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Green Party Will state lawmakers fix Texas’ harsh marijuana laws next session? Low-Hanging Fruit Black Lives Matter activists push for a police union contract that doesn’t cover up officer discipline

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SA Tomorrow Thanks to a years-long push for urban redevelopment, your city is about to look real different real soon

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As we approach the end of what former Mayor Julián Castro once dubbed the “decade of downtown,” major redevelopment projects years in the making are starting to transform the face of our city. The push for public and private investment in and around downtown will only continue under the city’s new SA Tomorrow plan, the latest big-picture roadmap for development in the coming years. And with the city’s upcoming largest-ever bond, officials hope to shuffle hundreds of millions more to so-called “transformational” projects, many of which could remake the city’s urban landscape. Whether you’re pro-, anti- or just developmentallycurious, one thing’s for certain: San Antonio could soon look like a very different city.

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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s decision earlier this month to list cannabis alongside the world’s deadliest drugs, like heroin, means that states will continue to decide on their own whether pot possession should be harshly punished and what, if any, patients are allowed access to a plant with many known medical uses. The decision perpetuates a patchwork system of pot laws across the country that differ radically from state to state. Lawmakers in 25 states have legalized marijuana in some form, while four states and the District of Columbia have approved recreational use of the plant. On the flip side, in some parts of the country, like Texas, a pot possession charge can derail your life and lead to significant jail time. Some cops in Texas might even stick their hands inside you on the side of the road if they think they smell something skunky during a traffic stop (see lawsuits against Houston-area cops, the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Customs and Border Protection as examples). That’s why marijuana reform activists in Texas say they’re focused on changing state policy in the upcoming legislative session, which starts in January 2017. Heather Fazio, Texas political director with the Marijuana Policy Project, says activists have two main goals heading into the session: expanding medical marijuana and lowering

criminal penalties for simple possession. While lawmakers managed to pass the state’s firstever medical marijuana law last year, the law itself is extremely limited—if not practically useless. It approved only marijuana extracts containing high levels of cannabidiol, or CBD oil, and only trace amounts of THC, the stuff that actually gets you high. Still, patients suffering from uncontrollable seizures and rare forms of epilepsy (the people who probably need it the most) are now eligible for this medical marijuana extract with a doctor’s prescription. This presents another problem: All other medical marijuana states have laws requiring doctors “recommend” or “certify” patients wanting pot for treatment. That’s because “prescribing” medical marijuana is still one of those legal gray areas thanks to federal pot prohibition. Since the DEA still considers the plant to be a Schedule I drug (meaning it has no legitimate use), doctors risk losing their DEA license to prescribe other controlled substances if they start “prescribing” pot. But turns out “recommending” or “certifying” patients for medical marijuana use is a First Amendment-protected activity, so other states have adjusted their laws accordingly. Texas’ law, meanwhile, says a doctor must “prescribe” the drug. Advocates say the law is so limited that families with sick children continue to flee

Texas to seek treatment for serious seizure disorders in other states with more relaxed marijuana laws. Fazio says activists want to see the drug expanded to treat a variety of conditions—from post-traumatic stress disorder to relief for cancer patients. “There are families uprooting from Texas, where they want to live, because they can’t treat their children here,” Fazio told us. “We think we can convince the Legislature that that shouldn’t be happening.” Fazio says the other priority for 2017 is legislation that reduces criminal penalties for pot possession in Texas. And that’s because, as it stands, some of those laws are not only draconian, but nonsensical. (Consider the fact that prosecutors in Texas can threaten people caught with too many pot brownies with life in prison because Texas law, instead of weighing the amount of drugs that actually went into the edibles, considers a pound of flour, sugar, and eggs mixed with pot to be a charge-able pound of drugs.) Fazio says MPP plans to back, among other things, the kind of proposal filed by El Paso Rep. Joe Moody last year, which would reduce penalties for marijuana possession of less than 1 ounce to a $100 fine and no jail time. “We want to take away the threat of arrest, jail time, and most importantly that criminal record that comes along with a simple possession charge,” Fazio said. sacurrent.com • August 24—30, 2016 • CURRENT 13

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Activists pushing for more police accountability in San Antonio say they’re stunned that some of the most basic reforms they’ve been asking for likely won’t be included in the new police union contract that goes before City Council for approval in next month. At issue are disciplinary procedures that remain unchanged in the negotiated contract that Mayor Ivy Taylor and the San Antonio Police Officers Association announced earlier this summer. Black Lives Matter activists, some of whom rallied around City Hall last week ahead of council’s citizensto-be-heard session, say the city has effectively agreed to the continued government-sanctioned falsification of records. Local activist JohnathanDavid Jones insists that what he and others want fixed in the police union contract amounts to the lowest of the low-hanging fruit when it comes to police reform. “And they won’t even do that for us, which just goes to show you how much work we need to do,” Jones told the Current. Unchanged in the police union contract that will soon go up for a vote is language that sweeps an officer’s disciplinary history under the rug during an internal department review. As it stands, department officials and arbitrators hearing a case of officer misconduct can’t consider any drug- or alcohol-related violations more than 10 years old; infractions involving “intentional violence” only follow a cop for five years; and any other disciplinary action only shows up for two years. If suspended for three days or less, the department automatically changes an officer’s suspension to a

“written reprimand” after a couple of years. City officials say Taylor tried but failed to get union leadership to agree to even that simple change. Just last week City Manager Sheryl Sculley told the Express-News editorial board the union wouldn’t agree to disciplinary changes without more money (the new contract already agrees to wage increases totaling 14 percent over the next four years and a three percent bonus this year). “[T]hey wanted to be paid for any changes in the disciplinary process,” she told the board, according to a story by E-N columnist Brian Chasnoff. “Given all the factors, we couldn’t stay under the policy direction, which was keep publicsafety spending under 66 percent (of the general fund), and pay for that as well.” When we spoke to her earlier this month, Taylor insisted that while she wants the disciplinary language changed, she doesn’t think it’s worth blowing up an agreement with the union over it. After discussions with union leadership, she told us, “we realized there was not a path forward right now on this.” Taylor also cited attacks on police officers this summer in Dallas and Louisiana as another reason fixing the disciplinary language in the local union contract is a nonstarter right now. By agreeing on a contract and ending two-plus years of legal wrangling between the city and union, Taylor says she hopes to make San Antonio “an example of what it looks like when police and the community are working together.” Activists who say they’ll continue to gather at City Hall Wednesday certainly don’t see the

contract as an example of police-community unity. Which isn’t all that surprising when the head of the local police union compares them to anarchists and the Ku Klux Klan. As SAPOA president Mike Helle told Texas Public Radio earlier this month: “There’s always a group that’s out there that doesn’t like authority. In the ‘80s, they were anarchists. Back in the ‘70s and ‘60s, it was the Ku Klux Klan. Now, we have a new group manifesting themselves: Black Lives Matter.” Jones says he understands the city is eager to end contract negotiations with the police union, but he insists that tweaking the disciplinary language should be viewed as just one minor step on the road to larger reforms needed at the San Antonio Police Department. “If this is what they think could kill their deal, that says a lot to me,” Jones told us. For now, the big question is whether anyone else on Council is willing to press the issues before the contract goes up for approval on September 1. While publicly sparring with the police union seems like an obvious political hazard heading into an election year, Southside Councilman Rey Saldaña has already stepped up as perhaps the loudest voice of opposition to the contract, which he says he cannot support without reforms to the department’s disciplinary policy. In an op-ed to the daily last week, he wrote, “We should all be angry when an officer steps outside his or her authority, but we should do something with that anger and direct it to changing bad policies that hide misconduct and discipline records.”

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peel her skin off in a debate.” Last week we got another reminder that Perry is vocally supporting a candidate he once said would lead to “perdition” (definition: “the state of being in hell forever as punishment after death”). This time it deals with Trump’s regrettable “war of words” with the father of a fallen muslim soldier who has, not surprisingly, criticized Trump’s proposal to ban muslim immigrants from entering the country. The controversy, which hinges on Trump’s compulsion to antagonize the Gold Star family, has become so politically toxic that other Republicans, like Perry’s successor to the governorship, have urged the utmost respect for the family (Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement earlier this month, “The service and devotion of Gold Star families to America cannot be questioned”). Perry, nevertheless, decided this was a feud worth fueling. In an interview aired on CNN last week, Perry said the soldier’s father “shouldn’t get a free ride when he’s going to inject himself into the political arena.” Among other things, Perry said during the interview: “In a campaign, if you’re going to go out and think that you can take a shot at somebody and not have incoming coming back at you, shame on you.” It’s not entirely clear what Perry thinks he can gain by so vocally defending Trump at this point—even when others in his party and state refuse to do the same. While he wasn’t picked for vice president, maybe the former governor actually believes some of those vague assurances that he’d be up for a senior role in the administration of someone Perry not long ago called “a barking carnival act.”

