By Gene Novogrodsky
Hot and dry, wilting all,
Animal and vegetable …
And then the prisoners,
Locked in, free from
Elements, no shrunken
Yellow and purple stem heads
For them, and when out, say on
A Greyhound to Chicago,
They endure corn through windows,
Waiting for smoke breaks in prairie cities,
Waiting for Chicago, no flowers,
No flowers in the penitentiary,
None on South 94th Street …
And heat [...]

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From Virginia Gause
The Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum opens its new historical photography exhibit, Portraying the Great Depression in the Valley, on Thursday, May 7, 2009. Portraying the Great Depression in the Valley showcases photographs taken by renowned photographers, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon.
During the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, [...]

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From Cinesol

Director Marcel Rodriguez is looking for young actors for a variety of roles in his action/drama, “The Borderlanders”.

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Money for your next film project
Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund workshop, sponsored by the Austin Film Society, will meet  Saturday, May 16th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, 1200 Ash Ave, McAllen, TX 78541.

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Free education! Free digitization!
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas – The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) brings its new statewide traveling educational program, the Texas Film Round-Up, to the Cine El Ray in McAllen on Friday, May 15th from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., the Historic Brownsville Museum in Brownsville on Saturday, May 16th [...]

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