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San Antonio’s Animal Care Services shelter is in danger of falling short of its “no-kill” standard for the first time in five years, the Express-News reports. Shelters must release 90% or more of the animals that come into their care to be considered “no-kill,” but Animal Care Services only released 88% between October and July. The shelter is set to get a 15.7% funding bump in the next city budget. Bud Light has unveiled new, limited-edition UTSA-themed bo le designs to mark the beginning of the new college football season. The 16-ounce aluminum bo les bear the school’s “Birds Up” slogan and will be sold at the Alamodome during games as well as in stores and bars around the city. The Roadrunners are coming off an outstanding 2021 season in which the team went 12-2 and won the Conference USA championship game.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents appear to be struggling to tell the difference between marijuana and hemp products, the la er now legal under the 2018 Farm Bill. The agency recently posted a notice announcing that it’s looking for portable cannabis analyzers to be er determine what products are and what they contain. Texas law enforcement officials have similarly struggled to tell illegal weed and legal hemp apart since the state legalized hemp earlier this year.

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Following an outcry from conservatives, the State Board of Education is preparing to delay a scheduled revision of Texas’ social studies curriculum until 2025. The board voted late last month to only revise the curriculum to ensure its compliance with the Critical Race Theory ban signed last year by Gov. Greg Abbo , and not to make any of the other changes to the curriculum it had proposed. One Democratic member accused the board of “giving up.”

— Rio Grande City Mayor Joel Villarreal to theTexasTribune about a study predicting the state’s heat index could rise to 125 overthe next 30 years.

Failing to stay out of jail with Oath Keepers attorney Kellye SoRelle Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Kellye SoRelle, the Texas-based general counsel for right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers, was arrested last week and indicted on four counts related to the Capitol a Aack.federal grand jury indicted the a orney on counts of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice and misdemeanor entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, according to the U.S. Justice Department. She was arrested in the town of Junction, an hour and a half northwest of San Antonio, the Texas Tribune reports.

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Advocates including former Mayor Henry Cisneros are calling on the city to approve funding for a bus line that would make 20 one-way trips between San Antonio and Austin daily. The bus, which would cost $10 for passengers, would make the trip in 90 minutes with stops in New Braunfels and San Marcos. A two-year pilot program would cost $1.5 million — considerably less than any proposal from billionaire Elon Musk to connect the two cities via tunnels.

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HVanessa Beasley has begun work as Trinity University’s newest president, becoming the first woman to lead the school. Beasley, who first visited Trinity on a college visit with her son, arrives at the school after 15 years at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she started as an associate professor of communication studies before moving into administrative roles.

Officials at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services took extraordinary steps to hide details of their investigations into families accused of providing gender-affirming care to their children, according to reporting from the Texas Tribune and Dallas Morning News. The investigations show that department officials told employees to stay off social media and refrain from communicating about cases via email or text, even with the families under investigation. “This will get messy,” one supervisor wrote in an email.

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The indictment documents are sparse on details but allege that SoRelle, 43, persuaded or a empted to persuade people to withhold records from the grand jury investigation of the Jan. 6 a ack and that she destroyed or altered documents to prevent their potential use by the grand jury. SoRelle appeared in the U.S. House’s Jan. 6 commi ee hearings and spoke to the committee, according to press reports. Her boss, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, is facing trial later this month along with others in his merry band on seditious conspiracy charges.

“Where we’re wanting to plant there [in Mahncke Park], there is more of a hostility towards the gospel,” Young says in the clip, which was uploaded in February. “Do I want to bring my kids to that, and see some of that? I think God’s calling us to do that.”   During his interview with Christian YouTube channel The Time & Place, Young elaborates that he was drawn to open his Garden City Church after seeing yard signs in the largely gentrified, north-of-downtown neighborhood displaying the pro-LGBTQ+ “rainbow colors with each of the five secular creed“They[sic].”have a sign in their yard. I know exactly what they believe,” the pastor says in the video. “And so I know what idols they have.” Young also explains in the clip that he chose Lamar because 80% of San Antonio Independent School District students are low-income, ratcheting up pressure for the campus to continue extending a welcome to his church. “Part of our strategy is to — we think God is calling us to be a generous church, financially,” he says. “And so, how do we bless the school and the teachers, and the students and the admin — and everything there — to where, in two years, they couldn’t imagine us not being there anymore? And so, we want to be able to share the gospel with all of them but we want them to think, ‘Man, if they leave, this is gonna go downhill really quickly.’” Mahncke Park residents began voicing concerns online Sunday after Young revealed plans for the church in the neighborhood’s Facebook group. The pastor posted an announcement that he would hold a meeting with residents at neighborhood tavern The Pigpen to discuss Garden City Church’s arrival at Lamar. “As a Lamar parent, I am concerned that we were not notified about this agreement until it was already done,” one resident posted in response. “I also want to know what steps will be taken to prevent ... religious literature [from] being left out for students to read.” “This is very disturbing,” another added. “Public (public!) schools should not be hosts to religious gatherings.”

The Current opted not to identify the commenters by name since the Facebook page is a members-only group.

A district spokeswoman responded to inquiries with a one-sentence statement: “We are investigating this ma er to determine our next steps.”

Mahncke Park residents are concerned about a church’s plan to operate from public school in their neighborhood

BY SANFORD NOWLIN Mahncke Park residents are reacting with anger and concern to a pastor’s deal to rent space at a public school so he can use it to house a church proselytizing to the neighborhood.Much of the concern stems from an hour-long YouTube interview in which Pastor Carl Young says he’s “planting” his church in Mahncke Park because of its progressive views, which he argues run counter to Jesus’ teachings. Further, the pastor says his agreement with Lamar Elementary School will place financial pressure on the campus to continue hosting his church.

“Is it appropriate that our local public school supports one religion over any other?” posted a third resident. “Glad my child no longer a ends (or maybe the school is glad he doesn’t).”

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As of press time, SAISD has declined to answer the Current’s questions about specifics of the school’s agreement with Garden City Church and what kind of research officials conducted into Young and his organization.

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The district’s terse response follows a statement from Lamar Elementary officials posted Tuesday to the Mahncke Park neighborhood Facebook page.  That message, which was subsequently removed, included assurances that the school’s rental rules prohibit the church from giving flyers to students or speaking to them about services. The church is also barred from Google Maps

The group’s co-founder and one-time head, Mark Driscoll, experienced a 2014 fall from grace over complaints from employees and congregants of his Mars Hill Church alleging he engaged in abusive behavior. The 2021 podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill chronicled Driscoll’s eventual resignation from his church over the complaints. Even before that scandal, Driscoll faced accusations of creating a hostile environment for women via his teachings. After evangelist Ted Haggard was caught in a sex scandal involving a male escort, Driscoll drew fire for a blog suggesting the preacher’s wife deserved at least some of the blame. “A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband ... is not responsible for her husband’s sin, but she may not be helping him either,” DriscollDriscollwrote.also faced a public skewering over an online screed wri en under a pseudonym in which he called the United States a “pussified nation” dragged down by feminism, homosexual behavior and “emasculated” men.

In the acclaimed 2020 book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, religious scholar Kristin Kobes du Mez argues that Acts 29 and other so-called “New Calvinist” groups propagate a “masculine theology” that’s “remarkably unconcerned about the concentration of unchecked power in the hands of Inmen.” awri en statement supplied to TV station KSAT, Young appeared determined to stick with his deal with Lamar, even in the face of blowback.

Even so, Acts 29’s website still shows Chandler listed as its board president. Sanford Nowlin M“They have a sign in their yard. I know exactly what they believe,” pastor Carl Young says of Mahncke Park residents.

