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Forget the issues. Race and ethnicity could play the key role in San Antonio’s upcoming mayoral election BY SANFORD NOWLIN
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ay’s election may not hinge on whether voters get behind Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s ambitious transportation plan or accept chief opponent Greg Brockhouse’s explanation for why he was reportedly at the center of a pair of domestic disturbance calls. It may not even come down to the candidates’ diametrically opposed views on the city’s climate action plan or whether San Antonio should have chased the 2020 Republican convention. Like most mayoral elections of San Antonio’s modern era, race and ethnicity are likely to play a central role, said Heywood Sanders, a professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “Clearly, there are voters in San Antonio who parse candidates’ records and positions and that participate in town halls, but they’re relatively few,” he said. “Overall, the data show that factors of race and identity have a lot to do with the outcomes.” Sanders would know. He’s parsed the numbers for mayoral elections dating back to the 1970s. And the overwhelming trend is that largely Anglo North Side districts — especially the high-turnout districts 8, 9 and 10 — tend to skew toward business-friendly Anglo candidates, while Latino-dominated districts, say the West Side’s districts 5 and 6, tend to go to Latino and progressive candidates. While the 2017 battle between mixed-race Nirenberg and African-American incumbent Ivy Taylor didn’t exactly fit the mold, ethnic bloc voting, as political scientists call it, still appeared to play a key role. According to Sanders’ analysis, voters in predominantly Latino districts helped propel Nirenberg past the more-conservative Taylor, who won in the overwhelmingly African-American East Side while holding a narrower North Side advantage. Such considerations are important in May city-
wide elections because the turnout is so low. In the 2017 runoff between Nirenberg and Taylor, for example, just 98,942 — or 11 percent of the county’s 1.1 million registered voters — cast ballots. Nirenberg clenched that victory with fewer than 9,100 ballots.
Voter Dissatisfaction What’s intriguing this go-round is that, like 2017, the candidates don’t fit into the typical boxes. Nirenberg — whose father was of Russian Jewish background and whose mother is of mixed Filipino, Malaysian, Indian and British ancestry — has positioned himself as a forward-looking candidate shepherding a largely like-minded council. Meanwhile, Brockhouse, a right-wing populist who’s sparred with Nirenberg since being elected to council’s District 6 seat two years ago, has a Latina mother and an Anglo father. Another wild card is the anti-status quo sentiment voters expressed last November with the passage of a charter amendment that pushed out longtime city manager Sheryl Sculley, a Nirenberg ally. Are those same voters still angry, and do they view Nirenberg as an enabler for the powerful but unpopular Sculley? “It might be a close race, but we’ve got to give the edge to the incumbent,” said Arturo Vega, a political science professor at St. Mary’s University. “I just don’t think there’s been any fatal issue where people will say ‘I’ve got to go and vote him out.’” Vega cedes that ethnic bloc voting plays a role in San Antonio’s mayoral races, but he’s not convinced Brockhouse can win overwhelming support from pragmatic pro-business North Side voters, some of whom are likely to see him as a bomb-thrower. Likewise, Vega added, the councilman will have a hard time currying favor with West Side voters without the endorsement of prominent Latino political
figures. That hasn’t happened yet and is unlikely to with the election only five weeks out. Even so, when Brockhouse declared his run in February, it was hard not to notice how prominently he put his Latino credentials on display. The party took place in front of the West Side’s historic Del Bravo Record Shop, the sidewalk stacked up with classic cars and taco vendors. During his speech, Brockhouse ticked off details about his lineage, his conversion to Catholicism and being raised on the South Side. His wife Annalisa, a Latina, introduced him to the crowd. In a later interview, Brockhouse pointed out that his district includes a swath of the West Side. The neighborhood around Del Bravo is emblematic of San Antonio as a whole, he added. “It was a good place to talk about how the same locations that were struggling 30 years ago are still struggling,” Brockhouse said.
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In interviews for this piece, both candidates seemed reticent to discuss the campaign in terms of racial identity, couching their appeal as citywide and focusing on their policy differences with their rival. Brockhouse said he’s out to end backroom deals, cut taxes and slash regulation. He painted Nirenberg as a failed leader who’s deaf to the needs of businesses and unwilling to chase big economic-development deals like the second Amazon headquarters. “Which of the members of council is carrying the business community right now?” he asked. “No one can deny it’s me.” For his part, Nirenberg pointed to record job creation and lower crime under his watch. He pointed to his ambitious proposal to future-proof San Antonio’s transportation system as proof of his leadership. In the end, San Antonio wants a mayor who’s running on ideas, not just sniping from the wings, Nirenberg said. “Voters want a vision and a record of success,” he said. “We have both, and he has neither.” Still, UTSA’s Sanders questions whether heady policy debates, whether over transportation or economic development, will resonate with the majority of voters who turn up on May 4. “In local elections, the votes tend to be more about how things are right now,” Sanders said. “Do I have to keep putting up with that screwed up traffic on 281? Did my taxes go up?” In the end, he said, the conventions of ethnic bloc voting are likely to prove more important, especially if voters aren’t motivated to turn out in droves like they did during the November midterms, where they sent a clear signal by approving the anti-Sculley charter amendment. “There’s a significant chunk of people out there who are not terribly happy,” Sanders said. “The question is whether they’re unhappy enough to go out and vote.”
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Outgoing Councilman Rey Saldaña Ain’t Afraid of No Ten-Foot Crocodile BY JADE ESTEBAN ESTRADA
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ith clear eyes and an effortless smile, San Antonio City Councilman Rey Saldaña is looking back on his eight-year tenure without a single regret. As he approaches his final days in office, his administrative workspace is filled with memories and milestones commemorating his role as the neighborhood-hero-makes-good representative of District 4. But what stands out most is how his political life has unfolded in public view. “It’s like the movie Boyhood or something,” he says. “Isn’t that the one where they follow him throughout his entire life?” Indeed, Saldaña has spent most of his adult life in public office. At 24, he had the distinction of being the youngest person elected to council. “So, you could keep goin’ with this,” he says, with the charm and confidence that’s marked his political brand. He shows me a framed photo of the 2011 city council with the same regard one might have reflecting on a high school graduation photo, and there’s a
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bittersweet pause. Perhaps that’s because Saldaña is the only person in the image who’s still on council. Now, at 32, he feels the time has come to take a break from the political spotlight. Or as much of a break as his four-month-old son Eli will allow. As we recall some of Saldaña’s career highlights and he tells me about his upcoming gig with the education nonprofit Raise Your Hand Texas, memories of my 2011 interview with the councilman shuffle to the front of my mind. It seems like only yesterday that I first sat down with the fresh-faced Stanford grad at Taqueria Mexico on Somerset Road, next to South San High School, where his advocacy on educational issues was preened. Saldaña seems to have maintained the same zest, vigor and enthusiasm that he once had, though now there’s a whisper of maturity in his manner and communication style. Looking back, Saldaña reflects on some profound advice he once received from former City Councilwoman Elena Guajardo.
“She said, ‘Hey, stick to your guns, steel your spine and don’t go out of it,’” he said. “She told me, ‘The worst part about being an elected official, is not being an elected official. At that point, you start to look back on your work and your positions, and you start to question whether you were doing things for the right reasons.’” Saldaña explains that the practice of staking certain positions simply to get re-elected or putting a “finger in the air and getting a [political] temperature” are the wrong ways to approach the dais. Guajardo advised him to form his positions and cast his votes “because you genuinely believe it’s the right thing to do ... and you feel it.” Saldaña says he’d gladly share this advice with any elected official. And, as a young politician who many expected to run for mayor after Julian Castro’s meteoric rise, he may have more opportunities to do so. Especially since the soon-to-be former councilman has managed to come out of the political maelstrom practically unscathed. Two weeks later, I meet Saldaña at Pearsall Park, which was once a landfill and now a regional attraction. The project serves as an example of his commitment to long-term investment in an area he calls “the alma of the city.” “Not soul. But alma,” he says of his district. Inspired by the beauty of the park that, at one time was only a vision, I ask him if he trusts his decisions. “Not as much as I want to,” he replies. “The simple answer to that is, ‘Yes, I do,’ but that doesn’t mean I don’t hesitate or I’m not reluctant sometimes.” He adds that his wife, Jessica, thinks he’s way too trusting. “I definitely have a strong reliance on the curve of the earth always going towards the good in people,” he says with a chuckle. Saldaña’s knocked on a lot of doors on the campaign trail, and sometimes he gets invited into people’s homes. Once, a tall man “who looked like Dog the Bounty Hunter” dressed in “a wife-beater T-shirt and a cowboy hat” invited him inside. “He was a bowhunter, which is why he looked like this crazy ... wilderness person.” The man asked Saldaña if he was a politician. An affirmation followed. Then the man asked, “Hey, wanna see something?” With his worried wife waiting in the car, Saldaña followed the man to his garage. “And we’re staring at a 10-foot crocodile that he killed,” Saldaña recounts. “My wife was like, ‘You were gone for about 10 or 15 minutes and I was worried,’ and ‘Why did you go?’” “Yeah, I’m probably way too trusting of people,” he says, erupting with laughter. “Maybe it’ll burn me one of these days, but that was a pretty indicative example of how I always see the good in people [and] the good in circumstances rather than looking at the pit of despair. The guy could have killed me … locked the door behind me ... put me up on his wall instead of the crocodile.” He looks down with a thoughtful, lingering smile. “I think about it and, yeah, I probably shouldn’t have done that.”
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Even after the recent death of its owner, the Bonham Exchange holds lasting appeal
By Rudy Arispe
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esse Cazares has been frequenting the Bonham Exchange since he was 18. It’s been his club of choice for great music, dancing and throwing back a few cocktails in the main video bar or out on the patio. He was drawn by storied gay nightclub’s openness and acceptance, not to mention the music. So, when he learned that the Bonham’s owner Kenneth Garrett died of a heart attack last month, the first thing he did was call the club’s general manager, Lee Haines, to ask if it would remain open. “I was in shock because [Garrett’s] death was so unexpected,” said Cazares, who runs a lifestyle blog called Socialize San Antonio. “I think a lot of people were also wondering about the Bonham, because it has been a mainstay of the LGBT community, as well as an important part of San Antonio’s history.” Haines, however, assured him — just as he has everyone else — that the Bonham has no plans to shut its doors. In fact, he maintains that he and Garrett laid out a plan for the club’s future before his death. Still, for Cazares and countless of others, last month seemed like a close call. The Bonham Exchange is not just a cornerstone of the Alamo City’s LGBTQ nightlife but also a center of its culture and community. “Historically, gay bars were our community center, our place for organizing and building the foundation of the movement we know today,” said Robert Salcido, president
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of the Pride Center of San Antonio. “Dance clubs like the Bonham have always served as a venue for entertainment and a place for LGBTQ folks to be authentic, but also as a vital space for community building and escaping society’s judgment and persecution. It was our safe haven.”
Star Power Indeed, the Bonham, also known as the BX, has been around for so long, it’s almost seemed ageless. After opening in July 1981, it instantly became the city’s hottest gay dance club, and nearly 40 years later, lines still snake down the sidewalk in front of its door every Saturday. “It was the biggest gay bar I had ever been to, although I’m sure Studio 54 was bigger,” said Jim Smith, a 69-year-old color consultant who was hired to decorate the club before its opening. “It was this very elaborate, Victorian piece of architecture. You’d have to look at the state Capitol to find anything in a style like that — and it was a gay bar.” Prior to the Bonham’s opening, the hottest ticket in town was the San Antonio Country, owned by real estate developer and River Walk restaurateur Arthur “Hap” Veltman. It was located downtown at North St. Mary’s Street at McCullough Avenue, but closed right after Fiesta in 1981 when Valero purchased the property for an office building.
