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by Brewing America | Dec 8, 2020 | All, coronavirus, News, Politics, rio grande valley | 0 |
For the last three years, Jeffery Jasper has escaped the brutal winters of his home in Minneapolis for the tall palms and sunny skies of South Texas. In early October, after considering the risks of contracting COVID-19 at age...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 11, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Latinos, News, Politics, rio grande valley, South Texas | 0 |
Before this year, the Rio Grande Valley had been a Democratic stronghold, supporting the party’s presidential candidate in every election since 1972, often by nearly forty-point margins. But for months ahead of the 2020...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 8, 2020 | activism, All, Drag Queens, rio grande valley, The Culture | 0 |
PBD’s Lounge, a gay club in McAllen, is an unassuming one-story black building encircled with vines. Located a stone’s throw from a fundamentalist church and an elementary school, the bar—and its mysterious acronym—always felt...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 2, 2020 | All, Governor Greg Abbott, Mexico, News, Politics, rio grande valley, water | 0 |
In late September, the Rio Grande Valley hardly looks short on water. Sugarcane fields are electric green against a mottled gray sky, threatening a downpour. Orange groves are heavy with fruit. At Mike England’s...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 31, 2020 | All, charley crockett, Country Music, Music, rio grande valley, Texas Music, Welcome to Hard Times | 0 |
Certain details tend to get repeated over and over about Charley Crockett’s life: that the musician is a descendent of Davy, the complicated frontiersman; that he began his musical education in a Los Fresnos trailer park and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 24, 2020 | All, coronavirus, COVID-10, News, Politics, rio grande valley | 0 |
The Rio Grande Valley stretches along more than a hundred and twenty miles of deep South Texas. It encompasses cities from South Padre Island to Rio Grande City, and includes McAllen, Brownsville, and Harlingen—not to mention...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 13, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Eddie Lucio, Politics, rio grande valley, Texas Democratic primary | 0 |
Generating attention for the months-delayed primary runoffs has not been easy in state Senate District 27, where the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging border communities from Kingsville to Brownsville. That changed, however, at the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 15, 2020 | All, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Film, History, mcallen, Music, rio grande valley | 0 |
If you ask people who work at McAllen’s Cine El Rey what they do for a living, they’ll tell you that they “make dreams come true.” For the last 73 years, dreamers have walked up to the theater and found themselves transfixed by...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 19, 2020 | All, birria, birria de res, El Último Taco: Los Originales, Food, rio grande valley, Taco of the Week, Tacos, tacos matamoros, Taqueria El Ultimo Taco | 0 |
Rolando Curiel catches a lot of flak for calling his 21-year-old restaurant Taqueria El Ultimo Taco. As much a Brownsville culinary landmark as Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que, the place has a nearly identical name to that of an...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 20, 2020 | All, Environment, Feral hogs, Hunting, Outdoors, rio grande valley | 0 |
On a brisk day in January, hunter and trapper Robert Lyle is opening the gate to the Willamar tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a 1,162-acre brushy patch of federally protected land near Port...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 4, 2020 | All, barbacoa, BBQ, Food, Joshua Guerrero, rio grande valley, Smoked in Texas, T-Ghost BBQ, Tacos | 0 |
Armando “Mando” Vera is the king of barbacoa in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley. He runs Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que in Brownsville, which is the only restaurant in Texas cooking barbacoa in the ground with wood. So when he...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 26, 2020 | All, BBQ, Feature, Food, Gonzalitoz Bar-B-Q, J&S Pit Stop, La Estacion Barbeque, Mollejas, rio grande valley, Tacos | 0 |
The sign for barbecue seemed like a mirage along the relentlessly flat farm-to-market road in South Texas. I wasn’t expecting evidence of civilization for another ten miles, in Benavides, before encountering the gas station in...
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