An announcement from Virginia Gause

Regional Tourism Workshop - Thursday, August 14, 2008, Kingsville, Texas

Saddle Up!
Rein in the Power of Tourism for Your Community

Presented by Texas Department of Agriculture’s GO TEXAN program

Join us in Kingsville for a day-long workshop featuring industry experts offering stimulating and information-packed presentations [...]

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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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A comment from Stan
This morning’s Brownsville Herald brings the news that Betsy Price, former KMBH board member and a person deeply experienced in public radio, has stepped forward to begin to organize a new entity to sponsor public radio in the Valley, including new local productions.
We welcome Ms. Price’s enterprise and offer whatever support an [...]

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A note from Jack King
I was skimming through a book entitled “The World’s Great Speeches” and ran across one delivered on December 8, 1897 by the US Ambassador to Great Britain, John Hay, before the Omar Khayamm Club of London. Here is an excerpt from the speech. I hope you enjoy it:
The exquisite beauty, the [...]

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More commentary from What’s His Name
We begin to prepare for yet another major poetry project at NunnaYerBizness Today, re-visiting The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and bringing the language up to date (or past the present day–who knows?–a printout of NunnaYerBizness Today could very well be the sole surviving fragment in the next medieval revival of [...]

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An announcement
UTPA Summer Creative Writing Institute offers unique opportunity for aspiring writers

EDINBURG - The Summer Creative Writing Institute, now in its sixth year at The University of Texas-Pan American, is offering a one-week intensive writing program June 2-6 followed by two weeks of independent study for aspiring writers who want to hone their creative [...]

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Don’t miss the Ann Moore Book Signing at IMAS on Thursday evening from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Ann is one of the heroes of the Valley Art Scene. She was one of the founders of IMAS in the early 1970s. She has also mingled with great artists of the world. Her book [...]

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The San Benito Cultural Heritage Coalition

is pleased to announce

Dr. Manuel Peña

and his new book

Where the Ox Does Not Plow

Please join us in a special reading/book-signing & reception:

Wednesday, May 21, 7:00 P.M. at the Narciso Martínez Cultural Arts Center

225 E. Stenger, San Benito, Texas

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An advertisement

Come and support your rights. You only have the rights you exercise.
Your first right is the right to think and then to express your thoughts.

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A note for writers
The UTPA Summer Creative Writing Institute is in its fifth year. It is a one week intensive program offered with two weeks of independent study offering courses in poetry writing, fiction and non-fiction writing by UTPA accomplished authors and professors. Starting Monday June 2, and ending Friday June 6, 2008, students [...]

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Texas Monthly has an important article this month on the decline of sexuality education in our schools, “Faith Hope, and Chastity“, and I highly recommend its reading. I confess that I have a dog in this fight since I joined the board of Planned Parenthood of Cameron and Willacy Counties last November. but I [...]

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I’m resuming planning for improv classes and this is a survey question: Who’s interested?
 
Email me at sraines902@aol.com or leave a comment. And let your friends and neighbors know, too. You know, that person next door who’s convinced he or she’s supposed to be on Comedy Central? Well, tell him or her his or her [...]

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Jim Abbott sent a link to this video. It is entertaining and informative, particularly if you are in the habit of keeping squid in your pockets or if you have any curiosity about the life of the sea.

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