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Screenwriter says his dark work one of redemption
May 16th, 2013
By JOHN DANIEL GARCIA
MARFA – “Ultimately, it’s a redemption story, “ explained screenwriter James DiLapo of his Academy Nicholls Fellowship Award winning screenplay, Devils at Play.
The work was chosen by Ballroom Marfa for The Reading 2013, which will be staged at 2pm and 8pm Saturday at the Crowley Theater.
(staff photo by JOHN …
Vic Torres and his Spanish Hour remembered
May 9th, 2013
By JOHN DANIEL GARCIA
ALPINE – “He was always spreading his love of music to other people,” Sylvia Torres Contreras, daughter of the late Vidal “Vic” Torres said, “and it’s carried on through me and my brothers and through his grandkids, who all love Tejano music.”
Torres, who passed away on May 3 at the age of …
First Ojinaga Reunion a great success
April 4th, 2013
By ROSARIO SALGADO HALPERN
Ojinaga, Chih., Mex. – The First Ojinaga Reunion, which took place last weekend, was a success with approximately 10,000 people in attendance.
The event was organized by former Mayor Victor Sotelo Mata with the help of a team of people who supported him in carrying out this great effort to bring all Ojinaga …
Locals discount offered for Viva Big Bend Food Festival
March 29th, 2013
Saturday in Marfa, Monday in Alpine
FAR WEST TEXAS – Residents of Presidio, Brewster and Jeff Davis counties – and current Sul Ross students – can purchase discounted $45 Viva Big Bend Food Festival wristbands from 1-4pm Saturday at Padre’s in Marfa and from 9am-1pm Monday at Plaine in Alpine. $5 of every ticket sold goes …
Moody Blues still rocking after 45 years
March 14th, 2013
By TERRY NORMAN
MIDLAND – The year is about 1974. A fellow dorm mate at Sul Ross is teaching me how to play “The Story in Your Eyes” on the guitar. As I am learning this Moody Blues classic, my “teacher” is bragging of his recent concert experience with the band. Through a sheer force of …
Kimble publishes Corvette book
March 14th, 2013
By ROBERT HALPERN
MARFA – David Kimble, the Marfa rock star of exquisite automobile cutaway drawings, has published a new book, “Corvette Racing: the complete competition history from Sebring to Le Mans.”
A book signing with the author is 6pm Friday, March 22 at the Marfa Book Co.
Kimble grew up in car-crazed southern California, according to the …
Viva Big Bend adds food festival in April
March 7th, 2013
FAR WEST TEXAS – The first-ever Viva Big Bend Food Festival will be held April 4-6, 2013. This new event is a spin-off of the Viva Big Bend Music Festival, which took place for the first time last summer. The food festival will showcase great restaurants and food trailers, live music and a variety of …
Sequester could affect Border Patrol, Presidio port staffing
February 28th, 2013
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
FAR WEST TEXAS, WASHINGTON, DC – Automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts are slated to take effect on Friday, and unless Congress acts before then – an unlikely scenario – the matter bodes ill for federal employees, especially Border Patrol agents, Customs officers, and their fellow employees in the civilian workforce.
Known as the …
Marfa unites to clean Merced Cemetery
February 28th, 2013
By JOHN DANIEL GARCIA
MARFA – The Boyz2Men-sponsored clean up of La Cemetaria de la Merced on Sunday drew a crowd of more than 20 people to help cut and dispose dead trees on the property.
(staff photo by JOHN DANIEL GARCIA) Adam Mediano and Huck Roch tear down a dead tree at the …
Inventor with Presidio ties developing pollution-free electric engine
February 7th, 2013
SARASOTA, FLORIDA – An American inventor with Presidio ties aims to raise at least $10 million to develop a new type of pollution-free engine through selling books, shirts, and gifts from his project’s website.
Robert Leaton Cook, who lives in Pickens, South Carolina, is working on electric engines that aim to replace the fossil fuel systems …