“We really want to serve the faculty and students of Lamar however we can outside of Sundays,” he says.   What’s more, SAISD’s school facilities agreement states that the district can scrap applications from a group that “discriminates against any person on the basis of disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.” Young’sspecific

“For as long as we can, we intend to uphold our part of the agreement with SAISD/Lamar Elementary, even if they are unable to fulfill their part,” he said. Acts 29 controversy Acts 29’s views on gender roles aren’t the only aspect of the organization that has drawn scrutiny.

sacurrent.com | September 7 –20, 2022 CURRENT 13 using the facilities on days when school is in session, according to the notice. “Our school is not in the business of promoting specific ideologies or religious views,” Lamar officials said in the unsigned statement. “We also recognize our campus serves as a community hub, and community partners can request to rent campus space from SAISD.”Asof the Current’s Friday evening press time, the district announced plans for a Tuesday, Sept. 6 meeting in the Lamar Elemenary library to discuss its school rental policies. While SAISD has been publicly quiet about its feelings on Garden City Church, a member of District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez’s staff said she’s aware of opposition behind theAnscenes.SAISD board member contacted the councilman’s office to voice concerns and noted that Superintendent Jaime Aquino is aware of residents’ worries, said Denise Hernández, McKee-Rodriguez’s deputy director of policy.McKee-Rodriguez, whose district includes Mahncke Park, told the Current he plans to write a le er opposing the church’s presence on the Lamar campus. SAISD facilities rules   In Facebook posts, Mahncke Park residents argued that Garden City Church — especially in light of Young’s video clip — is violating SAISD rules on use of school facilities. Those guidelines state that the district can reject applications “if any group requesting usage misrepresents itself or their activity.”  Despite Lamar’s assurance to residents that the church won’t meet on school days or interact with students, Young’s video interview suggests he may not be willing to hold to those limits. In the clip, the pastor says he wants to interact with faculty and students.

mention of targeting Mahncke Park because of its rainbow yard signs raises questions about the church’s views on LGBTQ+ equality. Further, the pastor has said the church is aligned with the doctrine of a religious network of more than 800 churches called Acts 29. The organization holds that God has “given to the man primary responsibility to lead his wife and family,” according to its website. While Acts 29 describes itself as a “diverse, global community,” it prohibits women from becoming pastors or church elders. All six members of its board of directors are men.

The nonprofit group’s chief goal is to “plant” a network of churches that uphold its New Calvinist theology, even going so far as to reveal plans in January to provide up to $50,000 in startup money for each new church founded under its sponsorship. In his YouTube interview, Young says the money he plans to give Lamar would be enough to provide a teacher’s salary. Compensation for new teachers at SAISD starts at $54,200 annually, according to the district’s 2021-2022 manual. Overthe years, Acts 29’s leaders have been lightning rods for controversy.

Concerns about the leadership ranks at Acts 29 haven’t died down since Driscoll’s departure. In 2020, the organization’s board removed CEO Steve Timmis after receiving accusations about his “abusive leadership.” An investigation by Christianity Today found 15 people willing to air allegations of abuse and intimidation against the English pastor. And, just this week, Acts 29 revealed that it asked current Board President Ma Chandler to step aside from speaking engagements after The Village Church (TVC), the North Texas congregation he leads, looked into allegations that he sent inappropriate social media messages to a woman in hisTVCflock.officials “concluded that though Ma was not involved in a romantic relationship with this woman, in this messaging he failed to live up to the standard of conduct expected of a church elder,” Acts 29 said in a statement posted Sunday. “The Acts 29 Board has decided to follow the lead of TVC and ask Ma to step away from his Acts 29 speaking engagements during this time,” the statement continued. “Executive Director Brian Howard, who has provided day-to-day leadership for Acts 29 since May 2020, will continue to lead Acts 29 in our commitment to plant disciple-making churches worldwide.”

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“A lot of people concluded, ‘We’re making as much money or more money not working at all,’” he said. “And so, guess what? They chose not to work. And they’ve been reluctant to come back to work. They got used to it.” This stereotype of the lazy freeloader veers from lived reality. Not only do workers in the United States already put in longer hours than most working classes on the planet — and without the vacations and family leave all other developed nations mandate by law — the COVID stimulus also empowered substantially more of us to start our own“Inenterprises. 2020,Americans applied for more than 4.3 million employer identification numbers — a first step to launching a new business,” Jorge Guzman of Columbia Business School wrote in The Financial Times. “That is a 24% increase from 2019, with the largest increases in BlackTherecommunities.”alsowasscant evidence that Republican governors who callously cut off unemployment checks during a national emergency accomplished much. Last September, according to the Marxists over at The Wall Street Journal, “States that ended enhanced federal unemployment benefits early have so far seen about the same job growth as states that continued offering the pandemic-related extra aid.”

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That’s false. Not even half were obese. And as Dr. Keith Roach, who writes the To Your Good Health column for the Express-News, noted this past winter, bogus statistics like Mackey’s “blame the victims of this terrible pandemic” and “falsely reassure people of normal weight that they have li le to fear from COVID-19.”Presaging the youth-bashing that ratcheted up with President Joe Biden’s modest student debt relief, Mackey went on to gripe about unemployment compensation in the COVID stimulus.

“My concern is I feel like socialists are taking over,” Mackey said, at last unleashing his inner Joe McCarthy. “They’re marching through the institutions. They’re taking everything over. They’ve taken over education. They’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. They’ve taken over the military.” This brand of clownish Invasion of the Body Snatchers-conspiracism would have pleased the John Birch Society, past members of which were positive President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Soviet spy. To proclaim that socialists run the armed forces, your neighborhood school and much of Big Business, one must rely on an exceedingly loose definition of socialism bordering on incoherence.Turnsoutwe can thank Mackey’s upcoming retirement for his recent courage in Red-baiting. Ever since comparing the Affordable Care Act to “fascism” in 2009, he’s said he felt “muzzled” by Whole Foods’ corporate brass. “My board basically shut me down, and I was intimidated enough to shut up,” he told Reason If only he were a member of a labor union that protects workers from reprisal for freely expressing their political beliefs, as democratic socialists continue to passionately agitate for. Regrettably, Amazon — the monopoly Whole Foods sold out to in 2017 — has innovated union-busting into a science. “It was amazing too that for all the discussion of essential or frontline workers, there was not a lot of empathy for grocery workers,” Reason’s Gillespie observed at one point. To which Mackey, operator of an organic grocery store chain for four decades, appeared downright stumped: “I’m not sure what you mean by empathy.”We know, John. And it shows. Wikimedia Commons / Mike Gi ord

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A hippie-turned-Reaganite who longs for “a wave of deregulation” to excise voters and their elected representatives out of any meaningful role in the decisions that affect us, Mackey likes to style himself as an advocate for “conscious capitalism.” How “conscious” can his capitalism be if people’s health and lives are sacrificed at the altar of the economy? With all the “free” market’s supposed “innovation,” is it still necessary to crack the threat of deprivation like a whip to motivate the workforce? And why should nutritious food be a luxury reserved for those who can afford to shop at Whole Paycheck? “We know how to cure obesity and yet we’re not doing it,” Mackey told Reason. “You could argue there’s not any money in it. There’s a lot more money made in selling drugs to people.”U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders couldn’t have said it be er himself. But then why lionize and romanticize an economic system that by design puts money ahead of people’s wellbeing?

