Aug 03 2023
By LAURIE COKER Director Christopher Nolan’s penchant for historical accuracy shows up in spades in Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., and Matt Damon. Nolan’s movie biopic isn’t laid out linearly, but rather, it marches out in chunks of Oppenheimer’s troubled life, as the theoretical physicist placed in charge of the Manhattan …
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Aug 03 2023
By KATHY RAINES The long-tailed, striped lizard, its limbs splayed out like a gecko’s, suddenly materialized on the porch as I swiveled back from watering the birds. Snapping photos, I crept towards its tail end as the whiptail weighed its options: whether to bolt under an inch-wide crevice between porch and brick or keep …
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Aug 03 2023
By CATHERINE DONNELLY When we arrived at Taquitos Locos at 1817 Padre Boulevard on South Padre Island, there was a line waiting to get in for an early dinner. It’s easy to find and get to being located in a little strip mall next to WillieDean Bagels and Art Space, across from Acai Bowl. The …
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Aug 03 2023
By TESS FICCAGLIA Coco Beach Hotel and Bar, located at 2612 Gulf Blvd, South Padre Island, is a wonderful way to spend the day. An oasis of recently renovated hotel rooms, it’s on the beach with a full-service bar and restaurant a few yards away from the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico waters. A large deck …
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Aug 03 2023
Special to the PARADE El Paseo Arts announces for two October productions: The Savannah Sipping Society by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, and Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard. The auditions will be held at the SPI Community Center on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, at 11 a.m., and Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, at 2 …
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Aug 03 2023
Special to the PARADE On Sept. 18 and 19, El Paseo Arts Foundation begins its 19th Season of Performing Arts Events with “Churchill,” at the SPI Convention Center. In this often funny, sometimes touching and always engaging, one-man-show, distinguished British actor, David Payne brings Churchill to life onstage and enlightens the audience with intimate details …
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Aug 03 2023
By JAVIER GONZALEZ Big Padre, the largest rescued nuisance alligator residing at the South Padre Island Birding Nature Center and Alligator Sanctuary [SPIBNC&AS] will be celebrating his 56th birthday and everyone is invited to chomp on over to the center for his “Big” end-of-summer bash! Big Padre was rescued from a boat ramp in Port …
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Aug 03 2023
By ROSE DI GRAZIA For those of you locals and tourists that have never stepped foot into the Lighthouse Boutique Hotel, I must say you are certainly missing out! For starters, it is not only a luxurious hotel, but also a cafe, gift shop and an event venue. The establishment also will be offering art …
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Aug 03 2023
By STEVE HATHCOCK During the spring and summer, the skies above South Padre Island become dotted with the kites of vacationers and kite-boarding enthusiasts. Historians argue about who actually invented the kite. The concept seems to have floated up (pun intended) in several societies almost simultaneously, but the Chinese were first to use the kite …
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Jul 27 2023
By ALEXANDREA BAILEY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Gun violence took the life of a young man in Laguna Heights this past week. On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Cameron County Sheriff’s Deputies located the lifeless body of Christopher James De Leon, while responding reports of a male subject that had been shot at the 200 Block of Adams Avenue …
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