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Thanks to a years-long push for urban redevelopment, your city is going to look real different real soon MICHAEL BARAJAS @MICHAELSBARAJAS

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efore the Obama Administration snatched

at the turn of the 21st century. Even if San

be San Antonio’s largest-ever bond program if

him up for a cabinet position in 2014, Julián

Antonians wanted to live downtown, there

voters approve it next year. While city staff, as

Castro seemed determined to make sure he was

were few options. A stroll through most of

expected, proposed the vast majority of the near

the kind of mayor people remembered. Not only

downtown’s major corridors took you past entire

$1 billion bond go toward basic infrastructure

was he the youngest mayor of a major American

blocks of empty storefronts. Abandoned office

improvements like street, bridge and sidewalk

space occupied empty buildings across the heart

repair, they also asked that a $330 million chunk

of the city.

go toward so-called “transformational” projects

city, but just three years in he’d already managed to get voters to pass a $30 million sales tax to fund pre-kindergarten throughout the city. His fame grew when he was handpicked to be the first Latino ever to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. But Castro also tried to make his tenure a turning point in the city’s history of development, bringing back the big-picture “visioning process” with something he called SA 2020, a roadmap for the city that started to roll out in 2010. When the official SA 2020 plan was finished and launched the following year, Castro called the document “a set of aspirations for our city, the dreams we have for ourselves.” Among those dreams was a plan to curb suburban sprawl by reinvesting in an urban center that city leaders and developers had long neglected. Sure, the convention and tourism trade made lots of money off the River Walk, Alamo Plaza, the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and a downtown skyline that had pretty much been turned over to hotels. But if you looked closely, the center of town had become a rather bleak place. Residents had fled the urban core

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So Castro declared what he called a “decade of downtown,” a time when public money would goose private investment and help subsidize a move back to San Antonio’s urban and core neighborhoods. Now, as the end of that decade fast approaches,

that they say have the potential to change the city in a fundamental way. Not all of that “transformational” money is expected to flow downtown (for instance, the city asked that some $15 million go to build a

city leaders have approved another big-picture plan

land bridge where Wurzbach Parkway currently

that they say builds on the work Castro started.

splits the north side’s Hardberger Park in two).

Launched in 2014, SA Tomorrow is supposed to be

But much of it – about $200 million – could go to

a long-range, comprehensive set of priorities that

projects that aim to remake the face of downtown

guides the city as it figures out how to handle the

in the coming years. That includes the complete

breathtaking population boom expected to hit the

remaking of a two-mile stretch of San Pedro

region in the coming decades. Currently, some

Creek that lines the western edge of downtown,

1.9 million people live in Bexar County. Officials

or the next phase in rebuilding what was once

predict that within the next 25 years, the county

downtown’s crown jewel: Hemisfair Park.

will grow by 1.1 million people. Earlier this month, the day before City Council

Naturally, you can’t throw millions in public dollars at redeveloping huge swaths of the

passed an SA Tomorrow plan that continues

city without some accompanying tension. The

to call for redevelopment and more densely

march of restaurants, new housing and young

populated neighborhoods in the urban center,

professionals into near-east side and south side

council members heard some of the first details of

neighborhoods has brought with it the usual fears

another plan that could dramatically change what

that that residents who stuck it out during a period

the city looks like in the coming years. City staff

of neglect might now be priced out in the years

laid out funding recommendations for what would

of plenty. Then, in late 2013, came what some

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have visited Yanaguana since it opened. “We think that’s confirmation that redevelopment at Hemisfair will be wildly successful,” he told the Current. HPARC’s next phase is to build what Andujar says will be the hallmark of the new Hemisfair district: a giant civic park on Hemisfair’s northwest corner lined by shops, cafes, apartments and even a hotel. It will

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replace the wing of the convention center that was demolished and is currently being rebuilt (only slightly bigger and with more modern amenities), closer to the highway in the largest development contract ever given by the city for a capital improvement project. Zachry Corp., part of the partnership that got the $325 million to demolish, rebuild, and expand the convention center, has now entered into negotiations with HPARC for a $165 million high-rise development

considered dark omen: The first residential complex to

that would host the 1968 World’s Fair, developers

be built in downtown proper during Castro’s so-called

demolished some 1,200 homes in what would

“decade of downtown” also razed the 1955 Univision

eventually become the park’s footprint. In creating the

building, once home to the nation’s first-ever Spanish-

hallmark of San Antonio’s skyline, the city destroyed a

language television station.

working class neighborhood.

But during a bond presentation earlier this month,

Once the big celebration came and went, the park

Mayor Ivy Taylor insisted the vision laid out in SA

largely sat neglected for decades. It eventually became

Tomorrow and the massive amount of bond money the

a dumping ground for the federal government and the

city is recommending to transform downtown signals

University of Texas system. Andrés Andujar, CEO

a course correction away from suburban sprawl and

of the Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corp., a

toward a more modern city.

nonprofit the city has tasked with managing the park,

“In some ways, we’re kind of battling against

says the goal now is to “return to pre-1968 density. … It’s all about building a neighborhood, putting residents

decades and some parts of town didn’t receive some of

back into that district.”

the attention that was needed, and so now we’re still

that promise. Five years ago, when the city allocated

conversation difficult. Acknowledging that is definitely

some $30 million of its bond proposal to Hemisfair

going to be an important next step.”

redevelopment, not much had changed within the

The hotel has become a flashpoint of sorts for activists and groups that have criticized the city’s development policies. David Zachry sat on the HPARC board in its earliest years of existence. In 2013, he successfully lobbied the Texas Legislature to tweak a state law that ultimately allowed for the building of a hotel at Hemisfair in the first place. Danna Schneider with Unite Here, the local hotel workers union, continues to characterize the Hemisfair hotel project as a public giveaway to developers. In an email blast she

• HPARC says the next step at Hemisfair is a civic park lined by mixed-use development

Hemisfair footprint in decades. Then in October

is an area of downtown the city has fought for years to

2015, HPARC completed the first of three phases

resuscitate: Hemisfair.

when it unveiled Yanaguana Garden, a new 4-acre

room “boutique” hotel.

Andujar insists Hemisfair is close to delivering on

trying to play catch-up. I think that’s what makes this

Somewhere at the nexus of these hopes and concerns

is to bring apartments, retail, offices, and even a 200-

COURTESY OF HPARC

history,” she told council members. “You go back some

on the edge of the new civic park. Andujar says the idea

park lined with rehabilitated postbellum homes that hen it comes to development, Hemisfair is

the city plans to lease out to restaurants and shops.

one of the city’s original sins.

Yanaguana’s first tenant, Paleteria San Antonio,

In order to transform the site into an urban park

opened this summer. Andujar says surveys at the park

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sent out to supporters this summer reiterating the group’s opposition to a hotel at Hemisfair, she wrote,

hile the Tobin Center for the Performing

will come from, what is quickly becoming obvious is

Arts was mostly made possible with $100

that renewed public funding of downtown projects

“Let’s be honest: a hotel in our public park does not

million in public investment through the 2008 bond,

is starting to attract developers. As the San Antonio

improve our quality of life.”

the Tobin Endowment got to name it for a $15 million

Express-News first reported earlier this month,

donation that nudged the project into the end zone.

developer giant Weston Urban, co-founded by local

Andujar, meanwhile, insists that kind of development is necessary to build and sustain the

What historic preservationists said they didn’t

tech entrepreneur Graham Weston, has been gobbling

type of district HPARC has imagined for Hemisfair.

know at the time was that the new performing

up properties near the proposed San Pedro Creek

And while the civic park is central to the next phase

arts center would replace and demolish the city’s

expansion on the northwest corner of downtown for

of revitalizing Hemisfair, it’s not clear where that

Municipal Auditorium, where in 1939 labor

the past year and a half.

money will come from. Andjuar puts the price of the

leader Emma Tenayuca escaped a violent mob by

Weston Urban and another emerging player in

civic park itself at $58 million. So far philanthropy,

sneaking out through the building’s bowels and

downtown development, GrayStreet Partners, have

through the Hemisfair Conservancy, has only pulled

underground passages. After a brief legal fight with

been on a buying spree in and around a six-block stretch

in about $800,000, Andujar says, meaning that if

preservationists (including Tenayuca’s niece and

of Houston Street that’s been barren for most of recent

the city really keeps its bond funding for Hemisfair

Carmen Tafolla, a former poet laureate to the city

memory. Local tech-industry boosters with Tech Bloc

at the current recommendation of $26 million, the

and state who argued that the building was historic

have even started calling it the city’s first tech district,

park could face a major funding gap.

and worth saving), the city tore it down anyway,

giving it the hashtag #SATD.

• The Frost Bank Tower would be the first major addition to downtown's skyline in 27 years

but kept the facade of the old historic building.

Details for what is perhaps one of the more bold

Preservationists jokingly called it “façadomy.”

proposals for downtown to emerge in recent years

Still, people like Centro CEO Pat DiGiovanni call

came this summer when Weston Urban unveiled

places like the Tobin “catalytic” projects that can

its plans for the first major addition to the city’s

transform entire areas of a town. DiGiovanni said

skyline in 27 years. The proposed 400-foot Frost

the downtown economic development nonprofit

Bank Tower at the corner of Flores and Houston

gathered “stakeholders” (developers, business owners

streets, backed by some $1 million in city incentive

and others with a vested interest in downtown

and fee waivers, cleared the city’s historic design

development) and came up with their own funding

and review commission earlier this summer.

recommendations for a number of large-scale projects

Some commissioners wondered whether Weston

about that. He told us HPARC might push for the

they would like to see to get significant public funding

Urban should try to make the 23-story building

city to pitch a separate $18 million bond based on

through the 2017 bond.

even taller. The new skyscraper is part of a public-

All told, Andujar doesn’t seem too worried

what HPARC thinks it could pull in revenue from

City staff recommendations mirror almost all of

private partnership City Council approved last

businesses leasing land around Hemisfair in the

Centro’s, save for funding for Hemisfair that comes

year that included spending $51 million to buy the

coming years. Plus, he says, HPARC is brainstorming

in significantly below what Centro had requested

old 22-story Frost Bank Tower on Houston Street,

“creative” ways to bridge the gap.