But the Bonham’s sheer size, including three expansive levels, an outdoor patio and multiple bars wowed visitors the moment they stepped inside. Not to mention, disco and other high-energy dance music thumping through the sound system. Local jazz singer Ken Slavin was a junior at St. Mary’s University when he began frequenting the Bonham during its opening year. “It was the totally hot place to be,” Slavin said. “I can’t adequately describe how glamorous it seemed — especially by San Antonio’s gay bar standards at the time. I remember being quite overwhelmed and impressed by the experience. It was a very special place, and so many people of my generation formed lasting friendships there. It definitely has earned legendary status in our city’s history.” And just like New York City’s fabled Studio 54, the Bonham has had its share of visits from Hollywood celebrities (Patrick Swayze and Sandra Bullock, among them), well-known sports figures (Dennis Rodman and Charles Barkley) and gay icons (RuPaul and Jimmy James). Some of the biggest names in music, Tina Turner included, also lent star power. Or the time that Prince made a surprise, late-night appearance in the early ’90s. Manager Haines, who starting mixing cocktails for the crowds in 1989, recalls working behind the bar when he heard that the pop icon was in 13 6 the house. sacurrent.com | March 27–April 9, 2019 | CURRENT 11
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Above: Former Bonham owner Kenneth Garrett (left) and founder “Hap” Veltman shown in a vintage photo. Right: A line outside the club’s door on a recent Saturday. 6 11 “He was on the catwalk and they had it blocked off,” Haines said. “I was the head bartender. I stopped my bartending and wanted everybody to know I was going to go meet Prince. Oh no! That wasn’t happening. The owner and one other manager [were] the only ones who got to meet him and get anywhere near his vicinity.” There was also the late Saturday night when Dirty Dancing’s Patrick Swayze was, well, dirty dancing on the dance floor, much to the amazement of everyone watching. “He came in after 2 a.m. and was looking for a place to dance,” Haines said. “I left the bar to go see, and there’s a long line of boys and girls waiting their turn, and Patrick Swayze is in the middle of the dance floor, dancing with all of them.” The sharp-dressed, bearded boys of ZZ Top even made appearances, sometimes strutting down the hall from the main entrance with a female escort. “When I started working here, [they] used to come in almost every weekend with these beautiful women,” Haines said. “Billy Gibbons would be rocking the beard, and they looked just like you’d see them on MTV or on their album covers.”
Straight Nights Haines’ stories of celebrity sightings could go on and on. He was, after all, just 19 years old when he was hired as a barback in 1989, fresh from six months of bartending school. Those skills became highly valuable when the bar got packed with clubgoers ordering shots and shouting for drinks from all directions. Now 48, Haines has served as general manager for three years after spending 10 as assistant general manager. “It’s just been such a good fit. It just feels so right,” he said.
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“This place took me in even though I’m straight working in a gay bar. They wanted someone who was willing to work hard.” On a recent afternoon, Haines sat in his office — where a large, black-and-white photo of the late Veltman hangs on a wall — and reflected on the past, present and future of the Bonham. One of the key changes during his 30 years at the club was its evolving clientele. “When I started, we were 95 percent gay. Today, 70 percent are straight,” he said. “But everyone who comes here knows what to expect. The Bonham has always been cool and totally accepting of everyone.” The change happened when word began to spread that the Bonham was the place to be for great music, dancing and 50-cent well drinks certain evenings. Before long, those elements attracted a hetero crowd, mainly college kids, which led to the wildly popular, yet unofficial Wednesday “straight nights” in the late ’80s. For many straight folks, those Wednesdays provided a first exposure to a gay culture and club life. “It wasn’t advertised,” Haines said. “You either knew about it or you didn’t. If you were privileged to know about it, you were in for a treat.” Although Haines admitted that the 50-cent wells that drew college crowds also made it hard for him to leave with much cash in his pocket. “I used to ask myself, ‘How could I only be making $100 per night if it’s packed in here?’ On a Friday or Saturday night, you make a drink for the gay clientele, and you’re going to get a tip, just for making it. With the college crowd, they were young and didn’t know anything.”
Staying Fresh To be sure, part of the club’s lasting appeal has been its willingness to switch things up. Haines said he’s always thinking of fresh and exciting ways to keep the crowds coming. An inside-and-out facelift for the 126-year-old building may be the next big one. “I want to keep the girl up-to-date and nipped and tucked where she needs it,” he said. “Last year, I was able to [refur-
bish] three windows in the ballroom. I plan to do three or four more this year and get the ballroom back to what it used to be — big and grand.” In the meantime, he’s brought back live music by introducing Sunday night jazz parties in the ballroom that start at 6 p.m. with dance lessons from the San Antonio Swing Dance Society. Haines also wants the Bonham to deepen its involvement with the LGBTQ community through partnerships, even though it already provides donations to the San Antonio AIDS Foundation and other groups. He’d like to generate more funds for the Happy Foundation, a nonprofit named for Veltman, to keep an official record of San Antonio’s gay history, by holding fundraisers in the club’s voluminous ballroom.
“Not Even an Option” Just as the club has evolved, so has its downtown locale. Nearby parking lots have disappeared, replaced by hotels and new development. To ease guest parking and to support responsible drinking and driving, Haines waived the club’s $5 cover fee for anyone, 21 and older, who arrives by Uber or Lyft and can show a receipt. Haines also laments the loss of the club’s former nextdoor neighbor, Fire Station No. 1, which vacated to a new location on Cherry Street. “I could just walk over and knock on their door and say, ‘Hey, someone twisted their ankle,’ and I had instant help,” he said. “Now I have to make a phone call like everybody else. I was a little spoiled.” Despite the death of Garrett, who died February 8 at age 68, and the rapid changes to the downtown landscape, Haines said the club is doing just fine. Admission numbers, he added, are on the upswing. Even so, the club wouldn’t be the first San Antonio landmark to be relocated or closed as the city evolved. When asked whether he’d consider selling the property, Haines 15 6 shook his head. sacurrent.com | March 27–April 9, 2019 | CURRENT 13
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Left: During the early ’80s, the Bonham hosted rock shows for performers including Iggy Pop and the Butthole Surfers.
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“Not even an option,” he said. Beyond the continuous flow of clientele, the Bonham is home to the archives of San Antonio’s gay and lesbian history, Haines points out. A walk through a large and dusty room just down his office reveals rows of shelves, filing cabinets and glass cases jammed with old news clippings, photos and publications such as the Village Voice and This Week in Texas, chronicling marches, murders, gay marriage, gays in the military, theater, arts and other milestones in the Alamo City’s gay history. “It’s a 24/7 job, because it takes a lot of time to clip and file articles from newspapers,” said archive director Gene Elder, the activist who started the project shortly after the Bonham opened. “People used to send me articles, and I asked all the gay publications to put me on their complimentary mailing lists. I’m hoping someone else will think [the archives] are important, too.” They do. On occasion, students from area universities and from as far away as Dallas or Houston drop in to do research in the repository, Elder said. “I think it’s significant for being a public establishment the community can be proud of,” he said. “Even the straight community enjoyed going to the Bonham because it was a liberal, progressive idea. Of course, people love to dance.”
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But for most clubgoers, the Bonham’s appeal was the music. The dance hits pounding over the speakers tucked into every corner of the night spot have been its main attraction, drawing a diverse crowd and helping break down perceived barriers. Former News 4 anchor Debora Daniels
Albrecht loved hitting the club’s dance floor during the early and mid-’90s. The TV station used to be located on North St. Mary’s Street, not far from the Bonham, so she occasionally went there after work and on weekends. “The Bonham provided an almost magical space where cultures could effortlessly intersect,” she said. “It was a place where you could mingle and interact with people you might not do day-to-day life with … people who were different from you. But when the music started, everyone danced to the same rhythm, loved the same songs, shouted the same lyrics together. I think the dance floor was more effective at bringing people together than the UN! I will always remember the Bonham as a place of effervescent humanity.” Cornyation’s 2016 King Anchovy Michael Bobo remembers discovering the dance club shortly after he arrived in San Antonio from his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, a year after the Bonham opened. “San Antonio was a bigger city, and the Bonham Exchange was big, fancy and glamorous. At the time, everything was state-of-the-art,” said Bobo, owner of W.D. Deli. “MTV was really popular, so the upstairs video bar was a big deal. Whenever you heard a hit song, everyone would race downstairs to go dance.” A few years ago, Bobo began organizing and hosting Sunday tea dances for a Sunday Funday at the Bonham while also spinning records as club DJ. He still does every now and then. “It’s a lot of fun, and I try to create some of that old-school Bonham Exchange vibe by playing music from that era.” While DJs may have driven the show for the past couple of decades, live music was also a major attraction at the Bonham. That began when Joe Pugliese, a local musician who once served as stage manager for a Dolly Parton tour, approached Veltman in the early ’80s about hosting live music
acts on the club’s slow Tuesday nights. He dubbed the event College Alternative Nights and booked local punk and new wave bands like the Blast, the Smart Dads and the Mystery Dates, a band fronted by his brother Frank, who now sings for San Antonio’s long-running Sons of Hercules. “Then I booked Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack,” Pugliese remembers. “Carrack was the former vocalist for Squeeze who had the hit song, ‘Tempted.’ He left Squeeze and put out a solo album. We had about 600 people. So, then I went to Hap and said, ‘Let’s move this upstairs to the ballroom and do national acts.’” They did, and more followed. The Bangles came through while touring behind their megahit “Walk Like an Egyptian,” and punk godfather Iggy Pop even writhed around on the club’s stage. “I made my brother Frank be Iggy’s bodyguard, so I have this burning picture in my head of Frank, who is 6 foot 6, leading Iggy, who was about 5 foot 1, out of the dressing room through the crowd to the stage, and they were holding hands,” Pugliese said. Pugliese, though, will never forget the time that superstar Tina Turner, hot legs and all, hit the Bonham stage. “It was about six weeks before the release of Private Dancer,” he said. “She was still an oldies act. She had the three girls in the shimmy dresses doing ‘Proud Mary.’ All I did was introduce myself and said hello before she took the stage. There were three drag queens dressed just like Tina Turner with these big-ass wigs, low-cut dresses and doing these crazy dance moves right down in front of her.”
Mothering the Building Joan Duckworth met Hap Veltman and Kenneth Garrett when she was a 17-year-old senior at Lee High School. She was doing the Hustle with a group of friends at the Royal Street Crossing on the River Walk when an older stranger and his friend approached her. He remarked that it looked like they were having a good time. Veltman introduced himself and his boyfriend, Kenneth Garrett. Little did she know, she and Veltman would remain close friends until the day he died. “He had a great sense of humor,” she said. “He was also a genius. I remember he used to tell me to drive on the streets and not on the highways. Because when you drove on the streets, you could get to 17 6
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6 15 know neighborhoods and see where improvements needed to be made and were being made.” It was on a downtown drive with Veltman that he told her about his plans to purchase the building that became the Bonham. “We kept driving around the block. I didn’t know what we were doing exactly,” she said. “He looked at me and said, ‘Joanie, I want to buy that building and turn it into a big gay bar.’” And so he did. Today, Duckworth, 61, is the club’s office manager and makes sure the place stays in working order. The structure itself was built in 1891 by Swiss-American architect James Wahrenberger as a German social club and gym known as Turner Hall. During World War II, it became a USO, where, coincidentally, her grandmother worked, helping feed soldiers. Later, it was used as a post office to sort mail. In yet another coincidence, her parents met upstairs at a dance in the Bonham ballroom. “He was a photographer in the Army, and my mom and her sister were South Side girls who would come dance with the soldiers,” she said. “So, I feel like I’m supposed to be the ‘mother’ of the building and take care of it.” During her time at the Bonham, Duckworth has witnessed San Antonio’s slow steps toward acceptance of the gay and lesbian community. She likes to point out that the Bonham’s proximity — two blocks, to be exact — to San Antonio’s most famous landmark helped play a role. “When the Bonham opened, it was the new kid on the block, gay and proud, and in your face right behind the Alamo,” she said. The Bonham also helped usher an LGBTQ presence into another San Antonio fixture: Fiesta. The club played host to the 1980s-era rebirth of Cornyation, now an official Fiesta event that regularly sells out the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. “It outgrew us,” Duckworth said. “There wasn’t enough space. The fire marshal said we had too many people.” The Bonham’s influence over Fiesta only continues to build. The club hosts the official afterparty for the San Antonio AIDS Foundation’s Fiesta WEBB Party on April 20, and its Fiesta Chili Queens Chili Cook-Off takes place April 28.
Gay Energy and Smoke Over nearly four decades, the club represented an opportunity for self-expression, patrons point out. Especially in a time when there were few mainstream outlets for LGBTQ culture. Local artist David Zamora Casas was a
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the corner from the club in a building called the Anti-Oppression Church of Hardcore Folk Art — since demolished. Because his space to store paintings was limited, the Bonham allowed him to hang one of his larger pieces at its entrance. “I got it back and it’s now in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, so it had a lot of gay energy — and a lot of smoke,” he said. As much as Casas experienced incredible times on the dance floor, the Bonham also brings back memories of friends who died of AIDS. “It was also a sad place for me because many HIV-AIDS fundraisers were held there,” he said. “[Art teacher] Terry Ybañez, [artist] Lisa Mellinger and I did a HIV awareness performance one time. It wasn’t just a dancing place, but it was also a place where we went to mourn the loss of friends sometimes after a funeral.”
