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Up Front Salazar Will Face Off Against Pamerleau in Sheriff’s RaceBy Sam Sanchez With his landslide win in the May 24 Democratic runoff, Sgt. Javier Salazar of the San Antonio Police Department will now face off against Republican incumbent Susan Pamerleau in the November election for Bexar County Sheriff. MORE Arts & Culture Artist Chris Sauter Talks Curators, Coming Out and Playing with StereotypesBy Dan R. Goddard Chris Sauter’s big break came in 1999 when an Artpace curator told him to “go for it.” The San Antonio-born artist raised on his grandparents’ ranch outside Boerne proposed to cut pieces out of the gallery’s drywall and transform them into his childhood family dining room. Viewers had to walk through the oval circle in the wall where he cut out the top of the dining table. Holes in the walls had the shapes of chair legs, a china hutch and other furniture parts. “Graft” premiered a signature style for Sauter, who transforms architectural space into intimate sculpture. MORE Books Making Us Heard: Writer Anel Flores Finds Her NichoBy Anel Flores Like most kids, I used to daydream about what my life would look like in the future. I imagined myself driving a baby-blue pickup, a woman sitting beside me, down a long dirt road, listening to music and holding hands. The home I daydreamed about looked like the one I lived in, decorated in images of the Virgen de Guadalupe, with songs of Selena and Juan Gabriel blaring on boom boxes every Saturday morning, painted mint green and yellow, with the smell of tortillas and menudo soaked in our clothes. MORE Food & Nightlife Tencha la Jefa’s Alternative Approach to DragBy Dino Foxx As I drove to meet Tencha la Jefa at her home on San Antonio’s West Side, Siri took me on an unanticipated ride through the neighborhood where I grew up. I drove past El Mercado H-E-B where my mom first trusted me to to run in by myself to grab an ingredient she was missing for dinner. Up next on the right was Danny the Barber’s shop, where I would wait in the queue for hours to get my hair cut while the old men from the barrio caught up on the week’s chisme. Siri even drove me by my old elementary school where I was first made to feel embarrassed for playing on the playground with the girls rather than on the soccer field with the boys. MORE People Former Children’s Shelter Resident Blue Hess Overcomes Great OddsBy Marco Aquino Three years ago, when Blue Hess decided he would volunteer at The Children’s Shelter, he never imagined he’d become one of the nationally accredited nonprofit’s most vocal advocates — speaking regularly to local media and working with the community to help spread the word about its many services. Since its founding in 1901, The Children’s Shelter has provided emergency shelter and residential treatment for children throughout Bexar County who have been abused, neglected or abandoned by their families. It also provides temporary foster care for children who’ve been removed from their home and facilitates the adoption process. As a former resident at The Children’s Shelter, Hess also serves as an encouraging voice to the hundreds of children who pass through its doors annually, many of whom have been silenced by the fear and trauma of abuse. MORE Columns From the Archives: The Shocking Gray Years (1990-1995)By Gene Elder Long before LGBTQA was an acronym, there was Shocking Gray. Launched right here in the Alamo City circa 1990, this brave enterprise established itself as the nation’s premier gay and lesbian mail-order catalog by providing pre-internet shoppers with niche apparel, accessories, books, art, decor and an array of gifts emblazoned with pink triangles and rainbow flags. To learn more about Shocking Gray’s wild ride, San Antonio-based co-founder Michelle Friesenhahn and her multi-media endeavors under the moniker Wilby Creative (wilbycreative.com), click here and take a seat on the Chartreuse Couch. MORE STYLE Deep in Vogue: House of Kenzo’s Multidisciplinary MovementBy Sarah Fisch I meet House of Kenzo (HOK) on the University of the Incarnate Word Sky Bridge, a phobia-tweaking pedestrian catwalk over the zooming traffic on Highway 281. It’s a sunny afternoon, and House of Kenzo are mid-photo shoot. They are beautiful, self-assured, gender-flouting, working their rainbow fashion gear into wind-whipped battle flags visible for a half-mile. Motorists on the freeway honk as they pass. The photographer, Wayne Holtz, is tall, calm and elegant, and exudes focus and patience, while HOK artists flatten themselves against the chain-link enclosure with the skyline in the background, or pose propped up or crouching, hands expressive, limbs outstretched then locking, ready to spring. MORE LOVE & LUST One-Week Stands and U-HaulingBy Faith Harper Unless you live directly in the center of your Dirt Devil, you’ve heard the joke: MORE |
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