(they wanted the whole civic park project to be fully

where the city plans to consolidate staff that are

funded by the bond). That includes some $36 million

currently scattered across town.

Like selling off naming rights to sections of the emerging district. Andujar promises the district will

for improvements along San Pedro Creek downtown

forever be known as Hemisfair — “that’s not for sale,”

that are being spearheaded by the San Antonio

city’s health: coffee shops. “I look at the measure of

he assured us. But you could rename Yanaguana

River Authority and Bexar County. Officials

success in terms of coffee shops,” he told us. “When I

Garden for the next 25 years for a cool $5.8 million.

estimate the project, which is set to break ground

came here 10 years ago, there was hardly anything.

early next month, will carry a price tag of about

And now look how many are showing up.” He ran

park that Andujar says is so critical to Hemisfair’s

$175 million, $125 million of which the county has

through the list of San Antonio’s growing roster of

future. For $10 million, you get to name the flagship of

already committed.

coffee peddlers that aren’t Starbucks: Rosella, Brown,

On the menu for naming rights is also the new civic

the new and improved Hemisfair.

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DiGiovanni says he has another way of gauging a

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• New construction in and around downtown has revived interest in the old Lone Star Brewery. Developers are now planning a $300 million project for the site.

This summer, just as the city started the process of carving out bond funding for major redevelopment projects in and around downtown, we got a fresh reminder of how efforts to rebuild an urban core for locals can quickly go off the rails. Last week the city was forced to essentially hit the reset button after its nascent plans for Brackenridge Park spooked citizens because they would have radically changed the nature of the cherished public space. City officials have asked

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that the citizen bond committees, which are tasked with massaging the bond proposal before it goes to voters, fund Brackenridge redevelopment to the tune of $19 million. It’s likely public dollars will eventually follow other “transformational” projects, like the redevelopment of the old Lone Star Brewery on the edge of Southtown, a

I f, like DiGiovanni, you judge us by our coffee shops,

Cathedral and the missions. It’s as if in the process

San Antonio is indeed a city on the rise.

of becoming the seventh-largest city in the country,

San Antonio has drifted away from the core of what here’s something sadly ironic about San

has made it special and different than any other

Antonio’s history of development.

American metropolis.”

Around the turn of the 20th century, as the

But now, redevelopment has begun along the

city’s streetcar system was built and expanded,

edges of the east and south sides, and there are

so-called “streetcar suburbs” like Alamo Heights,

already indications city builders are eying the west

Terrell Hills and Monte Vista started to spring

side as another spot in need of “transformational”

up. Like every other major city, San Antonio saw

development. Earlier this year it was reported that a

residents flock to the edges of town during the

yet-unnamed developer is under contract to buy the

rapid period of suburbanization after World War II.

2.6-acre Scobey complex on the near west side with

White businessmen under the banner of the Good

plans to turn it into a mixed-use development.

Government League drove public dollars to north side

Former Express-News editor Bob Rivard, who

developments where they built their own middle-class,

perhaps more than anyone else in local media has

mostly-Anglo neighborhoods.

his finger on the pulse of local movers, shakers and

Growth moved in a direction away from much

developers in this city, recently championed this

of what made San Antonio special. Express-News

particular vision for the west side: “Done right, it’s [sic]

reporter Vianna Davila, who spent more than a year

unique Spanish/Mexican/Mexican-American essence

investigating the city’s history of development and

will make the west side of downtown a magnet for

leaders’ plans for the future, recently delivered this

locals and visitors alike in search of a contemporary

sobering assessment of how we got to this point:

experience built on cultural authenticity.” Rivard also

“As it has increased in size, San Antonio has grown

called for the city to just add more money to the already

away from its historic origins downtown and on the

record-setting bond proposal in order to fully fund the

South Side, the respective homes to San Fernando

next phase of Hemisfair.

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project by private developers Aqualand of San Marcos and CBL and Associates out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Aqualand President Adam Schneider acknowledged the project’s obvious similarities to the redevelopment of the old Pearl brewery along south Broadway. Lone Star, he told us, will probably be less food-centric and more focused on becoming an entertainment hub for the city (they’re still hammering out exactly what that means, he said). He says there will be mixed use, retail, office and residential — possibly even a hotel. The developers say they plan on going after some of the city’s downtown housing-incentive money. David Neuhoff of CBL says the idea is to “create another destination point not just for Southtown but for the city as a whole.” He says the developers plan to start construction next year and open by fall 2018. Neuhoff agrees that that sounds like an ambitious timeline. But he says the continued discussions among city leaders about urban redevelopment has given them “a lot of momentum.” He echoed what is becoming the increasingly common language of urban transformation. “A great project to create a destination for Southtown itself and all of San Antonio. … A widereaching project for the whole city.” mbarajas@sacurrent.com Mark Reagan contributed to this report.

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◀ A new music venue has arrived at the Pearl and looks to become an instant go-to for lovers of jazz, blues, big band, Texas swing, salsa, conjunto and Americana. Owned by noted local musician Brent “Doc” Watkins, a masterful pianist, organist and bandleader who performs constantly and has long been invested in supporting/championing the San Antonio music milieu, Jazz, TX is a sort of refined version of the old-town dancehalls and saloons that it is (at least in part) modeled upon. In a recent press release, Watkins explained that “San Antonio has always been a town where various music traditions come together,” and he hopes this new venue will honor that “rich history.” For the spot’s opening salvo, Watkins himself will perform five nights in a row with his orchestra, wowing and wooing potential Jazz, TX devotees with his own unique take on American classics and his solid original numbers. Aside from jazz club meets Texas dancehall vibes and music, Jazz, TX will offer a San Anto-style soul food menu and a full bar, replete with fine signature cocktails. $50, doors at 7pm, show at 8pm Wed-Sat, Jazz, TX, 312 Pearl Pkwy, Building 6, jazztx.com. — James Courtney

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Requiem for a Dream

◀ In between his personal and eye-popping films Pi and The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky found critical and commercial success with Requiem for a Dream, interweaving the downward spirals of four drug addicts. Three of them (Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans) are junkies who deal drugs at Coney Island. The fourth (Oscar-nominated Ellen Burstyn) is a middle-aged housewife hooked on prescription meds. All dream of a better life through mind-altering substances while reality gets grimmer. Aronofsky’s hallucinatory, music-video approach elevates what’s basically a Reefer Madness warning based on Hubert Selby Jr.’s cult novel from 1978. The McNay screens the 2000 film in conjunction with its Get Reel series and the traveling exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 18612008.” Free, wine reception at 6:30pm, film at 7pm, McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org. — Michael Barrett

◀ Stand-up David Adkins, better known as Sinbad, is also known as Coach Walter Oakes (A Different World), Andre Krimm (Necessary Roughness), David Bryan (The Sinbad Show) and by many other character names, but the role that really stands out on his IMDB page is that of Condom. Even then, the famously clean comic (he named his 1996 special Son of a Preacher Man for a reason) wasn’t working blue but rather promoting safe sex in 1992’s Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You. From his first appearances on Star Search in 1985 through his most recent special 2010’s Where U Been , Sinbad has been funny and even socially relevant while rarely saying anything that’d make your granny blush. Wikipedia lied. Sinbad lives. $29.50$39.50, 8pm, The Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-3333, majesticempire.com. — Jeremy Martin

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▶ Born in Oaxaca, raised in Minnesota, Lila Downs is the perfect bicultural machine. Boleros effortlessly turn into hard rock, polkas into hip-hop, folk into electronica. If you’re not careful, listening to “Mano Negra” (from her superb 2015 album Balas y Chocolate) could turn you into a dancing Cossack within 90 seconds. The fact that Downs cleverly and organically blends past and future to create a truly original (and accessible) sound is perhaps her least interesting side — wait till you see her live. Her thunderbolt-like voice has incredible reach, at times a two-headed jarocho/

mariachi monster, at times a magical incense that resembles a young Mercedes Sosa — no one does that guttural, center-of-the-earth wail better than Downs. She owns the stage, and is backed by a superb band, but this time, there’s an extra treat: the Guadalupe Dance Company will accompany her on some songs in addition to performing their own set (flamenco? folklórico? both?). Pairing the local company with Downs is a masterstroke deserving of a packed house. $19-$79, 7:30pm, Lila Cockrell Theatre, 900 E. Market St., (210) 226-2891, artssa.org. — Enrique Lopetegui

◀ Upon graduating from Santa Barbara, California’s esteemed Brooks Institute of Photography in the 1980s, D. Clarke Evans wrote two important letters — one to the San Antonio Spurs and one to the Texas Photographic Society. Not only was he hired as the official photographer for the Spurs, he eventually became the president of the nonprofit TPS. After 26 years of documenting the Spurs, Evans stepped down from his post last year to focus on personal photography projects honoring Marines and WWII veterans. Himself a Sergeant who served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1964-1970, Evans takes a documentary approach to both “U.S. Marines” and “World War II Veterans: A Photographic Project,” endeavors that pair present-day portraits with biographical texts culled from interviews. While one project aims to “capture the commonality of moral fiber that links Marines,” the other seeks to preserve the stories and memories of WWII vets, a population that’s dwindled from 16 million to 700,000 Americans. One of two Fotoseptiembre exhibitions hosted by the University of the Incarnate Word, Evans’ “Photographic Projects: World War II Veterans & U.S. Marines” opens in tandem with “Han’s Street Portraits,” a showcase of urban snapshots created by San Antonio-based photographer Zhifeng Han. Free, 6-8pm, University of the Incarnate Word, Kelso Art Center, 4301 Broadway, (210) 829-3852, fotoseptiembreusa.com. — Bryan Rindfuss

