From Gene’s Notebook
…and he says when I ask about his work, or what his work was, “I’d have to kill you if I tell you,” and maybe he’s kidding, and maybe he’s not; time to change the topic to cars and kids and homes and divorces ….
…and she says that the key to getting the [...]

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by Gene Novogrodsky
TV fillers, on the sports channels,
Black and white shots of ballplayers
From those baseball-mattered ’40s.
I turn off the TV., and I also turn it
Off when those ballplayers, 50 years
Later, sit and talk, grey and wrinkled ….
All pictures are welcome decades back and now,
But never the ballplayers ,,,
And I know what you were, and are,
But [...]

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From Rogelio T. Nuñez
“El Second Weensdee” presents BBC’s “The American Future: A History by Simon Schama” at the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, music by “The Chicken Club,” Wednesday March 11, 7:00 pm, 225 E. Stenger Street, San Benito.
The public is invited to view a documentary produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation which features [...]

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From Virginia Gause
Conceptualizing In/Justice: Images/Voices of Resistance
MAY 1st, 2009
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, POETRY & MUSIC
Submissions due APRIL 1st, 2009
The UTPA Department of Criminal Justice is sponsoring an event to promote social justice and peace. The goal of this conference/exhibition is to engage the students, the community and the faculty in a dialogue about social [...]

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From Virginia Gause
AUDITIONS FOR LAST SPRING MAINSTAGE PLAY AT UTPA
University Theatre Productions, at the University of Texas Pan American, has just scheduled auditions for comedy PLAZA SUITE, Monday and Tuesday, March 9th and 10th in the Jeffer’s Theatre, of the Communication Arts & Science Building. (corner of University Drive & Sugar Road)
Auditions will begin [...]

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From Virginia Gause

March 31 – April 3, 2009
McAllen Chamber of Commerce
1200 Ash
McAllen, TX 78501
The McAllen Arts Council invites you to participate in the 1st Annual McAllen Arts Council Fine Art Exhibition to be held from March 31 through April 3, 2009. This exhibition will be juried by representatives of the McAllen Arts [...]

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Enter designs for the 16th Annual CineSol Film Festival
Deadline: May 1, 2009 at 5:00 pm.
Enter for the chance to win $250 and have your design become the face of the festival, onthe cover of newsprint schedule inserts for Valley newpapers, on posters, programs, t-shirts and more.
The winning design will be selected by a panel of [...]

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Blues On The Hill, Harlingen’s premiere concert series, gears up for 2009 Season
The Harlingen Volunteer Involvement Council is gearing up for the 9th season of the Blues On The Hill concert series.
Blues On The Hill is a live music concert series featuring national and international Blues headliners. This is truly a public event. [...]

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From Virginia Gause
A night in which both men and women from our community read a series of stories written from people all over the world; regarding their experience with violence, either personally, vicariously, or from the effects of extreme violence in their community.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7 pm
WHERE: Salon Cassia, Education & Business Building,UTB/ [...]

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