Special from Joel ATTENTION LONG TIME COMIN’ ENTHUSIASTS (AKA: LTC Legion). I know that you are troubled by the fact that although your New Year’s Eve plans are nearing completion, you don’t know where you are going to get that special LTC fix to start 2010 off right. Well, you’re in luck because Stan and [...]

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Sunday, 27 December, 7:00 p.m. Noche de Peña Eddie Torres – Canto Nuevo Los Pauraques* – Traditional Music of RGV Rosa and Joe Perez of Rumbo al’ Anacua Charlie Harrison Emilio Crixell and guest Tomas Ramirez Ensamble la Misiøn – International Music $5 includes refreshments Tuesday, 29 December, 7:30 p.m. Los Bluzanos and Friends The [...]

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More pictures They built a Snowy Image It was mildly constipated

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Photo essay Seven hundred miles later, dividing the drive over a couple of days, and here we are in Lubbock just in time for its first major snow of the season. It was alternating rain and snow for the last twenty miles of the drive last night, but somewhere around ten or so, the chill [...]

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Our apologies. What was to have been a routine upgrade of WordPress, the underlying engine for NunnaYerBizness Today, turned into a minor nightmare as a bug in the new code caused all but the heading and left column to disappear. Worse, as WordPress had begun offering automated upgrades, we no longer had the tools and [...]

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from Mark Clark Noche de Peña Sunday, 20 December, 7:00 p.m. Oliver Probst – Classical Guitar Alex Herrera & Mario Dueñas – Piano and Saxaphone Ensamble La Misiøn – World Music $5, includes refreshments Galerîa 409 409 East 13th Street Information:  956 455 3599 Editor’s note: If you haven’t been to a Noche de Peña, [...]

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by Jack Moffitt Greetings locavores and vegephiles! It has been a wild December in the veggie biz. Large rainfalls and no sunny days, have stalled growth and bitter cold  winds have made my field fashion drop to new lows. The rains were needed and charged up the beds with the purest water we can use, [...]

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by Simon Tofield And there’s now a Simon’s Cat book for the real fans. Maybe for Christmas, eh?

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by Jack Moffitt Greetings Locavores! Are you shivering from this global warming yet? We are! But the bounty of the efforts makes it all worthwhile. Last weekend brought freezing weather to the Valley, even before the start of winter. Vendors straggled in after battling to save crops the night before, and customers bundled up to [...]

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from Mark Clark This week’s Noche de Peña will feature the UTB Marimba Orchestra (wait till you hear this!) Adrian Foncerrada, and Ensamble Misíon Noche de Peña, the Sunday musical celebration at the Galeria 409 downtown on 13th Street, is becoming a scene and you’ve got to make it your own.   Usually it’s Ensamble la [...]

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Beer drinkers’ alert! Long Time Comin’, those two guys with guitars, are going to be up to new tricks at Harley’s Country Store and Beer Garden in Bayview this Saturday afternoon from 4 til 7 or so and then again at Dirty Red’s Kantina in Arroyo City Sunday from 4 to 7. Frankly, we’re excited. [...]

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by Gene Novogrodsky From summer’s heat and exhaust fumes To winter’s chill and the same exhaust fumes, The grey cur takes its corner, Sometimes on the sidewalk, Sometimes on a lawn, Sometimes in the street, A living cur, thinning, wanting food and water, Thinning, and still feinting at motion, any motion ….

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Poems by Gene Novogrodsky Mouths Never in light, Never in awake. The depth of a dream kiss. A dream embrace, A dream passion, Uncomplicated, Correct, Together, Before the light …. Hands On Elbows Guiding them To doctors’, To stores,

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From Gene’s Notebook …by the mud and twisted limbs of the Red River in North Dakota, I come upon a couple with a big white dog. I ask about the Spring flood that left the the mud and twisted limbs. The man, in a thick East European accent, tells me that it was mighty flood. [...]

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By Jack Moffitt Hello Locavores! Bundle up and bring a bag, the winter harvests are underway. You don’t get many opportunities to show off your cold weather fashions, so don’t miss the opportunity this Saturday, 8 to noon! Tomato tips Last week we found a green tomato laying next to a plant, mysteriously severed at [...]

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from Mark Clark Noche de Peña Sunday, 06 December, 7:00 p.m. Galerîa 409 at 409 East 13th Street Charlie Harrison Dos Blusanos – Emilio Crixell & Loose Reed Long Time Comin’ – Stan Raines & Joel Humphries $5, includes refreshments Ensamble La Mision is on a mission – will return next week

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Opinion by Gene Novogrodsky My father has heard lies concerning the justification of war since the late 1910s – he was born in 1912. I have heard lies since 1950 – I was born in 1939. So, President Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates are merely more parts in the sordid history of telling us [...]

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From Virginia Gause Edinburgo’s Poets Café #2, an evening of poetry and stories featuring Nuyorican poet Tato Laviera at UTPA’s Jeffers Theater in Edinburg from 7 to 8:30 this evening. The event is free and open to the public. Tato Laviera is the best selling Hispanic American poet in the United States. He has five [...]

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