Edmond Ortiz

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Multimedia journalist; @SAC_PR/@TxSt alum, SA native, progressive Catholic, sci-fi/tech/music/movie geek, sports fan, hiker #Sarcasm

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Biggest Tastemaker Awards party yet toasts best in San Antonio dining

1 week ago | sanantonio.culturemap.com | Brandon Watson |Edmond Ortiz

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What’s brewing in San Antonio: Mad Pecker closes, Pinthouse expands

1 week ago | sanantonio.culturemap.com | Edmond Ortiz

Editor's note: The bustling San Antonio beer scene is always changing — usually with openings and closures, but there are other twists along the way. Let's discuss it over a cold one. Mad Pecker closes up shopThe owners of Mad Pecker Brewing officially shuttered their Northwest Side brewpub on March 31, right as they were celebrating their 10th year of business. Mad Pecker founders Jason and Erika Gonzales announced the closure via the company's social media in late March.
Award-winning Texas winery uncorks new tasting room in Hill Country

1 week ago | fortworth.culturemap.com | Edmond Ortiz

Sorry, Texans, there's no way to sugarcoat this: 2025 is not a great year for bluebonnets. Despite recent rains that have greened up landscapes, drought conditions last fall resulted in fewer spring blooms, and blooms coming up later and smaller across the state. Spring flowers need fall showers. "Most of the spring annual wildflowers germinate in the fall.
San Antonio's best restaurants and more crowned at 2025 Tastemaker Awards

2 weeks ago | sanantonio.culturemap.com | Brandon Watson |Edmond Ortiz

Ladino is San Antonio's Restaurant of the Year. John Russ of Clementine won Chef of the Year. Readers voted on Freight Fried Chicken as Best New Restaurant. Alessia Benavides of Chocolatl got a sweet surprise as the Pastry Chef of the Year winner. Cullum's Attagirl was our Neighborhood Restaurant of the Year pick. Gimme Gimme celebrated its Bar of the Year win. Roadmap Brewing Co. navigated a Brewery of the Year victory. Our wildcard category — Best Coffee Shop — was won by Folklores Coffee House.
Acclaimed Texas winery uncorks new tasting room in Hill Country

2 weeks ago | dallas.culturemap.com | Edmond Ortiz

Sorry, Texans, there's no way to sugarcoat this: 2025 is not a great year for bluebonnets. Despite recent rains that have greened up landscapes, drought conditions last fall resulted in fewer spring blooms, and blooms coming up later and smaller across the state. Spring flowers need fall showers. "Most of the spring annual wildflowers germinate in the fall.
Texas State Scrabble Championship revived in San Antonio

2 weeks ago | sanantonioreport.org | Edmond Ortiz

While thousands of basketball fans streamed into the Hemisfair area to enjoy Final Four festivities on Friday, the Coates Chapel elsewhere downtown was an entirely different scene. Thirty Scrabble players, varying in age and game experience, quietly and intensely engaged in matches of wordplay. One competitor, Patricia Barrett, knows the difference between a casual, no-stakes game and a high-stakes assembly of Scrabble players. “At home or in a Scrabble club, you can talk.
San Antonio College plants 'moon tree' in memorial garden

2 weeks ago | sanantonioreport.org | Edmond Ortiz

The origin of one young tree growing at the San Antonio College campus is rooted in outer space. A loblolly pine germinated from one of 2,000 seeds ferried aboard NASA’s Artemis 1 uncrewed mission that orbited the moon in late 2022 was planted on the college campus during a dedication ceremony held by the Scobee Education Center and the William R. Sinkin Eco Centro last month.
7 slam-dunk Final Four events for Houston Cougar fans in San Antonio

2 weeks ago | houston.culturemap.com | Edmond Ortiz

The Houston Cougars men's basketball team will shoot for history as it takes on Duke in an NCAA Final Four showdown in San Antonio on Saturday, April 5. A win could send the Coogs to their first national championship game in four decades. UH fans headed to San Antonio for the game will have to wait patiently until 7:49 pm Saturday for tip-off at the Alamodome. How to fill the rest of the weekend?
NCAA Final Four heralds unveiling of new Southside park

2 weeks ago | sanantonioreport.org | Edmond Ortiz

The NCAA Men’s Final Four has returned to San Antonio, and as part of a weekend of championship college basketball and other festivities, Southside residents have a new space to enjoy exercise and various sports. The newly completed public park at 635 Rayburn Drive — a site that also serves the Rayburn Boys and Girls Club — includes a refurbished gymnasium, a walking track with exercise stations, a soccer field with automatic irrigation and a mural.
Texas winery brings High Plains science to new Hill Country tasting room

3 weeks ago | austin.culturemap.com | Edmond Ortiz

A family-owned and operated northwest Texas winery with a nearly 30-year legacy has uncorked a new location in the Hill Country. Reddy Wines' new Stonewall tasting room, between Fredericksburg and Johnson City, debuted on March 4 in the former site of Cicada Cellars, joining the region's 100-plus popular wineries.