Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ satx ’

El Valiente, Piñata Protest’s brand new recording, officially comes out May 21, but you don’t have to wait that long — it has been streaming since May 12 on NPR’s First Listen. The nine-song EP includes Piñata-styled conjunto-norteño-punk covers of immortal classics like “Volver, Volver” and “La Cucaracha,” plus new hits like “Vato Perrón.”...
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Check out this neat timelapse video of San Antonio we stumbled upon by San Diego techie Declan Fleming. It seems Fleming has an affinity for watching the sun go down in cities across the country. He’s got similar videos of Chicago and Baltimore on his Vimeo page.
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Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling has created a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for “a great used bottling line being sold by another brewery that is upgrading to a bigger one.” The microbrewery has been around for two years now, and bottling its tasty brews is the next natural step. “Here in San Antonio...
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So, the Harlem Shake isn’t exactly new. Either is krumping or trap music. But the bat shit crazy 30 second video meme of people dancing to Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” went viral so quickly in past week that you can’t log on to the interwebs anymore without seeing some bizzare dance party on your screen. In...
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It’s Fat Tuesday and Downtown Tuesday couldn’t be luckier to be celebrating its One-Year Anniversary on a day famed for food, beer, beads and mischief. “San Antonians need to know, if you haven’t been downtown in a while, you don’t know what you’re missing,” said Mayor Castro at the anniversary press conference at Ocho Lounge earlier...
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Could Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin be headed our way? As announced last month, San Antonio is one of six U.S. cities in the running to host the 2016 Olympic U.S. Swim Team Trials to take place just weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. This past week, San Antonio Sports launched an online...
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In a press release put out by Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau today, it was announced that Bexar County deputies may now don “an optional western hat.” This marks a triumphant return for the hats, which were banned in the ’90′s by a previous sheriff. “I have heard from many deputies that they wanted the western...
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San Antonio family quartet Hacienda is now a trio. The soulful rockers, coming off the release of the Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) produced Shakedown last year, have taken to their Facebook wall to announce the departure of founder, singer, guitarist and cousin of all three other members, Dante Schwebel. We wanted y’all to know that Dante will...
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Have you checked out the Mummies of the World exhibit at the Witte yet? You should definitely get over there before it comes to an end on January 27! But first, let’s talk about how this mummified monkey in the Witte exhibit look a lot like the now infamous IKEA monkey. We appreciate each...
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Sarah Tressler, a former society reporter fired by Hearst’s Houston Chronicle last March when it was discovered that she was moonlighting as a stripper, is now a reporter at Hearst’s San Antonio Express-News. Do we really give a shit? Not really, Tressler is an adult woman in charge of her own body, career, and...
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