SAN ANTONIO — Before the Aztec Theater was a live music venue, it was a movie theater.

And years before Robert Rodriguez takes the stage Friday for a 30th anniversary screening of his Western-action bonanza "Desperado," he watched "Jaws" and "Star Wars" at the Aztec during his Alamo City upbringing.

"It's like literally one mile from my house where I grew up," said Rodriguez, the director behind modern genre classics "Sin City," "From Dusk Til' Dawn" and others. "So I'm always down there."

Rodriguez plans to be there more in the future—not just in the crowd during concerts, but as a regular introducing other films (maybe even some of his own) built for maximum fan enthusiasm. He already does something similar at downtown Austin's Paramount, where he routinely introduces or even curate

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