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Ted Flato: Lake/Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Nov 13, 2014

Pick up a copy of Lake/Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape, a 300-page photography book showing some of the group’s spectacular environmentally friendly home designs, and it’s easy to sigh and say, “Well, if I had a million dollars, I could have a beautiful house like that, too.” That’s missing the...
“Joe Lopez: Calles de la Vida”

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jul 31, 2014

When San Antonio artist Joe Lopez launched his Gallo series, a certain huge wine corporation objected. In court. The word “gallo” is Spanish for rooster, and Lopez, who considers the spirited birds a symbol of strength, courage and beauty, paints vibrant portraits of them. Lopez, supported by Houston folk art...
“Moe Profane: Nihilism and Nanner Puddin”

By JIM J.TOMMANEY
Jun 19, 2014

Artist Moe Profane is a self-described recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and heart disease patient. Building on the idea that “nothing is sacred because nothing is absolute,” Profane’s art is filled with forthright candor. That’s plainly seen in his work in the exhibit “Moe Profane: Nihilism and Nanner Puddin.” Profane, who...
Ten Places in Texas to Party for Spring Break

By Angelica Leicht
Mar 12, 2014

Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, e'ryyyyyyyybodyyyyyyy! So you wanna party for spring break with the college kids, huh? But what's that you say? You're just as broke as a college kid? Well, it's obviously gotta be Spring Break in the Lone Star State, son! And you're in luck, because...
A Celebration of Color at G Gallery

By Altamese Osborne
Jul 12, 2013

A rush of visitors filed into G Gallery Saturday afternoon for the opening of "Variations in Color," a seven-artist show that gallery director Diane Barber calls "an exhibit of abstraction," and for good reason: Splayed all over G Gallery's white walls are seven different interpretations of color. How many colors...
30 Essential Texas Restaurants

Eat here before you die.

By Katharine Shilcutt
Jan 16, 2013

Check out our slideshow of the 30 Essential Texas Restaurants. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas...
Sons of Hercules

By Chris Gray
Oct 24, 2012

San Antonio is justifiably famous for its rabid metal fan base and contributions to conjunto music, but it also may be Texas's No. 1 garage-rock city. For more than two decades now, Frank Pugliese — an S.A. scenester from way back who once opened for the Sex Pistols at Randy's...
New Calorie-Displaying Soda Vending Machines: 5 Reasons Why They Won't Significantly Aid America's Obesity

By Carla Soriano
Oct 9, 2012

There's just no getting around it: Americans have a love affair with soft drinks. Dr Pepper, Sprite, Coke, Pepsi, Fanta -- you name it, we love it. It's a soft drink love fest -- until we remember all the calories that soft drinks contain, and the fact that those sugar-...
Does Dallas-Fort Worth Have the Worst Tippers in the State?

By Katharine Shilcutt
Aug 13, 2012

Last week, Eater alerted the great foodie masses to a Web site called Lousy Tippers that contains a pretty scary database of the nation's worst tippers. "There is a consequence," the site preaches ominously from its header. Call it the ultimate form of societal pressure to make sure you leave...
According to This, San Antonio Has a Better Music Scene Than Houston

By Brandon Caldwell
Aug 8, 2012

Like any and all lists, the Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI)'s list regarding the best music scenes in the country will leave most of you passing out side-eyes and stares. Easy to spot and digest, Nashville, New York and Los Angeles ranked 1-3, but after that it's a complete flaming crapshoot...
Trader Joe's: Texas's Newest Sensation

By Carla Soriano
Jul 3, 2012

What do you get when you take a grocery store with a jazillion specialty products, organic produce and flavorful freezer food and intertwine it with low prices throughout, then sprinkle it with a laid-back Hawaiian vibe? Trader Joe's. The specialty store, whose roots lie in the small town of Monrovia,...
Eating Up San Antonio: La Gloria, The Monterey and The Esquire