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Above: Revelers crowd the club’s multiple dance floors during a recent Saturday night. “The Bonham provided an almost magical space where cultures could almost effortlessly intersect,” one ’90s regular said. regular of its night party scene, standing in outrageous outfits that included a red bolero jacket, hat, billowing skirt and cowboy boots. The club hosted one of his first solo shows. “The Bonham gave me encouragement,”
he said, pointing out that queer culture hadn’t yet found its way onto TV sets. “It was the first time I felt supported in a queer space with queer art surrounded by queer people.” In the early ’90s, Casas lived just around
Outside the club, just after 11 p.m. on a recent Saturday, a long line of clubgoers has stretched from the front door to Avenue E. As expected, the crowd is mostly young. Some have arrived by Lyft while one young man in his 20s arrives by e-scooter and then ditches it by the side of the building. It’s evidence that a new generation is creating its own memories at the nightspot. A trio of friends — Ashley Martinez, Louis Rubio and Chloe Mendoza — waited in line to show their IDs and hit the bar. They’ve been patrons of the BX since they were 18, and it’s more than just the music and the drinks that keeps them coming back. “The environment is different, and it’s a lot more fun than going to a regular straight bar,” said Martinez, 21, a medical assistant. “There’s all types of people who come here – gay, bi, straight,” Mendoza, a 23-year-old nursing student added. “Plus, we love the gays.” Just after midnight, the main dance floor reels with energy as the crowd busts moves to Pitbull, while other patrons head to an upstairs video bar for a dose of disco and pop. “I play all kinds of music and whatever the crowd wants — hip-hop, reggaetón, cumbias — but, of course, I still love playing ’70s and ’80s disco,” said DJ Angel, who’s been spinning at the Bonham for 15 years. “The people love it too.” And on this packed night, it’s clear that they do. After all these years, the Bonham is still about acceptance, about letting your hair down and soaking in the vibes of a pivotal place in Alamo City LGBTQ history. It remains an invitation to drink, dance and have a gay old time.
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WED | 3/27 Leigh Anne Lester
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Deftly drafted and intricately layered, the fascinating works of accomplished local artist Leigh Anne Lester suggest flora collected from an alien planet. A native of Shreveport who earned a BFA in painting from UTSA and co-directed the small but mighty gallery Cactus Bra Space in the Blue Star Arts Complex for 19 years, Lester has artistically explored diseases as “family heirlooms” and constructed cautionary narratives surrounding recent advances in genetic modification. Employing a research-heavy creative process that’s equal parts nerdy DJ and full-blown mad scientist, she recreates historical botanical illustrations in graphite on semi-translucent drafting film and then remixes her samples in stacked arrangements interspersed with what she’s described as “floating cells” and “distorted offspring plants.” Easily among her greatest hits, Lester’s 2011 Hunting Prize-winning drawing Mutant Spectre is essentially the germinating seed for interconnected projects — including some that venture into the sculptural realm with colored vinyl or Plexiglas shapes conjuring maps, microorganisms or bodies of water beneath swirling layers of hand-cut drafting film that pull away from the wall and cast undulating shadows. Although partly informed by her large-scale McNay Art Museum wall installation A Variety of Forms Recovering from Transubstantiated Clarity and her Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Lester’s new solo show “No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties” introduces new elements to the bodies of work she’s created over the last decade. Nodding with its title to an uncertain future enabled by gene-editing technology and a newfound ability to “leapfrog” over evolutionary hurdles, the Contemporary Art Month exhibition sees the artist returning to tradition with a new large-scale drawing (her first in quite some time) and also pushing onward with three-dimensional works involving hand-cut drafting film that’s painted on both sides and behaves almost like a textile as it drapes over wall-mounted pieces. Likening the collected works to parts of a “recurring visual vocabulary,” Lester explains that, “If the viewer follows those clues they will find information resurfacing in different pieces throughout this exhibit. A very slow-motioned animation of generational manifestations.” Free, opening reception 6-8pm Wed, on view 11am-4pm Tue-Sat through May 25, Ruiz-Healy Art, 201-A E. Olmos Dr., (210) 804-2219, ruizhealyart.com. — Bryan Rindfuss
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Over the last four decades, self-described “artivist” David Zamora Casas has delighted, shocked and intrigued San Antonio audiences with paintings, installations, altars and performance works that essentially present the artist himself as a canvas. Fusing elements of folk and outsider art with nods to the aesthetics of Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí, the DIY spirit of rasquachismo, religious iconography and Latinx and LGBTQ* activism, Casas has established something many artists strive for fruitlessly: an instantly recognizable aesthetic that’s distinctly their own. Nicknamed Nuclear Meltdown and dubbed a “clown shaman” by esteemed author
and MacArthur Genius Sandra Cisneros, Casas often makes cameos in his own paintings, his fire-engine red lips, devilish goatee and Dalí-esque mustache emerging from surreal tableaus populated by skulls, deities, monkeys and mermaids swimming amid swirling patterns, Mesoamerican symbols and hand-painted text reminiscent of retablos. In the words of Chicano art specialist Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Casas’ canvases “mix word and image to visualize autobiographical and universal stories of homoerotic love, loss and persistent social concerns including immigration, environmental plunder, gender disparity and the multiple issues facing marginalized individuals and communities.” Billed as an artistic explosion of “folk-baroque manifestations” exploring themes ranging from indigenous history to gender fluidity, Casas’ new solo show “Transcendental Tricentennial” comprises “miles of ribbon, yards of fabric, embellished prints, various on-site assemblages, oil and acrylic paintings on canvas, barbed-wire and bone sculptures, and a Día de los Muertos ofrenda which spills into our collective consciousness.” Made possible by a grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), the “mega-installation” also involves creative collaborations with the likes of accordion queen Eva Ybarra and video/film producers Laura Varela and Fadela Gacis Castro. As for its slightly unexpected landing at the Institute of Texan Cultures, Casas reminds that the exhibition evokes the ITC’s mission to be “a lesson in diversity [that] shows the uniqueness and beauty of the many cultures that came to Texas.” $8-$10, 9am-5pm Mon-Sat, noon-5pm Sun through July 28, UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, 801 E. César E. Chávez Blvd., (210) 458-2300, texancultures.com. — BR
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Earlier this month, ESPN analyst and former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy notably praised Spurs icon Manu Ginobili, calling the Argentinian his “favorite player to watch.” Van Gundy expressed admiration for Ginobili’s “combination of flair, competitive spirit, team-first attitude, willingness to accept the sixthman role, start at certain times, never back down” — all qualities that were on full display for Spurs fans for 16 memorable seasons. Ginobili’s four NBA championships, two All-Star appearances and Sixth Man of the Year award are testament to his tremendous impact on the Spurs franchise and the San Antonio community. Easily the most selfless Spur of all time, it was Ginobili, along with Tim Duncan, who embodied Spurs culture both on and off the court. On Thursday night at the AT&T Center, Spurs faithful have one final opportunity to thank him. $111-$2,500, 7:30pm, AT&T Center, One AT&T Center Pkwy., (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com. — M. Solis
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Ah, the ’80s: a decade filled with perms, tacky earrings and American WASPs’ favorite obsession, the Satanic Panic. Set in a quiet suburb, The Gate imagines the nightmare of pearl-clutching parents — unbeknownst to their guardians, the neighborhood children open a yawning portal to hell, with none other than that so-called metal music! In his first film role, Stephen Dorff (Blade, True Detective) must find a way to banish a host of accidentally conjured demons before they can destroy everything he has ever known. Fans of practical effects will enjoy the smorgasbord of techniques employed in the film, including a sequence featuring tiny demons filmed in forced perspective and a roving eyeball embedded in a hand looking way more realistic than it has any right to, courtesy of visual effects designer Randall William Cook, who had a hand in everything from The Thing and Ghostbusters to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Free, 8pm Fri, Künstler Brewing, 302 E. Lachapelle, (210) 688-4519, planetxcinema.com. — Kelly Merka Nelson
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remains a crowd-sourced affair. “Artists and curators working in all mediums” are eligible provided they’ve presented “an artwork, exhibition or performance during Contemporary Art Month.” Casting a vote only takes a minute at contemporaryartmonth.com and the poll closes at midnight on Wednesday, March 27. (A handy refresher of this year’s official CAM happening can be found under the Calendar & Events tab.) In addition to doling out artful trophies created by local design company Heavy Heavy, this year’s wrap-up includes cocktails and craft brews courtesy of Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., complimentary nibbles, beats by DJ Novasoul and one last chance to experience the Mini Art Museum’s compact exhibition “Color Concentrate,” for which Maryland-based curator Josh T. Franco tasked artists Carlos Rosales-Silva, Joshua Saunders, Kaeyln D. Rodriguez and Mark Anthony Martinez with
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As March slips into our rearview mirror, another Contemporary Art Month (CAM) draws to a close with the annual presentation of the CAMMIE Awards, which recognize “excellence and diversity throughout the city’s rich landscape.” Essentially a wrap party celebrating CAM’s most impactful happenings, the casual ceremony brings artists, curators, gallerists, museum folks and art scenesters of all stripes to the quaint urban oasis of Chris Park for an evening of mixing, mingling, music and libations. Previously determined by online voting, nine of the 10 awards are now in the hands of esteemed local institutions: the San Antonio Museum of Art, Blue Star Contemporary, Ruby City, Artpace, the Carver Community Cultural Center, Luminaria, the McNay, the Spare Parts Mini Art Museum and the Southwest School of Art. As its name suggests, the Best of CAM People’s Choice award
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each creating two tiny works of art — one prioritizing color and one considering the “social aspects of color.” Free, 6-8pm Fri, Chris Park, 111 Camp St., (210) 630-0235, contemporaryartmonth.com. — BR
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A provocative pioneer of the Alamo City’s burlesque revival, the all-female troupe Stars and Garters is in the midst of celebrating a full decade of “putting the bare in Bexar County.” Having scored top honors multiple times in the Current’s Best of San Antonio readers’ poll, the gals are gearing up to Shimmy and Shake their way through a new show sure to cast a vintage spell thanks to live accompaniment from retro jazz diva Ruby Alexander and her band the Bonafide Playboys. Looking and sounding like a perfect match for a troupe known to blend classic and contemporary styles, flame-topped stunner Alexander puts a swing-era spin on pop hits from the ’80s and ’90s — which, in the case of Shimmy and Shake, include jazzy renditions of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.” Hosted by Stars and Garters founder Blue Valentine in an appropriately old-school venue, the 18-and-up evening promises to “showcase the full spectrum of sensual, smart and sexy assets” of ’60s-inspired blond bombshell Suki Jones, “transoceanic tropical tease” Black Orchid, “tattooed, tassel-twirling” redhead Pystol Whips, “long, lean and leggy” Giselle J’Adore and brand-spankingnew recruit Miss Sugar Free. $17-$25 (beer & wine available for purchase), 8pm Sat, Magik Theatre, 420 S. Alamo St., (432) 235-0414, starsandgartersburlesque.com. — BR
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FESTIVAL OF INDIA
Since its formation in 1978, the India Association of San Antonio (IASA) has evolved from a small group of dedicated volunteers to a nonprofit umbrella over cultural, religious and charitable groups representing the Alamo City’s growing South Asian community. Built around a concept of “unity in diversity,” IASA functions as an online directory for local temples, churches, mosques, dance schools and yoga centers, helps raise funds for disaster victims all over the world and offers mentoring programs covering everything from tolerance to financial self-sufficiency. As part of its mission to “foster a better understanding between India and San Antonio,” IASA organizes annual events surrounding Holi, a spring festival honoring Krishna; Diwali, a fall “festival of lights” celebrating the victory of good over evil; and Indian Republic Day, which commemorates January 26 as the day the Constitution of India went into effect and made the country a “sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic” back in 1950. An annual favorite that invites all walks to “experience India in just a day,” IASA’s Festival of India returns to La Villita’s Maverick Plaza on March 30 with a colorful assortment of performances and vendors. Following a theme of “Cultural Fusion,” this year’s fest promises costumed dance presentations highlighting Bollywood, folk and classical styles, a “Parade of States” and booths offering henna tattoos, clothing and jewelry, not to mention traditional Indian cuisine, including beloved snacks like chaat and spicy tandoori dishes. Free, 3-9pm Sat, La Villita, Maverick Plaza, 418 Villita St., (210) 960-5784, indiasa.org. — BR
SUN | 3/31 SPECIAL EVENT
