An announcement from Virginia Gause

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An announcement from Virginia Gause

The UTPA summer workshop will be re-creating Art Walk on Friday, June 27, from 11 AM to 6 PM at the Art Center, 801 North Main, in McAllen.  It will be for one of the big scenes in the film The Red Queen, currently being filmed with a cast of Hollywood [...]

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A reminder from Virginia Gause
McAllen’s PalmFest International Folklife Celebration is once again participating in the 4th of July Parade in McAllen!  The parade starts at 9 am. This year, organizers of this growing festival have a float entry with various depictions of some of PalmFest’s larger attractions.
You could see a cowboy doing roping tricks, a [...]

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An announcement
Movie-goers are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs or quilts, picnic basket and their family and enjoy a bit of nostalgia at an old fashioned outdoor movie in Archer Park on Saturday, June 28 at 8:45 pm.  And the film is admission free.  One of America’s most majestic films will be shown. It is [...]

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A reminder

A note to writers and those who appreciate the written and spoken word that the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers Forum  will meet at 7 pm tomorrow night at the center, 225 E. Stenger St., in San Benito. Attendance may be light as it is the travel season, but previous experience says that [...]

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A travel note from Sta
We’re done roaming for a month. A week ago Thursday, we headed up to San Antonio and visited Joseph, number one son, and his friend, Veronica, had a couple of pleasant meals at SA bistros, jammed a bit, visited with old friend Linda Reeves and husband Jim and had a pleasant [...]

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A poem by Michael Stewart
- T -
I for one do not appreciate the joke
Of those who say that Tau is just a bull.
Note how the horizontal stroke
Runs parallel to earth, arrests the upward pull.
Of aspiration, drags us down. What son of man
Among us dares to cast this frightful yoke?
I think the letter T
Leaves little room [...]

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A poem by Michael Stewart
— S —

S is more or less what C would be
When c is not in Church
Or not being k.
Ever since its sinuosity
Slithered through the garden,
Man has leaned to speak
In conspiratorial whispers.

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A poem by Michael Stewart
- R -

When Alexander, Ares pride, detumefied,
Old Ares made his move across the sea.
There in his Roman home his modest rho
Changed into the sort of prurient P
You see in EAPLY LAPIDAPY LATIN.
Later, on its own two legs, R never let Mars rest.
It raped its way across the Rubicon with him
To Ireland, [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook
…along 281, one of my favorite roads, highway of dreams and development and movement, I love it ….
…linemen stringing power lines for BISD High School Six, and I stop and say, “Hey! US electric needs will double in 20 years! Will there be enough power?”
A lineman, he on the ground, says, “Sure! Wind [...]

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A reminder
The Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers’ Forum meets Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7 pm at the NMCAC.
All interested in literature and the spoken word are invited to attend. Writers and readers are allowed a slot of up to ten minutes to present their material. You could be regaled by a story from [...]

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An announcement
The McAllen Chamber of Commerce and PalmFest present the 2nd annual McAllen Art & Film Festival October 4th & 5th at the McAllen Convention Center.

McALLEN, TX—The McAllen Chamber of Commerce has partnered up with PalmFest International Folklife Celebration to bring the Rio Grande Valley the 2nd Annual McAllen Art & Film [...]

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An announcement

at the STC Starr County Campus Library
On Display Through June 27
Starr County Library

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from Gene’s Notebook
“Go shake the peach tree. There’s one more up high,
and I can’t reach it.”
I go outside, shake the branch and leaf-thick tree,
and the last peach falls to cracked earth and rotted (they ripen fast) peaches.
I pick up the fuzzy oval, bump into a branch, go inside, give it to her and she bites [...]

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An announcement

The McAllen Heritage Center will open its doors on Monday, June 23rd, at La Placita, 301 S. Main at 1 pm!  The Center will be open 1 pm to 5 pm from Monday through Friday.

Members of the founding board of the McAllen Heritage Center stand in front of the Center’s [...]

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From Michael Stewart’s Alphabet Book
— Q —

Sometimes I get the feeling
(Don’t you, too?)
That life is just one long
Drawn out queue.

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From Gene’s Notebook
…went to the West Brownsville Association meeting in the Villa Maria Restaurant Saturday about the West Loop Toll Road proposal (when the railroad is relocated) …and was encouraged that, perhaps, only three or four people of the nearly 100 in the restaurant wanted the road, any road …and ideas like rail, [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters

And there to lie down in the lap of the late autumn evening
homey small-kissing on some crazy quilt mother made me
how is it with you when you go and our lives go unbraided
my heart go torn with the old wild grief
how is it you rise and I rise [...]

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An advertisement

from Virginia Gause

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From Gene’s Notebook
hot hot afternoon …have read about the cars and gas and the West Loop plan – meeting Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Villa Maria restaurant on West Elizabeth to discuss plan to make the railroad bed, when abandoned, a toll road!
As for cars and such, fix the existing roads and drive slowly [...]

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Un annuncio
Marque su calendario y planee asistir a la
Reunión de la Asociación de Vecindad del Oeste de Brownsville
Donde:            Villa Maria Restaurant
524 W. Elizabeth St
Fecha: Sábado, 21 de junio de 2008
Tiempo:           11:30 a.m
Hablaremos sobre las varias iniciativas que podran afectar a nuestro vecindario.
Presentadores:
Mark Lund, de la Ciudad de Brownsville, hablara [...]

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An announcement
Mark your calendar and plan to attend the
West Brownsville Neighborhood Association Meeting
Location:         Villa Maria Restaurant, 524 W. Elizabeth St.
Date:               Saturday, June 21, 2008
Time:               11:30 a.m
We will discuss the various initiatives that may impact our neighborhood.
Speakers:
Mark Lund, City of Brownsville, will explain the role of the  Metropolitan  Planning Organization (MPO) [...]

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Greetings Artlovers,
“Hot town, summer in the city” has been a favorite summer theme song since the Lovin’ Spoonfuls brought it out in 1966!
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Thursdays are “Open Mic Nights” at Art Expressions in the McAllen Arts District.
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What could be cooler than “Captain Crab and the Clean Beach Patrol” puppet show [...]

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A comment from Stan

Contributor, faithful reader and friend Gene Novogrodsky has pointed out that both the articles I’ve published today have not been readable on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. When I’ve gone back to look at them, I’ve found a longish piece of code that included an ‘if’ statement referring to Internet Explorer and pieces of [...]

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Wherein the Poet Relates a Visitation and Elucidates His Theme
XL
You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
XLI

For ‘Is’ and ‘Is-not’ though with Rule and Line,
And ‘Up-and-down’ without, I could define,
I yet in [...]

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