Posts Tagged by San Antonio
San Antonio can be LAME
| April 22, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Why I like San Antonio |
San Antonio has a tag line “Keep San Antonio Lame.” I knew that it was created in response to Austin’s “Keep Austin Weird” but didn’t know the fully story. I was reading the SA Current Blog and finally discovered it’s roots:
San Antonio visual artist Aaron Forland, contributing writer to emvergeoning.com (billed as “America’s most difficult art blog”) and co-conspirator with Justin Parr at emerging-artist hotspot Fl¡ght Gallery, originated “Keep San Antonio Lame” as a catchphrase in 2004, partially in satiric response to Austin’s “Keep Austin Weird” sub-culti PR blitz. It’s a pretty telling comment on San Antonio’s self-image: We think of ourselves as significantly less, well, cool than Austin. Austin’s middle-class, educated, indie, hip, self-aware. SATX is much poorer and way more old-fashioned. We love metal and the accordion, and could largely give a shit about trends if we even know about them. You know: “lame.”
I find this to be hilarious and very true. Don’t get me wrong, I love my city but I am the first to admit that San Antonio can be very lame. People consider us to be “old school” or late adapters, but what if we don’t want to adapt? I think San Antonians are perfectly contempt with the way we are and quite frankly, most probably don’t know we have this rep and if they did know, wouldn’t care. We’re not Austin and don’t want to be. Austin is a great a city but it’s unfair to compare cities because every city has something different to offer. Let’s keep San Antonio LAME people – it gives us something to work toward!
Afrofreque at Luna
| February 2, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Random |
We checked out Luna, a Jazz venue, here in San Antonio this past weekend. I have heard good things about this place but hadn’t checked it out because I forget it’s there. It recently underwent a renovation back in the Fall so it was closed for a couple of months. We dropped in on Saturday night with a large group of people. Cover charge was $6. Afrofreque, a band out of Austin, was playing. I personally thought they were awesome. I even purchased their album. They were funky, groovy, smooth. Easy to dance to also. Interesting guy on the keyboard. He was able to play with his tongue. Different. Talented but different. I recommend the venue and I would definitely go check out Afrofreque again. They were jammin.
San Antonio is growing up
| January 5, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Local Places & Events, Why I like San Antonio |
San Antonio is finally growing up. I remember the days before the Alamo Quarry, then Huebner Oaks now it’s La Cantera. We now carry names like Urban Outfitters, Zara (my favorite), United Colors of Benneton, Nordstorm and Neiman Marcus. I couldn’t do this kind of shopping unless I was traveling to a major city. San Antonio is turning into a major city. We have always been that typical family tourist destination offering the Alamo, Riverwalk, Sea World and Fiesta Texas… oh and good Mexican food. There’s so much more to do now.
What about our nightlife? The hottest night scene right now is way out at 1604/281. Downtown nightlife is just so dull. There are no new up and coming bars opening up downtown and the bars that do exist are so vacant on the weekends. My sister works at a 5 star hotel downtown and the major complaint they recieve? Lack of nightlife. Why can’t all the bars that are opening out at 1604/281 open up downtown? What is the problem here?
Some good news though is that we are opening some major condo high rises downtown such as Vidorra and La Cascada. We have also committed to the San River Project which is in place to revamp 13 miles of the historic river. And we just recently began the reconstruction to River Center Mall which hasn’t received much of anything for the past 20 years! This is all good news for downtown San Antonio. I am just hoping that all these projects bring a better nightlight to downtown San Antonio. I would hate to see us become a Houston or a Dallas. Why can’t we be a Chicago or San Francisco? Or even Austin? Austin has a centralized night scene. Let’s walk and take public transportation. Let’s live downtown without having to own a car.
We are getting there SA Town!
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