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▶ Although most North Americans haven’t heard of it, one of the most important elections in modern history was Chile’s 1988 referendum asking voters if they wished military dictator Augusto Pinochet to continue or step down for democratic elections. The lively movie No, nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, stars Gael Garcia Bernal as an advertising executive put in charge of light-hearted, media-savvy ads for the No campaign. Director Pablo Larraín shot the film on outdated 3/4-inch U-matic tape in order to blend his footage seamlessly with actual TV footage of the period. The result has delighted critics internationally. SAMA revisits the historical drama as part of its cash barequipped Film on the Green series. $5-$10, 8pm, San Antonio Museum of Art, West Courtyard, 200 W. Jones Ave., (210) 978-8100, samuseum.org. — MB

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◀ One of several creative forces behind Tamara Adira’s Artist Foundation Award-winning flamenco fusion performance Angel of Gravity, JD Morera is known for abstract paintings he says are “neither premeditated nor contrived.” Distinguished by dramatic sweeps of bold color, his large-format canvases at times evoke figures, structures or landscapes — unintentional visual triggers Morera likens to pareidolia, the phenomenon that invites imaginative minds to discover meaningful shapes in clouds, hills and the moon, maybe even the face of Jesus on a tortilla. Born in Madrid and based in San Antonio, the widely exhibited painter’s latest experiments in abstraction come to light at Bihl Haus in a solo show opening with a Saturday reception complete with live music, tapas and sangria. Free, 6-9pm, Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 383-9723, bihlhausarts.org. — BR

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◀ In 2001’s The Queens of Comedy, stand-up Sommore (Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, Friday After Next) jokingly compares herself to Tupac Shakur, and she’s not wrong. Her act, like many of Shakur’s songs, gives the relentlessly horny id a charming, engaging voice, persuasively, impeccably delivered. The same sort of explicit-content warnings apply, but even with a mind in the gutter, a rose that grew from concrete can be beautiful, even thought-provoking. Sommore’s good-natured, sex-positive shit-talking bears an unmistakable undercurrent of feminism even as she discusses the finer points of “ho-ism” or warns about the dangers of finding “good dick.” $25, 8pm & 10:15pm Fri-Sat, 8pm Sun, Improv San Antonio Rivercenter, 849 E. Commerce St., (210) 2291420, rivercentercomedyclub.com. — JM

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‘¡Puro San Antonio!’ ▲ Founded in 1998 by Russian-born pianist Anya Grokhovski, the local nonprofit Musical Bridges Around the World is known best for eclectic programming that takes shape in an International Music Festival and a free series of Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral but also uplifts local artists in a dedicated gallery launched in 2013. Standing out in this year’s early wave of shows presented under the umbrella of Fotoseptiembre — San Antonio’s monthlong festival of photography — MBAW’s “¡Puro San Antonio!” promises to showcase the “global heritage within our emerging metropolis” with an eye on “our future as the cosmopolitain crossroads of the Americas.” Curated by Julya Jara, the group exhibit collects works from photojournalists and commercial photographers Natalia Sun, Darren Abate, Billy Calzada, Mark Greenberg, Josh Huskin and Mark Soghani. Free, 5-7pm, Musical Bridges Around the World Gallery, 23705 I-10 W., (210) 464-1534, fotoseptiembreusa.com. — BR

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FILM National Parks Adventure Narrated by

Robert Redford, director Greg MacGillivray’s 2016 documentary takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail adventure — soaring over red rock canyons, hurtling up craggy mountain peaks and into otherworldly realms found within America’s most legendary outdoor playgrounds, including Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Yosemite and Arches. Free, 6-8pm Thursday; Santikos Palladium, 17703 I-10 W., (210) 496-2221.

San Antonio Car Show and Craft Beer Festival Co-hosted by European Auto

Group and Alamo Beer Company, this free event combines craft brews, covetable cars, festival fare and raffles in a family-friendly atmosphere. Free, 3pm-midnight Saturday; Alamo Beer Company Brewery, 202 Lamar St., (254) 624-8266.

Whiskey Business The San Antonio Current

invites guests to discover the best in Scotches, bourbons, and whiskeys at an adults-only event with cuisine samples from

local restaurants, plus wine, beer, cigars and live music. $50-$75, 8-11pm Friday; Briscoe Western Art Museum, Jack Guenther Pavilion, 210 W. Market Street, (210) 388-0606.

WWE Live World Wrestling Entertainment

returns to the Freeman with an epic battle featuring superstars Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt, Enzo Amore, The Miz, Cesaro, Becky Lynch, Paige, Chris Jericho and many more. $20$100, 5pm Sunday; Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St., (210) 226-1177

TALKS PLUS Digital Marketing Boot Camp Digital

marketing consultant Yusuf Chowdhury leads a comprehensive session covering apps, Google, SEO, social media platforms, digital media marketing and more. Registration recommended at utsa.ecenterdirect.com. $25 (includes breakfast and lunch), 7:30am-4:30pm Tuesday; UTSA Downtown Campus, Small Business Development Center, 501 W. César E. Chávez Blvd., (210) 458-2460.

THEATER The Foreigner Likened by theater critic Ben

Brantley to “a Beverly Hillbillies or Green Acres episode with a social conscience,” late playwright Larry Shue’s farce The Foreigner follows tragically shy British proofreader Charlie Baker to a rural fishing lodge in Georgia where he masquerades as a foreigner from an exotic locale. $16-$22, 7:30pm Thursday, 8pm Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday; Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 N.W. Military Hwy., (210) 302-6835.

SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART

Playhouse Potentials: Community Hearts A program designed to engage and

broaden SA’s theater community while shedding light on lesser-known scripts, Playhouse Potentials presents a staged reading of local playwrights Rebecca McCarty and Jay Brandon’s Community Hearts, a socially minded dramedy surrounding food bank volunteers whose lives become more complicated when same-sex marriage becomes legal. Free, 6-8:30pm Sunday; The Playhouse, 800 W. Ashby Pl., (210) 733-7258.

SPECIAL EVENTS Ceviche y Cervezas Independence Brewing

Co. and Puro Pinche team up for a poolside evening with music by DJ Steven Lee Moya, brews and ceviche samples from The Box Street Social, La Condesa, Lüke and Mixtli. $40-$50, 7-10pm Thursday; Southtown Flats, 111 Probandt St., (210) 222-8111.

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‘Slanguage: Chicos Pero Locos’ Back in 2010, Mary Elizabeth Cantu launched Spare Parts in response to a lack of creativity in K-12 classrooms and statewide budget cuts for arts education, among other issues. Over the years, the creative entrepreneur and certified Master Reuser has built her organization into a repository for donated art supplies that get distributed among Bexar County educators via free Fine Arts Fairs. In preparation for this year’s fair, Spare Parts volunteers reportedly sorted through 8,208 pounds of “pre-loved classroom materials” that will impact thousands of students throughout San Antonio. But beyond all the green fuzzy goodness of its Fine Arts Fairs (not to mention diverting tons of materials from landfills), Spare Parts is a creative entity fueled by truly unique ideas. Founded in the summer of 2013 by Cantu and collaborator/ educator Gabriela Santiago, the Spare Parts Mini Art Museum functions as a mobile art gallery that showcases wee works of art (most measure 4” x 4” or smaller) in maquette-type displays that employ hardcover books or binders as “museum” walls. Working with guest curators and celebrated artists (Ken Little, Hills Snyder, Alejandro Diaz, Kelly O’Connor and Vincent Valdez among them) and even taking their shows on the road, Mini Art Museum recently expanded via MAMx — a program designed to broaden its curatorial, artistic and educational reach.

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Representing a collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist, activist and former Artpace resident Mario Ybarra Jr. and his esteemed collective Slanguage Studio, MAMx’s inaugural exhibition “Chicos Pero Locos” features 11 California artists in a format that emphasizes “artistic quality over quantity” and invites viewers to zoom in on individual works with a magnifying glass. In addition to the immediate charms of its diminutive size, the group show encompasses a wide range of media (painting, photography, mixed media and even a video piece presented on an iPod) and addresses myriad themes, including lowrider culture (Valerie J. Bower’s Tuesday Night Hop), environmental racism (Eris De La Torre’s Obligatory Reanimation), music and identity politics (Karla Diaz’s Bucket Brigade: Hip Hop Opera Necklace) and transnational violence (Felix F. Quintana’s El Norte y El Sur). After spending a month on display at West Hollywood’s LA><ART, “Slanguage: Chicos Pero Locos” embarked on a weeklong road trip to San Antonio with Cantu and Santiago. With two dogs along for the ride, the duo stopped to stage pop-up displays at five strategic locations — Noah Purifoy Foundation Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree, Phoenix Art Museum, Wright Elementary School in Tucson, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in Alamogordo and the Lost Horse Saloon in Marfa — and also made the most of an an unplanned visit to the Alpine Veterinary Clinic. Now part of the museum’s permanent collection, “Slanguage: Chicos Pero Locos” makes its official Alamo City debut this Saturday with a reception hosted by Rumble. To complement the works on view, Cantu and Santiago have planned a conceptual performance inspired by their small but crazy journey.

