Posts Tagged Emily Jo Cureton
100 years of Presidio County aviation: Marfa airport glides with the times
September 29th, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
MARFA – This Saturday a celebration commemorates a century of aviation in Presidio County.
Ron Lewis remembers the better part of these hundred years, since Cal Rogders and his Wright plane, Vin Fiz, stopped in Marfa in 1911 to refuel during the first transcontinental flight.
Lewis has spent half his life up in the …
Peace, love, and Robert Plant at El Cosmico music fest in Marfa
September 29th, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
MARFA – You didn’t need a ticket to this weekend’s Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love to glimpse one of the most famous rock stars of all time in Marfa. Besides playing on El Cosmico’s modest outdoor stage last Thursday night, former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant popped up all over …
Rock legend Robert Plant to perform at El Cosmico tonight
September 22nd, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
MARFA –It’s official. Rock legend Robert Plant will be performing with Patty Griffin Thursday at El Cosmico’s Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love in Marfa.
Marfans should note that locals get special ticket pricing: $25 for each night of music or $60 for all three nights of the fest. But act fast if …
Banking in the Big Bend: New Wall Street reforms could impact Main Street banks
September 15th, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
FAR WEST TEXAS – Big changes might be in store for small banks. According to a Sentinel/International survey of local financiers and community bank advocates, sweeping financial reforms that took effect this summer are expected to drive up mortgage down payments, raise interchange fees on debit cards and levy a high cost …
A mission on the border ten years after 9/11
September 8th, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
FAR WEST TEXAS – Ten years ago this Sunday a terrorist attack killed 2,977 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.
Ten years later the global impact of this heinous crime is immeasurable. A sweeping summary of the grief, the violence, the political rhetoric and the spending that ensued is impossible. Still, …
Banking in the Big Bend
September 8th, 2011
Three-year lending slump continues at home and across the U.S.
By EMILY JO CURETON
FAR WEST TEXAS – Like most businesses across the country, local banks are tightening their belts.
“It’s feast or famine out here – sometimes it rains and sometimes it doesn’t,” Marfa National Bank President Chip Love explained.
In the midst of a literal and economic …
In a story as big as Texas, things get complicated
June 26th, 2011
As I settled in to a lawn chair smack in the middle of Highland Avenue last night another stunning West Texas sunset was just dimming behind the big screen. The opening credits of Giant started to roll, framed by iconic Marfa architecture – the courthouse, the Paisano, the water tower. A reverent hush descended on …
Giant shoes to fill in a country full of great movies
June 23rd, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
MARFA – So what makes a movie great anyway? What does it mean for a film to embody a place? And what if that place is as big and diverse as Texas?
These were the questions recently put to a panel of five film experts, who holed up in a room and didn’t …
Local clergy weigh in on governor’s prayer summit
June 9th, 2011
By EMILY JO CURETON
AUSTIN, MARFA – In a statement released last Monday, Texas Governor Rick Perry proclaimed August 6 a day of prayer and fasting for “our troubled nation”. A mammoth prayer summit will be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston on that Saturday, led by the governor and backed by the American Family Association, …
30 years of AIDS; new hope for a cure
June 6th, 2011
It began 30 years ago this week. A Canadian flight attendant named Gaetan Dugas was diagnosed with AIDS, June 5, 1981, the first documented case of a virus that has claimed nearly 22,000,000 lives since. The problem is local. National. Worldwide.
Texas has one of the highest AIDS rates in the U.S. - right …
