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by 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...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 22, 2020 | All, Freezer, mcallen, rio grande valley, Snowball, Snowfall, South Texas, The Culture, Wall Street Journal, White Christmas | 0 |
On Christmas Day 2004, South Texas saw its first accumulation of snowfall in 109 years. It’s hard to overstate what a big deal this was in the region—the McAllen Monitor published a keepsake section of the paper to commemorate...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 21, 2020 | All, dessert tacos, El Santuario Tacos & Cocktails, Food, ice cream tacos, rio grande valley, Taco of the Week, Tacos | 0 |
Hector Burnias is not one for the same old bistec and queso fresco tacos of his Rio Grande Valley upbringing—at least not at his taqueria, El Santuario Tacos & Cocktails in Olmito. The forty-year-old opened the taco joint...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 10, 2020 | All, border wall, Immigration, News, President Trump, rio grande valley | 0 |
Tommy Fisher will be turning fifty this week, and on Thursday he got the birthday present he wanted: the green light to finish building a wall along the banks of the Rio Grande in South Texas. Once the three-mile border wall is...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 5, 2019 | All, border wall, Donald Trump, Immigration, News, Politics, rio grande valley, We Build the Wall | 0 |
At the request of the Trump administration, a federal judge has ordered a halt to the construction of a private border wall in South Texas on Thursday. Ruling that the federal government will likely prevail in its lawsuit...
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