Archive site for San Antonio's Action Magazine
Sam Kindrick, publisher of Action Magazine for 43 years, is now back with this biographical log (as in blog). This site will contain old Kindrick columns from Action Magazine, as well as current posts which will be far ranging in content.
And if you’re looking for the old PDF back issues of Action Magazine, they are up under the menu under “Issues.” If you don’t see what you’re looking for there, you’ll have to go to the Wittliff Collections for it.
Yesterday was my 30-year sobriety birthday. I didn’t post it until today because lightning had knocked out my computer. I haven’t had a drink of […]
We will never forget the Cosmic Sweetheart and her cadre of foxy followers. They took the San Antonio, Texas nightclub scene by storm in the rowdy and rip-snorting 1970s and 1980s. The first time I laid eyes on Carol Cannon she was tending bar at Al Hoxie’s Horse Feathers Saloon on Wurzbach Road in San […]
This piece will be my sickening and debilitating admission to being an idiot of the P.T. Barnum description. We are talking here about an online product touted as the world’s fastest chain saw sharpener. This little booger would sharpen a running saw chain in “three seconds.” Circus magnate Barnum was the biggest con artist of […]
This electronic cigarette phenomena is increasingly taking shape as a fairy tale with a less than happy ending. Yes, the medical experts are starting to find that vaping ain’t what the vape manufacturers had it cracked up to be. Inhaling nicotine fumes with a plethora of fruity flavors has been touted as a way to […]
She was foxy, plucky, irreverent and dressed to the nines, a working girl who would become both famous and infamous in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Some even called her beautiful. This was my friend Madam Theresa Brown on the day we met. I was a cub reporter for the San Antonio Express and […]
I never thought I would see the day, but the day has arrived. My snuff-dippping oral surgeon first cousin Dr. Roy Kindrick has laid down the snuff can. Since a recent piece on Roy that ran on my Facebook page, the doc has suffered a blackout that caused a fall which split open his head […]
Memorial services for Bobby J’s owner Beth Sfalos were both simple and uplifting. I’m not a funeral fan, but this service was one that didn’t leave me wondering where all the liars came from. If anything, the testimonials for Beth were more euphemistic than contrived glorification, for there are not enough adjectives to really do […]
This piece is about me and my snuff-dipping oral surgeon and professor cousin Roy Kindrick. I hope somebody gets a hoot out of it. I had to look it up to be sure. A maxillofacial surgeon is a medical expert in face, mouth, and jaw surgery. That’s my first cousin and lifelong friend, Dr. Roy […]
Action Magazine can now be viewed in its entirety on the world wide web. We are completely online. It took me long enough to get there. In addition to the complete publication issues, the site includes select Sam Kindrick columns, advertising rates and ad measurements, a history of the 35-year-old entertainment publication, photos of me […]
He called me Soul. He gave me strength and saved my ass. He was an angel with a microphone, the safety net I needed back during the mid-1970s when I was free-falling out of the daily newspaper business. Ron Houston is the name.The greatest voice in the history of San Antonio radio. Maybe you read […]
I was touched with a sense of both sadness and regret when I read that Elmer Kelton had died at his home in San Angelo. Kelton was kind to me when I functioned as a kid reporter on the San Angelo Standard-Times back in the early-1960s, and I was saddened that he had departed this […]
I know it’s a bit late for Christmas stories but I’ve got one that is just too hairy to keep under wraps. It would be more fitting for halloween, but one can’t always pick the season for reports on creepy, crawly, multi-legged creatures which might appear on a darkened sidewalk. The event of which I […]
The June 12 Express-News death notice of former Bexar County Sheriff Harlon Copeland brought back a torrent of bad memories which I have never attempted to shut the door on. Copeland and his deputies represented only one of several law enforcement agencies which were to bust me for drugs during the middle and late 1980s, […]