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Taking cues from Colombia’s bike-centric Ciclovía (Spanish for “cycleway”) and the host of similar recreational initiatives it inspired around the world, San Antonio launched its own Síclovía in 2011 as a collaborative endeavor between the Mayor’s Fitness Council, the YMCA and other like-minded organizations. In keeping with its predecessors, the biannual event blocks off miles of city streets, removing vehicular traffic from the equation as a means to encourage cycling, running, walking and skating in San Antonio’s urban core. The follow-up to last fall’s “Broadway with a Twist” route that stretched from Mahncke Park to Madison
Square Park, Síclovía’s spring 2019 iteration returns to Southtown and environs for a route connecting the South Flores Market H-E-B and Mission Concepción via the South St. Mary’s Street/Roosevelt Avenue corridor. However you decide to accept this kid- and dog-friendly invitation to get out and safely play in the streets, keep an eye out for strategically situated “Reclovías,” where participants can relax and recharge with everything from cold refreshments and food truck fare to zumba classes and hands-on activities. No bike? No problem: the route comes equipped with bike-share stations at both ends, plus several others in between. Free, 11am-3pm Sun, S. Flores St. at César Chávez Blvd. down S. St. Mary’s St./Roosevelt Ave. to Mission Concepción, ymcasatx.org. — BR
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SOLI Chamber Ensemble reunites with Brazilian-American vocalist and composer Clarice Assad, a powerhouse performer whose prolific output includes genre-bending compositions and improvisatory performances. Assad synthesizes elements of jazz and world music in new works that showcase extended vocal techniques, often employing scatting and improvisational figures in tandem with more traditional settings of lyric poetry. SOLI first collaborated with Assad in 2016 with the commissioned piece ELEMENTOS, a song cycle “inspired by the four elements: earth, fire, water and air.” According to clarinetist Stephanie Key, SOLI immediately formed a “symbiotic relationship” with Assad
that was downright enchanting, and this new collaboration seeks to rekindle that magic. For Exploraçāo, SOLI and Assad will reprise selections from ELEMENTOS, but the real showstopper is the world premiere of SYNTHETICO, in which Assad expands her vocal technique into the electronic realm. Intrigued by the popularity of voice boxes in rock and pop music, Assad got her hands on a TC-Helicon VoiceLive Touch and set to work, creating distinct soundscapes that allow her to sing in impossible timbres that she marries to SOLI’s complement of violin, clarinet, cello and piano. On the jam-packed program, Assad and SOLI will also perform new arrangements of works by Astor Piazzolla, Milton Nascimento, Mario Borges and Gabriel Levy. $10-$25, 7:30pm Sun, Jazz, TX, 312 Pearl Pkwy, (210) 332-9386; 7:30pm Tue, Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, One Trinity Place, (210) 999-8212, solichamberensemble.com. — KMN
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Proof that you can go viral even without Kim Kardashian’s butt, an animatronic devil baby or a tiny hamster eating tiny burritos, the event series PechaKucha (Japanese for “chitchat”) began in Tokyo in 2003 and has since spread to 1,000 other cities all over the world. Devised by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham as a platform for creatives to share and discuss their projects, it follows a simple premise: participants give PowerPoint presentations comprised of 20 images, which are shown and explained for 20 seconds each — which rings in at a total of six minutes and 40 seconds per presentation. (Klein and Dytham’s reasoning behind the time restriction is that “architects talk too much!”) Active since 2011, the local chapter spent its infancy at the Center for Architecture and then set off on a citywide excursion that’s included stops at the McNay, Texas A&M University, Blue Star Contemporary, Paper Tiger, the Guadalupe Theater and many points in between. Co-emceed by the amusingly odd couple of Emmy-winning News 4 anchor Randy Beamer and local artist/FL!GHT Gallery founder Justin Parr, the forthcoming 33rd edition assembles one of the most intriguing lineups in recent history. Hosted by the San Antonio Museum of Art, the evening of enlightening chitchat promises to shed light on the varied endeavors of Michaele Thurgood Haynes, a cultural anthropologist, educator and curator whose work focuses on “community festivals involving pageantry and young women in over-the-top dresses”; Annie Montgomery Labatt, a Virginia-based gallery director and professor currently working on the book Art History 101…Without the Exams; Franco Mondini-Ruiz, a “compulsive artsessive” local celebrity whose many accomplishments include exhibiting at the Whitney Biennial, winning the American Academy’s Rome Prize and creating the bygone San Antonio emporium Botánica Infinito; Michael Quintanilla (pictured), a decorated fashion journalist who identifies as both a “disco confessionist/glue gun expert” and “Mr. Fiesta”; Carmen Tafolla, an award-winning Chicana author of 30-plus books — including the local favorite The Holy Tortilla and the Pot of Beans — who has served as both Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2012-2014) and Texas (2015-2016); and the dynamic duo of 2019 Cornyation co-emcees Jesse Mata, who has worked with the raunchy Fiesta favorite as a scriptwriter, skit designer and set builder for 17 years, and Elaine Wolff, former editor-in-chief of the Current and founding editor of Out In SA. $5 suggested donation, welcome reception with live music and light bites at 7pm, presentations at 8:15pm Tue, San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100, pechakucha.com. — BR
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Led by virtuoso Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, the 10-piece brass ensemble tenTHING may not seem like something particularly exciting or impressive. I mean, not everybody wants to dedicate a weekday evening to four trumpets, a French horn, four trombones and a tuba. However, tenTHING’s renditions of famous classical pieces are astonishingly delicate given the bombastic nature of the ensemble’s instrumentation, and the all-female performers showcase their expertise to great effect. Their adaptation of the Prelude from the Holberg Suite — originally written for string quartet — opens with a downright gentle performance of the piece’s quickly moving ostinatos that defies expectation. On top of it all, tenTHING prides itself on performing a wide range of genres and styles, program-
ming everything from “Mozart to Weill, Grieg to Bernstein and Lully to Bartok.” So, whether your tastes skew baroque or modern, tenTHING may very well pique your interest. $29-$99, 7:30pm Thu, Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 2262891, artssa.org. — KMN
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Like many other forward-thinking folks in the U.S. and beyond, San Antonio-born Gianna Rendon took the sucker punch of President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory as an urgent call to action. After some pondering, the West Side native and Esperanza Peace and Justice Center alum Courtesy of tenTHING
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launched Échale Books in response to the mounting “hatred in the country against people of color, women, LGBTQ people and other marginalized people.” Specializing in both new and used books exploring feminist, LGBTQ , Chicanx/Latinx and politically progressive topics, not to mention bilingual and Spanish-language offerings, Échale has popped up at more than 30 local events and markets since its inception and hopes to establish a brick-and-mortar location as early as this fall. Operating with support from Rendon’s multitasking “comadres”
Eliza Perez and Jessica Gonzales, the independent upstart is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary with a weekend sale at the Parish. After kicking off on Friday evening with DJ beats, vegan-friendly bites “y lots of books,” the celebration continues all day Saturday with what Rendon describes as “the type of party for people who think that drinking coffee, eating pan dulce and reading books is a party.” Free, 6-9pm Fri, 10am-6pm Sat, the Parish, 1614 Buena Vista St., 2nd floor (not ADA accessible), (210) 328-1980, facebook. com/echalebookssa. — BR
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The San Antonio Book Festival has only been running for seven years, but it sure doesn’t seem like it. Each year, the event draws big guests and even bigger crowds to Central Library and the Southwest School of Art for a day that celebrates books for all ages and tastes. While a love for reading endures in many adults, there’s something special about the magic that books hold for children. The Book Festival capitalizes on this in its Children’s Area, which features children’s book readings by guest authors, a performance of Dr. Krashundbang by the Magik Theatre and Spanish Storytime by Cuentology, plus a myriad of mind-expanding activities including bookmark-making, paper-marbling and even a chance to meet the ballerinas from the Children’s Ballet of San Antonio. But don’t worry — teens aren’t left to hang out to dry. YA authors will gather in the Geektown area, including actor and singer-songwriter Val Emmich, who worked with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to create a novelization of the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen. Famous storytelling show The Moth returns to the Book Festival this year on the tails of its recently released collection of stories Occasional Magic. Fans who want to kick things off early can check out a performance of The Moth Mainstage on Friday ($25-$100, 7pm Fri, Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St.), then can catch a panel by Occasio-
nal Magic editor and The Moth artistic director Catherine Burns on Saturday afternoon (2:30pm Sat, Southwest School of Art, Rogers Hall, 1201 Navarro St.). The fest’s mind-boggling total of 80 panels will take over myriad spaces across the library and Southwest School of Art campus, featuring speakers such as Newberry Award-winning author Meg Medina, journalist Anna Merlan, San Antonio luminary Lila Banks Cockrell, prolific wordsmith and UT Michener Chair Elizabeth McCracken and more. Notable panels include “San Antonio’s Environmental History” with Char Miller, author of San Antonio: A Tricentennial History (10am Sat, Central Library, West Terrace); “Home Is Stronger than a Wall” with Alfredo Corchado, Reyna Grande and Jean Guerrero (10am Sat, Southwest School of Art, Rogers Hall); San Antonio native and The Haunting of Hill House actor Henry Thomas’ discussion of his debut novel The Window and the Mirror (11am Sat, Southwest School of Art, Coates Chapel); “Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves” with Glory Edim and Camille Acker (1pm Sat, Central Library, West Terrace); and “Queer as Folk: Writing LGBT Characters” with Melissa Febos, Mathangi Subramanian and Bryan Washington (3:45pm Sat, Central Library, Latino Collection Resource Center). Authors are also available for signings after their panels, but be prepared to hoof it to a secondary location in order to get an autograph. Free, 9am-5pm Sat, Central Library, 600 Soledad St.; Southwest School of Art, 300 Augusta St. and 1201 Navarro St., (210) 225-4728, festival.saplf.org. — KMN
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often than not, competitors lift the caber and hobble around with it until it becomes unbalanced and crashes to the ground, but this only makes it that much juicier when a guy or gal built like Game of Thrones’ The Mountain manages to flip it over and across the field in a feat of unmitigated strength. $6-$11, 9am-7pm Sat, 11am-6pm Sun, Helotes Festival Grounds, 12210 Leslie Rd., sahga.org. — KMN
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SAN ANTONIO HIGHLAND GAMES AND CELTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
The San Antonio Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival knows one thing: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For its 20th anniversary, the fest returns with the same time-honored events that draw returning crowds each year. The jam-packed schedule includes a Highland dance competition, archery, traditional athletic events (which mostly involve throwing various heavy objects), Viking reenactments, performances by Celtic-inspired bands and even sheep herding trials. The true spirit of the Highland games is encapsulated in its splashiest athletics event: the caber toss. The name might not sound like much, but maybe the phrase “tree hurling” will catch your attention. That’s right —caber toss participants will be lifting an entire tree trunk to huck across the field. More
Before you have a full-blown panic attack and make a run for your closet in search of guayaberas, Mexican dresses, bedazzled chanclas and flower crowns: calm down, Fiesta doesn’t officially start until April 18. But that won’t stop Fiesta fanatics from getting dolled up early for any number of what are technically “Pre-Fiesta” events, including the Fiesta Teen Queen Coronation (April 7), Alamo Heights Night (April 12), Fiesta Oyster Bake (April 12-13) and A Taste of New Orleans (April 12-14). Celebrating its 22nd anniversary this year, the Fiesta Mariachi Mass is a cherished tradition that acts as an early commencement to the festivities as it brings lively music to the historic confines of San Fernando Cathedral — an iconic church with roots that date back to 1731 and designations as both the stately “center of San Antonio” and “the oldest, continuously functioning religious community in the State of Texas.” Recognizing the many San Antonians who spend the spring raising funds for local charities and nonprofits, the service centers on the blessing of “all Fiesta royalty, commissioners and participants as they embark on their various commitments during Fiesta.” Free, 8am Sun, San Fernando Cathedral, 115 Main Plaza, (210) 227-1297, fiestasanantonio.org. — BR
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Furry Masterpieces
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Local artists immortalize pets with custom portraits
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hile it’s easier than ever to take snapshots of our animal companions, most of these memories end up ensconced in the cloud, never to see the true light of day. Instead of relying on a stash of heavily filtered Instagram posts, why not commemorate your pet with something tangible in your home? We’ve rounded up four local artists who lend their unique styles to portraiture of our furry, feathery and scaly buddies, so you can get yourself a unique keepsake (or memorial) of your best friend.