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Part boxing movie and part biopic, Hands of Stone tells the story of Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez), a boxer who rose from poverty in Panama to become a world champion. Yes, you’ve seen this kind of movie plenty of times before, and the fact that this is based on a true story isn’t necessarily adding to the appeal. But this will: The fight scenes and training montages are edited in an engaging way, and the film is full of little moments and details that make it a truly lively and dynamic viewing experience. Durán is an up-and-coming boxer when he hooks up with esteemed trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro) in 1971. Through Arcel, Durán learns both boxing technique and how to strategize, and when this is combined with his natural “ring sense,” it makes him nearly unbeatable and world famous. His biggest rival is Sugar Ray Leonard, who’s nicely played by hip-hop star Usher Raymond as a mild-mannered guy who’s light on his feet and tough to beat in the ring. We also see Durán outside of the ring, mostly chasing a schoolgirl named Felicidad (Ana de Armas) and engaging with Panamanian locals after he becomes famous. Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, the

film is at its best when Arcel and Durán interact. Note the way Arcel combs Durán’s hair in between rounds of a fight because it intimidates the opponent to see Durán coming out looking fresh, and the fact that the reason Durán hates being hungry while training is because he was often hungry as a kid and it brings back horrible memories. Also, notice that Arcel doesn’t allow Durán to mouth off to him, and more than once puts Durán in his place, but at the same time he fights for and defends Durán against all who try to take advantage of him. Their bond is articulated through their actions, not words of affection. It’s quite nice, actually. There are some extraneous moments: All of Ray Arcel’s personal life should’ve been left on the editing room floor, but doing so would’ve cut out three things: 1) John Turturro as a New York City gangster; 2) Ellen Barkin as Arcel’s wife; and 3) Drena De Niro (Robert’s adopted daughter) as Arcel’s estranged daughter. Admittedly Robert De Niro is really good here, but you can’t help but wish Jakubowicz could’ve looked objectively at the film and realized what’s obvious to us: that focusing on Durán alone would’ve made the movie better.

These distractions are worsened by the fact that Durán’s story is so compelling, meaning we want him on screen more and don’t want to be distracted by Arcel’s personal drama. Destitute, lacking education and abandoned by his father at age 14, Durán fought in street fights for money before going under the wing of a boxing trainer named Plomo (Pedro Perez). His journey to become a champion, complete with adversity, love and fame, is as compelling a rags to riches tale as you’ll find. Ramírez plays him with the appropriate stubborn conviction, and in the process gets us to like Durán and forgive him for his flaws. If you don’t follow boxing you might not know the name Roberto Durán, and that’s okay. After all, it doesn’t mean you cannot (or will not) enjoy his story in Hands of Stone, which is about on par with Creed in terms of overall quality. Or put another way, it’s a solid movie worthy of the admirable life and career Durán has led. Hands of Stone (R) Dir. and writ. Jonathan Jakubowicz; feat. Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramírez, Usher Raymond, John Turturro, Ellen Barkin Opens August 26 HHH

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COOL S E T A D P U Over the last year a few very unique spots have opened up all featuring delicious, ice cold treats of various shapes and sizes. We scouted out a few spots from all over town and got the low down on what to try during the dog days of summer.

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to layer on top. Once you are all done building your dessert one of the store employees will weigh your creation to determine the cost, much like at other fro-yo shops. There is no calculated combination of ice cream and toppings, but Burton explained the strawberry cheesecake combination is one of the stores most popular options. I couldn’t commit to one particular combo, so I grabbed a cup separator and went for red velvet cake and vanilla ice cream which I topped with Cocoa Puffs, crushed Kit-Kat bars, Sixlets, and cookie dough. For my other half, I went for the blue raspberry sorbet topped with Sour Patch Kids and gummy worms. Arctic Ape is open daily; noon-10pm Sun-Thu, noon-11pm Fri-Sat.

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> Open for business for a little over one year now, Arctic Ape is a family-owned and operated shop, that makes for a very interactive dessert experience. The concept was explained to me by store employee Joshua Burton, as “an experience that is limited only by your imagination.” Upon walking in, you will see that it is up to you to construct your treat, whether demure or extravagant. The wall is lined with double-sided ice cream dispensers that you can pull individual flavors from, or use the middle lever to try the store suggested flavor combination listed above each machine. Grab a cup and pick from the 10 different home-made flavors or five combos. From there, head to the topping offerings, from various cereals to candies of all varieties and all sorts of sweets in between. After adding your toppings, move along to the selection of dozens of sauces

> Open only since July of this year, Krazy Kravings is a dessert food truck offering decked out shaved ice based desserts. Krazy Kravings has taken flavors Texans love such as chamoy and Lucas and combined it with various sour candies and flavored shaved ice. In their short life a few things have proven to be the most popular amongst their fan base: the Krazy Mangonada which combines chamoy, mango shaved ice, and tons of sour candies including even an edible tamarind straw; the Krazy Mango Split, similar to the mangonada, but served in between a split dill pickle; and the Krazy Giant Bear, featuring an entire one-pound gummy bear covered in chamoy, on top of shaved ice and Lucas. While they are most frequently found in the parking lot of the H-E-B on SW Military drive, it’s worth following their Facebook page to see where they are when you decided to check them out.

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> It turns out San Antonio loves lobster. The Cousins Maine Lobster Truck fleet grew by one with an extra mobile kitchen now operating in San Antonio. The company shared news of the additional truck via Facebook. The truck franchise first launched in 2012 has vehicles in 13 regions including Atlanta, Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego. Started by cousins Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac, the local trucks are franchised by Todd Knief and Neil Werner who began serving Maine lobster rolls, lobster bisque and lobster tacos among other items (like the awesome tots) the weekend of June 4. Fans of ABC’s Shark Tank are probably familiar with the brand, which was backed by real estate and business expert and shark, Barbara Corcoran. According to Metro Public Relations, the San Antonio launch exceeded expectations. “San Antonio had the biggest franchise opening launch weekend and opening month in terms of sales and customers ever for a Cousins Maine Lobster truck…in fact, it was the biggest month in franchise history to date in terms of sales and customers.” Expect to see the SA trucks servicing two lunch spots and two dinner spots on the daily. Visit Cousins Maine Lobster’s site for scheduled stops.

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> Restaurateurs helped Louisiana flood victims this past week after more than 20 parishes were damaged by devastating floods. Chefs Pieter Sypesteyn of The Cookhouse, Jeremy Mandrell of Bakery Lorraine and Joan Cheever of The Chow Train, a non-profit food trailer that feeds SA’s homeless, all shipped out to various parts of the state. Sypesteyn and Mandrell joined Mercy Chefs in providing hot meals for victims. Cheever is no stranger to disaster relief. Her trip to Denham Springs, Louisiana on Friday makes nine stops since she launched the food trailer in 2011 when she and her small crew fed survivors of the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri. The Chow Train is known for serving hot and healthy, vegetable-filled meals.

My (and yes, your) chances of beating the rush and getting into PJs got a little better on Friday, August 12 as the Deco district fave opened a second, much larger location at 6703 Ingram Road. Offering the same menu as the original spot, Pancake Joe’s No. 2 seats 150 at 40 tables inside a former taqueria. The restaurant known for its casual atmosphere, waffles, scrambles and well, pancakes, is operated by chef-owner Jose Cruz. 6703 Ingram Road, (210) 647-7720.

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> I often have grandiose plans of waking up early and beating the breakfast rush at Pancake Joe’s. Well, that hardly ever happens, and I usually just end up eating breakfast tacos and wishing they were a giant omelet from Pancake Joe’s instead.

> Brunch-obsessed San Antonians (that’s a pretty good chunk of you) can now add Eggspectation to the list of eateries to visit. The eatery first announced last June by the San Antonio Business Journal is now open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Eggspectations is a Canadian breakfast cafe concept, first launched in downtown Montreal, with locations all over the globe including 11 restaurants in Canada, five in the U.S. (for now), three in India and one in Dubai. The Stone Oak Eggspectations features a massive menu of fresh juices, an espresso bar, a T-bar, boozy brunch drinks served all day, and breakfast classics from bennies to omelets to breakfast sandos and more. Oh, and regular lunch and dinner fare for you weirdos who don’t love breakfast at all hours of the day. The restaurant will open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. 402 N. Loop 1604 W., (210) 545-3199.

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The Irish haven’t always been well received on these shores. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “No Irish Need Apply” sentiments were attached to many help wanted ads and displayed in shop windows. The devil du jour, of course, is refugees from Middle Eastern countries. But these days, the Irish are being welcomed with open arms — in the form of Irish whiskey. It’s one of the fastest-growing segments in the spirits market, despite a tumultuous history (civil wars, English taxes and more) that saw many distilleries close. I had the opportunity to attend a tasting conducted by Francis Bogside’s Christine Hill as a component of a benefit for the ambitious expansion of the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. That, plus some judicious sampling elsewhere and the actual purchase of a bottle, forms the basis for this welcome back, y’all. Hill pointed out that, although there are exceptions in whisk(e)y production on both sides of the North Channel, the Irish product is most often distilled from a blend of both malted and unmalted barley (with other grains occasionally included), the barley is kiln-dried and thus generally un-peated, and the distillation takes place three times in large, copper pot stills. (Note: there happened to be no whiskey from Northern Ireland in this session, but we staunchly deny any political or religious motives for the slight. Venerable Bushmills is especially worth your attention.)

