.bandcamp.com. $10-$12, 10pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — JC
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD Sunday, September 9
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Oh, bish, yassssssss. Fresh off his soldout spring tour in early April, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Miguel has announced that he will embark on a North American tour this fall in support of his critically praised fourth studio album, War & Leisure. The Ascension Tour includes a stop at the Majestic Theatre with one of the dopest R&B acts, dvsn, gearing up to open. Hold up, we can’t breathe. 7pm, $49.50-$99.50, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., majesticempire.com. – CC
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Chicago three-piece Ohmme dropped its haunting and vibrant debut LP, Parts, at the tail end of August – and we already think it’s one of the best things we’ve heard this year. Anchored by multi-instrumentalists/singer-songwriters Macie Stewart and Sims Cunningham, two young but experienced players in the Windy City’s music scene, Ohmme makes approachably
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music | calendar WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Blessthefall Metal-core band Blessthefall is performing live at Alamo City Music Hall for their Hard Feeling’s tour. Since the band’s inception in 2004, the group has faithfully kept their unique raw metal-core sound, sprucing a mixture of brash guitar riffs and melodic sing-along choruses in every song. $18. Alamo City Music Hall & Club, 6pm. Ruben V Intimate rock and blues performance. Free. Sancho’s Cantina, 9-11pm.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Dru Hill & Sisqo - “Enter The Dru” 20th Anniversary High-school friends Larry “Jazz” Anthony, Mark “Sisqó” Andrews, Tamir “Nokio” Ruffin, and James “Woody Rock” Green formed Dru Hill in 1992. Dru Hill’s second album Enter the Dru peaked at number two on the Billboard album chart in 1998. $25-$59.50. Aztec Theatre, 8pm. Luke Bryan: What Makes You Country Tour Country singer and songwriter. He began his music career writing songs for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington before signing with Capitol Records Nashville. Bryan is on his What Makes You Country tour. $39.75-$358. AT&T Center, 7pm. Americana Live Showcasing the Zack Walther band, Doug Kent and more. The Zack Walther Band is an Americana roots rock power trio from New Braunfels. $5. Sam’s Burger Joint, 6pm.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Augie Meyers Augie Meyers’ style and his Vox Continental has become one of music’s most distinctive keyboard sounds around. Augie can be heard with the Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados, Meyers’ solo efforts as well as on landmark albums by Bob Dylan and John Hammond. $15$70. Sam’s Burger Joint, 8pm. Cody Canada & The Departed Alternative rock band Cody Canada & The Departed are performing live onstage at the River Road Ice House. $10. River Road Icehouse, 6pm. Matt & The Herdsmen High energy from start to finish, Matt & The Herdsmen is a talented five-man band providing audiences across the Lone Star state with original music that has captured the attention of radio, industry and listeners. Free. John T Floore’s Country Store, 9pm. The Mountain Goats Indie folk band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. $21-$26. Paper Tiger, 9pm. Pat Green Country artist Pat Green is performing live at the Rustic with special
guest musician Rodger Creager. The show has a limited number of tickets. $27-$150. The Rustic, 6-11pm. Scorpions One of the most influential rock bands of all time, the Scorpions, is performing live for their Crazy World tour. $49.75-$99.75. AT&T Center, 8 p.m. The Winsome Losers, King Pelican Local surf rock trio with Ernest Hernandez on guitar, Darren Kuper on drums and Lloyd Walsh on bass performs with country fourpiece The Winsome Losers. Lowcountry, 10pm-2am.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Curtis Grimes Already a chart-topping country star on the Texas circuit, Curtis Grimes is embracing a bigger, broader audience with his new EP Bottom of the Fifth. The musician also competed on the first season of The Voice. $12. Gruene Hall, 9pm. OHMME Two-piece rock band from Chicago, composed of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist duo Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart formed in 2014. $10-$12. Paper Tiger, 9pm. Roadside Libby Originally formed locally in 2008, Roadside Libby is influnced by the music of Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Marshall Tucker Band, the Black Crowes, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Creedance Clearwater Revival. Free. John T. Floore, 9pm.
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King William Concerts in the Park featuring Henry Brun The King William Association Concerts in the Park presents Latin Jazz musician Henry Brun. Come and enjoy great music at Upper Mill Park area in the King William Neighborhood. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and mosquito spray. Free. King William Historic District, 5:30-6:30pm. Through the Eyes of the Dead Deathcore band from Florence, South Carolina, formed in 2003. Special guests include Bodysnatcher, Cerebral Desecration, A House Divided, Eyes of an Emperor, Athanatos and Violent Vendetta. $15-$17. Paper Tiger, 5-11pm.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Brad Stivers Austin-based blues singer mixes root and soul from the American tradition. $10. Luna, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Miguel: The Ascension Tour R&B singer Miguel is performing live music from his newest album “War & Leisure.” $49.50$79.50. The Majestic Theatre, 8pm.
