![A dirt road near San Benito, Freddy Fender's hometown. There's a water tower there with a portrait of him. Hidalgo County.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119013028im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/san-benito3-150x150.jpg)
Show and Tell: Chupacabrona (semi-) undocumented
There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed more than eight hours of video footage, about that many hours of audio field recordings, including interviews and some highly trippy bits of RGV AM [...]
![Anne](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119013028im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/delarosa_anne_varg2_TT-150x150.jpg)
Corpus Christi Galleries and the Rockport Art Center
Two weeks ago, I took a road trip to the coast to jury a student exhibition at Rockport Center for the Arts. I spent Saturday in downtown Corpus Christi which was deserted. Boarded-up, empty buildings dotted the urban landscape. I visited two galleries while in town. K Space featured intaglio prints by San Antonio artist [...]
![Chupacabrona World Tour! (…Of South and West Texas)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119013028im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/roadrunner1-150x150.gif)
Chupacabrona World Tour! (…Of South and West Texas)
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark on The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas). Over the course of five months, I aim to make ten two- and three-day trips from SATX to urban centers [...]
![The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119013028im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/roadrunner-150x150.gif)
The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas)
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark on The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas). Over the course of five months, I aim to make ten two- and three-day trips from SATX to urban centers [...]
![Hills Snyder, some years ago](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119013028im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hills-150x150.jpg)
On the Boards: Hills Snyder’s Three Minutes
Hills Snyder, artist, Glasstire contributor, and director of small non-profit gallery Sala Diaz, made a short speech at the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) City Council Appointed Cultural Arts Board (CAB) * meeting on Saturday. The speech was occasioned by criticism of a production this Spring of Terrence McNally’s play Corpus [...]