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Middleton Very Rare 2014 is part of a series of small-batch (100 cases for the world) whiskeys blended each year by the producer’s master distiller. If you can find it, snap it up ($155 or more), as the nose of toffee and spice (with a little ripe banana) alone may be worth the price. On the palate, it’s exceptionally silky with amplified spice plus wood and vanilla from finishing in American bourbon barrels joining the parade. Hill claimed rosewater as an aromatic component, and though I never quite got that, I might be able to conjure up potpourri in a pinch. Jameson 18 Year Limited Reserve ($120): Some corn is used in this mash bill, adding additional sweetness to the nose of honey, wood from aging in bourbon, sherry and virgin American oak barrels, and a little tropical fruit from who knows where. The palate is unctuous in the manner of many Irish whiskeys, with honeysuckle and leather making an unlikely trio with cinnamon breakfast cereal. The finish goes on for longer than a trio of Irish tenors. New to the American market, the traditionally single-pot-distilled Green Spot Irish Whiskey ($50) provided the tasting’s best bang for the buck. Brighter, yet lighter on the nose than many, this whiskey seduces with subtle honeysuckle, pear and clovey spice, continues the foreplay with more clove and oak from Bourbon and sherry barrels, and finishes cleanly without histrionics. My notes say “soft yet ballsy,” whatever that means in retrospect.

Redbreast 12 year Cask Strength ($75 on average) was the one bottle in the lineup that seemed to want a wee splash of water to tame the alcoholic heat. After that, spiky cinnamon dominated, along with notes of sherry, pear and punchy caramel. Lord Lieutenant Kinnahan Blended Irish Whiskey ($51) is also overproof at 46 percent ABV, but it wears its heat a little more gently, allowing the sweetness to fade into a dry and bitey finish. “Not one to write home about, but perfectly suitable to have as a sidecar to an ale or lager,” according to distiller.com, for whom I also do spirits reviews. The bottle I continue to research at home is The Irishman Founder’s Reserve ($51). There’s the typical spicy heat (black pepper) on the nose, coupled to white peach. On the palate, it’s got bourbon wood, burnt toffee and cinnamon bark. And, despite the potentially pugnacious implications of the name, the finish is lingering and actually lovely, spinning out toffee and more spice. Try this, and many others, at 1919 and Francis Bogside. If you don’t find ample Irish at your favorite watering hole, tell your ‘tender to get with the program: not all Irish exports are as sarcastic as Wilde or as dense as Joyce. That extra “e,” by the way, was allegedly added as a way of distinguishing the Irish product from scotch — a kind of flipping of the barley-based bird. Given the considerable differences, it hardly seems necessary. But that’s the Irish for you. sacurrent.com • August 24—30, 2016 • CURRENT 41

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Emo is probably one of the more misunderstood genres of music. Take a quick trip to internet slang bible Urban Dictionary, known for savage user-submitted definitions, to understand why “emo,” even to some who still have feels for the genre, usually feels like a modern insult. There are the usual “emo kid” stereotypes: the weepy LiveJournal blog, a comb over of black bangs, copious amounts of eyeliner, subscription to Alternative Press, and circulation-cutting skinny jeans. That’s probably because the music that birthed the term isn’t exactly easy to define. During the height of emo’s popularity, at the turn of the century, the genre itself had morphed into this stereotype of moody, sensitive, dark, theatrical and sometimes intense music, paired with chugging guitars, mid-song breakdowns and pained howls. But there’s a lot more to it than that. First, a quick primer for the uninitiated: What would eventually become labeled as “emo” music really started to form in the mid-1980s, with beginnings as hardcore punk’s sensitive little brother, where

political rants were replaced and SATX Emo Club member. with confessional lyrics of Formed in 2005, the White personal torment. The style Rabbit fan favorites had their gradually gained momentum moments of local greatness. and then mainstream popularity They opened for big-name artists in the ‘90s with bands like on their San Antonio stops and Jimmy Eat World and early won countless battles of the Weezer. Then came the rise bands during the genre’s heyday. of mass-marketable emo: My Mirza, when asked why he Chemical Romance, Panic! at thinks San Antonio still cares the Disco, Fall Out Boy and about emo, said “We all know Dashboard Confessional. trends come and go and we all Like MySpace, emo is still know that we have to grow up lingering, but it’s certainly not as in one way or another, so its just relevant as it was in the beginning refreshing to dedicate one night of the 2000s. But despite emo per month to our nostalgia from fading into an ashy gray, it still those years. Who doesn’t like holds an important place in the to scream Taking Back Sunday hearts of many in the generation songs at the top of their lungs?” that grew up with its music. San Mirza further explained why Antonio, a hardcore town that many are so nostalgic for the loves harder music, was majorly genre. “The emo genre had a lacking a 21-plus gathering no judgment-type of philosophy, grounds for former emo kids to which was the opposite of relive their grade school jams. exclusive, and was based off of Until the SATX Emo Club love and acceptance because emerged, that is. Launched in being emo was about admitting February, they’re now a staple your weaknesses and flaws on the Strip every last week of and being okay with them. the month crowding It was okay to be Brass Monkey’s Jimmy emotional; sadness is Eat Wednesday night. Jimmy Eat natural human emotion. It We talked to Suli was very communal. Wednesday Wednesday, August 31 Mirza, former guitarist Emo never completely at 10pm for post-hardcore band Brass Monkey died. Its generation just Before You Accuse Me 2702 N Saint Marys grew up.

ANGERKILL, WINGS OF ABADDON, URIEL, Y EQUALS/PROTEIN SHAKE, UNDER NO ONE, DEATHDODGER, OF RUINS, DARKER BY DESIGN, MAYBE TOMORROW, HEROESAMONGHEROES, COVINA, START A WAR, REFUGEE, SETTLING THE SCORE, AMMO FOR MY ARSENAL, AUROREAN, INAMORATA

SATURDAY AUG 27- DOORS 3:00 PM

BLOODY CAPE, PSYCHO PLAGUE, SLOW LIKE FIRE/DRUGHONEY, VIOLET TRIP/DESDEMONA THE HEROINE, THE TAKING, DRIP/ELEVENFOLD, DONELLA DRIVE, A NATION ON FIRE, STRIKES BACK, THE VOID, JESSICA REDGATE, THE DECEASED, FILTHY & THE MUFF DIVERS, GIVEN A CHANCE, ANOTHER SONG FOR A GIRL, NOT SO LUCKY/LIKE GHOSTS, THE BRIGHTEST STAR, POSTCARDS FROM THE MOON, OUT OF HEAVEN, LOOSE STRINGS, FREE SHIPPING

SUNDAY AUG 28- DOORS 1PM

END UPON A BURNING BODY, SILENCE THE MESSENGER, BURIED UNDER TEXAS, CHARCOAL TONGUE, ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, FOREWARD, LIFELIKE, JUST A DREAM, I SURVIVED, TORN BETWEEN TIDES, XURL, HALOGEN, REMNANTS - US, ALIVE & FIGHTING, CLOSED EYES & OPEN MINDS, ENTITLEMENT, CROSSWAYS, SUDDEN DEATH, HARDSIDE, BLOOD OF OUR ENEMIES, ASSAILANTS, SNAKEWAY, FORTUNES, LIFE CYCLES, PRIDE, SWEAR WORDS, IN BALANCE, OUTCOMES, CONTRIVANCE, EMBRACE THE MOMENT

Wed. Aug. 31st

THE TEXASES ‘CLASSIC COUNTRY COVERS’ DOORS 8PM / ALL AGES

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Wednesday August 24th Ruben V | 9-11PM

Thursday August 25th Los Nahuatlatos | 8-10PM

Friday August 26th

West Kings Highway | 7-9PM RDO Trio | 9-11PM

Saturday August 27th

James Steinle | 6-8PM The Spiders Jazz Trio | 8-10PM Filigree | 10-12AM

Sunday August 28th El Westside Sound System and Friends | 2-6PM

628 Jackson St | 210-320-1840

Cafe & Hookah A Colorful Blend Of Middle Eastern & Contemporary Ambience

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MUSIC PICKS

Futurebirds Even though Futurebirds embrace the sounds of good ol’ boy country rock, they’re far from touring with the likes of Kid Rock. With two full-length LPs featuring healthy doses of wailing pedal steel guitar and twanged vocals that can turn from passionate growls to a laid-back whisper, this ain’t Futurebirds' first rodeo. Or last. With Barin, Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster $10, 7pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N. Saint Mary’s St. WED

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band While known to the People Magazine crowd as the “guy who was married to Julia Roberts for a hot second,” Lyle Lovett is genuine a living legend of Americana. Lovett‘s drawl is characteristically Texan and his music features a mix of real-deal country, rocky blues and gospel choruses, showing his range as a crossover artist. Thank God Lovett, known for his expressive, “shit happens” storytelling, is keeping the flame alive. Even his newest releases, 2012’s Release Me in particular, topped the Billboard Country charts, proving that classic Americana isn’t dead. $40 $75, 8pm, Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., (210) 226-5700 FRI

Volcán, Islands & Tigers, 16 Psyche An 11-piece band with a three-alarm sound, Volcán is bringing traditional Latin music to millennials. With a FRI

brass section featureing trumpets and saxophones, a colorful lot of percussion and an accomplished accordionist, Volcán prove that Latin music can be adapted and incorporated into modern music and hold its own against the likes of garage and indie rock. If modern California surf was landlocked and baked under the Texas sun, Islands & Tigers’ rep the sound of saltwaterdrenched dream pop that doesn’t hang ten on an hourly basis. Vulnerable vocals and dream pop hooks make 16 Psyche – a new band on the SA scene – a welcomed addition. $5, 8pm, Imagine Books and Records, 8373 Culebra Rd, (210) 236-7668

