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In November, El Paseo Arts Foundation’s 2009-2010 Showcase Season kicks off with a Very Important Performance, an “Event of Note” featuring the Valley Symphon
Birding center at SPI grand opening Saturday
I just finished touring South Padre Island’s new birding center, and it’s fabulous. It opens to the public on Sept. 26, at which time you’ll pay $5 to get in or walk out on the more than 4,800 linear feed of boardwalks out toward the Laguna Madre
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Life on land for wounded Iraq war veteran Shane Heath is one where every step with the prosthetic leg can bring jolts of pain, every attempt to reach for something a reminder of the human arm that's no longer there.
It may be everyone's favorite spring break destination, but there's good reason to visit South Padre Island in the fall.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – "Woo, woo, woo, woo," Scarlet Colley calls in a high-pitched voice. "Oh, hello, bay-BEES. Come say hello."
And like children to a parent, a pod of cloud-gray bottlenose dolphins swims toward her idling boat.
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You've already walked the beach and picked up more shells than you know what to do with. You've built a sand castle, eaten buckets of fried shrimp and sipped a margarita on the deck overlooking the waves. What next?
Eight months after Dolly, merchants say business is better than expected.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — The economy may be tanking and post-graduation job prospects thin, but when it comes to that week off in March, college students on Spring Break said nothing would stop them from taking in the sun and the sand.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - The beach dance party throbbed, knots of bikini-clad spring breakers flip-flopped down Padre Boulevard and hotels neared capacity, but those with the advantage of watching decades of the annual March bacchanalia said this we
