Apr 06 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com There’s a ceramic coffee mug filled with silk flowers that sits atop an end table in my parents’ living room this time of year. It’s shaped to look like a rabbit with its floppy ears curving outward to form handles. Its almost doleful eyes look upward, while its …
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Mar 27 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com It’s almost over. Spring Break 2015 has come, and now it’s just about gone. It’s brought with it thousands of coeds, days of grey skies and rain interspersed with a few rays of sun, relentless traffic and the seemingly ever-present sound of sirens. It’s the biggest party of …
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Mar 20 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Casey Donahew, of the Casey Donahew band, ignited South Padre Island alongside the Randy Rogers Band on March 17 and was willing to open up a bit about his life and future music endeavors in an exclusive interview with the Parade. Performing in the Lone Star State of …
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Mar 20 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Spring begins March 20, but Mother Nature has already gotten quite a bit of a head start on those famous showers which promise May flowers. Though I know it’s not true, with the thick grey clouds overhead casting gloomy shadows and cars still splashing through puddles on the …
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Mar 13 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Right about now a certain song by Cake starts running through my head. It’s called, appropriately, “Long Line of Cars,” and the first few stanzas say the following: “There’s a long line of cars And they’re trying to get through There’s no single explanation There’s no central destination …
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Mar 13 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com For 35 years, Beach Reach SPI has been serving coeds who come to the Island for Spring Break, and this year is no different. The volunteer group will once again be providing free shuttle rides across the Island during peak times. Director Buddy Young says Beach Reach “works …
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Mar 13 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Spring Break is back and it’s bigger than ever, with venues as far south as Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark and as far north as Clayton’s Beach Bar unveiling huge entertainment lineups for the 2015 season. In the absence of Coca-Cola Beach, longtime Spring Break hotspot Isla Grand Hotel is …
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Mar 08 2015
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS South Padre Island was the location of the First Annual SPI Stables Polo Match on Sunday, March 1st, with SPI Stables facing off against Team McAllen on the bayside at the Shores on South Padre Island. The purpose of the event was to spread the enjoyment of the …
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Mar 08 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com “I have been … and always shall be … your friend.” Those were the words Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, said to Capt. Kirk as he lay dying of radiation poisoning aboard the crippled Starship Enterprise in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy, who arguably …
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Mar 08 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The native people known as the Lipan Apaches, the easternmost group of the indigenous Apache, were a resilient and adaptive tribe whose territory spanned through much of the what is now the American southwest. All Apaches belong to southern region of the widely dispersed Athabaskan language family. Though …
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