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▲ Hydra Melody, Paco Estrada Known on the SA scene for FRI their easy-on-the-ears altrock, Hydra Melody sounds unabashedly radio-friendly. Big on woah-oo-ooh choruses and even bigger on slick production, Hydra Melody’s 2015 debut LP Nocturna is polished and poised to please the masses. Singer-songwriter, multiinstrumentalist Paco Estrada sure can wail and howl – in tune, too. Writer of doomsday ballads and bluesy love songs, Estrada is a lover, fighter, balladeer and storyteller. With Tufstrings and Deep Ella $8 - $10, 8pm, Jack’s Patio, 3030 Thousand Oaks Dr., (210) 494-2309

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place and make it irrevocably your own, you still occasionally do things to honor those who dwelt there before, as a kind of homage to the unique kinship born of place. Such is the case with the massive White Rabbit 20th Anniversary celebration going down at Paper Tiger this weekend. For nearly 20 years, the White Rabbit hosted a multitude of shows, largely of the metal, punk, emo, post-hardcore, and hip-hop variety, and provided a space for folks of all ages to gather and momentarily invest themselves wholly in the music being performed. It was quite a successful venture, but it also became, in the great tradition of seedy punk palaces

everywhere, an important cultural touchstone. This weekend’s threenight bonanza of a show (festival?) will provide plenty for nostalgic, old school Rabbit heads to fawn over, and, for everyone else, a damn fine (or at least extensive) bill of heavy rock in myriad styles. Just a few of the 50-plus bands on the bonkers line-up include Of Ruins, Upon a Burning Body, Lokey, Donella Drive, Slowlikefire and Psycho Plague. See the website below for a full line-up and to buy tickets, which are available for single days or for the whole weekend. $10-$25, 6pm, Paper Tiger, 2410 N St Mary’s St, papertigersa.com.

August 26 - Whiskey Myers + Dirty river boys

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MUSIC CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears with Blank Range $15 Presale, 18+, 7pm, 502 Bar Funk, Oldies and R&B with DJ Plata Free, 21+, 8pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner Futurebirds with Barin, Justin Peter KinkelSchuster $10 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Paper Tiger Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 10pm, George’s Keep Midtown Jazz Sound Free, 21+, 10:30pm, Soho Wine & Martini Bar Mike Zito & The Wheel $10+ Presale, All Ages, 730pm Open Mic “Tribute Nights”: Neil Young Free, All Ages, 8pm, Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex Prime Time Jazz Orchestra Free, All Ages, 8pm, The Cove Propaganda with DJ Ely Bat Free, 21+, 10pm, The Mix

Wayne’s World Wednesdays Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Wet Wednesdays with Midnight Swim (Front Room) and Karaoke (Back Room) Free, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room You Spin Me Right Round Wednesdays with DJ Mighty Iris Free, 21+, 9pm, The Bang Bang Bar

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 #Death2genres: Thursdays with the Space Cadets Free, 21+, 10pm, Web House 210 Blues Band Free, 21+, 10pm, Soho Wine & Martini Bar

Poet Laureate Jenny Brown, Andrea Sanderson & Rene Saenz $10, 21+, 730pm, Carmens De La Calle Queer Y Que: LGBTQIA Thursdays Free, All Ages, 4pm, La Botánica Ramble Cats Free, All Ages, 830 pm, The Cove Rewind Thursdays with DJ Tech-Neek Free, 21+, 10pm, Groove Lounge

The Hump-Off Wednesday Nights with DJ Donnie Dee Free, 21+, 10pm, Southtown 101

Let’s Go Retro Thursdays with DJ Mighty Iris Free, 21+, 8pm, Bonham Exchange

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August 27 - Micky and The Motorcars

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Guitar Shorty $15+ Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Rockwave Videos with VJ Andreas Free, 21+, 7pm, The Amp Room

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Tuesday

Thursday Night Swing Dance $10, Free for Members, All Ages, 7pm, San Antonio Swing Revival

EDM Thursdays $5 for 21+, $7 for 18+, Free for Ladies, 9pm, Club Rio

Koyote with DJs Shawn Jackson, TYK, DLo $5 Presale, 18+, 10pm, Maroc Bar

$2 Wells $2 Vegas Bombs

$5 Long Island Ice Tea $5 AMF $1 Tube Shots $3 Vegas bombs

Thursday Night Live ft. Fear From The Grave Free, All Ages, 9pm, Fitzgerald’s Bar and Live Music

Cool Cat Charlie Free, All Ages, 7pm, The Pigpen

Jack Broadbent $20+ Presale, All Ages, 830pm, Tobin Center

$3 Wells

September 23 - The Mavericks

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 Aaron Watson $25 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Gruene Hall Ben Griffith Free, All Ages, 9pm, Taco Garage ▲ Bricks In the Wall: The Sights And Sounds Of Pink Floyd $12-20 Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Aztec Theatre

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Cactus Country Cover $1015, 21+, 7pm, Leon Springs Dancehall

The Bongo Katz $3, All Ages, 10pm, La Botanica

Darren James Free, All Ages, 9pm, Burleson Yard Beer Garden

The White Rabbit 20th Anniversary Weekend $10 Per day $25 3-day, All Ages, 6pm, Paper Tiger

Derringer Band Free, 21+, 9pm, The Well

Three Bad Jacks Free, 21+, 9pm, The Mix

DJ Aaron Jackson ‘Back to The Future of House Tour’ with Special Guests DJs Mojo, Derrick Rage, and Katabolic $5-10, 21+, 8pm, The Amp Room

Uncle Lucis $12+ Presale, All Ages, 7pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Friday Nights with Ghostpizza $3, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room

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Flamencura $15, 21+, 830pm, Carmens De La Calle

Whiskey Myers with The Dirty River Boys & Strangetowne $15+ Presale, 18+, 7pm, John T. Floore Country Store

SATURDAY, JULY 27 80s, New Wave, Pop Saturdays Free, 21+, 930pm, Jack Rabbit ▲ Aaron Watson $25, All Ages, 7pm, Gruene Hall

Luke Olson Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Pigpen

Guy Forsyth Blues Band with Ruben V $15+ Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Sam’s Burger Joint

Michael Martin and the Infidels Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Cove Pat Kelly & The Pain Killers Free, 21+, 4pm, The Well Sharam (of Deep Dish) with DJs Shwann, CompleteJ, James Aguirre $10 Presale, 21+, 10pm, Stir Cocktail Bar Summer Music Series 2016 ft. Reed Brothers $7, All Ages, 12pm, Viva Tacoland

Saturdays with Midnight Swim Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Saturday’s w/ Dj Malik 10pm, Stone Street Pub Sell Your Soul Saturday’s presents The Stovebolts & Over the Top 10pm, Faust Tavern

Texas Alley Katz Free, 21+, 8pm, The Well

Lila Downs and the Guadalupe Dance Company $20-80 Presale, All Ages, 730pm, Lila Cockrell Theatre

Max Stalling: Dancehall Show $15, All Ages, 9pm, Luckenbach Dancehall

Roberta Morales Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Cove

Strangeways 101 with DJ Charlie Free, 21+, 9pm, Southtown 101

It’s A Groove Thing with DJs Chacho and Donnie Dee Free, 21+, 10pm, Groove Lounge

LestiHuff Free, 21+, 9pm, Barriba Cantina

Micky and the Motorcars $12 Presale, 18+, 7pm, John T. Floore Country Store

Soul’d Out Saturday with DJ Gibb Free, 21+, 10pm, Groove Lounge

Hydra Melody, Paco Estrada, Tufstrings, Deep Ella $8 Presale, 13+, 8pm, Jack’s Patio Bar

Jazz Fridays with Peter Rosie Free, All Ages, 7pm, Punta Del Cielo Café

Mark McKinney’s 6th Annual River Fest with Bri Bagwell $14 Presale, All Ages, 6pm, River Road Ice House

After Midnight Free, All Ages, 9pm, The Pigpen

Granvil Poynter Free, 21+, 9pm, Barriba Cantina Honey Bucket ● Topo Chica ● Jesika ● Berlin Dream $5, All Ages, 9pm, The Korova Howard & Skye Free, All Ages, 630pm, The Cove Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner Joe Ely: Dance Hall Show $20 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Luckenbach Dancehall Legacy Lives Free, 21+, 9pm, The Mix

The Mighty SÉANCE Free, 21+, 9pm, The Amp Room The White Rabbit 20th Anniversary Weekend $10 Per day $25 3-day, All Ages, 6pm, Paper Tiger Willie Colon $38-68 Presale, All Ages, 8pm, Aztec Theatre

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 Family Night & Free Dance with Kathy Bauer Free, All Ages, 6pm, John T. Floore Country Store Jazzion Free, All Ages, 7pm, The Cove Lee Cadena In Concert $15 Presale, All Ages, 6pm, Carver Community Cultural Center

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Oh My Snare!, Freya Wilcox & the Howl, Knockin’ Chucks Free, 21+, 8pm, The Mix Sunday afternoon with Kayla Ray All Ages, 1pm, Luckenbach Dancehall Sunday Evening Picker All Ages, 5pm, Luckenbach Dancehall

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Local picks of the week Downtown San Antonio’s best craft beer selection. 302 E Commerce St, SA, TX 78205