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If you run a Libertarian media outlet, you’ll need to pucker up and kiss the hairy asses of multimillionaires from time to time. A few weeks ago, then-Whole Foods CEO John Mackey — he retired Sept. 1 — had his turn when the Houston native and Trinity University alum “sat down with” Reason Magazine Editor Nick Gillespie. Minutes passed before Mackey dropped a steaming pile of COVID misinformation, most of which Gillespie let pass without comment or correction. “Ibelieve history will show that the lockdowns was [sic] probably the stupidest thing that the government will have done in the 21st century, unless they get into a nuclear war,” Mackey predicted. AUniversity of Michigan-led study found that such measures saved between 866,350 and 1,711,150 lives. Weighed next to the civilian-massacring toll of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the civilization-threatening repercussions of ignoring climate breakdown, does saving hundreds of thousands of people from dying of COVID leap out as the dumbest thing government has done? Consider the consequences of inaction. The state of Texas alone — population 29 million — negligently allowed more COVID deaths than South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Finland and Japan combined. And those countries boast a combined population of 219 million. The Lone Star State’s death toll is in no small part because Gov. Greg Abbo tied the hands of public health officials and municipal leaders to issue mask ordinances and other safety mandates.  Unevenly enforced though they were, so-called “lockdowns” bought us time to equip nurses and doctors with protective gear, refine treatment protocols and beef up hospital capacity — not to mention develop monoclonal antibodies, anti-viral medicines and approved vaccines.During the Reason interview, Gillespie ever-so-gently asked Mackey, “You’re not sold on the mRNA vaccines?”“No,” came Mackey’s stark reply. “I mean, it was experimental, and they didn’t deliver as were promised. You know, when I get a polio vaccination, I expect I’m never going to get polio — not that in six months I got to get a polio booster.” In fact, the polio vaccine is a fourdose series that only provides around 90% protection after the first two shots. That’s in the same ballpark as how effective COVID vaccines originally were against the wild-type strain. The crucial difference is the polio virus has stayed relatively stable — knock on wood —whereas the SARS2 virus continues to mutate rapidly, evolving immunity-eluding variants including Delta, Omicron and Centaurus.  That by no means justifies disparaging vaccines as inadvisable or “experimental.”YetMackey kept digging the hole. “You know, 80% of the COVID deaths in the U.S. were to people that were obese,” he continued.

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It’s been more than three decades since standup comedian Carlos Mencia first took the stage during open mic nights at Los Angeles’ Laugh Factory. Early in his career, he kept busy, releasing four comedy albums and creating the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia, which ran from 2005 to 2008. During that time, Mencia also took his shot in movies, appearing in 2007’s The Heartbreak Kid starring Ben Stiller and 2010’s Our Family Wedding, in which he played America Ferrera’s dad. While the comedian’s media appearances have slowed down since then, he’s still hi ing theater and comedy club stages across the country. This year, Mencia landed his first TV gig in 15 years when he reprised his role as the voice of Felix Boulevardez in the animated Disney+ series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a revival of the Disney Channel original that aired in the early 2000s. Felix is the best friend and neighbor of Oscar, the patriarch of the Proud family. $60-$240, 8 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, 618 NW Loop 410, (210) 5418805, improvtx.com/sanantonio.

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THEATER AMERICAN MARIACHI Making its Texas premiere, the music-filled stage play American Mariachi tells the story of a young woman named Lucha who creates an all-female mariachi band during the 1970s with her cousin. The main character’s inspiration comes after a mariachi song triggers memories for her mother even though she suffers from Alzheimer’s. Critics have described American Mariachi as a “big-hearted, musical [that] tugs at the heartstrings” and a work that “reminds us how music and love can make just about anything possible.” Wri en by José Cruz González, the play depicts the beauty of Latinas and the music they create. “These women come together because of their love of music,” González said in a 2016 interview with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. “Music plays such an important role in this piece. Mariachi sounds [are] so fantastic when you fill a room with people, and you can hear them singing. [American Mariachi] audiences will come to experience something new.” The production also marks the first time the work of a Latino writer will be presented at the Russell Hill Rogers Theater in the organization’s 100-year history. $15-$45, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Sept. 9-Oct. 2, The Public Theater of San Antonio, 800 W. Ashby Place, (210) 733-7258, thepublicsa.org. — KM THU | 09.08 ART ‘SOMETHING WICKED’ San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum will unveil a new exhibit fit for fashion fanatics and musical theater enthusiasts alike. “Something Wicked” shines the spotlight on Tony Award-winning Broadway costume designer Susan Hilferty, showcasing more than 30 of her ornate and o beat costume designs — some from the hit musical Wicked, others never seen. Ontheme paintings by Judith Godwin, Robin Utterback and Grace Hartigan will accompany Hilferty’s costume sketches and mock-ups, while a workshop display titled “Hilferty’s Studio” will o er a behind-the-scenes look at her creative process. $10-$20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday, on view through March 26, 2023, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Caroline WolFF Courtesy of Susan Hilferty

THEATER ROOSTERS Presented by the Classic Theatre at La Zona, Roosters blends drama, wit and imagery to convey the Latino experience in the rural Southwest. The play, which premiered as a joint production between INTAR Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival, tells the story of Hector, a thoughtful young campesino (peasant farmer), who’s anxiously awaiting the return of his father, Gallo, who’s serving a prison sentence for manslaughter. The play explores the destructive role of machismo in Hector’s turbulent household, expressed mainly through Gallo’s love for cockfighting. It also explores his son’s rejection of the cruel sport. Since its debut, Roosters inspired a 1993 film adaptation and racked up praise for its realistic portrayal of family struggles. The play will run through most of September, with special showings including a Pride Night on September 9 in partnership with Pride Center San Antonio as well as an ASL night on September 18. $24-$39, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, La Zona, 333 W. Commerce St., (210) 589-8450, classictheatre.org. — Macks Cook FRI | 09.09SUN | 10.02

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Following a nine-month musicians’ strike, the San Antonio Symphony’s management dissolved the 83-year-old ensemble in June, but that didn’t spell the end for orchestral music in the Alamo City. Former symphony musicians have banded together to form the San Antonio Philharmonic, which will perform a season of 13 concerts starting this month. Led by guest conductor Ken-David Masur, the Philharmonic will play its debut concert at the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, the venue where the musicians gave several performances during the strike. The inaugural program will feature Johannes Brahms’ St. Anthony Variations, selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet and Maurice Ravel’s famous crowd-pleaser Boléro. The concert also will showcase the world premiere of San Antonio composer Ethan Wickman’s Emergent. “Our musicians, who hail from around the world and now call San Antonio home, are determined to instill in our neighbors the excitement of great music, to move audiences emotionally during a time of disruption and change,” said San Antonio Philharmonic President and bassoonist Brian Petkovich in a press release. “This is an historic opportunity to do something special and lasting, and we invite everyone to be part of continuing this cultural legacy for San Antonio.”

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Wri en by playwright Patricia Zamora and directed by Jade Esteban Estrada, Un Nuevo Capítulo: An American Novela is a romantic comedy about a young Latina who brings her white boyfriend’s family over for dinner. “I have been called to write this play for nearly 20 years,” Zamora said in a statement. “There is not one entry point for the inspiration of Un Nuevo Capítulo: An American Novela, but rather incalculable amounts of inspiration; from my love of situational comedies, experiences with friends, family and even strangers. What has come out of it is, I believe, is a fantastic vehicle for female Latin actors and a story that normalizes our experience as humans navigating through life with love at the center, and a lot of laughs.” The play will open Thursday, Sept. 15 at Black Potion, a new, 6,500-square-foot “board-game bar” in the Deco District. Since opening, the venue has hosted events ranging from card game tournaments and the 48-Hour Film Festival. “I have this gift that was given to me, and I need to share it,” owner Enrique Cortez recently told the Current. “If you’re a creative person, and you want to put on a showcase or a play, talk to me. The answer is yes. I want to see cool shit happening. I want to bring that to the community and be a gathering place for creatives so we can see their ideas come to life.” $17-$25, 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Black Potion, 1900 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 101, (210) 369-8750, facebook.com/blackpotionsatx. — KM FRI | 09.16SAT | 09.17

A refreshing post-apocalyptic retelling of a classic Greek myth, Tonyand Grammy-winning musical Hadestown promises to rain down a harmonious and hope-infused version of Hell on San Antonio audiences. Hailed for its suspense and character complexity, Hadestown follows the young and scrappy folk musician Orpheus on a tumultuous quest to the Underworld. Armed with nothing but songs and unyielding determination, he vies to rescue his lover Eurydice, who has — in a haze of powerlessness and self-doubt — unknowingly signed her soul away to Hades. Through ambitious set design and a bone-chilling score peppered with indie rock influences, Hadestown explores the convergences of love, fear and sacrifice in an unforge able amalgamation of tragedy and triumph. $45-$160, 8 p.m. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — CW