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etc FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is an excellent time to feel and explore and understand and even appreciate your sadness. To get you in the mood, here’s a list of sadnesses from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer: sadness of the couldhave-been; sadness of being misunderstood; sadness of having too many options; sadness of being smart; sadness of awkward conversations; sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things; sadness of going unnoticed; sadness of domesticated birds; sadness of arousal being an unordinary physical state; sadness of wanting sadness. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have any feral qualities lurking deep down inside you? Have you ever felt a mad yearning to communicate using howls and yips instead of words? When you’re alone, do you sometimes dispense with your utensils and scoop the food off your plate with your fingers? Have you dreamed of running through a damp meadow under the full moon for the sheer ecstasy of it? Do you on occasion experience such strong erotic urges that you feel like you could weave your body and soul together with the color green or the sound of a rain-soaked river or the moon rising over the hills? I ask these questions, Taurus, because now is an excellent time to draw on the instinctual wisdom of your feral qualities. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Close some doors today,” writes novelist Paulo Coelho. “Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” I endorse his advice for your use, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wise to practice the rough but fine art of saying NO. It’s time for you to make crisp decisions about where you belong and where you don’t; about where your future fulfillment is likely to thrive and where it won’t; about which relationships deserve your sage intimacy and which tend to push you in the direction of mediocrity. CANCERIAN (June 21-July 22): To casual observers you may seem to be an amorphous hodgepodge, or a simmering mess of semi-interesting confusion, or an amiable dabbler headed in too many directions at once. But in my opinion, casual observers would be wrong in that assessment. What’s closer to the symbolic truth about you is an image described by poet Carolyn Forché: grapes that are ripening in the fog. Here’s another image that resonates with your current state: sea turtle eggs gestating beneath the sand on a misty ocean beach. One further metaphor for you: the bright yellow flowers of the evening primrose plant, which only bloom at night.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I want to make sure that the groove you’re in doesn’t devolve into a rut. So I’ll ask you unexpected questions to spur your imagination in unpredictable directions. Ready? 1. How would you describe the untapped riches in the shadowy part of your personality? 2. Is there a rare object you’d like to own because it would foster your feeling that the world has magic and miracles? 3. Imagine the perfect party you’d love to attend and how it might change your life for the better. 4. What bird most reminds you of yourself? 5. What’s your most evocative and inspiring taboo daydream? 6. In your past, were there ever experiences that made you cry for joy in ways that felt almost orgasmic? How might you attract or induce a catharsis like that sometime soon? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. But where does it originate? Scientists have squabbled about that issue for over 300 years. Everyone agrees the source is in southwestern Peru. But is it the Apurímac River? The Marañón? The Mantaro? There are good arguments in favor of each. Let’s use this question as a poetic subtext as we wonder and meditate about the origin of your life force, Virgo. As is the case for the Amazon, your source has long been mysterious. But I suspect that’s going to change during the next 14 months. And the clarification process begins soon. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Warsan Shire was a child, she immigrated to the UK with her Somalian parents. Now she’s a renowned poet who writes vividly about refugees, immigrants, and other marginalized people. To provide support and inspiration for the part of you that feels like an exile or fugitive or displaced person, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I offer you two quotes by Shire. 1. “I belong deeply to myself.” 2. “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself— what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
at once, the only way of reading,” she confided, “since one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” My usual inclination is to counsel you Sagittarians to focus on one or two important matters rather than on a multitude of semi-important matters. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m departing from tradition to suggest you adopt Woolf’s approach to books as your approach to everything. Your life in the coming weeks should be less like an acoustic ballad and more like a symphony for 35 instruments.
contingent of soldiers to Roman territory in North Africa, intent on launching a campaign against the enemy. As the general disembarked from his ship, he accidentally slipped and fell. Thinking fast, he exclaimed, “Africa, I have tight told of you!” and clasped the ground, thus implying he had lowered himself on purpose in a ritual gesture of conquest. In this way, he converted an apparent bad omen into a positive one. And indeed, he won the ensuing battle, which was the turning point that led to ultimate victory and the war’s end. That’s good role modeling for you right now.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not many goats can climb trees, but there are daredevils in Morocco that do. They go in quest of the delicious olive-like berries that grow on argan trees. The branches on which they perch may be 30 feet off the ground. I’m naming them as your power creature for the coming weeks. I think you’re ready to ascend higher in search of goodies. You have the soulful agility necessary to transcend your previous level of accomplishment.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Below are sweet words I’ve borrowed from poets I love. I invite you to use them to communicate with anyone who is primed to become more lyrically intimate with you. The time is right for you to reach out! 1. “You look like a sea of gems.” —Qahar Aasi 2. “I love you with what in me is unfinished.” —Robert Bly 3. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born.” —E. E. Cummings 4. “Tell me the most exquisite truths you know.” —Barry Hannah 5. “It’s very rare to know you, very strange and wonderful.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. “When you smile like that you are as beautiful as all my secrets.” —Anne Carson 7. Everything you say is “like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.” —Sylvia Plath
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): From 49-45 BC, civil war wracked the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar led forces representing the common people against armies fighting for the aristocracy’s interests. In 45 BC, Caesar brought a
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Once in a while came a moment when everything seemed to have something to say to you.” So says a character in Alice Munro’s short story “Jakarta.” Now I’m using that message as the key theme of your horoscope. Why? Because you’re at the peak of your ability to be reached, to be touched, to be communicated with. You’re willing to be keenly receptive. You’re strong enough to be deeply influenced. Is it because you’re so firmly anchored in your understanding and acceptance of who you are? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1928, novelist Virginia Woolf wrote a letter to her friend Saxon Sidney Turner. “I am reading six books sacurrent.com | September 5–11, 2018 | CURRENT
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