E. C. KANKO ART
Tapping into the inherent nostalgia of school picture day, E. C. Kanko’s glamour shot-style paintings capture pets in the style of the ever-popular high school senior portrait. Painted in a realistic style with acrylics, E. C. Kanko depicts your fluffy friend’s friendly visage against a gradient background that resembles a photo backdrop. You can nab a tiny, adorable portrait as small as a business card, or go up in size to 8” x 10” or 9” x 12.” Facebook: @eckanko.art Instagram: @eckanko_art
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Looking for something a bit more stylized? Vanessa Lynn lends her American traditional tattoo art style to pet portraits in addition to her prolific output of tattoo-inspired paintings and illustrations. Rendered in acrylic and watercolor, each 9” x 12” painting includes a stylized collar of flowers as well as additional details in the background to
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Cindy Kelleher
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Clockwise from top left: pet portraits by Cindy Kelleher, Meghan Fest, Vanessa Lynn and E.C. Kanko
add some panache. Plus, Lynn is now apprenticing at Golden Rose Tattoo, so someday soon she’ll also be able to immortalize your best bud on your skin! Facebook: @vanessalynartwork Instagram: @buttxmunch
MEGHAN FEST MINIATURES
Meghan Fest’s cameo portraits surround pets with lush greenery themed to match their pup- and purrsonalities, ranging from the mini size 2.5” x 3.5” all the way up to 9” x 12.” She adds depth and color to her ink sketches by carefully shading with markers, creating pieces that are a far cry from the smeared Crayola sketches many of us were responsible for in our childhoods. Fest is also the caretaker of the moderately instafamous @thecatnamedpizza, a bowtie-wearing Russian blue whose piercing green eyes have nabbed him over 7,500 followers. Facebook & Instagram: @meghanfestminiatures
CINDY KELLEHER E. C. Kanko Art
Got a gregarious pup who you think would do well in his or her own personal photoshoot? Look no further than Cindy Kelleher’s impressive portfolio
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of animal portraiture. Whether in the studio, in your home or at a picturesque location like the San Antonio Botanical Garden, Kelleher prides herself on the ability to capture the essence of pets’ personalities on film. In addition to her commercial photography work, Kelleher gives back to the community by photographing rescued cats and dogs for animal shelters as a way to help them get adopted. Website: cindykelleher.com Facebook: cindykelleherphoto Instagram: cindy_kelleher_photo
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San Anto Parks Provide Ample Space for Dogs to Go Off-Leash BY KELLY MERKA NELSON
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here’s nothing better than taking your pooch to the dog park for some off-leash fun, and no matter where you are in the city, there’s one near you. Twelve of the city’s parks include fenced spaces where dogs can roam freely, including dog parks that are an acre-plus in size at McAllister, Panther Springs, Pearsall and Slick parks. Worth the trek up north is Phil Hardberger Park, a canine mecca that has not one but two massive dog parks that range over a combined 3.3 acres. Regardless of size, each park features a range of amenities that include exercise and agility equipment, fountains, and more. But really, what’s better than getting to run free with a herd of other pups on a sunny day?
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Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation
Cats and dogs aren’t the only ones in crisis BY KELLY MERKA NELSON
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an Antonio has made great strides with cat and dog rescue work, particularly with the widespread implementation of Trap Neuter Release (TNR) programs for the feral cat populations across the city. Organizations like the Animal Defense League, Humane Society of San Antonio and others have helped rescue and rehome countless animals, as well as promote widespread spay and neuter of pets to prevent further overpopulation. As common and beloved domesticated species, cats and dogs get a lot of attention, but what about other animals, domesticated and otherwise, that end up in trouble? Most of the local rescue organizations explicitly serve the feline and canine population, which would seem to leave the remaining work to San Antonio’s Animal Care Services, but there is another major player on the scene: despite its name, Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation gives sanctuary to many domesticated animals in addition to its work with both native and non-native wildlife. Usually, only the most outrageous rescue stories hit the news, like last spring’s escapee macaque at the airport and ACS’s massive seizure (with an assist from the San Antonio Zoo) of a combined population of hundreds of snakes and rodents in September. However, according to ACS Public Relations and Outreach Manager Lisa Norwood and Field Supervisor Officer Joel Skidmore, these splashy rescues are a drop in the bucket of the cases of animal cruelty, abandonment and other mishaps that they have to deal with on the regular, which surprisingly often include stray live-
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stock frolicking without a care down the road. On any given day, you can consult the Pet Search page of ACS’s website and find a small number next to the category “Other” under “Animal Type.” Here, potential adopters can find animals such as rabbits or chickens (or even quail!) who need a home. The adoption process does not actually differ all that much from cats and dogs — the application is the same, and ACS always conducts an interview with prospective adopters — but there are certain caveats regarding city and state regulations, as well as the animals’ specialized needs. But, just because an animal comes into ACS’s custody does not mean that the average Joe in San Anto will be able to lay claim to him or her. Pigs, for instance, can never be re-homed in San Antonio because their ownership is prohibited within city limits. ACS often relies on other animal rescues, both local, state- and nationwide, to take in individuals that need specialized care. In the case of the seized snakes last fall, the famous Animal World and Snake Farm Zoo, which is now an accredited zoological association, stepped in to provide their expertise with large constrictors. Unlike ACS and other local animal rescue organizations, WRR is not in the business of “re-homing” animals. When animals in need come into WRR’s care, no matter the species, they rehabilitate them and either release them back into the wild or provide a safe and humane home for them on the rescue’s 212acre sanctuary in the Hill Country town of Kendalia. WRR Founder and President Lynn Cuny puts it
simply: “We do everything we can to give them the opportunity to reclaim some of their wildness and some of the type of life they would have chosen if nobody had ever taken them and exploited them.” All domesticated and non-native wild species that come into WRR’s hands are given their own space to roam at the Kendalia sanctuary, which WRR acquired in 1999. Whenever possible, domesticated animals are allowed to free-roam on the property in herds or flocks, as the case may be. However, this is not possible for every individual animal, particularly for non-native wild species. In these cases, WRR has custom-built large enclosures that encompass wide expanses of natural terrain that includes variance such as bluffs, pasture, tall grass and trees for the animals to navigate and climb. Non-native birds are kept in large aviaries so that they are allowed to fly, rather than be kept in a cage for life, and WRR eschews the common use of terrariums for snakes and reptiles, making sure that they have access to outdoor spaces and live amongst other compatible species rather than being kept in isolation. WRR also constructed heated buildings on the property for species that are not suited for Texas winters, and the sanctuary features large expanses dedicated to primates, bears, canids and more. Most importantly, Cuny notes, “we don’t handle them, we don’t name them, we don’t interact with them — we let them be with their own kind.” This sanctuary is not a playground for humans to enjoy or interact with animals, even if they’re domesticated. It is for the animals themselves to recover and live in a manner that they choose, insomuch as it is possible in captivity.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28 VIA Poetry on the Move Reception | 6 p.m. VIA Metropolitan Center | 1021 San Pedro Ave. | 210.362.2389 www.VIAinfo.net Join in on this 10th Anniversary celebration of the VIA Poetry on the Move program. MONDAY, APRIL 1 Mega Corazon | 1 – 9 p.m. URBAN-15 Studio | 2500 South Presa | 210.736.1500 | urban15@dcci.com Mega Corazon celebrates a hybrid poetic tradition that combines street, classical, and slam performance styles for a production that is frontal, improvisational, at times playful, and choreographed for a highly visual impact. Writers included in this year’s event are Carmen Tafolla, Octavio Quintanilla, Anel Flores, Norma Cantu, John Philip Santos, Gregg Barrios, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, and many more. For a full calendar of National Poetry Month events, visit www.GetCreativeSanAntonio.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 4 30 Poems for the Tricentennial Poetry Reading | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Culture Commons Gallery, 115 Plaza de Armas | 210.207.1436 stephanie.torres@sanantonio.gov Poets will read selected poems featured in this exhibition which combines poetry with graphic design to commemorate the more than 300 year history of San Antonio from the Pre-Columbian Era to the present day. A Reception for San Antonio Poet Laureate Dr. Octavio Quintanilla 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake University | Providence Blue Room | 411 SW 24th Street 210.434.6711 | oquintanilla@ollusa.edu All are invited to join for a reception honoring current San Antonio Poet Laureate and OLLU faculty member Dr. Octavio Quintanilla. SATURDAY, APRIL 6 VIVA Poesía: Palabra, Musica, y Cultura | 6 -10 p.m. Mission Marquee Plaza, 3100 Roosevelt Ave. | 210.207.8612 blanche.mendoza@sanantonio.gov The World Heritage Office presents the official City of San Antonio National Poetry Month kick-off event VIVA Poesia: Notas Sabrosas, as part of the Symphony of Flavors, a celebration of San Antonio’s UNESCO designation as a Creative City of Gastronomy. This event will showcase the confluence of our city’s great wealth of culture by bringing together tasty elements from our rich history of the literary, visual, musical, and culinary arts. This free fun-filled and family-friendly happening will feature spoken word performances, live music, food demonstrations, interactive workshops and art take-aways, and a short-film screening.
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Movie: A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Species: Angelfish Pet owner: Ken Pile (Michael Palin) Jamie Lee Curtis’ character is named Wanda, but it’s also the name of Ken’s favorite pet fish, who meets its demise at the hands of Otto West (Kevin Kline), who swallows the angelfish whole when Ken doesn’t tell him the location of some diamonds they recently stole. Gulp.
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Movie: The Green Mile (1999) Species: Mouse Pet owner: Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter) Both guards and prisoners become enamored with a little mouse that Eduard names Mr. Jingles, whom we later find out has an incredibly long life span. When he is killed by a sadistic prison guard, death row inmate John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) resurrects him with his mysterious, supernatural healing powers.
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Movie: Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Species: Orangutan Pet owner: Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) Eastwood stars as a truck driver and bare-knuckle fighter who takes a road trip to Denver with his brother and pet orangutan Clyde. Clyde is played by at trained orangutan named Manis, who did not reprise his role in the 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can. Bro
Movie: Born Free (1966) Species: Lion Pet owners: Joy and George Adamson (Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) The British drama tells the true story of a couple who raised an orphaned lion cub until she was able to fend for herself in the wild. The experience making the film impacted McKenna and Travers so much, they both became animal rights activists and created the Born Free Foundation.
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Movie: Project X (1987) Species: Chimpanzee Pet owner: Teri MacDonald (Helen Hunt) Although more of a research subject than a pet, Virgil was loved immensely by Teri, who finds out he was sent to an Air Force Base for experimentation instead of the zoo she was promised. Willie, the chimp who played Virgil, is now retired and living at the Primarily Primates animal sanctuary in San Antonio.
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Movie: Bringing Up Baby (1938) Species: Leopard Pet owner: Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) The screwball comedy, which was considered a box-office flop 81 years ago, has since become a critically acclaimed classic. The film follows a paleontologist (Cary Grant) whose chance encounter with a ditzy young woman (Hepburn) and her pet leopard threaten his upcoming wedding.
Movie: Kes (1969) Species: Falcon Pet owner: Billy Casper (David Bradley) Adapted from the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the British drama introduces Billy, an abused teenager, to a falcon he takes from a farm. Billy begins to learn falconry after stealing a book on the topic from a used bookshop.
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Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Species: Falcon Pet owner: Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) It’s up for debate online if Richie’s bird is actually a falcon or hawk (the characters never mention it, but writer-director Wes Anderson’s script refers to him as a falcon). Nevertheless, in the film, Richie wakes up one morning at dawn. As the narrator put it: “He had decided birds should not be kept in cages, fed Mordecai three sardines and set him free.”
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Movie: Along Came Polly (2004) Species: Ferret Pet owner: Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston) Polly’s half-blind ferret Rodolfo finds a way to get around — even when Polly accidentally drags him into a trash can while walking him on a leash. In one scene, Rodolfo sneaks up on Polly’s friend Ruben (Ben Stiller) while he’s pooping and scurries out of the bathroom when the toilet starts to overflow.
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Movies: Harry Potter franchise (2001-2010) Species: Snow owl Pet owner: Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) There are a handful of magical creatures Potter fans would love to see on this list (Buckbeak, Aragog, Nagini), but none is as loyal as Hedwig, the snow owl that was gifted to Harry by Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) for his 11th birthday. The song most associated with the Harry Potter franchise is known as “Hedwig’s Theme.” Sadly, Hedwig’s life ends in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, when she tries to protect Harry and Hagrid from the Death Eaters.
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ith the amount of violence that takes place around the world every single day, it’s impossible to keep up with the headlines from one’s own city, state and country, much less the harrowing incidents that happen thousands of miles away. Who remembers that last November, Boko Haram shot and killed 118 Nigerian soldiers on a military base in the town of Metele or that last summer, Islamic State militants carried out suicide bombings and gun attacks in the city of As-Suwayda, which resulted in the deaths of 258 people?