$30-$65, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of San Antonio, 515 McCullough Ave., saphil.org. — Kelly Nelson

Marisela Barrera takes center stage in a series of large-scale photographic prints animating the personas of the Donkey Lady, a figure from San Antonio folklore, and Ricardo Flores Magón, an exiled 1900s Mexican journalist who spent time in San Antonio. Barrera is a writer, performer and storyteller who utilizes her rasquache practice — in the spirit of the underdog — to engage communities by drawing from her own cultural identity. In addition to the photographs on display, the exhibition opening will feature live music from indie band Bu ercup as well as a performance by Barrera herself. “Burra/Anarchist” is presented as part of Fotoseptiembre and includes photographs by Al Rendon, Anthony Garcia, Antonia Padilla, Paul Escamilla and Guadalupe

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The San Antonio River Foundation and the San Antonio River Authority have joined forces to host a festival centered around adventure and environmental documentaries. The featured films celebrate the beauty of the natural world, illustrate the challenges facing the planet and highlight the people and communities working to preserve our home. Mexican restaurant Paloma Blanca will serve up tasty snacks, while Epic Western and Viva Beer will provide beverage options. The event’s proceeds will support the San Antonio River Foundation’s educational and stewardship e orts. This festival is open to all ages, meaning the screenings are appropriate for both curious youngsters and lifelong nature lovers. $25-$50, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Confluence Park, 310 W. Mitchell St., (210) 224-2694, sariverfound.org. — MC

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When the musicians staged concerts while on strike, the Tobin declined to give it resident status. In a statement supplied to the San Antonio Report this summer, officials with the performance space said such a decision would be made by “Tobin Center management after conferring with a collection of community arts professionals along with the Tobin Center Board of Directors.”

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BY SANFORD NOWLIN On Saturday, Aug. 27, classical music fans mingled with musicians and board members of the newly formed San Antonio Philharmonic inside downtown’s Maverick Carter House. The gathering came just three days after musicians from the dissolved San Antonio Symphony announced the formation of the newSurroundedorchestra. by crystal vases and other pricy tchotchkes, a trio of symphony musicians sat around the 1893 home’s dining room table with laptops to help fans select tickets for its 2022-23 season. A line of a half-dozen people queued into the living room.

The Philharmonic also needs to fill its management ranks with people experienced at running arts organizations so the musicians can get back to their primary task of playing concerts, Petkovich added. A musician-run organization is not the orchestra’s end-game.

Just the same, Mayor Ron Nirenberg struck an optimistic note about the organization’s future in a wri en statement supplied to the Current “I still believe that San Antonio deserves and should have a world-class, fairly paid symphony orchestra,” Nirenberg said. “To make that a reality, we need a sustainable structure. Conversations are ongoing among community stakeholders, and I believe a path forward will emerge in the near future.”

The musician-led Philharmonic is now free to pursue more innovative ways to bring in funds such as offering workshops for adults or livestreaming concerts, said J. Charlene Davis, a Trinity University business professor who’s been following the orchestra’s financial woes.However, those options, like ticket sales, won’t provide long-term stability.

“Basically, we’re starting with our closest friends first,” said Petkovich, who spent 26 years as the Symphony’s bassoonist. “Then we have to reach out to the community as a whole. ... I think everyone is still processing the Symphony Society’s bankruptcy.”

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“What I feel like we’re doing with this season is buying time to have a discussion about how the arts in San Antonio will be funded over time,” he said.

Brian Petkovich, the San Antonio Philharmonic’s president, said a move back into the Tobin isn’t something likely to be ironed out in the next few weeks. Nor is obtaining the public funding necessary for the orchestra’s long-term viability.

Right now, the orchestra is working to rebuild and reconnect with the community.

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The key to providing the San Antonio Philharmonic with viability is securing public funding and support from deep-pocketed business concerns, Davis said.

The historic Maverick Carter property sits in the shadow of both First Baptist Church, where the revamped orchestra is scheduled to play its 13-concert season, and the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, the publicly funded performance space where the Symphony was a resident company.

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The Tobin Center didn’t respond to the Current’s inquiry about whether the San Antonio Philharmonic would be able to obtain resident status or how a process for obtaining that status would work.

And that will require local leaders to understand that San Antonio faces the public black eye of being a major city that let its symphony orchestra fade away. “The fact that there’s been this Lazarus-like resurrection is remarkable, and it says a lot about the passion and commitment by the musicians who made it happen,” Davis said. “Now it’s time for other parts of the city to step up and make their own commitment.” more arts sacurrent.comeverycoveragedayat

Another of the issues that will likely need to be sorted out is whether the Philharmonic can eventually move into the Tobin Center, which was built in 2014 with significant public and private investment as a permanent home for the San Antonio Symphony.

In addition to ge ing its inaugural season rolling, Petkovich hopes to convince San Antonio officials to transfer the $84,000 that remains of the city’s three-year arts grant to the Symphony into the coffers of the Philharmonic. That would prevent the fledgling orchestra from waiting for two years to apply under the city’s next funding cycle.

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The irony wasn’t lost to some who waited in “I’dline.like to see the city and the Tobin offer the same support to the Philharmonic that they did to the Symphony,” said Drea Garza, a regular a endee of Symphony performances who was eager to get tickets for the Philharmonic’s Sept. 16 debut performance. “As a taxpayer I feel like I’m not ge ing what I’m payingHowever,for.”

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The Symphony Society of San Antonio disbanded the 83-year-old orchestra in June, saying it saw no way to resolve a nine-month strike by the orchestra’s musicians. The players staged a walkout last September, saying the board’s plans to slash pay, benefits and the size of the orchestra to cut costs would kill the financially strapped symphony.

The San Antonio Philharmonic has $1.1 million to carry it through the end of the calendar year, at which point it will need to budget additional funds to complete its season, according to Petkovich. That’s a far cry from the $8 million or more the organization had in some recent years.

In an emailed statement, San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture Executive Director Krystal Jones said she has arranged a meeting with the Philharmonic’s leadership about future grant opportunities. However, she added that the orchestra doesn’t yet meet the city’s eligibility rules, which require nonprofits to have actively produced programmng in the city for a minimum of three years.

Those three distinct threads — use of commonplace objects, erasure or absence, and Linda Pace’s legacy — formed the germinating seed for “Tangible/Nothing,” Ruby City’s second full-fledged exhibition and its first to be curated by Gonzales. Opening Thursday, Sept. 8 and on view through July 30, 2023, the exhibition brings together roughly 40 works by local, national and international artists. During our preview of “Tangible/Nothing,” Gonzales expanded on the exhibition’s thematic framework, explaining that her initial three threads tap into other themes ranging from memory and mortality to gender and race. While the assembled works can stand on their own, awareness of these crisscrossing threads only adds to the experience — there’s a fair amount of interplay between objects and even some “secret” themes to uncover.

Searching for the “nothing” referenced in the exhibition title could make for a fun exercise at Ruby City. There’s an all-white painting by Daniel Joseph Martinez, a suite of wonky, white wooden panels by David Cabrera and ghostly, barely there rubbings on Japanese wax paper by Mona Hatoum. But the works that deal with the intentional removal of subject ma er have a more immediate allure.

During that deep dive into the Linda Pace Foundation’s collection — which encompasses upward of 1,400 paintings, sculptures, installations and video works — Gonzales identified a secondary theme: absences, erasures and voids. The missing elements among the works of art eventually led Gonzales back to Linda Pace herself.

