No lechuga please

How come some Mexican restaurants always give you shredded lettuce and two slices of tomatoes with every meal?  That thought came to me when I ate at a Mexican restaurant and noticed they did not do that. I was very happy, because usually I do not even eat the lettuce, maybe the tomatoes, but not [...]

Denial

What a shock! What a tragedy! Gloom, despair, and agony on me! My beloved Spurs were knocked out of the playoffs! I really do not like Mark Cuban, he said some nasty things about San Antonio, que tonto el buey! I feel bad for Michael Finley, man we should have beat those Mavs! What sets [...]

Chicano Art y Gallista Gallery

Joe L. Lopez's, Gallista Gallery has been a big help to Los Padrinos.  Joe designed our graphics for our cd, "Puro Gallo" and has also booked us there at his gallery to play with Sisters Morales and also Dueto Carta Blanca de George y Mague.  If you have been there leave a comment with your [...]

Ambassadors of Conjunto

The other day I was at Janies Record shop and I purchased a cd of Manuel Guerrero "El Sargento" – he's probably my favorite conjunto artist of all time. Anyways, as I was listening to his songs, it just hit me how beautiful the traditional sound of conjunto music is, and how we need to [...]

Tejano Explosion Pictures

Thanks to Sam and Rose Rodriguez for the pictures they took of the band during Fiesta. You can see their pictures by visiting http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2106912041 
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What a trip!

We had a great weekend,even though one of our gigs got postponed due to the rain.  We traveled to Pocola Ok, to perform at a Choctaw casino for Cinco de Mayo.  We began the journey at 3:30am picking up 4 mariachi players that we took along with us.  It was a fun-filled 10 hour drive [...]

Fiesta 06 is over

We had a fun Fiesta San Antonio! Our first event was Piñatas del Barrio at the Plaza Guadalupe.  It was fun, especially since the Spurs won their first playoff game in a blowout! Everything was going fine until, the lights fell on top of our drummer Ray! Luckily he saw them as they were falling [...]