Request for plant ID
Our friend, writer and loyal commentator Jack King has asked for help identifying the plant pictured below.

Mr. King writes, “About 8 years ago someone brought me a little potted plant about six inches tall from Colima, Mexico. The plant is now four feet tall and has produced its first fruit.”
If you can [...]

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Noche de Peña
Sunday, 01 November, 7:30 p.m.
The line up includes Marla, Dos Bluzanos, and
Ensamble La Mision
$5 cover, includes refreshments
Art Exhibits
Reception Monday, 02 November 6-8 p.m.
Quest for Spirituality – Teodoro Estrada, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Calavaras – group show, loval artist
Show runs through 25 November
Free
Galerîa 409 is located at 409 East 13th Street
Hours: [...]

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by Jack Moffitt
Hello again fans and supporters of the Market!
Sad news – loss of a true friend of the Market – Barry Horn
This passing week, the Brownsville Farmers Market lost a true friend, Barry Horn. I didn’t know Barry well, but I knew his deeds. While under his direction, the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art [...]

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from current reading

For those of you who might have visited the 1st Earth Battalion recently and wondered what had happened. Part II after the ‘more’

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report from Edgar Clinton, Jr.
Nuevo Progreso Oct 15, 2009. Walked down the deserted bridge, wasn’t much traffic. There were only a few straggler beggars under the bridge. The rest had left for other environs, as the pickings must have been kind of slim.
The drug war and homeland security had about rolled up the border town [...]

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Intellectual theft by Stan

There’s nothing to sweat in the land of the free, the home of the brave, the country of reasonable folks, is there?

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From the New York Times
Arizona May Put Prisons in Private Hands
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
State officials will soon seek bids from private companies for 9 of the state’s 10 prison complexes that house roughly 40,000 inmates, including 127 on death row.
The rest of the story.

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by Jack Moffitt
Hello fellow fresh food lovers!
By now I had hoped to supply ya’ll with a bevy of sweet potato recipes to go with the huge harvest of sweet potatos we were planning on taking to market. Unfortunately, a critter called the sweet potato weevil moved in and drilled every potato with its future family. [...]

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from Gene’s Notebook
…the skinny woman comes from under the underpass, and I tell her that the
homeless shelter beats the underpass.
“No, it doesn’t. I don’t want anyone telling me what to do,” and she goes back
to the underpass’ damp wall.
…and the young man is walking around at dusk. I hand him a watermelon that I
carried from [...]

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by Gene Novogrodsky
With rain hitting screen and window,
I look across puddles and see
A car turn off the water-tire-deep
Street into an alley, red tail lights on,
Red tail lights gone,
Up the alley,
The rain falling, in the dark,
Under the pale yellow streetlight ….

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from ArtsRGV.com
TWENTIETH ANNUAL
SOUTH TEXAS (WAY SOUTH) POW WOW

OCTOBER 23-24, 2004

Lark Community Center and Library
2601 Lark, McAllen, Texas  78504

Traders welcome – call ahead for reservations ($20.00 deposit and one raffle item)
Feeds:  (for Pow Wow Participants and their Families Only) Mexico just minutes away

Refreshments after Fun Dance
Breakfast (continental) 8:00 – 9:30 AM
Saturday Supper [...]

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from Blacklisted News
Max Keiser in his prime, discussing whether the crisis is over: “It’s not froth, it’s fraud. This is an incredible case of accounting fraud and the American peasants have got to be the stupidest people in the world today: they don’t mind becoming peasants, they don’t mind living like peasants, and if that’s [...]

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by Jack Moffitt
If you found yourself in the position of caring for one less fortunate, less educated, less intelligent, or otherwise in need of assistance,
I’m sure you would agree that it would be wrong to feed that person substances that would wreck their health. I mean, even if they loved twinkies with chocolate shake chasers [...]

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by John Goggin
“What’s that?” she said.
“How would I know?” he said.
There was makeup on his shirt-front
and the smell of lightning in the air.

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by John Goggin
I: Lore
Somewhere, out there, there is a box
Of gopher wood and cedar
Inlaid with royal porphyry.
It’s sealed with seven golden locks;
inside are golden keys.

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by Gene Novogrodsky
Detective Fails
Crimes and problems and mysteries.
The detectives solve them,
But there must be, and are,
Cases where the detective fails,
Same for the problem-solver ….
“I’ve been here seven years,
Tried a little to learn English,
And now really want to go to nursing
School, and need English.”
The detective commiserates,
Offers little.

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from CineSol
NALIP, CPB, the NEA and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in association with Urban-15, San Antonio and Texas Film Commissions, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, CineFestival, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, KLRN, Texas Commission for the Arts, UT-SA, NAPT, ITVS, NBPC, CAAM, LPB, PIC, & WMM Present
Doing Your [...]

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from Gene’s Notebook
…the man tells me that his family hates him, and often stalks him and his bike, using picks to puncture his tires ….
“I used to drive, then gas went up, so I bought a bike at the flea market. Riding it home, I fell off twice – I hadn’t ridden in years – [...]

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by Gene Novogrodsky
The neighbor is thrilled,
“The first norther,”
And without her feared hail.
At the city’s edge,
In two feet of puddled water,
Fat beef cattle put their
Huge heads into the water and
Find pasture grass,
While white egrets stand by,
Sometimes hopping on the
Beef’s broad backs ….

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Intellectual borrowing by Stan

This requires little comment, although it would be useful to have a listing of companies engaging in this practice. It is nice to see a news organization actually doing some fact checking.

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by Stan Raines
We got back to Brownsville just in time although I’d anticipated that I was going to be too late. We just had to make that last stop at the Half-Price Books on Lamar and then make that casual drift down Congress because it was “an interesting drive.”
So then it’s five and a half [...]

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by Jack Moffitt
If you read this far, you are ahead of the game……
the food game, that is. One revealing medical research project disclosed that every diet researched worked. That’s right , every single one. The reason, the researchers opined – anyone, taking on any diet, was moving into a weight-changing mindset. The secret of the [...]

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by John Goggin
It has been a dry month; no children have come to read to me.
The Corn Moon passed without rain, bringing only thunder.
The nights, as you, my friend, are well aware, grow longer.
Now is harvest time, and the end of sweet June’s bounty.
Some of what was sown I will soon be plowing under.
The nights, [...]

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by John Goggin
It’s out there, all right.
Just over the horizon, just out of sight.
Stretched out back-flat asleep after a big bang-up feast.
Its every snore an earthquake, every belch a geyser;
the rumblings in the gut, tsunamis and volcanoes.
And after each dyspeptic dream, some worlds collide;
after every fart a star or two implodes.
Oh, It’s out there, all [...]

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