By Katharine Shilcutt
Jun 14, 2012

Until this past Tuesday, I didn't realize how easy a day trip to San Antonio could be. Thanks to the recently raised speed limit on I-10, you can speed to the Alamo in three easy hours (or less, if you set your cruise control just above the new 75-mile-per-hour speed...
The Paul Taylor Dance Company

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jun 14, 2012

San Antonio native Francisco Graciano, a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, says he’s often asked to describe Taylor's style of choreography. ''It can be a tricky question,'' Graciano tells us, ''because what he's creating can range from something very simple such as walking across the stage to something...
''Staged: Ana Fernandez, Leigh Merrill''

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jun 14, 2012

The Texas landscape gets a twist in ''Staged: Ana Fernandez, Leigh Merrill,'' currently on exhibit at G Gallery. The two women present visions of everyday life that are slightly off-kilter. Fernandez collects images of her native San Antonio, reconstituting them into oil paintings. Merrill, who lives in Dallas, combines hundreds...
''Raul Gonzalez: Farewell Show''

By Jef with One F
Jun 14, 2012

Houston’s art scene is about to lose a popular talent. Raul Gonzalez is leaving us to move to San Antonio and begin fine art graduate studies. The Houston-born painter and mixed-media master has created works here since 2007, and he’s a founder of the artist collective The Montrose Art Society...
''''Jonathan Leach: Time Does Not Exist Here''

By Meredith Deliso
Jun 14, 2012

The year 2012 was a pretty good one for Jonathan Leach. The artist’s work was in nearly a dozen shows from Portland to San Antonio, including several here in Houston. Now, 2013 is looking pretty good, too, as Leach kicks it off with “Jonathan Leach: Time Does Not Exist Here,”...
Umbrella Man's Bridges and Bayous.

Houston's swampiest musical savants return with new album.

By Chris Gray
May 23, 2012

No disrespect to the drummer (Gabriel Alaniz for a while now), but the three other members of Umbrella Man and their instruments make three legs of an almost-perfect Texas musical triangle: Namesake upright bassist Nick Gaitan brings wood-slapping swamp pop and rockabilly; standing steel guitarist Bart Maloney supplies honky-tonk swing...
Riverwalk Eats: A Day in Downtown San Antonio

By Brooke Viggiano
Jan 25, 2012

My fiance Dave and I took our first trip to San Antonio over the weekend to celebrate our birthdays (we're a day and a year apart -- luckily, I can take solace in the fact that the old man will always be one year older than me). We left Houston...
Hey, Baby, Que Pasó

Texas Tornado Augie Meyers, king of the Tex-Mex Vox organ, can tell some stories.

By William Michael Smith
Oct 5, 2011

With more than 50 years in the music business, 71-year-old Augie Meyers has stories. Lots of stories. An original member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, Meyers had a kidney transplant last year but has bounced back as energetic, irreverent and hilarious as ever. "I just got back from a once-a-month...
Best Riffs Only: Krayolas Going For Tex-Mex Rock & Roll Master's

By William Michael Smith
Jul 27, 2011

The Krayolas play a free in-store at Cactus Music at 5:30 p.m. Krayolas drummer David Saldana is not your average power-pop rock and roller. While his resuscitated band continues to draw gobs of press and is grabbing some high profile gigs, Saldana's life is taking him in another direction. "I'm...
Krayolas Score Surprise Hit With Bob Dylan Cover

By William Michael Smith
Jun 14, 2011

If you follow these pages you may have noticed that Rocks Off recently tabbed Tipsy Topsy Turvy by veteran San Antonio rockers The Krayolas as our choice for best Texas album of the year so far. Yes, we understand that this may be running counter to the other members of...
Mariachi Invitational

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Mar 10, 2011

Six groups take turns trying to win over the audience and the judges during this year’s Mariachi Invitational, performing classics of the often dramatic, often lively music. At the end of Saturday’s preliminary session, the semi-finalists are chosen. They’ll face off during Sunday’s Go Tejano Day festivities, with the two...

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