There are many different kinds of empaths, but only one of them is considered the most powerful: the Heyoka empath. Pronounced "hey-OH-kah," Heyoka is a Lakota word meaning “fool” or “sacred clown” ...

Unlike a certain Washington, D.C., football team, Half Acre Beer Co. didn’t hesitate to change the name of one of its beers when told it could be construed as culturally insensitive. In this case, the ...

Half Acre Brewery has announced that it is changing the name of its beloved Heyoka India Pale Ale to Senita India Pale Ale. The change comes after members of the Lakota Native American community ...

News of the sudden death of Michael Paul Grothues, the wailing singer, songwriter and musician who fronted San Antonio's long-haired '70s prog-rock gods Heyoka, was the double whammy of a sad weekend.

In the 1970s, no band was more mystical on the local hard-rock and progressive-rock scene than Heyoka. In its heyday, the band was legendary. Its back story was a combination of American Indian ...

On Saturday, October 4, at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, a panel of 222 judges from ten countries bestowed 268 medals on a record-breaking field of roughly 5,700 entries from more than 1 ...

Val Mora will never forget the day he met David Alcocer. It was 1972, and both musicians (Mora plays bass; Alcocer plays guitar) had no clue their destinies would become intertwined in one of San ...