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s far as cinematic symbols from the animal kingdom go, horses have always brought with them a feeling of romanticism for the strength, beauty and sense of freedom they exemplify on the big screen. It’s particularly true when the script focuses on the bond being created between man and mammal — from 1979’s The Black Stallion to 2003’s Seabiscuit to 2011’s War Horse. Two of last year’s most emotionally satisfying films — The Rider and Lean on Pete — proved that dramas featuring a lead steed and its equestrian can still be effective if there is a genuine interspecies friendship at its core. With The Mustang, French actress Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Comedy of Innocence) makes her directorial debut from a screenplay she penned alongside co-writers Mona Fastvold (The Childhood of a Leader) and Brock Norman Brock (Bronson). The film tells
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Truthfully, the ongoing global extremism is as difficult to recall as it is to fully comprehend, so when a filmmaker like first-time feature co-writer and director Anthony Maras revisits one of these frightening experiences in a realistic way like he does with Hotel Mumbai, the film can be tough to shake. Hotel Mumbai, which is based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai, tells the fictionalized “true” story of the 2008 terrorists attacks in South Mumbai where 10 Pakistani jihadists executed a series of coordinated explosions and
the story of Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a hardened and violent criminal who has spent the last 12 years in a Nevada prison — much of that time in solitary confinement. When the state decides he can reenter the general population, he is set up with a job doing “outdoor maintenance” after he informs the prison psychologist (Connie Britton) that he’s “not good with people.” “Outdoor maintenance” turns out to mean a job shoveling shit left behind by the horses in a special program at the prison where inmates are taught how to tame wild mustangs to be sold at auction. Roman is immediately intrigued by the power of the animals. As tough and fearless as he presents himself to be, Roman flinches every time one of the horses kicks the steel wall of an enclosure. When he’s given the chance to train his own mustang by the program’s wise, old mentor Myles (Bruce Dern), a clichéd character even two-time Oscar nominee Dern can’t shape into anything very distinctive, Roman finds himself face to long face with a feral animal that shares some of his personality traits — introverted, hot-blooded and stubborn. Although obvious, the parallels between Roman and his horse are the most interesting element to explore in
mass shootings, including at a local railway station, movie theater, Jewish center, restaurant, hospital, college and luxury hotel. In all, 174 people were murdered during the three-day killing spree. In Hotel Mumbai, Maras and co-writer John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) position moviegoers at the center of the bedlam and focus on the terrorists’ takeover of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, where an estimated 450 guests and scores of staff members were inside during the attack. Oscar nominee Dev Patel (Lion) stars as Arjun, one of the
hotel’s employees who puts his life on the line in an attempt to save as many hotel guests as possible. Among the visitors: American architect David (Armie Hammer), his Indian wife Zahara (Nazanin Boniadi), their infant child and their nanny Sally (Tilda Cobha-Hervey); also, Vasili (Jason Isaacs), an arrogant Russian businessman, who at one point in the film orders a cognac from a waiter as the assault continues throughout the hotel. While Isaacs’ character offers little substance to the story, it is Patel’s Arjun who is the heart of the traumatic ordeal. There might be an underlying sense that Maras and Colle have Hollywoodized the script, but there’s no denying the pain and suffering depicted with relentless detail, which can be hard to watch. Hotel Mumbai doesn’t rise to the same level of some of the most dramatic and emotionally resonating hostage films like 2006’s United 93 or 2013’s Captain Phillips, but the heartlessness behind the attacks is palpable and enraging. Hotel Mumbai open exclusively at the Santikos Bijou March 28.
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The Mustang, even though the connection between the duo isn’t fleshed out in a meaningful way. In fact, none of Roman’s relationships throughout the film make much of an impact, including the one with his estranged daughter Martha (Gideon Adlon) who visits him on occasion but doesn’t want to hear about his failures as a father. Schoenaerts, however, elevates the material with an intrinsic performance and cinematographer Ruben Impens
(Beautiful Boy) transforms the wideopen spaces into works of art, especially when the horses are part of the boundless landscapes. As a story of personal healing and redemption, The Mustang is a predictable ride, but one that will still stir the soul. The Mustang opens exclusively at the Santikos Bijou March 28. — Kiko Martinez
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Madurai Mes excels at the cuisine of South India, including exceptional dishes that celebrate the simple BY RON BECHTOL
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o walk into Madurai Mes is a walk into the unexpected: The space’s uniform, dunked-in-milk-chocolate color evokes Willy Wonka more than a vibrant memory of India’s mirrored fabrics and Bollywood musicals. There’s nothing wrong with playing against stereotype, but it does mean that diners will have to find sensory spirit and spice from another source, like its cuisine. Fortunately, Madurai Mes delivers, though its hit-you over-the-head heat is not the defining feature. Let’s start with the Megalu Rasam, a soup — said to be “restorative” — that’s typical of the restaurant’s Southern Indian focus. Our server confirmed the soup’s holistic appeal: it’s good for colds and all kinds of maladies, but more to the point, it’s just plain good. The dish includes numerous spices,
mostly peppercorn and cumin, each holding its own in a broth inflected with tamarind, garlic and a little tomato. I had never had anything quite like it — and I quite liked it. Other vegetarian and non-vegetarian appetizers are almost a neutral experience, depending on chutneys and sambars for their special spark. Eggs Bonda begin with hardboiled eggs before they’re dipped in a batter of rice and chickpea flours that is sometimes spicy, but here fairly mild. The same is true of the Kuzhi Paniyaram, a dish of fermented rice and lentil batter steamed in little cups. The simple, subtly sour cups would be unremarkable alone, but paired with a South Indian coconut chutney, they help introduce the hearty and ambiguously labelled dish Mutton Chops Dry. The distinction between goat, lamb and
mutton is often blurry in Indian cuisine, and Madurai Mes doesn’t provide clarity. The menu makes mutton synonymous with goat, but what appears on the plate appears to be lamb — neither goaty nor smacking of old sheep. The tender chops were smothered in a paste dominated by pepper and curry leaves; red onion added bite and a squeeze of lime pushed the flavors to the forefront. Give this a try — along with another spice paste-slathered dish, the Pallipayalam chicken from the southern Tamil Nadu region. Don’t be frightened by the dried red chili pods found in the dish, a creamy coating, made with fennel and mustard seed is just polite enough to let the chicken and slices of fresh coconut shine through. On an early recon visit I tried more conventional curries, served with a choice of proteins from the menu’s South Indian Special column. None of the indicated 21 spices stand out in the Chettinad curry, (presumed) lamb version, which makes the dish more comforting than exciting. The Andara Kura with tilapia was only slightly more exhilarating. Its coconut and poppy seeds weren’t especially obvious, but as whole, the item was quietly appealing, especially when served on torn Veechu Parotha, a layered and folded flat bread.
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he Alamo City is blessed — for part of the year, anyway — with great weather. And that makes for some great patio options. Even better, there are plenty that welcome humans and pets alike. Unless business owners invite you to do otherwise, bring a leash for your pets and be mindful of their well-being, especially during the Texas summer.
THE COVE
The Cove is a beer garden, music venue and restaurant — and car wash and laundromat — that offers an outdoor patio with kid and pet-friendly spaces. Ask the staff for a disposable water bowl so your pet can rehydrate while you enjoy a live show or a burger and cold beer. 606 W Cypress St., thecove.us.
THE GOOD KIND
This Southtown cafe offers plentiful seating and a beautiful patio space for gatherings with friends and fur babies. Nibble on the fresh house appetizers, design and drink frosty botanical cocktails, and enjoy The Good Kind’s chill, inviting vibe. 1127 S St Mary’s St., (210) 439-0030, eatgoodkind.com/southtown.
THE LUXURY
Sit on the swings overlooking the San Antonio River and relax over a glass of wine, plate of accurately named “crack fries” and your trustworthy friend by your side. Shaded seating options go fast, so, you might want to bring a water bowl for your dog and SPF for yourself during the summer. 103 E Jones Ave., (210) 354-2274, theluxurysanantonio.mealcreator.website.
DORĆOL DISTILLING + BREWING CO.
A good place to find new dog friends, Dorćol regularly hosts animal-friendly events and local fundraisers with pet-centric organizations. Explore the bar’s beer and rakia-based cocktail options, check out the food pop-ups hosted on-site and tell your pet that they’re the best. 1902 S. Flores St., (210) 229-0607, dorcolspirits.com.
EASTSIDE KITCHENETTE
This newish restaurant’s porch offers a cool, shaded dining experience for animals and humans, no matter the season. You’ll find a straightforward selection of Southern comfort food and a menu with beer, whisky and inventive cocktails to enjoy while your pooch relaxes. 2119 N. Interstate 35, (210) 5072568, theeastsidekitchenette.com.
COMMONWEALTH COFFEEHOUSE
By all means, enjoy a well-made cup of house coffee and a French pastry, but treat leashed pets to a great view of the neighborhood or head to the backyard so they can watch the staff collect farm fresh eggs from the chickens. Bonus: the coffeehouse keeps dog treats for your pups if they feel snacky. 118 Davis Ct., (210) 560-2955, commonwealthcoffeehouse.com.
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THE HOPPY MONK
Bring your pups to this craft beer bar while you enjoy a selection of fun drinks and elevated pub food. Your four-legged buddy will enjoy the ample patio space to keep its paws cool while you sit and enjoy the relaxed vibes. 1010 North Loop 1604 East, thehoppymonk.com/sanantonio.
THE FRIENDLY SPOT
Stop by this Southtown neighborhood bar for optimal patio views of Spurs games, a newly expanded cocktail and beer menu and a special hydration station to keep your pets cool during the hot summer months. 943 S. Alamo St., (210) 224-BEER, thefriendlyspot.com.
LA BOTANICA
This vegan-friendly restaurant provides signature snacks, libations for people and cool water for animals on the outdoor patio. Keep an eye out for fun events and opportunities to connect with and support the local LGBTQ community. 2911 N. St. Mary’s St., (619) 886-2594, vivalabotanica.com.
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Pawty Treats
San Antonio businesses are baking up fresh, flavorful treats for pets
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et treats have come a long way from those sad, boneshaped biscuits sold in grocery stores. You know, the ones with that strange and faintly musty smell. Today, you’ll find specialized pet bakeries serving up chic cakes, cupcakes and cookies for both kittens and pups — and preparing them with some of the same quality ingredients served to humans. What follows are a few San Antonio spots where you’ll find the best snacks for your furry family members.
WOOF GANG BAKERY & GROOMING SAN ANTONIO
This neighborhood shop offers just about every pet food variety, customized birthday cakes, fun ice cream mixes, holiday cookies — all made with no additives and preservatives. They even offer CBD oils if your animals suffer from anxiety. 10003 NW Military Hwy, Suite 1109, (940) 613-5593, woofgangbakery.com.
FIFI AND FIDO’S
Scan the shelves for organic meals or step up to the counter for seasonal and party desserts and savory chews, all made with a holistic approach to pet wellness. Did you forget to prep a spread for your animal’s birthday bash? Pick up a birthday bone, cookie or cupcakes for your pet — and their
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friends — to mark the special occasion. 5120 Broadway, (210) 822-2525, Fifiandfidos.com.
PAWSITIVELY SWEET BAKERY
PAWsitively Sweet lets you make your pet part of every major life milestone, assuming that’s how you roll. It even offers a special gender reveal cake, for example. If that’s a little much, visit the store for grain-free baked bites, clever desserts and “pawty” packs — complete with food, decorations and a stylish bandana. If you really want to spoil your animals, sign up for the store’s monthly subscription service which offers dozens of treat flavors, delivered to your doorstep. 3363 E. Commerce #104, (210) 446-7466, facebook.com/PAWsitivelySweetBakery.
BARKING BAD BAKERY
Fido can pick from a bakery lineup of all-natural organic treats, which offers flavors including beef, apple-bacon, peanut butter and blueberry-banana. The store largely operates online, so you can order treats, CBD bites, custom bow ties and bandanas (including team-centric designs to show Spurs pride) to keep them looking and feeling their best, without ever stepping foot in a store. 5811 Spring Crossing, (210) 9602663, barkingbadbakery.com.
PET WANTS
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Owners Julia Gonzalez and Oscar Zuleta stock their brick-and-mortar store with small batch snacks that are tasty and delicious — for cats and dogs at least, as we haven’t sampled them ourselves. In addition to Pawtato Chips, flavored with peanut butter powder, you’ll find house-made jerky, freezedried salmon and surf-and-turf bites. Be sure to ask any nutrition-related questions — this staff knows their stuff. 5005 Broadway Street, (210) 769-6994, petwantssanantonio.com.
