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Thursday, May 17, 2001
Outside the box

Carlos Coy, a.k.a. South Park Mexican

QUICK CHAT
   Name: South Park Mexican
   Claim to fame: The man who almost single-handedly brought the Houston rap scene to the world's attention spent his early years as a drug dealer, but these days he's into making deals of another kind. His Dope House Records label keeps expanding its roster of homebrewed talent and on May 29 will release a compilation album of the label's biggest hits called "Screwston."
   Current fave CDs: I've been listening to Juan Gotti a lot. I like Eminem and Snoop Dogg, but if I have time to listen to music it's usually something that the label is working on.
   TV time: I've been watching the basketball playoffs lately. I was off on Sunday and just kind of stayed home with the family and watched some basketball. Back when the XFL was on I watched a few of those games. It was nice to watch football in the off-season - they were pretty cool and pretty exciting.
   Overheard

Blaker

   Country musician Clay Blaker, who plays at the Executive Surf Club Saturday night, has been an avid surfer since he was a child. When Clay was growing up in Houston in the early '60s, his dad quit his job as a rice farmer to build his own surfboards and open his own surf shop. "My dad was one of the first guys to start surfing in Texas," Blaker says. "Before then everyone thought you had to go to California or Hawaii for good surfing, but my dad showed it could be done in Texas."
   Port Aransas is one of his favorite places to surf on the Texas Gulf Coast, and Blaker frequents the Horace Caldwell Pier.
   Cathedral Concert Series

Donath

   Helen Donath and guest conductor Klaus Donath will preside over the finale of the Corpus Christi Cathedral Concert Series, taking place Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the cathedral. Helen Donath, a Corpus Christi native, is an internationally known opera soprano. She and Klaus Donath will be joined by members of the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra and the choirs of Corpus Christi Cathedral. The evening will be capped with a performance of Mozart's Solemn Vespers.
   For more information, call 888-6520.
   Web site of the day
   www.skunkative.com
   Skunkative is a Kingsville-based record label specializing in ska, punk and alternative music (hence its name). Owner Raymond Munoz has released only a handful of CDs so far, but he's set up his Web site to promote not only Skunkative CDs, but also to sell the music of other independent labels. His site provides information about sending the label a demo, biographies of bands and an online store.
   - Written and compiled by Brendan Walsh

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