When I was in college, I'd take a break from classes and wander down Hillsborough Street to spend an afternoon at the Record Hole. This was a used record store
Collecting records and books was a big part of the teenage years in the '80s. Who could imagine something horrific happening when while flipping through bins of
San Antonio label Saustex Records and South Texas pop-culture museum TexPop San Antonio are presenting "The Filth and The Flautas (Redux)" at Paper Tiger on Saturday, Jan. 7.
colleague lucy hawkins is in tokyo and i asked her how she felt uncovering the games. actually, a real roller coaster. arriving here in tokyo at the beginning of the games none of us knew what to expect. so many restrictions on the media and on the athletes as well, cooped up in their rooms at times, having to do daily testing, difficulties in training for some of them as well. i mean, there s constant concern about the pandemic and then we saw these rising covid numbers every day that we were reporting on. at one point in time the balloon to around 5000 cases a day and it felt at times that that might overshadow these games but, martin, the stories of inspiration came thick and fast. every day it felt like there was a story that would bring people to tears and then the sport really worked its magic and for the host nation, japan, they d had this incredible record hole, haul 27 goals, far better than they were expecting in many respects. they ve got a brother and sister who both won
there s constant concern about the pandemic and then we saw these rising covid numbers every day that we were reporting on. at one point in time the balloon to around 5000 cases a day and it felt at times that that might overshadow these games but, martin, the stories of inspiration came thick and fast. every day it felt like there was a story that would bring people to tears and then the sport really worked its magic and for the host nation, japan, they d had this incredible record hole, 27 goals, far better than they were expecting in many respects. they ve got a brother and sister who both won medals in thejudo, young dynamics skateboarders who were only 12 and 19 when they stood on that podium. they won the baseball the other night which is an absolute passion for manyjapanese are on the sporting field there was all the successor you started to feel the tide, sort of, turning here and the change as people started really enjoying the sporting action so like many japanese i enjoying