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Did you accomplish what you set out to do? Oh, yeah. I totally think I did. It was really nice to show up and just do my thing and just watch my girls go off too. And just be on a schedule that I didn’t have to control, just showing up and being able to do my thing was really nice.
Four San Antonio artists reflect on surviving the musical insanity that is SXSW
LIL YODAA RAPPER
This was your first official showcase, right? How did it go? Yes. I did three shows total, including the official showcase. It was dope and all the family came out and supported. We had a blast. There was a great crowd reaction.
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round a dozen San Antonio acts played Austin’s South by Southwest the festival this year. After they’d had a week to unwind and reflect, we thought we’d catch up with a handful to ask them they got out of the experience.
KP THA PROFIT 5 RAPPER
So, first off, how did the show go? It was dope … Shout out my Austin family. They always really hold it down for us every time we’re in the city. With them being in Austin and them being hands-on with South By, it was a blessing to be a part of their showcase. It was at Scratchouse, and it was in the back, so I was kind of skeptical, because it was cold Saturday night. I was like, ‘Damn, we’re gonna be outside?’ But we go to the back, and there was a dope tent set up, so you couldn’t even really feel the cold, so it was real dope. We had a big crowd, and everything went smooth, everyone received the music pretty good, and they were rocking with us. If you could do SXSW differently, what would you do? I think for us, it would probably start prior to South By, and I think that’s tapping in with more South By promoters, to get more showcases, because I’m cool with the showcase that we were on, and the showcases we’ve been on in prior years, but I would like to spread my wings a little bit and touch a different crowd and different fan base. Like unofficial showcases too? Yeah. It would be a blessing to be a part of any showcases. It doesn’t have to be official showcases, especially being that we already had one
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on Saturday. We would’ve played anything leading up to that or that same night or whatever. I don’t think that I would’ve done anything different, it’s just what I would’ve done more of it. In previous years we had multiple shows, and that’s what I was kind of banking on for this year, but it didn’t happen.
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What do you think the difference was between being official and having unofficial showcases? Being that it was an actual SXSW showcase, the difference was the amount of people that were watching. The other shows were during the day, and the official showcase was at night, and it was just something that people were going to since this was the actual official show. What would you do differently next time? I wouldn’t necessarily do anything different, really. Just capitalize on the opportunities that come up.
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What was the audience response? Even though it was an unofficial show, this lineup was still mostly my friends and the audience was the type to be able to understand that what I’m doing is more observation [rather than interaction]. But I wanted to put more dance elements in it, because I forget that sometimes people do come to these things sometimes to
It seemed like there was a lot of focus on the up-and-coming artists this year rather than huge headliners. What do you think? I love getting in the mode of stretching yourself thin and not worrying about money, playing as much as you possibly can. Because something eventually does come out of this, whether it’s a new fan or a new friend. Something eventually does come out of it, and it’s fun. It’s a rock ’n’ roll marathon. I like the madness aspect of it. All of the up-and-comers were running around … That’s where you want to be.
The first chunk of my set was really experimental and a bit more [harsh] and avant-garde, and there was a lot of observing and listening, [while] the second half was a little bit more danceable with techno beats to get people ready for the other performers. Overall, it was a lot of fun. A lot of people were coming up to me and telling me that they really liked it and that it inspired them to think about the production and the [sounds I was making].
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ometimes when musicians move away from San Antonio to further their careers, they receive a backlash. But with Darian Thomas, who’s coming up on a year since relocating to Brooklyn, it seems like the local community continues to cheer him on. From growing up with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) and performing in his electronic project Saturn Skies to handling violin duties in heavy-hitting acts like Deer Vibes, Femina-X and the Foreign Arm, Thomas’ omnipresence was a major asset to the Alamo City music scene. Still, when he announced he was moving to Brooklyn to further his music career, we sent him off with love. Watching Thomas with Brooklyn-based alt-Latino indie-pop band Balún at a South by Southwest showcase last week was to witness an artist performing at full capacity. Beaming with joy, he appeared to be exactly where he needed to be — onstage at a major music festival and rocking out to the percussive grooves with his long dreadlocks bouncing behind him. Afterward, Thomas said his time in the Alamo City prepared him to find his place in the saturated music hub that is NYC. “I think San Antonio is a really great training ground to try everything, which was why I was in like six bands and YOSA,” he said. “Because I knew when I went out to Brooklyn, I wanted to be able to be put in any situation and just figure it out.” It appears Thomas has indeed been figuring it out. On top of playing violin for Balún, he’s also in another six ensembles. And, while he says he misses the people and food in San Antonio, it’s clear he’s thriving in a new environment that’s offering more opportunities for his art — and at a rewarding pace. “At times it’s hard, everything’s way
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more expensive,” Thomas said. “But I like the fact that people move quicker — like people are OK with being uncomfortable for really long periods of time, which I think works better for me.” Thomas added that he has plans to make more music in San Antonio, but he couldn’t provide additional details. Yet. Balún’s performance took place inside a ballroom in the Austin Convention Center, which felt a little sterile, but the band still had an amazing sound. Frontwoman Angélica Negrón said it was a nice change to be performing in a convention center instead of a bar this go-round, as a six-piece band can be a challenge for a sound guy to mix. “It’s been helpful for us, because we have lots of layers and lots of instruments,” Negrón said. “It’s definitely challenging to play South By, because there’s no sound check for anyone, so it was just more comforting to know that there are more people on the [SXSW] team helping out [with sound].” It was Balún’s third time at the festival and the second for Thomas, since he played a showcase with Deer Vibes in 2016. “Darian brings a youthful and positive energy, and [his] musicianship and artistry is inspiring,” Negrón said. “It’s tricky to find players to get what we’re doing, because it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, [this is] electronica or rock.’ But it’s not really any of those, but it’s all of them, and [the person] needs to be not like a great violinist only, but a good fit musically — someone who really gets it. And we’re really grateful to have Darian.”
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Favorite Son is singer-songwriter Cooper Greenberg on guitar plus a couple of friends on bass and percussion. We were duly impressed when we saw the group play at Imagine Books & Records’ Imagine Fest a few weeks back. Driven by Greenberg’s clever guitar work, Favorite Son matches the rustic textures of Americana with the soulful edge of blues for a combination that’s pretty amazing. Free, 8:30pm, The Cove, 606 W. Cypress St., (210) 227-2683, thecove.us. — Chris Conde
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Canadian crooner, songwriter, producer, and actor Michael Bublé is an international institution at this point. That doesn’t mean that everyone in the world loves him, but it’s certainly hard to escape him. Since the early 2000s, Bublé has enjoyed wild success on the merits of his singular voice, which situates him squarely in the lineage of other great, classic-pop fixtures before him. Now, with his 10th studio album Love, released last November, Bublé comes to town on his first major tour since 2015. In the interim, he’s been dealing with his son Noah’s cancer and largely focusing on
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British singer-songwriter Ella Mai, a low-key R&B powerhouse in the making, is bringing her considerable talents to town this week. While not a household
name (yet), she’s been putting in the work for several years and started to rise to prominence thanks to the popularity of her 2018 single “Boo’d Up.” The release was produced, like much of her work, by the legendary DJ Mustard and is featured on Mai’s self-titled 2018 debut LP. Prior to her official arrival, Mai released a series of three solid EPs showcasing her range as a singer, her promise as a songwriter and honing her craft until she could be as nonchalantly confident in her powers as she is today. Don’t miss this chance to catch a star on the rise. $105-$157, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St Mary’s, (210) 8124355, theaztectheatre.com. — JC
BOY HARSHER + BOAN L Thursday, March 28
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Fans of hardware-based electronic music that defers to adventurousness over adrenaline are in for a treat of a double bill this week. For starters, local lovers of outré electro will likely be familiar with Austin’s Boan. The duo, comprised of José Cota (also of SSLEEPERHOLD) and Mariana Saldaña (previously of //TENSE//), makes stark and romantic synthwave-influenced music, as evidenced on the outfit’s stellar 2015 release MENTIRAS, available at holodeckrecords.bandcamp. com. But the fun doesn’t end there. Boan is joined by like-minded Massachusetts act Boy Harsher, which brings its own version of retro darkwave/coldwave music. Boy Harsher just released a fine new LP, Careful, back in February, which you can find at boyharsher.bandcamp.com. Considered together, the two acts, both influential in their respective spheres, demonstrate the potential fruitfulness of
Saturday, March 30
For this show, a couple of new-school Texas roots music hotshots join forces to double the delight for attendees at Texas’ oldest dancehall. First of all, the elder of the two-headed behemoth of a bill is Austin’s Band of Heathens. Known since its 2005 start for delivering an ass-kicking live show, the Heathens serve up a unique interpretation and amalgamation of traditional Texas musical stylings. It is basically a jam band, but with deep roots in country, blues, folk and soul. Just last year, Band of Heathens dropped its sixth studio album, A Message from the People Revisited, which would be a fine place to begin for anyone looking to get familiar with the outfit beforehand. Joining the Heathens are the Texas Gentlemen, a Dallas-based roots-rock act that has, in just six years of existence, already raised quite a bit of hell and even played as George Strait’s backing band a time or two. Sounds like quite the Saturday night to be had in small town Texas. $20, 8pm, Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene, New Braunfels, (830) 6061281, gruenehall.com. — JC
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Kodak Black can’t not keep it real, almost to a fault. Sort of like how Norweigian black metal artists go to the lengths of burning down churches. Well, maybe not so much anymore, but still… Some rappers maybe immerse themselves in the lifestyle that they rap about to give their sound more of an edge. For Kodak Black, he’s both glamorized the criminal lifestyle and talked about getting out of it. That kind of honesty has helped fuel his massive following. $49.50-$69.50, 8pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — CC
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Death Cab for Cutie wrote some of the most emotive early-2000s anthems ever, which solidified their legacy in the indie rock world. Between Transatlanticism and Plans, the band explored themes of love, relationship and social interaction, romanticizing depression in a way that sad angsty teens could really get into. Supporting act My Brightest Diamond is a phenomenal singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who worked with legendary indie-rock artist Sufjan Stevens. $39.50-$59.50, 7pm, Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — CC
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“What could be better than a swan dive into the asphalt?” Definitely one of the lyrics that’s stayed with us since HED P.E. first landed on the nu-metal scene in the early 2000s. The band weren’t the biggest player in the genre, but it certainly built a following thanks to its ability to mix radical politics and reggae into its fusion of rap and guitar-heavy rock. $14, 8pm, The Rock Box, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 677-9453, therockboxsa.com. — CC
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A pinch of ska, a dash of punk, a sprinkle of pop and a healthy dose of good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll, and you’ve got all the basic elements that make up Bowling for Soup. Hailing from Denton by way of Wichita Falls, the hard-touring act has continued to bring punk rock fans into its bosom since forming in 1994. $21, 8pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 677-9453, papertigersatx. com. — CC
So, if you actually are a fan of Godsmack and don’t change the dial when KISS-FM plays “Voodoo” for the 12th time that day, you might be excited to learn that they have a new album out. Well, sort of newish. Released last April, When Legends Rise actually isn’t a bad release if you dig nu metal, radio-friendly rock or shout-along anthems. $39-$350, 7:30pm, Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St., (210) 2261177, freemancoliseum.com. — CC
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After least heading through the Alamo City in 2017 with co-headliners Abbath, Children of Bodom are returning with Swallow the Sun, Wolfheart and Fragmentum along for the ride. Known for matching elements of American thrash with new-school death metal and Scandinavian black metal, Children of Bodom have never been shy about exploring the boundaries of extreme metal. $27.50-$33, 7pm, The Rock Box, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 677-9453, therockboxsa.com. — CC
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Bedroom pop royalty, Sales have been making a name for themselves the past couple years with a dreamy yet guitar-forward sound. The Orlando-based two-piece (actually a three-piece when they tour) are leading the charge for a wave of Mazzy Star-esque music that’s equal parts melancholy and ethereal — and we’re here for it. $20-$22, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 677-9453, papertigersatx.com. – CC