Projected on a wall in a format that recalls the tiny portable TVs of yesteryear, Paul Pfeiffer’s 2003 video Miss America entailed the New York-based artist painstakingly erasing the pageant queen’s body from a televised appearance, leaving only her crown bobbing in front of a publicity backdrop.

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“I remember thinking … this makes me think of Linda Pace,” she recalled. “Because Linda Pace is such a presence in our life here — the way we think about our mission, and just as our founder in general. But also, of course, she’s not here.”

San Antonio heroes In keeping with “Waking Dream” before it, “Tangible/Nothing” does a commendable job of showcasing San Antonio artists. Providing something of a double whammy, a duo of heavy hi ers exemplifies the exhibition title by uplifting everyday materials into the fine-art realm while unwi ingly evoking a sense of Inabsence.hisall-too-short career, San Antonio art star Chuck Ramirez (1962-2010) celebrated the mundane and alluded to the fleeting nature of life in stark photographs of beat-up piñatas, empty candy trays and wilting bouquets.

During her 2006 Artpace residency, Delaware-born San Antonio artist Katie Pell (1965-2019) transformed domestic appliances into electrifying sculptures modeled after lowriders. For obvious reasons, her pink-and-purple Bitchen Stove will unfortunately not be spi ing flames at Ruby City, but still, it commands a dramatic presence as one of the boldest and most vibrant pieces in the show.

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n the fall of 2019, San Antonio got a new cultural landmark in Ruby City — a world-class contemporary art space dedicated to showcasing the sprawling collection of late local artist, philanthropist and Artpace founder Linda Pace, who died in 2007.Designed by David Adjaye — the British starchitect behind Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — Ruby City generated considerable buzz even before it opened, landing in Architectural Digest four times and on Time magazine’s list of the “World’s Greatest Places.”Fourmonths after opening the impressive inaugural exhibition “Waking Dream,” Ruby City welcomed Elyse A. Gonzales as its new director. Three weeks after her arrival, the institution closed its doors at the onset of the pandemic.

For one of his earliest projects, Ramirez glued thrift-store tchotchkes to Styrofoam meat trays, shrink-wrapped them and priced them with equipment available to him through his day job as a graphic designer at H-E-B. Propped up on a shelf, two of these Ramirez relics — Plastic Bambies and Plastic Meanies — serve as poignant reminders of the late local legend’s unique talent and wicked wit.

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“We were closed for about 16 months,” explained Gonzales, who relocated to San Antonio after serving as acting director of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California in Santa Barbara. “As frustrating as that was for all of us, it was a great moment to be able to spend time ge ing to know the collection. … And in doing that, I was really struck by [how] many works of art incorporate mundane materials that we see in our everyday life.”

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Newcomers While there are several pieces in “Tangible/Nothing” that have never been exhibited locally, two of Ruby City’s recent acquisitions stand out for visual wow factor and timely subject ma er. Situated at the entrance, Houston-based artist and former Project Row Houses director Rick Lowe’s 2021 painting Untitled may recall an aerial map. Although that’s partly accurate, the vibrant jumble of dots, dashes and intersecting lines also references dominoes. As Gonzales explained, Lowe sees both mapping and dominoes as emblematic of Houston’s Third Ward.“Dominoes is a game that for him represents this idea of community in the Black neighborhood where he’s situated,” she said. “[And] mapping played a formative role in his leadership of Project Row Houses. As director, he was always looking at maps — city maps, development maps — to understand what was happening in the neighborhood and helping to either protect the neighborhood from gentrification or to help out other individuals in the community as a result of that.”

‘Tangible/Nothing’ Free, opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, on view 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday through July 30, 2023, Ruby City, 150 Camp St., (210) 2278400, rubycity.org.

Born in San Antonio and based in Houston, Dario Robleto is well-known for projects exploring the natural world, science, DJ culture and outer space. For his 2010 print Candles Un-burn, Suns Un-shine, Death Undies, Robleto removed late music icons — Patsy Cline, Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye among them — from live album covers and created a composite image of only stage lights. The result suggests a cosmic photo captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. And with a title that almost says it all, Jim Mendiola and Ruben Ortiz-Torres’ 2001 lightbox Tejano Dream/ David Copperfield Visits the Alamo sees the Los Angeles-based artists “disappearing” the controversial landmark with the low-tech trickery of a 3D postcard. “It’s kind of playfully [presenting] the idea that if the Alamo were to disappear, all this problematic history and the racist rhetoric that’s surrounding it would also disappear too,” Gonzales said of the piece.

Homages to Linda Visual reminders of Linda Pace abound in “Tangible/Nothing.” Her left eye stands watch over the galleries in San Antonio artist Nate Cassie’s 1998 composite photograph Eyes. She can be seen gazing off into the distance in local artist Juan Miguel Ramos’ 2003 print Linda. And her bright orange Louis Vui on handbag is splayed open for all the world to see in Chuck Ramirez’s 2005 “purse portrait” Louis (Linda) But the less obvious references to Pace are perhaps easier to get lost in. San Marcos-based artist Adam Schreiber’s photographic series July 2011 depicts Pace’s loft-like home in a stark fashion that almost glows with ethereal light. Offering a visual echo of sorts, some of the artwork shown in the photos is on display nearby in “Tangible/Nothing.” Based between New York and Berlin, Nina Katchadourian has been staging photographs of book collections since 1993 and was invited to capture Pace’s in 2002. Mixing books from her public and personal shelves, Katchadourian photographed the spines in a way that suggests poems or haikus. One reads, “Cinderella / Four in the Morning / Dreaming / Stretching / Recovering / Waiting.”

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“It’s so great to be able to discover this thing that we see all the time, especially in San Antonio, but done in this entirely different way,” Gonzales said. “For [Avalos], it’s really about how Latino people often have to arm themselves in their daily experiences … and talking about the kind of treachery of racism and the biases that they encounter.”

Importantly, it’s the only piece of art on a narrow landing and doesn’t obstruct the view through a large window. Through that window, one can see the Camp Street building where Linda Pace lived, Chris Park — a serene green space dedicated to her late son Chris Goldsbury — and the San Antonio skyline.

“David Adjaye talks about this as a biographical window of Linda,” Gonzales said. “So I wanted to leave this focus available.”

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Taking up a significant portion of a wall upstairs, artist duo Ericson and Ziegler’s 1991 installation High Gloss delivers on the exhibition’s “tangible” angle by assembling 80 empty paint cans from Benjamin Moore’s “historic” series along with a glass plaque etched with their corresponding color names. “As you begin to look through the names and the places that are mentioned, the associations that are drawn are all related to a very narrow conception of American history, which is mostly Anglo European — and certainly male,” Gonzales said. “Their work really highlights the question that we are still wrestling with today: what about the rest of history? What about everybody else’s vision of American history and their place in it?” Undercurrents Admi edly, Gonzales had numerous goals for “Tangible/Nothing.” And the exhibition even divulges sub-themes upon perusal. For starters, mirrors are used to great effect in pieces by New York-based artists Teresita Fernández and Milagros de la Torre, as well as San Antonio’s own Nate Cassie, whose simply titled 2014 sculpture Mirror seems poised for high-concept selfies. And Marilyn Monroe plays a supporting — yet aptly invisible — role in works by Paul Pfeiffer and San Antonio-born, New York-based artist and Sala Diaz founder Alejandro Diaz. Japanese photographer Yasumasa Morimura also nods to the screen goddess by impersonating her during her iconic nude photo session in Gonzales1949.also selected specific pieces she felt would highlight or activate aspects of David Adjaye’s distinct design for Ruby City. One such piece is Chicago-based Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s 2004 sculpture Cloud, which Gonzales hung directly below a skylight in a long stairwell. After climbing those stairs, viewers will undoubtedly notice San Diego-based artist David Avalos’ 1995 sculpture The Bullet-Proof Piñata dangling from the ceiling.

