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Created Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:54
Cowboy Breakfast Kicks off Rodeo Season in San Antonio
As January winds down, San Antonio is gearing up for its annual Stock Show and Rodeo, the city’s signature event.  As always, the event gets underway with the annual Cowboy Breakfast, which will be held at The Rim for the second straight year.  Organizers are hoping this year’s event will be a record-setting one, quite literally.  The hopes are to set the world’s record for most coffee served ever at an event, and are expecting 40,000 people to attend the breakfast.  Breakfast and coffee is free, and the fare includes such Texas staples as breakfast tacos, biscuits and gravy, menudo, sausage links, tamales, barbacoa, and much more.  The Cowboy…

Created Thursday, 03 January 2008 22:20

San Antonio is many things: a vibrant cultural city; a growing technological center, and a sporting capital.  It’s also home to a wide variety of shows and contests that are based in the city’s Wild West roots.  The annual San Antonio Rodeo, started in 1950, has long been a favorite of residents of South Texas, and has grown in popularity such, that today over 1 million people attend each year.  In the 40s, the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum was built to house the rodeo and show, and served this capacity well until the AT&T Center (formerly known as the SBC Center) was opened in 2003.  Since then, the rodeo has been located in San Antonio’s most modern and comfortable sporting arena.

This year’s…