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Straight from the Arizona Gulag: Linda Ronstadt in SA

By Enrique Lopetegui
elopetegui@sacurrent.com

Flowers for Lou Dobbs: Linda Ronstadt is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore.

The short story: Linda Ronstadt performs her best-selling Canciones de mi padre with Los Angeles’ Los Camperos de Nati Cano, one of the world’s finest mariachis. The show is tomorrow night at the Municipal Auditorium (100 Auditorium Circle, 8:30 pm, $35+, ticketmaster.com), and it will benefit the Community Sust ...

Music Town = Circus of Values

Music Town is going away, but that doesn't mean you can't exploit it one last time for your own personal gain.

The store's unloading all its stock including (assuming someone hasn't already snagged it) the stereo equipment, turntables, and furniture pictured. Considering it's the store's last day, they won't be placing any special orders (thanks for rubbing it in, asshole customer in front of me in line) and all the new stuff's still priced as marked, but make an offer on anything else that isn't nailed down.

Actually, that's not true — the original artwork attached to the wall is also for sale. Used CDs ...

Forget it, Jake — it was Music Town

A late entry for our Dia de los Muertos feature:

RIP Music Town (April 2, 2007 - November 6, 2009)

Sniff. One of the city's best record stores closes shop at midnight tomorrow, leaving musicians with one less place to sell their music and San Antonians with one less cool hangout/music venue. You can probably guess the reason for its premature death.

"Rent went up," owner Brent Evans says immediately, but quickly decides it's more complicated than that — more like a series of unfortunate economic events ending in an eviction notice.

"Well, let me start again," he says. "First of all, the recession hit. So sales have dropp ...

Weird Press Releases, Volume II: Phone-a-Celeb

Note: You can get in on the ground floor of this exciting series by reading Volume I here.