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Co-creator Amadeo Rivas, 22, has been working on the idea since childhood. First, he developed a stop-motion concept with the same title, then he extended it into a short film while a ending Our Lady of the Lake University.Rivasworked alongside childhood best friend Colby Guillory, 21, who serves as a co-writer and executive producer of the series. Another friend, James Ybarra, 27, stepped in to direct. “I asked, ‘Why don’t we try and turn this into a legitimate television series? Let’s try and do this right and try to get picked up by somebody and make this legit,’” Ybarra said. “I think it’s a great idea to have a satirical crime show — like a funny version of Narcos, and I think we can be very successful at it too.”  Warts and all The pilot originally premiered in early April at Alamo City Studios, a downtown multi-functional facility that showcases projects from local filmmakers. Much of the audience was comprised of the cast’s family and friends. Since then, it’s been screened not just at the San Antonio Film Festival but the Paus Premieres Festival in London and the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions at Pinewood Studios in Los Angeles.  Since it’s positioned as a comedy, the series allows the creators to pursue artistic choices that wouldn’t work in a conventional crime show, including an animated sequence of in which Finklestein, the protagonist, floats while high on ecstasy — a segment Rivas editedSalesmanhimself.also covers problems the Alamo City faced in the 1990s and that still linger today — human trafficking, gentrification and gang violence — while balancing the dark subject ma er with humor. The show’s blend of nostalgia, laughs and grit invites the viewer to see what’s beautiful about San Antonio while not glossing over its many problems. “I want people to look at Salesman and to know that’s what San Antonio is and think about how we can make it be er,” Rivas said.

ne of the surprise finds during the 2022 San Antonio Film Festival, which took place last month, wasn’t a film at all but a pilot for an as-yetunsold TV show, Salesman the Series

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“Our generation misses the ’90s. The people who grew up in the ’90s miss the ’70s,” Ybarra said of the nostalgia that runs through multiple generations of characters in Salesman. “It’s not only a way to have multiple styles going on, but also a way to connect generations of people.”

Rivas curated the show’s soundtrack, and his connection to San Antonio’s Chicano Soul scene provides the show’s rhythm.

“As artists and filmmakers in San Antonio, we need to keep it among ourselves and build upon it ourselves, so we can tell our story without other people coming in from different cities and telling it for us,” Ybarra added. Ybarra and his partners are working to corral financial backing and land a deal to put Salesman on TV screens across the country. In the meantime, local fans have rallied behind the show, donating their time and talent, along with cars and props, for future episodes. Attheend of the day, Salesman is made for San Antonians by San Antonians, Rivas said. It’s the outgrowth of stories passed down from families, and it shows the makers’ pride in the place they’re from.

The crime satire takes place in San Antonio’s mid-1990s drug scene, cu ing in aspects from the punk scene of the era plus a hefty dose of 1970s Chicano soul culture. Familiar se ings including San Pedro Avenue’s midcentury El Montan Motor Hotel and the Paper Tiger music venue also make appearances. The series follows conartist and watch salesman Lenny Finklestein, who inadvertently finds himself in the orbit of drug dealer Vincent Vaquero and is forced to help the bad guy move his cocaine. While Salesman’s mix of crime, humor and Latino culture seems like it could be tailor-made for the abundant streaming services now looking for fresh content, its origins predate the phenomenon.

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“It’s very personal to me, and I think, San Antonio in general, because these are kids who came from nothing in San Antonio in the ’60s and made some of the most beautiful music,” he said. “It fits the themes we’re going for, and Chicano soul music is the soul of San Antonio, so it deserves to be in Salesman.” Rivas said he wants the low-budget series’ se ing to serve as more than just a backdrop. He’s eager to show off the talent of the city’s underrecognized art community.

“This is our love le er to San Antonio,” Rivas said.

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Much of Salesman’s sense of nostalgia stems from the show’s music, which includes the native sounds of ’60s-era Chicano Soul bands such as the Royal Jesters and the Eptones along with Tejano from the ’90s. The pilot takes place a month after Tejano superstar Selena’s murder, which connects the series’ music with the era’s violent criminal activity.

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Hemisfair’s newly opened Box St. All Day, the brick-and-mortar manifestation of a popular food truck, offers further proof of food’s power to reinvigorate both people and places.Unless you’re fond of waiting, don’t even think about arriving without a reservation on the weekend. Even on what I assumed would be a sleepy Wednesday, there was a 35-minute wait for a table at noon. Fortunately, seats were available at the bar, where a boldly seasoned order of Brussels sprouts hash arrived with surprising speed — right after my sweet and spiked frozen horchata. The rice drink hits hard with cinnamon, but it may be the perfect brunch beverage. It also calls out for one of the daily handmade or on the pleasant patio. Breakfast is available from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and lunch overlaps it starting at 11 a.m. I figured that a classically French croque madame — ham, melty Ron Bechtol Ron Bechtol

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t’s been more than 50 years since the last visitor exited San Antonio’s HemisFair ’68, and it might be tempting for some to suggest that li le of importance has happened there since then. Yes, a new and much-appreciated children’s area has materialized at the 40-acre site in the shadow of a recently completed residential unit, and construction is finally underway on the park and hotel development at the corner of South Alamo and Market streets. But numerous re-use studies have languished on shelves, and an inventory of vacant and underutilized historic buildings — the remains of the neighborhood demolished to make way for the fair — greets the current-day curious.Yetthere are signs Hemisfair Park might yet become “one of America’s great urban spaces” as signage tacked to construction fences now proclaims. We’ll need to put up with mess and blocked circulation paths for a time, but one thing is apparent: food is helping pave the way to greatness. That is, if activities surrounding Hemisfair dining spots such as Dough Pizzeria Napoletana and Box St. All Day are any indication. Eating establishments have taken up residence in existing structures since the World’s Fair’s closing — a Polish restaurant dimly springs to mind, and other sources mention Cajun food, a crêperie, an Irish restaurant and The OK Bar and Saloon. However, none has been as long-lived or well-reviewed as Dough, which occupies the historic house at the corner of South Alamo and César E. Chávez Blvd. that was once the saloon’s home. Visibility might have had something to do with its initial success, but the menu and hospitality are what keep people coming back. Pizzas from the traditional Neapolitan oven are naturally the strong suit, but the housemade Signature Burrata with truffle essence is not to be missed. The oak-roasted olives also make a perfect companion to wines, especially reds, from the Italian list — a bargain on Wednesdays and Thursdays, when many are half-off.

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The park’s Re:Rooted 210 Urban Winery also offers relief to strollers in that it’s cool inside. Its wines are all Texas-produced, and Jennifer Beckmann and her knowledgeable staff can lead you through a tasting flight of four wines — many of them custom-curated by Re:Rooted — that may just change your mind about the state’s place in the wine world. Those already convinced might look to the dozen or so offerings on tap, ready to be paired with a charcuterie plate or a simple bowl of Marcona almonds.

Hemisfair can be enhanced by an icy treat from Paletería San Antonio. I can recommend the spicy-cool mangonada, and I can also recommend consuming it quickly if you want to retain you own cool on a sultry day. An ice cream sandwich from Lick, the Austin ice cream shop we first experienced at Pearl, also shouldn’t linger in the sun, but it too provides a great antidote to heat and humidity — assuming anyone needs an excuse.

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Coming in summer 2023 is foodie favorite Jerk Shack, scheduled to occupy a meticulous replica of the historic Schultze House on Nueva Street. Sources at Hemisfair also teased the upcoming lease of the 19th-century Gothic Revival Kusch house to yet another food operation. When that information becomes available, look for it here.

But wait, there’s more. Currently in the works at Hemisfair are outposts of two local favorites: Künstler Brewing, expected to open early in 2023, and Bombay Bicycle Club, with completion anticipated for spring. The brewery’s satellite will be called Künstler Tap and Brat-Haus and feature German fare along with its brews.

