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TAMIU celebrates Diwali, “Festival of Lights,” Oct. 24

By LareDOS Staff | October 20, 2022

Visiting lecturer Dr. Emily Vanchella  to perform on sitar

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Laredo Center for the Arts features Vista Kicks at Oct. 22 Fall Fest fundraiser

By LareDOS Staff | October 20, 2022

Don’t miss this rocking event in beautiful downtown Laredo

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An Evening with the Author: Katie Gutierrez – a warm, admiring audience hears of process, research, and news that rights to debut novel optioned by Higher Ground Productions

By LareDOS Staff | October 13, 2022

Second novel in the works

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Cultivarte Laredo’s “Place/d: Colocados en Contexto” exhibition opens Oct. 14 at TAMIU Visual Arts Gallery

By LareDOS Staff | October 12, 2022

The work of six artists in residence showcased

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Tonight at TAMIU: author Katie Gutierrez to read from acclaimed debut novel More Than You’ll Ever Know

By LareDOS Staff | October 11, 2022

Public invited to meet Laredo-born writer

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Laredo Electric Railway Company (LERyCo): first electric street railway west of  the Mississippi River

By Rey Castillo | October 9, 2022

Service began Jan. 27, 1890; ended in 1935

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El Tranvía Eléctrico de Laredo

By Gilberto Quezada | September 30, 2022

It was the first electric railway west of the Mississippi

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“Disparate Inclinations” exhibit opens at Laredo College Sept. 29

By LareDOS Staff | September 26, 2022

Exhibit includes ceramics, paintings, mixed/digital media, mixed media, and poetry

Many Texas rivers were named by the first Spanish explorers

By Gilberto Quezada | September 23, 2022

Names often relative to characteristics of the river, what grew along its banks; others named in homage to religious figures

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Cantinflas on screen Sept. 23 at Border Heritage Museum

By LareDOS Staff | September 21, 2022

El Bolero de Raquel: shoe shiner confuses performance of sultry dance to Ravel’s Bolero with Spanish word for shoe shiner