Month: January 2014

Entertainment

Tacos with Tera – Jake Ward and the Coast Riders

Meagan Falcon

By Tera Elwell / Web Editor  Nervousness set in as I prepared to talk to two members from the band Jake Ward and the Coast Riders. This was to be my first “Tacos with Tera” interview and I was excited because I have been a genuine fan of Jake’s music for three years. Also, I heard these tacos were some of the best in Corpus Christi and, honestly, who doesn’t get excited about tacos? I sat with Jake Ward at a table toward the back of Taqueria Almeida and discussed the new country sound his band was working on and…

Campus, Community, Staff

New music building is state-of-the-art

Meagan Falcon

  Expanded facility features upgraded technology By Haley Williams / Reporter  After an $8.2 million renovation, Del Mar has opened the doors of the new music building. Featuring over 18,000 square feet of new space to prepare students for a career in the music field, the music building sits adjacent to the Fine Arts Center, “bringing the majority of DMC’s fine arts programs together in a complex-like area of the East Campus,” according to a Del Mar College news release. The goal of Richter Architects, design architects for the project, was to “provide a harmonious architectural counterpart to the related but…

Campus, Community

MLK Community Celebration

Meagan Falcon

Best-selling author of “Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America Politics,” Donna Brazile, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration. The event will be in the TAMUCC Performing Arts Center at 6:30pm on Thursday, Jan. 23.