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Beckmann and Seaton met in 2009 and remain in close touch, in part because Seaton’s farm near Brownfield has provided Beckmann with warm-weather grape varieties for her proprietary blends. Boss Lady They also bonded because they both suffered through scenarios in which they were challenged and overlooked simply for being women in the male-dominated Texas wine industry. Beckmann and Seaton became allies, mentors, protectors and role models for each other and for young wine experts looking to toddle in their footsteps. In their eyes, it’s long been time to stop competing and start empowering.“You cannot bo le a woman’s intuition, you know. Jenn’s never been intimidated by trusting her intuition or sharing what she thinks that might look like, and I enjoy that about her,” Seaton said. “If she sees someone struggling, or if she sees someone who’s powerful, and she thinks they can benefit from her knowledge, she connects with them with intention and followEducatorthrough.”Barre o — who holds a master’s degree in wine business from the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France — echoes that sentiment. “I can’t tell you how many times she’s thrown opportunities my way because she doesn’t have the bandwidth for it,” Barre o said. “Because I’ve experienced the opposite side of that coin, where someone would rather turn down the event than pass it on and boost another business. She’s just so much more interested in not trying to be competitive but being more collaborative.” Both Seaton and Barre o participated in Boss Ladies, a July 2022 panel discussion featuring seven dynamic women in the Texas wine industry. Held at Beckmann’s Hemisfair Park tasting room, the talk centered around the participants’ trials, tribulations and triumphs throughout their careers. A endees also got to taste wines from each of the panelist’s reserves. One overarching theme of the talk was the unwavering support each panelist — spanning winery owners to wine makers to grape farmers — received fromThatBeckmann.kindoflove and support, Beckmann says, is just how she wants to make her mark on the world — whether the impact is on a seasoned industry expert or a wine-curious guest. “I never understood the idea that people should hoard knowledge,” Beckmann said. “There’s plenty of support to go around, and I think the community is ready for more engagement. I’m just lucky my part in that allows me to live a lifelong dream.”

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Beckmann opened Re:Rooted in 2021 as San Antonio’s first-ever downtown winery. The venture centers around a collection of wines Beckmann produces herself, along with the idea that wine education can be approachable and fun. By offering guided tastings and classes for wine hobbyists as well as one-on-one prep for die-hards looking to achieve sommelier certification, she hopes to break wine free from its stereotype of being stuffy or contrived.

Jennifer Beckmann of Hemisfair winery Re:Rooted 210 strives to demystify wine and make it fun

BY NINA RANGEL In the early 2000s, newly minted sommelier Jennifer Beckmann smoothed the lapels on her black blazer and double-checked that her shiny new lapel pin was straight. This was it: her first visit to a restaurant table since earning her designation to help a customer select a bo le of wine. She approached the table followed by a busboy ready to refill the diners’ water glasses. Before Beckmann could open her mouth, a man at the table began asking the 17-year-old busboy about the wine list. It was that snub that made Beckmann decide she would work diligently to pave the way for other wine lovers to become more educated — and empowered — in their journeys. Especially women.“Iwent to art school. Not only did I go to art school, I was a poetry major,” said Beckmann, who now owns Re:Rooted 210 Urban Winery, a winery and tasting room located on the ground floor of Hemisfair Park’s ’68 Apartments. “Like many people, I worked in the restaurant industry through school, and I fell in love with hospitality right away. I fell in love with wine early on, and I realized that either path [poetry or hospitality] dictated that I would drink for a living. At least as a wine professional, I would get paid to do it.”

“One of the things I have noticed about her is that she always finds a way to make the student laugh,” San Antonio-born wine educator Cecilia Barre o said of Beckmann’s approach. “She has the skills to be able to talk about wine in terms that will make sense to anyone. I definitely think that there are quite a bit more educators adopting that style, but Jenn has always doneBarrethat.”o, a level-three Wine & Spirit Education Trust certification holder, likens Beckmann to the original gangsters, or OGs, who pioneered hip-hop music. To Barre o, the Hemisfair wine maven is as groundbreaking as rappers Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.“Their work still exists and influences millions today,” Barre o said. “I don’t want to call [Beckmann’s approach] ‘avant garde.’ It’s just always been a step ahead of the time. I feel like she just embodies that OG spirit.” Self-starter Beckmann holds the prestigious title of Certified Wine Educator with the Society of Wine Educators, the 441st wine expert to earn the designation in the program’s history.

In other words, Beckmann is a wine educator that knows her shit. Her hospitality journey began in fine dining establishments in Chicago, where she worked to hone communication and service skills with guests. In 2009, after the Air Force relocated her husband to Texas, she found a position in the state’s growing wine industry. Beckmann made quick friends with other women working at Hill Country wineries, eventually lending her expertise in developing four boutique spots over a span of a dozen years. One of those early friends, Farmhouse Vineyards co-owner Katy Jane Seaton, describes Beckmann as a driven self-starter.“Shelaunches these [wineries], prepares them and markets them,” Seaton said. “And she has always said, ‘I’ll do this for myself. This is my job until I can do this for myself someday.’ Each place that she has landed, she makes be er, and her parting words were always, ‘This is what I learned, and this is what I will do Seatondifferently.’”added:“She just does what she says, and says what she does. You don’t ever have to wonder if she’s gonna follow through.”

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“It’s frustrating for us to do this on an electronic keyboard,” Panaget said. “We are really classical musicians, so it’s uncommon for us to play these kinds of instruments.” However, “in a stadium the sound is really different. It’s hard for the sound engineer. With two grand pianos, it would be impossible.”

Going electric Duo Jatekok had to overcome other challenges as well. While the album was recorded on acoustic pianos, the pair had to switch to electric instruments for tours. Weather and travel factors necessitated the change.

“We want to make bridges between [different genres],” Badal said. But, for now, it’s all Rammstein. And what should fans primed for distorted riffs, angry vocals and explosions expect from the two classical musicians?

Metal on the Ivories

The two musicians said they want to return to the U.S. for a full tour highlighting their classical material. They have also discussed a future collaboration with jazz pianist and master improviser Brad Mehldau.

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“We are the calm before the tempest,” Badal said with a laugh. “The fans get into the music slowly, the show begins and ‘poof!’ It fits quite well.”

$19.50-$144, 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, Alamodome, 100 Montana St., (210) 207-3663, alamodome.com.

“We had to choose the songs we like,” Badal said. “And, of course, we had to include their famous songs. But we also had to choose music that fits on piano. It’s not easy to transcribe the strength and energy of metal on piano.”

Getting familiar Duo Jatekok’s collaboration with the metal act didn’t happen overnight. They were introduced via mutual friends and a French producer who worked with Rammstein in the past. Neither of the pianists were metal fans beforehand.“Wehadto get familiar with the music of Rammstein, to get inspired, to write for two pianos,” Badal said, explaining the effort that went into the arrangements. “We [frequently] chose the ballads. They fit very well on piano.”Forher part, Panaget is enthusiastic about the duo’s arrangement of “Ausländer,” which she praised for its high energy level. But don’t expect Duo Jatekok’s San Antonio set to be a career-spanning sampling of Rammstein’s greatest hits. The pianists coordinate their setlist with the headliner to avoid repetition, and Rammstein also asked the duo to avoid its newer songs.

The classical pianists of Duo Jatekok are ready to rock Rammstein’s San Antonio crowd BY MIKE MCMAHAN Mention the legendary German band Rammstein, and certain things spring to mind: the clang and pounding of metallic industrial music, live shows with scorching pyrotechnics and an almost gleeful a empt to shock and offend. Classical music, though? Eh, not so much. So why the hell would Rammstein bring along Duo Jatekok — a pair of classical pianists — to its Saturday, Sept. 17 show at the Alamodome?Asitturnsout, Rammstein commissioned Duo Jatekok to arrange some of its songs for piano, and the acts have played together in Europe for more than 10 years. The recordings of the arrangements — an album titled Duo Jatekok Plays Rammstein — dropped earlier this year. Now, the pianists are opening shows on the raucous band’s North American tour.Don’t accuse Rammstein of failing to challenge an audience. “It’s our first time playing in the USA,” Adélaïde Panaget said from the duo’s home base in France. She and her musical partner Naïri Badal spoke to the Current via Zoom prior to the tour.

