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The Flood of 1932: Through an unlikely combination of unique events, one of the most important artists of the 20th century and billions of cubic yards of muddy water were hurtling toward the same narrow pass

By Dan Clouse | July 29, 2020

From the catastrophic mess our two separated and increasingly walled-off Laredos are struggling to survive in 2020, we look back to Labor Day Weekend 1932 with bitter nostalgia.

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Lockdown in Florence: Laredoan Gilda Valdez Carbonaro cooks as she copes with the coronavirus; an interview by wordsmith Wanda Garner Cash

By Wanda Garner Cash | July 8, 2020

“Being in lockdown here in Florence, gave me a lot of time to reflect on things I have left unfinished in my life.”

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Review: Gilda Valdez Carbonaro, A Tiny Kitchen in Florence: Coping by cooking during the 2020 Pandemic

By Dan Clouse | July 3, 2020

I recommend it to you with a hearty appetite.

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Heritage Foundation presents online screening of Children of the Inquisition June 23-24; panel discussion June 24

By LareDOS Staff | June 17, 2020

A reconsideration of history and identity

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WCHF wants your videotaped wishes for City of Laredo’s 265th birthday

By LareDOS Staff | April 29, 2020

Singing, dancing welcome on 12-second segments

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LearnThink Media student films to be screened by Austin Film Society at WATER, TX contest April 7

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | March 16, 2020

Two shorts, H2Love and Galactic Remedy on tap

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REVIEW: The Scandal of the Century is to the world-famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, as a cocktail party’s hors d’oeuvres are to a five-course holiday banquet, both treats

By Dan Clouse | February 4, 2020

García Márquez’s story gold: as we read these texts, we accept it with gratitude

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“Was he a crypto-Jew?” – frequent question about Don Tomás Sánchez at RRG Museum; Tracing the lead of my ancestress Benigna Martinez Montemayor to discover my own Jewish ethnic identity

By Anna Guerra | January 30, 2020

Texas Jewish Historical Society met In Laredo January 10-12

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Sigma Delta Pi and TAMIU Student Environmental Association to screen The River and the Wall Jan. 30

By LareDOS Staff | January 24, 2020

Acclaimed film: a wild adventure on a spectacular river and a sobering commentary on walling it off

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Don Tomás Sánchez: frontier captain and pioneer, founder of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo

By Admin | January 19, 2020

Un hombre güero thought to have Sephardic Jewish roots