It’s not big, but it’s a city
A southbound truck passes the Von Ormy exit south of San Antonio on July 27, 2011.
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It’s not big, but it’s a city
Home Repair or Painting from Best Concept Renovations
Hurling a sledgehammer at the dry wall is a handy way to add storage space for a growing collection of books, beanie babies, or sledgehammers. Explore subtler household improvements with today’s Groupon to Best Concept Renovations . For a list of zip codes within the service area, click here . Choose between the following options: • For $89, you get two hours of handyman services (a $200 value). • For $89, you get $225 worth of painting services (enough to cover a 10’x12’ room). Nimble-fingered handymen Fausto Velasco and Eduardo Quintana bring 20 years of experience and strong core values to bear on household maladies. Armed with rollers, tool kits, and surgically implanted eagle eyes, the certified contractors scour houses for issues such as roof and stucco damage or electrical problems in panels and wiring, quickly repairing the home’s illnesses before they worsen and start attracting vultures. Leaky roofs stop dripping after a healing hug from the staff, or Best Concept can lay siege to clogged pipes, renovate chipped concrete and brick, or eliminate creaks, cracks, and imperfections in windows and doors in a jiff. If fading paint graces your interior, Fausto and Eduardo will roll out a makeover by coating a 10′x12′ room with two layers of newer, hipper color. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce Your face is so smooth. Did you shave with broccoli? Read more…
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$18 for Ticket to Cocktails and Culture, Tote Bag, and Mug at The Witte Museum ($40 Value). Choose from Three Nights.
After inventing geometry and physics, Greeks invented history—primarily as a way to document their many inventions. Take a stroll through history with today’s Groupon: for $18, you get a ticket to Cocktails and Culture (a $20 value) and a tote bag and mug (a $20 combined value) from The Witte Museum (a $40 total value). Choose from the following events: Disco Dino-Nite on Thursday, August 25 Primal Instincts on Thursday, September 29 Buccaneer Ball on Thursday, October 27 The Witte Museum, which lies at the bank of the San Antonio River in Brackenridge Park, satisfies savvy 21+ crowds with after-hours events replete with live music, dancing, food, and special presentations. Thursday evenings yield to the themed Cocktails and Culture soirees, such as Disco Dino-Nite on August 25, which implores guests to get down with a retro mélange of ’70s music, dinosaurs, and prehistoric pet rocks. Live music complements hors d’oeuvres, interactive fire starting, and atlatl hunting tutorials that play centerpiece to September 29th’s Primal Instincts event, which pays homage to early human-survival skills. The Buccaneer Ball on October 27 entreats visitors to take a tour of the temporary pirate-themed exhibition, Shipwreck! During the day, store hot liquids in souvenir coffee mugs and books about hot liquids in tote bags as you peruse permanent exhibitions at the museum, including dinosaur skeletons and cave drawings. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce Your face is so smooth. Did you shave with broccoli? Read more…
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$18 for Ticket to Cocktails and Culture, Tote Bag, and Mug at The Witte Museum ($40 Value). Choose from Three Nights.
Police: Suspect ‘very dangerous’
Rafael Gonzalez Sanchez, 40, is suspected of injuring a San Antonio police officer early Sunday, when the two exchanged gunfire in a Northeast Side street.
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Police: Suspect ‘very dangerous’
San Antonio Officer Shot
San Antonio police launched a statewide search for the suspect in the Sunday morning shooting of an officer.
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San Antonio Officer Shot
Whalen leads the way as Lynx rally to defeat Silver Stars
San Antonio, TX (Sports Network) – Lindsay Whalen’s jumper with less than two seconds on the clock gave the Minnesota Lynx a 70-69 victory over the San Antonio Silver Stars.
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Bail now $850,000 for San Antonio dad held in baby’s death
A 22-year-old man is now a facing capital murder charge after police said he fatally abused his 3-week-old baby at their far West Side home earlier this week.
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Hot weather persists in central United States
Sticky heat was expected to smother much of the country’s midsection in coming days as hotter-than-usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters said on Sunday.
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Missing man’s body found by SMART divers
A 911 call came into the Comal County Sheriff’s Department at 7:41 p.m. Thursday reporting a missing swimmer at Potter’s Creek Park on the north side of Canyon Lake .
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$12 for $25 Worth of Authentic Mexican Fare at Aldaco’s Mexican Cuisine
The best way to familiarize oneself with a different country’s culture is to spend 10–15 years in one of its maximum-security prisons, but the second-best way is to taste its cuisine. Learn about Mexico with today’s Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of authentic Mexican fare at Aldaco’s Mexican Cuisine ‘s Hoefgen Avenue location. The dining room of Aldaco’s Mexican Cuisine, which at one time housed the baggage-handling area of the historic Sunset Station train depot, bustles with eager diners drawn in by the restaurant’s innovative Mexican menu and numerous culinary awards . Kick off fiestas with a cup of sopa de tortilla ($4.95) before hanging a fang on one of six cheese-topped enchilada selections that sport various types of meats, sauces, and Russian nesting enchiladas ($10.25+). Grilled vegetable tacos swaddling portobello mushrooms, squash, peppers, onions, and spinach between corn tortillas are accompanied by an entourage of vegetarian refried beans and spanish rice ($9.25). Or, tongue-dive into a substantial platillo tradicionale entree, such as the relleno de camaron, a throng of grilled shrimp and white cheese hidden inside a smoky poblano pepper ($16.26) or the parrillada mixta, an onslaught of chicken and beef fajitas, cheesy chile relleno, and sausages intended for four people or two double-stomached extraterrestrials ($30.95). A wedge of milky tres leches pastel ($6.25) acts as a sacchariferous coda to expertly crafted culinary compositions. Aldaco’s also provides free shuttle service to patrons, shepherding them to and from any downtown San Antonio location not affected by any dangerous rifts in the space-time continuum. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Creative Discipline Ideas Teach your children well, build a robot, and feed them on your dreams. Read more…
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