To be sure, not many piano duos have faced such a literal baptism under fire: making a stateside debut opening for a rock band’s pyrotechnics-heavy stadium tour. While Duo Jatekok will appear with Rammstein in Los Angeles and Mexico City, the San Antonio show will be its first U.S. gig. That said, Duo Jatekok isn’t new to stadium shows or to sharing a stage with Rammstein. Indeed, the pianists have performed with the headliner multiple times in Germany. “It’s their [home turf], so they are really supported by their audience,” Badal said. “It’s family. In the United States they have something to prove and need to make a connection.”

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Aleman, La Banda Baston Though his music is en español, Aleman cites old school MCs including Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg as influences. A profile of the artist in the magazine Forbes included three paragraphs about the size of the bong he was smoking during the interview. If that’s not a mark of success, we don’t know what is. And — get this shocker — he also considers B-Real from Cypress Hill a key influence. $20.25-$70, 8 p.m., Aztec Theater, 104 N. St. Mary’s, (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. — Mike McMahan Monday, September 12

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Thursday, September 8 Jenny and the Mexicats In press materials, indie-rock act Jenny and the Mexicats describe themselves “multicultural,” which may be underselling things. The band members hail from places as far flung as Spain, Mexico and England. Jenny herself switches between deep, raspy vocal tones to soft airy melodies as she sings in Spanish, which isn’t even her native language. Not to mention, she plays a mean trumpet. $20-$145, 8 p.m., Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com. — Brianna Espinoza Friday, September 9 Kany García Kany García is considered the most successful non-winner of Puerto Rico’s televised singing contest Objetivo Fama. Although a car accident scrapped her chances of winning on the show, she has since won six Latin Grammy Awards and been nominated for three Grammy Awards. Slow, heartfelt songs fill out García’s catalog, and her emotive vocals ensure there’s not a dry eye in the audience. $34.50, 8 p.m., Aztec Theatre, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355, theaztectheatre.com. – BE Pitbull, Iggy Azalea Grammy-winning rapper and singer Pitbull is best known for tracks such as “Timber,” “Time of Our Lives” and “Give Me Everything.” His dance floor domination is only matched by his commercial exploits. In addition to his numerous endorsements and his own Sirius XM Channel, he recently became co-owner of a NASCAR racing team. Iggy Azalea joins the global superstar on the pair’s second consecutive tour. The Australian rapper will, no doubt, get “Fancy.” $19.95-$780, 8 p.m., AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway, (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com. — DC

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The Iron Maidens This all-woman tribute band brings the dynamics and energy of Iron Maiden to cozier venues. Made up of highly trained musicians — longtime Alice Cooper shredder Nita Strauss is an alum — the group covers material from all eras of Maiden’s repertoire and has been together with varying lineups for 21 years. $20-$150, 8 p.m., Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com. — EB Wednesday, September 14 Daddy Yankee Puerto Rican papi Daddy Yankee has been dubbed the King of Reggaetón for damn good reason. Not only did he coin the term reggaetón when the sound first emerged in the mid-1990s, he’s racked up 184 awards from 484 nominations, including five Latin Grammys, two Billboard Music Awards, 14 Billboard Latin Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award — and we could go on. If you haven’t yet experienced him live, best act fast, since this is purportedly his final tour, although he’ll make one more Alamo City stop on Dec. 16. $181-$1,956, 8 p.m., AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway, (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com. — EB Thursday, September 15 Tesla Though Tesla gets lumped in with the ’80s hair-metal scene, that association had more to do with the band’s stage attire than its sound. Had Tesla arrived five years later, it might have been regarded as throwback rockers akin to the Black Crowes. After all, the band covered the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival on its LP Five Man Acoustical Jam, which also featured its hit cover of “Signs,” originally by Five Man Electrical Band. See what they did there? $35-$198, 8 p.m., Aztec Theater, 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 8124355, theaztectheatre.com. — MM

The Bacon Brothers, Lauren Lucas In July, actor Kevin Bacon — he of the six degrees — and his brother Michael dropped their 11th release as musical duo. The five-song EP Erato is big on the Bacon Brothers’ signature sound of forosoco — an amalgam of folk, rock, soul and country that’s been their specialty for some 25 years. The duo’s short run of Texas dates is to promote the release. Opener Lauren Lucas is a South Carolina-based singer songwriter who specializes in a tender brand of country music. Sold out, 7 p.m., Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene Road, New Braunfels, (830) 606-1281, gruenehall. com. — Enrique Bonilla Sunday, September 11

Emery, Norma Jean Beloved metalcore acts Emery and Norma Jean are double headlining the Texas edition of the Labeled Fest 2022 tour. Expect a night of post-hardcore screams, clanging guitars and punishing breakdowns. Even though the band members are starting to go gray, we’re guessing they’ll bring it like it’s still 2003. $27.50-$30, 7 p.m., Vibes Event Center, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 772-1453, therockboxsa.com. — BE Saturday, September 17

Despite the pluralization of its name, singer-songwriter John Darnielle remains the anchor and only consistent member of indie-folk band the Mountain Goats. If you haven’t been keeping up with Darnielle since the Mountain Goats emerged during the ’90s, he’s guided the band away from its lo-fi origins to become a staple of the indie scene, even signing with Merge Records, the same label as drummer Jon Wurster’s other group, Superchunk. $29.50, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — DC Palaye Royale Palaye Royale has got a look that screams “former emo kids obsessed with old traveling circuses.” And its music matches the look. Even so, the music carries less angst and more sadness than the emo origins might suggest. Also expect touches of modern pop not too far removed from Imagine Dragons. $29.50$104.50, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org. — BE Friday, September 16

Bad Bunny, Diplo Puerto Rican Latin trap megastar Bad Bunny’s meteoric rise from Soundcloud to the Super Bowl shows no sign of slowing, especially after the release of his latest album Un Verano Sin Ti. In between Corona commercials with Snoop Dogg and WWE wrestling appearances, he managed to garner two Grammy awards and rank as Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2020. Beyond that, Bad Bunny has been praised for his support of Puerto Rico’s LBGTQ+ community and its e orts to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Expect the Alamodome to be shaking to the plumbing. $244-$6,000, 7 p.m., Alamodome, 100 Montana St., (210) 207-3663, alamodome.com. — Danny Cervantes

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Why Bonnie Though they describe themselves as “bedroom pop that’s moved to the couch,” the members of Why Bonnie might be selling themselves short not acknowledging they’ve moved to the garage. Despite the intimacy of singer-songwriter Blair Howerton’s voice, Why Bonnie o ers a full-band sound. Recommended for people who enjoy the stylings of Phoebe Bridgers but crave more straight-up rock and Americana vibes. $15, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — MM Silverstein, the Amity A iction Co-headlined tours seem to be all the rage lately, as evidenced by this one topped by a pair of post-hardcore mainstays. Silverstein is returning to San Antonio less than a year after its last packed show here. Meanwhile, the Amity A iction is flying high o its most recent EP Somewhere Beyond the Blue. $30-$35, 7 p.m., Vibes Event Center, 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 255-3833, facebook.com/vibeseventcenter. — BE Michael Bublé Canadian crooner Michael Bublé has built an empire on an easy-listening sound that evokes Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Which makes sense considering Bublé grew up in British Columbia listening to his grandfather’s jazz collection. His 2003 self-titled debut album featured a collection of standards that would become the linchpin of his success. The current tour is in support of his 2022 album Higher, which throws modern pop covers and Bublé originals into the mix. $49-$574, 8 p.m., AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway, (210) 444-5000, attcenter.com.

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