The clanging of weights and loud speakers overhead is a sound very familiar to a lot of Aggies. As the Southside Recreation Center opened its doors at the start of
Thursday, May 27, 2021 Puro San Antonio shoe designs earn Edison High School $15,000 for its art program in Vans contest Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:20 PM Facebook / Roger Zamarripa Jr. High school student Roger Zamarripa Jr. entered Vans Custom Culture competition with a puro SA design. An Edison High School team may not have seized the top prize in this year s Vans Custom Culture art contest, but they still earned a fat chunk of cash for their school s art program. The Golden Bears puro San Antonio designs were named as a runner-up in the shoe brand s annual competition, ranking among the top five student-created designs in the country and pulling in $15,000 for their program.
Teams from 2 San Antonio high schools move on to finals of Vans nationwide custom shoe contest Posted By Nina Rangel on Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:40 PM click image Facebook / Roger Zamarripa Jr. High school student Roger Zamarripa Jr. has entered Vans Custom Culture competition with a puro SA design. We recently reported on Edison High School student Roger Zamarripa Jr. s puro San Antonio design that advanced in Vans’ Custom Culture shoe design competition. Turns out, Zamarripa will be joined by other San Antonio student-artists a three-person team, also from Edison, plus a team from East Central High School in the finals of the shoe company s annual contest.
Posted By San Antonio Current Staff on Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:36 AM click to enlarge Facebook / Roger Zamarripa Jr. Roger Zamarripa Jr. created a puro set of Vans shoes for the company s Custom Culture contest. With early voting for San Antonio s May 1 election now underway, locals are keying in on stories related to issues on the ballot particularly since a few high-profile political endorsements came out this week. San Antonians were also concerned about Texas Country artist Shane Smith s lap dog Gretchen, who was in Smith s truck when it was stolen from Pearl Brewery earlier this week. Fortunately, Gretchen was later found and reunited with the musician.