HOP & VINE 5619 W LOOP 1604 N, # 109, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78253 Join us for Culinaria San Antonio’s Restaurant Week. We’ll be offering a specially-priced dinner and brunch menu now thru August 27th. Join us for both! #SARW, #EatDrinkGive‬ Tap list is available at www.hopandvinesa.com THE BRASS TAP AT THE RIM (behind Bass Pro Shop) 17619 La Cantera Pkwy #2-208, SATX 78257 (210) 670-7090 Veteran owned and operated craft beer venue with over 300 beers, 60 rotating taps and a full kitchen. Happy Hour Mon-Fri 3-6pm: $2 OFF all draughts. 29 Aug (7-9pm) OSKAR BLUES Pint Night (keep the glass) 29 Aug: Westvleteren XII drawing for Brew Crew members no purchase necessary. 31 Aug: (7-9pm) SOUTHERN STAR Brewing Beer Dinner. Check us out at: www.brasstapbeerbar.com/sanantonio Instagram: @brasstapsa

END OF SUMMER BEER FEST: AUGUST 26, THE CORNER (8839 CULEBRA ROAD, STE. 101), 7:00-11:00PM One of the city’s newest get together spots will be holding a party to close out the summer with a bang. Ten breweries (TBA) will have samples of their fine frothy products on hand, with live music inside and outside the venue and free grilled hot dogs for patrons! NATIONAL DOG DAY AT THE HANGAR: AUGUST 26, THE HANGAR (8206 BROADWAY), 4:00-8:00PM San Antonio locals can party with their pups at The Hangar during this fun-filled happy hour event. For puppy patrons, The Hangar will offer complimentary water bowls and “yappetizers,” or dog treats. For beer lovers, the venue will offer Dogfish Head’s 60 Min IPA on feature for $4.50. YOGA. BEER. BASEBALL: AUGUST 26, NELSON W. WOLFF MUNICIPAL STADIUM (5757 W. US HIGHWAY 90), 6:00-9:00PM The San Antonio Missions baseball club teams up with M.I.X. Fit SA to provide a fun and unique BACK 2 SCHOOL Yoga + BEER + Baseball experience to close out the summer break. Join the party as the Missions take on the Frisco RoughRiders. This pre-game, on-field yoga session followed by UNLIMITED beer and a ballpark buffet in the reserved seating Corona Cantina. The cost is $55 for a single ticket and $95 for a pair of tickets. REMEMBER THE ALAMO BEER! 5K AND 10K HERE WE GO AGAIN!: AUGUST 28, ALAMO BEER COMPANY (202 LAMAR ST.), 8:00-11:00AM Hosted by Scallywompus Events, the annual Remember the Alamo Beer! 5K and 10K is back. Starting off at Alamo Beer’s brewery, this run gives you a first-hand look of the revitalized near East Side. Plus, at the end of it all, you get some free Alamo Beer! COLLABORATION BEER FOR A CAUSE: SEPTEMBER 3, BUSTED SANDAL BREWING COMPANY (7114 OAKLAWN DRIVE), 2:00-9:00PM Busted Sandal Brewing Company is teaming up with the folks at Left Hand Brewing Company for a special collaboration beer. The two will be holding a launch party on Sept. 3 and 100% of the proceeds will go to the National MS Society.

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Sunday Funday with DJ Shawn Jackson Free, 21+, 8pm, Leaky Barrel Sunday Funday with Rollin Rollin Free, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room Stephen Sanders Free, All Ages, 1pm, The Cove The White Rabbit 20th Anniversary Weekend $10 Per day $25 3-day, All Ages, 6pm, Paper Tiger

MONDAY, AUGUST 29 Industry Night with Derrick Rage and VJ Necio Free, 21+, 10pm, Moses Rose’s Hideout Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Tucker’s Kozy Korner Marley Mondays with DJ

FantasticDan Free, 21+, 8pm, J&O’s Cantina Monday Night Picker Circle with Shannie All Ages, 5pm, Luckenbach Dancehall Swing Nite with Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers $10, All Ages, 7pm, Sam’s BurgerJoint Trapped Out Mondays with DJ Burlo Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club Wurd of Mouth Mondays with DJ Gibb Free, 21+, 10pm, Blue Box

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 2Play Tuesday: Langton Drive, Wayne Holtz & more $2, 21+, 9pm, Phantom Room

Gen-X Tuesdays: ’80s Night Free, 21+, 8pm, The Amp Room Jim Cullum Jazz Band Free, 21+, 7pm, Bohanan’s KRTUesday Live: Bayonne with Verisimilitude, Voodoo Boogaloo, Garrett T. Capps Free, 21+, 830pm, The Mix Throwback Tuesdays with DJ Ammunition Free, 21+, 9pm, Retox Bar Tuesday Night Picker Circle with Bo Porter Free, All Ages, 5pm, Luckenbach Dancehall Turn Up Tuesdays with DJs Ferno, Dennis Loy and Rollin Rollin Free, 21+, 10pm, Bottom Bracket Social Club

502 Bar 502 Embassy Oaks, (210) 257-8125, 502bar.com Alamo Street Eat Bar 609 S. Alamo St., (210) 2272469, alamostreeteatbar.com Aztec Theatre 104 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 812-4355 theaztectheatre.com Barriba Cantina 111 W. Crockett St., Suite 214, (210) 228-9876, barribacantina.com Bonham Exchange 411 Bonham, (210) 271-3811, bonhamexchange.com Bohanan’s 219 E. Houston St., (210) 472-2600, bohanans.com Bottom Bracket Social Club 1609 N. Colorado Street, (210) 267- 9160, facebook.com/bottombracketsocialclub Blue Box 312 Pearl Pkwy., Suite 2107, (210) 227-2583, blueboxbar.com Brass Monkey 2702 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 480-4722, facebook.com/brassmonkeytx Carmens De La Calle 320 N. Flores St., (210) 281-4349, carmensdelacalle.com Cave Without a Name 325 Kreutzberg Road, (830) 537-4212, cavewithoutaname. com Club Rio 13307 San Pedro Avenue, (210) 403-2582, club-rio.net Esquire Tavern 155 E. Commerce St., (210) 222-2521, esquiretavern-sa.com Faust Tavern 517 E. Woodlawn Ave., (210) 257-0628, facebook.com/ thefausttavern Fitzgerald’s 437 McCarty Road, Suite 101, (210) 629-5141 facebook.com/fitzgeraldsbarsa GS 1221 1221 Broadway, Suite 116, (210) 251-3184, gs1221.com Groove Lounge 501 E. Crockett St., (210) 2818383, facebook.com/groove210 Gruene Hall 1281 Gruene Road, (830) 606-1281, gruenehall.com Hi-Tones 621 E. Dewey Pl., hitonessa.com Imagine Books & Records 8373 Culebra Road, Suite 201B, (210) 236-7668, imaginebookstore.com J&O’s Cantina 1014 S. Presa St., (210) 485-7611 Jack’s Patio Bar 3030 Thousand Oaks, (210) 494-2309, jacksbarsa.com John T. Floore’s Country Store 14492 Old Bandera Road, (210) 6958827, liveatfloores.com K23 Gallery 704 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 776-5635, facebook.com/k23gallery La Botánica 2911 N. St. Mary’s St., vivalabotanica.com Leaky Barrel 7959 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 131, (210) 577-5470, facebook.com/leakybarrelsa Leon Springs Dance Hall Boerne Stage Road, (210) 226-9881, leonspringsdancehall.com Limelight 2718 N. St. Mary’s St., thelimelightsa.com Luckenbach Dancehall 412 Luckenbach Town Loop, (830) 997-3224 luckenbachtexas.com Moses Rose’s Hideout 516 E. Houston St., (210) 775-1808, mosesroseshideout.com Nite Lite 714 Fredericksburg Road, nitelitesa.com Olmos Bharmacy 3902 McCullough Ave., (210) 822-1188, olmosrx.com Paper Tiger 2410 N. St Mary’s St., papertigersa.com Paramour 102 9th St., (210) 340-9880, paramourbar.com Phantom Room 2106 N. St. Mary’s St. Punta del Cielo Café 115 N Loop 1604, (210) 549-3583, facebook.com/puntadelcielostoneoak Retox Bar 1031 Patricia, (210) 775-2886, retoxbar.net River Road Icehouse 1791 Hueco Springs Loop Road, (830) 626-1335, riverroadicehouse.com Sam’s Burger Joint 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com San Antonio Swing Revival 1717 San Pedro Ave., (210) 504-7812 Soho Wine & Martini Bar 214 W. Crockett St., (210) 444-1000 Southtown 101 101 Pereida St., (210) 263-9880 The Amp Room 2407 N. St. Mary’s St., (210) 320-2122, theamproom.com The Bang Bang Bar 119 El Mio Drive, (210) 833-2203, facebook.com/thebangbangbar210 The Cove 606 W. Cypress St., (210) 227-2683, thecove.us The County Line 10101 IH-10 W, (210) 641-1998, countyline.com/countyline10 The Korova 107 E. Martin St., (210) 226-5070, thekorova.com The Mix 2423 N St. Mary’s St., (210) 735-1313, themix-sa.com The Rock Box 1223 E. Houston St., (210) 677-9453, therockboxsa.com The Roundup 531 FM 3351, (830) 428—3231, therounduptx.com Tobin Center for the Performing Arts 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org Tucker’s Kozy Korner 1338 E. Houston St., (210) 320-2192 Ventura 1011 Avenue B, (210) 802-6940, facebook.com/venturasatx Web House 320 Blanco Road (210) 531-0100, webhousecafe.com Whitewater Amphitheater 11860 FM 306, (830) 964-3800, whitewaterrocks.com Zombies Bar 4202 Thousand Oaks, (210) 281-8306, zombiesliveinsa.com

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