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BY SHANNON SWEET WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 THE HOLDUP
While the mix of pop and reggae had a ’90s day in the sun thanks to outfits like Sublime and No Doubt, the genre mashup never really went away. Instead, it’s been low-key chilling in its weed-scented bedroom. The Holdup is a pop-hip hop-reggae fusion band out of SoCal — apparently a breeding ground for sun-soaked stoners with guitars — and it’s been consistently churning out solid party anthems. $13-$15, Paper Tiger, 8pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 28 KEVIN FOWLER
Even if his brand of high-energy, catchier-than-hell, red Solo cup-swiggin’ country checks off all the “you might be a redneck if” stereotypes, Texas-born-and-bred Kevin Fowler is damn proud of his home state. Early on, the Amarillo native got a career boost when several established country singers covered his hit “Beer, Bait, & Ammo,” but he’s since built his own following of folks willing party anywhere Fowler shows up with a six string and a six pack. $25-$40, The Rustic, 6pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 29 SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY: TUSCAN TOUR OF TASTE
When a tour of Tuscany comes to mind, folks often picture a heaping plate of lasagna or postcard-ready Italian landmarks, but the San Antonio Symphony’s “Tuscan Tour of Taste” is aiming for something other than sightseeing or carbo-loading. By serving up selections from Rossini, Verdi and Puccini — Italy’s musical equivalent to its famed Renaissance visual artists — the symphony will present a musical tour of the region from the comfort of the seats at the Tobin Center. $10-$96, Tobin Center, 8pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE: DEVOTION & RESILIENCE Though the Romantic Era composers that instantly spring to mind are Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner and Tchaikovsky, women, too, had a place in the pantheon of musical brilliance. And many created masterworks despite the barriers of sexism. Among those female composers, Clara Schumann and Grażyna
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SUNDAY, MARCH 31 JANOSKA ENSEMBLE: THE BEATLES TO BACH
On top of its own compositions, virtuoso quartet the Janoska Esemble seamlessly combine the pop compositions of the Beatles with the baroque orchestrations of Bach to create a fresh approach to music not tied to genre. The results are bound to be stirring. Free, San Fernando Cathedral, 3pm
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While the name Flow Tribe may be evocative of meditation music to get your Zen on, the New Orleans enseble’s sound is quite the opposite. The six-member band stirs up the sounds of Big Easy funk, brass and calypso into an undeniably groovy cocktail. Even the dead can’t resist the overpowering urge to shake it to beats this funky. $10-$45, Sam’s Burger Joint, 7pm
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facial features 20 “Yeah right!” 21 Muscular contractions 22 Art sch. class 26 Intelligible 27 12th of 12 28 Crowd noise 31 On point 32 Timothy Leary’s hallucinogen 33 ___ kwon do 35 Org. that’s supposed to be green 36 Little drink 37 Did some diagnostic work, maybe 38 “Modern Family” rating 39 One of many in a googol 42 Talk incessantly 43 Giant step 44 Prepared, as water for pasta 46 “The End of the Innocence” singer Don 47 “The Crow” actress ___ Ling 50 Bread from a tandoor 51 Take to the rink 52 “Fingers crossed” 54 “Desus & ___” (2019 late-night Showtime TV show) 55 Seafood dip ingredient 56 Dour 59 Tiny 60 Romulans, e.g. ANSWER ON PAGE 23
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ACROSS 1 “Who’s there?” reply 6 Sitcom set in suburban Houston 10 Org. overseeing summer and winter competitions 13 NASCAR participant 14 “___ Through the Gift Shop” 15 “It’s ___ sham!” 16 Maker of the 2600 17 Late arrival 19 “1984” actor with 7 Oscar nominations and no wins 21 President between Roosevelt and Wilson 23 “Carte” or “mode” preceder 24 “Watchmen” actor Jackie ___ Haley 25 Go to hell ___ handbasket 26 Jost cohost 27 Practice figures, for short? 29 Committed response 30 Chocolate source 32 Most negligible 34 Composer/lyricist of “Godspell” with 6 Tony nominations and no wins (not counting an honorary Tony) 40 Lacking enthusiasm 41 Lift with force 42 Brandenburg Concertos monogram 45 Freestyle, perhaps 46 “Ballers” network
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ID#
YEAR
MAKE
MODEL
VIN
CHARGES
ID#
YEAR
MAKE
MODEL
VIN
CHARGES
ID#
2300733
2006
TRAILER
UTILITY TRAILER
2M512146161108240
$21,284.58
2303724
2002
HYUNDAI
SONATA
KMHWF25S02A571740
$27,172.85
2861027
2303223
2013
TRAILER
TRAILER
4YMUL0814DB031179
$43,896.30
2303724
1979
DODGE
RV
52G47308S9003
$1,627.00
2783540
MOTORCYCLE
MAKE
MODEL
VIN
CHARGES
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
1UYFS2488CA204934
$4,340.84
1971
TRAILER
TRAILER
35239
$3,725.60
2401501
1900
GO CART
OTHER
7157708114R13
$10,198.95
2939555
1989
KAWASAKI
JKAKXRG18KA005364
$1,647.20
2561564
2016
OTHER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$7,437.50
2300677
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
5VGFW503781001917
$23,755.58
2668152
2012
DODGE
RAM
3C6JD6AT5CG277237
$5,522.55
2724270
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$4,459.90
2701857
1900
RV
OTHER
7CASA26W9SC002244
$5,099.30
2877445
2000
SCOOTER
OTHER
TTA15M0166
$2,469.90
2811806
1983
OTHER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$3,335.90
2619722
2001
BULL DOZER
OTHER
WA2503MCA71295
$7,442.35
2854670
2006
SCION
TC
JTKDE167060126700
$2,751.35
2785679
2018
OTHER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$3,491.62
2650825
1900
HONDA
MOTORCYCLE
CB7502507003
$5,804.00
2303918
1900
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$85,365.95
2654323
1900
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$5,739.05
2879235
1999
DODGE
RAM
3B7HC12Y5XG118750
$2,448.25
2724358
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$4,634.90
2883128
2018
OTHER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$2,383.30
2779987
2006
KAWASAKI
MOTORCYCLE
1KAEXEA136A004403
$3,768.90
2689650
2000
MINI-BIKE
OTHER
NO VIN
$5,176.15
2819996
2008
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$3,227.65
2301183
2004
CHEVY
SILVERADO
1GCHC24U54E310317
$17,413.05
2303504
-
HARLEY DAVIDSON
-
NO VIN
$31,957.50
2300993
2009
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$19,123.40
2387582
1900
ATV
OTHER
L6ZSCJLA1F1031732
$10,437.10
2768058
1900
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$3,963.75
2837008
1999
BOAT
BOAT
NO VIN
$2,989.50
2630779
2000
SCOOTER
OTHER
131450160300456
$6,150.40
2623530
2000
BOAT TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$6,258.65
2837021
1999
BOAT TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$2,989.50
2663945
1996
RV
OTHER
63670
$5,499.35
2303917
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$85,365.95
2676154
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$5,217.65
2696901
1980
HONDA
MOTORCYCLE
SC022002963
$5,185.90
2725850
2000
TRAILER
TRAILER
NO VIN
$5,741.25
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etc FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street is the world’s most famous puppet. He has recorded songs, starred in films and TV shows, and written an autobiography. His image has appeared on postage stamps and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kermit’s beginnings were humble, however. When his creator Jim Henson first assembled him, he consisted of Henson’s mom’s green coat and two halves of a white ping pong ball. I mention this, Aries, because the current astrological omens suggest that you, too, could make a puppet that will one day have great influence. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. Here’s the whole truth: now isn’t a favorable time to start work on a magnificent puppet. But it is a perfect moment to launch the rough beginnings of a project that’s well-suited for your unique talents.
on every situation. But I don’t recommend that you name entire cities after yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus businessman Chuck Feeney made a huge fortune as the entrepreneur who co-developed duty-free shopping. But at age 87, he lives frugally, having given away $8 billion to philanthropic causes. He doesn’t even own a house or car. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to follow his lead in the coming weeks. Be unreasonably generous and exorbitantly helpful. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. While it’s true that now is an extra favorable time to bestow blessings on everyone, you shouldn’t go overboard. Make sure your giving is artful, not careless or compulsive.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies show that people who love grilled cheese sandwiches engage in more sexual escapades than those who don’t gorge on grilled cheese sandwiches. So I advise you to eat a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, because then you will have more sex than usual. And that’s important, because you are now in a phase when you will reap huge healing benefits from having as much sex as possible. APRIL FOOL! I lied when I implied that eating more grilled cheese sandwiches would motivate you to have more sex. But I wasn’t lying when I said that you should have more sex than usual. And I wasn’t lying when I said you will reap huge benefits from having as much sex as possible. (P.S. If you don’t have a partner, have sex with your fantasies or yourself.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a perfect time to start learning the Inuktitut language spoken by the indigenous people of Eastern Canada. Here are some key phrases to get you underway. 1. UllusiuKattagit inosek: Celebrate your life! 2. Pitsialagigavit, piggogutivagit!: Because you’re doing amazing things, I’m proud of you! 3. Nalligijauvutit: You are loved! 4. Kajusitsiatuinnagit: Keep it up! APRIL FOOL! I lied. Now isn’t really a better time than any other to learn the Inuktitut language. But it is an important time to talk to yourself using phrases like those I mentioned. You need to be extra kind and super positive toward yourself. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When he was twenty years old, Greek military leader Alexander the Great began to conquer the world. By age 30, he ruled the vast territory between Greece and northwest India. Never shy about extolling his own glory, he named 70 cities after himself. I offer his example as a model for you. Now is a favorable time to name clouds after yourself, as well as groves of trees, stretches of highway, buses, fire hydrants, parking spaces, and rocks. APRIL FOOL. I got a bit carried away. It’s true that now is a good time to assert your authority, extend your clout, and put your unique stamp
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to join an exotic religion. How about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which believes that true spiritual devotion requires an appreciation of satire? Or how about Discordianism, which worships the goddess of chaos and disorder? Then there’s the United Church of Bacon, whose members exult in the flavor of their favorite food. (Here’s a list of more: tinyurl.com/WeirdReligions.) APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t entirely truthful. It’s accurate to say that now is a great time to reinvigorate and transform your spiritual practice. But it’s better if you figure that out by yourself. There’s no need to get your ideas from a bizarre cult.
scrupulously avoid irritations and aggravations, especially little ones. Instead, immerse yourself in comfort and ease. Be as free from vexation as you have ever been! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If allowed to do what comes naturally, two rabbits and their immediate descendants will produce 1,300 new rabbits in twelve months’ time. In five years, their offspring would amount to 94 million. I suspect that you will approach this level of fertility in the next four weeks, at least in a metaphorical sense. APRIL FOOL! I stretched the truth a bit. There’s no way you will produce more than a hundred good new ideas and productions and gifts. At the most, you’ll generate a mere 50. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The weather is warm year-round and the crime rate is low on Pitcairn, a remote South Pacific island that is a 30-hour boat ride away from the nearest airport. The population has been dwindling in recent years, however, which is why the government offers foreigners free land if they choose to relocate. You might want to consider taking advantage of this opportunity. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. It’s true that you could get major health benefits by taking a sabbatical from civilization. But there’s no need to be so drastic about it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don’t have to run faster than the bear that’s chasing you. You just have to run faster than the slowest person the bear is chasing. OK? So don’t worry! APRIL FOOL! What I just said wasn’t your real horoscope. I hope you know me well enough to understand that I would NEVER advise you to save your own ass by betraying or sacrificing someone else. It’s also important to note that the bear I mentioned is entirely metaphorical in nature. So please ignore what I said earlier. However, I do want you to know that there are effective ways to elude the symbolic bear that are also honorable. To discover them, meditate on calming down the beastly bear-like qualities in yourself. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is a favorable time to disguise yourself as a bland nerd with no vivid qualities, or a shy wallflower with no strong opinions, or a polite wimp who prefers to avoid adventure. Please don’t even consider doing anything that’s too interesting or controversial. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, I hope you’ll do the opposite of what I suggested. I think it’s time to express your deep authentic self with aggressive clarity. Be brave and candid and enterprising.
THIS MODERN WORLD BY TOM TOMORROW
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you ever spend time at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, you’ll get a chance to become a member of the 300 Club. To be eligible, you wait till the temperature ouside drops to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it does, you spend 20 minutes in a sauna heated to 200 degrees. Then you exit into the snow and ice wearing nothing but white rubber boots, and run a few hundred feet to a ceremonial pole and back. In so doing, you expose your naked body to a swing of 300 degrees. According to my astrological analysis, now is an ideal time to pull off this feat. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not really urging you to join the 300 Club. On the other hand, I do think it’s a favorable phase to go to extremes for an authentically good cause. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scientific research shows that if you arrange to get bitten by thousands of mosquitoes in a relatively short time, you make yourself immune. Forever after, mosquito bites won’t itch you. Now would be an excellent time for you to launch such a project. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should do that. On the contrary. You should sacurrent.com | March 27–April 9, 2019 | CURRENT
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